#inalink

[supermassiveshot]

Courtesy of an unexpectedly fun research bender, the names of Riccardo's cats by game language (in order of introduction):

アリア ("Aria") and リュート ("Ryūto", lute) in Japanese.

Clef and Libretto in English, French and Spanish.

Dur and Moll in German.

Diesis and Libretto in Italian.

And the name of Skie's budgie:

Unnamed* in Japanese.

Bertie in English, French, Italian and Spanish.

Hansi in German.

*This is because the relevant InaLink exchange only happens in the European version of the game. In the Japanese version, the pet chatter gets derailed by a misunderstanding about オカエリ/ただいま, "okaeri"/"tadaima" (Japanese on the left, English on the right):

Also, apparently Japanese InaLink has a cool gradient effect on the background which the European version doesn't? The more you know.

[ultraeztia]

Missed the chance to call them Jaunderbar

[ruetziu]

based on an inalink convo

[sayakxmi]

Hakuryuu in InaLink is a treasure.

[wmiescieinazumy]

Heya, you reblogged my psot not long ago so i thought i might as well just answer you like this

The stickers i redrew are from what is called inalink or inatrr i think depending on the game. In the GO, chorno stone and galaxy games, as the story mode goes forward, the characters will send Messenges in a chat and interact with one another.

The chat is exclusive to raimon tho, only a few characters outside raimon send messeges

The emojis/stickers apparently were drawn by Akane in chrono stone i will bring out some of my fave interactions. i will try to remember when some of them happen cus again, they follow the storyline events:

after shindou comes back to the team during the first part of the season:

i really like this one cus it shows how when kariya first joined the team kirino was actually excited a talented defender by his side (oh how things went down...)

do i even need to mention how cute this one is?

last but not last favorite:

hi! thank u sm for answering my question! ⸜(｡˃ ᵕ ˂ )⸝♡ i wasnt expecting to get an answer so fast or at all for that matter (since i just asked in tags instead of via the askbox) so this is a really pleasant surprise, thank you <3

holy shit this is so freaking cool!!! i knew that the og game had a blog run by aki, but i didnt know something similar was featured in other games. the ytber whose gameplay videos i watched (i dont have the games unfortunately,,) doesnt stop to open the blog and read the character interactions there which is a shame (◞‸◟)💧 these interactions are so fucking cute i might cry. i love that they take the time to show characters interact with each other outside the main plot! shindou's "please stop nagging" and kirino's "HE'S ALIVE!" bring me so much joy i love them bad. that's the childhood best friends energy we love to see. akane just gossiping openly about kariya and him coming in like "well this is awkward" KSHFJKDSH PLEASEEEE. its so sweet that kirino was excited for another defender to join the team... too bad kariya was such a little shit at the start. aki baking cookies for tsurugi.... someone hold me.... everyone congratulating shindou on his recital going well SOBBBBB ITS FINE i didnt need my heart anyways!! thank you for sharing these with me!! i'd love to see more of them, please feel free to share if you have any ( ⸝⸝´꒳`⸝⸝) but also i dont wanna take up ur time, so ur absolutely not obliged to do so! if you know a good place to find more of these i'd love to know about it but once again, no pressure ^_^ i'll probably go watch a playthrough and screenshot it obsessively either way!

thank u sm for ur answer (,,>ヮ<,,)!

[sceptile11]

Tsurugi saying that Hakuryuu looks bitter in chronostones Inalink lives rent free in my head

[wmiescieinazumy]

*nods* there's an InaLink chat about them in chrono stone!

screenshots via InaLog: Inazuma Eleven Game Scripts - Inazuma Eleven GO: Chrono Stones Game Script

god bless the existance of that log i owe my life to the creators fr

midori having a katana keyring is so cute <333 kitties and musical notes. i need to kill him

According to Japanese Inazuma wiki Shindou has a phone strap with cats and musical notes

[kapane-luyeshu]

here are the emotes i've redone so far, it was kind of fun to adapt them to my style and all, especially getting to try a new kind of lineart - my back kinda hurts tho - i will most likely be doing more and post them little by little

feel free to use those however you wish

they dont look exactly like the originals cus i was having a lot of trouble translating the chibi style - read: i'm very very dumb - sorry if is not what you guys expected.

i did the kirino one with multiple flags just for fun and all but if any of you want him to hold a different flag just send me an ask with the flag you wanna see him holding and i will try to do it in my free time

the emotes:

[azhamdrety]

So while playing Inazuma Eleven Go Galaxy, we've got Kirino popping up in Inalink specifically to tell Ibuki not to bother Shindou (and they immediatly start antagonizing each other). Anyways, my point is, it's practically canon that Shindou had late-night calls with Kirino specifically to complain bout Ibuki, so much so that Kirino felt like he had to intervene. Which is. Pretty funny.

[safitheartist]

I agree with most of this. I just singled Aoi out because her lack of development was the most jaring considering how the show almost felt like she was set up to become a more fleshed out character.

And at this point I think she probably was suppose to but there was corporate meddling involved.

You see, in the games there was a curious change they did for Aoi. You remember the redesign I mentioned they gave her in Galaxy? Apparently they made that design change to signal that Aoi changed her primary unit type in the games.

In the first two go games you could unlock Aoi as a playable unit, she was a goalkeeper in these games, however, in the third game Aoi was changed to a middle fielder.

That seems like a very unnecessary change for a unlockable support unit, until you realize what the premise of that season was.

A bunch of amateur players were selected to be part of the national team, Aoi said all the way back in season 1 that she would like to play in the national team one day.

My guess, considering Shindou was genuinely just kind of stuffed into that season with no grander narrative reason, is that they originally intended for Aoi to be part of that team instead, not Shindou.

It would make a lot more sense if Aoi had started as a goalie and gotten into conflict with Ibuki that way, only for her to move to middle field but still have tension with him then literally the entire conflict between Shindou and Ibuki.

Heck it could even mirror Endou's Libero arc from the OG series.

As for the other female characters, I agree. OG definitely handled them a lot better then Go, even if some of their arcs were a bit questionable.

I also am still upset about the whole "Endou's wife" debacle. The games handeled that aspect disasterous. Literally in the CS games there is a sequence where Tenma can choose who Endou is married in that timeline and that event involved Aki. 💀 Like they didn't even have the decency to just leave her out of it, especially considering she is literally Tenma's sister/aunt/cousin (Level 5 why did you never clarify, she literally raised him since here early 20s, what is going on in that family??)

On a more positive note the Games did confirm that Natsumi became the schools chairman after the events of the first games.

As for Akane and Midori, I can not agree more, both of them were done very dirty. Honestly a Aoi arc probably could have involved them too actually, considering they are her senpais and mentor figures. I feel like them getting a mini arc where they help Aoi become a player would have been a great way to develop them and explore them more.

Again the games actually are better in that aspect due to the Ina chat and Ina link conversations.

Basically if you don't know, the games have a sort of message board function where the kids post on during several instances during the game. The developers used that function to reveal some character tid bits and give us some interactions to flesh the characters out.

Both Akane and Midori get some good bits there. They also have some in game events, though Akane is still suffering from many of the same issues as you mentioned, she does have some more personality in there.

Her relationship with the other 2nd years gets fleshed out more and we also find out that she is a artist, she makes stickers for Inalink in the second game. (Including a crying Shindou one, which she made unprompted which was very funny because it implies even she thinks he is a bit of a cry baby lmao)

Anyways as for Ares...I have not watched that show and I am not touching it with a 10 meter pole.

Aoi Sorano should have gotten a character arc and here is why

I’m revisiting some childhood obsessions of mine and of course ina11 would be one of them

And I just realized what a waste of character potential Inazuma Eleven Go had with Aoi.

Let me explain, Sorano Aoi is one of the support characters of Inazuma Eleven Go and the disignated “love interest but eh they are 12” to protagonist Tenma Matsukaze (Which honestly, good on them for avoiding the love square mess of the first trilogy…..at least for the most part.)

But well here is the thing, the series really did Aoi in particular dirty, especially the anime.

Aoi was a childhood friend of Tenma (who for whatever reason lived with Aki since he was in elementary school despite him only really living with her because he wanted to attend Raimond) and they met and became friends due to their shared interests (Soccer and Dogs).

And their relationship is rather sweet and seems really genuine, while Tenma is the cookie cutter obvious as a brick shonen protagonist, him and Aoi are shown to interact regularly and their bantern is rather cute really. You can tell that they clearly care for eachother and there was never really a question as to why (as I had to ask myself with Endou and his harem so often, like seriously, why was every girl except Raika and Haruna into him?) They just have that chemistry going on that comes due to having a established past and shared interests.

And for the first season and Game Aoi was fine staying as a suport character. She became a manager to the soccer team to support her best friend (crush) and because she really loves soccer and the reason why she didn’t join the club as a player is simply due to sports clubs in Japan in general being separated when it comes to gender. The games were set in the future but I guess they just never bothered to change that…well till soon after that is. But we will get to that.

Aoi is a good moral support to Tenma and the other characters and had a very fun personality in the begining of the series. She wasn’t just a Aki rehash as most people feared when she was first anounced and the lack of love rivalries made her interactions with the other female characters a lot more fun.

She wasn’t the most interesting character in the show but for what she was suppose to be she was pretty neat.

However, this changes near the end of season 1.

What started as a small moment where they said “Hey we support women’s soccer btw” and some fan service soon turned Aoi from a somewhat alright support character to well…pretty much a walking disapointment.

Near the end of season 1 of the Anime they mostly were starting to promote the second game/ season and therefore decided to adress one of the main criticisms of the first one which is a lack of female representation in the main team. (Something ina 11 has always had a issue with, especially the anime.)

So they started to make allusions to the idea that Aoi potentially could become a soccer player in the future, something that juat never really happened in the show. Having her herself make comments about it and having a freshly redeemed Goenji say that he supports women soccer and that he hopes for it to become more popular soon.

And that’s the big problem, this could have become a very interesting sub plot if they had deciden to follow through on it. Having a arc where Aoi decides to move from her possition as manager to a actual player would have been a very neat concept.

They could have gone in a lot of directions with it, for exampel having a all female team try to ask her to join them instead or have her help another character with a hisatsu only to end up making it a duo hisatsu and so on.

Inazuma eleven’s biggests strengths often layed in having characters deal with their emotions regarding the sport they love so much and what their role in regards to it and the people connected to it are. Having Aoi go from a passive character to a active one would have been a great way to adress gender roles in Japan and to flesh out her relationship with Tenma even more. Heck they could even have had a arc where she questions why nobody ever asked her to become a player.

But well, the second season rolled around and…nope. The games did introduce a female player to the main games, Nonobana Kinako who joined after a rift in the time line (no I’m serious) and they just abandoned the gendered club rules.

And this is where it turns somewhat ridiculous….which honestly is saying something if we regard what show I am talking about.

Aoi had a interest in the sport since she was little and has made comments about it, the only reason why she couldn’t be a player was due to the gender restriction of the club. So now that it was gone shouldn’t she at least consider joining?

Nope.

The idea is not even mentioned.

The farest this concept went was a ending where they devided the team into 4 groups with Tenma, Tsurugi, her and Fei as the leaders (the song was performed by her’s, Tenma’s and Tsurugi’s voice actors too, not Fei’s though for whatever reason).

And it’s just a shame. Especially when in season 3 Aoi’s main role was to connect with certain members of the new team and it would have been a lot more interesting if they had her do this as part of the actual team rather then as manager.

Instead they just gave her a redesign to make her look cuter and had her connect to said characters by being agressivly nice. (Honestly season 3 Aoi was so boring and her inclusion seems really contrived).

It’s just a shame how obviously she could have been a better character.

[supermassiveshot]

Chrono Stones Bonus Dialogue #08: Dad's New Phone

For all the wormhole shenanigans, time in the present-day Inazuma Town passes at a fair clip over the course of the game. One example is a man near the train station, who in Chapter 1 has just started introducing his dad to smartphones.

Chapter 6, the rough halfway mark, serves as an advancement point for almost every present-day zone. In this case, the dad's now caught up with the march of technology.

After that, things get interesting. As it turns out, Wonderbot didn't reserve InaLink for Raimon's use - by the time the credits have rolled for the first time, people around town have caught wind of it too.

[sayakxmi]

Shindou was Alpha, Beta & Gamma's captain exactly once (1), and the three apparently decided he's part of the group. He doesn't want to be part of the group.

They've been spamming his InaLink both in the group chat, and independently. Alpha mostly sends him pictures of cool birds (Shindou definitely didn't tear up when the first photo he ever sent him was a white dove, definitely), only occassiomally saying something. Shindou is amazed by his ability to sound monotone in text form. Originally Shindou took everything at face value, but he's began to suspect Alpha is, in fact, messing with everybody. To confirm or discard the theory, he needs to observe him longer, though.

Beta and Gamma are similar, and thet'd both get mad if he said that. Which is why he absolutely told them that. They send him a lot of future memes he has no means of understanding, and he definitely entertains the possibility of them just sending him random shit and pretending it's a future reference. He has no proof, and, to be honest, Fei actually laughed at some of these, but they might be in cahoots, so he remains cautious.

Beta also sends him maybe-maybe-not spoilers - stuff that might or might not happen in the future, he'll have to find out. Thankfully, none of these are all that big, but it can be stressful. Surprisingly enough, though, she sometimes gives him pretty good tips. She also encourages him to get a training dummy to beat up with a soccer ball as means of dealing with his anger issues. He does not have anger issues.

Gamma usually chats about soccer strategies, but sometimes he vents, too. Shindou would never admit he finds his problems relatable, or that on rare occassions he vented to him, too. Other than that he just reassures Shindou that he checked the timelines, and they have no crazy bullshit to deal with in the nearest future. It's very considerate of him, and Shindou doesn't know how to feel about it.

[sceptile11]

I know I have already mentioned wanting something like the Inalink in IE victory road. But if adult characters aren't in it I want to see at least the GO generation of Raimon be mentioned at least. Even if Raimon are the rivals of the protagonist's school. It would be at least nice to at least maybe get a hint to what Raimon was like after the events of Galaxy

[arbegagordon]

http://sacrulen.tumblr.com/post/158749559159/inagalaxy-inalink-translations-part-1

Yeet

Hi!~ Sorry for bothering you, we've never talked to each other before, but I really appreciate your blog and your work for us non-japanese speaking Inazuma fans, thank you so much! I've been looking for a translation of the inatter-like thing that Galaxy guys use to communicate with each other in-game, and I thought maybe you could know where to find it. I think there should be something like this as I've read some messages between Kirino and Ibuki before. Do you know where I can find it?Thanks~

I’M SO SORRY I’M SO LATE TO REPLY!! Thank you for your message! Ahhhh, I wish I knew where… I’m 90% there is a translation floating around here but I don’t know how to find it ;; If I do I’ll tag you/ if anyone knows where it is please let us know!!!!

[kapane-luyeshu]

currently working on remaking the inalink emojis/stickers, thanks to my dear friend sceptile that presented me to their existence and now is my current obsession

I just wanna make full quality versions of it and also try and learn how to draw sticker stuff

i dont know how many of them i will be making but once i'm done with a few i will be posting the full quality versions of them so everyone can use it freely

[my-yuujin]

Tenma: *laugh*

Hakuryuu: "Tsurugi. Let's have battle again some time."

Tsuru(fake): "Why should I...?"

Hakuryuu: "...You are...."

Hakuryuu: "No. it's nothing..."

pict source

he knows! hakuryuu knows! nothing less from this ultimate player