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Magical Archives Game Guide Character Notes

・"Ack!!" Like Spade, he seems to be easily startled by the unexpected. ・"Normal anger!" When provoked, his face becomes red with anger like the Queen of Hearts. ・ Generally has his head slightly tilted back to look down on others (in a pompous way).

・Smiles when he is uncomfortable. His facial expressions are gentle, but his eyes are angled upward and his face itself isn’t built in a gentle way. ・He has a dark side, so his smile may hold a deeper meaning. It might be good to have him smile without showing his teeth. ・"Grin" (Mean) ・Glasses slipping ・"Ack!!" ・Angry… It might be good to have his glasses completely misaligned for gags. ・He is the type who, once his smile disappears, it stays gone for a while.

・It’s not half up, it’s a pompadour. ・"Sigh~" ・Crooked-tooth character. His right canine tooth is generally visible. ・He tucks his hair over here behind his ear, so it curls forward. Look at the overall balance and give him something of a sexy look with the angle of the curl. Pinned back.

・ Kind of like cat eyes ・ Normal ・ Make up. The heart is drawn from slightly off-center from his pupil. ・ A collar that cannot be removed over the head. After closing tight around the neck it adapts to the person it has been applied to. It is rather heavy and very conspicuous. ・How its looks to other students (a doodle of a cat with a sign around its neck that says ‘I ate food that I stole’)

・A cool beauty with a bit of roughness. Slanted eyes. ・Make up. A spade mark, angled like eyeliner from about the center of the eye. Opposite side to Ace. ・Not too gross-looking. Kind of like a flower. (a doodle of a cat with a sign around its neck that says ‘I sharpened my claws on the couch’)

・He has a hair whorl in the front. ・Braids. They get narrower towards the ends. ・Not really frizz, but rather hair that hasn’t grown as much as the rest to his back. ・Round ears that face forward, as he is a carnivore. ・His hair reaches down to about his shoulder blades.

・”Sigh~” ・His hairstyle is a little Mohawk-like, with volume at the top like a hyena. ・The large eyes make him look a little young, but his proportions are the same as Ace. ・He’s cute when his shoulders bob up and down ・”Shishishi!!” ・Laughter that is similar to the hyenas in the Lion King ・Mean grin ・”Ack!” ・Angry

・He looks the same from either side ・He’s a tough-looking character, but as he is still only 16 please do not draw him so that he looks too tough. Compared with Leona and Trey, he has slightly larger eyes. ・Out of all the characters, he is the most muscular. ・Wolf Form

・”Sigh~…” ・His scheming face. He looks a little more mature than the other second year characters. He has a mole near his mouth. ・I think he is the champion in the “hair that is difficult to draw” category. If you don't start with a rough outline of the silhouette and then draw it in, the right side will almost certainly come out too big… ・Rough drafts look like this ・You can’t really see his eyes from the left side. His glasses frames do not turn transparent.

・”Hm~” (dumbfounded by something bothersome) ・He has heterochromia and a double eyelid. Eyelid fold is in the shape of the eyes. ・More gentle than he looks. ・Doesn’t make very big facial expressions and doesn’t open his mouth very wide. ・You can see jagged teeth when he opens his mouth, as he is an eel. ・He is basically always smiling. ・Eel Form ・Human, Ace, Mermaid ・Around 190cm, so over twice that long? ・He is more fish-like than Azul, with proper fins. There are gills on his sides. ・Eels have stripes, so his body has stripes in places. Since the bottom of the sea is dark, his body is luminescent.

・He has a sturgeon scale earring in his right ear that matches Jade’s. Inspired by Ursula’s “Beluga Sevruga, sturgeon of the Caspian Sea”* ・His hairstyle is the mirror image of Jade’s. It is slightly messier, but it’s the same otherwise. ・I think having him slouch a little would help differentiate him from Jade. ・His eyes tend to do this, but be careful not to overdo it.

*It seems that when Disney's The Little Mermaid was translated into Japanese, the lyrics were changed from the original line of “Beluga Sevruga, come winds of the Caspian Sea” to "Beluga Sevruga, sturgeon of the Caspian Sea", so this might be a reference to Ursula's "stealing your voice" spell that only people who saw the Japan release of the movie will understand.

・”Sigh~” ・I’d like it if his earring could swing back and forth ・Like Jamil, he has prominent lines around his eyes. His expressions are similar to Ace’s, but 30% more exaggerated and he doesn’t try to look cool. He doesn’t look down that much. He’s easygoing. ・”Ahaha!” ・His “mean” face is more like a prankster ・A look he makes when he’s being controlled by Jamil. This expression looks a lot like Jamil himself. ・”Whoa!”

・He generally doesn’t open his mouth very wide when he laughs. This expression is him trying to keep himself from laughing but failing. ・Mean ・Wearing a hood ・His hair drapes over his left shoulder when his hood is up ・No hood

・His disappointed look can be a complete change from his usual expression ・”Ugh~ so disappointed” ・Just a well-groomed face. Heavy eyelashes, both top and bottom. Eyebrows are masculine and thick. His face is also slightly long in a masculine way. The placement of his eyes and nose are balanced in the same way as Leona’s and the other older students. It would be great if his gestures could be graceful, similar to the Evil Queen. ・Evil Queen laughter “Oh no―hohoho”

・The flow of his hair ・He is secretly very well-muscled. He almost never takes off his gloves for everyday tasks (in order to not leave any fingerprints behind). His neck and arms are thicker than Vil’s. When weighing himself it was discovered that he is actually heavier than Trey, and he feigned surprise. He looks the same from either side. ・His hair is just slightly longer towards the front. ・After drawing him, I wondered if him turning his head more gently and calmly would be better suited to the character.

・I designed the character to be a beautiful boy who looks like he belongs in a 1970s shoujo manga. He is a countryside juvenile delinquent on the inside, but Vil is forcing him to be a 'bishonen' character. His acting is not very good, so his facial expressions are usually stiff, but when his true self comes out, he often laughs a lot, often gets angry and is generally mischievous. ・”Ahaha” He has an innocent-looking smile

・”So disappointing” ・The flames of his hair become weaker when he loses interest in something. ・The bags under his eyes and the blue of his lips are not make up, but entirely natural. His eyebrows always make him look troubled. His hair is flames, so it is always moving, and the ends are translucent. His eyes are always shaded. He has a well-defined face, but he is not aware of it. ・The best smile he can manage. He is not plotting anything.

・His entire expression relies on his eyes because of his mask, so it might be hard to tell when he’s being mean. If possible, we can do things like raising or lowering his shoulders in a ‘hehehe’ gesture.

・”Disappointed” ・He has pointy ears. Since his horns are so large, his head tends to look too big if his face is not drawn a little smaller than other characters’. He has long lower eyelashes, but his facial features are a little softer than Vil’s and Leona's. ・”haha” His fangs are visible. ・He doesn't really get super angry, but the rare times he is angry it's like "Uwa, he's inhuman!" ・Super angry

・He wears a jacket in the same design as Malleus’ but it is oversized and floppy. The collar and sleeves, etc. are drawn overly large and exaggerated. ・Three layers of frills. The bottom layer has small pleats (after the pleats it becomes transparent) ・Disappointed ・His expressions are less so cute than they are calm. He opens his mouth wider than Riddle does and makes improper expressions, carelessly picking his nose, etc. ・Mean ・”Wahaha!"

・When he does smile―which is rarely―it’s a gentle expression. Lilia sees him smile quite often. ・He usually does not look mean. ・Surprise. He usually hides when he is shocked so that others cannot tell he has been caught off guard, but he does get surprised. ・Angry! He gets angry if something puts Malleus and the others in danger. ・As he cuts his own hair (or Lilia cuts it for him), it is rather rugged, but half of that is just bed hair.

・He is not as well muscled as Jack, but he is rather sturdy. However, his facial features are similar to those of Azul, and he has a refined face. Although he has an older-looking face for a first-year student, on the inside he is more like a puppy, and if you get to know him, he laughs a lot. In front of Malleus he acts like a cool and composed follower, but he actually has a wide range of facial expressions. ・”Ugh~…” ・Lightning bolt → ・His bangs and eyebrows are shaped like lightning bolts. He has an undercut hairstyle. He actually wants to push it all back, but his hair is too strong and won’t allow it. It is not cropped.

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These are just a few of the many notes in the Magical Archives, a game guide released in 2020. This is a different book from the Visual Book that was released on 22/8/10, which also included illustration notes, a few of which have been translated below!

(Disclaimer: Proofreading of the above was done by a professional JPN -> ENG translator that I reached out to, but these are still all fan translations! Official translation involves a lot of going back and forth with the client so that they can approve of how their work is being represented, but that does not happen with fan translations, so always be wary of anything like this, scanlations, fan-subs/dubs, etc., that do not come from official sources!)

#thanks a lot for this #it made me interested in the game again #gotta go play #ehe

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