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notmoreflippingelves · 2 years ago

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For the AA ask please: 7, 15, 19, 23 and 35?

7. Favourite Design?

As in character design??? I feel like it will have to be something from either DGS or the Layton crossover as both have such lovely and unique aesthetic. Even though I will never forgive them from robbing us the mysterious masked man Phoenix in the PW vs. PL. Why do they hate sexiness?

I could say young Mikotoba because he’s really handsome but that’s so shallow and he never technically appears in the game as a younger mustache-less man which is a crme and a shame.

I really like Esmerald Tuspells and Enoch Drebbler’s designs a lot even though they are pretty Extra even by AA standards. I find the Masked Apprentice overrated as a character ngl but his design is also really great as is Sholmes/Holmes (though I still have a bit of a trouble wrapping my head around a blond Sherlock. He always has dark hair in my imagination except for Sherlock Hemlock from Sesame Street who is a redhead. But never blond).

I might have to say Barok van Zieks simply because I was a literature major and he has exquisite Victorian gothic/Byronic hero vibes. Either him or High Inquistor Darklaw from the Layton Crossover, who actually has a somewhat similar fashion-sense aesthetic to van Zieks.

15. Random headcanon you can share?

Hmmm...what’s a good tidbit to share that I don’t think I’ve already shared? I mean there’s the fact that I do genuinely believe that there is something concrete and sympathetic behind Kristoph’s black locks. And the fact that I hc that Kristoph was too busy focusing on school/work to have much of his social life and so Phoenix was really the closest thing to a friend he’d had by that point (let alone anything more than a friend), but I feel like I talk about these fairly regularly so hmmm...what else is random and not too self-indulgent/ship related and also sfw?

Oooo...I did have a head canon once that Daryan Crescend’s mom is a Payne sister (the lone Payne defense attorney and just as hopeless as her brothers, poor thing.) And that while his hair is very thick and impressive right now, he will fall victim to premature balding as his uncles (and ancestor in Meiji era Japan) did.

19. What do you think about the Ace Attorney Anime?

On the one hand, I definitely understand why some members of the fandom dislike it. Particularly not a fan of their version of Farewell, my Turnabout due to the changes made to Celeste and Adrian’s relationship. Also, it weirds me out that the English dub (while very good) kept the localized names but also kept the setting in Japan instead of Japanifornia which creates a weird canon kurfuffle. It would almost have been better to just keep their JP names for the anime in that case.

On the other, there is some genuinely pretty good content that came out of the anime. All of the theme songs are bops, the animation style is appealing (if somewhat less charming than the games), and a lot of the anime-exclusive content is actually really good and I tend to incorporate the bits that I like (and don’t directly contradict game canon) into my personal headcanon.

I particularly love the flashback episodes with bb!Larry, bb!Miles, and bb!Phoenix and think the Signal Samurai was a great addition to the franchise and adds a lot of emotional resonance to Miles’ canonical love of the Steel Samurai (i.e. maybe he likes Steel Samurai because it reminds him of another samauri show that his first real “friends” got him into). The anime original episode that dealt with the Fey girls and the “seashell” was another really good one that added some additional depth, emotion, and context to Maya’s relationships with Mia and with Pearl. I also have great love for the multi-part “train case” because dorky, uptight glasses Train Prosecutor is my beloved and gives me Kristoph vibes. Also where is the foe yay stuff with Train Prosecutie and Miles? We need it; I cry.

One thing that I do have to say is that the second season of the anime is overall much much better than the first. It was already a mistake to cram two games worth of content into a single season and given that they also rushed the pacing of each case, a lot of great stuff was bound to get cut for time. It was much smarter to do like they did in the second season--which just adapted AA3, slow down the pacing of the game’s cases and add a few new episodes to fill up the remaining time. Also, a different animation studio did the art for the 2nd season and it’s *much better.*

23. Your BROTP?

Part of me is tempted to say narumitsu just to annoy the fandom, but I won’t. Even though I don’t ship them at all (except in OT3 scenarios where at least one other character is there).

I’m going to say the trio of Edgeworth, Gumshoe, and Kay is probably my favorite dynamic to watch as they play off each other so well. You could also extend Lang, Ziska, and/or Sebastian to the group but I consider Edgeworth, Gumshoe and Kay the main trio. That being said, I do enjoy gumworth ship content so I’m okay with it not being totally platonic between the two of them--but I like it best when they are with Kay and having nice times all three together.

35. Smartest murder plan?

That’s tricky because when you really stop to think about it, most of the murder plans are way more complex than they need to be and have massive holes in logic/plausibility that totally strain credulity (but in a way that fits the tone of the series). Not to mention the fact that it’s mostly luck and/or being in a position of power that helps them get away with things for so long.

However, I’d have to say that the Big Bad of AAI 2 gets the undisputed crown of “Most Competent AA Villain by Far.” I mean to be fair, their complexity addiction is probably the reason they eventually got caught but unlike Kristoph who suffers from massive complexity addiction, AAI 2 Big Bad’s overly compex plan is just smarter and more thought out. (No unnecessary mail crimes for the aesthetic as with Kris. Though I still love him) .

The reason the AAI 2 baddie is so successful and competent is that they are successfully able to manipulate other people into doing the majority of their crimes for them--and therefore remaining very beneath suspicion. That’s hard enough to do in and of itself, but when the people you are manipulating are actually your *enemies* and allowing them to inevitably get caught and convicted for the crimes you tricked them into committing. It’s just...extra sweet and powerful. Even when they are caught and arrested, they’ve still gotten exactly what they wanted.

That being said, the only murder that they actually committed themselves was not the most well-thought out (though definitely appropriately Extra) but that is how they ended up caught and in their defense, they did have to improvise it.

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shou7 · 3 years ago

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Some disjointed thots on (PW+ML+AA) (single mix and everything else is just bloat to convince fans to buy copies so they don’t exist to me)

1. This is everything FP should’ve been. CB technology-related themes, nostalgic Game synths, ⊿ naming sense, the chic otona-pop of JPN, experimentalism of LEVEL3, world/concept-building of CE. Whatever Nakata was talking about back then about how everything Prfm does is future pop, and how their next work is gonna be their best.... THIS is what he should’ve been referring to. It took us 3 extra years but FUTURE POP is finally here...

2. What I really love about these new tracks is that they all have multiple layers of melodies that build on one another, and the tracks all go Somewhere, instead of feeling copypasted and one-note. But also not in a cheap lulz im so random and QuIrkY! way like in 7iro with an entirely different section that pops out of nowhere, never to be heard from again in any form. That new bridge in PW is a masterpiece (dare I say on the level of SOL’s). ML has this dissonant backward synth which sounds really out of place at first, but is eventually incorporated together with the rest of the song and resolved. And it does a really good job in creating tension in the song. The guitar from AA’s intro returns during certain sections of the song, as well as the outro (unlike PMU’s acoustic guitar).

3. And so I actually think this is Prfm’s most effortless and inspired-sounding release post-2013. Like... Nakata actually sounds like he enjoyed making these tracks, instead of trying to churn out commercial jingles and THEN extending them for release as soon as possible (to mixed results). The new tracks all have these flourishes and melodies and details added to them that’s been absent for a very long time (especially the distinct bridges!!!!). The lyrics actually have depth to them, and the tracks all have the required runtime to evolve and fully-realize themselves. Literally none of that uwu uwu DISPLAY DISPLAY DISPLAY x 16. So shoutout to the CEOs of Tully’s and Levi’s for rejecting Nakata jingles two times each. We could not have done it without you....

4. On a related note, apparently Nakata has finally had an actual discussion with Prfm wrt music direction for the first time in almost 20 years. And the benefits are clear. These songs were tailor made for them, as they are NOW. No infantile tiny baby chipmunk voices. And no continuous throwing of shit on the wall (future bass, retro, Japamyu leftovers, other assumptions of what a US/global audience wants) to see what sticks.

5. Nakata’s mentioned several times that he doesn’t like looking back at his past works, and I assume being forced by his label to remaster his old tracks played a part in helping him recapture his spark. Covid probably also helped with getting him to stay tf home and reflect instead of getting high while DJ-ing at clubs.

6. It’s hilarious how TW was released a year ago and yet the rollout of this single is still evidently rushed af. From the whole audio to video production timeline it’s all a hot mess lmao. But what’s new?

7. Wrt the video, it’s boring. The capsule references are cute but that’s it. Everything else is just dark. I think the dance set has the same issue with Everyday’s. A full CGI set from Rhizomatiks would have worked better and looked less cheap. But PW suffers even more because the set is so dull and static. At least Everyday had flashing and moving clouds, and flying and whatnot. PW had nothing lol. They should’ve just gone full vaporwave acid trip aesthetic like in the P Cubed tour interlude.

8. The Prfm budget being slashed is probably another major factor as to why their videos have been pretty tragic Saisei onwards. Their pull on the general public has been on a decline (being the most well-known girl group or whatever in Japan doesn’t matter when girl groups as a whole aren’t doing very well). So from a company perspective it makes more sense to invest in live shows over music videos. And they definitely are continuing to make money off their tours considering that every tour has seen an increase in ticket pricing...!!! Sad for their music video legacy but oh well.

9. ML>PW>AA

10. FUTURE POP tracklist from another timeline: 1. Mugen loop 2. Android and 3. Polygon wave original mix 4. Time warp 5. If u wanna 6. Let me know 7. Tokyo girl 8. Houseki no ame 9. Mugen mirai 10. Toumei ningen 11. Everyday 12. Saisei

#prfm #how long has it been since my last prfm related post lmao #and YES i am clinically insane

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