After years of wishing to own this book and only relying on photos from friends, it's finally on my hands........ 😭 It all happened out of pure luck, too......
I'd honestly love to help digitalize this book, like scan all of its pages and share it, but I don't have a scanner and I'm a bit afraid of letting this book be damaged if I give it to a third party... So I'm going to share some photos of (almost) everything inside!
Let's start by removing the cover and seeing what it hides. And this is from the other side!
The first things you see a couple of illustrations, though most of them got scanned already and you can find them online. So I'd like to show what I got this book for (And with few archives on the fandom), the character references!! We start up with the protags of this season, Inazuma Japan. Here's Endou and Aki!
(I find cute they gave a ref for that party episode)
And for something I actually care about..... The FFI RIVALS!!!! Let's start with Big Wav-
....Ignore that.
But it's so damn amazing so finally see these in paper.............. 😭
Here's Desert Lion, too!
This book is the only place to see the proper art of the Fire Dragon benchers and their other views, so I'm grateful ☺
Though this luck doesn't extend to all... Gareth and Nick got stuffed in this little section as to "save space" :(
Kinda sucks, because not only his art looks tiny, but there are some refs missing! He has a more complete feature on the July 2010 of Animage magazine, which you can check out here. Unfortunately the source of the original images was deleted by the image host (Livejournal user Splash) so only thumbnails are visible. I did save these scans but the only part I'll share is Gareth's section, at least since it feels weird to upload a whole scan without permission (I don't even know how to contact them...).
Continuing with the showcase, Team K!!!! I don't talk about them much but I love Ametista and Perla 🥰
Here's The Empire and Unicorn :D
A weird visual difference I found within Orpheus. Pay attention how Giuseppe has a thicker line width on his art...
There's visual references of the uniforms, too! Also, shoutout to the super cute chibi illustrations that accompany these pages 🥺
There's a ref section for hissatsus, though it features mostly screenshots of the anime. I'll brush it off for now, but if I find interesting info as I translate by, then it will go here 🤷♀️
After these ref pages there are some pages that rely more on text than image; tho they're mostly match summaries and key events.
These are also text-heavy sections, mostly talking about how the FFI works and a chart of Block A. It also mentions the other teams of the Asian Qualifiers, yayyyy 💕
And here's another big selling point of this book... HEIGHT CHARTS!!!!!
It's so amazing to see the BW chart in person 😭 All the teams featured here have them!
And here's the Fire Dragon benchers :DDD (Ignore the three stooges 🙄)
And with that, I end this post. I apologize deeply for my activity, I've tried so hard to keep up with my interest of Inazuma and my motivation to write (Part 1 of Orion released!!! BUBU IS IN THE GAME!!!!) but I swear it feels like its on its lowest 😔 I'll still try to finish my asks, so just like a certain someone says: Please wait a bit more....
Not posted in a while, so here is another WIP of mine.
Error's team consists of Kankaruo - Sensei, Kazuna - Chunin + Team lead and Error - Genin. Their 3rd member Ken, passed during their chunin exam.
The Teams nickname was given to them by Error. As she was given a list of potential team mates by gaara she took days to filter them until she made her choices to give to the Kazekage. She picked Kazuna, though he flunked the gennin test due to his physical strength; he passed all exams when it came to nin and gen justsu. Ken was picked as though he was not the brightest when it came to written tests, and he had some anger issues. His family were known for their strength and skills at defensive jutsu. When the team was finalised with Kankuro as Sensei, Error noticed all the guys' names began with K, so Team K was born.
It took them a while to get used to one another and being fresh Genni, a few years older than the graduates, but once they starte,d they became a strong team to the point they were recommended to attend the chunin exams. (I will do some story writing where i will go more in detial about this and more)
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We see once again that flashback of kei and saki talking about black card.
Kei greeted saki at starless but he was not acting as usual around her. Noticing he could make her uncomfortable, he asked Yakou to guide saki to her table.
But he told saki that he thinks she will soon get the answers she seeks. He also said he wants her to be happy.
Yakuo seemed a bit perplexed that kei didn't guide her himself but he said nothing.
During k's rehearsal, it was said gui is not performing this time. Kei said he is an under.
There was a flashback showing that gui was absent-minded during one of their meetings/rehearsals (I don't know when that happened). Gui said he was thinking about kei and his master. Kei decided he was not going to be in the starting lineup.
Kei seems very focused and strict while giving orders to the other members during rehearsal.
the tops - except for mizuki - were organizing and cleaning the entrance.
Kokuyou asked kei about gui situation. Kei said he was not in the starting line because he was not focused during rehearsals. Rindou agreed with Kei saying that the stage is everything and people need to work hard in rehearsals.
Kokuyou teased rindou saying that he looked like kei talking about the stage and the show.
Mokuren briefly talked to kei asking when C can perform again.
After that part with the tops, ginsei was reading the script (again) and sotetsu and yoshino were talking to him. They questioned where that script came from and one of them said maybe it was from kei.
Ginsei also said that it looked like something akito would write.
They talked about this year's anniversary theme and one of them mentioned that the rehearsals were very strict but it was necessary to make a good show
When team k was going to rehearsal again, kei was not there yet. Ginsei asked gui to play the center - kei's role - and so he did.
Gui did a great job. They were all shocked. It seems he memorized all the member's roles. Kei watched from afar. He said gui's performance was not bad. And even his position as center could be at risk if he didn't fight for it.
Sotetsu liked to hear that any member could take another's position as long as they could convince the other members they deserved it. Yakou seemed a bit worried (idk if it was because gui could be the center or that they could lose their role).
the last part, sotetsu and yoshino were talking to saki asking her if she liked the show. Yoshino also asked if she wanted to talk to kei, but she said it was not necessary. Gui escorted her home and said he would be on stage the next time they perform.
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