EDIT: realizing perhaps this video is not as ubiquitously known as i thought it was and also (judging by the fact that the post has way more notes than the video has views) nobody's clicking on the yt link (and therefore not reading the credit in the description) so i'd like to take a moment to direct everyone to the original video this is based on by BugOlively. im so obsessed with it that i made this whole fuckin thing. please watch the original also. they chose the poses/stock photos and the music and animated it. i just gave it a coat of paint <3
recent observation: kazuma's armband is loose on ryunosuke in all his sprite animations, because kazuma is more muscular than he is......the level of detail in this game is INSANE.
but beyond that, i also wanna point out that the armband is noticeably adjustable:
he keeps it as kazuma's size by choice.....i'm so normal
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Art by the incredible @coralreefskim! A true connoisseur of the Wrights!
Goddammit, the short little ‘Dance of Deduction’ sequence with Herlock Sholmes and Yujin Mikotoba about halfway through ‘The Resolve of Ryunosuke Naruhodo’ is such a GREAT piece of Ace Attorney storytelling I really can’t stop thinking about it.
Like, just the way it starts and you realize how different it is from every single Dance of Deduction so far and it just immediately hits you, like, yeah, Herlock and Ryunosuke work well together but Herlock and Mikotoba are so in sync it’s on a whole other level. They synergize so well together it actually changes a whole game mechanic!
And then you realize that this is how Herlock’s Dance of Deductions originally went. The contrast between his genius reputation and his occasionally loopy deductions isn’t purely due to Iris Propaganda. His deductions nowadays can be so odd… because this was originally a Dance for two, simultaneously. And without Yujin Mikotoba’s talent for guiding and helping Herlock’s reasoning, they go astray and come out all wonky.
And it also, like, dodges some of the Weirder Implications the Yujin reveal. You know, in the sense of, like, ‘did Herlock intentionally set on playing the Dance of Deduction with Ryunosuke and making him his roommate to make him some sort of replacement to Yujin?”. Cause it really highlights that Ryunosuke’s dynamic with Sholmes is not just a replication of his old dynamic with Mikotoba. They’re both unique and distinct things.
Also Professor Mikotoba’s Little tap-dance is cute.