Nothing important recently, and I still haven't translated anything long. This update is all about gossipy stuff!
Regarding this last PoriPori Club show: the show was broadcast on NicoNico, where free users have to make way for paying users during a live broadcast, and can only watch it afterwards during a short timeframe and even that requires reserving a "ticket" beforehand. As a result, I only managed to catch a glimpse of it. Apparently ZUN didn't speak a lot during the show.
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Unabara on the origin of Twilight Frontier's name:
I like [Street Fighter] EX characters. The name of our circle comes from Twilight Lariat.
Twilight Lariat is a special attack of
Darun Mister, a wrestler from India who sought to challenge Zangief. He tweeted it in the evening of
March 31, but this shocking revelation still left me wondering if it's an April Fools' joke.
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On April 1, ZUN tweeted:
I'm drinking while watching Kyoryuger. #AprilFools
The joke is: 1) Kyoryuger, as Toei's Super Sentai show, is broadcast on Sunday morning, and April 1 is a Monday; 2) apparently ZUN said last year he is cursed to be unable to drink every April 1.
If you ever wondered about ZUN's anime-watching habits... I think he has never been an especially avid anime fan due to how little he references any anime. The only anime he mentioned recently seem to be the JoJo anime, about which he tweeted his wife having to work overtime so they couldn't watch it together (she's a game programmer, and game development means "crunching"), and Pretty Cure, which is broadcast as a block along with Kamen Rider and Super Sentai every Sunday morning.
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Recent events:
New chapter of WaHH will be released on April 10.
Probably inspired by the international trend of game jams where developers try to make a game in a short timeframe, PoriPori Club
will hold a "Making an iPhone Game in 2 Hours Night" event on April 13. ZUN will be there, and he also said:
By the way, my job is "the guy who gets in the way of the games' completion".
The 6th Akibahara Beer Fair will take place
from April 26 to May 5. You can get ZUN art coasters during the fair. Chances are good there'll be new Beerko art.