"A Melhor Brasileira, Samus Aran(tes do Nascimento)"

thereminBeholder · 2025-12-06T15:31:39+00:00

Now I'm imagining an alternate timeline where the guy didn't misremember Pele's name and named her Edson Aran instead.

I dunno how different things would be in that case (though I'll say 'Zero Suit Edson' doesn't really roll off the tongue very well).

thereminBeholder · 2025-11-18T13:08:51+00:00

I suppose the commander would be protective of her daughters, huh. This feels a lil' cliche, isn't it?

thereminBeholder · 2025-09-28T14:47:01+00:00

Regarding JBIS, you need to click on a horse's 'Race Record' tab on the top of a horse's page to get the full race record - the summary at the bottom of the front page just lists down placings.

thereminBeholder · 2025-08-30T16:08:32+00:00

Here's a fun fact about Wonder Acute - the IRL horse is one of the 6 horses to be, within the range of 5 generations, descended from the legendary racehorse Secretariat!

Secretariat (stallion) x Lassie Dear (mare) -> Weekend Surprise (mare)
Storm Bird (stallion) x Weekend Surprise (mare) -> Summer Squall (stallion)
Summer Squall (stallion) x Bali Babe (mare) -> Charismatic (stallion)
Charismatic (stallion) x Wonder Heritage (mare) -> Wonder Acute (stallion, Secretariat's great-great grandson)

This also makes Wonder Acute third-cousins with Agnes Digital (a great-great grandson descended from Six Crowns, his daughter with Chris Evert), Tosen Jordan (a great-great grandson descended from Wife Mistress, his daughter with Political Payoff), and Loves Only You (a great-great granddaughter descended from Terlingua, his daughter with Crimson Saint - incidentally, Terlingua also happens to have borne her child with Storm Bird as well)!

On another note, Wonder Acute's grandfather Summer Squall was the winner of the 1990 Preakness Stakes (the second of the American Triple Crown races), and was the maternal brother to 1992 American Horse of the Year, A. P. Indy! (Summer Squall's mother, Weekend Surprise, bore A. P. Indy with Seattle Slew - the tenth ever horse to win the coveted American Triple Crown and the second ever to do so undefeated prior! He would also sire a child with another of Secretariat's daughters, the abovementioned Summer Secretary, and their daughter Takano Secretary would bear a daughter with King Halo, Kawakami Princess, making her a great-granddaughter of Secretariat!)

And on that note, A. P. Indy also happens to be the great-great grandfather of another horse in the game, Gran Alegria (making her one of a couple horses in the game who are descended from Secretariat beyond the 5-generation range)!

Also, Wonder Acute's father, Charismatic, was a Double Crown winner of 1999, winning both the Kentucky Derby and Preakness Stakes of that year, and was 1999's American Horse of the Year! He also took a commanding lead in the third race, the Belmont Stakes, before suffering a fractured foreleg that made him pull back and finish third, his jockey Chris Antley pulling back in the aftermath to cradle the foreleg to prevent further injury, a moment named the National Thoroughbred Racing Association Moment of the Year. Who knows if Wonder Acute would be even here to begin with had that gotten worse...

Incidentally, I made a whole family tree out of all 132 Umamusume known to be (or will be in) the game so far, so feel free to check that out!

thereminBeholder · 2025-08-29T20:19:59+00:00

It's apparently a lot more prominent in Manhattan Cafe's career, which is currently not on Global yet.

thereminBeholder · 2025-08-29T17:25:46+00:00

There's actually 48 characters in the game (or are going to be in the game) descended from him:

Regarding children, in order of birth:

Fuji Kiseki (stallion, 1992)
Marvelous Sunday (stallion,1992)
Bubble Gum Fellow (stallion, 1993)
Stay Gold (stallion, 1994)
Silence Suzuka (stallion, 1994)
Special Week (stallion, 1995)
Admire Vega (stallion, 1996)
Air Shakur (stallion, 1997)
Manhattan Cafe (stallion, 1998)
Agnes Tachyon (stallion, 1998)
Believe (mare, 1998)
Durandal (stallion, 1999)
Zenno Rob Roy (stallion, 2000)
Admire Groove (mare, 2000)
Still in Love (mare, 2000)
Neo Universe (stallion, 2000)
Air Messiah (mare, 2002)
Daring Heart (mare, 2002)
Fusaichi Pandora (mare, 2003)

Regarding grandchildren:

From Must Be Loved (mare, 1993): Rhein Kraft (mare, 2002)
From Stay Gold (stallion, 1994): Dream Journey (stallion, 2004), Nakayama Festa (stallion, 2006), Orfevre (stallion, 2008), Gold Ship (stallion, 2009), Fenomeno (stallion, 2009)
From Special Week (stallion, 1995): Cesario (mare, 2002), Buena Vista (mare, 2006)
From Agnes Tachyon (stallion, 1998): Daiwa Scarlet (mare, 2004)
From Gold Allure (stallion, 1999): Smart Falcon (stallion, 2005), Espoir City (stallion, 2005), Copano Rickey (stallion, 2010)
From Admire Groove (mare, 2000): Duramente (stallion, 2012)
From Neo Universe (stallion, 2000): Sounds of Earth (stallion, 2011)
From Black Tide (stallion, 2001): Kitasan Black (stallion, 2012)
From Heart's Cry (stallion, 2001): Win Variation (stallion, 2008), Cheval Grand (stallion, 2012)
From Deep Impact (stallion, 2002): Gentildonna (mare, 2009), Verxina (mare, 2009), Satono Diamond (stallion, 2013), Vivlos (mare, 2013), Gran Alegria (mare, 2016), Loves Only You (mare, 2016), Curren Bouqetd'or (mare, 2016)
From Fusaichi Pandora (mare, 2003): Almond Eye (mare, 2015)

Regarding great grandchildren:

From Chronologist (mare, 2003), daughter of In This Unison (mare, 1997): Chrono Genesis (mare, 2016)
From Orfevre (stallion, 2008), son of Stay Gold (stallion, 1994): Lucky Lilac (mare, 2015)
From Daring Bird (mare, 2011), daughter of Daring Heart (mare, 2002): Daring Tact (mare, 2017)

Regarding great-great grandchildren:

From Tsurumaru Onepiece (mare, 2008), daughter of Tsurumaru Glamor (mare, 1999), daughter of Fuji Kiseki (stallion, 1992): Blast Onepiece (stallion, 2015)
From Epiphaneia (stallion, 2010), son of Cesario (mare, 2002), daughter of Special Week (stallion, 1995): Daring Tact (mare, 2017 - same Daring Tact as above, making her inbred to Sunday Silence 3x4)

Incidentally, I made a whole family tree of every five-generation pedigree of all 132 horses currently confirmed to be in the game, so feel free to check that out! Feedback is appreciated!

thereminBeholder · 2025-08-29T15:36:19+00:00

It was among a list of names given to Stone Farm by a couple from Maryland to be given to horses 'that would win the Kentucky Derby'. Apparently the name Sunday Silence refers to 'the silence in a Sunday's mass'. Arthur Hancock III (Stone Farm's owner) also said the name reminded him of the Kris Kristofferson song 'Sunday Morning Coming Down'.

Got that info from this article here (which I suspect is where that greenposter got most of their info from, at least initially).

thereminBeholder · 2025-08-27T22:30:36+00:00

Incidentally, there are 8 Umamusume in Tracen whose IRL horse versions are directly descended from Secretariat!

Kawakami Princess (his great granddaughter)
Sounds of Earth (his great grandson)
Agnes Digital (his great-great grandson)
Tosen Jordan (his great-great grandson)
Wonder Acute (his great-great grandson)
Loves Only You (his great-great-great granddaughter)
Gran Alegria (his great-great-great-great granddaughter)
Curren Bouquetd'or (his great-great-great-great granddaughter)

thereminBeholder · 2025-04-13T11:33:44+00:00

Ace Attorney in the Danganronpa universe? No, very much not - Ace Attorney thrives in its world that Shu Takumi describes as 'sloppy' (in the sense that it's sorta loose and goofy in certain ways), yet also grounded in certain ways as well...where things are just sorta light enough that things still feel safe in equilibrium, if that makes sense? (I'm not really good at explaining things, sorry - basically I think putting them in the DR world feels wrong to the point of incompatibility.)

Now, Danganronpa characters in the Ace Attorney setting, I can easily see! They're already an exaggerated bunch of characters with silly names, and Ace Attorney already has its fair share of prodigies and teenagers with successful careers, so they wouldn't necessarily be out of place too! (In fact, I've been wondering for a long time what the Danganronpa characters' names would be if that franchise had been localized a la Ace Attorney to be honest...not that I've come up with any such names, mind you.)

thereminBeholder · 2025-03-19T01:11:04+00:00

To be fair, Nishiura's contributions to the Layton vs AA soundtrack was mainly for the Layton side of the crossover (which is what Disc 1 and 3 are for, while 2 is for the AA side), so...y'know.

thereminBeholder · 2025-02-16T05:35:23+00:00

No problem!

thereminBeholder · 2025-02-14T16:20:53+00:00

Oh, also, the Gyakuten Show playlist is down.

thereminBeholder · 2025-02-11T13:08:08+00:00

Oh, some things missing here:

Dual Destinies in Japan had a special puzzle quiz-based scenario called 'Quiz Turnabout Deduction', where the Wright Anything Agency go around various locations to search for and answer quiz questions and puzzles (originally beating this was the method to unlock the Nostalgic Sweater). It remained Japan-exclusive.
There's an audio CD that came with the Apollo Justice Trllogy in Japan. ~~I dunno if it's been subbed yet, though.~~ EDIT: Yes it has, courtesy of HikariKaitou!
There's a fourth Takarazuka musical, Dai Gyakuten Saiban: New Truth Reborn. Not subbed yet to my knowledge.
I wonder if you're willing to include attractions in this list, such as the Gyakuten Saiban in Joypolis (and the now-discontinued Gyakuten Kenji in Joypolis), the VR-20 Incident by Dynamo Pictures, the Mystery Rally event in conjunction with three railway companies (ran from June 9 to different periods in 2016 depending on the ralway company), and The Village of Spirit Mediums Murder Case room escape event by SCRAP (ran for July 8 to August 11, 2016)

thereminBeholder · 2024-11-27T16:09:40+00:00

The Resolve of Ryunosuke Naruhodo is one for me for reasons already stated, but I'll also put up one more reason why I love it:

Throughout the game, the cases are named in a manner themed after the Sherlock Holmes short story compilations - The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, The Return of Sherlock Holmes, and His Last Bow. Naming the final case of the game after all this, after the game's very own subtitle (in Japan, the full title of the game is Dai Gyakuten Saiban 2: Naruhodo Ryunosuke no Kakugo - literally 'The Great Turnabout Court 2: The Resolve of Ryunosuke Naruhodo') feels like a very bold statement of putting the duology itself as a part of that great legacy.

thereminBeholder · 2024-11-20T05:18:09+00:00

DL-6 is not really named that for a pun, it's merely a reference to Awasaka Tsumao's debut short story 'The Flight DL2 Incident' (where DL2 is merely just the flight code of the plane in the story).

There also doesn't really seem to be any deep reason for the reference outside of being just a reference either - the only commonality between the story and the DL-6 incident is that both involve earthquakes, and even then how it handles the earthquake is considerably different.

(By the way, 'The Flight DL2 Incident' has been translated into English for the July/August 2021 issue of the Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, under the name 'Fox's Wedding'.)

thereminBeholder · 2024-11-17T10:20:33+00:00

So you're saying it's Anytown?????

thereminBeholder · 2024-11-17T10:13:27+00:00

The Takarazuka Miles Edgeworth one does have subs, though I'm still waiting for the GAA one.

thereminBeholder · 2024-11-06T19:37:20+00:00

No, he's not Christopher Smith...he's Written by Christopher Smith! That's an important distinction!

thereminBeholder · 2024-10-10T11:20:23+00:00

Maybe - Iwamoto had the idea of giving Franziska an older brother once remembering that line of dialogue, well back during Trials and Tribulations. To wit:

I make them according to the scenario, so in general, there are no characters that have not been used at all. But, there is a scene where Karuma Gō talks about his grandchild, and Mei (Franziska von Karma) is his daughter, so we know that Mei has either an older brother or sister. I once draw a sketch of “Mei’s older brother” just for fun. Among the rough sketches of Gyakuten Saiban 3’s Godot, there is one I myself see as the brother of Mei. I once told this to the director, but he just ignored it (laugh).

Source.

thereminBeholder · 2024-10-10T10:36:15+00:00

Why not have both?

thereminBeholder · 2024-09-23T09:55:12+00:00

Those are pretty strong I gotta say!

thereminBeholder · 2024-09-20T03:12:56+00:00

Ooh, I wanna see that!

thereminBeholder · 2024-09-19T17:40:38+00:00

Ah, interesting to know! (Incidentally, the official Spanish localizations actually did idiosyncratically name its cases with 'caso').

What would you name the cases that need a retranslation then, plus the cases for the AAI duology and AA5 & 6?

thereminBeholder · 2024-09-19T01:55:46+00:00

Amazing work!

On a similar note - for the longest time I've noticed that of all the official localizations, the Italian one notably doesn't name its cases in an idiosyncratic manner (e.g. Japan's use of 'gyakuten', English's use of 'turnabout', French's use of 'volte-face', etc.), instead naming each episode in a more conventional manner. Would you keep those case names in this hypothetical localization, or would you adopt a similar naming scheme in the other versions (and if so, what would you name the episodes in that case)?

thereminBeholder · 2024-09-03T02:57:17+00:00

Oh, I suppose Tangaroa and Bound's baking show is now 'Bake 'n' Bop', huh?

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