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One of these days my intrusive thoughts are gonna win and I'm going to grab a pigeon

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Ok so concept

YouTube has my specific interests filed, being anime music, K-Pop, True Crime, financial crime, and Sims 4. Why is there no service on YouTube where you can find people with the EXACT same niche interests as you? Like some sort of Tinder (but for friends) system where you can see people's top 5 categories of video (of course, you'd be able to remove interests your embarrassed about, or maybe you'd be anonymous until a match is made) and swipe left or right? I feel like that'd be neat

#thoughts #youtube

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Hot take but I think it's time we stopped advertising makeup by having women cover their freckles... Like they're cute and they're harmless?? As someone with freckles I'm feeling attacked

#thoughts #makeup #marketing

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Anime Review - Idoly Pride (S1)

Idoly Pride. Idoly effing Pride. Where do I even begin to describe the emotional journey that this thing took me on? If you're here, you know that I LOVE idols, so do take that bias into account...

Watch Idoly Pride if: - You want to experience a state of true catharsis - You love idols and music - You have a sister

Do NOT watch Idoly Pride if: - You are not emotionally prepared for it - You don't like women??? - ??? It's 12 episodes you can do it

MILD SPOILERS below the cut- I'm only gonna spoil episode 1 plot points though so

Oh my GOD. Where do I even start? I guess we can begin with a summary. A young man named Kohei becomes an idol producer after being asked to do it by his acquaintance (at the time) Mana. Over the years, Mana goes on to become a legendary idol, but passes away in an accident just before the finals of the Venus Something competition. A few years after that, Kohei begins scouting for a new idol group, and he meets two girls of importance- Sakura, who has a voice that sounds just like Mana's and a heart that told her where to go; and Kotono, Mana's younger sister who took up idol training to follow in her sister's footsteps. The anime follows the story of the two girls discovering their own truth as idols and what the profession means to them. Ultimately, though, this is a story about forgiveness- both of others and of ones-self. That said, there are a lot of lessons to have pulled from this heart-wrenching story, and this is just how I interpreted it.

Love Live walked so Idoly Pride could run. Seriously, Idoly Pride does EVERYTHING right that Love Live got wrong. For example, character development. Sakura and Kotono are, of course, joined by a cast of fun and quirky side characters, who each get a somewhat significant plot point around them. For example, the sister relationship between Chisa and Saki is touching, and Rei's intensity being misinterpreted as cruelty helps her develop as a character, too. All the side idols are really great, and I think that in a second season there'd be a lot of potential for good plot points there.

Idoly Pride also succeeded in that things actually went right. Unlike Love Live, not everything goes wrong for Hoshimi productions, and as a result, the anime is a happy one, not frustrating to watch at all. The characters, for the most part, act as reasonable human beings would and usually make good decisions. They're a bit unrealistically emotionally intelligent- I mean, have you MET high school girls? That aside, I also enjoyed the balance of "filler" to "plot." There's a ton of cute little moments, like Suzu falling asleep and rolling off a bench while waiting for laundry, or Shioriko doing "ego surfing" on her phone between shows. I think this mundane aspect of it gives the characters a bit more realism and makes them so much more likeable.

Just to dote on this show a bit more- the 3D animation was like nothing I've ever seen before, and there were times when it was actually hard to tell what technique the animators were using. There were even times when you could tell they had rendered in 3D, then drawn over the idols in 2D to get an incredible 3D sweeping background with a 2D character overlay. A lot of love was put into repeatedly drawing the intricate costumes on even the side characters, and I really respect that.

The only crime this anime committed was not being long enough! Well, and there were a LOT of loose ends, and I wasn't completely satisfied with what happened at the finals of the Venus Something cup. The solo song performed at the end was absolutely beautiful, but the outcome of the cup as a whole was kind of confusing to me. Well, whatever. Fix it in season 2!

I'd like to bring up two more things before I go. 1, this anime portrays sisters really well. I love the way the relationships between the two sets of sisters are explored. And 2, the handling of the power dynamics between older, male idol producers and the young, often underage, female idols. I think this was presented rather well, and it's something I'd like to see them discuss more in the next season, specifically with Rui.

Overall, it's a 10/10 for me. I cried the last four episodes. Something about this anime knows exactly how to punch you right in the gut. It's beautiful.

#anime #anime review #anime reviews #idoly pride

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I just finished watching Idoly Pride and holy fuck. I cannot cope, I cried almost the entirety of episodes 9-12. It's just... Incredible. I think I was particularly moved by it since I have a sister of my own. I will write more about it in a full review tomorrow but for now I'm gonna watch Danishikokosei no Nichijou and try to make my face not hurt

#anime #idoly pride

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ugh ✈️ is SUCH a fucking bitch if I get to leave this job ever I'm going to cite her as the reason so she gets reprimanded

Like you have no right to tell me "you should know this by now." Yeah, I should, ✈️, but my trainer was incompetent and I have 200 other things to worry about that are way more important than making sure everything is just how you want it

#thoughts

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I'm just gonna say it: they have GOT to start making energy drinks for the girls. The packaging of Monster/Bang/Rockstar/Redbull is so unappealing to me that even if the flavor was good I wouldn't touch it, as I don't want to be seen with it. And Celsius just kinda looks like sparkling water or an alcoholic seltzer drink so I don't want to drink that either. Also I don't want to drink coffee.

#thoughts

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Current Anime Progress

Danshi Kokosei no Nichijou (Slice of Life)

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Darwin's Game (Thriller)

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Blend S (Slice of Life/Romance)

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The hair salon is so fun because I have to focus on not screaming the entire time due to every single sensory issue I've ever had being brought out at once

Like you're telling me you're gonna be pulling on my hair and painting sticky fluid into it and then I have to sit there while it's wet? Excellent that's a fucking nightmare

#thoughts #hair salon

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It's time to get my hair dyed yayayaay except 🍀 says he likes my hair long which sucks because it'll probably take like 4-5 hours lmao

I have insanely thick hair thanks to my mom's side of the family and it's just absurdly unmanageable. It's so thick that I can barely brush it through most days and have never really had it below my shoulders

#thoughts #hair

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🍀 has decided he wants children so now I gotta figure out how I'm going to manage that

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"たった一つ　わがまま言っていいかな 「生まれ変わっても傍にいてくれますか？」"

"I want to ask just one selfish thing- 'Would you be by my side in my next life, too?'"

#Spotify #music #lyrics #idoly pride #idol #idols #anime #anime music

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Having a day job is so fucking crazy like I'm here at a Hatsune Miku concert and in 12 short hours I'll be on the phone taking about fucking finance

#work #thoughts

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Also my mom commented on a post of mine with a Zamboni and she was like "you have always loved the Zambonis" and I'm like yes mother I do love hyper-specialized expensive motorized equipment, it might be the autism you refused to get me diagnosed with 🥴

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As an old vocaloid fan, it makes me so happy to see so many young people at North America expo. There's kids as young as 8 in full cosplay playing project Sekai in the line. It's different from what it was in both good and bad ways, and I'm glad the joy is spreading.

#miku #vocaloid #thoughts

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Huge shout out to all the confused parents at Miku expo, way to support your weeb kids despite having no idea what you're watching

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Look at the necklines and busts on these dresses like what in the actual name of God is this??? Seriously??? These look like a high schoolers first sewing project??

Not to be a hater on main but I genuinely cannot believe that this video came out from a major label TWO WEEKS AGO. Above is a screen cap from ILLIT's "Magnetic" and I just. Genuinely what are those outfits?? What were they thinking?? Every piece is cut and fitted so poorly that it almost distracts from how utterly boring the outfits are. My broke ass could have put together better outfits for these poor girls from a thrift store? Compare this with the below screenshot of IVE from last year and it just looks so sloppy. IVE is polished and the costumes are not only much trendier (despite being last year) but also much better fitted and seemingly better made.

I'll make no comments about the song "Magnetic" itself as I'm not particularly excited or insulted by it. But, I haven't seen any flaming of this video yet and it's like. What happened in the last year, did I miss something? Is ill-fitted, pepto-bismol colored 60's fever dream the trend in kpop now???

#kpop #illit magnetic #illit