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« on: November 14, 2002, 02:15:49 am »
but that's the best explanation i've ever heard. Thanks, Rob...  @ Neil a friend and i once discussed the probablility that the last sequence of Magnificent World 1 was just an illusion [feel free to curse me, it's a morbid thought that completely ruins the el-hazard universe]. Let's hope not. No, I'm pretty sure it's the clear vision of Makoto fulfilling his promise to Ifurita that he will return. The very fact that he is noted as older (the ending images depict a taller, obviously more matured Makoto, and he also carries the distinct "adult eyes", per El-Hazard standards) and BTW, the Wanderers version of Ifurita seems like a cross between the Flavor 1 Ifurita and Qawool. Mm, I dunno, Qawool is kind of an airhead really. Wanderers Ifurita is essentially a klutzy teenage girl. Why does Pioneer allow this to happen? Can't they just close the series with a bang like Gainax did with Eva? Allow WHAT to happen? Plot gaps or alternate existances like Wanderers? I myself am not familiar with Gainax, so maybe I missed the point.
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« on: November 13, 2002, 07:29:36 pm »
You'll note by looking really carefully, that Qawool's hair colour is slightly more blue than Ifurita's. I'm not sure who's a bigger nut here  As for the infamous "Eye" (of god, probably) insignia, it seems common everywhere. It could be that Qawool played a part in El-Hazard past, but I doubt she was directly related to Ifurita in any serious way. Well, okay, a little more on that ... it's shown a few times that Qawool at random causes energy manipulations, particularly when she gets frightened -- at this point I'm getting too fanfic'y, and therefore means I'm sharing my own toys and you don't have to believe a word I say from here on out ;p -- Her spatial energy manipulations remind me of Ifurita's capture / control / learn functions. Now while of course this is predictably treading towards something of Qawool being Ifurita or something like that, I will note that the only way I can think that Qawool still exists, and yet there's Ifurita ( two of them even) would suggest that if it WERE Qawool's body that was used, it ... well, couldn't have been her unless there's an extra timewarp and/or cloning involved in there somewhere. The only other thing is a Sailor Moon-ish "daughter of future Ifurita" type bit or something. I can definately say though, if the question is, is there a relationship, it's not likely. But the very fact Makoto sort of "gets all giggly" with the girl also is part of the suggestion, to me, that she is somehow related to Ifurita in some other way that makes Makoto feel the same way he does about Ifurita while she's around (but not actually in love with "Qawool" so much as feeling a subconcious reminder of Ifurita)
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« on: November 12, 2002, 10:48:33 pm »
This is something i've wanted to discuss/debate on but haven't really found the right audience for it. I'm open for anything! I know all of you dig the Ifurita-Makoto matchup [cause it's so suteki] but if there are any Qawool fans out there like me... Well, in all fairness, that was Hyashi's original ending and goal. I don't suppose that directly eliminates the potential of Makoto dating or testing love in other directions in the interim before getting back to Ifurita (which judging by the end of Magnificent World, shows that Makoto aged a bit before he finally did it) Now, what point are you getting at, exactly? Do you desire to see a relationship between the two, or are you just irked that Qawool didn't get a chance to be more built up storywise? I'm heavily into plot sifting, I like to theorize and whatnot. One thing I've noticed about Qawool can be seen on the first DVD cover, perhaps something the creators were trying to draw your attention to.  There appears to be direct similarities between Ifurita and Qawool. Also in the first episode, Makoto has a dream sequence over Ifurita, where she is engulfed in black goo stuff.  In the dream, he then sees a vision of Allujah, and this:  Which then equates to him realizing its the crest on Qawool's clothing  Note it even includes the "Eye" symbol typical to the ancient El-Hazard war machinery. Way later in the series, Qawool makes some note that I can't remember directly, something along the lines of feeling like she has a heart connection to Makoto "from long ago". Given the abrupt ending of the El-Hazard main plotline at this point, I have a feeling Qawool was going to be further manipulated down the line to, at some point, be a direct link to Ifurita. Exactly how I can't verify, at that point its only 100% fanfiction "truth". (I have my own ideas, natch')
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« on: November 06, 2002, 03:42:33 pm »
Well, it was an interesting thought, but in a later scene, Fujisawa leaves his and Makoto's room for a moment, only to have Ishiel want to come in. Wouldn't you know it...   Makoto seems to deny her, and she leaves. Fujisawa returns, and wonders what's wrong with Makoto. Best guess I have is him saying something like "Ishiel came on to me!" and then Fujisawa gets all sad. So Makoto does his regular act, and it looks like Fujisawa got kicked in the shins this time ...
1535
« on: November 05, 2002, 10:34:28 pm »
He said, "Nickel up for grabs" and two guys immediately started fighting for it.  Ho ho, nice  Well, actually, my younger brother discovered that the Saturn memory, which is of course valid while the power is still on, can be backed up onto the Pro Action Replay, which nicely came with the Saturn, and therefore doubles as not only the country-check bypasser, but now also a savegame vault until I get around to replacing the on-board battery. (I am psyched :p) Ishiel: Jaan! (Not sure what it means, but pretty sure it's like... in a cheery tone of voice) Yup, that's probably about it. She says it kinda like "tada!" when bringing it in. ... my God, if you could just "randomly translate" the rest of the game like that, we could be in serious business ... My question was, btw, do you get summers off, i.e., could I possibly be looking forward to getting some service off you? I'm getting so desperate for translations I might even pay. ;p
1536
« on: November 05, 2002, 03:53:09 am »
[Rob: YIPE! Bad ownership on the file. Sorry about that if you tried to post! Please note, this information may be dated, please see the main site section for the most up-to-date information available!]Now that I have a fully functional Saturn, I've finally been able to see what the El-Hazard Sega Saturn game is really like. Generally, it's like an old style text RPG, a box that seems to be talking of where you are / what's going on, generally narrated by Makoto. On that note, it's 100% voiced. (Although all Japanese text and all Japanese voice doesn't really help my inability to read Japanese ) I think it might actually have been at least mildly enjoyable by an English-speaking El-Hazard fan ... if it were in English. But for me it's more just straight work to get through dialogs and randomly guess on menus to just keep going around the place... oh, and the game itself seems to be somewhat glitchy. And the Ishiel introduction movie causes the worst problems, generally freezing the Saturn (guh?) Heh, I hope I can get through it again, seeing as I'll have to until I replace the Saturn Memory Battery to be allowed to save... (on the second round, I managed to bypass the movie after an everlasting 40 seconds or so of mashing buttons) Here's what the story seems to be thus far ... (what I'm saying is by no means accurate for sure; I'm basing this on the imagery and past El-Hazard experience) Nanami walks in on Makoto who's busy working on a project in the science lab at school.  It's the evening, and Nanami is upset at him about something. [This is deduced by the faces that appear with dialog text and, of course, voice variations; in Wanderes, Nanami was upset that Makoto "missed lunch again" and was supposed to walk her home.]Makoto tries to explain to Nanami what his project is, but only manages to confuse the poor girl. Fujisawa arrives for a brief moment noting something to Makoto. [In Wanderers, Fujisawa was wondering what Makoto and Nanami were still doing there, and generally told them to get going home.] Nanami and Fujisawa have left, leaving Makoto alone in the dark science lab with his peculiar devices. Suddenly, an inter-space portal opens up. (Quiet, you know it is)  It's a girl! Makoto nervously makes conversational exchanges with this girl, who seems to be begging him to go to some place named "El-Hazard." [I could swear on more then one occasion in this dialog, I heard "Fatora" uttered ... maybe it was in my head, but I'm wondering if they renamed Rune Fatora...]This upsets Makoto greatly, but the girl seems to calm his fears and only induce confusion more about this El-Hazard place. Suddenly, in comes Nanami's big brother Jinnai.  Shining a flashlight upon him, Jinnai asks Makoto what in the world he's doing. [While in Wanderers and Magnificent World the only reason that Jinnai would encounter Makoto is because he needs to bitch about being overthrown as president, there honestly seems to be absolutely no mention of this at all... in fact, Jinnai seems very calm through this whole scene while trying to figure out why Makoto is acting all weird... and I'm pretty sure I hear an Engrish "coo-koo" uttered from Jinnai, in reference to Makoto's rambling. He then leaves the room for a moment...]Makoto turns back to the girl, who now seems angry at him for talking to Jinnai. [Just my guess, but it seems that Rune(?) is playing MW Ifurita's card in being the girl who's already been there, done that, and is only trying to drag Makoto in. Therefore, her words would be something like "Why didn't you kick his ass before he causes us trouble?!"]In any event, the girl decides to take over the portal, and produce a strength to draw Makoto in ... at this exact moment, Jinnai happens to wander back in. The dialog suggests something like (and I'm not kidding, Jinnai is actually being this nice it seems...) "Hey, Makoto, I forgot to tell you / bring you something -- WHAT ... ?! WHAT THE HELL IS THAT?!"  Suddenly, for no apparent reason, the whole event seems to dramatically alter Jinnai's mind. Suddenly he lunges at Makoto and begins to tackle him to the floor!   [Here's where the now-available MP3 "Everything's Going Crazy!" cues]Then there's the ever-predictable flipping-around shots of everybody getting sucked in through the portal mass to El-Hazard ... ... Makoto wakes up to find himself in a lush clearing. He questions, could this be "El-Hazard"? He suddenly hears rustling! Who could it be? ... Mr. Fujisawa!  "Where are we?" questions Fujisawa. Makoto isn't really sure, mumbles about El-Hazard, which Fujisawa looks at him crazy-like for even suggesting such an odd thing. Suddenly, they're surrounded by giant bugs!  Commense Fujisawa's attempt at ass-kicking Bugrom.  But there's too many! Fujisawa cannot keep up! Makoto and Fujisawa are doomed...! But suddenly...  A strange energy blast saves them both...?  Well, it's none other then the priestess of Earth, Ishiel! Follows is a very long dialog consisting of some key words such as "Shayla", "Bugrom", etc. Ishiel seems confused at Makoto and Fujisawa's long names and titles. [She questions "sensei" and Makoto's peculiar "Mizuhara Makoto" ... not sure if it's the length or the last-name-first deal that's confusing her]As seen in the ripped video (see previous Saturn post), Ishiel makes Fujisawa blush then ...  ... and again. Could this be Fujisawa's love interest? Meanwhile, Nanami is wandering the desert, gasping for water...  And Jinnai is picked up by Bugrom...  ... with whom he is very pleased to discover he can communicate with, and is brought before Queen Diva...  [I know he does some kind of pitch to Diva, but if it's the impressive "Messenger from God" or the Wanderers cheesy "Do you like destroying people?!" "Every chance I get!" bit, I can't tell...]Back with our heroes, they have arrived at Floristica...  About the time they get there, Fujisawa is getting very irate, and repeatedly yelling about "Sake" (Ah, Fujisawa...)  Makoto is embarrassed by Fujisawa's behavior and can't really fend off Fujisawa's temper, Ishiel is merely annoyed, but compliant to Fujisawa's needs... They check in to a local Inn, and Ishiel manages to obtain Fujisawa's desire.  And then a conversation of talking, laughing, and drinking commenses.    ... to the last drop. To be honest, I kind of like the Ishiel thing. If they're actually going to get into a relationship of some sort, I'd really like to see it, it'd be an interesting change of pace as opposed to desperate lonely Miz who instantly grabs onto Fujisawa like a parasite. If nothing else, Ishiel instantly priques Fujisawa's male side, and then complies with his alcohol requirement (and as noted, has an obviously enjoyed time with during the drink) So far, this is all I've really managed to see. After this event, you're given control of Makoto to wander via the Ura Map to one of four locations; the Inn, the nearby Town (shopping area?), the fountain, and the palace (but I could only get to the outside, where stopped by a guard, of course). This is where the game starts to break off into a puzzle-oriented system, I'm positive of that. Japanese text makes it hard, and then I just got tired ... and lacking a good battery in the Saturn, I'm required to start all over again... so you probably won't see any more updates on this till this weekend. [Rob: ... there have been more since. Please see main site section and check the news as they come about ]
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« on: November 05, 2002, 03:16:01 am »
1538
« on: November 04, 2002, 06:30:10 pm »
Age
14
... That makes me male, straight, and not interested. Except for my crush on my reading teacher, it didn't really kick in for me until about 15 1/ 2 ;p now I'm stuck being our Jappy translator guy, only problem is I get too much homework for my own good.
the average SAT score is about 1500. Among Juniors. Ouch Wow each probably explains itself... o_O Tell me you at least get summers off or something. There's a whole lot I can use a translator for ;p Also, don't phrase it as "stuck as" ... after all, I assumed you had completely given up and run off for safe haven at SFGHQ by now ;p ... notice I didn't pester you further about it, either. Although in-site loyality would be a really sweet deal...
1539
« on: October 29, 2002, 06:04:48 pm »
No, Fujisawa. The Sega Saturn was a disc-based system. Kind of like the Sony Playstation, only it didn't do real well.
Boy I sure could use someone with high bandwidth and a lot of space to give ;p
And the game, from what little I know about it, does seem to be a rather simplistic, maybe lame, gameplay. I'm thinking it mostly consists of moving between rooms and performing fixed actions within them. I could be wrong, we'll see.
The game itself may not be incredibly significant, but I could never find coverage on it before. So maybe I'll get to be the first
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« on: October 28, 2002, 10:42:04 pm »
[Rob: This post is dated; I've since gotten a Saturn and the site is much more up to speed on most of this, so please consult that, but I did update movie descriptions, where needed, as I learned about 'em]I was surprised that some El-Hazard fans actually didn't know there was a Sega Saturn game for El-Hazard. My sketchy information on this title is that it was first published on a computer called the PC-98, a computer system only sold in Japan. Then it was rereleased on the then-popular Sega Saturn console, apparently with commentary that it was "a lot better". Therefore, having obtained the Saturn copy means I shouldn't be missing anything. The only trick now is I don't actually own a Saturn, and Saturn emulation is too rough and buggy to operate it ... at all. So a full detication to it will have to wait until I get one. [Rob: The emulation point is still true] In the meantime, however, it seems movies on Saturn discs is in a standard Cinepak compression format CPK, which makes CPK->AVI converters available. I have ripped and reencoded all the movies into the same format and requirements as dictated by the media page. Links provided for every one starting at Movie00, proceeding to Movie04-Movie17 (no, I don't know what happened to Movie01-Movie03, they just don't exist ;p) This movies are all-original animation specific to this bit of El-Hazard (except for #0 and possibly #6 which looks like they may have ripped the Wanderers segment for Miz's first apperance). This fact makes these extremely cool. And I think that most of us have never seen any of these at all! (A shame it didn't do well nor get a US version) Movie00 -- Essentially Wanderers Intro #2, with less footage and more sound effects.  Movie04 -- Makoto tinkering with something and Nanami walks up behind him  Movie05 -- Shayla Shayla intro ? Movie06 -- Miz intro ? [Rob: Yes, right after kicking Sansuke butt ... as usual]  Movie07 -- Afura Mann intro ? (Dig the Jinnai graffiti in the background) [Rob: Yes, and she doesn't initially trust him neither]  Movie08 -- Intro to Ishiel, the priestess of Earth. I wonder if there's supposed to be romancing with Fujisawa, notice how they both "click" right on, nothing like what happens with Miz in any version... [Rob: Ha! Like that would happen... ;p]  Movie09 -- Ifurita's Awakening  Movie10 -- Intro to Alielle, and look at Rune's big ... eyes. [Rob: Not intro, but she is set to be your guide]  Movie11 -- Rune junction video (Makoto romancing?) [Rob: Well ... heh, can't quite remember where it's used anyway ;p But it's really just kind of random]  Movie12 -- The Makoto and Rune ending  Movie13 -- The Makoto and Ifurita ending  Movie14 -- The Makoto and Nanami ending  Movie15 -- Ishiel Bath Scene [Rob: Supposedly something you can just see by going to Arliman at the right time]  Movie16 -- Miz Bath Scene (likely bitching about loneliness) [Rob: Supposedly something you can just see by going to Arliman at the right time]  Movie17 -- Drunken Shayla and Afura bath scene (doesn't seem to approve) [Rob: Supposedly something you can just see by going to Arliman at the right time] [Rob: The following is dated. Please see the site section.] Now, of course I'm just guessing right now until I give that mysterious all-English walkthrough a good read and actually have the console to play on. But it does seem that this is an "all-new" existance of El-Hazard (again), starting from scratch, using a lot of Wanderers, but it seems to be changing a few things too. For one, the normally ditzy black-hair Wanderers Ifurita seems to be taking a more serious MW-esque role in this one (based solely on these videos only). And, of course, there's an added fourth priestess who instantly dings Fujisawa, something never really seen before. It also appears that what I'm calling (and assuming are) endings, seem to allow the player's control to come to one of several conclusions, and this effects which girl Makoto ends up with, which is a very interesting adjustment. I'll scan the two booklets and box this thing came in, and eventually hope to have enough to give its own section. [Rob: In progress ] Also, the first track of this disc doubles as an audio track, so if you put it in a CD player, its Jinnai sounding like he's calling you an idiot for putting a game disc in a CD player
1541
« on: October 28, 2002, 03:46:06 am »
Hello *waves lazily* (Yes, finally, another one who actually has a heart! Cha-ching!) ... heh, excuse me, you'd be surprised how cold and impersonal some of my registrants are o_O Probably not the worst, but an example from my records of one person: ... is an anime fan.
... likes/loves/worships El-Hazard.
... plans to rudely leech our MP3's and leave. [<-- I personally can't even believe that some answer so honestly ]
... has never been to EHOL before.
... doesn't need a forum.
1542
« on: October 25, 2002, 12:41:26 pm »
I have known of M.U.G.E.N, but only lightly experimented with it. I managed to teach myself C language over the years, I could probably learn to understand their script language, but I guess I never bothered to really get into it It would most definately make it easier, although I myself tend to like having more or less total control over a project But MUGEN is good. If someone happened to know how to use it around here, that'd be even better...
1543
« on: October 23, 2002, 01:10:03 pm »
PC0. About time you big oaf. (Actually, I think that statements a contradictory. You still that skinny beanpole I heard of about a year back?  )
1544
« on: October 23, 2002, 01:08:46 pm »
Just chill, Fuji'. The time will come. Yes, PC0, about time you came by and started flexing your amazing abilites to draw humanity. This guy actually is very good at what he does. If you manage to prique his interest, he can do amazing things that only cause envy in those who wish they could too.
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« on: October 22, 2002, 10:58:09 pm »
Well, working on your previous point, I'm all up for collecting what's out there anyway. From what Neil tells me, EH's utter lack of popularity has actually managed to filter out the potential 7-year-old wannabie fanfic writers from writing their biased, childish view type "stories" in the El-Hazard realm, as opposed to what happens in more popular series.
Simply put, he goes to fanfiction.net and tells me that the top story for El-Hazard is a deep one on Makoto pondering mental images of Ifurita or something of that sort, while the nearby Tenchi section tops off with a story title that includes several repetitive exclamation points, some bashing of main characters right in it, etc.
So it sounds like my general semi-high-standard requirement for content would easily be fulfilled at least for fanfiction. FF.net might even be a good place to get it from, though I fear redundancy of carrying the same material (of course, FF.net count versus what I end up with would depend on wether the author is up for me holding it or not)
I honestly haven't seen that much fanart for El-Hazard, only spot occurances about the internet. Neil makes clever doodles, most often I've seen for a particular humor purpose (cue in-joke "Jinnai's Sausage Tounge")
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