#ask voltage

[voltageotome]

Are substories featuring Rhion taken from the kbtbb PARTY version?

Hello! Yes, Rhion’s substories are from the Japanese party version of KBTBB (*^▽^*) 

[voltageotome]

I didn't get some of the puns in Tsumugu's Season 1 Main Story like when Shusei changed his nickname for Tsumugu from Tsum Tsum to Tsun Tsun. Is this a Japanese pun? Could you provide an explaination?

“I like making up nicknames on the fly based on just how I feel! For instance...21xuan-teenageotaku...I might call you Teen-o! And on another day, I might call you something else!” 

[voltageotome]

I've checked the MLFK app countless times and, since I haven't seen this in the app, I was wondering when are their birthdays? If that is there, I'd like to know.😊

Hi! Ayato's is 5/9, Ichiya's is 1/14, Makoto's is 4/9, Takamune's is 9/21, Riku's is 2/3, and Hiroki's is 6/1!(｡♥‿♥｡)

[voltageotome]

I cant get enough of professor! Soo cutee and fluffy! Can we have more of the cuteness?? Pleaaasee?? (´▽`ʃƪ)❤️❤️✨

you got it

[voltageotome]

For the character drawing contest, can we draw the characters with the MC?

Yes, you can add MC to your drawing! You can draw her however you like ^^ 

[voltageotome]

Hello! I'm to ask: you didn't forget about the comic contest, don't you? It's because, both prices were already released ^^; Thanks!

Hello! We did not forget, we contacted the winners already. ^^ However, we have not yet received responses from all of them, so we are waiting to put the winners in the app. Thank you for asking! In the future, we'll return to announcing winners in the relevant apps and notifying everyone when contest winners are chosen on Tumblr!

[voltageotome]

Since we're getting clarifications on commissions/fanworks, I thought I'd go ahead and get this clarified. There's a company that allows you to make custom tea blends and share them with others so they could buy them if they wished. Would I be allowed to share tea blends inspired by Voltage characters? I don't get any sort of money from it, so I wouldn't be profiting from copyrighted characters (credit would always go to Voltage, of course). Thank you!

Hi!

Though it is not you directly selling something belonging to Voltage, because offering the blends for mass sale would let someone publicly use and profit off our IP without our input, we can’t allow it.

Granting another company (in this case, the tea company) permission to profit off our IP must come through a licensing agreement. Legally, that arrangement would need to be made directly between us (Voltage) and the other company.

> < Sorry! We hope this explanantion is easy to understand– IP law is a complex subject!

[voltageotome]

Hello! I saw on voltageamemix that it is ok to have commissioned work using your art as long as it's for personal use. And that if you're an artist, it is ok to do a commissioned piece so long as it's for the paying customer and not for mass sale. I would just like to check if this applies to the Voltage apps that are not under amemix as well? Thank you!!! ヾ(＠⌒ー⌒＠)ノ

Hello! Yes, our answer is the same as AmeMix (their answer below:)

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Hi! You can commission fanart of our characters. Commissioning pieces for personal use (e.g. use it as your icon, print out to hang on your wall, etc.) is okay. Make sure to credit both the artist who made it for you and Voltage when you share it with friends!

If you are asking as an artist, you can accept commissions of our characters as long as you do not sell them to anyone other than the individual commissioning the piece (so no selling prints or merchandise of it).

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We also would like to add to please not use fanart (original or commissioned) in ways where it can be confused as material that comes from us (e.g. in a fan game where it's not clear it wasn't made by Voltage). A simple way to avoid this is to credit yourself/the original artist when posting fanart! (Plus it helps people find out about more artists!)

Please let us know if there's anything else we can clarify for you! ( ´ ▽ ` )ﾉ