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Bang, Bang, Pop!: Reviewing Girls With Guns Anime

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In recent years, there have been even more anime featuring girls with guns, expanding the genre. I decided to examine this genre and offer my thoughts.

Reprinted from The Geekiary, my History Hermann WordPress blog on Feb. 17, 2023, and Wayback Machine. This was the fifty-first article I wrote for The Geekiary. This post was originally published on August 16, 2022.

When you think of girls with guns in popular culture, you might think of Lara Croft, Sarah Connor, Alien, Foxy Brown, or Coffy. However, there are more than just hundreds of films featuring girls with guns. In anime, there are over 20 girls with guns series.

While there are many strong anime gunslinging girls, there aren't as many anime which are truly "girls with guns". It is a genre defined by series such as the 1980s sci-fi comedy and space opera, Dirty Pair, centered on two women: Kei and Yuri.

Since then, there have been many more series, including the recently-ended Vampire in the Garden and currently airing Lycoris Recoil. There are also older series such as Gunsmith Cats, El Cazador de la Bruja, Noir, and Otherside Picnic. This article reviews these six series and four others. It is sample of a much wider array of girls with guns anime.

This post contains spoilers for the ten series that I'm writing about. So, without further ado, let me begin!

Girls with guns are stars of the show in Lycoris Recoil

Chisato Nishikigi defends herself from those trying to kill her in the show's sixth episode

This original anime series by Spider Lily and Asaura is all the rage. The /r/yurimemes subreddit is filled with posts of Chisato (Chika Anzai) and Takina Inoue (Shion Wakayama), the show's protagonists, as is /r/wholesomeyuri. The show's yuri subtext is often noted. Furthermore, the show's subreddit, /r/LycorisRecoil, has over 4500 subscribers. The show's story, characters, animation, and dialogue make it easy to like.

The series begins when Takina brazenly uses a machine gun against criminals, threatening the life of a fellow "Lycoris", an armed intelligence agent. The covert organization, Direct Attack (DA), fires her. She is then transferred to Café LycoReco, a DA front organization, where she meets Chisato, a fellow Lycoris. She also meets a former DA member named Mizuki Nakahara (Ami Koshimizu) and an Afro-Japanese man named Mika (Kosuke Sakaki) who runs the cafe.

The series pulls you in due to Takina's struggle with fellow DA agents who resent her, and villains who attempt to take down Lycoris. The same can be said about Chisato's mysterious past and a hacker named Kurumi (Misaki Kuno) joins the show's heroes. The series often focuses on growing friendship between Takina and Chisato, arguably with romantic undertones. Unlike other anime about girls with guns, Chisato only uses rubber bullets. This means that those she does not kill anyone, a practice Takina adopts, as they work together as a team.

Momo shines through in Vampire in the Garden

Momo defends herself from a vampire girl, Alicia

This original dark fantasy net anime features many girls with guns. Front and center is Momo (Megumi Han) who runs away from home, where she is a soldier, and trainee in a war against vampires. She meets Fine (Yū Kobayashi), queen of the vampires, learning to love life and experience music all at the same time. Unfortunately, her controlling mother, Nobara (Rika Fukami) sends out a search party to find Momo. She wants to bring her "back" to "civilization" and way from the purportedly "barbaric" vampires.

In the process, Fine and Momo grow closer to one another. Like many other girls with guns anime, there are many yuri vibes in the series. In fact, neither of these protagonists gets a chance to live together. They are chased throughout the anime and do not have a chance to rest. This is because society sees relationships between humans and vampires as "unnatural" and does not accept them.

The focus on the relationship between Fine and Momo parallels those who do not accept queer relationships and those othered by society. Rather than an anime solely about girls with guns, Vampire in the Garden is a mature dark fantasy filled with blood, death, explosions, and serious injury. Even so, there are scenes with a slice-of-life feel. This five-episode anime ends positively. Momo founds a society many years later where humans and vampires can live together in peace.

Gunsmith Cats exemplifies the girls with guns genre

Irene "Rally" Vincent at the shooting range in the episode "Neutral Zone"

This adventure-crime series is based on an eight-volume manga of the same name illustrated, and written, by Kenichi Sonoda. It is different than other series in this post because it is loosely set in Chicago. It centers around Irene "Rally" Vincent (Michiko Neya), a 19-year-old woman who operates "Gunsmith Cats" gun shop. She works with 17-year-old explosives expert and former sex worker named "Minnie" May Hopkins (Kae Araki) as a bounty hunter in the underworld.

The anime is an original video animation (OVA), released between November 1995 and September 1996. It is only three episodes long. Some reviewers praised the animation as colorful, fun, and a "solid piece" of filmmaking. Others praised the action, artwork, and said it sounded like a "gritty" suburb of Chicago. Moreover, there were those who described the animation as smooth, said it has the same amount of humor as the original manga, but complained that the series should have been longer.

Like Vampire of the Garden and Lycoris Recoil, yuri themes are implied. Although Yuricon's founder Erica Friedman does not write about the anime on her blog, Okazu, she did review each volume of the five-volume manga, Gunsmith Cats BURST. In her reviews, she notes the yuri subtext between Rally and Minnie. She also noted that mafia donna Goldie Musso is a stereotypical "evil" lesbian. In the manga, all three of them live together. Otherwise, the series fits within the girls with guns anime genre.

Love, amnesia, and guns in El Cazador de la Bruja

Nadie, Ellis, and nuns shelter in a basement, hiding for people out to get them, in an episode

This 2007 series, a mix of modern Western, adventure, and yuri, is a classic girls with guns anime. It centers around Ellis (Ai Shimizu), a fugitive who has amnesia, an unknown past, and powers of some kind, and a bounty hunter named Nadie (Shizuka Itō). Both travel south in hopes of finding the key to who Ellis is, where she was born, and what she did.

In a review of El Cazadar de la Bruja first episode, Friedman noted that there were clear yuri vibes. But, she worried there would be another "ambiguously yuri" relationship like other Madlax series. However, in a review at the end of the series, Friedman praised the growing romance between Nadie and Ellis. She said it is different than Noir in more ways than one.

Others were more critical of this series, especially purported "filler" episodes. They noted that even the show's gun violence is restrained. This series is unlike other anime in this genre as it is set in the Southwest United States and Mexico. As a result, it shares similarities with Western animations like Nomad of Nowhere and The Legend of Calamity Jane. Both series have gun-toting female protagonists.

Girls with guns are at the center of Noir

Kirika and Marielle in the front, with Chloe in the background, in an image on the show's now-defunct official website in 2003

This adventure anime is as well-known as El Cazador de la Bruja. It is often noted as exemplary of the girls with guns genre in anime. It centers on two female assassins, a Corsican woman named Mireille Bouquet (Hōko Kuwashima) and a Japanese woman with amnesia, Kirika Yuumura (Kotono Mitsuishi). Both journey together to learn about their past. They ally together and assassinate "bad" people under a code name: Noir. They face a French secret organization named Les Soldats, led by Altena (Tarako), which is out to kill them, and a skilled assassin named Chloe (Aya Hisakawa).

Friedman, who I've mentioned earlier, criticized the series for weak animation at times. But, she praised the show's music, settings, and yuri vibes in the series. She added that people will put up with the series, despite absurd storylines because it has an attractive woman with a gun. TV Tropes, on a page about LGBTQ fanbase of anime and manga, stated that the series garnered a "sizable lesbian fanbase" due to the "ambiguous" relationship between Mireille and Kirika. They also noted the subtle lesbian attraction shown later.

Director Koichi Mashimo described this series, Madlax, and El Cazador de la Bruja, as his "girls-with-guns genre trilogy". Some praised the 26-episode series for redefining girls with guns series, with an elegant, and sleek story. But they criticized it for having repetitive actions sequences. Others said that Noir was an original anime which "stands out". In the end, the series changed the girls with guns genre for years to come, although no series since then has been exactly like it.

Girls with guns are focal point of Otherside Picnic

Sorowo aims a military-style weapon while Toriko sits next to her

This adventure sci-fi yuri series centers around two women. One is a college student named Sorawo Kamikoshi (Yumiri Hanamori) who enters parallel worlds named the Otherside. The other is the woman who saves her, a former Canadian special forces soldier named Torika Nishina (Ai Kayano). The series focuses on Nishina's quest for her friend, and their repeated attempts to return to the Otherside to gain artifacts, with the help of Kozakura (Rina Hidaka). However, the world affects them physically and mentally in ways they didn't expect.

Early last year, I began watching this series, excited to watch it since too many yuri anime are either set in schools or fantasies, with the implication that lesbian relationships will be short-lived and even replaced by heterosexuality. Unfortunately, this series did not deliver on that promise. Friedman criticizes the series for being a "children’s version of the novels". My bigger qualm is that the series did not deliver on the yuri that seemed present from the beginning, despite romantic vibes throughout.

Otherside Picnic remains within the girls with guns genre. Even in a few episodes, Sorawo and Torika save U.S. military soldiers from Okinawa who are stuck in the Otherside. Unfortunately, this becomes imperialist apologia. It glosses over problems with U.S. military occupation, and presence, in Okinawa, and Japan. It marks a low point for the entire series.

Girls with guns have an important role in Blue Drop

Yūko takes out a gun to defend Mari from harm in the show's sixth episode

This 2007 yuri sci-fi drama contains some girls with guns. On the manga cover, a girl named Shōta has a gun. On the other hand, neither of the show's protagonists, Mari or Hagino, uses a gun during the series. Instead, secondary characters like Yūko and Tsubael have guns. Yūko even confronts Hagino at gunpoint. Otherwise, there are armed sentries on the ships from another world.

Blue Drop delivers more on yuri themes than Otherside Picnic or even, arguably, Lycoris Recoil. And you don't even need on yuri goggles to see it. It is more than a "fun watch" with likable characters, some of whom are morally ambiguous. Instead, it is an enveloping story which draws you in, with its plot and animation. Even the ending is heartbreaking.

Since the series is usually put into the sci-fi and yuri genres, reviewers don't often put it into the girls with guns genre. Although there are fewer girls with guns in Blue Drop than other series noted in this article, it has positives which go beyond other series. It is a classic that can be watched over and over. The same can likely also be said about the affiliated manga which ran from 2004 to 2008.

Badass girls with guns are central to Canaan

Canaan about to fire her pistol during the show's opening

This 2009 mystery thriller is little-known, despite the fact that a Japanese game company, Type-Moon, created it. It's based on a special scenario originally outlined in 2009 game, 428: Shibuya Scramble. This anime centers on a gun-toting assassin and mercenary named Canaan (Miyuki Sawashiro). She faces a rival named Alphard Al Sheya (Maaya Sakamoto), a skilled assassin who heads a terrorist organization named Snake. Canaan also has a pretty reporter friend named Maria Ōsawa (Yoshino Nanjō).

Canaan and Alphard are both skilled at using firearms, as is ex-mercenary Siam (Akio Ōtsuka), Alphard's lieutenant, Liang Qi (Rie Tanaka), and many others. Predictably, yuri themes are spread throughout this anime. Canaan often saves Maria from sticky situations thanks to her ability to perceive people's emotions as colors. They clearly are attracted toward each other. The series ends with Canaan being, in the words of Friedman, "awarded equal status to Maria in her heart."

Otherwise, Canaan is action-packed, with fast-paced fight sequences and chases. In some ways, it makes me think of chase scenes in Carmen Sandiego, although the ones in that series are never filled with guns, but with other deadly weapons instead. This series is unique because Canaan is from an unnamed country in the Middle East, presumably Syria or Lebanon. It adds another dimension to the story.

Guns, love, and demons in Engage Kiss

Shu, Sharon, and Ayano pictured on the show's official website.

In this ongoing, and currently airing, romantic comedy, one character stands out as a girl with a gun: Ayano Yugiri (Lynn). She is the former girlfriend of Shuu Ogata (Soma Saito). He lost his memories of their relationship after partnering with a demon named Kisara (Saya Aizawa). To give her the necessary demon powers to fight, he kisses her, which erases a memory every time he does so.

While it seems, at first, that she chooses his memories to erase at random, it is later shown that she can choose which ones to erase. She even eliminates a time that Shuu and Ayano have sex, enjoy each other's company. She also eliminates a time when Shuu had sex with the demon-hating priest, Sharon Holygrail (Rumi Okabo), and poisoned her in a devious way.

Ayano has the most skills at using firearms apart from Shuu. It has not been revealed how she is so skilled, but she may have on-the-job experience. Unlike Lycoris Recoil, the only other people who use guns are the police, as the villains often manipulate demons instead. None of the show's characters without faults, and have all likely done deplorable things.

A gun-toting protagonist in Venus Versus Virus

Lucia fires her gun in the show's opening

This dark fantasy and supernatural thriller centers around two girls with guns: Lucia Nahashi (Ayahi Takagaki) and Sumire Takahana (Minori Chihara). Although it has been rightly described as a series to avoid by Stig Høgset of THEM Anime Reviews. He argued that it is "lazy and dumb", with mild fanservice and violence. That makes it different from others in this genre, which are usually more violent and bloody.

In Venus Versus Virus, Lucia, especially, is skilled with use of a firearm. She works to protect Sumire, along with others, from harm that demons, known as "viruses", can inflict. Predictably they both bond in the process. Even so, the yuri themes in this story are not very strong, with neither Lucia nor Sumire appearing to be lesbians.

On the other hand, the series is strong as an anime that features girls with guns. As such, it is relatively well-established in the genre. In fact, when bullets hit Sumire, it causes her violent personality to surface, which can be harmful to anyone around her.

Closing thoughts

There are many other examples of girls with guns anime. Some of the most prominent, apart from Dirty Pair, include Bubblegum Crisis, Miami Guns, Gunslinger Girl, and Burn-Up. One critic argued that while there aren't many true girls with guns anime, the ones that do exist have been so influential, it has created "an entire thematic genre and stereotype of anime."

Princess Principal and the film, Kite Liberator also fall into the genre. Even Izetta: The Last Witch might fall into the genre since Izetta rides an anti-tank rifle. Apart from Sabine Wren, Padme Amidala, and Zam Wessell, who tote guns in the Star Wars franchise, there's no Western animated equivalent of the genre. On the other hand, there are some gun-wielding women elsewhere, like Millie in Helluva Boss.

There are many girls with guns within anime, but even with newer series, it remains to be seen if the current trend toward more girls with guns will continue. Many of the series within the genre, such as Strike Witches, Michiko & Hatchin, Grenadier, and Upotte!! are years old. The same is the case for Madlax, set in the same world as Birdie Wing.

With anime production companies flush with cash, there is a possibility of further girls with guns anime in the future.

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alsoo,, not to start rumours,,, but i might draw a piko for one of my finals because it’s just too fitting for the assignment??????

#possibly even sakurane...#its a replicate or reference an artist project for illustration history #and i want to do junichi nakahara #so obviously i gotta do piko bc doll features or chika bc more shojo aesthetics #ohhhhh

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77 Sōryū Asuka Langley Neon Genesis Evangelion 26

78 Krul Tepes Owari no Seraph 26

79 Nagato Yuki Suzumiya Haruhi no Yūutsu 25

80 Honjō Kaede(Maple) BOFURI 24

81 Oshino Shinobu Monogatari Series 24

82 Alice Zuberg Sword Art Online 24

83 Beatrice Umineko no Naku Koro ni 24

84 Gasai Yuno Mirai Nikki 23

85 Uiharu Kazari Toaru Series 23

86 Jabami Yumeko Kakegurui 22

87 Gray Fate Series 22

88 Yue Arifureta Shokugyō de Sekai Saikyō 21

89 Shiba Miyuki Mahōka Kōkō no Rettōsei 21

90 Rias Gremory Highschool D×D 21

91 Ayanami Rei Neon Genesis Evangelion 21

92 Asada Shino Sword Art Online 21

93 Shichimiya Satone Chūnibyō demo Koi ga Shitai! 21

94 Furuhashi Fumino Bokutachi wa Benkyō ga Dekinai 20

95 Tenma Gabriel White Gabriel Dropout 20

96 Iki Hiyori Noragami 20

97 Natsukawa Masuzu OreShura 20

98 Victorique de Blois GOSICK 20

99 C.C. Code Geass 19

100 Aragaki Ayase Ore no Imōto 19

101 Kokkoro Princess Connect! Re:Dive 19

102 Yūki Setsuna Love Live! NijiGaku 19

103 Holo Spice and Wolf 19

104 Sonozaki Noriko Kiznaiver 19

105 Raphtalia Tate no Yūsha no Nariagari 19

106 Kōsaka Kirino Ore no Imōto 19

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- Okabe Rintarō Steins;Gate Auto

- Saitama One-Punch Man Auto

- Totsuka Saika OreGairu Auto

- Archer Fate Series Auto

- Natsuki Subaru Re:Zero kara Hajimeru Isekai Seikatsu Auto

- Ayanokōji Kiyotaka Yōkoso Jitsuryoku Shijō Shugi no Kyōshitsu e Auto

- Riku Dola No Game No Life Auto

- Togashi Yūta Chūnibyō demo Koi ga Shitai! Auto

- Ishigami Yū Kaguya-sama wa Kokurasetai Auto

- Kamijō Tōma Toaru Series Auto

- Azusagawa Sakuta AoButa Auto

- Gilgamesh Fate Series Auto

1 Hiro Darling in the FranXX 248

2 Kirigaya Kazuto Sword Art Online 86

3 Otosaka Yū Charlotte 76

4 Levi Shingeki no Kyojin 70

5 Yuzaki Nasa Tonikaku Kawaii 67

6 Kaneki Ken Tokyo Ghoul 67

7 Uchiha Itachi NARUTO 59

8 Otonashi Yuzuru Angel Beats! 51

9 Itadori Yūji Jujutsu Kaisen 50

10 Emiya Shirō Fate Series 50

11 Eren Yeager Shingeki no Kyojin 48

12 Ishigami Senkū Dr.STONE 44

13 Yato Noragami 43

14 Arima Kōsei Shigatsu wa Kimi no Uso 38

15 Takasu Ryūji Toradora! 38

16 Lelouch Lamperouge Code Geass 38

17 Hyakuya Mikaela Owari no Seraph 36

18 Itsuka Shidō Date A Live 36

19 Saiki Kusuo Saiki Kusuo no Ψ Nan 33

20 Ōma Shū Guilty Crown 33

21 Hyakuya Yūichirō Owari no Seraph 33

22 Morishima Hodaka Tenki no Ko 32

23 Ishida Shōya Koe no Katachi 32

24 Kūjō Jōtarō JoJo's Bizarre Adventure 32

25 Goro Darling in the FranXX 30

26 Isaac Foster Satsuriku no Tenshi 30

27 Kasugano Haruka Yosuga no Sora 30

28 Kuroba Kaito Detective Conan 30

29 Dazai Osamu Bungō Stray Dogs 28

30 Araragi Koyomi Monogatari Series 27

31 Katagaki Naomi Hello World 26

32 Sakata Gintoki Gintama 26

33 Uesugi Fūtarō 5-tōbun no Hanayome 25

34 Rengoku Kyōjurō Kimetsu no Yaiba 24

35 Ōji Mochizō Tamako Market 24

36 Fushiguro Megumi Jujutsu Kaisen 24

37 Shiota Nagisa Ansatsu Kyōshitsu 23

38 Uchiha Sasuke NARUTO 22

39 Tomioka Giyū Kimetsu no Yaiba 21

40 Fukube Satoshi Hyōka 21

41 Izumi Masamune Eromanga Sensei 20

42 Mizugaki Tsukasa Plastic Memories 20

43 Kanbara Akihito Kyōkai no Kanata 20

44 Waver Velvet Fate Series 20

45 Dio Brando JoJo's Bizarre Adventure 19

46 Ainz Ooal Gown Overlord 19

47 Kyon Suzumiya Haruhi no Yūutsu 19

48 Iwatani Naofumi Tate no Yūsha no Nariagari 19

49 Kuzuryū Yaichi Ryuō no Oshigoto! 19

50 Yagami Light Death Note 18

51 Yugi Amane(Hanako-kun) Jibaku Shōnen Hanako-kun 18

52 Kurogane Ikki Rakudai Kishi no Cavalry 17

53 Kanie Seiya Amagi Brilliant Park 17

54 Son Goku Dragon Ball 17

55 Akasaka Ryūnosuke Sakura-sō no Pet na Kanojo 17

56 Ryūgūin Seiya Shinchō Yūsha: Kono Yūsha ga Ore TUEEE Kuse ni Shinchō Sugiru 16

57 Gilbert Bougainvillea Violet Evergarden 16

58 Sakamaki Izayoi Mondaiji 16

59 Uchiha Madara NARUTO 16

60 Narihisago Akihito Id:Invaded 15

61 Rudeus Greyrat Mushoku Tensei 15

62 Kinoshita Kazuya Kanojo, Okarishimasu 14

63 Aki Tomoya Saenai Heroine no Sodatekata 14

64 Shinei Nouzen 86 -Eighty Six- 14

65 Inumaki Toge Jujutsu Kaisen 14

66 Emiya Kiritsugu Fate Series 14

67 Joseph Joestar JoJo's Bizarre Adventure 13

68 L Lawliet Death Note 13

69 Kurosaki Ichigo BLEACH 13

70 Shiba Tatsuya Mahōka Kōkō no Rettōsei 13

71 Bell Cranel DanMachi 13

72 Kageyama Shigeo Mob Psycho 100 13

73 Willem Kmetsch SukaSuka 13

74 Ryo Fu Hōsen Shūmatsu no Valkyrie 13

75 Akabane Karma Ansatsu Kyōshitsu 12

76 Hashibira Inosuke Kimetsu no Yaiba 12

77 Mochizuki Tōya Isekai wa Smartphone to Tomo ni. 12

78 Kaizaki Arata ReLIFE 12

79 Tatsumi Akame ga Kill! 12

80 Sakakibara Kōichi Another 12

81 Uchiha Obito NARUTO 12

82 Keyaru Kaifuku Jutsushi no Yarinaoshi 12

83 Hyōdō Issei Highschool D×D 11

84 Reigen Arataka Mob Psycho 100 11

85 Eugeo Sword Art Online 11

86 Ciel Phantomhive Kuroshitsuji 11

87 Edward Elric Fullmetal Alchemist 11

88 Glenn Radars Rokudenashi Majutsu Kōshi to Akashic Record 11

89 Ōsaka Sōgō Idolish7 11

90 Nishikata Karakai Jōzu no Takagi-san 11

91 Anos Voldigoad Maō Gakuin no Futekigōsha 11

92 Asanaka Yomogi SSSS.DYNAZENON 11

93 Sano Manjirō Tokyo Revengers 10

94 Nagumo Hajime Arifureta Shokugyō de Sekai Saikyō 10

95 Tatsumi Kōtarō Zombieland Saga 10

96 Tomoe Kamisama Hajimemashita 10

97 Inuyasha InuYasha 10

98 Satoshi Pokémon 10

99 Nohara Shinnosuke Crayon Shin-chan 10

100 Sesshōmaru InuYasha 10

101 Erwin Smith Shingeki no Kyojin 10

102 Odokawa Hiroshi Odd Taxi 9

103 Yukihira Sōma Shokugeki no Sōma 9

104 Hinata Shōyō Haikyū!! 9

105 Yadomi Jinta AnoHana 9

106 Ikari Shinji Neon Genesis Evangelion 9

107 Nakahara Chūya Bungō Stray Dogs 9

108 Usui Takumi Kaichō wa Maid-sama! 9

#2021 #isml #international saimoe league

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tickotaku · 4 years

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Tag Game!

Thank you @chanelblossom !

Answer questions and then tag people you want to know better!

Tagging: @reijisama, @sickdazai, @semii-chan, @dl-subaru-sakamaki, @ask-kino-sakamaki, @reijiswhore, @mukami-ruki, and anybody who follows me/wants to do this!

My answers are below, I am indecisive and talk a lot so I’ll try to keep this short but no promises. >~<

Name: Kris (Technically based off my middle name)

Nickname: (All of my nicknames are super specific, so I don’t know if I should put them.) My best friend calls me “angel” and “love” sometimes.

Gender: Female.

Sexuality (This is mostly just me joking around): Heterosexual (Demisexual, Sapiosexual, Fictophile)

Height: Around 5′5″ (165.1 cm)

Nationality(adding ethnicity too): American (African american mixed with Austrian, German, Swedish, Hungarian, etc.)

Languages: English. And some Spanish although I’m not even close to fluent. I’m trying to learn some others too, my goal is to someday be able to at least get by in Spanish, French, Dutch, Russian, Japanese, Korean, and Swahili. Hopefully others too.

Favorite Season: Autumn!

Favorite Scent: Freshly cut wood, My moms hair (I know, its weird. But I’ve been addicted to the smell of her hair since I was a toddler. Call me gross but my family forced me to stop so now I’ll just cuddle with her pillow because it smells like my mom and it soothes me) My best friend's perfume (She’s been using the same one since we were kids and I have so many memories and emotions wrapped up in that smell OK?) Libraries, Books, Petricor, Forests (Especially on mountain/hiking trails), Morning Dew, Tilled dirt, and Horses.

Current Time: As of writing this sentence, it is 1:42 PM.

Favorite Color: A darkish rich purple, Cobalt blue, black.

Favorite Animal: Most all of them. Foxes, dogs, cats, horses, capybaras, rabbits, mice, bats, dolphins, manta rays, etc.

Favorite Fictional Characters: *Cracks Knuckles* This has no particular rhyme or reason, I’m just naming some: Subaru Sakamaki, Azusa Mukami, Kino, Shin T, Yui Komori, Tamaki Suoh, Kaoru Hitachiin, Takashi (Mori)nozuka, Tamaki-kun, Shiraishi, Atsushi Nakajima, Chuuya Nakahara, Higuchi, Ranpo Edogawa, Kyouka Izumi, Lucy M, Kenji, Fukuzawa, Kishu (Don’t judge me), Mew Lettuce, Dipper Pines, Sokka, Zuko, Toph, Suki, White Blood Cell, Orion, Ukyo, Heiwajima Shizuo, Chiyo Sakura, Mikorin Mikoshiba, Karma Akabane, Yuma Isogai, Manami Okuda, Itona Horibe, Keith Kogane, Violet Evergarden, Benedict Blue, Obi, Shiriyuki, Raji, Ryu, Kyo Sohma, Momiji Sohma, Hatsuharu, Tohru Honda, Todoroki Shoto, Shinso Hitoshi, Tamaki Amajiki, Eijiro Kirishima, Tsuyu Asui, L Lawliet, Matt, Gareki, Nai, Yogi, Shinah, Zino, Jae Ha, Yato, Iki Hyori, Ishigami Yuu, Chika, Auther Doyal, Issac Newton, Theo Van Gogh, ETC.

Normal Amount of Sleep: Average of 5 hours.

Coffee, Tea, or Hot Chocolate: Half Hot Chocolate, Half Coffee, French Vanilla Creamer when available. Otherwise, just some milk and sugar. Anything Mocha is excepted unless its a cappuccino.

# of blankets I sleep with: 0-1

Cats or Dogs: Both, Friar Tuckers.

Dream Trip: Japan, Holland, maybe Scotland.

Dream Job: Vet with stuff on the side like writing and Babysitting.

Followers: 39(as of checking) THANK YOU GUYS SO SO MUCH!

Blog Established: To reblog and interact with ask blogs, possibly to write my own stuff but I’m still uncertain.

Reason for my URL: I made puns all the time and sent in nicknames.

Random Fact: I have the power of God and anime on my side, my feet are huge, I like acting, I can rap (I haven’t done it in a while tho) and I’ve never even held hands romantically with a guy, so I’m as single as they come.

Thanks for reading!

#Tag Game #Long Post #So many fandoms #Send in asks if you want about literally anything #I'm sick and bored

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chuhyas · 4 years

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tagged by @koyakis (´°̥̥̥̥̥̥̥̥v°̥̥̥̥̥̥̥̥｀)

rules: name 10 favorite characters from 10 different things and then tag 10 people

1. nakahara chuuya (bsd)

2. kozume kenma (hq!!)

3. chisaki kai (bnha)

4. iwakura yukihiko (kazetsuyo)

5. rokudo mukuro (khr)

6. makishima shougo (psycho-pass)

7. grimmjow jaegerjaquez (bleach)

8. fujiwara chika (kaguya-sama)

9. momoi satsuki (knb)

10. ichihara yuuko (xxholic)

tagging: @akaashikoutarou @ohreigen @reddoriot @naoamaya @queen-sheep @explodoriot @mmakotoz + anyone else who’d like to do this!

#i haven’t done this in awhile!#thank you for tagging me jas!!#tagged

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carrotcouple · 4 years

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Some phone+finger doodles of one of the AUs I created for my Bungou Stray Dogs OCs!

#sunny arts #sunny's ocs #phone + finger art #the chiklets #the chiklets assassins au #bungou stray dogs ocs #nakahara chizuru #nakahara chika #dazai osamu #nakajima atsushi #riiighhhttt so some bg #the nakahara family are assassins in this au #they adopt atsushi when he's eleven #they unfortunately meet dazai and have to put up with him #every now and then #the first two images are #chizuru and atsushi and chizuru and dazai #and the last one is chika #his eyes glow in the dark

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crmnpnshmnt · 4 years

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404′s bsd blogs roll, because my collection grew a lot.

Canon:

Fyodor Dostoevsky - @crmnpnshmnt

Chuuya Nakahara - @frthtntdsrrw

Jun’ichirou Tanizaki - @lghtsnw

Akutagawa Ryuunosuke - @rshmn

Mori Ougai - @vtsxls

Atsushi Nakajima - @bstbnththmnlght

Nikolai Gogol - @thvrct

Dazai Osamu - @nlngrhmn

Edgar Allan Poe - @blckctnthrmrg

Saigiku Jono - @prclsstrs

Semi-canon:

Personifications of abilities multimuse - @allbilities

OCs:

Nadya Sidorkina - @bldscrm

Aimi ‘Greed’ Kasasagi - @hsfgld

Grim Reaper ‘Kuro” - @mmntmcri

Chika Fuhai - @rttntthcr

Isao Ippei - @dcdbtc

Ryouichi Akamori - @kllthlghts

Shiro Tsuki - @whtrbbt

Krzysztof “KB” Baczyński - @shdwffrn sideblog to crmnpnshmnt!

Yue Takenaka - @phrncrs

#[an anxiety with no object or purpose in the present; ooc]#((oh fuck))#((it's more than I thought when I look at it this way))

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voidplus-jp · 5 years

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Unknown Image Series no.8 #1 山元彩香「organ」 Ayaka Yamamoto "organ" 2019. 11. 1 (fri) - 11.30 (sat)

void+ではUnknown Image Series no.8 #1 山元彩香「organ」を11月1日より開催いたします。Unknown は、インディペンデント・キュレーターのカトウチカが企画するシリーズの展覧会で、2011年より開催。シリーズ8回目となる本展は、Unknown Imageというタイトルで、5名の作家による連続個展形式のグループ展としてHIGURE 17-15 casとvoid+にて開催する予定です。

初回の山元彩香は、京都精華大学芸術学部で絵画を専攻しましたが、米国への交換留学を機に写真の制作を始めました。近年は、自身の持つ知識、経験、言葉の通じない外国へ赴き、現地で知り合った少女たちのポートレート写真を撮り続けています。訪問先は、エストニア、ラトビア、ロシア、ウクライナ、ブルガリア、ルーマニア、ベラルーシなど東欧各国、今年は初のアフリカ大陸、マラウイを訪問し、精力的に制作活動をしています。

本展では新作となる映像作品と、その他旧作と新作で構成した写真作品を展示いたします。会期中にはDIC川村記念美術館学芸員の光田由里、愛知県美術館学芸員の中村史子をゲストに迎え、トークイベントを開催いたします。

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＜展覧会概要＞

■タイトル：Unknown Image Series no.8 #1 山元彩香「organ」 ■会期：2019 年11月1日（金）— 11月30（土��14:00-19:00 ・レ��プション：11月1日（金）19:00-21:00 ・トークイベント：11月29日（金）19:00-20:30 山元彩香＋光田由里（DIC川村記念美術館学芸員）＋中村史子（愛知県美術館学芸員） ■会場：void+ 東京都港区南青山3-16-14, 1F ■定休日：日、月、祝日 ■入場無料 ■お問合せ：Tel: 03-5411-0080／メール: [email protected]

［主催］void＋委員会／Unknown実行委員会［企画］カトウチカ［助成］令和元年度港区文化芸術活動サポート事業助成［協力］Taka Ishii Gallery Photography / Film、YN Associates ［機材協力］ソニーマーケティング株式会社

・未就学児の入場可能／車椅子ご利用の方は事前にお申し出ください。

Starting on November 1, void+ will present Unknown Image Series no.8 #1 YAMAMOTO Ayaka “organ.”

The Unknown series of exhibitions, launched in 2011, are planned and coordinated by independent curator Kato Chika. This eighth exhibition takes the title “Unknown Image,” and will be staged as a group show by five artists in the format of consecutive solo exhibitions at HIGURE 17-15 cas and void+.

Featured in the first show is Yamamoto Ayaka, who majored in painting at Kyoto Seika University’s Faculty of Arts, but began producing photographs during a student exchange in the United States. Recent years have seen Yamamoto traveling to parts of the world where her own knowledge, experience and language do not apply, and shooting portraits of girls she meets there. She has thrown herself enthusiastically into the project, visiting Eastern European nations including Estonia, Latvia, Russia, Ukraine, Bulgaria, Romania, and Belarus, and this year traveling to Africa for the first time, to take photos in Malawi.

Unknown Image Series no.8 #1 YAMAMOTO Ayaka “organ” will present a new work on video by Yamamoto, along with a selection of photographic works. In conjunction with the exhibition, a talk event will also be held, featuring, in addition to the artist, guests Mitsuda Yuri, curator at Kawamura Memorial DIC Museum of Art, and Nakamura Fumiko, curator at Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art.

■Title: Unknown Image Series no. 8 #1 YAMAMOTO Ayaka ”organ” ■Dates/Hours: Friday, November 1 – Saturday, November 30, 2019 14:00–19:00 • Opening reception: Friday, November 1 19:00–21:00 •Talk event: Friday, November 29 19:00–20:30 YAMAMOTO Ayaka + MITSUDA Yuri (Curator, Kawamura Memorial DIC Museum of Art)+ NAKAMURA Fumiko (Curator, Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art) ■Venue: void+ 3-16-14, 1F Minami Aoyama, Minato-ku, Tokyo ■Closed: Sundays, Mondays, holidays ■Admission: free ■Inquires: Tel: 03-5411-0080 Email: [email protected]

Organized by: Unknown executive committee / void+ committee Conceived and planned by: KATO Chika Supported by: Minato City Cultural Arts Support Project With cooperation from: Taka Ishii Gallery Photography/Film, YN Associates Equipment provided by: Sony Marketing Inc.

*Preschoolers welcome. Wheelchair users please let us know in advance.

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「organ」について

2011年に初めてラトビアを訪れたとき、毎朝友人の鼻歌で目覚めた。

それは、言葉になる前の声の連続で、彼女の内部に無意識的に蓄積されている記憶が音のイメージとなって発せられているようにも思えた。

会話とはまた別のレベルで、彼女が辿ってきた時間そのものに触れているような感覚があった。

放たれた声は私の身体の一部となり、自らの声で再び発することで他者へと循環、連鎖してゆく。

organとは、容れ物としての器という意味を持ちながら、臓器や楽器の意味を成す。

遥か昔、儀式に使われていた鈴や鐸はその空洞に響く音によって、それを身につけた人間に見えざるものを憑依/循環させていたそうだ。

空の器としての身体に宿る音により、その奥底にかすかに在る未だ見ぬものに触れたいと願う。

（2019年10月　山元彩香）

About “organ”

When I first visited Latvia in 2011, I was woken every morning by my friend, humming. To me this felt like the continuation of a pre-verbal voice, the emission of memories unconsciously accumulating within her, in the form of sound images. The sensation was one of experiencing the very time she had traveled, at a different level from conversation. Her voice, released, become part of my body, and emitting it again in my own voice causes it to circulate and connect to others. An organ may be a body organ or a musical instrument; in Japanese the character (器) read as ki or utsuwa has these meanings, while also referring to a vessel. Back in the mists of time, the sound of a bell used in rituals, reverberating in the cavity of that bell, would apparently cause the wearer to be possessed by some invisible presence, or have such a presence circulating within them. Hopefully the sounds harbored by the body as empty vessel will put us in touch with glimmers of yet unseen things found in its depths.

(YAMAMOTO Ayaka, October 2019)

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一見、古典的な絵画のように見えるその写真には、非現実なまでに美しい「いきもの」が写っている。彼女たちの表情は虚ろでどこか遠くを見つめているか、死者のごとく目を閉ざしている。あるいは仮面やベールをつけて、その表情すら見えないのだが、仮面をつけた身体やベールの奥にかすかに残っているものがある。果たしてそれはなんなのだろうか？

山元は、あえて言葉が通じない国に出かけ撮影する。言葉に頼らないコミュニケーションによって被写体と共同作業でイメージをつくり上げる。個人を形成している様々なレイヤーを剥ぎ取って新たな衣を纏わせていく過程において、最後には被写体の自意識が消えてしまう瞬間が生まれるのだという。今まで纏っていた衣服、名前、記憶、自意識、文字通りすべてを剥ぎ取り新たな姿を与える撮影は、写真が持つ本質的な暴力性を孕んでいる。しかし、作家が被写体の属性をいくら奪おうとしても奥底に残るものがあるのだという。彼女はそこに何を見出したのだろうか。異国の他者を撮影することで何を問い続けているのだろうか。その静謐なポートレートは、作家の問いであると同時に、イメージの謎そのものなのである。

今回の個展で、山元は映像作品（撮影地ラトビア、2019年制作）を展示する。organ＝空の器としての身体は、言葉ではない歌を歌う。映像＝時間の中に置かれた空の器は、いかなる音を宿すのか、さらなる問いを生じさせる。

カトウチカ（Unknown Series キュレーター）

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Yamamoto’s photographs, at first glance reminiscent of classical paintings, show “creatures” of almost unreal beauty. The girls appear either to be vacantly staring at some point in the distance, or have their eyes closed as if dead. Or they wear a mask or veil, making it impossible to even see their expression, although something remains in the body wearing the mask, or visible faintly behind the veil. What is it? Yamamoto deliberately sets out to take photographs in countries where she does not speak the language, constructing images in collaboration with her subjects via non-verbal communication. The process of peeling away the layers that go to make up an individual and clothing them in new garb apparently, in the end, creates a moment in which the subject sheds her self-consciousness. Photo shoots that strip away literally everything previous—the clothes the person was wearing, their name, memories, self-consciousness—to give them a totally new appearance, are filled with the intrinsic violence of photography. Yet the artist says that no matter how much she endeavors to denude her subjects of their attributes, deep down, something remains. What has Yamamoto identified there? By photographing strangers from other countries, what question does she continually ask? These tranquil portraits serve at once as inquiries on the part of the artist, and the very riddle of images. In this solo outing, Yamamoto will present a video work, shot in Latvia in 2019. The organ/body as empty vessel, sings a song without words. This generates further questions about what kind of sounds are harbored by the empty vessel placed in a video/time.

KATO Chika (Unknown Series curator)

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＜作家プロフィール＞　　

山元彩香| YAMAMOTO Ayaka

1983年兵庫県生まれ。2006年京都精華大学芸術学部造形学科洋画コース卒業。言語による意思疎通が難しい状況下での撮影は、写真というメディアが本質的に抱える性質以上に他者との様々な接点を作家にもたらし、以降、暴力的でありながらも魅力的なイメージ生成の場とも言えるポートレートの撮影を続ける。主な個展に「We are Made of Grass, Soil, and Trees」（タカ・イシイギャラリーフォトグラフィー/フィルム、2018）、「Nous n'irons plus au bois」（同、2014）など。主に東欧各地で撮影を行い、国内外で写真展やレジデンスに参加。2019年に写真集『We are Made of Grass, Soil, and Trees』（T&M Projects、2018）が「さがみはら写真新人奨励賞」を受賞。

YAMAMOTO Ayaka Born 1983 in Hyogo, Japan. BFA in painting, Kyoto Seika University, Faculty of Fine Art. In a situation in which communication through words was difficult, photography took on a value beyond its intrinsic nature, serving as a point of contact with others. Since then, Yamamoto has continued to take in a certain sense violent, yet alluring portraits. Solo exhibitions include ”We are Made of Grass, Soil, and Trees” (Taka Ishii Gallery Photography/Film, 2018) and “Nous n’irons plus au bois” (Taka Ishii Gallery Photography/Film, 2014). She photographs mainly in Eastern Europe, and has participated in photo exhibitions and residencies in Japan and overseas. She won the 19th Sagamihara Prize for Newcomer Professionals in 2019 for her photobook We are Made of Grass, Soil, and Trees(T&M Projects, 2018).

＜ゲストプロフィール＞

光田由里｜MITSUDA Yuri

DIC川村記念美術館学芸員。専門は近現代美術史と写真史。近年の主な企画に、「描く、そして現れる―画家が彫刻を作るとき」（DIC川村記念美術館、2019）、「美術は語られる―評論家・中原佑介の眼―」（同、2016）、「鏡と穴－彫刻と写真の界面」（ギャラリーαM、2017）、「ハイレッド・センター直接行動の軌跡」（松濤美術館、2008）など。主な著書に、『高松次郎言葉ともの』（水声社、2011）、『写真、「芸術」との界面に』（青弓社、2006、日本写真協会学芸賞）、『安井仲治写真集』（共同通信社、2004、倫雅賞）など。

MITSUDA Yuri Curator, Kawamura Memorial DIC Museum of Art, specializing in modern/contemporary art history and history of photography. Recent exhibitions include ”Painting into Sculpture – Embodiment in Form” (Kawamura Memorial DIC Museum of Art, 2019), “Talking about Art – The Viewpoint of Yusuke Nakahara” (also at KMDMA, 2016), “Mirror Behind Hole: Photography into Sculpture“ (gallery αM, 2017), and “Hi-Red Center: "The Documents of ‘Direct Action’” (Shoto Museum of Art, 2008). Among her published writings are Words and Things: Jiro Takamatsu’s issue(Suiseisha, 2011),Shashin, “geijutsu” to no kaimen ni[Photography, in its interface with “art”] (Seikyusha, 2006; winner of the Photographic Society of Japan AwardsScholastic Achievement Award), and Nakaji Yasui photographer 1903–1942(Kyodo News, 2014, Ringa Prize).

中村史子｜NAKAMURA Fumiko

愛知県美術館学芸員。専門は視覚文化、写真、コンテンポラリーアート。担当した主な展覧会に「これからの写真」（2014）、「魔術/美術」（2012）、「放課後のはらっぱ」（2009）など。また、若手作家を個展形式で紹介する「APMoA Project, ARCH」を企画し、伊東宣明（2015）、飯山由貴（2015）、梅津庸一（2017）、万代洋輔（2017）を紹介。2017年にはタイでグループ展「Play in the Flow」を企画、実施。

NAKAMURA Fumiko Curator, Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, specializing in visual culture, photography and contemporary art. Responsible for exhibitions including “Photography Will Be” (2014), “Art as Magic” (2012) and “In the Little Playground” (2009), as well as for planning “APMoA Project, ARCH” presenting young artists in a solo show format, which to date has featuredItohNobuaki (2015), Iiyama Yuki (2015), Umetsu Yoichi (2017) and Bandai Yosuke (2017). In 2017, she planned and implemented the group show “Play in the Flow” in Thailand.

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＜Unknown Image Series no.8 展覧会＞

未知のイメージを創出する

イメージが持つ力と本質を探り、未知のイメージを創出する。

この世界においては、日々膨大なイメージが生まれては消えていくが、ときに稀有なイメージが出現する。今回の参加アーティストは、三田村光土里、横山奈美、鈴木のぞみ、山元彩香、庄司朝美の５名。連続する個展の形式をとる。各回のトークイベントとテキストのゲストには、光田由里、梅津元、飯田志保子、中村史子、中尾拓哉らを招く。シリーズの終了後にはバイリンガルの記録集を制作し、本というメディアにおいても新たな表現の展開をはかっていく。

女性たちがつくるイメージ

Unknown Imageのシリーズは、イメージをテーマに、今、注目すべきアーティスト一人一人の作品とその世界を深く掘り下げ、その可能性をさらに見出していく場でもある。今回は、はからずも全員が女性アーティストとなった。

初回の山元彩香は、言葉の通じない国で神秘的なまでの美しさと暴力性をもつポートレートを撮影する。被写体の名前や意識すら剥ぎ取り、空の器にしようとしても残るものとはなんなのか。鈴木のぞみは、写真や時間の原理の静かな探求者である。生命なき事物に「視線」と「記憶」を出現させ、写真に身体のようなものを与える。横山奈美は、絵画の大きな歴史と私的な小さな歴史を交錯させ、日常の取るに足らないものたちの美しさや、明るく輝くものの背後にある存在を描き出す。庄司朝美の描線は、舞台のように見る人を引き込む物語性と、生命と死のエネルギーに満ちた身体的絵画空間をつくり出す。三田村光土里は、このシリーズではもっともキャリアの長いアーティストである。ごく私的なイメージや言葉の数々は、写真、映像、オブジェ、ドローイング、インスタレーションとなるが、それらは個人の物語やアートの枠組みを越えて普遍性を帯び、見る人の心を捉えて離さない。そして、ゲストは性別や年代は幅広いが、いずれも芸術の発生の現場において、極めて優れた批評の言葉を紡いできた方々である。

美術史において、かつて周縁の存在であった女性アーティストたちは、今、最先端にいる。彼女たちがつくるイメージはどのようなものなのか。なぜそれを生み出さねばならなかったのか。参加者の出自やキャリア、テーマ、歴史や現在の状況との向き合い方、その目指すところも様々である。だが、彼女たちの存在と彼女たちがつくるイメージは、それぞれに強く鮮やかだ。その未知のイメージは見る人を深く静かに揺るがし、世界に多様な変化を生み出す力ともなっていくだろう。

＜Unknown Image Series no.8 exhibitions＞

Creating unknown images

Exploring the power and essence possessed by images, to create unknown images.

A vast number of images are generated every day in this world, only to vanish, but just occasionally, some extraordinary images do emerge. The artists in this eighth Unknown exhibition are Mitamura Midori, Yokoyama Nami, Suzuki Nozomi, Yamamoto Ayaka, and Shoji Asami, who will stage consecutive solo shows. Those serving as guests for the talk events for each of these shows, and providing the texts, will include Mitsuda Yuri, Umezu Gen, Iida Shihoko, Nakamura Fumiko, and Nakao Takuya. After the series is finished a bilingual document will be produced, thus extending the exhibition into another form of expression, that of the book.

Images made by women

The Unknown Image series is also an opportunity to delve deeply into the individual work of some of today’s most noteworthy artists and their worlds, identifying further possibilities for each. This time, albeit not by design, all the artists are female.

Yamamoto Ayaka, featured in the first of the exhibitions, travels to countries where she does not speak the language, and takes portrait photographs suffused with a beauty and violence verging on the mystical. What is it that remains even when everything is stripped from her subjects, down to their names and consciousness, in an attempt to turn them into empty vessels? Suzuki Nozomi is a quiet explorer of the principles of photography and time. Endowing non-living things with a “gaze” and “memory” she gives her photos something like a physical body. Yokoyama Nami blends the vast history of painting and small personal histories to depict the beauty of everyday, insignificant things and what lies behind the bright and shiny. Shoji Asami’s lines create a narrative quality that draws the viewer in like a stage, and a corporeal painterly space suffused with the energy of life and death. Mitamura Midori is the artist in this series with the longest career. Her many very personal images and words are presented in photographs, videos, objects, drawings and installations, that go beyond individual stories or the confines of art, taking on a universal quality that irrevocably captures the heart of the viewer. The guests, meanwhile, are a varied lineup in terms of age and gender, but all individuals on the frontlines of art creation, of superb critical talent.

Once a marginal presence in art history, female artists are now at its cutting edge. What kind of images do these artists make? Why have they felt the need to produce them? The artists participating in these exhibitions have different origins and career trajectories, different ways of engaging with their themes, with history and current circumstances, and different aims. Yet their presence, and the images they create, are without exception strong and vibrant. Their unknown images will quietly shake the viewer to the core, and likely serve as a force for many types of change in the world.

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＜Unknown Image Seriesno.8個展スケジュール＞

#1｜山元彩香［会場］void+ 2019年11月1日（金）―30日（土）トークイベント：11月29日（金）19:00-20:30 山元彩香＋光田由里（DIC川村記念美術館学芸員）＋中村史子（愛知県美術館学芸員）

YAMAMOTO Ayaka @void+ Friday, November 1 – Saturday, November 30, 2019 Talk event: Friday, November 29 19:00–20:30 YAMAMOTO Aya + MITSUDA Yuri (Curator, Kawamura Memorial DIC Museum of Art)+ NAKAMURA Fumiko (Curator, Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art)

#2｜鈴木のぞみ　［会場］void+ 2020年夏（予定）トークイベント：鈴木のぞみ＋梅津元（埼玉県立近代美術館学芸主幹／芸術学）参加予定テキスト執筆：梅津元

SUZUKI Nozomi @ void+ Summer 2020 (TBD) Talk event:SUZUKI Nozomi + UMEZU Gen (Curator, The Museum of Modern Art, Saitama / Art Studies) TBC Text: UMEZU Gen

#3｜庄司朝美［会場］HIGURE 17-15 cas 2020年9月（予定）トークイベント：庄司朝美＋光田由里（DIC川村記念美術館学芸員）

SHOJI Asami @ HIGURE 17-15 cas September 2020 (TBD) Talk event:SHOJI Asami + MITSUDA Yuri (Curator, Kawamura Memorial DIC Museum of Art)

庄司朝美《18.10.23》2018 アクリル板に油彩　画像提供：損保ジャパン日本興亜美術館

#4｜横山奈美　［会場］void+ 2021年5月（予定）トークイベント：横山奈美＋飯田志保子（キュレーター）

YOKOYAMA Nami　@ void+ May 2021 (TBD) Talk event:YOKOYAMA Nami + IIDA Shihoko (Curator)

横山奈美《Cross》2019 麻布に油彩　Photo by WAKABAYASHI Hayato

#5｜三田村光土里［会場］HIGURE 17-15 cas 2021年（予定）トークイベント：三田村光土里＋中尾拓哉（美術評論家）

MITAMURA Midori @ HIGURE 17-15 cas 2021 (TBD) Talk event:MITAMURA Midori + NAKAO Takuya (Art critic)

＜その他参加作家プロフィール＞

鈴木のぞみ| SUZUKI Nozomi

1983年埼玉県生まれ。東京藝術大学大学院美術研究科博士後期課程在学中。何気ない日常の事物に潜む潜像のような記憶の可視化を、写真の原理を通して試みている。現前しているが不在であるという性質を持つ写真を事物に直接定着することで、写真に触覚的な身体のようなものが付与され、過ぎ去りゆく時をいまここに宙づりにする。近年の主な展示に「あしたときのうのまんなかで」（はじまりの美術館、2019）、「MOTサテライト2018 秋うごきだす物語」（清澄白河、2018）、「無垢と経験の写真日本の新進作家vol.14」（東京都写真美術館、2017）、「NEW VISION SAITAMA 5 迫り出す身体」（埼玉県立近代美術館、2016）など。受賞歴多数。現在、ポーラ美術振興財団在外研修員としてイギリスにて研修中。

SUZUKI Nozomi Born 1983 in Saitama, Japan.Currently in the doctorate course of Intermedia Art at Tokyo University of the Arts.Attempts to visualize, through the principles of photography, the memories resembling latent images submerged in innocuous everyday objects. Fixing photographs, which have the characteristic of being present yet absent, directly to objects, assigns photographs something like a tactile body, suspending passing time in the now. Recent group exhibitions include “In the middle of tomorrow and yesterday” (Hajimari Art Center, 2019), “MOT Satellite 2018 Fall: To Become a Narrative” (Kiyosumi-Shirakawa, 2018), “Photographs of Innocence and of Experience: Contemporary Japanese Photography vol.14” (Tokyo Photographic Art Museum, 2017), and “New Vision Saitama 5: The Emerging Body” (The Museum of Modern Art, Saitama, 2016). Among her many awards, she was recipient of the POLA Art Foundation Grant for Overseas Research in 2018, under which she is currently studying in the UK.

庄司朝美| SHOJI Asami

1988年福島県生まれ。2012年多摩美術大学大学院美術研究科絵画専攻版画領域修了。「線が引かれる。それは必ずしも天と地を��割するような境界線ではなくて、地を這う生き物が砂／泥へ残した痕跡のような、動くことで開かれていく空間がある。私たちは誰かの想像した世界を連綿と引き継いで生きている。」庄司の絵画には特定の物語がないにも関わらず、見る人はそこに様々な物語を見出す。また、絵画の空間的体験によって、自由な身体感覚が循環する生きた絵画空間が誕生する。主な個展に「明日のまみえない神話」（gallery21yo-j、2019）、「泥のダイアグラム」（Cale、2018）、「劇場の画家」（gallery21yo-j、2017）、「夜のうちに」（トーキョーワンダーサイト渋谷、2017）などがある。「FACE2019」損保ジャパン日本興亜美術賞で大賞受賞。

SHOJI Asami Born 1988 in Fukushima, Japan. Earned her MFA in printmaking in 2012 from Tama Art University (Tokyo). ”A line is drawn. It is not necessarily a borderline of the kind dividing heaven and earth, but perhaps a space that opens up through movement, like that of a creature that crawls along the ground, leaving a track in sand or mud. In our lives we are continuously inheriting a world imagined by someone.” Despite not having a specific narrative, Shoji’s paintings reveal various stories to the viewer. They also spawn a living painterly space of circulating free physical sensation, through the spatial experience of painting. Solo shows include”Tomorrow’s Unseen Mythologies” (gallery21yo-j, 2019), “Diagram of the Mud”(Cale, 2018), “A Painter in the Theater” (gallery21yo-j, 2017), and “During the Night” (Tokyo Wonder Site, Shibuya,2017). Grand Prix winner at the “FACE 2019” Sompo Japan Nipponkoa Art Awards.

横山奈美 | YOKOYAMA Nami

1986年岐阜県生まれ。2012年愛知県立芸術大学大学院美術研究科油画版画領域修了。捨てられる寸前の身の回りの物や、ネオン管の裏側に隠された器具や配線といった主役にはならないものに光を当てることで、そのものが持つ役割の枠を取り払い、すべてのものに備わる根源的な美しさと存在意義を表現する。近年は、「LOVE」の意味を問いかける油画とドローイングを続けて発表している。主な展示に、アペルト10「LOVEと私のメモリーズ」（金沢21世紀美術館、2019）、「日産アートアワード2017」（BankART Studio NYK）、「手探りのリアリズム」（豊田市美術館、2014）、「Draw the World-世界を描く」（アートラボあいち、2013）など。主な受賞に「日産アートアワード2017オーディエンス賞」などがある。

YOKOYAMA Nami Born 1986 in Gifu, Japan. Earned her MFA in painting in 2012 from Aichi Prefectural University of Fine Arts and Music. By shining a light on things that never take center stage, such as familiar objects in the moment before their discarding, and the fittings and wiring hidden behind neon signs, Yokoyama does away with the parameters of the roles played by these things to express the fundamental beauty and raison d’etre possessed by all things. Her recent drawings and paintings continue to question the meaning of love. Solo and group exhibitions include “Aperto 10: Memories of Love and Me” (21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, 2019), “Nissan Art Award 2017” (BankART Studio NYK), “Reaching for the Real” (Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, 2014),and “Draw the World” (Art Lab Aichi, 2013). Recipient of the Nissan Art Award 2017 Audience Award.

三田村光土里| MITAMURA Midori

1964年愛知県生まれ。1994年現代写真研究所基礎科修了。「人が足を踏み入れられるドラマ」をテーマに、日常の記憶や追憶のモチーフを、写真や映像、日用品、言語など様々なメディアと組み合わせ、私小説の挿話のような空間作品を国内外で発表。近年の主な個展に、グラン・カナリア（スペイン）での「If not here, then I'm somewhere else」（Galeria Manuel Ojeda、2018）、「Art & Breakfast」（CAAM – Atlantic Center of Modern Art、2017）がある。展覧会ではイギリスの「フォークストン・トリエンナーレ2017」関連企画「Leaving Language」、国内では、「あいちトリエンナーレ 2016」（愛知芸術文化センター）など。2019年にはウィーンで、日本−オーストリア国交150周年記念展「Japan Unlimited」に参加。

MITAMURA Midori Born 1964 in Aichi, Japan. Completed the fundamentals course at The Institute of Contemporary Photographyin 1994. Taking as her theme “dramas that people can step into,” Mitamura combines motifs of everyday memories and reminiscences with various media such as photography and video, household goods and language, presenting in Japan and further afield spatial works that resemble an episode of an autobiographical novel. Recent solo exhibitions include ”If not here, then I'm somewhere else.” (Galeria Manuel Ojeda, 2018) and “Art & Breakfast” (CAAM – Atlantic Center of Modern Art, 2017）both in Gran Canaria, Spain. Among her group show participations are “Leaving Language,” a collateral program of the Folkestone Triennial 2017in the UK, and Aichi Triennale 2016 (Aichi Arts Center) in Japan. In 2019, she will participate in “Japan Unlimited,” an exhibition staged in Vienna commemorating 150 years of friendship between Austria and Japan.

＜その他ゲストプロフィール＞

梅津元｜UMEZU Gen

埼玉県立近代美術館学芸主幹。専門は芸術学。同館での主な企画（共同企画を含む）に「DECODE/出来事と記録ーポスト工業化社会の美術」（2019）、「版画の景色　現代版画センターの軌跡」（2018）、「生誕100年記念　瑛九展」（2011）、「アーティスト・プロジェクト：関根伸夫《位相ー大地》が生まれるまで」（2005）、「ドナルド・ジャッド1960-1991」（1999）、「＜うつすこと＞と＜見ること＞ー意識拡大装置」（1994）など。ギャラリーαMでの企画に「トランス／リアルー非実体的美術の可能性」（2016-17）がある。美術手帖や展覧会カタログなどに寄稿多数。

UMEZU Gen Curator, The Museum of Modern Art, Saitama, specializing in art studies. Exhibitions he has organized/co-organized at MOMAS include ”DECODE / Events & Materials: The Work of Art in the Age of Post-Industrial Society” (2019), “A View of Prints: Trajectory of the Gendai Hanga Center” (2018), “100th Birth Anniversary, Q Ei” (2011), “Artist Project: Toward the Emergence of Sekine Nobuo’s Phase – Mother Earth” (2005), “Donald Judd 1960–1991” (1999), and “Visualization in the End of the 20th Century” (1994), as well as “Trans / Real: The Potential of Intangible Art” (2016-17,Gallery αM). He has contributed a great number of essays to the art magazine Bijutsu Techo, as well as to art catalogues and books.

飯田志保子｜IIDA Shihoko

キュレーター。1998年の開館準備期から2009年まで東京オペラシティアートギャラリーに務める。主な企画に「ヴォルフガング・ティルマンス―Freischwimmer」（2004）、「トレース・エレメンツ―日豪の写真メディアにおける精神と記憶」（東京オペラシティアートギャラリー、2008／パフォーマンス・スペース、シドニー、2009）など。2009-2011年クイーンズランド州立美術館／現代美術館で客員キュレーター。その後、国際展のキュレーターを歴任。2014年度から17年度まで、東京藝術大学美術学部准教授。「あいちトリエンナーレ2019」ではチーフ・キュレーターを務める。

IIDA Shihoko Curator. Worked at Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery from 1998, when it was preparing for inauguration, until 2009, where her major exhibitions included “Wolfgang Tillmans: Freischwimmer” (2004) and “Trace Elements: Spirit and Memory in Japanese and Australian Photomedia” (2008/Performance Space, Sydney, 2009). She was a visiting curator at Queensland Art Gallery/Gallery of Modern Art in Brisbane from 2009 through 2011, and has since co-curated successive international art exhibitions. Associate professor at Tokyo University of the Arts for the academic years 2014–2017. She was Chief Curator (Head of Curatorial Team) of Aichi Triennale 2019.

中尾拓哉｜NAKAO Takuya

美術評論家。博士（芸術）。近現代芸術に関する評論を執筆。特に、マルセル・デュシャンが没頭したチェスをテーマに、生活（あるいは非芸術）と制作の結びつきについて探求している。2014年に論考「造形、その消失においてーマルセル・デュシャンのチェスをたよりに」で『美術手帖』通巻1000号記念第15回芸術評論募集佳作入選。2017年に単著『マルセル・デュシャンとチェス』を平凡社より出版。主な論考に「50年あるいは100年後の鑑賞者ー日本・マルセル・デュシャン論再考」（『美術手帖』2019年2月号）など。

NAKAO Takuya Art critic. PhD in art. Writes criticism on modern and contemporary art. In particular, has been exploring the connections between living (or non-art) and creative practice from the perspective of chess, in which Marcel Duchamp was also engrossed. His 2014 essay, “The Plastic, in Disappearance: From Marcel Duchamp’s Chess” received honorable mention in the 15th (1000th Issue Commermorative) Bijutsu TechoArt Writing Competition. His book Marcel Duchamp and Chesswas published by Heibonsha in 2017. Recent published writings include “One’s Public, Fifty or One Hundred Years Later: Reconsidering Marcel Duchamp Studies in Japan”(Bijutsu Techo, February 2019).

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photo: Ayaka Yamamoto, “organ”, 2019

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Cup.

Kaito had wandered around Hope’s Peak Academy’s campus, the cup of coffee he held between his hands being his only company. He watched as the students left through the front gate, so distant from them he could barely make out their faces, until he was sure most of them had left. The moment he thought he could be alone, he moved to the garden. It wasn’t touched by people who weren’t part of the gardening club and, if the rare opportunity arose, the ikebana club. By what he had heard, doing as much as trying to take a flower from its place would make an alarm ring through the school. Well, he wasn’t there to vandalize the garden, however. All he did was sit in an empty wooden bench, cup in hands.

He had conducted a careful investigation on his classmates before coming. From Asakura Chika, whose life was as simple and uninteresting as it could be, to the renowned jidaigeki actor, Nakagawa Gennosuke, all of them were documented thoroughly through their lives. When creating a new character, a new facade to use in front of others, he had to prepare accordingly. Any new environment could be threatening and dangerous if he didn’t know what he was getting into, after all. And amongst all of his classmates, only three of them stood out as people who would question his identity. Only these three seemed like threats, and he prepared to deal with their intervention at any moment. One of the queens of the criminal underworld, Yamashita Itsuki, whose laid-back demeanor distracted from the true danger she presented; the naturally skeptical and inquisitive Shimoyama Taiki, who had once worked to assist in a case related to an “accident” while he worked; and, at last, Philip Brighton, who he had once stolen from during his night job, and whose influence would certainly be enough to put him behind bars.

So he was shocked, earlier that day, when he was confronted by someone else entirely.

He felt the cold of a gun to his back. A cowardly move that he had pulled many times, though he would never pull the trigger. From the place where the gun was placed in his back, a centimeter or two higher than where his own hand would put the gun if he aimed precisely forward, he could easily deduce the height of the person behind him. Approximately 1,72 meters; couldn’t be 75, since he would have been able to tell if someone was a full five centimeters taller than him, so he settled for that approximate amount. Yes, one or two centimeters was most likely the case. Three was pushing it a bit too far.

The grip was firm, unwavering, much like his own. Someone who wouldn’t hesitate to hurt others, for whatever reason. It couldn’t be Uedera, even if her height matched his first assumption; her hands were always shaking slightly, and he doubted she had it in her to point a gun at someone. She was a gentle, fragile person, who would freak out at the mere sight of blood. Yes, this was someone with nerves of steel. Someone who, when faced with danger, wouldn’t even waver. That sort of behavior… he wanted to say it was Kisarijo Yukie, but the height wouldn’t match. Nakahara Shinobu, perhaps? He was a dangerous fellow, with his body count being much higher than the number of people he had stolen from. He was tempted to call him by his last name, trying to see if he had been correct, but his thoughts were interrupted.

“Who are you?”

…oh. He truly didn’t expect this one, but he mentally chastised himself for not doing so. Of course a Kisarijo would be behind him at that moment. And even though he didn’t go by the name of Kisarijo, he was…

“Yuu-kun,” Kaito laughed, uneasiness oozing from his every word, “let’s drop that dangerous thing, okay? You know me, I’m Kaito—”

“I asked you a question, asshole.” The gun was pressed even closer to his skin now, pressing his clothing down with the muzzle. Yuji most likely couldn’t see his expression, but he couldn’t stop smiling at that. “Shokyokusai Kaito doesn’t exist. It’s an alias. I’ve been conducting my little investigation for a while now, and I know no one by that name existed in the first place. You were thorough enough to create false tracks. I was just more thorough than you.”

“…the detective skills really are genetic, huh?” Kaito’s voice… changed. It wasn’t even the tone, or the volume, or the way he spoke. His entire voice changed. Like the voice Yuji had listened to for days and days was nothing more than an impression, a skilled reproduction of a human’s voice. This one was far more real, far more cruel. And even then, he smiled, voice so cheerful.

After all, he was uncontrollably happy. Happy that someone could tell. He couldn’t even hold back his laughter, sighing as he regained his composure. “What gave it away? Was it the surname? I even made detailed records on how I chose it in an orphanage. I didn’t think it would be surprising for a kid to choose their favorite magician’s surname as their own, since they didn’t have one. …Well, then again, what kid knows about magicians from almost a full century ago?”

“Your associates weren’t as determined as you,” Yuji replied, his tone unsurprisingly cold. He must have been wary of his strange demeanor, that didn’t match at all someone being held at gunpoint. “All it took was doing this to them and one of them opened their mouth.”

Tsk. He could guess which one had crumbled under pressure. He’d sever that weak link later. “If you want a thing done well, do it yourself, as they say. That’s a mistake on my part. Sorry for not having the best actors working for me. Anyway—”

“The question. Answer it, now.”

“Does it matter?”

He turned around. Luckily, Yuji didn’t shoot him by reflex, the gun now pressed against his chest. Ah, he recognized that one. The model, the small scratches from the prolonged use, and the care put into making sure those weren’t as noticeable. He wasn’t sure when Kogane had the chance to steal it, but he could tell that she should be desperately looking for it right about now. The musician looked so confused, the poor guy. He frowned deeply as Kaito did that, probably knowing full well his bluff had been called out. The toymaker had made a slight miscalculation: Kisarijo Yukie would have shot him as a warning. Kogane Yuji wasn’t so heartless.

He moved both his hands to Yuji’s, holding them and the gun between those with care. And he forced Yuji’s arm to move up, lifting the gun to his forehead.

“Shoot. And make sure you aim real good, okaaaay? You wouldn’t want to waste the bullets from Kisarijo-kun’s handgun, would you? Come on, you can do it. Just pull the trigger and let’s see where your thoroughness leads you!”

A second passed.

Another second.

Neither of them moved, completely fixated on each other’s eyes, even their breaths paralyzed. That moment… it was, most likely, terrifying for Yuji. But for Kaito, there was a strange intimacy in looking at each other like this, attention turned entirely to another person and their thoughts. He felt the same rush that he got from going against the detective duo. The same feeling of being everything on someone else’s mind, of his life depending on someone else’s choice. There was a masochistic pleasure in putting himself at risk.

Kaito lowered Yuji’s hands. “I thought so,” Were his last words, as he walked away. Yuji didn’t follow him.

It was after that encounter that he made his way to the school’s garden, after watching the students leave one by one, with a cup of coffee he had grabbed to drink and relax by himself.

And yet the question repeated in his mind.

Omae wa dare da?

Indeed. Who was he? He asked himself that same question so many times, it became, partially, routine. When Yuji asked him, he felt uncontrollably happy… but at the same time, unbearably sad. After all, someone had seen through him. Someone had seen through his barriers and lies and seen the same empty void he did. While he was happy someone could understand he wasn’t Kaito Shokyokusai, the calm, average persona he had fabricated for himself, he couldn’t help but feel lost, knowing they only saw the lack of identity he possessed.

Who was he, really? He wasn’t sure. The more he acted as someone else, the more he lost the bare essence of who he used to be. He wasn’t Louis DuPont, the idealization of a perfect thief who could become anyone. Kaito Shokyokusai was just the silly toymaker he had fabricated for a heist, who happened to be invited to Hope’s Peak Academy. And it had been a long, long time since he felt the name he received from his mother simply didn’t describe him. His identity was a mixture of too many roles, melting and merging, mixing and ever-changing. He absorbed parts of his characters, and before he knew it, everything was a fabrication.

How much of what he felt was real? Was this heavy feeling in his chest, this feeling of despair upon feeling isolated, really his? Was this just another one of the traits he gave one of his many, many past personas? And his longing for friendship? And his fear of allowing himself to feel? And even this precise sentiment, this horrendous idea that he had slowly lost grip on his true self, and now had no idea who he was to begin with? Was this, too, a lie he eventually believed in? Was this the will of which character? Which of the many faces he had created cried these salty tears, and held the coffee cup with such strength?

And he held it stronger, stronger, stronger still…

He only realized what had happened when the sharp pain took over his other senses. He had been staring into the cup, now shattered. The hot coffee was all over his hands and lap, burning his skin. Coffee and blood mixed in his palms, pierced by shards of glass, the horrible pain only worsening by the second.

This blood… it was real, wasn’t it? Could he trust himself enough to believe that?

…of course, yes, he kept bandages with him. A thief never knows when they will get injured like this, so it was best to always carry it around. He struggled to get the roll out of his backpack, with how much it hurt to move his fingers, let alone use his palms, but he managed. Now, all he had to do was take the shards off and wrap the bandages around his hands. It should be easy enough. He could—

Steps. He continued moving, as if he hadn’t noticed. It was too late to run away, as the steps got closer and closer. By the intervals between steps and the pace… yes, he could guess who that was. Even the sound the shoe made was very distinct, when in conjunction with the approximate build of the person.

…

He watched from the window as Chika approached Kaito—no, the person calling himself Kaito. That wasn’t even his name. He managed to go back and give Yukie her handgun, first getting rid of his fingerprints (and that guy’s) and then slipping it into her bag, while she was busy with club practice. It took him a while to find a window where he could see the toymaker. When he did, he only watched as he spent a good half an hour staring into his cup of coffee, only to shatter it with his own hands all of a sudden.

Yuji put his thumb in his lips, biting the tip of his nail off as he observed. Taking the gun was an overreaction, he knew that much now that he had time to think about it. He wouldn’t even try to justify it to himself—it was, all things considered, something he shouldn’t have done in the first place. But the way the student going by Kaito Shokyokusai looked at him, crazed smile tainting Yuji’s memories of his half-smiles, always gracing his expression… the way his eyes stared deep into his soul, leaving the lasting impression that he could read his every thought, see through every feeling… the empty, lifeless pink eyes, filled with a mixture of happiness and pain he couldn’t figure out, as he took both his hands and pointed Yukie’s handgun into his own forehead…

He was sweating. He only realized it now, which made him frown even more as Chika took Kaito away from the garden.

That guy wanted to be shot. He sounded almost disappointed when he didn’t. He was beyond his comprehension, at that moment; he was an unreadable riddle, a threat he couldn’t begin to predict.

He was a menace.

He had to act quick.

The detective skills really are genetic, huh?

The ginger bit his nail again, expression shifting to a hatred he couldn’t explain. I’m doing this because I don’t want people to get hurt. I’m nothing like that asshole, that fucking bastard who left my mom! I’m nothing, nothing like him! Even the thought that I share his blood disgusts me! I’m no detective, and I’m no Kisarijo! Another bite, and another one, and another one. It was becoming too short for him to keep doing this. He moved to the next one.

No. He needed to calm down, and act like he always did. Even if his intentions were to protect others from this person, infiltrated amongst his classmates, it wasn’t as if people would stop thinking of him as the bastard son, who was raised by his mom until he was old enough to understand the insults hurled at her. That was all he would ever be. Trying to show off as something other than that… no, it was only logical that it would change nothing. So he should play into their expectations.

He forced a smile. At this point, he didn’t quite remember how it felt, to genuinely smile in public. He ran his fingers through his hair, before deciding to go home. His mother would be worried if he arrived too late, and there wasn’t much he could do at the moment.

#kaito shokyokusai — ultimate toymaker #louis dupont — the ultimate gentleman cambrioleur #yuji kogane — ultimate jazz musician #long post — everyone's talking...

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