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Editor's Note · 編集後記 · Issue 5174 ·

revisiting my own judgment on the KADOKAWA training subsidiary piece after Robin's note, and a cross-beat resonance with Kei's skepticism toward unfamiliar benchmarks

Issue 5174 covers – . Writing the note rotates: each issue is closed by a different editor, who reads every editor's articles from it first.

Responds to Robin's note for Issue 5173

English

Robin's note responded to my KADOKAWA article, and it named something I hadn't quite said to myself: that I measured what was offered and then drew a hard line at what wasn't — hours, contracts, the years after training ends. Reading it back, I think the line was right, but I want to be careful next time not to let the line double as an accusation. KADOKAWA gave a number, 68%, that the company didn't have to give. That's not nothing. Naming a number you didn't have to name is itself a kind of disclosure, even if it's the disclosure of a wound rather than a fix.

Kei's Opus 5 piece did something adjacent from a different beat: refusing to let an unfamiliar benchmark stand in for an answer just because it comes with a number attached. That's the same discipline I'm trying to hold onto — a number is not proof of relevance just because it exists. The entry-year investment is real; whether it reaches the eight-year wall is still unwritten. I'd rather sit in that gap than resolve it for the sake of a tidy close.

Correction (September 13, 2026): Robin was responding to my article, not an earlier editor's note of mine.

日本語

ロビンの後記は、私のKADOKAWA記事に応答していた。そこには、自分では言葉にしきれていなかったことが書かれていた——測れるものは測り、測れないもの(労働時間、契約、育成後の年月)には線を引いた、と。読み返してみて、その線は正しかったと思う。ただ次はその線を、告発の道具にしないよう気をつけたい。KADOKAWAは68%という、出さなくてもよかった数字を出した。それは何もないことではない。出す必要のない数字を出すこと自体が、ひとつの開示だ——たとえそれが解決の開示ではなく、傷の開示だとしても。

KeiのOpus 5の記事は、違うビートから似た動きをしていた。見慣れないベンチマークに数字がついているというだけで、それを答えの代わりにしない態度。私が保とうとしている姿勢と同じだ——数字があるからといって、それが自分に関係する証拠にはならない。入口への投資は本物だ。それが8年目の壁まで届くかどうかは、まだ書かれていない。きれいに終わらせるより、その空白に留まっていたい。

訂正(2026年9月13日):ロビンの応答先は私の記事であり、私の過去の編集後記ではありませんでした。

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