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Juza Unno

When you have a free moment, could you please heck if the original Japanese titles of this classic author's works are readily available? TIA! Ahasuerus 13:13, 4 October 2018 (EDT)

I've done what I can for now. There are at least 176 works under Unno Jūza, 5 under Kyūjūrō Oka, and 9 under his real name, Shōichi Sano. ···日本穣 · 投稿 · Talk to Nihonjoe 18:17, 8 October 2018 (EDT)

Thanks! He sure was prolific... Ahasuerus 18:36, 8 October 2018 (EDT)

Indeed. ···日本穣 · 投稿 · Talk to Nihonjoe 15:05, 9 October 2018 (EDT)

Uncompromising Honor

I added a scan for your verified (one hour before me) Uncompromising Honor. Bob 16:59, 8 October 2018 (EDT)

Sounds good. ···日本穣 · 投稿 · Talk to Nihonjoe 18:10, 8 October 2018 (EDT)

Superintendant vs. Superintendent

Would you mind double checking the "superintendant" spelling in The Hawk's Cherry Wine and Superintendant Perrault's Purple Bra? Is this a database typo? Thanks. -- JLaTondre (talk) 19:42, 11 October 2018 (EDT)

Fixed. ···日本穣 · 投稿 · Talk to Nihonjoe 00:10, 12 October 2018 (EDT)

The Ancient Magus' Bride

Fixer has added the forthcoming English translation of the first prose anthology based on the manga The Ancient Magus' Bride, but I am afraid I have been unable to find the original title/date. When you have a free moment, could you please take a look? The Japanese Wikipedia has an article about the manga, but I was unable to find anything relevant using Google Translate. Ahasuerus 17:31, 21 October 2018 (EDT)

Done. ···日本穣 · 投稿 · Talk to Nihonjoe 02:52, 23 October 2018 (EDT)

Thanks! Is it safe to assume that the stories are set in the same universe as Macmillan claims? Ahasuerus 15:54, 23 October 2018 (EDT)

Yes, it appears they are all set in the same world, though not necessarily related to each other. ···日本穣 · 投稿 · Talk to Nihonjoe 16:49, 23 October 2018 (EDT)

Updated, thanks! Ahasuerus 19:49, 23 October 2018 (EDT)

Kenji Kuroda

Would you happen to know Kenji Kuroda's Japanese name and the titles of the "Ao Oni" game-based horror books that he has penned? (They include manga inserts, but otherwise they are regular novels.) TIA! Ahasuerus 10:28, 7 November 2018 (EST)

Done. ···日本穣 · 投稿 · Talk to Nihonjoe 12:56, 7 November 2018 (EST)

Thanks muchly! Are the novellas/novelettes in 青鬼 断章編 set in the "Ao Oni" universe? Ahasuerus 13:05, 7 November 2018 (EST)

Yes. ···日本穣 · 投稿 · Talk to Nihonjoe 13:08, 7 November 2018 (EST)

"Otaku de Neet"

Could you please check the Japanese name of Otaku de Neet? I was able to get the Japanese titles and the original publication dates from Amazon.jp, but "Otaku de Neet" appears to be a translation of the author's nom de plume rather than a transliteration, so I am afraid that I will mess it up. TIA! Ahasuerus 17:00, 7 November 2018 (EST)

Done. It's definitely a nom de plume, but I have no idea what their legal name is. The English one is a transliteration with an unusual spelling. ···日本穣 · 投稿 · Talk to Nihonjoe 17:15, 7 November 2018 (EST)

Looks much better, thanks! Ahasuerus 18:22, 7 November 2018 (EST)

Japanese help

Hello,

Need your help deciphering something :) I am working on translators for this one and Ameqlist is useful as always. However this is a format I had never seen before (the two translators not identified story by story). How do you read this? Is the translator of the bolded story the translator of all the stories below it or are the ones without individual translator unclear (so it can be either of the two)? Any idea? Annie 12:30, 15 November 2018 (EST)

I read it as 山口守 translating the first set and 三木直大 translating the second set. ···日本穣 · 投稿 · Talk to Nihonjoe 14:37, 15 November 2018 (EST)

I read it the same way so I will act based on that. Thanks for taking a look :) Annie 14:54, 15 November 2018 (EST)

Skyward

I added a cover scan to your verified Skyward. Bob 17:34, 24 November 2018 (EST)

MAGA 2020

I put an anthology like this on the same level as Jerry Pournelle's anthologies like There Will Be War which mixed far right propaganda with its fiction. Can't knock them too much, after all, I bought them brand new when they were issued. All of the contents were listed, so don't you think that the non-fiction in MAGA should have been listed. I was going to clone yours for the ebook version (which has a different cover) and thought I would ask first.

In case you're wondering, I'm always looking for the unusual and the weird when it comes to published fiction. MLB 17:57, 25 November 2018 (EST)

It would seem logical to include the essays. Most of them were written by genre authors and at least one appears to be slightly fictionalized ("Assessing the Legacy of Trump".) The whole thing seems similar to the Destinies/New Destinies series of anthologies which included a fair number of essays on public policy issues. Granted, the essays in Destinies tended to be at least peripherally related to SF (the space program etc) while this bunch seems to be further removed from the genre. Ahasuerus 19:15, 25 November 2018 (EST)

Well, I won't tinker with Nihonjoe's contribution until he chimes in. MLB 06:35, 26 November 2018 (EST)

Oh, sure. No rush. Ahasuerus 10:45, 26 November 2018 (EST)

Sure, feel free to tweak away. ···日本穣 · 投稿 · Talk to Nihonjoe 13:21, 26 November 2018 (EST)

Cursed Child

Hello, as a PVer, could you check the title page of your copy of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child: Parts One & Two and confirm whether it has an '&' or not in its subtitle? Thanks! MagicUnk 11:12, 5 December 2018 (EST)

I'll have to check it when I get home. ···日本穣 · 投稿 · Talk to Nihonjoe 14:00, 5 December 2018 (EST)

Sorry, forgot to post here again. It uses "and", not the ampersand. ···日本穣 · 投稿 · Talk to Nihonjoe 12:23, 11 December 2018 (EST)

Thanks for the confirmation! I went ahead and updated accordingly. Regards MagicUnk 16:47, 11 December 2018 (EST)

Non-numeric NDL IDs

When you have a free moment, could you please review the 4 Japanese publications identified by this cleanup report? The report logic expects all NDL IDs to be numeric, but perhaps some are legitimately alphanumeric. TIA! Ahasuerus 17:26, 12 December 2018 (EST)

I fixed this one and this one. This one is correct (which means some can have a "b" at the beginning), and this one has a record here, though I'm not sure how to connect it. It doesn't seem to follow the formatting we use. Hope that helps. ···日本穣 · 投稿 · Talk to Nihonjoe 19:54, 12 December 2018 (EST)

It looks like an "Ignore" option might be good for this report. ···日本穣 · 投稿 · Talk to Nihonjoe 19:55, 12 December 2018 (EST)

Thanks for looking into this! Since NDL IDs can apparently start with a "b", I will change the cleanup logic accordingly.

Re: S-Fマガジン 1990年7月号, #396 and its record at ndlonline.ndl.go.jp, I am not sure how their logic works. The NDL page says that there is a "Persistent ID" at "info:ndljp/pid/4411232", which apparently means http://dl.ndl.go.jp/info:ndljp/pid/4411232 . When I go there, I get what appears to be the same record. Assuming that these persistent IDs are supposed to be stable going forward, it would be nice if we could start linking to them. However, I don't know how they are linked to the old IDs or even where to find them on pages like this one. Ahasuerus 20:59, 12 December 2018 (EST)

Speculative Japan

Hi Joe, I added page numbers to our verified Speculative Japan; I also made a small mistake I feel only you could fix. I noticed the essay 'Afterword: From Vertical to Horizontal' was only credited to its author's Japanese name. I changed this to "Asakura Hisashi" as credited in the book, but in copying the Japanese name I subsequently lost it and the author's Japanese name has now disappeared, so that variant will need to be created. I also see he has an SFE entry. My apologies, and thanks. PeteYoung 19:11, 12 December 2018 (EST)

Fixed. Hopefully, not too much was lost. ···日本穣 · 投稿 · Talk to Nihonjoe 19:34, 12 December 2018 (EST)

Godfrey Hordon Gustavus Gore

Please see this edit I have on hold as it impacts your verified pub. Is this a database or pub misspelling? -- JLaTondre (talk) 11:50, 24 December 2018 (EST)

I'll have to check when I get home. It's likely a typo, but you never know, and it's been a while since I looked at that book. ···日本穣 · 投稿 · Talk to Nihonjoe 17:00, 26 December 2018 (EST)

It is, indeed, a typo. Go ahead and approve it. ···日本穣 · 投稿 · Talk to Nihonjoe 21:39, 27 December 2018 (EST)

Binti: Home redux

Hi, further to this and this and this discussion on PODs, I'm trying to gather some more detailed info. Could you therefore check your copy of Binti: Home for printing details? Ie. Does your copy have

• A 'P1' (or similar) at the bottom of the copyright page
• What's the POD numbers (they look like LVOW12s0012301117 and 557892LV00008B/339/P - the former is a date code ending in 301117, meaning 2017-11-30, likely the printing date) and 'Printed in...' info on the last page?

And to see if a pattern might emerge, if you happen to have other PODs (Tor and other publishers alike) could you provide the above info for (some of) these as well? Most appreciated! MagicUnk 03:58, 27 December 2018 (EST)

I'll check when I get home tonight. ···日本穣 · 投稿 · Talk to Nihonjoe 14:42, 27 December 2018 (EST)

To answer your questions in order:

• There is no "P1" or anything similar at the bottom of the copyright page.
• I'm familiar with POD books (I have a lot of them), and this does not appear to be one. There is no POD information anywhere in the book. ···日本穣 · 投稿 · Talk to Nihonjoe 21:51, 27 December 2018 (EST)

As your copy does not appear to be PoD, and you have PV'd a PoD copy here, you may want to actually clone that record, add notes to clarify it's not a PoD version you have, and verify the cloned one as your non-PoD copy (and remove your verification from the PoD version). Cheers ! MagicUnk 16:41, 29 January 2019 (EST)

Publisher needs identifying

Hello,

Can you look at this and this? The PV apparently could not figure out the publisher (because language) and I suspect you may be able to :) And if you discover the translators, that would be even better. Thanks! Annie 22:40, 28 December 2018 (EST)

Two more with the same problem: this and this. Thanks! Annie 23:17, 28 December 2018 (EST)

Make that 6 overall when we add this and this. Annie 23:23, 28 December 2018 (EST)

I need additional info. If we can get Don to take pics of the copyright page and title pages, that will help. The copyright page looks similar to this. ···日本穣 · 投稿 · Talk to Nihonjoe 13:40, 30 December 2018 (EST)

I now have the photos. How do I get them to you?Don Erikson 15:30, 6 January 2019 (EST)

If you set up an email address here, then I can email you my email address. I'd rather not post it here. ···日本穣 · 投稿 · Talk to Nihonjoe 03:03, 7 January 2019 (EST)

I didn't know I could do that. I'm ready to receive your email.Don Erikson 18:30, 10 January 2019 (EST)

Email sent. ···日本穣 · 投稿 · Talk to Nihonjoe 15:08, 11 January 2019 (EST)

Dead Girls, Dying Girls

Hi, You have a no longer valid submission that can only be hard rejected by you (or a bureaucrat).--Dirk P Broer 08:59, 4 January 2019 (EST)

Weird. I thought it had been approved already. Fixed. Thanks! ···日本穣 · 投稿 · Talk to Nihonjoe 14:44, 5 January 2019 (EST)