Hello! Been awhile!
Yesterday, twitter user CyanYoh posted a compilation of silly pictures that are from Trekking on the World of Fire Emblem: Blazing Blade.
These come from a strategy guide written by Enix (the same that would become Square Enix). They wrote guides for all three GBA FE games. They are guides written in a fun fashion that certainly keep the reader entertained throughout while also being informative. They have amusing little drawings at the start of each section which is what CyanYoh posted in their thread.
Fans on the thread wished to see the artworks from the Binding Blade and Sacred Stones as well. So I decided to scan those ones as I happened to own the books and make a full compilation post for the fandom’s reference.
These are all also in an imgur gallery for your convenience as WordPress isn’t the most intuitive place to read these. Please enjoy whichever is easier for you to read!
Please note that all scans of the FE7 book are from CyanYoh and have been uploaded with their permission! (Which saves me a ton of trouble of scanning those images myself, so thank you!)
Lastly, I provided translations as captions below the picture where they are needed. I did not typeset as I usually do due to time constraints. Likewise, I did not translate the chapter names. The picture often has to do with the chapter itself, so there may be some lost context. I hope I can revisit and translate all titles for you all too in the future… but hope you all can enjoy the silliness without the context for now, regardless.
Enjoy!
Binding Blade
SFX: Whoosh Gah!
“Become a sage… at level 20?!
(Background) If sold, [I’d get] 5000G
(Item description) Guiding Ring
SFX: A sound of flexing muscle! A sound of being content with flab!
Boots, Maltet, Talisman, Secret Book, Energy Ring
(Right) “Who even are you?”
(Bottom right) “Well…”
SFX: Kyaah!
SFX: UUUWOOOGHH
SFX: Eeeep!
(Left) “Ah, hello father-in-law!”
SFX: Nudge nudge
SFX: Run awayyy
“–CK!” – Barth
Sign: “Quality Assurance”
SFX: Snore
(Right): Body Ring
Kid: “Gorillas!”
“Was that…the finishing blow?!”
(Top right): “Stooopp!”
SFX (Right): “Ooooh”
SFX (Right) “EEEEYAHH”
SFX (Marcus) “Sniffle…”
SFX (right) “EEP”
(Left): Big brother and little sister : SFX pet pet
(Red book): “Enemy list”
(Blue blook): “Ally list”
SFX: “Heya”
(Bottom left) Percival
(Right) “Hears this all the time”*
From the phrase: “耳にタコができる” (lit: Ears can become octopi) – to be told or made to hear something so often that you (metaphorically) get calluses on your ears
SFX: Snore…
Bottom: “Iron Sword”
Blazing Blade
(Scans are courtesy of CyanYoh)
Don’t sell yourself short.
Find a client.
Overcharge.
“Hm hm…” (the type of nod followed up by “I see!”)
“Here we come!”
(Bottom right) “The originals”
SFX: Phew
This is the back of the line.
Estimated 5 Hour Wait
Bartre: “Me, me!”
(Top left) Afa’s Drops
(Bottom left) Tactician
“Hnngh!” SFX Break!
(Clipboard): Record of Physique
Pent: “Hehe my darling wifey!”
Louise: “My lord husband~!”
SFX: Fluffily Beardeddd
(Right): “Bwahahaha!”
(Left) “I’m spinning even more than usual this timeee!”
Middle: Sniffle
Right: “What kind of line is that…”
Sacred Stones
Left: “If I can’t do it then no one can!”
(Right): “I can’t do a thing…”
(Left) “Hup!”
(Bottom) “Ho!”
(Top right): “Latest Items!”
Sign: “Please feel free to try it out!”
Use: 45/45
(Right) “Please use it at least a little bit?”
(Left) “Um… please?”
SFX: Clipped shut!
(Right) “It’d be a waste for you to use it!”
(Bottom right) “They’re stilllll at it…”
SFX: Pop pop!
(Left) Falcon
Beautiful!!
Triangle Attack!!
(Right) Wyvern
Pierce!!
First appearance!!
(Bottom right) “Hmm…”
Book: Path of Guidance
Energy Ring, Goddess Statue, Talisman, Speedwings, Dracoshield, Angelic Robe, Boots
“This too is for the sake of Lady Myrrh…! sniffle sniffle”
(right) “You can count on me”
(Middle) Skill. “Ha!”
(Right) Luck. SFX: Trip!
Seth: “Ha…haaa” pant pant
(Right) “Let’s do our best together!”
(Right): “Pay your damn bar tab!”
(Right) “My brother just can’t help but be like this huh…”
(Right) Bonewalker
(right) “No need for a set…”
(Right) “Good luck~”
You can tell I took some liberties with some of the SFX in places, but the original JP remains in tact for readers to enjoy hopefully without cringing.
I may take a look at some of the other silliness the books have to offer, but for now, that’s all from me!
kantopia 
This is absolute madness I love it
Amazing, I didn’t even know these books existed. These look amazing.
Yeah! I collected them a few years back while looking around for interesting trivia. It makes me wonder how many other books may be out there.
This is why Intelligent needs to get Binding Blade over here! Its so funny that you can experience and understand this so much in one or two retro games.
Im not sure which one is my favorite!
Not Roy dragging the coffins (xD)
Yeah! I’m holding onto hope that some day we may see FE6 come over in some form.
xD The chapter with Roy dragging the coffins looks into how many people you can sacrifice and still beat the game with. The book is so silly.
Oh wait! If I recall: The Binding Blade was released on GBA in English wasn’t it?
If the first game can return fully translated, I’m sure there’s potential for the FE series. They released Genealogy on Nintendo Online (Japan only though ;_:)
Binding Blade hasn’t come out in ENG yet. There are some nice fan translations out there though! Blazing Blade (its prequel) is the one that came out in ENG though, and was the first FE game to come west. 🙂
Yeah! We can hold on to hope that one day, it shall come! xD