Flynn Has A Sense Of Deja Vu When Killing Merkabah And Lucifer Because He Has To Put Down A Friend Manipulated

Flynn has a sense of deja vu when killing Merkabah and Lucifer because he has to put down a friend manipulated by a higher being into becoming a monster.

GOOD EVENING SMTIV ENJOYERS!!

After many trials and tribulations THE REMAINING 10 (COUNT 'EM! 10!!) missing manga of the SMTIV Dengeki Anthology, which is the only (currently known) SMTIV anthology, have been scanned and uploaded to the beautiful internet for all to see. I even did a little cleaning-up of the raws myself for anyone who wants to come in and fool around with that :)

All credits to the scanning and uploading of the originals go to discord user @chimneyantelope/antelopunny, whose original scans you can find here !

And my unprofessional cleanup attempt, barring cover stuff and the already previously uploaded manga, can be found HERE!

I learned a lot by getting to do this! I started out kind of shaky but by the end I hit a stride and figured it out. Once I get a good break, I might redo and reupload the first two using the techniques I learned. But for now, here you go! Enjoy this previously unarchived lost media of an underrated game, even if you just want to look at the good images contained within.

If you want to take a stab at translation, or know anyone we could contact to get that ball rolling, do let us know! :)

I haven't been able to stop thinking about Ichi the Witch all day for one specific reason:

I have no idea how the title could have been better translated

The Japanese title is Madan no Ichi (魔男のイチ), where Madan is a clear play on Majo (魔女), which effectively translates to "magic woman." This makes Madan "magic man," which as far as I can find isn't a word in Japanese at all

The intention is obviously that Ichi is a male witch, but there is no term for male witch in English that quite captures how unheard of this concept is in context. We could call him a warlock or a wizard, but if the idea is that men can't use magic at all, then having those terms doesn't make sense in the first place, they're contextually impossible

We could call him "witch boy" or "witch man," but that's inelegant at best and just kinda stupid at worst. You can't call him a "Witcher," cus that's copyrighted. You could use the original Old English term for witch, wicce, and go with the masculine wicca, but calling the series Ichi the Wicca both carries a lot of strong religious connotations and still fails to capture the feeling of uniqueness within the setting

The funniest thing about this line of thought, though, is that you just know there was a point where the translator was sitting at their desk, head in hands, surrounded by crumpled-up papers on the floor that all had the word "MANWITCH" scribbled over in red ink a thousand times

Flynn likes Nanashi's eyebrows. They're all scrunkly! They make him look extra cool and fierce! When he smiles the eyebrows are a charm point!

Then one day Nanashi buys a new wig that doesn't cover his brows. He decides that since he's already doing the rest of his face he might as well shape his eyebrows too.

When Flynn sees he gets all quiet and sulky and sad, which for him is standing in one spot and staring off into the distance, the picture of melancholic contemplation. Life has once again taken something precious away from him, woe is Flynn.

The next morning Nanashi asks Asahi if he can borrow her eyebrow pencil. No he can't just wait to go out and buy one later in the day, he has to draw his eyebrows back in before Flynn wakes up. Shut up Asahi stop laughing.

SMT PROTAGONIST EVOLUTION

SMTIV: Mostly masculine, but has ponytail

SMTIVA: Commonly mistaken for small lesbian

SMTV: It's hard to find the words to capture this. Uh, just check Pixiv. Don't do it in public.

I've re-orged my tags! Shorter, off the cuff stuff is shortpost. Longer posts is thonkphonk! Currently I'm deciding whether fandom-related shortposts should be tagged with the fandom if it's a less active fandom tag, don't want to spam. Shipping tags will still remain.