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I’m confused.

So I always thought the names in the dialogue box were based on Shuichi’s perspective. In other words, if Shuichi knows who’s talking, then the name is specified, but if he doesn’t know, then it shows up as “???”

But if that’s the case, then why wouldn’t the name be specified here?

This whole scene in Kaede’s lab is supposed to be Shuichi revisiting her in his memories. If this ‘ghost girl’ is a projection of his memories, then he should have no problem recognizing it as Kaede.

Hell, even if this ‘ghost girl’ is a real ghost, he should still recognize it as Kaede’s ghost, right?

So why doesn’t he?

Is that not Kaede?

And along the same lines...

Why is Shuichi’s name the only one obscured here?

Is it because Shuichi has difficulty thinking that he himself would say those kinds of things, but has less of a problem imagining the other two doing so? Considering Shuichi’s relationship with Kaede and Kaito, I kinda have a hard time believing that...

There’s also the possibility that the “???” names aren’t based on Shuichi’s perspective, but on our perspective as the audience. So if the character isn’t clear or is unknown to the audience, their name would be read as “???”

This would then imply that the “ghost girl” is not Kaede, and the boy in the audition tape is not Shuichi... But then, it would also suggest that the audition tape Kaito and Kaede are the real ones...

Hm.

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Shhhh theyre thinking

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Theory about the new official art

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Nah. Kokichi just went through mitosis

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I'm wondering now, if this room is a reference to the original Kamen Rider (although granted, the former is the door interior, the latter the door exterior). To the left is the HQ of the evil organisation 'Shocker', that modified Takeshi Hongo into a grasshopper-cyborg. The guy ended up breaking free from Shocker's control, and spends his life resisting the organisation that 'made' him, as a hero

...Which, given how Kokichi likes to talk about being the 'ruler' of an 'evil organisation', feels very appropriate and meaningful for his character, regardless of how you imagine his origin story.

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ALNST X DRV3 CROSSOVER

I've been thinking about an au where v3 killing game happens as an alien stage song battle tournament. This is a separate thing, however, something I've came up with and sketched as a warm-up before the main thing

Here are all the designs and inspirations:

ADDITIONAL SKETCHES

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From AliExpress customer service

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Was initially meant to post this on tikok (hence the different username), but it got flagged for some reason. Huh.

Anyway, I made a tumblr because I realized I wanted to post art. So here’s that.

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"Hero Party" DRV3 collab announced for December 2024! (source)

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Ouma : Don’t blame the outfit, I think you’re the one who’s ridiculous !

Momota : You…!!

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Nekomaru bringing despair by training people so hard they died is so funny to me honestly. in my brain he was just like whats up guys it’s me I’m your teams new manager. so for our first warm up we’re all gonna kill ourselves. and they would just be like yes coach okay coach and do it

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Ouma, what sort of things do you even do as the Ultimate Supreme Leader?

well thats simple!

somewhere else

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I keep seeing people in my notes on the new collab post asking why its always the same 12 characters from all three games that get the fancy collabs, which is surprising to me because I feel like the reason is pretty obvious? Those are the 4 most popular characters from each game in Japan. When they do fancy collabs like this, picking any characters other than the ones that sell the most just doesn't make sense from a marketing perspective, even if it does from a character perspective. When they make collabs, theyre almost always gonna include those 4 from each game and then the others in descending list of popularity if and until all are included.

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