#okamoto group

[meitanteisachi]

i caught up with the latest BNHA episode don’t touch me I am an absolute emotional wreck

#a complete total insane wreck #hearing 'izuku' in nobuhiko okamoto aka bakugou's voice is everything i need #in shambles i am deranged #i am running out of words they turn to tears #I LOVE YOU CLASS1A #THE BEST SUPPORT GROUP. #i am proud of what u all have become. #GRGHSG MY HEART IS OVERFLOWING i need air #bnha #gisa rants

[permanentleigh]

#osamus dad is coming over a lot now #i played him to make a family group and he has a crush on jheyna #osamu okamoto #kahananui mini legacy

[yuurei20]

Twst Channel Halloween Special 2023, notes

・It has begun! The location of the new Halloween looks like it is called “Playful Land,” the Twst equivalent of Pleasure Island?

・There is a PV!! Ortho! kalim looks amazing! Ace! Circus theme!

・HONEST JON Oh he looks amazing

・Evil laughter, who is this? We don’t know, they didn’t show us…

・“The Dancing Dolls and Theme Park of Illusion” Fellow Honest and Gideru (Spelling might be wrong, apologies!)

・Fellow Honest is voiced by Sugita Tomokazu! (Gintama, Demon Slayer, JOJO’s Bizarre Adventure, Persona 5, ONE PIECE)

・Now is the card illustration reveal! (After the commercial. Since Ace, Kalim and Ortho were the only ones in the PV, maybe they are the SSR?)

・Trey is an R card! (These designs are amazing) Jack is also an R card! We get to see just his entire tail!! Jade is an R! His has eels forming a heart at his hip! Floyd’s Okamoto is delighted. Lilia is an R! Yana had so much fun with these designs, they are so great.

・SR Vil! Wearing a toy soldier hat. So interested in the story, what is going on. SR Floyd! Such dynamic poses this time, for the dancing dolls theme, maybe. Also, heart eels on his boots! Leona is SR, his ears from out of his hat, top hat Leona amazing. Cater is SR! He looks so good!

・SSR! Ace! Yamashita is delighted, it is an amazing illustration. SSR Kalim! This is a very new look for Kalim, looks so good. SSR Ortho! So great, this is so interesting, what is going on with everyone aahh

・Now are comments from Yana (read by Kalim’s Furuta) on the new characters’ designs. Theme Park show actor theme! Based on Stromboli’s puppet show and pleasure island, but mostly inspired by the puppet show. Hidden characters in the three SSRs? Event starts on the 20th!

・And now they are going to talk about Twst Fes! Kalim’s VA Furuta is taking off his shirt to show off his muscles again ww he did this at Twst Fes too

・Kalim’s Furuta is talking about nervous he’s been to do the live script reading during Twst Fes. He says he planned the salute that he and Jamil’s Futaba did when they appeared on stage and were surprised when all the other groups did the same thing ww

・Kalim’s Furuta is showing off his socks and now everyone is standing up to show off their clothes they are so funny

#twst translations #twisted wonderland #twsthalloween #twstseiyuu

[vintagerpg]

Different Worlds 30 (September, 1983). A two month gap — I feel like that at this point, the magazine was being published “intermittently.” The cover is another painting by Alan Okamoto, a rather striking group portrait of DC’s Teen Titans.

#rpg #d&d #dungeons & dragons #tabletop rpg #roleplaying game #ttrpg #Chaosium #Different Worlds #Alan Okamoto

[vocaloidfactoftheday]

Have You Seen This Lost GUMI Anime Pilot?

This is a bit of an unusual post for this blog, but I think I may have come across a case of lost media involving an anime pilot starring GUMI. It's possible that it exists on the Internet, and I hesitate to declare this as "lost media," but I cannot find it anywhere, and I figured that a post on this blog was the best way to see if anyone has any leads or extra info.

The anime is titled "Koisuru Dessan Ningyo," with an English title of "Do Drawing Dolls Dream of Love?" I don't know the runtime of the pilot, but I think it was most likely around 5-7 minutes. I believe this could have been the first instance of a Vocaloid being cast in a main voice acting role (perhaps, the first one cast in any voice acting role). I'm not completely sure if they actually used the Megpoid voicebank, or had Megumi Nakajima voice act as GUMI, but the way AnimeAnime (Japanese anime news site) describes it, it seems like it may have been the former. In either case, the character that GUMI portrays in the anime is a character that is clearly made to resemble her.

(These are the only screenshots I could find that come from the pilot, but more may exist.)

The main character is a doll (who I'm not sure is named), who models for a girl's drawings before eventually falling in love with her. I don't believe GUMI's character has a name, but she plays a main role as the girl the doll falls in love with.

Where It Was Seen

The pilot aired on NHK TV on January 9, 2014, during late night (possibly just after midnight?). It aired alongside another pilot as part of the program Aoyama 1seg Kaihatsu. This was a sort of tournament, where two pilots were broadcast once a month for three months, and viewers would vote for which pilot they liked best. Then, the three winners would go against each other in a final round, where the pilot with the most votes would get picked up to become a series. (I think they held this tournament once a year from 2010 to 2014 or 2015, though I don't know if it was the exact same every time.) The broadcast was 25 minutes long for each of the first three rounds, with the first half dedicated to showing both pilots and the second half dedicated to presentations about each pilot. (This is why I think this pilot was around 5-7 minutes, though I'm not sure exactly how much time commercial breaks would take up.) For a few years, including 2014, the program was hosted by the now-disbanded Japanese girl group E-girls (no relation to what you and I know as "e-girls." in their case the E stands for "exile.")

According to the official Tumblr account, karappo-heart, this pilot won the first round of the competition! It probably didn't make it out of the finals, though, since it didn't get picked up for a series. It's also possible that it did win, but some other issues prevented its production. In any case, the Tumblr account hasn't been updated since the first round ended. While this contest was going on, three shorts were apparently available to watch on NHK's website, but they have since been removed. I think at least one of the shorts was web-exclusive. I haven't been able to find info on who actually won the finals, or even what GUMI's short won against.

People Involved

The doll is portrayed by a masked dancer refererred to as Hitori de Dekiru Mon. I can't find much info about him online, but I think his real name is Takemura Ryohei. (I'm not sure because that part on his Japanese Wikipedia article has a "citation needed" label.) AnimeAnime specifically refers to his role as being the doll's "human form," though it's possible he provided voice acting too. AnimeAnime points out the unusual nature of having a human portray a doll, and having a Vocaloid portray a human.

Masanori Okamoto (who also wrote the screenplay and produced the pilot) animated the pilot with the pixilation technique, using time-lapse pictures to show movement of objects and people (this may have included live-action photos of the doll's actor portraying a "human form" of the doll). It seems like it may have blended stop motion/puppetry and live action stills with traditional animation? This is an example of Okamoto's work from around the same time, which seems like it might have been made in a similar style:

The third known person to have worked on this is none other than Vocaloid producer sasakure.UK. He composed the theme song, which of course features GUMI, and a few other songs to be used in potential future episodes. If you're a big fan of his, the anime title may sound familiar to you, as he released 3 of these songs (though both news sites I looked at, AnimeAnime and Anime News Network, say he made 4 total) plus their instrumentals as an EP under the same title. You can listen to the whole thing on YouTube!

I think this EP uses GUMI's VOCALOID3 voicebanks (the first sounds like either Native or Sweet, the second one sounds like Adult or Power (if it even is GUMI--it sounds more like IA to me, but sasakure.UK labeled it as a GUMI song so I kinda have to take his word for it) and the third sounds like Sweet). If that's the case, her V3 voicebanks would have probably been used for the voice acting, too.

Places I've Looked

After some Internet searches only garnered me a few screenshots, I decided to see if there was a way I could ask sasakure.UK himself about the short. I believe he has a contact form on his website, which I used to send a message in both Japanese and English (in case Google Translate was more helpful to him than my incoherent Japanese). This was back in May of this year and I never received a response. (Since I used a website contact form and not a direct email, I don't have the message I sent him anymore. I guess that's lost media now too.)

It occured to me while writing this post that I never contacted the animator himself, Masanori Okamoto. While his Vimeo and YouTube pages don't have the pilot, and his Twitter and Tumblr links haven't been updated in several years, he does have an email address listed. I sent him a message (in English because I was too sick and tired to try to write a coherent email in Japanese and I don't like waiting to do these things). I'm not sure he still checks his email since his social media that I've found has all been inactive for years, but I will post an update if he responds.

I know that this pilot is not on the NHK website, or, again, on the animator's YouTube or Vimeo pages. I also could not find it on the Internet Archive.

Now, I don't expect anyone reading this to have saved this on their computer and kept it there since 2014. But with this post, my goal is simply to make more people aware that this exists at all, and I'd also like to learn more about it myself (such as whether or not the pilot won in the finals after all, how much animation actually exists for it, if any more screenshots are out there, etc.)

Thank you for reading such a long post! Please feel free to correct any info I got wrong, or add on to this post with any knowledge you might have about this lost pilot!

(also sorry for any typos :()

#vocaloid #lost media #sasakure.uk #gumi #japanese vocaloid #vocaloid2 #vocaloid3 #internet co #lost content

[bakuhatsufallinlove]

After the apology when deku said I'm sorry for saying you can't keep up did bakugo reply with i get it or we get it?

The answer is one that'll frustrate English speakers: we don't know.

Part of the reason pronouns are notable when they are used in Japanese is because a lot of the time they are omitted entirely, and that includes first-person pronouns.

Katsuki says 「わーってる」, which is a really informal way to say “understand” or “know.” Since it’s so informal, “get it” is a possible translation as well. But there are no pronouns here, he could be expressing his own feelings or speaking for Class 1-A.

So, the interpretation depends entirely on what you think his intentions are.

Here’s how I interpret the choices, based on the cultural nuances of English:

“We get it” – Reaffirms the group’s understanding of what Izuku has been through, gently dismisses the need for apology. Comforting.

“I get it” – Similar to above, but centers Katsuki’s personal understanding of Izuku’s struggle. Comforting.

“I know” – Recognition of Izuku’s guilt without judgment. Comforting and sympathetic.

But I will say, the tone with which Okamoto Nobuhiko spoke the line reveals a lot.

See, in his apology, Katsuki told Izuku that he had been wrong all this time. He bore his heart to Izuku about everything he feels guilty for. And then Izuku apologizes, realizing how wrong he had been to push everyone away, feeling guilty that he had hurt them when he just wanted to protect them.

And they both use the same word to apologize: 「ごめん」

Knowing that, when I hear the emphasis and emotion Okamoto put into 「わーってる」, to me, “I know” is what he means.

#asks #translations #bkdk apology #mha 322 #mha season 6 spoilers

[adrianicsea]

saw x: your guide to the new & returning characters

hi everybody!! i’ve been keeping up with all the new updates, leaks, and speculation about saw x for quite awhile now. in light of that, and with the movie’s impending release, i thought i would put this together for everyone’s ease & reference 👍🏻

this post will contain some information from the official saw x production notes released by lionsgate, which in turn does contain some spoilers about events in the film. furthermore, for returning characters, we’ll only be looking at characters explicitly and visually confirmed to be returning as of 9/20/23 (sorry hoffman).

we’ll go ahead and start with john kramer! saw x first finds john attending a cancer support group, still in the city. there, he meets a man who’s had great success treating his disease with experimental swedish oncologist doctor finn pederson. intrigued by this, john ends up venturing to mexico city to seek out an experimental, not-fully-legal treatment for his cancer with finn’s daughter, another oncologist named cecilia pederson. when the doctor and her team turn out to be nothing more than scammers, though, john swiftly acts to take revenge on them.

the production notes (which you can read in their entirety here, if you’d like) make a point of talking about how this movie is going to showcase a more human and conflicted version of john than we’ve seen before— as he’s still relatively early in his jigsaw journey, and as he’s fully interacting face-to-face with his victims, we’ll get to see john being openly challenged by his victims for the first time, and wrestling between his own moral codes and the accusations that he’s a murderer being thrown at him by his victims.

next up, we have amanda young!! contrary to what some initial speculation/advertisements suggested, i believe she’s going to be a major player in this film, with her emotional arc perhaps even rivaling john’s. about her role in this movie, director kevin greutert says: “it was an opportunity to go deeper into where she is at an earlier point in her relationship with john, before her guilt, insecurities, and doubt corrupted her against john’s work. in this story, we see amanda’s manic cheekiness, as well as her vulnerability and affection for john. but she has doubts about the violent and cruel aspect of the work they’re doing together.”

greutert goes on to say that amanda finds herself identifying with one of the victims of the pederson clinic games, and this in turn drives her urge to partake in the games and to start her down the road of being at odds with john’s morality. i have a pretty good idea of who amanda’s sympathetic victim is going to be, but we’ll get to that shortly.

actress synnøve macody lund plays doctor cecilia pederson, the head of the scam ring that lures john to mexico city and pretends to cure his cancer. though cecilia is capable of appearing warm and caring, at her heart, she is a selfish and manipulative person, more concerned about herself than about any of her victims or even her staff. lund says that there is a spark of recognition and similarity between john and cecilia when they first meet, but as the games begin, cecilia does her best to challenge john and “try to break him.”

cecilia’s father, doctor finn pederson, is also an oncologist, although it is currently unclear whether he’s legitimate or not. there is some speculation that he may be the “experimental doctor” mentioned by william easton in saw vi. he is portrayed by donagh gordon. (no picture here bc the mobile app only allows 10 photos per post 😔)

joshua okamoto is listed as playing both diego and a different character named doctor cortez. diego is the driver who brings john between the hacienda where he’s staying and to his appointments with doctor pederson; okamoto describes him as friendly and talkative, almost like a tour guide. doctor cortez is an “enigmatic” physician that john sees during his appointments. it is (imo) unclear at this point whether the two characters are really meant to be two distinct people— to me, it makes more sense that diego is only pretending to be doctor cortez, but that’s just my speculation.

octavio hinojosa will be playing mateo, a veterinarian who moonlights as cecilia’s anesthesiologist during john’s surgery. hinojosa says that mateo has gotten involved in “some shady business” — aside from pretending to be a doctor, mateo also sells drugs from his veterinary office. hinojosa doesn’t say much else about mateo’s personality, and the production notes only describe him as a “scummy drug pusher.”

renata vaca plays gabriela, who is both one of the addicts that mateo sells drugs to and a member of the pederson scam ring in her own right. gabriela pretends to be john’s housekeeper, and before the scam is revealed, the two of them actually begin to bond and have a nice moment together. when john realizes he’s been duped, vaca says that gabriela’s betrayal “breaks his heart.” while john still wants to test her, vaca says that john still sees goodness in gabriela and hopes to restore it by testing her.

i mentioned above that amanda forms a bond with one of the pederson clinic victims— given how similar gabriela’s background sounds to amanda’s, and given that we can see amanda straddling gabriela in the photo above (you can just barely make out gabriela’s fur coat in the corner), i would be VERY surprised if it’s not gabriela.

played by paulette hernández, valentina works as a fake nurse in the pederson scam ring. the production notes don’t have much else to say about her character, but it does talk about the nature of her trap and pretty heavily implies that she doesn’t make it very long into the pederson clinic games. (we’ve also already seen a decapitated body in several of the trailers and commercials for the movie, so maybe they just don’t care about spoiling this particular death.)

isan beomhyun lee plays the custodian whose face has already been made famous via the eyeball vacuum trap posters! he isn’t given a name in the production notes, but the notes do mention that john catches him while he’s still in the city, BEFORE leaving for mexico. john punishes the custodian for “contemplating a theft of a patient’s belongings.” the fate of the eyeball vacuum victim has already been made pretty clear, so i wouldn’t expect to see much more of him than we already have.

steven brand plays parker sears, who the production notes tell us is a fellow patient of john’s, seeking treatment for his thyroid cancer from cecilia and her scam ring. however, it’s pretty clear that there’s something more going on with him— if it wasn’t enough that we see him in the first trailer holding a gun (and NOT in any of the other pederson clinic games), the production notes themselves make a point of saying that “not everything or everyone is as it seems.” it’s my personal speculation that he’s some sort of undercover cop— perhaps one who was already on the way to busting the pederson scammers before john came in and started doing things his own way.

finally, we have michael beach playing henry kessler. the production notes have nothing to say about him, and we also haven’t seen much about him in any trailers or spots just yet. that said, the following is purely my own speculation.

the production notes mention that john first learns about cecilia from a former member of his cancer support group in the saw metro. i believe that kessler may be that former member. this would subsequently make him complicit in john’s scamming, and as such, i believe kessler might be the person we briefly see being tortured in the bathroom during the trailer.

SO there you all go!! hopefully this guide was interesting, helpful, and/or informative :) thank you for reading!!

#saw #saw x #john kramer #amanda young #saw x spoilers

[ikemenfangirl]

URADOL : 2D idol group

In order to fulfill the “dream” 10 years from now,

We hide the secret.

That said, we actually...

There is a "secret" that must never be known to the fans

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Title: URADOL ウラドル

Website: https://spyaim-urdl.eternal-voyage.com/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/spyaim_urdl

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❗️MV : Give me the light ❗️

: https://youtu.be/3QwjdDXiUYg

CHARACTER DESIGN :

Yamada Shiro (https://twitter.com/yamashiro_k)

same artist of Ikémen Vampire and Ikémen Sengoku

‼️ CAST

KEI - Keisho Isumi

CV：#KENN

RAN - Ranma Fujisaki

CV： Maeno Tomoaki #前野智昭

LUI - Lui Usami

CV： Hatano Wataru #羽多野渉

Yuiji Natsuhara

CV： Nakamura Shugo #仲村宗悟

Hajime Kirigaya

CV： Horie Shun #堀江瞬

Kaeda Ijuin

CV： Okamoto Nobuhiko #岡本信彦

【URADOL Stage/trying】

RELEASE :: November 24th, 2023

เพื่อเติมเต็ม “ความฝัน” 10 ปีนับจากนี้

เราซ่อน "ความลับ" ที่แฟน ๆ จะต้องไม่เคยล่วงรู้ .

#URADOL #ボイスドラマ #Voice Drama #MV #Song #2d idols #Youtube #ウラドル

[todaysdocument]

"Loyalty towards a Country or a Nation...is a covenant..."

Record Group 21: Records of District Courts of the United StatesSeries: Criminal Case FilesFile Unit: United States of America vs. Kiyoshi Okamoto, et. al.

Loyalty towards a Country or a Nation is a m[a]tter of the sentiment. It is nurtured from a knowledge of justice received. It is a covenant of faith between the party of the People on the one hand and the Party of the Government on the other. Under this understanding, the People maintain the inviolability of our Instruments of Government. For this service, the Government assume the responsibilities of justice, freedom, liberty and security to It's Inhabitants. Under such an interpretation, the President terminated the agreement when he caused to be evacuated 112,000 People without due process of law. In so doing, he violated the very fundamentals of our democratic form of government. He disregarded the guarantees of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. He caused us into Citizens without a Country. By these acts, the Constitution and the Bill of Rights become of doubtful value as Instruments guaranteeing Life, Liberty, Justice, Freedom and Security. With these conditions, where does our Country need us the most--on the home front where justice, freedom, democracy and liberty are slapped on the face or, on foreign battlefields to uphold dubious ideals and Principles? We believe a correct understanding must be had at this time between true patriotism and loyalty on the one hand and from regimented concept of misguided interpretations on the other. We believe the first duty of every true and loyal Citizen is the protection of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. The cornerstone of these Instruments of our Government are Justice, Liberty, Security, Freedom, and the protection of Humane Rights. These are flagrantly violated in the various procedures of our evacuation, deportation and detention. We believe the issue forced upon us is sufficently vital as to warrant a decided attitude...not only for our benefit but, as a safeguard to our hitherto free and democratic form of government. It is vital as an issue of National defense if Democracy is to exist. [STRIKETHROUGH] If we are loyal and patriotic Citizens, we must keep an eagle eye on ten cent leaders who are unable to see beyond the 12-16-19 dollars paid them by the W. R. A.[END STRIKETHROUGH] Thus, to be drafted or not to be drafted or, to be loyal or not to be loyal as Citizens with suspended Rights are not the questions at issue. To us, the fundamentals of Democracy is at stake. In the preservation of the ideals and principles of freedom, justice and democratic practices as guaranteed by the Constitution and the Bill of Rights within our own home front lie any hope to validate and justify any utterances of freedoms and democracies. We must rectify the breaches made upon the guarantees of justice, freedom and democratic practices by the Roosevelt Administration. THEREBY, AS TRUE AND LOYAL CITIZENS OF THIS NATION, WE ASK A FIRST CLARIFICATION OF OUR STATUS AND RIGHTS AS FORCED[full transcription at link]

#archivesgov #1940s #world war ii #February 15 #1944 #japanese internment #japanese american

[exrankluck]

URADOL

The strongest unconventional idol development drama CD series begins!

Their secret is that they are fraudulent idols, covered in lies. A new idol group called "SPYAIM" is set to debut from the entertainment agency "evol."

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<Cast>

Keisho Isumi: KENN

Ranma Fujisaki: Tomoaki Maeno

Lui Usami: Wataru Hatano

Yuiji Natsuhara: Shugo Nakamura

Hajime Kirigaya: Shun Horie

Kaede Ijuin: Nobuhiko Okamoto

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A new idol group called "SPYAIM" is set to debut from the entertainment agency "evol."

In order to fulfill our "dream" ten years from now, we keep a "secret."

We are the rookie idol group "SPYAIM," and our goal is a live performance at Tokyo Dome ten years from now. You might think it's impossible, but you never know until you try. It's okay to dream big and freely. Idols are here to give their fans a dream. If we don't dream, nothing will start - that's what they say. (But truth be told, we have a "secret" that must never be revealed to our fans.)

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♡ Stage/Opening - Translation

♪ Bright - Translation

♪ Summer Vacation - Translation

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Twitter: @spyaim_urdl

Character Design: Shiro Yamada (Ikemen Sengoku, Ikemen Vampire)

Director & Scenario: Azuma Ryo

Design: Haruka Takahashi

©URADOL

#uradol #drama cd #drama cd translation #josei muke #joseimuke #uradol translation #kenn #hatano wataru #maeno tomoaki #shun horie #shugo nakamura #okamoto nobuhiko #for self use #*** #spyaim #shiro yamada #yamada shiro #evol #ensemble stars #dear vocalist #ikemen vampire #ikemen sengoku #pokedora

[pastelsalmonsworld]

My personal timeline as a multi shipper

Here’s my controversial MHA (I know I know) ship timeline. I see a pattern of simply liking a ship because the two characters had an interesting interaction or exclusive to Izuocha, where Ochako can only likes Izuku. This is in order by timeline. I want to to spread this to show people that you are not hated by 100% of a group of anybody. We are all multi-faceted beings. My ships are based on interesting dynamics not canon-ness thereby superiority. This list is based on a timeline, not my interest.

‘Shipping’ in my case is simply enjoying the characters in a fanart or fa fiction outside of canon which is deemed more than is needed to understand the charcters. Support romantic or otherwise fanart with mainly two characters basically. It doesn’t even mean I see how they would be together in canon. Before bakudeku, I read most of these at the same time. I felt I had to have one ship only at some points too which isn’t true.

Maybe shipping for me is just liking an aspect of a story.

Izuocha. I liked this ship because it seemed like it was going to be obviously canon. I enjoy a lot of canon-ships like NaruHina, KanaTanjiro or just about any of my favorite shoujo and boys love pairings. Also a few spare girls love comics too; cute! I just thought that’s how it was. First friend and supportive and obvious.

Kacchako. I enjoyed their fight in the Sports Festival arc of mha because Katsuki didn’t hold back. I agreed with most of the crowd, he’s /kind of/ insane in how he acts at his point in the series. I fully believed he would go Sasuke or Villain route in this part of the series. I liked that he didn’t treat her differently because she’s a girl despite his intentions. Ochako put up her best fight and found something new in herself that she hadn’t before; the wit and quick thinking to fight back against a super strong unrestrained Enemy. I ended up seeing a BEAUTIFUL fanart of him sitting at a desk and Ochako sitting at a wind that was amazingly rendered. I read a lot of— let’s just say extremely out of pocket fan fiction about this rare pair. I felt insecure about this ship because it got made fun of online. Also Bakugo’s ‘nothing frail about her’ comments in the relationship connection extras. Regardless, interesting, fun, imaginative, unexpected.

KiriBaku. This seems to be the mostly widely /accepted/ ship in my opinion. I feel like it has the most support in the American fandom. Kiri was super popular at the time I joined my hero and I was deep in the weeb-tok era of 2019 through 2021(anyone else miss the “Iwa-Chan, kageyama!/ I know that I’m gonna slaughter dis” sound? And OH the cosplays). MAN I miss it it was so fun and less dodgy than boring-ass takes and blind fighting on twitter. I was a bakudeku hater at this time because I blindly believed the death threats were true. I didn’t hate the ship personally feel deep down but I thought actual death threats would’ve been too far. I often dumped mean and repetitive comments on anti-bakudeku tiktoks. I really enjoyed an actor au where the author switched the moha characters to playing their Japanese voice actors. Baku go/okamoto really wanted to play a canon gay character in the drama they were actors in but Izuku got it first which caused his continued resentment of izuku because he assumed he was not gay. It was really fun and some of the fics were very memorable and wholesome. Good times! At the transition between these two ships the fandom was all happy and the fanfics were funny and Bakugou was being supportive of his friends in his own way at this point.

Bakudeku. The plot twist of the century. But, not really. See, I hated bakudeku mostly because I wanted to fit in with the popular opinion and simple “they hate each other!!”. In order to seem normal and not insane since it was so hated. Again, I already thought bakugo’s character because it humanizes a bully in a realistic way. I usually live for those crazy ass villains anyway; it’s just anime. Death Note??? But obviously, I never would have put Bakugou in Izuku together. Rewatching season 1 that shot was terrible as fuck and heart wrenching and I feel so bad again after watching and I can see why I absolutely hated Katsuki when I watched mha. I can see why people still hate him. Again, I started looking at the fanart out of spite and saw a lot of fanart with one of them looking at the other back and watching them from behind. It’s really true to the series. It is so heart wrenching to watch and read. That’s why I like reading it. I’ve read SOO many fics where either of them die mostly Izuku, because of the suicide comment, but eventually with the event of black whip, mostly Katsuki for obvious reasons. There’s a deep theme of saving and winning and even the horror of death when you love someone so obviously I was captivated. Some fics, and I mean A LOT, basically predicted word for word the hospital scenes. I don’t like ‘I know your secret power’ tropes, but it’s there. There’s just so much between them it’s crazy. The way /The Way You Used To by: edema ruh/ has like the exact hospital scenes that LATER!!!! Happened in the manga… the death, the emotional power-ups, the connection of a separate soulmate ( ‘nother person in your body thing like the vestiges) quirk, PLUS ofa transactions inspired by two heros that canonically seem like they’re about to happen. You’ve got the Volume cover and everything to show for it too. Themes of almost Spider-Man and Gwen???? I rewatched Spider-Man 2 and it’s like huh??? And also Izuku is inspired by spider-man as well? Oh SHIT, is bakugo Izuku’s failed save? I’m gonna be SO FUCKINNG MAD if that happens, but I’m one of those people who enjoys angst a lot at the same time and I will appreciate it. I’m so everything for this ship for this ship platonic friendship or not I may just ship their friendship

TodoIIda. Usually, I don’t find a lot of my ships seeming canon except for this one. I already know that any important relationship or friendship between characters can be shipped but since they aren’t seen interacting on screen much next to the scene where iida saves him instead of going ahead, it really stuck. That must have been Horikoshi’s intention because he came back to them recently like they matter to each other. I JUST remembered the stain arc and how IIda and Shouto’s can relate on wanting revenge. Iida’s motto to help someone anywhere any time relates to Todoroki’s helplessness as a child. They’re important to each other. Friends, family.

Togachako. I didn’t consider this a ‘ship’ per se until recently, but I was obsessed with how Toga wanted become Ochako and the people she loves also how they like the same boy I guess?? Izuku seems oblivious and somehow even unrelated to their relationship even though it started it. There was this one cosplay tiktok with a poppy sound on it and I was OB- SESSED. I told you I love me some crazy simpy villains and Toga is just that. Unexpected was how Ochako starts to focus on her specifically and want to save her. I was NOTTT expecting her to say she was jealous of her smile. I was so sad when Himi said she didn’t want to talk to Chako anymore so I was PUMPED to hear people spreading the misleading togacjako canon on twitter. Toga biromantic/sapphic vampire whose blood-sucking is like kissing, is getting blood from ochsko for the rest of her life. I don’t know if toga really cares anymore. I also enjoy their possible relationship to Yuki-onna. Would love if something came out of them in canon, though I just realized toga explicated said she wanted to go out with Izuku so why can’t she do it for ochako?

dabihawks. I was SO confused why people shipped this when they barely showed their interactions. I only realized when a mostly canon style fan manga dubbed did a dabihawks comic. I then realized they are are almost the same childhood reflections of each other, neglected, abused by their parents

As an end note, I learned that every ship dynamic has to be romantic, but usually it is because of recent fan culture. I’m 15 but I know a lot about older fandom because I was an avid Kaichou Wa Maid Sama fan and used the less popular fan fiction.net. People are a lot nicer on fanfixtion sites than on social media sites, I’ve learned also older fandoms didn’t get massively hated on like MHA does. There’s just more people in the world who watch now. Remember to be yourself because there’s always someone feeling just like you out there, I promise. Chaio;3

#izuocha #katsudeku #kiribaku #dkbk #togachako #multishipper #mha fanfic recs #mha manga #mha season 6 #mha fanfiction #mha bakusquad #I actually like!bakusquadheadcanons!!!!!! #Todoiida

[stargazer-sims]

For Caroline and Forest please!

💛 What are their favorite activites to do together?

🥡 What does a relaxing night in look like for them?

🖤 What is their biggest regret in their relationship so far (or in the future, if you don't mind giving spoilers)?

🧸 BONUS! Include one of your favorite moments between them!

Thanks for the ask @dandylion240 !

Caroline Okamoto-Nelson & Forest Abbottsford

💛 What are their favourite activities to do together?

They like to go hiking and swimming, and Caroline is teaching Forest how to bake, so they like to spend time in the kitchen together. They like bowling, even though they’re both really bad at it.

They’re also currently writing & illustrating their first children’s book together and they love working on that.

Forest likes to read aloud to Caroline, and she really enjoys that too. Sometimes they set up a beach umbrella outside and have backyard story time.

🥡 What does a relaxing night in look like for them?

Since they're not officially dating, they only ever have "nights in" at one house or the other (with the presence of parents). Any time they go out, it's in a group with Forest's siblings or some of his and Caroline's friends. Typically, their nights in include making snacks and watching movies or playing board games. Caroline struggles to play video games due to her low vision, but she likes to sit with Forest and keep him company while he plays. Their parents have accepted them cuddling, so sometimes they'll just relax on the couch, cuddle and talk.

🖤 What is their biggest regret in their relationship so far (or in the future, if you don't mind giving spoilers)?

Although they've known each other since they were six, they haven't been together as a couple long enough to have any regrets yet. At this point, they can't imagine ever regretting anything about their relationship.

🧸 BONUS! Include one of your favourite moments between them!

One of their sweetest moments is when they were seven and Forest told Caroline he'd marry her some day. With all the gravity of a little kid who thinks he's doing something super important and grown up, he said he'd always take care of her and make sure she never fell down or bumped into anything she couldn't see, and "I'll give you flowers all the time!" (after having recently seen Taka bring home flowers for Fox). It was the sort of thing that made Victor and Fox go "Aww!" when they overheard it. Ten years later, Forest still thinks about that sometimes, and although his ideas about marriage are a lot more solid and defined these days, he hasn't changed his mind. He still wants to marry Caroline some day and he hopes she'll say yes again, just like she did that day in the back yard when they were seven, when he gave her a half-wilted bouquet of wildflowers he'd picked himself.

#sapphire answers #oc asks #Caroline Okamoto-Nelson #Forest Abbottsford #stargazersims

[yuurei20]

Seiyuu Birthday: Jamil's Futaba Kaname

Happy birthday to Jamil’s voice actor Futaba Kaname!

Since late last year Futaba has been appearing in a variety of musical theater shows while doing live concerts with his band, TWiN PARADOX, with his twin brother, Yuu.

His recent live theater roles have been in Run with the Wind, Butou Senshi Odorun Z Fighter, Inside the Galactic Railroad, Sengoku Soukyuu Battle Balls and Ouran Host Club.

A cover of Glamorous Sky by Kaname and Yuu ( TWiN PARADOX )

Kaname and Yuu both visited the Twisted Wonderland Exhibition in February, taking a group picture with Cater's Kobayashi Tatsuyuki, Ace's Yamashita, Floyd's Okamoto, Deuce's Kobayashi Chiaki and Sebek's Ishiya.

I went to see TWiN PARADOX live in October and spent the entire time thinking each twin was the other one ww Jamil's Kaname is adorable and Yuu is hilarious.

More here

#twstseiyuu #futaba kaname #Jamil Viper #twstjamil #twisted wonderland #Youtube

[thistledropkick]

Narita doesn't have social media, but he did talk to Tokyo Sports about his defection to the House of Torture. Tokyo Sports is, generally-speaking, a kayfabe newspaper regarding their pro wrestling coverage, so all the interviews and quotes from the article are in-character. The original article was written by Yusuke Okamoto. I've translated an excerpt below:

According to Narita's response when we asked him for a comment, it wasn't H.O.T. who reached out to him, but rather, Narita who directly reached out to H.O.T. "Between Strong Style and the Reiwa Three Musketeers, I was surrounded on all sides by guys who were nothing but trash. I keenly felt that I needed to find worthy partners to join up with. When a wrestler like myself has his gaze aimed at reaching the top, it's only natural that I'd be drawn towards an orthodox wrestling style like this," Narita explained to us.

Evil also said that he'd been keeping an eye on Narita's potential. "I guess he finally decided to wrestle in an orthodox style. I had a feeling he was similar to us from the very start. I looked at the first letter of each word in 'Son of Strong Style' (Narita's nickname) and realized 'That guy's sending us an SOS,'" Evil told us, explaining why he welcomed a sixth member into his group.

H.O.T. had previously succeeded in expanding their group by welcoming Kanemaru as a new member in September. "It's only natural, isn't it? Since we're the top team, of course we're going to get even more friends to join us," Kanemaru said, with a fierce grin.

Since Narita joined, H.O.T. have been attacking Umino daily. To his former sworn companion, Narita said decisively, "From your entrance to your appearance to your techniques, everything about you is a copy of someone else, nothing is original at all. I'd decided (to betray you) since the beginning, but standing next to a copy wrestler like you was so embarrassing. It was your negative influence that caused the company to start talking about the Reiwa Three Musketeers. You're such a damn nuisance, seriously." Between these outrageous words and the evil deeds Narita commits in the ring, it seems that every trace of his old self has completely disappeared...

#njpw #ren narita #shota umino #reiwa three musketeers #house of torture #strong style #my translation #tokyo sports #narita ren #umino shota

[maigeiko]

How many dance styles do Geisha dance/exist all across japan? I know Kyoto has five different styles (inoue, onoe, etc.) How many exist in total?

Greetings, there are hundreds of dance styles/schools "ryu" in all Japan. Those I know of (including Hanamachi that no longer exist, also some Hanamachi use multiple styles) are: ■ Bando 坂東 (Osaka Nanchi, Kamidayamada Togura) ■ Fujima 藤間 (Fukui, Hamamatsu, Isao, Kanazawa Kazuemachi, Kyoto Gion Higashi, Matsuyama, Osaka Nanchi, Otaru, Shizuoka, Takamatsu, Tamatsukuri, Tokyo Akasaka+Asakusa+Hachioji+Shinbashi+Yoshicho, Ureshino, Yamagata, Yugawara) ■ Fukuwara 福原 (Hamamatsu) ■ Hanayagi 花柳 (Atami, Gifu, Isawa, Kofu, Kumamoto, Kusatsu, Kyoto Kamishichiken, Nagasaki, Nara, Osaka Kitashinchi+Nanchi, Takasaki, Tokyo Asakusa+Kagurazaka+Oi+Omori+Shinbashi, Yoshicho, Yoshiwara, Ureshino) ■ Ichiyama 市山 (Niigata) ■ Inoue 井上 (Kyoto Gion+Gion Kobu) ■ Kamizaki 神崎 (Kanazawa Higashi) ■ Nishikawa 西川 (Aizuwakamatsu, Inuyama, Kanazawa Nishi, Kyoto Pontocho, Nagoya, Osaka Horie+Kitashinchi+Shinmachi, Tokyo Akasaka+Mukojima+Shinbashi) ■ Okamoto 岡本 (Yuzawa) ■ Onishi 小西 (Mito, Okayama) ■ Onoe 尾上 (Kinosaki, Kyoto Pontocho, Obama, Osaka Nanchi, Tokyo Shinbashi) ■ Rokugo 六鄕 (Kyoto Miyagawacho) ■ Saruwaka 猿若 (Tokyo Mukojima) ■ Shinozuka 篠塚 (Kyoto Gion, Pontocho) ■ Taguchiko 田口湖 (Tokyo Shintomicho) ■ Tanaka 田中 (Hakodate, Yugawara) ■ Umemoto 楳茂都 (Kyoto Miyagawacho) ■ Wakayagi 若柳 (Hanamaki, Kinosaki, Kyoto Miyagawacho+Pontocho, Morioka, Sapporo, Tosa) ■ Yamamura 山村 (Osaka Shinmachi) ■ Yoshito 芳膛 (Tokushima) Annotations: As for Osaka - it's possible that both Hanayagi and Nishikawa are still used in Kitashinchi, but I doubt that more than one school of dance is taught to Nanchi Geiko. As for Kyoto - Rokugo and Umemoto are only used in the Kyo Odori, they might have been "everyday" styles once. Shinozuka was used in Pontocho up until the 1920s, and in Gion until the 1870s. As far as I know, Nishikawa and Wakayagi are no longer taught in Pontocho - they only use Onoe ryu now. Source: Tsurukomaiko "Dance + Music Styles of the Hanamachi" https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/tsurukomaiko/viewtopic.php?p=87622

#geisha #geiko #maiko #hangyoku #geigi #asks #mg

[shujiinkou]

3 & 4 :)

3. Favorite musical artist / group you started listening to this year? STARTED uhhh i found out my favorite seiyuu Okamoto Nobuhiko sang, so i started to listen to him.

4. Movie of the year? only gonna count movies that came out this year, but for sure five nights at freddys lol

#mutuals <3 #unknown-in-narnia #answered #sorry this is late lkadjlf