User blog comment:Revriley/Ongoing DMDP Notes/@comment-47356286-20201109072413/@comment-3218221-20201116232404

Rats, have to rewrite my reply since there was an issue when posting. This is why you always need to copy comments first.

Thanks for letting me know! I'm not a Japanophone myself, so, though I do buy the Japanese volumes (digitally), I have to take the initiative to look for names and then look up the kanji and whatnot (I can read katakana, at least, so I can identify names in katakana more easily). Outside of auto-translation services and dictionaries, I ultimately rely on friends and Japanophone fans to catch these tidbits where I don't!

Since I had no reason to believe Yen Press would have excluded the sticky witch's name, I didn't think to check those panels in my Japanese editions. I guess I might have noticed eventually, whenever I got around to looking for the original Japanese names, but 'eventually' could have been a long while off.

Man, all the DMDP content Fujimoto and Narita post on Twitter that's gone untranslated really kills me. This time last year in 2019, User:Leviatree posted on my wall some information from this character sheet Narita & Fujimoto shared on Twitter in 2018 (the sheet includes Aikawa's given name!).

Fujimoto's DMDP Moments collection on Twitter has a lot of bonus comics like the ones with Shagrua and Recuria post-CG reincarnation. Also bonus doodles. The collection doesn't have everything he's posted about DMDP, though; I know for sure there are doodles he hasn't yet added. The short series of DMDP character sheets he uploaded in June aren't in the collection either.

Ah, not to mention Narita's tweets, or the occasional bonus info in the magazine issues. I bought a digital edition of the Young Gangan magazine in which Chapter 54 was published because Narita/Fujimoto said it would have a bonus page of character info. It does; unfortunately, the ebook service I bought it on doesn't offer very good image quality (imgs are definitely compressed), which makes it hard to make out some kanji even when zoomed in. Ugh. I wouldn't blame a friend for not being able to read it.

But I digress. Feel free to stop by the comments section here whenever you want to share any other information like this. I'll update the blog post accordingly (as I will do now!).