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久し振りの ５祝儀トウコウスフィアだよ！ 今回はなんと、遂にレアキャラ同盟の人達によるトウコウスフィアが実現したんだよ！ こんな奇跡的な回は、今後二度と訪れないと思うから、よーく見ておいた方がいいと思うんだ。お珠洲さんも大満足のこの一本！みんなも最後まで堪能していってね！

It's finally time for another 5th week Toukousphere! And, oh! It looks like this time the League of Rare Characters will be taking center stage! I don't think a miraculous event like this is going to happen again, so I think you'd better enjoy it while you can. I bet Little Miss Suzu is going to love this one! Everyone should enjoy it easy!

Question Corner

同じ主人公なのに、クロアやアオトに比べて最近ライナーって影薄くない？ (マトウィ)

I know he's a main character, but it seems Lyner hasn't stood out much lately compared to Croix and Aoto, doesn't it? (Matowi)

	ようこそ、レアキャラ同盟へなのだ！！	Welcome to the League of Rare Characters!!
	影が薄いってだけでレアキャラ同盟加入！？ ってか、できるだけ毎回顔出すように頑張ってるんだから、同盟入りはおかしいだろ？	What, I'm in the League of Rare Characters just because I don't stand out much!? I mean, I try hard to make sure I show up at least once every time, so this doesn't make sense.
	良いではないか、今日くらいは妾達レアキャラと一緒に騒ごうではないか。	What's the matter? Just enjoy getting to spend the day with us rare characters.
	おまえ出番ありまくりだろうが！！	Yeah, even though you get to show up all the time!!
	出番だけでは埋められない心の隙間もあるのじゃ！！	There's a hole in your heart that can't be filled just by Toukousphere appearances!!
	プップルプルッププー！！（贅沢過ぎるよ、僕なんか喋れないから出番なんて数ヶ月に一度あればいい方だって言うのに！！）	Puuppurupuruppupuuu!! (It's just not fair. I can't even talk, so I'm lucky if I can show up once every few months, but ... !!)
	おお、スープではないか！！ 枕キャラとして登場したにも関わらず、グッズではスープ枕ではなくて抱き枕の方が造られてしまったためにスッカリ枕キャラとしての地位を失ったスープではないか！！	Oh, if it isn't Soope!! If it isn't Soope, the living pillow who lost his status as a pillow character when they came out with dakimakuras before they came out with a Soope pillow!!
	プープププップー！！（そうそう、抱き枕よりまず僕でしょ？　どうして抱き枕の方が先に出たの？　ていうか、オボンヌとゲロッゴ、にゃものぬいぐるみが出てるのに僕が出ないって……もしかして僕、人気ないのかな？）	Puupupupupuppuuu!! (That's right, they should have came out with me instead of those dakimakura, right? Why did they have to come out with the dakimakura first? Wait, they have Funbuns, Gergo, and Nyamo plushies, but they haven't made a plushie of me yet ...... Can it be that I'm just not popular?)
	……スープも、色々と不満が溜まってるんだな。	...... I guess even Soope's got lots of things he's fed up with.

とりあえずPlayStation Awardsでアルトネリコ3に投票しときました。 か、勘違いしないでよね。トトリちゃんに入れるついでなんだからね！ (ゆば)

Anyway, I voted for Ar tonelico 3 in the PlayStation Awards. But, don't get the wrong idea. It's just because there Totori wasn't there! (Yuba)

	トトリ？ はて、トトリとは何のことでしょうか？	Totori? Whatever on earth is that?
	あの有名な砂丘のある県のことではないでしょうか？	Isn't that the place with the famous sand dunes?
	おい、そりゃ鳥取だぜ。	Hey, that's Tottori.
	みんな、トトリを知らないなんて遅れてるのだ。 トトリっていうのは、ガスト製作の新約錬金術RPG「トトリのアトリエ～アーランドの錬金術士2～」のことなのだ！！ ちなみにリルラも今現在遊んでる最中で、凄く面白いのだ！！	I can't believe you all still don't know about Totori. Totori is Gust's newest alchemy RPG: "Atelier Totori ~The Adventurer of Arland~"!! I'm playing through it right now, and it's a lot of fun!!
	ほぉ、そんなに面白いゲームがあったのか。 それならばこの機会に、わしも買って遊んでみるとするかな？	Huh, I didn't know there was a game like that. Maybe I'd better take this chance to go buy it and play it myself.
	ガルツベルン殿、妾もトトリで遊びたいのじゃ！！ 一緒に近くのゲームショップに買いに行こうではないか！！	Sir Garzbern, I want to play Totori, too!! Why don't we find a nearby game store and buy it!?
	……おい、宣伝はこれくらいで十分だよな？ これだけ言っておけばトトリの方でもアルトネリコを宣伝してくれるはずだよな？	...Hey, don't you think that's enough advertising already? If we're gonna say this much about it, they should try to sell Ar tonelico in this Totori game, too.
	……無理だと思うぞ？	...I don't think that's gonna work out.

ゲンガイはＶボードの達人ですけど受賞歴はあるんですか？ あと、もてたんですか？ (咲也)

Gengai's a V-board expert, so he's won a lot of prizes, right? And, was he really popular? (Sakuya)

	当然受賞歴はあるぜ。 まあ、トロフィーなんかは持っててもかさ張るからいつも捨てちまってたから、残ってはいねぇけどな。 だが大会の履歴にはちゃんと載ってるぜ。	Of course I have. Well, dragging around all the trophies is a pain, so I usually get rid of 'em pretty quickly, so I don't have 'em anymore. It's all recorded in the tournament records, though!
	それで、もてたんですか？	So, were you popular?
	……いいことを教えてやろう。 こういうスポーツは俺みたいなゴツいのよりも、若くて爽やかな野郎の方がサマになるんだ。	...Here's how it works. This kinda sport is really geared towards fresh young jerks instead of tough guys like me.
	プールッププー？（それで結局、モテたの？）	Puuruppupuu? (So you were pretty popular, right?)
	はっきり言わないってことは、きっとモテなかったんだと思う。 だから聞いちゃダメだよ。	If he won't come out and say it, I bet nobody liked him. So don't ask him anymore.
	……子供に気遣われるってのは、地味に胸が痛くなるな。	...Man, it's really a special kind of hurt to have kids worried about you like that.

フィンネルの胸が小さいのはアヤタネのせいらしいよ!! (まち)

I bet it's Ayatane's fault that Finnel's chest is so small!! (Machi)

	垂れる心配がないから喜ぶべきだと思うがな。	She'll never have to worry about 'em sagging, though, so she should be happy.
	そうですな。 若い今は悲しいかもしれませんが、将来的にはきっとよかったと思うこと間違いなしですな。	Indeed. It may be hard to bear during her youth, but it certainly is the best for her future.
	ケッ、垂れたら垂れてねぇ女に乗り換えればいいだけじゃねぇか。	Kh, if they did, she'd just have to transform into someone who wasn't, right?
	貴様、そうやって最低なことばかり言ってるといつか痛い目見ることになるぞ？	If you keep saying terrible things like that, you're really going to get into trouble some day.
	とはいえ、たまにはこういう話題で盛り上がることで若々しさを取り戻すのもいいかもしれん。 よし、では一人ずつ好みの胸について話してみよ、今日は無礼講だ。	Still, it might be nice to regain some youth by getting excited over this sort of thing sometimes. Very well, let's all talk about our favorite types of chests; anything goes today.
	…………	...
	むむっ、クロアが話に入れてもらいたさそうな目でこちらを見ておるぞ？	Mmmm, Croix looks like he really wants to get in on this conversation.
	そ、そういうわけじゃない！！ せっかくの五週目だっていうのに何をやってるんだかと思って呆れてただけだ……本当にそうだからな。	Th-that isn't it!! I was just wondering what's going on since we haven't had a 5th week Toukousphere in a while... really, that's it.
	この手の話題に関してだと、まったく説得力のカケラも感じられませんね。	That's almost impossible to believe, considering what we were just talking about.

ボルドって天覇のナンバー２でしたよね？ でも行動や発言などを見る限りただの荒くれ者にしか見えません。 亜耶乃社長、あの人有能だったんですか？ (ヤマト)

Bourd was Tenba's number 2, right? He didn't seem like anything more than a rank thug considering how he always talked and acted, though. Did he really have what it takes, President Ayano? (Yamato)

	ボルドは優秀な社員だったぞ。 天覇というのは塔内部の調査などで、とにかく戦闘は避けられなかったからな。 そういう面だけにおいてだが、ヤツは優秀だったぞ。 それ以外は最低最悪だったがな。 ついでに言えば、社員からの評判はもちろん、一般市民からの評判も最低最悪だったが	Bourd was an excellent employee. Tenba is focused on investigating the interior of the Tower, so we'd end up getting into fights eventually. When it came to that, he's the one person you wanted by your side. He was total scum in every other way, though. He had a really bad reputation with the rest of the company, too.
	……最低ですね、それは。	...that's really terrible.
	善人装ってるが実は大悪人のおまえに最低と言われる覚えはねぇ！！	Says the guy who acts like he's all nice but really is the main villain!!
	まあ、見るからに悪役貫いてるボルドの方が、ラファエーレよりかはマシかもしれないな。	Yeah, since you know what you're getting with Bourd, he's kinda better than Raphael that way.
	というよりも、アルトネシリーズで最初から最後までずっと悪人を貫いていたキャラというのがボルドくらいじゃからな。 ファルスやラファエーレやルーファンのように、善人のフリをして相手を騙すような姑息な手段をとらない、正々堂々とした貴重な悪役じゃ。	Hm, it seems that Bourd is the only character in the AT series that was always cast as a villain, isn't he? He's a pure ruffian, not someone like Falss, Raphael, or Luphan who pretends to be an ally in order to deceive people.
	人質取ったりはしたけどな。	He did take hostages, though.
	人質も取らないような悪役など悪役ではないわ！！	Any villain that wouldn't take hostages isn't a villain at all!!
	……褒めてるのかけなしてるのかの判断がつかねぇ会話はやめてくれねぇか？	...geez, stop it, I can't tell whether that's praise or insults.

ゲロッゴＬＯＶＥなクローシェ様に質問ですが、アルトネ３で蒼都がココナにゲロッゴを作っていますが、やっぱり羨ましかったりするんですか? (ＣＡＴＣＡＴ)

I have a question for Ms. Gergo Love, Lady Cloche. In AT3 Aoto made a Geroggo for Cocona; are you jealous about that? (CATCAT)

	プルップップップー？（あれって簡単に言えば二次創作の同人グッズみたいなものだよね？）	Puruppuppuppuuu? (Simply speaking, that's like a doujin derivative accessory, right?)
	……まあ、確かにオフィシャルの物じゃないからそうなんだろうけどさ。 ってことはアオト達は、本編中に同人グッズ作ってたってことか！？	...Well, it's not official, so I guess that's right. Wait, does that mean Aoto was making doujin stuff in an official work!?
	そういうことになるな。 まあ、装備としてちゃんと使えるものだったのだから問題はなかろう？	It seems that way, yes. But, it was properly equippable, so there's nothing wrong with that.
	それに可愛いから、アリスは好きだよ。 ２でもこれがあったら、クローシェは絶対身に着けてたと思う。	Besides, it's cute, so I like it. Cloche would definitely have worn it if there was one in AT2.
	クローシェの年齢であれを付けて外を歩くというのは……少々問題があるようにも思えますね。	I think for a lady of Cloche's age to walk around in broad daylight wearing such a thing would be... well, there might be some problems.
	ペペナを着てる時点で、その辺りの問題を気にする必要はないと思いますけどね。	I don't think you'd have to worry about that if she wore it while she also had Pepena on.

アルトネのみなさんだからこそこの質問をしたい！ 世界の終わりの日に何をする？ (おぼんＴＡ)

I definitely have to ask this question of the AT cast! What will you be doing on the day the world ends? (FunbunTA)

	アル兄ぃとラブラブするのだ！！	Being all lovey-dovey with Harm!!
	チェスターと一緒に過ごします……二人きりで。	I'd like to spend it with Chester... just the two of us.
	私だけが助かる方法を必死になって探すでしょうね。	I suppose I'll be the only one working feverishly to try to save it, then.
	……娘と過ごしたい。	...I'd like to spend it with my daughter.
	ひゅー、元気なジジイだな。 世界最後の日は若い女とよろしくしたいってか？	Well, aren't you a lively old geezer. You wanna spend the last day of the world with a little girl, huh?
	自分の娘と平凡な一日を過ごしたいという意味だ！！	What's wrong with spending an ordinary day with my own daughter!?
	俺は、そうだなぁ…… 知ってるやつ全員集めて、世界の終わる瞬間までに誰が一番オボンヌを多く食べられるかの競争をしたいな！！	Me, well... I'd wanna round up all my friends and spend the whole day in a contest to see who could eat the biggest Funbun!!
	……ミシャが泣いちゃうから、それはやめた方が良いと思うよ。	...That would just make Misha cry, so you shouldn't.
	そんなわけで今回のご祝儀はここまでなのだ！！ 来週のトウコウスフィアまでバイバイなのだ！！	Well, that's the end of our special Toukousphere!! Until next week's Toukousphere, bye-bye!!
	……まあ、レアキャラの我々の出番はないと思うがな。	...well, I'm sure we rare characters won't be showing up next week.

Editor's Postscript

というわけで、何の前触れもなく５祝儀トウコウスフィアです。 そして唐突にレアキャラ大集合という縛りで、普段なかなかお目にかかれない回にしようということでやってみました。この後レアキャラ同盟がどうなるかはわかりませんが（今回の反動でより一層出番が少なくなるかも…！？）、どうか今後もより一層の応援をしてあげていただければと思います。 それでは次週、いつものトウコウスフィアでお逢いしましょう。 (土屋)

So concludes our completely unannounced 5th-week Toukousphere. And since we suddenly decided to make it a rare character convention, we tried including questions of the sort that usually don't make it into the Toukousphere. I'm not sure what will happen to the League of Rare Characters from here on out (they might show up even less frequently to balance out their appearance this time...!?), but I hope people will cheer for them even more now. In any case, let's move on to a normal Toukousphere next week. (Tsuchiya)