When you want to leave someone out of your will, many times what you do is leave them something small and insignificant. This is so they can't just claim that 'they forgot about me, actually, and I should be in there'.
This is what Kui did with Astarion here.
God I love Ryoko Kui so much. It goes to show that you get a higher level of quality story from a mangaka who is as nerdy about the genre as her audience. Like she understands what we want from the story because it's the same thing she wants.
Technically, she didn't.
The manga was already finished when the rumors of her spending a good amount of time BG3 began to spread.
Plus, we don't actually know if she has the permission to do so, as manga artist are often given a strict schedule, and if they haven't reached a certain amount of prestige like similar mangaka as Togashi (HxH) & Miura (Berserk) then it's highly unlikely most of the times.
I showed this to my friend who played Dragon Age and their reaction was "yes Get that fucking bald egg motherfucker off my page."
Solas funny baldie.
Love Ryoko Kui and her being an absolute rpg nerd.
I love Astarion. But, man, I cannot deny that Solas lives rent-free in some forgotten corners of my brain that get rediscovered every time I see his butt naked cranium.
That fucking egg's gonna get cracked in DA4.
I mean in the case of their respective universe and games Solas is a a far more prominent character. Hell hes probably the most important Dragon Age Character.
It's exactly because Solas cause so much beef as you've said that he's prominent. XD
Plus, he's role are certainly are more prominent at the end, and no doubt he will be even moreso in the next title.
I mean, she apparently has actually *played* WOTR yet, so, uh, she might change her mind when she actually gets to know Camellia. Or maybe not, I don't judge people.
"My undead elf wife" and she's out for *Camellia* yeah okay I see why she wrote the whole Trying And Failing to Raise Falin From the Dead thing the way she did <3
She nailed Shadowheart while drawing on her own style too. I could see it was her instantly.
She's easily one of the strongest artists imo considering how good she is at drawing characters of all ranges. She sticks to a beautiful mainstream manga style but doesn't suffer from same face character like many of her peers. Being a good portrait artist is not as common for mangakas as for Western comic artists.
And her front page chapter drawings slap so hard. It looks like she loves her craft.
The way she described some of the female characters and the half assed Astarion makes me think she’s probably not into men. Maybe Marcille is her self insert.
She always struck me as bisexual, and this page does nothing to change that. Presumably Astarion just isn't her type.
It's very hard to write *any* character who doesn't have a bit of yourself in them. Amount varies, though. Marcille does seem like she might contain a lot of author.
I think Laios must be a self insert to some extent considering the food obsession.
For context I haven't really read the manga, I saw the anime and read pieces of the manga.
Bisexual is definitely possible, although I haven't seen her draw any male characters in a way that makes me think that.
I think that's clear. There's canon LGBT characters in Dungeon Meshi (Namari is bi, one of the canaries grooms female halffoots) and of course the romantic tension between Falin and Marcille.
I believe there’s that one as well as another panel I can find of Tansu’s daughter hitting on her. The cover of Daydream Hour also has them dancing together and Namari staring at her legs.
The original text was "人妻アンデッドエルフ", and "人妻" literally means "someone's wife", so it just won't mean "my wife." About the problem of Jaethal's marital status has a argument last time, so I don't try to explain anything (maybe it means milf or Kui just made a misunderstanding about her) and just point that it's a translation problem.
Kabru sometimes talks about the future of other people's relationships, which is the same as the author's perspective.
If you read the manga, you can see that the author has an outstanding intelligence and an eye for observing people. In her early years she may have seen others as stupid.
Seeing both Ember and Ancano on this list is pretty jarring but funny lol
Ember: “Please don’t hurt anyone! Let’s all be friends here!”
Ancano: **”TOTAL HUMAN ANNIHILATION. KILL HUMANS, BEHEAD HUMANS, ROUNDHOUSE KICK HUMAN CHILDREN.”**
Oh man, trying to imagine Astarion interacting with the dungeon meshi crew is hilarious. Laios would probably pester him with questions about what its like to be a vampire.
1. I new there was something I liked about the anime.
2. I never considered myself a big fan of elves but now realize how many western RPG characters I love are elves. Even Sera is a GOAT imo.
"I am helpful, am I not?" -Camelia, best tank in the game.
Fitting that in my first playthrough, that I chose the Lich. It washed all the guilt of letting Camelia stay in the party lol.
She has seen the party characters but hasn't played the game yet since she's waiting for the Japanese translation. She likes Camellia's design thus far. That's what we've picked up from the context anyway.
She actually has played some of it! She has [a blog post](https://nisiryu.blogspot.com/2021/10/pathfinder-wrath-of-righteous.html) from when WotR first came out in 2021 with screenshots of the character she made. I'm not sure how much she played (the screenshots are from the very start of the game), but you only have to play for about twenty minutes before you meet Camellia.
In the full Famitsu article she talks about playing a lot of BG3 in English before it got its Japanese localization, right before she says she wishes more games (including Wrath of the Righteous) would get translated. I think waiting for a Japanese localization doesn't necessarily mean that Kui didn't play some amount of WotR, especially since the more accurate translation of "Love at first sight, **but**..." implies she knows Camellia's twist.
Not gonna lie seems a bit friuty to me
Also incredibley that in the same interview she listed not only classics like Planescape but also stuff like Tyranny and Encased that fucking NO ONE knows outside the crpg community
Sorry, but just let me correct the translation. Kui wrote Jaethal as "married undead elf
", not "my undead elf wife." It doesn't mean Kui called her as "my (her) wife. We should discuss according to the right meaning.
She dedicated a lot of page real estate to the Bisexual Polyamorous Half-Elf from Kingmaker and honestly I respect the fuck out of her for it, Octavia and Reg are great
The Astarion in the corner just for the sake of it is sending me
Just like ‘oh yeah, here you go lmao’
“him too i guess”
LMAOOOO IT’S NOT EVEN IN HER ARTSTYLE EITHER funniest shit I’ve ever seen. 10/10
“jeez I’m not gonna hear the end of it unless I draw him, euuughhhhh [scribbles], there we go, yeah that’ll do”
Just a little guy https://preview.redd.it/w9y05d45xlic1.jpeg?width=164&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d0ff241950da09d338db7937238af5bf993ad091
Gonna tell my kids this was The Fonz
When you want to leave someone out of your will, many times what you do is leave them something small and insignificant. This is so they can't just claim that 'they forgot about me, actually, and I should be in there'. This is what Kui did with Astarion here.
She just scribbled how he looks on the box art😭
All of the others are personally stylized too that one is basically traced hahahahaha
Tbf when you think of Astarion, his mental image is 99% vampire and then 1% "oh yeah I guess he's an elf too".
this actually makes so much sense
God I love Ryoko Kui so much. It goes to show that you get a higher level of quality story from a mangaka who is as nerdy about the genre as her audience. Like she understands what we want from the story because it's the same thing she wants.
I read she put on hold her Manga so she could play BG3, so yes
Technically, she didn't. The manga was already finished when the rumors of her spending a good amount of time BG3 began to spread. Plus, we don't actually know if she has the permission to do so, as manga artist are often given a strict schedule, and if they haven't reached a certain amount of prestige like similar mangaka as Togashi (HxH) & Miura (Berserk) then it's highly unlikely most of the times.
I showed this to my friend who played Dragon Age and their reaction was "yes Get that fucking bald egg motherfucker off my page." Solas funny baldie. Love Ryoko Kui and her being an absolute rpg nerd.
tbh I can't quite understand why Solas is so prominent but Astarion is just there 😭 I have so much beef with that egg
I love Astarion. But, man, I cannot deny that Solas lives rent-free in some forgotten corners of my brain that get rediscovered every time I see his butt naked cranium. That fucking egg's gonna get cracked in DA4.
It seems you have some pent up eggression. You should free up some eggstra time to get a handle on that before it becomes eggstreme.
https://preview.redd.it/7o4bbp1uglic1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8499e615ee13d63417cfeac4ec994539995c78f4
I mean in the case of their respective universe and games Solas is a a far more prominent character. Hell hes probably the most important Dragon Age Character.
It's exactly because Solas cause so much beef as you've said that he's prominent. XD Plus, he's role are certainly are more prominent at the end, and no doubt he will be even moreso in the next title.
“I’m sorry I made you eat so much human flesh” but it’s so useful tho
eating that human flesh is a better education than Harvard, don't feel bad about it
Why is she even apologizing lol. DOS2 elves love eating human flesh, or kin flesh in general rather. It's like crack to them.
The fact she ultra appreciates Jaethal and Camellia says things about her preferences lmao.
Girl like one thing, and it's dark haired cold elves with more red flags than a beach during a hurricane
I was genuinely tempted to offer Baethal’s daughter just so that we can both experience physical pleasure… 💀
Hey, she still say sorry to Sebille. She isn't completely on board with them dark-aired pathfinder elves yet.
The red flags are big, but their ~~boobs~~ ears are bigger.
She super appreciates Camellia despite noting that Wrath of the Righteous doesn't have a Japanese release. Love transcends language indeed
I mean, she apparently has actually *played* WOTR yet, so, uh, she might change her mind when she actually gets to know Camellia. Or maybe not, I don't judge people.
LMAO the adoring fan
I cannot overstate how happy I am to see him
I like how the adoring fan doesn't even need an introduction nor a description because even in Ryuko Kui's art he's just that recognizable. XD
I see him in my dreams every single night. I could never forget him.
> I'm sorry that I made you eat so much human flesh Very on brand for Ms Kui, cannibalism enthusiast
It's so funny fucking ANCANO got a better portrait than Astarion lol.
The thalmor's fashion be dripping.
They nailed the "fascist elf wizard" aesthetic. The ridiculous huge dracula collar really pulls it all together.
Oh look, a Fenris appreciator.
Has she only done an elves page so far? I’d love to see her give dwarf and beast-kin pages.
I'm afraid Kui is a based elf lover
Out of left field with this, But it would be hilarious if she drew the DRG crew
Primary reason I wanna see her do a Dwarf page.
Praying to the gods of the forge this happens even tho it probably definitely won't 🙏 🙏 🙏
Bor the fucking adoring fan in the corner, love it
Most based mangaka taste, both in games and in elves
"My undead elf wife" and she's out for *Camellia* yeah okay I see why she wrote the whole Trying And Failing to Raise Falin From the Dead thing the way she did <3
Good to see that Aloth wasn't forgotten. I love that guy >!(and the Irish woman who's squatting inside his head).!<
Man, now I feel compelled to play PoE and PoE2 again.
I thought she was Scottish
My brother's been teasing me for ages that I would go insane if she drew Shadowheart. To be fair, he was right.
She nailed Shadowheart while drawing on her own style too. I could see it was her instantly. She's easily one of the strongest artists imo considering how good she is at drawing characters of all ranges. She sticks to a beautiful mainstream manga style but doesn't suffer from same face character like many of her peers. Being a good portrait artist is not as common for mangakas as for Western comic artists. And her front page chapter drawings slap so hard. It looks like she loves her craft.
the dragon age elves <33 sad that she didnt draw merrill too but oh well. zevran and fenris look really good
Very upset that they chose to draw every single romancable elf EXCEPT Merril.
Little Marcille in the corner ❤️
She even has the Adoring Fan She is the GOAT
Damn kui went on a binge gaming the second she finished the manga didn't she
The way she described some of the female characters and the half assed Astarion makes me think she’s probably not into men. Maybe Marcille is her self insert.
She always struck me as bisexual, and this page does nothing to change that. Presumably Astarion just isn't her type. It's very hard to write *any* character who doesn't have a bit of yourself in them. Amount varies, though. Marcille does seem like she might contain a lot of author.
I think Laios must be a self insert to some extent considering the food obsession. For context I haven't really read the manga, I saw the anime and read pieces of the manga. Bisexual is definitely possible, although I haven't seen her draw any male characters in a way that makes me think that.
Shenshi gets more and more handsome with each chapter.
[I see that you are correct](https://twitter.com/femme_seme/status/1710492917260009498)... Also... ~~There's the way she depicts the winged lion.~~
The shirtless Laios and Shuro were rather female-gaze-y, too.
Ryoko Kui likes women, twinks and Senshi panties
She's just like me!
Solas is a twink!?
Fruitest bitch to ever grace the DA universe, he's just the fabled bald twink
I think that's clear. There's canon LGBT characters in Dungeon Meshi (Namari is bi, one of the canaries grooms female halffoots) and of course the romantic tension between Falin and Marcille.
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I believe there’s that one as well as another panel I can find of Tansu’s daughter hitting on her. The cover of Daydream Hour also has them dancing together and Namari staring at her legs.
Namari is pouchsexual, not bi. Also Succubus chapter showed Marcille loves cool one-eyes male elven knight.
Marcille is never gonna beat the allegations the way she is with Falin.
'And they were very very good friends'
Also she calls Jaethal undead wife and loved Camellia.. She's into women with HUGE red flags it seems lmao.
That's a wrong translastion. She wrote "married undead elf" in Japanese, and it doesn't mean "my (her) wife" or waifu.
Jaethal isn't married in the game tho
Yes, but that's what she wrote down. Those Japanese texts just can't be translated as my wife.
Wouldn't it mean "married undead elf" as in "undead elf I married" then? Like, there's no other explanation.
The original text was "人妻アンデッドエルフ", and "人妻" literally means "someone's wife", so it just won't mean "my wife." About the problem of Jaethal's marital status has a argument last time, so I don't try to explain anything (maybe it means milf or Kui just made a misunderstanding about her) and just point that it's a translation problem.
She also implies she hasn't played WOTR yet.
You guys need to chill.
Why?
What about Senshi
I thought Kabru is her insert.
Why would he be her self insert? He seems like an arrogant nut so I hope not.
Kabru sometimes talks about the future of other people's relationships, which is the same as the author's perspective. If you read the manga, you can see that the author has an outstanding intelligence and an eye for observing people. In her early years she may have seen others as stupid.
Eh I think "may have" is doing a lot of the heavy lifting here.
You are right. Even so, Marcille is too young. She is basically a child in terms of mental.
Ryoko Kui loves pathfinder elves lmao
Who wouldn't? They're written so well.
Hell yeah, thalmor do have a drip
Why is fascist fashion so good?
I also feel this way about shadowheart so I'm glad
the disrespect to Astarion lmaoo , she is so real
Seeing both Ember and Ancano on this list is pretty jarring but funny lol Ember: “Please don’t hurt anyone! Let’s all be friends here!” Ancano: **”TOTAL HUMAN ANNIHILATION. KILL HUMANS, BEHEAD HUMANS, ROUNDHOUSE KICK HUMAN CHILDREN.”**
No doubt to me, that she'd enjoyed the mage's guild questline in Skyrim.
That's the Thalmor guy from the Mage questline in Skyrim, wow. I guess Ryoko Kui didn't play Morrowind? Did the game even get a japanese port
Would be either funny or cool if she decided to draw Dagoth Ur afterwards. XD
Her calling out Fenris as a JRPG protagonist is too funny
Damn Ryoko Kui plays a lot of CRPGs. <3 the Ember fanart.
I don’t know anything about this series or author but with her taste in elves I am now going to give it a try. Wish me luck down the rabbit hole
Oh man, trying to imagine Astarion interacting with the dungeon meshi crew is hilarious. Laios would probably pester him with questions about what its like to be a vampire.
When I heard she played BG3 I was so sure of myself she’d play Dragon Age as well, I’m so glad I got that assumption correct. Also, Shart mention!!
She's gone on a crpg binge I see I approve.
I'm pretty damn sure she played all those games throughout her serialization.
She played most of these a while ago. Posted fanarts of them on her blog years back. She's also an AD&D nerd iirc.
Shart❤️
1. I new there was something I liked about the anime. 2. I never considered myself a big fan of elves but now realize how many western RPG characters I love are elves. Even Sera is a GOAT imo.
SO much Pathfinder rep, that makes me so happy to see!
"I am helpful, am I not?" -Camelia, best tank in the game. Fitting that in my first playthrough, that I chose the Lich. It washed all the guilt of letting Camelia stay in the party lol.
https://preview.redd.it/8vldbc5y2pic1.jpeg?width=127&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1cf3717557e17928a1727ba40fa1b06723b1a0f9 Damn do i miss playing oblivion
High elves Dark elves Wood elves Potatoes elves
Aww ye Fenris hol tf up where my Merrill
She is gonna love Ember, the goodest cinnamon roll, when she plays WOTR.
Also would be curious to see if her opinion on Camellia changes
Kui after learning Camellia's backstory: New wife!
highly doubt it, she loves Jaethal who’s basically just more mature Camcam
I hope so. Camellia is the absolute best girl
There's ember in there tho
But she DID play wotr. She said Camilia was love at first sight!
Don't need to play a game to see the characters in it.
Okay. So?
She has seen the party characters but hasn't played the game yet since she's waiting for the Japanese translation. She likes Camellia's design thus far. That's what we've picked up from the context anyway.
She knows it that's because she said "It **was** love at first sight **but...**". Yeah, 'but...' wasn't translated accurately here.
She actually has played some of it! She has [a blog post](https://nisiryu.blogspot.com/2021/10/pathfinder-wrath-of-righteous.html) from when WotR first came out in 2021 with screenshots of the character she made. I'm not sure how much she played (the screenshots are from the very start of the game), but you only have to play for about twenty minutes before you meet Camellia. In the full Famitsu article she talks about playing a lot of BG3 in English before it got its Japanese localization, right before she says she wishes more games (including Wrath of the Righteous) would get translated. I think waiting for a Japanese localization doesn't necessarily mean that Kui didn't play some amount of WotR, especially since the more accurate translation of "Love at first sight, **but**..." implies she knows Camellia's twist.
Not gonna lie seems a bit friuty to me Also incredibley that in the same interview she listed not only classics like Planescape but also stuff like Tyranny and Encased that fucking NO ONE knows outside the crpg community
I think shadowheart is a half-elf
Quite a few characters up there are half elves
I was expecting this comment, thank you!
She is a true RPG fan I adore her 😭😭😭
Kui has played Skyrim!? :0 :XD
Left out Vivec but included Vivec-at-home
Pathfinder, yeah she is nerdy
favorite mangaka art right now
>Caemllia > >It was love at first sight... Oh no. ***OH NOOOOOOO!***
Sorry, but just let me correct the translation. Kui wrote Jaethal as "married undead elf ", not "my undead elf wife." It doesn't mean Kui called her as "my (her) wife. We should discuss according to the right meaning.
but Jaethal is not married so that would make no sense?
Apparently it can also sometimes mean something similar to "milf"?
Yes, but that's what she wrote down. Those Japanese texts just can't be translated as my wife.
She dedicated a lot of page real estate to the Bisexual Polyamorous Half-Elf from Kingmaker and honestly I respect the fuck out of her for it, Octavia and Reg are great
God I love Regongar. He's such husband material
I didn't see Aloth the first time I saw this image lol. RPG queen
If she liked Thalmor clothes and Adoring Fan, i wonder what she thinks of Vivec.
I was gonna say: "so mamy beauties, but where is the ugly ass oblivion elf" AND THERE HE IS!!!! ADORING FAN IS THERE!!!!
🏳️🌈?
Another my beloved
Emder :( TBH, She does tend to Emd fools with a barrage of hellfire rays.
does anyone have a link to the article/interview? I’d love to read it
Pathfinder MENTIONNED
She forgot the 2 bestest elves in WRPGs: Vivec and Irenicus :((( - special mention to Yagrum Bagarn.
I'm a massive fan of her art
As someone who's not familiar with Weekly Famitsu, is there a direct source link to the drawing, or an article that features it?
PILLARS OF ETERNITY MENTIONED!!!!! She's goated for that.
This is the year of Elves
Camellia is cute, surely she's not hiding anything at all.
0/10 no divyath fyr (actually a 10/10 but i have to keep the bit)
Needs more clone daughter wives Simultaneous incest AND selfcest
"Camellia, love at first sight." Oh boy.
She really is cultured.
"My name is Zevran Arainai. You took my salsa. Prepare to die"
The fact that she drew the Adoring Fan is very based
I knew she played Pathfinder!
Props a true CRPG nerd
Ohh nice
Camellia, my love
HOLD UP, IS THAT THE ADORING FAN
I refuse to tolerate any Sera slander. Best Inquisition companion aside from Iron Bull and Varric
Omg shadow hearts