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

[erinptah]

For Madoka Magica:

"Afghan Girl", "Savanna magical girl", and "Tibetan magical girl" are all from the same sequence. They appear only briefly and have no canon names (also no voice actors, so there's no official reference to them in the credits). On Pixiv, the only one where multiple Japanese users have agreed on a tag is "チベットちゃん" ("Tibetan-chan"). There's a single picture tagged "サバンナからの女の子" ("Savannah girl" or "girl from savannah"), apparently no others which tag that character, and I couldn't find any at all with a tag naming the Afghan girl.

As the AO3 wrangler for the fandom, I would prefer their official tags to be standardized if possible. So here are the tags I would choose for those three (in the absence of a native speaker volunteering something more accurate...or the creators revealing their real names):

Afghan-chan | アフガニスタン人ちゃん
Savannah-chan | サバンナちゃん
Tibetan-chan | チベットちゃん

Meanwhile, "Cleopatra VII of Egypt" is easy, as she's the same character as the one on the existing tag. According to Wikipedia the ancient Greek would have been "Κλεοπάτρα Φιλοπάτωρ". "Queen Himiko" is also the same as the existing tag. Wikipedia gives her name as "卑弥呼".

Suikoden III & Madoka Magica

[sirvalkyrie]

For Suikoden III, while they are playable characters, they are just three of 108 characters in the game that are recruitable. While fun characters, they are not part of the main story at all and can be skipped. I have not seen the Japanese writing for their names at any Suikoden site.

For the remaining Madoka Magica characters, here is the relevant section about them on the Puella Magi wiki: http://wiki.puella-magi.net/Madoka_Magica_Episode_12:_My_Best_Friend#Other_Magical_Girls

I nominated the one as "Afghan Girl" due to the fan theory that she is based on National Geographic's "Afghan Girl". In which case her name would be Sharbat Gula. The other two were just physical descriptions of them.

This should be all the Japanese ones

[torachan]

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

Should be

Assault Girls (2009)
Kāneru | カーネル | Colonel
Rushifua | ルシファ | Lucifer

(The title is canonically in English.)

Reference : http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASSAULT_GIRLS

*

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

Should be

Ayame | アヤメ
Sanae Yamamoto | サナエ・ヤマモト
Watari | ワタリ

Reference: http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/幻想水滸伝III

*

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

Should be

Koko Kara Dou Suru? | ここからどうする?
Asanuma | 浅沼
Kanai Riku | 金井陸
Shiraki Sakae | 白木栄
Takatou | 高遠

(This is a BL one-shot manga, so no wikipedia entry or anything. I actually found the raw manga, downloaded it, and read it to get the character names. Also Takatou and Kanai Riku are from an unrelated one-shot included in the manga Koko Kara Dou Suru?, so I'm not sure they should count as one fandom?)

*

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

She doesn't have a canonical name.

*

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

Should be

Petshop of Horrors | Pet Shop of Horrors
Count D | 伯爵D
Lau Wu-Fei "Taishi" | 劉武飛 (太子) | Lau Wu-Fei "Taizu"
Ten-chan | テンちゃん
Tetsu | テツ

(The title is canonically written in English.)

References: http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petshop_of_Horrors　+ http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Manga/PetShopOfHorrors

*

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

This is correct.

Reference: http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/プラネテス

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

Should be

Seirei no Moribito | 精霊の守り人| Moribito: Guardian of the Spirit
Karuna Yonsa | カルナ・ヨンサ

Confirmed character name by googling 精霊の守り人 + カルナ

*

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

Ahh wow, this is apparently a scanlation of a super minor series that ran in a super minor magazine years ago: http://lililicious.net/projectDet.php?id=155 Other than asking the scanlators for confirmation or access to the raws, not sure there's a way to get the Japanese names as I can't find any info on this from Google Japan. The title is correct anyway (the scanlation leaves the Japanese title visible). Probable names are 春ちゃん (Haru-chan) and なっちゃん (Nacchan), but no saying for sure. :-/

*

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

This is correct.

Reference: http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/タンブリング_(テレビドラマ)

[lilacsigil]

I nominated "Yukari's mother" for Paradise Kiss and she doesn't have a canonical name.

[noldo]

For Caramel:

Jamale | جمال
Layale | ليال
Lili | للي
Nisrine | نسرين
Rima | ريما
Rose | روز
Siham | سهام
Youssef | يوسف

[(Anonymous)]

For Raging Phoenix:
Sanim | สนิม

I do not read Thai, just found these sources:
http://web.archive.org/web/20100413105754/http://www.jijaragingphoenix.com/
http://www.nangdee.com/title/html/m1936.html

Pai is a lot harder to track down. Her name is written in the credits but the handwriting font used is hard to interpret.
screencap - http://i.imgur.com/lLN7A.png
Ask someplace like linguaphiles if someone can read it?

[dhobikikutti]

Grr Argh!! The AO3 bug prevented me from accessing the site the whole day, and I missed noms. :(
Also, is it just me, or is it kind of weird wishing a HappyInternational Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition?
Anyway...
Regarding names, I'm a little unsure how you're deciding which Indian language to pick along with the Romanised ones. Because I notice that you've got one name in Urdu and one in Punjabi for Dil Bole Hadippa, but the film itself is in Hindi. And in Chak De! India, I have no idea of the language scripts of all the various mother tongues the characters would use, and so those are going to be transliterations to Hindi too. And in Kahaani some of those characters are Bengali, but again, Hindi movie. Anyway, here is everything in Hindi -
Chak De! India | चक दे इंडिया (2007)
Balbir Kaur | बल्बीर कौर
Bindiya Naik | बिंदिया नैक
Kabir Khan | कबीर खान
Komal Chautala | कोमल चौटाला
Mary Ralte | मेरी राल्टे*
Molly Zimik | मौली ज़िमिक*
Preeti Sabarwal | प्रीती सभरवाल
Rani Dispotta | रानी दिस्पोटा*
Soimoi Kerketa | सोइमोई केर्केटा*
Vidya Sharma | विद्या शर्मा

Dil Bole Hadippa! | दिल बोले हडिप्पा! | ਦਿਲ ਬੋਲੇ ਹਦਿਪ੍ਪਾ (2009)
Liyaqat Ali Khan | لیاقت علی خانलियाक़त अलि खां
Rohan Singh | रोहन सिंह | ਰੋਹਨ ਸਿੰਘ
Veera Kaur | वीरा कौर | ਵੀਰਾ ਕੌਰ
Vikram Singh | विक्रम सिंह | ਵਿਕਰਮ ਸਿੰਘ

Kahaani | कहानी | Story (2012)
Agnes D'Mello | आग्नेस ड'मेल्लो*
Arup Basu | अरूप बासु
Bishnu | बिष्णु
Bob Biswas | बोब बिस्वास*
Khan | खां
Milan Damji | मिलन दामजी
Pratap Bajpayee | प्रताप बाजपाई
Sapna | सपना
Satyaki "Rana" Sinha | सत्यकी "राणा" सिन्हा
Vidya Bagchi | विद्या बाग्चि

*The ones with asterix are the ones where my transliteration could be faulty or I am guessing at phonetic spelling

[carmarthen]

Was it not possible to nominate additional characters for an approved fandom? I nominated several more people for Mongolian History RPF. :-(

[torachan]

Also this is not exactly related, but I noticed that the nominated name for the character Isabella in Paradise Kiss is Yamamoto Daisuke "Isabella" and I wanted to ask if it could be changed.

The character is referred to as Isabella by everyone throughout canon. The only time we learn of her birth name IIRC is in a flashback from when she was a little kid.

I know it's "just" a fictional character, but to me continually referring to her by her birth name despite the fact that that is not the name she goes by is just really disrespectful and hurtful, especially when the formatting reinforces the idea that her birth name is her "real" name and her chosen name is just some nickname.

Wasn't sure where to ask

[fresne]

So, I'm posting downstream as it were. I didn't nominate "Popol Vuh" this year, because I did last year. Since I don't see it in the list of works, is it a fresh list every year based on nominations? Which would make sense to not have to research the backlog as well. Just checking so I know to nominate it next year.

Thanks