#daisuke explains nothing!

Thanks to a friend on Twitter, I found YET ANOTHER Error in the P.W.A.B. Reports. (Postwar Administration Bureau Reports)!

As you can see, the first image is a screenshot from the original PS2 version of Guilty Gear XX (or X2 in American regions).  The second image is a Japanese text mode version of Korean GGXX Reload.

Still can’t see the mistake?  It’s a big one!

It lists the Gear Project itself as having happened in 2099.  This is COMPLETELY WRONG!

The only time the GG Bible ever even mentions 2099 is when Frederick Saved Kliff Undersn from a Gear when he was 6 years old (this year was even mistaken in Xrd Sign years later as 2097).  The original (Ed Chang from GameFAQs) translation of the GG Bible refers specifically to Kliff Undersn.  And you can read the source right here too!

GGXrd states that the original Gear Project itself began in 2014 and ended tragically in an accident in 2016, but was restarted by the American Government in the year 2042.  It didn’t make headway until 2060, and Justice wasn’t even “completed” until the year 2073... and that was before Japan was destroyed a year later in 2074.

So there you have it... while the “translation” in this case, is technically correct... the information source is NOT!

Here’s what 10th Memorial has to say:

“Wilderness Gravemarker: also called the Meteor Shower stage.

It showcases a Meteor Shower that comes once every few Hundred Years, and depicts the march of giants.

The Cosmic Mystery is expressed on a Large Scale.

The playable characters focused on here are Sol, Ky, and I-No.”

While it never explicitly states the giants are actually GEARS, such beings have never actually made an appearance in the world prior to these events… and while an argument could be made they are Youkai… Gears and Youkai aren’t very different in makeup based on Ishiwatari’s definitions anyhow.

I would argue that said creatures are in migration, as in they are searching for another food source or better climate.

Ishiwatari was trying to express that the natural world is a mystery beyond us mere humans in this description, so we can’t really make much conjecture based on that statement alone (or rather he won’t let us, based on the description).

All I can say on that subject is that despite his deep interest in bands like Queen (and Freddie Mercury), and despite the racy joke gags of him “interacting” with Toshimichi Mori… All allegations towards his personal life are pretty much vague and unknown, even in interviews of him.

To my own extensive knowledge on the man, he is a solitary fellow, though it might have something to do with the flora and fauna of Yokohama where he currently resides.

He doesn’t even have a Twitter account for gosh sakes, unlike Mori and President Kidooka!

It’s not like he’s a traditional thinker with all the characters he’s created (or even the clothing choices, some of which invoke BDSM notions), and he is world-savvy as what happened the last time Sol was hit on by a Would-Be Prostitute (Axl Low kindof interrupted that situation), but Sol was kind enough to pay her for the repairs to the Bar they trashed.

Guilty Gear has extensive and complex characters, but it’s frequently been expressed in the game’s plot that there’s a “message of acceptance”.

No matter how strange a person is, or how bizarre their past, there are people who interact with and accept them as they are.

Whether that’s Gears, Valentines with a fixation on Marriage, an insane doctor, a guy possessed by ghosts, a girl who wears a giant old martial artist robot suit, or a young bounty hunter who ran away from home because his parents raised him and his twin brother as a gender he didn’t identify as, orphans with unknown nationalities and pasts torn by war and conflict, an immortal masochist.

Though, I’m frequently reminded (at least in terms of Daisuke himself) that he keeps his personal life seperate from that of his creations.

It was once said he identifies with Sol Badguy (and even Chimaki), but that’s incorrect… He’s a hard working artist and creator, and he draws from many sources for inspiration (not just Anime, but European and Western concepts too, even SCIENCE AND MATHEMATICS).

Hard-working GUTS! is part of his motto, which is ironically the exact opposite of Sol Badguy who doesn’t like to work hard at all!

He’s a private man, and though he drinks too much coffee and tea to the point I sometimes worry about him… He does what he seeks out to accomplish, and that is a very powerful statement on whom he is!

DO NOT EXIST!

Someone please tell me

What is this?

It’s really a bizarre thing, and probably just a quirk of Daisuke’s jargon naming conventions (and you’re right, it’s DEFINITELY a Queen reference!).

Officially, the move is ‘loosely called’ “Suzuran” (すずらん), but the Kanji typically used for Suzuran is NOT what’s used in the Movelist!

Suzuran is typically read as “鈴蘭” which is the actual LITERAL “Lily of the Valley” the flower.

The OFFICIAL MOVELIST NAME is 爵走 “Shakusou” or read in Chinese “Juezou” which literally means “Nobility” and “To Run” in both languages.

爵 > Shaku / Haku / Jue “Baron / Noble / Royalty”走 > Sou / Zou / Hashi ru “To Run”

“Noble Dash” in other words.

It’s both archaic and whimsical (not to mention nonsensical) to associate two definitions with it!

Knowing Daisuke Ishiwatari, it’s a joke about Guilty Gear’s global situation in the story, what with the Apocalyptic themes.

The world isn’t “safe” to live or work in yet!

http://gear-project.tumblr.com/post/158325831899/if-you-could-hang-out-with-any-member-of-the-gg

I've been thinking a lot about Katsuhiro Harada's comments on character design.

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In terms of issues of retcons and other things that have been discussed heavily in the past (for Guilty Gear characters, not limited to Bridget)… if it were Harada, he would have spelled things out and made them clear to the fanbase.

I can't speak on behalf of Ishiwatari. But I can't help but wonder if he would share that same sentiment towards characters he created AND changed for his games.

Again, I can't speak for Ishiwatari… but I have this belief that Japanese game developers have their own intents when making or changing characters… and it is never meant to betray the hopes of the fanbase.

Or at least, that is my belief.

If such were true, I think more evidence would make it apparent, in more than just ARC System Works games, but other fighting games within the genre.

I just had a long conversation/argument with someone in chat about Bridget… and some things we discussed were hard to prove or deny.

But, like I say… if it were Harada (or even Mori), I think the case would be settled in a heartbeat.