[Athrun]

http://www.xenosaga.jp/

Similar to the special site they put up for Episode II. I'm not sure if this one is up for a limited time only though, since I haven't checked it out very thouroughly yet.
But there are some wallpapers and other stuff to be found there. Not very much content for now, but the site will be updated regularly, so it's worth checking out.

[Spurt Reynolds]

kewl, looks pretty good.
Seems its basically a link site for some of the other sites you have posted.

[rena]

wowow so many pictures!!!! (:

Thanks 4 posting it!

[Xerno]

They've now added something very interesting to this special site: "XII to III ~ A Missing Year". It's some sort of online sidestory that explains what happens during the one year that has passed between XSII and XSIII. Only the 1st chapter is available for the moment. I've watched some of it, some parts are written and others voice acted. Sadly it's all in Japanese, so I don't understand a word of it. =/

But here's the link for it: clickie

[Spurt Reynolds]

Get Athrun to view it and translate

Anyhoo, the sites been updated a hell of alot more than when I first checked it out.
Its all looking good now

And that idea of having to 1 yr between games storyline is also pretty helpful, another good idea.

[Denim]

The entire thing is in the game's database, helpfully enough.

[Xerno]

Ah, so that "Missing Year" info will be in the XSIII database as well? Good to know, though it'd be fun to know about it before playing the game (that's what it's for, after all =p ). I assume that this one fansite will be doing the translation eventually anyway, if no-one else can manage it sooner. It seems like an interesting prologue to XSIII either way.

[Denim]

Yeah. Jin's been doing missions for The Contact Subcomitee and Juli (I guess Ziggy's busy, hm?) while Shion continued working on KOS MOS until she found out about the Gnosis phenomenon being caused by Vector, or used by Vector, at the very least, most likely from Jin, and quit. Gnosis have been appearing a lot more recently and destroying planets, and something.

I forget.

I read an outline about it.

[Xerno]

Ah, well Jin does seem to know about quite a few things in Episode III (from what I've seen in the officially released info so far). I guess he gathered a good amount of new info while carrying out those missions. But I also expected Juli would have given those missions to Ziggy instead, but perhaps he was just busy babysitting MOMO. =p

[Denim]

http://community.liv...aga/214793.html

Scroll down, posts by chaoslace.
The Missing Year is narrated by Shion.

[Xerno]

Nice, thanks for the link. The most interesting part was about the Grimoire's Girl, I guess more will be explained about her in the next Chapter(s). She seems to be a rather important character so far, definitely an interesting read. ^^

[Denim]

The time gap between Disk 1 and Disk 2 of Episode 2 was told in a similar way, except elaborated a bit LESS.

This post has been edited by Denim: 13 May 2006 - 04:50 PM

[Xerno]

Yes, A Missing Year seems more interesting than that. I thought Shion's narrating at the start of disc 2 in XSII was done rather sloppy (I got a bad feeling of "awkward narrating in a chair" déjà vu when I saw that scene, fortunately it didn't last long). Shion even mentioned herself as if it was a different person, that was just weird. <<''

This little prologue seems to have more depth, so far I'm still interested to see what the next chapter will be like.

[Athrun]

This reminds me of the blogs that told you about the events before Shadow Hearts 3 and FF7 Advent Children.
I'll read through it in a bit though. Hope it has some interesting info.

[Xerno]

The third option in the XSIII download section has opened up as well now (the one that still has a question mark, but if you hold the mouse over it the option will pop up. Or here if you don't know what the heck I'm talking about xP ).

But erm... what is that thing!? I chose the download and got a wacky Japanese soundclip, so I'm not sure what this is supposed to be.