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trucy my beloved

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klapollys

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the time for games is over

cykes/quill shippers, unfollow me

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dgs fans/anyone planning on playing it should read this twitter thread

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athena and sherlock outfit swap for a friend!

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with the announcement of the great ace attorney i’d like to ask that everyone please refrain from creating or engaging with art that has the rising sun design on it.

tl;dr: it symbolizes the glorification of japanese imperialism so using it sucks.

not tl;dr, everything below the read more.

(tws for below include: discussion of colonization and imperialism, multiple examples of the rising sun motif being used)

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The Japanese government is known for denying war crimes/imperialist past so please be critical when consuming DgS. I know we all have been wanting Ace Attorney alive again but PLEASe be critical, as I-as well as many others- know someone who is or are affected by Japanese imperialism.

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Here’s a summary of why Sherlock Holmes is named Herlock Sholmes in the Great Ace Attorney Chronicles.

The last couple Sherlock Holmes stories are still under copyright in the US. 10 short stories were published between 1923 and 1927. In the US, for works published before 1978, the term of copyright is 95 years from the date of first publication (you can blame the Mouse). The entirety of the ACD canon won’t be public domain until January 1st 2023. In the UK, copyright lasts until 70 years after the author’s death, regardless of how close to their death they wrote their works. The entire ACD canon went into public domain in the UK in 2000. Japan uses this same system.

The Doyle Estate is run by greedy bastard(s). When the Enola Holmes Netflix movie was announced, they claimed that the experience of ACD loosing his son in WW1 led him to write Sherlock Holmes as showing more emotions than he had before. They sued Netflix, as well as the author of the Enola Holmes’ books, which they had ignored for 15 years. While any reader of the original books will tell you that Holmes has never been an emotionless person and has always been a tad more progressive than his setting’s status quo, the defense used by Netflix was that such generic traits as kindness are not protected. While there is no concrete evidence of this, it has been theorized that such a threat of lawsuit regarding the American distribution of shows like BBC Sherlock is why Sherlock Holmes has been depicted as such as asshole in recent years.

The case against Enola Holmes was dismissed with prejudice, but all that means is this specific case has been dismissed permantly by the judge. Unfornately for Capcom, this means that the idea of Sherlock Holmes being emotional being something protected by the last 10 stories isn’t something that has been struck down by the court. It is not immunity for them, and even if the estate’s case is once more dismissed, Capcom will still have to pay to bring themselves to that point. Those already familiar with Sherlock’s characterization in DGS will know that the Doyle Estate can make the same claims as they did against Enola Holmes.

So what to do? Well Herlock Sholmes isn’t a name they pulled out of thin air. He is another completely public domain character, created by Maurice Leblanc, the author of the original Arsense Lupin stories in 1906. Herlock Sholmes, foiling copyright for over a hundred years. It’s also fitting give Lupin’s history of copyright shenanigans in Japan because of the Lupin III manga. 

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and now, for my favorite trick; the daddy appearing act!

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they’re besties, your honor

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SOMEONE EXPLAIN THIS IN-UNIVERSE

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Based on this really good part of the manga “the way of the househusband”

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like what Is this how the hell am i supposed to feel

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for faraskye week day 3: au (phantom thief/detective)

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Herlock Sholmes is real

Ok, I know people were kind of disappointed that there was no dgs localization announcement (despite the use of localized names of characters and songs which is…weird, to say the least) but. There is still hope.

Capcom is going to be at E3 this year (June 12-15) and we could possibly get both dgs and aa7 announcements at the same time (take this with a grain of salt because i’m basing this prediction off of the leaks and my own hopes). If not both, then it will almost definitely be dgs. Of course, this is if they even have an ace attorney panel at the thing but hopefully they will. 

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What? What???? No warning, they just dropped the announcement at a completely random time. Wow. Ok, I guess.

Ok, I know people were kind of disappointed that there was no dgs localization announcement (despite the use of localized names of characters and songs which is…weird, to say the least) but. There is still hope.

Capcom is going to be at E3 this year (June 12-15) and we could possibly get both dgs and aa7 announcements at the same time (take this with a grain of salt because i’m basing this prediction off of the leaks and my own hopes). If not both, then it will almost definitely be dgs. Of course, this is if they even have an ace attorney panel at the thing but hopefully they will. 

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I’M LATE but please take this humble offering for @faraskyeweek day 1 (future)!