{"id":663,"date":"2010-01-06T14:51:12","date_gmt":"2010-01-06T21:51:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/superfamicom.org\/blog\/?p=663"},"modified":"2012-11-02T11:37:16","modified_gmt":"2012-11-02T18:37:16","slug":"entry-revival-all-night-nippon-and-how-obscure-japanese-culture-impacts-your-nintendo-games-now-with-more-satellaview-relation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/superfamicom.org\/blog\/2010\/01\/entry-revival-all-night-nippon-and-how-obscure-japanese-culture-impacts-your-nintendo-games-now-with-more-satellaview-relation\/","title":{"rendered":"ENTRY REVIVAL: “All Night Nippon and how obscure Japanese culture impacts your Nintendo games”, now with more Satellaview relation!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Someone who’s been backreading on my old Blogspot blog location asked me why I was missing the “All Night Nippon<\/a>” article (He found it a very interesting read).<\/p>\n

I told him that I thought the article was a bit misplaced at the time, but developments were coming along and I thought to revive it. Well, the development I got wasn’t quite what I expected, but I got it!<\/p>\n

This one’s a fairly long one, so I’m gonna use that “more” code I haven’t used in a while. <\/p>\n

Bits of the old article will be copy-pasted in quotes – the new info I got is non-quoted.<\/p>\n

“I did a search for \u7a74\u4e95\u5915\u5b50 (Remember that name? I brought it up earlier on here.) on NicoNicoDouga today and got a mildly pleasant surprise. Before I elaborate you, you guys need to understand what makes it so interesting. And to do that, I’d have to show you something else first…”<\/p>\n

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(Video stoled from supermariobros3636 – I’LL GIVE IT BACK LATER I PROMISE ;-; )<\/p>\n

Does anyone here recognize this? Of course, it looks like Super Mario Bros – but twice as strange!
\nThis is “All Night Nippon Super Mario Bros<\/a>” for the Famicom Disk System. The story behind it is that All Night Nippon themselves raffled it off to contest winners in 1986.”<\/p>\n

–Interrupting here!–<\/p>\n

Since that article was made, a very informative article on All-Night Nippon Super Mario Brothers was put up at<\/p>\n

sydlexia.com<\/a><\/p>\n

Of note is the listing of the represented celebrities. Do you see Tamori? I think I told you folks before how I was on a search for a game called “Tamori’s Picross”… This is the same guy, for sure! This is the major link I was looking for. Haha! Anyway, back to the original text…<\/p>\n

“So how doe this relate to what I found? Simply, really…<\/p>\n

I found some actual recordings of the program.”<\/p>\n

I’ve reformatted the video streams here so they are in the Satellablog’s current form, so these technically aren’t quoted.<\/p>\n

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An episode with the date 91\/07\/02.<\/p>\n

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An episode with the date 88\/10\/06<\/p>\n

“Since I found these looking up someone I already identified as a Satellaview radio personality, it makes me curious about Nintendo’s past relationships with what many foreigners may see as obscure Japanese 80’s Pop Culture – and how it affected the decision to churn out the Satellaview itself.”<\/p>\n

“(EDIT TIEM:<\/p>\n

Digging around a bit more has landed me some 1986 content. \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n

However, I also got the Japanese Wikipedia article on All-Night Nippon SMB<\/a> and it looks like I’m actually meant to be looking for 1987…?<\/p>\n

Hrrm.)<\/p>\n

(EDIT 2: I’ve tried Excite-translating the All-Night Nippon SMB Article.<\/a>”<\/p>\n

also, putting them 1986 segments up.<\/p>\n

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Also, a bit of speculation – The BS Zelda Homepage<\/a>, after going through a few attempts to translate the credits for BS Zelda, have come up with some interesting speculation about the nature of the Zelda seiyuu.<\/p>\n

MadHatter speculates that the name translates into “Naomi Fujisawa” with this possible explanation<\/a><\/p>\n

“One thing I can say for sure is that in the 4-character name (\u85e4\u6ca2\u3000\u76f4\u7f8e), I was unsure about 2 characters (the 1st and 3rd), but the 1st character actually shows up in Seizo Kato’s name as well (\u52a0\u85e4\u3000\u7cbe\u4e09 – second character). So assuming Kato is correct for Ganon, then the “Fujisawa” portion of the Zelda-actress’ name is correct. I haven’t found any other seiyus named Fujisawa who have a first name similar to Naomi (\u76f4\u7f8e) and really the only problem with the “\u76f4” character is that it looked like the box on the inside of the character (yeah I know I’m being real technical here… tongue.gif) had only one subdivision on the screenshot whereas “\u76f4” has two. As I type this, though, with the tiny characters on the screen it actually looks exactly like it only has one subdivision, so I think Naomi (\u76f4\u7f8e) may actually be correct but the characters in the screenshot are just suffering from screen effects.<\/p>\n

So I’m pretty confident that Naomi Fujisawa is correct.<\/p>\n

I wish there was more about her online. I did some digging and found out that there was a beauty contest finalist with the same name from around the same era (1991). She had won in the Riho Maseki (\u30de\u30bb\u30ad\u91cc\u7a42) Event apparently. I looked up Riho Maseki and found that it was some sort of concert event held by All Night Nippon. So perhaps that’s our connection. I really don’t know for sure. I wonder if this was something Fujisawa was awarded as a prize or if fans got to vote on who they wanted (you recall the Satellaview Tsushin magazines featured a centerfold girlie each month) or if it’s an entirely different Naomi Fujisawa – perhaps a St.GIGA employee or DJ? I don’t know.”<\/p>\n

This would be a very interesting revelation if it was true. Also, this makes this blog post one of my longer ones. Ouwwwwchie. Hope you all enjoyed the read!<\/p>\n

Original NicoNicoDouga uploads:
\n\u5927\u69fb\u30b1\u30f3\u30c2\u306e\u30aa\u30fc\u30eb\u30ca\u30a4\u30c8\u30cb\u30c3\u30dd\u30f3<\/a>
\n\u5927\u69fb\u30b1\u30f3\u30c2\u306e\u30aa\u30fc\u30eb\u30ca\u30a4\u30c8\u30cb\u30c3\u30dd\u30f3 88.10.06&<\/a>
\n\u4e2d\u5cf6\u307f\u3086\u304dANN 1986\u5e74\u30fb\u30b2\u30b9\u30c8\u8c37\u5c71\u6d69\u5b50\uff0830\u5206\uff09<\/a><\/p>\n