Schloss Eberbach

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By: Margaret Price

Posted: June 25, 2008

Notes: The Author has been kind enough to give us Eroica and the Major's birthdays, astrological signs, and even blood type. My son is learning the Japanese massage discipline of Shiatsu, which has roots in accupressure and utilizes the 5 elements.

What Is Five Element Theory?
Five Element Theory helps you understand how natural changes within your body and outside environment affect your health. To predict and understand these dynamic changes, ancient doctors studied nature to determine what universal principles existed that could be applied to health and well-being. Five Element Theory is what they came up with.

The five elements are wood, fire, earth, metal and water. They were selected based on the observations of ancient oriental philosophers who theorized that the natural world embodied these elemental characteristics. Oriental Medicine uses this time-tested, diagnostic model to analyze how the various parts of a person's body and mind interact to affect health.

When Jim started to tell me about the particulars of each, I naturally had to ask about the Major and Dorian. We were both rather stunned by the answers.

( The Major is Wood )

( Dorian is Fire )

Want to know what you are? The Five Element Personality Test

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Illustrations by: Yasuko Aoike

By: Margaret Price

Posted: June 7, 2008

Notes: The Major is introduced in "Iron Klaus" where he states unequivicably that Eroica is his enemy and he wouldn't give him so much as a burnt matchstick. Ten years later, in "Emperor Waltz" the Major publicly admits to being "a friend" of the Earl's.

( A couple of panels from Iron Klaus and Emperor Waltz behind cut to spare your browser. )

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By: Norwayblue_eyes

Posted: April 12, 2008

Who the hell made this lovely movie ?!

This is from a Japanese movie website "NIKO NIKO DOUGA DOU"(Japanese only), one of the variations of topic movie "calamelldansen" in Japan.
Unfortunately you need to log in to view it. So I created screen shots.

The story seems like this;
A swedish pop song by "caramell" was remixed for an opening of a PC game last year, and it's posted to YouTube so then became well-known in Japan.
This year, someone created dancing movies using actual anime characters in handwriting-touch style with the same music and posted to the Japanese movie site  and it's broked.
There's even Eroica version!!! Thank you!
The movie is just for 25sec.
( ... Does anyone know more about "caramell" or "caramelldansen"? )

Big screenshots and youtube movies » 




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Hello, guys!

I would like to share the scans that may interest Eroica fans; sketches of the Major and Dorian with the author's commentaries.

The book the skcetches taken from is published long ago (in 1982) with color artworks, a whole story "Trafalger" and some of Aoike's sketchs.

There are big scans in the liked pages.
(these posts are under schlosseberbach-memeber locked)

1/3: The arcanum of the Major's body
2/3: The Major on a payday and Dorian with shorter hair
3/3: Tryian and period bad guys

I hope you enjoy it !

EDIT:sinse it doesn't work... I changed the access permission.  I'm sorry for the inconvenience.

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By: jade_glow

Posted: February 20, 2008

Notes: It's just a question to see what people think, but: when do you think that Eroica and the Major fell in love?

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By: Margaret Price

Posted:

Notes:Look there! It's Fabulousman! Appearing on the window ledge, cape swirling in the wind, glaring down at... Hang on, that's not Fabulousman. That's...

( I do believe that's MY painting, thank you. )

By: Caithion

Posted: November 4, 2007

Notes: I feel bad for posting so much non-Eroica stuff lately. So here's a couple of scans from the making-of book that Aoike published a couple of years ago. (Oh my god, has it been so long? Moselle Green, I promise, I will get back to translating.)

( storyboards.... )

By: Margaret Price

Posted: September 6, 2007

Notes: I had to research British titles for my other fandom long before I discovered Eroica. This might be why I am surprised by the fact that many fans seem to think that Dorian's last name is Red rather than Gloria. I think the misunderstanding comes from the fact that his title may very well have been given the wrong way by Aoike-san. OR has been mistranslated.

There is nothing in canon to indicate that Dorian possesses an Earldom - the county from which the title Count comes from. This would make him the Earl Gloria having his title from his surname, rather than the Earl OF Gloria, having his title from a place, this being the county.

LIFTED FROM WIKI

British Isles
Forms of address
An Earl has the title Earl of X when the title originates from a placename, or Earl X when the title comes from a surname. In either case, the Earl is referred to as Lord X, and his wife as Lady X. Countesses who hold earldoms in their own right also use Lady X, but their husbands do not receive any titles.

The eldest son of an Earl generally takes the highest of his father's lesser titles as a courtesy title; younger sons are styled The Honourable [Forename][Surname], and daughters The Lady[Forename][Surname] (Lady Diana Spencer being a well-known example).(The latter being Dorian.)

Also, neither Dorian's nor the Major's homes have names in canon. Castle Gloria and Schloss Eberbach are fan creations. (Hat tip to Lisa, Eroicafans.org's webmaster for this bit of trivia.)

By: katatsumuli

Posted: March 19, 2007

Notes: Hello again, as I temporarily delurk. I love avatar makers. I will play with all of them for hours, usually trying a few of my favorite characters as tests to how well it can replicate them. So far, Tektek.org (which makes Gaia Online sprites) has been pretty good - they have an extensive amount of clothing but little facial and weapon variety, and no backgrounds. They have perfect hair for Klaus and for Dorian, which gives them bonus points.
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Illustrations by: Yasuko Aoike

By: Margaret Price

Posted: February 21, 2007

Notes: My scanner is on its last legs, but I still managed to get some of the promised scans of BakerMan!Klaus from Book 31. Don't ask me what's going on, I haven't a clue.

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Illustrations by: Yasuka Aoike

By: purplenemesis

Posted: February 19, 2007

*Maintainer's Note* The original post was long and is now split between castlegloria and schlosseberbach

Notes: Hi, I hope everyone's having a nice weekend. I come bearing a few fanart, a few pictures and a few questions.

I was also incredibly, incredibly totally BEYOND lucky to find this used Japanese book store AND to find a copy of the blue Aoike Yasuko profiles book AND a copy of the first 'Z' book and depsite being an only child, I DO like to share so here are some pictures I haven't seen before on the internet so I assume it's new? Kinda..

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By: Mullenkamp

Posted: August 17, 2006

Notes: A strange random thought I had the other day, and just remembered to post now - more (completely ridiculous) fodder for the argument that Klaus is likely to be a bottom/uke.

In Japanese video games, especially RPGs, it has been well-established that with the majority of characters who have a parent die (assuming both parents aren't dead), a female character's surviving parent will be the father, and the male character's surviving parent will be the mother. We don't know why this is. It's just a trend that has for some reason shown up in video games over and over. There are some exceptions, of course.

This lines up with Dorian just fine. Since he's the Earl of Gloria, we can assume his father's now dead. If he still has a living parent (hard to tell what became of his mother), it would be his mother. That's normal for a male character.

...However, Klaus' surviving parent is his father. Meaning that according to a well-established tradition in another form of Japanese media... Klaus should be a girl. :D

By: Margaret Price

Posted: June 28, 2006

Notes: I've seen this a few times before, then it struck me how it applies to the boys.

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Truth realized by Dorian...

I've learned that you cannot make someone love you.

All you can do is stalk them and hope they panic and give in.

Illustrations by: Yasuko Aoike

By: Margaret Price
Posted: May 18, 2006

Notes: A continuation on mullenkamp's question about what language Dorian and Klaus converse in. This is the scan I mentioned in the post. I'll have to go back to see which book it's from.

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Illustrations by: Yasuko Aoike

By: Ish a.k.a. jinsai

Posted: November 04, 2005

Notes: Well, not scans really but pictures taken with my digital camera and then edited. I thought people might like a peek at the latest volume. I've blanked out the text for those who want to see the pictures but who don't want story spoilers (well, more than the pictures will give). Please enjoy them and if you feel like nabbing any for any reason, I would welcome you to do so.

Warning: Image heavy.

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By: Margaret Price

Posted: October 22, 2005

Notes: Okay, I want to this lame seminar the other day and we had to take something called a S-E-L-F test. It's a profile test for interpersonal interactions. You see where you are on this graph and figure out were others fit into it. It is supposed to help you in dealing with those you supervised and those who supervise you. This is the 3rd time I've taken this test, so I already knew my results. It's more fun to figure out where others fit.


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