Atelier Meruru Cutest Atelier Ever
- Categories: Games, News
- Date: Mar 25, 2011 03:28 JST
- Tags: Atelier, Gust, Image Gallery, Kishida Mel, Loli, Moe, PS3, RPG
Fans of Gust’s Atelier series of alchemy RPGs, now enjoying a huge surge in popularity thanks in no small part to the excruciatingly appealing artwork of Kishida Mel, have been rapturously greeting the advent of the 12th game in the series, Atelier Meruru.
The game features a new protagonist, the 15-year-old Merurulince Rede Arls, in the same world as Atelier Rorona and Totori.
Rorona has been turned into a loli for the game – it is not clear what events are behind her lolification (she was 14 and 22 in the last two games), but it has been greeted as a blessing by series fans.
The game is set to be released on June 23rd, and no sooner had pre-orders opened than the title rocketed to the top spot in Amazon’s sales rankings.
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I really do like the art direction in this game.
And people say that anime and 3D don't mix well...
This looks gorgeous. One of these days, someone will extract the ingame models so I could study them thoroughly.
It's moar liek 2.5D
Actually, full 3D, bro. The models are cel-shaded and the backgrounds are plain, good ole 3D, however.
I agree.
Why the fuck cant WRPG females be like this?
Because WRPGs are aimed at people who are not pedophiles?
"Because WRPGs are aimed at people with an ugly fetish."
Fixed.
no retard, people play WRPGs for their stories and gameplay. people (like you) play JRPGs because you're pedophiles who want to fap to the 10 year old characters.
So...If I like girls that are cute I am a pedophile? Ok then.
You know, I learned something relatively recently that explains a little of where all this may come from.
A friend of mine was speaking with a Japanese friend of his, and the Japanese friend asked something along the lines of 'Why do you westerners like Japanese? We all have big heads and small bodies' and it prompted a discussion between my friend and I. We realized that yeah, proportionally, Japanese have childlike heads. It's part of their genetic makeup in general. The proportion of their heads to their shoulders, and often the rest of their bodies, tends to drift more toward the equivalent of western adolescents.
It's not something definitive, but since sexual attractiveness is generated by shape relationships on the body, not age or anything conjecture-based like that, it's a good bet that much of what people call 'pedophilia' when people find younger characters cute and adorable in anime is more along the lines of adjusted perception based on Japanese culture. We as westerners perceive these characters as young kids, meanwhile as we learned in the recent article, Japanese men enjoy what we consider 'childlike' actions from females, and consider it cute.
Put them together: the body proportions, the actions that are widely considered cute, the foreign perception from a different background, and in general you have a setup for one gigantic misunderstanding. From some basis, that's probably where the 2D vs 3D argument developed. You'll find many anime fans who love loli, yet perceived real life equivalents are unappealing. I think in part it stems from these unconscious recognitions.
Just because we enjoy fapping to the 10 year old characters does not mean that we do not enjoy good stories, fellow Anon. Now back to /b/ with you!
You sound like my "best" friend. And believe me, I've always wanted to hulk smash him in the face.
By the way, is Artifact ever going to ip ban all these trolls?
actually I play for story, and I don't play wrpgs because it is impossible for me to like a character that doesn't seem to have a voice in his actions outside of his sandbox mode (I'm talking about the protagonist of every wrpg, the w would stand better for wrong than for western by the way) On another note, I'm not actually sure how are the tales series of games, or the final fantasy series lolicon at all.
Well, based on this I would tend to agree.. The artwork looks good, the backgrounds looks good, but they miss match pretty hard when put together. Am I the only one who thinks the characters sticks out like sore thumbs from the environment?
Although I think it might have more to do with colors then style.
A lot of it is how the colors interact yes, but it's more of how they interact in a dreamlike fashion. The characters almost appear self-illuminated, like they're more celestial than the world they inhabit, and to a degree I believe that's intentional. They don't have lighting as their friend when it comes to cell shading usually. Lighting becomes rather difficult to integrate when it's limited like that, so this is apparently sort of a simultaneous solution to making the characters that much more 'dreamy' and making it unnecessary to worry about shadows too much.
I'm sure some scenes will work better than others. It's basically like they're in perpetual sunlight. When they're not in sunlight, it'll probably look a bit odd.
All I know is Rorona was just an all-around extremely enjoyable experience, and I was never distracted by the art. All I hope is Totori gets here soon, and this soon to follow.
i first thought it was stardust witch meruru...
After her successful novel and anime series, Kirino worked on story and characters for the next Atelier game...
"Stardust Alchemist Meruru is about to begin!
Meru-meru-meru-meru-meru-meru-me!
Meru-meru-meru-meru-meru-meru-me!"
Kira~!
Kirino does approve.
Kirino must be schlicking at the speed of light by now
she'd prolly be passed the fck out by now...
I think it's more than a coincidence. Gust must have watched Oreimo and concluded that Meruru is a very magical name.
I miss when the Atelier girls had cute western names like Marie and Elie. Now they have retarded japanese attempts at western names like Meruru or Rorona.
Uchuu ni kirame～ku, nagareboshi～☆
Majiーkaru jetto de, teーki wo utsuー♪
Yea~~ some good stuff for now
Now Totori and Meruru just need a US domestic release. Better yet, just translate them and spread the joy of the Atelier series all over the world!
i agree, id much rather have just the translation with original voices than the shitty soulless dubs
Not going to happen, though- Sony Computer Entertainment America demands dubs to be added in retail games.
Moreover, "shitty soulless dubs" is a rather harsh misconception. Dubs can be great from time to time- just listen to Neptunia's one, for god's sake.
No, they are always soulless and shitty, really.
They should just go with the original voices, but that's never going to happen.
I'd rather play them with a Japanese-English dictionary in one hand than buying the localized version.
uhhh NISA has already taken up the project for totori didnt they?
Dude, 11:38 Anon, you act as if the games don't have dual audio, anyways.
And 11:40 Anon, they didn't just yet. Rumored they'll announce it soon, though.
Chaos Wars is a fine example of quality english dubs
im just saying itd be preferable to have the game at all, rather than not at all because the american publishers don't want to spend money on dubbing a less popular game.
granted there are a few exceptions to shitty soulless dubs, when it's done wrong, it's horrible and gamebreaking.
final fantasy 14, eternal sonata, star ocean :TLH, Lost odyssey and ToA were pretty painful, and since only a few of any here get dual audio, i end up just muting... i guess i might be in the minority though.
Rorona discovered the elixir of youth.
"Rorona discovered the elixier of lolification."
Fixed.
This will cause diabetes, so be careful.
I guess that makes Wilford Brimley the anti-loli.
oh great another jrpg involved cute loli moe girls
we need more serious jrpg games like xenogears -.-
Grow up i like me some loli JRPGs AND some serious ones like Xenosaga Chrono Cross and so on. Sorry that you're not secure enough to love both your loli and your serious plots.
Haha... I like em both.
Though thinking back in the days of Atelier Iris we actually had games where the lead character was actually male... kinda did miss those days too.
Male MCs are the exception rather than the rule. Iris was pandering to the Western audience, a true Atelier game always have a girl as the MC.
Yep, all the Atelier games before Iris had female main characters. Ever played Mana Khemia? It has a male MC and is better than Iris imo
Thats the problem we dont have enoughserious jrpgs nowadays
and you cant spell loli without LOL
I believe someone has extracted Rorona Fryxell from the game already. I dunno about the other girls but I've seen a Rorona Fryxell model hanging around the internet.
Can't wait for English release of this ans second game!! Come one NISa don't be fools get it done!
Meru meru meru meru meru meru me~
I would like to live in that world...
tsk tsk who would'nt? i mean you can make a good pie just by mixing mud so why not
someone please invent those damn nano-bots I can't wait till I insta-learn japanese from some experimental Science.
Just learn Japanese, odds are you will get the best results that way. Learning kanji is a bitch. but the rewards are great. At least you'll get obscene bragging rights.
maybe you can get a "totorial" in japanese........
x3