Thread:Ollerus/@comment-24758887-20201024134639

Has anyone read Fanfare SS here? Anyways, in "Toaru Jihanki no Fanfare", shortly Fanfare SS or Jihanki SS, a mysterious person called "Amata's son" is shown at the very end of the short story.

I could not find any references for him in Japanese fandom, so I thought it was mistranslation. Recently, I found raw page for it. Imgur (RAW, Fanfare SS)

Also, here is the translated version of that raw page in BT. Several minutes later, in a certain place in Academy City.

"So Nayuta-chan's AIM diffusion field-defense prosthetics are 47% damaged?"

"It seems like she took the Third's electric attacks."

"Strengthening and adjustments will likely take ten days."

"Ahh, that's good."

"That may be great data."

"It's great to see them destroyed."

"If they weren't destroyed, we wouldn't know their limits."

"Nayuta-chan finally became an outstanding person."

"And it's great that she can't move within these ten days."

"For some reason, Nayuta got really obsessed with those lab rats in the overload experiment."

"Therestina-nee will come and interfere if she finds out."

"Well, this can't be helped yo. The ones who developed the Ability Body Crystal were Gensei-jii and Therestina-nee."

"More importantly, how is Amai's mass-produced Radio Noise plan?"

"Well, Amata's son is..."

"..."

Considering that Fanfare SS was technically a fanfic that Kamachi canonized later on, so on one hand, I doubt such an introduction to a new, never again mentioned character would exist, but on the other, since it was technically supposed to be a fanfic, I guess it could have been the basis for a possible sequel later on. (I doubt it though).

In the raw page (highlighted text), "数多の坊主" could mean something like “Amata’s brat” (so Amata’s son), but I do think that in this context, it would make more sense to translate it as if it were referring to Amata himself, as it can also be translated as “that brat, Amata” or “that Amata guy with a buzz cut” (or even just simply “buzz cut Amata”).

Anyways, I wouldn’t say it’s a mistranslation, but more so there just isn’t enough evidence to point to either translation, which both work I would still go with it referring to Amata himself though.

What do you guys think of the page. Should we remove it or leave it? Despite of being mentioned in one sentence, page is also filled with assumptions and speculation without sources.  