I remember seeing a comment on one of Marsh's videos that said something along the lines of "At this point it wouldn't be out of character for Marsh to record an audiobook of the original novels just so he could log a playthrough of those, too." Turns out that comment predicted the future.
I can see this video being in time the way the SMT community conveys the origins of the franchise to the newcommers. Not to mention the effort it must have taken to have all these creators present and visuals prepared. Great work!
This is too cool. I was so crazy about this novel that I reached out to the original team that translated this work. This, My friends, is more than I could have hoped for. The famicom styled fx were more than awesome. 1000%!! And an infinite thanks
Man I wish Nagitani written the bastard salesman dwarf 'Rag' into his Digital Devil Story graphic novel & had Nakajima choke the crap out of him. I bet vocalizing that would've been so cathartic for Marsh! Oh well, at least he got to slap his cheeks in Last Bible 3. :D
This was truly an amazing watch, I was so captived it I watched it all in one sitting. All the love and effort put into this project is just mind-blowing: the narration, everyone's performances, the sprite work... Just an amazing piece of art. I hope to see the rest of the novels one day, this was an incredibly fun watch.
This was soooooooo cool!!! Thank you for this! Have any of you guys seen or read the “Digital Devil Saga” novels? (Or novelizations?). They are by Yu Godai and called “Quantum Avatar Tuner”. It’s two books in English. They were really good! But hard to find.
Man this is some amazing work it's because of Marsh that I found out about more SMT content. This audiobook had some love and devotion put into it. Wonder if this will convince anyone to translate the other novels and make an audiobook out of them.😅
Absolutely marvelous job everyone ^_^ The level of dedication here is something to behold for all megaten fans and I applaud you guys for the massive efforts youve made to bring the old nishitani novels to life You guys are a shining example for all megaten fans out there,keep at it ^_^
Wow, that was really fun. I (like all megatenists) can't read (okay, it's dyslexia) so i really appreciate the audiobook format to make literature accessible to people like me. I loved the visuals, added music, and the story was just what I imagined MegaTen would be like as a novel. I think this was a great celebration of Megaten history and the community. I would love to see another, specifically Digital Devil Story 2, as the ending of the first book is largely anticlimactic in a way. If I'd have to give a critique, it'd be that the voice actors sometimes didn't feel like they had the right direction. I'm not really upset, as none of these guys are professions VAs, iirc, and it's not a big deal, but something worth noting and improving on in the future.
Great job I thoroughly enjoyed it. I hope some day you can get to book 2. I haven't played any of the games but enjoyed the OVA so much that I sought out the books and so this was a treat to watch.
So this is essentially a dark occult version of Weird Science combining dark alchemy and nerd-vengenance fantasy with computer fiction except summoning a demon rather than a hot babe.
This is absolutely fantastic! The performances by everyone are brilliant, the sprite work and little touches are just great, and the video itself serves as a great resource for tell this story; I'm just glad it exists
Great work. I think this definitely made me appreciate the story a lot more over the OVA. Probably because the narration makes psychological states of characters a lot more clear than, uh, whatever the OVA does. I also love the details like making Loki's voice more normal the more he materializes. I know it's asking for a lot, since this is the only fully translated DDS novel, but I think making something like this for every DDS novel would be great. Of course, you'd need to find a translator. And I think there was someone on the sub who said they might give it a try some while ago? Definitely seems looking into. Alternatively, do you think there'd be enough interest to hire a translator using funding from the community? > This video’s script is based on the fan translation by MeNaSe Publications, and was slightly edited due to the nature of adapting a book into another medium. Could you say what was changed?
I think the second Megami Tensei novel is translated already, but I've never read it so I'm not sure honestly. Everyone I talked to about future projects that was involved in this one was seemed interested in the possibility of working on more, but past that, I'm not sure how much we would be able to do. The key issue is definitely needing translations. I'd almost certainly need to commission someone to do that, but unless they were either working for free or on severe discount as a favor, chances are that it would cost hundreds if not thousands of dollars for an entire novel and to be perfectly frank, I don't know if I could even get $500 with the community backing me. That said, there are a lot of great people in the community who enjoy doing projects for the fanbase, but atm I can't think of anyone who would be willing to work with me in that capacity. Granted, I haven't gone around looking for anyone yet so who knows. We'll definitely try to do what we can though. I can't really give you specific examples for the edits made since this was done months ago, but I can explain the thought process. Most of the changes to the script were minor editorial changes like spelling or grammar. A few lines were slightly changed due to this being an audiobook meaning certain narrative devices (like statements about point of view) felt redundant or were somewhat relying on reader imagination. Beyond that, there were some instances where character dialog was changed to make it sound more "natural," since the MeNaSe script's phrasing often came off as very awkward. For total clarity, the biggest single change is probably one of Takamizawa Kyoko's scenes in Prolouge - Chapter 4. In the original script, Kyoko does a little whimper as she dies and her legs spasm after Kano Miyuki bites into her inner thigh. The line was cut from the edited script because I told the female VAs if they were uncomfortable with a line (due to the sexual nature of many of the assault scenes) we could probably work around it, but this almost never came up because I was upfront about the material of the book and tried to be clear that certain roles may have to do uncomfortable scenes when I was approaching people to see if they were interested. The aforementioned scene is the only time I recall this happening and it was just one sentence. That said, I would not have made any changes that would've changed the context of a scene (or more broadly, the book itself).
@@KidCapes the translation problem goes for the second novel as well? Did you have anyone go through the 1st novel in Japanese to make sure the translation isn’t super off in places? Or are you thinking of only needing translators for the novels which certainly aren’t translated (dds 3 and new dds).
@@2tehnik I don't own copies of the novels myself, so I didn't even think about double checking them tbh. I don't know anyone who would've been willing to double check it for me for a whole book as well. There shouldn't be any issues with the 2nd novel if it's already translated.
@@KidCapesfunny enough, the OVA makes me squirm when kyoko dies. i always look away during the scene where she gets grabbed, precisely because of that.
This was amazing! Good work everyone! And from the ending alone I can see why Atlus got so inspired. I'm tempted to write a little something something myself now.
Amazingly done, team! I love the Megami Tensei series; you guys have done superb work in capturing the essence of the novel! Whilst I was listening to this audiobook, I couldn't help but think of the OVA and how much it has missed what you guys have managed to encapsulate! Definitely look forward to future works :)
Really great, by any chance is there any way you can add subtitles? I know the purpose of an audiobook is not to have any kind of writing but I really want to share it with my friends but unfortunately they don't understand English well however they understand it better if they read it, the animation of the sprites is really wonderful.
this is incredibly done, kudos. there is any chance of getting more things adapted?, not only the novels, but the older videogames that are a chore to play
If y'all do the next book is there any way I could get in either for VA, sound design or bgm composing? ;0 I'd love to contribute to something like this
I'd be open to doing kickstarters for more audiobooks like this but I think a proper translation for a whole book would cost an exorbitant amount of money and I don't think there's that much demand for them.
@@KidCapes one step at a time, work on finding someone to work on book 3. In the meantime work on book 2 and keep trying to drum up interest until atlus is willing to get the books translated officially. I’d like to be of more help but I’m a nobody with poor second language skills so all I can do is try to donate.
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megami tensei fans we are so fucking back
SO fucking back
can’t wait til megami tensei 8
your VA work as Nakajima was fantastic. thanks for providing your voice to the project.
At least there was no minotaur in the tower of Dedalus. I don't know if you should ever encounter that. For your sanity...
Dude!! DO ALL THE BOOKS!!
Congrats Marsh, you even found a way to log a playthrough of the books.
man megami tensei is so cool i wish computer programs were real
A boy can dream
I'm just glad we have such talented enthusiasts to create things like this! Awesome fam!
Programs are real in their own dimensions... queue megami tensei heartbeat theme...
me too
Nakajima really said "Don't come to school tomorrow"
Marsh voicing Nakajima is a certified Nakajima moment. It's cool Tony4You was in here as well!
Playing Employee [Part 4] has been the highlight of my career.
Marsh voicing his spirit animal is amazing
MARSH IS VOICING NAKUJIMA NO FUCKING WAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYY THIS IS ALREADY PERFEECCTT HOLY SHIIITTTT
THIS IS WHY THE MEGATEN COMMUNITY IS FUCKING GOATED
aight honestly cant hold it in anymore, marsh fell off tbh
@@ils4844 L comment
@@alicevioleta3184 that's a W in my book ayup.
@@ils4844 i see someone isn't a last bible fan
@@alicevioleta3184 Last Bible is great what did his ass mean by this????
I remember seeing a comment on one of Marsh's videos that said something along the lines of "At this point it wouldn't be out of character for Marsh to record an audiobook of the original novels just so he could log a playthrough of those, too." Turns out that comment predicted the future.
Marsh is the perfect voice for Nakajima and i will forever hear his voice whenever I boot up Kyuyakku MT
MARSH VOICES NAKAJIMA, I WAS MOWING THE LAWN AND STOPPED DEAD IN MY TRACKS, couldn't have been a better choice
Marsh Nakajima and Canadian Yumiko will now be the voices of these characters forever
18 years ago? Damn, didnt know DDS:MT took place in 2005
Obviously! What else would they have been referring to in SMTV? Come on now.
Let’s gooo !! I loved that I could be a part of this video !
I love this
I can see this video being in time the way the SMT community conveys the origins of the franchise to the newcommers.
Not to mention the effort it must have taken to have all these creators present and visuals prepared. Great work!
underrated video
I’m happy that smt game series had influenced its original source material
This is too cool. I was so crazy about this novel that I reached out to the original team that translated this work. This, My friends, is more than I could have hoped for. The famicom styled fx were more than awesome. 1000%!! And an infinite thanks
is that team still around? that'd be interesting if they are.
Man I wish Nagitani written the bastard salesman dwarf 'Rag' into his Digital Devil Story graphic novel & had Nakajima choke the crap out of him. I bet vocalizing that would've been so cathartic for Marsh! Oh well, at least he got to slap his cheeks in Last Bible 3. :D
6 HOURS UNTIL PEAK KINO, LET'S GOOOO
Nakajima did nothing wrong and needed an outlet for being bullied.
Absolutely incredible, and I never call anything that. The SMT community is like no other, god damn...
Ok, that story went so dark by the middle of this. Specially with the Loki raping bodys thing
This was truly an amazing watch, I was so captived it I watched it all in one sitting. All the love and effort put into this project is just mind-blowing: the narration, everyone's performances, the sprite work... Just an amazing piece of art.
I hope to see the rest of the novels one day, this was an incredibly fun watch.
Thanks for sticking around the whole time bro, appreciated having you :)
Id love to read the other novels in this format too, but idk how realistic it would be
Turned out great! I'm glad more people get to enjoy this work!
Pogged when I recognized your voice. Then I realized Marsh was already here. Very fun
This was soooooooo cool!!! Thank you for this! Have any of you guys seen or read the “Digital Devil Saga” novels? (Or novelizations?). They are by Yu Godai and called “Quantum Avatar Tuner”. It’s two books in English. They were really good! But hard to find.
Man this is some amazing work it's because of Marsh that I found out about more SMT content. This audiobook had some love and devotion put into it. Wonder if this will convince anyone to translate the other novels and make an audiobook out of them.😅
Absolutely marvelous job everyone ^_^
The level of dedication here is something to behold for all megaten fans and I applaud you guys for the massive efforts youve made to bring the old nishitani novels to life
You guys are a shining example for all megaten fans out there,keep at it ^_^
Thanks for letting me be a part of this Kid Capes 😎
Thank u for the invite 👉🏽👈🏽
Do yall think I could run Loki on my 1070
great work! it's awesome to see the fandom creating this bc of the love we all share for this beloved franchise
This video is amazing! thank you guys so much!
Thank you for the donation, friend 🫡. Glad you enjoyed the video
I've been waiting all month. 😂😂
Let me innnnn 😂😂😂
I need to make a custom Playlist with all my favorite SMT history. This would definitely be the top of the Playlist
Randomly came on my timeline. A really good listen. :)
Wow, that was really fun. I (like all megatenists) can't read (okay, it's dyslexia) so i really appreciate the audiobook format to make literature accessible to people like me. I loved the visuals, added music, and the story was just what I imagined MegaTen would be like as a novel. I think this was a great celebration of Megaten history and the community. I would love to see another, specifically Digital Devil Story 2, as the ending of the first book is largely anticlimactic in a way. If I'd have to give a critique, it'd be that the voice actors sometimes didn't feel like they had the right direction. I'm not really upset, as none of these guys are professions VAs, iirc, and it's not a big deal, but something worth noting and improving on in the future.
*Looks at Marsh*
Great job I thoroughly enjoyed it. I hope some day you can get to book 2. I haven't played any of the games
but enjoyed the OVA so much that I sought out the books and so this was a treat to watch.
Put this on the JRPG reddit, hopefully it gets a bit more traction.
Appreciate it! Doesn't seem like people are too fond of it over there though lol.
@@KidCapes L take on their part, this slaps so hard it should be considered abuse
@@alicevioleta3184Slaps harder than Kondo
So this is essentially a dark occult version of Weird Science combining dark alchemy and nerd-vengenance fantasy with computer fiction except summoning a demon rather than a hot babe.
More or less
I've been waiting for this! -Akihiko
This is absolutely fantastic! The performances by everyone are brilliant, the sprite work and little touches are just great, and the video itself serves as a great resource for tell this story; I'm just glad it exists
Great work. I think this definitely made me appreciate the story a lot more over the OVA. Probably because the narration makes psychological states of characters a lot more clear than, uh, whatever the OVA does.
I also love the details like making Loki's voice more normal the more he materializes.
I know it's asking for a lot, since this is the only fully translated DDS novel, but I think making something like this for every DDS novel would be great. Of course, you'd need to find a translator. And I think there was someone on the sub who said they might give it a try some while ago? Definitely seems looking into.
Alternatively, do you think there'd be enough interest to hire a translator using funding from the community?
> This video’s script is based on the fan translation by MeNaSe Publications, and was slightly edited due to the nature of adapting a book into another medium.
Could you say what was changed?
I think the second Megami Tensei novel is translated already, but I've never read it so I'm not sure honestly. Everyone I talked to about future projects that was involved in this one was seemed interested in the possibility of working on more, but past that, I'm not sure how much we would be able to do. The key issue is definitely needing translations. I'd almost certainly need to commission someone to do that, but unless they were either working for free or on severe discount as a favor, chances are that it would cost hundreds if not thousands of dollars for an entire novel and to be perfectly frank, I don't know if I could even get $500 with the community backing me. That said, there are a lot of great people in the community who enjoy doing projects for the fanbase, but atm I can't think of anyone who would be willing to work with me in that capacity. Granted, I haven't gone around looking for anyone yet so who knows. We'll definitely try to do what we can though.
I can't really give you specific examples for the edits made since this was done months ago, but I can explain the thought process. Most of the changes to the script were minor editorial changes like spelling or grammar. A few lines were slightly changed due to this being an audiobook meaning certain narrative devices (like statements about point of view) felt redundant or were somewhat relying on reader imagination. Beyond that, there were some instances where character dialog was changed to make it sound more "natural," since the MeNaSe script's phrasing often came off as very awkward. For total clarity, the biggest single change is probably one of Takamizawa Kyoko's scenes in Prolouge - Chapter 4. In the original script, Kyoko does a little whimper as she dies and her legs spasm after Kano Miyuki bites into her inner thigh. The line was cut from the edited script because I told the female VAs if they were uncomfortable with a line (due to the sexual nature of many of the assault scenes) we could probably work around it, but this almost never came up because I was upfront about the material of the book and tried to be clear that certain roles may have to do uncomfortable scenes when I was approaching people to see if they were interested. The aforementioned scene is the only time I recall this happening and it was just one sentence. That said, I would not have made any changes that would've changed the context of a scene (or more broadly, the book itself).
@@KidCapes the translation problem goes for the second novel as well?
Did you have anyone go through the 1st novel in Japanese to make sure the translation isn’t super off in places? Or are you thinking of only needing translators for the novels which certainly aren’t translated (dds 3 and new dds).
@@2tehnik I don't own copies of the novels myself, so I didn't even think about double checking them tbh. I don't know anyone who would've been willing to double check it for me for a whole book as well. There shouldn't be any issues with the 2nd novel if it's already translated.
@@KidCapesfunny enough, the OVA makes me squirm when kyoko dies. i always look away during the scene where she gets grabbed, precisely because of that.
Holy hell this looks amazing.
W video. thanks for your hard work everyone!
Shin Megami Tensei if...I think it will be redrawn based on it, but the writing of the Jusei Academy costume is wonderful.
Yes, the school uniforms were edited versions of Shin Megami Tensei if... sprites :)
Really great video! Gotta love how chill the Smt community is. 😄
Yup dropping this in my watch later and enjoy folder
Hello class, welcome to Tony4you's class.....i mean Professor Ida's! >:3
This was amazing! Good work everyone! And from the ending alone I can see why Atlus got so inspired. I'm tempted to write a little something something myself now.
Nakajima marsh real
You guys did an amazing job on this! Hope to hear more in the future!
I love this. A lot of work put behind this. And I'm fascinated by SMT.
This was awesome! Hope you do the other books!
That was amazing! Thank you so much ❤
I am hoping you do more, at least finish the Nakajima trilogy. I think at least they have been translated, right?
I think the second novel is, but not the 3rd or 4th. We'd like to do more though.
Thank you for creating this all of you, just awesome, I will be playing SMT on ps1 and some Persona 3 (FES) on ps2 later in honor.
Amazingly done, team! I love the Megami Tensei series; you guys have done superb work in capturing the essence of the novel! Whilst I was listening to this audiobook, I couldn't help but think of the OVA and how much it has missed what you guys have managed to encapsulate! Definitely look forward to future works :)
If only they continued the ova
This was great! Thanks for the effort you all put in.
This is literally God's work
Really great, by any chance is there any way you can add subtitles? I know the purpose of an audiobook is not to have any kind of writing but I really want to share it with my friends but unfortunately they don't understand English well however they understand it better if they read it, the animation of the sprites is really wonderful.
Are yall planning to do the rest of the novels or was this just a one shot? Either way I'm grateful yall did this yall are definitely GOATed for this
this is incredibly done, kudos. there is any chance of getting more things adapted?, not only the novels, but the older videogames that are a chore to play
nakajima…..
Thanks for sharing the book
Absolutely incredible. You all do the Megaten community so proud.
Y'know is you add visuals to an Audio book, doesn't that kinda just make it a...visual novel?
🥹
This is so cool
I havent finished listening yet to see the credits, but i will. Is that Marsh doing the voice of "the world's sexiest bullying victim?" 😂
Absolute cinema
Holy Shit, this is GREAT!
This was fucking brilliant
If y'all do the next book is there any way I could get in either for VA, sound design or bgm composing? ;0 I'd love to contribute to something like this
Bravo, guys!
This will be epic 🎉
Lets go
Peak!!!!
So when is the big kickstarter to translate the 9 books and release the audiobooks?
I want to know so I can prepare donation money.
I'd be open to doing kickstarters for more audiobooks like this but I think a proper translation for a whole book would cost an exorbitant amount of money and I don't think there's that much demand for them.
@@KidCapes one step at a time, work on finding someone to work on book 3. In the meantime work on book 2 and keep trying to drum up interest until atlus is willing to get the books translated officially.
I’d like to be of more help but I’m a nobody with poor second language skills so all I can do is try to donate.
I was so estatic to find this was a thing and thanks for making it, but.. This story is straight up fanfiction quality shit tbh
YOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
続編上げて下さい！
Way better than the anime ❤
Glibbb Capes
Will you do a second volume?
Yes, but I'm not sure exactly when, because my schedule is weird rn especially with SMT5V coming out soon.
@@KidCapes Hopefully you can do it before then
yup, its kino
Hold up, the Mayan temple was in New Hampshire?
YOOO MY BOY TONY HERE
oh yeah why does the damn titlecard look like makuta g2 eyes, these sprites hurt to look at too blah blah blkaaaaahhjhhhhhh : )
F-ck persona; This is the best!
00:12 Progidy? Really?
kid "capes"
Emmanu"el"
progidy
allat just to get outdone by the greatest game of all time, persona 3. mid ass franchise ngl
Snarfssoldier reference
I love this