#逆転裁判 4

[discoursedeity]

18 hours remain

AA fans PLEASE keep pushing. We can still tie this!

[sakichi56]

Only making one post about this because I saw Klavier on had the Ace Attorney tag and not any other tags for the series, so I felt I had to add the others that are popular for him or more specific.

Best of luck fellow AA fans, if you want our boy to win, y'all will have a hard fight ahead of you.

[eggybaconeggyt]

A Turnabout Fairytale

Finally posted Chapter one of my Klapollo Minibang 2023 fic! If you like Fantasy, Hijinks, Romance, and references to The Princess Bride and Shrek, this is the fic for you!

Featuring *gorgeous* art from the wonderful (as pictured above) @maybepolly . Give em a follow! The amount of work put into this fic is absolutely insane, and I'm so happy to finally post it!

@klapollo-minibang

Read the fic here! Kudos/Comments/Bookmarks are truly appreciated!

[theopalempress]

Ema Skye (Ace Attorney) Cosplay Video - The Opal Empress

[yesterdoesart]

Nice work you did... You're gonna go far, kid

[transgirl-gaming-thoughts]

So I recently purchased the limited edition retail release of Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney (or Ace Attorney 4) for the 3DS. I bought it specifically because it came with an exclusive Mini Soundtrack CD featuring two vocal tracks by the Japanese voices of Apollo Justice and Klavier Gavin, some tracks from the original 2007 DS version, and some of the 2017 3DS remastered tracks! I popped it into my computer today and listen through, and wondered if it was already ripped on the Internet Archive (so I didn't have to do it myself) and found that it wasn't.

After that, I spent about two hours not only making sure all the information from the CD (artists, composers, etc.) all got in the file data, I also took the initiative and archived it! You can listen to the whole CD on the Internet Archive, with the full song data in the original Japanese, plus the cover artwork courtesy of this Ace Attorney Fandom Wiki page.

[turnaboutfix]

Oh yes of course!!!

I meant specifically like her very early concept art (blue haired) and like, one of the first ones where she has short hair (but still with those 2 loose locks at the front)? I hope you know which one I'm talking about lolol

BUT if you wanna speak your thoughts on like. All of them. I want to hear 👂❓️

( @ellivcca asked what I thought about Maya's concept art and I replied in priv if they could be more specific)

Let's talk about Maya's designs! ✨

I will skip the blue-haired art for now, since I have more to say about her other early designs. They're in a few Japanese AA Guidebooks, but "逆転裁判2 真相解明マニュアル", or "Gyakuten Saiban 2: Fact-Finding Manual" has the most in one place. There are blurbs that discuss the designs, and I'll do my best to summarize them. My Japanese isn't amazing and I had to mostly rely on machine translation + cross referencing dictionaries, so it's possible I may be inaccurate. Also, I'm a novice at Japanese culture, so if I'm misrepresenting anything please bring this to my attention and I'll correct things accordingly!

The book acknowledges that Maya was intended to be of high-school age, hence the the sailor suit artwork. They seem to suggest that the loose socks was a hint at Maya's spunky personality.

When they began to explore her as a spirit medium (1), they wanted her to come from a wealthy, noble family. It looks like a lot of these explorations made it to Franziska's design, with some of the shapes of the shoulders and the jabot-looking neck wear, which is interesting!

As they kept exploring in the second round of sketches (2), they stressed traditional/folk dress as being an important part of her design. They noted they had her carrying something on her back at the time, which I think hints more to her "folksy" feel.

The beaded necklace she's wearing in (2) are drawn from Mala bead necklaces, which are prayer beads rooted in Hinduism and Buddhism and are said to help focus the mind during meditation. They seem present in a lot of spiritual figures in Japan.

Later (3), they explicitly comment drawing inspiration from the Matagi, a group of hunting clans in the northern Japanese mountains (be careful looking them up, they do bear hunting and there's a lot of explicit imagery, even on the wikipedia).

They comment on that this version of her early character might be very athletic. She also seems to be more stoic in these explorations.

Then, for (4) and (5), they evolved the design to make it look appear more feminine, giving her long hair, but making a note that her look isn't typical of modern people. The large orbs in (3), (4) and (5) I think are supposed be drawn from "Yuigesa"(結袈裟), or harnesses decorated with pom-poms worn by Shugendō practitioners, hermits who live in the mountains and practice asceticism.

Then in (6), they added the magatama and committed to her having black hair. They note shortening the hem of her costume from design (5).

The magatama addition is pretty significant! Magatama necklaces are used by noro priestesses of the Ryukyu Kingdom from the islands in the very south of Japan.

Their religion broadly speaking, involves ancestor worship and the relationships between the living and dead, gods and spirits. It seems to me like the culture in Kurain Village draws a lot from the Ryukyuan people--and you can even see this with the beads along with the magatamas.

But there seems to be a lot of generic imagery of Spirit Mediums that I've been able to find in Japanese media which have shared elements of design in Maya's final design. The most interesting of these to me is "ほんとにあった!霊媒先生", or "It Really Happened! Spirit Medium Teacher". The design similarities are striking (and make me wonder if Maya was an inspiration?)

So, to summarize it all up, it seems like the early designers (and there were only two! Kumiko Suekane and Tatsuro Iwamoto) wanted a character who was different, folksy, feminine and spunky that displayed unique spiritual power to aid in the narrative/game mechanics of the games, and they explored the different facets of their own culture--from the northern Matagi clans to the southern Ryukyuan people--Japanese iconography, and tastes into Maya's final design.

And I think that's Real Neat. :)

Thoughts about other designs (Blue-Haired/SoJ Maya) under the cut cuz oh my gosh this post is already huge.

Blue haired Maya!

What's interesting to me is that a lot of the design language on this early Maya art seems to have been carried over to Ema's design (glasses, boots, coat/skirt). She also has similar vibes to Lynne from Ghost Trick.

I definitely enjoy Maya's final design a lot better, but I like the triadic color harmony and spunk here!

And then her design update in Spirit of Justice! These concepts are from "逆転裁判6 公式ビジュアルブック", or "Gyakuten Saiban 6: Official Visual Book". :)

Takuro Fuse (the character designer) comments that he never drew Maya before when he took a stab at updating her, so he wanted to get that down first before tackling the designs. He wondered how she would change over the course of 11 years, and first experimented with a design, thinking about how Mia would look like as a spirit medium. He thought it would be interesting if Phoenix wouldn't be able to tell if Maya channeled Mia. (Me too tbh.)

I feel like this design has a bit too much going on, but I do like the longer cream colored sleeves!

Takuro talks more about how he was exploring all sorts of designs before landing on something more simple. He wanted her to have what he called a "traveling costume" and was very fond of the hat. These designs seem to pull from similar places I've discussed with Maya's early designs, as well as Japanese pilgrims.

As fun as the additions and changes to her design are, I think it was very smart to just add subtle changes: the longer robes, jacket, and the additional beads to her necklace. The shawl is a nice touch, too. This reflects how post-7yg Phoenix and Edgeworth also have subtle changes to their designs as well, which I love and I think were very smart moves from a design-perspective as well as personal taste. Their designs are very iconic and I think it was a service to maintain that iconography.

This was a very fun thing to explore! Thank you kindly @ellivcca for the ask!

[vonpharma]

Fandom: 逆転裁判 | Gyakuten Saiban | Ace Attorney Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Ayasato Mayoi | Maya Fey/Karuma Mei | Franziska von Karma Characters: Ayasato Mayoi | Maya Fey, Karuma Mei | Franziska von Karma Additional Tags: Sickfic, Sicktember, Sicktember 2024, Hurt/Comfort, Post-Gyakuten Saiban 123 | Phoenix Wright Trilogy, Maya Fey can turn any event into a superspreader event. and we love her for that., Sick Maya Fey, Steel Samurai, of course, loooots of references to 2-4, as well as aai 1-5, they're all pretty mild tho, Fluff, pure fluff

Summary:

By intermission, the bucket seats around them have all cleared, and Franziska trusts her conclusion that they will not be filling back up any time soon.

Written for Sicktember 2024 Day 12: "You're not fine, you're coughing up a lung."

Please read my closing author's notes on why I will no longer be supporting the Sicktember event, and withdrawing my fills from the collection in protest.

[READ ON AO3!]

[apollo-justice-retold]

"Kristoph’s too good at this. It’ll be too easy. A greenhorn like you, though? I think you’ll put on a good show."

Art by @flowsine for Apollo Justice: Retold - Turnabout Trump

Read the case (Ch. 1 - 4) and escapade (Ch. 5) here:

[sprinklecipher]

Turnabout Titles

Got curious about how often people applied the “Turnabout” naming scheme to their AA fics, so I crunched a bunch of numbers on AA fics across Ao3 and FFN to find out (and also maybe got a bit carried away looking for patterns…)

What I found:

Overall, about 4% of AA fics on Ao3 and 13% of AA fics on FFN include “Turnabout” in the title

Longer fics were more likely to have “Turnabout” in the title than were shorter ones, with about 14% of 30k+ AA fics on Ao3 featuring it in the title, compared to only about 2% of sub-1k AA fics

“Turnabout” fics were disproportionately likely to be crossovers—about 19% of AA fics with “Turnabout” in the title were crossovers, compared to 5% of AA fics overall

And here’s a graph for good measure:

Method details and raw numbers below the cut

Method: For the Ao3 numbers, I searched for fics in the “逆転裁判 | Gyakuten Saiban | Ace Attorney” fandom, limiting the results to English-language fics only and excluding restricted works (although at a glance, the same patterns appear to hold among restricted works). For the FFN numbers, I searched for fics in the “Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney” fandom, filtered to English language only. Data collected 5/25/2024.

[bronanlynch]

my @klapollo-minibang fic ft. beautiful art by @acerunaway !! post-Ace Attorney 4 trans woman Klavier x trans man Apollo

snapshots of a relationship, and of Klavier finding herself

OR, Apollo leaned back against the wall, sighing loudly. Klavier could sympathize; normally she enjoyed a party, even an annual legal networking gala, but this year she would’ve stayed home if she thought it wouldn’t just make people gossip more.

“That bad?” she said, and Apollo laughed humorlessly and shook his head. His black tie was loose and crooked, as though he’d been tugging at it nervously all evening. And after she’d tied it for him so carefully too.

(Not that he couldn’t tie his own tie, of course. It was a skill he’d been proud to teach himself as a teenager, and he did it every day for work. But she liked to tie his ties for him, just as he liked to help her with the clasps of necklaces, pressing a kiss to the nape of her neck when she bowed her head so that he could reach.)

[discoursedeity]

WRIGHT IS DOWN 4 POINTS

Phoenix Wright is a literal icon in gaming and heck even in anime since the show came out in like 2018 or whatever. We can't be letting a juggernaut like him down like this guys. PLEASE Ace Attorney fans, go vote Wright! This is just too sad seeing him losing like this.

[weltato]

YO STOP A SEC AND READ THIS!!

IMPORTANT!!! I was informed that this fic is very similar to another fic called 'Face him head on' by @theonlygamergost (probably due to my friend being inspired by it and then pitching the idea to me). This was NOT intentional, I never ever mean to plagiarise anything and I'm so grateful to the fic author for letting me know about this. Please go and read their fic as well for being an incredible piece of work that inspired this one <3 There is a link to their fic in the notes :)

Rating: General Audiences Warnings: None Category: Gen, M/M

Relationships: Mitsurugi Reiji | Miles Edgeworth/Naruhodou Ryuuichi | Phoenix Wright, Ayasato Mayoi | Maya Fey & Naruhodou Ryuuichi | Phoenix Wright, Ayasato Harumi | Pearl Fey & Naruhodou Ryuuichi | Phoenix Wright, Ayasato Harumi | Pearl Fey & Ayasato Mayoi | Maya Fey

Characters: Mitsurugi Reiji | Miles Edgeworth, Naruhodou Ryuuichi | Phoenix Wright, Ayasato Mayoi | Maya Fey, Ayasato Harumi | Pearl Fey

Additional Tags: NaruMitsu Week 2024, Time Travel, Magatamas (Gyakuten Saiban), Time Shenanigans, classic magatama shenanigans, Fluff, Angst, Fluff and Angst, pearl knows a lot of things..., Bratworth, Feenie, Mentioned Dahlia Hawthorne, Mentioned Manfred von Karma, Post-Seven Year Gap (Gyakuten Saiban), No Spoilers, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Inspired by Roleplay/Roleplay Adaptation, POV Alternating, Bratfeen

Chapters: 1/1 Words: 5,328

Series: Part 4 of 'NaruMitsu Week 2024'

Summary:

It turns out the magatama is capable of more than just showing psyche-locks.

Day 3 of NaruMitsu Week 2024! Originally written as part of a multi-chapter fic, now uploaded separately.

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The third separate upload of the mini-fics I wrote for NMweek24!! Day 4 will be out tomorrow :) This one isn't quite so "mini" oops :p

[huldraism]

rest your weary bones on me, 1k, edgeworth/wright, set during the last trial of ace attorney 2: justice for all.

It is 4 in the morning on the night before Phoenix Wright has to get a killer acquitted when he kisses Edgeworth for the first time.

for @narumitsuweek day 3: free day. i recently fell into the ace attorney hole (20 years late, i know)

[theopalempress]

🎩Trucy Wright End of the Year Cosplay show!! 🪄 - The Opal Empress

[yesterdoesart]

"Defeat the undefeated poker champion"... It's quite a draw. That is, I'm quite a draw.