Type-Moon Weekly News Roundup: The Luckiest Lancer

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This Saturday post is the weekly Type-Moon news in addition to the regular APB post on Sunday. If you have any suggestions for what to highlight on the Type-Moon Weekly News Roundup drop me a line via email or Twitter.

  • Amusingly Naive
    It turns out that Shielder was originally going to be the heroine of an anime original story for the Studio Deen adaptation of Fate/Stay Night. I enjoy that in this age of the Internet Nasu asks that people who play the game not spoil who Shielder is. I think the real accomplishment will be if her identity is not spoiled before the game comes out.
  • Fate/Stay Night Owl Cafe
    I just really like that picture.
  • The Music of the Night
    Aniplex put up a preview for the music CD that comes with the first Unlimited Blade Works box set. They also conformed that the LiSA version of “This Illusion” is included as well.
  • Fashionably Late to the Party 
    As it is coming out on February 24th they have release a new commercial for the English version of  Under Night In-Birth Exe:Late. One again this is mostly here becuase Sion Eltnam Atlasia is a regular member of the cast. Hopefully one day Type-Moon will release that Tsukihime remake so we  can also get an HD version of Melty Blood.
  • Stone Cold Crazy
    More coverage of the upcoming Rider Nendoroid.
  • Brokedown Palace
    A look at everything in the Fate/Stay Night: Unlimited Blade Works 1st Season Blu-Ray Box.
  • Reenact the end of the Fate Path
    One of the exclusive Winter Wonder Festival figures is a Saber figma with her hair down and no armor called the Dress Version.

Top 8 Type-Moon Items I Would Love to See Translated – 2015 Edition

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 Back in 2012 I did a post about the five Type-Moon projects I would love to see translated. Since then some of my dreams came true and at the same time others of them are still unfulfilled. That said we finally have a fully translated Fate/Hollow Ataraxia so I’m generally going to put the post in the success column. One could argue that I had nothing to do with that so I’m going to say that we might only want to write it onto the success column with a pencil. Still with Fate/Hollow Ataraxia out-of-the-way I really wanted to do a new post to cover some of the material that has come out in the meantime. Just as quickly as wonderful things get translated there are two more things that come out that I still wonder about. Theoretically someone might read this post and get a bit of powerful inspiration they might not have otherwise had. Who knows. Stranger things have happened.

Everything on the list has to be a full on Type-Moon project. That means as much as I would love to see a translated Red Dragon it does not get a spot on the list. Also there has to be some easily conceivable way of seeing a translation. While I am curious to read Ice Flowers I don’t know anyone who has a copy of it. This is hardly a definitive list. There are countless things I would love to add but eight is a good start.

They are just titles that as far as I know have not been fully translated into English. If you have evidence that is not the case please send it my way. I would love to be wrong.

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Magic Kaito 1412: See You Next Illusion

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narutaki_icon_4040 Before there was Edogawa Conan, there was Kuroba Kaito—or as many know him, the enigmatic phantom thief Kaito Kid. However, his chance to really shine was cut short; the manga series Magic Kaito was put on hiatus after two collected volumes. But Kaito’s time would come, apparently it was just too soon for him to take the lead.

After Kaito Kid started making appearances in the now culturally iconic Detective Conan, Kaito received a boost in popularity. Which in turn allowed for new manga stories to be created, which in turn allowed for them to start making spin-off anime specials. And those were popular enough to warrant this new ongoing TV series: Magic Kaito 1412.

Now that both Detective Conan and Magic Kiato 1412 are streaming on Crunchyroll, we felt we needed to address this phantom thief further.

hisui_icon_4040 In many ways Magic Kaito could be seen as the blueprint for Gosho Aoyama’s later Detective Conan manga. They have similar beats in a lot of ways. In fact the skeletal structure of both series is remarkably similar when you strip away most of the cosmetic trappings. They are clearly the work of the same artist. But at the same time it is far too easy to just boil things down to their underpinnings where you see everything as a copy of everything else. That simplification forgets that phantom thief and detective genre have very different elements that just don’t work in other one’s storytelling style. You can’t just copy and paste the characters from Magic Kaito and make them the cast of Detective Conan without some major changes. The simple fact that Detective Conan has to adhere to a certain set of rules to feel fair makes it so that important modifications need to be in place for the mystery series to be satisfying.

On top of that the cast of Magic Kaito was eventually largely incorporated into world of Detective Conan so that they have fully integrated each other to the point where they have created a shared universe. Kuroba Kaito frequently shows up in Detective Conan as a recurring guest star. In fact at the time of the post the upcoming 19th Detective Conan movie, Sunflowers of Inferno, will prominently feature Magic Kaito as part of the plot. Gosho Aoyama has even gone as far as to have the histories of Detective Conan and Magic Kaito slowly become more intertwined to better express the joining of the two stories into a greater unified tale.

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