This interview covers Kodama Naoko’s newest series, Seagull Villa days. There is also discussion of her older work, as well as her inspirations and challenges when writing yuri manga.
本采访会谈到小玉直子的新作“海猫庄”。也有对她旧作的讨论，以及她画百合漫画时的灵感来源和挑战。Opposites
Attract – [Seagull Villa days]
异性相吸 - 海猫庄
Seagull Villa days is a manga about a teacher and a yankee with a child set in a rural town. Both the setting and the characters are very unique. It’s also the first time that Kodama Naoko is using English instead of katakana in her title. The following conversation is about her inspiration behind this series and her thoughts about it.
漫画‘海猫庄’讲的是一位老师，还有一位带孩子的金毛不良的故事，地点发生在小村庄。这种故事背景和角色都蛮独特的。这也是小玉直子第一次用英文做标题，而不是用片假名。接下来的对话是关于她故事的灵感来源，以及她对此作的个人想法。
☆In this story, there are two main characters: the hapless teacher, [Mayumi], and the friendly delinquent, [Rin]. Please tell me the appeal of a teacher x yankee pairing.
访问者：故事里，有两位主角，不幸的老师‘真由美’，友善的不良‘凛’。和我们谈谈‘老师 X 不良’组合的吸引力吧
I quite like “opposites attract” stories, especially when it’s between a cheerful character and a gloomy one. I started off wanting to draw a girl with short, blonde hair, and when it comes to blonde hair, it has to be a yankee. The opposite of a yankee is a teacher. That was my thinking process.
我喜欢‘异性’相吸的故事，尤其是乐观的人和衰人之间的故事。开始时，我想画不良的对立面，那就是老师了。我开始是那么想的。
☆Afterglow Noise contains your first published yuri and ecchi yuri stories. The oneshot “My Job Won’t Let Me D–ate” in it has a hilarious opening scene that’s quite bizarre for a yuri manga, but similarly, the beginning pages of both Seagull Villa days and Netsuzou Trap leave just as strong of an impression. Do you believe that having an impactful opening is important?
访问者：‘残光’里有你第一部发行的稍带H的百合漫。短篇‘我的工作不允许我恋爱’开篇逗逼死了，真是百合漫的异类。但类似的，‘海猫庄’和‘捏造陷阱’的开场也很震撼。你觉得有力的开场重要吗？
（本想发 这个短篇的截图，但是度娘抽了，死活不让我发。。。）
That’s about right, yes. If you don’t grab the reader’s attention from the start, they won’t want to read further. I worry a lot over it until I can decide on how to start the story.
哎，是的。如果开头不能吸引读者的话，他们就不会往下看了。我会想很多，然后才决定如何开场。

☆(Before the interview) We talked a bit about how Mayumi and Rin are like a comedic duo. It’s great how they start off so energetically. I kind of hoped for a “fall into the ocean, fall in love” sort of yuri manga. (lol)
采访者：采访之前，我们说过‘真由美’和‘凛’这两就像‘对口相声’演员一样。她们开始就这么来劲。我有点希望这漫画变成‘陷入海洋、陷入爱河’那种百合漫画。
I actually debated over whether she should actually fall in or not, but my editor told me, “It’s more impactful that way, so please make her fall.” I guess if it’s a manga, it’s better for the fall to happen
我还争论过她是不是该掉进去咧，但是小编说，‘那么做会更有冲击力，所以让她掉下去吧’。我觉得如果是漫画的话，还是真掉下去比较好。
☆As a manga reader, I definitely think, “I just want them to fall, regardless.” Anyway, in regards to Rin’s chest – at a glance, she’s boyish, so you’d expect her to be pretty flat but… it’s pretty big, huh.
采访者：作为读者，我也是想，“不管怎样，真想让她们掉下去”。那个，关于‘凛’的胸部，乍看下，她挺男孩子气的，你可能会觉得她很平，但是…还真大啊。
In my head, Rin has normal-sized boobs, and Mayumi’s are huge.
我想象中，‘凛’胸部正常，而‘真由美’是巨乳。
☆Yeah, they’re always getting sucked on by Hinata-chan, huh. (lol)
采访者：是啊，小日向还吸了上去(lol)
Yup, she gets groped every time. (lol)
嗯，她每次都被袭胸(lol)
☆It’s so cute. It kinda has an oneeloli feel to it. Seagull Villa days has a lot going on it in, huh? It’s got adult yuri, but it’s also got oneeloli…
采访者：很可爱呀。有点‘姐姐/萝莉’的感觉。海猫庄里有很多元素呢。有成人百合，也有‘姐姐/萝莉’配对…

I wasn’t actually thinking much about oneeloli when I wrote it. I guess it ultimately looks like that, though. There’s no sense of guilt if a toddler is doing the sexual harassment, and it’s not dirty either…
画的时，我没太想到姐/萝莉的事情。但是最终的确看上去如此。小宝宝搞xing骚扰的话，是没啥罪恶感的，而且也不xia流…
☆It is kind of like, just sexual harassment from a child… Although if it were a boy child instead, it would take on a different nuance.
采访者：嗯，不过是小孩子的xing骚扰，但如果是男孩子的话，那可就是另一种淘气了。
Yeah, it would be different if she were an elementary school boy or something. But she’s just a young girl still hungering for her mother’s breasts.
的确，如果她是小学男生的话，就不一样了。但是她还是个想要妈妈胸部的小女孩嘛。
☆Going off of that, with Hinata-chan there, the couple kinda has a married lesbians vibe, right? We see a lot of different sides of Rin in chapters 1-3. Mayumi, still in pain, runs away from her hometown and meets her new landlord by chance in this totally different place. And they don’t realize that they’re actually going to live together until later. That’s really…
采访者：说回来，有了小日向，这两人有点已婚拉拉的感觉呀。第1-3章中，我们看到了‘凛’的许多不同面。受伤的‘真由美’，逃离了故乡，在这个完全不同的地方，偶然撞见了新房东。然后她们开始还没意识到自己要住在一起。这有点……

It’s really very manga-like, isn’t it? Things like that don’t really happen in reality.
很漫画吧？这种事在生活中不太会发生
☆But when I read it, it really amazed me how such a cliche could work out so well when used in a yuri manga.
采访者：但我读的时候挺震惊的。这种陈年老梗在百合漫中居然可以这么出彩。
I struggled over that quite a bit! They’re in such a low-population area. If Rin’s giving a total stranger a ride, wouldn’t she realize sooner that Mayumi’s her new tenant? I thought it would be a little suspicious. So I was pretty worried over that, but then my editor told me that it’d be fine.
我内心也挣扎了好久！她们在的地方人那么少。凛带陌生人上车时，她难道不会提前意识到，‘真由美’是她的新房客？我觉得有点可疑。我还挺担心这点的，但是小编告诉我没关系。
☆So it took some encouragement, huh. Now that you mention it, the probability of something like that happening really is pretty low.
采访者：所以也需要些鼓励啊。你这么说的话，的确现实中发生这种事的概率太低了。
Come on, notice already… There’s someone you’ve never met standing around carrying luggage (lol)
就是说啊，睁眼看呀…有个你不认识的人拎个行李箱（lol）
☆Rin seems like she’s the type of person who wouldn’t notice though (lol)
采访者：凛看起来是那种不会关注这些的人（lol）
She’s too occupied with the worry that Mayumi’s going to commit suicide to notice… If you think of it that way… Once things calm down though, it’s weird that she didn’t notice (lol)
她太过担心‘美由纪’会自杀了，就看不到别的了… 但事情过了后，她还没注意可真奇怪（lol）

☆It’s great how Mayumi just gets swept up in things. Even if she objects in her head, she still just goes along with whatever. If she were a little more strong-willed, she’d take matters into her own hands, but she’s a really an adult, right?
采访者：‘美由纪’就这么卷进故事里了。她嘛，即便脑子里反对，身体还是会随波逐流的。但凡她内心坚强一点，她都会自己解决问题。但她的确是个成年人吧？
She’s a main character that gets pulled along easily.
她是容易被人牵着走的主角
☆There were a lot of heated exchanges during Netsuzou Trap. Right now, there doesn’t seem to be any romantic feelings of love in Seagull Villa days yet, though. Even though they did kiss…
采访者：‘捏造陷阱’里有许多激烈的争论。但是海猫庄现在呢，还不太有恋爱的感觉，尽管她俩倒是接吻了…
It’s not love yet.
还不到爱的程度
☆Why are they so stiff with each other right now? We did touch upon how they’re quite a comedic duo earlier…
采访者：她们现在相处时为什么这么僵啊？我们刚才还说到两人很适合对口相声呢…
Rin is a very straightforward, all-around good person, so I wouldn’t go so far as to say she’s stiff. But Mayumi is really socially awkward, so she can’t really talk to people very easily. It’s kind of like, she can get along fine in her day-to-day life, but inside she’s actually just terrible at communication.
‘凛’很直接，是圆满的好人，所以我不会说她僵。但是‘美由纪’是真不会社交，她不能很好地和别人沟通。有点像，她对日常生活的交流还可以，但是内心深处，她交流能力真的挺烂。
☆Poor Mayumi. She doesn’t really trust people, huh? Did something happen to her in the past? Or is it just part of her personality?
采访者：可怜的‘美由纪’。她真不太相信别人呢。是不是她过去发生了什么？还是这就是她性格？
She has friends just like any normal person, but inside, she’s constantly worrying, “Am I doing this right?” She can function in society, but she can’t say the things that she really wants to say… In other words, a standard Japanese woman.
她和一般人一样，也有朋友，但是内心里，她一直在担心，“我这么做对吗？”她可以正常过日子，但是她不能表达自己真想说的东西…也就是，标准的日本女人
☆It definitely seems very realistic, or at least it’s a certain outlook on life… I understand it.
采访者：相当现实呢，至少是生活中一方面的体现…我很理解
She gets caught up in small details, and she feels like she’s a total failure even though other people see her as pretty normal…
她容易受小细节的影响。她觉得自己是完全废柴，即便别人觉得她很正常…
☆It’s the same for all of us.
采访者：我们都是这样

So in the end she’s able to calm down a bit. She’s trying a few things out, feeling even more timid than usual… I kind of thought of her as the type who can’t look directly at other people’s faces.
最后她会冷静一点。她尝试了些新东西，结果变得比平常更害羞了…我觉得她是那种‘不能正视别人的脸’的人
☆At last, she’s finally become more of an adult, huh.
采访者：最后，她终于变得像大人一点了呢
Rin’s there to set her straight from time to time, so she has to learn how to make some conversation eventually.
凛会不时地帮她，所以她最终学会了如何沟通
☆Rin’s her voice of reason, huh.
采访者：凛就是她理性的声音
When she talks about having her boyfriend taken away by her friend, Rin shoots right back with, “Well then, you had a boyfriend at some point at least, didn’t you?”
她说起朋友抢走自己的男友后，凛就直接回了句，‘至少你曾经有过男朋友。’
☆Yeah, she can say that much for herself at least (lol)
采访者：嗯，她至少能这么告诉自己
I think Kuroi-sensei from Renai Manga is somewhat similar. She also thought that she’d never be able to have a boyfriend or a girlfriend.
‘恋爱漫画’里的黑井老师也差不多。她也觉得自己没法找到男朋友或女朋友
☆Now that you mention it, I can kinda see it. Renai Manga is about a manga artist and her assistant, who is kind of bluntly rational while taking care of her, right?
采访者：你这么说的话，的确如此呢。‘恋爱漫画’说的是漫画家和她的助手，并且助手照顾她时还蛮直接的那个吧？
Kuroi-sensei’s also the type to think things like, “If I leave my house, people will look at me and laugh.”
黑井老师也是这种类型，她觉得‘如果我离开房间，大家就会看着我笑’

（恋爱漫画）

补一张上面提到的‘禁止恋爱的工作’

☆Mayumi’s got more experience in society than she does. Speaking of characters, I like how Ajima-chan seems to have a lot going on.
采访者：‘美由纪’的社会经验比她丰富。说到角色嘛，我喜欢小阿岛，她背景很深嘛。
She’s an illegitimate child.
她是私生子。
☆She’s a bit promiscuous, isn’t she? Her classmate, Sakura-chan, is so high and mighty, but behind everyone’s back, Ajima’s kissing her and stuff.
她对感情有点随便呢。她的同学，小樱，平时很高大上，但是背地里，阿岛有亲她什么的。
Yeah they’re sneaking around… Even though she’s quite respected at school.
是啊，她们在偷情…虽然她在学校挺受尊重
☆They have to be having some hedonistic relationship. I was surprised that they’re living together as well. I thought it might’ve been a forced circumstance at first, but when Ajima was late coming home, Sakura was pretty worried about her, huh. At school, they seem like the bully and the bullied, but at home, it’s actually the opposite, right…?
采访者：她们的感情有点及时享乐的意思。我还挺吃惊她俩住一起的。我开始觉得她俩有强迫的因素，但是阿岛回家晚时，樱还挺担心她的。在学校，她们一个像欺负人的，一个像被欺负的，但是在家，关系其实是反着的？
They’re definitely going at it like rabbits (lol)
她们像发了情的兔子(笑)
☆I bet Sakura-chan is getting topped quite a bit (lol) In comparison, Rin and Mayumi, who are adults, are quite vanilla, aren’t they?
采访者：我猜樱经常是受吧(笑)。相反的，凛和美由纪是成人，但是性趣却很正常呢
That’s right. They’ve got quite a peaceful relationship.
对。她们的感情很平和
☆Even though Ajima and Sakura are children, they’re pretty… deep…
尽管阿岛和樱都是小孩子，她们还挺…深入…
And what’s more, one’s an illegitimate child, so they’re actually half-sisters. They have the same father, so it’s morally questionable.
而且呢，其中一个还是私生子，她们其实是同父异母的姐妹。伦理上也有问题

☆And they’re both minors, to boot! …Sorry. I got a little too excited there… (lol) Right, let’s move on from the characters and talk about the title for a bit. It’s quite a “slice-of-life” sort of title, isn’t it?
采访者：她们还彻头彻尾的是未成年人咧！…不好意思，我太兴奋了…（笑）我们先不说角色了，来说下标题。真是蛮体现‘日常’的标题呢。
Well, if I gave it a title that clearly showed it was about “an introverted substitute teacher x a yankee with a child,” it might be easy for people who like yuri already to get interested. However, regular manga fans won’t be realy react the same way. I want to draw in readers who usually read normal girls’ magazines as well so… I picked a title that might seem appealing to people who read shoujo manga and stuff.
如果我的标题明确表明这是关于一个‘内向的代课老师 和 带孩子的不良’的故事，那应该挺容易吸引喜欢百合的读者。但是，一般的漫画读者就不会这样了。我也想吸引普通少女杂志的读者…我选了个少女漫画读者可能会喜欢的标题
☆For example, Foreign Country Diaries* is also about the daily lives of girls living together, and that’s expressed in the title. It’s a bit similar to that, isn’t it?
采访者：就好比，‘异国日记’也是写同住一起的女孩子们的日常，标题也反映了这点。（海猫庄days）有点类似吧？
Yes, that might be so.
嗯，可能如此呢。
☆So you were aiming for a title that would make regular people interested too?
采访者：所以你就想搞个一般读者也会感兴趣的标题？
Yuri is very popular right now, but the yuri fan demographic is still a bit limited, so I want to move past that boundary and have others read it as well…
百合现在很流行，但是百合的受众群还是比较少的，所以我想跳出这个界限，让其他人也读读…
☆Similarly, in Netsuzou Trap, when the anime aired, there were a lot of people online saying that Yuma should just end up with Takeda-kun.
采访者：同样的，捏造陷阱动画播出时，好多网友都说‘由真’最后应该和‘武田’在一起。

（捏造陷阱）
There were opinions like, “I hope Hotaru and Fujiwara can be happy together,” too. (lol) It was very easy for normal people to get into Netsuzou Trap, but at the same time, those parts put off yuri fans as well.
还有这种观点呢，‘我希望萤和藤原能幸福地生活在一起’（笑）。的确很容易让一般观众也看‘捏造陷阱’，但是与此同时，也会劝退百合党吧。
☆Expanding the range of the contents might’ve felt a little sacrilegious to some people.
采访者：这么扩展内容也许对某些人来说是种亵渎吧
It might’ve been difficult for yuri fans to accept the parts that drew in more regular readers.
百合党可能比较难接受吸引一般读者的内容
☆The fans kind of replaced each other, huh. With some people who are open to broad-ranged yuri.
采访者：受众粉丝会取代彼此呢。也有些人会接受广义的百合。
I think there were some very loyal readers…
我觉得的确有些非常忠实的读者…
☆There were some readers who were quite shocked as well…
采访者：也有些读者很震惊…
I remember thinking, “It’s alright. This is published in Comic Yuri Hime, so they’ll know the ending will have to be yuri,” as I wrote it. If it were published in a regular magazine, I understand why there would be a fear of a “Takeda End,” but I was confident readers would understand because it’s “yuri.”
我记得当时画时，自己想过，‘呆胶布，这是百合姬出品，他们应该知道结局是百合’。如果发表在一般杂志上，我理解为啥有人会害怕是‘武田’结局，但是我当时很确定读者会理解，因为这是‘百合’嘛
☆Apologies to the people who don’t like separating manga by “for men” and “for women,” but coming from the perspective of a girl like myself, Fujiwara* didn’t actually seem too terrible…
采访者：如果您不喜欢把漫画分为面向为‘男性’和‘女性’的话，我很抱歉。但是从像我这样的女生观点来说，藤原也没有那么渣…
He’s kind of like the bad boy in a shoujo manga… But that type doesn’t really appear in manga aimed at men, maybe…
他有点像少女漫画里的坏男孩…但这种类型可能不太在针对男性的漫画里出现…
☆You might be right. Maybe the fans who left because of Netsuzou Trap will return because of Seagull Villa days.
采访者：可能是这样。也许因为‘捏造陷阱’而流失的粉丝会因为‘海猫庄days’回来呢。
Please come back. I’m begging you.
请务必回来。求您了。
☆Netsuzou Trap was a series by “dark” Kodama, but Seagull Villa days seems to have a sort of “light” Kodama feel, huh.
采访者：‘捏造陷阱’是由‘暗黑’版小玉创造，但是‘海猫庄days’有点‘积极’版小玉的感觉
Even if there are some dark aspects to it, it won’t be as bad as Fujiwara.
虽然它也有黑暗面，但是不会像‘藤原’那么坏

☆In Netsuzou Trap, the two childhood friends kiss on the veranda in the opening act, and in Seagull Villa days, they kiss on the porch. Please tell us the appeal of kissing on the veranda or porch in yuri manga.
采访者：捏造陷阱里，两位‘发小儿’开篇在阳台上接吻。海猫庄里，她们在门廊前接吻。请告诉大家百合漫里，在阳台和门廊接吻的魅力。
That totally wasn’t my intention. I just thought it’d look better to have them kissing outside than inside. The wind can pull at their hair and leaves can blow through the scene and stuff (lol)
这完全不是我本意。我只是觉得让她们在室外接吻比在室内好。风可以吹动她们的头发，叶子可以飞过画面什么的（笑）。
☆Do you have any real-life basis for the setting? If you went somewhere to gather material, please tell us where you went.
采访者：你的取景，有来自于现实的吗？如果您有去取材，请务必告诉我们去了哪里。
I did have a real-life model. I took around 5000 pictures when looking for good material. I’m not gonna say where, though. People who know where it is, please tell me (lol)
我的确有现实中的蓝本。想找好的资料时，我会拍大约5000张照片。但我不会说具体是哪里的。知道的读者，请务必告诉我（笑）。
☆I’d like to ask you a bit more about Netsuzou Trap. Both Hotaru and Yuma are very cute. I really liked how Yuma got more proactive as her feelings for Hotaru awoke thanks to Hotaru jerking her around. Their two boyfriends, Fujiwara and Takeda, also made an appearance in a story in a BL magazine. It’s been about 3 years since the anime version was released. Please tell us more about the scenario of two childhood friends who already have boyfriends.
采访者：我想再多问问‘捏造陷阱’的事。萤和由真都超级可爱。我很喜欢由真对萤的感情逐渐觉醒的过程，这多亏了萤的乱搞。她俩的男友，藤原和武田，还出现在BL杂志里了。动画播出之后已经过了3年。请多和我们说说，（如何设计）已经有男友的两位幼驯染的故事吧。
I love tumultuous, love-hate relationships. Childhood friends have known each other for a long time, so things can get complicated quickly, and if they both have boyfriends, that’s even more complex! That’s the kind of scenario I really like. And the boyfriends’ presence acts as a gateway, so even people who don’t normally read yuri can get into it easily.
我喜欢跌宕的、爱恨交织的感情。因为‘发小儿’已经认识对方很久，所以事情很快就会变得复杂。如果她们还都有男友，那就更复杂了！我喜欢这种故事。男友的出现是通道，用来吸引不太看百合的读者。
☆It was your first time doing a long-form story. Please tell us the difficult parts and fun parts of the process.
采访者：这是您第一次做长篇。请告诉我们创造过程中发生的困难和有意思的事。
I went about it quite determinedly, but completing it was rather hard. I decided from the start that Yuma and Hotaru would end up together, and how many episodes there would be, then pieced out the rest from there. At the request of my editor, I did draw up some drafts where other characters besides the main 4 were introduced, but those all went to waste (lol) As for the fun parts, I really fell in love with the characters after drawing them for so long. I love all 4 of them! I’m really grateful it got an anime version. It was so wonderful seeing my own characters moving and talking for real.
我充满决心地开始，但是最终完成它还是蛮困难的。我一开始就决定了由真和萤最终会在一起，还有这大概需要多少话，然后根据这些，再决定其他的。根据编辑的要求，我也画了一些四人组之外的角色，但是她们都白画了（笑）。说起有意思的部分，画了这么久，我真心爱上这些角色了。四人我全都爱.jpg! 我很感激它出了动画版。能看到自己的角色动起来、说话简直太棒了。

☆I’d like to ask you a little bit about yourself. What kind of child were you? Was there a particular impactful experience you had that made you want to get into drawing manga?
采访者：我想问问关于您自己的事。您小时候是什么样的？有没有特别的经历，促使了您开始画漫画？
This is a really boring answer, but I really liked manga a lot so I was constantly trying to imitate manga and drew manga in my notebooks all the time. It’s not why I began drawing, but I decided to become a professional mangaka when I first saw a manga contest ad in a magazine. I realized that there was a tangible path to becoming a mangaka in submitting an entry to a contest like that. I was just an elementary school student at that point, but I decided I’d definitely compete once I got bigger!
答案会蛮无聊的。我非常喜欢漫画，总是一直模仿漫画，在笔记本上画漫画。这不是我开始画漫画的原因，但是我最终决定成为职业漫画家，是因为我第一次在杂志上看到了个漫画比赛的广告。我意识到，如果能在这样的比赛中交出作品，成为漫画家也是可行的嘛。当时我还只是个小学生，但是我下定决心，长大后一定会参赛！
☆Did anything change in your creative process once you debuted as a professional?
采访者：成为职业画师后，你的创造过程有没有变化呢？
Not right after going pro, but as I’ve drawn over the years, many things have changed. The ratio between “I want to express my own feelings,” and “I want everyone to enjoy reading” has changed from about 8:2 to 3:7. Because of that, the way I go about making stories and characters has changed too.
刚成为职业漫画家时并没有，但画了这么多年，许多事情改变了。‘我想表达自己的感情’和‘我想让大家喜欢读（这个作品）’的比例从8：2变成了3：7。因为如此，我创造故事和角色的方式也改变了。
☆Please tell us any works that have influenced your creations. Any anime, manga, game, drama, or novel is okay, as long as it has yuri.
采访者：请告诉我们，哪些作品对您的创造有影响吧。任何动画，漫画，游戏，戏剧，或者小说都好，只要有百合。
It’s not as much any particular works as it is authors themselves. I’ve got a lot of authors I like, but my biggest influences are Yuuki Masami, Yoshida Akami, and Koga Yun.
与其说是作品，不如说是作者本身。我有许多喜欢的作者，但对我影响最大的是‘结城正美’，‘吉田秋生’，和‘高河弓’*。
*这三位的活跃期都是1980-1990期间，而且没一个画百合（据我所知）。。。
结城正美，代表作‘机动战警’。
吉田秋生，代表作‘吉祥天女’，‘樱园’。
高河弓，代表作‘源氏’，‘机动战士高达（人物设计）’

（结城正美的代表作‘机动战警’。）
嗯，小玉老师喜欢机战？

☆In regards to your first release, adult yuri is getting more and more popular lately, but it wasn’t that way before. However, the yuri being created and consumed by otaku and fujoshi lately has increased. Your first full yuri book, Renai Manga, wasn’t published by Yuri Hime, however.
采访者：关于您的处女作。最近成人百合越来越流行了，但以前不是这样。而且呢，最近面向宅男和腐女的作品也多了。但是，您第一部纯百合作品，‘恋爱漫画’，并没有发表在‘百合姬’。
Yes, it was published in Tsubomi. I wrote a oneshot at first, but then it was suggested I get it serialized instead. Instead of a kind of dangerous/sexy main character, I was asked to change it to a sort of otaku girl instead for the purposes of getting it serialized.
对，当时是发行在‘つぼみ ’杂志上。我开始只写了个单篇，但是之后被劝说改成长篇。为了变成长篇，我改变了最初的‘危险/性感’的主角，把她换成了宅女。
☆You were totally ordered to make an “otaku character” huh.
采访者：你完全是被要求创造一个御宅角色啊。
It’s because they were worried that otaku readers might be scared of a dangerous girl and might not like her very much.
因为他们担心宅男女们会害怕充满危险的女孩，不会太喜欢她。
☆Yeah, a “dangerous” kind of girl might not be very realistic to those readers.
采访者：是啊，‘危险’的女孩对这些读者来说太不真实了
So I was asked to create a character that might appeal to them more…
所以就被要求创造个能更吸引他们的角色
☆And that’s how Kuroi-sensei came into being as a total otaku, huh. Although Haneda Haruka-chan was quite a functional human being…
采访者：这就是‘黑井’老师变成纯宅女的过程啊，不过‘羽田遥’还是挺正常的人类…
But Haruka-chan isn’t all that popular or anything either. She went to a marriage meeting, but I didn’t show her having a boyfriend or anything. I’ll leave it up to your imagination whether I just didn’t draw it, or if she really didn’t have one… I didn’t write about that in the manga.
但是小遥也不是受欢迎的类型。她去过相亲，但我没有表示她有男朋友。留给你们想象吧，究竟是我没画呢，还是她真的没有男友…我在漫画里没写。
☆The two didn’t actually seem to be too close in the end, huh. I thought Haruka-chan’s design was really cute. Actually, I always think that your character designs are cute. It makes me wonder if they’re kinda fussy about what they wear.
采访者：这两人在结局时也没有太亲近呢。我觉得小遥的人设很可爱。其实，我觉得您的人物设计都很可爱。让我觉得她们是不是对穿的衣服很挑剔呢
It’s got kind of an OL feel to it… although Kuroi-sensei doesn’t wear anything but hoodies.
她有点职场女性的感觉，不过黑井老师只会穿运动衫

（恋爱漫画的两个主角）

☆I’m wondering if you intentionally make all your characters super fashionable in your manga.
采访者：您是不是有意让漫画里所有角色都很时尚
I’m personally just a mangaka, but I really respect OLs. The OLs riding the Marunoichi Line are so cool…
我自己只是个漫画家，但是我很尊重职场女性。‘丸之内’线上的职场女性真酷啊…
☆In the May volume of Yuri Hime, you said in a survey that you like “fast-food restaurant uniforms and gas station attendant overalls.” Do you like rather conservative fashion?
采访者：5月份的百合姬里，您在一次调查问卷里说，你喜欢‘快餐店制服和加油站工作服’。你是不是喜欢比较保守的风格？
I like things with a bit of “pop.”
我喜欢带一点‘流行’因素的
☆I see. Things that could easily be iconic…?
采访者：了解了，就是很容易成为经典的那种…？
Clothing that’s a bit western.
有点西式化的服装
☆Like a California dream…
采访者：好比‘California dream（加州之梦）’那种
Yeah, California (lol)
对啊，加州（笑）
☆I was thinking of conducting this interview at Hooters* today, since I know you like boobs so much (lol)
采访者：我本来今天想在‘Hooters（酒吧名，里面美女多）’进行采访，因为我知道您多喜欢胸部
I’ve never been, but I want to try it sometime (lol)
我从没去过呢，但是有时间会去试试（笑）
☆Same here (lol)
采访者：一样（笑）

Expressions of Jealousy – Moratorium
嫉妒的表达 — 延迟偿付
☆I’d like to ask you about your story, “Cocytus,” which was published in a book with the same name. “Cocytus,” like “Afterglow Noise,” is about two people who have nothing in common who, by chance, meet each other and begin developing tentative feelings for one another. The setting was very realistic, which ended up giving the whole story a sense of realism as well. Did you work to give it realism intentionally?
想问问您的作品‘哀叹之川’，当时是它发行在一本书里。‘哀叹之川’和‘残光噪音’一样，都是说没有共同点的两人通过偶然的机会遇到彼此，慢慢培养出感情。故事设定很现实，也给了故事一种真实感。您是有意创造出这种真实感吗？
It’s realistic? I’m glad to hear it. I wasn’t particularly aiming for that, but Kuroneko-san has a pretty extreme personality, so I wanted to express that properly. That might’ve been why it ended up like that.
真实吗？我很高兴听到这点哎。我倒是没有特意去弄这点，但是‘黑猫’酱的性格蛮极端的，我想用适当的方式表达出来。也许这就是为什么最终会有那种感觉吧。

(哀叹之川，我最喜欢的百合短篇，没有之一)