The Jeeves and Wooster shimejis are done and I'm releasing them out into the world :D

Go grab your own mini gentlemen here if you want, they're free!

My contribution for Kasamitsu 5, which based on the countdown art I had made for the event! Please enjoy!

(...or not.)

Inspired by that one 4koma where Phoenix finds bunny ears in Edgeworth’s drawer in his office and imagines… things. Side note: I hc Phoenix likes to sleep with his head buried in Miles’ chest because he can feel his heartbeat and that relaxes him, making it easier for him to stay asleep. Phoenix’s greatest fear is to lose the people he loves, so he probably has nightmares about it sometimes. Miles’ steady heartbeat gives him ease. Miles is alive, so is everyone else, everything is ok.

…Also have you seen his chest in the official artwork? That’s gotta be comfy!

A bit of mandatory cuteness!

Type A - Generic Promo Art with a lot of Dramatic Pointing

Type A1 - Oh Wow Look at How Many Characters We Have!!

Type A2 - Instead of Dramatic Pointing it’s Back-to-Back Posing

Type A3 - Ominous Giant Lawyers

Type B - All the Characters Hanging Out Casually as a Family

Type B1 - Seasonal Varieties

Type B1-1 - Phoenix is Fucking Drunk

Type B1-2 - Festival Time!

Type B2 - Gaming Moments

Type C - Illustrated Interpretation of Canon Scenes/Off Screen Moments

Type D - Phoenix Wright and Miles Edgeworth Sharing Long Meaningful Gazes and Palatable Sexual Tension

Type E - What if… Chibis?

Type F - Fancy Outfits

Type F1 - OST Artwork Featuring Orchestra AU

Type G - Inexplicable

It was written as a parody of the fairly corrupt Japanese legal system, exaggerated for both humour and gameplay reasons, giving us such lovely gems as:

They don't have manslaughter

It's never stated outright to my knowledge, but it's generally implied that the penalty for murder is universally or near-universally the death penalty

Trials are legally mandated to go on no longer than three days, no matter how complicated they can get. The lab analysis for a poison isn't completed in three days? You can't use it in the poisoning trial. Your witness can't be tracked down on the last day? We go to the verdict without their testimony.

Everyone is assumed guilty until proven innocent. The defense attorney has to prove beyond a reasonable doubt, within 3 days, that their client could not possibly be guilty, or they're gonna get a GUILTY verdict

In practical terms, this means that if your client is innocent, you have to not only prove that but usually find the actual killer within the three days to show it's a different person. This isn't officially mandated as part of the defense's duties but in pretty much every case it's what Phoenix has to do to exonerate his client, even if he's otherwise proven the killer couldn't be (or is extremely unlikely to be) his client.

Both sides can just show up to the courtroom with new evidence and demand it's accepted as evidence during the trial. There's no verification process for this and no requirement that the other side has access to it pre-trial. You can show up with a letter in hand and halfway through the trial be like "this letter was found in the victim's apartment!" and it becomes part of the case then and there.

There are no restrictions on where or how you can find evidence. You, a defense attorney who doesn't work for the police force and has no equivalent of warrant law, can break into a witness' house and steal evidence from his personal safe to show in court the next day. This is not a crime apparently.

It's normal and accepted that the prosecution will coach all witnesses, usually telling them to lie. It's a huge advantage when you get to interrogate a witness who the prosecution hasn't been able to tell what lies to tell yet. They never face repercussions for this.

The prosecution will frequently falsify evidence. They receive no punishment for this and are allowed to continue practicing law. Witnesses will regularly lie on the stand; they receive no penalty for this and the rest of their testimony is still considered reliable. It's up to the defense attorney to expose every single lie; if you can't prove a word against your client is a lie, even from the mouth of a known liar, then your client must be guilty of it.

All of your trials are overseen by the same judge and he is comically incompetent. This isn't an oversight of the game he is deliberately written to suck at his job, be easily bullied by the prosecution, generally have very little idea what's going on and issue his verdict based on Vibes.

The lawyers will straight up make bets mid-trial with each other like "if you can't find a problem with this next witness' testimony, you have to admit that you're wasting our time and the verdict will be Guilty". The judge lets them do this. This is considered practicing law. Prosecutors will also physically assault other lawyers and the judge in the courtroom but this is okay because it's funny.

The cops work directly for the prosecuting attorney and the prosecuting attorney will openly threaten police witnesses right there on the stand in front of everyone if the witness isn't saying what the prosecution wants them to.

The level of corruption in the prosecutor's office is just. I couldn't describe it in a bullet point. Prosecutors are straightup hitmen for hire and their weapon of choice is the death penalty.

Guess who's about to get tased and robbed in the police precinct evidence room by a highly respected and successful prosecutor!

Prosecutors have full access to crime scenes and it is implied that they lead the police investigations

Defense attorneys are not supposed to engage with the crime scene or investigate at all! (Hence why phoenix has to worm his way in or break into crime scenes to get evidence)

It is expected that all evidence AND witnesses come from the prosecution. The fact that Phoenix brings in his own evidence and witnesses is *weird*

It is implied that not only do trials have to end in three days, but if a trial lasts that long everyone is very confused and miffed about it. The judge was very torn about having to go a second day on one trial bc he made dinner plans

False evidence is solved by "whoops, I'm sorry, I didn't know" on the side of the prosecution.

False evidence from the defense can result in the attorney being disbarred even if the false evidence came from the prosecution in the first place

There is a game where defense attorneys literally get the same sentence as their defendant (put to death) and thats why [insert place here] has no lawyers anymore

Although it seems to be true for most cases that the penalty for murder is the death penalty, the culprit of 1-1 gets an incredibly lenient sentence. He appears in AAI2 and he is about to be released (it's only been like 4 years?) until getting involved in another case.

Illegally obtained evidence appears all the time and nobody gives a hoot but somehow becomes an issue when Wright records Kristoph's letter and presents it as evidence.

As above, illegal search is never a problem except when Edgeworth does it AAI 2-4.

Random new evidence shows up all the time in court and is all accepted, except in 1-5, where you must prove the evidence is relevant or register it beforehand.

Also, rarely any new evidence is verified and it seems to be fine, unless the evidence is problematic and they magically know and have it checked, such as the suicide note in 2-4.

The jury system is a one-shot.