This blog has now been around for 7 years as of today. Can you believe it?
While I stopped doing my daily uploads awhile ago, I’m still enjoying every looking into trivial matters and comparisons as they come.
There are still some bigger projects I’m working on translating in the background (hint: more FE 4koma), so please look forward to those once they’re ready.
Thank you to everyone who reads and shares the super trivial articles from this blog! Here’s to 7 more years!
Today is a quick post that isn’t really a comparison or anything, just a curiosity.
In Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, there is a system of spirits that inhabit different fighters that you rescue them from. This is a fun way to get even more characters in a game by getting similar characters and quirks in on a character that best represents them, for a lack of better words. (This is not the exact intention/statement as given by anyone, just a summarized observation).
Anyway, for fans of these characters who are familiar with their original source games, you get a lot of fun nods that others may not get.
One particular favorite of mine is L’Arachel’s spirit, for instance. She inhabits female Robin –and with her are two other allies: Wario and Sheik.
Fans can already get why the other two are even here. They represent Dozla and Rennac! It’s much like how Awakening‘s bonus box fights featured classes that were meant to represent other characters that traveled together.
Another instance is how Ninian is represented by Palutena, and with her is Roy (likely to be Eliwood):
There are many more, but as a final example, which I unfortunately neglected to take a screen shot of, was that Wrys was inhabiting Kirby. I suppose they went all out on his baldness.
So I started to wonder if Lilina is around. I figured the Zelda (of the A Link to the Past look) would be a good candidate for her.
A Japanese friend posted this when they found it:
I was pretty surprised! Since I fully expected Lilina to actually be inhabiting Zelda rather than Palutena. The fire affinity/ability, the manner of dress, the red alt, body structure, and status as a Princess seemed pretty fitting in my head! So this was especially interesting. I wonder why they went with Palutena?
One guess, due to her staff, is that perhaps it was to reflect Lilina’s sage look –where she has the long white dress and can wield a staff as well. I’m sure there are other reasons.
Outfit as seen here. Also drawn by said friend who presented the screen shot to me. Please follow them on twitter!
So for fun I drew a quick oekaki (pixel sketch) of Lilina in one of Zelda’s victory poses, just because it was fun to imagine.
When I get through the game, I’d love to write a post that has every single fun FE nod through the spirits (I’m sure the wikis will do that already, but still).
Just to be clear –this isn’t a complaint or anything. I just thought it was odd!
What do you all think of the game so far? Please avoid any World of Light spoilers if you can. Who are you playing as? Main? All that good stuff. Last game I would mostly play as Lucina, but this time I’m prioritizing Zelda for the above, hehe.
Four years! Wow… I remember writing about the third year anniversary just…last year? Today I drew a new Lilina banner to celebrate:
This year was the first year that I didn’t do daily posts. I still managed to do weekend posting though, to which I’m happy, and, of course, when I had time, made sure to post in succession.
Accomplishments the last year include completion of the Tellius Recollection Volume 2: Radiant Dawn project! I’m very proud of how that turned out. The Shadows of Valentia 4Koma mini project was also a thing. The Valentia Accordion project is still underway, as is the ongoing Day in the Life of Heroes comics!
So there’s still quite a lot to get through. I gathered some nice books too, some Fire Emblem stuff that hasn’t been translated yet that I hope to get through when I get time! There were a few interviews here and there, as well as some more fun comparisons this year.
Speaking of comparisons, I finally got around to making a special page that lists all comparisons in one place. It serves as a neat hub. I wrote much more than I thought (especially about Fates!) WordPress has an inconvenient tag system on the right, so I hope this comes in handy for people who just want to read the comparisons and not dig through the rest.
I hope to add more special hub pages for things like interviews and trivia that was discovered in art books.
This post, by the way, is a little late too. It’s May 18th as of this writing, but the anniversary was actually April 3rd!
Thanks to all the readers who commented and shared my articles. It humbles me every time, and I really enjoy reading and replying to all your comments!
Here’s to the future!
This is just to post showing off a new banner for the website, and to announce continued posting through the summertime thanks to vacation (and hence more freetime)! Though it is mostly for twitter, I thought it would be fun to put around on this site too. I was happy with how the drawing came out! Lilina is a great mascot, I think.
Of course, I do not claim any ownership over her character! So please consider this fan art. : )
Daily posts should continue up until the end of August hopefully! A big thank you to anyone who is still around and looking forward to translation work!
-Kan
Today was another quick translation of another one of @w_spread‘s Roy x Lilina pictures.
See the original art/tweet here.
Today I translated a single page fan comic featuring Roy and Lilina from Fire Emblem: the Binding Blade.
This comic was originally drawn by artist @w_spread who draws quite a lot of fan art involving the two.
So please keep in mind I did not draw these. I simply translated them.
If you have any brief fan comic/picture requests, or are feeling kind enough to donate, please use the “DONATE” button on the top right of this page!
Enjoy!
The original comic can be found on this tweet.
Today was another quick translation of another one of @w_spread‘s Roy x Lilina pictures.
See the original art/tweet here.
The provided quote on the tweet states:
“When ordinary things remind them of each other… (RoyXLilina)”
Today I translated a single page fan comic featuring Roy and Lilina from Fire Emblem: the Binding Blade.
This comic was originally drawn by artist @w_spread who draws quite a lot of fan art involving the two.
So please keep in mind I did not draw these. I simply translated them.
If you have any brief fan comic/picture requests, or are feeling kind enough to donate, please use the “DONATE” button on the top right of this page!
Enjoy!
The original comic can be found on this tweet.
Today I translated a very brief (2 page) fan comic featuring Roy and Lilina from Fire Emblem: the Binding Blade.
This comic was originally drawn by artist @w_spread who draws quite a lot of fan art involving the two.
So please keep in mind I did not draw these. I simply translated them.
If you have any brief fan comic/picture requests, or are feeling kind enough to donate, please use the “DONATE” button on the top right of this page!
Enjoy!
The original comic can be found on two tweets. Page 1 is here. Page 2 is here.
Today I translated a very brief (2 page) fan comic featuring Roy and Lilina from Fire Emblem: the Binding Blade
This size of request is fairly simple to handle. This comic was originally drawn by artist @w_spread (who draws wonderful Roy and Lilina pictures, but also plenty of others!)
So please keep in mind I did not draw these. I simply translated them.
If you have any brief fan comic/picture requests, or are feeling kind enough to donate, please use the “DONATE” button on the top right of this page!
Enjoy!
kantopia 