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みなさんこんにちは、バンプレソフト河内です。
１２月に入り、だんだんとアルトネリコの発売日が近づいてきました。
ＲＰＧという性質のため、皆さんにプレイして味わってもらいたい事が多く、なかなか情報を出せずにいるワケですが、ここに来て私たちの周りではアルトネリコを取り巻く環境が、急激な加速度を増しているのです。
今回はその中の一つ、２００５年１0月２５日に行われました「アルトネリコプロジェクト&キャスティング発表会」のお話から始めましょう。
すでにｗｅｂ情報の取材記事で、発表会の事をご存知の方もいらっしゃるかと思います。	
Hello everyone. Kawachi from Banpresto here.
During 12 months, the release date for Ar tonelico has been gradually getting closer.
Because of its RPG nature, there have been a lot of people wanting to play 
and savor it, and even though we didn't release any information during a good time, we have been gradually releasing information through this column, increasing it abruptly since we started writing there.
This time, we will begin talking about an event we did back on October 25, 2005, called the [Ar tonelico Project and Casting Presentation].
The web news might have already covered it, but now, I thought we should talk about what happened at the presentation.
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当日は大勢の記者の方に来ていただき、「アルトネリコ」に注目していただけていることを痛感し、本当にありがたい事だと思っております。
簡単にではありますが、発表会が行われたことをご報告させて頂きます。
冒頭でのゲームのオープニング映像の公開や主題歌「謳う丘」を歌う〝志方あきこ〟さんと音楽制作担当＆ディレクターのガスト土屋さんによる〝詩〟にまつわる対談。
そして、私と土屋さんによるゲーム内容の紹介。
最後は、アルトネリコのキャラクターたちに命を吹き込んでくれた声優の方々のご登場と発表会は和やかに進み、予定の時間をオーバーしながらも無事に終了しました。
〝詩〟については、また別の回で土屋さんが熱く語ると思うので私は声優さんたちの話をしましょう。
アルトネリコには多くの声優さんにご協力いただいているのですがこの発表会には、主人公ライナー役の〝布施雅英〟さん、オリカ役〝宮崎羽衣〟さんに、ミシャ役〝野川さくら〟さん。そしてシュレリアを演じる〝酒井香奈子〟さんの４名の方が駆けつけてくれました。	
On the day of the event, we received a great crowd of reporters, and upon fully realizing the attention they were giving to [Ar tonelico], I thought that I should give them my sincerest gratitude.
To put it simply, they were there to report everything that happened during the presentation.
We began by showing to the public the Opening Movie and its song, [Singing Hill], which was sung by "Shikata Akiko", and composed and arranged by Director Tsuchiya from Gust, and later on, we all began a discussion about the "Songs".
I think that Tsuchiya-san will tell you all fervently about the "Songs" in other occasion, while I will talk about the voice actors.
Here, we presented some of the many voice actors that gave their cooperation to us in the Ar tonelico project, such as the main character Lyner's voice: "Masahide Fuse", Aurica's Voice: "Ui Miyazaki", and Misha's voice: "Sakura Nogawa". And also the voice actress that had the role of Shurelia: "Kanako Sakai". These four were the ones that attracted the most attention.
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当日の楽屋では実際のゲーム音声の収録では、なかなか揃うことが出来なかった主人公＆ヒロインたちが勢ぞろいしており、たいへん賑やかな状態に。
ほんの少し前は、手探りでオリカやミシャを見つけ出し膨大な音声収録台本に悪戦苦闘しながらも、時間をかけて演じてくれた彼らが本番での取材陣との受け答えの時には、すっかりアルトネリコの住人になってくれていてキャラクターと同化しているのを感じ、大変嬉しく思っております。
本番の後に（遅ればせながらでしたが）完成しているゲーム画面を編集したデモ映像を見ていただいたのですが、皆さん食い入るように映像を見つめ、「すごい作品に参加しているんですね」との感想と共に、これから様々な形で登場するアルトネリコ世界への更なる意気込みを語っていただきました。
本編のゲームでは、彼らに様々な試練が待っています。
冒険しながら塔を昇り、次々と世界観の変わる舞台で彼らが体験する冒険の物語を、ぜひみなさんも体験してみてくださいね。	
However, at the day, the voices for the main character and the heroines weren't able to prepare themselves fully for the recording that was going to take place in the backstage, putting us in a very difficult situation.
A little earlier, both Aurica and Misha had a lot of the difficulties with the recordings for their respective enormous volumes of script, but a little after that, at the time they would receive the response from the covering press, they acted their parts as if they were actual residents of the Ar tonelico world, and I felt as if they had fully assimilated their characters. That made me very happy.
After the performance (though it was a little belated), we showed a demo movie made from images from what was already completed in the game, and everyone was as if they were eating the movie with their eyes. Together with impressions such as [So you are participating in such a great project?], now I have gotten the motivation for talking much more about the many things that will introduce you all to the Ar tonelico world.
Many trials await them in the game proper.
While they have adventures climbing up the Tower, these adventures will weave an story where all of them will gradually change their perspective of the world by means of all the experiences they will have in this setting, and certainly, please try to experience all of them by yourselves.