WHY pretending to be rashid. why does daniel not remember. did devils minion happen in the 70s? they gave part of the armand-and-louis story to lestat-and-louis so what now with armand-and-louis. are they going to give them the armand-and-nicky storyline instead. is that why the bookshelves is that why the penthouse. but then again why the interview. especially because armand thinks other vampires are going to attack louis over it so WHY. also. is armand preparing to leave louis. it doesn't look like it. but maybe that's why the building instead maybe that's armandspeak for a "safe" space to keep louis in when he leaves. is daniel going to what. relapse? is he ever going to go fantasy insane? "marius de romanus haven't heard of him" haven't you. haven't you? will you? sate my curiosity
Two days ago, the first round polls came to a close. Before we get to the Second Chance Round (which, spoilers, will consist of 37 polls running over the course of a week), here are some statistics I compiled in regards to the round 1 results.
Round 1 consisted of 91 polls. The polls were published over the course of 18 days.
Part 1: Voting numbers.
As expected, the number of votes started out relatively low and increased over the course of the tournament.
The average poll had about 57 votes (rounding up).
Top 5 polls with the most votes:
5. Match 34: Fight for Judge vs Crush of Judgement / Match 69: Or the Beautiful Golden Drop vs FALLIN LOVE=IT'S WONDERLAND (104 votes each)
4. Match 46: Le temps des fleurs vs Memoire Antique (105 votes)
3. Match 48: Believe 4 leaves vs Crazy Anthem (110 votes)
2. Match 25: U.S.A. vs Tell Your World (123 votes)
1. Match 71: Mystic Fragrance vs Yubisaki no Ariadne (130 votes)
Top 5 polls with the least votes:
5. Match 9: Crazy Roulette vs Kiss of Life (28 votes)
4. Match 8: Miwaku Geki vs Voice of Sword (27 votes)
3. Match 7: Be The Party Bee! vs LEMON SQUASH CHEERS! (25 votes)
2. Match 10: Rainbow Stairway vs Yukai Tsuukai That's alright! (24 votes)
1. Match 1: BRAND NEW STARS!! vs ONLY YOUR STARS! (22 votes)
Part 2: Voting results.
Obviously, some matches were more even, while in others, one MV absolutely dominated the others.
This chart presents how the votes stacked up, how even the results were - I called this proportion the sweep factor because it sounded funny. The higher the number, the more uneven the result of any given poll - with 1 being a 50/50 split.
The average poll had a sweep factor of 2,94 (rounded up). That means the average poll had a result roughly equivalent to 74,5%/25,5%.
Top 5 SWEEEEEEEEEEPS:
5. Match 27: Ruler's Truth (12,3%) vs Trap For You (87,7%)
4. Match 30: Tsujikaze ni Fukarete (9,6%) vs HELLO, NEW YEAR! (90,4%)
3. Match 51: Love×me⇄monsteR (90,9%) vs Love it Love it (9,1%)
2. Match 90: Yoru ni Kakeru (93%) vs Living on the edge (7%)
1. Match 63: Holy Angel's Carol (5,4%) vs Gaisenka (94,6%)
Top 5 head-to-head matches:
5. Match 61: Crossing x Heart (48,9%) vs Unlimited Power!!!!! (51,1%)
4. Match 69: Or the Beautiful Golden Drop (51%) vs FALLIN LOVE=IT'S WONDERLAND (49%)
3. Match 82: Meteor Scramble☆RYUSEITAI! (50,8%) vs Welcome to the Trickstar Night☆ (49,2%)
2. Match 29: Brilliant Smile (49,3%) vs EXCEED (50,7%)
1. Match 41: Hamtaro Tottokouta vs RELAX PARADISE (it was a tie! both pass to round 2)
Additionally, one can look at the votes each individual MV received.
Top 5 MVs with the most votes:
5. Eccentric Party Night!! (62 votes)
4. Believe 4 leaves (61 votes)
3. U.S.A. (73 votes)
2. Mystic Fragrance (80 votes)
1. Les temps des fleurs (93 votes)
Top 5 MVs with the least votes:
5. Zan ~Ketsui no Yaiba~ / Rainbow Stairway / Ruler's Truth (8 votes each)
4. I "Witch" You A Happy Halloween / CHERRY HAPPY STREAM / Nebula / Be The Party Bee! / Love Ra*bits Party!! (7 votes each)
3. ONLY YOUR STARS! / Play "Tag" (6 votes each)
2. DESTRUCTION ROAD / Voice of Sword / Love it Love it / Tsujikaze ni Fukarete (5 votes each)
1. Living on the edge / Holy Angel's Carol (3 votes each)
Part 3: Unit statistics
Producers of specific units may be curious as to how their favourite little guys did. Well...
These stats exclude Fusion Unit songs towards the ranking of the units (ex. Artistic Partisan does not count towards neither ALKALOID's, nor Valkyrie's song count). It also excludes ex-fine songs from fine's results.
Additionally, that chart combines the results of Adam and Eve towards Eden's results. If one were to count them seperately, the results would be as follows:
Anyways, that'd be it for now! Again, the Second Chance Round will start soon, so keep an eye out for that!
I watched Dear Brother/Oniisama e... earlier this year, and only after hearing that the English blu-ray is going out of print soon, I decided to see if the original manga had ever been translated, and it was! I read through it and noted a number of differences, and not just the differences that are inevitable when adapting a 17 chapter manga into a 39 episode anime.
Largely, these are changes made in adaptation that I think make the story better, but still worth going through.
(spoilers for the entirety of Oniisama e.../Dear Brother below)
Nanako’s Parents Origin Story
In the anime, the exact nature of how Nanako’s mother and step-father got together is never fully revealed. The rumors that haunts her at school is that her mother seduced him while working as a hostess, and Nanako obviously doesn’t want to believe that’s true, but she also can’t really work up the courage to actually ask, either. In the manga, we see the exact sequence of events: Professor Misonoo’s wife already left him by the time he started going to the bar, and also Nanako’s father had left her mother. No moral complications, s’all good!
However, the real killer here isn’t that it’s no longer morally amibguous, it’s the way the information is revealed. In the manga, her parents explain this to her after Kaoru accidentally reveals that Takehiko is Nanako’s step-brother, but the anime equivalent is a private conversation Nanako has with Professor Misonoo in the last episode. It’s also the scene that has what I consider to be the thesis statement for the entire story:
When asked about Nanako’s biological father, he explains that he never screwed up the courage himself to ask his wife about him, because he knew that she would never say, and tells Nanako he knows she asked him because she also knew her mother would never say, and then drops this line. It’s applicable to so much of the series, but there’s something I found it especially relevant to, which segues into...
Fukiko
Fukiko Ichinomiya is my favorite character in this anime, and it turns out that most of that was in adaptation. I think this is something that will be received different for different people, but Fukiko was so much more of a normal teenage girl in the manga. The anime presents her as this ultra-composed pillar of dignity and grace and lurking below that surface is an emotionally stunted 12 year old girl, and in the manga, she still has the veneer of being ultra-composed but it constantly, and visibly, cracks. Compare her expression when Kaoru first tells her that she thinks the sorority should be abolished in the manga versus the anime:
The more dramatic example for me is when Fukiko drops that she used her station to get Nanako into the sorority. In the manga, it’s an accidental angry outburst that she tries to brush off, but in the anime, it’s a pointed, conscious decision, confirming Nanako’s fears as a way to threaten and intimidate her:
That can also be chalked up to artistic direction: all the Dezaki works I’ve seen (with the possible exception of Hamtaro (for real)), the characters never deform or otherwise go off model for the sake of dramatic reactions or even comedy beats, and the same largely goes for the backgrounds. I also think it may be a choice to lean more into what Rei reveals about Fukiko, and how she’s the only person who ever saw Fukiko with her guard down and otherwise carries herself with the utmost dignity and grace. But hey, another segue speaking of Rei and her relationship with Fukiko!
The Relationship Between Fukiko and Rei
This is maybe my least favorite difference in the manga from the anime, and really highlights the fact that in the manga, Fukiko wasn’t really much of a fully formed character. Unlike the anime, where the relationship between Rei and Fukiko is a fucked up abusive co-dependent nightmare, in the manga, it’s a fucked abusive one-sided nightmare. Namely, this scene, which to my recollection doesn’t exist at all in the anime:
In the anime, this is recontextualized entirely: rather than Fukiko looking down her nose at Rei and taking satisfaction from her own superiority, she’s wildly possessive and jealous of Rei because her satisfaction comes from how much Rei admires her.
There’s probably an argument to be made that Fukiko was just lashing out at Rei in response to the sorority petition, but again, that would tie into “boy Fukiko is a much different character in the manga than in the anime”, and outside of her reaction to Rei’s death, there’s not much to indicate that might be the case.
And this also ties into maybe two of the three biggest changes between the manga and anime: first, Rei commits suicide by overdosing on her drugs in the manga, versus accidentally falling to her death in the anime, and second, Fukiko actually doesn’t know Rei’s her full sister in the manga, versus the anime where she knew all along. I think this also adds something to Nanako’s character, that she’s burdened with the knowledge that each of them knew about their relationship, but can never say anything about it.
More Depressing, Less Catharsis
Two major contributing points here, the first of which is Rei’s suicide. Dying accidentally in the anime is more tragic, with the implication being that she was getting better, but her suicide is a pointed “sometimes, your feelings just can’t reach people”, which is definitely more depressing (and depressingly realistic).
The second, and one which is on the same wavelength as “more depressingly realistic” is the reveal that Kaoru’s breast cancer came back, and she passed away. And this was after the same sweeping marriage ceremony and departure to Germany in the anime, so the delivery of this information on the last page of the last chapter is so abrupt it could be considered black comedy.
No reflection on the fact that at least she was able to spend the time she had left with the one she loved or anything of that sort, just “cancer do be like that”. Call me a sentimental bitch, but I much prefer the anime version that “two years later, she hasn’t relapsed and they had a child!”
Riyoko Ikeda Draws Some Funny Faces
Circling back to the point about art direction; with fewer total pages to work with and not having the benefit of sound cues and cuts, the manga does often rely on cartoonish deformation to get emotions across succinctly, and I’ll be damned if Ikeda’s not good at making some funny face.
There’s more- both funny faces and differences in content- but I think that covers the major points for me. The manga is still a good read, but I think it works better as a complementary piece to read after watching the anime.
Strong believer in the "no repeats" rule, and I wanted to see if I could do it twice. Spoilers... I'm unstoppable. The more characters you recognize the more powerful you are. List for every single character under the cut
Bingo 1:
Column B: USAHANA (Sanrio), Shinji Weber (Yugioh), Raggedy Ann and Andy (Raggedy Ann), Inspector Gadget (Inspector Gadget), Cheer Bear (Care Bears)
Column I: Sidon (LoZ), Luigi (Super Mario), Lightning (Teen Titans), Emma (Total Drama), Nancy Drew (Nancy Drew)
Column G: Koala Princess (OK KO), Leonardo (Animal Crossing), Joxter (Moomin), Frog and Toad (Frog and Toad), Blue (Blue's Clues)
Column O: Rosa (Pokemon), Bushroot (Darkwing Duck), Guy Towers (You Don't Know Jack), Karli (Muppets), Ryuu Zaou (Cute High Earth Defense Club Love!)
Bingo 2:
Column B: St Jimmy- portrayed by Billie Joe Armstrong (American Idiot the Musical), Rapunzel (Disney Princesses), Sam-I-Am (Green Eggs and Ham 2019), Angel Cake (Strawberry Shortcake), Dan Mandel (Dan Vs)
Column I: .GIFfany (Gravity Falls), Courage (Courage the Cowardly Dog), Angie Yonaga (Danganronpa), Sam n Max (Sam and Max Freelance Police), Superman (DC Franchise)
Column O: Bill n Ted (Bill and Ted), Garfield (Garfield comics), Winslow Leech (Phantom of the Paradise), Kimiko Tohomiko (Xiaolin Showdown), Princess Demurra (Wander Over Yonder)
did you ever come up with reader’s bunny’s name for the nerd!reader x camboy!ari fic?
hehe yes !! Thank you so much to everyone for your suggestions and for some of your little reasons for each name. i loved them all and had a hard time picking my favourites so I tried to find a way to include a good chunk of them by having best friend!jake jensen purposefully calling the bunny different names !!
Spoilers below !!
I forgot to announce it, but this is pasted directly from my notes:
Bunny name:
Full name: Twitch Napoleon Kuromi Velveteen
he is royalty ok, he deserves a long beautiful name
Nicknames: Moo Cow, Babbity Rabbity, Poggers (Pog for short: “why poggers?” You lift him up, flicking his ear, “Pog, pog, pog.” “I get it.”)
Ari calls him Buzz/Buster, Mr. Napoleon, Little Eclair, later: Obi-Bun Kenobi
Jake just calls him weird names: Bonbon, Hickory Sticks, Princess Peach, Nano (Nanotechnology), Matrix, Bingus, Rhubarb, Hamtaro, Obi-Bun Kenobi
#yeah if we had trains then there would be less cars on the road and driving would be faster and easier
My Top Posts in 2022:
#5
when characters in fantasy stories say things like “oh my gods” or “gods-damn” or shit like that it will totally kill the mood and undermine any attempt for the scene to be taken seriously
632 notes - Posted January 6, 2022
#4
For the release of Elden Ring they should have made an actual ring and shattered it and hidden the pieces in remote locations that twitch streamers like Markiplier had to hunt down and retrieve but also each one is guarded by a guy with a real sword.
1,009 notes - Posted February 27, 2022
#3
Touch-starved Beast
1,333 notes - Posted April 21, 2022
#2
The state of TTRPGs if it was video games
“Oh I wanna play a Half-life video game; instead of playing Half-life 1, Blue Shift, Opposing Force, Half-life 2, Episode 1, Episode 2, Portal, Portal 2, E:0, or E:02, I’ll just download 10,000 mods for Skyrim until all the draugr are replaced with Combine soldiers.”
2,156 notes - Posted September 25, 2022
My #1 post of 2022
When i was little i thought Hamtaro and Sailor Moon were the same show and sometimes there was just a hamster episode.
danganronpa key: which versions of the character are my favorite. (ask me about it, i'll go into depth but there will be spoilers fair warning) i'm v deep in the fandom including all 4 main games, both animes, danganronpa zero, and killer killer.
special shoutouts to rantaro amami (drv3), kokichi ouma (drv3), katsuki bakugo (mha), toge inumaki (jjk), grusha (pokemon s/v), & N (pokemon b/w).
i have adopted kieran (pokemon s/v), ciel phantomhive (black butler), kyūsaku yumeno (bungou stray dogs) & the collector (the owl house) as my own children.
𝚌𝚞𝚛𝚛𝚎𝚗𝚝𝚕𝚢…
currently reading: a court of wings & ruin by sarah j. maas.
currently reading (manga): caught up on black butler, my hero academia, & jujutsu kaisen.
currently listening: masafumi takada. dagames. black gryph0n. michael kovach. toby fox. gorillaz. bo burnham. fall out boy. melanie martinez. billie eilish. harry styles. louis tomlinson. one direction. (certified larrie of like 12 years)
currently watching: trigun. blue exorcist. mashle. black butler.
𝚛𝚎𝚌𝚜
book(s): a ballad of songbirds & snakes by suzanne collins. the catcher in the rye by j.d. salinger. my policeman by bethan roberts.
manga(s): kimetsu no yaiba (demon slayer). koe no katachi (a silent voice). deadman wonderland.
manhwa(s): love is an illusion! by fargo. surge towards you by cheongyeon.
anime(s): hell's paradise. hunter x hunter. mirai nikki.
movie(s): koe no katachi (a silent voice). tenki no ko (weathering with you). howl's moving castle.
tv show(s): star vs. the forces of evil. steven universe. the owl house. hazbin hotel (🏴☠️).
𝚕𝚒𝚐𝚑𝚝𝚎 𝚊𝚗𝚗𝚘𝚞𝚗𝚌𝚎𝚖𝚎𝚗𝚝𝚜 ➥ | regarding important posts.
𝚕𝚒𝚐𝚑𝚝𝚎 𝚊𝚗𝚜𝚠𝚎𝚛𝚜 ◈ | answered asks.
𝚕𝚒𝚐𝚑𝚝𝚎 𝚛𝚊𝚖𝚋𝚕𝚎𝚜 ☀︎ | stupid shit i talk about.
𝚕𝚒𝚐𝚑𝚝𝚎 𝚊𝚜𝚔𝚜 𝚢𝚘𝚞 ◇ | voting polls / questions.
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𓆩𝕥𝕙𝕖 𝕥𝕠𝕡𝕒-𝕫 𝕡𝕣𝕠𝕛𝕖𝕔𝕥𓆪 | follower milestones event.
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𝚊𝚗𝚘𝚗 𝚎𝚖𝚘𝚓𝚒𝚜
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i absolutely adore rhy and daisy's dividers (i have used their dividers on almost every writing post i have) so i wanted to make a space dedicated to them here.
My current team after defeating the 8th gym on Sheild! Echo has evolved by now and we're all a bit stronger. Type advantage was never on our side but I made the poor decision of sending all my other hundred Pokémon to do PokéJobs and was too excited to wait on them so they did their best and pulled through! Now when I'm able to play again we'll be off to continue towards our goal of becoming Champion >:3
Favorite character:
penelope! the little baby in the yellow blanket
Second favorite character:
i also like snoozer, spat, sparkle, the rest of the main girls, and jingle a whole lot. oh and the ham-swap shopkeep. fucker
Least favorite character:
i don't have one they're hamsters
The character I’m most like:
laura on account of being the most like a human and the least like a hamster um. i think maybe actually boss. i too am a lesbian with a mustache. did you know boss's room looks like this in unite (ripped by saguchi):
Favorite pairing:
umm dexter/howdy. theyre funny. also oxnard/pepper is really good too.
Least favorite pairing:
i don't care for hamtaro/bijou much. i don't dislike it either it's just hamtaro is so obviously not interested in all of that stuff (he is totally oblivious to bijous crush on him) that it seems really forced when they ARE paired up. i also don't like harmony/boss because it felt very "um now that we made hamtaro/bijou a thing i guess we gotta do something about boss's crush on bijou lol" in heartbreak. all around just kind of nothing
Favorite moment:
ooh, tough pick. i think the entire boo manor experience in heartbreak, or if i had to be more specific, i guess the part(s) where they play the moonlight sonata.