Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-6192846-20150223174230/@comment-6192846-20150223175722

Before anything, I'm just going to throw up a Lemy Abelard avi suggestion now that we got Ichika's illustration of him.

I personally like everything about this image. I like the coloring, style, pose, mischievious smile, everything. I think it perfectly captures Lemy (at least what we know of him) and his Pierrot persona. It also finally includes his face paint the song mentions him using.

And of course, we've got the novel ad and the website up, a trailer forthcoming. The profile for Lemy is pretty straightforward:

"The adopted son of Julia. He has a liking for mischief and isn’t very bright. In the wake of discovering a “red wine glass” in the treasury of Julia’s mansion, he hears the voice of “Ney”, a mysterious, disembodied girl."

Nice to see Ney is going to be coming back and have a role in another plot, given how rarely we actually see her in Praelud/Praefac. Sounds like this novel will be all about H&G, which is to be expected given the subject matter.

And finally, we got the ad which has an English title using "Five of Pierrot" for it, which now puts us at a translation contradiction with "First Santa Claus" from Muzzle's spelling having the same spelling.

Side by side, the pattern is undeniably the same, so it's a difference in the translation:

五番目のピエロ

一番目のサンタクロース

Of those, 五番目 is undeniably "Fifth" no matter what dictionary you check, such as in 五番目の願い (The Fifth Request).

I think we should wave this under our precedent of bending mothy's spellings in light of grammar errors such as with Evils Theater > Evil's Theater and leave everything as is, then sit back and hold a wait and see approach.

I've already reached out to mothy on twitter for further word on this but he won't be awake again for another 5-8 hours at least and he's failed to respond to tweets before.