For the Shadow of the Colossus story, we interviewed 14 people including project leads Fumito Ueda and Kenji Kaido, hired Gravity Rush concept artist Takeshi Oga to illustrate the cover, and put together a 10,000-word story with help from @milkman.bsky.social @shmuplations.bsky.social and others.

Interesting to note that GnG's director, Tokuro Fujiwara, has said that he came up with Red Arremer before Arthur when conceptualizing the series:

shmuplations.com/makaimura/

So it would make sense to return to Firebrand, in a "full circle" kind of way!

thanks! it was my favorite passage as well. iirc tsukamoto has made other statements over the years about his conflicted relationship with Tokyo

As an aside, this one was voted for by the Legaia community, which mobilized people to join the patreon for that purpose. A good, albeit slower alternative to expensive private commissions!