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I'm really so happy the whole story clicked so well for you, your enthused comments always brighten up my day!! Ultimately, if I've made people go "hey that was badass", I've done my job well.

Kaya...I believe in her. I'm sorry for putting her through all that, but...teehee.

Very glad to hear that relationship worked for you, I did a lot of hesitating over whether I'd struck the right balance!

Oh, thanks very much!

Heheheh...my legend grows...

Something really awesome about making a monster suit every week is that after a few months you have like a dozen monster suits you can use for free. So "we resurrected all the monsters" is a classic arc finale!

I'm seriously so happy to hear that!! I really did just remove all limiters for what I wanna write and see and I'm glad other people wanted that too.

How d'you feel about this versus what you were predicting would happen with Kaya?

It's literally so cruel to let dog girls wander without a leash. They might start razing and pillaging stuff!

I'm glad you enjoyed though! Genuinely fascinated by the reaction that you wished this was how Kaya went out. I love what she does to peoples' brains and it's not always what I expect.

Well, you have my permission!

Things will never be the same! It will never be like it was! How could you ever have wanted it to be that way? How can you stop?

(But yeah, I was very pleased by how many of the showa-rider-like elements I was able to bring smoothly together here)

Appreciated! It's nice when people share that particular braincell

I'm extremely flattered to hear that! I'm glad I could convey the love for this kind of thing. I hope your own project goes well!!

Thank you for saying so! She's very fun to wind up and let loose. I've definitely got plenty more of these in mind.

Honestly, I want to put this comment on a plinth. You Get it. I feel so seen, and am so glad to hear I captured the essence of it for you. Everything just seemed to synthesise so well!

I am...honestly not very confident in my ability to write lyrics or poetry (and especially rosc, which are considered pretty fiendish in the scholarship I've read) that stands up to any scrutiny at all. I agree it would absolutely complete a work like this, and am considering it for the second installment, but if done poorly would detract more than it would add, so I'm not sure if I'll go for it.

(And oh hey,  my current keyboard actually doesn't like diacritics either, something I keep meaning to fix.)

Thank you for your kind words! Nice to meet someone possessed by the same thing.

And it's...tricky! A lot of translations are outdated or hard to get, and it can be hard to tell retellings from translations (and there's nothing wrong with a retelling, I'm kinda doing some here, but when they advertise themselves as authentic...)

I'm gonna do a dev-diary blogpost about this soon, but you can find a lot of medieval Irish texts here--just, again, often quite old translations, and shorn of any real context or indication as to how they relate to each other:

https://celt.ucc.ie/publishd.html

For a slightly more coherent experience, I would recommend the story that I gleefully steal from for this, Mac Da Tho's Pig, as an entry point:
https://iso.ucc.ie/Scel-datho/Scel-datho-text.pdf

And then if you can find a copy of Jeffrey Gantz's Early Irish Myths and Sagas, that contains a couple other good ones, The Intoxication of the Ulstermen and Bricriu's Feast.

And I should mention, this ongoing podcast by a highly-qualified Celticist scholar in fact covers some of these exact stories in audiobook format, along with some really useful explanations:

https://www.youtube.com/@Guth-Podcast

Now thinking about how no-one is quite sure if the chariots in medieval Irish lit are a memory of their ancient actual use /there/, or if the writers just copied it from Homer...

It was made with...well, if not love, at least understanding, I think.

Honestly this anime is an obscure enough spinoff I'm not confident Fujimoto has seen it, but Makima definitely feels like some kind of Ryo Asuka for this generation, and she sure gives me something like the Ran Asuka Emotion.

Thank you so much for saying so! She really gets her hooks in you, right?

Incredible series, truly enjoyed all these.

I love this!! Let it be known for the sake of my ego that I did it without checking a guide. There's probably at least one screen I didn't find but still! Anyway I really enjoy the way the music shifts when you make the breakthrough.

Really enjoyed the cute storybook feeling!

This was really sweet! I'll have to play the other routes sometime for the full experience! Love the range of appeals you've captured here.

Funnily enough, it almost was!