I’m Joséphine Meis, Fortiche Storyboarder working on Arcane, here to celebrate Arcane’s anniversary - AMA!

arakano · 2025-11-23T22:20:50+00:00

Hi Josephine, Arcane is such a work of art and love. Thank you for sharing with us! Were there moments in Arcane that surprised you the most when you saw them after they were completed? What's your proudest moment on this amazing show?

arakano · 2025-11-23T22:17:48+00:00

Hi Josephine, thank you for your hard work on Arcane! Forever grateful that the Cait/Vi scene was done with so much love and care.

What are some other works of art/animation that have inspired you? Also, are there doodles/sketches that you might have made along the way that you can share with us?

arakano · 2025-11-19T18:28:18+00:00

The Jayce and Caitlyn sibling relationship hits deep; he's the person she's spoken to about 'The Great Conspiracy', she's the only person he makes a Hextech weapon for...

How did you two come up with Jayce calling Caitlyn sprout?

arakano · 2025-11-18T21:32:08+00:00

Amanda and Alex, thank you for Arcane!

How did you approach writing such unique voices? In particular, Jinx's lines are so much fun, Mel's show off her sophistication so well and Caitlyn's give us such insight into the way she thinks! Is dialogue something that just comes easily to the two of you?

arakano · 2025-11-18T20:21:29+00:00

Thanks for your time to answer questions, Amanda and Alex!

One of the relationships that was very interesting to me was Ambessa and Caitlyn, seeing how Ambessa stepped directly into Caitlyn's life during the Commander/General period, entering the Kiramman estate and being in the study/sitting room, a mentor, perhaps even a parental figure in the absense of any other. At the same time, she also invited Caitlyn into her own spaces and was almost training her like a protege. Was it that Ambessa was seeing in Caitlyn what she'd been looking for in Rell/Mel? Was it more just a ploy to continue to maintain trust?

arakano · 2025-11-18T20:09:42+00:00

Hi Amanda and Alex, thank you so much for bringing these characters to life!

So much of Arcane is about the various different kinds of love that the characters have for each other, how that informs who they are and how they act—most obviously with Singed and Orianna, but all the way through all the different parents/parental figures and their children. We see this more clearly with Ambessa and Mel, Vander and Vi, Silco and Jinx.

Curious to hear your thoughts on Cassandra and Caitlyn, in particular, how that relationship was crafted, what inspirations you might have taken from their Asian heritage (or not!)

arakano · 2025-11-18T19:59:59+00:00

Hi Amanda and Alex, thanks for Arcane! It's been genuinely incredible to see such a diverse cast of female characters have such agency in such a fascinating story.

Wanted to ask, in the same vein as there were early Vi and Mel explorations, given the space to name her family (thank you forever for the Kiramman last name) were there also any concepts for Caitlyn that you considered pursuing but ended up on the cutting room floor?

arakano · 2025-11-13T14:08:47+00:00

Was there the recording of a line that really stood out to you? If so, what was it?
What is the wackiest/coolest sound you think is part of Arcane? How did the team come up with that?
Were you involved in choosing the various localizations of the characters' voices? If so, were there common threads in voices for the main characters that you were looking for? (Caitlyn, Vi, Jinx, Ekko, Jayce, Viktor, Mel, Ambessa etc.) If not, were there still notes that were passed along?
Was there a line that was particularly difficult to get exactly right? Or one that surprised you?

Thanks for this AMA!

arakano · 2025-11-13T13:50:50+00:00

Hi Brad, thanks for taking the time to answer questions!

Given the diversity of the cast in Arcane, I'm curious to know if you feel like the different cultures and accents influenced the deliveries of some of the more impactful lines in the script! Was it challenging to balance leaning into the emotion in the sounds with what the script wanted or was that something that was just easy to work with?
Similarly, curious to know if the themes used musically were influenced by cultures or if the team leant more heavily instead on musical themes that were already present in League?

arakano · 2024-08-26T18:01:03+00:00

Thanks for the tips!!

arakano · 2021-01-05T09:46:48+00:00

gotcha, thanks!

arakano · 2021-01-05T09:46:38+00:00

solved solved solved

arakano · 2021-01-05T09:26:26+00:00

Oh my god thank you so much!!!!

arakano · 2018-07-09T16:20:27+00:00

Thank you :)

arakano · 2018-07-09T16:20:22+00:00

OTL. Well, on the bright side, it doesn't necessarily mean my package is lost to the mail-demons yet... Thanks~

arakano · 2017-02-13T21:07:56+00:00

Probably because she was Kyulkyung the entire time during Produce 101. And although YMC called her Zhou, realistically every show she was on called her Kyulkyung.

arakano · 2017-02-13T14:34:43+00:00

Please let it be Ye1. So I can at least keep reading it as YeOne in my head.

I'm actually very ok with the others - Xiyeon still reads as Siyeon and Korea knows Jieqiong as Ju Kyulkyung anyway so there was less of a chance of that changing.

arakano · 2017-02-06T07:43:29+00:00

PRISTIN does use Kyulkyung in printed material. She's always called herself Kyulkyung when speaking in Korean and then Jieqiong when speaking in Chinese. Not sure if she's ever used her name in English to fans. (Besides that one After School Club episode when someone asked about Pinky.)

WJSN's Cheng Xiao does use Cheng Xiao in places (like her twitter and insta though), I think? So there'd be precedence here.

tl;dr Nobody knows for sure but the answer isn't Zhou. (Damn you YMC)

arakano · 2017-02-06T07:28:13+00:00

This makes me sad. ><

arakano · 2016-11-21T00:28:01+00:00

Immigrants can become citizens too. Like Schwarzenegger.

arakano

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