I always imagined Von Karma being a bit on the thinner side behind those clothes but looking at the sprites, his shoulders are huge in comparison to the others for some reason
Sure, Edgeworth's shoulders here are still bigger but like ????
Additionally, here is a picture of some of the prosecutors stacked on top of eachother from largest to smallest, you can still see MVK's shoulders peeking out. Also Manfred's shoulders become much more wider than Edgeworth's here in the court sprites
Why is Manfred so damn wide !! ?
(And yeah, I checked compared MVK's sprite to Gumshoe and Gumshoe is obviously bigger but still)
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For those that know me from instagram, we do not remember how I used to draw Manfred Von Karma.
As some of you may know, I have been missing Ace Attorney again after listening to the soundtracks. I might come back to it someday again although as for now, I am too into Baldur’s Gate 3.
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putting the three together is kind of funny
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For anyone who enjoys Manfred von Karma in any capacity and at the very least finds him an interesting character, I made a Discord! Feel free to join if you wish and meet new people! :3
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The answer to the question of ‘is Manfred von Karma German?’ Is actually a surprisingly complicated one.
Because in the original version of ‘Ace Attorney’ he is supposed to be a local. That is to say, Japanese. He has a Japanese name (Gō Karuma), he has Implied Off-Screen Japanese Ancestors implied in TGAA2, we pretty much exclusively see him prosecuting cases in Japan, and official media created by official Japanese creatives primarily shows him living in Japan (eg. the Anime).
And then you have Mei/Franziska. Who, in the original Japanese version, was born, raised and studied law in the USA. (And yes, both the Japanese and Localized version say born, I checked). And she does occasionally refer to herself as Separate and Different from the ‘local’ Japanese characters, there’s this little piece of official art riffing on how much she differs from Larry/Yahari’s idea of an American Woman.
But she also still has a Japanese name (although I’ve seen some speculation that ‘Mei’ was chosen for the character because it’ll be an easy name to Englishize as ‘May’) and is, you know… still the daughter of the guy we exclusively see running around Japan. The only scene they have together in Game-Canon is when Mei is visiting Japan for vacation in ‘Turnabout Reminiscence’. So while the implication is that Mei did spend most of her time growing up in the US, we don't know how much time Gō spent there.
And then the American Localization came along, switched Japan to America and America to Germany and then also added the extra wrinkle of giving Gou Karuma the decidedly German-sounding name ‘Manfred von Karma’. Thereby giving him a much bigger implied connection with the country-where-his-daughter-was-born-and-raised then the original, even though every other piece of textual evidence remained the same. He is STILL only seen prosecuting cases in 'America' and, if you add in the Anime narrative and TGAA2 espacially, the plot really doesn't make sense if you assume he lives for any significant amount of time in Germany.
Sure, with the name and all it's hard to deny that he probably has some relation to Germany, but with how the actual text of the game work it's easier to say he's a German expatriate or just an American of German ancestry, then how the Fandom often depicts him - as a man who lives and work in Germany and only occasionally jumps over to also do some work in Japanifornia.
But.... then there's the whole thing with Franziska/Mei being born and raised in Germarica. And I would like to say something like, ‘well, considering this fact, obviously regardless of version Manfred still did actually do lot of business in both Japanifornia and Germarica and spent a lot of time in both countries. It's really just a matter of us not seeing his Amerigerman cases cause they are all obviously Off-Screen for our manin characters. And while Gou Karuma might come across more as a Japanese man who occasionally also works in the US, the changed implications of the name means that Manfred von Karma is probably meant to be read as a German man who occusionally does work in the US. Because OBVIOUSLY he must have spent many years in Germarica considering his own daughter was born and raised there.’
But I can’t.
Because if there is one character who would watch his wife give birth in whatever country has the best law schools and then fuck off back to his homeland while leaving his baby to fend to herself across the the Pacifitlantic ocean - it would be fucking Manfred von Karma!
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Okay, time for a perfect crossover.
This time it's "Ace Attorney" and the Soviet "Treasure Island" cartoon.
Who knew that the Karmas were Dr. Livesey's descendants?
Now I need something similar, but with "Skullgirls" and "Spy x Family".
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