30 days Hypnosis Mic challenge
DAY 9: favorite duet song
🎤 「Murder at the House of Magic (奇術館の殺人 / Kijutsu-kan no Satsujin) 」 - Gentaro & Dice (2nd duet)
(link)
Just to make it immediately clear: my obsession level is high (yes, this post is going to be super long, and yes, I apologize in advance for that). I'm not exaggerating when I say that I know every single word of this song by heart.
I even made a fanart for this song. Check it out, if you're curious 👉 (link)
I became aware of the existence of this duet far too late, in April 2022, i think??, and in the saddest way possible: through the wiki while searching for only God knows now what kind of other stuff.
Of course, considering that Dice and Gentaro are two of my fave characters ever, it was a scandal for me not to have known earlier about the existence of a new duet of theirs, other than Once upon a time in Shibuya, which is iconic in itself, so I went crazy, obviously, and dashed off in search of the song (with very little success, I have to say)... and when I finally found it and it started playing, I almost had a heart attack.
What. the actual. hell. was. that.
I expected everything, except something of that sort.
Right from the very first notes, I knew this was gonna be BIG stuff.
I mean, VERY BIG.
The vibe it gave me, initially, was something alien, the instrumental intro smelled a lot like the X-files theme song to me (link).
Then Gentaro started, in his usual calm and sexy tone, and I caught the word "satsujin jiken". But so far, let's say, nothing exceptionally new. I knew I should expect some mystery to solve... I mean, the title spoke loud ¯\(ツ)/¯
But poor little naive Anna, soon after the bomb was dropped straight to the center of an indefinite part of my brain.
A serious Dice.
A bloody serious Dice.
A Dice that, instead of rapping, was literally speaking (or at least, the initial impression was seriously that).
I...I've never heard Dice speaking in such a hard, deadly serious yet sexy, defiant, cocky and confident tone, like... I- ... I didn't even think he could ever speak in such a way!? Like. Dice. HELLO?!
Where is my genuine idiotic cute drenched cat gone?! I'm scared?? But at the same time extremely intrigued??
WTF?! Help??!!
Let's make one thing clear: when I first heard the song, I obviously had not read the translation yet. So, how shall I explain what I thought ... mhm... the impression was that he was speaking not in a good-guy-trying-to-be-cool sense, absolutely not.
His tone was blatantly the tone of a thug. And a particularly dangerous one.
The impact of the very first verse of his, "Danna shindanda na, zannen da" was something absurd. I swear. Something of disarming power.
And then the tone used in the "tamannee na" immediately afterwards. Guys, I swear to you. I had completely lost my mind. I was totally in love with this new Dice, you have no idea.
I was going crazy, I just wanted to know WHY he was talking in that absolutely crazy HOT way. I LOVE how it's clearly perceivable that Dice is speaking with a smirk on his face, that of someone who is sure that he cannot be set up.
And I could go on listing word by word all the vocal proclivities that have slowly sent me further and further into the hyperuranium BUT I will refrain from doing so for your sake, because this post would probably become longer than it already is going to be.
And then the refrain. Simply BRILLIANT.
I mean, it's already not enough that this too, like Stella, is a song set up as a story told by Gentaro, in which he then becomes one of the characters in the plot (you can't tell I have logic behind my preferences, can you?), but a semi-occult code was also inserted?????? Who the hell came up with the idea of putting the spelling of Dice and Gentaro's names at the beginning of each verse of the chorus? WHO?
Give a fucking award to the composer, I beg you:
(A)Up & down, Rikou na yatsu wo, Sukkari damashite Ganchuu nai
Wakattenda Dare na no ka Izure wa Subete wo raizarai;
Yurusan, Meshi toraeru, Nogasanai shi Genkei nai
Takara, Rou sezu shite, Umaku moratte Say Good Bye
I don't know if i'm making the point clear enough, here.
And then the whole Uh!(Ah!)Uh!Uh!(Ah!) thing.
Gentaro firing off his "Ichi wa ichi, zero wa zero, hachi wa hachi" with that studied air of his who knows he has the other guy completely on the hook.
And the way you can perfectly sense that the mood of the conversation is starting to turn against Dice, when he throws out that "Nani?!" and then that "Kuso!" so particularly intense (KYAAAAAHHH (⁄ ⁄>⁄ ▽ ⁄<⁄ ⁄)).
OH, and I can't help but mention how the "Hachiji nijuppun" thing practically became a meme between me and @justanotherniky (fixed message in chat at 8:20 p.m.: "HACHIJI NIJUPPUN" when we don't happen to forget about it).
I swear guys, you have no idea how much I lost my mind behind this duet. Because c'mon, I don't know if you guys are realizing, but it's fucking genius.
And, last but not least, how not to mention the classic "Uso desu kedo ne~" at the close.
Epic.
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30 Day Anime Challenge: Day 1 ♡
「 very first anime you watched 」
Sailor Moon!
i remember when i was really young staying up to watch sailor moon on adult swim with my sister ♡. i used to be more of a tomboy growing up, so sailor juptier was my favorite, but as i got older i started to prefer sailor pluto.
ok so, i'm not 100% sure if it was sailor moon or if it was inuyasha. whenever people ask i tend to just say sailor moon. (๑•́ -•̀)
the challenge if you want to participate too ^_^
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Kirbtober 2023 Day 9: Anime
(ID: Kirby: Right Back at Ya! fanart of Tiff - on our left - smugly monologuing with one finger pointed up and her eyes closed, while Kirby and Tuff - on our right - look on with confused expressions, the latter scratching his head. END ID.)
Kirbtober 2023 prompts by @/paintpanic (link to list here)
Started on 9/5/23, finished on 9/6/23, updated on 10/8/23. NOTE: This was originally posted on my deleted account on 10/09/23.
I must confess… I haven’t really seen much of the anime besides one or two episodes. Most of my nostalgia and interest lies solely in the games. It looks charming, though, and the Italian version of the theme song is an absolute bop. Maybe I’ll get around to watching it someday, if the remastered version ever makes it overseas.
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30 Day HypMic Challenge!
DAY 4: Favourite Ship
🎤 SAMAICHI
They were my first and they are here to stay. They were the very first characters I was introduced to, and they captured my heart since the start.
I could seriously talk about SamaIchi's dynamic for hours and I have to really try to contain myself!!! Because there are a lot of beautiful and meaningful dynamics in HypMic but they truly do have my heart completely.
The thing about SamaIchi - or, well, how I always interpreted it - is that these two really strong, really tough men that went through so many hardships in life have managed to find the one person that has so much to share and understand with them, because they're so similar to one another, but they also inevitably go head-to-head all the time because of their hardheadedness.
Like, how heartbreaking is it, that in the span of so little time both of them - after already losing their long time best friends - were ripped apart from each other because Chuuoku chose to target the one weakness they both have (their families) that was strong enough to make them doubt each other? How beautiful is it that back at the time of TDD, the only person Samatoki trusted more than Ichiro was Nemu? For both of them, the other was just short of their only family in their list of priorities. And knowing just how much their siblings matter to Samatoki and Ichiro, that just makes my gay little heart weep.
And the thing I ridiculously love about them is the fact that they make each other worse, so much, but they’re also the one person that can make the other better. Because if it gets too much for Ichiro, the only one that can truly relate to him and understand him is Samatoki, and if there is someone that can keep Samatoki’s temper at bay, it’s Ichiro. (and that’s CANON EVERYONE THESE THINGS ARE WHY DOD IS THE BEST MANGA SIDE- gets dragged off stage while clawing at the floor)
And, well, I will have time to rant about this in one of the future days of the challenge, but DO YALL REMEMBER THE DRAMA TRACK "When Six Colours Combine, " " Begins"??? THAT WAS IT FOR ME. THAT DRAMA TRACK BROKE ME. Samaichi in there were just so precious, I literally have that entire 45-minute track memorised. But we'll be talking about it later ;) Just know that I love these silly boys and I could go on for five hundred years but I’m going to spare you lot because unlike me you probably have lives. *chu*
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