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Translated Event Update!

Hey!! Thanks to the lovely @haru-s-afterlife, I was able to add some translated stories to the wiki! (With permission ofc) :D I'll work on adding the rest but in the meantime please check it out! ^^

Event/Valentine | AfterL!fe Wiki | Fandom

I also fixed up the past events page so it looks more cleaner and not so wonky and added some temp pages for the event stories! (For when/if they get translated haha)

Note: All Korean events link to the English ver/Eng translation of the event!

[lovelydiamond500]

Okay so, I’m no genius nor super smart media preservation genius BUT

Maybe we should try to preserve the English translations/ stories in Ayakshi rr as much as possible? Whether screenshots or just text it would be really great to have! (To my knowledge the Utapri shining love wiki has this so it’s doable to some degree I’m sure!)

I can’t go through the pain of losing Afterl!fe again and I KNOW YA’LL CAN’T EITHER

(Fr y’all I just want the English translations to be preserved as much as possible if what I’m talking about already exists pls send me a link!)

[astral-nautica]

The world needs more pretty Verine

[flyingcookierambles]

sadness over a3! eng i guess

oof just on my 700th day.....

kinda sad because of the announcement about A3! ENG server shutting down soon due to financial difficulties at LIBER/CYBIRD in the past two years (covid-19 related, etc.). according to a rather in depth reddit comment that had links to LIBER's publicly available financial reports + some financial reports from LIBER's parent company, Aeria, in english, covid-19 really hit LIBER hard since they had to cancel many money making events, from pop-up shops for the typical anime merch trinkets (keychains, plushes, pins, etc.) to the huge in-person events (voice actor meetups, the stage plays of MANKAI LIVE, etc.). due to shrinking player base on the ENG server + major loss of profits on both JPN and ENG servers, LIBER had to choose one or the other and they chose the JPN one, which i totally understand since it's way bigger there and the JPN fanbase will continue to give the franchise money more often. also, another person found a financial report/estimate from the google play store or something, and A3! ENG only made ~$20K to ~$10K in the past few months, which i guess is not enough to keep a server and localization company afloat. 

i got pretty attached to the characters and it was a great game to help get by during college. and honestly, while i am very sad about this, again, i understand why LIBER did this, looking at their financial report from 2020. I would LIBER save the entire franchise rather than shut all the servers down, making us all unable to see our favorite actors ever again, even if it means that we ENG fans will have to go thru the extra steps of finding/reading fan translations, wikis, etc., to read any further stories from where A3! ENG left off. still, A3! ENG's localization was something special. i'm saying this as a TKRB JPN player who read the wiki for all the character voice lines and then had to see the official TKRB ENG localization make Yamabushi Kunihiro a rapper for some reason? lol. it was....weird.... meanwhile, all the memes and slang in A3! ENG didn't seem out of place and all fit their personalities because 3/4 of the troupes were all high school to college age and 3 of them were ~Gamers~. Out of all the gachas i've played, i feel like the only other F2P gacha game that had this incredibly smooth, all cultural jokes/puns translated in a way that still makes sense/fits the character/doesn't require a galaxy brain and some TL note to understand, is probably dragalia lost and that's only because it has frickin Nintendo localizing/publishing it globally for CyGames. Nintendo. i'll eventually read the fan translations of A3!'s Act 3 on the wiki, but it won't be the same without Kazunari's super high-energy influencer slang of "'whoa fam! that's totes 'blammable, gotta take a pic!" or Itaru's gremlin Gamer speak of "lol get rekt noobs" or Tsuzuru's tired dying breath of "that ain't it chief." the appropriate slang and relatable meme speak of the localization really helped humanize these characters as people of their respective ages, rather than just a typical formal speak or some directly translated JPN slang -> ENG that turns out super awkward that can be found in bad localizations.

going back to the reddit comment too, the death of A3! ENG servers could have bad repercussions in the future for other joseimuke games. josei, if you for some reason have been in the anime fandom but still don't know this term, is basically the genre of stories/video games/media/etc aimed at women. it's the mature adult counterpart to seinen, media aimed at adult men. basically shoujo/shonen = elementary/middle school/high school aimed while josei/seinen = high school/college/adult aimed if that helps. Joseimuke is a part of josei that is not specifically romance. while some josei/joseimuke can overlap with otome, aka female aimed dating sims/romance media, they have many things about them that make these all separate genres. one of the official A3! ENG translators and a known fan translator of another joseimuke gacha, Mahou Yaku/Wizard’s Promise, minami, goes more in depth with this in a twitter thread. 

A3! was an actor raising game, and a big part of it was found family and relationships that were platonic. yet it got advertised as an otome, which has more connotations with dating sims and brings to mind other shoujo/otome games and anime where the cast is all high schoolers and the setting is most often in a high school. but, other than some characters making flirty jokes or implied to have crushes on Izumi/player character, many character relationships with Izumi are platonic and not romantic at all. Spring Troupe in the game also jokingly calls themself a family. the entire Mankai Company is basically found family. plus, since the game actually has time passing in story and the characters age with each year, half of the characters aren’t even in high school anymore. a large majority of them are in college or are graduated by now, with only a few still in high school. i’m not surprised if a reason that some people left the game was due to feeling bored with the slice of life/not romantic story, feeling that they were lied to about it being an otome, which was falsely advertised since it is a game meant for the older teens/adults demographic of josei/joseimuke.

i’m worried that other japanese companies will look at this shut down as a “josei/joseimuke doesn’t work well in the west” and never localize other josei/joseimuke gacha games like Mahou Yaku, EnStars, Twisted Wonderland, Helios, etc.

while i like otome and shoujo, i, as a 23/soon to be 24 year old college graduate and now tax paying adult, want more stories that have more mature themes and characters that are more my age so i don’t have to feel awkward when i’m playing some dating sim and i, a literal 23 year old adult, and trying to woo a 16 year old. it’s...a little awkward to say the least. i would gladly welcome more mature media that is categorized as josei/joseimuke.

sorry if this is all over the place, but overall im just sad that A3! ENG is shutting down. i don’t know if i’ll join the JPN server yet. i’m def going to read the Act 3 story via fan translators on the wiki, but A3! gameplay was...boring lmao. as much as i love A3!, im sure that the constant event grind/burnout and boring rng gameplay turned people off too and i dont blame them. i felt the burnout bad since i participated in basically every event since day 1. it. is. rough. i’m not joining the hellish thunderdome that is the JPN server and im not ranking anymore as a F2P player lmao. literally had to play almost every waking free moment to get into the 30%-20% bracket as a F2P person and i never got to top 20%-10%, much less top 1% lmao. i’m don’t whale enough lol. 

i feel like i should probably just. crack open my genki 2 textbook and uhhh totally legal pdf copy of tobira. so i can just. get the JPN version of games in the first place so i don’t have to worry about getting shafted since overseas fans are often considered expendable. 

i wish that, when any games that are online end, gacha or mmo or anything, anything online, companies will let fans archive things. or like. release a book that is just the story text or something. like. CYBIRD is letting us still technically play the game and have the story and all, but what if they eventually later shut everything down? why not just release a pdf/ebook that’s just the text of the eng localization for some money? i’d buy it. for nostalgia and rereads and all and also archiving purposes. i think i’ll try to help with any english localization archive projects if i can so that the hilarious and incredible localization that was a work of love from the translation team doesn’t just disappear forever.

well.

that’s it for now. as i said, guess i’ll head to the app for one of the last times to read the last unread stories and mini stories i have left, then the wiki for Act 3, and then i guess i’ll crack open genki 2 and bunpo.....

some fun random links for you to think about!

random ffxi article that came to mind (if ffxiv ever shuts down in the next 20 years or whatever i’d be cool to get a statue of my character at the end)

and death of a game playlist by NerdSlayer Studios on Youtube that has me thinking a lot about game preservation and losing MMOs and games

the lost media wiki  and blameitonjorge’s lost media iceberg

other gacha games i’ve played that have shut down that i think about sometimes because the loss of A3! ENG isn’t my first rodeo:

terra battle & terra battle 2 (1)

AFTERL!FE

(related kitsu post link for archive reasons)

[imaginesfora3]

I went on the Afterl!fe wiki and I relate to Noah on a spiritual level... Should I be worried?

I mean Noah seems to be one of the more normal ones so I’m gonna say you’re good lmao now if there’s people who identify with Theo..... we need to talk

~Writer Admin

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Update: Shift Logs

Hey Hey! I finished updating the shift logs for Mane and will move on to Die!

I am missing just a few shift logs so if anyone has them then please let me know :)

Clean - Noah and Licht Aitachi and Louis

Farm - Ethan and Ell Ethan and Jamie June and Jamie Louis and Jamie Kati and Jamie Cyrille and Jamie Mori and Jamie Quincy and Jamie Day and Jamie Ethan and June Kati and June Mori and June Quincy and June Day and June Theo and Louis Kati and Louis Verine and Louis Ethan and Louis Day and Ethan Ethan and June Kati and June Mori and June Quincy and June Day and June Ethan and Day

Patrol - Mori and Licht Louis and Licht

I also have to figure out how to add the Shift Logs onto the explore menu cause they're a bit hard to find lolol

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2024/07/21 - Update!

Hey :D I was able to get my admin position back (since it expired TT) So I went through all the reported comments and deleted them! Thank you for reporting and keeping the community friendly ^^

I also decided to go through all the character profiles and update them to the tabber format to have them all coherent!

I realized that my ask box was closed so I opened that as well! Please give me any ideas you'd like to see on the wiki and how I can make it better :D

I also started updating the cross stories to the newest dialogue formatting, and have updated Noah's [Path] and Jamie's [The Garden Fairy] card stories and Noah's [Romantic Suite], Ghilley's [Strange Chocolate] and Sian's [Sian's Fortune] card stories (as well as their SNS) thanks to @/haru-s-afterlife's translation hehe

I'm planning on adding Haru's newest translations to the wiki after a week as well! Please check it out and don't forget to reblog! ^0^

Thank you thank you and I hope to keep updating :>

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Intro!

Hey hey! I'm the admin of the Afterl!fe: The Sacred Kaleidoscope wiki! The wiki is an archive project that I started working on about 3 years ago for our beloved game that was gone way too soon TT

I hope to finish up adding all the stories to the wiki and in their respective places, and I will be making a list of things that still need to be added afterwards! I'm missing a few SNS posts and I'm looking into hopefully getting some stories translated as well!

I'll update here whenever I update the wiki!

I hope opening this blog can help get more eyes on this game/project! :>

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Updating Formatting?

Hey guys!

I've been looking more into the card stories and have been wondering if keeping them in the card's pages is the best way to access them?

For those that might not know, you can access a card's personal story by clicking the card directory, clicking on the card of your choice, and then scrolling down.

The same thing applies to the SNS of a card but I believe that the SNS button is pretty small and harder to find haha...

I wanted to know if you guys believe that it would be easier to possibly redirect the card's story pages into a different page where the story would be bigger than just drop down boxes haha! (Hopefully I'm explaining myself well, lol)

So I believe that this format is both convenient but also kind of weird in a sense...?

But I would love to hear some more feedback or ideas! :)

[flyingcookierambles]

hm reflection on afterl!fe?

i feel a bit sad that the game got shut down so young. like. super young. it was only about 4 or 5 months old i think? it was just. wow. up to that point i’ve never seen a gacha go down so fast. im not sure if it was mainly due to the pandemic or not, but im sure that the pandemic didn’t help at all.

but also to be totally honest i. couldn’t get into the game. and i think the reason is how they introduced the characters. which is to say that they didn’t really? 

sure the story started with you starting off as a manager of a soul reaper class/dorm/ its been months so i honestly forget? the boys are there and you go on your first mission with them (it was also their first mission i believe?). the main cast has 20 boys. they’re all introduced to you at once. it. a lot. or, it was a lot for me at least. i feel like i might’ve gotten more into it if it did something like A3! did with introducing all the characters troupe by troupe so that you only got 5 new guys 4 times. plus the 4 or 5 other mankai members (ken, matsukawa, yuzo, etc.), plus the god troupe (only 2 guys) got introduced gradually and in small amounts at the first act. and then, recently since A3! English got to Act 2, we have 4 more new characters, the rookies. again, they were introduced gradually and we had a 30-34-ish chapter episode to learn about the new guys of each troupe in Act 1. so, even tho A3! total character count is larger than After L!fe, I didn’t feel overwhelmed. And maybe After L1fe didn’t have to have entire episodes to have whole character arcs for the boys, but i do feel like having the player character/manager have 2 or 3 short chapters of interacting exclusively with only one reaper team rather than tossing all 20 characters at you at once would’ve helped me not feel overwhelmed. 

i think that the sense of being overwhelmed like something is just too much is also what prevents me from, or at least makes me really really procrastinate, another gacha game, GranBlue Fantasy. Unlike After L!fe, GBF is actually 6 years or so now, has 100+ characters, and about 1000+ main story chapters. its ridiculous. by logic, as a person who knows that there’s games that have even more stuff going on, i should not have felt the feeling on a new baby game with a small manageable cast was too much, but i did. and so the game just ended up sitting in my phone storage until i decided to delete it in favor of having more space for my other gacha games and apps.

and i felt a bit bad because i wanted to like after l!fe. it has a cool supernatural concept that i feel like not a lot of other fantasy gacha have tried, i feel like a lot of other fantasy gacha is more traditional LOTR/living people-fantasy (gbf, dragalia, etc. the art was nice and the app was fast. (i did get a bit lost in the menus tho, what the heck was that....)

for people that did actually get into the game, i do hope that the company can make a comeback or something someday so you can play it again. i also never got into the main story due to *gestures vaguely above*, but i heard that it was really good and there was some giant cool plot twist at the end of where the main story ended before the game shut down and now im kinda really curious about it. is there at least a wiki or summary i can read of the main story?