SRL here with a whole lot of research for you. Buckle your science belt—this is good stuff!
First up, Drizzle Season 2023 drops on 9/1, and our Video Team has uncovered this trailer. Are those new weapons we spy? New stages?! See for yourself!
Next, some shocking news. It's been a full YEAR since we started researching the Splatoon 3 game! And now we've discovered that the next Splatfest (from 9/8 to 9/10) celebrates the same anniversary with a divisive theme: Who would be the best leader? Shiver, Frye, or Big Man?
SplatoonJP:
『スプラトゥーン3』発売から来月で1年。発売1周年に合わせて、フェスが開催されるぞ!
お題は「リーダーにふさわしいのは? フウカ vs ウツホ vs マンタロー」。
期間は、9月9日(土)午前9時~11日(月)午前9時だ。
個性の強いすりみ連合の面々を束ねるべきは、誰なのか?
ぜひともご参加いただきたい。
SplatoonNA:
We've also discovered a set of badges that can be unlocked by playing in and winning 10x Battles. And there will be twice as many 10x Battles in this special anniversary Splatfest! If you don't quite make it, all is not lost. Your stats will carry forward to future Splatfests.
SplatoonJP:
10倍マッチの参加数と勝利数に応じてバッジがもらえるようになるぞ。
これらの数は今後のフェスにも引き継がれるので、自分のペースで獲得を目指してみよう。
なお、1周年記念フェスでは10倍マッチの発生率がいつもの倍にアップする。
運が良ければ、このフェスだけでバッジをゲットできるかも?
SplatoonNA:
We're not done yet! If you like badges, you'll love banners. Check out these Deep Cut banners celebrating the game's first anniversary, available via the Splatoon 3 channel in News on your Nintendo Switch system. They'll roll out following the Drizzle Season (5.0.0) update.
Last but not least, for the Deep Cut diehards out there, a series of Deep Cut amiibo is releasing on 11/17. Our research indicates that they will function in a similar manner to other Splatoon amiibo, giving you powerful in-game gear that can boost your battle abilities!
(Individual videos of the Amiibo included in the JP tweet!)
SplatoonNA:
Alert! With everyone distracted by all the news, the Salmonids are planning an invasion! The SRL Big Run Prediction Team is expecting a swarm from 5 PM PT on 9/1 to 5 PM PT on 9/3. No one invited these Salmonids to the Splatfest, but we'll need your help to send 'em packing!
edit: GUYS. THESE MEASUREMENTS ARE NOT CANON YOU UNDERSTAND THAT RIGHT. NIGHTOW JUST PULLED THE HEIGHTS OUT OF HIS ASS. LIKE HE DOES WITH MANY OTHER LORE ASPECTS. READ THE DESCRIPTION PLEASE. STOP SAYING " :O i didnt know vash was actually so short" HE IS NOT. THIS INFO IS NOT CANON.
Remember how I've mentioned at least twice that there are actually real conversions for the weird units in Trigun? I found em. They were on the inside of the DVD sleeve for Trigun '98.
There's also some other nice info about money and Nightow's character/worldbuilding (or lack of thought about it lol)
And guess what? I just checked the conversions, and these lengths (provided in metric) are almost exactly the same as their real-life imperial counterparts.
The character heights are also completely wrong. Using these units, Vash's height converts to 158cm, when we know that he's canonically 180cm in the '98 anime.
So take all this with a grain of salt!
> Length
1 iich ≈ 2.54cm ≈ 1 in
1 feel ≈ 30.5cm ≈ 1 ft
1 yarz ≈ 91.4cm ≈ 1 yard
1 ile ≈ 1.6km ≈ 1 mile
> Money
1 $$ (double dollar) ≈ 100 ¢¢ (cescent)
$$ are worth a bit less than USD.
> Character ages
Vash: about 150 years old
Wolfwood: 26 – 28 years old
Meryl: 23 years old
Milly: 21 years old
> Character heights
Vash: 5 feel 2 iich (158cm !??!??!?!)
Wolfwood: 5 feel 3 iich (160cm same as my mom lol)
Meryl: 4 feel 5 iich (134.7cm girl youre shorter than the shortest person i know. and shes pretty damn short)
Milly: 5 feel 2 iich (158cm)
> Character name origins?
"Hmm... To be honest, I didn't put much thought into them. It's not like I didn't think over them at all, but I focus on what sounds cool when pronounced, rather than the meaning of the name. I mean, if you turn 'Vash Stampede' into Japanese, it becomes 牛の暴走 (a wild rush of cows)! (lol) That doesn't match his character, does it? Well, maybe it does...?"
-Nightow
> Population density
Very low, since the ships made emergency landings across a large area of the planet.
> Length of 1 Day
About 24 hours, same as Earth.
Translation of the source tweet and transcription of images under the cut:
I was so happy about the Trigun re-screening that I dug back out the TV version's DVD out of nostalgia... I found lots of important information on there, so feel free to use this as a reference! However, I think this is just information for the anime version at the time. (like Wolfwood's age)
The height measurements are wrong! Be careful! (Even though it's official material…lol)
The Ogham alphabet has 5 vowels. The number 5 is the sacred number of the 'White Goddess'. Like all five vowel trees, pine is a female tree. And it is also the first vowel A, the tree of birth.
In ancient Greece, the pine tree was the goddess of the moon and dedicated to Artemis, who was responsible for the birth of children.The birth of Christ is celebrated on 25 December, and the Christmas tree decorated on this day is Norway spruce. The spruce is a member of the pine tree family. Although Christ's birthday is now celebrated on 25 December, it is believed that in earlier times our ancestors celebrated the birth of the Son of God on 23 December.
23 December marked the beginning of the 'Half Year of Light' and the birth of the "Son of God, the King of the Flourishing Half Year", and a gift of the wisdom of our ancestors.
On the winter solstice, druids (Ref2) in Europe lit large bonfires of pine and yew. Around the same time, the festival of the Druid Queen, Druantia, also took place. These large bonfires, which were built on the winter solstice, were passed on to the Yule Log. While the Yule festival lasted, people lit candles on pine trees and decorated them with glittering objects. The Christmas tree is the successor to this custom.
The ancients believed that the pine cones were cleverly guided by magical powers, as they spiralled and followed the same clockwise direction on their trunks as the earth around the sun. Yellow pollen was utilised in the 'money-accumulation spell' as yellow attracts gold. Pine branches are said to prevent evil from entering the house if hung over doors and windows, and old people are said to be rejuvenated if they carry pine cones.
Futhermore, Native Americans put a bag full of pine needles under their pillows on the floor when they have insomnia. In ancient Egypt, doctors in the Pharaoh's service used pine tar and turpentine oil to treat pneumonia.
The ancients learnt from the towering pines the importance of looking at things objectively and from a broad perspective. Pine teaches that you have to be positive about things, correct mistakes immediately and chase responsibility yourself.
So, have a happy Christmas everyone, surrounded by the tree again this year.
남노당 출신인 재일조선인 공산주의자는 이렇게 말했다. “나의 고향 제주도 마을에서는 일찍이 남편을 잃은 과부가 마을의 젊은 여성들을 데리고 중국으로 건너가 위안소를 운영해 많은 돈을 벌었다. 그래서 마을 사람들은 모두 자기 집안의 딸도 위안소에서 일하게 해달라고 그 여자에게 부탁했고, 다수가 돈벌이를 위해 위안부가 되었다.”
だから、反日政策を進めた李承晩政権も日本との国交正常化交渉で慰安婦への補償は求めていない。
그래서 반일정책을 추진한 이승만 정권도 일본과의 국교정상화협상에서 위안부에 대한 보상은 요구하지 않았다.
그 원흉은 강제연행, 성노예설을 퍼뜨려 나간 한국과 일본의 거짓말 세력이다. 일본의 아사히신문이 직업적 거짓말쟁이인 요시다 세이지의 강제연행 허위증언을 반복적으로 크게 보도했다. 일본인 활동가가 한국에서 전위안부들을 찾아다니며 일본 정부를 상대로 재판을 일으켰다. 원고인 전위안부들는 강제연행되었다고는 말하지 않았는데, 그들의 증언을 날조한 것도 아사히 신문이다.
그리고 정대협과 유족회라는 한국의 양대 반일단체가 일본발의 이 거짓말을 한국에서 대대적으로 확산시켰다. 그것을 한국의 신문, TV가 제2의 독립운동인 것처럼 크게 보도했다. 그리고 놓칠 수 없는 것은 한일의 거짓말 세력이 북한과 긴밀한 연계를 취하고 있었다는 것이다. 최근에 정의연의 전 이사장이자 국회의원인 유미향과 현 정의연 이사장인 이나영이 도쿄에서 북한의 앞잡이인 조총련의 행사에 참석한 것이 이를 상징하고 있다.
그런데 한국과 일본의 진실세력은 민족감정 등을 이유로 좀처럼 협력할 수 없었다. 일본에서는 지난 30년간 진실세력이 싸움을 이어가, 아사히 신문이 요시다 세이지의 증언을 거짓말이라고 인정해 과거의 기사를 철회하기까지 이르렀다. 한국에서도 2019년부터 이곳 위안부상 바로 옆에서 ‘위안부는 매춘부’, ‘위안부상 철거’를 외치는 한국의 진실세력이 반격을 시작했다. 그리고 마침내 지난해와 올해 도쿄와 서울에서 한일의 진실세력이 합동 심포지엄을 개최하기에 이르렀다.