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Orsterran Cuisines (from CotC)

OK! Finally done! Since I’m attempting to write again - and my next writing project has a foodie theme - I’ve been checking all the NPC dialogue in Octopath Traveler: Champions of the Continent for mentions of cuisines, dishes, foods, rare ingredients, or anything connected to cooking. Some of the Memoirs mention food, too, so I included them as well.

It was quite fruitful, really! A lot of towns don’t make mention of food at all (Theatropolis, Rippletide, Berecain, Sufrataljah, Donescu, Clearbrook, Victors Hollow, Flamesgrace or Emberglow), but there are some really nice ones in various places, mostly in Valore and Grandport. I can only check from my current point in the story (which is up to date as I type this post), but I’ll be checking in future in case any more get added.

On to the list, then! I’m not used to Tumblr, so apologies if it’s not formatted correctly.

Atlasdam: Crimson Crab Pie (Capable Culinarian), and River Fish (Liquor-Loving Fisherman)

Grandport: Stewed Fish with Quatrait (Mentioned in bio of Woman from Quaragosa)

Also Grandport: Mossy Cave tortoise garden salad, Giant Sheep a la tomato stew, River Bean Vichyssoise, and White Grape Muffins, all mentioned by the Fastidious Housewife.

Shepherds Rock: Sheep’s milk cheese and grape wine (Jocular Soldier)

Sunshade: Cactus Cocktail (Tavern Patron Comparing Drinks, Working Dancer)

Valore: Raisins (Long-time Resident), Powder that “Tastes really good on chicken” (Powder Seller), Crushed Nuts (Ruffian Chef), and Rosso’s Favourite Powder “Valorian Mustard, and the Sunlands legendary Sufra Masala” (Rosso)

And finally I’cirlo: Alpaca dishes (Tavern Keeper)

There’s also a couple from the Memoirs: Steamed shellfish, using the leftover juice to make a soup (Trish and Barrad memoir)

Plounder Carpaccio, Saucy Shrimp,  (Fish - Clearbrook’s Claim to Fame memoir)

Armor Eater Tomato Stew, Shaggy Spider Meat,  (Yugo’s Gourmet Diary: I’cirlo)

So there we are! I know there’s more, and I’ll be adding to this list as I find it. Hopefully it’ll help anyone else with adding details to their fics, or just for appreciation of the depth of worldbuilding in CotC. At least by putting it here, I won’t be able to lose it when I’m looking for info when I’m writing!

*****Editing to add some contributions from @blazlngblade, after a quick collab over on Twitter. Thank you so much for the help! Since some of these aren’t in the Global version yet, I’ll edit this again to update it when necessary. :)

Ember Mushroom Pie: Crispy pie crust, snowy cream filling, ember mushrooms (Frostlands/Emberglow)

Rinyuu’s Stew: Wild boar meat marinated in alcohol, vegetable (Frostlands)

Rinyuu’s Cream Pie: Ember mushrooms (Frostlands)

Cave Mint Stuffed Chicken: (Frostlands/Flamesgrace. Lianna’s dish)

Shrimp Stock soup and anything with the Phantom Crab: (Trish’s dishes)

Herb roasted chicken stuffed with intestines: (Riverlands/Magg’s Tavern)

Magg’s Bean Soup: (Riverlands/Magg’s Tavern)

Magg’s Strawberry Tart - made with bright red wild strawberries (Riverlands/Magg’s Tavern)

Magg’s Rainbow Trout Carpaccio with shrimp sauce (Riverlands/Magg’s Tavern)

Crab shell seared with fat (Coastlands/Grandport Markets)

Seared Whirlpool Flounder (Coastlands/Grandport’s Tavern)

Herb Grilled Killer Chameleon (Cliftlands/Cragspear)

Sauteed Demon Goat (Highlands)

Unnamed Eastern Sweets (Mentioned in Sarisa’s Traveler’s Story)

Orsterran made Eastern Bento Box - Honeyed fish teriyaki with white rice, chicken fried tatsuta, stewed river beans.

Edit #2! Just scanned through all of @scholarlycait‘s Letters from a Cait Scholar for foodie mentions, per a wonderful idea from @legendaryandroid. I found four, so here they are! :)

Emberglow/Flamesgrace stews

Cave Mint tea

Reaper Crab Salad - a popular dish in the Coastlands

Cave Tortoise moss and embershroom stir fry - Frostlands Dish

Edit #3:

Mentioned by Bargello’s Crew:

Pasta with tomatoes, Rabbit Soup, and White Grape Juice

From OG Octopath Traveler:

Gigaswallow Soup. The Gigaswallow comes from a remote location and is very rare, as are its eggs. Called “One of Orsterra’s delicacies”

Valore (Hell):

Veal Saute (LeRuiz Chef)

Panini (Mighty Turilli)

Milkwine (Buttermilk) - from W’ludai’s Traveler Story.

Herbal Bread (Bowman in Shepherd’s Rock - from Dorothea’s Story) Apparently contains medicinal herbs in it.

Plum bread (Dorothea’s Traveller Story, Shepherds Rock)

Flying Fish Teriyaki, Marinated and deep-fried Cetus Maximus, stewed river beans in sweet sauce - Yugo’s Gourmet Diary - Theatropolis.

River Beans: The specific type is Phaseolus Lunatus - Lima beans!

Züsbaum, Per one of Isla’s letters, it grows in the Frostlands and its leaves have a sweet flavour. A tea made from them has a taste distinct from sugar. Many monsters love them, so picking the leaves is a monumental challenge, but many say it is worth the risk.

Herb Wine: a drink from the Frostlands - remember to drink in moderation, Isla says!

Berry pies: a favourite of Elrica’s.

Snow Beets: From OT1, but from the Frostlands. Naturally sweet.

Embershroom cooking method: (From Isla’s letters) “In Emberglow, the city which glows like dying fire against the night, the people harvest embershrooms. The name comes not only from the place it’s found, but also the way the mushrooms are prepared - embershrooms are cooked by roasting them slowly over the embers of a bonfire. In snowy regions, it’s im-purr-tant not to waste a single spark.“

Alpaca Cheese: from the memoir between Pia and Varkyn. From I’cirlo. It’s distinctive aroma can put some people off, but it does go well with wine.

Ketchup apparently exists in Orsterra, too. Isla mentions the condiment in one of his letters.

Catnip Juice. Another thing Isla mentions. Possibly a kind of wine for caits.

Alligator meat. Suggested by Kenneth as an ingredient to replace rabbit in Magg’s dishes. According to him it’s bursting with both flavour and nutrients, while according to Yugo it’s nice and lean, yet oozing with flavour.

Stuffed crab shells with fresh emperor crab, and flavoured with local gin. From Edea’s traveler story.

12 year old Valore Whisky. From Edea’s traveler story.

Chomper Bowls. Made with Chomper broth which gives it a delightful hint of sourness! (Which then turns out to be hallucinogenic!) Served in the Theatropolis Tavern. (Thanks to Omness for these finds!)

Dried Embershroom Soup. The signature soup from Dohra’s hometown in Adelle’s Traveller Story.

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Bloody Roar concept art

Hi guys, a while back I asked a question about whether there were still any Bloody Roar fans. Now that I’ve logged into my Tumblr again, I’ve seen some ppl chime in to say hello! Thus, to keep this fandom (however small it is lol) active, imma post some cool stuff concerning BR; concept art for the first game. *Note that all this info is from Mitsuakira Tatsuta and Shinsuke Yamakawa’s Twitters with some of my opinions and observations sprinkled in 

So, back when the first game was being developed, the character designers had to rack their brains to come up with good zoanthrope designs. Part of the team were Mitsuakira Tatsuta and Shinsuke Yamakawa and they sketched all kinds of beasts at an incredible rate (like, it was a lot). Mr. Tatsuta himself drew about 300 of them and he said there were a bull and kangaroo design he personally liked but those got rejected (we’ll get there). 

The image above is an unused koala girl whom he and the other artists found funny and couldn’t stop laughing at how terrible and dumb it looked. Tbh, they were kinda right lol. Given how slow koalas are, the image of a humanoid marsupial with boobs running towards you is fucking hilarious.

Anteater dude. Probably would have played like a mix between Bakuryu and Busuzima. Mr. Yamakawa thought it looked similar to the former. Speaking of which.......

Early design for Bakuryu. Seems like the mole was going to have ears and a tail. Actually, I’ve always wondered why the Bakuryus didn’t have tails when moles irl do have visible ones. Unless there’s a breed of mole that doesn’t, in which case I’m not aware of. The concept of a 2nd Bakuryu was also apparently already thought up at this time (idk if in the form of a clone, brother, student, etc.) even when Mr. Tatsuta wasn’t involved much in the later games so it’s nice to know that Kakeru/Kenji was not merely an afterthought haha.

Here are 2 very early concept art of Alice. In the 1st one, she looks more mature and edgy. The design/aesthetic may have been recycled into Nagi’s in BR4 (especially the tube top). In the 2nd one, she doesn’t have pigtails since her hair is short and instead wears a giant bow to emulate bunny ears. Very shoujo-esque.

This is the rejected bull design Mr. Tatsuta mentioned and next to it an early bat zoanthrope. The artist had already thought up some ideas on how they were going to fit in the game. The bat was of course used as the basis for Jenny’s beast form later on. There is also the bull zoanthrope’s human form. The character would be Native American it looks like. Bull guy here had been shown before in concept art included in the BR1 game.

A black panther woman (literally lol). It looks like she could have been a black character (probably the first and only in the series unless you count Greg). Also, if this character was approved, we’d have gotten even more cats in the roster.

Squirrel girl, elephant man, and goat lady. The first one looks kinda like a monkey girl (which would be super cute), elephant obvs became Ganesha later, and the goat lady looks more like a demon/satyr to me. This would actually be cool and does fit in with the mythos as shown in the games and the “BR: The Fang” manga i.e., fantasy creatures such as mermaids, dragons, and phoenixes. 

Kangaroo zoanthrope. Mr. Tatsuta imagined him using the Muay Thai fighting style. Eventually rejected as Roger, another kangaroo fgc, had already appeared in Tekken 1-2 years before.

Something veeeeeryyyy interesting. This is a pretty detailed design for a character that was going to be Alice’s brother. This guy was also included in the concept art feature in the BR1 game but it was not mentioned who he was supposed to be. I actually thought he was a proto-Yugo or something. Well, if he made it this far into the character creation process (past the rough sketches and onto colored concept art), then there must have been a conceptual storyline for him somewhere along the line. Judging from his appearance and fashion sense (heh), he’s definitely related to Alice.

Additionally, the red eyes and rabbit-like face probably means that he too was going to have a rabbit beast form; maybe even a hare. I guess he was scrapped since having 2 bunnies would’ve been redundant. I wonder how Alice’s backstory might’ve been had her brother existed. Would she have been adopted into the Nonomura family? Was there going to be some plot where she would be looking for him, thinking she lost her family? Who knows. One thing I do know however, is that he’d butt heads with Yugo since he wouldn’t be keen on his sister dating a *gasp* predator.

Now, I think it would be awesome if this character is introduced in a potential reboot/new installment! They could say Alice didn’t know he was alive, or that he stayed away to keep her safe, seeing as she was already happy with the Nonomuras and relegated himself to watching over her in the shadows. Seriouslyyyy the potential is enormous and I’m hoping something will be done with scrapped concepts like this. (Plus, this guy reminded me of the genderbend Alice fanart I did so long ago. I guess male Alice wasn’t too far off after all).

And lastly, Alice in her sailor fuku (human and beast form). Mr. Tatsuta said this was how he imagined she looked like in that costume.

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That’s all for now! It’s really interesting to see all this concept art and trace back where some designs carried over into later installments of the series. After going through all of them, I yearn even more for another Bloody Roar game! A reboot would be great and some of the rejected designs could be used too. Or continuation with new characters and a bigger roster; that would be even more amazing. Anyway, I thought I should share these sketches by some of the original Raizing/Eighting staff and keep the interest in BR going. We may get something; in regards to Konami trademarking the brand name last year, we just have to wait and see.

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Shimizu S-Pulse extend sextet's contracts

Shimizu S-Pulse extend sextet’s contracts

Shimizu S-Pulse announced on 29 December the contract renewal of six players, namely Yugo Tatsuta, Hideki Ishige, Kazunori Yoshimoto, Naoya Fukumori, Renato Junior and Junior Dutra. (more…)

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U23 Việt Nam vượt trội trong đội hình xuất sắc nhất Asiad 2018

U23 Việt Nam vượt trội trong đội hình xuất sắc nhất Asiad 2018

Tờ FOX Sports Asia đã cho tới 3 cầu thủ U23 Việt Nam vào đội hình xuất sắc nhất, Asiad, vượt trội với những nước còn lại. 

Là nhà vô địch nhưng U23 Hàn Quốc chỉ được chọn 1 cá nhân vào đội hình này, là Lee Seung-woo, người đã ghi 4 bàn thắng. Á quân Nhật Bản có 2 người được chọn là Yuto Iwasaki, cũng ghi 4 bàn cùng trung vệ Yugo Tatsuta.

Ba nhân tố U23 Việt Nam được chọn là trung vệ Bùi Tiến…

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UAE into semis after shootout win over North Korea

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UAE into semis after shootout win over North Korea

Dubai: The UAE beat North Korea 5-3 on penalties in the quarter-finals of the Asian Games football tournament in Indonesia on Monday to set up a semi-final showdown with Japan on Wednesday.

Keeper Mohammad Al Shamsi dived his left to save North Korea��s fourth spot-kick by So Jong-hyok, before Rashed Musabbah calmly slotted the winner, after the game finished 1-1 in normal time.

This is the UAE’s second successive penalty shootout win in this tournament after having also beaten hosts Indonesia 4-3 in the Last 16 on Friday.

It also avenges North Korea’s 1-0 win over the Junior Whites at the same stage in this competition at the last Asian Games in South Korea four years ago.

The UAE earlier sneaked through their group as the fourth of four best third placed runners-up after defeats to Syria 1-0 and China 2-1 either side of a 4-1 win over East Timor.

Kim Yu-song put North Korea in front on 63 minutes after heading in a cross from Kang Kuk-chol, but the UAE equalised through Ali Yahyaee four minutes later with a similar cross and header supplied by Zayed Al Ameri.

The Koreans had another Kim Yu-song header from a corner disallowed just 10 minutes after his opener for an alleged shove on Ahmad Al Mehrzi.

The decision forced the game into extra-time after which Kim Kuk-bom hit the post on 98 minutes.

In the shootout, Ahmad Al Attas, Zayed Al Ameri, Khalid Al Dhanhani and Hussain Abdullah all converted as did Kim Yu-song, Jang Kuk-chol and Ri Un-chol, but when So Jong-hyok missed the fourth, it was down to Musabbah to seal the victory.

Maciej Skorza’s side now play Japan from 4.30pm (UAE time) on Wednesday after the Samurai Blue beat Saudi Arabia 2-1 in Monday’s earlier quarter-final.

Yugo Tatsuta’s own goal before half-time cancelled out Yuto Iwasaki’s post half hour opener, before Iwasaki completed his brace with a 73rd minute winner.

In the other half of the draw, South Korea also overcame Uzbekistan 4-3 thanks to a late extra-time penalty from Hwang Hee-chan on 117 minutes, after it ended 3-3 in normal time.

South Korea were 2-1 up at half time with two goals from Hwang Ui-jo either side of Jaloliddin Masharipov’s effort.

Uzbekistan then came back to lead 3-2 after early second half goals from Ikromjon Alibaev and an own goal by Hwang Hyun-soo, but Ui-jo completed his hat-trick with 15 minutes to spare to send the game into extra-time.

South Korea will play Vietnam in Wednesday’s other semi-final from 1pm (UAE time) after the Vietnamese beat Syria 1-0 in extra-time of the other quarter-final, courtesy of a 108th minute winner from Van Toan Nyuyen.

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Japan U22 squad - ft. Kubo & Doan - announced for Nov friendly

Japan U22 squad – ft. Kubo & Doan – announced for Nov friendly

The Japan Football Association announced the 22-men U22 squad that will play Colombia U22 in the upcoming Kirin Challenge Cup on 17 November. (more…)

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Japan U-22 squad announced for CONCACAF tour

Japan U-22 squad announced for CONCACAF tour

In addition to the senior national team announcement on 30 August, the JFA revealed the U-22 squad that will head to North & Central America for friendlies in September.

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Copa America: [JPN 2-2 URY] Player ratings

Copa America: [JPN 2-2 URY] Player ratings

Japan battled Uruguay to a 2-2 draw in the Copa America on 20 June. Below are the player ratings. (more…)