Klonoa Chronicles #38
Klonoa Chronicles is a series of tweets by Klonoa’s original creator, Hideo Yoshizawa, that give insights into the development of the games he had a hand in making. Below is a translation along with the original Japanese text.
クロノアクロニクル第３８回！ 今週もファントマイル語にまつわるエピソードを！
Klonoa Chronicles #38! Another week, another episode on the Phantomile language!
よく文法がちゃんと設定されているなんてまことしやかに言われていますが、そんなちゃんとしたものは実はありません（汗）。 「フィア」が「僕は」で「フィアル」だと「僕たちは」になるなどの、一人称複数形というような、ちょっとしたルールを作ってある程度ですかね。
To be truthful, there wasn’t exactly any proper grammar set in place. -sweat- That is to say, some attempts were made such as “Fia” meaning “I am” and “Fiaru” meaning “We are”.
「フィア クロア」は「僕はクロノア」、「フィアル トゥラルゥ」は「僕たちはこの辺で」って感じです。 後はサウンドスタッフが台詞に合わせてチクチクと拘りの編集をしてくれた成果がファントマイル語なんです。
“Fia Kuroa” is “I am Klonoa”, “Fiaru to~urara~” is “We are going around.” The rest is the result of the sound staff’s painstaking editing to match the dialogue, and it’s called Phantomile.
登場人物の声は、クロノアとヒューポー以外はすべてスタッフがやってます。中でも私が驚いたのはオープニングをはじめ、全ムービーのチーフだった由水君のガディウスです。 この威厳がありながら悪の権化のような低音の声は絶品ですよね？
All of the characters were voiced by the staff except for Klonoa and Huepow. I was particularly surprised to hear the voice of Ghadius, who was the chief producer of all the CG movies, including the opening movie. This majestic, yet evil, low-pitched voice is superb, isn’t it?
じっじ役の企画のＨ君もいい味出してました。彼は学生時代演劇部だったんですよ。それであの死に際の名演技ができたんですね。
Mr. H, who played the role of Grandpa in this project, was also very good. He was in the drama club when he was in school, and that’s how he was able to give that great performance at the time of his death.
レフィス役の名取さんは今ではテイルズのシナリオや小説家としても活躍しているのでご存知の方もいらっしゃるでしょう。 彼女の入社面接時の面接官が私で、学生時代やった事を聞いたら、趣味で書いた小説が入選して賞金百万円もらったので一か月欧州旅行をしてましたなんて言うので採用した人です。 ちなみにラストシーンの再生の歌も歌っています。 つづく
Natori-san, who played the role of Lephise, is now working as a Tales of scenario writer and novelist, so some of you may know her. When I interviewed her for the job, I asked her what she had done as a student, and she told me that she had won a prize of one million yen for a novel she had written as a hobby, and that she had traveled to Europe for a month, so I hired her. By the way, she also sang the song for the playback of the last scene. To be continued
