Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-6192846-20131020193652

I'm sure several of you have noticed the recent changes to names. Several characters had had their names updated for a more accurate translation, including Duke Veno and our princess. The redirects will remain for a little while but shall be removed soon after.

In the mean time, here's an update to new additions/changes concerning Story of Evil:

1) Velvet Mix

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The Velvet Mix versions for some of the series' songs haven't been given proper attention imo. I would like the treatment given to the Evil Food Eater Conchita (revised) version done to this song, including how it affects song and character pages.

We're also going to now be taking the original Japanese text from the song PVs and retranslating their lyrics. I want us to look at the information provided in them and add it to the wiki, where appropriate. Things like Queen Anne being sick in bed for three years needs to be sourced, confirmed, and then added to articles. We'll compile the velvet mix quotes onto a blogpost to use as a reference.

2) Mothy's Blog

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Recently, information from mothy's blog has been included in articles after thoroughly searching and confirming information. Because this has served as an excellent wealth of information for our creator since he created the blog, we will be expanding this to his original blog summaries of the Story of Evil he made back in 2008. While most is consistent with the novels, there are several added details that the light novels don't mention, such as the "heavy taxes" imposed by Riliane that we mention but don't reference in several articles.

Like the Velvet Mix information, we will be compiling all this into a blog post to reference while building up a translation. It will also help. Complimenting this 8 part story he originally made (ending with Regret Message), there was also miscellaneous info that can be added to the conceptualization and origin of Riliane among others.

3) Ichika's Upcoming Manga

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For those of you who haven't heard, mothy's #1 artist for Evillious has been working on a manga adaptation of The Daughter of Evil series, which comments from her have implied will be her interpretations of the light novels (basically a comic-version of the books). The buzz about this has been the possibility that characters like Minis, Ein, Sohni Elphen, among others will finally be depicted in these manga volumes.

Should this be the case, I can confirm for everyone that we will indeed be making pages for some of these characters once we acquire high quality scans. Coinciding with this, we'll be expanding our image policy to allow the illustrations from the books and mange to be included into the main articles, breaking up walls of text and making articles over all more readable. This was experimented upon a few months back and has proven effective.

4) Kept Waiting for a Response

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Well, this may be the bombshell to top it all off for some of you. Here is a statement from mothy concerning the song:

別の曲の続き？　のようにも思えるような内容ですが 元々はボツプロットとなっていたものを引き出してきたものなので 正史ではございませんのであしからず.

In this, he confirms that the song was originally intended to be part of the series but became a dead plot point somewhere along the way and so is not part of the authentic history of the characters and apologized for the confusion caused.

Basically, this labels the song non-canon and so has to now be removed from the Story of Evil page and have its information removed from articles (although information from the fanbook which directly implicated the song should not be removed so be careful). The song's page will remain due to originally being intended for the series but will have its information and trivia added to explain its place as a scrapped idea mothy had.

That's all for now. Go about your business. Move along. 