#official interview

Naoko Takeuchi's Interview from Vogue Japan issue 01/24, HD Quality 💖

This is so cute that I want to keep on going back to read them! 🥰🥰🥰

Warframe: 1999 and Techrot Encore Protoframes, and Romance System Interview w/Kat Kingsley @ Lords of Gaming

An interesting interview with the principal writer of Warframe, I added some of my personal notes about the new Protoframes under the cut:

There’s a panel depicting Sasuke and Sakura from behind, but the editor in charge said “Since Sasuke’s face isn’t shown much in the final episode, how about facing this side instead of his back?” Thank you for your suggestion I thought, and immediately turned their body to the front.

When I showed the corrected page to Mr Kishimoto (the editor in charge) he took the trouble to draw a revised proposal for the last page, which was almost the same composition as I had originally drawn. It was the same with Sasuke and Sakura’s back.

Many fans had already put the two side to side, and will probably feel elated to be confirmed right.

Rebecca seems to have realized only midway, that she was taking inspiration for Spinel's character from the same source that originated Everything Stays: her own old toy, lost and forgotten in her garden, irreversibly changed by time, but no less valuable because of it.

The elements are all there, for us too, to be able to draw an uncanny comparison: a garden lost in a memory, a figure still waiting there where it was left, but not the same. As you find it, it's upside down, and time consumed part of it.

Rebecca found the recurring theme through her drafts, "it's that toy again". A black bunny that used to be her favorite, and became discolored on the belly from overexposure to the sun. The fact that it would never again look like it did before had struck her, that it changed without her, but she had also realized that it was still dear to her all the same.

So, what does this knowledge leave us with?

Surely, the triumph that yes, we called it, they indeed were linked, even if not on purpose!

Hopefully, the lesson that change can be traumatic, but if embraced, we can still find love and comfort in othes and ourselves.