Don't get "Kaze To Akatsuki No Musume PDO"

Taor · 13 February 2005 13:13

With all due deference to you, Maestro!
PDO has two types of the cutscenes. We can distinguish them based on the dragon size or the characters’ models. The cutscene of the opening, Episode 4, and 5 concentred in the first half of PDO story. Therefore I suspected that the projector who made a plot of the game didn’t plan the last half of the story, in the beginning of PDO development.

I don’t hate all of the card boards show in PDO very much. “Low-quality” doesn’t mean “I don’t like it.” IVA’s picture-board show is nice to me. Anyway, I wish the director should cut the narration off. If anything, I wish he should make the writers to rewrite the storyline from the ground up. I think that PD needs no geeky over-descriptive speech. Even if PDO storyline was no good and odd, I prefer unsolved mysteries to the lippy dragon…

That’s too extreme. You don’t need to learn kanji at first. You’re able to write Japanese with minimal 47 letters, “kana”. In Japan, there are a software to print readings of kanji with kana. So you don’t need to learn 2000 letters. 47 kana just to read, if you use the software.

Evren is a woman apparently. She use a word “Atashi” as her personal pronoun in the subtitles in the Japanese version of PDO. It nearly means “I” in Japanese, and women often use the personal pronoun. Some old men use "atashi, but it’s infrequently and just-folks. If Evren were male, he would use “Watashi”, “Ore” or “Boku”.

However, Ms. Godai changed Evren’s character a bit. Evren uses “Watashi” in the novel. “atashi” is more informal and feminine than “watashi”. Therefore her character moved away from a laddish woman leader to a formal patriot.

Abadd · 14 February 2005 18:59

Robert - Don’t worry… I speak Japanese on a daily basis, conduct business in Japanese, and listen to Japanese music all the time, and I STILL can’t read the damn newspaper. It’s pretty ridiculous

But yeah… Taor, you are correct. They should have re-written the story, but alas. Budget constraints and time constraints often do not allow for such things.

Ehndow · 14 February 2005 20:11

Who are they btw?Sega?Smilebit?Smilebit is dead surely.

Who holds the right to such content?Oh and who’s the publisher?

Taor · 15 February 2005 14:48

What you said is absolutely true, Maestro…
I know that PDO has a lot of good works. Many of the staffs did their best and I enjoyed it, so I love PDO as one of the Panzerdragoon games. I just think that ill-planned projects always would waste much of money, time and the staffs efforts.

Wormrider’s men found fainted Evren at a burrow of mutated bionic creatures, when they were looking for some eggs or larvas.

When she notices Orta is here, she hurls abuse at her.
“I haven’t expected that you are here, Witch”, Evren says.
“No, I’m…”, Orta hesitates and steps back.
Evren derides Orta as “Witch of Distruction”. Orta can’t answer her again.

Then Gara jumps out. "Shut up! Don’t badmouth my sister!"
And Mobo says, “I’ve let you say everything, but that’s too much, you imperial woman. You’re our enemy and prisoner. Be careful of what you say.”

Someone says that the imperial soldier must die. However Old Ponta gets them to stop it. “Don’t spill blood, because we have a newborn baby tonight.”

Gara seems to think that she evened the score with Orta. Orta tells Gara that she doesn’t want to deprive Gara’s status as Mobo’s wife, so Gara removes her misunderstanding. Then Gara and Orta get to be friends.

Taor · 17 February 2005 15:39

<Subsequence of Episode 4: section 2>
Orta visits a old onstead to meet with imprisoned woman. Then she finds that the woman stares Yor and her newborn baby under the shadow of a tree. When the woman notices Orta comes the prison onstead up, she shows clearly belligerent stare against Orta.

The woman says Orta, "Why do you come here? To laugh at a prisoner?"
However, Orta doesn’t understand herself why she wanted to see the rider of a dragonmere. And Orta answers her, “No.”

Then Orta asks to give the name of the imperial rider. The woman seems to be dizzy a bit, but then, she soon lets out a defiant laugh and says.

“Why do you want my name? You want to put a curse on me? All right. My name is Evren, Centurion Alexa Evren.”

Orta asks her a lot of questions.
“Why do you chase me? What’s your purpose? Abadd escaped from you persons. You have lost him. Reply, Centurion. Why did you attack my village? What’s the reason that you want to catch me? Because of the dragon? - No, you attempted to catch me before he came. Why? Because I’m a witch?”―

“It’s better you should not know, Witch”, Evren says.

Abruptly Orta gets vertigo. She feels unexplained stun.

“Do you feel it, Witch?” Evren laughs at staggered Orta.
“Yes, my dragonmare comes here. He has known my awakening. Imperial armada also comes here, soon. Our force will burn you and your cursed friends away!”

Robert_Frazer · 18 February 2005 00:03

Ooooh, high drama!

Thanks again for the synopsis, Taor-san. I’m starting to nurture a number of incipient ideas about the nature of Evren and your expositions of her are most helpful in giving me evidence to ground the theories on.

Taor · 21 February 2005 12:42

In a hurry, Orta conveys to Old Ponta the information what Evren said. He hears that with calmness.

“It’s my fault. I must leave here”, she says.
“Ho, it’s your fault? Why?”, he says. “Who did bring her into the village, my dear? You? Nah.”

“I’m Witch of Distruction”, she says. “Evren was attracted here, because of me.” Orta tells him about Yelico and her memories. People in the burnt village was all afraid of her, and they said that she was the harbinger of destruction. She was chained in a cage…

“I see,” Panta says.
“Don’t believe that your being causes trouble to everything. It’s self-centered thinking.”

“They were killed, because of me. I’m…”, she says.
“Did you beg them to be imprisoned? Did you ask Evren to burn them? It’s not your fault. You could do nothing about that.”, he says.
“But, but… everyone were killed!”, she shouts.

Ponta puffs on his water pipe, “Yes, everyone were killed.” He seems to remind his Seeker’s days. And he says, “―Because I am Witch―, it’s too easy.”

Then Ponta says, "You are a thinking girl, despite your misfortuned childhood. You said the people didn’t talk to you. And yet, why can you speak with fluency? You know your name automagically, why? You can ride the dragon, use your gun, and hunt in cooperation with us,without instruction. Why?

“Because…, I’m…”, Orta says.
“Because you’re Witch?”, Ponta smiles.

“In that case I think you can be worse than be a witch.”

“You don’t have to leave here. If you will become to want to know yourself, you can go. ‘ORTA’… ‘who is not an anybody’. I don’t know a person who named you…”

Solo_Wing · 21 February 2005 21:51

This is great stuff, Taor. Thanks a lot for posting these episode summaries, they’re really interesting.

Taor · 24 February 2005 11:04

Thank you, Robert and Solo:) I’m glad to be able to introduce the novel to many readers.

The village gets ready for a combat against Imperial fleet.

Orta whispers to the dragon, “For all, I think that Evren came here because of me. But, we’ll keep the village from them. Then…” and she hugs his neck. She can’t say, ―Then, we’ll leave here to know ourselves.―

Evren made a break from the prison onstead. She threatened Yor (Mobo’s second plural wife) and told her to take along Orta. Yor declined the order. Evren kidnapped Yor’s baby to hold him as a hostage. She rode a worm and ran away from the village.

Yor becomes upset. She blames Orta.
“My baby was taken away, because of you!. She said that you’re Witch! You brought harm to us, because you have come here! Get lost!”
“How can you be so cruel?”, Enba says to Yor.

“Spare her. She just has lost her head…,” Enba says to Orta.
“Never mind, Enba. Probably she is correct.” Orta says calmly.

Then, she hears a snarl. She casts her eyes up in the evening sky.
“Dragon!”

She rides on his back and tells to Mobo, “Convey my words to Yor.”
“I’ll bring him back, absolutely!”

Taor · 25 February 2005 15:15

Orta doesn’t hold a grudge against Yor. She is well aware of herself. She doesn’t know family ties and her own mother. She knows that Yor really loves her own baby. Love? She doesn’t realize such a thing, but she wants to bring the baby back for Yor.

Orta cheses Evren. She catches up with her worm in desert. Orta can’t hits Evren because she holds the baby in her arms.
“Shame! You wrested such a little baby from his mother!”
“Shut up!”, Evren replies.

When she aims a gun at Orta, a flash light hits her worm. Then Evren and the baby has a spill on sand.

Orta sees Abadd and his dragonmare again. He attempts to kill Evren. Orta cuts across his attack against Evren. “Why do you interfere with me?”, Abadd says. Orta tells to him, “Don’t you see the baby? You want to kill even him?” However he doesn’t understand what she said. “What’s wrong?”

Orta takes the baby back from Evren’s arms. Then she notices the baby is without injury. He was taken good care and wrapped in a cloth.
Orta says to her, “if I bow you and your Empire, you won’t touch wormriders, will you?” Evren replies, “We won’t forgive rebels.”

“All right, we have to fight each other. Go away. I don’t kill unarmed person. When we next meet, we’ll battle it out in the sky,” Orta says to Evren.
“You’ll regret having freed me up,” Evren says and goes.

Abadd tells Orta to follow him, however she refuses. “I must defend them,” she says. He attempts to get her away by force. The dragon growls and shows his teeth Abadd and his dragonmare. “I see.” Abadd stops it. “Only don’t forget that, I am only one, who can tell you the significance of your existence. I need you. I know your destiny. You must save this doomed world from itself…” Then he flies away soon.

Taor · 2 March 2005 15:58

I said, “I will make short summary of all episodes in the book.” However, “make short”, it’s more difficult than I had expected.

I realized clearly that I began to have sympathy with the secondary scriptwriters of PDO. Maybe their task was more painful than mine… Perhaps one said, “Why do we have to rewrite this stupid script?” Maybe another thought, “The lippy dragon is too painful to me.” Just I suspect. They and Ms. Godai should be admirable.:anjou_embarassed:

For all, I write my posting with enjoyment:) In the novel, Orta has her own heart as well as Azel. I love her. Though at heart, I don’t like an “official” idea that she was her daughter.

In the village, women and children begin to escape disaster. Orta and hunters stay there to fight a battle against Imperial armada. Old Ponta gives her a necklace before he leaves there. It’s a blue stone. Orta puts on the necklace.

“It’s a detection device. If there are the seekers near by you, it’ll be lucent and marks the distance from them.”

Old Ponta knows that she has become to want to know herself, and he advises her to go north if she survives the battle.

“I’ve heard something about a drone, “Azel” before. The word was that “Skiad Ops” at the time met her again…”

Taor · 16 March 2005 14:18

In the words of Old Ponta, a group of Seekers went north under some sort of commission from the Skiad Ops. They probably were in the secret. Seeker’s strong ties broken up after “Great Fall”, however a few groups have been keeping their way of living. Old Ponta advises Orta to search for the group.

Yor did not say a word for Orta. She paid no attention to Orta and hugged her own baby tightly. Then she, Old Ponta and noncombatants left the village to avoid the fight.
“No worries, Yor just feel embarrassed.” Gara says to Orta.
Gara stays there, too. She is a wormrider’s warrior.

Imperial fleet comes along. The dragon and worms take wings into the sky…

Sorry my slow typing, but now I’m changing my living place. I’ll continue my posting after I move and settle in. See you next month.

neo_kun · 17 March 2005 09:25

Dont worry about it, no need to rush. You are doing a good job. It is a great help to us that cannot read the book ourselves.

Taor · 18 July 2005 11:50

I took so long, sorry.:anjou_embarassed:

Orta and wormriders fight bravely, and the huge Lathum breathes fire to battle against Imperial armada. The fight excited Orta. She finds that she feels dark pleasure to battle. She is bewildered by herself.

Her heart feels delight, her senses becomes sharp, and limbs are very light. It’s horrifying to think that she comes close to forgetting the safety of her friends, Mobo and Gara.

She feels afraid herself.

(Who am I?)
For a moment, she loses her sharpness.

"Orta, look out!"
Mobo shouts. Then his worm is shot by a purple flash. Gara reaches out a hand to him, but her worm is also shot. They are lost to Orta’s view…

The blood rushes to her head. She is beside herself with anger. She looks daggers at the Imperial ships.

The girl shouts.
The dragon cries grievously. His wings changes their shape monstrously.

Some Imperial men saw the rider on the dragon, soon their ships are exploded.

“Kill her!”
“But we must catch her alive…”
"We can’t! Kill her or we’ll be killed!

Orta laughs at them. She laughs and shoots. She laughs and kills.
Then she has forgotten her every fear, her every sadness, Mobo and Gara, and her dragon…

Taor · 20 July 2005 14:58

Orta abandons herself to dark emotion.

You everyone, you the world, you all wanted to kill me.
So I’ll kill you all.

You have been wresting everything from me since I had been born,
so I wrest everything from you.
I make you close your eyes.
I throw you down in eternal darkness.
I leave you alone in the endless night, as I was.

I can’t know why I was imprisoned.
I can’t know why I was chased.
I can’t know who am I.
So you can’t know why you are died, as I can’t.

Hate is sweet. In her heart, a girl cries and tells her to stop killing, but Orta ignores the grief of herself. She continues destroying and killing.

Power! My power! My great strength!
If I had known it, I had not needed to be imprisoned!
If I had realized it, I had not needed to be alone!
You hated me, called me “Witch”, and took my family and friends away from me.

 Now, it's my turn. I hate you all.

Then, someone shouts at her,
"Stop, Monster! You puppet! You…, DRONE!

Robert_Frazer · 20 July 2005 18:09

Huzzah, Taor’s back! Konbanwa, Taor-san, it’s good to see you again.

Taor · 24 July 2005 14:42

Konbanwa, Robert.

My working is very slowly, but I’ll finish it some day in the future.:anjou_embarassed:
Please wait for next update!

system · 26 July 2005 06:58

Wow, thanks again Taor. And don’t worry about hurrying to get this finished or anything, we’re very grateful for you taking the time to do this at all.

Orta seems very consumed by anger at this stage in the novel, and I guess that does make sense: in the game she spends Episode 4 blowing up countless Imperial ships, so it’s good to see the author thinking about what her emotional state would be (and how Orta would justify what she’s doing).

Taor · 23 April 2006 12:48

Hi!

Now I came back:)

I’m running on that, but my typing is very slow. Over 400 pages is formidable.
If you’d like to read subsequence of the story, please check here every other month.:anjou_embarassed:

http://pdp.xrea.jp/written/godai_orta/Kaze_to_Akatsuki_no_musume.htm

Solo_Wing · 28 April 2006 06:46

Nice job, Taor. And welcome back.