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shadowmaksim.bsky.social @shadowmaksim.bsky.social · Dec 7

Well, I finally got around to doing it. I mentioned I wanted to briefly talk about something recently and here it is. A 30+ post thread of brain gooping, though much of it is just images and links. Not really in-depth at all.

Doubt anyone cares, much less likes the franchise, but I wanted to do it.

shadowmaksim.bsky.social @shadowmaksim.bsky.social · Dec 7

There's this particular franchise I'm very fascinated by. But despite how surprisingly massive it is, it's actually quite obscure. So much so that there's barely any coverage on it, this one blog being the only one I can even find about it.

landofobscusion.blogspot.com/2022/06/obsc...

"Neverland"

Obscusion B-Side: The IF Neverland Reportage: The First Neverland War

On October 26, 1994, an ex-Data East employee named Shingo Kuwana, who had previously worked on the Joe & Mac series as a planner (& was "G...

landofobscusion.blogspot.com

shadowmaksim.bsky.social @shadowmaksim.bsky.social · 7h

The vibes from this is giving me a mixture of "Blue Reflection" and "Crystar", with a smidgen of Vanillaware presentation.

So in other words, yes please.

Alice at the End of Her Life - Teaser Trailer

YouTube video by LightWitch

www.youtube.com

shadowmaksim.bsky.social @shadowmaksim.bsky.social · 14h

And that's it for now. As more get added, I'll be sure to...

Huh? What about the Diez variants?

Yeah, what about the Diez variants. Poor guy hasn't ever gotten any. Unlike Lucy who is the clear favorite. Just kind of how it goes I guess.

At least he still shows up in events from the looks of it.

shadowmaksim.bsky.social @shadowmaksim.bsky.social · 14h

Diez
"A Hunter of Fallen Angels who is admittedly bad at acting, but his gun skills are first rate."

shadowmaksim.bsky.social @shadowmaksim.bsky.social · 14h

Security Guard Lucy
"Lucy is dressed as a security guard at the Manji Expo. She has thoroughly studied the pavilion, and her mind is full of ideas for how to slack off while on guard duty."

shadowmaksim.bsky.social @shadowmaksim.bsky.social · 14h

Christmas Lucy
"Lucy dressed in a Santa costume. Though the outfit is risqué, she designed it herself and is enthusiastically wearing it."

shadowmaksim.bsky.social @shadowmaksim.bsky.social · 14h

Angel Lucy
"By the power of Archangel Pleinair, Lucy has turned back into a full-fledged angel. She's never late, never absent, never slacking off. In fact, she's happy to work overtime! This Lucy is a devoted, benevolent angel who always works diligently."

shadowmaksim.bsky.social @shadowmaksim.bsky.social · 14h

Zodiac Lucy
"Lucy, who gained the power of the year of the rabbit and became the main character of this year. Investigators are of course working during the year-end and New Year holidays! According to her, she is still undercover during the New Year's visit."

shadowmaksim.bsky.social @shadowmaksim.bsky.social · 14h

This variant (un)surprisingly has a bunch of concept art.

shadowmaksim.bsky.social @shadowmaksim.bsky.social · 14h

Swimsuit Lucy
"Lucy disguised as a Bikini Gal for a serious undercover investigation on a deserted island. She may be tanned but she wasn't slacking off sunbathing at all... she claims."

shadowmaksim.bsky.social @shadowmaksim.bsky.social · 14h

Lucy
"A young fallen angel who tells everyone she's a master spy, blowing her cover immediately. So she mostly just beats up her infiltration targets in a frustrated rage."

shadowmaksim.bsky.social @shadowmaksim.bsky.social · 14h

While this isn't an actual unit in the game, there is weirdly concept art for a Torachiyo in sleepware.

I can only guess this didn't make it in cause the idea as a whole fell through. None of the other characters have sleepware variants either.

shadowmaksim.bsky.social @shadowmaksim.bsky.social · 14h

Onigiri Detective Torachiyo
"There is always only one Truth, just like there should always be only one filling for a riceball! This is the motto of the Great Detective who can solve any impossible case, the Onigiri Detective Torachiyo!"

shadowmaksim.bsky.social @shadowmaksim.bsky.social · 14h

Christmas Torachiyo
"Through a slight misunderstanding, Torachiyo has donned a red suit of armor for the holidays. Her goal is to gift everyone some riceballs, by force if necessary!"

shadowmaksim.bsky.social @shadowmaksim.bsky.social · 14h

Torachiyo
"A powerful demon samurai who devoted her life to the way of the Riceball. Her Onigiri-based fighting style earned her the title of Onigiri Lord."

shadowmaksim.bsky.social @shadowmaksim.bsky.social · 14h

While they weren't there in the beginning, "Disgaea RPG" eventually added a trio of original characters who would regularly pop up in various events.

Torachiyo, Lucy, and Diez.

And, of course, they also ended up getting a number of variants as well.

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shadowmaksim.bsky.social @shadowmaksim.bsky.social · 17h

There was a f***ing toggle!

Perseverance prevails!

AAAAAHHHHHH!!!!!

shadowmaksim.bsky.social @shadowmaksim.bsky.social · 17h

Well, I finally found the menu. Apparently there's some criteria to even open it but I have no idea what they are.

So yeah, you can only view it for characters you own.

Oh well, at least I got one out of it.

shadowmaksim.bsky.social @shadowmaksim.bsky.social · 19h

Yeah, I think I'm going to have to be content with the ones that are available. Which, mind you, is the majority of them but still.

Like I already have the next batch ready to go, I'm just meaning the cut-in for one of them so I'm foolishly holding off until I find it.

My perfectionism is a curse.

shadowmaksim.bsky.social @shadowmaksim.bsky.social · 19h

But the main problem is that one menu with the clean cut-in art. I legitimately can't find it. I'm trying to narrow down the options by comparing UI elements but no luck there.

And even if I do find it, I'm suspecting it's only going to be for units you own. Which is, well, going to be a problem.

shadowmaksim.bsky.social @shadowmaksim.bsky.social · 19h

I did however find where they keep the character design sheets. So that's nice.

I was actually missing 2-3 of them since they were never uploaded to the main twitter account for some reason.

shadowmaksim.bsky.social @shadowmaksim.bsky.social · 19h

So I decided to download Bluestacks and get them myself.

I have no idea what the heck I'm doing. There are so many menus, I can't read Japanese, and I don't even know what I'm looking at half the time.

Though I managed to pull a Lvl 9999 Nekomimi Ao from the gacha the 1 time I tried it. Lucky me.

shadowmaksim.bsky.social @shadowmaksim.bsky.social · 19h

There is however a menu where the cut-in is in full display with no UI. I actually managed to get a couple from there.

Still not the best but it's the best I got.

But again, these are sparse. And the chance I'll find all the missing ones are unlikely.

shadowmaksim.bsky.social @shadowmaksim.bsky.social · 19h

I thought I might be able to get away with finding screenshots on twitter or elsewhere.

That somewhat worked but it's very sparse.

While the cut-ins themselves are not hard to find, they usually are covered with UI. Not to mention small so the resolution will get shot.

shadowmaksim.bsky.social @shadowmaksim.bsky.social · 19h

But the problem there is that one of the main sources I was using, the wiki, stopped updating roughly 5 months ago.

disgaea-rpg.fandom.com/wiki/JP/Char...

It's not a major problem since I get get most of those things elsewhere...except for the cut-ins. Those are very annoying to find.

shadowmaksim.bsky.social @shadowmaksim.bsky.social · 19h

I think I'm going to have to give up on getting this "Disgaea RPG" thing I'm doing exactly how I want it.

The way I wanted to do it was getting the
- character/variant name
- their description
- the main portrait
- the cut-in art
- character design sheet
- concept art if there is any

So like this:

shadowmaksim.bsky.social @shadowmaksim.bsky.social · 7d

Asagiri Asagi
The male Asagi created by HGC Asagi to be the main character of an action game. He uses pointlessly stylish attacks to defeat his enemies!