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Buso-senshi:
--- Quote ---Well, I don't have any DEEP info on it, but one of his first, relatively successful sci-fi works was called Sexaroid, it has to have been one of his, earliest works, before he started to work on Harlock, Senen no Joou, and Ginga Tetsudou 999.
It's pretty hard to find any info on that one, sadly.
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Sexaroid was published 1974, 4 Volumes. published in Asahi Sonorama's „Sun Comics“
It was reprinted in 1992.
It has nothing to do with the great "Leijiverse" of Harlock, Emeraldas, Yamato or Queen Millenia.
Korcas:
Still, I wonder why the parts of the episode were mistranslated/changed, in the first place. o_o
Does the translator not like the fact that Yuki's a Sexaroid, or what?
Tofusensei:
Well, here is the long and the short of it.
I was translating this show one day (yes, I am the one and only translator for this show :x) and I come across this word "sekusaroido". So I go, "Huh? What in blazes can that be?? Hmmm.... <checks electronic dictionary> <checks online dictionaries> <searches google> Ah, here this is great japanese page explaining what a sekusaroido is!" Of course, the explanataion for what a sexaroid is would be VERY similar to what the explanation for android is, so I (and here is the key phrase here) ASSUMED that it was just a fancy word for Android, so I translated it as such.
No malice was intended, I just missed the reference. It happens :( Now I need to get my hands on the Sexaroid manga :D
-Tofu
Korcas:
--- Quote ---Well, here is the long and the short of it.
I was translating this show one day (yes, I am the one and only translator for this show :x) and I come across this word "sekusaroido". So I go, "Huh? What in blazes can that be?? Hmmm.... <checks electronic dictionary> <checks online dictionaries> <searches google> Ah, here this is great japanese page explaining what a sekusaroido is!" Of course, the explanataion for what a sexaroid is would be VERY similar to what the explanation for android is, so I (and here is the key phrase here) ASSUMED that it was just a fancy word for Android, so I translated it as such.
No malice was intended, I just missed the reference. It happens :( Now I need to get my hands on the Sexaroid manga :D
-Tofu
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That does make sense, yeah. XD
Well, the only other time, I remember the term sexaroid to be used, was in the original Bubblegum Crisis OVA, in the episode Moonlight Rambler and Red Eyes, where a couple of sexaroids flee from the Genaros Space Station, and one of them becomes friends with Priss, etc.
Back in Bubblegum Crisis, Sexaroids were simply.. (As the name implies) Android "sextoys", they were basically hookers you didn't have to pay more than once, if you catch my drift. ;P
It wouldn't be TOO far off that Yuki was built for that intention, but it's probably just the homage at the Sexaroid manga.
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