#Shinjuku Prefecture

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MISLEADIN' ME SERIES: CHAPTER TWO

A WALK TROUGH THE FOURTH DIMENSION

⊳ Gojo Satoru x f!reader

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Genre: angst, , sci-fi, cosmology.

Chapter warning: MANGA SPOILERS, cursing, mentions of blood, mentions of food, Gojo is a meanie

Words count: ~9k

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[24 Dec, 2018; 06:01pm; Shinjuku Special District, Tokyo Prefecture]

A small group of people dressed in black and covering the lower half of their faces with masks were on one of the lower floors of a business center, the wall of which had been completely demolished from hollow purple. The reinforced concrete structures that used to make up the whole were either splintered into crumbs or dangling from the remains of the wall exposing steel bars. From this spot there was a perfect view of the battle of the two strongest, which was spread out in the shadow of the broken skyscraper. You, on the other hand, remained invisible without emitting any cursed energy.

Sitting on a piece of broken reinforced concrete that used to be the floor, you watched the sorcerer and the curse king's actions and every time Gojo took damage you jerked your leg nervously and clenched your teeth. Your gut was pissed off that you didn't understand the nature of the feelings that made you this way. As everyone else sat lazily against the far wall exchanging jokes, a man's cheerful voice jerked you out of your state of irritation:

"All we need here is beer and chips," Vito tried to lighten the mood. He was the oldest of the active hunters and he looked exactly like Danielle. His blond hair, short though it was, glistened even in the dark, his fair skin, which was always flushed was covered with small scars and there were deep wrinkles under the outer corners of his eyes as his blue eyes watched the action below. "Look, that king of curses got another series of punches to the face from the white-haired one," Vito said humming approvingly.

"Considering they used territory expansion three times already, it's no wonder they had to switch to hand-to-hand," you said propping a hand on your face keeping your eyes on the fight. "Can ya imagine the state of their brains right now?"

"I can tell that you're imagining it too vividly by looking at you," Vito said shifting his gaze from Gojo to you and smiling slyly. "You're worrying a little too much."

"Just a bad feeling," you brushed off his teasing tone. "Remember what Itadori told us about Zenin Clan's technique?"

"Oh, right, what's its name..." hesitated Vito straining his meanderings. "Ten shadows technique?"

"Exactly!" you exclaimed snapping your index finger and thumb. "The technique is already unusual enough on its own, but here's its latest shikigami, uh," you stammered, seeing the white-haired sorcerer wipe away the blood that came from his nose with the back of his hand, and a stack of needles plunged into the back of your head with an unsettling feeling again. "I guess that thing out even of my depth."

"You mean divine General Mahoraga?" asked Vito grinning. "Geez, that's quite a name they gave it."

"Quite a name for a monster that can adapt to any cursed technique," you shrugged, and thinking that at this rate Mahoraga would soon be able to adapt to Gojo's infinity technique, you jerked your foot once more knocking over a small piece of concrete that was held up by a protruding iron beam. Now it was clear why Sukuna needed Megumi's body, for in any other body he would never have been able to defeat Gojo because there would be no Mahoraga to break through his infinity. While you were pondering this, the battle of the two strongest due to their swift movements shifted from the roadway under the road bridge, part of the supporting structure in the form of several reinforced concrete pillars was immediately destroyed. Everything seemed to be going according to plan for the white-haired sorcerer: he was striking blue after blue and Sukuna had only to dodge or take it and your heart was beating in an invariably calm rhythm, but a growing sense of anxiety was building up the force of its impact on your chest. You saw that with each blow they made against each other, they were getting farther away from your location and you found yourself standing on one of the dilapidated bridge pillars still in the shadow of the concrete rubble without even thinking. This pillar was though not close, still behind the Gojo and if you had even a modicum of cursed energy in you, one of them would have sensed your presence immediately. Sukuna's body had just taken an enhanced version of the red that Gojo had suddenly directed at him from around the corner before your eyes. After getting hit in the face with the debris from the pillar, Sukuna was already healed in the next moment. Itadori was right: the sorcerer had already had more than one chance to finish Sukuna off, but Gojo couldn't do it while the curse was in Megumi's body. "Damned sentiment," you thought to yourself.

"It seems you wanted to be sudden, but apparently you're so tired that you don't realize that all your techniques have been read," Sukuna turned to Gojo, a nasty smirk drawn on his face.

"Don't jump to conclusions," Gojo said and you noticed how a moment later, a red flash circled the building and struck the curse straight back and Gojo activating black lightning struck Sukuna's solar plexus, whose body flew straight at the sorcerer's fist on the inertia of the red strike. The curse's eyes rolled uncontrollably, blood spurted from his mouth, he recoiled and the wheel above his head, which allowed Mahoraga to adapt to any technique, fell as it made its final turn. Sukuna disappeared into the shadows and darkness began to grow beneath Gojo's feet, from which Mahoraga's huge hands reached out to him inviting him into a deadly embrace. Your heart skipped a beat: Mahoraga had just adapted to Gojo's infinity technique. While Gojo was trying to dodge the huge hand with a huge blade sticking out of his forearm, he didn't notice that the shadow behind him had already formed a triangle of index fingers and thumbs.

      "Isolation."

As soon as you said the word, you began to gulp for air and it took all your strength not to recoil or you would have flown down the pole with a stone. You felt like your skull was being poured sulfuric acid and your organs were wandering around your body instead of staying in their designated places. "So this is what it's like to have two consciousnesses in one body," you thought to yourself with a faint indecipherable thought, someone was trying to dislodge your consciousness, but a stream of dark energy blocked all attempts of the unpleasant guest. You tried to see through the white veil where your idea had led and you could still see two silhouettes standing there.

"Oh? What is it?" Gojo's voice sounded a little surprised, but the surprise changed to defiance as if by a click. "Has daddy Mahoraga abandoned ya?" He tilted his head to the side, a grin flaunting on the sorcerer's face. Sukuna, on the other hand, stood motionless resembling a statue. The drooping, impersonal eyes began to close, the dark patterns that adorned Megumi's body began to fade and with a slight recoil, the curse fell flat. If you could see just a little better you would have noticed how in just a couple seconds the entire spectrum of emotions showed on the sorcerer's face - from confidence, to courage, to bewilderment, to confusion, and even slight panic. Gojo cautiously approached Megumi's body, leaned over and checking something, his body shuddered in a relieved exhalation and you shuddered with him.

      "Isolation."

You cast the spell a second time and now your body was concerned only with the cold evening air and a hungry stomach. You watched Gojo gently brush the black strands from the boy's face, and you wondered to your shame, what the movement would feel like if it were your own hair. You waved your head chaotically from side to side, as if chasing away childish thoughts. Meanwhile Gojo tried to gently take Megumi in his arms to return home with him, but the adrenaline accumulated during the battle instantly evaporated, passing the duties to his colleague in the face of fatigue making the sorcerer stagger, and he holding Megumi in his arms, began to fall himself.

                                       TWO DAYS EARLIER

The sound of metal cutlery paired with the early morning mist from the window that was built into the rock filled the dining room. You were already standing at the large metal chopping table waiting for your portion and the smell of roasted chicken filled your nostrils. Behind you on the dull stonework were two long dark wood tables, flanked by similarly colored benches where the few hunters were already seated, exchanging jokes and stealing food from each other's plates. The metal door that led to the kitchen swung open and out came a terribly tired Danielle, who had once again foolishly served her punishment holding your plate of flavorful baked potatoes and equally flavorful bird meat. Taking the plate from her hands, you winked at Danielle and headed toward the boy, who was sitting alone in the far dark corner, picking at his plate without appetite. When he saw you approaching him, Itadori only pressed his lips together and turned away from you covering his face with his hand as he continued to mash the innocent potatoes with his fork.

"What are you doing sitting here all by yourself?" ignoring his behavior you sidled up to him, your hilariously chipper voice exploding in the boy's eardrums. "Itadori?" you tapped the back of his head with your finger quietly catching his attention.

"Y/N, that's not fair!" exclaimed boy slamming his hands on the table.

 "Did ya get up on the wrong side of bed or something?" you asked peering into the brown eyes and noticing that they were filled with childish resentment.

 "Ya know, you remind me of those nerds from high school who always sit alone," Rachel placed a tray of food on the table with a metallic clang catching your attention. Kyle came over with her as well, and sat down next to you winking at you. "What's up, kid? Is that brat offending you?" She turned to Itadori pointing a finger at you.

 "And here comes prom queen," you said with irony in your voice and Rachel turned to you showing her tongue.

"Y/N said she had plan to suppress Sukuna in Megumi's body and then just up and left!" pouted Yuji crossing his arms over his chest. "Like she did it on purpose! I realize you don't have to tell me anything, but... Maybe after this, I can sleep a little better," he mumbled hiding the lower part of his face in his high red collar.

"Close your eyes," you said to Itadori and he looked up staring at you incredulously. "Close your eyes, don't be afraid," he obeyed your second request and after a little fidgeting in his chair, he closed his eyelids.

"What do ya feel?" you asked leaning back in your chair and crossing your arms over your chest.

"What do you mean?" asked Itadori without opening his eyes, but faced with your silence; he decided to describe everything in order even if it sounds like complete nonsense.

"I can feel soft but firm fabric of my uniform," he began to say, his fingertips groping the fabric. "I feel warm skin of my hands, I smell fried chicken and someone's male cologne, uh," Itadori hesitated a little. "I can hear Rachel typing on her phone and Kyle chewing his food."

"Here ya go," you praised the boy, if only for not being confused by your question. "I realize it's going to be problematic in such a noisy environment, but now imagine that all your senses suddenly stopped feeding you information as if your brain had been taken out of its skull and placed in a machine that provides it with everything it needs to function outside your body."

"Sounds a little... scary," Itadori said squirming harder in his chair.

"You've faced worse things," you patted the boy on the head. "Back to the subject at hand, what would be left of you in that case?"

"Memories?" suggested Yuji.

"Exactly!" you exclaimed quietly. "All the experiences you've had, which you'll relive over and over again for lack of interacting with an environment, maybe start building some scenarios in your head, having internal dialogs, until the very moment ya start going crazy."

"Y/N!," Rachel hissed at you threatening you with her finger. "Don't ya dare scare him!"

"Long story short, if you've managed to experience what I'm talking about for even a brief moment," you paused briefly to chew the piece of food you'd just put in your mouth. "Congratulations, you've just been in isolation."

"I still don't fully understand," Yuji said, there was a confused awkwardness in his voice.

"That's because we haven't explained everything yet," Kyle interjected into the conversation. "Remember when you told me that the peak of your world's prowess was territorial expansion? Well," Kyle hesitated, as if searching his mind for the right words. "Roughly speaking, isolation is the peak of our world's prowess, though it's functionally very different from yours."

"What happens in isolation? What is it for?" Itadori continued to pile on the questions looking each of you in the eye in turn.

"Actually, it carries more than one function, there's no telling in a nutshell," you said with a shrug. "But let's start with the fact that the Isolation is a place made up of only dark energy, nothing exists there but it itself," you turned to Itadori and after taking a sip of sour orange juice, you continued: "Put aside all prejudices about dark energy because it is most likely the most vile phenomenon that exists in the universe."

"Is it the reason something bad is happening?"

"We don't know why, but our universe is expanding and doing so at an accelerating rate," you said scratching your temple with your index finger. "And since scientists have no idea what makes universe expand, they usually refer to any hypothetical phenomenon that can accelerate the expansion of the universe as dark energy and yeah, we didn't rename it to suit us, it sounds cool," you threw your forearms up shrugging playfully. "Dark energy expands our universe not from any particular point, but in all points at once. I'd like to point out that dark energy is kind of the opposite of gravity meaning that the more filled up space is the stronger the gravitational force, and the emptier space is the stronger the dark energy is because although it's counterintuitive, its density per square foot doesn't decrease as space expands," you glanced at Itadori to make sure he was still with you. "I mean, do ya get what's going on? As the expansion of the universe accelerates, there's more and more empty space, which in turn will cause the expansion to accelerate, which will cause more empty space and so on ad infinitum, and I highly doubt that the expansion of the universe is its only property."

"It's good that you explained everything," Itadori said smiling, but the corners of his lips crept down again and he went limp in his chair. "Too bad I didn't get anything."

"Don't fill your bright young head, if ya think about it too much you can catch existential dread," you laughed rubbing the boy on the top of his head. "The easiest way to put it is that isolation is a completely empty place with only dark energy to ensure exponential expansion throughout eternity."

"So, in isolation space expands itself for an infinite amount of time?" asked the boy, a flash of insight on his face.

"That's right, you're a smartass!" you exclaimed grabbing the boy's pink cheeks with your palms. "Now imagine ya have the ability to put some sort of consciousness in there - your own or someone else's, it doesn't matter."

"But isn't that dangerous?" mumbled Itadori from behind his cheeks clenched by your hands, and you blushing slightly, finally let him go. "After all, if everything there is expanding from all points at once, doesn't that mean that consciousness will expand with space?"

"You're right, it's dangerous," you sighed quietly examining the ridiculously ornate silver bracelet on Kyle's arm. "First ya'll forget yesterday, then what ya did last year, what ya were like ten years ago and eventually ya'll forget even your own language, and so on until your existing self dissolves into dark energy."

"How do you use it, then?"

"And here comes into play something that scientists can hardly ever explain and this perhaps is called magic." you smiled awkwardly fiddled with your fingers because you weren't used to having someone listen to you with such interest. "Because, without going into too much detail right now, even though dark energy is a nasty thing, if you know how to use it, it can be a pretty good tool."

"Oh!" exclaimed Itadori, catching the gist of it. "You're going to put Sukuna's consciousness in there?"

"You're thinking in the right direction, but there is a catch," you retorted looking out the window. " Sukuna and Megumi's consciousnesses are in the same body right now, so if I send the isolation to Megumi's body, both of them will have to go into isolation with me and I won't be able to tell which one I'm 'capturing'," you said pointing to the quotation marks in the word 'capturing' with your fingers. "I'll have to re-enter the isolation second time directing it only at myself, because it doesn't matter who's here after the first isolation," you looked at Itadori, tapping your temple with your index finger and the boy's eyes widened. "And who goes back into Megumi's body."

"But what if Sukuna returns to Megumi's body?" asked Itadori with excitement in his voice.

"Well that's not so terrible, because Sukuna will most likely be left without ten shadows technique because Megumi's consciousness will sit quietly in my body until your precious teacher finishes the curse so I can quietly return Megumi's consciousness to his body through second isolation, but there is some possibility that during that time I will die myself due to such an internal conflict."

"But what about..." Itadori began rubbing his knees nervously clearly trying to suggest something else. "Can't you immediately re-enter the isolation and wait there?

"Itadori, don't forget that my mind is used to isolation and Megumi's mind isn't," you clarified shaking your head. "Also, I realize this isn't very intuitive, but like I said nothing exists in isolation but dark energy. Although there is no such thing as time there, but along with that there is an infinite amount of it there.

"What do you mean? Itadori asked losing the thread of the point again.

"Y/N means," Kyle interjected. "She could spend two infinities in isolation, but to us outside observers, it would look like she never left," Itadori's mouth dropped open in surprise, forming a perfectly shape of 'o'.

"But what if it's the other way around?" it suddenly hit Itadori. "What if you suddenly put Sukuna's consciousness inside you and Megumi's consciousness returns to his body?" the boy panicked remembering his past experience when the curse parasitized his body.

"That'll be even easier!" you exclaimed clapping your hands together. "If after the first isolation Megumi's consciousness returns to his body and I have Sukuna's consciousness," your lips spread into a cheeky grin. "I'll just re-enter the isolation and wipe the bastard off the face of the creation."

"Adoptee, ya sure you can go into isolation two times in a row?" inquired Rach with a note of anxiety in her voice. "Think twice."

"Think twice?" you popped your head up from your plate and stared at Rachel. "Buddy, I don't think even once!"

"Yeah, we're aware of that," mumbled Kyle into his hand, which he completely covered his face with as if he was embarrassed by your behavior.

After your brief conversation Itadori finally began to eat devouring the long-cooled potatoes with appetite. You watched as he chewed one bite and put the next one in his mouth, amused by his direct behavior. Time flowed slowly and even though the winter sun was rising on the other side, where the spacious windows of your house looked out, but still the sunlight was filling the far dark corners of the room more and more decisively with each passing moment. You glanced at the invisible watch on your hand and turned to Yuji:

"It's about time ya get ready to go home," you said gently flicking Itadori on the nose. "Otherwise they'll notice you're missing."

"Can I ask you one more question?" the boy asked and you nodded your head affirmatively. "I've noticed that you say 'something like consciousness' or you just say 'consciousness' but with such, uh, skepticism in your voice. Why?"

"Geez, boy, you've opened Pandora's box again," Rachel rambled on with feigned panic in her voice. "Close it back up, pretend you didn't ask anything!"

"Well," you tilted your head toward Yuji, and your foot kicked the leg of the chair Rachel was sitting on with such force that it nearly fell over along with her.

"Little bully-" muttered Rachel under her breath, but you continued talking, not listening to her:

"It's just that humanity still has a very poor understanding of what we call consciousness," you said with a shrug.

"But what about it?" objected Itadori. "I think there's a lot to dig up on that subject."

"It is. Different sources will tell you about an immortal soul, or neurophysiological connections or that consciousness has nothing to do with the soul or the brain, but no one," you said, emphasizing the last word. "No one can explain to you why this happens. You and I are made of the same matter as stars, planets or that stupid bracelet on Kyle's hand," you nodded at his hand that was resting calmly on the table. "But it's unclear how ordinary matter composed in a certain way - suddenly - can generate subjective experience?"

"Maybe I don't quite understand everything, but does it matter?" Itadori asked shrugging his shoulders,

"It doesn't until you start thinking along those lines," you agreed with him. "Except that everything we talk about, everything we think exists is postulated by our consciousness. All the sensations you get from birth until you die are created by your brain," you gently tapped Itadori's forehead with your knuckles. "The brain internally forms a kind of environment that exactly replicates the external, real world environment... Or not?" you peered into brown eyes that reflected the lights in your own eyes in the light of the suddenly flickering lamp. "Anyway, perhaps there is a very tiny but already existing possibility that you are not the one who speaks your thoughts. You're the one who hears them." With those words, you got up from the table, picked up the few trays to take them back to the dispensing table. Coming back and leaning your arms on the table next to Itadori, you whispered:

"So when you're sitting alone in a room going about your unremarkable mundane business," you whispered in the boy's ear in a conspiratorial tone. "There's a chance you're not alone there."

"Y/N!" howled Rachel grabbing you by the scruff of the neck, dragged you towards the canteen exit.

Before the wooden doors closed in your face, you saw the worried look in Itadori's eyes and only had time to yell. "Sike!"

Concrete crumbs pounded into your back, the back of your head ached quietly from the impact with the ground and something too heavy was pressing against your chest. As you struggled to open your eyes, your hand tried to shove something heavy off to give your airway room to breathe and get more air into your chest. The moment your fingertips came in contact with the object, the thought that it was too soft jumped into your head and it hit you: the moment Gojo fell, you were at his back knowing that your size would make it harder to support him and more likely to hurt yourself, but your actions were faster than your thoughts. Finally, when you fully focused your gaze you saw a snow-white mop of hair right under your nose and on the sorcerer's body as a cherry on the top was Megumi's body, which he had picked up, but never had time to take anywhere. Silently cursing to yourself, you crawled out from under the unconscious bodies as carefully as you could holding Gojo's head gently. You gently checked their pulses with your hand, and exhaled a sigh of relief as you sat down beside them as if you needed a little respite yourself. Quietly shaking off the construction dust from your uniform, you noticed that your hands were darkened with indecipherable, chaotic, and to top it all off, ugly patterns. Rolling up your sleeves you clenched your teeth uneasily seeing that they had spread all over your forearm. Going into isolation twice in a row was risky, but looking at the two motionless but still alive bodies you had no regrets. You unconsciously reached up to flick a strand of white hair away from Gojo's face, but as soon as your hand was a few inches from his skin, you yanked it away as if you'd been burned. You would have kept hesitating, moving your hand in and out of his face, if it hadn't been for the sharp voice that called out to you:

"Get your hands off of them!" shouted a female voice in a frenzy, and you noticing that a two-handed axe was flying straight at your head instantly vaporized along with the two bodies you were holding in your arms. 

[25 Dec, 2019; 08:42pm; Tokyo, Tokyo Prefecture, Chiyoda Special District, Cafe N].

You were sitting in a familiar soft armchair and hot, fragrant coffee with each sip seemed to fill your veins with home warmth. Having settled down at a table in a secluded corner, a garland of all kinds of colors was shimmering against your silhouette, a pleasant, unobtrusive melody of the place was flowing quietly through the spacious hall, which was accompanied by chewing sounds of the boys sitting in front of you. Looking at their tired, but terribly peaceful faces you drowned all even the sharpest pricks of regret about your own intervention somewhere in the depths of your soul.

"I never thought you'd still keep your promise you made back then, in this very café," Yuta said adding more hot sauce to his plate.

"Hey!" you threw your head up sharply frowning your eyebrows. Your hand reached across the table to quietly tap your index finger on the boy's forehead. "That sounded really rude!"

"Sorry, I didn't mean it that way," laughed Yuta. He kept looking at you and there was no way he could shake off the idea that you reminded him a lot of someone. "Honestly, I just didn't think it would end so soon and so... uh, well."

"Good," you smiled brightly squinting your eyes. "I hope ya'll have a quieter time now, because there is nothing to waste your youth on such things"

"Y/N, how are sensei and Megumi doing?" asked Itadori cutting into the conversation.

"They're fine," you replied tapping your fingers on the table to the beat of a quiet tune. "They haven't come to their senses yet, but that's not surprising," you slapped the table gently with the same hand and leaned back in the upholstered chair.  "Doc said another couple or three minutes of this kind of exertion and your teacher's brain would have turned into a fried steak, but Megumi... Well, isolation hasn't gone unnoticed for him, so he needs as much rest as possible right now."

"Then can we stay with you for that time too?" asked Itadori biting his lip awkwardly.

"Look at ya, what a nimble booger," you said grinning. "You've already picked out your rooms and settled in pretty well anyway."

"Is that a yes?" asked Itadori excitedly and you nodded affirmatively. "I told you she'd say yes," Itadori whispered in Yuta's ear and you tactfully pretended not to hear them. As the boys ate and drank their cocktails taking advantage of your promise to pay for them, you were still anxious, even though it seemed to be over yesterday.

"You know, he'd like you," Yuta's quiet voice pulled you out of your rebellious musings and you raised your eyebrows questioningly without realizing what he meant. "Our teacher. Well, I think so," he added and a feeling of embarrassment spilled over his cheeks red. 

"I wouldn't bet on it," you mumbled to yourself mentally marveling at the childlike directness and lack of understanding of the conflict that could result. After all, your worlds were divided thousands of years ago by strife and discord gradually making everyone living in your world a monster and a thug. Luckily for you, after a while you were no longer spoken of at all seemingly erasing your existence from the face of the Earth while you quietly did your work. At that moment, while you were scrutinizing the young faces, caution snapped into your head with a scathing cry.

"Watch out!" you only had time to yell in their direction before a shard of the far window slashed your cheek, a rush of air blew the building aside and only your table and chairs remained standing in the deserted spot, thanks to your flash of caution. You, instead of turning in the direction from which the stream had been directed, turned your gaze in the opposite direction where the now former café had piled up into a heap of splinters and bodies. A painfully familiar silhouette appeared out of the dusty chaos and as you took a step toward it you were blocked by the backs of two boys and you could sense that Rika was now somewhere close by, but you couldn't see her because of your lack of cursed energy. "What the hell," you thought to yourself and grabbed the boys by the scruff of their necks pulling them aside.

"Y/N!" the boys exclaimed in unison, but you stubbornly led them away.

"Ya both, get out of here," you murmured softly under your breath letting them go. "Here's the key card, go home," you tossed the key into Yuta's hands. "While the adults talk."

"But we can-" began Yuta, but you cut him off abruptly.

"I said get out," you said keeping a friendly face as you spoke the same warning words. As soon as they nodded their heads but in disagreement you turned around and Kenjaku stood before you, about ten foots away.

"There you are, thief," Kenjiaku gritted his teeth in a grin. "Thanks to that black-haired kid, without his massive flow of cursed energy I doubt I would have found you so soon."

"Oh?" you raised your eyebrows tilting your head slightly to the side. "Has a superior creature such as yourself stooped to such base human desires as revenge?"

"In my case, it's no more than a response to such a cute but still irritating stimulus," you barely refrained from rolling your eyes at his tiresome familiarity. The purpose of the curse was as clear as day, but it stood motionless, hands clasped beneath the folds of the kimono taking its time to close the distance. You could feel something wandering and hovering around you, an unpleasant veil enveloping your heightened sixth sense and it was unclear to you whether it was just a stream of cursed energy coming from Kenjaku or whether the curses he had summoned were surrounding you. You got a shot of adrenaline from your body at the exact moment something hit your chest with great force, and you flew at instantaneous speed towards the ruins of one of the buildings mixed with a stream of artificially created lightning-fast wind gusts that lifted pieces of asphalt and ground. In that brief instant, the nails of your hands managed to clutch at the ground, but still it didn't slow you down and your body, which now lay in the ruins of the building, was buried the one that flew with you. 

Kenjiaku stared at the mess he'd made trying to catch even the slightest movement that would tell him if you were still alive after something like that. As he stared at the ruins he had created, ten thin, tiny black streaks began to appear on the ground on a lower trajectory and second by second they grew joining together until they formed one large, elongated line as if someone had cut through reality leaving a black bleeding wound in the fabric of space. A kick of such force flew into the curse's back that he instantly fell into the dark embrace of the abyss. "Life didn't teach ya anything," you muttered wiping the blood from your face with your sleeve and exhaling sharply pushing back a strand of your disheveled hair that had fallen over your face. "Well, let's wait a few minutes," you said glancing at the invisible watch on your arm and sat down next to the darkness.

You scrolled through the news feed on your phone switching to online stores, throwing in your cart the sneakers, earrings, and unbelievably beautiful dresses that you would never wear. You looked into your group chat, which was created for the purpose of information exchange or just for idle chatter at least, was now filled with endless idiotic memes and you glanced at the time and realized with horror that 23 minutes had already passed. "Oh, shit!" you exclaimed with panic in your voice and thrusting your arm over your shoulder into the abyss, yanked the body out with a jerk.

The curse appeared before you in a different form: face gaunt, hair disheveled and torn in places, eyes filled with madness and horror, clothes faded and torn in places. "Sorry, sorry, I went a little overboard," you mumbled in a guilty voice, though it was just a lighter version of the isolation you hadn't dared to enter because of yesterday's events. This darkness consisted of just dark matter, which seemed less dangerous than dark energy and it didn't take away one's senses and consciousness nor did it require your personal presence, but it did erase the sense of time and you realized looking at Kenjaku's frantic look, that he hadn't felt it for really too long. "Anyway, look, ya have two options," you squatted down in front of his mangled silhouette lifting two fingers up at his face. "Either I push you back in there and close the incision," a lie, you wouldn't have been able to close the incision with the dark matter striving to push the foreign body out like a splinter, but by the certainty of your voice Kenjiaku had no choice but to obediently heed you. "Either we go to the judges now and see what they have to say about this whole mess you've made."

"Who are-" a hoarse voice rose from his lungs and he stopped half-heartedly and coughed violently. "Who are the judges?"

"I have no idea," you said with a shrug. "We used to just take the demons to them and then they'd figure out what to do with them. But I think they'd be very interested in a creature like you," you said with a smile looking into the dark eyes. "It's not as bad as it sounds. Maybe they'll just give ya spanking and let ya go and then we can have a proper fight when we're both strong enough. So, what's it gonna be?"

"Lead the way," Kenjiaku mumbled idly and you grabbed his temples with one hand lifting two fingers of your other hand somewhere upward uttering:

"Under the eyes of the Gods of Justice, before the radiance of the Witnesses of Fate, protected by the word of the creation and blah blah blah... Shine the light, open the veil," and with that, your silhouettes disappeared with a food-distinguishable pop as if bursting.

The fathomless blue eyes had been continuously watching Megumi's body for an hour. The unconscious body of the boy as if exsanguinated, showed no signs of life. If it weren't for the heart monitor next to him occasionally playing the beat of the young heart, Gojo would have gone insane - and God save those who witnessed the madness of the strongest. The sorcerer regarded the dark, chaotic and somehow disgusting patterns that slid up and down Megumi's forearm, as if trying to reach his heart. He leaned back in his chair looking over the last two messages from Itadori: the first one Itadori had asked in case Gojo woke up when no one was around, not to worry about anything and that they were fine and the second with the information that he and Yuta would be coming here soon received more recently. "Everything's fine, you say," he thought to himself shifting his gaze from the phone to Megumi and bit his lip with such force that it bled. He wiped the blood away lightly with his hand and covered his eyes with the thought that it was all from accumulated fatigue.

"Sensei?" Yuta's voice pulled Gojo out of his restlessness. "How are you feeling?"

"And what is this doubt I hear in your voice?" wiping his face with his hands and pulling on his usual smile, Gojo turned around to his students. "I'm fine as always!" placing his hands on his students' shoulders and leaning down to their level, he still with the same broad smile, but subtle threat in his voice said: "Well, my boys, ya will explain it all to me now."

"Uh, we..." mewled Yuta running his fingers over his hands. "She'll be home soon, so I think you'll need to talk to her."

"Who is her?" squinted Gojo's eyes squeezing their shoulders even tighter.

"Her name is Y/N," Yuji said with childlike directness in his voice and wide eyes.

"Honestly I don't care what her name is," Gojo said with a shake of his head and letting go of their shoulders. "Is this her work?" he pointed at Megumi's body.

"Yes, that's her-"

"Where is she?" asked Gojo with an already undisguised anger in his voice.

"We were sitting with her at the cafe," Itadori began in a dazed manner, not understanding why his teacher was getting angry. "But then Kenjaku attacked us and she told us to get out of there-"

"What?!" he snapped in their direction, as if spitting out the last remnants of patience with that word.

Stretching... Stretching... Stretching... Stretching...

The line of your indistinct silhouette stretched reflecting in the eyes of Kenjiaku, who was following you with a fine, irritating ripple. Each of his feeble steps seemed to sink into the ground that wasn't beneath his feet. He lifted his hand to get a closer look: unfilled with color, devoid of any paint, only the shadowy line of his hand's silhouette trembled constantly breaking into small segments. Kenjiaku knew exactly what his palm was holding straight at this moment, but it seemed to be strongly curved towards his face and turning his hand with the back side, it already formed the same arc-shaped something. The edges of your lines were also constantly curved approaching him and then moving away. Beginning gradually to lose his mind from such changes, he could not stand it. "What's happening to us?" he asked and dreading the fact that instead of his voice he heard only a strange dragging sound that spread through the space in a vibration.

"Nevermind, there's a slight distortion of space here," you circled your hand around the heavily arched horizon. "Because this one here is actually a straight line. And yeah, just don't think about the fact that there's no floor under your feet," the vibrations from your voice pierced through his gut and as soon as you said that he immediately started to fall down, but you grabbed him by the scruff of the neck already prepared for that. "I warned ya. It's kind of a four-dimensional space here, so you can step not only left-right and back and forth, but also up and down, so follow me strictly."

"I thought hunters were just a scary fairy tale for naughty little curses," said Kenjiaku.

"Do you know who I am?" you said trying to mock the tone of cursing from your last encounter, but that tone dissolved into a chirr.

"Not really," Kenjiaku said and the segments of your lips spread into a twisted grin. "What's going to be going on with these judges?"

"Usually they already know themselves what the so-called 'defendant' has done," you said with a shrug. "But with ya no idea, maybe they won't know what to do with ya at all; we've never brought a curse here."

"How much farther do we have to go?"

"As long as space isn't this empty," you replied to curse continuing to step forward making the lines of your silhouette stretch behind you. The warped horizon once again showed fine ripples and it grew into the outline of an indistinct surface as you approached. You moved even closer and the silhouettes of three seemingly human beings became visible, but there was no hint of eyes, nose or lips on their faces. There were no ears, no outlines of hair, just a general humanoid outline, the trembling line of which kept tearing and joining together in different places. You stopped not far from the surface behind which the judges stood and waited quietly. "What's going on?" asked Kenjiaku.

"No idea," you replied. "Maybe they're evaluating ya; maybe they haven't noticed us at all."

"Approach," the emotionless vibration thundered through all visible space causing your chest to convulse several times. Kenjaku took a step forward, but you grabbed his forearm.

"It's for me," you said smiling. You got as close to the surface as you could and the lines of one of the creatures, though geometric, still chaotic, began to stretch toward you. As it merged with your silhouette into one, your brain felt as if a hundred fists were clenched it. It searches for memories. Memories of your last conversation with Kenjiaku and of this procedure you conveniently 'forgot to mention'. Just when you began to think you were losing consciousness, the creature's lines and yours began to separate and it was back behind the surface.

"Open the wormhole," uttered the same powerful vibration.

"What does that mean?" only had time to ask the curse as visible geometric lines began to distance him from you. "You!" he exclaimed in anger, clearly addressing you. "You little scum!"

"See ya in hell," you said with just the outline of your lips slightly waving the fingertips of your raised hand in farewell. "Or outside the observable universe, it's just a matter of luck." You turned back to the judges and remained standing motionless, until one of them finally turned his attention to you.

"Else?" said a voice.

"I want Geto Suguru's body back," you said pondering whether it was worth such a ruse to return a dead body to one who treasured it.

The dark corridor of your infirmary seemed to sleep with along with the patients. Only the muffled clatter of the wheels of the stretcher you were pushing in front of you disturbed this peacefulness. On the stretcher lay a body covered with a black cloth on which you tried hard not to lower your eyes. Next to you walked Vito, who knowing his calm temperament and his tendency not to ask questions you had asked for a small favor: to help you deliver the body. Keeping your course straight to the morgue room, which was at the very end of the corridor, the two of you - or to be more precise the three of you - were approaching one of the rooms, from which you could see the dim color and hear albeit not loud, but vigorous conversations. As you neared the doorway, you peered into the room to see who was disturbing the medical peace.

"I see ya having a family quarrel," you said jokingly to the trio and if your heart could beat faster than usual it would have punctured your ribs long ago at the realization that blue eyes were staring right back at you. "Not reprehensible, but be a little more quiet, others are resting," with those words you seemed to gather your wits and stare back into the blue eyes.

"Now forget everything I just told ya," Gojo smiled and after patting Yuta and Itadori's hair so hard that they shrank back, he headed in your direction. He didn't understand himself now: just a second ago he'd been seething in his own invisible anger, but when he saw you his anger was replaced by confusion and he didn't know what to do, so he followed you as soon as you moved. 

"I already have an escort," you turned to Gojo noticing that he was walking directly behind you and Vito.

"I'll be the third, then," Gojo said with the same smile, but with a subtle sarcasm clearly realizing that his phrase had a double meaning. You reached the metal door, and Vito pulled it open allowing you to enter the morgue with the stretcher without obstruction. You walked a little farther letting go of the stretcher's handrail when it was next to the freezers and turned around.

"Should I stay?" asked Vito and you shook your head pursing your lips. Vito shifted his concerned gaze from you to Gojo and left the room slamming the steel door shut leaving you two alone. Gojo slowly walked over to the vacant iron stretcher and sat down on it keeping his eyes on you. If you hadn't been so tired, you might have noticed that the living embodiment of winter was sitting in front of your nose, but now your mind was on finding ethyl alcohol and formalin to treat the corpse or to replenish the supplies if you ran out of it. Since Gojo was silent and you had nothing to say to him, you began your ridiculous search through the many lockers.

"Are ya serious?" responded Gojo to your actions. "Am I that uninteresting?" His playful tone was met with your silence accompanied by your fiddling and the creaking of shelves causing the sorcerer's patience to burst for the second time of the day. "Why the hell did you get involved? No one asked you to," the playful tone changed to a serious one as if by snap.

"We don't need to be asked," you countered his attacks rummaging through one of the cabinets that held various tubes and needle injectors, but nothing resembling formalin. "Your problem was your problem equally as long as it was localized."

"Huh?" Gojo let out a chuckle as if in disbelief. "Believe me, I'm strong enough to handle everything and certainly without the help of a bunch of obscure creeps," his every word echoed with a spit on the back of your head.

"How old are ya?" you asked finally turning in his direction examining Gojo from head to toe. "Nearly thirty? So ya had plenty of time to get rid of Sukuna before he got into Itadori's body," you shrugged turning back to the drawer. "But you didn't. So stop acting like a child who got his first place prize taken away."

"You're the reason Megumi is in such a state with some black abomination spreading through his body, aren't you?" Gojo asked not even trying to keep his voice down, the tone of which felt like cold shower of accusations and recriminations over you.

"Yeah," you agreed easily nodding your head.

"Well, if he dies-"

"He won't," you said in a firm voice and realizing that you were out of formalin after all, you closed the door of the last locker in defeat. You walked over to one of the freezer lockers and opening it, pulled the iron retractable structure towards you. Connecting the stretcher to it you pulled the cloth off the dead man and began to slide the body deeper into the freezer compartment.

A lump rose in Gojo's throat at the sight of the deceased's face and he tucked his trembling hands in his pockets. "Well, if you're that good," he began sarcastically. "Then why didn't you do the same thing to him as you did to Megumi?" when he said "to him" you realized he wasn't talking about Kenjaku.

"Because he wasn't there," you mumbled quietly, while the mechanism of the structure clicked into place and you reached for the small iron door to close it.

"Lie!" shouted Gojo in anger slamming the door shut with one hand and you took a step back. "You just killed him, didn't you!"

"Incredible," you clasped your hands slightly as if in defeat. You weren't expecting honors or thanks, you weren't expecting anything and yet your already exhausted gut told you that it couldn't take another accusation and you would snap back. You were well aware that the sorcerer standing in front of you was tired, he was tired and probably still hurt and maybe there was a very tiny chance that he didn't mean everything he said. "Maybe I also shot Kennedy and dinosaurs had turned up their toes because of me? All it took was one freak to tell ya your friend was alive and you believed him and ended up in hoosegow, but the second I told ya he was never there ya say in a heartbeat that I'm a fucking liar," you ran your hands over your tired face. "If I'm that bad, then take the kids and get out, no one's keeping you here.

"Look, I-"

"If we have decided to kindly exchange barbs, well," you knew you would regret your next words, but no strength still could stop you. "You killed him first," if you had listened to your surroundings a little better you would have heard Gojo gulp feverishly. "Let us call it a day. Go to your room, get some rest." You pulled open the metal door leading out of the morgue and with one last glance at Gojo; you smiled softly realizing he wouldn't see it because of the mask. "Good night, boxy." As soon as you stepped onto the threshold of the corridor someone's unfamiliar and from that disgusting touch reached your hand making your eyes see nothing but red. Just as the scarlet veil began to fall from your eyes you realized that you were pressing the sorcerer's throat into the wall with your forearm, your other hand already holding a dagger to his carotid artery. The realization hit you on the top of your head with a sharp axe and you backed away disappearing into the darkness of the corridor and if it hadn't been for the shame that kept you from looking back you would have noticed the concerned blue eyes watching you.

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#gojo satoru x you #jujutsu kaisen #gojo x reader #gojou satoru x reader #jjk angst #gojo angst #gojo fluff #gojo satoru x reader #gojo x y/n #gojo x you #gojou x reader #gojo satoru #gojo jujutsu kaisen #gojou #gojou satoru x y/n #gojou satoru x you #gojou x y/n #gojou x you #jjk gojo #jjk gojou #jujutsu gojo #gojou fluff #satoru #gojo saturo

[incognito-danganronpa]

DRV3 Characters birthplace headcanons

Hello! Today I'd like to use meagre clues from canon, along with my own knowledge of Japan, to try and pinpoint where the DrV3 characters were born and raised. Let's jump right in!

Rantaro Amami -- I'll say Karuizawa(軽井沢) in Nagano. It's a popular mountain celebrity place, where I believe Bill Gates has a house too. His parents are rich. I can't confirm this because it's very much possible he was born outside of Japan, but if it was Japan, this is my best bet.

Tenko Chabashira -- I would say somewhere below Tokyo, in Kansai. This is supported by Tenko's apparent lack of knowledge of modern "hip" stuff she would know if she originated closer to Japan's capital. I'll say Wakayama, since Akidio originated there. Again, nothing consolidates this.

Shuichi Saihara -- Tokyo. His dad is a director, mom is an actress. A place where the film industry booms and mingles is the capital itself, possibly Ginza, Shibuya, or Shinjuku. As a person born in Tokyo, I'm quite sure Shuichi was from there too, probably in one of the many affluent neighborhoods in the Japanese town. Where his uncle lived, though, I have no idea.

Kaede Akamatsu -- I have proof that Kaede was from Yokohama, a prefecture close to Tokyo. It's an industrial district where many people commuting to Tokyo might live, and… Kaede's old school, Shining Star International High School, is a reference to a school located in Yokohama.

Korekiyo Shinguji -- Canon insists that he's from Osaka with his high school referencing a famous former all-girls school, but I don't really think so. You see, people from Osaka and the general Kinki district(yeah, I get the pun) have the accent, the particular type of dialect. Yasuhiro Hagakure had it. Kiyo does not have a glimmer of it in the Japanese dialect. Therefore, I think Kiyo is from Kyoto, the widely regarded cultural center of Japan, where many of his anthropological interests lie.

If anyone has any other clues as to where other Drv3 characters hail from, please please please mention them in the chat and in the asks!

#drv3 #ndrv3 #danganronpa v3 killing harmony #danganronpa v3 #danganronpa #korekiyo shinguji #rantaro amami #kaede akamatsu #shuichi saihara #tenko chabashira

[kenllre]

NéiL “La porte du prophete” BAND PROFILE Translation

Another Q&A style band profile from the Key Party fanclub magazine La porte du prophete, this time with Néil! It contains info about the members such as their birthdays, height/weight, favourite food, etc. Once again, thank you to @biologicalslicer​ for scanning the magazine! The link to their post with the scans is here. Read under the cut!

NOTE: I do not speak Japanese and mostly used machine translation, but I’ve done my best to make it as accurate as possible and I’m quite confident in the translation overall since it’s a pretty simple Q&A. (Extra notes are asterisked) Q1. Date of birth - Place of birth

Daisuke: American Independence Day - Wakayama Prefecture

Tetsu: November 16 - Gunma Prefecture

Teruhiko: September 25 - Tokyo

Takuyu: July 13 - Toyama Prefecture

Q2. Blood type

Daisuke: RH+A

Tetsu: B

Teruhiko: B

Takuyu: O

Q3. Height - Weight

Daisuke: 173cm - 55kg

Tetsu: Tiny

Teruhiko: 180cm, a little more - 64kg

Takuyu: 170cm - 55kg

Q4. Eye colour - Eyesight

Daisuke: Black - Contacts

Tetsu: Light brown - Both 1.5

Teruhiko: Black - Bad

Takuyu: Brown - Both 1.0

Q5. Foot size

Daisuke: 26~26.5cm

Tetsu: 25cm

Teruhiko: 27.5~28cm

Takuyu: 26cm

Q6. Favourite brand

Daisuke: Golce

Tetsu: Nothing in particular, but whatever I like. But I am particular about perfume.

Teruhiko: Gaultier and Dirk Bikkembergs

Takuyu: There are so many that I can’t write them

Q7. Self analysis of your personality

Daisuke: Gakincho Daimaou (*Great Demon King)

Tetsu: The difference between light and dark is intense.

Teruhiko: Sarcastic

Takuyu: Simple

Q8. Favourite food

Daisuke: Egg

Tetsu: Rice and something to go with it (like Nori)

Teruhiko: Sushi and yakiniku

Takuyu: Tasty things

Q9. Food you dislike

Daisuke: Natto

Tetsu: Canned asparagus 

Teruhiko: Getemono (*a Japanese word for strange/disgusting food that most people would never eat)

Takuyu: Bad things

Q10. Favourite music 

Daisuke: Many

Tetsu: Most if not all rock

Teruhiko: NeiL

Takuyu: Classic and heavy metal

Q11. Favourite type of woman

Daisuke: Sometimes mature, sometimes childish

Tetsu: A person who shares the same values

Teruhiko: A person who is modest but has his or her own ideas

Takuyu: Ikeike gyaru

Q12. Type of woman you dislike

Daisuke: The not so cute ones

Tetsu: A person who doesn’t share the same values

Teruhiko: Opposite type of the above (*My format may make this answer seem odd, but if you don’t get it, by “the above” he means his answer in Q11)

Takuyu: Secret

Q13. What do you not want in the world?

Daisuke: It’s a food chain... in this world...

Tetsu: Nuclear weapons

Teruhiko: Tetsu in a drunken state (laughs)

Takuyu: Politicans and bullies

Q14. What is death to you?

Daisuke: I won’t know until I die

Tetsu: If you don’t believe in yourself anymore, you’re as good as dead even if you’re alive.

Teruhiko: The end...? The beginning....?

Takuyu: No comment

Q15. On the day the world is destroyed, where will you be and with whom?

Daisuke: Plans are undecided

Tetsu: Sleeping at home with my cat

Teruhiko: Dancing in a circle with all the members!

Takuyu: Eating ramen in Shinjuku

#takuyu is really as simple as he says #hes not even specific with most of his answers LOL #daisuke is also a little eccentric #and tetsu is our motivation king #NéiL #neil #key party #translations

[adachimoe]

Why is Fuefuki said to be Inaba?

In my Finding Inaba post, I mentioned the belief that Fuefuki was thought to be Inaba because of buildings from there being referenced.

I thought these were lost to time, but Hasino's old posts were still on the Wayback Machine. So here's some backstory on this:

In 2008, Hashino posted on Atlus's old website and recalled a time during Persona 4's development when he and other Atlus staff drove from Shinjuku because they wanted to visit the countryside.

They stopped at towns they saw along the highway and wound up in "some mountainous town". They walked around a random shopping district and took photos, some of which Hashino shared with fans.

After the 2008 blog posting and Persona 4's release, people investigated Hashino's photos of Atlus's visit to a "mountainous town" and figured out it was Fuefuki.

Someone took a pilgrimage to Fuefuki. Said person took photos around town and compared them with screenshots from the game.

Unlike the movie "Your Name" that uses locations like the stairs of the Suga Shrine, or even Persona 3 where Iwatodai is a stand-in for the city of Kobe (you can tell by the map), the shopping district in Fuefuki and its buildings and the town map are nowhere near 1:1 with the game. The old Isawa Onsen Station that resembled Yasoinaba Station has also since been torn down and replaced with a more modern building.

Based on another of Hashino's development posts that mentioned "a school near Fuji Q Highland", the same pilgrim also went to a school near Fuji Q hoping to find Yasogami High. Since it's a real school, they weren't allowed to take comparison photos. Fuji Q is still in the Yamanashi prefecture, but it's not in Fuefuki.

So we do know for a fact that Atlus used streets and buildings there as a reference, and also spoke to people on the street, but I'm not sure using buildings as reference should really be taken to mean, "that's literally Inaba". Like Hashino purposely avoided saying "We stopped in Fuefuki" when he posted first in 2008. (Also, I would find it very hard to take anyone's complaining about being stuck in the sticks seriously if they're a 2 hour train ride from Tokyo lol.)

In my case - I didn't want to just see buildings, so I skipped Fuefuki and went to the area said to be related to the game's mythology and also where an Inaba territory used to exist.

#persona 4 #japan travel #from reddit #can't believe they made the country that persona takes place in a real country!!!

[into-the-feniverse]

Updated map of BNHA locations

Changes under the cut

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DISCLAIMER: I am not a cartographer or very good with geography, and this is an approximation of Japan and its regions/prefectures. Obviously the BNHA locations are fictional and theoretical, but for most of them the prefecture is mostly accurate

That being said, changed that were made:

Expanded on birthplaces (added several pro heroes)

Moved endeavor agency into Yokohama

NightEye/The Shie Hassaikai got moved to Osaka (since there was info about NightEye agency being near Jaku?)

Moved Hosu City as I found out it was “on the way to Shinjuku”

Put Shiketsu more in the Nara prefecture

References and additional maps/resources can be found here (including a link to a UA map created by somebody else)

Everything (timeline, templates, etc) is housed under this drive folder: bit.ly/bnhatemplates

I am resolving to never touch this map again (me when I lie. I’ve sunk enough time into it tho and I think it’s GOOD ENOUGH so, telling myself not to bother with it anymore for sanity reasons)

#mq posts #bnha #MHA #my hero academia #maps #boku no hero academia #resources #I also updated the timeline #will post that next #deleting the old one #I misspelt momo’s last name god fucking help me

[airu27]

Schedule of Musical 「Hetalia 〜The Fantastic World〜」

Osaka    7 April 2023: 18:00    8 April 2023: 12:30 & 17:30    9 April 2023: 12:30 & 17:30    10 April 2023: 13:00

Higashi Osaka Cultural Creation Center, Dream House Large Hall 2-3-4 Mikuriya Minami, Higashi-Osaka City, Osaka Prefecture

Tokyo    15 April 2023: 18:00    16 April 2023: 12:30 & 17:30    17 April 2023: -    18 April 2023: 13:00 & 18:00    19 April 2023: 18:00    20 April 2023: 13:00 & 18:00    21 April 2023: 14:00    22 April 2023: 12:30 & 17:30    23 April 2023: 11:30 & 16:00

Japan Seinenkan Hall 4-1 Kasumigaoka-cho, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo

#soon! #hetamyu #hetamyu fw #hetalia musical

[adito-lang]

18.01.24 Tokyo Quiz

Answer and Translation

1. 東京スカイツリーの高さは？What is the height of Tokyo's Skytree?

c　634m

(Tokyo Skytree is the largest tower and the third largest structure in the world!)

2. 東京ディズニーランドがある場所は？In what place is Tokyo Disneyland located?

b　千葉県 Chiba Prefecture

3. 東京都庁のある区は？Which ward has the Tokyo Metropolitan City Hall?

a　新宿区 Shinjuku

4. 東京にない橋は？Which bridge is not in Tokyo?

c　ベイブリッジ

#japanese #japanese langblr #langblr #sprachkalender #was too busy to post these the past few weeks so i'm playing some catchup #Youtube

[rygoespop]

Thomas’s World Tour (Story 1): Molly the Popstar

Hey everyone, Ry here, and welcome to my 2nd Spin Off of my Thomas and Friends AU, Thomas’s World Tour, based on Thomas’s YouTube World Tour on the Thomas Channel, anyways enjoy the first story

Narrator: Molly the Popstar

Scene opens with Thomas, James, Percy, Emily, Molly, Rosie, and Rebecca, all visiting Japan as they were in Tokyo

Narrator: While visiting Japan, Thomas and his friends were excited

Thomas: I can’t believe we are back in Japan!

Rebecca: I can’t believe that this is my first time seeing what Japan looks like

James: You got to believe it, we are famous here

Man: *sees Thomas, James, Percy, Emily, Molly, Rosie, and Rebecca* Look! It’s Thomas and his friends, they are back!

The crowd of people greeted and cheered for Thomas and his friends as they are back, now with Rebecca traveling with them

Molly: Konnichiwa!

Rebecca: Wow Molly, I didn’t know you can speak Japanese

Molly: Well, yes. A friend taught me that

Rebecca: Who-

Hiro: I did *blew his whistle as he puffs in*

Thomas: *excited* Hiro!

Hiro: Hello Thomas, I’m glad you and your friends came to Japan again *sees Rebecca* Hello, you must be Rebecca, we met at that Christmas Party on Sodor

Rebecca: Oh yeah! I remember you, your Hiro!

Hiro: Indeed I am, is this your first time visiting Japan?

Rebecca: Oh yeah! I can’t believe I’m seeing Tokyo!

Rosie: It’s great to see you again Hiro!

Hiro: You too, Rosie

Molly: Nice to see you again, Hiro-San

Scene transitions to the 8 engines puffing down the line to Shinjuku within Tokyo

Hiro: Here, is the Shinjuku Prefecture of Tokyo

Rebecca: Woooooooow!

Rosie: *to Rebecca* I was also seen as a Sumo Queen by a bunch of Sumo Wrestlers

Rebecca: Really?

Rosie: It’s a long story

Molly: *hears a familiar tune* That sounds like- *recognizes it* The Bubblegum Maidens!

Rebecca: The Bubblegum what?

Molly: Bubblegum Maidens, they are Japan’s well known Girl Band, of Japanese Pop!

Rebecca: Ooooh

Molly: I’m gonna greet them! *puffs off to the Band*

The Bubblegum Maidens were practically singing until they heard a whistle

Molly: Hi everyone, I’m back!

Bubblegum Maiden Manager: Welcome back Molly! We missed you

Bubblegum Maiden Singers: We missed you as well!

Molly: I missed you all

Percy: *to Rebecca* We helped Molly get ready when a concert came to Tokyo

Rebecca: Ooooooh, that’s interesting

Bubblegum Maiden Manager: She provided her whistle for our music, so in honor, we decided to let her sing her own song

Thomas: That’ll be interesting

Scene transitions to evening at Tokyo Yards, as Molly was getting decorated in a Sailor Moon Like Costume

Narrator: Later that evening, Molly was decorated for her solo show

Molly: How do I look?

Percy: You look great!

Thomas: Like something out of those Comics of Magic Girls

Rebecca: Looking good on you Molly

Rosie: I agree

Emily: Me too!

James: Not bad

Molly: Thank you!

Hiro: Now then Molly, on with the show

Scene transitions to night

Narrator: Later that night, the show was about to begin

Molly: *singing* 1 2 3 4! Puffy puffy! The Puffing Steam Engine will be coming now, puffing through stations, the seaside, evenly the countryside, spreading love! Lucky lucky! Puffy hi hi hi! Puffy puffy! Puffy puffy puff puff puffing Steam Engine! Find your love! Puffy puff! The Puffing Steam Engine! Spreading love!

The entire song lead into a Japanese Pop Music Video, with Molly in the center, as well as the other engines puffing in small circles

Molly: Puffy puffy puffer!

The other 7 engines and the audience were a bit silent, until the audience cheered

Thomas: Cinders and Ashes! That was the best song I’ve heard!

Percy: Wow! It was, amazing!

Rebecca: Three cheers for Molly!

Thomas, Percy, James, Emily, Rosie, Rebecca, and Hiro all blew their whistles to cheer for Molly

Rosie: That’s our friend!

Scene transitions to the next day at Tokyo Station, were Molly was puffing into the station to buffer up to her coaches, as the Bubblegum Maidens Manager was there

Narrator: The next day, as Molly arrived to collect her coaches, the manager of the Bubblegum Maidens was there on the platform

Molly: Oh, hello there!

Bubblegum Maidens Manager: I am really surprised by your performance! You amazed the crowd and your friends!

Molly: Oh, thank you

Bubblegum Maidens Manager: I’m sure your friends back on Sodor would loved your song

Molly: I’m sure they do *she giggled*

Scene ends with an Anime Style ending with Molly as a Human in Sailor Moon like attire with a a Microphone

Story End

#thomas and friends

[isaksbestpillow]

this is random lol but do you have any japanese youtuber recs?? vloggers maybe

I don't watch a lot of vloggers these days (my fave channel atm is Kaamen-kun which is a gardening channel lol) but I can try!

Chirochan - A guy in Kouchi Prefecture films his elderly grandparents. They mostly cook, drink tea and chitchat. A very heartwarming channel with cozy vibes.

Kanataimu - A guy who posts about his trans journey and his life with deaf parents. Calm, friendly vibes. The guy has a pleasant camera presence.

Kazuechan - A channel that features lgbtq stories and issues. Kazue-chan should be on tv because he is so good at interviewing people. Comforting to tear-jerking vibes.

NANA05365 - An elderly guy in Akita Prefecture who posts about his corgis and garden. Cheerful, healing vibes.

Obabian channel - A group of lesbians in their 40s make videos together. Fun, friendly vibes. I want to be their friend so bad.

Hapi life - A lesbian couple living their best life. Happy vibes.

Kare wa mou sugu otokonoko - A guy and his girlfriend being infuriatingly cute. They also post about the guy's trans journey. Sweet vibes.

Pitachannel - A lesbian couple living their best life in Okinawa. Attractive vibes.

Yuuxchuxbuu - A gay couple from Kansai who mostly does livestreams. I haven't watched them in aaages but they have a funny double act dynamic. Candid, silly vibes.

Momo Ten Kuu - A channel about a dog and two cats. Perfect vibes.

2nd street - Probably the biggest Japanese lgbtq channel. They post about the gay scene in Shinjuku nichoume so it’s quite different from the other more subdued channels.

Tabieats - A middle aged couple that does food reviews in English.

#asks

[kokiafans]

KOKIA in flashback - 2010

KOKIA has caught the travelling bug ahead of 2010, which is the year her album REAL WORLD comes out. For the concept of this album, she travels to the Sahara, Tunisia in November 2009, getting inspired by the sceneries she comes across. The promotional video for her song The woman is recorded in the desert, and her journey also results in a photobook and photo exhibition later that year.

It inspires her Japan concert tour oto no tabibito ('sound traveler') in April, selling out the Tokyo Bunkamura Orchard Hall on the final day of that tour. She uses lights and sounds more whimsically than before, taking her audience on a journey through the heart. As a fun tidbit, one of the dresses she wears in this concert is dyed with curry!

However, her 2010 travel doesn't end there; for the fifth year in a row, KOKIA returns to Europe, spreading her wings even further than before. Her REAL WORLD tour in October takes her through 8 different countries for 12 performances: Hungary, Russia, Poland, Austria, Germany, Spain, England and France.

In between it all, KOKIA still manages to release the final chapter of her Life trilogy (with the title tracks of all 3 singles ending up on the REAL WORLD album) and her first ever cover album, Musique a la Carte. This is also the year when For little tail, her song that preceded her actual debut, gets an official release with the digital single Road to Glory ~long journey~.

◆ Lives and events ◆

February 28-March 1 KOKIA Live in Naeba Prince Hotel white notes Vol.4 (Naeba Prince Hotel Chatelaine)

【KOKIA concert tour 2010 oto no tabibito ('sound traveler')】 April 12 - Fukuoka, IMS Hall April 19 - Aichi, Telepia Hall April 24-25 - Osaka, Osaka Business Park round hall April 30 - Tokyo, Shibuya Bunkamura Orchard Hall

April 17 Dragon Nest full presentation party (Shibuya O-EAST)

June 29 SPLASH SUMMER in Otodama: OTODAMA SEA STUDIO (Kanagawa, OTODAMA SEA STUDIO)

July 11 Concert sponsored by the Yamagata Block Council of the Junior Chamber (Yamagata prefecture, Higashine city comprehensive insurance welfare facility, Sakuranbo Tantokuru Center)

July 27 KOKIA 2010 Summer Tour (Kashiwazaki Industrial and Cultural Center Cultural Hall) ※ Kashiwazaki municipal government enforcement 70th anniversary support project - event concert to commemorate 3 years of recovery from the Niigata-Chûetsu offshore earthquake

August 1 Song for you (Zepp NAGOYA)

August 7 UNITED EARTH Studio Alta (Shinjuku Studio Alta)

August 15 Hangame summer festival (Belle Salle Akihabara) ※ Release event for the mini album Road to Glory ~long journey~

August 28 ~Magokoro~ tanshin festa ('~sincerity~ from the heart') (Hyôgo, Tanba Forest Park) ※ Mini live at the food festa of the 43rd membership meeting of the Japan Junior Chamber's Kinki District Hyogo Block Council

September 4 (September 5/September 11) tokai no kakurega concert 2 ('hideout in the city’) (Tokyo, sonorium) ※ Event exclusively for members of the KOKIA fanclub, club ancoro, 5 performances total

September 20 Musique a la carte release event (Tokyo, Printemps Ginza)

September 23 KOKIA Musique a la Carte Special Live (Roppongi STB139 Sweet Basil) ※2 performances, Irish live with Irish guitarist Seán Whelan

September 25 Travel exposition 2010 (Tokyo Big Sight) ※Mini-Live as an event of the Embassy of the Republic of Tunisia

【KOKIA REAL WORLD Tour 2010】 ※ European tour, amounting to 12 performances in 8 countries October 2 - Extra performance (Budapest, Mondocon) ※event attendance October 8 - Moscow, Koncert October 9 - Poznań, Blue Note October 12 - Vienna, Haus der Muzik October 13 - Munich, Feierwerk October 15 - Marseille, Le Poste a Galene October 16 - Barcelona, Sidecar October 17 - Toulouse, la Dynamo October 20 - Brest, la Carene October 22 - London, Islington Academy 2 October 23 - Cologne, Cafe Lichtung October 24 - Paris, Theatre Michel

November 6 Kyoto School of Computer Science November festival (Kyoto School of Computer Science)

November 13 Sagami Lake Illumination lighting ceremony (Kanagawa, Sagami Lake Resort, Pleasure Forest) ※ Mini live and lighting ceremony broadcasted on November 16 by FM Yokohama as Sagami Lake Illumination SPECIAL

December 11 KOKIA 2010 Winter Rose Concert (Tokyo, Suntory Hall Blue Rose) ※ 2 performances in 1 day

December 21 Marunouchi Bright Christmas 2010 KOKIA Special LIVE (Tokyo, Maru building, Maru Cube)

◆ Releases ◆

March 17 Release of the iTunes Store exclusive digital EP Kodoku na ikimono/ano hi no watashi ni ('Lonely beings/To the me of those days’) (Victor Entertainment) ※ Chapter 3 in the <Life Trilogy ~inochi no 3-busaku~> ('trilogy of life’). Mini album with 4 tracks

March 31 Release of original album REAL WORLD (Victor Entertainment) ※ Release of the French edition on April 7 (Wasabi Records)

August 1 Release of DVD 2010 OTO NO TABIBITO KOKIA CONCERT TOUR (anco&co)

September 15 Release of cover album Musique a la Carte (Victor Entertainment) ※ First KOKIA cover album (includes songs recorded in Ireland)

◆ Other releases ◆

January 27 Release of the soundtrack for PlayStation 3 game Ar tonelico 3: Sakiya rumei ('blooming night') ~Ar tonelico III hymmnos concert side. Aoi ('blue') (Frontier Works) ※ Performed EXEC_REBIRTHIA=PROTOCOL/., EXEC_COSMOFLIPS/. and Hikari no naka ni ('Into the light')

May 26 Release of the single Fate (Lantis) ※ Opening theme of the animated movie Break Blade

July 7 Release of mini album 'Bungaku shoujo' Memorial Soundtrack I - yume miru shoujo no zensoukyoku  ('Book girl: the dreaming girl’s overture’) (GloryHeaven) ※ Wrote and performed Koto no ha ('literary words'), the ending theme for the animated series 'Bungaku shoujo' Memorial I - yume miru shoujo no zensoukyoku (prelude) ('Book girl: the dreaming girl’s overture’)

August 11 Release of the digital ESCOLTA single SANCTUS ~Voice Of Peace~ feat.KOKIA ※ Also included on the ESCOLTA album GLORIA SIRENA, released on November 24

August 18 Release of mini album Road to Glory ~long journey~ (Voice Records) ※ Theme song of the online game Dragon Nest, Road to Glory~ for Dragon Nest White Version

December 8 Release of the Yuki Kajiura soundtrack album The Works for Soundtrack (Ariola Japan) ※ Performed the main theme song Rainbow ~Main Theme~ and insert song Lost Home for the movie Rainbow, which was theatrically released in July 1999

◆ Books ◆

March 31 Release of the album concept photobook REAL WORLD PHOTO BOOK

April 12 Piano and voice sheet music collection otonami book (anco&co.) ※ Includes a bonus CD with Nukumori (piano self-accompanied version) ('warmth')

◆ Other ◆

Springtime Music video broadcast at Astrovision in the atrium of Osaka Business Park Twin21 (spring) ※ First screening of the music video The woman for the album REAL WORLD

June 17-June 20  ~shashin kara fureru KOKIA no oto no sekai~ ('the musical world of KOKIA touchable from photos') KOKIA × photographer Yutaka Nakamura (Paris, L'Atelier Gustave) ※ Photo panels on display at the gallery (masterpieces, signed, lot numbered) are sold at the venue

September 23 TV Tokyo's 45th anniversary program: Fuuin sareta sanzou houshi no nazo ~ Silk Road 30,000 kilo ni idonda otoko ('The mystery of the sealed Sanzo monk ~The man who took on the 30,000 km Silk Road~') ※ Wrote and performed the theme song Toki no tabibito ('time traveler')

#KOKIA #25 years of kokia in flashback

[the-gayest-sky-kid]

i havw no idea what hypmic is and at this point im almost too afraid to ask (this is me asking) (i just woke up what going on)

ME NEITHER I AM THE WORST PERSON TO ASK

basic idea is uhm hypmic is japan after world war 3 and the new government issues hypnosis mics instead of weapons which turn words into power. therefore you rap into them to attack people. there's a lot of smaller groups im sure but theres a couple main ones coming from different prefectures

buster bros from ikebukuro. run by 3 brothers (oldest and weeb, middle and sporty, youngest and smart), led by eldest brother ichiro yamada

mad trigger crew from yokohama (which unfortunately makes them my automatic association when i hear of yokohama which is. bad for watching bsd). run by a yakuza, a former navy officer and a dirty cop, led by yakuza samatoki aohitsugi

fling posse from shibuya. run by a government clone and enemy, government enemy and author, and son of the prime minister and gambler. led by government clone and enemy ramuda amemura

mantenrou from shinjuku. run by an assasin turned doctor, anxious salaryman, and professional host. led by assasin turned doctor jakurai jinguji

dotsuitare hompo from osaka. run by a stand up comedian, former stand up comedian turned math teacher, and a con man/absent father. led by stand up comedian sasara nurude

bad ass temple from nagoya. run by a monks son, the local goth kid, and a lawyer with beef with jakurai. led by the monks son, kuko harai

all the group leaders have major drama with each other for government interference reasons. it mostly has to do with ramuda.

this is literally just baseline knowledge

this is the video i watched first getting into the series so it might help. it might not.

#caps cw #longer post #aethers asks #i literally have like no idea what im talking about #long post

[ja0-s-blank-canvas-fic]

Part 3 - Chapter 15 - I-Island: Friends New And Old

Blank Canvas Part 3

AO3 - here

Fanfiction.net - here

It's finally I-Island time!!! :D Super excited to explore this arc with you peeps. ^____^ I'm sure you're all wondering how this is going to go down since Izuku doesn't have OFA. I myself am happy with what I came up with so I hope you all do as well!

Warning for spoilers for My Hero Academia: Two Heroes for this next arc on I-Island. Please watch the movie if you don't want to be spoiled! :D

Linktree to all the things!    

End notes for the chapter are under the line.  

There ya have it! The start of I-Island shenanigans. Izuku's muttering seems to just be getting worse but he's got an idea on how to handle that in the future. And it's just so fun for him to have awkward introductions because of it. XD

Melissa has officially met the Freakateers! Mei is so possessive and overprotective of Izuku. XD I just love her spaz nature so much. Her emotions always doing a 180 flip at a moment's notice. Hitoshi and Shouto of course would be more chill while Izuku is awkward but sociable. Plus Quirkless bonding time.

I had a lot of fun with Hound Dog being a part of their group in this. Easily sniffing out that something wasn't quite right. ;) And with All Might actually being open with his friend about OFA, David and he had a heart to heart both getting things off their chests. Will the Heroes be prepared in time? We'll have to wait and see! :D

Fun Facts About Japan:

This is more of an anecdotal one. For my personal experience with it comes to the JET Program application process, it took about 10 months. I submitted my application in September and got an email in December that I would get an interview which was in January. Then in March I found out I got wait-listed and had to wait to see if I would get picked or not. Thankfully only for a week! I got another email informing me I was to be placed in Yachiyo City and let's just say for me I was very happy for the wait.

In the application you can give requests of possible placements and why. Not a guarantee but I have a feeling it might have affected my placement. XD I put down Chiba as my top choice for the sole reason that Tokyo Disneyland was located in it. Yup, as reminder Tokyo Disney is in the Tokyo Bay area but technically it is in Chiba Prefecture! Anyway, I added that I would find a way to visit Tokyo Disney regardless of placement but being in Chiba would just make it easier. After a week, I find out I got Yachiyo that was 40 minutes away by train? Ya-freaking-tta!! I'll take it. And if I became the local Disney expert/park guide, let's just say I channeled my inner cast member and Disney magic. ;P That and years of experience visiting the US park as well as working in Disney World for a year.

Anyway, when it came time to finally depart for Japan in late July, for me it was quite the process. Depending on where you're flying from, not all airports have a direct path to Narita or Haneda airport. That was happened to me and so I had to fly to California, stay a night, and then take a flight from there to Japan. Lots of lugging around so many suit cases to and from and back to the airport. The flight to Japan is over 11 hours and once you get there, as soon as you get through customs and to the hotel, it's straight into 3 days of orientation. Physically and mentally exhausting but still worth it.

Then there's that first night in Tokyo. You're exhausted but how can you resist not exploring! Seeing Shinjuku for the first time was an experience much like how Izuku is when he first sees I-Island. So much to see, hear, eat, and just absorb. And I feel like I mentioned this once before, but I still cannot believe I got to see a freaking giant Godzilla head on top of TOHO cinema my very first night in Japan! XD That's when it really started to sink in for me. And it just so happened to be when a newer Godzilla film had come out too so double Godzilla. You can see some of my pictures here. Enjoy!

That's it for now! We've got more I-Island fun to come next chapter. But no spoilers for that. ;) Have fun theorizing! Okay, bye bye. ^___^

#mha #bnha #quirkless au #fanfic #blankcanvasfic #blankcanvasheritage #midoriya izuku #todoroki shouto #shinsou hitoshi #hatsume mei #All Might #yagi toshinori #present mic #yamada hizashi #pro hero hound dog #inui ryou #melissa shield #david shield

[wwjfjdg-blog]

starting fresh

Hello! This first blog post is hopefully going to cover my journey from my home in the UK to my new home in the south of Kumamoto prefecture, Japan. I'll try not to make it too long.

August 20th, 2022, Heathrow airport. The drive to the airport was oddly... normal. My parents, partner, and I chatted like we would have on any other day. I think that my parents and I purposely 'forgot' the fact that I was moving away until we got to the drop-off point outside the terminal, so once we arrived, there were a few moments in which we sat slightly apprehensively. Though we wouldn't see each other for some time, none of us really wanted an overly emotional goodbye, so I appreciated them for helping me to get on with it as though it were nothing more than a weekend trip. It was then into the airport to meet the other people from the UK heading out on the program. Even though there were around 100 of us, I actually ended up eating alone in the airport which was not a very me thing to do. Perhaps the gravity of what I was about to do was hitting a little bit, but I think that I just needed a little bit of space. I sat in an Italian restaurant and ate a pizza as I'd heard that pizza was expensive in Japan.

Cue 24 hours of airports and flights - ouch. We flew 11.5 hours to Doha, Qatar, and then, after a few hours layover, another 10 on to Tokyo. It was a lot of flying and I didn't sleep at all (my first day on my own and I was already making poor life decisions, whoops), but other than that, the flights were fairly easy and had very little turbulence.

August 21st, 2022, Tokyo. We landed in Tokyo on the evening of the 21st, and took an hour-and-a-half bus ride to the hotel in Shinjuku. Whilst the flights were tiring, and although I only had 2 days in Tokyo, I still did my best to make the most of the time there. The first full day there, after a full day of conferences and lectures, I fancied a run so I headed out to explore a little. I ran around 代々木公園 (Yoyogi park) and grabbed some breakfast for the next few days from a 7/11 before heading back. It was only about 7km, but in my defence, it was over 30°C and 100000% humidity. Feeling slightly like I wasn't taking enough advantage of being Tokyo, I decided to get up early the next morning in order to head to Shibuya. I walked through the park again and then had a coffee in the Starbucks that overlooks Shibuya crossing before doing a little bit of exploring in the surrounding area. After some more lectures, I went out and sang Karaoke with a few of the other people on the program and then headed back to the hotel to get some rest; we were leaving to fly out of Tokyo at just after 6 the next morning. These are the only pictures that I took in Tokyo but I thought I'd share them here (my inability to take photos is one of the things that I plan to work on in my time here).

August 24th , 2022, Kumamoto. I arrived at my new home around midday on a Wednesday after flying down from Tokyo and then driving for around an hour and a half into the countryside. I have to thank my coworkers for the lovely welcome and help that they provided when I arrived because without them, it would have been a tricky day. We went out and bought some furniture, food and other essentials before they dropped me back at my appartment. With that, my journey was complete, I had travelled 6000 miles from home and was now sat on a single sofa in an empty apartment. I might have been fairly overwhelmed if it hadn't been for the fact that I was absolutely shattered (Maybe not sleeping on those planes was a good thing after all???). I called my partner and my parents to let them know that I had arrived safely and then headed to bed. First step of my 'fresh start' complete.

It's now the middle of October, almost 2 months from when I arrived, but I thought that considering what this blog is going to be about, the journey to get here was a good first post. There are a few things that I plan to write about on this blog, goals, thoughts on different aspects of life here, plans, etc, though I have no idea when I'll get around to writing them. For the moment, here are some rather lovely photos of the area I now live in:

I think that's probably enough for now so thanks for reading; I'll hopefully see you soon with another blog post.

W.

#Japan #JET #help

[usagirotten]

Japan's leading horror manga artist Junji Ito announces first NFT collection "TOMIE by Junji Ito"

The news comes from Junji Ito, one of manga's most iconic creators when it comes to horror. The Eisner-winning artist just announced plans to release an NFT series based on their hit story Tomie. So if you want to nab one of its pieces, Ito's collection will launch in November. In commemoration of the distribution decision of the Netflix series "Junji Ito "Maniac"", the NFT art project of the representative work "Tomie" has started. Programmable NFT that pays tribute to Tomie will be airdropped and sales will start in November. Lead Edge Consulting Co., Ltd. (Headquarters: Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, President: Takayuki Shoji) collaborates with Yomiuri Television Enterprise Co., Ltd. (Headquarters: Osaka City, Osaka Prefecture, President: Naoya Umeda) to create Japan's leading horror movie. Digital art featuring "TOMIE" from the work of cartoonist Junji Ito will be released as NFT. This time, it will be Junji Ito's first official NFT collection, and it will be generative art based on manga manuscripts. Junji Ito's masterpiece horror including this "Tomie" is animated as Netflix series "Junji Ito 'Maniac'". Scheduled to be distributed worldwide on January 19, 2023, this NFT collection has started as a project commemorating the animation. Mr. Junji Ito has received high acclaim not only in Japan but also overseas, including winning the Best Asian Film Award at this year's Eisner Awards for "Lovers of the Dead" (Junji Ito Masterpieces Vol. 4/published by Asahi Shimbun Publishing). increase. In addition to just NFT art, we also offer unique benefits that express “Tomie’s character” with “NFT’s unique technology”. Title: TOMIE by Junji Ito Sales date: November 2022 (planned) Sales price: We will inform you later. Number of sales: 2,222 Chain: Ethereum Sales form: Sales on the official website Official website: https://nft.ji-anime.com/ Read the full article

#anime #horror #Jhorror #JunjiIto #NFT #NFTCollection #nftcommunity

[b0rderbunny]

♡ORPHIC♡ (PROMO)

(A/N): New Death Note fanfic on my wattpad, chapter 1 is out! for any confusion, this is an AU where Light didnt pick up the Death Note and instead a OC named Akiko Did. L is Blue Akiko is Pink Together is purple

“We interrupt your program to bring you an important message from the ICPO, this is a worldwide emergency alert message. My name is Lind L. Taylor, otherwise known as ‘L '’” Akiko’s eyes widened as a small blush spread to her cheeks. 

‘L? As in the L? The number one detective in the world who solved over 3000 cases? He looks a little different than expected but still it's the L! ‘ 

“To the perpetrator of these serial murders, you have committed the most abominable act in history. I will personally catch the one behind it… ‘Kira’ at any cost.” ‘L’ said glaring directly at the camera. A glare that sent chills up the girl's spine. 

“L…. you truly are amazing!” Akiko squealed while gazing at the screen with a blush. 

Ryuk observed with an amused expression as the girl fangirled over the detective. 

“Kira-” the detective continued stopping the girl from her train of praises for the male. “- i think i have a pretty good idea of what you are trying to do and why you're doing it. But what you're doing.. Is evil.”

'Evil? If L thinks what I'm doing is evil then is it? …. That doesn't matter. Sometimes it's easier to use the evil route to a pure, perfect, and safe destination.’ she thought, flipping the page to an empty one. “I truly will be a honor to be the one to kill you, L” she whispered, writing the name ‘Lind. L. taylor’.

“ Police all over have already begun to investigate.” ‘L’ said a serious expression. “Such a shame for such a pretty mind,” Akiko said softly and sadly, looking at her clock. “Ah, just 20 seconds.” she said with a sad smile present on her lips. 

“Ten……. Three. Two. one.. Zero.” as she finished the count down the man on the screen yelled clutching his chest in pain a second later falling dead. 

“Bye bye L '' she sighed, getting ready to turn off the Television as two men carried the dead male off screen. 

“Unbelievable!” a new voice joined in stopping the girl in her tracks. “I did this on the off chance that you would kill ‘me’.” The voice said confusing Akiko. 

“So Kira you can kill people without even being nearby. So it's true after all… if I hadn't seen it with my own eyes I would never have believed it. But this was the only way you could have killed them, wasn't it? Kira listened to me. The person you killed was actually a prisoner sentenced to be executed at this time today. Not me. He was a criminal imprisoned without any media attention so naturally even you didn't know he existed-”. “Heh he got you there” Ryuuk laughed, making the girl strike him on his shoulder. “-but let me assure you. I am real. So why don't you try to kill me?!”

“Seems like you can't kill me after all” 

“So there are people you can't kill, you've given me a useful clue~. Let me give you one in return. I said that this was a world wide broadcast, but in reality it's only being shown in the Kanto region of Japan. I was planning on doing this in the other prefectures of Japan, but now that's not necessary. I know now, you're in the Kanto region”

Akiko’s eyes widened as Ryuk chuckled behind her. “Heh, heh, this L guy isn't half bad” he said rubbing his aching shoulder.

“The police might have missed this but I know your first victim was a murderer in shinjuku. Compared to all the other criminals who died of similar causes, this guy seems insignificant. And only the Japanese media reported this incident. That was the only clue I needed to know you're in Japan. And that was just a test for your killings. I got lucky casting my net out to the most populated area of Japan.”

“I didn't expect my plan to go so well.”

“Kira, I am extremely interested In your killing method. I'll figure it out. When I catch you. “ The blush on Akiko's face grew.

“L…” she mumbled.

“Kira…” 

“I will hunt you down and destroy you!” 

“I am-”

“I am-”

“Justice!”

“See you Kira”

The television buzzed off as the man signed off.

“Each searching for an opponent whose identity is a mystery. And the first to be found will die. I'll be looking forward to the results.

“As expected….. L…… you're so cool!” The girl squealed.

‘Humans are so interesting.’

#anime #death note #death note manga #l lawliet #lawlight #light yagami #yagami light #misa amane #amane misa #deathnote #fanfic #fanfiction #wattpad #oc #ocs #x oc #original character #ryuk death note #shinigami

[waraningyo]

@kusattainu⠀웃⠀plotted starter!

when she was sent over the school uniform she'd be wearing as a student at tokyo prefectural,⠀cementing that she'd be leaving the lush green for miles that'd a younger her had grown so sick of seeing⠀(⠀she deserved to see more than the same village faces,⠀their condescending ways a thorn in her side⠀),⠀her grandmother allowed her to go shopping in shinjuku as a dual treat and apology.⠀wary of the upper echelons,⠀the big dogs in jujutsu society,⠀she'd initially hidden the letter of recommendation from nobara:⠀under the impression that what she didn't know wouldn't hurt her⠀(⠀hoping that one day she would come to understand why the village functioned the way it did,⠀why the villagers were the way they were,⠀how tradition kept them on the fringes,⠀yes,⠀but ultimately safe⠀)⠀and she hoped and prayed to any ancestor that'd hear her out that this was the best course of action to take to protect her granddaughter.

[⠀...⠀]

but nobara was too much like her obasan, ⠀too headstrong and not easily swayed by the opinions of others,⠀nor petty tricks, ⠀a near perfect reflection.⠀a reminder of how her elder acted in her bygone youth.⠀in brash teenaged excitement does she done one of many carbon copies of her official school uniform,⠀double-checking herself and how she looks in the mirror,⠀a hand's nimble fingers carding through recently dyed tresses.⠀gloss-slicked lips upturn into a triumphant smile as once brown eyes⠀(⠀man,⠀these contacts sure stung while being put in!⠀)⠀twinkle with the promise of keeping their shine:⠀no matter the glitz and glamour of the city proper.⠀ nobara wouldn't be so easily sucked into assimilation,⠀not like how so many who moved away did⠀—⠀her sights were set more internally,⠀her mind's eye always more so focused on the appearance and being of self,⠀overall.

the tohoku shinkansen makes quick work of bridging the distance between nobara and her destination:⠀mylord,⠀a shopping mall in shinjuku with a knack for attracting young shoppers much like herself.⠀the ride is relaxing enough to where she's soon lulled to near-sleep by the steady rock of it,⠀exacerbated by the early 2000s' j-pop playing through her headphones.⠀soon enough,⠀this would be her life⠀—⠀living it up,⠀sticking it to city curses⠀(⠀'⠀they can't be so tough,⠀'⠀she surmises⠀),⠀showing the higher-ups not to underestimate the likes of countryside sorcerers⠀—⠀and oh,⠀what a life it'll be!

to say that kugisaki nobara was excited for this new development in her life,⠀wherein independence would be wholly in her grasp after being watered so delicately by her grandmother:⠀her roots⠀(⠀her potential as a jujutsushi carefully cultivated into what it was⠀)⠀finally growing after a period of stagnation,⠀brought forth by the somewhat unfavorable⠀(⠀until she got sick of village life⠀)⠀conditions she found herself in,⠀was an understatement.⠀finally,⠀she was allowed to blossom on her own terms and she wanted to keep it that way.

it happens in a blur:⠀her unboarding,⠀briskly leaving the train station with the trusty help of her dated smartphone's GPS⠀(⠀really,⠀she couldn't wait to invest in a new one, this one's camera quality sucks!⠀), staring a bit doe-eyed and marveling a bit at her sight of the city's ward, people bustling around her, before moving on to the mall:⠀she wasn't in tohoku anymore.⠀soon enough,⠀shopping bags weigh a bit heavily on her arms⠀(⠀where was a boyfriend when you needed one???⠀)⠀and what's in them is any other teenaged girl's correct guess.

she doesn't feel like the odd one out here.

it was deliberate,⠀her choosing to stick out like a sore thumb.⠀when she dyed her hair,⠀the villagers,⠀who long held her grandmother in high regard,⠀stared at nobara like she sort of grew an extra head or two.⠀trading her lush natural brown hue for a seemingly eccentric shade of ginger:⠀the outgoingly spirited young girl,⠀with the ancestrally wise obasan,⠀seemed astute in the choice that conformity in regards to long-held village customs and ways of living was something she'd hold an aversion to.⠀always.

perhaps,⠀this was her rebelling and lashing out against the bulldozing of saori's home years prior after she'd left,⠀having been ostracized and run out by their stupid views on outsiders.⠀nobara had been devastated and enraged by this,⠀but she was a growing and in-training jujutsushi:⠀she'd have to settle for pouting,⠀angrily scribbling in her diary,⠀and keeping her emotions on a regulated leash⠀—⠀lest cursed spirits would fester near.

she was never the odd one out.

just set apart,⠀consecrated by her bloodline's inheritance of their technique,⠀by her status as a jujutsushi.⠀to non-jujutsushi others she was the outlier,⠀but who gave a damn about what they thought?⠀she wears her pride in her heritage,⠀in what's been passed down,⠀overtly.⠀it's an integral part of her:⠀makes up a big chunk of who she is.⠀it helps that her new school uniform grounds her in a way that exacerbates that pride.⠀it's a good fit on her and it isn't gaudy.

any other,⠀regular-degular non-jujutsushi human looking at her would assume she attends a private school⠀(⠀they aren't wrong in a sense⠀).⠀to them,⠀city folk:⠀she'd perhaps just be another country girl who got fed up of seeing rolling plains of green,⠀the lack of opulence to be seen there instead of here,⠀a budding assimilationist who'd readily toss herself to the wind because she'd become enamored with skyscrapers and convenience of walkability.

they had her pegged wrong.⠀

to the trained eye,⠀to another jujutsushi,⠀it'd be wholly evident that she's wearing a personally custom-made uniform because she'd be soon to be set to attend only one-of-two jujutsu educational institutions as a student.⠀she's all smiles as she walks into the nearest konbini,⠀shopping majorly over,⠀it was time to stock up on her personal stash of snacks before sightseeing and eventually heading back home to tohoku.⠀tokyo would see her again,⠀soon enough.⠀it's with a pep in her step that she flounces up to the cash register,⠀yen in hand,⠀dumping her allotted treats and flashing a friendly smile at the person working the register today.⠀

a keen eye catch their name-tag and gaze soon zooms in on their face.⠀she was much like her obasan,⠀too much,⠀one would argue:⠀astute to a trained degree.⠀jujutsushi knew their own.⠀she looks around,⠀they're the only two in the konbini.⠀good,⠀she feels less scandalized when she takes back her bagged goods from them,⠀leaning in she asks:⠀“⠀ne,⠀suiren!⠀you wouldn't happen to be a fellow jujutsushi,⠀would you?⠀”⠀

#🔨、verse⠀웃⠀tba. #kusattainu #long post cw / #SENAAAAAA!! #i am SO SO SO excited for these two to be interacting!!!!! #note: she's wearing her school uniform bc she wants to like .... get a normalized feel for it if that makes sense! lol #LMK IF U WANT ANYTHING CHANGED AND I'LL CHANGE IT XOXO!!! #NOW THAT'S IT'S FINISHED AND THEY'RE INTERACTING I HOPE U LOVE IT AS MUCH AS I LOVED WRITING IT. I ADORE THESE TWO ALREADY. <3