Chrono Compendium
Zenan Plains - Site Discussion => Chrono Compendium Discussion => Topic started by: maggiekarp on January 16, 2012, 11:53:53 pm
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Hey, I was bored and decided to read the Japanese Wikipedia page for Chrono Trigger run through my browser's translator, and they list the ages, heights, weights, etc. for Crono and a few other characters in Trigger. I don't know where the information came from specifically, though, but should we consider adding this to the Encyclopedia?
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Ooooh! I bet that'd be an interesting read. I guess I need to check it out.
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Huh, there is such information? Interesting...
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Those details are supposedly from V-Jump, at least according to 2ch Chrono Trigger Threads. It seems strange though that these ages don't seem to have been stated elsewhere, not even in the Chrono Trigger Ultimania. I'm hesitant about including the information until we know just what V-Jump issue/resource it's from.
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If this is true, then that means that Lucca is 19 compared to Crono and Marle's 17 and 16. Pretty cool. Meanwhile, Glenn is 40 years old! Which, of course, means...
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OLD MAN MAGUS
(http://img3.imageshack.us/img3/1032/oldmanmagus.png)
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On one hand I think it's really cool to have a hardened soldier character in a JRPG not be a teenager
on the other they also list Magus's height as like 5'9"
JRPG characters you SHORT
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Dude, I know, right?
Serge was effing 5'7'' and 128 pounds at 17.
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The metric system changed as Gardia fell.
:P
Edit*
178cm 58kg
Well I see he's still a bit taller than me, but obviously too light (considering I'm around 75kg).
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On one hand I think it's really cool to have a hardened soldier character in a JRPG not be a teenager
on the other they also list Magus's height as like 5'9"
JRPG characters you SHORT
Magus' height is no less than 6" in my opinion.
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Yeah, but us Westerners are also quite taller (on average) than our Asian counterparts. :P
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But Magus is from magic sky island.
Everyone knows they play basketball like whoa.
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The hovering adds a few inches to their height.
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I decided to look to look at the CT OAV Manga “Next Gate” pages since Angerona uploaded some more pages recently. It looks like they're the original source of the character ages/heights/weights. One source of them, at least.
So far, I've found these characters' info:
- Frog: Next Gate 15
- Ayla: Next Gate 16
- Magus: Next Gate 18
The remaining ones are probably in the magazines yet-to-be-scanned.
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It's been good to see around again, Vehek.
What do they mean by "Next Gate ..."?
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Magus was 5'9"?! That means Red could cosplay as him and be the right height! Too bad he's an adorable, freckle-faced kid with a kitty-cat nose...he wouldn't look the part even a little.
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I decided to look at the CT OAV Manga “Next Gate” pages since Angerona uploaded some more pages recently. It looks like they're the original source of the character ages/heights/weights. One source of them, at least.
So far, I've found these characters' info:
- Frog: Next Gate 15
- Ayla: Next Gate 16
- Magus: Next Gate 18
The remaining ones are probably in the magazines yet-to-be-scanned.
Robo’s info is there as well:
http://www.chronocompendium.com/Term/File:IMG_4609.jpg.html
Next Gate 17
175 cm tall and a weight of 189 kilos.
My bet is the August 1996 magazine should include further info about one of the main girls (Probably Lucca). Unfortunately the other issue from the same year I got is previous to the characters’ profiles release, but let’s hope it will include something interesting =S…
It's been good to see around again, Vehek.
What do they mean by "Next Gate ..."?
They are articles that were published parallel to the Chrono Trigger manga release on the pages of the V-Jump magazine from 1995 to 1997. They provide some extra information about CT that wasn’t published anywhere else as far as I know (Sometimes with interesting data, others not so much).
You can find here the issues that have been acquired and scanned here:
http://www.chronocompendium.com/Term/Chrono_Trigger_OAV_Manga.html
In my opinion this one is particularly interesting, since includes some black and white image that were created by the production staff during the game’s development (Including Ayla and Kino taking care of a bunch of kids).
http://www.chronocompendium.com/Term/File:Next_gate_last_145dpi.jpg.html
Here is a sketch of the Tyrano Lair drawn before the pixel graphics were created.
http://www.chronocompendium.com/images/wiki/3/31/March_96_191_150.jpg
However, lots of info seem to be related to the main characters of the manga (Nuu and Mamo), so I don’t think it will be very relevant (But unfortunately I’m not enough proficient in Japanese to say it for sure =S…)
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If this is true, then that means that Lucca is 19 compared to Crono and Marle's 17 and 16. Pretty cool. Meanwhile, Glenn is 40 years old! Which, of course, means...
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OLD MAN MAGUS
(http://img3.imageshack.us/img3/1032/oldmanmagus.png)
Come on! :) Being fair, we old people need to have some fictional characters our age too! :wink: (Most JRPG characters are created thinking of teenagers or people in their early 20’s maximum (And, personally speaking, 40 years old still gives me a good range…), and 40 years old men can be quite appealing 8)))...