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Interest[Megathread] Compiled List of Translated Kishimoto + VA + Staff Interviews~ (self.Naruto)

submitted by OrganicDinosaur

…Because although this was super tedious, this makes it infinitely easier for me to point out or reference sources when you guys ask me questions~

  • This was compiled from my own Reddit submission history, PM’s and misc. correspondence, and my posts on NF. Since I have done the translations myself for most of these posts, and obviously I’ve read the raws in order of their initial release, I can also verify information or other translations for you~ If you tell me a general summary of what you can remember, I can probably point you towards which interview it came from~!

  • So if you find a section that you would like to be translated (if it does not already have a translation available in the table below), please poke me or let me know and I’ll see if I can do it for you when I’m free~

  • If you want a second opinion or interpretation from someone else other than me (on NF or tumblr or w/e), then that’s fine too. BYOT (Bring-Your-Own-Translator)

This list begins to amass starting from roughly the conclusion of serialization of Naruto, and then through The Last, up until recent events.

  • Verified and legit newsoutlets and publication sources are only included. Only translators from here and NF were included that I could ascertain who were reputable, or already had a history of good translations~.

  • I did not include anyone on tumblr who said something along the lines of “A friend of a friend who’s totes fluent translated this and said it was xxx and I’m posting it here on his/her behalf”. Either you are confident enough to put your name and reputation on your translation or namedrop their UN, or you’re not a credible source, IMHO. (Probs because they pieced it together from Weblio, Bing, Babelfish, and Google Translate and can’t be sure of it for themselves, TBH).

  • On those English-only translations (without quoted Japanese raw, more like a “he said/she said” paraphrase), I tend to see that technical points (such as incorrect grammar, sentence clauses were mixed, etc) were disputed by other known translators (not necessarily just me). More often than not, they intentionally left out the context surrounding the rest of the text, which skews the meaning.

  • Though if you do know of a consistent translator on tumblr who is not already on NF, please let me know and link me to their translation to be added~ These would include the known Naruto Wikia or Databook translators like Seelentau, FF-Suzaku, Viatoretvenus, EmotionalRockfish, etc. (however, they rarely translate interviews, as far as I know).

If I leave anything out, please poke me to add it~!! :3

  • Please credit me for doing this listing. It took me hours upon hours to format this beast and search for all the corresponding/alternative translations. I was asked by a few people on NF to do this as a favour~

  • Please link back to this post! I will use this thread to update as new interviews and events occur, and obviously as more reputable translations are found, they will be added to the table below.

  • If you happen to have other versions of translations (please look in your NF quoted post history, or on your tumblr dash, or perhaps saved via RES) please let me know so I can add them! Obviously I can easily fill out which ones that I have completed because they are all saved in my submission history, but I can’t keep track of everyone in the fandom :P~

CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER BY RELEASE :D

In the past, I also made a huge list of [all the Naruto-related events in December].

  • Please refer to that list to see also merchandise announcements, and radio interviews that I have yet to find online, etc. Includes sources of the press anouncements.
DATE MEDIA TYPE ITEM NAME CONTENT SUMMARY RAW SOURCE TRANSLATIONS AVAILABLE OTHER NOTES
11/05 Print (Magazine) Weekly Shonen Jump #50 Kishimoto’s commentary from his final WSJ, along with praise and congratulations from his colleagues. [LINK] [OrganicDinosaur] [SaiyanIsland.Com] Plagiarized their whole article from my post, with even all my typos intact ):<
11/07 TV (Video) Special Investigation JUMP Police Yahagi (Kishi's first editor) talks about helping in shaping the pilot and beginning of the manga. [LINK] [takL] ;; [OrganicDinosaur]
11/11 Print (Online) Blog.Pierrot.JP SP Anime staff and Director are surprised about the kids and new technology in ch.700. They got advance copies of WSJ#50. Upper-level staff heard about the ending years beforehand. Director Date says only minor changes were made to what he was told about. [LINK] [OrganicDinosaur]
11/10 Print (Online) The Asahi Shimbun Exclusive interview with Kishimoto (must register to read all of it), history timeline, records of sales, world-wide influence, and tour of his studio.The interview includes thoughts on Shikamaru’s intelligence, symbolism of nuclear weapons, trouble characters to depict, how Naruto was a projection of himself [LINK] Asahi English Version [Part 1, Nov. 10th ] & [Part 2, Nov 12th];; Remainder of the article by [OrganicDinosaur, Dec. 14th] Transcription of the remainder of the interview in OrganicDinosaur's translation
11/18 Print (Magazine) JUMP SQ (Dec Edition) Interview with Yahagi (Kishimoto’s 1st Editor) and Kishimoto regarding developing the story [N/A] [VIZ (Official)]
DATE MEDIA TYPE ITEM NAME CONTENT SUMMARY RAW SOURCE TRANSLATIONS AVAILABLE OTHER NOTES
11/20 Print (Magazine) ENTERMIX Magazine Interview Infamous NaruSaku excerpt (“Terrible Woman”), how he was embarrassed by depicting romance, what Sasuke is doing on his journey, Kishimoto’s relationship and inspiration with his twin brother, involvement in red-penciling the script, etc. [Raw pages embedded with translations] Page 1: [Image]: [Onlymadethistoargue];; Pages 2-4: [OrganicDinosaur] ;; Page 5: [OrganicDinosaur];; Page 6 [Yagami1211],[OrganicDinosaur];; Page 7: [Elleturtl], [OrganicDinosaur];; Page 8: [OrganicDinosaur] ;; Page 9-10: [OrganicDinosaur + ANN] Some pages, as noted, were only done partially since I didn't finish it~ Anime News Network completed the end of it in an article OTL~
DATE MEDIA TYPE ITEM NAME CONTENT SUMMARY RAW SOURCE TRANSLATIONS AVAILABLE OTHER NOTES
11/23 Print (Online) ANIME EXPRESS Junko Takeuchi Interview about the movie, forms of love depicted, etc. (I haven't found a clear shot of the raw to read for myself) [LINK] [takL] I think there is another version on tumblr, but I can't remember the name of the account.
11/23 Print (Online) NikkanSports The NaruHina confirmed kiss following the end of the first preview screening of The Last. Kishimoto says he felt like it was watching his children grow up, and a bit awkward. [LINK] [Yagami1211];; [Eriko];; [OrganicDinosaur] (lol, sorry, mine is embedded in my liveblog of the spoilers coming out…) Mirrors also on Yahoo.JP, Asahi
11/23 Print (Online) Yahoo.JP SukimaSwitch PR regarding their live piano performance [LINK] None :(
11/23 Print (Online) Dogatch.JP Kishimoto talks about the end pairings (Kakashi's lack of marriage), VA’s react to the kiss and give comments, etc. [LINK] None :( I might have summarized fan-accounts of the fan meeting in my [live-blog post] or the [aftermath post]. I will have to check~
11/27 TV (Video) (Unknown) Kishi says that he did many revisions on the script and the new character designs were more adult-like. He asks that we watch the movie. ----Transcript: やっぱり大人っていうイメージを意識してキャラクターデザインしました。脚本の結構な直しもーまあちょっとうるさかったと思うんですけど絶対面白い作品になっていると思うので是非みなさん見に来てください！ [Clip via YT] None :(
12/01 Print (Magazine) AERA 2014.12.8 Edition Kishimoto talks about being almost moved to tears when he completed the last chapter, and is congratulated by his former editorial staff with a bouquet of flowers. [LINK] [OrganicDinosaur (full-text)] Mostly reporter's description of events, some Kishi statements. takL did a summary on Yagami1211's tumblr, IIRC
12/02 TV (Video) ANIMEMASHITE Junko Takeuchi (Naruto's VA) talks about her feelings regarding The Last [LINK] None :( I never got around to doing her interview transcription or translation, because I was noting down [new footage] for The Last~ OTL
12/03 Print (Online) Yahoo.JP Junko Takeuchi commentary about the friendship between Naruto and Sakura at their parting scene, and the peptalk of Shikamaru to Naruto [LINK] [OrganicDinosaur]
12/04 Print (Online) Cinemacafe.net Kishi says he's glad to finally relax, have a coffee in the morning without thinking about much, watch a movie with a beer, and thought about playing catch with his children. He joked about how he used to take breaks by playing Call of Duty (a popular shooting game) for 15 minute breaks, and now his scores have gotten worse after serialization ended. Talks about Naruto’s growth, and how he was stressed with his schedule beforehand and was in the hospital. [LINK] None :( takL did a few quips from it as a summary, I will have to search for it on NF. Summary is from my loose translation that I did on NF.
12/05 Print (Online) Nippon.Com General Kishimoto overview and commentary about the end of serialization [LINK] [Nippon.Com (Official)]
12/?? TV (Online) (Unknown) Nogizaka 46’s Rina Ikoma Interviews Kishi. [LINK] (Subtitles on YT Video)

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[–]OrganicDinosaur[S] 10 points11 points  (4 children)

DATE MEDIA TYPE ITEM NAME CONTENT SUMMARY RAW SOURCE TRANSLATIONS AVAILABLE OTHER NOTES
12/05 Print (Online) Eiga.Com The infamous NaruSaku “Mislead” interview, Kishi says that it's the story of their parting. [LINK] [Yagami1211];; [OrganicDinosaur;; with touch-ups by onlymadethistoargue and elleturtl] animecontinuum.tumblr.com blatantly, and unapologetically plagiarized my translation and claimed it was his own work by only changing up a few words, but keeping my original sentence structure. Drama at the bottom of my translation post when he got called out on it and refused to admit it.
12/06 Print (Online) WalkerPlus.Com VA’s feel a bit awkward about the kissing in the script, Kishi talks about the homage of Bolt’s name for Neji (who connects Naruto to Hinata). [LINK] None :( Mistanslations/ False Info from English sites: [KDramaStars] and [VCPost]
12/06 Print (Online) Oricon.JP Kishimoto says that he’s thinking up the special attack move for Bolt, considering movie things for Sasuke and Sakura, and the meaning behind Bolt’s name. [LINK] None :( Summarized here and there on NF.
12/06 Print (Online) Cinemacafe.Net Kishi says that he forgot to give the children the Byakugan, Sakura’s VA muses about performing “the last rites for the deceased” to Naruto, Kishi's thoughts about Sasuke and Sakura, and how Kishi wants her to be happy in the future [LINK] [OrganicDinosaur (partial)];; [mezzomarinaio] does the Sakura excerpt on NF;; [OrganicDinosaur] Sakura and Sasuke excerpt takL also did a summary, IIRC, but I can’t find his post about it OTL
DATE MEDIA TYPE ITEM NAME CONTENT SUMMARY RAW SOURCE TRANSLATIONS AVAILABLE OTHER NOTES
12/06 Print (Booklet) The Last: Official Movie; Black Booklet Kishimoto Interview Section: NaruHina and NaruSaku scandalous excerpts ("Mutually not eachother's love-interests", general comments about the creation of the work with Studio Pierrot, favourite scenes, etc. [SCAN] by Darkhope @ NF [OrganicDinosaur (full-text)], and also I did a [breakdown] of the controversial NaruSaku section~ I also did a full-breakdown to correct a NaruHina section that was grossly taken [out-of-context] on tumblr;; [mezzomarinaio @ NF] verifies my translation ;;
12/06 Print (Booklet) The Last: Official Movie; Black Booklet Naruto and Hinata VA interview section~ [SCAN] by Darkhope @ NF [Yagami1211] summaries Hinata’s VA interview;; [OrganicDinosaur +takL] correct a mistranslated portion of Junko's interview;; Another Junko Q&A by [me];; Eriko [full-translation] for Hinata's VA interview and also Naruto's VA [section] Anti-fans have skewed the VA's interview (Junko's); I will probably translate it fully a bit later. [takL] confirms that it's not controversial on the NF movie thread. No confirmation that Junko was ever upset that she would not be voicing Bolt, or that Hinata’s VA is voicing Himawari.
12/06 Print (Booklet) The Last: Official Movie; Black Booklet Director’s and Scriptwriter’s commentary regarding The Last [SCAN] by Darkhope @ NF Eriko @ NF: [Summary], and then [full-text] of Director’s notes;; [OrganicDinosaur] summary of Director’s notes and Scriptwriter’s notes.;; [Eriko] full scriptwriter translation
12/?? TV (Online) Dogatch.JP Naruto and Kakashi’s VA hold a multi-video interview regarding The Last. [LINK] None :( It's on my to-do list; I've just been procrastinating, sorry :(
12/13 TV (Online) FUJI TV: KOBAYASHI NARUTO END SPECIAL When Kishimoto says that Neji was “Cupid” for Naruto and Hinata, Sakura was unpopular, Orochimaru will make an appearance in the upcoming mini-series, etc. [LINK] and also [Japanese live-blogger transcription] [takL] (single post linked, please view the entire NF thread);; [Baidu] (Chinese to English) by UNKNOWN;; [OrganicDinosaur summary] Our awesome mod, YonkouProductions, has a [rip of the video] in case the original FC2 link ever goes down. So we have to ask him to re-upload it for us if this mirror dies on YT.
12/16 TV (Online) Complete Guide: Using Jutsu Compiliation Kishi picks out Naruto and Hinata as his favourite characters, regrets Kage Bunshin, inspirational works for him, character creation, etc. [LINK] [Julinay];; Short clarification by me, [OrganicDinosaur]
12/20 Fan-Accounts and Blogs JUMP FESTA 2015 Basically a lot of unconfirmed things that were gleaned from social media. Why Kishi didn't give Kakashi the sharingan back (and makes a good Hokage), Naruto's new hair was meant for the mini-series, reasons for the updated character designs, the Byakugan is difficult to show emotion on Hyuuga's, Naruto’s VA wants to see Gaara’s face when ShikaTema got married (Blogs and Twitter as cited) Big links to [NF Thread] (you’ll have to read through for takL and Yagami1211’s posts) and my summary/ write-up thing [Here] There was this controversial "Shut-Up" thing surrounding Naruto's VA that neither takL or I could verify. You'll have to read the NF thread: takL says it's a misinterpreted and out-of-context thing from the MC's trying to usher the interview portion along, not that the VA was ticked off at an answer that Kishi said. Also, I did a brief summary of the Editor's event on the second day of JF15 somewhere in that NF thread.
12/22 Print (Online) Naruto-Ten.com Kishimoto comments on his wishes for us to attend the exhibit, confirms two new one-shot mangas in each of the promotional booklets to attendees. Secret ilustration to unlock on the back of both booklets. Naruto-Ten.com [OrganicDinosaur]

[–]OrganicDinosaur[S] 5 points6 points  (3 children)

DATE MEDIA TYPE ITEM NAME CONTENT SUMMARY RAW SOURCE TRANSLATIONS AVAILABLE OTHER NOTES
01/10 Live Interview/ Fan Meeting J-WORLD TOKYO Junko Takeuchi (Naruto's VA) event. I will have to search for fan-accounts and blogs at a later time. Though glancing at social media, the response was very positive. [PR Announcement] None :( [My NF Post]
01/11 Live Interview/ Fan Meeting The Last: Commemoration of Success Event @ TOHO Theater Shikamaru's VA acts out what his proposal would be like to Temari, Kakashi and Naruto’s VA do lines as if they were Sakura / Hinata, Naruto's VA acts out how he would ask a girl out on a date. Overall, a really fun event and positive response on Japanese social media. [My NF Post] Coming soon, maybe~ (I still need to do my write-up and read more blogs first~!) References for my use in case I lose them: [1]; [2];;; [P1], [P2], [P3], [P4], [P5], [P6];;; [A1], [A2], [A3 ShikaTema Proposal], [A4]
01/15 Print (Online) Shounen Jump+ (1/15-1/17) Various range of topics. [Link] Organicdinosaur [summary];; [takL] partial direct translation;; [Anon, Most of the Interview] [Announcement]
01/16 Print (Online) Tokachi.JP Short Naruto VA and Kakashi VA interview about The Last [LINK] I cleared up a Junko [sentence] on NF
03/05 Print (Online) Yomiuri Online Kishimoto Commentary After Volume 72 [LINK] N/A N/A
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List of Fake Interviews Made by Western Anti-Fans

List of Misc. Rebuttals to Anti-Fans and Drama Related to The Last

  • The novelization of The Last is doing very well in sales! [My post @ NF] I personally don’t see how this got twisted into “the movie is a flop”, because I’m pretty sure you would boycott the book.

  • Anti-fans try to generalize the whole Japanese fandom by cherry-picking quotes from only the 2ch anti-threads, the equivalent of taking 4chan posts and calling them “American fan reactions”. They attempt to pass off all these as multiple fan reactions, even though some quotes come from the same user (look at the ID#). [My post via Reddit] about it and again on how tumblr doesn’t understand [how 2ch works]: threads are numbered based on all-time, and not counted daily.

  • [Maracunator] on NF summarizes the confirmation bias and situation.

  • [[Maracunator]] notes a mini-drama that occurred regarding a false [NaruSaku] incident. [Part2]

  • Anti-fans are ruining yahoo.jp ratings with nonsensical Japanese “reviews” from 2ch copy-pasta, posting things that they ran through google translate, etc. On other movie review websites, the ratings for The Last are doing fine, even though the sample size is small. [My post via Reddit] shows ratings from other Japanese sites, all in the 3-4 star range, and not 2.8.

  • Anti-fans with a bit of selective reading, trying to say that theaters are empty. [Part 1] and [Part2]

  • [Marcunator] points out more fishy things about all the comments and reviews left on yahoo.jp

  • My [explanation] about how 2ch works.

  • Follow the movie thread for The Last [@ NF] for updates~!

[–]YonkouProductions 1 point2 points  (2 children)

Hey, I reuploaded the Kishimoto interview here for redundancy etc. Great work on the huge write up!

[–]OrganicDinosaur[S] 2 points3 points  (1 child)

Could you possibly add this to the side-bar or on the wiki for the sub to make it an easily accessible reference~? Thank you~

[–]YonkouProductions 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Sure!

E. Done!

[–]WorkHardTwerkHarder 9 points10 points  (0 children)

... I never thought about all the things you've translated for us until now. That is one hell of a list. Thanks for putting this altogether for us! We really needed this for the fandom, honestly. Finally we can keep track of it all.

All hail OD, TranslatorKage of /r/Naruto!

Long live the queen!

[–]Rambro332 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Very nice summary! Great job laying everything out.

[–]tomahawkward 2 points3 points  (0 children)

ありがとうございます OD! We really appreciate your work and value you <3

[–]irishsaltytuna 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Damn OD, the amount of work you do for this subreddit and fandom is off the charts!

[–]LalaTia 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks again for all the hard work OD! we all love you!

[–]BebopGuitarist 0 points1 point  (2 children)

I still haven't understood that completely. Did Kishi intend for Naruto's kids to not have byakugan and he's joking that he forgot it, or he forgot it for real?

[–]OrganicDinosaur[S] 1 point2 points  (1 child)

Kishi meant to give the Byakugan to them, but actually [forgot] about it~ Like "Though it was intended, I forgot about it (laugh)".

[–]BebopGuitarist 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Well it's just that i find it weird that he has planned all these stuff for the series and he forgot such a thing. In addition how come no one in his team point this out to him?

[–]Sarahmint 0 points1 point  (2 children)

Kishi's thoughts about Sasuke and Sakura, and how Kishi wants her to be happy in the future

But not Sasuke?

Okay, if this is about pairing then women choose I guess (never mind Lee wanting to be happy)

We always knew Naruto and Sakura are set with a happy future, so why have you forgotten Sasuke and what he wants? Or does Sasuke exist as rouge territory to be conquered? That's what I get from this.

[–]OrganicDinosaur[S] 2 points3 points  (1 child)

Direct translation for the relevant line [Cinemacafe.net]

ナルトとヒナタだけでなく、サクラとサスケの間に何があったのか「先生、気になります」とその間のエピソードを描いてほしいと岸本さんにおねだり

  • Not only about Naruto and Hinata, but also (Sakura's VA wondered) about what happened in the meantime between Sakura and Sasuke, " (Kishimoto)-sensei, (please) think about it", as (Sakura's VA) wanted an episode about that time period to be depicted, (she) pestered Kishimoto-san about it.

岸本さんは「確かにサスケの方が気になりますよね。いろいろ、考えますね」と頷き、「サクラには幸せになってほしいです。ツラいことばかり描いてきたので」としみじみと語っていた。。

  • Kishmoto-san said, "Certainly, (people) are interested in Sasuke's side, right? (I'll be) considering various things". Kishi nods and then earnestly says, " I want for Sakura to be happy, since I have only been depicting unpleasant things (for her)."

ツラい= bitter, painful, heart-breaking.

VA's in this movie fan-meet were only the main cast: Junko Takeuchi, Chie Nakamura, Satoshi Hino, Nana Mizuki, Jun Fukuyama, Kazuhiko Inoue, and Kishimoto with Director Tsuneo Kobayashi. Sugiyama Noriaki (Sasuke's VA) was not present to ask Kishi any questions~

From [mezzomarinaio @ NF's summary]

she wanted to know what had happened between her and Sasuke, not just between Naruto and Hinata. The article says that she was literally begging Kishi to write about it. To which Kishimoto apparently nodded and answered with 'Certainly, people are interested in Sasuke's side... I'll be thinking about various things'. Then he said very earnestly that he wanted Sakura to be happy, since he's only been making her experience painful things until now.

[–]Sarahmint -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I want to thank you for pointing me in the right direction. I want to shake Kishi for never once considering Sasuke's pov as anything but an afterthought. Shipping wise. Having Sakura have Sasuke does not necessarily make her happier.