"My precious only daughter ate what I cooked and grew up. Even though she got seriously sick, she survived. Even now, she's still eating my food. That's my happiness."
— Kazoku Dakara Aishitan Janakute, Aishita no ga Kazoku Datta, Episode 8
Photographs of the anime staff of Zombieland Saga Revenge, taken after the last recording of the final episode of Revenge.
The first photo features the voice cast of everyone who participated in the final episode. ( Though the voice of Policeman A, Hiroyuki Yoshino, couldn’t participate in the photo. ) And the second photo features the anime’s staff posing alongside the voice cast.
The family life of Kaede, Ayaka, and Shion is something I've been considering for a while and recently solidified with their parents. I'm pretty happy with what I came up with in the end and I hope you like it as well.
Warnings: Past character death and illness.
Reina Shinaki (Played by Maki Sakai)
Her kindness is a trait that's been passed down to both her daughters.
The kanji of her name (麗永) means 'beautiful eternity'.
She is played by Keiko Kitagawa in flashbacks.
She had fallen ill due to old age, leading Kaede to support her in any way she can.
Kazuha Shinaki (Played by Takayuki Yamada)
He and Reina are both very protective of Kaede, especially after Ayaka's death, but are also loving and caring to both their daughters.
The kanji of his name (和葉) means 'harmony leaf'.
He had passed away prior to the start of the series.
He often appears in flashbacks and is supportive of his daughters.
Mizuki Akamatsu (Played by Yuki Sakurai)
She and Yuuki cherish Shion deeply, who is their only child.
The kanji of her name (望) means 'hope'.
She inspired Shion's love for fairytale endings of true love and happily ever afters.
She is a gardener who tries her best to help Kaede's mother Reina, especially after she fell ill while still supporting her daughter.
Yuuki Akamatsu (Played by Sho Aoyagi)
Shion has vivid memories of her childhood and how much she loved her family as much as he and Mizuki loved her.
The kanji of his name (優希) means 'gentle hope'.
He helped Shion feel like a princess who'll find true love one day.
He works at a local children's hospital and tries his best to juggle work and spending time with his daughter.
-- That's was how the world of "Michiko and Hatchin" was born.
Y: In addition, in case of "Michiko", that I've met with Ujita-san also had a big impact on this work. When I was wondering, who should I ask to write the screenplay for "Michiko", I had a few potential candidates, but no-one really stood out to me as the right one. I was worried that if I decided to work with an anime scriptwriter, then the project would take a turn into a different direction compared to what I wanted to do. So I decided to look for a scriptwriter in a different place. And then I found out that one person on the production team was on the same year at Osaka Art University as Ujita-san and director Kumakiri Kazuyoshi.
-- This is how Ujita-san appeared as a potential candidate?
Y: I had seen a few works that Ujita-san wrote a script for - I think "Antenna" and "Green Mind, Metal Bats". There was a lot of lines that really spoke to me. In "Green Mind, Metal Bats", there is that female character, Eiko, voiced by Sakai Maki - she's a women, who drinks a lot and makes trouble (laugh). I really like it when women act violent like that, not just Eiko (laugh).
-- By any chance, is it the reason why the character, Atsuko, in "Michiko and Hatchin" is voiced by Sakai-san?
Y: Yeah, it is. It was also because wanted to make "Michiko" into an anime that you watch feeling a kind of tension, and I wanted my voice actors to have a certain rawness in them, so I cast more live-action movie actors. I didn't have any actors among my acquaintances, so Ujita-san helped me here.
for this ask imma focus on,,, class 6 of the new hope’s peak academy!!
chiharu nanami: daughter of chiaki nanami and mikan tsumiki (chiaki is dead, mikan managed to create fake sperm with chiaki’s dna and impregnate herself, don’t judge her decision-making she was brainwashed). ultimate field medic. grew up mostly in towa city and then in future foundation custody before being returned to mikan, highly traumatized from this. very much blames junko for everything and has a conspiracy theory that junko is still alive (:0). when she’s not being off the rails about her junko theory she’s a very sweet and normal girl. she can be quiet often but if you’re close enough to her she’ll open up! also she works for future foundation. she/her bi demigirl, dpdr, adhd, ptsd.
kiki izayoi: child of sounosuke izayoi and ruruka andou. ultimate observer. likes to watch rather than participate. observational skills are similar to ult analyst skills. they’re very kind, and will often do small gestures to show their love (eg, once heard chiharu mention her favorite type of candy [konpeito] and then when she was feeling sick made some for her). works for future foundation as well. they/them pan nb, adhd, autism.
akira sakai: not a fankid. ultimate assassin. under the thumb of the holy salvation army (same cult that got maki), they’re threatening him with releasing a copy of junko’s ai into the public if he doesn’t obey. he’s pretty sure it’s a bluff but he doesn’t want to risk it. he’s pretty talkative, mostly as a front so people don’t see how depressed he secretly is. he/him transhet, ptsd, potentially osdd-1a but he’s never heard of it lol.
mamoru miki: not a fankid, but rantaro’s niece (not that he knows that). ultimate spy. very talkative, but in a ramble-y way—they hate the silence and will do anything to fill it. they come off as a bit of a ditz but they’re very dedicated to their profession. they/them sapphic transfem, adhd.
kau yamamoto: not a fankid. ultimate influencer. not in a social media way, but in a “really good at getting people to do what she wants” way. she uses this talent for good, like say rebuilding homes that were torn down by storms, or donating to public services like libraries. she’s very upbeat and cheerful. she/her lesbian, ocd.
also akira/chiharu are in love and mamoru/kiki/kau are in love.
Dates: Friday, November 17 & Tuesday, November 21, 2023 14:00 -
Venue: Sogakudo Concert Hall
Admission is limited to university personnel (*1) and those invited by the Composition Department (*2).
*1 University personnel must also apply for admission in advance.
*2 Those who have been admitted by the Composition Department with prior application.
Program:
Friday, November 17 − Day 1 −
1. Rikuto Fujimoto: Neue Harmonie - Based on Paul Klee / Neue Harmonie (1936) -
Cast: Tatsuya Fujiwara, Ai Maeda, Shugo Oshinari, Ayana Sakai, Haruka Suenaga, Yuma Ishigaki, Miyuki Kanbe, Nana Yanagisawa, Masaya Kikawada, Yōko Maki, Yuki Ito, Natsuki Kato, Aki Maeda. Riki Takeuchi, Sonny Chiba. Screenplay: Kenta Fukasaku, Norio Kida. Cinematography: Toshihiro Isomi. Production design: Emiko Tsuyuki. Film editing: Hirohide Abe. Music: Masamichi Amano.
I suspect that anyone watching Battle Royale II: Requiem after the Hamas attack on Israel will have a different reaction to it than those who watched it before. It's a movie in which the heroes are terrorists: We even get a repeated shot in which they blow up two identical tall buildings. The first Battle Royale (Kinji Fukasaku, 2000) was an easy movie to get caught up in because it was fast and often funny, and the premise of a government of an overpopulated Japan selecting teenagers to kill off one another in a televised game show format was ridiculous enough that you could easily distance yourself from the movie. But the sequel, begun by Kinji Fukasaku but completed after his death by his son, Kenta, isn't so inventive, and the heroic terrorist premise is hard to swallow. It reunites some of the survivors of the earlier film's massacre who are part of a worldwide crusade against adults in general. This time, they're holed up on the island where they fought in the earlier film, and a class of ninth graders from a Japanese middle school for troubled kids is forced to storm the island and defeat the terrorists. But once they land on the island, after a sequence obviously designed to remind the viewer of the D-Day landing in Saving Private Ryan (Steven Spielberg, 1998), the would-be attackers join forces with the terrorists and turn against the government. The rest is a series of war movie scenes as the government returns fire. The borrowing from other movies is pervasive: The film's climax, for example, is a direct lift from the end of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (George Roy Hill, 1969). The teacher of the students chosen for the assault is wildly overplayed by Riki Takeuchi, who delivers a blistering anti-American speech before sending the kids off to fight. In general, it's a muddled film, not only politically but also in its failure to present clearly delineated characters in whom we can invest some emotional commitment and in the overall lack of suspense about their fates.
Reina Shinaki - Kaede and Ayaka's mother. Her kindness is a trait that’s been passed down to both her daughters. She had fallen ill due to old age, leading Kaede to support her in any way she can. She is played by Maki Sakai and by Keiko Kitagawa in flashbacks.
Kazuha Shinaki - Kaede and Ayaka's father. He and Reina are both very protective of Kaede, especially after Ayaka's death, but are also loving and caring to both their daughters. He passed away prior to the start of the series but often appears in flashbacks and is shown to be supportive of his daughters. He is played by Takayuki Yamada.
Yuuki Akamatsu - Shion's father. She has vivid memories of her childhood and how much she loved her family as much as he and Mizuki loved her. He helped Shion feel like a princess who'll find true love one day and works at a local children's hospital and tries his best to juggle work and spending time with his daughter. He is played by Sho Aoyagi.
Mizuki Akamatsu - Shion's mother. She and Yuuki cherish Shion deeply, who is their only child. She inspired her daughter's love for fairytale endings of true love and happily ever afters and is a gardener who tries her best to help Reina, especially after she fell ill while still supporting her daughter. She is played by Yuki Sakurai.
gonna just save this and when I’m live-blogging Kamen Rider I’ll refer to it again like I’m looking at Wikipedia and cataloguing cos together with canon.