#tgaa british judge

[doggendoodle]

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[baker-chan-senpai]

greatest detective of all time

[skyedancer-rae]

TGAA 2 Spoilers

Wherein Barok van Zieks may have developed a soft spot for his apprentice, but he would never admit that aloud.

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[potatoattorney]

Judge Ryunosuke because I haven’t drawn fanart in a while

I kept accidentally giving the judge my Ryunosuke voice while I was playing TGAA2 yesterday

[vickyvicarious]

HAH. This is so funny, a Judge acting to keep the focus on strictly the current murder? This never happens. And Barok's response is even better, ahahahaha.

[cornertheculprit]

also has anyone ever asked the question of why the british judge in tgaa looks like santa claus. was that a conscious choice or a coincidence

[againstasoryuudivorce]

[ID: A backlog of dialogue from The Great Ace Attorney Resolve.

Take that!

(Present: Revolver)

“Well, the culprit could have used this, for example.”

Judge: “Oh really? A demonstration is in order then, I feel.”

Ryunosuke: “Wha…?”

Kazuma: “Yes, please, show the court how you could use that to create a noise like a gunshot.” /End ID]

Shot out to this penalty dialogue and everyone being absolute morons!

[bucketofcrows]

ok WHAT

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Jigoku is kind of a dilf 👀

[zarla-s]

A Patreon reward for Barok van Zieks and the British Judge chatting. But what could they be talking about :o

(I haven’t finished TGAA yet, no spoilers plz i beg you)

[addicted-to-12th-intro]

[MAJOR TGAA SPOILERS] How TGAA characters would sing We Don’t Talk About Bruno

It was easy to assign parts to characters - it all fits so well, it’s almost a summary of case 2-3 in a song. In order of appearance:

1. Genshin Asogi: Bruno

The unfortunately knowledgeable, the falsely accused - who if not Genshin would be the focal point of the song? He touched the lives of so many people in the story - and the memory of him was forcefully buried.

2. Ryunosuke Naruhodo and Susato Mikotoba: Mirabel

This one is easy: they’re our narrators, strangers to the plot, to whom others describe their perspectives - and they also (albeit metaphorically) put the puzzle together.

3. Herlock Sholmes and Yujin Mikotoba: Pepa and Félix

No matter how you view their relationship, the “frantic and grounded” energy is quite undeniably there. And just like Pepa and Félix’s part comes first and estabilishes Bruno’s “killjoy” nature, Herlock and Yujin are one of the first people affected by Genshin’s actions after previously having a good time in London.

4. Kazuma Asogi: Dolores

He’s haunted by the mystery of his father’s death and he knows more than you might’ve suspected - like Dolores who grew up constantly hearing Bruno and feels sympathy for how misunderstood he was.

5. Esmeralda Tusspells (with Enoch Drebber and Courtney Sithe): Camilo

Exactly like Camilo with Bruno, Esmeralda revels in the spooky scary aspect of the Professor. Drebber and Sithe also experienced it more or less directly, so it would be fitting for them to join in here - and having the 2-3 trio in one place is always a good enough reason.

6. Maria Gorey, Tobias Gregson and the British judge: the townspeople

This part is silly even in the original song, and even more so now, as the subject has become, well, murder... anyway. Ideally I’d assign a longer and more meaningful part to Gregson, but the game does poke fun at his consumption of fish and chips, so he’ll appear as the “he told me I’d grow a gut” man. The judge is bald but wears a wig like the priest (?) in this part. I initially had no idea who could be the fish owner, but it kind of fits Maria?  And she probably has met Genshin, but very briefly. It was strangely difficult picking minor enough characters for this part...

7. Barok van Zieks: Isabela

Ah, the bittersweetness. Barok considered Genshin his friend, and most likely received words of admiration and encouragement about becoming a prosecutor - “he told me that my power would grow”. Similarly to Isabela, the promise of a “perfect” life was right in the worst way, and now he’s crumbling under the pressure to maintain his reputation. Miscellaneous: “grapes that thrive on the vine” is a very Barok-appropriate comparison.

8. About the final pre-counterpoint verse

Abuela Alma has a single line in the song, so I have to give her a character too. Considering the main antagonist role, it should be Stronghart. The next character to sing in this part is Dolores, and her “the man of my dreams would be just out of reach, betrothed to another” can be applied to Kazuma with some tweaks: the “another” is Isabela/Barok, so the metaphorical “man” is the everything Kazuma wants and Barok has but doesn’t want - the attention focused on him and the power to enact vengeance. Finally, Isabela’s “Hey sis, I want not a sound out of you” is similar to how Barok used to shut Ryunosuke down.

I don’t know about you, but in my mind I can clearly hear the song performed by the characters... ah, if only I could make animatics.

[absolxguardian]

Here we are, with the first of what will likely be many historical context posts of mine for TGAA. So this “Anglo-Japanese Treaty of Friendship and Navigation” is actually the 1894 Anglo-Japanese Treaty of Commerce and Navigation. I don’t know if the name given in the game is a literal translation of the Japanese name of the treaty or a way to show that this is actually a combination of the treaty and the 1902 Anglo-Japanese alliance (for which I can’t find the treaty name); and that the Judge isn’t being colloquial when he’s describing Britain as an ally. There is a 1854 Anglo-Japanese Friendship treaty, which was an unequal treaty that opened the country for Britain and gave it favored nation status.

Which, speaking of unequal treaties, that’s what makes the 1894 treaty so important. It’s not an alliance treaty, it’s a “yeah okay, you’re a true nation that we’ll treat with respect and dignity” treaty. This was the first of such reversal treaties a European power signed with Japan, evidence that the industrialization and westernization of the Meiji Restoration was working to save Japan from colonization. Because of this, that’s why I think it makes sense for even someone like the Judge of the Supreme Court to colloquially refer to Britain as Japan’s ally even if that technically isn’t the case.

And there’s one part of the unequal treaty that’s will have anyone who has played Investigations seeing red. It gave all British citizens residing in Japan extraterritorially. It didn’t matter employment or where in Japan the crime was committed, Japanese courts had no jurisdiction over the foreign nationals of many European nations. They were tried in the naturally biased courts of their exclaves. The Commerce and Navigation treaty reverses this, and obliges a foreign national to follow the laws of the country they were visiting (something many treaties also exempted Europeans from following). The treaty was signed in July of 1894, and set to take effect 5 years from that date. When the game begins (September 1900), Japan has only had jurisdiction over foreign visitors for a little over a year. 

[skyedancer-rae]

TGAA 2 Spoilers

Yet another follow-up to the Shovel vs Spade Debate.  Team Spovel may not conquer the English language as a whole, but Gina does recruit the Judge to their side.  So who's the real winner here? 

(I need you to imagine Barok, speaking through clenched teeth and looking like he swallowed a lemon, as he says, "At which point, the accused struck the victim from behind with the...spovel.")

A follow up to this piece, which details the birth of Team Spovel. Spovel link.

Which was a follow-up to these pieces:Part One, Part Two, and Part Three.

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A 4-panel comic.

Panel 1: A speech bubble in the upper left corner reads “OBJCTION!” Gina stands at the witness stand, pointing up at the judge as she says, "My Lord, as the lead detective on this case, I suggest we call the murder weapon a spovel to avoid further arguments." She is scowling.

Panel 2: A close-up of the judge, who frowns and says, "Yes, I concur with Inspector Lestrade. The prosecution and defense will henceforth refer to the murder weapon in question as a spovel."

Panel 3: Kazuma and Barok stand at the prosecutor's bench. Both are frowning with their arms crossed. Kazuma glares sideways at Barok, with dark squiggles representing his frustration. Barok looks toward the judge and says, "My Lord, you can't be serious." The upper right corner shows that he has received 2 penalties already.

Panel 4: A close-up of the judge saying, "Lord van Zieks, your displeasure is noted. However, since I would rather not give you or the defense another penalty for arguing with your assistants about this, the murder weapon is now a spovel."

[vickyvicarious]

This is one of the few times the British Judge sounds exactly like the original Judge we all know and love so well.

[vickyvicarious]

New reaction image?

[vickyvicarious]

The Judge's reactions are just cracking me up so much.

[vickyvicarious]

Ryunosuke: "That reveals a damning inconsistency, that last statement!"

British Judge: "Damning, you say? As I look at you, Counsel, I see your trembling hand, your pallid expression, and your perspiring brow."

Ryunosuke: "Huh?"

British Judge: "It seems to me THAT is the damning inconsistency here. With the misplaced confidence of your assertion!"

Ryunosuke: (Ugh... He has a damning tongue...)

British Judge: "You invite it, sir."

Fjjdjsns that last line is so fuckin funny to me. You go British Judge.