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Splatoon 2 ぬりえ Coloring Book

Did you guys know there’s this official Splatoon 2 coloring book that was sold only in Japan and its stupidly detailed for a kid’s coloring book? Wanna know something else? I own it and I scanned and cleaned up the entire thing before laying a single mark on it, and now you can have it too! I posted this on twitter a few months ago, but considering how things get lost easily on twitter, figured it’d be wise to post it here too.

Link leads to a google drive folder that includes:

- a folder of cleaned up and stitched together scans - folder of the unedited scans if that’s something you want? - a PSD with each page on a different layer

as far as we're concerned, yeah. At the very least, they are intended to be gender non-conforming even in japanese. a correction on the band members: it's not that they're referred to gender neutrally, its that they're not referred to with any terms that clearly indicate a gender, something that is easy to do in Japanese, but very hard to do in English. in Japanese, third person pronouns(3PP) are not used anywhere nearly as much as in english, and can usually be avoided all together. This does not mean these characters are canonically non-binary, just that it's unconfirmed what they are. I have this disclaimer on all the band lore translations. going back to Acht, this ask I answered should answer this question...mostly. There is one addendum id like to make: Acht is only considered a bokukko in the JP fandom because of information from 2018: haikara walker calling them 彼女, she, and a dev interview referring to them as an 女の子, a girl. in side order and onwards, the japanese version has avoided referring to acht with gendered terms....aside from being a takozones, which is traditionally an all-female class of elite octolings, but acht's whole story is that their rejection of that life forced onto them... now mind you, 3PPs arent super common in JP. but in ordertune, a 3PP pops up again to refer to acht. and it's not 彼女 kanojo, she. it's 氏 shi.

what is 氏? i more often see this word as a name suffix (like -san but more formal and mainly just used in writing rather than speech). 氏, nowadays, is gender neutral. its usage here stands out to me because 彼女 would fit in that part of the sentence perfectly. and they didn't use it. (you can read the translation of ordertune here)

10 YEARS SINCE THE ALOLA STARTER REVEAL I LOVE YOU POPPLIO

Redraw of smthn I drew the day of the reveal! ⬇️