Thread: Yanimebi!

Yanimebi: A small volcanic island in the Korea Strait, a tiny bit nearer the Japanese island of Hirado than the Korean island of Jeju-do.

The length of Yanimebi itself, from west-southwest to east-northeast, is 16,6 km. The island is dominated by the volcano Mebi-san (1098 m, dormant since 1772). In the western end of Yanimebi is Urashima Bay, an excellent natural harbor. And in the bottom of the bay lies a lively cosmopolitan community, Port Urashima.

This geographical entity is being created for use in roleplaying campaigns, fics, and other things produced by or related to AnimeB.

The roots of this project can be found in the four posts linked below:

http://www.animeb.com/forum/240582-post125.html
http://www.animeb.com/forum/263353-post149.html
http://www.animeb.com/forum/408203-post32.html
http://www.animeb.com/forum/408612-post13.html

My thanks to Tyroki, BobCat, Okazaki Tomoya, Pzycho Leech, Sakurazaki and Hinarei for their various contributions.

Inspiring factors for Yanimebi and Port Urashima include:

* the AnimeB community, including the discussion board, the Shoutbox, the wiki, the IRC channel, and some echoes elsewhere on the web
* some works by Hergé, most notably "The Blue Lotus" (1934 - 35/1936/1946)
* some works by Hugo Pratt, most notably "Corto Maltese in Siberia" (1974 - 75)
* some works by Ken Akamatsu, most notably "Love Hina" and "Negima! Magister Negi Magi"
* a 1953 Uncle Scrooge story by Carl Barks, known in various sources as "Hawaiian Hideaway", "The Menehune Mystery" and "Uncle Scrooge's Private Island"
* "Four Branches of the Mabinogi", Welsh mythology from between 1060 and 1200 (fan works referring to the Korean MMORPG "Mabinogi", 2004, reminded me of its existence)
* the Shanghai International Settlement, China (1854 - 1943)
* the Concessions in Tianjin, China (1860 - 1947)
* Bristol Island, in South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, the British overseas territories (much of the geography of Yanimebi is based on very free interpretations of two satellite images of Bristol Island)
* some maps of western Greenland
* Budapest, Hungary

Here are links to my current versions of:

A map of the Yanimebi island
A street map of the Port Urashima downtown

Woah. You got it all planned out.

It looks good. I loled at the small section in the corner labled "The empire"

There are alot of mountains. i thought AnimeB had alot of cliffs?

Oh well. Keep up the good work.

There's only one so far noted to my knowledge, Neji, and there's plenty of high spots on the coastline that could be the fabled Cliff

Empire's got it's little corner where most of the waste from Port Urashima goes, yep

Who's first to reach the top of Mebi-san? Race you!

"The Cliff" obviously refers to the steep rocky south shore of Urashima Bay.

Once the wiki tells me more details about the Cliffs than, "there are six of them," I might be able to point out the remaining five among the slopes shown on the map.

Alright, I now notice it seems like some alternate form of Oahu. I'd like to talk to you personally on the base for AIVAS (442nd Joint Fighter Wing), I'll get back to you.

Well, I did not use any maps of Hawaii as reference material. I guess most volcanic islands resemble each other to a certain degree.

...Hmm, come to think of it, I guess a Hawaiian-type setting from an old Disney comic has subconsciously affected me. I should add it to the list. (EDIT: Added said comic, by Carl Barks, on 11th Jan 2010.)

I just realized this, but where is the Misaki fortress?

Describe it or give a link to the best existing description, and I will decide how and where it should be represented on the map.

After all, I have been doing this with our strike witch unit in mind, not concentrating enough on the AnimeB lore.

Originally Posted by The Emperor

Who gave you permission to mention MY empire!?

Oh suck it up FailB

OH NO!

I forgot to ask permission to mention Japan from the Japanese government!

Wow, I can actually choose the place where I want to live! It'd be nice to design my house as well.

I want in :O!!

Oh, both Chao and the (male) hedgehog!

So, what would you like to do? Please tell more.

Originally Posted by ´Silæs

I want in :O!!

to Chao's house? Well, you'll just have to wait for your invite, then, won't you?

We have no reference to the Misaki fortress anywhere on the boards, so it must've been another Box or IRC myth All I've ever heard about are potential blueprints for a structure. No site has ever been mooted.

Can I live in a hut made out of cakes?

No - and yes!

Dear Tox, the spirit of the Yanimebi project is a tiny bit more realistic than that. However, a mad architect planning life-size gingerbread houses and cake huts that look as if they had been made of real pastries would be completely in place on this island.

I know one littul girl who would be crazy enough to have something like that built, too.

coming back to this after what seems like too long away (because I want a trpocial holiday after all this snow? )...

we've got a mountainous little island there, haven't we? Mebi-san obviously outranks the majority of mounts, but the way I've thought of it was that any projection of 300m or more was classed as 'mountain'.

Several thoughts have drifted through my head regarding the names of these elevations. "Mount Kaolla", for example/to pick a name at random, sounds more like an order than a name

I think much of the place we have sketched out needs claiming, but wouldn't want people to be constricted by boundaries.

Mount Kaolla would be a fairly recently renamed mountain.

The original names here, like Mebi, come from a long-lost native language. Some of them were first adopted by Koreans, but all of them are now known in their Japanese forms, i.e. they are names that can be written in hiragana but do not necessarily have a Japanese meaning.

The next layer of names is purely Japanese, such as Urashima-wan (Translated on the map as 'Urashima Bay'). These names were given prior to 1860. Of course the bay had a native name before that, but no record of it has survived.

And finally, there is the western or cosmopolitan layer of toponyms, which dominates the infrastructure of the island. For example, Port Urashima is a name given by the western settlers, although it is derived from the Japanese name of the bay. There was no town or village in the exact same location before the international trade link was established.

Mount Kaolla is a completely acceptable name, but I would like to hear a background story of why an ancient or Japanese summit name was replaced. Perhaps a member of the Su family (after whom princess Kaolla of Love Hina got her name a lot later) did something important for the international community? Some of the Sus had a key role in developing Zeppelin traffic between Pacific islands, inspired by a German noble family that had been influential in Molmol before WWI and stayed in good terms with them even after the kingdom was given to New Zealand as a League of Nations Mandate in 1920. [Error to be corrected, see later in the thread.]

I was planning a ASR military base on an island... Can't believe you beat me to the punch! In return I shall build a great nation for the ASR to reside... Oh yes.. I shall...

Btw, nice work