A Deep Dive into the new Splatoon website, Splatoon Base! 

can't wait to go into another manhole for splatoon 3 story mode

21:27 Likewise, at least in the English version, Agent 8 doesn't express any hatred to Octavio in his Mem Cake. Heck, they even APOLOGIZE to him for just leaving so unceremoniously.

Mini theory: the thing that gives squids like squid sisters and pearl get a human form sooner is their need to express their individuality?? If it is an instinct to them. Maybe bigger personalities or like. Extra eccentric kids just get theirs sooner

I will now add the phrase "gay little octopus" to my vocabulary.

Pure speculation, but maybe the Octoling eyewear helps make up for the artificial lighting of Octo Canyon - Octoling eyes might be very different from Inkling eyes, and certainly they live under very different lighting conditions

33:50 Fun fact this is also how we have the official English name for a Rhythm Heaven character. The character you control in the game Fruit Basket is named "Courtney"

Who’s ready rassica’s insanity tomorrow for direct premieres

I think Octolings are the original specie, and the Octarians are lesser lifeforms created from severed octoling tentacles. The whole "octopus tentacles would still attempt to feed it's non-existing mouth after being cut-off" thing.

28:45 IT HAS BEEN CONFIRMED!! In the Squid Sisters Stories the Squid Sisters talk about how Annie works in the back rooms in Ammo Knights designing weapons for Sheldon (presumably the Hero Weapons and Sheldon's Picks). ALSO THE SQUID SISTERS THEN SHIP SHELDON AND ANNIE!!!!!!!

Very interesting thing to me is that 3 says that Judd “seems shady” which is the first time something like that has come up. Maybe it’s my confirmation bias (I think Judd will have a part in the story mode) but this really seems like an odd thing to just…put out there,right?

THE PARENTS BEING CANON COULD MEAN THAT THE START OF SPLATOON 3 THAT WE SAW OF NEW AGENT 3 GOING INTO THE TRAIN PROBABLY MEANS SHE JUST LEFT HER HOME AND IS MOVING TO THE SPLATLANDS

I always kind of assumed Inner Agent 3 was the offscreen fight that occurred right before Octo Expansion, but seen through the perspective of an octoling who got knocked out. So like a combination of dreams and memories.

44:41 We actually do know the host of at least one octarian; Octostomp. If you decipher Sunken Scroll 24 in Splatoon 2 from square script, it explains how the Octostomp was made, by cloning a tentacle from Octavio, putting it inside some machinery, and combining it with energy from a zapfish. However, this is a bit dubiously canon, as in that same deciphering, we see the name of Manabu Hiraoka, a developer who is part of the design/art team in both Splatoon and Splatoon 2.

Oh, wow. The vocal effects they added to the Shy-Ho-Shy demo really make it sound like an Enka singer- those really strong grace note/note wobbles in particular. I adore that attention to detail!

Mr. Grizz being confirmed to simply distribute eggs doesn't seem like the most evil thing ever? So I guess whoever made the rocket and is using the eggs as fuel is another recipient rather it being Grizz himself Though he could always just be doing that on the side, and there's definitely more to be revealed about Grizzco so either way Grizzco will play a part. Maybe. Hopefully.

I can't believe Pearlina got confirmed in the Japanese updated relationship chart!

38:59 This does bring some questions, since Tartar mentioned that it watched Inklings evolve. Do you ever wonder why Inkling society essentially became human society, even mimicking human history at points? It could be that Tartar, somehow, influenced Inklings in a way to push them into becoming more human, but grew disgusted at them for reasons. 🤔

ok but like, you're moving to japan?! that's absolutely insane. you've always made bold moves, but this? nobody would've ever saw that coming. good luck with packing btw!

Tartar becoming insane after thousands of years of loneliness reminded me of 343 Guilty Spark from Halo series, he was also a sentient machine/AI who was affected by being all alone during millions of years watching over its Halo ring

Another day, another Rassicas video that gets me excited for Splatoon 3 and its lore.

46:08 I might be one of those hehe. I absolutely love the shifts with random weapon chances and the modified random weapons

random thing i noticed in splatoon, the sticker on front roes album matches a logo on a flag of a building in/just outside inkopolis square. didn’t really know what to do with that info so here it is 🤷‍♂️

For some reason, I never thought it was the goggles that mind controlled the Octarians, I thought it was DJ Octavio's (And maybe Turquoise October, too) music. I.. guess I thought this was the case because it was a _song_ that supposedly freed them from mind control, so I assumed that it must be a song that kept them under his rule, too.

dude you probably know more about this game than anyone else on the planet

30:20 Oh! Oh! I know this! All cnidarians (the phylum that includes Jellyfish, coral, and sea anemones) can reproduce via budding. Budding is where buds form that, when removed from the parent, form into "clones" of the parent. Of course, I don't believe budding can happen in the medusa stage (the stage we most commonly associate with jellyfish).

Super cool to hear about Marina using special backtracks to cancel out the destructive properties of Pearl's voice. That's actually based on real science in how waves (sound/energy) work.

13:20 Noticed an odd thing about the English pronoun translations (at least within 7 hours of this video being premiered) which is easy to miss. For the behind the scenes sections, (eventhough the info is still the exact same for the three of them) while the Splatoon 2 player and the Grizzco employee still have she/her pronouns, SPECIFICALLY AGENT 4 features they/them pronouns! This isn’t the same for the Agent 3 who also still features she/they promouns like the Splatoon 1 Inkling. This means that either someone only thought about the pronouns for Agent 4 and not the others, or they are changing the pronouns but doing it one at a time, very slowly. Also, another small detail about this website is that the individul hyperlinks for the characters are all numbered, and after the first 4 (ordered Agent 3, Splatoon 1 Inkling, Agent 4, Splatoon 2 Player) they are in alphabetical order (with C.Q. Cumber before Callie). All alphabetical EXCEPT for the Grizzco Employee who is number 31 for some reason.

Okay but the fact that Pearlina is cannon makes me so happy.

I was never attached to the mind control theory, and I am personally kinda glad it isn’t canon

"There is no heterosexual explaination for this." has to be the best phrase in existance.

In splatoon that means that the enemy octarians are basically adults

9:26 Good lord some of the character relation lines here are just fucking raw. Lil' Judd to Judd: I've known from birth that I'm just a replica of you. How could you ever understand how I feel?! Judd to Lil' Judd: ?

Glad to finally see your back again. I checked out the website a little while ago and I did notice some translation errors

We can all agree it look hilarious if we get to use a pregnant jelly go to the hospital and it just the doctor saying "com on pull pull harder!" And then pop"congratulations it a jellyfish" also if I remember aren't jellyfish a hive mind so if one jellyfish knew the inkling language wouldn't they all know it

these long videos are always such a treat! also marina confirmed gay yesss

I always get so exited for these they are always such good content!

Cant wait for the direct! Nice countdown!

Octarian Society ngl kinda sounds like Oceania from 1984

Flow being trunk is also referenced in the Splatoon manga by Army

YES I finally have a reason to live again

Mammals coming back is all an excuse so we can finally play as the beta rabbits

You should make a graphic with your on holding their head and screaming in frustration for bits like the conflicting octoling information be agony

squidsona's got new drip!

Hmm that source says lil Judd is a backup, but the sunken scroll says he was created incase Judd woke up and was all alone. That's a strange inconsistency

another banger video !!!! i love these videos so so so much, learning about splatoon lore makes me so happy since I've been a fan of the series since the first game but never had the knowledge to learn about anything that's not in english. thank you for making these!! and keep up the great work !!!

These videos are always so fun and informative! Thank you :)

Another great video, keep up the good work rassicas 👍

I love this content. I am both impressed and scared of how much you know.You are the positive version of "mountain out of a molehill"

Thanks for including the stuff for the cursor!

Thanks for making this, really great info round up!

Thank you for these videos! It's so nice to get a second translation to point out details Nintendo translations changed or missed.

I love the characters of Splatoon. Just an assortment of weird lil fellas

Great video. I really liked the part about the card game about poems. Also, there is a little bit more about Marina's laptop. The writing below the screen on her laptop also translates to 'Octavio'. I don't know what that really means, but I thought it was interesting. I was not aware of that manga! I am amazed that it isn't better known. I managed to find the full fan translated version of it. It seems to have been drawn by Seita Inoue, art director of Splatoon and Splatoon 2. (I am very curious about what the official translation is like! I might have to see if I can get a copy of volume 10)

I wonder if, in a literal sense, the 7 rings the salmonids saw were the burning thrusters of a space shuttle launch...

Another wonderful video to watch while chowing down!

Rassicas you are amazing And I really hope you continue to do your amazing translation work on Splatoon 3 if there are any translation issues, I absolutely love knowing what everyone and everyones intentions were in the original writing, Overall, I love your work, Keep it up!!

Can't wait for this it's been forever

So excited for when rassicas makes a video about the new trailer

imagine when octolings get haircuts they accidentally just leave a bunch of octarians lying around

SPLATOON 3 DIRECT TOMORROW

Didn't even think about it, but Octopus in real life usually host independent nervous systems in their tentacles to increases dexterability and making it easier to move around. They will also continue moving a while after separation from the main body, in order to make escapes easier. This is probably what influenced Octarians being severed tentacles, as you can easily imagine an octopus tentacle being it's own individual.

OH YES I've been waiting for this video

If a new rassicas video is out after 3 months then im watching it

Yep. Mr Grizz was totally NOT hoarding all the eggs to escape his underground prison and reestablish mammalian society

How did I just realize that Tartar is basically GLAdOS…?

Adding this to the lore playlist

you're so underrated, i love how eloquent and in-depth this is.

44:00 This actually makes a little sense science wise. Octopi have nine brains one main one and one for each tenticle. A tenticle getting severed and becoming its own being while not possible also isn't entirely based in fiction.

0:35 love when Rassicas is like “woah multibillion dollar company Nintendo, you are wrong about your own IP’s lore, lemme just fix that for you Come on, Nintendo! Just hire Rassicas to head English localization already!

Sick! Gnarly! Radical! Bodacious! Totally Tubular! Epic Gamer Moment! We Got Ourselves An Awesome Person Over Here!

this made me realize i really want to see more lore about octarians

YESSS!! I have been BINGING Rassicas videos leading up to splatoon three haha!! The hype is real!!!

Hey, Rassicas, when Splatoon 3 comes out do you plan on making a video talking about the significance behind the Emberz clothing brand and its Japanese name? And how that relates to the Salmonids?

and now with a recent interview style article with deep cut, we KNOW not all octolings lived underground since the turf war. shiver being in game with her past paints a completely different light to that claim and it's probably JUST octavio's troops that went into exile. Hence the need for propaganda to plan revenge. For clarification: the interview stated shiver frye and big man KNEW each other since childhood as they are members of the families who took charge in organizing the festivals in splatsville. They got close in middle school and later formed their band BUT they knew each other since their birth basically. This makes it impossible for shiver to have lived underground, otherwise they would have NOT known each other until spaltoon 2 octo expansion. this further cements anti inkling "info" in the sunken scrolls as mere propaganda but also reveals that not the entirety of octo-kind went underground. IN fact the great turf war seems to have been a VERY local war only. I suspect it called the "great" turf war as it may have been the ONLY large scale turf war EVER in inkling history. In comparison the "GREAT WAR" in human history is the name of the first world war that lasted 30 years ( less then the hundred year war) AND was global. I think it's safe to say that the great turf wars was the only "real" war in this cephalopod future. Further note to bring up is the character creation for agent 8. There is NO real Explanation WHY it happening in a VAT. I further suspect that agent 8 and and perhaps most underground octolings are engineered rather than born. (it would explain only female octolings as enemies)( I am aware of the octarians turning into octolings and octarians being hair cuts, but that does not leave out the engineering) It even shines further light on the "rising tides" reason for the war as outside the great turf war and one event outside of splatsville there are no further mentions of constant floods. Looking at the official map of splatoon, we see the great turf war regions being close to salmonid spawning grounds. A rising tide may have been involved but it was not a global issue or one that continues to plague the splatoon world outside of salmonids related stuff. One can easily claim that octavio's quest for revenge against inklings is entirely an ego thing and was rather small scale if not pathetically small compared to just japan's own "waring states" history.

Never thought about the fact that inklings/octos might not have full human life spans of 70 years average maybe when they reach 14 it’s like their young adulthood. food for thought

Some squids develop early. Maybe some could even develop late. What if we could play as squishy little squids and octos

Your videos always give me good lore to feed on. And I look forward to your splatoon 3 lore.

As someone who saw your blog post on it I'm actually really happy you talked here about the debunking of the octoling mind-controlling eyewear assumption! However I was really excited to see you analyze the difference in the two relationship charts of Murch & Craymond's connection, but you didn't!! 😅 Like please what does Craymond mean, "I REGRET EVERYTHING" I really wanna know

23:34 "there's no heterosexual explanation for this" is now going into my quote vocabulary

Hoping that 3 is actually open world 🤞🤞

26:48 So basically Judd = Mr. Krabs Lil’ Judd = Plankton

Watched this video with my Marie plushie, good show

There is a canon Splatoon card game, so I assume that's what the website was talking about at 30:32.

Heya! New viewer here! I know the video is a bit on the older side but I just wanted to say that your sona looks so awesome! I’ll probablby draw my own in the near futur when I got the time!

RU-vidr definitely knew what they were doing when they picked the music for talking about bearl and marimba

I just wanted to say, I've never even played these games but I love your content and you make me wanna play the games

"hey flow is actually pretty likable now knowing shes a complete drunk" "oh nevermind shes a drunk groomer"

Going off visuals, I think it's heavily implied that the tentacle octarians are cut/cloned from Octavio himself. Sunken Sea Scroll 24 in S2 shows an octoling with an X cut in a machine creating the octarian weapons/tentacles with the same X cut. Because of the way it is framed I don't think the cutting/cloning is anything beyond a military project to create as many bodies for an army as possible. (Externally the idea of the cut tentacles probably arose from the theory that octopus arms are somewhat independent from the main body)

That means Inklings and Octolings live in peace and they battle in turf war for fun

I'm personally still gonna have the hypnotized octolings as headcannon (at least until its directly stated otherwise). it makes the story mode final boss feel a bit cooler, like were not just saving the zapfish, but the octolings as well. also it makes Octavio even more of a twisted villan. however I don't think the OCTARAINS (the Lil tentacle dudes) are mind controlled. to me it seems like they're solely loyal to octavio, either due to a simpler mind, a sense of loyalty to the one who's tentacle they came from, whatever.

About 44:17 From the Octo Expansion itself, the character creation screen being a green vat where we literally create Agent 8, old enough to have a full humanoid form already upon creation INSTEAD of us seeing their baby Octo form then grow up into what we choose or something similar and UNLIKE when you simply choose your Inkling’s features without any implication of creating them from scratch (and both Agent 3 and 4 have the background stories of where they are from and their parents, unlike Agent 8 having nothing of the sort explained, only that they were a soldier and supposedly amnesiac of any memories prior to war) is already a HUGE implication that made me immediately assume Octolings were all clones unlike Inklings. Plus their whole species is about war and it gives me big Halo/Star Wars cloning soldiers vibes tbh but I digress. Add onto this that all the enemy Octolings look identical, and the only Octolings we see that are NOT identical to at least one other are the ones we see mingling in Inkling society which heavily encourages individualising their looks and identities. Also I haven’t found any cycle of life art for Octolings, only for the Inklings which shows us the stages of maturity. We never canonically see a baby Octoling or Octarian that I am aware of. You can make Agent 8 out of their own template with fewer choices than Inklings, and there is diversity in skin tone. This implies to me that perhaps there are several main “donors” of tentacles, or perhaps Octolings and Octarians are “bred” from those that have died or otherwise choose to donate tentacles if the original Octolings that cloned them passed long ago. Jellyfish canonically breed this way in Splatoon, and maybe the variations in Octolings could even be explained through mutations in the genes during the cloning process, either intentional in an effort to mix it up and make them stronger, or accidental at some point in the growth phase. Who knows! Octolings have similar instincts to Inklings in regards to individuality, it’s just their society discourages that due to war, propaganda, and lack of resources comparitive to what’s on the surface. So perhaps the variation during the cloning process is intentional. All signs point, in my opinion and interpretation of the materials we have, that Octolings AND other Octarians are both cloned species. There’s likely a difference in their cloning process that leads Octolings to be able to have a humanoid form for tactical advantage of diversity in combat is all.

11:00 I think that this may be referencing the inking being a playable character in Smash Bros. Ultimate.

Small speculation the "seven rings" mentioned in the sunken scroll, looking at their very geometric arrangement in the illustration, and the fact they are described as having smoke coming out of them, what if they actually represented the exhaust of rocket engines? We know that spacecrafts and technology appear more than once so those things actually exist. I'm pretty sure I have seen designs with exhausts grouped like that.

Murch fr went from a five year old elementary student to a 20 year old college student

i love your deep dives!

iirc Annie working with Sheldon was mentioned in the Squid Sister stories

great video!

BABE WAKE UP!! NEW RASSICAS VID

I would what to see the wildlife of the world of Splatoon

My fav Part of this vid is the 'there is no heterosexual explanation'