I draw the webcomic Manly Guys Doing Manly Things and work on cartoons you might see on TV sometimes.
Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor
Unbeknownst to most, Police Chief Damon Gant had a brief stint in the late 90’s as an Ozwald Boateng runway model.
The new ace attorney sidekick makes me feel like whenever they release a batch of new Pokemon and I’m just like “hey! What is this? These aren’t my pokemon!”
Things I appreciate about Edgeworth
This actually got way longer than I thought it was going to, so I’m going to put it under a cut. But basically Edgeworth is my favourite character in the games and I feel like most of the appreciation I see for him revolves around “he’s the prettiest” so I just want to pick him apart a little deeper than that.
Sometimes you just need to listen to the Steel Samurai theme for 14 straight minutes.
Clearly utilize celebrity voices to their full potential first and foremost. Let’s cast Matt Damon as Phoenix, Seth Rogen as Gumshoe, The Jonas Brothers as Edgeworth, and Angelina Jolie as every female character.
Phoenix would have a sarcastic talking dog animal sidekick instead of Pearl.
Everything would have to be as obviously American as possible, Phoenix’s suit would be made of American flags.
The show will take place in a highschool and won’t actually be about law at all.
Phoenix is the lead singer in a band. They sing mashups of chart-topping pop songs.
Maya lives next door to Phoenix, they are best friends and in love but they can’t tell each other about their feelings. They have a third guy friend in their group who is a token something.
Edgeworth is jealous that Phoenix is more popular than he is even though he doesn’t have as much money, and is always coming up with elaborate schemes to get him in trouble.
At the end of every episode the characters all summarize what they learned about friendship and sharing.
I await my cheque.
Today in quality fanart news.
Does anyone know if the English Art of Phoenix Wright book is just a translated version of the Japanese Art of Gyakuten Saiban? Or is the English one something Udon put together independently? I only ask because I heard the English one is more or less void of concept sketches, and I wasn’t sure if it was the same case with the Japanese book.
Thanks!
I really like that Mia has kind of a Christina Hendricks-esque figure when you look at her next to some of the other girls in the game. Or that Franziska has a comparatively drastic waist-to-hips ratio when you look at her next to other characters like Dahlia. It’s always an added bonus when they give some body diversity to the female characters that are meant to be attractive instead of just making a “this is the hot girl mold and we’ll only deviate from it to make characters that are explicitly meant to be less attractive” situation.
On that note, I appreciate that they have characters like Lotta who aren’t exceptionally sexy OR intentionally unappealing! She just wears a lot of layers and doesn’t have her body on display! And that there are characters like Ema who also dress fairly conservatively but are still cute and fashionable!
A lot of the time when people say “wow I wish all of the women in this game didn’t look/dress the same”, other people act like you’re trying to take away ALL SEXY LADIES EVER FOREVER. Ace attorney just…. does a lot of things right. Having sporty, utilitarian characters like Lotta doesn’t erase the curvy bombshells in low cut shirts like Mia, having modest business casual field scientists like Ema doesn’t mean Franziska isn’t walking around in a miniskirt. And the girls who do dress provocatively never seem like they’re like… designed that way for the benefit of the hormonal teenage boys playing the games, if that makes any sense? It might be because the focus of the game is looking at people’s faces and you almost never see them from below the ribcage, but like, Mia for example, is a lawyer who dresses kind of like she weekends as a biker mama. It’s kind of an inappropriate way for a lawyer to stock up their wardrobe, but for her, it gives me an impression like “this character is confident and formidable, she knows how to bend the rules and she won’t get pushed around” instead of “Somebody probably thought this was sexy”.
I think part of it has to do with giving all of the characters individual personalities, as well as fashion sensibilities and body types that suit those personalities instead of treating the women like an interchangeable Barbie doll; and part of it has to do with keeping the more offbeat outfits wacky-within-reason instead of just making something completely inappropriate and propping it up with the EMPOWERED PEOPLE WEAR WHATEVER THEY WANT excuse. Like, Mia’s outfit is a little edgy for lawyer garb because it’s basically a corset and a miniskirt with a suit jacket, it’s not some kind of way-out-there latext catsuit and she’s not hanging around the courtroom in her underwear. That and Mia’s the only one who dresses like Mia. (I also appreciate that she’s also got that little pudge-crease across her lower abdomen that thicker women get when they wear tight skirts while smaller girls like Franzika and Daliah don’t, it’s a detail I feel like a lot of designers would skip if they were going for straight-up sexy)
I know I said some stuff along these days a few days ago, but I had a ton of people send me messages about how they felt the Ace Attorney folks really dropped the ball on the women in the game and I feel like that’s just not giving them enough credit, because they are doing a lot of cool stuff.
This is kind of off-topic but I don’t know if I care enough to make a whole separate post about it, so while I’m here I may as well put it out there that I also appreciate the way they manage to do fanservicey stuff with masculine characters that actually looks like fanservice, instead of just being another power fantasy display. It’s not just like “look we made this beefy dude scowl, that’s exactly as sexy as that girl with the bedroom eyes and her ass in the air, right?” instead it’s stuff like this;
Or this;
Pinup art that’s goofy and fun and in-character with tons of personality! My favourite thing!
I just have more fun talking about media that I really like, doing cool things that I appreciate than trying to call out every instance of people making the same mistakes that everyone’s been making since the dawn of pop culture. It gets me excited and inspired instead of angry and pessimistic.
Real talk now, these guys are my favourite cosplayers of all cosplayers.
(Source: court-records.net)
Here Bea I got you a present from the catacombs of my computer.
Wait I don’t actually remember if you were a Gumshoe fan or not.
I’m going to say yes? He seems like your kinda character.
