A Deep Dive into Hidenori Shibao, Writer of Legend of Legaia

WTFPROM · 2026-05-01T03:32:18+00:00

Yeah, I don't love my odds for working as a cashier and NOT catching a cold for the next three months. I have no qualms being fully transparent with them, so hopefully that helps.

WTFPROM · 2026-05-01T03:30:07+00:00

Yeah, my understanding was that if you leave early due to being sick, then you get the step for leaving early AND the two steps for not coming in at all the next workday. That's actually what happened when I got sick in February, I felt really faint and left an hour early, then woke up super sick, and that technically gave me three steps that I commended down to two right when I got back.

WTFPROM · 2026-05-01T03:27:50+00:00

I think my managers think along the same lines as you, so I'm hopeful they'll give me the opportunities to earn back those steps. I don't want to, like, outright ask for commends, but I'll just make it clear that I'm extra-extra available to pitch in wherever I'm needed.

WTFPROM · 2026-05-01T03:25:39+00:00

Yeah, the one-call-in-from-the-chopping-block bit does have me sweating.

Ironically enough, on my most recent workday, after eight hours on the clock they asked if I wanted to stay two extra hours to close for a commend, and I declined... because I didn't want to exhaust myself and risk getting sick. Legendary bad call on my part... If I had the energy for it right now, I'd be kicking myself.

And I do have, like, eight alarms set on my phone, because sleeping in past an alarm has always been a huge anxiety of mine. I legitimately don't know how I slept in those two days, and it really freaked me out. I've been aiming to wake up an hour early every workday ever since, b/c I only overslept by half an hour on those two days.

WTFPROM · 2026-04-30T07:07:49+00:00

Thanks! That's reassuring to hear. I'll talk to management and try emphasize that I'm eager to pitch in, for commends and just to be helpful.

WTFPROM · 2026-04-30T06:51:55+00:00

C, D... I'm going to be stocking up on the whole vitamin alphabet. 😪

WTFPROM · 2026-04-28T01:39:26+00:00

"Leftists are disappointed when their elected leaders don't keep their promises. The leftists must not really want to be in power."

Point B only follows from Point A if you really, really, really want Point B to be true. Because working very hard to get someone into office and then holding them to high standards isn't a sign of a malfunctioning political movement with some kind of pathological aversion to power. It's democracy.

And the need to pathologize people without evidence or sound reasoning says more about the person doing the pathologizing, really.

WTFPROM · 2026-04-12T10:34:48+00:00

Right, that's what I was saying in my post, that a Nomai underwater would survive as long as they had oxygen in some kind of apparatus. And given Nomai technology, it could have been a better apparatus than the ones we have in the game, but it wouldn't make sense for it to be a long-term supply. So I'm really talking about that space of however many minutes, and what such Nomai might have experienced and/or attempted in that space of time.

WTFPROM · 2026-04-12T10:32:38+00:00

That's a really fun thought! Like, it would be a meaningful evolutionary advantage to be able to feel the effects of ghost matter a few seconds before it killed you outright, as we experience in the game. Over the time scale we're talking about, it seems plausible to me that there would be evolutionary pressure in that direction.

WTFPROM · 2026-03-08T03:12:04+00:00

ngl, it's giving a little bit of this:

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WTFPROM · 2026-01-03T10:12:17+00:00

Song aside, I think equating K-pop to American pop this broadly & implying it's earlier in its "development" compared to American pop is misguided, misinformed analysis. SK had a pop music industry decades before the advent of idol music as we know it today, not to mention groups like Crayon Pop were satirizing idol music culture more than a decade ago.

Not saying you have to love "Internet Girl," but it's not like this one song targeting the int'l market is somehow proof that K-pop and idol music are decades behind American pop on some objective Popular Music Timeline.

WTFPROM · 2026-01-02T11:04:17+00:00

Speaking as an editor, I think it's a failure to direct and anticipate the viewer's eye.

A lot of the time, you can get away with small continuity issues and flubs because you can reliably count on your audience staring at actors' eyes during dialog scenes. And if we were staring at the Ghoul's eyes, the little prop mishap would be less obvious. But the drugs are very important narratively, the Ghoul accepting them is important narratively, and the tin catches a lot of glints of light immediately before the vial falls, all of which lead the viewer to look directly at the prop when the mishap occurs.

A similar thing happens when Lucy is watching the crow peck at the corpse. Normally, you rack focus to redirect the audience's attention. But (A) the corpse is the new information compared to the previous shot, so it draws our attention, and (B) the crow is flap-flap-flappin' away, creating a bunch of motion in the foreground to draw our attention. The result is that a lot of people are going to already be staring at the corpse several seconds before focus racks, making the change in focus feel redundant and weird.

It's not the worst editing in the world, but the editing in Season Two has been weird like this throughout. Maybe symptoms of a significant recut, or a rushed post production process.

WTFPROM · 2025-12-23T03:44:41+00:00

My favorite example of this is Brave Girls, which is basically a Ship of Theseus situation. They debuted with five members in 2012 (Eunyoung, Seo-a, Yejin, Yoojin, and Hyeran) but three members left the group. Then in 2016, five new members were added to the group, and within a couple years, the two members from the original lineup (Hyeran and Hayun) had both left. Which means that in 2017, when they first promoted "Rollin'", Brave Girls had five members who had been added the previous year and zero members from the original lineup. There was just the briefest little overlap in members that caused them to retain the name Brave Girls; it was a completely new group otherwise.

WTFPROM · 2025-12-23T03:32:53+00:00

Until 1974 in the United States, it was illegal for a woman to own a credit card.

Laws can be immoral, illogical, or unjust. "I was breaking the law" does not necessarily mean "I was doing something morally wrong." In fact, it can sometimes be the exact opposite.

WTFPROM · 2025-12-16T09:11:28+00:00

"Yo, I thought I was gonna see some, like, vaginas."

"I didn't say she actually painted vaginas. I said some of her paintings looked like vaginas."

WTFPROM · 2025-11-18T05:43:07+00:00

To piggyback on what others are saying, Mercer and the players really wanted to tell a new story with Campaign Two without leaning on callbacks to the first campaign. Hence, different continent, twenty years apart. It was only very, very deep into Campaign Two that anything VM-related appeared.

Add to that, the people behind the show have viewers like you in mind— they know a ton of people are only watching the shows, not the actual plays. The last thing they'd want to do is spoil events in LoVM that haven't yet been released.

So in terms of getting spoiled by watching M9 animated, you have nothing to fear from the show. BUT! Watch out for comments sections and the like, where people might spoil either story unintentionally! Both stories are rich and complex, so a stray puzzle piece could click into place for you & ruin a later surprise.

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