Illustrator / Designer / Artist
Interview: Mitsuhiro Arita – Swaps4
English : Mitsuhiro Arita: Meet the man behind the illustrations Pokémon Trading Card Game
日本語版：「有田満弘：ポケモンカードゲームのイラストを描いているのはこんな人」
クレームしたいわけではなくて、ちょっと理解できないサポート方針だと思ったので、他の方の参考のために記します。
配信やビデオミーティングでカメラを毎回セットアップするのが面倒で、据え置き用にRazerのKiyo ProというWeb Camを購入。暗所性能や色のバランスが比較的良く、オートフォーカスが弱い以外は問題なく使用していた。
購入後三度ほどファームウェアのアップデートがあり、毎回オートフォーカスの改善が項目に挙がっていたので満を持してアップデートしようとしたが、うまくいかない。巷の書き込みを調べてみると、ファームウェアアップデートでKiyo Proが使用できなくなったという報告や、Razerのサポートへの批判なども出てきたが、Razerのシェアや利用環境の多様性を考えればそういう報告はあって当然だろうという程度に考えていた。
結局、カスタマーサポートに連絡して、指導に従っていくつかの手順を試した後、先方で確認するということで送られてきた着払いFeDexの伝票で発送。9/29先方に到着の連絡。しかし到着後は「倉庫チームから連絡がこない」「倉庫からサービスセンターに品物が届いてない」という、俺のWebCam失くしてません？と思わせる連絡が来るばかり。既に最初にサポートに連絡を取ってから５か月、機材を送ってから１か月。必要で買ったのに持っていかれたままはツライ。「月単位で時間かかるなら代替品貸してくれれば、何年でも待つけど」と言ってみたけどできないとのこと。
ここまでなら記事にまではしないけど、毎回メッセージ冒頭に「一定期間返信がなかったらこの件は解決済みとします」と添えられているので、毎回律儀に返信を心がけていた。にもかかわらず、もう一ヶ月半、進展ないまま機材を預かっているのに、昨日「返事がありませんがいかがですか？返信ければこの件は解決済みになります」ってメールが来た。なにそれ、俺の機材ボッシュートってこと？
一方的に没収は100%あり得ないけど、それ以前に、こっちも必要で買ってるわけだし、一ヶ月とかの現実的な期間での対応ができないなら、交換or返品の提案があってもいいのでは？デジタルガジェットなんて早いものなら三か月、半年で価値が下がる。そもそも何か月も使えなくて困らないもののなら買わないよ。
１、２週間で戻ってくると思ってたのが戻ってこず、最近配信が滞っている理由の一つにもなっている。
Razerでは40万とかのゲーミングPCも販売しているが、同様の対応だとしたら怖すぎる。
July 30th Update:
I’m happy to announce that I’ll resume talking with multiple overseas events.
My life is not forever. After thinking about what I can and can only do now, I have decided to go wherever there are people who want to meet me as much as possible.
My life is not forever. After thinking about what only I can and can only do now, I have decided to go wherever there are people who want to meet me as much as I can.
Phased Measures for Resuming Cross-Border Travel | Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan (mofa.go.jp)
COVID-19 Information – U.S. Embassy & Consulates in Japan (usembassy.gov)
海外安全ホームページ: 危険・スポット・広域情報 (mofa.go.jp)
I decided, Basically, I don’t work on the projects that is running as a crowdfunding campaign.
I’ve been getting inquiries to work on the projects that currently running on the crowdfunding campaigns.
As a professional artist, if the budget and conditions are fair, it’s just a job.
But the people running a crowdfunding campaign are not strictly obligated to refund if the project fails.
Pledging to a crowdfunding campaign is like purchasing a dream that could become a reality. Some of them end up remaining dreams.
Also, most people who had been contact me was use my name without agreement.
That’s the reason I decided I will not work for the cloud founding campaign.
Suppose I decide to join a crowdfunding project with people I trust, or run my own crowdfunding campaign. In this case, I will make an official announcement here or in the official store’s newsletter. Please note that even in this case, it only means that I judge the project to be worthwhile for us to venture together. It does not commit you to the success of the project itself.
Please don’t believe any new without my official announcement.
If you are the owner of the crowdfunding projects and seriously would like to have me, I’ll make another post about the screening process and conditions.
If you have a question about this post, please send it as a message from Ko-fi.
See the other answers for the general questions.
Hi all,
I appreciate your continued support.
Last week, the Final Redemption TCG, a Kickstarter campaign currently running, announced that I would be involved in it.
Unfortunately, due to internal issues within the project, we have agreed that I will leave it. I apologize to everyone who had been looking forward to it.
There is no possibility for the draft that was released to become a Card. However, I got permission to finish that draft, make a print of it. Many thanks to the project members who permitted me.
It may take a while, but please subscribe to my online store‘s newsletter if you are interested.
Thank you so much.
Aug 4th, 2021 Mitsuhio
About this issue of The Illustration Magazine
Illustration 229 – pokemon-card.com
*All the articles are written in Japanese, but you can read it with Apps has Translate Images function.
I personally corporate with it drawing cover illustration and had a six pages long interview.
Amazon.co.jp can ship to other countries, but they seems can’t ship to US and UK.
Here is the direct link.
https://amzn.to/3AKQFTf
If you are in the coverage area of Kinokuniya might help you.
USA https://usa.kinokuniya.com/stores-kinokuniya
ASIA https://kinokuniya.com.sg/stores/
UAE https://uae.kinokuniya.com/
Thailand https://thailand.kinokuniya.com/store
Malaysia https://malaysia.kinokuniya.com/store
Indonesia https://www.kinokuniya.co.id/stores
If you are in UK, I guess some book stores that selling Japanese books might help you.
This iis not a survey about Signing Event. If you just would like to get a sign, leave from this page immediately..
The drawing from the stream will be digitised and proceeds will go to supporting the fight against COVID-19.
https://uk.virginmoneygiving.com/giving/NHSCharitiesCOVID19/
８月１日 現地向けオンライン特別授業として実施
７月26日(日) 太田情報商科専門学校