May 20, 2025
Author's Commentary #325:
Time to talk about Chapter 325: Sugar vs broccoli.
If you ever wanted to see Robbie Rotten vs Jabroni Mike in a chess match, this is pretty much the closest thing to that. This was the last of the recent batch of chapters I wrote, and it kind of shows with how it just inserts itself before Xiu's match. Now let's discuss all the new characters introduced.
ヴィンチェンツォ・ディルイージ (Vincenzo DiLuigi) is how Vincenzo's name would be spelled in katakana.
His birthday is September 4th, which is the day the first episode of the Super Mario bros Super show aired.
His favorite piece is the bishop because he likes attacking at long range.
Vincenzo originally hails from Escape Witch and Spice of Life and is Jester's younger brother from another mother. He also says all his lines in English and sounds exactly like Vinny Vinesauce when he does his Luigi voice. Funnily enough, Vinny's Luigi voice was the primary inspiration for Vincenzo.
ドージェ・メディチ (Doge Medici) is how Doge's name would be spelled in katakana.
His birthday is October 20th, which he shares with Italian professional football manager, Claudio Ranieri.
His favorite piece is the pawn, mainly because he views moving them like kicking soccer balls.
Initially, Doge had a very generic design, and personality to boot, but then I decided to base him off of Claudio Ranieri, and dilly ding, dilly dong, we got fun and memorable character. He even says Caludio's trademark, "Dilly ding, Dilly dong" catchphrase as a homage.
マルコ・マルヴォーリオ (Marco Malvolio) is how Marco's name would be spelled in katakana.
ジャブロノ・マルコ (Jabrono Marco) is how his streamer name would be spelled in katakana.
His birthday is December 23rd, which he shares with streamer and content creator, Jabroni Mike, who Marco is heavily based off of.
His favorite piece is the bishop because they're the lewdest piece according to him.
Marco is actually a streamer and a lewd one at that. His character is a homage to and parody of Jabroni Mike. As for his hair, it's a reference to when Jabroni Mike infamously gave himself a broccoli haircut.
ピスタチオ・ラグー (Pistachio Ragu) is how Pistachio's name would be spelled in katakana.
His birthday is January 26th, which is the day Pizza Tower was released.
His favorite piece is the king because it has the simplest and least confusing moves according to him.
Pistachio is a parody character of Pizza Tower's Peppino Spaghetti. He was actually mentioned in some of my aforementioned works, but never appeared until now.
And with that, all the members of the Italian team have been given their bios. As for the game, it was a last minute one I did because I felt we needed to see some more Ragnar action. I decided to have him play the Icelandic-Palme gambit as the game I got when I played it against the Chess.com bots, with assisted mode on, was amazing.
But now the next chapter will definitely feature Xiu's game, and then round 5 will officially be over. Though I will confirm at least one game will occur before round 6's start. As for who it could be between, the clue is that it will feature someone who was introduced in round 5. See if you can guess who it is before it's revealed in the story.
That's all for this commentary. I hope you enjoyed it.
