One App I Can Recommen When Looking For Kanji Is Japanese From Renzo Inc. It Allows You To Look For Kanji

One App I can recommen when looking for Kanji is „japanese“ from renzo inc. It allows you to look for Kanji by components, or if you have it on an ipad, can even try to draw the kanji and have the app recognize it. (Works half the time for me)

It has been helping me learning and finding kanji. It also works great as a dictionary.

Concept Art/Model Sheet for Meifang Lapis Lazuli

Translations for the notes on the sheet under the cut. Unfortunately, I do not read or speak Japanese. These translations are the product of the combined efforts of machine translation and my frantic, desperate scouring of online kanji dictionaries.

If you catch me making any mistakes, or you know the language better and can correct my errors, I would greatly appreciate it!

Meifang = Lapis Lazuli

About 160cm

Slender build

Modified Wings of Justice uniform

The hairpiece is shaped like devil horns.

Twintails with a lot of hair.

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I thought this would be a simple post... I thought I'd throw the image in Google Translate, write three lines, and be done.

Somehow, it's been over five hours, and I've learned a bunch about the anatomy of kanji...

I was originally going to include some kind of "translator's notes" section at the end of this post, but it got way, way too long, and steady decayed into a first-hand account of my day-long hunt to identify 'which kanji this smudgey shape is supposed to be'... instead of a Meifang post.

So, I'll end things here in order to stay on track. If I ever do post the rant I cut, I'll edit a link here.

Birb

In this stream starting around the 2:18:51 mark, they‘re showing of Arcsys merch. Including Blazblue and Under night Merch.

the world is healing

☀️ i am so sad, i heared that they wont include anything from fes or portable, so no femc, no answer or the like. I hate it here, why this disrespect to my girl Minako i will fight somebody at atlus HQ

oh. well i will say it straight (the only thing straight about me i fear lol) but thats likely not entirely true, ☀️ anon. idk if youve seen this post but it sums it up pretty well https://www.tumblr.com/petorahs/719925542729695232

and the full article published a while later:

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『ペルソナ3 リロード』日本メディア最速インタビュー。オリジナル版のフルリメイクだが『フェス』で追加された本編内の要素が『リロード』にいっさい入っていないというわけではない【週刊ファミ通先行掲載】 | ゲーム・エンタメ最新情報のファミ通.com

『ペルソナ3 リロード』開発者への日本メディア最速インタビューを、週刊ファミ通2023年6月29日号（6月15日発売）に先行して特別掲載。

bad ign reporting aside, i was also pretty upset at first since no femc and the answer! but then i saw a good point someone made about the femc case:

persona 3 reload has reportedly been in development for four years. and in that four years thats standard time to build a game from the ground up, maybe even too little – anyone who's been in game dev can tell us that. p3re doesnt reuse assets, too, it's completely from scratch. so having femc isnt simply a matter of model swap. they'd also have to program the UIs and make everything pink - sure, that could be "easy", but there's also the changed social links and team dynamics (more writing to be done), weapon system and all that (more coding)? so its like... i'd be actually surprised if they managed a femc during those 4 years. its quite a lot of work to re-adapt base p3 as is i feel and modernizing it. also i feel like atlus themselves wouldnt want to do their character and her fanbase wrong so of course they wouldnt fkn slap on a few pink menus and call it a day. they surely want to rewrite the s links and everything too in accordance to her. art takes time.

(with all that being said bullying atlus for femc is warranted actually maybe then her inevitable dlc might come faster lmao )

similarly, im fine with no "the answer" now despite being its #1 defender. theyd have to completely rework the 30:2 hour grinding to story ratio which is just not sustainable on a modern gameplay perspective. that also takes time.

its why i made this post actually. i somehow trust them, and i feel like most of us can stand to chill a little and have healthier expectations. as in not overbloated and not have the bar set in hell either (altho we should also do that too)

and i know, like anyone who's played this game, it means so much to so many people. and thats why its maybe impossible to please everyone, because its so many different things: a game that saved their life, a funny goofy lighthearted one where you catch demons, the most depressing persona game ever (altho i feel like p2 would beg to differ on that one-), or for me personally, a game that just made me cry man.

and because it means so much, everyone wants to see it be the best it can be!! and that means having hamuchan. i get that all of this riot energy is out of love for the game, really. but. yeah.

a remake seems like it's "less work to do" since the foundation's "already there" and i dont know how many people worked on p3re but like. i highly doubt theyre just sitting on their asses pissing off fans on purpose lol. (or maybe they are and im just too optimistic damn 😭)

What I like about blazblue is, that there are many ways that you can attribute the mythological figures to the characters. During the dark war, Ragna was the mythological Orochi (as the black beast with Nu) and Hakumen the Susanoo, slaying Orochi to help protect people like Celica (Kushinada). Many years later, the roles change however and now Ragna is the mythological Susanoo and Terumi the new Orochi. (Kinda like the dark war being the original movie and the later events being the remake).

Even more interesting, in order to defeat Terumi they trick the onservers into having Terumi/Susanoo being seen as the hero and Ragna as the monster (black beast/orochi), like it was during the dark war.

The game basically plays with the idea of myths.

There is also the fact, that you could see Terumi as Amanozako, the ara mitama of susanoo.

Ragna is mythological Susanoo in a red coat. The culmination of his story is just an odd spin on the Tale of Susanoo in particular where he slays the Orochi (Terumi) with the sword Orochi no Aramasa (Ragna's sword is called Aramasa), retrieves the Kusanagi from it's corpse (Noel was inside Terumi/Susanoo Unit), and brings it to Amaterasu in an act of repentance and to make peace with her (Ragna brings Noel to the Master Unit and Origin Saya to merge Noel with Origin Saya in an act to make peace with her, repent for his transgressions in the Age of Origin, and save her).