Leaning full into the moral ambiguity of Hiroshi’s choice to encourage SHOCKER to kidnap Hongo so he can modify him into an ally against SHOCKER is an angle I really enjoy
His attempts at convincing Takeshi by exploiting him viewing Hiroshi as a father figure and that this is what he actually secretly wanted is also an interesting early indicator for SHOCKER’s reimagining as a cult that tries to weaponize hurting people
This also could very well lead into a lovely character dynamic with Ruriko who due to spoiler reasons is a tad less fond of her father
Kamiya Hiroshi Talks About His ‘Fateful Encounter’ with ‘Natsume’s Book of Friends’ on ‘Say You to Yo Asobi’
Kamiya Hiroshi, who voices the protagonist Natsume Takashi in the new animated film, "Natsume’s Book of Friends: The Waking Rock and the Strange Visitor," currently playing in theatres, made a guest appearance on "Say You to Yo Asobi" [lit: Night Entertainment with Voice Actors] hosted by voice actors Namikawa Daisuke and Ishikawa Kaito.
In the program, he talked about the new film during the segment "If You Just Watch, You’ll Enjoy It! Natsume’s Book of Friends’ Recommendations", and matched voice actors to various youkai during "Voice Actor Personification Meeting ~Youkai Edition~".
The TV anime "Natsume’s Book of Friends" began its first season in 2008 and has now reached its sixth season. Kamiya, who has been involved with "Natsume’s Book of Friends" for about 12 years, said, "Everyone loves Midorikawa-sensei’s original drawings". He revealed, "Without Midorikawa-sensei’s original work, there is no anime" - a principle that has been upheld this entire time.
Additionally, Kamiya referenced his fateful encounter with the "Natsume’s Book of Friends" anime.
Kamiya already had a cat named Nyanko-sensei before he started working on the series. The name was taken from one of his favourite manga, "The Funny Judo Champion" [Inakappe Taishō - a manga and anime from the late 60’s and early 70’s]. A fan told Kamiya that there was a series with a cat that had the same name; he noted that he was then drawn in by its charm.
Kamiya participated in the [Natsume] Drama CD, and after auditioning, proceeded to work on the anime adaptation. He also spoke about how deeply attached to Natsume he is, as it was around this time that his career as a voice actor started to take off.
At the end, Kamiya spoke about how "There is always one story that somehow resonates. When you encounter it, every episode transforms into something important; it’s a work that you experience with wonder." When he said "I hope you come across such moments", many audience members commented "I totally understand!", "I get it….", and that "It was a very cherished work", and how they "could feel Kamiya’s love for Natsume".
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In the distant past, the Guardian of the Milky Way galaxy named Lanancuras began to harbor a desire for more power. Because of his connection to the galaxy, he was able to absorb parts of planets and add them to his strength. As a result, he began invading the worlds he was assigned to protect. In the wake of his destruction, a following of creatures from across the galaxy pledged allegiance to Lanancuras and became known as the Kadrians. Taking notice of his ever-growing power and followers, the other Celestial Guardians confronted him; however, he had become too powerful, and they were defeated. Unable to subdue Lanancuras, the Celestial Guardians each gave up a part of their power and combined it into a single new Guardian, Mushra. In a final desperate attempt, they used Mushra's core by transforming it into a powerful card with which to seal Lanancuras in a prison. The prison was created from the remains of planets that had suffered under Lanancuras' tyranny. Because planets are themselves large beings, their combined strength (along with the power of the card) was able to restrain him. Thus Lanancuras was successfully sealed in a large meteorite.
The meteorite was sent off into the galaxy to be sealed forever. Meanwhile, the way Lanancuras had increased his strength had consequences on the planets of the Milky Way On Earth, around the 22nd century, it was in the shape of a virus that merged with human DNA and destroyed the humans that way. In order to eliminate the virus, scientists worked on combining human DNA with the DNA of animals and other creatures immune to the effects. They succeeded and created a sentient race known as Enterrans (a race of engineered Earthlings) which are based on humans, insects, reptiles, birds, sea creatures, wild beasts, and phantom beasts. Eventually, a cure was found and the human race survived.
However, due to Lanancuras' influence, the Enterrans fought their human creators as well as the robots that worked with the humans, driving the human race to a near extinction state. Luckily, a scientist named Dr. Daigo Tatsuro placed his 4-year-old daughter Yakumo in a sleep chamber in hopes that she would save the human race and find the human sanctuary Shinzo and bring peace back to Earth which was then renamed to Enterra. When the meteor that Lanancuras was imprisoned in struck Earth during the earlier parts of the Human-Enterran War, its fragment had struck an infant Yakumo giving her abilities that she would later discover.
Natsume Yuujinchou 20th Anniversary
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These are just my random headcanons, some a similar to Canon but I didn't know until I did some more research. Most of them are just silly shit. Some of these headcanons are true in my inazuma eleven go rewrite fanfiction.
Original Series Centric
Kidou & Haruna's parents worked for the Kidou Financial group before dying.
Endou's dad, Hiroshi, took his wife, Atsuko's last name because of there was no other male members of Atsuko's family.
Endou lived in Cotarl with Daisuke for the last years of his grandfather's life
Daisuke died at the ripe old age of 77, six years after season 3, he was 69 in season 3 according to my headcanon
Most of the National Japanese Teams have other jobs besides playing professional soccer; Fudou is a hairdresser, Kazemaru is a photographer, and so on.
When you wanna get plastered and have fun at a club? Call Fudou.
Aphrodi's parents weren't married and his mom was a japanese bussiness woman who died when Aphrodi was a kid and his dad is a Korean business man who had an affair that resulted in Aphrodi, he wanted nothing to do with Aphrodi
Nagumo's Korean on his dad's side and Japanese on his mom's, his mom was estranged from her biological family and when she & her husband died no one of her family wanted to take Nagumo in so he was sent to Ohisama En
Suzuno's parents are Korean who were vacationing in Japan, Suzuno was supposed to be born later after their vacation but was born premature causing his mom's death, meanwhile his father had passed away in a car accident on the way to the hospital. They had no other family in Korea so Suzuno was left behind and taken into the foster system
Midorikawa likes K-Dramas
Kidou isn't allowed to drive, either Sakuma, Genda or Haruna have to drive him
When in Okinawa, Aki visited her aunt, Tenma's mom and that's how Tenma knew about Raimon
Hiroto's birth name is Tatsuya, his parents were arrested when he was 3 and he was sent to Sun Garden where because he looked like Hiroto, they just started calling him Hiroto
Kageyama has a little sister that was born one year before his dad died, she's Hikaru's mom
Hiroto and Midorikawa are unofficially together, they live together & raise Kariya together but aren't officially in a relationship
Kidou isn't allowed to have pets
The FFI captains had a group chat together where Endou accidentally told them about the Alien situation
Mark Kruger & Dylan already knew because Ichinose & Domon accidentally told them
The break trio never told the others about the events of Chrono Stone and Galaxy, they will take that secret to their graves
Aki & Ichinose are long distance dating
Ichinose, Domon, Aki & Nishigaki, from Kirkwood, are still friends till this day, they all video call once a month
The Mukata triplets immediately knew who Ishido was and weren't pleased with Gouenji's stupid decision to join Fifth
Yamino/Shadow was from the original series' Seishou Gakuen
Kazemaru became blind in one eye after the Dark Emperor's, this is why he now covers one of his eye
Yuuka went to Raimon Jr for Jr High & Kidokawa for High School
Endou Daisuke visited the old Inazuma Eleven a few months after the FFI, he also visited the school and questioned why it was sooo very different and everyone refused to explain it to him
Daisuke is very protective of Endou, Rococo & all of little Gigantes to the point of being overbearing
Daisuke & the Yokato Principal reunited again after he visited Raimon
They all go to therapy & make the kids go too after all the Fifth Sector stuff
Gouenji purposely dressed like a hippie/stripper to distract Senguuji
Because people have a hard time pronouncing their names, they use localized names which are their dub names when playing international matches
Gouenji's stage name Axel is mispronounced as Alex by most people, including the cast until Ishido when he used Alex Zabel as Ishido's fake name
Gouenji Katsuya is very confused by his children's choices and refuses to deal with any of this
In GO, apart from Raimon, Midorikawa and the members of Gemini Storm are still not allowed in any school they destroyed
The Kidou & Kira groups basically gaslit the world into forgetting the Aliea incident. They made it so that not a whiff of information got out of Japan
GO Series Centric
Tenma had meet all the members of Inazuma Japan, including the managers and Coaches, before meeting Endou; Aki is his cousin, Gouenji saved him as a little kid, Tsunami babysat him multiple times, he used to play with Hijikata before moving to Inazuna town, etc.
Tsurugi's family isn't very rich and he uses his mom's very old flip phone because they couldn't afford it
Midori was a former delinquent, Tobitaka took her in and they have a sibling relationship
Tsurugi made his custom uniform, the school was impressed that he took the effort to make that and let him wear it
Tenma & Tsurugi have secret Hissatsu practices together, it started after Fire Tornado Double Drive
The kids all have to use stage names like the previously mentioned localized names
Shindou's mother is Italian, her father's name is Ricardo and maiden name is Di Rodrigo so Shindou uses Ricardo Di Rodrigo as his stage name
Like Gouenji, Tenma's name Arion is often mispronounced as Orion
Gouenji sent the money for Yuuichi's surgery
Alternate Yuuichi played professionally for the Russian Football team
Hakuryuu is an orphan, he was found by Fifth Sector in an orphanage and lives with Fudou after go Galaxy
Shuu is a fucking ghost, only Ancient Dark, Hakuryuu & Tenma know. Tenma knows because of the miximax, and Ancient Dark & Hakuryuu were told
Kira Shuugo is a distant cousin of Coach Hitomiko, he is in the same class as Kirino who mentioned that Kariya told Kira that be was a SEED and Kira had a laugh and told Midorikaw & Hiroto
Kariya was grounded for being a little shit
Hikaru's dad is a cousin of the Ichihoshi Brothers from Orion and was named for the deceased Ichihoshi Hikaru
Hikaru was bullied for years as a child and he was lonely since his parents were always working
Ichino is fanfic writer, Ayoma is his beta reader
Kinako managed to pass the interruption point and make a new reality where she lives & raises Fei as well as helping the Second Stage Children
Little Fei hated mochi with every fiber of his tiny adorable being
Senguuji Daigo is a single dad, his wife died giving birth to Yamato
Minamisawa's parents moved to out of the county because of his dad's work, he moved to a school with dorms because of this
Yamato loves his dad despite all the things he did but acknowledges that he did horrible things
Yamato styles his hair to look like his dad, his natural hair color is white
Kurosaki Makoto doesn't understand the internet, he is like a 80-year-old man in a teenager's body
Yukimura lives with Fubuki, his parents died aren't around much and Fubuki became his legal guardian
The second stage children are the descendants of the characters. Most obvious is Zanark and Zanakuro & Saru and Tenma
The members of Protocol Omega are Second Stage Children that El Dorado got to first
Beta is Sakura's descendant
The members of Chrono Strom that weren't picked for the Earth Eleven have a weekly bitching session topics include Shinsuke being a traitor, if Saru was a Tenma's descendant, and so on
The Earth Eleven do not know about Chrono Storm or the Revolution against Fifth Sector, they are very confused by inside things said by more aware characters
Shindou hated the Earth Eleven because they didn't respect Soccer
Tenma misses Fei, and every year on the day they meet he would go out to sulk and cry
Tenma & Tsurugi broke a goalpost when practicing Fire Tornado Double Drive, Gouenji paid for it
Kariya found out about the Aliea Academy stuff after he tricked Nagumo into telling him
Tenma, Tsurugi and Shindou were 100% sure that Zanakurou was Zanark fucking with them and were waiting for Fei too
Tenma was very disappointed when Fei didn't show up
The Second Stage Children have Totems, that's why SARU is a monkey
After being told about the Alien situation, Kirino went to Kazemaru for advice about being left behind being vague enough that he didn't spill any information about the aliens since they were in a public park and thought Kazemaru already knew about it
Kazemaru did in fact not know about the aliens and was very confused by Kirino but still gave him advice about his dark emperor experience while not telling all the things about the Dark Emperors
The Aliens don't know about Kenshin or Mixi-Max and only banned it since they assumed that it was an advantage to Earth
All the SSC kids have SOULS and Kenshins, their bodies just can't handle having or using them
Besides the SSC, if a normal person has a kenshin they can't use a SOUL and vice versa
The exception to this is people who mixi-max or Kenshin bonds someone with a SOUL, so Tsurugi & Shindou have Ookami and Peacock because of Gryphon
Ares/Orion Centric
Since Hiroto & Atsuya live in this reality and Ichihoshi Mitsuri is dead in that reality, I imagine in GO Ichihoshi Mitsuri is alive
Tenma's super good at house work & cooking! As seen in the manga!
Tsurugi's horrible at housework & especially cooking. He once created Mutant Broccoli that the team had to fight.
Shindou is semi-capable of housework & can make basic things in cooking.
Torb/Sor is in the same generation as Endou Canon, Baddap Sleed and so on
Toramaru joined Kidokawa Seishuu because he still idolizes Gouenji
Tsunami & Tobitaka don't play soccer in this reality
Since Gouenji never went to Okinawa, Tenma got extremely injured and got transferred to Inazuma Hospital & meet and befriended Yuuka & the Tsurugi Brothers and later Taiyou
The GO Kids attend different schools in this reality, here are some of the examples;
Kariya attends Alia/Eisei Academy instead of Raimon
Taiyou attends Outei Tsukinomiya because of Nosaka
Lus Kasim is a jack of all trades, Master of none as seen by the fact he was a FW, MF & DF
Tenma & Tsurugi attend Kidokawa Seishuu
Norika is the physically strongest of the Inakuni Raimon members, she's like the Team's strong mom
The real reason that Raimon were separated was because the Orion foundation wanted to weaken Japan
The Guardians of the Queen replaced Orpheus because Orpheus didn't want to work for Orion and were all injured by the disciples
The Ares/Orion timeline was created by El Dorado's meddling in the timeline
Zhao Jinyun knows about the original universe, he accidentally traveled there once
Watching Ultraman R/B now after so long putting it off... and now I can’t unsee how Katsumi and Isami gave me the image of Daigo and Shin had they’ve been born as siblings 😂😂😂😂😂😂
Didn’t help that Asahi made me think so much about Mai XD