#twisted wonderland EN

[raven-at-the-writing-desk]

Raveeennn!!! When u said Malleus isn’t as popular in JP than it is in the English/int. server, who would you say takes up that #1 spot in the JP fan base? if you know.

[Referencing this post!]

It's hard to calculate for certain since there are no official Twst popularity polls (though there are several unofficial polls run by Japanese magazines or websites, with thousands of votes and mixed results) However, I have consistently seen Floyd in the top or second place spot overall, and he has a TON of yume works on Pixiv (~15.5k), whereas Malleus only has around 3.5k. Other popular characters include Jade at 12k, Azul at 10k, and Idia and Leona at 7k+. For reference, there are ~5k Ace yume works on Pixiv, which is more than Malleus despite Ace often badly losing to Malleus in EN popularity polls. This indicates that Ace may overtake Malleus in the JP fandom. I think it's also worth noting that, in 4 consecutive years of yumejoshi polling, Idia and Trey were the only Twst characters to appear in all 4 years whereas Malleus only appeared in one year (while both Octavinelle members and Ace appeared twice each). I've actually previously speculated on the cultural differences between JP and EN and why it might have resulted in Malleus being so popular in EN and Trey is popular in JP. In most JP character popularity polls (which typically feature only students and staff) I've seen, Malleus ranks 9th or lower. Meanwhile, it feels like you can't walk two steps in the EN fandom without running into a post showering Malleus with love. Malleyuu is the most popular reader insert ship on AO3 and, in one fan-run poll considering 46 characters, Malleus still won over 50% of the votes (though please note the sample size is much smaller than what you’d find in a JP poll). Second and third places (Idia and Azul) only got ~33% apiece by comparison. As you can see, there is a very noticeable gap in Malleus’s popularity between the JP and EN fandoms.

[jinxthejubilee]

I feel like Twisted Wonderland is in its own 4Kids era from how bad the English translations are sometimes.

We got people out here believing Azul, Jade, and Floyd aren't really friends, Jamil's plan wasn't caused by the caste system and he's just out to get Kalim for no reason, Riddle is a whiney little b*tch, Trey not having a spine AT ALL, and that's just the tip of the iceberg.

I really didn't think the translations were that bad when it first came out, but as someone who's been following the story and has been a part of the fandom since the game's debut, I genuinely don't understand why they changed so much of the dialogue.

A call to the English translators: GET. IT. TOGETHER.

[amnayel]

i asked for water and they gave me a feast

WHAT TF HAPPENED IN THIS BANNER

HOW DID I MANAGE TO GET ALL MY FAVORITE CHARACTERS BEFORE THE 100th PULL????😭😭🙏🙏🙏

“i hope i get dorm malleus one of these days”

he came

“omg!!! vil could appear too lol”

he appeared

“damn, whats next, jade???”

IT WAS.

then i got idia after i threatened him and i saved the rest to malleus masquerade, you guys wont believe what happened-

SURPRISE MF!!!! BEFORE THE 100!!!!!

now idk if i save these two pulls for azul or if i try to uncap malleus

[twst-migraine]

AAAAAAAAH

TAMASHINA MINA IS HERE BITCHES AND GUESS WHO GOT THE SASSY LION MAN?

ME BITCH!

[winterspellsfrozenkit]

In case anyone is asking, YES, I'm still salty about the removal of Minna de Yahoo from Book 5... NO, I haven't forgotten what happened in 2022, so imagine my concerns finding out it popped up again in JP Book 7.

My post about why Minna de Yahoo was important to Book 5 here:

[deluxe-rabbitsu]

TWST EN WHERE IS APPLE BOA,,,IS GOING TO HAPPEN RIGHT¿,,,,YOU DONT UNDERSTAND HOW MUCH I NEED EPEL'S CARDD WE ARE HAVING TSUM TSUM AND I WONT BE ABLE TO ROLL,,,H ELP,,

[egalitarian-tomboy]

My Twisted Wonderland Updates

Finally got Book 6 completed on my iPad, Idia was a bitch to beat & I will never fight him again in his overblot form. Never. You couldn't pay me.

With Port Fest starting tomorrow, I'm praying that Jack will come home on both accounts. I will only go to about 40 pulls for my phone & like maybe 50 for my iPad because I desperately need more Fire-Water cards. If anything Book 6 showed me how unbalanced my cards were in terms of effectiveness.

Also!!! Just a heads up to people - THERE IS FURNITURE THAT'LL BE CRAFTABLE FOR THIS EVENT!!! So if you're into crafting like me for your guest room, remember to do the Crafter's Gauntlet in order to get the materials needed for it. This is the first event I think in EN that you need in order to craft something but I could be wrong. I might be misremembering something.

I'm super close to leveling my iPad's Guest Room to level 28, where there'll be more furniture available to craft, that it'll take me tomorrow and the next day in order to reach it. So my brain will be preoccupied by doing Port Fest stuff, crafting, and balancing teams. Since now I have time to kill before Book 7 comes out in EN.

[thesmilingkitty]

When you get SSR Leona on twice on the free pull

[terristre]

i love what they have

[raven-at-the-writing-desk]

👻 TwstOBer 2024! 🎃

Happy 5th year of TwstOBer~ 🎃

In case you don’t know what this is, TwstOBer is a Twisted Wonderland themed Inktober! There is a prompt provided for each day, which is used for inspiration to create an art or writing piece.

Feel free to join with your own creations of TWST OCs and/or of the canon cast of characters! You can use the hashtag #TwstOBer so that others can see your creations~

[jinxthejubilee]

The reason why stuff like the master/slave theme gets omitted in EN for Kalim and Jamil and now 'spanking' has been changed to 'sweeping', so because they want to protect people who has triggers for certain things or find topics problematic. They heard how the community reacted to the Fairy Gala calling boys like Jamil, Kalim, Ruggie, and Leona as exotic. So it was now changed to windswept. They had to change master/slave thing because slavery is bad and spanking is considered major child abuse. If you want to stop localization removing stuff, then it's time for people to not be too sensitive about these things or just get the hell out of the fandom and series. If people are gonna be whiny about problematic themes, then just get out. Don't force companies to bend over backwards to change it.

There's a difference between changing problematic elements and taking out stuff that doesn't need changing at all.

The whole "exotic" terminology, as a black/Hispanic woman, I can definitely understand why that would leave a bad taste in people's mouths. Us dark-skinned folks in the real world are often fetishized even though we should be seen as normal by now.

It's good that the team takes precautions for unnecessary things like that, but you're right. The whole servant/master dynamic is a huge part of Jamil's background and motivation.

Heck, you can't escape the child abuse aspect of Riddle's backstory. Nor the child death (A.K.A Ortho). That's just unavoidable. Blatant, even.

I don't think the answer is to tell people to "get out" of the fandom really, I think the answer is to ask the translators to find the line between problematic terms and necessary plot themes. And maybe try to reason with our fellow fandom members about their concerns.

[amnayel]

GLOMAS IS GETTING A RERUN‼️‼️‼️

THIS IS MY MOMENT

MALLEUS MY BELOVED PLS COME HOME🙏🙏🙏😭

I’LL GET YOU AÇAÍ YOU’RE GONNA LOVE AÇAÍ

[kenchann]

welcome to the world baby ernesto and gino 🦊😼

[thatlioninthecorner]

Opening up Tumblr today got me like:

Full on twst bomb 🤯 (I ain’t complaining tho)

I am LOVING Leona’s new sprite 👀👀👀 He keeps showing his forehead as of late, you know what that means

Still not exactly sure what’s going on in his dream, but OUGH does he look good 🤭

[consumebread]

It's bro's turn to cook *insert zero to hero here*

[tartppola]

happy chapter seven updateeeee ( on EN )