成人済み。英語圏向け。枢先生が大好き。Twisted Wonderland JP vs EN comparisons, guide/novel/interview translations, seiyuu and character info compilations 🚫No Book 7 Spoilers🚫
From Yana:
"Since the anime release of the (Kuroshitsuji) Boarding School Arc people have been asking me, 'Are you just really into Twisted Wonderland these days?' And I laugh.
I am actually the original concept and main scenario creator for Twisted Wonderland!"
cont ↓
"I was curious about why Ursula dies after being stabbed just once, even though octopi have three hearts. But maybe when her two henchmen died, two of her hearts died with them.
Maybe that's why Jade and Floyd have 'heart' in the names of their unique magics."
Toboso Yana on the characters that are easier and more difficult to draw:
"Characters with over-the-top facial expressions like Ace, Kalim, and Lilia are easier to draw."
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#twstyana
From Yana:
"Black Butler often diverges from the original story and character details when it is adapted into different forms of media. But they were changes that I left to others, made under a contract that I agreed to.
I consider my job to be just the original manga--"
Toboso Yana on designing Riddle
#twstguide2020
“Riddle's personality was originally the opposite of what it finally became.
At first he was a character who had been spoiled growing up, disliked studying, was selfish and always broke promises and rules.
But because--"
Meet the cast:
The voice actors for Riddle, Ace, Deuce, Trey, Cater, Azul, Jade, Floyd, Kalim, Jamil, Idia and Ortho introduce their characters and themselves.
#twstseiyuu
Toboso Yana on her love of villains:
"Most villains are selfish and self-confident, but that is why I feel they are living life to its fullest. They are not given a role in the story to preach ethics to the audience. Because of their role as villains, they can act as they wish."
Twisted Wonderland the Game vs. the Novel vs. the Manga: What's the Difference? vol. 1
Going to use the game's book/chapter counting system to try to keep things from getting too confusing, so it will be different from the numbering in the manga (no chapters in the novel)
Ace Facts Part 2 of 18: Ace and the Prefect(pt1)
#twstcharacterfacts
Ace may have a closer relationship to the prefect than any other character.
He has an impressive number of voice lines that reference the prefect, inviting them out to eat, to visit Heartslabyul, to his--
“The flames of his hair become weaker when he loses interest in something.
The bags under his eyes and the blue of his lips are not make up, but entirely natural.
His eyebrows always make him look troubled." →
(Twisted Wonderland Magical Archives Game Guide (2020))
Originally from Tumblr:
“Is Cater Diamond attracted to both genders? Like, in the playful land event He actually flirted with Trey (according to jp players).”
and
“Is it true that Cater is a playboy?”
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For reference: NRC dorm room info
#twstnovel2
"In each dorm 1st-year students are four to a room with 2nd-year students two to a room and, as a 3rd-year student, you finally get a room to yourself.
Housewardens are the one exception, with their own room regardless of year."
Jade Leech’s voice actor Komada Wataru (
@komaDwataru
) was born in Japan but raised in Germany and speaks German, English and Japanese.
He has won four awards for his vocal talents (three in 2011, one in 2019) and does mostly voice overs and narration.
Today is his birthday!
Siblings of Twisted Wonderland
1. Riddle: “I'm an only child."
2. Trey: "I've got a little brother and sister."
3. Cater: "It's me and my two older sisters."
4. Ace: "But it was just us two kids." (Brother is 23 years old)
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Silver’s VA Shimazaki Nobunaga (
@nobunaga_s
) was inspired to start voice acting by Lilia's VA Midorikawa's performance as Heero Yuy in New Mobile Suit Gundam Wing.
In Twst, he voices Midorikawa’s character Lilia’s adopted son.
Today is his birthday!
Twisted Wonderland the Game vs. the Novel vs. the Manga: What's the Difference? vol. 4
Using the game's book/chapter counting system to try to keep things from getting too confusing, so it will differ from the numbering in the manga (no chapters in the novel)
Idia’s VA Uchiyama Kouki’s second-ever lead role was Roxas in 2005’s Kingdom Hearts II.
He has now had lead roles in over 130 different anime and video games including Tsukishima Kei in Haikyuu!!, Shigaraki Tomura in My Hero Academia and Neku Sakuraba in The World Ends with You
(Originally an ask from Tumblr)
“does Idia's hair burn?”
Idia says that his hair is not usually hot, even offering to let the prefect touch it to test for themselves!
He says, "it can get that way when I'm mad," though, so--
“Azul and Jade both have cards this time but…admin team: where’s Floyd?
I’ve been thinking about this for a while now, Twst admin team.
How many SSRs is Ace going to get!?”
- Floyd's voice actor Okamoto
(Seeing the Halloween series for the first time)
#twstseiyuu
Riddle’s VA Hanae Natsuki (
#hanae0626
) has explained in interviews that he always disliked studying and decided to become a voice actor instead of going to college after seeing the Ouran High School Host Club anime.
In 2021, Square Enix published a collection of illustrations of Twst characters by 18 different artists in a book called “Art Gallery”.
These are those artists!
(Illustrations have been cropped)
Cover by Yukihiro Utako:
@mielelatte
Website:
"I designed the character to be a beautiful boy who looks like he belongs in a 1970s shoujo manga. He is a countryside juvenile delinquent on the inside, but..."
#twstguide2020
Malleus Draconia’s voice actor Kato Kazuki (
@kazuki_kato1007
) is a stage theater performer with roles in over 70 stage productions including the Phantom in Phantom of the Opera.
Malleus Draconia is his first lead-character role in a video game.
Today is his birthday!
Visited the Twisted Wonderland exhibition and it was so great!
Things that look just normally interesting in pictures are really amazing in person, but it is so hard to describe ♡ Would love to go back again.
All the Housewarden outfits are life sized!
Crowley's voice actor Miyamoto has been voice acting since before many of us were born.
He was inspired by a favorite TV show to become a teacher, but failed to acquire a teaching license.
A friend’s college play inspired him to pursue acting instead.
Today is his birthday!
Silver's VA Shimazaki Nobunaga announced this morning that he has gotten married and he is now trending on Twitter nationwide at number 4, 6, 18 and 23 ⚔️ He also voices characters in Free!, Parasyte, Fate/Grand Order, Sword Art Online, Your Name and more:
He has had lead roles in over 130 anime/video games.
A few of his more notable roles include Haruka Nanase in Free!, Shinichi Izumi in Parasyte, Fujimaru Ritsuka in Fate/Grand Order, Eugeo in Sword Art Online, Yuki Sohma in Fruits Basket (2019) and Fuji Tsukasa in Your Name.
Translation from Twst the 2nd novel
#twstnovel2
Leona Post-Overblot (flashback)
"I grew tired of thinking, so I decided to enroll at Night Raven College, though I had no interest in it.
I knew I was just running away from the pain, but my heart felt lighter, nonetheless." ↓
NRC Students, the word “Friend” and EN
The word "friend" might have special significance in the Twisted Wonderland universe, or at least at NRC!
We have seen multiple instances of the characters recoiling at the thought of someone believing them to be friends:
"Pomefiore Dorm
In English, the word 'pome' is related to apple-like fruit.
'Fiore' is Italian for 'flower'.
It’s a cute name, but this pome might be a poison apple."
-Twst Fan Book (2020)
(image: Epel, Vil and Rook's VA's on the cover of Seiyuu Animedia magazine)
"(Leona) has vertical slit pupils that become round in dark places.
Round ears that face forward, as he is a carnivore.
His hair reaches down to about his shoulder blades."
-Twisted Wonderland Magical Archives Game Guide (2020)
Toboso Yana: “(In the future) I would like to have raid battles where players fight together. The theme of the game is “making problem children cooperate with each other," so I feel that such an addition to the gameplay would allow us to better feel the growth of the characters.”
Ruggie Facts Part 2 of 19: Ruggie's Speech Patterns
#twstcharacterfacts
On NA Ruggie refers to Leona by his first name (with no honorific), “Your Highness”, “Housewarden” and “Boss”, but on JP something fascinating happens in Books 2 and 6.
Toboso Yana on how it all started:
“When I was first approached, the only thing that had been decided was that the theme would be Disney Villains; there was basically nothing decided about what the content of the game would actually be.
It was a blank slate.”
“Skin tone loses color, becoming the color of ash.
(Crown and collar are) clock hand motifs.
Rose vines that move on their own.
Arms are dripping with what connects to the incarnation of the blot.”
From the Twisted Wonderland Magical Archives Game Guide (2020)
⚠️Glorious Masquerade⚠️
Rhythmic with English language lyrics, Pt 1
Disclaimer: this is a fan translation and results may vary!
(Losing my mind had to share)
#twstmasq
Floyd nickname compilation, original vs. meaning vs. NA adaptation
#twstdialogue
(This may only be of interest to fanfic authors, but for the curious!)
Ace: Kani-chan
Meaning: Crab-chan
NA: Crabby
"If it weren't for the boarding school arc (of Kuroshitsuji) I don't think I would have be as familiar with Western-style dorm life as I am, and Twisted Wonderland might have turned out a little differently. (Toboso)"
Toboso Yana on designing Octavinelle:
"The uniform design is based on the employees of a lounge that plays jazz music.
Since Ursula dresses in a chic black dress, the design is mature and simple, out of respect for her sense of style."
#twstyana
Lilia’s VA Midorikawa Hikaru has been voicing characters in iconic anime and games since 1988.
Midorikawa's performance in Gundam Wing inspired the VA of Lilia's adopted son, Silver, to join the VA industry. The two have collaborated on multiple projects including Twst.
Grim’s seiyuu Sugiyama Noriaki has been voice acting since 1999.
His first recurring role in an anime was as the voice of Uchiha Sasuke in Naruto.
He is also the voice of Ishida Uryuu in Bleach and Emiya Shirou in Fate/stay night.
Today is his birthday!
#twstseiyuu
Twisted Wonderland the Novel Translation: Leona's Introduction
#twstnovel
In the game and manga Leona is introduced when the main character steps on his tail, but we meet him in a very different way in the novel:
Deuce and Yuuya are on their way back to Heartslabyul--
Toboso Yana on designing Savanaclaw:
"The uniform’s theme is a beast running in the wilderness.
The housewarden wears a leather vest and chaps because I interpreted 'running beast' as 'motorcyclist'."
#twstyana
How is the English version of Twst different? (Floyd)
#twstdialogue
While Rook is very loose with his nicknames, Floyd is very strict with his: besides Jade, there is one and only one exception, and that is Azul. Floyd himself explains that this is because Azul is Azul. ↓
Jade's VA Komada Wataru and Crewel's VA Ito Kent introduce the Twisted Wonderland Exhibition.
In this first video (of three) the two VA explore the entrance set up, the display introducing the faculty and concept art.
(no subtitles but fun!)
#twstexhibit
The Heartslabyul, Savanaclaw and Octavinelle areas of the Twisted Wonderland exhibition.
The exhibition is touring nationally over 12 months and will be in Fukuoka until Monday, September 19th, before moving on to Hyogo.
Lilia Facts #ツイステ
Lilia does not actually remember his own birthdate, putting down January 1st when he applied to enroll at Night Raven College, but the date does not seem to have any particular significance to him.
Toboso Yana on designing Pomefiore:
"Tradition and poison are the themes of these dorm uniforms.
Pomefiore was the most difficult to design.
The evil queen’s original dress is very simple. The more detailed I made the design, the weaker the connection to the queen became."
From Yana:
“It makes me sad that if I say, ‘I have never been disrespected as an artist by an adaptation—the terms of my contracts have always been adhered to,’ I am met with, ‘It’s gross how you’re trying to make yourself look good.’
If people are going to--"
Toboso Yana on early game development:
“We originally planned to create between 10 and 15 different dormitories.
We also had a rough design for the motif of another, separate work, but it was put in storage when we decided on the current seven dormitories.”
#twstyana
Floyd’s VA Okamoto Nobuhiko enrolled in Pro Fit Voice Actor Training Institute (the same academy as Sebek’s Ishiya Haruki) while working part-time jobs at McDonald’s, 7-11, the post office and as a security guard in order to pay his tuition.
Today is his birthday!
#twstseiyuu
Twst Merch Giveaway: Ghost Camera Shoulder Bag
This poll is the timer: within the next 24 hours please 'like' the designated tweet below (no need to follow or retweet unless you want to!).
Shipping is free to everywhere except where the post office says no (specified below).
From Yana:
"Idia!
He was originally supposed to be the youngest character in the cast. NRC does allow students to skip grades, and that arrangement was created for him.
Please look forward to him in Book 7!
Congratulations to Twst on its 3rd anniversary, and thank you so much!"
Concept art of the students of Heartslabyul, Savanaclaw, Octavinelle, Scarabia, Pomefiore and Diasomnia, and an early Ortho/Idia design?
From the Twisted Wonderland Exhibition (2022)
Twisted Wonderland’s newest art book, “Design Note”, on sale now! Pre-orders are going out from this morning and it is so, so pretty and there is so much information!
Available directly from square enix, here!
Epel Felmier is voiced by Tsuchiya Simba (
@simba_tsuchiya
), who has explained in interviews that he was literally named after Simba from The Lion King.
In Twisted Wonderland, he voices a character who idolizes Leona Kingscholar, who was based on Scar.
#twstseiyuu
#twstdialogue
Twst's poor translators had a huge challenge right at the beginning of Tsumsted, and they came up with a great solution:
Original Cater: They all stack up so perfectly, right...ah!
NA Cater: And did you catch how they all zoomed over to to stack together?
Lilia Facts Part 2 of 15: Lilia's Appearance and Time
#twstcharacterfacts
Lilia may be intentionally styling himself to appear as cute and unimposing as possible. In a voice line he says that, while the long sleeves of his oversized lab wear coat do get in his way...
Leona’s VA Umehara Yuuichirou’s (
#UmeuMeumE_Y
) first lead role in a major series was as Hazama Kuroo in 2015’s “Young Black Jack.”
He won awards for Best New Actor and Male Voice Actor of the Year in 2016 and 2017.
Today is his birthday!
#twstseiyuu
Riddle Facts Part 16 of 33: Riddle and Floyd (pt1)
#twstcharacterfacts
Floyd calls Riddle “goldfish-chan” because “he’s red and tiny and unsavory” on EN, but this explanation is a little different in his actual dialogue, where he says “食べるところなさそう”, which is--
From Yana:
“Jade!
At a point during early development he had an over-the-top punk haircut and his ears were covered in accessories.
He was toned down to suite the aesthetic of Mostro Lounge.
They were all kind of toned down to make it easier to adapt them to outfit changes.”
⚠️JP-Server Information⚠️
We just got an official, in-game confirmation about the suits of cards for Heartslabyul students, and it matches the information from the game guide: decided and applied by the housewarden!
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"The 'draco' in Draconia is Latin for 'dragon'.
Malleus is latin for 'golden hammer', but when you consider the horns, the name is very reminiscent of Maleficent."
- Twisted Wonderland Fan Book (2020)
#twstfanbook1
Toboso Yana about designing the chibis:
"We aimed for a size that would to enable us reproduce detailed outfit designs to some extent and still look cute."
#twstyana
"Difficult characters are those who are tall and need to look down, such as Leona, Jade, and Malleus.
If I am not careful I will accidentally draw them older than they are, so I spend a lot of time staring at my original drawings."
From the Twst Game Guide (2020)
Illustration notes:
“Eel Form.
He is more fish-like than Azul, with proper fins.
There are gills on his sides.
Eels have stripes, so is body has stripes in places.
Since the bottom of the sea is dark, his body is luminescent."
From the Twst Game Guide (2020)
バーチャルライブだった!!
Absolutely Beautiful and the glorious masquerade song
It was a virtual live, after the livestream ended, with the animated characters performing the routines
It was amazing
No anime news
Event notes ↓
"(Riddle) seems younger than his real age both visually and mentally.
He has a surprisingly innocent smile.
Like Spade, he seems to be easily startled by the unexpected.
When provoked, his face becomes red with anger like the Queen of Hearts."
#twstguide2020
Jamil Viper is voiced by Futaba Kaname (
@Futaba_kaname
) and is Futaba's first and only named voice-acting role (though he did provide background voices for the anime ‘The Epic of Fate/Grand Order -Absolute Demonic Front-‘.)
Jack Facts Part 3 of 3
#twstcharacterfacts
We learn from Jack in the Phantom Bride event that wolf-type beastmen only ever have one romantic partner.
He says he is sure that he will have a relationship similar to that of his parents and grandparents, who are always together.