You ever do that thing where you’re like “I’ll make the post after I finish this project so I don’t have to make another post soon after” but then the projects just keep coming and before you know it it’s been a quarter of a year since your last post? Oops.
A lot has happened that I need to share here, but I’m going to have to leave some of the minor stuff out or Substack will chop this newsletter’s ankles off. I’ll start with the really exciting stuff first.
THE REALLY EXCITING STUFF //
NEW GUILTY GEAR WIKI NEW GUILTY GEAR WIKI NEW GUILTY GEAR WIKI NEW GUILTY GEAR WIKI NEW GUILTY GEAR WIKI NEW GUILTY GEAR WIKI
The new wiki launched on March 25th after 5 months of toiling away at it. We added transcriptions of all of the in-game Guilty Gear World glossary entries (over 400 of them in total!!), added + fixed missing transcriptions of story/arcade text, cited/rewrote a ton of pages, are currently working on timelines for the games, expanded character galleries, and a whole bunch of other stuff.
I’m very proud of how this thing turned out. Our new host, wiki.gg, has been incredible. It’s a real breath of fresh air after trying to stumble through what Fandom was bogging down its platform with these past few years. Wiki.gg’s staff were incredible (and very patient…) to work with too, pcj in particular for putting up with our nonsense and Mr Pie 5 for coding our kickass layout. It has toggleable light/dark themes!!
- LIGHTNING THE ARGENT -
I finished translating chapter 1 of this right at the beginning of February. Chapter 2 hasn’t been started yet, but I’m hoping to get back into it soon now that the wiki is public and I can focus on things that aren’t Lua errors or programming bots to move 200 pages because I fucked up a template ahaha.
For now, LtA is only available as a .PDF hosted on my Neocities. You can access it in the Archives there.
- GUILTY GEAR COMIC ANTHOLOGY -
TWO chapters of this have been completed since my last update: 9. LOVE PHANTOM and 15. MEET AGAIN. I skipped 6 chapters because I really, really, wanted to do the Denki Akiba story and couldn’t wait any longer.
LOVE PHANTOM - A Millia and Zato chapter where she tears him a new one for being a dickhead. There’s a brief (one panel) depiction of sexual assault. I put a content warning for this on the chapter page on both Mangadex and the .PDF on my site too.
Neocities (.PDF download)
Mangadex (webview)
MEET AGAIN - A recap of the end of Sol’s route from Missing Link where he fights Justice. Awesome art style. Denki Akiba does not disappoint.
Neocities (.PDF download)
Mangadex (webview)
- HELIOGENOMS -
Speaking of Denki Akiba… I scanned another of her doujinshi: HELIOGENOMS INSPIRE. Summary from my website: Starts with a chapter by Gobanjima featuring Sol and Johnny, then two chapters by Denki Akiba; one with I-No and Sol, the other with Sol and Johnny with a brief Dizzy cameo at the end. I-No's vest flies open in a few parts so this issue is a little risqué, but her nipples aren't defined clearly enough to really call this issue NSFW.
Neocities (Japanese)
- OVERTURE: UNPARALLELED CONFESSION -
I translated this a while ago but I cleaned it up recently and added footnotes. This isn’t on Archive just yet, I wanna get all 8 of these done before updating the .PDF there. UNPARALLELED CONFESSION is Sol’s story from the Material Collection art book. He goes and bothers Ky, who then asks him if he can look after Sin while he deals with all that stuff with the Conclave blackmailing him and Dizzy.
ART //
I haven’t drawn a whole lot recently, to be honest, but I did do some stuff I like.
END //
Substack is warning me about the email cutoff limit so I gotta wrap this up for now; there are a bunch of links and things I wanna share next newsletter though. Until then, I leave you with this pleasant track from the Waterworld SNES game.