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Dec. 12th, 2008 06:14 am( NOT FOR KIDS!!! )
I had an appointment with Dr. Perret last night, and Mom picked me up from school to go there. Shortly after leaving campus, Mom told me that Newtype printed its last issue last February. Marie found out because she was looking for some issues to get me for Christmas. Well, I've only read a handful of Newtype issues, so there should be lots of back issues to order on Ebay.
Upon reaching Dr. Perret's office, I at first couldn't think of anything to bring up, but two things did hit me while Mom was having her turn to speak with him. The first thing was that I had already figured out four reasons why I wanted to breathe life back into the Makendou series:
1)I would like to see the Makendo OAV at least for myself. However, I'll also be sure to share it at least with TheNewX, and I do hope to also host it online.
2)I wanted there to be more fanfiction of that series.
3)I would like to hear what the characters of Makeruna! Makendou Z would sound like if that game did get an English dub. (That's something I plan on making a reality myself, with both Project Mai and either a voice hack or a YouTube dub of MMZ.)
4)A number of factors that led me to perceive this particular series as special. I didn't explain these to him, but it started with me reading about "Kendo Rage" in Nintendo Power volume 48, and downloading the game months or a year later. Only several months after that, I made a list of anime-style games for the SNES/SFC, and found the second game in the series (Makeruna! Makendou 2: Kimero Youkai Souri) right after the original Makeruna! Makendou (which turned out to be the real version of "Kendo Rage"). Then we have SMW2: Yoshi's Island rewritten, which I actually came up with several years before posting the first chapter on Fanfiction.net. This was the fanfic with which I would use primarily to resurrect Mai (whom I called Hikari at the time). That also happened to be the time when I first read about Makeruna! Makendou Z, which I wasn't interested in until two more years later (one year ago). And finally, there was TheNewX, who drew this pic. I chatted with him through the comments section, and he said "Although a forgotten, briefly popular game mascot, I don't think her or the Kendo Rage/Makeruna Makendo series should ever be truly forgotten."
Of course, in the end, everything is forgotten anyway. Even though we have much more efficient archiving and preservation methods than in ancient or medieval times, only archaeologists and historians would care to appreciate stuff written centuries before their time. The Makendou series already had its audience in Japan. However, I do hope that Project Mai would indeed be feasable at least while I'm still alive.
I had an appointment with Dr. Perret last night, and Mom picked me up from school to go there. Shortly after leaving campus, Mom told me that Newtype printed its last issue last February. Marie found out because she was looking for some issues to get me for Christmas. Well, I've only read a handful of Newtype issues, so there should be lots of back issues to order on Ebay.
Upon reaching Dr. Perret's office, I at first couldn't think of anything to bring up, but two things did hit me while Mom was having her turn to speak with him. The first thing was that I had already figured out four reasons why I wanted to breathe life back into the Makendou series:
1)I would like to see the Makendo OAV at least for myself. However, I'll also be sure to share it at least with TheNewX, and I do hope to also host it online.
2)I wanted there to be more fanfiction of that series.
3)I would like to hear what the characters of Makeruna! Makendou Z would sound like if that game did get an English dub. (That's something I plan on making a reality myself, with both Project Mai and either a voice hack or a YouTube dub of MMZ.)
4)A number of factors that led me to perceive this particular series as special. I didn't explain these to him, but it started with me reading about "Kendo Rage" in Nintendo Power volume 48, and downloading the game months or a year later. Only several months after that, I made a list of anime-style games for the SNES/SFC, and found the second game in the series (Makeruna! Makendou 2: Kimero Youkai Souri) right after the original Makeruna! Makendou (which turned out to be the real version of "Kendo Rage"). Then we have SMW2: Yoshi's Island rewritten, which I actually came up with several years before posting the first chapter on Fanfiction.net. This was the fanfic with which I would use primarily to resurrect Mai (whom I called Hikari at the time). That also happened to be the time when I first read about Makeruna! Makendou Z, which I wasn't interested in until two more years later (one year ago). And finally, there was TheNewX, who drew this pic. I chatted with him through the comments section, and he said "Although a forgotten, briefly popular game mascot, I don't think her or the Kendo Rage/Makeruna Makendo series should ever be truly forgotten."
Of course, in the end, everything is forgotten anyway. Even though we have much more efficient archiving and preservation methods than in ancient or medieval times, only archaeologists and historians would care to appreciate stuff written centuries before their time. The Makendou series already had its audience in Japan. However, I do hope that Project Mai would indeed be feasable at least while I'm still alive.