Greetings! How true is that Yana is not involved in the writing of all events? Or is it only for the most recent one, Playful land? I'm a little confused.
Hello hello! Yana shares via Twitter what parts of what cards/events/stories/etc she was involved in every time something new is released, so I went through tweets from January of 2020 to November of 2023 to compare and contrast how she has described her role throughout the years, and compiled them here!
⚠️JP-server Only Visuals Spoiled Under the Cut⚠️
Vocabulary Review
・シナリオ: The English word “scenario,” this is an industry term that means “a written outline of a film, novel, or stage work giving details of the plot and individual scenes. It describes the sequence of scene changes, dialogue, and actions.” If Yana says she was in charge of the scenario for something, it is probably ok to assume that it was her project.
・原画(genga): The original artwork/initial visual concept upon which the final work was based
Ex: In this tweet Yana says she was in charge of the scenario, costume design and original card artwork for Fairy Gala.
・担当(tantou): The person in charge of something
・ディレクション: The English word “direction.”
Ex: In this tweet Yana says that she was in charge of direction for Malleus’ Birthday Jacket card.
・D-6th: This is Yana’s personal studio, which existed long before Twst and is also in charge of producing her manga (there seems to be a lot of overlap between the team that creates Black Butler and the Twst team, which she will sometimes reference in tweets). This seems to mean that there were multiple people involved in the creation process. It is unclear if she includes herself amongst the "D-6th" team, as sometimes she will specify that something was by her, something was by D-6th, or something was by both her and D-6th.
・弊社(heisha): a polite way of saying “my company,” this references Yana’s studio D-6th.
Ex: In this tweet Yana says that while she did the scenario herself, the backgrounds and prop designs were by her studio.
The Main Story
Starting with the release of part 1 of Book 3 on JP server, Yana explains that she did the scenario, original artwork for the SSR cards, directed the vignettes and was in charge of character design.
For Book 7 she says she did the scenario and original character art/character designs, while some prop designs and background visuals were done by her studio.
Card Art
For Ortho’s dorm uniform design Yana explains that both she and her studio did the original art from start to finish (she did the original concept and story for the vignette), while she alone was in charge of the before/after groovy art from start to finish for Idia’s dorm uniform card.
She did the art for Leona and Riddle’s tsumsted cards (and direction for the other cards in the series), Sebek’s dorm uniform art from start to finish and and did art direction for the cards in the 2022 New Year’s set, while costume design was done by her studio.
Rook’s Clubwear, Ortho’s Cerberus Gear, Lilia’s General card, Rollo’s card and Grim’s D100 card are all credited to both Yana and her studio.
(We got a rare comment with the release of Ortho’s Cerberus Gear where she said, “We have an artist working with us who spent almost 20 years doing backgrounds for a certain, extremely famous robot anime. She oversees a lot of the background art designing. The background for Ortho’s Cerberus Gear card, the aircraft catapult, the facility seen in the groovy art—that is all her work. It really captures the moment of take off! Professional background artists are truly amazing, capable of designing everything from S.T.Y.X.’s futuristic aircraft catapult to homages of famous watercolor masterpieces." That is one of the artists that Yana is referring to when a design is attributed to D-6th.)
Birthdays
Yana was credited with direction for the Birthday Boy series, while Ortho’s design and direction was credited to her studio.
Yana credited her studio with the Birthday Jacket designs and scenario creation, saying that she was in charge of direction for the series (with Ortho’s gear design, direction and room design all credited to her studio).
For the Broom/Bloom series Yana says that she participated in concept/costume design and was in charge of direction (with D-6th credited with the art direction and gear design for Ortho).
The art for the platinum series (including the backgrounds) is credited to the staff of D-6th, with Yana in charge of direction.
Events
Yana explains she did all the original art for all of the cards, the scenarios and direction for Beanfest, Fairy Gala and Phantom Bride (she also created the scenarios for all the vignettes).
She also created the story and did all of the card art and direction for Terror is Trending and Spectral Soiree.
For Port Fest she specified that she did the original art for Jack’s SSR and did direction for the remaining cards, crediting her studio with costume/background designs.
Yana created the scenario, character design, SSR card art (from start to finish) and did art direction for the R and SR cards of Glorious Masquerade, crediting herself and her studio with the costume/mask designs, background designs, and opening and ending screens.
She says she participated in card art direction for the R and SR cards in the Lost in the Book with Stitch event, crediting the costume designs, scenario creation, background visuals, SSR Lilia, SSR Floyd, original card art and creation to her studio.
Stage in Playfulland character design, costume design, scenario creation, card art direction, background visuals and Opening/Ending art are also all credited to her studio.
(To answer the initial question: the only difference seems to be that Playfulland is credited entirely to her studio without Yana specifying how she was involved, whereas she took credit for the scenario writing in Glorious Masquerade, Spectral Soiree and Terror is Trending. While not the first time this has happened in the game (Yana also did not specify her role in the Tamashina Mina event, attributing costume design, background visuals, the Opening/Ending, the setting/card art direction and character design only to D-6th), this was the first time it’s happened with a Halloween event.)
Novel
Yana says she was in charge of the concept, the in-novel art, cover and fold-out art in the novels, while Hioki Jun (a Twst vignette/event scenario writer) created the novel scenarios.
Comic
The artist and designer behind the 1st and 3rd comic arcs are both from Yana’s studio D-6th, doing background and card art for Twst (and work on Black Butler).
Yana says that her role is overall collaboration, character design and character creation (she says that in addition to creating the basis for Trey’s parents she also designed Riddle’s mother, including her face, but they ultimately left her in silhouette).
It is difficult to tell what Yana means by “overall collaboration," but she has shared a tweet about drawing the characters out herself for the actual artists to base their work on. (This might not apply to the artist of the Savanaclaw arc, who is not a member of D-6th)
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if anyone wants to know how much beef I have with when the last time which characters got R/SR/SSR cards and how many of each cards they have, here's some info based off Japan server (note: for SSR I do not count any dorm/birthdays/clubwear as the latest cards as those are eventuals for every character)
additional note: this info is taken from looking at twistedwonderland.wiki.gg and does not look at reruns
p.s.: the total amount of cards does count pe/school for R as in TWO cases those are the only R cards they have 🫠 and 4th birthday/clubwear for SSR for characters that already have it (characters that have 4th birthday or clubwear will be mentioned in the total count)
p.p.s.: wanted to mention firelit sky 2 is the same event as firelit sky but since Vil's banner was only released with the rerun the years are different
Cater - R Beans Camo (2020), SR Playful Land (2023), SSR Halloween1 (2020)
Total: 3 R, 7 SR, 6 SSR (with clubwear)
Trey - R Playful Land (2023), SR Halloween2 (2021), SSR Outdoor Wear (2022)
Total: 5 R, 4 SR, 7 SSR (with 4th birthday and clubwear)
Riddle - R Glorious Masquerade (2022), SR Stitch (2023), SSR Tsum1 (2022)
Total: 3 R, 5 SR, 6 SSR
Deuce - R Tsum2 (2023), SR Glorious Masquerade (2022), SSR Rabbit (2023)
Total: 4 R, 5 SR, 6 SSR
Ace - R School/PE (2020), SR Stitch (2023), SSR Playful Land (2023)
Total: 2 R, 6 SR, 8 SSR (with 4th birthday and clubwear)
Leona - R Outdoor (2021), SR Playful Land (2023), SSR Tamashina Mina (2023)
Total: 3 R, 5 SR, 7 SSR
Ruggie - R Glorious Masquerade (2022), SR Port Fest (2022), SSR New Year's 2(2023)
Total: 4 R, 5 SR, 6 SSR
Jack - R Playful Land (2023), SR Halloween1 (2020), SSR Port Fest (2022)
Total: 6 R, 4 SR, 7 SSR (with 4th birthday and clubwear)
Azul - R Stitch (2023), SR Halloween1 (2020), Glorious Masquerade (2022)
Total: 4 R, 3 SR, 7 SSR
Jade - R Playful Land (2023), SR Outdoor (2022), SSR Halloween1 (2020)
Total: 5 R, 5 SR, 5 SSR
Floyd - R Port Fest (2022), SR Playful Land (2023), SSR Stitch (2023)
Total: 4 R, 6 SR, 7 SSR (with clubwear)
Kalim: R Halloween1 (2020), SR Tamashina Mina (2023), SSR Playful Land (2023)
Total: 3 R, 5 SR, 8 SSR (with clubwear)
Jamil: R Halloween2 (2021), SR Glorious Masquerade (2022), SSR Firelit Sky (2021)
Total: 4 R, 5 SR, 7 SSR (with 4th birthday and clubwear)
Vil: R Tamashina Mina (2023), SR Playful Land (2023), SSR Firelit Sky 2 (2023)
Total: 3 R, 6 SR, 6 SSR
Rook: R Glorious Masquerade (2022), SR Tsum2 (2023), SSR Halloween2 (2021)
Total: 4 R, 6 SR, 6 SSR (with clubwear)
Epel: R Tsum1 (2022), SR Apprentice Chef (2023), SSR Harveston (2022)
Total: 4 R, 6 SR, 5 SSR
Idia: R Halloween1 (2020), SR Apprentice Chef (2023), SSR Glorious Masquerade (2022)
Total: 3 R, 5 SR, 6 SSR
Ortho: R Ignihyde (2022), SR Rabbit (2023, SSR Playful Land (2023)
Total: 4 R, 5 SR, 7 SSR
Lilia: R Playful Land (2023), SR Tamashina Mina (2023), SSR Stitch (2023)
Total: 4 R, 6 SR, 7 SSR (with clubwear)
Malleus: R School/PE (2020), SR Apprentice Chef (2022), SSR Glorious Masquerade (2022)
Total: 2 R, 5 SR, 5 SSR
Silver: R Rabbit (2023), SR Fairy Gala2 (2022), SSR Halloween (2021)
Total: 4 R, 4 SR, 5 SSR
Sebek: R Tsum1 (2022), SR Apprentice Chef (2023), SSR New Year's 2 (2023)
Total: 4 R, 6 SR, 5 SSR
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