Very very rough translation of the VA Q&A from Neon Carnival! Keep in mind that I learned Mandarin as a third language in school and it's been years since I've had to use it. There's a lot of vocabulary I don't know and I'm certainly not going to know any slang, especially Taiwanese/fandom slang. And also the VAs are speaking Japanese so this translation comes to you through an additional layer of translation lol.
Eiden's VA (Netoru Irakusa) and Olivine's VA (One Night Love) introduce themselves, thank people for coming and enjoying the game, etc
Question: Have either of you VAs been to Taiwan? What's your impression of Taiwan?
Netoru says that it's his first time leaving Japan. One Night asks the audience when they think the two VAs woke up that morning. The answer is 5am. They both woke up at 5am and went for a walk, but they didn't plan or talk about it, they went for walks separately lol.
Netoru says that Taiwanese people are kind and he's looking foward to the food, but time is limited.
It's also One Night Love's first time leaving Japan. His impression of Taiwan is that the food is good. Before arriving he set a goal to eat [a meat rice dish?] and fried rice, but he's achieved both goals so he's not sure what to do now.
MC prompts the audience to suggest other foods.
They start pointing at the audience and going "TAPIOCA?" so I assume a lot of people must be yelling that lol. The two say they've already had bubble tea. The MC repeats something else the audience is yelling, but I don't understand what she said. One Night Love says something that sounds like "mapo tofu", so that might be it.
Question: When you received the invitation from NU: Carnival, what was your first impression of the game, or what were your feelings towards the character?
After Netoru answers but before the translator translates, One Night Love takes his jacket halfway off and Netoru touches his chest lmfao.
The translator translates their banter. I don't understand her translation for Netoru, but One Night Love responds that's why he came to eat a lot. One Night Love shows off his shirt by pulling his jacket off halfway again; Netoru asks him if he wants to take his clothes off. One Night Love responds no not really, it's actually a bit cold on stage.
Back to the question. I think the translator is translating for Netoru when she says that the first impression was wow, this game tears the characters' clothes, that's incredible. Eiden is a very cheerful character, so Netoru worried whether he'd be able to voice Eiden. MC remarks that Netoru is very cheerful, Netoru responds that right now he's very happy [and something else I don't understand].
Netoru repeats that Eiden is cheerful and that's why he was nervous voicing Eiden. However, that's the big draw of Eiden [t/n: I'm not sure if I understood this sentence correctly, so take it with a grain of salt.]
One Night Love: Olivine... (translator echoes: Olivine...)
One Night Love's first time seeing Olivine was probably the same as everyone else's first time: the SSR outfit. "Wow~ this character is very exciting."
Netoru: That's why you wanted to strip just now?
One Night Love: No, don't ruin my image, I wouldn't do something like that.
One Night Love protests a little more, though I don't understand it. Netoru more or less says "that's fine, you can still strip."
One Night Love says that Olivine really contrasts his appearance, his personality is very accepting and gentle, so he thought for a long time on how to get that feeling.
[The VAs banter a little before the translator resumes translating.]
Before recording they already think a lot, so while recording they use a lot of effort. However, there was a small misstep. When recording the bedroom scene - the game has a lot of h-scenes - One Night Love accidentally played Olivine as... too passionate [t/n: LMFAO]. So halfway through, One Night Love stopped to discuss it. "This way... would it be... not too good?"
[The next lines seem to be a translation of the VAs' banter. The ambiguity on who said what makes it hard to follow.]
Question: In this year, were there any especially memorable events?
I don't understand what event Netoru answered, but he says that he didn't think it would actually appear in game, so he's very happy.
One Night Love says something along the lines of "you make it sounds like he's never appeared." Netoru responds "but he couldn't fight before." [t/n: going off context clues, his answer to the question must have been Silver Miracle.]
They mention that now you can put Eiden on the home screen with the character you like. There's a bit of banter, and they ask people to raise their hands if they put Eiden on the home screen.
One Night Love takes a sip of his drink. Netoru goes "you're thirsty at a time like this?? aren't you too free??" and apologizes to the audience, then takes a sip of his own drink. There's a bit more banter and general goofing around.
Netoru continues that through this event, we [t/n: or he; it's ambiguous] can learn more about Eiden's past, so it moved him and let him connect deeper with the character. Also, in the main story, he's personally interested in Rin and what he'll do next.
More banter I can't understand, but then Netoru apologizes profusely. One Night Love retorts that Netoru isn't apologizing seriously enough, so Netoru kneels on the floor to apologize.
One Night Love: You can get up.
One Night Love says that there's a lot of memorable events, but if he had to choose one, it would be Festive Glimmer.
One Night Love asks if there are Olivine fans in the audience. Audience members wave their green Topper lights.
One Night Love continues: fans of Olivine, I think you all know... his event outfit(s)... [t/n: sometimes Mandarin can be ambiguous about whether a noun is plural. He may be referring to all of Olivine's event outfits as a whole, or specifically FG Olivine's outfit.]
Question: Other than the charcter you voice, is there any other character you like?
He says something about skin color that I don't really understand. He got scared when he saw Olivine's outfit [t/n: presumably the FG one.] Compared to the story, this appearance is even more shocking. [t/n: I don't know if I understood this correctly.]
Netoru: Everyone should already know my answer.
Audience yells Topper, everyone laughs. [t/n: for those who may be reading this without watching the stream recording, Netoru is wearing a Topper mask.]
Netoru says he wants a Topper at home. Netoru and One Night Love have some banter that I can only assume is Topper-related. The translator translates part of it, but there's some overlapping speaking, so I don't really know what she said beyond "the stage is cold" and putting something (presumably Topper) in their jacket.
One Night Love: Me? Mmm... Topper.
Netoru jokingly threatens to pick a fight, but One Night Love defeats him by pulling out the Topper light that Netoru doesn't have.
One Night Love answers that he likes Edmond and Blade. He's friends with Edmond's VA, so he's excited to hear Edmond's VA's performance this time. The audience laughs, there's some banter I don't understand, and then One Night Love begins protesting that their relationship isn't like that.
One Night Love: Netoru~ Nee, nee, don't be like that~
Netoru: This is the first time he's called me by given name and not by surname
One Night Love likes Blade for a very simple reason: his appearance. He likes characters where the eyes are covered. He says something along the lines of yes, yes, he knows his eyes are covered. Right now he can't see much [t/n: he's wearing a plague doctor mask.]
Question for Netoru: When voicing Eiden, what's the difference between top and bottom, and how do you change between the two?
One Night Love seems to be complaining about something. I think he's jokingly mad about Eiden getting to switch, or in disbelief that Eiden switches, but I'm not sure. I have no idea what the following yelling is about, it's too fast and has too much cross-talk.
Netoru doesn't think too much about top or bottom, he mostly tries to understand the other person in the scene. One Night Love asks Netoru to understand him right now. Netoru lifts up his booklet to hide his face from One Night Love lol.
Netoru essentially says that it depends on the other person in the scene. With different people, he can voice act different feelings of topping or bottoming.
Netoru: Well of course there's some difference between topping and bottoming [gives a little example of both]
One Night Love: Give us a little more!
Netoru: I can't, if I give a little more I'll get scolded later
MC: You won't, you won't~!
Netoru does a fake moan. One Night Love asks him if he's being serious, it sounds a little too funny. Then Netoru does a more real-sounding moan, to the great joy of the audience.
Netoru continues, saying that with those examples, you should understand that there's a difference in how to voice act top versus bottom. However, in the end, he has to play to the other person's mood.
[t/n: they use 對手 for other person in the scene, which I understand to mean opponent. It's kind of funny to think of voice acting sex scenes as fighting with the other VA. I don't know enough about Taiwanese fandom culture to know if this is a VA term, a BL term, a general term, or what.]
Question for One Night Love: Olivine's scenes have some brave content, is there any scene or line that's more memorable?
One Night Love says that if he picks one he'll feel sorry for the other stories, but if he had to pick, he does have one that's super memorable. It has to be Idol Fest!
Then he starts singing bits of Summer Dream. If you haven't already watched a livestream recording, you should at least watch the part where One Night Love sings, it's so good.
In this event, the characters sing. One Night Love didn't have much chance before to sing character songs. He really hopes that afterwards he'll have chances to sing character songs again.
Question: If you could choose one character to date, who would you choose?
They say it at the same time: Topper. There's no other choice.
Question: What are your feelings on the 1 year anniversary? Do you have any words you want to say to the fans here at the event, as well as fans watching the livestream across the world?
Netoru says that this year passed by really quickly. He's very happy that he has a chance to celebrate with everyone. He wants to take this opportunity to express his gratitude to the fans of the game as well as the devs who work on it. [Fans cheer as the translator speaks, I'm not sure what she says.]
Netoru then says "I love you" in several languages, and finishes with "thank you" in Mandarin.
One Night Love starts with "I love you guys~" in Mandarin, in a tone that's soft and similar to Olivine. I don't understand this well enough to do a close translation, but the gist is that he's grateful for everyone's support and he hopes that as VAs they can keep creating beautiful stories. So please, everyone keep supporting them, so that they can have a 2nd year anniversary, a 3rd year anniversary, okay?
And then they set up and get ready for the live voiceover. End of Q&A.
