Rose Guns Days (07th Expansion)

[Tamekichi]

Here's the last four bios. I included the Witch Hunt translations of the dialogue from the video because they're much better than I could do and WH is awesome.

Spoiler for Claudia Kurosaki:

The one person of all the women of the night that is a friend to Rose.
While everyone wears Western dresses, she's often seen being the only one wearing Japanese clothes.

Although her reserved manner seems out of place, she is a hard working woman of the night. If it had been a decent time, I'm sure things like the world of the night would never have become part of her life.
With all the woman living their lives in self-indulgence, she had a solid amount of savings in the bank, seemingly for her dream of having her own establishment someday.
This sort of diligence was not uncommon in Primavera during those days.

"I've had this dream
ever since I was a child."

Spoiler for Alfredo Akagi:

He was part of the American mafia that was advancing on City 23.
He was their cruel and ruthless hit man.
However, he killed the American mob boss and took control of the
organization, then formed a plan to take control of City 23.
At the time, internal strife was weakening the mafia, but make no mistake,
there was also no more dangerous person in City 23 than him.
They needed a large amount of cash quick, to reconcile with the
organization back in America, so they were earning money with
considerably rough methods. Of course, they also had their eye on Club Primavera.

"Aha... I take it this is Primavera's answer, Miss Rose Haibara?

Spoiler for Julie Hayashibara:

An aspiring young reporter from the Tokyo offices of the Ote Newspaper and the Hong Kong Daily, did I get it right?
A graduate of Tsinghua University. She's an extremely talented, quadrilingual woman, proficient in Chinese, Japanese, English, and French. She's learning ancient Japanese martial arts, and she's also an acting member of the Japanese-Chinese Culture Sports Exchange Youth Delegation.
But more importantly, she is probably the only unbiased reporter at either of those companies. An unbiased person in 21st century Tokyo, now that's something that's considerably hard to find nowadays, huh?

"I-It's a pleasure to meet you!
I'm Julie Hayashibara from the Daily Hong Kong News!"

Spoiler for Madame Gianna:

And then there's me,
the Honorable President of "Spring Breeze," an Association for Japanese Patriots.
I'm also the chairman of the board for the Japanese Traditional Culture Preservation Society, and
the President of the Japanese People's Scholarship Society, among various other things I'm doing.
I suppose the general public has come to know me best by my title as the "Big Boss" of the Japanese Mafia.
Don't be frightened.
Is it your belief that I'm only nice to Japanese people?

"...hohoho.
would you be so kind as to indulge an old lady in tales of times past?"

[Captain Bluebeard]

Wait....Ryukishi isn't doing all of the art in this????? NOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!
(I just died a little inside, but I think I'll be fine...)

[Yirba]

Ryukishi07 is only illustrating a few of the characters. I suppose it wouldn't make sense to exclusively use his drawings since it's not being marketed as a "sound novel".

[-Kuroko-]

Originally Posted by Captain Bluebeard

Wait....Ryukishi isn't doing all of the art in this????? NOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!
(I just died a little inside, but I think I'll be fine...)

Finally someone that shares my sorrow! I love R07 art, his character designs, facial expressions, everything! a 07th expansion novel without R07's drawing style it's just.. not the same.. everyone is happy about it but i'm mad and sad, when I read the afterword in Hane where R07 said he may stop drawing his novels.. I DID die a little inside..

[RedKey]

Originally Posted by -Kuroko-

a 07th expansion novel without R07's drawing style

Calm down, it's not like he didn't draw anything... he did all the backgrounds and a few characters. He said he just asked Square Enix to introduce him to other artists to help with that boatload of work of his. Can't blame the poor man.

[Yirba]

Originally Posted by RedKey

he did all the backgrounds

Those are photos, though…

[Leo_Otaku]

Awesome I will have to get this game then now that there will be translation. I can't read enough Japanese at that level on my own. Can hardly wait!

A very good choice to use other artists! I'm overjoyed he is not doing the majority of the art. Everyone is not good at everything, but everyone is good at something. He does story best

[Captain Bluebeard]

Originally Posted by -Kuroko-

Finally someone that shares my sorrow! I love R07 art, his character designs, facial expressions, everything! a 07th expansion novel without R07's drawing style it's just.. not the same.. everyone is happy about it but i'm mad and sad, when I read the afterword in Hane where R07 said he may stop drawing his novels.. I DID die a little inside..

My thoughts exactly, down to the last word. The large hands are part of the experience!

To be fair though, as much as I love his art, he probably had various factors to think of. After all, most people are thrown off by his art as it's not easy to get used to, which may end up hurting the sales (I know a bunch of people who never bothered with the Umineko VN because they stupidly were unable to get over the art).

Well, this isn't all bad I guess...He is drawing SOMETHING, at least. And personally, I loved the art in Umineko EP4 manga, but well, I wouldn't be sure so about Tatarigoroshi's and Umineko EP2 hideous art....

[Bern-san]

Thanks for the translations! (and congratulations for your graduation^^)

Hope I'm fast enough to get a copy, and really happy to know that it will get translated by you guys! Thank you sooooo much.
After it gets released I don't know if I will avoid or not spoilers...

I'm quite satisfied with the character designs since I love them all and thanks to the coloring it doesn't look that strange with 4 different artists. I didn't like Higurashi designs but grew quite fond of Umineko's

[Yirba]

I don't think people complaining about his artwork is the reason Ryukishi07 only drew some of the characters. He did say that it was to make the workload somewhat manageable.

If they were worried about sales figures, 07th Expansion would be a commercial company, not a small doujin group.

[Captain Bluebeard]

Yeah, sure, but they've actually come a long way since Higurashi's copyrighted BGMs, I figured it's only natural they'd start becoming a bit more proffesional (plus there are way too many people out there complaining about Ryukishi's art, and they're even making patches to change it with the PS3 one -which is actually MUUUUCH uglier in Higurashi's case- . The only reason he doesn't give an old rat's ass about them is that he seems to be having so much fun drawing it).

[Yirba]

Heh, if they made the games too professional, there'd be less reason to buy the (considerably more expensive) console ports.

Honestly though, I'm sure Ryukishi07 is aware of the criticism. And there's evidence that he's been trying to improve his drawing style. Still, I don't think he wants to disappoint those who think of his drawings as an integral part of the experience.

[Leo_Otaku]

Originally Posted by Captain Bluebeard

Yeah, sure, but they've actually come a long way since Higurashi's copyrighted BGMs, I figured it's only natural they'd start becoming a bit more proffesional (plus there are way too many people out there complaining about Ryukishi's art, and they're even making patches to change it with the PS3 one -which is actually MUUUUCH uglier in Higurashi's case- . The only reason he doesn't give an old rat's ass about them is that he seems to be having so much fun drawing it).

Where is this patch of the Higurashi art you speak of Sounds interesting

[Yirba]

Originally Posted by Leo_Otaku

Where is this patch of the Higurashi art you speak of Sounds interesting

I don't think I should link to it, but you can probably find more information by searching for the terms "higurashi" and "patch" using your favourite search engine.

Essentially it replaces the game's art with the art from the PlayStation 2 version.

[Leo_Otaku]

For this game is it a series or just one game?

Originally Posted by Yirba

I don't think I should link to it, but you can probably find more information by searching for the terms "higurashi" and "patch" using your favourite search engine.

Essentially it replaces the game's art with the art from the PlayStation 2 version.

Thanks I'll try that I wonder if it works with the official translated one

[RedKey]

This is going to be a series. Seven games, in fact. And like Higurashi and Umineko, Episode 3 will contain 2 and 1 too and so on.

[Yirba]

Originally Posted by Leo_Otaku

For this game is it a series or just one game?

Only one game has been announced, and there's been no indication so far that it will be a series.

Originally Posted by Leo_Otaku

Thanks I'll try that I wonder if it works with the official translated one

It definitely works with the official one. I don't know of a patch which works with the original Japanese version.

Originally Posted by RedKey

This is going to be a series. Seven games, in fact. And like Higurashi and Umineko, Episode 3 will contain 2 and 1 too and so on.

Huh? Really? Does this come from Epitanime? I hadn't heard that…

[Tamekichi]

Originally Posted by Bern-san

Thanks for the translations! (and congratulations for your graduation^^)

You're welcome!

[RedKey]

Originally Posted by Yirba

Huh? Really? Does this come from Epitanime?

That's right. Unless I completely misunderstood Ryukishi's words (my Japanese is not stellar, but I'm pretty sure he said that ). Anyway, I'm sure summaries about Epitanime will come out soon enough.

[Yirba]

Originally Posted by RedKey

That's right. Unless I completely misunderstood Ryukishi's words (my Japanese is not stellar, but I'm pretty sure he said that ). Anyway, I'm sure summaries about Epitanime will come out soon enough.

Ah, cool. A lot of people have written stuff about the Epitanime event on Tumblr, but I hadn't seen anything like that. Looking forward to the summaries.