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May. 29th, 2013 07:53 amBack home with Mom, Dad, and Brian since yesterday.
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Had Mom bring me to the library yesterday afternoon to pick up DVD volume 3 of Puella Magi Madoka Magica, which I was notified only a few days before leaving had arrived there. Good thing I was due to come home before they'd stop holding it.
Watched the first three episodes on the disk consecutively after coming home and having a nap, and then the last one after having dinner.
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At this point, if there ever will be a video game adaptation of Starbound, it will probably be a Divorced Installment starring puni-plush versions of the Beehive Brigade. Whether it will be simply a modified version of the fanfic or its own story and world altogether remains up in the air.
One of the reasons is because owners of a given intellectual property tend to take less kindly towards full-fledged fangames than towards fanfiction. Such has been the case with Streets of Rage Remake, My Little Pony: Fighting is Magic, and a 3D remake of Chrono Trigger. With the first, some say that Sega did initially approve of it, while others say that they simply turned a blind eye until it was finished; either way, it was only days after completion that it had to be taken down. The second one got a cease-&-desist order even after Friendship is Magic creator Lauren Faust approved of it, but then again, I do understand that she never had full control over the franchise to begin with, since she didn't create the MLP franchise itself. And the last one was not the only fan-installment that Square-Enix ordered dropped (during development, no less); certain ROM hacks of the original game also had to be taken down from ROMhacking.net not too long after being uploaded.
In any case, yeah, the Beehive Brigade probably should become canon to something at some point. I once linked to their first pic from TV Tropes' Beehive Hairdo page, but someone eventually deleted that entry on grounds that there is no need to chase after every last example of the trope in existence.
As to why I didn't make them the main characters of the fanfic in the first place... Well, there is my attachment to the Lucky Star girls, which is by far, the most intimate one I've ever had since Mon Colle Knights. That's to say nothing of three of the four main characters' hair reaching down more than long enough to mount atop their heads. However, that actually came second after my other desire to create something resembling Earthbound and Earthbound Zero, out of nostalgia for both those games. Between those two factors, the first idea that came to mind was the giantess RPG that I had wanted between 2009 and '10, when both giantesses and updone hair had first become fetishes of mine, and for that, I wondered to myself whether the fic should spin off from LS or Pani Poni Dash! Despite the latter show's much more overt humor, LS won hands down, due to my attachment to them and the idea of having magical stones being responsible for both the state of the girls' hair and their newfound psychokinetic abilities.
Part of the reason for not considering the Brigade was that, at least at the time, I would've preferred that beehive hairdos and growth be kept apart from each other. Other than that, they just didn't come to mind, is all.
As of right now, I'm not sure which it will be. With Lucky Star, it would be nice to have another installment since the main anime to have English voice-acting, and at least one LS game to be able to play in English without a translation patch. There's also Tsukasa, the only short-haired girl of the starting five, whose specialty would be to cook foods into better foods a la the Tales series, whereas all five starting characters w/ the Beehive Brigade would be PK users. On the other hand, the Brigade are property of mine and something I could (both legally and potentially) make money off of, would allow for the proud tradition of being able to name your characters anything you wanted, and could have their own world instead of a simply modified version of Earth.
Either way, if it ever comes to that, I'll be sure to contact the development team of Mother 4 (especially storywriters Zephys and Pastel) to see if they'd be interested in such a project.
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Had Mom bring me to the library yesterday afternoon to pick up DVD volume 3 of Puella Magi Madoka Magica, which I was notified only a few days before leaving had arrived there. Good thing I was due to come home before they'd stop holding it.
Watched the first three episodes on the disk consecutively after coming home and having a nap, and then the last one after having dinner.
-----
At this point, if there ever will be a video game adaptation of Starbound, it will probably be a Divorced Installment starring puni-plush versions of the Beehive Brigade. Whether it will be simply a modified version of the fanfic or its own story and world altogether remains up in the air.
One of the reasons is because owners of a given intellectual property tend to take less kindly towards full-fledged fangames than towards fanfiction. Such has been the case with Streets of Rage Remake, My Little Pony: Fighting is Magic, and a 3D remake of Chrono Trigger. With the first, some say that Sega did initially approve of it, while others say that they simply turned a blind eye until it was finished; either way, it was only days after completion that it had to be taken down. The second one got a cease-&-desist order even after Friendship is Magic creator Lauren Faust approved of it, but then again, I do understand that she never had full control over the franchise to begin with, since she didn't create the MLP franchise itself. And the last one was not the only fan-installment that Square-Enix ordered dropped (during development, no less); certain ROM hacks of the original game also had to be taken down from ROMhacking.net not too long after being uploaded.
In any case, yeah, the Beehive Brigade probably should become canon to something at some point. I once linked to their first pic from TV Tropes' Beehive Hairdo page, but someone eventually deleted that entry on grounds that there is no need to chase after every last example of the trope in existence.
As to why I didn't make them the main characters of the fanfic in the first place... Well, there is my attachment to the Lucky Star girls, which is by far, the most intimate one I've ever had since Mon Colle Knights. That's to say nothing of three of the four main characters' hair reaching down more than long enough to mount atop their heads. However, that actually came second after my other desire to create something resembling Earthbound and Earthbound Zero, out of nostalgia for both those games. Between those two factors, the first idea that came to mind was the giantess RPG that I had wanted between 2009 and '10, when both giantesses and updone hair had first become fetishes of mine, and for that, I wondered to myself whether the fic should spin off from LS or Pani Poni Dash! Despite the latter show's much more overt humor, LS won hands down, due to my attachment to them and the idea of having magical stones being responsible for both the state of the girls' hair and their newfound psychokinetic abilities.
Part of the reason for not considering the Brigade was that, at least at the time, I would've preferred that beehive hairdos and growth be kept apart from each other. Other than that, they just didn't come to mind, is all.
As of right now, I'm not sure which it will be. With Lucky Star, it would be nice to have another installment since the main anime to have English voice-acting, and at least one LS game to be able to play in English without a translation patch. There's also Tsukasa, the only short-haired girl of the starting five, whose specialty would be to cook foods into better foods a la the Tales series, whereas all five starting characters w/ the Beehive Brigade would be PK users. On the other hand, the Brigade are property of mine and something I could (both legally and potentially) make money off of, would allow for the proud tradition of being able to name your characters anything you wanted, and could have their own world instead of a simply modified version of Earth.
Either way, if it ever comes to that, I'll be sure to contact the development team of Mother 4 (especially storywriters Zephys and Pastel) to see if they'd be interested in such a project.