I appreciate twst giving the characters smartphones. There is so much cheap drama to be farmed by setting everything to function on early-90s technology, such an easy way out. It's a fantasy world so they could've pulled that trick. The prefect like "You don't have smartphones!?" and the characters like "Why are the phones smart." But instead they fully embraced it, went "nah, everyone has a smartphone and also a Instagram/LINE hybrid and Leona is in a group chat." Respect.
So, from what I understand, most people here think that RSA will win the first competition, right? That Rielle and Mina will defeat Azul and Jamil, that I think Azul and Jamil will cause their team's defeat, especially since they're acting so arrogantly and villainously, but that at least Ruggie will surprise everyone and be amazing, right? That Leona probably planned something, that I think while Azul and Jamil will probably lose, Ruggie is their team's chance to win, but it all depends on how the chapter goes.
I have a question for the manga nerds here. You know how Yana does that thing where she'll bring other illustrators together to draw her characters? She did it for Kuroshi, resulting in some really sub-par art and random side-stories that have nothing to do with anything by people I've never heard of, and she did it again with the Twst anthologies. Is that a normal thing for mangaka to do? Does the ONE PIECE guy bring in random illustrators to draw his characters and publish volumes of uncanon material just for shits and giggles? Or is that a Yana thing?
>>569117950 Since the first volume of Scarabia dropped at once while Octa was still ongoing I wonder if they’ve got someone creating Pomefiore already. We’re gonna get to Jamil’s overblot and they’re gonna drop volumes 1 and 2 of Pome, in creation since 2024 or something.
>>569133456 I don't think there's a chance any of the Groovys from the summer cards will have one of the boys in cider, right? Or at least soaked in the drink.
Just a small confession but whenever I'm on a bitter mood and I see an ENfag trying to shit on the cute, I immediately pull the classism card and I think it's adorable they immediately stop
I know tiktok retards opinions have even less value than your average ener but MalleYuu being oh so canon or close to being canon seems to be a shared sentiment within EN fandom, I wonder why? At least in AceYuu's case I understand since not only they're canonically friends but he also seems to be the only character that genuinely cares about (you) as an individual, whereas Malleus doesn't receive yume fanservice more than the rest of the cast (which isn't even that much dbh).
>>569184058 Well, on X I saw several people trying to defend Malleus's feelings for Yuu, about Yuu's importance to Malleus, because one person said it's almost impossible to talk about Diasomnia because of the fanon, that Malleus doesn't really care about the protagonist, that at the end of Book 7, Malleus didn't even react or care about the protagonist, that Malleus's focus and importance was mainly Lilia and also Silver, and while some people agreed with this, others were annoyed by this idea.
>>569184058 >I wonder why? Because they need everything to be about themselves. Not "want." They NEED it. They MUST be the most important person to the most powerful, most important character on the cast, and Mal is EN's poster boy. If his every waking moment is not about his undying love for them personally then there is no point. "Me me me me. It has to be about me. It HAS to be. And if it's not, then I'll warp and distort canon content until I can convince myself it is." And that includes convincing everyone around them that it is, too, so that no one will shatter the illusion by pointing out what actually happens in the game where zero of it is about them at all. >>569193949 For every one person who actually plays the game there are dozens who skip dialogue, take other people's screenshots out of context and only know the version of the characters that exists in their head.
>>569193949 >at the end of Book 7, Malleus didn't even react or care That part in 7.5 was funny too. Zero pandering. Prefect is there talking, Malleus comes up, Prefect and the first years decide to leave, end. Neither one acknowledged each other. No "Ah, Yuu. Thank you for giving us your seat." No "Hey Hornton, glad to see you back at school." Nothing. It's like twst saw all the self-shippers and was like "maybe it's time to scale this back, people are getting the wrong idea."
But for real I wonder why en server didn't add the voices for 7.5. That is wild. JP didn't have voices for parts of Book 6 when it first dropped but en server had them from the start so it's not like they're big on giving everyone an equal experience or anything.
>>569193949 It might be because my algo finally flushed out en comments but it was funny to me that I didn't see en say anything about Malmal's bonbon this year. I thought people will be jumping at the chance to call it a date with Yuu, did Malleus talking about Lilia almost the entire time creep them out
>>569231395 Ermahgerd that’s the same arm gesture he did during blazejewel, my love It also the same gesture that the VAs for Floyd and Jade do sometimes but shh
>>569201189 My thought was that it’s cause the bait and switch is over. That’s what Twst does. Back in the beginning there was a ton of rumors that Ace was gonna betray the prefect and then it was no, actually, the point is he stood up against the queen. It’s not about you. Then Lilia gave the “Malleus needs a friend” line early in Book 7 and then no, actually, the point is Malleus is friends with Lilia. It’s not about you. But that part is over now. It is canon that Malleus needs to hold hands with Lilia or he will be too unstable to function. The bait and switch is done. I doubt they’ll drop all the bait for the self-shippers entirely, of course, but now we know that Lilia is the center of Malleus’ world and always has been.
>>569196840 >only know the version of the characters that exists in their head. I saw this in real time yesterday. Someone took jade’s “I want to join pomefiore” and “I want to return to octavinelle” lines from his dorm vignette out of context as proof that he is just as mood-swingy as Floyd. But in order to draw that conclusion they would have to skip the content of that entire story where he executed a plot against Vil for Azul. It wasn’t “oh so wacky mood-swing jade,” it was a carefully designed, precisely executed plan that succeeded exactly because he followed every step perfectly, to the point of deceiving Vil of all people, no mood swings involved. And they decided to take two contradicting pieces of dialogue from the very start and very end of the plotline and distort it into “look at the silly jade, he has mood swings just like Floyd.”
>>569086060 Mira Mira for a twst Alexa still cracks me up. But it makes me wonder if Vil used a different keyword he could've been no.1 in the search results.
>>569225026 I never know when the manga chapters are released, and I admit that every month I wait for the announcement of the Pom manga. It has to be announced this year, right?
>>569312325 Typeset anon here thanks, that wasn't in the bundle of raws I received I think, or maybe I accidentally deleted it. Does that go between the cover page and Azul talking about the camp? Or maybe after the page of Jamil announcing he will be housewarden? Is it the only one we dropped?
Unfortunately, I found that on Twitter from one of the users who only uploaded the first two pages, the one with Jade and then the cover page. None of the raw sites has the latest chapter, and I can't find anyone on Twitter who uploaded the full raws. If there are more pages, it's probably best to double-check with your raw scans supplier.
I believe the page with Jade is the opening page, so it should be the first page before the cover. Sorry I couldn't be more help.
>>569320325 Again, no prob. Fans should always help each other with stuff like this. :D
I don't have a MangaDex and wasn't sure the best way to contact the scanlators since your group bio's profile links to inactive Tumblr blog, so I was surprised to find you guys here on 4chan. Don't really come here often, so it's lucky I was able to get in contact with the team members. Is there a site outside of MangaDex that it'll make it easier for others to contact you?
>>569323493 The group was born from this general and it's our primary method of contacting each other, which was fun when 4chan crashed a while back just as a new chapter came out.
>>569348469 Didn't Yana have a comment like that or am I making things up? I swear I read somewhere about how a part of Jade's thing is that he will encourage Floyd to go nuts while pretending to hold him back. We get a bit of that pattern sans-Floyd in NBC when Jamil is like "azul and riddle are insane and we need to stop them" and Jade is like "oh sure, but what if instead of that we go and watch because whatever is about to happen is guaranteed to be hilarious?" They're equally gremlins, especially towards Azul, just not in the "both equally have moodswings" way.
>>569348952 Absolutely. I do not think he tries to stop neither Floyd nor Azul because he loves watching chaos unfold. Usually he's the type to set it up or not stop it rather than causing the chaos directly because it's entertaining for him
>>569319329 Apologies. I'm the one who usually supplies the scarabia manga raws lately and this might be the first time I overlooked a page but I will check manga up if there's any more missing.
>>569349312 I remember also reading a theory thing about the way he talks is a part of that too, like his speech patterns are very distant and proper and detached because watchs to be distant and detached because he wants to observe the people around him like mushrooms for his own entertainment. That's more fan theorizing stuff but I like the idea.
>>569352540 Never going to see Azul's, either. Not unless we get that Glorious Masquerade OVA that anon promised. >>569117950 - Glomasu and Playfulland OVAs. They're real in my heart.
>>569241375 >Malleus needs to hold hands with Lilia or he will be too unstable to function I cannot believe this is canon. It has been months and I am still not over it. This is fanfic levels of glorious.
>>569360797 The things Malleus and Lilia got away with is crazy the more I think about it. The aishiteru. 'I will not lose you'.Raised a kid together. Malleus admitting he just wanted them to be together until the end. 'your touch takes away all my pain' Holding hands to become more powerful. Lilia's magical circuits changed to be the same as Malleus's. I've seen jpsisters say they don't ever need to write a doujin or fanfic to match their shipping delusions if canon has done it all
>>569362876 And Idia literally calling them "true love." Depending on the extent of an anti's mental illness they might be able to claim that Mallelili is an incestuous day relationship between an adult and a minor. And Yana got it published under Disney. I love Yana.
>>569366050 Oh my crowley I love this art. They're the only example we have of anyone professing love to anyone else on screen, since we never actually saw Lilia say he loves Mel/Rav, we just heard about it after the fact. They are the purest pairing. Or I guess it technically might be one sided since Mal confessed but Lilia didn't confirm or deny his confession?
>>569368826 Imagine being Lilia and Malleus declares his love for you with the voice of Raverne and the face of Meleanor, how does it feel like. Truly the drama
>>569370419 Dear lord. Yana is a genius. "You loved both of us, so how could you not love our child? I mean that literally. His face will be a copy-paste of mine and he will sound identical to Raverne. The only thing that's different is he will actually love you back."
Kek, I never thought I'd see ship wars happening in TWST fandom yet here we are. I mean, these are pretty mild compared to some other fandoms but it's still a funny concept.
>>569426753 What exactly are ship wars btw, I block english speakers on sight so that kind of stuff never reaches me. Is it like "FloyAzu is the hottest," "No JaAzu is the hottest," "You are both wrong, clearly the only answer is 3P" or what.
>>569430914 I try to block dumbasses too but I still end up seeing cringe or retarded shit on my TL once in a while >Is it like "FloyAzu is the hottest," "No JaAzu is the hottest," "You are both wrong, clearly the only answer is 3P" or what. Nah, it really seems like this is a serious matter of them 'Oh no, an opposite ship of my OTP just got some official content, I better make not so subtle passive-agressive posts to express my feelings of bitterness' or 'eww I hate that guy because his pairing with X is more popular than my preferred pair with X'
>>569436332 Huh, that explains a lot. Both reek of main character syndrome. It's no wonder they're floundering in a game where the self-insert is wholly unnecessary. Maybe that is what triggers them into lashing out in the fandom. Hopefully the sparkle-shine game by that yume company will earn them the attention they apparently don't get at home and they'll calm down.
>>569362876 >jpsisters say they don't ever need to write a doujin or fanfic to match their shipping delusions if canon has done it all Reminds me of the bitching I saw in that short-lived twst thread in /a/ when the anime dropped. Someone hissing about twst-fujoshi being delusional. After Book 7 and the scaramanga I expect people like that have gotten real quiet.
>>569458147 Fascinating. What would make someone think like that, I thought most who see the characters wearing heels and makeup and an all-male cast will go 'oh that's gay'. Never mind that the entire thing about twst is the interesting interactions between the boys. You don't even have to get that far to book 7, RookVil and Adeuce exist.
>>569459165 I saw a Fujosis give them clapback with Rook as an example and the anti's excuse was that Rook doesn't count. I don't remember how they justified it. It was like "Doesn't matter, if you take all the gay shit out of the game it isn't gay at all, checkmate." Typical /a/ behavior basically.
>>569461650 >if you take all the gay shit out of the game it isn't gay at all We had a selfshipper in here like that once. Every time anons were like "Malleus and the prefect barely talk, here are these examples of times Malleus really dropped the ball for someone who supposedly gives a shit about anyone but lilia" their response was "Well that was just because of the story, take all that out and there is SO MUCH Malleyuu!!" If you take out everything that doesn't confirm your delusions and then fill in the rest with what you want to see? Sure.
People who fight over another ship they don't like getting attention over their otp are lame when all these ships are just queerbaiting. Let me think about Azul fucking multiple guys in peace.
>>569470928 Do eners have anything like doujin events? Are artist alleys like that? Mostly I wonder if en-shippers are so deranged that a IdiAzu shipper might start beef with a JamiAzu shipper at an IRL event or something or if they just bitch online and pretend to be friendly in person.
>>569473396 Artists' Alley isn't something I would compare to doujinshi events. It's mostly people selling cheap acrylics and prints, trying to ride merch waves of popular series for the cash instead of creating for the love of the game and selling at cost for no profit, like doujinshi artists do.
>>569476396 I remember seeing someone asking like "my husband sells 3D printed dice towers and I sell handmade crochet accessories, and we have so much unsold stock from our last con. What are we doing wrong?" and the responses were "these days everyone's husbands are selling 3d printed junk while everyone else sells crocheted junk." I've never been to a usa con but that sounds unappealing.
>>569481332 I'd say the fact that dubbers sell fanmade merch of the characters they voice is worse. I remember seeing JPsisters stirred up when the anime dropped and dubbers started shilling signed posters and prints and shit of Twst characters for profit. Gross behavior, but apparently normal over there.
Adding the bonus missions onto the thing for the 20 free bday rolls was awful nice, now you can miss guest room invites and special lessons and still get both 10key sets. I wonder how many complaints they got to end up changing it like that.
Excited for the new chapter. Seems like a 50/50 change of we follow along Team AzuLiRuJa or we break off to introduce the next team and the new RSA character(s) involved. Really wanna see best boy in action but also want to meet the newest sassy lion man.
>>569613193 Some anon a while back had me half convinced it might be a warthog until that Nala statue was revealed. Really hope things don't stink too heavily of didney shit going forward. Whenever the disney references get heavy the quality drops like a brick.
>>569616487 Do you think Yana will resist what she likes, or will she make Nala boy close and have a unique and important dynamic and relationship with Cheka?
>>569617886 I don't think Yana knows the meaning of the word shame which is why I love her. The question is moreso if her editor is able to talk her down. He's on the Twst staff too after all. K - "Ok we will let Nalaman be Cheka's babysitter but to compromise Aliceman has to be wearing pants." Yana - "You put my Aliceman in pants and I swear to god I am posting sketches of Megaraman naked with Idia and Ortho." K - "Ok, shota's got no pants, got it."
>>569617886 When the silhouettes were revealed JP dug up Yana tweets from years ago where she was fangirling about musical Nala if I'm not mistaken. Apparently Nala had a bigger role there and Scar had a thing for her too. I'm kinda more intrigued if Yana will be basing more off of that
>>569623989 Didn't they give him a girlfriend or something in that liveaction? Disney will make everybody gay before the flamboyant lion. Leona you are our only hope. Fuck the lizard. Or the hyena. Or the supermodel. No ship wars, here all are welcome.
>>569626968 I wonder which OB and his RSA counterpart will end up having the biggest sexual tension. My bets are on Riddle/femboy Alice and Leona/sassy gay leon.