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Wisptober Day 21: Shard

 "In the castle, there is an old shattered mirror that the owners never took down.  In its shards, you can catch a glimpse of the last moment of your previous life.“

Milgram’s second trial is starting soon and they updated their official website with new voicelines, so I sat down and tried to translate them! (There might be some spoilers for season 1 / especially the results of the first trial so do proceed with caution)

I linked each character’s profile in their name in case you’d like to check them out yourself!

The themes of the voice lines are:

(01) greeting

(02) their reaction to whether they were voted forgiven / unforgiven

(03) things that changed between the two trials

(04) their feelings about the “extraction of songs”

(05) their feelings about Milgram

⬇️ translations below the cut ⬇️

“I’m not weak. And I’m gonna show him.”

just. jayce with a viktor mug. can you imagine.

Hi there! It’s me again. There is a new interview with Mochizuki Jun about VNC, so I though it would be fun to share some untold background stories.

Mochizuki-sensei says that in the case of PandoraHearts, her fighting scenes were cut off firstly, because there were not so good, so she wanted to include and practice fight scenes in the new series. (Success) She wanted to draw an academy themed manga or a vampire one, when she visited Anime Expo in France and she got inspired. Also, she mentioned that as long as she remembers, ‘Interview with the vampire’ was the first vampire movie she was inpsired by. At first the concept was: Vanitas = Sherlock (vampire) Noe = Watson (human) But it was not interesting, it was too ordinary, so their position were changed and the concept greatly improved in a second, but that’s why Vanitas still has that sharpish high canine tooth. (I don’t know how they say in English :D) Also, someone said to her that Vanitas’ hair was weird so she cut it to bangs on the sides. Noe was supposed to be wearing glasses and he was the one with common sense.  From Mochizuki-sensei’s perspective, Vanitas is someone who hates himself and a contrary person (we already knew that), Noe is an “outside adult, inside little girl” type.

Now there is an interesting part (for fans, it will be heartbreaking): Mochizuki-sensei mentioned that in PandoraHearts everyone who died accomplished a “rewarded death”, they got their spotlights and goals were completed, BUT in VNC she would like to draw death without reward or meaningless death as well. There was a question whether she has a plot in her head already, regarding the last scene of the first episode. Yes, where Noe has a monologue that he will kill Vanitas. She said that she has to decide beforehand a plot goal to be able to work on the manga, but it could be an ending or a turning point which the story has to pass by. So yeah, THAT scene can be a middle turning point as well.

Last, about the anime, she is looking forward to see the Roland fight scene to be animated. Ah, aaa, I forgot! Thanks to Hanae-san voice, Mochizuki-sensei remembered that Vanitas is only 18 years old. :D Noe became more sincere and more natural airhead thanks to Ishikawa-san’s voice.

The full interview is long, so I picked up only the main points. https://ddnavi.com/interview/808972/a/