EVO moment
Vanquish Soul Razen
Full art:
Energy cluster proposal:
“It would have been great if they had smell, glow, fumes, etc…but I figured explaining that through the pictures would have been hard, so for now, they are just stones.”
Cluster design #1:
Top: “Emblem of the soul of the vanquisher”
Bottom: “Value: Low -> high”
TL note: “Vanquisher” here would be a localization of 闘神 (toushin, battle god) which is the title of the fighter depicted in Rock of the Vanquisher
Cluster design #2:
“Flames and DNA”
Background:
Color note: “The background is quite colorful”
TL note: The black note says “multiplication”, but it seems to be out of context
Lighting:
“I want to make the rim lighting and the highlights colorful”
Weapon:
Right: “Weapon: Rocketonfa“
Top: “*Rumbling sounds*”
Refrigeration:
Top: “Because the energy clusters are hot, they are constantly refrigerated”
Bottom: “Air bubbles popping up”
Lantern:
Top: “Because it didn’t have a base form, I wanted to incorporate the design of a kerosene lamp”
Middle: “A kerosene lamp used to carry energy clusters”
Bottom: “I wanted to include them into something that lights a fire”
Illustrator’s comment:
“A unique world setting that revolves around fighting spirit having become matter and (figuratively) burns people. These are dangerous energy clusters, but Razen stores them in rocketonfas. I wonder how he even obtained them. Maybe from some unofficial underground fighting ring. I tried making the background of the monster card look like a cut-in scene from a videogame.”
Vanquish Soul Dr. Mad Love
Full art:
Description:
Left: “A human-looking demon”
Right: “Left-handed”
Description #2:
“Is investigating magic (unknown energy(ies))”
Description #3:
“Is not the type that uses the energy clusters that are full of impurities and are unstable directly, but rather uses the extracted energy with a high level of purity (this is dangerous).
Lost her family and others while extracting [these] from a mine or similar.
She lost her sanity while pursuing love”
Backpack:
Middle: “Energy clusters”
Upwards arrow: “Vaporized energy”
Downwards arrow: “Liquefied energy (uses [this one])”
Ice:
“Amazing-looking ice-like things”
Grenades:
“Ice cream motif”
Mysterious liquid:
Top left: “Contains unstable energy”
Bottom left: “Sticky”
Bottom: “Gel form”
Right: “It’s unknown what can happen with it”
Arms:
“The arms function using attachments
They are rearranged depending on the situation”
Arm names:
Mad Love: “They do have names!”
Clockwise from the top left: “Mia”, “Koro”, “Pike”, “Toto”
TL note: The second name in the list could also be coro/colo/kolo.
Hands:
“One click transforms it into this”
“*Clacking sound*”
Hand:
Drill:
“All sorts of ice cream designs”
Inside of the sleeve:
Squeaky hammer:
*Squeaky hammer noises*
Beam gun:
Top: “*Musical noises*”
Bottom: “Ice cream shop”
Beam gun #2:
Top: “*Beam noises*”
Bottom: “When using the massive gun, maybe it’s a good idea she supports it with two hands like this”
Hair down:
“If she doesn’t tie her hair, she looks like this”
Mad Love: “What do you want?”
Vanquish Soul Pluton HG
Full art:
Main body:
“Energy clusters that somehow joined together like bones”
Trash:
“Trash that ended up being absorbed”
Attack:
“*Various squishy slimy noises*”
Appearance:
Left: “It looks like a skeleton and I think it’s cute. I like it”
Right: “Doesn’t really have eyes”
Eyes:
“Or rather, if it did have eyes, would something like these be OK?”
Blades:
“Maybe it would be somewhat stronger if it used dangerous sharp objects like this one to attack?”
Vanquish Soul Caesar Valius
Full art:
Hands:
Energy:
“The dragon’s own energy”
Chest design:
“Great muscles”
Javelin:
“Energy comes out from its chest like a javelin”
Javelin design:
Top: “How it looks like with a longer grip”
Bottom: “Javelin created from the dragon’s energy”
Illustrator’s comment:
“I drew it in such a way that, while it keeps some Yu-Gi-Oh dragon-ness in its head and other parts, it also gives an impression of a last boss. Because there are lots of human characters among the ‘Vanquish Soul’, I figured Caesar Valius could be seen like a weirdo from its appearance. However, I enjoy drawing quirky characters.”
TL note: The term used for its appearance is 色物 (iromono), which is a secondary role to the main act, for purposes of decoration/spicing up. “Irregular” or “unorthodox” could also be valid translations. Basically, this would be a non-human looking character that looks out of place among a majority-human cast, like Blanka from Street Fighter.
Vanquish Soul Jiaolong
Full art:
Description:
Left: “Razen’s rival, in the 20-22 year old range”
Right: “Mostly human”
Power:
Left: “Has obtained the power of the Dragon Emperor side”
Right: “While he did obtain it, the power was too strong, and started turning his hair white. Eventually, all of it will turn white”
TL note: 龍帝 (ryuutei) means “Dragon Emperor”, and it’s part of the name of Caesar Valius’ jp name (force-read as “Caesar”).
Heels:
“6 centimeter heels”
Flames:
“Wields blueish white flames”
“Commentary from pro-wrestler P-san”:
Pantera: “Huh? You are asking if Jiaolong is male or female?…He’s a dude, of course. But who cares about that, where is my reference art?”
TL note: Jiaolong is surrounded by “ore”, a distinctively male pronoun.
Thanks to our anonymous contributors for the scans.
6 Comments
So jianlong is a dude… well sometimes sacrifices must be done
XD
Definitely looks like a guy to me.
Lol what made you think otherwise
Razen coming at them with dual Pilebunkers?! Ban. BAN NOW!
The idea of an energy javelin using ceasar valius’s own energy is really cool. So he doesn’t need any energy cluster cuz he IS the energy cluster.
Pantera’s right, where IS her reference art