Kaleidoscope nominations closed!

[dark_administrator]

Doers of darkness, nominations for Kaleidoscope 2012 are now closed! So far we have approved 155 fandoms and 758 characters (not including the 25 fandoms and 136 characters we are still processing). We will be generating a list of nominated fandoms, characters, and people for your review shortly.

While our mod team has done its best to look up fandom and character names in their original languages, there are several cases where we would like to verify those names as we do not read/write the languages in question and information was not available. We'd like to draw on the multilingual expertise of this community to ask for help. Our goal is to include name in the original source language and a romanized version of the name when possible and we would appreciate your help!

Fandom and character names needing verification and information
(This list will be updated as we continue to process nominations.)

Asaruto gāruzu | アサルトガールズ | Assault Girls (2009)
Kāneru | カーネル | Colonel
Rushifua | ルシファ | Lucifer

Chak De! India | चक दे इंडिया (2007)
Balbir Kaur
Bindiya Naik
Kabir Khan
Komal Chautala
Mary Ralte
Molly Zimik
Preeti Sabarwal
Rani Dispotta
Soimoi Kerketa
Vidya Sharma

Dil Bole Hadippa! | ਦਿਲ ਬੋਲੇ ਹਦਿਪ੍ਪਾ (2009)
Liyaqat Ali Khan | لیاقت علی خان
Rohan Singh | ਰੋਹਨ ਸਿੰਘ
Veera Kaur | ਵੀਰਾ ਕੌਰ
Vikram Singh | ਵਿਕਰਮ ਸਿੰਘ

Dòu máah dáan | 刀馬旦 | Peking Opera Blues (1986)
Bàahk Nāu | 白妞 | Pat Neil
Commander Liu
Cou Wan | 湘紅 | Tsao Wan
Fa Gum-Sao
General Tsao
Ling Pak-Hoi
Mr. Wong
Sòeng Gùng | 曹雲 | Sheung Hung
Tung Man

Gensō Suikoden Surī | 幻想水滸伝III | Suikoden III
Ayame
Sanae Yamamoto
Watari

Jeeja Due Suai Du | จีจ้า ดื้อ สวย ดุ | Raging Phoenix (2009)
Pai
Sanim

Kahaani | कहानी | Story (2012)
Agnes D'Mello
Arup Basu
Bishnu
Bob Biswas
Khan
Milan Damji
Pratap Bajpayee
Sapna
Satyaki "Rana" Sinha
Vidya Bagchi

Kitāb alf laylah wa-laylah | كتاب ألف ليلة وليلة | One Thousand and One Nights
Perí-Bánú | شبه بانو
Ahmen | أحمد

Kokokara Dousuru? | ここからどうする?
Asanuma
Kanai Riku
Shiriaki Sakae
Takatou

Literary RPF
Enheduanna

Mahō Shōjo Madoka Magika | 魔法少女まどか☆マギカ | Puella Magi Madoka Magica
Afghan Girl
Cleopatra VII of Egypt
Queen Himiko
Savanna magical girl
Tibetan magical girl

Mongolian History RPF
Khutulun

Mùlán Shī | 木蘭辭 | Ballad of Mulan
Father
Little Brother
Mother
Older Sister

Ong Bak 2 | องค์บาก 2 (2008)
Tien | เทียน
Chernung | เชอนัง

Paradaisu Kisu | パラダイス・キス | Paradise Kiss
Yukari's mother

Pettoshoppu obu Horāzu | ペットショップ オブ ホラーズ | Pet Shop of Horrors
Count D | 伯爵D
Lau Wu-Fei "Taizu"
Ten-chan
Tetsu

Puranetesu | プラネテス | PlanetES
Kurea Rondo | クレア・ロンド | Claire Rondo

Seirei no Moribito | 精霊の守り人| Guardian of the Sacred Spirit
Karuna Yonsa

Shiawase Enikki | しあわせ絵日記 | Happy Picture Diary
Haru-chan
Nacchan

Sukkar banat | سكر بنات | Caramel (2007)
Jamale
Layale
Lili
Nisrine
Rima
Rose
Siham
Youssef

Tanburingu | タンブリング | Tumbling
Azuma Wataru | 東航

Xiǎohái Bù Bèn | 小孩不笨 | I Not Stupid (2002)
Ang Boon Hock | 洪文福
Liu Kok Pin | 劉國彬
Mr. Khoo | 邱先生
Mr. Liu | 劉先生
Mrs. Ang | 洪太太
Mrs. Khoo | 邱太太
Mrs. Liu | 劉太太
Selena Khoo | 邱欣蓮
Terry Khoo | 邱達利

Additions @ 8/24 6:30 AM PDT

FAKE | フェイク
Bikkī | ビッキー | Victor "Bikky" Goldman

Additions @ 8/24 8:00 PM PDT

Arctic Expeditions RPF
Anauakaq Henson
Egigingwah
Minik
Ooqueah
Ootah
Seegloo

Sentinal - Ningeuuga Oshuitoq
Figure in anorak

Seirei no Moribito | 精霊の守り人| Guardian of the Sacred Spirit
Yuka Yonsa

Additions @ 8/24 9:00 PM PDT
Монголын түүх | Mongolian History RPF
Alaqai Beki
Checheyigen
Fatima
Sochigel
Sorqaqtani Beki
Töregene Qatun
Yeke Qabartu

We also welcome clarifications and corrections on how the names and titles in the Kaleidoscope 2012 Nominations list are transcribed and transliterated from the original source language via comments, email (darkadmn [at] gmail [dot] com) or PM.

Once we've finished processing nominations, our disputes period will begin on August 27 (countdown clock), so stay tuned! We'll once again need your help with clarifications and corrections on fandom and character eligibility in order to finalize the nominations list.

Thank you again to everyone who promoted our challenge! Happy International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition!

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Comments

[torachan]

I have reservations about making up Japanese names when there is no canonical, however, if you're going to do that, it should be アフガニスタンちゃん or perhaphs アフガンちゃん, not アフガニスタン人ちゃん. Also the corresponding romanisations would be Afghanistan-chan (or Afghan-chan) and Tibet-chan.

(I am not a native speaker, either, but I am fluent.)

[erinptah]

Thanks! That does sound better. (I was obviously using Google Translate on Pixiv, and know enough to tell when something sounds off, but not enough to second-guess it correctly ^_^;)

I do think Tibet-chan | チベットちゃん is a common enough fanon name to use in the absence of a canon one. (Similar to Poor-chan and...is it Bear-ko?) The others are just a case of "eh, we have to call them something, so...."

With the African girl, "Savannah-chan" may not be common, but that's the only "name" I've ever seen her given (as opposed to descriptions, like "indigenous African girl" or "girl from the savannah"). So at least it's not elevating one fanon name and ignoring a bunch of others. IDK how the fest mods feel about sticking with English here, but I'd definitely be happy just making the tag "Savannah-chan" without trying to back-translate it at all. (Back-translation could be added later if she ever caught on in the Japanese fandom.)

The Middle Eastern girl is the one I'm not at all sure about. Especially since I don't think what we see of her is distinctive enough to identify even the country she's from :/

[wistfuljane]

Thank you for your help with the translation! We would general prefer, for nameless or uncredited characters, to include descriptions in the original source language rather than just the English descriptions.

[erinptah]

No, I get the value of including Japanese descriptions when possible! It's just that including a romanization here feels like overkill. Once you've got the kanji/kana version, the romanized version isn't useful for either source-language speakers or English speakers. Tags should be identifiers, not language lessons.

[troisroyaumes]

For the purposes of our challenge, we don't intend tags to just serve as identifiers. We have a lot of participants who are living outside the country of their heritage culture or in postcolonial nations, and there are complicated language politics that are part of that experience. E.g. one can be Chinese-American but be more comfortable reading pinyin than hanzi. As a result, we chose this system deliberately to reflect the experiences of our community members.

While we appreciate your input as a tag wrangler (several of us are tag wranglers too), our purpose here is not to create a taxonomy but to use a nomenclature that is inclusive of all our participants.