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{18Trip} The 18 Questions Corner - Kinugawa Kiroku

This is a translation for the 18 questions interview uploaded on the official Youtube channel. I suggest to read this translation alongside it!

Note: P stands for "Player", this series has a voiced male & female character for the player. The interviews are conducted by the male player in this case.

P: 18 questions for the Tourism Ward Mayors! We look forward to your cooperation!

Kiroku: A-ah, yes…

What’s your name?

Kinugawa… Kiroku… 

How old are you?

16 years old….

Tell us about your occupation!

The..  chief of the Magnum Opus Analogue Fine Arts Club at Asu High… and a 2nd year.

What’s the first thing you do when waking up in the morning?

…Not good, with mornings.. I wash, my face… 

Anything you’re particular about with lunch?

No… if it’s yummy, anything is ok… 

What pops up in your mind when it comes to “evening”?

Way back home… maybe… It’s the time, to pick up my little sister… 

What’s your routine before bed?

Drawing… making, stuff… 

Where do you start with washing your body?

Eh, um… my upper arms, probably… 

What’s essential when leaving for a trip?

…My sketchbook. 

What do you check before traveling somewhere?

Art museums, I… love them. 

What’s your favorite method of transportation for traveling? 

Bus…I guess…

What’s one item you’d bring to a deserted island?

Paper and pencil… Ah, that’s two things…

Please give us some fanservice! 

Eeeh? … 𝚆𝚎𝚕𝚌𝚘𝚖𝚎 𝚝𝚘 𝙷𝙰𝙼𝙰… T-that was off putting… sorry…

Who’s someone you’d lean on for support? 

Isotake… He’s sunny… 

Who would you swap bodies with for a day?

Hmmn… Morning Squad’s Oguro-san… maybe…?

What would you want to do as them?

I want to, be like that… speaking full force infront of other, people… 

Pass on a message to your roommates!

Isotake, and Nanamegi… my drawings, the compliments I get on them- thank you…!

Tell us from the heart, what’s a “journey” to you? 

A new… drawing… Realizing how there’s… colors I have yet to discover…

P: Thank you, those were all 18 questions!

Kiroku: Y-yes… thank you, for the hard work…

Kiroku: Kinugawa Kiroku. Ah- HAMA’s 6th Ward Mayor. Nice to, meet you... U-um… I, make drawings.

#18trip #translation #hes soooo cute. little gloomy guy. #the fact that he would talk abt his problems with isotake too. my god. the gloomy guy and the sunny guy are fwiends... uoh... #those dynamics always get me

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Is there a fandom for this game yet or am I too early

#18trip

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#18trip

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エイトリ

#18trip

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Hello, hello!

Some of you may know, I have somewhat returned to being active on my sideblog @justicerikai and translating CRSM whenever I felt like to do so.

Howeveeeeeeer! It seems that my spark has been fully reignited once more! I will spare the theatrics this time, though.

An upcoming mobile game, 18TRIP, has fully caught my attention. I'm very impressed by it's presentation and colorful repertoire of characters, not to mention fully voiced female and male MC. Interested? Haven't heard of it? Want to know more?

Here is the official website:

Here is an unofficial English account (I am not affiliated with it, only linking it due to accesbility for non-JP speakers):

Which leads to the following:

I have started up a sideblog at @82mitsu to post 18TRIP related content. For now I'm going through all the interviews, but be certain that I will be posting mobage TLs too when the game is out...! I have posting all interviews for the first unit of characters, others will follow soon.

I was feeling burned out from mobage stuff but this one is just so fun in concept, and can't stress enough how much I love everything already. I am truly excited to delve into TLing actively once more.

Again, if you're interested in 18TRIP, and you are perhaps interested in wanting to read TLs, I point you towards my new blog @82mitsu.

A twitter account will also be made on release, and I will post TLs under the hashtags #823TLs and #18TLs. For now it's a lowkey operation until then.

As for Charisma House TLs, again, business as usual on @justicerikai until I truly become jobless due to English subs being added on everything but I'm a cockroach so I'll persevere until I can't...!!!

Please forgive my self indulgence to do a little promoing of my side endeavours, but I'm simply too excited about sharing how much I am having with TLing again.

Thank you thank you, hope to see you on the tripside!

#YAAAAAAAY! #18trip

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happy birthday ito fumiya <3

#charisma house #THIS IS RIDICULOUS I LOVE HIM

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Akuta Isotake from 18trip

#gif #18trip #akuta isotake #suchobabbles #the live2d is great for every character but hes so cute i think i may have actually kyaaa'd out loud

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ohhhh so the twins in 18trip are like codependent codependent, ok, i see, got it

#suchobabbles #watching the little intro interview videos for the game rn at a friends suggestion

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dice isnt happy in the family visit

i started this 2023 september, glad i can finally call it done

#hypmic #aaaaaa. aaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

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Thistle.jpeg

#dungeon meshi

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I am NOT reblogging the tokyo debunker art as an endorsement ok I'm reblogging it because I can save them. I can rescue them from the bad game they're stuck in

#suchobabbles #shohei im going to get you out of there and give you to nero mahoyaku to adopt as a son #meanwhile towa you will be adopted by ME!!!!!!

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I need more of him please and thank you

#tokyo debunker #eating the dandelion. little goat man

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🫧🫧🫧 Bubble baby 🫧🫧🫧

#tokyo debunker

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✨Beautiful Warding cards for Tokyo Debunker ✨

#tokyo debunker

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what is this guy’s problem, he’s so funny

#tokyo debunker #LITERALLY whats his problem. hes so blatantly rude every single time hes onscreen i end up laughing so hard

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I want to update my review actually. I've decided the rhythm gameplay is actually far worse than twst because past the first, like, two rhythm stages they stop even trying to make it decently timed. it is so bad. it feels so bad to play.

Okay. I've been playing Tokyo Debunker today, since the release happened to catch me on a day when all I'd planned to do was write fanfiction. I just finished reading the game story prologue (it was longer than expected!), so here's a review type post. If you're reading this post not having seen a single thing about this game: it's a story-based joseimuke gacha mobile game that just released globally today. It's about a girl who suddenly finds herself attending a magic school and mingling with elite, superhuman students known as ghouls. If you look in the tumblr tag for the game you'll see what appears to be a completely different game from 2019 or so: they retooled it completely midway through development, changing just about everything about it due to "escalating competition within the gaming industry."

I'll talk about how this looks like a blatant twst clone at the end.

Starting with the positive: The story is charming. I enjoyed it thoroughly the entire time and am excited to read more. The mix between visual novel segments and motion comics was really nice--it broke things up and added a lot of oomph to the action or atmospheric scenes that visual novels generally lack. I like the art in the comic parts a lot. the live2d in the visual novel parts is... passable. Tone-wise, I think the story was a little bit all over the place and would like to see more of the horror that it opened on, but I didn't mind the comedic direction it went in either. The translation is completely seamless. The characters so far all have unique voices and are just super fun and cute. Of the ones who've had larger roles in the story so far, there's not a single one I dislike. It's all fully voiced in Japanese and the acting is solid. (I don't recognize any voices, and can't seem to find any seiyuu credits, so it seems they're not big names, but they deliver nonetheless.) Kaito in particular I found I was laughing at his lines a ton, both the voicing and the writing.

He's looking for a girlfriend btw. Spreading the word.

The problem is like. The gameplay is the worst dark-pattern microtransaction-riddled bullshit I've ever seen. Hundred passive timers going at all times. Fifty different item-currencies. Trying to get you to spend absurd amounts of real world money at every turn. There's like five different indicators that take you to various real-money shop items that I don't know how to dismiss the indicator, I guess you just have to spend money, wtaf. Bajillion different interlocking systems mean you have zero sense of relative value of all the different item-currencies. I did over the course of the day get enough diamonds for one ten-pull, which I haven't used yet. Buying enough diamonds for a ten-pull costs a bit under $60 (presumably USD, but there's a chance the interface is automatically making that CAD for me--not gonna spend the money to check lmfao), with an SSR rate of 1%. BULLSHIIIIIT.

There's like a goddamn thousand-word essay explaining the dozen different types of character upgrades and equippables and equippables for the equippables!! Bad! Bad game design! That's just overcomplicating bullshit to trick people into thinking they're doing something other than clicking button to make number go up! That is not gameplay!

In terms of the actual gameplay, there is none. The battle system is full auto. There might be teambuilding, but from what I've seen so far, most of that consists of hoping you pull good cards from gacha and then clicking button to make number go up. There's occasional rhythm segments but there's no original music, it's just remixes of public domain classical music lmao. I'd describe the rhythm gameplay as "at least more engaging than twisted wonderland's," which is not a high bar

At least there's a cat in the rhythm bit.

And like, ok, I gotta remark on how derivative it is. Like I mentioned in my post earlier, this game is unabashedly aping twisted wonderland's setting and aesthetic. (That said, most of the stuff it steals from twst is magic school stuff that twst also basically stole from Harry Potter, so...?) However, it isn't exactly like twst: in this one, the characters say fuck a lot and bleed all over the place and do violence. Basically, the tone is a fair bit more adult than twst's kid-friendly vibe. (Not, like, adult adult, and I probably wouldn't even call it dark--it's still rated Teen lol. Just more adult than twst.)

Rather than just being students at magic school, the ghouls also go out into the mundane world to go on missions where they fight and investigate monsters and cryptids. Honestly, the magic school setting feels pretty tacked-on. The things that are enjoyable about this would've been just as enjoyable in about any other setting--you can tell this whole aspect was a late trend-chasing addition, lmao. So, yeah, it's blatantly copying twst to try to steal some players, but... Eh, I found myself not caring that much. Someone more (or less) into twst than me may find it grating.

Character-wise, eh, sure, yeah, they're a bit derivative in that aspect too, but it's a joseimuke game, the characters are always derivative. Thus far the writing & execution has been solid enough that I didn't care if they were tropey. If I were to compare it to something else, I'd say the relationship between the protagonist and the ghouls feels more like that of the sage and wizards in mahoyaku than anything from twst. There's some mystery in exactly what "ghouls" are and their place in this world that has me intrigued and wanting to know more about this setting and how each of the characters feels about it. I have a bad habit of getting my hopes up for stories that put big ideas on the table and then being disappointed when they don't follow through in a way that lives up to my expectations, though.

So, my final verdict: I kind of just hope someone uploads all the story segments right onto youtube so nobody has to deal with the dogshit predatory game to get the genuinely decent story lol. Give it a play just for the story if you have faith in your ability to resist dark patterns. Avoid at all costs if you know you're vulnerable to gacha, microtransactions, or timesinks.

#suchobabbles

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Space/Line

#charisma house