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Mayumi Hirota, Thracia 776 Illustrator, Has Passed Away

On 13th December, illustrator Junka Morozumi shared the unfortunate news that Mayumi Hirota, who worked on the illustrations for Thracia 776, had recently passed away. Her family has since held a funeral.

Evayle from Illustrated Works.

Most people will probably know Mayumi Hirota from her work on Thracia 776, where she designed the characters and key artwork. These can be found on the game’s official site, as well as the “Illustrated Works” and “Picture Postcard”, and also on our gallery.

Coincidentally, Intelligent Systems are planning to hold a Thracia 776 art exhibition at next year’s Fire Emblem Expo, showcasing the game’s artwork. It was unknown if Mayumi Hirota would’ve made an appearance, but at the least, it was nice that they acknowledged her artwork.

Lewyn and Julia from the Treasure.

Prior to working on Thracia 776, Mayumi Hirota illustrated all of the key Genealogy of the Holy War characters for the Fire Emblem: Treasure book. Shouzou Kaga, the game’s designer, was incredibly impressed with her artwork and wanted to keep her for Thracia.

According to the Treasure, she was born on 28th February in the city of Toyama. She was previously an animator for over 10 years, but had retired. Yet her passion for design continued. She got into Fire Emblem with Gaiden, and played the rest of the series (at that point) in order.

Afterwards, when Kaga departed from Intelligent Systems, Mayumi Hirota followed him. She worked on the illustrations for TearRing Saga, Kaga’s first independently-created game. But after that, she more or less vanished from video game history.

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Team FE Presents Extra Life: Day 2, Nov. 10 11a – 11p PT

If you were able to tune in on November 3rd for Extra Life’s official Game Day event, you may recall the charity livestream featuring shenanigans from well known Fire Emblem players such as KirbymastaH and Gwimpage. With generous support, we were able to raise $1765 $1865! on our first day, which is absolutely amazing!

Day 2 is planned to start in about 15 minutes, can be viewed at our collaborative Twitch Channel, rFireEmblemHeroes, and will feature quite a lot of activity, including double the Voice Actor appearance and even more games.

If you have any interest in joining, then you’ll see some exciting participation as we’re joined by the following Voice Actors:

Additionally, our player roster leads off with the infamous Abdallah, starting things off with Fire Emblem Awakening, and will also feature our very own Raven, General Horace, and even Kyle McCarley himself.

If you’d like to be eligible to win a prize, feel free to donate to our cause, which of course, benefits Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals in the US. Prizes will be displayed in a slideshow during the stream, so check em out. Spoilers…one of the prizes is artwork created and donated by FE Heroes character artist Soeda Ippei!

The above image has our full timeline schedule, so join when you can and say hello!

For more details:

  • You can find more about Extra Life here
  • You can read the first post about this year’s event here
  • You can find Reddit’s first blogpost about the event here
  • For links on Prizes and donation logic, and other event details through Reddit, you can find it all here

Berwick Saga Receives English Translation and Live Stream Now!

If you’ve been keeping up with Aethin’s translation efforts for Shozou Kaga’s Berwick Saga, you may be interested in paying a visit to Lord Raven’s Twitch server. Lord Raven’s Twitch channel (Click there), is live Now. Come and watch, to keep up while he and Aethin continue their gameplay through Chapter 5!

If you miss the stream, you can still keep up with Aethin’s work and the translation here, in its Serenes Forest thread.

As a recap: Serenes Forest user Aethin has been hard at work, assembling a fantastic English translation of this Japanese-exclusive title for players to finally enjoy in our English-dominant region. He’s completed about 2/3 of the translation project, and another Serenes Forest user Lord Raven has been working with Aethin as a player of the game to showcase it for the world to enjoy.

Berwick Saga English Translation Live Stream Now!

If you’ve been keeping up with Aethin’s translation efforts for Shozou Kaga’s Berwick Saga, you may be interested in paying a visit to Lord Raven’s Twitch server. Lord Raven’s Twitch channel (Click there), is live Now. Come and watch, to keep up while he and Aethin continue their gameplay through Chapter 4!

If you miss the stream, you can still keep up with Aethin’s work and the translation here, in its Serenes Forest thread.

As a recap: Serenes Forest user Aethin has been hard at work, assembling a fantastic English translation of this Japanese-exclusive title for players to finally enjoy in our English-dominant region. He’s completed about 2/3 of the translation project (66.2% to be precise), and another Serenes Forest user Lord Raven has been working with Aethin as a player of the game to showcase it for the world to enjoy.