英語検定ライティング準１級（第142回）

アニメ「ストイックな性格を相殺している話」

スパイファミリーはアーニャの面白さのおかげで人気があるのかもしれないが実はそうではない。アーニャは主人公ではない。主人公はあくまでもロイドだ。諜報機関の工作員だ。
We tend to guess that “Anya” plays the most important role in “Spy Family,” which isn’t the case because the main character must be “Loid,” who is a capable agent of the western intelligence agency.
She is only his fake daughter, to the end, with funny way of speaking and unusual behaviors.

漫画がアニメになった時にあのピンクの髪の色が鮮明すぎて印象に残っているという話はよく聞く。自分はアニメを観てから漫画を読んだので、そういうイメージは持てない。残念だ。
This animation series was originally a comic book, but it was so popular that it was broadcast on TV as an animation series, we agree.
At that time, one of my acquaintances told me that Anya’s vivid pinky hair color was extremely impressive because a comic is drawn without using any colors.
My experience to read this comic books, however, failed to be accompanied by watching an animation series, so such an impression is absent from my head.

諜報機関のハンドラーが抵抗組織の大学生に説教する場面がある。戦争の本当の恐ろしさを知らない大学生が戦争ごっこなんかするもんではない。大切な友人が惨たらしい死に方をする。
There is an overwhelming scene, where the handler argued against the college students of resistance that the war would deprive humans of everything from something trivial to our friends’ lives.
Those who don’t know what the war is shouldn’t stay in this threatening or frightening world.

こんな場面ばかりの描写では広く読者の心をつかむ作品にはなれないことが作者には分かっている。ドッジボール大会の件や男子へのグーパンチの場面もストーリーにスパイスを与える。
This comic artist knows well that these serious scenes should refrain from being drawn because they couldn’t appeal to a wide range of comic readers, we imagine.
In other words, drawing a comical scene is as vital as drawing a serious one, instead many readers might emphasize the former.
There is an episode where Anya fought against a giant student at a dodgeball competition, or she resorted to violence against a younger son of Loid’s enemy.
These funny scenes never fail to make a difference in the profitable viewpoint, we agree.

全体的にはコミカルな場面の方が多い。そこが人気の秘訣だ。ガチのスパイもののアニメもある。旧日本軍の８人の精鋭の話だ。タイトルは忘れたがサブスクでは観られなかったはず。
On the whole, this comic author has described numerous funny stories so far, and he has attracted a large number of young comic fans, we assume.
However, it is natural that we have seen an extremely serious comic book about espionage activities such as “Joker Game,” where eight agents played an important role to rescue Japan from the most critical moment, who were elite members of the former military organization of our nation, we assume.
This animation series cannot be watched with streaming video services except ATX.