/jp/ - Otaku Culture

>>20455082
I love these designs so much but they were made by satoyasu? who was the Illustrator on City?

>>20455107
Everything Kawakami did was together with Satoyasu.

>>20455356
Not everything, City had 3 illustrators.
>The first novel was illustrated by Shirou Oono (しろー大野), the second by Nakakita Kouji (中北晃二), and the rest by Satoyasu (さとやす).

>>20455387
Well I'll be damned.
The one in the OP is Satoyasu though, pretty recognizable.

Spoilers for the Next Box prologue:
Character intro sign frames start appearing behind the characters.
It turns out the ley lines have been overburdened, so history/data has been leaking out.
Most of it will just settle down on its own, but there is a risk of some data being destroyed and thus the events would be erased from everyone's memories.
Musashi must go around finding and reviewing (or "Girls Talk-ing") the escaped data to make sure none of it is lost.

I won't have time to read the Edge one until tomorrow.

>>20455107
Yeah, I really like Satoyasu's late City illustrations.

>>20455419
Wait, we're talking about events posts volume 11 ending? like, the problem is fixed but there are still details and some stuff that has to be done after the big deal right?

>>20455431
Oh, yeah. Forgot to mention that this takes place after the main Horizon series.

>>20455435
Ah that makes sense. Thanks for the spoilers as always.

Btw do you have any information regarding edge if that's going to be a full LN serialization or just the web thing on OP?

Finally

>https://twitter.com/__HORIZON__/status/1075950830451286017

I bet that bitches can fap in that room.

https://twitter.com/Maxoden909Coach/status/1075950880057249794
What the hell

>>20455803
Holy shit, that's amazing. Based Kawakami autists.

>>20455708
Pft. If I had all of my stuff together it would be better than that.

Why time flows so slowly.

this is what nightmares are made off
https://twitter.com/ToaruHouse/status/1075959027081703424

>>20456955
Ya think Kawakami'll need one of those for another dance?

>>20455708
Based Gamers

That whole digital set for ~28,000 yen is #1 on BookWalker.
Very happy to see it getting yet another boost to sales.

>>20458296
Nice.
Though I'm still somewhat confused by how all-out they're going on promoting the franchise now. On the one hand it does feel like they're gauging interest for a new something-or-other animated Horizon thing, but on the other we all know how unlikely that is.
It just feels weird to me that they started planning for this years ago, got the old staff back together and went through the trouble of god knows how much new design work for a 12 minute novel commercial where the screentime of characters is often measured in seconds.

>>20458413
Testing waters for OnC, lol.
Nope.

>>20458531
;_;

Okay, here's a summary of the Edge series, On a Godless Planet, so far:
After dying almost immediately in a new VR game, a boy named Sumeragi Izumi wakes up in his school dorm in the year 1990.
He meets a busty senpai who is moving in next door.
He gets called to the Game Club by a girl named Shinobu Saki and a boy named Raidou Tetsu, who are an item.
They were playing the VR game with him and explain that he died so quickly because he is a human while they are gods.
An intellectual girl named Kuwajiri Tsubomi and the bald club leader named Yomoji Shinsei are also there.
To help with the game, Yomoji sends him to the library to study.
In the library, he meets a foreign-looking girl on the library committee named Kubiko Scarecrow and the head of the library committee named Yagokoro Omoikane.
They tell him the object of the game is terraforming and that he chose a god to assist him in the game, although he doesn't remember doing so.
After returning to his dorm and deciding to play the VR game again, the senpai next door appears and explains that she is the god whose duty it is to assist him in playing the game. When he asks for her name, she is reluctant to tell him so she doesn't.
Inside the game, an AI named Balancer explains what's really going on.
The "game" is the real world and the current year is 3203. The 1990 Earth world Sumeragi through was real is a "divine world" created for all the various gods to live in. Everyone Sumeragi met there was a god and he is the only human.
Due to unspecified reasons, humanity had to leave Earth and move to another habitable planet. They were put into cold sleep and left the AI in charge.
When they arrived at the system to terraform it, the AI found formless spirits on the planet that resisted the terraforming.
Much to the AI's surprise, the terraforming devices that people had attached Shinto good luck charms to lasted longer against the resisting spirits.
After much experimentation, they discovered that Earth's religions are different "filters" that people used to receive power from the ley lines, so they managed to recreate the "molds" of the various gods to extract those gods as data entities.
By applying those "molds" of the gods to the ley lines of those "godless" planets and by recreating the legends of those gods, they can stabilize the ley lines and make the planets habitable for human life. The process can be called Divine Terraforming.
Having a human like Sumeragi around is useful because being worshiped by humans gives the gods more power, but when asked why he alone was awoken from cold sleep, Balancer refuses to answer at the moment.

>>20455443
I don't really know, but Dengeki has started a label to give LN releases to their web releases, so this might be a part of that.

>>20459512
I sense this is the beginning of something excellent.

It's a bit of a surprise — I thought we would get humanity's journey to the stars for the 1st Edge, not the process of terraforming the planet, but Kawakami does seem to like scenarios where we know things don't work out perfectly in the end.

The process of saving the world in Genesis didn't prevent Obstacle from happening. Similarly, we already know that the terraforming will go wrong in Edge, since when humanity returns to Earth in Genesis only the Divine States are habitable.

>>20459512
Sounds pretty interesting and it seems like it'll be somewhat easy to find the connections to GENESIS and AHEAD.

Can't wait to know more of it.

I'm guessing actually translating whatever LNs get released from now on will be left until you've finished Horizon?

Well, I guess if it's short enough it can be done inbetween like City or Hexen. Anyway, thanks for all the work you do.

>>20459512
Cool, it looks like we're going to see how divine powers really work.

>>20459512
We got a huge jump from 2005 and what Team Leviathan did after releasing the Concepts to 3203.

For now this seems quite interesting but I want to ask if you can give more details about Sumeragi's personality, since we have characters like Sayama and Toori I guess he's different to those 2?

>>20459512
Looks pretty interesting

>>20459512
So Dengeki finally started their "overpriced" label like the others do? That sucks.

EDGE sounds very interesting.

>>20459512
Jesus Christ, is it still Minoru Kawakami or do we have another Peter Watts now? AIs and supernormal entities screwing with a lone future human in space exploration age?

GIVE ME TWO

>>20459512
Neat

>>20459512
I don't get one thing, I thought that every human became a god after the event of OnC. So now, are the gods the inhabitants of the Gears that settled on Low Gear and the humans the original population or something else?

>>20460409
Did you even read OnC or what?

What you posted NEVER happened, only the Concepts were released in the world making the low gear the only surviving and complete world thanks to the contradiction allowance concept. Nobody knows what happened after the end of the first ahead but only the inhabitants of the 10th gear were gods, also humanity and the other races going to the heavens doesn't mean they're all gods, at all.

>>20460409
>I thought that every human became a god after the event of OnC
Gods and humans are 2 separate entities, all the gods are in a reservation except for Jord.

>>20460476
In the long recap from Horizon it's stated humanity ascended to the heaven obtaining the status of gods. It's not clear when or in what way after the events of OnC, but I assumed it's somehow related to concepts released in the world.

>>20460512
And I don't think the gods from 10th-G are the same thing from the EDGE era. They're just gods from the point of view of the religion that that Gear generated in Low Gear.

Words can't express just how much I love Satoyasu.

>>20460927
Words can very much express how I`m happy to see Satoyasu grays™ properly realized. It`s just that I wish we had Satoyasu light strokes™ properly realized as well, but you just can`t have it all in the end.

Still, would it kill them to do illustrations in something lossless at least?

>>20460891
No, the gods on the 10th gear are literally gods the difference is how they advanced alongside humanity for thousands or ten thousand years in the future until the War on the heavens happened leading everyone to the Genesis era.

OnC just opened the path for everyone in the world to evolve after releasing the concepts.

>>20461688
So BVC really was just an alternative cover? I do like that cover a lot more so the auction hunt begins.

>>20459512

>>20460891
The becoming gods thing is something that happened very very very much later, probably in EDGE.

I dont care if its a long glorified commercial ad, where is the video?

>>20463141
Here.

>>20463180
What do I win?
Jokes aside, DHL still believes that I'll get it on Monday and at this point it's not looking to be entirely impossible.
However, I'm not sure if I'll immediately upload it once I have it. Bitches did say he wanted us to watch it together, so it would be nice to host a stream first (I'm thinking 23:00-24:00 UTC if I get it on Monday) before throwing it up on nyaa.

>>20463141
Here.

>>20463461
I find ironic that our parcels are in Tune Bust City Hong Kong and in Noise City Osaka. Mine is supposed to arrive on the 27th, but knowing amazon it will pass though Liepzig and arrive in Venice airport in the weekend, so very likely I'll get it on Monday.

By the way, since we agreed to let the english speakers do the final check to the OVA, I don't plan to release the raw before that moment either.
I support the '/kwkm/ watches XXI for the first time' idea.

>>20464277
It's a bit more convenient for me because the delivery route is HK->Frankfurt airport->Frankfurt DHL delivery base->courier. If I end up getting my BD before you I'll hit you up on IRC or w/e.

>>20464277
>By the way, since we agreed to let the english speakers do the final check to the OVA
I'm not quite sure what you mean by this but it sounds to me like there is an assumption that the OVA comes subtitled.
It does not.

>>20464549
There's a translator that is just waiting for the BD to come, never thought about Bandai's subtitles.

>>20464549
>OVA is not subbed

Vale has failed us.

>>20464464
>Frankfurt
Or maybe not, it got routed over Leipzig. Bit confusing desu, every international shipment I've received so far arrived in FFM.

>>20464464
How many people from Germany do we even have in this thread? Mine says Thursday which makes me sad and mad, though.

>>20460983
Can't have it all, indeed.
Considering my knowledge about this we already got the current high-end so it would probably kill them for sure.

>>20459677
Sumeragi is kind of like Tenzou if he was more upbeat and shameless and didn't care about hair color. He has a thing where he'll blurt out the dumb thing Tenzou would only think, realize it was a dumb thing to say, slap himself, and then just keep going as if none of it happened.
I'm still not completely sold on him as an MC, but I trust Kawakami.

>>20460927
The end of Futayo's character arc was so damn good. One of my favorite parts of 11-C.

>>20463461
DHL says Monday for me too and it's looking pretty likely.

>>20465297
Great news, mine just changed to Monday as well.

Did anyone in here get the version with the e-book?

>>20465297
So Sumeragi is a smart guy that has dumb thoughts about things but he actually say those things, that sounds like someone who can fuck things up in certain situations.

On a side note, between the MC's of OnC, Horizon and a few ones from CITY, which one is your personal favorite and why?

Christmas looks promising in Tres España.

>>20465987
TES

>everyone getting their boxes in time for christmas
Sometimes good things do happen

>>20467902
>>20467909
>Sample

>>20468533
Js06, if you're alive out there.

who the fuck was persona-kun?

>>20468611
Glorious.

>>20468533
Masazumi looks so cheerful.

>>20468547
Oh, yeah. I forget to mention that one. That was one of the plot threads that got resolved in just a page or two.

Terumoto realizes he really is Mouri Motokiyo when he gets injured and the blood flowing across his back muscles forms the "tattoo" she had seen in the past.

>>20468727
What's her reaction about that? I remember from early volumes that she kinda loved him even when she was with XIV.

>>20468727
Huh, good to know. What happened to dog girl and fox mom?

>>20468611
>>20468533
They're beautiful.

>>20468743
I don't think it was that kind of love.

>>20468727
That reminds me, was there an explanation why Yoshitsune came back?

>>20468809
I know but her love was like "I always loved this guy but nothing happened ever but I still remember him" while with XIV is a full blown love as a consummate couple.

>>20468533
This is amazing

>>20465987
I didn't know there was someone else besides me who liked this in this shithole of a country.

>>20470248
EU stronk.

>>20470248
More than you think.

Found something on Baidu, would be nice if js06 could take a look.
This should be the SS included with the last volume box from Melonbooks.

>>20473847

>>20473853
And this is the standalone one for volume 10-C.

>>20473868
I mean 11-C.

Also, completely unrelated, 24th is looking good so far, Ivan.

>>20473853
>>20473877
That reminds me that it would still be nice to have translations of the commentary in the OST booklets eventually.

>>20473980
I would love it, and I really want to see what said Katou about the music...

dont die yet

It's time

>>20476440
It's a Tsrichmas miracle.

Owari subs dude, get on your IRC

>>20476440
Fucking Testament.

A little snack for the road: https://nyaa.si/view/1104805

>>20476604

>>20476440
I'm living in a world of mad right now.

>Address information needed; contact DHL
I contact them they tell me they can't do jack shit I have to contact amazon. That Japanese dude has obviously no fucking clue. The address is naturally correct.

>>20477301
Commiserations. I once was in the same boat with jap parcel.

>Christmas Eve on /kwkm/
>no Shinjou or Sayama posting

https://youtu.be/DHbXD67tiOQ?t=162

>>20477489
Merry (Scandinavian) Tsirchmas, Kawakamigos and Kawakamigas.

Love ya, everyone!

>>20477473
It's just fucking stupid. I received 11-C via the same method on the same address just fine not even two weeks ago.
Well, they're trying to "fix" it now.

Have fun with your copy.

>>20477489
Merry Tsirchmas!

I wonder if I can still find cream puffs for her before Christmas eve...

I couldn't get a santa art for her this year, so take this drawthread /ss/ last 2015

Some Brunhild love.

>>20477715
>cream puffs
Never too late to learn to bake

Merry Tsirhcmas to all of you, hope you all get pleasant holidays without much shit from the family and you get all packages you might be waiting for in time.

Ok friends, the XXI livewatch is officially happening today 23:00 UTC on cytu dot be /r/Kyoukaisen

You'll probably need the google drive support userscript.
https://github.com/calzoneman/sync/wiki/Google-Drive-Userscript-Installation-Guide

>>20478058
So, 9 hours from this post?

>>20478138
Yeah

>>20478058
If I can load the stream without problem that means I dont need anything to watch it right?

Also same as this anon >>20478138

>>20477489
Only the old guard remember that OnC is the one that take the spotlight on Christmas. I'm with you bro.

>>20478161
It'll start complaining when I queue a video hosted on Gdrive and prompt you to install the userscript.
I'll queue a sample video so you can see if it works.

>>20478058
>2AM here

Yeeesh.

>>20478191
Installed the userscript just in case, I don't need to create and account and log on cytube right?

>>20478250
No. I think you need to if you want to chat, but it's not like it matters too much and last time I checked it didn't need an email or anything.

>>20478257
You can use a guest login I think

>>20478058
If you find something to improve during the livewatch you can always say it here and we'll fix it before the release.

>>20478172
There's a new guard? I thought we were all the same guys from 2012

>>20478315
heh, of course not man, haven't you noticed the influx of new people recently? 99% of them just came for Horizon and the end of the LN, none of them have ever read OnC, let alone CITY.

>>20478257
Oh thanks, so how much time from now? I really want to be there.

Sad Tsirhcmas...

>>20478366
Maybe happy new years?

Unless they're going to fuck you in the ass and send you the package after new year.

>>20478403
Nah, the package probably will be here the next working day, but hurts to see your package almost here and don't receive it because everyone here closes early today.

>>20478058
What happens if I don't have it?

>>20478498
It will be very painful.

Already out and all but whatever.

>>20478058
Reporting back from the channel; everybody install the userscript, you get errors without it.

The stream starts in 4 hours.

Tsirchmas time means cement-like maid automaton time. Good old #8.

>>20478172
Time for a Tsirchmas miracle.

>>20477764
Best witch.

>>20477525
All hail the god of eroundism!

>>20479705

>>20479769
I wonder if the long-lived from 1st Gear led to the long-lived in Horizon. At the very least, the flat attribute got passed on.

>>20479769

>>20480427

>>20480513

>>20478058
10 minutes, get in here

>>20480865
Should we put the link on /a/, too?

>>20480882
I'd rather have a thread on /a/ once the subs have received their v2 and are up on nyaa.

>>20480882
where?

>>20480882
If at all, just say the link and instructions are in this thread. Don't need a flood of people.

>>20480882
No thanks, /a/ is a shithole dont bring them here.

>>20480924
Hey, some of the best threads were on /a/. I guess we've all migrated out here, though.

Some stitches

>>20481038
>>20481047
>>20481054
>>20481060
>>20481064

It's a real Tsirchmas miracle.

I still don't know what to think. It was nice but way too short.
It somehow feels too disjointed to be actually made like that.
Plus they did all those designs for characters that appear on screen for seconds and probably killed a dozen animators with that transformation sequence.
Considering that they started planning for this years ago it's either the most thoroughly designed fanservice or actually just a PV of something as the name suggests. If anything it would be a movie or two adapting the more important parts of 10 and 11 since movies seem to be the popular thing to do lately.
I know I'm removed from reality here, but I can't really accept that after all the promotion for the end of the books and them bothering to make a boxed release in the first place this has been 'it'.

@js06 If you have too much time on your hands, can you take a look at the recording of October's promo event with Kawakami on special disc 3? In the part starting at 39:05 he says something about why they called it XXI.

>>20481271
Yeah, I really agree. It's strange that something like this — just a collection of loose snippets — would even be made at all. It's too much to just be fanservice.

Still, after this long, I don't dare to hope for anything more.

>>20481271
He just says it has scenes from Volumes X and XI, so XXI.

>>20481427
That makes sense. Pretty much what I was expecting anyway, but who knows with that guy.
Still wondering what the deal with the PV is then.

>decided to wait a full 9 hours
>computer decides to literally commit suicide four hours before airing
>cancelled a sudden plan with the family to go out
>fix the damn thing
>it's already over by the time i manage to boot up

it's like the entire universe aligned for me to miss it. are there any plans to eventually release something?

i'm too tired to be in a fit of rage

>>20481462
Damn, that sucks.
Raws are out and the Owari subs version will be going up maybe tomorrow.

Added 3 more volumes.
Thanks again for the stream and happy holidays.

>>20481462
How does your computer suddenly die and how does it take four hours to fix?
I don't get it, aside from critical hardware failure.

>>20482011
HDD failure.

Posting best girl! Merry Christmas everyone!

I know the XXI-PV wasn't that much, but, i don't know man. The last scene just broke me, i let out a tear.

>>20482892
It's okay man, now we just need to focus on lobbying an EDGE or AHEAD adaptation.

>>20483070

I'm excited af. Hoping 2019 turns out to be a good year for kwk fans.

>>20482011
>How does your computer suddenly die and how does it take four hours to fix?

the PSU seems to be failing. i replaced it and it died again. i'm suspecting it's the motherboard, but having your computer die at 5AM is extremely fucking annoying. it's working for now, but who knows when it will finally give up the ghost?

also, S3 when? i felt like everything was a giant cocktease, studio 8 really hasn't lost their touch.

The fight between Takenori Kasuya and Nate was animated by Nozomu Abe, Accel World's main action animator.

Why the XXI-PV on Nyaa is a freaking 3.2 GB file?

>>20484993
Because it is a BDMV rip?

>>20485036
It shouldn't be, the first season in 1080p with subs is a 5gb file and this is a 15 mins ova.

>>20485048
It is, the direct BDMV rip is bloat, a 24min episode usually is 6-7GB. That 5GB file is encoded.

XXI-PV weights 3,2GB in the BD, but the encode is just 289MB.

OVA is out, the Pope and Galileo wish you Merry Tsirchmas.

>>20485609
time to seed

>>20481494
Thank you.
Any news on the package?

>>20486744
No news, sadly.
Nothing from Amazon Japan yet but I do expect some new info tomorrow since that should be a normal workday over there.
And I can't bug the local delivery service until Thursday.

>>20481271
Apparently, the whole Kasuya scene was made by a single animator, Nozomu Abe.

>>20486798
Yep, as I said before >>20484854

KAWAKAMIIIIIIIII

http://www.someanithing.com/10178
6,213 sold
Not sure if that's just the standard edition or if it includes all the different store special versions as well, but I'd chalk up as a success in any case.

>>20486789
Christmas day is a normal working day in Japan.

>>20487584
I got no message today.
Probably because the whole process is basically:
Amazon JP -> DHL Japan -> Local DHL -> New delivery.
And local DHL is still closed.

Well, at least I'll finish making the clean versions of these until it arrives. Hopefully.

>>20487671
Where are you getting that delivered? Spain?

>>20487977
Germany. The next DHL Express stop from me is a ~1 hour drive and I bet that fucker didn't feel like it on Monday.

>>20487344
I think the projections for the special editions were fairly similar.

Did anyone grab the ebooks for Kimitoasamade yet?

>>20487316
Ah c'mon, we've been building to that line for 10 years

>>20485609
Best Christmas Ever.

fuck it, it was worthy just for the werewolf transformations

>>20487316
Wow. It's the greatest pun Seijun ever made, and no one even heard it.

Anyone extracted all the images from the epubs?

>>20491325
Just open them as archives and there will be folder with images inside

>>20489187
Aren't they distributing them as shitty PDFs?

Animate bonus booklet seems quite lackluster.

GIVE US SEASON 3 ALREADY

>>20491815
What's in it?

>>20492083
Bonus story written by Kawakami. I haven't found any pictures or auction selling it yet so all I can give you is the PV. No clue if it has any illustrations or not.

https://www.animate-onlineshop.jp/special/viewer/genesis-horizon/

https://tokuten.genesis-horizon.net/

Anyone try it yet? I hope it's gaijin e-mail friendly.

>>20492240
Werks

>>20492453
Nice.
I see no point in limiting it to 5 downloads, though.

>>20491609
Yes, it turns out the pdfs are indeed kinda ass. The pages are tiny.

Can somebody with the box please scan the cover for that special singles cd? Autism will not allow me to have it in player without a proper cover.

>>20494342
It doesn't have its own cover, its one of the 4 discs in pic related

>>20494478
Shame.

>>20494534
But I can offer you the 'cover' file of the BDs

>>20494546
Yes please.

Satoyasu never ceases to amaze.

>>20491432

It looks like the mega folder is missing 5A, 7A, 7B, 7C, 9B, and 10A. Any idea if those are uploaded anywhere?

Me, I`m happy to actually see picrelated.
Muton, I`m sure, is too.

>>20494563
Well, that was it.

Is the Ova wth subs aviable to download?

>>20494634
Very much so. I still remember how I tried to recycle that old scan.

>>20494630
I didn't purchase them yet and I dunno if someone else is doing it.

>>20495252
Yes.

Just watched it and it just hyped me more and I'm sad because I will never be able to see everything that is missing animated.

>>20495588
Can you please pass the link?

>>20495613
Just check nyaa, it's there.

>>20493741
The text pages are images as well?

>>20495715
No idea how the whole thing is set up, I tried to use a 'extract images from pdf' website that usually works, but it only gave me a bunch of garbage here.

>>20495735
Seems like they cut it apart and rearranged it within the PDF. Depending on how big those parts are there may or may not still be some hope for higher res.

>>20495751

>>20495773
Higher than expected but very bad quality.

>>20495779
So basically we got assfucked, nice.

At least some of the images aren't split apart
And when I say 'some' I mean 1 per volume at best, most of them have 4 parts

>>20495910
Pretty much, yeah.
Also, is there really not the small Musashi from the glossary page as an image in there? Or am I simply too blind to see it in your screenshot?

>>20495986
Your eyes are functioning, it's not there.

>>20495982
That one's actually pretty good. So they only messed up the split ones.

>>20496014
Damn.

>>20496030
I'm getting the impression it's a vector graphic of some sort
Pic related

>>20496037
SVG probably, yeah. I wonder why it wasn't extracted, though?
Gotta dig through these files myself once my copy finally arrives.

>>20496062
Got it.
https://mega.nz/#!G8gnzCjK!bg7mF5vARObqA2230jgIo906VWQXCuWyqMbx41_meSM
Seems like it only extracts jpg/png files.

Just finished the OVA and while it was full of nothing I enjoyed it still. Was nice to see more horizon animation. Credits made me sad since this is most likely we'll get new animation for Horizon.

Just finished the OVA and while it was full of nothing I enjoyed it still. Was nice to see more horizon animation. Credits made me sad since this is most likely the last time we'll see anything new animation wise for horizon

Some webms
Fuck filesize limits

>>20497514
Kawakami had her making bad jokes for 20+ volumes just so he could write that line.

>>20497514
Kawakami's always had a way of making his titles meaningful.

>>20497511
>Noriki Smiling
that shit gives me the creeps

>>20497623
In Kawakami writing somebody always has to bear that particular cross.

Can i ask for the mega link again
Just lost it

>>20495779
>>20495910
It's not all bad desu. They're compressed as hell but there's pretty good JPEG denoising software these days. The waifu2x denoising NN is pretty impressive from what I've seen, even with aggressive settings. I never found any denoiser program that worked very well with high res halftone printed images so I still think it might be a step forward.

>>20501016
With some processing it's good enough I guess.
The second one the other anon posted suffers from some banding but I think most people won't notice.

Fucking kino.
Really makes you wonder why they would go through all this trouble just for a PV though, especially when it's not clear exactly what it's promoting (though I guess just selling lots of copies of the boxset is enough of a goal).

>>20501652
Conspiracy theory: it was made years ago.

>>20501652
>Filename
I'm pleasantly surprised there are other Swedish Horizonfags.

>>20502260
I guess it's possible, what's with Kawakami sneaking foreshadowing for the final volume in S1. The question that still stands is why was it made?

>>20502505
I think there are representatives from just about every European country in these threads for some reason.

>>20501652
>Really makes you wonder why they would go through all this trouble just for a PV though

2 reasons:
1) Most of the time anything that's anime related is created to promote another product and increase sales of it, in this case the BD-BOX and the last volume, both coming out in the same month.
2) Because as >>20502260 said, it was made long ago but it was a better investment selling the first 2 seasons again while using the OVA as promo material instead of going through the entire pain in the ass and investment of a new season, which involves the insecurity of "what if this flops?"

The thing is this OVA did the job, the BD-BOX sold until ran out of stock, same happened with the entire collection of all volumes so you can say that was a good marketing desicion and not one that was made to please the fans, is evident in the fact that the Ova was just shitty 12 minutes instead of a full blown standard Ova that is aprox 25 mins.

>>20502680
>I think there are representatives from just about every European country in these threads for some reason.
And that's one of the good things about the Kawakami threads

>>20503350
I just hope we dont have many french people here, considering that there is a lot of germans they're going to surrender lmao.

>>20503357
In the time period concerned and right to Napoleon thereafter french continuously prwn germans, which are not even a unified entity.

>>20504270
This. France dominates Europe all the way up until the early 19th century. Germany isn't forged into a united nation until Bismarck in the late 1800s.

That being said, starting with the Franco-Prussian War in 1870 the French do abysmally in battle. The German Empire is literally founded at Versailles Palace right outside Paris — if that isn't an epic humiliation, nothing is.

https://twitter.com/__HORIZON__/status/1078528630538461184
They just keep piling on the ads

>>20504750
It's a lot of love for a series that ended years ago.

>>20502680
We should do a survey.

I was reminded that horizon existed today and i remember liking it, if not having any idea what was going on and oh god where do I start with this

>>20505052
Be ready to read a LOT. But don't be discouraged by the sheer amount of text, it's actually quite easy to read and despite the amount of pages it stays true to the concept of "Light" Novel.

I recommend reading Owari no Chronicle first because:
1) it was published before Horizon
2) it's fully translated
3) helps complement Horizon's lore

After finishing OnC, then move onto Horizon up to the last translation and then either wait for translation to advance or read js06's summaries up until the end (while waiting for translation). Also read Hexennacht (fully translated), CITY (partially translated) and Horizon Kimitoasamade (fully translated).

Rewatching the anime before starting to read Horizon is also a good idea, since it's a good adaptation imo.

>>20505199
oh good i was gonna ask how well the manga and/or anime stack up

>>20505215
The Horizon manga is actually more faithful than the anime in some places, but it only goes as far as the first season, I think.

>>20506621
I really hope I can get that doujin.

>https://twitter.com/RagheOyashi/status/1078642667918118913

Which one of you degenerates is this one?

>>20506847
Probably >>20465987

>>20506621
Even the cement-like girls have such cheerful expressions.

>>20507492
who, Naomasa?

>>20506847
Me.

>>20506847
I have the sneaking suspicion it was person responsible for you getting to watch OVA so swiftly.

https://www.pixiv.net/member_illust.php?mode=medium&illust_id=72331211

>>20507879

>>20508003

If Kawakami recycles characters after getting them filtered through a few epochs, just who was Toori in OnC? Masazumi ancestry is rather obvious considering in comparison, as well as Tenzo's.

>>20507850
>He doesn't read the dates
Weak bait.

>>20508117
Should say "considering her occupation".

I don't get Seijun's joke on the OVA.

>>20508275
Below/blow.

>>20508117
They're not recycled, in fact something you probably don't know is that people got this idea from what sayama did as the last concept, making everyone think that they resurrected in the future.

From a writing standpoint there are just a few characters that are similar but saying recycled is wrong on so many levels, especially because you're adding every title on this bucket.

Don't die yet

test test

>>20506621
>Marga and Margot not together
Heresy.

>>20507850
He was from M.H.R.R., not Tres España.

I just finished the BD Box bonus novel. It didn't have anything too spoiler-ish, but I'll spoiler the summary anyway.

Musashi and Hashiba look back at the events of Vol. 1, showing things from different points of view than what was recorded in the "official records" (i.e. the original novel).
This included from the Speers POV, which showed they actually put together a plan to swoop in and rescue Toori since they didn't want him to die. They tried to come up with a plan to save Horizon too, but they couldn't come up with anything feasible and decided to leave that in Oriotri's hands.
They ended up calling off the Toori rescue plan when they realized Class Plum was moving much faster than expected (due to their training from Oriotri) and would actually arrive in time to save Horizon.
The retelling of the opening training scene with Oriotri included some parts that Kawakami had cut from Vol. 1 because it was getting too long (did he actually listen to his editor back then?) but were included in the anime.

This put me in a Horizon mood, so expect some Horizon translations this weekend.

>>20514137
I want to know something, the age of the Speers is around the same as class plum right? if that's the case then how old is oriotri?

For some reason she always felt a bit older than most students, i'd say like in her 20's. Another detail that is missing from the summaries is the origin of Oriotri, we know that she was born from the mix of the DNA of Horizon and Toori and that Kimi was the surrogate mother but how did she came to this timeline and what was her relationship with the Speers?

Thanks for the summary!

>>20514137
Thanks as always.
Are you still checking that old e-mail of yours you sent me a message from quite some time ago? I want to send you the Amazon bonus story of the Box since I was crazy enough to purchase it but I'm uncertain about posting it publicly.

>>20494630
>>20495301
It's complete now.

>>20514137
Thanks as always.

>This put me in a Horizon mood, so expect some Horizon translations this weekend.
Yes!

Now that I think, do we have a compilation of all of js06's summaries? when I wanted to get up to date with them I had to fish through threads to get the latest volumes.

>>20514845
Up to 9-B is in his pastebin.

>>20514436
The Speers are a year younger than Class Plum.
Oriotri disagreed with the Speers' planned methods, so she went back in time separately from them and ended up in IZUMO instead of P.A. Oda. She also went back further, so she is now older than the others.

>>20514486
Sure, you should be able to send it there.

>>20514486
>It's complete now
Good shit, thank you!

>>20514982
Got it, thanks. Just now I sent it from my current mail, subject is "Kawakami Thread".

>>20515035
You're welcome.

>>20514486
Amazing, thanks!

>>20515102
>pic
Is that edited? The one in the pdf release has much more muted colors.

>>20515127
It's from the PDF. Extracted and denoised.

>>20515135
I see. Looks pretty nice.

>>20514856
>>20514982
I tried to get the summaries and all for the rest and vol 10A and 10B only have a single short summary instead of the by chapter/scene. For vol 11-C I got the short summary plus all the Q&A that followed.

I can upload a PDF if anyone wants, I'm making one with 7A onwards and one with everything just to remember all the stuff that has happened after so much time reading.

I should finish reading 6C though.

>>20516077
You shouldn't do that, if anyone wants to get into this then they should get their asses into the LN, read it from the first to the last page of each volume.

Summaries that aren't provided by Js06 do more damage than good, especially because the people who only read the summaries instead of the LN always get the wrong idea or take every detail out of context because they don't get what's going on. Remember that some threads ago we got a few tourists here that only read the summaries believing that was enough and at the end of the day the didn't understood shit because of that.

Same story happened with anime-only viewers who didn't understood anything and were begging for summaries and still didn't understood shit.

>>20516473
Ah, forgot people who don't want to read the novels come here.

It was a good thing I decided to ask before uploading then.

It was all js06 summaries though, I searched his tripcode so all info on my pdf is given by him.

https://www.baka-tsuki.org/project/index.php?title=Horizon:Volume_7A_Chapter_8

>>20517709
Thank you!

>>20517709
Thanks a lot!

>>20517709
Thanks!

Will anyone scan the BDBox special booklet?

>>20517878
I don't have a scanner

Oh hey, Kawakami's doujin stuff is on melonbooks.
https://www.melonbooks.co.jp/circle/index.php?circle_id=26061

>>20517878
Someone will, don't worry about it.

>>20520794
you sure?

>>20522082
There is no need to bump the thread with retarded questions buddy. In this place there is always someone providing material, scans, whatever comes out.

>>20522312
I hope your right

I miss these designs so much.

https://page.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/o290490974
If anyone feels like buying the Animate bonus novel
Meanwhile I'm trying to get my hands on the Kodama Yuu doujins

Just finished. Can I jump straight to 3-A's translation or did the anime skip a ton of shit and I should read from the start? I really want to keep going and see what happens.

>>20526735
You're better off starting from 1-A since the anime skipped most 'non-essential' events and dialogue.
You could start with 3-A if you really wanted to but I wouldn't recommend it. Plus being able to link the novel descriptions of fights to something you've just seen might help you better visualize stuff from vol. 3 onwards since Kawakami has a rather detailed way of writing them.

>>20526735
I think it's better to start at the beginning. The anime gives you the bare minimum information needed to understand 3A, but it's still better to read the first two volumes.

>>20526735
The adaptation is good, but you miss a bunch of things and details, so you're better starting from 1-A.

Also, you're missing the entire chat stuff (because it's too hard to put in anime). You won't find the novels that boring to read even if you've just watched the anime.

>>20526206
Somehow I get the feeling that the next series might not be illustrated by Satoyasu, so maybe you will be in luck.
Most likely that would just mean Kawakami illustrating his own novels though, which would mean HUGE PUFFY AROLAE AND VULVAS AT EVERY POSSIBLE OPPORTUNITY.

>>20527989
Post your reaction when
>Kawakami illustrating his own novels

>>20527989
I want to jump in a timeline where I can see Kawakami posting a Futayo illustration or two instead of a cycle between Asama and Mary.

>>20529228
Well, there's always that one illustration from O2F

>>20529447
full illustration, never ;_;

>>20529228
Feels like it's more Nate and Kimi than Mary if you ask me.
And though he has improved I wouldn't say you're missing out on much.

>>20529488
I wish Futayo had actually gotten more outfits in O2F

>>20530425
WOAH! SHE'S COOLER THAN I EXPECTED, My smile and optimism is now restored.

Thank you for posting this!

https://www.pixiv.net/fanbox/creator/465046

>>20530524
No problem. I think the only reason I had it was because I went digging through twitter profiles of a fan artiest who was playing it.

Hopefully this will work out. First time using that proxy service (Zenmarket). Trying to get the Speer one from Melonbooks as well.

>>20530647
Kawakami is starting a patreon? Is he getting sacked from Dengeki or something?

>>20531482
>The author that has been working for dengeki for more than 20 years
>sacked

>>20531482
It's probably because he's been posting free stories on that website.

Happy new year, faggots. It's been nice.
Here's to another one.

>>20531523
Well, most authors don't post borderline porn of their own series to their twitter accounts...

>>20531955
Are you new? Kawakami has been done whatever he wants for more than 25 years, he barely listened to his editor and Dengeki is happy with that. In the past he posted even more NSFW stuff on his twitter.

>>20526218
Is the current bid from someone in here?

New year new thread

>>20532561
>>20532561
>>20532561

>>20532446Yes that is me