thank you for the tag @majoris 💖
last song: Sesshoseki Session by MeseMoa.
currently watching: aside from stuff that pops up in my youtube subscription feed, nothing in particular
sweet/savory/spicy: definitely leaning a lot towards sweet
relationship status: [Cloud Strife voice] not interested
current obsession: if you haven't noticed, the Naruto hyperfixation is back. I blame the soundtrack
Last thing I googled: I haven't googled anything today so far, so I might as well never have googled anything in my live (aka I don't remember)
tagging (but it's totally okay if you don't wanna do it): @captwaddledoo, @corfisers, @estinienn, @nishixia
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I just finished playing Ray's route for the first time today. And ofc I have a long of feelings, but I also feel like my experience may be different because I played Ray's AE as soon as it was released, and at the time I hadn't even played the deep route yet. But I did follow lots of blogs (like yours ♡) and I didn't avoid spoilers, so I had a general idea about his route already.
So while I played I was really hopeful for Saeran, because I knew he would eventually be able to understand his worth and find agency. I was hopeful because I knew we would be able to save Saeyoung, but at the same time I felt deeply for Saeran and the rest of the RFA, because they didn't know what I knew. And my heart ached for V, because I saw how he was doing progress in the beginning, but I knew that in the end he would take the wrong lesson and make bad choices.
So yeah, I don't regret playing the AE when it came out because I didn't want to get spoiled, but I'm left with a lot of feelings that I presume I wouldn't have felt if I hadn't played it.
Also unrelated but I keep replaying Flower Wind by Mesemoa because it reminds me of Saeran
Oh, there is no doubt that you experienced quite the difference if you hadn't played the route going into the after ending.
It's one thing to experience something second hand, and it's another thing to go through it yourself to get juicy bits of lore locked in there. It makes me wonder how your personal perspective was shaped here when you played the situation out for what it was without the Route to back it up. You can play the RAE without any prior knowledge, but it makes me wonder what you felt as you played through it.
How did you see GE Saeran with just the information you got from me and others at the time?
That's just from a Natural Curiosity standpoint. Because, it's hard for me to imagine not having that information, but I have the benefit of having been someone who has played the game from the start and had the chance to do everything as it was happening in real time, so there wasn't grounds for spoilers so to speak.
You might have to come back and bother me with these perspectives of yours cuz I am genuinely interested.That being said, I hope your experience playing the route for the first time was an interesting one. It can be a lot to take in and I am certain day nine through you for a loop, so I'm glad to see you survived that.
But, that song? Lovely.
I want to live at least a second longer
So I don’t have to leave you alone
Trembling in the flower wind today
You are the most beautiful one in the entire world
You caught the flower bouquet flying through the sky,
And laughed, “It’s our turn now!”
That is GE Saeran. I don't think I have to explain why that's him. That's just the way he describes his love.
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DAMN ME TOO!!! i have lit one week and... let's say 1 day, till on stage debut with my bestie/soul sister! and i'm worrying bout the costumes and not messing up the lyrics
okay idols list, get something to grip this gonna get wild:
Morning Musume, Berryz Koubou, °C-ute, Buono!, Country Musume, Coconuts Musume, Taiyou to Ciscomoon, Melon Kinenbi, Ongaku Gatas, Angerme (previously S/Mileage), Juice=Juice, Country Girls, Kobushi Factory, Tsubaki Factory, BEYOOOOONDS, Ocha Norma, Matsuura Aya, Goto Maki, Fujimoto Miki, Mano Erina, Hangry&Angry, W, Mini Moni, Petit Moni, Nochiura Natsumi, Def. Diva, Tenrin, Artemis no Tsubasa, iLIFE, Guilty x Guilty, Hinatazaka46, Sakurazaka46, Niji no conquistador, Last Idol, Philosophy no Dance, Wasuta, Passpo, Yumemiru Adolescence, 24*emotions, ukka, Up Up Girls (kakko kari), Up Up Girls (2), Up Up Girls (Pro Wres), Kikkawa Yuu, Kyururintteshitemite
Now male idols:
Hey! Say! JUMP, Sexy Zone, MeseMoa, Panda Dragon, Naniwa Danshi
Now Kaigai idols:
Non Sweet, PAiDA, Lulu Bitto, Jemimemu, Melancholiaah!,
//OMG IDOL BESTIES REALLL
writing all these down right fucking now frfr
also Non Sweet and PAiDA my absolute BELOVEDS
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My journey with Idol’s animes and mangas - Part 3
A new path of this journey has ended. Today I'm going to talk about “Kami Kuzu Idol” (or, “Phantom of the Idol”, but I don't like the choice of the english title).
BUT! First of all I want to say, I’m not a big fan of men idols. I tried, it is hard (but lately maybe is not), and I just can say the biggest company of men idols is Johnny’s, where you can find groups like Arashi, NEWS, Hey! Say! JUMP, Sexy Zone (if you saw Fuller House, you might know them) or King & Prince;
but I know there’s another one called DD Company, which has groups I’ve been told to listen (and are interesting), these being MeseMoa, *ChocoLate Bomb!! and Panda Dragon.
Okay but… Why am I saying this? Well...
Kami Kuzu Idol is an anime about a guy called Niyodo Yuuya, who is in a duet group with Yoshino Kazuki called ZINGS
; this guy (Niyodo) is an idol just because he thought it was easy money,
has the problem that he doesn’t give his best… Well, anything. Suddenly he found the ghost of the “Kami Idol” Mogami Asahi; we have them talking about how Asahi died, how she really misses being an idol (she died just when she reached the center as she said). After a small and involuntary action from Asahi (she literally possessed his body and couldn’t get out for a moment), they started working together
and making Yuuya a better idol and partner for Kazuki, because, yes, there was a kind of threat to both of them to get better (well, Niyodo) or Yoshino would go solo (and he has a bit of stage panic).
After the first live being possessed by Asahi, all changed.
I won’t lie, I hated Yuuya, at first he even wanted to overwork Asahi, but she wants to see him get better. Niyodo doesn’t know a thing about idols, seems to not pay even a small attention to what he’s been told at work, or about being a fan, so he won’t give a kind of connection with his fans, as idols do. So Asahi’s work also becomes a kind of “Let me teach you about this wonderful world, work, my never ending dream” (she doesn’t say this, is my interpretation of her actions).
A part of the anime is also “OshiBudo like”, this meaning that fans have a point to exist as characters. Mainly three fans, who are Niyodo’s. They’re more comic, but as I said about OshiBudo, they work for their idols; oh right, in this case the fans are all women…
Until a certain moment, because ZINGS isn’t the only group, another important (just one character to be honest) is C Grass. They are the biggest idol group in the anime, “The princes of the nation” or something like that. Well the leader Setouchi Hikaru, was (or better said still is) a big fan of Mogami Asahi, and he was looking to ZINGS, he found sometimes the same mannerisms of Asahi on Niyodo (I wonder what would he think if he knew the truth)
and he even threatened Yuuya to stop disrespecting Asahi in that way, this also makes him to try not use her a lot.
This anime was nice to watch, but tries to convey many things (i think) in 10 episodes.
Now a meme i agree with for most of this anime.
The important point is how it ends, saying that an idol is someone who stands on a stage and shines, so they make their fans’ hearts shine, and while the fans loves them more, the idol’s shine will grow, and as the fans keep loving them (this meaning after they are idols, whatever is the reason) they will keep shining; obviously this last part are heavier words as it refers Asahi’s death, and her surprise about still having fans that still love her; but it is applicable to that time after the day they graduate (leave being idols, specially if they become a normal person)
I like how Asahi explains what being a fan is, how a fan feels, how important it is to Niyodo, even though this dummy just realices it basically in the last episode.
The songs are nice to listen to, but i wouldn’t get all over that, but the meaning of some of these are explained at the last episode.
The opening was “Let’s ZING!”
The endings changed basically for every episode (well, it was more like rotative)
Personally I Liked “Uraomote no Duet” and “Hare La Lu La”
The 3D was used for scenes where they dance, but I found it a bit weird when i looked at Niyodo, personally i don’t think it fits right with his character design.
THEY HAVE DIADEM MICROPHONES! I’m sold with microphones at sight (please learn SHINEPOST)
I think I don’t need to say that Asahi Mogami is my favorite character; but also, without her there, the story wouldn’t exist as it is. She’s cute, a top idol, she really likes that work, and is really proud about it,
but not being annoying, that’s why she helps Yuuya; she has told even when she failed, stuff she doesn’t know about (skin care for example) and how she did it. She is such a pure soul.
Yoshino is a cute guy, the total opposite of Yuuya, like a lost puppy I'd say. You think in the first episode he might lack self trust, and is confirmed later. He does his best, maybe limited by that self trust lack.
The Niyodo fans are funny, in a way relatable, but not as much as the fans we saw on OshiBudo; because it is also a completely different ambient. You can see part of ZINGS 'story through them.
Niyodo is annoying,
but you may understand why he might think some stuff, how he does stuff. He gets trust on Asahi to even avoid overwork her, and to work in a way he can make her proud (specially last episode). At the end you learn to like him.
Hikaru is interesting to me, he’s a kind of tsundere fan of Niyodo; I don’t care about this point though. There’s an episode where we have context how he became an Asahi’s fan, and then an idol, and even how he got her death’s news. But my interest is how he became a fan, because my emotional state was probably a bit similar to his; I don’t want to put here personal stuff, but feeling empty, and not having such energy to even go to school,
and then having your heart filled with that magic idols give, is pretty important.
“We want the fruity level” you might think (yes, i think it is important to add this on every post). OKAY! The point here is the work Yoshino puts into not becoming a soloist, is not only because of his own good against his stage panic; he says it. Besides that, Hikaru is like a tsundere Niyodo’s fan, he even blushes a bit hard at one point.
The fruity level is “meh”, but exists.
With all said, it isn't the best anime, has one of the bestests girls, touches some light topics in an interesting way, gives a good laugh, and is casual.
I give it a 6 or 7 out of 10.
But it is recommendable, at least to be all “awwwww” about Asahi being a ball of cuteness and love for being an idol.
-CaMHH
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