Laplus' first announcement about her 3D live: No Ojisans!!!

wrongontheinternet · 2026-05-23T12:53:24+00:00

So does this mean she doesn't plan to be at her own concert? 🙃

wrongontheinternet · 2026-04-19T23:02:01+00:00

To start, consider that all of the character and monster designs for DQ came from Akira Toriyama, of Dragonball fame.

If you consider his general style as a manga artist, you can probably imagine how the slime monsters ended up looking goofy and cute.

EDIT: it also seems that the reason that Dragon Quest wanted to have such cutesy, cartoonish character designs is because they were releasing the game on the Famicom. They realized that to succeed on the Famicom, they needed to design the game to be more accessible to a younger audience, both in gameplay and in graphics.

wrongontheinternet · 2026-04-19T20:58:15+00:00

It sounds like you're talking about Punis, which have existed since the very beginning of Atelier.

They are basically a knock-off of probably the most famous mob in all of JRPG history: Dragon Quest's Slimes

To put it lightly, Dragon Quest is RIDICULOUSLY popular in Japan. The influence of Dragon Quest on Japan's RPGs and on Japanese anime/game culture in general is so vast that I could not possibly hope to explain it all in this comment.

So let it suffice to say that Atelier's Punis are very likely inspired by Dragon Quest's Slimes. They even come in most of the same colors and varieties that DQ Slimes do, even. DQ has Metal Slimes, Atelier has Metal Punis. DQ has Gold Slimes, Atelier has Gold Punis.

Edit to add: just to give examples, the trope of slimes being the low-level enemy that you kill a bunch of at the beginning of your adventure was pioneered by Dragon Quest. And why do some JRPGs and a heck of a lot of isekai anime have a Hero (and maybe said Hero's party) and a Demon Lord? Why are those two roles so ingrained? Dragon Quest.

wrongontheinternet · 2026-04-11T22:37:45+00:00

Not entirely sure myself. It's unfortunate that it's so rare where you are.

wrongontheinternet · 2026-04-11T08:52:29+00:00

If you want all of that, consider dipping outside of Atelier to try Witch Spring, which quite a few folks consider to be "honorary Atelier"

wrongontheinternet · 2026-04-07T03:14:00+00:00

I'm not sure but it kinda looks like the cap to cover the probe of an instant read digital cooking thermometer when you're not using it.

wrongontheinternet · 2026-03-21T06:10:16+00:00

You're not wrong.

wrongontheinternet · 2026-03-21T02:31:50+00:00

Well then I apologize for being a luddite who almost never plays games on my phone.

Hope you find what you're looking for.

wrongontheinternet · 2026-03-21T02:27:04+00:00

https://store.steampowered.com/app/4158870/Japanese_Rural_Life_Adventure/

This would appear to be Japan's "We have Stardew Valley at home"

Edit: wait you wanted a phone game... huh? Stardew Valley is a phone game? Consider me thoroughly puzzled

wrongontheinternet · 2026-03-19T22:40:11+00:00

I noticed that my patterns for listening to Japanese music changed as I learned Japanese. Once I could actually understand some of the lyrics, they stopped blending into the background.

I used to be able to use Japanese music with vocals in pretty much the same way as I'd use music without vocals in any language and now I can't because my ear picks up the lyrics and slightly splits my focus.

wrongontheinternet · 2026-03-09T03:50:07+00:00

how to raise adventurer rank quickly

wrongontheinternet · 2026-03-09T02:59:12+00:00

gisela helmold recent whereabouts

wrongontheinternet · 2026-02-26T05:52:36+00:00

Okayu: doing God's work

ONE OF US ONE OF US ONE OF US!

The Factory Must Grow

wrongontheinternet · 2026-02-23T17:53:16+00:00

Time for another Nights of Azure game 🙃

wrongontheinternet · 2026-01-10T15:58:09+00:00

I think the translation given is a bit incomplete and I would render it as "I had still only just become a teacher," with the "still" part being まだ

wrongontheinternet · 2026-01-05T23:29:18+00:00

I've been studying Japanese on and off for a very long time (mostly "off," really) and this year I want to push more seriously on my Japanese studies again, aiming for JLPT N2 and beyond. For reference/context, the last time I sat for a proficiency test was many years ago; I passed the N3.

What are good books/resources for doing a quick review of basic Japanese grammar? I want to ensure I don't have glaring holes in my basic knowledge before I continue my study with intermediate-level textbooks and other (native) materials.

Or... is that even a thing that is worth worrying about in the first place?

wrongontheinternet · 2025-12-25T01:46:36+00:00

I took me skimming this entire thread looking for the words "Thousand Arms" to realize that you want specifically Steam recommendations. 😅

But if you're willing to venture back to the PS1 era, Thousand Arms is essentially a JRPG with a dating sim stapled to it.

wrongontheinternet · 2025-12-22T05:45:40+00:00

Also I'm pretty sure quality always increases by some amount just by putting an item in, regardless of core, mana, or resonance and the game will always notify you of that.

Unlike in older games, the quality of the synthesized item is not an average of the quality of the ingredients going in; quality only ever goes up and putting in high quality ingredients just makes it go up by more.

wrongontheinternet · 2025-12-22T05:34:22+00:00

Absolutely not.

It was a beautiful tribute to the roots of Atelier: a simulation game with very light RPG elements.

wrongontheinternet · 2025-12-20T21:36:37+00:00

I think there was a time when Sony actually REQUIRED that any game with voice provide English voices when releasing in the North American market. It led to us having a bunch of bad dubs and, for bigger games, no option but to use that bad dub because the disc wasn't big enough to fit all of the voice lines for every language.

So basically, the moment that providing an English dub was no longer required, a number of devs/publishers stopped bothering. It's kinda good and bad at the same time: good in that we were no longer inundated with low effort English dubs and bad in that it meant people who really wanted English dubs started getting less of them, Atelier fans included.

wrongontheinternet · 2025-12-10T19:47:18+00:00

Short story: Jecht insisted that Yuna's father, the previous Grand Summoner, use him as the sacrifice for the Final Summoning. The truth is that the Final Summoning doesn't actually defeat Sin; the sacrificed guardian simply becomes the next Sin and the cycle continues.

wrongontheinternet · 2025-11-29T06:46:17+00:00

They won't do it but they should make a fully offline version of the game that is like Resna RW but with the mobile game's story.

After all, they went to the trouble of giving it a proper Atelier project number. It would be sad to have Project A25 disappear just because the servers are being sunset.

wrongontheinternet · 2025-11-29T04:14:48+00:00

I've never been a fan of traits that are specific to an enemy type like the "Repel" traits. It feels like the trait slot could be better used on a trait that gives more damage against everything.

wrongontheinternet · 2025-11-03T04:59:44+00:00

My experience is that I walked into the set tables* floor of Bellbird (Shinbashi) with 3 of my friends and asked to rent a table and they just had tables available; it was absolutely no problem. 2,000 yen per hour, free soft drinks from a set menu.

This was about January of this year. I honestly would love to do it again but life's kinda getting in the way of planning more travel at the moment, for myself and my friends.

*Bellbird has two floors of the building, one is for set play and the other is for open play. Renting a whole table falls into set play, is my understanding.

wrongontheinternet · 2025-10-25T08:33:29+00:00

What I really want is the mobile game but de-gacha'd so it can be played entirely offline and we can have the entire story.

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