#Wa$$up Da-in

[jeunnie]

CHOI YUJIN ❖ Through The Eras: Wa Da Da — Up! — We Fresh

#choi yujin #kep1er #yujin #wa da da #up #we fresh #kep1erwork #girls planet 999 #clc #kepler #idolady #femadols #femadolsedit #ggnet #ggnetwork #* #ultkpopnetwork #thekchannel #kgoddesses #kgirlsquad #userstarr #userkitty #useroro #useraweks #userfairy #hanatonin #rosieposie #usermandu #tw flashing

[cat-anime345678]

TOP SELLING MANGA SERIES IN OCTOBER

Source - Reddit - Subreddit of the respective anime ...

Ps - Glad to see my favorite on top 4 ....

#spy x family #chainsaw man #my hero acedamia #Blue lock #one piece #kingdom #my dress up darling #mairimashita iruma kun #tokyo revengers #jujutsu kaisen #slam drunk #ao ashi #kaguya sama love is war #blue box #hikaru ga shinda natsu #kinou nani tabeta #dandadan #makai no shuyaku wa wareware da #anime #manga #October #trending #tumblr #anime and manga #reddit #sxf #mangaka #art

[choi-yujin-folder]

Yujin @ The First Take [FLY-UP]

4K video:

Sources:

Kep1er - Wing Wing / THE FIRST TAKE

Kep1er - WA DA DA (Japanese ver.) / THE FIRST TAKE

#Yujin #FLY-UP #The First Take #CLC #Kep1er #Wing Wing #WA DA DA #Youtube #Choi Yujin

[namari-hime-moved]

namari hime is so cool man...... like WHAT DO YOU MEAN every single character has unique instrumentation and the duets are combinations of those!!!!! LIKE THATS SO COOL!!!!!!

#NOT TO GUSH ON MAIN AGAIN BUT LIKE1!!!! #some of my favorite character specific song things include: #the really shrill violin every noel song has #laika's piano :) #cash's weird sound effects!!!!!!! #the really deep backing vocals on rouge's songs #the fucking trumpet as a connecting point between chiquita and her alters song is so cool!!!!!!!!!!! #HUANG'S ELECTRIC GUITAR IS ALSO UP THERE #ALSO DID YOU GUYS KNOW THE CHARACTERS ALL HAVE UNIQUE SCATTING #cash has his little da da du la and also the da va da va da va in miser like me #rouge has her la ta ta ta #philo was her chu chu wa chu chu wa #and justin has his pa la pa la pa la #just thought this was cool to mention :) #ALSO ALL THE UNIQUE LANGUAGES THE CHARACTERS SAY PHRASES IN #LIKE. cash is the only character to speak full sentences in english #huang has chinese. philo has french. rouge has german. justin has italian. noel has spanish. musette also has french but way more #like half of kakuen no philosophia is in russian #THERES A WHOLE GRAMMATICALLY INCORRECT RAP BATTLE IN DIZZ YOU XXX IT THATS IN RUSSIAN #AUGHHH TGHIS SERIES IS SO WELL PUT TOGETHER IM GONNA BITE MY ARM OFF!!!!!! #NYANYANNYA MAKES PUNS OUT OF THE WAY CHARACTERS PRONOUNCE WORDS!!!!!! #thinking about namari hime so much i irradiate my whole house #this post just turned into infodumping oops #eh who cares. read my words boy #mel talks #namari hime

[qkyuu]

its like an angel lost their wings

#caught back up on warewareda. super busy i couldnt even read lol #i think i wouldn't be coloring panels for a longggg while. mostly due to school work #we are the main characters of the demon world #makai no shuyaku wa wareware da! #qkyu.txt

[mantisgodsdomain]

Very fun to be an dormant Homestuck in 2023. We saw a post with an aside about the mid-to-highblood bias present in the fandom and we took a moment to think "wait, what?" before remembering how much people posted about Mallek, Lanque, and Marvus. Obviously no one asked our opinion on the matter but we think that a lot of the bias here may just be because fandom people will jump at any vaguely conventionally attractive male character who can say something angsty, and we don't see 99% of this effect because we rapidly get fatigued with any character who is overly present in the fandom and any ship that has overrepresentation in the sample size and start blocking tags.

Very highly effective approach, admittedly, but it leaves us a bit out of the loop. We only really start encountering Issues with that approach in smaller fandoms when blocking any given popular ship will instantly shrink our mutual circle to Just Us and maybe, like, one guy who we dragged in here ourself, so we have to relax blocking standards somewhat and just make it "blocked for a week" or something similar.

#we speak #whenever we decide to revisit homestuck ao3 we just block the entire first block of Popular Ships #we have not seen a da vekat fic in years and this is vital for not burning out our tolerance of Them Interacting At All #we are censoring that tag so it does not appear in their ship tag also #we still have the mar vus tag blocked. we know this bc we have one specific clown mutual who likes him and will reblog him sometimes #but its been like a year since we've seen mal lek or lan que in anything and we like it that way #this has also made our character preferences skew like. OVERWHELMINGLY to woman and enbies over time #because fandom as a whole is EXTREMELY prone to focusing on men and setting anyone who is Not A Men as a background character #which results in a weird little loop where we'll get into something and get burnt out on like. Every Guy within a week #simply due to the sheer oversaturation That One Guy has #and then we only get time to recover on the saturation of Random Gals bc of the trends falling towards Just Men and nothing else #and then our Characters We Like portfolio ends up being like. five women used as background characters and one enby #sometimes we will also pick up a guy who gets villainized by like half the fandom or a popular character where the popular takes suck #but like. it's almost all background characters you see what we mean. we're a home for random blorbos that no one pays attention to #because in order to get into Actually Liking A Character Enough For Them To Hit Heavy Rotation #a high concentration of fans is like. an active detriment bc we'll get burnt out on them #and if people talk about them Too Much to the extent that theyre unavoidable then we will inevitably start to dislike them #we are but a simple beast and if we don't get recovery time we begin to run into Issues with random things & tropes #and then our recovery time once we've hit burnout is like. months to years #anyways this is a long tag ramble but generally if we spend the time to explore a character and figure them out we'll enjoy them in some wa #with the major caveat that if theyre Too Popular we may dislike them regardless #and the way that they're framed both inside and outside of the original narrative can heavily influence us if we run into it too often #bianca and jaune are utterly facinating characters who work with a set of tropes we would LOVE to do justice to #but unfortunately people who like bianca and jaune are the kind of people who think they did nothing wrong #so we can't just like. Talk About Them And Whats Going On There #without running face first into people that genuinely believe theyre a Good And Loving Family Who've Done Nothing Wrong In Their Lives #but we feel a lot like if we go into depicting them without making “THIS IS IN FACT BAD” incredibly blatantly obvious #that we will begin running into people who DO NOT have the prerequisite knowledge and will take it WAY off from intended

[someawesomeamvs]

Warning: Potential spoilers

Title: La Da Dee

Editor: KM AMV

Song: La Da Dee

Artist: Cody Simpson

Anime: My Dress-Up Darling

Category: Romance

#anime #amv #sono bisque doll wa koi wo suru #my dress-up darling #romance #cody simpson #video #music #song #youtube #editing #♪ My Dress-Up Darling「AMV」La Da Dee by Cody Simpson #km amv #la da dee #Youtube

[goldennika]

Hueningkai doing GG dances with 304% commitment iktr

#HE ATE #his hips don’t lie #this is kai kamal huening’s world and we are just living in it #tomorrow x together #hueningkai #giddy #up! #wa da da #giddy tiktok challenge #up! tiktok challenge #wa da da tiktok challenge #kep1er #hueningz

[tea-jean]

i’m officially a kep1ian 🫶

#huening bahiyyih #kep1er #bahiyyih #kep1ian #kpop #kpop edits #kpop gg #kpop aesthetic #hiyyih #picsart #picsart edit #kep1er wa da da #kep1er up

[hyckfairy]

dedicating this post to the time i saw kep1er’s choi yujin & seo youngeun filming a vlog for hallyupopfest 2022 and they waved at me😭😭

#kep1er #kep1erinlondon #choi yujin #kep1er yujin #seo youngeun #kep1er youngeun #kep1ian #youngjin #kep1er youngjin #london #kep1er wa da da #kep1er up #hallyupopfest #hallyupopfest2022 #kpop #kpop girl groups #kpop girls

[kbmrjmd]

sidney win. i csn kinda pick out when someone is speaking/typing with a kansai dialect

#what being a dh fan while learning japanese does Apparently #im watching this guy doing woodworking stuff and theres captions in the videos since hes only talked out loud once in the ones ive watch #and i noticed rhe ya instead of da thing #and rhen i noticed he used wa at the end of a sentence which i know is more feminine in like the tokyo dialect or whatever so i looked up #if maybe it was more neutral in kansai dialect #and lo and behild its basically yo for that #correct me if im wrong if anyone here knows the dialects better but 🎉

[bwambiee]

i fink i jus’ experienced da most scariest thing eva to happen . the adrenaline in makin’ rice when ur mama tells u to do it but u forgot bc u had practice ‘n ur tryin’ tew beat da traffic home ‘n ur rushin’ ‘n washin’ da rice so fast yoichi finks ‘m crazie . . ( ꩜ ᯅ ꩜;) NEVRR AGAIN i don’ even kno how i managed to make it bc i saw her car pull up mid-wash ‘n i sawbed

#໒꒰ྀི𝒹𝒶𝓎𝒹𝓇𝑒𝒶𝓂𝒾𝓃’ 🎧🧸꒱ྀི১ #pwease tell mi ‘m not da only one who has went thru dis . . #it wa soo bad esp since i saw her car pullin’ up . . but i jus’ got home from mi practice it completely slipped mi mind !

[gurorori]

i will talk ab source. part 1 is prolly childhood? I REACHED TAG LIMIT

#idk wat 2 preface this with except 4 da fact idk which parts r canon divergent n which r nawt beyond the obvious trauma stuff dat definitely #gawt mjxed in with it. also a thing ab memories is dat its nawt one super chronologically consistent timeline its kinda chunks #either way. there was still nothin known abt my supposed family & from the moment i remember myself i lived at the orphanage #i unrerstood wat it lik 2 b alone n fend 4 myself very early. yud think an institution providin care 4 children wud negate dat but i think #it only saturated it in many ways. orphanages r notoriously underfunded & the lives of those kids disregarded. ya can imagine. early on i wa #s definitely goin thru a rebel stage of not wantin 2 accept things how they wer n tried 2 run away a number of times (comin back each time) #2bf i dn think i ever came at peace with this bein my life. but growin up along the others made me feel a sense of responsibility n belongin #dat i cudn push aside. especially when no1 cared 4 me So no one wud care 4 them. ppl think of orphanages as a fixit but realy they only #create more issues for the children & ours was no different. it was both strict n neglectful? tere wer clear time tables set in day2day life #but anyone who wasn able 2 keep up wud quickly fall outta it which is where i came in #but its nawt likr dat was met with gratitude from the carers Cuz i was a problem child thru n thru in they eyes #also next 2 nothin was done 2 prevent conflict between children an the grown ups wud pin punishments onto both parties #nawt 2 mention when the carers wer part of da problem like. when it came 2 gettin physical or. otherwise abusive i don wanna say But is also #sumthin i experienced. n in part why i attempted 2 runaway many times b4 givin up. #i don remembr when i strted workin but it began with beggin in da streets n rummagin thru dumpsters aha. the typical mikaness? #i cringe rememberin it but id cling onto the passerbys n pity em into givin me money. it wasn even 4 myself most times. #gettin things of yr own was incredibly hard especially when ut was sumthin ya needed n it wasn provided as a necessity #various things com 2 mine but les b honest as a lonelu kid most ya want is company #idk i w growin up asocial up 2 a certain point. resorted 2 pickin up old toys from the garbage? i always had an affinity 4 objects strangely #id wash em in the sink n patch em up best i cud & eventually the others wanted em too s id kinda give a lot away which i didn mind in da end #i dunno jus. lots of sharin stuff round. clothes n toys n anythin ya can think of ehe #we didn have beds & we slept on the floor? had BEDDIN but it was like a one big spread for all the kids. a sumthin dat still warm my heart s #thinkin of a lot of da lil ones clingin 2 me in their sleep as they clutchd onto a plushie #STAWP i started cryin. anyway. it was so far from perfect n it was intensely traumatisin nawt 2 mention the lack of. well. any upbringin dat #kids usually get growin up. we r pretty much left 2 our own devices. #but once i was old enuff 2 work i grasped at any straws whjch i... don wanna get into? #but work is work is all i will say. also a part i think i didn mention is in my memories ofc i am more bodily in accordance with our body so #i was recognised as afab/a girl while bein a bit.. different #i don remembr how many times i cut my own hair but i did let it grow out later on. talkin shoulderblade length or so. jus as messy n unruly #as our hair is www

[brown-little-robin]

When Mob exorcises Dimple for the first time, he taps his fingers on Dimple's forehead and says: 僕は最低だ。That gets translated "I'm terrible" or "I'm the worst" in English.

Those are pretty vague words in English, though, so I paused the show to look it up. (took me a hot minute to find the listing for the word 最低, too, which means I'll probably remember it forever, but that's not relevant, lol.) SO. Mob says "boku wa saitei da"— I am 最低. Turns out that "the worst" is a pretty great translation, because it captures both the aspect of "least (lowest in some category)" and "most repugnant" from the original word.

This is awful. Obviously. No 14-year-old should be calling himself that in full honesty. But that's not the point I want to get across:

The exact moment that Mob uses the word 最低 for himself is worth noting! Dimple has just jumped at Mob for a killing blow, proclaiming that in the battle between them, lived battle experience will determine who's the winner. Dimple is judging himself and Mob against each other on a scale of battle skill. The only variable he cares about is power. And when Mob wipes him out, clearly Mob is the winner of their contest. From Dimple's perspective, Mob should be saying he's 最高—saikou, the antonym of saitei, meaning "the best/highest". But Mob is judging himself by a completely different variable—the ability to control himself. That's why he calls himself the worst. It's a moment of self-loathing, yes, but not out of nowhere—he's correcting Dimple and re-contextualizing their fight as a failure on his part, not a victory for anyone.

#*frothing at the mouth* I! love! MP100's! rejection! and! thoughtful! examination! of! anime! norms! #I've been going through Mob Psycho 100 and pausing whenever I hear an interesting new word or phrase #and looking it up on my best friend and savior jisho.org #mob psycho 100 #mob-blogging #Robin learns Japanese

[ma-lemons]

Doublast is so cute

#i like it more than the first impact and wa da da #if I had to rate it #it would be up! #second le voyage though it might be my favorite soon #third good night #fourth rewind #last attention #but they’re all so cute #kep1er #kpop #le voyage might become my favorite just like how I like mvsk way more than wa da da #i feel like I would write more about the album but I’m so lazy #its a cute album I like the summer vibes

[vashtijoy]

Something I've noticed for a while is that Akechi doesn't appear to say that he was in foster care in the Japanese script.

Akechi おかげで僕は、色んな所を転々とさせられて、まあ、今じゃ気ままな一人暮らしだけどね。 okage de boku wa, ironna tokoro o tenten to saserarete, maa, ima ja kimamana hitori kurashi da kedo ne Thanks to him, I was passed from foster home to foster home. But, I do quite well by myself these days. After that, nobody would keep me for too long, so I got moved about a lot. But now I'm alone and free to live as I choose.

There are a few interesting points here:

おかげで okage de, "thanks to"

Akechi does not specify what or who he's crediting here; the translator has glossed in "thanks to him". IMO it's more likely to be "because of the death of my mother"—the thing he was just speaking of. Shido is responsible, but (at least according to Akechi's flow of speech) he is slightly indirectly responsible.

転々とさせられて tenten to saserarete

tenten to suru, in this context, means moving around often from place to place; living at a lot of different addresses. But note the passive-causative on suru here, saserareru. This is something that was done to Akechi, something others inflicted on him, something he experienced as a profound negative. This was bad. Looking at what he goes on to say later—"so someone would want me around!"—I've tried to capture this with "nobody would keep me".

Also note that tenten to suru, while not usually violent in this "moving about" context, is also a term for e.g. kicking a ball around, which again makes it an interesting choice of words.

気ままな一人暮らし kimamana hitori kurashi

This is a set phrase, essentially meaning "a free and carefree life alone"; it's used, often with a little irony, to describe the joys of living alone, or of being single. Note that Akechi does not mean this—he sounds (JP audio) miserable as fuck, and he's brought this up, rather ineffectively, to try and lighten the mood.

It comes across as "I was alone, and I'm still alone, but at least now I'm alone on my own terms and can do as I please"—which he knows is untrue, and we know is untrue, and Ren and Futaba can surely tell is untrue.

By the way, this quick use of a throwaway stereotype, as if it explains everything—ima ja kimamana hitori kurashi da kedo ne—is one of Akechi's verbal tricks; he becomes laconic in this way when he touches on things he doesn't want to discuss, things that are sensitive to him.

This is how he explains to the others in the engine room that he's illegitimate, for instance—tsumari kakushigo sa, "In short, I'm his secret child", kakushigo ("hidden child") here being a popular term, with no real English parallel, for the secret or unacknowledged child of someone famous or powerful.

You could maybe render his line here as a detached-sounding "but now I'm footloose and fancy-free", for the same effect.

色んな所 ironna tokoro

This is what has been translated "foster homes", but it just means "all sorts of different places":

Akechi 色んな所を転々とさせられた ironna tokoro o tenten to saserareta I was passed around from pillar to post.

So: he was passed from place to place, from pillar to post. Like a pebble rolling on a beach, or a ball being kicked around a field. Do we know what any of those places might have been? No; he doesn't tell us. There's IMO nothing here to suggest that he was in the care of the state—but equally, there's nothing that excludes it.

But Akechi returns to this in the anime, in Proof of Justice—and he is far more specific:

Akechi だから、母が死んだあとは、親戚の間を転々として行ったね。 dakara, haha ga shinda ato wa, shinseki no aida o tenten to shite itta ne After my mother died, I was passed around my relatives.

Anime Akechi gives us more detail, again with tenten to suru, but he removes a lot of the emphatic force—we gain the detail that he was with his relatives, but we lose that outraged passive-causative, that makes it clear this hurt him—what I've tried to capture with "nobody would keep me for long" up at the top. It's possible, of course, that the difference in tone is to do with the different tone in the two scenes—game Akechi is at a very low point, while anime Akechi seems reflective and chill.

But is this canon? Well, usually when the game and the anime contradict, I prefer the game for its lack of adaptation drift. But there are a couple of occasions when the anime seems to clarify things that were not clear in the game text—and IMO, this is one. Per the game, Akechi was passed from place to place; the anime clarifies that those "places" were with his relatives.

TBH, even the localisation's "foster home" doesn't necessarily imply state foster care; a relative who takes you in is a foster parent. Of course, if you want a backdoor here (which is in no way required, I'm not your mum), he never suggests how long he stayed with his relatives....

does anything in-game support this?

Well, there's one thing in the game that supports this reading, and it's actually on 8/28 itself. Immediately after Akechi says he was passed around after his mother's death, Futaba does this:

Remember, Futaba already does not like Akechi. She resents him for his pursuit of the Phantom Thieves, even before she suspects him of killing her mother. Yet when he mentions his sad past, she connects with him.

Why is that? It's because Futaba, too, was passed between her relatives—with the results we all know: they were abusive, exploitative and cruel, leading to her being rescued by Sojiro. The game draws an explicit connection here between Futaba and Akechi—suggesting that they have this backstory in common, of being passed between abusive relatives. It suggests we can glean a little more about Akechi's past by looking at what we learn about Futaba's.

And she was rescued; he was not. They both turned to crime to work off some of what they endured—but Futaba retained her moral centre, while Akechi fell off the edge. This is why she tells him what she does in the engine room: "You thought [being alone and not trusting anyone] was enough, right? That part I totally get."

but isn't he just lying his ass off here?

BTW, as to whether Akechi is just trying to ingratiate himself with Futaba (or with Ren) on 8/28—I don't think so; I think he tries, and then gives up after his performative cut-in. We just saw him trying to ingratiate himself with Sojiro—his failure there, at the start of the scene, is what upsets him and opens him up. So far, so good.

Is he trying to get in with Wakaba Isshiki's daughter, to continue his pursuit of her research on Sae's behalf?—the reason he was at Leblanc in the first place? No, because he never mentions it to Futaba, ever again.

What Akechi will do later is stand up for her, on 9/13, protesting Sae's threat to remove her from Sojiro's custody:

Sae: There have been frequent occurrences of mental shutdowns surrounding Okumura recently. Sae: If only there was a clear connection between him and the Phantom Thieves… Sae: Well, it would be problematic if there wasn't one. Akechi: So you're jumping the gun here. Akechi: You really told a man you would terminate his parental authority based purely on your speculation?

... and notice what he's doing here. Akechi clearly already knows about Sae's threats to Sojiro; she does not explain them in this scene. And Akechi has clearly not questioned her on it, as long as he thinks there's a reason for it. When it turns out there isn't one? He calls Sae out. Because Akechi knows what's it's like to be a child with nowhere to go.

Sure, it's not beneath him to throw Futaba to the wolves—or, ultimately, to try to kill her in the engine room. But he views it as distasteful, as unjustified, and as wrong. He knows gratuitous cruelty when he sees it—and it repels him. He knows the difference between right and wrong—he's just elected to ignore it.

And he expects far better than this from Sae.

revision history

click here for the latest version.

v1.2 (2023/11/21)—typos, plus extra context for the game and anime scenes.

v1.1 (2023/11/20)—reblog w/ additional commentary.

v1.0 (2023/11/20)—first posted.

#persona 5 #p5 meta #japanese language #goro akechi #futaba sakura #sae niijima