https://x.com/d2demonbane/status/2004749075951055319Pick where you wanna read:https://www.fanbox.cc/@demonbane-pwv/posts/11033505https://note.com/demonbane_pwb/n/nc8399bd7eff9https://fantia.jp/posts/3795327
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>>23685259A simplified version of the Demonbane Causal Sequence chart from Fanzin vol.1
>>23685261Preview of Fanzin 3.5 and a new acrylic stand for Liber Legis Moderoidhttps://x.com/damnedrive/status/2004753351725260800
Shokugeki no Demonbane
>>23685254Hard to believe that the same artist is working on this. All the female designs are pudgier, almost potatoized, and Demonbane itself is even more overdetailed than usual. Not a fan. Also I don't get why Hagenaya keeps coming back to Demonbane. It may be the most successful thing he's ever done, but that was decades ago. He can't even get SRW appearances now, much less animated adaptations. The only thing these further works result in is messy continuity for a story that obviously was never originally intended to have sequels
Hope they actually write at a good pace, the Shinza webnovels got into a weird place
>>23685954Not sure where did you get the "never originally intended to have sequels" from when Zanma Taisen has already been in development since 2009, it was thanks to Nitroplus that it fell for development hell for more than a decade. And what do you mean messy continuity? Have you read the 2022 book or anything after Kishin Hishou?
>>23686506what does Zanma Taisen have to do with anything?>Have you read the 2022 book or anything after Kishin Hishou?I don't know Japanese, so the most I've been able to read after the original are the prequel novels (and I guess I could read DYN freaks but I won't be going out of order). Kishin Hishou itself sounds utterly ridiculous in how it evidently attempts to merge three mutually incompatible timelines. That's what I mean by messy continuity. The Vortex Blaster reset clearly happened for a reason.
>>23686520Zanma Taisen is the title of the latest installment. Maybe you should read the link first before asking?Also>>Kishin Hishou>>Merging three timelines>>Complaining Demonbane has messy continuity>>Not reading the series in proper order and hasn't touched the sequelGet real bruv
>>23686614Okay? That still doesn't explain what a webnovel in production from 2009 has to do with whether or not a three route visual novel from 2003 was meant to have sequels>>>Not reading the series in proper order and hasn't touched the sequelI don't believe that you've read any more than I have
>>23686748Because Demonbane is a multi-media franchise and has been planned to have sequels from the get-go? Why the fuck you said that Kishin Hishou is just a "ridiculous attempt to merge three timelines" when one: You don't know Japanese, and two: You haven't even read it? Also reading DYN Freaks after playing the first game won't work because DYN is set after Nitroplus Blasterz, and Nitroplus Blasterz took place after the events in Kishin Hishou.>>I don't believe that you've read any more than I haveI have played the game and read the LNs in Japanese buddy. Not everyone is an EoP like you.
>>23686816Demonbane didn't have a sequel until several years after the original VN, and the original VN did basically no sequel baiting, nor does it make any sense to do a sequel for all but one of the endings, and even that ending arguably makes the idea of a sequel redundant. There's no evidence Demonbane was ever intended to have a sequel>Why the fuck you said that Kishin Hishou is just a "ridiculous attempt to merge three timelines" You're right, I should have said five timelines since all the synopses I've seen of Kishin Hishou say that it attempts to make every ending of the VN canon. If you're claiming that this is not what it does, your word isn't anymore trustworthy than those who have written summaries before you
>>23686851>>Several yearsNice try, Kishin Hishou is from 2006, Zanma Taisei is from 2003, and the PS2 version is from 2004. >>Calling Kishin Hishou sequel baiting and an attempt to make all endings canon>>Haven't actually played the game and only read synopses on the internetThis is why EoP deserves nothing.
Still less wait time than HL ep 3 lmaofuuuuuuuckNio's earlier eyes were more expressive but still cool.
For the new generation cast, I like Ni Theta's fat shortstacks and pudgy lolis as much as the next guy, but part of Demonbane's aesthetic has always been aggressively metrosexual but still ripped as hell dudes.Most of the new dudes seem to be more conventional bishounen. Not a big fan of the more overtly detailed Deus Machina designs either. There was a charm to the the more blocky look the old ones had.
Kinda disappointed that the Fanzin 3.5 only has 16 pages and doesn't have much artworks or new information. Apparently, they originally planned to make Zanma Taisen into a mobile game, but they scrapped that plan (thank fuck for that). The book contains several design concepts, including scrapped design. There's a picture of Kurou and Al in chef outfit that was supposed to be in an event where they cook the Evil Gods.
>>23690854THIS MEAT IS FUCKING RAW
>>23690854They really decided to follow the Dies Irae Pantheon route
>>23693496qrd?
>>23693646Dies Irae Pantheon was also originally supposed to be a mobile gacha game but they had to scrap the project after light the company behind the Shinza series ran into money issues. After a few years of art books the main writer teamed up with the main artist to release stories that would have been told in the gacha game on enty and fantia instead.So pretty much exactly what Demonbane 2 is doing now except Nitro+ never went bankrupt I guess.
>>23690854>>23693688Honestly going the route of either releasing light novels with a publisher or fan-backing webnovels is such a low-risk move compared to investing into yet another gacha game that I'm surprised more franchise wouldn't do it.
>>23696854Maybe they're concerned about popularity?
