#CG 02

[bloomingkyras]

new chapters 😜

*long story but i cut it short. the save file end up with infinite loading screen, after I remove some of the broken CC. So yeah, time skip. But she still gonna go globetrotter while in Uni. YA intro coming next.

[sweetlittleangelbunny]

Been feeling pretty stressed and stuff recently, so I wanted to draw some comfort little art

and I've had this idea for a little bit now and I decided to just draw it, I loved these guys in Adventure 02 😊

[nyaa]

ねこのこ (Neko no Ko) 都築和彦CG画集 by

都築和彦 (Tsuzuki Kazuhiko), 1995/02/03

[kleinv01]

a little spoil of a CG that you'd be able to see in full @ LOG 02. klein's smiling at you...

[srbachchan]

DAY 6195

Janak, Mumbai Feb 1, 2025/Feb 2 Sat/Sun. 3:31 pm

Birthday - EF - Kashmira Nikhilesh Mehta Sunday, 2 February

🪔 ,

February 02 .. birthday wishes to Ef Kashmira Nikhilesh Mehta .. Ef AMIT Agarwal from Pune .. and Ef Ashwarya Pandey from Janjgir CG .. 🙏🏽❤️🚩

💐 .. wedding anniversary greetings to Ef Divya Solgama .. 23 years of togetherness .. wishes from the whole Ef Family around the World .. 💐❤️🙏🏽

Saraswati Pooja greetings .. 🙏

Vasant Panchami .. and as per Hindi Calender , birthday of Abhishek ..

greetings to all the Ef who have been sending greetings ..

shubhkamanayein aur sneh .. hindi font not coming up so .. apologies

Amitabh Bachchan

but first Sunday meets with audience at GOJ .. and then

rushing off to .. Wankhede Stadium to see Ind v Eng cricket game .. with Abhishek ..

AND on 5th his birthday to see our team Majhi Mumbai play ISPL at Thane Stadium

[steamberrystudio]

02/03/2025 Devlog

Hallo everyone!  Tumblr devlog time! My last post was a month ago because I keep missing my notifications to update here. You can follow me on Itch.io where I also update monthly but I swear I am going to find a way to remember to post here.

Summary Bullets:

More sprite variations

Finished up with sprite expressions for Chapter 5

Set up the flowchart for chapter 5

Coded in all the unlock statements for the flowchart

Completed all the necessary new sprites for this chapter

Coded in the new BGs and variations

And minor BG animations

Sketched all six CGs

Lined and flatted 3 CGs

Completed 1 CG

Art:

For Chapter 5 I ended up creating new outfits for several characters. And some new hairstyles for a couple as well. This wasn't something I was planning on doing but just somehow...happened. Ha ha. You'll (maybe) get to see them towards the end of the chapter.

I also finally....*finally* completed a sprite that I have been putting off drawing for ages. I just didn't really have a super clear image of this character and was flip-flopping on major design choices and it finally got to the point that I just needed to sit down and draw this guy. So he's done. He's completed.

And I'm not...displeased with how he turned out. 

I got all the BGs ready as long as simple BG animations.

And I started on the CGs. The CGs are the last major thing to complete for this episode.

I have 1 complete. 

I have 2 of them sketched, lined, flatted, and waiting for shading.

And I have the remaining three sketched out but not lined yet.

Other Stuff:

I set up the flowchart and got it coded. It's another monster. I think the flowcharts will calm down for a couple of chapters before exploding again later. Ha ha.

Why. Why am I like this?

Beyond that I also finished all the expressions - the 'easy but tedious work.' I think there ended up being over 4000 expression switches.

Upcoming Weeks:

I will be working to finish the CGs. LoL That's obviously the main thing left to do. I am going to try to push out the beta version of the episode to Patrons later this week. I want to try to get at least one more of the CGs finished before that and then I'll wrap up the rest of them during testing and early access.

So that is where we are with Episode 3/Chapter 5. The next time I update here will probably be when the route is already in beta and I'm busy with making inevitable typo corrections.

I'll see you then!

[critterznursery]

— About Me !

— zero , critter , finn ,, he / him / it 𐂯 transgender boy + masculine ⚧

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✂--- no caregiver , sadly sighs /silly

. . . things you can call me besides my name ;

As a Cg → Pubba , Papa , Pops , Big Brother , ect.

As a Little → bubba , bud , buddy , little guy , brother , sib / sibby , ect.

P.S. You may come to me in my ask box like I am a cg or your comfort person , I do not mind <3

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[yanderewonderlandgame]

Masterlist

Updated: 02/25/25

Current posts: 0

Anything in blue is the most recent update!

Next update progress(daily updates):

Mobile version 10%

Next update will be the mobile version. However I'll need to look into Butler before release so I don't double charge anyone.

It takes about a day per pose, per CG, etc...

This way I can keep the PC version free :)!

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Word count est: 5000

CG: 3

Backgrounds: 20%

Audio: 30%

no date yet, but hopefully in a week or so we will see a big update!

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- side character art for soldiers.

Roadmap:

Gallery

items (Find keys, open locks in later routes)

hidden routes

Chapter selection

[bloomingkyras]

Evan's quirks #proud of myself from being the heir

[shirasuchiru]

My Candy Love (MCL) - New Gen Ep.02 - The Law Of The Jungle - Roy & Jason Walkthrough

!!— Please make sure to check the answers and the points they give! Unfortunately, you can't get both of their CGs in a single playthrough.

—

- Hello, are you the owner?

- (I didn't say anything. He'll end up leaving eventually, right?)

- Hahaha! Yes, thank you, I know. ( + with Jason)

—

- After your little ditty when I got here, I think I believe them, Jason... ( + with Roy and Devon, / with Jason)

- Maybe we should play his game...? ( - with Roy and Devon, + with Jason)

- (I didn't say anything. Clearly, I don't have all the information...) (If I remember correctly, this should give / with Roy and Devon, - with Jason)

—

- Don't listen to him, Sir. We know very well what we're doing.

- Don't mind them, Sir. I apologize, they don't know how to behave.

- Jason, maybe you can calm down with the cutting remarks? ( + with Jason)

—

- Don't speak too soon, and may the best win! ( - with Roy and Devon, + with Jason)

- As long as everyone follows the rules... ( - Jason)

- It is for me, now. We're going to crush you! ( + with Roy and Devon, - with Jason)

—

(After some dialogue, you can go to the cafeteria to start Roy's chat. I think it doesn't matter who you encounter first.)

- Yes... I would have preferred him to ask me directly if I had any ideas, but hey...

- Yes, it's very nice of him not to leave me on the sidelines.

- At the same time, he didn't hire me to twiddle my thumbs! ( + Roy)

- At the same time, the client seems to have as much ambition as Amanda, right?

- And you don't ever work on anything else? (You can choose this one to learn more about Roy! Except that, it's natural.)

- Yes, I was planning to go see her too.

—

- So really, your job is to be nice? That's cool! ( / with Roy)

- Cool! I hope you'll help me to meet lots of people! ( + with Roy)

- It's funny, I thought you'd have a much more aggressive approach.

—

!!— Choose the outfit with tie and black boots. It is the correct one for both Roy and Jason.

After some dialogue and one choice (you can get Devon points with the energetic answer), choose "Great, I'll ask Roy if he wants to help me." if you want to get his CG. It doesn't matter who you choose for Jason.

—

(You can get a special scene with Roy for 120 Gems. If you have enough affinity and the right outfit, you can get the CG!)

(For to get Jason's CG, please continue to read this thread!)

—

- I see that someone is a sore loser.

- It seems to me that's still better than having lost. ( + with Jason)

- It doesn't matter, it's still a win...

—

- ( I restrained myself from hurling a few colorful insults at his back.)

- (Perhaps it's up to me to be smarter for all of us, and hold out a hand to him.) (Choose this one to get CG!)

- (And I did the same, resuming the evening with my new colleagues and friends.)

—

- (But I swallowed my pride to better focus on the evening.)

- (You pay for everything sooner or later... His turn will come.)

- (No way am I going to leave things there.) (Choose this one go get CG!)

—

(You can get a special scene with Jason for 120 Gems. If you have enough affinity, correct answers and the right outfit, you can get the CG!)

[felidae-sims]

Resources for Creating: My Go-To things.

Sooo this is going to be a long comprehensive list. I got back to this game after a long time and with a different computer, with a dedicated graphics card, hurray! It made me want to return to making things, so while gathering back all the necessary stuff, I've complied this list. It might be is updated as I go along, but these are the main things I use. Maby one day i'll even finish something. So here are my go-to resources & tutorials; I'm posting it here for safekeeping, and hopefully others will find it helpful. Everything that's listed is here free. So many wonderful things for free under the cut.

Programs – General:

Creating: Blender. Blender Addons: 3D Print Toolbox – comes with blender, enable it from within the program. Originally for 3d printing. Good for fixing flipped normals, and some quick general repairs. Source Tools And source tools wiki – for exporting as SMD!!!! (SimPe: to enable bump maps for the mesh on import). GMDC Addon for Blender 4.0+ by Nopke.

GIMP. GIMP Addons: G'MIC-Qt. Resynthesizer. Nvidia dds?. Doesn’t it come with Gimp?

Other: Nvidia Texture Tools Exporter (iirc it works with all graphic cards that are compatible, doesn’t require Nvidia). For making Normal / Bump / Cube Maps. For high quality compression.

Converting: Umodel, for Unreal Engine (export as gtlf.2) AssetStudio, for Unity. AC Viewer, self implied (+ USD Addon for blender) QuickBMS* and support forum, for basically everything else. (don't forget the required scrips, down the same page). *I haven’t tested it fully yet, but it was recommended here. A tutorial for it is listed further down.

UV Mapping: UV Mapper, Classic (free) and the most recent Demo (for visualization).

Programs – Sims:

Never Mind the Bollox, Here's Osab and MAGIkarp to the rescue!

Latest version of SimPe, works with a non-default installation path. Chris Hatch's updates.

Home Crafter installation, Post by Huge Lunatic at Sims2Artists.

Repository Wizard, by Pick'N'Mix Mods. A game changer.

DBPF Compare, by Pick'N'Mix Mods.

Object Relocator, also by Pick'N'Mix Mods.

The Compressorizer, by JFade – Lazy Duchess's edit.

Bulk Rename Utility, to change file names in well, bulk. As explained by io here.

Lot Adjustor, by Mootilda at MTS.

Tutorials:

Override the game's graphic settings via Nvidia, as explained by iCad. The settings to Nvidia Profile Inspector she linked to at MTS have been deleted for some reason, here they are via WebArchive.

Meshing in Blender:

Mesh Optimization Info (and links), by Crisps&Kerosene.

Additional - Reducing Polycount:

Tutorial, by Flaming-Chickens (another username on other sites perhaps?)

Edge – Un-subdivide, a quick one by CG Link.

Transfer high poly details to low poly object in Blender, by 3Dnot2D.

Shrinkwrap Modifier - Blender Tutorial for Beginners - Basics, by in2vert.

Placeholder for this Addon that I want to try but haven't found, something for AR that was on facebook's defunct AR.

Scaling tips, by Blender Secrets.

How to fix inverted/ flipped normals, by ipaintsmallthings.

Converting: How to Extract 3D Models, Textures, Music from Unreal Engine Games, by iwanMods.

Extract 2D/3D/SFX Unity Assets fast & easy from your Unity Game, by iwanMods as well.

How to use QuickBMS, by darkhorse.

Guide to Converting 3t2 and 4t2 Part 01 and Part 02, by Chiaroscuro/tenlittlepandas.

Converting TS4 Windows and Doors, by Crisps&Kerosene.

Texture Editing in GIMP:

Using Gimp Addons: G'MicQT. Resynthesizer. Both by Davies Media Design. This guy's channel for Gimp in general – here's a good one to begin with. And another one about layer masks.

Making a texture Tile Seamless: 1. My favorite - How to Make Seamless Textures for Cinema 4D - 3 Levels of Photoshop Wizardry using iPhone Photos, by School of Motion.

2. Simple Trick for More Realistic Texture Patterns in GIMP, by Davies Media Design – Quick and simple, using the Resynthesizer plugin. Good for patterns.

Making walls in SimPe out of a square texture, with minimal quality loss. To be written.

SimPe: Cloneable Objects: A List of Good Objects for Cloning, by IgnorantBliss at MTS.

Huge Lunatic's Tutorials, Her website.

Object Creation for Absolute Beginners, by Moune.

Sims 2 start to finish Object Creation Tutorial, by JWoods, Numenor, Lethe_s & IgnorantBliss.

The Material Definition (TXMT) Guide, by PixelHate – very comprehensive. Part 5 is about Bump/ Normal maps.

Null (Texture-less) Groups, by Skell. For bodyshop, for Objects see an elaboration by Midge the Tree below.

Crisps&Kerosene discovered how to add specular maps to objects! It's incredible there are still new things to discover in this ancient game.

More on Specular Maps, by Pineapple Forest.

Making new flooring & walls with SimPE, by Charisa. Includes adding Bump/Normal maps. She added a file to clone from in the comments below. It works for normal maps as well. Here's cool discovery in the game files.

Expanding footprint: a mini tutorial, by Deedee.

How to add correct drop shadows to objects, by Yuxi, via Wayback Machine.

Making Objects Viewable in Neighborhood View, by iCad.

Making Objects Visible In Build/Buy Mode, Invisible In Live Mode, by Midge the Tree.

Making Seasons-Friendly Trees, by Echo.

Io/ Serabiet's resources list, mainly for Bodyshop but not just.

Pineapple Forest's Tutorials, useful tips for efficiency and optimization.

MTS modding forum in General.

The Sims 2 Tutorials, on Tumblr. A database, is more updated.

Sims2Artists tutorials section.

LeeFish modding forum.

Garden of Shadows, Tree of Knowledge section.

Trubleshooting: What to do if you get a System.OutOfMemoryException Error, SimPe Forum, via WayBack Machine. Thank you @fanseelamb for the find.

How to read object error logs: I just want to know what causes it!!, by episims.

Common TS2 errors, by Midge the Tree.

General game fuckery: How to Stop Sims 2 Crashing (Memory Allocation Fix and 4GB Patch Repair), by Jessa.

Graphics card problems, LeeFish forum.

General: Switching between save folders without renaming them, by Nopke.

Resources:

3D Models Online*: Various furniture designers' websites: Porada, Zanotta, Muuto, Hay, Poltrona Frau, many luxury furniture designer basically.

3D Warehouse, belongs to Sketchfab (get the Collada files).

Scan the World.

Wikimedia Commons. And more.

*(NOT OPTIMISED).

Textures: Architextures.

Fabrics & Wallpapers: Natural Stones: Wall Plasters:

iCad's Woods. Shastakiss's Cluedo Metals, Yeti Metals, Pirate Woods. Goat's Woods.

Textures from other games: Dishonored, Thieve and much more, by Saricoya at GoS. Dreamfell by io.

Resource sharing threads at Garden of Shadows.

Simpe - General: CEP Extras list, HugeLunatic at Sims2Artists.

TXMT settings for different materials, by Hafsieasel.

Extended SimStandardMaterial Shader for the Sims 2 + Optionally Brighter Sims, by Crisps&Kerosene.

Custom CubeMaps, by Crisps&Kerosene.

Shiny TXMT Settings & Cube Maps Packs, by Pineapple Forest.

Build/ Buy: Templates for Recoloring Maxis items; MTS Templates sction, Hafiseazale (+cc), ZeroDark.

Template for Seasonal Trees, Gwenke at Sims2Artists.

Making Roof Recolors, Tutorial & template by Numenor, great template by iCad.

Pack for making food clutter usable, by DeeDee.

CAS: Default Makeup Packages - BYO Packages, by Huge Lunatic.

Body shape, Io/Serabiet on Tumblr.

Skin template, Io/Serabiet on Tumblr.

Hair texture, iCad.

Color Actions, Pooklet on Tumblr.

That's it for now.

Edit: forgot about CEP extras. Added more links. Edit 02: Added Trubleshooting section under tutorials.

[throatgoat4u]

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[srbachchan]

DAY 5828

Jalsa, Mumbai Feb 1/2, 2024 Thu/Fri 1:11 AM

Birthday - EF - Kashmira Nikhilesh Mehta Friday, 2 February .. and our wishes for a wonderful day, overcoming all trials and tribulations .. जीवन के सारे कष्ट और संकट, सब दूर हो जायें, हमारी प्रार्थना सदा 🙏

🪔 ,

February 02 .. birthday greetings to Ef Kashmira Nikhilesh Mehta .. Ef AMIT Agarwal from Pune .. and Ef Ashwarya Pandey from Janjgir CG..

And .. 💐 .. loving wishes on the 22nd wedding anniversary of Ef Divya Solgama .. on February 02 .. happiness and togetherness .. 🙏🏻🚩❤️💐

Yes .. ! the machine issues sorted themselves out .. and fresh issues began .. each new fresh turn in life ever has the indelible capacity to bring with it , issues that bring the inevitable thinking .. 'why the heck did I change ..'

But we all know that in time, change shall be that same element that shall be cursed upon, when the next change occurs ..

Nature and life have never been assessed or analysed to the extent of finding out or deciphering what shall be next ..

Que sera sera ..

The lamentation of fresh work is besotted by the absence of none .. and the idle demeanour of the entire day brings thoughts words and deeds to a standstill ..

The active body and mind breeds wellness, mobility in both the cerebrum and the limb .. its absence send it off track ..

I am off track these days .. and the mere talk of encumbered work force lifts the spirits .. but fails miserably to bring satisfied relief in all else ..

AAHHHHH .. stop it Mr B .. you are too self obsessed and in the thinking of your own .. the entire Universe has billions of related encumbrances .. be in the satisfaction of the grace of the Almighty, in what you have .. rather than what you have not ..

Amitabh Bachchan

[steamberrystudio]

02/02/2025

Hallo everyone!  Tumblr devlog time!

Summary Bullets:

The last time I posted an update here was to talk about the Episode 2 public release. And now I am moving on to Episode 3. Let's jump in.

I have worked on some new sprites,

Received some new BGs

Worked on new outfits and variations

Staged sprite positions, entrances, and exits

Coded in the eye colour changes

Written up the recap for Episode 2

Coding the SFX and music cues

Started on Wil's expressions

Made some decisions about the next episode (more below)

Art:

I have been working on some new sprites as there are a couple of new characters that pop up in the next episode.

I've also been working on new sprite variations and outfits for some of the characters (including Wil)

There are a lot of new things that will be showing up in Chapter 5 because the crew goes to a new location which requires a whole new set of backgrounds.

Some of these are game-ready, others have to be cropped, prepped, and/or have variations made, however.

Writing

I haven't worked on any bonus content or anything but I did write up the recap info for Episode 2.

Recap stuff can be weirdly time consuming. I want it to be detailed enough it is informative for people but not a massive summary that takes forever to write up.

But other than that I haven't really done any writing...

Other Stuff:

I have been doing a lot of mostly small coding things - coding in the eye colour changes (which I always do before working on expressions) or adding in transitions for the menus, adding in music and SFX and stuff like that.

Before I get into the heavy coding things like the flowcharts or the expressions, there are all sorts of fiddly things that are nice to get out of the way first.

Then more fiddly things after the heavy things are done...

But for now I've been getting some of the smaller things out of the way so I can tick them off the to-do list.

I have started coding Wil's expressions but haven't gotten too far into that just yet.

I have decided that Episode 3 is going to *just* include chapter 5 instead of including 5 and 6.

I've gone back and forth since the beginning on whether I wanted episodes to include one or two chapters. 

I really like being able to do massive updates with 70-90k words because it gives players a lot of content to go through but in all honesty there are some drawbacks to doing it that way. I don't want to get into all those ins and outs but the point is that I finally decided I need to try doing a single chapter release and see if it works better for me, for all of you, and for the project.

Chapter 5 is still really big. On its own, it's over 60,000 words of content so it's not like it's a teensy li'l thing. It's still got some heft.

But yeah, that's my current stance on episode 3 and afterwards we'll see if I'm content to stick to single chapter updates released at a slightly faster pace. And if it helps my sanity.

Upcoming Weeks:

Mostly focused on sprite expressions and getting some of the BG assets ready for the game I think. 

Expressions, next to the CGs and flowcharts are basically the biggest chunk of STUFF to do so I want to get that out of the way early and then focus on other things before I tackle some of the other big development things.

That's all for now. See ya in a few weeks.

[mofffun]

[4 Oct] Hirakawa Yuzuki Twitter Space with surprise guest Shiono Akihisa (Kyoryu Green)

excerpt: timestamp 26:02

abridged translation

one of Yuzuki's "Guerrilla Space"

Topics:

LDH colleagues

Relationship among Sentai casts

Shiono's love for King-Ohger

Kyoryuger's return and filming on location vs. green screen

Explosion scenes

Shirtless Men and Costumes

Acting with One Eye

Rita-sama and their Deep Voice

LDH colleagues

Shiono's first time trying twitter space. He was thinking about hosting a CL live, but might as well join in since Yuzuki already started. [CL is LDH's own paid livestreaming app]

Yuzuki: It's like a LDH gathering in Kingoh now. [Yuzuki, Shiono and Amano all belong to the same agency]

Shiono is one of the first people Yuzuki spoke to about having passed the sentai audition. He advised her that it'll be a difficult year and encouraged her to work hard.

They are both surprised Kingoh and Kyoryu are having a crossover.

Yuzuki asked how old Shiono was when he filmed Kyoryuger (18). She was surprised at how young he was. She is turning 22 this year (on 27 Oct) as the youngest member.

King-Ohger cast

Shiono remarked that Kingoh has an older cast. Yuzuki replied that yes, an all-adult cast is rather uncommon in sentai history.

Yuzuki apologised for being "a bit noisy" when Shiono said the cast has a good relationship.

Shiono appreciates their friendship and finds the sentai set nostalgic.

Yuzuki finds the sentai experience unique since you have to spend an entire year together and the cast is bound to become friends, and it feels like there's little time left.

Shiono thought there're still about 20 episodes left, while for Yuzuki, they are already entering the 40s. She agreed that it's starting to feel lonely.

Shiono on King-Ohger

Shiono loves Kingoh's opening sequence. He thinks it's really cool.

Yuzuki: The director was very particular about the opening visuals. The schedule was packed full on the opening filming day.

Shiono: Kingoh feels like an anime production, from the setting to its characters. To an anime fan like me, it is an excellent sentai.

Yuzuki: Kingoh's fantasy world is on a grand scale, I think it may have even surpassed the usual anime. The cast is conscious of it in our performances as well.

Yuzuki: The green screen is always the same, but in reality the virtual asset has already changed between takes. It confused me at first.

Shiono: Actually I was looking forward to visiting the Kingoh world when they first approached me about returning. Turns out you guys are coming over to Kyoryu's world instead.

Kyoryuger's return and filming on location

Shiono: The staff hasn't changed much either. It doesn't feel like 10 years have passed at all.

Shiono's filming only took one day. He only had a little time to greet the staff before his first scene started. It was an action scene and he passed it in one take.

Yuzuki commented it must be exhausting for him to film it all in one day.

Shiono: You guys only started location filming recently right?

Yuzuki: We don't have many outdoor scenes to begin with. The (suit) action team often goes on location, but the kings rarely do, so I'm still not quite used to it. I'd ask things like "Can I touch this?". Because with green screen, if you randomly touch the set, it will mess with the CG composite. So we have to pay attention not to touch anything or risk missing a hand. It's wild that on location we have a lot more freedom in acting.

Explosion scenes

Shiono: Back in our days, we were covered in dirt and bombs went off left and right. Have you had an explosion scene?

Yuzuki: Explosion? Once, I think? [ep11]

Shiono: Do you sprinkle yourselves with water before that?

Yuzuki: Huh? No, we didn't.

Shiono: No way! haha...

Yuzuki: It still went "BANG" in front of our eyes and I was shocked scared, but the explosion actually wasn't that close to us, so we didn't really take any precautions either.

Shiono: We used to sprinkle ourselves wet before we film explosion scenes, haha. The explosives are no joke.

Yuzuki: The explosions are really that close?

Shiono: Yeah, sometimes it got really close. Our Red, Ryusei Ryo, Ryo-chan. He had a scene where he was shirtless fighting the enemy while bombs went off around him.

Yuzuki: Crazy!

Shiono: Like I said, it's completely different.

Yuzuki: Yeah, completely different.

Shirtless Men and Costumes

Shiono: You don't have anyone on your team that wants to go shirtless, right?

Yuzuki: But... um, Kaguragi?

Shiono: There's Kaguragi, huh?

Yuzuki: Kaguragi and Yanma. They are packed with muscles. Looks like the type that will take off their shirt at a moment's notice. If anyone's going shirtless, it's those two. Especially Kaku-san. He is very muscular.

Shiono: Right, Kaku-san. I was surprised the first time I met him too.

Yuzuki: Yeah, really. At first I wondered how many of me you can fit in him. Probably two or three. He's so big, and his presence too.

Shiono: Everyone's costumes look kinda hot to be in.

Yuzuki: Yes. It's very, very hot in those clothes. Kaguragi's and mine are probably the worst. Especially Rita's gloves. Kaguragi is simply wearing too many layers.

Shiono: Haha. It's like he's from a Taiga drama [Japanese period drama] all by himself.

Yuzuki: He's the only one with a haori and lots of decorative knots :D But for real, I don't think the Kings really fit in on Earth. These costumes feel so out of place during location filming.

Shiono: Really? I understand, I had to wear a green school uniform. Well, but the day we filmed together I got to wear something different, just green clothes this time.

Acting with One Eye

Shiono: What did you think when you first learnt that the role requires you to cover most of your face?

Yuzuki: When I went to the make-up test, the director was playing with my hair and covered my right eye. He said, "Cool. That''ll do." I thought, well that's just one half of my face. Then I saw the collar during costume fitting and was puzzled, Half of my face is already hidden, where are we going with the collar? Only then did I realize, you can only see my left eye. I couldn't think of anything but How am I going to perform? How am I going to act in this for an entire year?

Shiono: You could say your tools of expression got cut down 80%.

Yuzuki: Yes. What can I do, and how can I do it with just my left eye?

Shiono: But your performance ended up vey convincing.

Yuzuki: I was very anxious at first, kept wondering if it was alright to keep on acting like this. I kept on filming while being unsure. Before the show premiered, I was very anxious. The time when we were just filming and filming before the show premiered, I was afraid I couldn't do well. Good thing I made it through now.

Rita-sama and their Deep Voice

Shiono: Everyone loves Rita-sama now.

Yuzuki: Yeah, people started calling me Rita-sama ^_^. Who knows. I didn't start it myself, but the fans just took to calling me Rita-sama.

Shiono: There's no doubt what to call Rita but -sama. With such a handsome voice.

Yuzuki: Since sentai started, I noticed my voice has gotten deeper.

Shiono: Think of it as expanding your range as an actor.

Yuzuki: Well, that is a good thing.

Shiono: I don't think many actresses have such a deep voice, that will surely become your strength.

Yuzuki: Yeah, but at first I had a lot of trouble with it. It was difficult to project loudly while holding my pitch down. It might even turn into a mumble and become difficult to hear sometimes. However, Rita needs to speak clearly and decisively. As a judge, Rita needs to give speeches and verdicts. That was a bit of struggle but it got better as filming went on.

[7grandmel]

Rip of the week: 03/02/2025

Tribute to a MAD Agent

Season 3 Featured on: Inspector Gunner 2 With Critic

Ripped by Dirty Spaceman

One of the first ever rips I wanted to highlight when I first started this blog was Season 2's 【＝３】e-MUNO Disco (vs. 音MAD AGENT). I would argue even today that it's more or less an essential listen for those looking to learn what makes SiIvaGunner such a special channel, and was likewise was one of the first rips to truly make me fascinated by the art of high quality ripping way back in the day. That affection I felt - and still feel - for it was, quality aside, in large part due to its release timing; back on ULTRA S+G, I made an effort to detail how Season 2 in particular was such a hugely exciting time to be a SiIvaGunner fan. There was a real sense of community and investment in all that the channel was doing, following the excitement of its return past the planned ending, the insane amount of effort going into keeping the story and lore going with the Christmas Comeback Crisis, and how so many events like Smooth day covered on Haltmanna feat. Rob Thomas of Matchbox 20 were designed to be so intrinsically tied to the channel's lore. It was inevitable that that momentum couldn't be continued forever, and Season 3 became a more lower-key, transitional period in the channel's life as the team figured out just where to pull SiIvaGunner going forward - yet from that reflective period spawned one of the most memorable events in the channel's life, all distilled perfectly with Tribute to a MAD Agent; April Fools 2018, the Nostalgia Critic Takeover.

Barring just the first King for a Day Tournament that I've still only covered briefly back on FINAL DESTINATION, I feel like the Nostalgia Critic takeover is more or less THE event to remember from Season 3. Its core premise is one I've already covered in some detail on CG Man HD Remastered Edition; with Doug Walker in charge of the channel now over two years past its initial Season 1 run, the event sought to evoke nostalgia from those of who had been following since the channel's absolute earliest days. Setting aside all lore, all progress, all the sights toward the future, the Nostalgic Critic takeover became like a prelude for what something like Season 7 would later relish in with rips like Our Sweet Parsley, to pay tribute to what had come before. The takeover achieved this nostalgic effect through a multitude of means; this was the period where lots of the original GiIvaSunner rips of January-March 2016 were first reuploaded, where old amateurish rips were lovingly remastered along the lines of Fragile Snowman (Remastered) or what we'd see way later on Violet Snow Memories. This introspective feel had prior in the season only been felt through the expected increase in quality in rip output, but now for the first time in months it felt as if so many parts of the community were on the same page, reflecting on the same rips, remembering just how many stupid bits Season 1 had, and overall just taking a step back to recognize just how far everything had come in just two short years.

It's that sense of fleeting community - that conversation between you, your fellow viewers and the team maintaining kayfabe behind a YouTube account - that sat at the core of my engagement with the SiIvaGunner channel. The core that was beating so strongly throughout those first two seasons of the channel, the core I've tried writing about for rips like go home youre drunk man, and the core that I could feel once again here in Season 3 through Doug Walker's forceful interference. Yet...that is only half the story, only half of the takeover's nature. Once it all began on April 1st 2018, Critic was unknowingly joined in his attempt to rule the channel by Inspector Gadget; to some, but a cartoon character from a bygone age, but to SiIvaGunner fans who followed Season 2, a demon thought to have been vanquished long ago. His inexplicable rise to power in Season 2 was one of the absolute highlights of that run, a sense of panic and unease spreading through the community as for what this meant for the status quo of SiIvaGunner (one we're undergoing Right Now at the start of Season 9, funny enough), all of which I covered all too briefly back on my writing on Become as Gadget. And so, the takeover was twofold; We had the Critic giving us throwbacks to the budding months of Season 1, Inspector Gadget giving us that constant sense of unease felt during his Season 2 run, and the two combined served as a further extension of the "Minecraft with Gadget" bit that had originally provoked the latter's prominence as a channel meme to begin with; a critic and a figment of his imagination, butting heads in a way that felt oh so typical of the old age of YouTube.

With all that preamble out of the way, it's hopefully made somewhat clear just how effective the Nostalgia Critic With Gadget (or whatever its proper name ought to be) takeover truly was in reminding us of how much love we still hold for SiIvaGunner; and, in turn, how much love SiIvaGunner's team holds for itself, holistically. Enter, then, Dirty Spaceman's Tribute to a MAD Agent, wrapping up everything I've thus far covered into one simple package. Without all the aforementioned context provided, the combination of its rip title and the rip's contents may make very little sense - why would a Pokémon Ruby rip of YO-KAI DISCO from Mamorukun Curse! be a "Tribute to a MAD Agent"? - but with the context available, a viewer can suddenly triangulate just what the rip is made in tribute TO; the aforementioned 【＝３】e-MUNO Disco (vs. 音MAD AGENT), the channel's at-that-time most prominent rip using YO-KAI DISCO. The connection was easy to make passively at the time both due to the song's lack of coverage on the channel otherwise, but also because both the rip and its tribute here employ the same slight speed-up to the source song, something that, as I would later find out, many famous YTPMVs/MADs of the song such as wazgul's SEN-TRY Disco. This would further be done on future YO-KAI DISCO rips like D-VA DISCO from Season 4 Episode 1, but back in Season 3 it was a connection that felt almost exclusive to these two rips; a tribute, then, hence its namesake.

And indeed, beyond being a tribute, Tribute to a MAD Agent is a damn good rip in its own right. Pokémon Ruby/Sapphire/Emerald has an absolutely iconic soundscape, typically lead by loud brass, yet on Route 111 is led by an iconic bouncy synth with the big-band sound instead delegated to the song's backing and percussion. This lead synth is a lot chirpier than the one in the original YO-KAI DISCO yet still captures that same bouncy energy, aided tremendously by the little details surrounding it in this arrangement. No part of Route 111's original melody persists here; akin to rips like Float Islands (Kirby 64 Arrangement), this rip seeks to wholly arrange its song using only instruments from its source game and finds tons of wiggle room for small details throughout that process, such as the subtle call-and-responses in the melody as heard in parts like 0:34, the lead synth met with the sound of a distinctly different synth replying to its inquiry in kind.

Moreover, though, I can't shake the feeling that the choice of Pokémon Ruby & Sapphire as the game to do this tribute to was a deliberate one. Dirty Spaceman didn't begin ripping until early into Season 2's life, and doesn't have the *most* extensive list of contributions, yet is also a ripper who nevertheless strikes me as very aware of the channel's entire legacy. The one prior rip of his I've covered on here, Maskettaman - Dr. Pavel's Fly​-​So​-​Good, was yet another sort of tribute; a love letter to Baneposting, a meme previously quite prominent during the channel's first year, yet faded from use due to its unconventional nature as a source. He knows internet history, and he knows SiIvaGunner history; thus, the choice of game for Tribute to a MAD Agent, to use the game used for the very first SiIvaGunner rip ever made and released, feels like all too deliberate of a choice. Like mentioned back on Magolor's Shoppe Fusion Collab, few games have as close of a tie to the earliest of SiIvaGunner's days as Pokémon Ruby & Sapphire, and few moments in the channel's life were as focused on remembering said early days as the very event Tribute to a MAD Agent was made for; in that way, the rip is able to at once reference Season 1 and Season 2 in a way that's surprisingly understated yet immediately understandable for those watching.

I'll be honest and say that I spent a lot of the lead-up to writing this post simply looking for parts of Season 3 that I'd remember enough to write about - mind, with Tribute to a MAD Agent this is now the fourth-or-so time that I cover this very event. Yet I mean not to suggest that it was the one good part of an underwhelming year; rather, that the Critic and Gunner were able to more clearly amplify the essence that the season as a whole was sort of going for, amplifying an understated pursuit to continue reminding us all of why we all got so invested in this stupid channel in the first place. Season 3 was a period of things bubbling, with rips and rippers continuing to grow, yet never truly exploding in ways that felt out of step with what the channel ought to be. Starting off small, hitting a sudden, hastily-planned, channel-changing event partway through the year, with sprinkles conveying the meaning of the greater whole dished out in the midst of a sea of self-expression...in that way, Season 3 is like a microcosm of SiIvaGunner's entire existence, a summary of its life only two years after it began. Tribute to a MAD Agent is not the most glamorous, standout work of the year, not the most impressive effort that had been made at that point; yet it, like so many rips of its prior Seasons I've covered before, serves as a small sample, a taste test, of one of the many flavors that make this channel so worth having followed in the long term; for the jokes, for the bangers, and for the memories.