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After like two solid weeks of non-stop editing, it’s finally out: the next Project Moon video! Set in a branch office of the original Lobotomy Corporation, this comic follows three workers as they try to survive in the harsh realities of the company. Will they survive the constant dangers, or will they perish like so many other employees?
I tried a LOT of experimental stuff in this video. From covering a comic as opposed to a game, to having a voiced scene (thanks friend, you know who you are), to injecting some of my own small bits of writing at the start and the end, this video is kind of a hodgepodge of concepts and work from me. Please, give me some feedback on what you think worked well, and what I need to work on more in the future.
In terms of video stuff, I’m trying to get two videos out a month from now on, this being the first. The next one will be an Arknights double feature comparing and contrasting Twilight of Wolumonde and Mansfield Break. Hopefully, it’s nowhere near as long as this monster of a video was, I’m so incredibly tired after doing nothing but working on this during my off days. Please do all the usual youtube stuff, like, comment, sub, yadda yadda to get this out there. Also, Library Brief Summary next month, I swearsies.
Timestamps:
0:00 – Intro
0:53 – Down the Rabbit Hole
1:30 – Welcome Back
2:45 – Meet Catt
3:01 – Exposition
6:14 – Boneless Wizard of Oz
7:22 – Smoking Caterpillar
8:59 – Catt’s Backstory
10:20 – Critical Gushing
11:40 – Servant of Wrath
13:58 – Actual Critique
14:45 – Titania and No One Is
16:09 – Drowned Sisters
17:04 – Blue Smocked Shepherd and Reddened Buddy
17:53 – More Gushing
18:50 – Piscine Mermaid
20:40 – Staining Rose
22:33 – Critique that might get me punched on the internet
24:28 – THE LIGHT
24:56 – THE DARK
25:29 – Catt’s D̶̹͈̤̈́̐̈́̈́̓̿̄̈́̕̕ĭ̵̢̨̻̗̯̗̤͍͎̘͜͜͝s̶̳̞̟̣͆͘͠t̴̢̛̤̯͉̥̩̃̆̉̃̄̐́͛̚o̴̧̟̫͎͎̥̹̖͖͒̂̂̀̈́̓̓̕͜͜͠ŗ̶̯̜̻͍̲̗͎͕̈̐̓͌̆͌͛̎͋̐͘ͅt̸̢̡̢̟̦̫̦͓̯͚͙͂̐̇̇̆̆̐͒̀̕͘͜i̴͙̳͖̝̬͇͍̹̙̣̱͑̒͛̋̈̆̆̄̾͒̕͝o̷̦̲͉̼͍̲̱͚͂̊̈̈̓͋̕͠ņ̴̧̣͕͚̣̘̱͍͈̳͂͗̃̊̓́̊͐̏̿͑͗
26:33 – Party Everlasting
28:27 – EGO
29:36 – Aftermath
30:28 – Final Critique
34:07 – Through the Looking Glass
34:37 – Outro
35:29 – Bloopers
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Talking about symbolism, Taii ends up wearing the pale rose and tainting it blue, transforming himself into a Blue Prince wearing a Blue Rose "representing an unreachable, unattainable and unrequited love."
Wow! It's incredible to see both a Lobotomy Corporation review drop recently in the year of 2023, and now I get to see your video talking about Wonderlab too. I'm glad you enjoyed Wonderlab so much and it really makes the hours I spent editing and typesetting the English version feel worth it. Thank you very much for making a video like this, and I hope you enjoy the rest of Library of Ruina and eventually Limbus Company!
P.S. As a bonus, I did hoof up a video about a year ago showing off a little bit of the work process for producing the English version, if you happen to be interested in that: https://youtu.be/RX-DHuwT_g8.
Don't know why it took me so long to realize this whole series is just coming to terms with South Korea's nightmarish work culture. So, capitalism. Well, "just" sounds demeaning, but understanding where somebody is coming from is as important as the text itself. Like how knowing the psychology of middle-class precarious anxiety explains why Americans have loved zombie stuff, love zombie stuff, and likely will always love it as long as things stand as they are. This video is an absolutely beautiful work of transformative art of its own.
Not sure if anyone has said this before, but I am pretty sure Titania and Nobody Is will come back in Limbus
It fits too perfectly
They got trapped inside the rubble of a LC Branch
Which is exactly the places we will be visiting in Limbus
Though I dont think they will be an abno like the others, taking into account they are 2 abnormalities essentially working together or fusing
I think they might be more of an actual character, a more unique encounter even among abnormalities
Similar to how in Library you have both Abnos and guests that are Bosses
Man i gotta reread Wonderlab bc so much of these themes went over my head the first time i read it
I don't think that the angela clone is weird, in LC, angela only talk about how to run the company and evaluates your competence for the first 20 day, it would make sense that these first 20 would be used to evaluate every branch office manager
Loved Wonderlab, 9/10 overall. Only missing 1 point is the fact that it actually does end. I liked Leviathan (Limbus Company's Tie-In) but I stopped reading it because I preferred the manga over the light novel version of it. Good summary video overall. 👍
I'm so happy to see so many nice videos about project moon's universe as of lately, it's really cool to see that the games and stories are getting the recognition they deserve !
Found your channel through this video, Another PM channel to follow as a represintitive of our cult.
Great Work!!
Kind of hope that we get a leviathan video in February after the library of ruina video because of how close the release of lambus company is getting.
Edit note: What surprised me upon reading the entire webcomic was that one of the regular unnamed employees survived all the way to the White Nights and Dark Days event and it's making me hope that there's at least a partial reference to that in future Project Moon material because they look like the type to be employee of the month.
What was the theme that plays on THE DARK & DISTORTION again? Pretty please?
32:00 wait does the working employee gain the EGO gift from working and then attacks themselves? Or does need someone else with the gift to attack the working employee? if so that means if no one has the gift nothing happens.
I love this comic so much it break my heart that most lobotomy corporation and ruina player dont know about it , when i first got informe about it ,it was the little vidéo voice over of when rose open the door and get infront of à way home and the cat .i looked evriwhere to finaly find where the comic was . Thank you for making this video its great
Assuming that it didn't move, due to the ending of Library of Ruina, it might be a high level area for Limbus Company, along with a branch with an aberration stronger than the original abnormality.
One neat little detail is that the colour of the necktie on the E.G.O suit corresponds to the damage type of the same abno's E.G.O weapon, so looking at the disciplinary team's ties tells us that: Rose's E.G.O from White Lake deals red damage, Tai's E.G.O from My Sweet Home deals white damage, Katt uses the E.G.O weapon of Bottle Of Tears however both of their E.G.O suits have black ties also, Finn's E.G.O (possibly from a Forsaken Murderer aberration judging from the black straps and the shape of the axe E.G.O weapon being similar to Forsaken Murderer's hammer E.G.O weapon) deals red damage and Ella's E.G.O has a teal tie meaning it deals pale damage.
Also you can tell most of the cast's E.G.O origins from their designs, Purin has Red Queen's E.G.O gear, Dal has the Drowned Sisters E.G.O gear, Rza has Scaredy Cat's E.G.O, Toma has Penitent Girl's E.G.O gear, Joe has Blue Smocked Shepard's E.G.O gear, Beebi's E.G.O gear comes from an aberration of Queen Bee, Daisy has Pygmalion's E.G.O, Suho's E.G.O seems to be from an aberration of Little Prince and Shasha's E.G.O comes from Reddened Buddy, the only ones we don't know the origins of are Ella's E.G.O gear and Kookie's E.G.O gear.
Look I’ve already gone off the pm deep end nothing can hurt me: limbus company lore has entered the chat
Great job on the video! I’m not sure if anyone else has mentioned it yet but I loved how you used some of music from different Alice in wonderland games in the analysis (from the wonderland world in Kingdom Hearts to American McGee’s Alice) it was a nice touch
I love the party everlasting. I much prefer these sorts of distortions to the humanoid ones
A brief summery… 30 minutes long
22:59 Ayin does a little bit of trolling.
I laughed when Rose even hinted her dream of improving this morally bankrupt slice of the world.
Bro watching that voiced scene was so out of nowhere and i enjoyed it so much now i wish there was somoene who would fully dub wonderlab but i must ask what was the music playing during that segment?
You don't beat the claws.
The- (insert serum W)
It was amazing! Project Moon's games are a bit too difficult for me to play, hehe (I've completed roughly the half of Lobotomy Corp), but I love hearing everything about them, the lore is so fascinating! Thank you thank you, your style of making videos is great, they're funny, informative and easy to follow 😀 I actually like that you include both factual information and your opinions, it's a perfect balance imo!
loved the video!
do you think Taii would be a Color in the future? Like "Blue Rose" or something like that?
ive been getting more analysis videos on project moon in my home page and honestly im really happy about it. thank you man
It's worth mentioning that the KR word for 'Distortion' literally translates into 'Twist'. It gives Taii saying 'To Unravel what is Twisted' a double meaning~
I would like to take this moment to remind all that
Lowell got his wife back
But guess who didnt ☠☠☠☠
Would love to hear more about the part you mentioned about weird world disconnects between this and LoR since I was also playing that while reading and noticed a lot of the same things. Though a lot of it for me was minor and visual like the too nice and normal looking way the city is depicted or Rose being able to just look into the outskirts from her balcony.
Great video though, can't wait for the Ruina one even though that sounds like an undertaking
Jump into the rabbit hole?
I see what you did there
A very good video!
Though I don't quite agree with the point regarding the staining rose. I could absolutely see something like this as an abnormality in Lobotomy corp, in fact, when its nature was revealed, I initially thought it was an extreme aberration of We can change anything, as it follows exactly those mechanics, sacrificing an employee for energy, the only differences being, that the process of sacrifice happens over several days rather than at once and that the abnormality can't simply be ignored.
That being said, I do understand why one would think otherwise, Rose being killed by an abnormality in the shape of a rose….it's not very subtle.
I finally found a video going over this, search engines do nothing to help so it’s nice seeing someone make a nice comprehensive take on it
Neat spoiler notes for people not wanting to finish Library of Ruina:
1. Taii is the second, maybe third person (After Angela and Geb) to awaken their ego. What confuses me is that in LOR, Angela specifically says that only people who are “selfish “ can manifest ego, with doesn’t seem like Taii sooooo
2. What Catt turns into at the end of wonder lab is a distortion, basically when a really emotionally heavy person gets to emotional, they distort and basically become a human abnormality. Catt is the first case of distortion that occurs, however no one really figures it out because she’s suppressed so fast.
3. The voice that Catt hears right before distorting is actually Carmen, who for some reason stopped being so angelic and nice and causes pretty much all of the distortions that we know of.
4. The terrible disaster that I occurs when all 4 magical girls break out is the jester of nihil, a boss in LOR. The jester of nihil, and by extent the magical girls, are actually based off a suite of playing cards.
Finally the summarized video of LoB Wonderlab. I really love the series of Project Moon Universe, and I hope people get into this rabbit hole more.