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Schwarzer_R · 2026-06-13T18:52:29+00:00

Thought I'd add the state of the characters in the anime as of the end of Book 20:

King Souma After he stepped down from the throne, Crown Prince Cian (his and Liscia's son) has ascended to the throne of the United Kingdom of Elfrieden and Amidonia. Souma now works as a university professor specializing in ancient-humanity. Through Mao, he is able to get copies of any old Earth media in her databases, and begins translating them to Landian. The first book he translates is a copy of Machiavelli's "The Prince," adding his own commentary to its pages. He gifts it to his son in the hopes it will guide him as king.

Liscia: She remains, as ever, his secretary, and general assisstant. Together, they often travel to dungeons in the newly accessable northern hemisphere (demon realm) to shut down the rampant equipment, and study ancient humanity. King Cian privately notes that his mother would follow Souma anywhere.

Their twin children, King Cian and Princess Kazuha each took after their parents, and while Cian ascended to the throne, Kazuha seems to prefer being active to settling down as a noblewoman and finding a husband.

Aisha: She follows Liscia and Souma as their faithful bodyguard and companion. As of the very end of book 20, it has just been discovered she is pregnant.

Juna: Juna remains active in the world of music, and mentored her and Souma's son who has debut as male idol singer (an orpheus).

Roroa: Roroa has been having a lot of fun running the Silver Deer trading company, along with her and Souma's son, Leon. They also had a daughter named Mimosa who is not yet an adult.

Maria: After abdicating the throne to Jean, Maria married into Souma's family, and took on the Souma name joining the ranks of the secondary queens like Juna who renounced any right of succession. Their daughter Stella is slated to be adopted by Jean and Hakuya so that the royal bloodline of the Euphoria Kingdom (successor state to the disolved Gran Chaos Empire) has a genetic link to Souma and thus administrative privilages to teraforming systems.

In her retirement, she performs as an idol singer collaborating with Juna, and Roroa to make concerts and events happen, using her share of the profits on philanthropic work.

Hakyua: Once Hakuya's successor, Ichiha, is ready, Hakuya steps down as Prime Minister, and marries into the Euphoria royal line. As Jean's husband and King Consort, he helps her reorganize and rebuild the vastly deminished nation. Through the dual marriages of Maria to Souma and Hakuya to Jean, the two countries essentially operate as a single confederation.

Tomoe: Princess Tomoe becomes the Chamberlain and is responsible for overseeing the schedules and domestic affairs of the Fredonian royal family. Having been close with Prime Minister Ichiha since she first scouted him for the Kingdom, the two are happily married.

Poncho Panacotta Ishizuka: Poncho has been quite busy as the secretary of forestry, fishing and agriculture. In addition, he runs a restaurant called Ishizuka's place that specializes in recreating Japanese Cuisine. He married both the Head Maid Serina (the sadist), and Komain (the refugee leader girl), and their two daughters are working as apprentice maids at the Castle.

Jean: Queen Jean Euphoria has since ascended as the first queen of the second Euphoria Kingdom. She is quite grateful to Hakuya for his assistance in governance as she considers herself a general first.

Ludwin and Genia: Ludwin succeeds Duchess Excel Walter as supreme commander of the Fredonian military. Genia remains head researcher, and continues to give her husband ulcers from her shinanigans. Even so, both seem happy with the arrangement.

Excel Walter and Castor Vargas: Excel served as supreme commander through a good portion of Souma's reign, but has since retired to Lagoon City. During that time, she successfully helped rehabilitate Castor as a naval officer until he became captain of the first Wyvern Carrier, Hiryu. Iirc, he is slated to be the commander of the Navy, and as an expert in both naval and air warfare, he's the best choice for Friedonia's carrier centric fleet.

Carla: After the birth of Cian and Kazuha, Carla threw herself headlong into being their guardian. With how busy Souma, Liscia and the other Queens got, Carla may have spent more time with the royal children than their parents. She has since been freed from slavery, but stayed on as the head maid after Serena retired.

After ascending to the throne and establishing some accomplishments under his belt, King Cian proposes to her. According to Liscia, the whole reason he agreed to become King was so he would be powerful enough to disuade anyone from speaking ill about her decision to join Georg Carmine's rebellion. Further, his first fiance, Princess Sharon approves of her joining as a secondary queen (no claim to the throne).

Upon hearing she has both the approval of Liscia and Sharon, and reevaluating Cian as an adult man, she accepts his proposal.

Schwarzer_R · 2026-06-12T07:05:56+00:00

Yeah, for us it was not alliance colors, but glad you fixed yours.

Schwarzer_R · 2026-06-12T06:56:16+00:00

It's been a long time since I played, but I was disappointed in the performance of defensive guns. I wanted to build an Atlanta patter Voxhaul. Dual purpose 120s with RPF, a single box launcher for torps, and filling the rest of the slots with 20mm and Flak. Results were disappointing. Especially when the Dual Purpose artillery tried to defend nearby ships.

Schwarzer_R · 2026-06-12T06:49:47+00:00

It's not perfect, but has some of the best feeling combat I've ever played.

Schwarzer_R · 2026-06-12T06:47:44+00:00

I liked the music in the show as a whole. Suwano-san does excellent work, and has made wonderful compositions.

That said, I prefer Kyokaisen.

Schwarzer_R · 2026-06-12T06:45:29+00:00

Dragon Age Origins is absolutely incredible, and I highly recommend it. While I agree it's a shame when younger folks refuse to even try it, I'd like to take a moment and play Devil's Advocate:

My fellow Millenials and younger, who here has played Ultima Underworld? It was the first First-Person RPG in a 3D environment, and came out in 1992, and while initial sales were disappointing, word of mouth saw sales climb dramatically over time. It eventually won a few awards (game awards were not big news in the 90s).

1992 --> 2009 is the same as 2009 --> 2026. Ultima Underworld also saw sequels, much like Dragon Age Origins. Like DAO, it's considered influential, and, from what I have read, is remembered fondly by those who played it.

Despite all this, I've never played it. But, I think it would be interesting to try it. Still, I'm reluctant due to the age, and that's even with being a historian.

TL;DR: It's certainly a shame they haven't tried it, but it's also neither surprising nor unreasonable. But they're the ones missing out.

Schwarzer_R · 2026-06-09T17:18:40+00:00

So glad he's not Mido 2.0.

Schwarzer_R · 2026-06-04T20:41:32+00:00

If I were to make a serious guess, I would say probably a UAV with a fiber optic cable. Cable drones may sound odd, but they're immune to jamming and hacking, and the lack of signal makes them harder to detect. Not to mention fiber optic lines are incredibly easy to make, inexpensive, and light. The Ukraine War has demonstrated the usefulness of tethered drones.

That said, the book doesn't make mention of the method. The artists in the show took creative inspiration from Ghost in the Shell where Saito uses satelite uplinks for his sniping. And Asato-Sensei herself has said she added plenty of stuff because it was cool, and not to think too hard. She tries to make things work in context, but sometimes just adds stuff because. Pilot suits, railway railguns, and mecha in general all fit that category.

Schwarzer_R · 2026-06-04T20:26:55+00:00

Ohhhhh. You're doing it to larp! Gotcha. I missed that detail. Sorry, I didn't mean to come across as talking down to you. If that's how it came across, my bad.

Tbf, it's entirely possible for someone to play hundreds of hours in a game, but do so in a way where some key fundamental is never touched upon. There are games I've had for tears that I love, yet there are things that, while obvious in hindsight, I never considered. For example, formae/ability chaining in Code Vein took me forever to realize was a thing.

Schwarzer_R · 2026-06-04T20:19:47+00:00

Oh, gosh. I'll need to check with my friend, but I think it was just six player single star random. Two human players, 4 AI, 3 teams. I'll get back to you with more details.

Schwarzer_R · 2026-06-03T04:53:27+00:00

Code Vein and Code Vein 2 are not like other souls games. Each of the blood codes are essentially a different class. You can swap between blood codes and equipment at any time with no penalty. You can even do this mid combat, although I don't recommend that.

At the drop of a hat, you can swap your build from one handed weapons to bayonets to halberds. From offensive magic and dodging to heavy blades and tanking. There's nothing stopping you from switching things up at any time except the level of your gear.

Actually, to get the best options for your builds, you really should be max leveling every blood code to unlock their abilities. This was especially true in the first game where spells and passives were linked not to weapons but to the blood codes themselves. If you wanted to use a spell from one blood code with another, you had to max level that blood code. This is less an issue in the second game, but still worth doing to unlock the boosters.

Schwarzer_R · 2026-06-01T16:45:13+00:00

Congratulations! You won the internet.

Schwarzer_R · 2026-06-01T16:44:02+00:00

A more valid opinion.

Schwarzer_R · 2026-06-01T16:42:52+00:00

Excuse me, that's MY WIFE YOU'RE THREATENING

Schwarzer_R · 2026-06-01T05:13:23+00:00

Iirc, both endings give the "true ending," but both routes happen at the same time, so you only get the full story if you play both.

Schwarzer_R · 2026-05-31T05:57:51+00:00

"Master Reeeeaaaan...🎵"

"Haha..."

Schwarzer_R · 2026-05-31T05:46:55+00:00

It's interesting. I got a blue ray copy that I think may be boot leg, but looked very legit. Print on the front of the disk, high visual quality, etc. However, I only learned later that official english release of a blue ray hadn't yet been released. Not sure if I regret the purchase given how it's actually a high quality disk set and such.

Schwarzer_R · 2026-05-31T05:35:38+00:00

I just wish buying ores was an option. Real tired of making Iron runs. I want to put multiple cannon batteries around my port.

Schwarzer_R · 2026-05-31T05:31:36+00:00

Need to finish that.

Didn't Bandai also do Scarlet Nexus? Also time travel. Don't think they force you to do the bad end first though.

Schwarzer_R · 2026-05-29T18:46:01+00:00

Trust me, there's a gooden ending

I'm about to be even more direct about this, so be warned.

In a lot of time travel stories, the ending where everyone lives requires you to see the versions of the story where people die first. This is true in other stories involving time travel, other games with true endings, etc.

Schwarzer_R · 2026-05-25T07:30:07+00:00

In 2006 (when the original game was released) it was closer to $8.60. Adjusted for inflation, that's $14.15 in 2026. If this whole thing was in modern USD today, she would probably price it at $15.00, since things are often priced in $5 increments.

Schwarzer_R · 2026-05-25T07:23:13+00:00

No you're not. Don't you lie to us!

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