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Jan. 6th, 2010 12:21 pmAbsolute Obedience: the Drama CD’s
You may find yourself wondering “Hey Zhores, what is all this supplemental material that you mention from time to time?” and that’s a vary good question! One I’m even going to answer, unlike the normal “when the hell did you go to sleep” questions.
Truth be told, the canon that’s readily available is in that questionable grey zone. Artbooks can only give a indicator of the character’s personality, and so 99.9% of the time I don’t count them as canon. However AO’s artbook has some dialogue written by the author of the game, so I tend to count those pictures/conversations as canon. Also there’s the anthology, which also doesn’t count as canon, but since there’s official support for the books, there’s a little wiggle room if someone wanted to use them as a reference when canon fails to provide. But that all sounds pretty sketchy right? There’s got to be more canon floating around!
And you’d be right! AO has about nine drama CD’s, all of them out of print and untranslated. But thankfully through the magic power of amazingly fail machine translators and the one cd I managed to find on a Russian forum (stop laughing, it WORKED), I can now pretty much tell you just what happens with only a few major errors... hopefully.
From what I can tell, it’s a decent amount.
( Zhores is only in one of these CD’s, and that makes me sad )
Isn’t that a hell of a lot of canon? It sure is! Now only if I can post-grind to get those 30 comments I need to download the files...
You may find yourself wondering “Hey Zhores, what is all this supplemental material that you mention from time to time?” and that’s a vary good question! One I’m even going to answer, unlike the normal “when the hell did you go to sleep” questions.
Truth be told, the canon that’s readily available is in that questionable grey zone. Artbooks can only give a indicator of the character’s personality, and so 99.9% of the time I don’t count them as canon. However AO’s artbook has some dialogue written by the author of the game, so I tend to count those pictures/conversations as canon. Also there’s the anthology, which also doesn’t count as canon, but since there’s official support for the books, there’s a little wiggle room if someone wanted to use them as a reference when canon fails to provide. But that all sounds pretty sketchy right? There’s got to be more canon floating around!
And you’d be right! AO has about nine drama CD’s, all of them out of print and untranslated. But thankfully through the magic power of amazingly fail machine translators and the one cd I managed to find on a Russian forum (stop laughing, it WORKED), I can now pretty much tell you just what happens with only a few major errors... hopefully.
From what I can tell, it’s a decent amount.
( Zhores is only in one of these CD’s, and that makes me sad )
Isn’t that a hell of a lot of canon? It sure is! Now only if I can post-grind to get those 30 comments I need to download the files...
