Nakayan Quest

Lv. 19 Felt like two person in Shinbashi

Fri, 09 Dec 2011 23:02:44 +0900

“Nakayan Quest” is a story about our heroine “Nakaya Sayaka” who in order to master the “Path of Idol”, will clear off all sorts of difficult quests, gain experience and increase her “Idol Power” while growing up at the same time.

So here it goes!

I, Nakaya Sayaka will head to different places each time, increase my strength as Idol and Seiyuu (voice actress), and somehow getting accustomed to some challenges at the same time.

Lv. 19 “Dive into the world of Businessman!!”

*Giggles*
Nakayan, welcoming her 20th birthday and finally getting into the world of adults.
Although until now Nakayan has been working as idol and voice actress,
On the other hand Nakayan is not too familiar with suits and hadn’t had much experience with business.
So in order to fly higher into the skies in the 20s, to understand the business world,
and get more experience is something that is extremely important for Nakayan’s future entertainment activities.

Even if I say so.
There are so few people wearing suits in the place where I work, I don’t really know…
and therefore.

NAKAYAN QUEST! Is it 19?
I’ve become 20, so I’ll get into the streets of adult
Let’s go!!

To say the street of adult…
The first thing that comes to mind!!

I’ve added some accessories to my hair… to look more adult-ish!!

I found a girl and her guidance dog statue just in front of the station!

Despite not being able to speak to human, but a dog will still work for him… how nice.
I’ve taken the photo looking a little friendly with the statue lol
And also, since Nakayan is already 20 she must make sure not to get lost
So let me lead the way to today’s journey.

Speaking of Shinbashi, one should remember the SL square!
I tried to fade into the streets of adult.

Miss!!
Doesn’t look too familiar…

….
Then, at least try to get familiar…

But, nothing happens!!
Nakayan could not get familiar with the streets-!!!
But I think it’s because of the shirts I’m wearing!
Since it’s hard to come here, I would have been lucky if I wore a suit here.

+--------------+
|  What's up?  |
+--------------+
     +---------------------+
     | >Shining Suit       |
     |  Handsome Suit      |
     |  Bunny Suit         |
     |  Fishnet Stockings  |
     +---------------------+
  +----------+
  |  Buy     |
  | >Cancel  |
  +----------+
     +----------------------+
     |  Please come again!  |
     +----------------------+

Nakayan can’t find the suit she wants…

Got to study a businessman’s equipments.
And therefore heads to Shinbashi’s armory.

Nakayan finds some leather shoes!

I believe there are some who sometimes wear loafers.
What’s the difference? Hmmm—?

Peaks at the shoes of salarymans who are passing by.

There are so many types that I don’t know which is good…

But…
In front of my eyes…

Nakayan finds some fashionable suits!

Suits are so handsome. The pattern of the stripes are beautiful.
Nakayan likes the stripe patterns in the 2nd level lol.

Next let’s go to the nearest shopping streets.
Reached “Shinbashi West Streets” with full of anticipation.

Speaking of Shinbashi, my image of a shopping street is that there’s a lot of pub where businessmen will meet.
And therefore there might be some surprise!?

Let’s go~!

… Eh?

Nakayan turns around!!

Seems like Nakayan is afraid of walking on an unfamiliar street!!

Please go with me-!!

Nakayan calls her friend!!

Miss!!
A weird person appears!!

…
But somehow I feel better now and I can continue the journey.
I feel so strong!!

…. Eh??

Hmm~ Not many people here, are they still preparing?

Do businessmen really come here? Nakayan starts to feel unconfident.

…When thinking about this.

Cat-!!
Let me get in a while.

But her distance with the cat doesn’t shrink!!

Reposition her feelings…
It’s still noon, so everyone is probably still busy…

Inside this building
There should be a lot of businessmen working.
Somehow mysterious.

Dear businessmen!!
Some power to your aura!!

When continuing forward, I found something!

In front here there’s an exhibition on the process and models of how wine are being made…

I wanna see these live~
But, I might get drunk just by the smell of the alcohol while still being brewed lol.

I wanna know more so let’s go in!
And therefore let’s enter The Sake Information Museum of Japan.

♪ Dirorirori-
An army of wine appears!!!

An impressive number of wine.
Nakayan is frightened!!

Found a somehow very familiar container!!

But it was Mirin!!

It’s there because Mirin and wine are friends…
I took a look at a brochure which lists the wine in Iwate…

Was young so I didn’t know anything about wine (；一_一)

Even so there are so many types of wine

Wow…

Nakayan touching the bottles while looking for the bottle she likes

Anyway, this is it! It’s somehow blue, and it’s from Iwate as well! lol

There were a lot of brown and green bottles so Nakayan decided to ask…

The color is to protect the wine from sunshine. I see, but there are half-transparent as well, so I guess there’s not much relation!

What!?

Tasting? Choose 5 wines and the total price is 525 Yen (Approximately 6.75 USD)
So let’s try then…

But, even if I look at the list of wines… I…?

These are all Japanese wine!
I chose simply based on my inspiration lol

While waiting for my chosen wine, I found a warning note!

“How to enjoy wine”
Nakayan’s cleverness raised by 1!

While reading it…

♪Dirorirorirori-
5 wine brothers appears!!

What an amount…

First cup!

Wow, the feeling of “the Japanese wine”, maybe, spicy.

It was too spicy for Nakayan.

Drink some water before proceeding.

2nd cup!!

Unexpectedly refreshening… but still spicy!
The taste seems to be quite different though…

Third cup!!

This is definitely plum wine!
But the finishing taste is still Japanese wine.

Fourth cup!!

!?
Compared to the first one, this is tastes lighter!
It’s good if taken with meal isn’t it?
Says the adult lol

Fifth cup!!

……
But it was Mirin!

!!!
Mirin! This is tastes so Mirin!!
I wanna put in my dish! lol

Hmmm, differentiable taste, but those are adult tastes.
If you ask me which was the best, I think it should be the third one which was plum wine. Hmmm.

So the correct answer for the wines are as below~

After that, I also got to try the recently released Japanese wine sparkling juice!

Thank you very much!

….
Eh?
Nakayan’s feet seems to be weird!!

So this is what you call drunk lol

Tradition,
But something I hadn’t done in a while. Exchanging name cards!!

I’ve finally come to geting used to exchanging name cards!
Thank you very much.

Nakayan sitting at a turtle fountain nearby while waiting to sober up.

Nakayan is one step closer to Shinbashi businessman!!
Nakayan thinks so.

The sun is setting so let’s go on!!
When I go back to the pub around the station…

Ha!!! So bright!!
There are so many shops!!

Until such a back alley…

Since the chance is hard to find, let’s go in and take a look.

But Nakayan is still not good in drinking wine.
In the end I Kanpai with my Oolong Tea~ lol

Drinking Oolong tea, Nakayan looks at the pub’s menu.
Eating the tasty Shiitake mgmg

Morokyu (a type of dish) with some meat mgmg

I recommend the fried octopus!

My favorite fried chicken as well mgmg

Nakayan feels very satisfied.
A very happy face (●ё●)

Meaningful journey through Shinbashi.

The business street during the noon, and in the pub during the night
I managed to learn all sorts of different faces in Shinbashi.
From now on Nakayan hopes that she will slowly be an adult!!!
Of course, a little bit of wine is…

And then, sometime in the future, Nakayan will be able to

(Kanpai with Japanese wine!)

To be continued.

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Translator Note: I hope this time my English won’t be too bad. This time it’s quite interesting especially when Nakayan tastes some wine, a lot of facial expression :D I hope you enjoy Nakayan’s Quest as much as I do, and hopefully I have been able to translate the interesting part properly as well.

Lv. 18 Beyond the Aqualine

Wed, 07 Dec 2011 12:05:00 +0900

So here it goes!

I, Nakaya Sayaka will head to different places each time, increase my strength as Idol and Seiyuu (voice actress), and somehow getting accustomed to some challenges at the same time.

Lv. 18 “Turn into an adult!”

*Giggles*

Nakayan, who welcomed her 20th birthday and said goodbye to her teens.
There are a lot of things Nakayan still doesn’t know about the 20’s world.
One of it is “love”.
While complying to the AKB’s iron law of “Rules against love”,
It is still a very important thing to gain some experience as an adult woman in order to continue future activities within the entertainment area.

Even though,
As an AKB48 member, you’re forbidden to have mutual love,
I still long to have someone who will party me throughout the journey.

So, let’s begin! Yanquest——ヽ(^o^)ノ
This time we’ll cross the seas…

And come to Kisarazu.
This is not a foreign place nor an island in the sea but it’s in Chiba, Kantou.
The street that produced Nakayan’s ideal party — Cat’s Eye!
I feel that I could find a very good party…
So let’s go! ⊂ニニ(^ω^)ニニ⊃

And then I found a very cute friend just right in front of the station!
The reverse raccoon “Kimuta-kun”

And oh! Kimuta-kun’s message
“Sometimes try looking at things from the reverse perspective, you might be able to see something that you didn’t before seen.”

Kawayushi (Cute)
I can’t turn myself over unfortunately, but I’ll do the same pose.

Miss!!
I can only see the Kisarazu station!!

What would I see…
What do I need to become an adult?
Nakayan continues heading deep into Kisarazu street.
Before that, let’s check the status.

Commands----------------+
|  Talk     Spell       |
|  Strength Tools       |
| >More     Investigate +---------------+
+-----------------------+ E Cat Shirt   |
                        | E River shoes |
                        +---------------+

Today I chose Cat Shirt in the name of Kisarazu’s Cat’s Eye.

*Nya~*

Ehh, actually not because of Cat’s Eye, it’s just a coincidence.

Enjin (Circle)! With Cat’s Eye style.
Not that I’m playing with myself

I’m looking for partners (`・∀・´)
Party anywhere?

While walking through Mimachi,

♪Dirorirorirori-
I found a very cute Tanuki (raccoon)

Adorable face~(´ε`)

He called his friends!
Horoyoi Tanuki appears!

*Mimics Katochanpe*

Horoyoi Tanuki calls his friends!
Abacus Tanuki appears!

Nakayan’s attack!!
Nakayan plays with the abacus!!
Miss!!
The abacus doesn’t move!!

Abacus Tanuki calls his friends!
And a green Tanuki appears!!

Nakayan somehow feels hungry!!

Tanuki attacks in a group!!
The group of Tanuki casts a curse!!

Eh?
I feel… nothing?

[Here comes a series of incident which sounds very logical in Japanese but very difficult to translate into English. In Japanese, Tanuki means raccoon. But if you don’t see it as raccoon, you can see it as take off the word “ta”. So the point here is Nakayan being creative and saying that the curse casted is that she can’t speak the word “ta” anymore.]

Nakayan calls her friend!!
The famous Ojii statue appears!
The Ojii statue removes Nakayan’s curse!
Kisarazu~
Cat’s nya~ Cat’s nya~ Cat’s nya————♪

Excuse me… Can I say something
Can you borrow me the mic for a while?

But Nakayan couldn’t take it!
Nakayan’s strength increased 0 points.

I met a lot of potential party, but they all can’t move…

In the end Nakayan resumes her journey by herself.
And then a temple appears!!
What a surprise, there’s even a Tanuki here to welcome me.

…does this means?

The answer is written on the nursery monument.

“Sho sho Shojoji Shojoji no niwa wa” [Some nursery]

Seems to be correct!!

So the Shojoji in the song refers to this place!
Perhaps it’s the reason to why there are so many Tanuki on the way here (・ω・).

Deep inside there’s also a Tanuki monument.

Ji————- [stares]

The formal Kanji for the temple is 「證誠寺」.
When it’s written in lyrics for the nursery it’s wrong…

Changing places, Nakayan sees the place far far away with her sharp eyes.

Eh
I’ve come to the seas.
♪ Sea~ My sea~

Nakayan becomes super high tension!

This place seems to be…
the holy grail for lovers.

The right space is empty with a deep meaning…
Recruiting for partner.

Nakayan’s tension returns to normal!!

But let me just express my anger a bit
Nakayan wanted to cast Ionazun!!

But when I thought what sort of holy grail is this
Oh I see! When the sun sets you can see Mount Fuji!

You can date with your partner while watching the beautiful sunset…
How romantic.
Nakayan somehow feels like running without a reason
Nakayan casted Piorimu!!

I really ran.

Arrived!

Somehow the fence appears to be damaged.

If you look aside you’ll see a red bridge, but if you cross it the fence is white so it doesn’t look real.

*Stares* (´・ω・`)

Today the sun is very glaring.

A lot of writings on the bridge

I feel very angry!!!
Nakayan casts…

However when looking closer

It’s written “I love Tomochin”
Here comes AKB——- *smiles*

Nakayan feels good again

By the way, where’s Mount Fuji?

Should be that side…
It’s foggy so I can’t see Mount Fuji
But I can see the industrial area

Will there be any party waiting for me there?
A one person journey feels very empty…

Nakayan is shaded by darkness

So let’s pick up the mood again
Nakayan spreads her Chimera wings into the sky!
Fu————n ⊂ニニ(^ω^)ニニ⊃

Landed! Oh, where is this place?

An adventure like feeling.
But there’s no one with me (´;ω;`)

It seems like this place is Tokyo German Village

But here is Chiba….. and in Tokyo…. German village….?
Nakayan feels confused!

Please don’t take picture from the side.

I found a potential party!
Kaaru-kun, let’s go! (^◉⑪◉^)

Kawayushi
Some fitness exercise with Burusuto-kun~! Ya~!

The main characters Anjii and Hoorii were there as well.

Communicating with outer space!?

It was Yuuboo-kun.

But apparently no one wants to follow me…

…
Nakayan seems weird!

Here!

Nope here!

There is a flatfish!!

※There is no flatfish in the German Village

Nakayan continues walking.

And the most potential party is here!!
Movable Panda appears!!

Nakayan becomes a movable Panda.

If it’s panda it might be able to follow me through the journey!
And I can even ride on it???

…
But I don’t have enough 100 yen coins!

Here there’s just zoo everywhere.
Chicken~ The chick in tea color seems capable of laying good eggs!

There’s even peacock! Plumage?

Nakayan is being shown off at…

Wait wait?
Some beautiful place I didn’t realize upon arriving

Bell of fortune?

Anyway this is for… couples…
(´・ω・`)
Anyway, let’s just try ringing it

For future happiness!
Kankankaaan ♪

Eh?
Opposite of the sound of the bell, I can hear a different sound.
I’m continuing the journey alone, but in front of the PC that has always been supporting Nakayan Quest
From the opposite of the mobile phone everyone’s voice is!!!

Yeah.
Nakayan has lots of friends!!
Please be “YanQuest” party from now on as well.

Of course, I’m still recruiting lots of new friends as well!
But, the road towards adult is still very far and dangerous…

To be continued.

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Translator Note: I’m not a native English speaker as well, so there might be lots of mistakes during the translation. And the next level of Nakayan Quest just came yesterday, please look forward to it :)