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[Chaos;Child] A Visual-Novel-esque animation of "Slumbering Fools" - the audio drama about Mio's past


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@mods: I wasn't sure where to post this, so feel free to move the post to where it belongs to if you consider it placed wrongly here.

 

The original Visual Novel already hinted about Mio's time in America, however it never properly explained what happened to her back then. This was supposed to be taken care of by a manga called "Children's Collapse" as well as an audio drama called "FAR TOO LATE - Slumbering Fools".

Overthe course of the last six months I animated the majority of the audio drama (it's an hour in length so please bear with me) in a Visual-Novel-esque manner, so as to give you a way to read the transcript along with the voice-over. If you're interested, then you'll find the playlist to the entire animation below. Keep in mind the first part can't really use a lot of sprites, as the featured characters simply don't have any. This changes from the second part onwards though ;)

 

 

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33 minutes ago, Nier said:

This is great thanks, love Chaos;Child, how many Drama CD were released?

You probably wanted to know how many *parts* were released, because the entirety of Fools is contained on just one disc. As for the parts: The Fools-CD consists of five tracks, even though those are virtually six because the last track was split into two parts.

I'm only intending to animate the first few minutes of the 5th track and will close up the series afterwards. The remaining dialogue of track 5 and the entirety of track 2 is just SOL, serving as some kind of intro and outro. Not only would that very quickly spoken discussion between all club members be a lot of work/result in a lot of character sprites to animate, it's also not relevant for the main plotline in any way. 

If you still want to read those parts up you can do so by following the links below. "Onee-chan" translated all of those, I'm just the one animating ;) You'll also find the other audio dramas there, partially transcribed, translated and also animated (by different persons in a different quality though. I think the Committee of Zero animated "Prologue to the day of the beginning" as well). Just check the first table "Start here" for them.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/12M9VzbTDRwTUFCSp-F47bEg01KmoOMuK2LdisNXVBlI/htmlview#gid=364082912

Edit: I guess I was wrong. The last SOL scene *might* even be relevant for the plot. To show that Mio changed her inner attitude...

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24 minutes ago, Senri-in-the-Minamisawa said:

You probably wanted to know how many *parts* were released, because the entirety of Fools is contained on just one disc. As for the parts: The Fools-CD consists of five tracks, even though those are virtually six because the last track was split into two parts.

No I meant how many Drama CD there is for Chaos;Child beside the Slumbering Fools one which as you mentioned is made of 6 Parts: https://vgmdb.net/album/70257

But thanks for the google sheet, I see there are a few others, there's "The narrow path of the beaten track": https://vgmdb.net/album/70492, "The Right-sider and a certain day off", "Investigating the mysterious 'Seven Wonders of Shibuya'" and "Prologue - the Day of the Beginning" which are listed on the google sheet, but I found another called "Do you see the dream of a wrestler seal and the world frame?" (google translation): https://vgmdb.net/album/66603

Do any of these have a video translation?

EDIT: I found 2 (non-animated):

The Right-sider Connects the Cases:

 

The Seven Wonders of Shibuya:

Couldn't find the "Prologue to the day of the beginning" one that you mentioned though.

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2 hours ago, Nier said:

No I meant how many Drama CD there is for Chaos;Child beside the Slumbering Fools one which as you mentioned is made of 6 Parts: https://vgmdb.net/album/70257

But thanks for the google sheet, I see there are a few others, there's "The narrow path of the beaten track": https://vgmdb.net/album/70492, "The Right-sider and a certain day off", "Investigating the mysterious 'Seven Wonders of Shibuya'" and "Prologue - the Day of the Beginning" which are listed on the google sheet, but I found another called "Do you see the dream of a wrestler seal and the world frame?" (google translation): https://vgmdb.net/album/66603

Do any of these have a video translation?

EDIT: I found 2 (non-animated):

The Right-sider Connects the Cases:

 

The Seven Wonders of Shibuya:

Couldn't find the "Prologue to the day of the beginning" one that you mentioned though.

Huh... I didn't even know the Seven Wonders one was animated. It's a very basic animation, sure, but hey! It's cool that it exists.

About the "Prologue to the day of the beginning": Sorry, that one apparently isn't even animated. It was the last CD Senri (the *actual* Senri) translated, but noone animated it so far. Rigs, who is part of the Committee of Zero, only animated the rightsider-dram, which I was actually referring to. I mixed up the names...

Unfortunately I don't know of any other animations or translations besides the ones mentioned in the sheet. There's a guy on the Steins;Gate Discord called "Croowe" (or bad_spot on reddit) who intended to animate "The narrow path of the beaten track", and uploaded a demo video somewhere on YouTube where he presented a few minutes of his animation. It was fairly close to the actual VN as well, also using the original game assets such as the textbox and the nameplates, and in fact that video was what really spurred me to create a similar animation for Fools. I didn't want my animation to be below his quality standards, and in the end it turned out to be what you've probably already seen.

No, I really don't want to brag about "how great my animation is". My point is just that I would really like to show you Croowe's demo video, because (in case he didn't already drop his animation) his attempt might be fairly similar in quality to mine. Unfortunately I'm unable to still find it anywhere on YouTube, neither do I still find his channel (I'm not sure about how exactly it was called). Perhaps he already deleted the demo, even though I really don't hope so because it looked quite promising. If I'm gonna stumble across it sometime in the future I'll link to it in this thread though.

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6 hours ago, Senri-in-the-Minamisawa said:

Alright, found the channel and also the video link, but unfortunately he indeed deleted the demo:

https://www.youtube.com/user/YokiFox2

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7Ndtw4kbog

 

Welp. Guess his animation sadly isn't a thing any longer...

Apparently from what he says in the comments, 5pb. was taking his videos down, since he didn't want to have his channel deleted he just took down everything.

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I say that it should be a good addition for Chaos Child seeing that it shed more light in Mio's past, and considering that she's not one that made a good impression at her first appearance perhaps it's necessary here. Good work on animate the audio drama, and let me say that Parental Abandonment in Chaos Child (And Chaos Head as well) is quite rampant.

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I don't want to make a new thread yet, so I'll post it in here. By now I'm pretty much done with the fourth and final part of Fools, and at least personally quite satisfied with how it turned out. That's why I'll post the credits as quick preview here on fuwa, the entire episode will follow soon™.

(this video was actually intended as quality test, as I had one case where YouTube significantly increased video compression even hours after the initial upload... This video shouldn't be affected by any such issues though, as I used a different encoding.)

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