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07-Ghost Drama CD: The Seventh District - Track 1 [Translation]

You can listen to the track here or download it from here ✨

Track 1 | Track 2 | Track 3 | Track 4 | Cast Commentary

this is why you're the absolute goat

#07 ghost #you are absolutely incredible tiashe #i meme to hide my awe and appreciation #and also maybe to mask how late i am in seeing this lmao

tiashe

A very late announcement on my part, but Amemiya and Ichihara's ongoing series My Husband is a Doomsday Weapon / Danna-sama wa Shuumatsu Heiki has been licensed by Kodansha! It will be released in English this Fall 🎉

#my husband is a doomsday weapon #danna-sama wa shuumatsu heiki #amemiya yuki #ichihara yukino #holy cow thats amazing

*gasps and flails about as I reemerge from a 4-month fugue state*

hey yall what's up

#lol there i go again vanishing for months on end #such a vibe am i right #to quote gandalf #darkness took me and i strayed out of thought and time. stars wheeled overhead and every day was as long as a life age of the earth.#so that was fun and all #what did i even miss

"Don't let your heart be eaten by the darkness, Teito Klein!" - 07-Ghost, Kapitel 3

Happy 20th birthday, Japanese release of Volume 1 of 07-Ghost!!!

#oh god has it actually been 20 years?#wowie #yeah november 25 2005 is the release date of the japanese copy of volume 1 #and so a legend was born #anyway ive been cooking this one up for a while #could i do more to it? oh yeah #am i going to? probably not lmao #i had fun and that's all that matters #i totally gave up on their hair btw don't look at me hahaha #happy 20 years 07-Ghost #here's to 20 more #07 ghost #manga coloring #ameichi

ooooh

you know it's good when even task manager crashes

#i just lost so much work #:')

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The Curious Case of the 4th District

Do you ever get the urge to reread an old favorite? Do you ever get partway through and remember things that had stuck out to you as odd all those years ago? Ever fall down a rabbit hole of research, writing, and theorizing that leaves you looking like Charlie Day at conspiracy-theory-o'clock?

Well, let me tell you, it's a blast, and you should try it some time!

Let's talk about 07-Ghost, and how the geopolitical background of the Barsburg Empire is actually really interesting and strange.

Some spoilers ahead for most of the back half of 07-Ghost, so if you haven't read this 20 year old manga (ohgodohgodohgodwhat), now's your chance to go read it I guess?

tiashe

Such an interesting theory! Thank you so much for sharing it! Every bit of discussion around 07-Ghost lore is so exciting and precious ♥

Since you mentioned translation irregularities, I wanted to leave a small comment. Here's the original line about Labrador's father:

イリューシャ様もその跡を追うようになくなられてー

A very literal translation of this line would be "Ilyusha passed away as if following his footsteps." As you've pointed out, it sounds kind of ambiguous in English. But, and I seriously hate to disappoint you, in Japanese the phrase "跡を追う" is usually used in the context of dying soon after a loved one. It's about time, not manner.

This is why I personally agree with the official Viz translation: "He died soon after, as if following his father." They don't say the word "soon" in the original Japanese line, but that's what's implied. But don't let this kill your theory please!

sanjikuu

in shambles rn, theory ded, heart broken </3

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hahahaha I jest, thank you for the clarification! I do appreciate it; it helps clarify some of the timeline shenanigans I've been pondering and sorting through lately. The curious thing about reading this series from questionable fan translations first is that sometimes there are two mirrors of the same story stuck in my head. I think the Paradise of Oblivion arc got the worst of it, as I believe it was then that a new group took over translating and a chapter was posted out of order (?), but occasionally I'll find someone else's version of the plot (or even just particular details) and have to go reread volumes at a time to figure out whether or not I'm misremembering story beats. The whole reason this post exists, beyond a general desire to talk about the series, is because some of the fandom wiki pages assert that the Barsburg Empire was initially entirely located in what is the 3rd District at the start of the Raggs War, citing that same map I used in my post regarding Kreuz's planned route. While I suppose it's theoretically possible, as I don't remember seeing another full-sized, well-labeled map of the pre-War era continents that explicitly state otherwise, I still hold by the implicit idea of Raggs containing only the 4th, 5th, and 6th Districts per Frau's comment about entering the former kingdom in ch. 28. That one line on the wiki sent me down this whole rabbit-hole of researching obscure details, and instead I remembered one of my fun, weird old theories.

(Really, though, why would the Barsburg Empire be exclusively in the 3rd when the Barsburg God House is in the 1st? Why wouldn't it then be called the Reuen Empire, after the dominant political force in the 3rd? Am I missing something? Am I right? Am I wrong? And you may say to yourself, "My God, what have I done?" 🎵)

Anyway, tbh, I feel like most of the details I pointed out were much more likely to be things the authors missed under what I can only imagine was a pretty intense time crunch or something similar, but it's so much fun to just make wild theories. (Case and point, if Labrador's father died only shortly before Labrador's passing, and if he was decapitated offscreen per the Houses' mandate, who's to say we didn't almost get LabDad as Profe...? Makes you think 🤔)

...all this to say, I'm still sticking to my wild conspiracy theory >:)

#i am so sorry hahaha #i am a professional rambler #this was going to be like two lines and instead i'm sitting here ranting at you #regardless i do legit appreciate the clarity on the translation #also yes i read your tag about the fanfics and no lie actually knowing someone read them is giving me conniptions lmao #when i manage to sit down and type out more of my little conspiracies i'll def post them #i miss some of the discourse that used to happen around the series #it was always so fun #thank you so much for replying to this it was honestly a bit of a barely disguised effort to poke the fandom #07g

tiashe

ahh i hope this isn't annoying but do you have any links to all the drama CDs for 07-Ghost subbed in English?

edit (2020):

here are all the manga drama cds!

- the love letter which god receives

- the seventh district (chapters 1-4)

- the incident of march 28 [translations here!]

- michael (chapters 5-9)

- eat up!

- the hausen family (chapters 27-33)

i’ll eventually translate all of them and update this post accordingly!

#reblogging for posterity and sanity #tiashe you are a god amongst men i have been looking for some of these for a decade #07 ghost #drama cds

So I did a thing, and I uploaded a lot of my 07-Ghost Drama CDs to YouTube? They're fun, and I want people to be able to listen to them if they want to, and at this point some of them are more or less lost media from what I can tell.

Unfortunately, I don't speak Japanese, so these are untranslated. However, I know tumblr users tiashe and otakween had translations or synopses on their pages, so go check them out! They're cooler than I'll ever be, hahaha.

There's a few more I have that want to post, but YouTube told me to cool it for 24hrs. There's also a few I didn't have archived, so if anyone happens to have the Hausen Family CD or any of the other ones that came with the anime DVDs, well, hit me up!

If you're interested, the link's below the cut!

#07 ghost #07-Ghost #07ghost #drama cds #i dont want to sound too desperate here but i'd do an awful lot for that Hausen Family cd lmao #tbh i just wanted to archive these online somewhere #they're too much fun to disappear forever

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07 GHOST Volume 4 (Story & Art by Yuki Amemiya and Yukino Ichihara)

#07 ghost #yuki amemiya #yukino ichihara #labrador #teito

The Curious Case of the 4th District

Do you ever get the urge to reread an old favorite? Do you ever get partway through and remember things that had stuck out to you as odd all those years ago? Ever fall down a rabbit hole of research, writing, and theorizing that leaves you looking like Charlie Day at conspiracy-theory-o'clock?

Well, let me tell you, it's a blast, and you should try it some time!

Let's talk about 07-Ghost, and how the geopolitical background of the Barsburg Empire is actually really interesting and strange.

Some spoilers ahead for most of the back half of 07-Ghost, so if you haven't read this 20 year old manga (ohgodohgodohgodwhat), now's your chance to go read it I guess?

#07 ghost #man i don't know how to tag this uhhh #fan theory #ameichi #also so everyone knows i'm actually really tired when i'm writing this so just sit back and try to have a good time lmao

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