Jul 11, 2025
Author's Commentary #477:
Time to talk about Chapter 477: Unable to touch grass.
You can tell I had fun with this chapter too. Ilmi is easily my favorite of the Fins on the women's side, and luckily, she's not evil. She's just an ordinary girl who was trapped in electromagnetic Finland until now. Speaking of which, let's do the bios for her and the other women as well. But first, a big PSA for the series.
Season 7 is complete, and so are the major revisions I did for the 6B arc. If you were reading daily before said revisions, this chapter is where you should be as it was the final one I had uploaded before doing the revisions. Now if you weren't, no need to worry, you're all caught up now before the new stuff.
Speaking of new, this also marks the final original Author's Commentary, meaning I now have to write out 20 whole new ones and update the Game logs. But it's fine. Season 7 now has a definite end date, and I couldn't be happier to finally have everything written. I'll try my best to get all the commentaries back up to date as soon as I can. Now for the bios.
ヴィルピ・ラトバラ (Virpi Latvala) is how Virpi's name would be spelled in katakana.
Her birthday is February 9th, which she shares with Finnish honorary grandmaster, Eero Böök.
Her favorite piece is the rook.
ヌーラ・ガレン・カッレラ (Noora Gallen-Kallela) is how Noora's name would be spelled in katakana.
Her birthday is February 27th, which she shares with Finnish grandmaster, Heikki Westerinen.
Her favorite piece is the king.
Some of you might recall that Noora's design was originally used for the then Dr. Yanmin Van Aitzema of the Babylonian women's team. Just like I said, her design was not trashed and now belongs to Noora.
ピルッコ・エスコ (Pirkko Esko) is how Pirkko's name would be spelled in katakana.
Her birthday is April 3rd, which she shares with Finnish grandmaster, Tomi Nybäck.
Her favorite piece is the pawn.
Pirkko's design has also been in reserve for a while, but I can't remember if I poster her design in any team artworks prior to this.
イルミ・ホロ (Ilmi Hollo) is how Ilmi's name would be spelled in katakana.
Her birthday is October 24th, which she shares with Finnish grandmaster, Jouni Yrjölä.
Her favorite piece is the queen.
As for the game, it's special in the fact that it's part of the series' 300th Game log. Iori's new opening was also something new, and ended up making the game interesting. And speaking of milestones, the series' 500th chapter will be coming up soon. It'll just barely manage to sneak into Season 7. In fact, it'll actually feature the last game in the season as the final game in round 11 is slated to conclude in the chapter just before it.
One final thing I'll confirm about Ilmi is that she will become a DSPCM. However, since she wasn't a DSPCM now when she was beaten, Iori will have to rematch her to get the accolades from beating her. This will also be officially stated within the story.
That's all for this commentary. I hope you enjoyed it.
