Turns out Rinka's Seiyuu also had her birthday yesterday

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qyv6Jl8BKpo
Oh the irony. Bhikkhuni gets banned over concerns over content and Mermaid that is far more explicit not only gets a full release, it even gets a dub.

Interesting details that were mentioned on /a/ about the series commentary

According to the Japanese audio commentary, Momoka was originally planned to simply be blasted out of existence in the ending but then Kuroda decided to give it a happier spin.

One other thing that stuck in my head was one of them (don't remember if it was the writer or director) saying they were worried about putting drive scenes and other service cuts in the last episode because it was supposed to be a dramatic serious situation (and they just had the mind-tentacle thing and that was it).

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Volume 2 of the german release is coming out in May

https://www.anime2you.de/news/199152/valkyrie-drive-mermaid-cover-des-zweiten-volumes/

Beautiful short story of Mirei and Mamori

https://bunnimation.tumblr.com/post/171871996967/valkyrie-in-crisis

Beautiful short story of Mirei and Mamori

https://bunnimation.tumblr.com/post/171871996967/valkyrie-in-crisis

Did VivianGames on Dynasty write that? Very cute.

Source
https://www.pixiv.net/member_illust.php?mode=medium&illust_id=65024908
https://www.pixiv.net/member_illust.php?mode=medium&illust_id=65253412

Happy Birthday Echigoya!

Good and bad news.

The Mirei Figure from Proovy is coming out in September.

The bad news

She's $95.

https://www.amazon.co.jp/o/ASIN/B07DCZRG11/pick-item-22

EDIT:

The final volume of VD's German release will be out in August.
https://www.anime2you.de/news/221488/valkyrie-drive-mermaid-finale-details-zum-dritten-volume/

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avIQ5aTA_tU
The German release has the character bios translated on their "Booblet"
Now I'm really curious to know what it says.

Could Kaneko's new avatar be a tease for more VD?

And today is Yuka Iguchi's (Mirei's Seiyuu) Birthday!

Ok, so I got the raws for the volume releases of the three Valkyrie Drive manga series

Mermaid

http://www.mediafire.com/file/02p06ktu0xt1rlh/VDM_Manga_Vol_1_Raws.rar/file

http://www.mediafire.com/file/f9ozoeu0dzed626/VDM_Manga_Vol_2_Raws.rar/file

Bhikkhunism

http://www.mediafire.com/file/4sn1dl3suj78s54/Valkyrie_Drive_Bhikkhunism_Vol_Raws.rar/file

Siren

http://www.mediafire.com/file/1inqb90l18jwb8o/Valkyrie_Drive_Siren_Breakout_Vol_Raws.rar/file

Bhikkhunism is completely scanlated and available on Dynasty Reader but these releases include a few 4komas and small gag panels.

Hopefully, I will find someone willing to translate them so the manga can be fully complete.

I'm working on typesetting the Siren one and hopefully I will be done soon and it will be added to the reader as well. It has the same detail of new bonus pages as Bhikkhunism though.

The Mermaid manga on the other hand, never had available raws so there's no translation for it. Although if a translation ever happens, I'll typeset it . In the meantime, Zunta's art is always a treat.

Beautiful short story of Mirei and Mamori

https://bunnimation.tumblr.com/post/171871996967/valkyrie-in-crisis

Did VivianGames on Dynasty write that? Very cute.

I did. Also, I didn't know anyone linked it anywhere, so I didn't think about how changing my Tumblr name would also kill those links.

Here's an AO3 link that works: https://archiveofourown.org/works/13989942

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Pretty well thought and informative review about Mermaid
https://kusokawa.blogspot.com/2018/07/valkyrie-drive-mermaid-thoughts.html

Is August 1st in Japan
And that is Rinka's Birthday!
https://twitter.com/kasii623/status/1024309581592154112

Huh
I never knew someone translated the first VD interview
https://gigazine.net/gsc_news/en/20150514-valkyriedrive-interview

Interestingly, the entire concept was developed by Kaneko and Kuroda, with Takaki being brought aboard later when it was decided a game would me made as well.

last edited at Aug 20, 2018 1:51PM

Mana Model rip

https://www.deviantart.com/shreis/art/Valkyrie-Drive-Bhikkhuni-Mana-Inagawa-P1-761897945

This is kind of cool

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_animated_works_with_LGBT_characters

I would disagree with Akira being genderqueer and Meifeng being labeled pansexual but don't have any issue with anyone reading them that way.

https://twitter.com/kinakowankoro/status/1049670020853190656

Three years already...

I uploaded to Google Drive all the VD fanart that I've found, needless to say, this includes NSFW stuff

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1t9A54mObLpqkY3_nwSoMQiEAmuMK4fRL?usp=sharing

Very nice! Thanks!
I'll use it when I need healing. NanoFate/MiraiRiko fanart is slow these days.

Three years already...

We are old...

http://www.melonfarmers.co.uk/latest.htm#Valkyrie_Drive_Mermaid_3281
If I'm reading this correctly, Mermaid's home release will be censored in the UK

Dark_Tzitzimine posted:

http://www.melonfarmers.co.uk/latest.htm#Valkyrie_Drive_Mermaid_3281
If I'm reading this correctly, Mermaid's home release will be censored in the UK

Yup. Any character who is not of legal age shown having any sexual interaction is against law and forbidden. Showing 2 teenagers having sex will destroy civilization. At this point what's the point of releasing it, if they are going to cut everything that actually made that series interesting. Once again, I'm disappointed in humanity.