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Hello! Okay, so I need to know...What is Epic of Zektbach? And what makes you a fan of it? I am just curious because I see you talking about it a lot.

So glad you asked!! The Epic of Zektbach is a story told through music, drama CDs, written works, PVs, and there’s even a OVA (though its average at best…) Its created by “Zektbach” (Tomosuke Funaki). There are a few songs that appear in bemani games (I’ve played zekt songs in Pop n’ music and Beatmania!) and currently there are 2 albums, Ristaccia and Masinowa that have been released. They come with DVDs with PVs that show the story, and that’s how I first learned about zektbach because Maya Takamura does the art in many of them, and she’s one of my favorite artists! If you know the song “Xepher”, she did the art for the pv, and that’s how i first found out about her. The limited editions also come with booklets that explain characters/story details. There are 3 drama CDs, sadly untranslated, as well as a guidebook that reveals a lot about the story. Parts of the story are also found online.

The prologue is basically- 8 races lived together in a world called Aria Te’laria, with no awareness of each other, or even self awareness, until they found a ruby of a sort which became known as the Ristaccia. They broke it into 8 pieces, but because of its influence they grew to have emotions, consciousness… And developed grudges against the other races. They inserted their Ristaccia pieces into weapons and fought one another in the “Ristaccia War”. Only the “Humina” and “Rufina” survived. But the Rufina sealed themselves off and created a database called “Sigma”, so the Humina were the only ones left in a sense, and they spread out over the world. And this is where the main story begins. The chapters cover the stories of different characters, but its all connected in the end. It’s a fantasy story, but the backstory to what is really going on is actually more like science fiction (I love these parts of the story!!)

I guess I like it so much because the story is so different and interesting from what I’ve seen, and I also like the odd format through which it’s told. The music and art are also incredible, and so it’s become one of my favorite things!! I’m also one of the people attempting to translate information, but I’ve been lazy lately (there’s so much of the guidebook left to do!) But yeah it’s so important to me, it’s such a great story.

And now probably the most useful thing- links!

Master List (Made by empress-matin-catorce- she also does translations and is better at it than i am ahaha~) - http://theepicofzektbach.editboard.com/t98-information-master-list Timeline- http://theepicofzektbach.editboard.com/t53-epic-of-zektbach-timeline The forum also has additional translations on it, and a lot of useful information in general I’m also pretty sure I have most of the additional translations in my “translation” tag - http://sealer-of-wenkamui.tumblr.com/tagged/translation I did a panel with two of my friends that is an introduction to zektbach as well!- http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Vzpw-qH2yqE For a sample of the music, here’s my fave song, Wenkamui. Sung by Yayoi Yula- (it’s the name of a place in zektbach, my URL is reference to a character called Ido involved in that part of the story)- http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=UgLFRib9yoM Finally, you can look up the PVs on YouTube, the master list gives the relevant PVs to each story~ as a sample, here’s Kagachi, my personal favorite, the art is by Maya Takamura- http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wpfwC9gXu4g

I hope that was a good enough explanation, I get so excited about the Epic of Zektbach, it’s a great story that isn’t very well known unfortunately!

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The Epic of Zektbach

Such an interesting story. Need more story lines!

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