Lina’s Dumpster

A blog dedicated to Ace of Diamond guidebook translations

[hsenalina]

Hiya! Thank you all for the support.

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Today there will not be any interview questions. Instead I’m arranging the translations of a “Which character are you?” type of quiz from the guidebook. I will be sharing it later in the day.

[hsenalina]

—————Could you tell us the process/circumstances that led to your first award?

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Terajima - When I brought the wrestling manga I drew (his 4th work) into the “Weekly Shounen Magazine” editorial department, the one that was in charge of it was the current editor in chief.

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—————I see. So from there, the joint creative activities of two people began.

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Terajima - That’s right. However, for a while, I was only told, “Please draw your next work.” While I was working part-time, I continued to draw “sports manga” and “gang manga” alternately. About a year later, I was told that the baseball manga I drew after the work I first brought in had won an award, and I thought, “Eh?..That one from such a long time ago?”. I think they were probably testing my motivation. After that, I was also introduced to an assistant job for Inoue Masaharu sensei’s “Marathon Man” that was being serialized.

[hsenalina]

—————In order to become a mangaka, what did you start with?

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Terajima - Takahashi sensei told me “Go to Tokyo for the time being” and “Draw a manga and send it to a publisher”, so that was that (laughs) . I couldn’t find what I wanted to do and was in a haze, I used my own feelings from those days to make a manga and sent it to an editorial department. It was sent back immediately though (laughs) .

[hsenalina]

—————So you were familiar with manga since the times you were playing baseball. When did you actually start thinking about becoming a mangaka?

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Terajima - It was when I read “Close” by Takahashi Hiroshi sensei. When I was a 3rd year in highschool, I borrowed it from a junior and experienced a shock. By the time I enrolled in college, I had collected the whole volume. Then, as an omake for the comics, Takahashi sensei wrote “I became a mangaka this way” and I gradually became aware of the occupation called “sleeping mangaka”.

[hsenalina]

—————Setting aside the completely self-taught amateur era, please tell us about the period before you made your debut as a mangaka. When did sensei(Terajima)-who was a baseball boy-start drawing manga?

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Terajima — If we’re talking about doodle level, since elemantary school. I remember imitating “Dragonball”. After that I was affected by “Kin’nikuman” then “Jojo’s Strange Adventure”.

Araki sensei’s drawing is cool because he can firmly draw the lips. I couldn’t draw the lips well at all so I practiced for a long time. I didn’t draw a lot when I was a highschool student but it was about this time that I started reading “Weekly Shonen Magazine”. In fact, the first magazine I bought was the issue when “Hajime no Ippo” started its serialization. Now being serialized in the same magazine, I feel like it’s destiny.

[hsenalina]

Thank you so much for doing these translations! I can't wait to see what kind of content we've been missing out on! I have a question for the birthday list though, are those all known birthdays? I'm not seeing a few people like Fukui or Hirahata who I#d thought would get one if all the new first years do...

No problem! I hope not to disappoint!

Birthdays are taken from the character panels in the guidebook. While characters like Fukui did have small parts to themselves, only a couple sentences of commenting was given as opposed to major characters that have at least a page for themselves for more information.

As for the first years’ birthdays; theirs as well as some other major act ii characters’ birth dates were given in an official calendar. Since I did not follow up on some merchandises, I was unaware of this but @daiyanerd was kind enough to share the dates with me.

Hope this answers your question and clears things up! ^^

[hsenalina]

I will be posting 1 interview question a day around 8UTC. I will start with the interview piece from Ura. This is to give new content without having big timelapses between translations. I will be posting other parts as I finish arranging them. 

If you have any questions or suggestions, please feel free to shoot them my way!

[hsenalina]

Before I get started on guidebook translations, this was a birthday timeline I drew up for reference according to their respective age groups.

There may be an error with Matsubara Nao’s age group because at the time I did this, I was unsure if he was to be in 90 or 91liners. I have miswritten the number as 1 instead of 13 beside Umemiya for team numbers. Other characters have no such problems. I apologize to Ugumori 😅

There are a few characters here that are from act ii. Some of them have been introduced in the new anime episode or opening-ending. They are mostly the new students from some of the major teams.

This was done with characters I knew and a new one will be done once another guidebook with new characters gets published.

[hsenalina]

Hi guys! Hsena here. Some of you may know me from discord as HsenaLina so I decided to keep the name for this blog too.

I will be translating little tidbits and interview parts from the Ace of Diamond official guidebooks Ura and Omote. There may be parts already translated but I have not seen any full book translations before so I decided to take the matters into my own hands.

If there are any other official content you would want to see translated, link the original content to me and I will try to take a look at them too.

Hope we can have an enjoyable time together!