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caramelmochacrow · 1 year

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hi hello i just finished reading all the unit stories today and yesterday :)

i have 48 chapters (not counting CoA's) left of the second story to read yaaaaaaaaaaay

i read rondo's unit story first from beginning to end but realized how long it would take so i just read the first ten for the other units then i went back to the others and finished them

(im just gonna ramble abt rondo, merm4id and peaky here and it's long a shit especially for peaky so tis under the cut)

rondo's made me feel lots of things and them trusting and believing that nagisa will come back is sooo everything to me and that hurts even more knowing what flor seca is abt.

it sounds like aoi hiiro and tsubaki made that song to reach out to nagisa to tell her that they miss her and want her back.

and that kinda makes me tear up lol

rondo is nothing without all four of them so how should they move on now? do they quit and disband like garland or do they continue on without one of the pillars that make up rondo?

the thing with calendula's curse is really interesting, is it real or fake? and the person to decide is nagisa.

nagisa being the one to break the curse makes sense. koyomi is the opposite of nagisa, she believed that she wasnt an amazing guitarist and calendula changed how she saw herself, she become dependent on calendula to the point that she became obsessed with it.

but nagisa always knew that she was good, she knew that because of calendula, she makes calendula have a unique sound and unlike any other guitar. she knows that a guitarist is good by their skill, not their guitar and that made her not fall into the curse.

im not going to talk abt that anymore cause i might cry and only talk abt rondo so its time for merm4id!!!

them trying to become closer and become a better unit by going around japan is very merm4id!

saori probably being the only member that knows how to drive is such a funny thought

also when saori accidentally broke her stage costume and said that people might think that "this isn't MY merm4id!" and start disliking them over their new outfits was sad.

she cares a lot abt the fans in a good way and in a bad way. she cares abt how they see merm4id and their opinions abt them and she's afraid of changing that.

but like dalia said in the story (paraphrased) it doesn't matter if merm4id just changes their look, if this is how merm4id looks now then that's how merm4id looks now, the fans can't change or decide that. and that is just. wow.

also. like. i got to know more abt saki a little bit!

when they mentioned hokkaido i just knew something involving saki will happen and i was very glad to find out it was true!

it's so sweet that her mentor kept the cat plushie! like. ughhghghghgh gghhhhfkihg

idk how to word my other thoughts abt it but they got so close to the point that it was difficult for them to spend time alone without the others is something. something meaning it's gay. it sounds gay.

onto the peaky gals!

so peaky's was quite interesting to me bc i got to learn more abt michiru and they way shinobu thought of herself

shinobu was always confident in her mixes and songs. she never had second thoughts until she saw toka and mana perform together and outshone peaky

she started doubting herself and her music, wondering if it was good enough to be on par and be better than toka's.

then she didnt join (or lost) the remicon, ruining her record.

to michiru of all people.

michiru -- like what her uncle has been saying all this time -- is an amazing dj.

she has a lot of potential, but she has too much of an ego to work with other people and she doesn't have confidence in herself and her music like how shinobu does.

she gets shaken up easily, she runs away, and she changes things up to appeal to her audience to the point that her own style is barely present.

comparing her to shinobu, their differences are clear.

shinobu doesn't get shaken up, she doesn't run away, and she doesn't change things to appeal to an audience to the point that her style is barely apparent.

until she saw toka perform.

when she was working on their new song it sounded a lot like toka's style of track making with her style barely there (like when she first started out she just copied whatever her grandpa did bc she didn't know if it was good enough at the time) and whenever they performed shinobu had second thoughts and changed their set list last minute.

but unlike michiru, shinobu had peaky to back her up and help her out with her slumps and mistakes.

like how shinobu messed up her new last minute set list mid-performance because she thought it was terrible and yuka covered it up by showing off a video she made of their performance in d4fes(?)

when they were adjusting the said song, they managed to finish that thanks to esora and yuka's help w the lyrics.

but, even if michiru joins or makes a unit, she doesn't know how to lead or act w them, and that's clear with that yuki sakura girl's unit and the dj musketeers.

with the dj musketeers she had to learn how to lead by herself there, but couldn't. she's good by herself yes, that's true, but she needed to learn how hard it is to be a leader and her uncle and shinobu's grandpa made her learn that the hard way.

in the yuki sakura unit, michiru is treated as some dj, not as this great and amazing dj that she thought she was bc yuki thought that all of them were amazing and of equal skill so why should she get special treatment if they are all the same?

in there she had to learn how to work with people, and how she must understand that everything isn't about her, but that stings her and started performing sloppily.

adding that and how she thinks that shinobu is amazing and how she'll never amount to her skills, it breaks her.

michiru is a reflection of what shinobu would've been if she didn't turn down kyoko's request to form peaky.

#crow talks #d4dj #d4dj groovy mix #wow i talked a lot.#when i said i want to talk an essay's worth abt d4dj i meant it #i cant word my thoughts for merm4id properly but i hope someone gets the idea #im gonna make one abt photon lyrilily and happy around later #i just had a lot of thoughts abt peaky's unit story #but i didn't know how to start it so i just rambled and rambled and here i am lol #i noticed that no one talked abt the unit stories in this kind of way so i kinda did it myself lol #i hope people enjoy my thoughts on the unit stories peaky's especially

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sparklyjojos · 6 years

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another Cosmic update cause things continue to Happen and we finally get some more Tsukumo Juku

The investigation continues. Kirika and Hikimiya visit Dakushoin’s twin sister Nagisa and discover that the manuscript has a secret message in it, which can only be cracked by using one of Dakushoin’s book title as a key. The resulting message is “I am the one writing” -- they assume this means Dakushoin really did write the manuscript.

(As an aside, there’s a meta joke where Kirika hears the phrase ‘流水の中の清涼’ -- ‘the coolness inside flowing water’, a pun on the name Ryusui ( 流水) Seiryo( 清涼)-”in”( 中) -- and gets a weird feeling that she already heard it somewhere.)

Meanwhile, Ajiro discusses the manuscript with two important detectives we hadn’t met yet. One is Yaiba “Jin” Somahito, 35yo, whose reasoning is based on examining different polarizing ‘theses and antitheses’, which he calls ‘synthesis’, and the Japanese loan-word for it is where his nickname comes from (JINteizei). He’s the president of the first JDC group, with Juku being the vice-president. (Ajiro’s boss status lies outside the seven groups, as the representative and overseer).

The other detective is an old man called Shiranui Zenzou, who was Ajiro’s mentor. Shiranui once worked alongside Ajiro’s grandfather, Soujin. When Soujin was killed during the Saimon case, Shiranui was solving another case abroad, and still blames himself for not being able to save his friend. Shiranui became something of a paternal figure to Ajiro, who notes that it’s the only person (aside from Juku) that he feels he can drop his guard in front of. To quote, For Ajiro, who had lost his grandfather, wife and son in heinous crimes, Shiranui and Juku were like family members who truly understood and cared about him, and whose presence gave him warmth.

Speaking of Juku: we finally see what’s going on in London. First we learn about DOLL, an international detective organization that all the individual organizations (JDC included) are grouped under. DOLL ranks all the detectives on the scale from A (best) to K (worst), with a special category of S reserved for the very best. Currently there’s only 7 S-rank detectives in the world, and two of them are Ajiro Souji and Tsukumo Juku. At 20 years old, Juku’s the youngest person to get the S-rank.

It’s 9th January and the Jackie the Ripper case has been ongoing since Christmas. The murderer always cuts the victims’ bodies to pieces, which are then put in a pile with the head on top, the number of the victim written on the forehead. (That’s the similarity to the Locked Room Lord case, I assume.)

After an investigation meeting, Juku’s talking with a woman called Tousen Yomiko, who’s assisting him on the investigation trip to England. Aside from being a (not-JDC) private detective specializing in criminal psychology, Yomiko was also Juku’s childhood friend, and his ex fiancée. They later shortly discuss things with Lonely Queen, an American S-detective, but all that comes out of it is that they don’t know who the murderer is yet.

Meanwhile, JDC gets another delivery: extremely old copies of the Heian and Edo stories, which could mean they’re historical documents, and even that these ancient Locked Room Lord incidents might have really happened. Carbon-dating confirms that the copies are from their respective eras. But these ultra old documents are signed by Dakushoin Ryusui, the modern writer, so what the hell is going on here?

Faced with the possibility of a supernatural murderer, Ajiro is pretty damn depressed again, thinks a lot about his dead wife and son, and dreads not being able to solve the case. He calls Juku and tells him about the old stories. Juku’s actually pretty scared hearing about them, and asks if he can get them delivered to England. Ajiro agrees and they discuss sending Kirika and Nemu there too.

We get a little explanation about Juku’s reasoning method, Jintsuuriki (神通理気): when the necessary data is gathered, Juku gets ‘englightened’, as if he suddenly felt a reasoning ‘flowing down from God’ (hence the name Jintsuuriki, the kanji are kinda a mishmash of ‘god-passed-reason-feeling’, and if you write it down as 神通力 it means ‘supernatural/divine power’). Ajiro compares it to being able to see the entire image out of a bunch of puzzle pieces. Anyway, Juku’s reasoning currently tells him (’whispers to him’) as follows: the culprit in the Jackie the Ripper case is the very same as in the famous Jack the Ripper case from over 100 years ago, and the same culprit is responsible for the Locked Room Lord murders. (Which sounds weird, but hey, if allegedly hundreds of years old paranormal guys are running around...) They talk for a while more and Ajiro jokes that he’d like to see a case that Juku couldn’t solve.

Later Juku is walking to Scotland Yard to tell the police about their findings, and thinks about that last thing Ajiro told him. There is, in fact, a mystery he still can’t solve, and it’s the mystery of himself. He knows he developed Jintsuuriki when he was 6, around the time of the Saimon Family Murder Case, but has no idea how it happened, or what this power really is. In fact, he doesn’t really remember anything that happened before the Case. [Trauma will do that to you, buddy.] Is there any way to solve this mystery?

As if on command, an around 15-year-old boy stands in his way. It’s the grandson of the only survivor of another famous case that murdered an entire family: a young ‘wandering detective’ called Inugami Yasha. Apparently him and Juku hold a sort of detective rivalry since last year, but never really met. While Juku doesn’t know the details of Yasha’s reasoning method, he recognizes the boy’s genius that may even surpass his own and Ajiro’s. (Btw, the killer of Juku’s family was called the White Demon, Shiroyasha, so Juku’s a bit on edge hearing a similar name). Yasha claims that he can help Juku with solving ‘the case of himself’, and seems to know about the connection of the cases happening in England and Japan. He demands to be allowed to cooperate with Juku on the case, and Juku agrees, under one condition: Yasha won’t be trying to become just Juku’s assistant, but will become his full-fledged detective partner. (Which is a big deal, hearing it from an S-rank detective and all, and Yasha is pretty excited about it.)

#sparkly reads cosmic #maijo and jdc stuff #long post #ajiro... i love you dude

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