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floofiestboy · 4 years

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Senyuu AU Masterpost

I asked if I should do this on Twitter but Twitter is trash for big posts like this so I’m posting it on Tumblr.

I’m calling this an AU masterpost but I’m including canon alternate versions of characters too. I’m writing this assuming you don’t know anything past S4, but it will contain spoilers for F5 and the Haruhara Robinson Channel content.

Since the majority of these AUs are entirely fan-based with only the slightest bit of official content, I’ll also discuss common fanwork concepts, including things like special ship names for particular AUs.

Table of Contents

Common AUs

Web

High School

Magical Girl Alfo-chan

Visual kei

Less Common AUs

High School Detectives/Police

Himura + Yami

Rosicks + Hialba

Sheepba

Wild West

Obscure AUs/Outfit Changes

Feral Ros + Adventurer Alba

Formal Wear

Karaoke

Kindergarten

Saeki-san

Scientist Ros

University

Urashima Tarou

Vampire Ros

Wedding

Canon-Adjacent AUs/Canon Alternate Characters

Albatross

Boss + Sleepiez

Creasion + Maoruba

Elf’s Universe (”0verse”)

Meta Ros

This got super-long so I highly suggest using CTRL/CMD+F to jump to just the ones you’re interested in!

Common AUs

All the AUs in this category are universes you see everywhere in fan content, regardless of how much official content there is for it.

Web

Alright, this isn't an "AU", but including it for completion's sake. This is the main canon, the original Alba and Ros from the original webcomic. The anime and the Main Quest manga can be considered to be equivalent to the web-verse.

Official Japanese | English Scanlations

(Image from Jump SQ’s website.)

SQ is an “official” Senyuu AU - it’s basically Senyuu if Alba and Ros kept their Season 1 dynamic forever and nothing really bad ever happened. Haruhara has said a number of times that an important thing about SQ is that everything sad has gone poof, which is why he decides against giving a sad dramatic reason why Ros’ name went from Sion to Ros in SQ-verse. Other notable changes in SQ include Januar being human, Elf being a demon, and Foyfoy being cute and shy.

Senyuu SQ originally ran in the Jump SQ magazine for thirty chapters (Official Japanese | English Scanlations), named as such because of the magazine it ran in. More recently, Haruhara began releasing SQ Senyuu! on his channel, where the SQ stands for Super Quality and definitely not anything copyrighted (Official Japanese | English Scanlations.) The chapters released on his channel were sometimes in draft form, so he additionally inked some and released it in doujinshi form (Official Japanese | English Scanlations), along with a doujinshi-exclusive chapter.

Senyuu SQ Alba (seen above) looks identical to Web S1 Alba. SQ Senyuu! Alba (seen below) looks like Web S2 Alba but short and without the Red Fox scarf. SQ Ros doesn’t change appearances between Senyuu SQ and SQ Senyuu! He has the Web S1 Ros hairstyle, but lacks his armour and sword - his bat is his most defining feature.

High School

There’s actually two different high school AUs:

SQ Academy: There’s three omake chapters in SQ Senyuu where everyone is in high school - see here and here, in volumes 1 and 2 respectively. In the SQ High School AU, Ros, Alba, Hime-chan, Foyfoy, Januar, and Rudolf are students, while Rchi is a teacher. Alba is the president of an unnamed club with Ros as a club member.

(Image from Haruhara’s twitter.)

Soccer Club Drama CD: This drama CD was released with one of the MQ volumes. You can only buy the original Japanese on auction sites now, but you can listen to the audio and read a translated transcript here! This AU features only Ros, Alba, and Crea, who are all part of the same soccer club. Alba is the club president.

In both AUs, Ros calls Alba “Prez”. The canon content for both AUs is rather sparse, so the Prez thing is usually the only thing that’s retained in most fanworks. Reincarnation stories are pretty popular in fanworks, but there’s no hints or implications in either official High School AU that it’s connected to SQ or Web canons. Usually people use the Drama CD designs (probably because they don’t want to draw Ros with S1 hair.) Sometimes they use the SQ Academy designs at the start, then change to the Drama CD designs in second-year or something.

There’s also the Senyuu Light Music Club from one of the web omakes, which features Crea and Elf. I haven’t seen any works incorporate it though.

Japanese terminology glossary

High School AU: 学パロ - Gakuparo

Prez: 部長 - Buchou

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Magical Girl Alfo-chan

This is the mahou shoujo parody of Senyuu, featuring Alba as a girl - Alfo-chan - and Ros as a cat - Roll.

(Image no longer available online.)

Roll is usually made into a cute catboy that can transform into a cat, because I mean, why wouldn’t you. And also presumably people want a Roll they can ship with Alfo-chan. For some reason there’s also a lot of works that ship Alfo-chan with Creasion, though I’m not sure where it came from.

The “official title” of this parody is actually Magical Princess Alfo-chan, not Magic Girl Alfo-chan, and most fanworks on pixiv are found under this name.

Japanese terminology glossary

Magical Princess Alfo-chan: マジカルプルンセスアルフォちゃん

Alfo: アルフォちゃん

Roll: ロール

Alfo/Creasion: アシルフォ - Ashirufo

Alfo/Roll: ロルアル - Roruaru

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Visual kei

Visual kei is a music genre - you can read about it here. This AU started because Haruhara drew a pic of Alba and Ros in visual-kei-like outfits, and then it all spiraled from there. There’s three images that fuel this entire AU:

(Image from Haruhara’s twitter. Note that you can find a higher quality scan of this art if you download this artbook scan here.)

(Image from Haruhara’s twitter.)

(Image no longer available online.)

The Alba and Ros in the first image were dubbed Visual-ba and Visual-ros, the Ros in the second image “Roppongi” (because his t-shirt says “Roppongi Hills”, and the Alba in the last image “Kuroba” (because Kuro means black and he’s black-haired.) Why were the bottom two images lumped in with the first? That’s a mystery that may never be solved.

There’s two common variations of the AU in fanworks.

The first is where Kuroba + Visual-ba and Roppongi + Visual-ros are two pairs of brothers, and typically the pairings go Kuroba/Visual-ros and Roppongi/Visual-ba. In this variation, Visual-ba basically always gets to be Alba, while Roppongi and Visual-ros often take the names Ros and Sion respectively.

The second common variation is where Kuroba and Roppongi are just the civilian identities of Visual-ba and Visual-ros, which doesn’t have a pithy shipname in Japanese.

With regards to their visual kei identities, I’ve also usually seen two main variations - either Alba and Ros are currently in a singing group together, or Ros used to be a famous singer and Alba is currently trying to get famous under his tutelage.

Haruhara has also recently posted a glow-up pic of Visual-ba, bringing the grand total of official art in this AU to... four.

Japanese terminology glossary

Visual kei: ビジュアル系 - vijyuaru kei (Note that while technically ヴィジュアル is the correct term in Japanese, in the Senyuu fandom, ビジュアル is used for everything, probably because it’s easier to type and say.)

Visual-ba: ビジュアル - bijyuaru

Visual-ros: ビジュロス - bijyurosu

Roppongi: 六本木

Kuroba: 黒髪アルバ - Kurokami Alba (lit. Black-Haired Alba) --> クロバ

Kuroba/Visual-ros: ジュロ黒 - jyurokuro or 黒ジュロ - kurojyuro

Roppongi/Visual-ba: 六ビジュ - rokubijyu or ビジュ六 - bijyuroku

Visual-ros/Visual-ba: ビジュロスアル - bijyurosuaru, 派生ロスアル - haseirosuaru

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“2P” is used in many fandoms to refer to alternate character designs that are often associated with different personalities as well. In Senyuu, the official 2P designs are all alternate colourings:

(Image from Haruhara’s pixiv.)

(Image from one of Haruhara’s artbooks which doesn’t seem to have an online scan, sorry for the bad quality.)

Likely because the bottom two are only available in an artbook, I haven’t seen many fanworks with them. 2P AUs tend to be only 2P Alba and Ros, with some occasional 2P Rchimedes or 2P Crea (who’s typically drawn as 2P Rchimedes with short hair.) 2P Ros is usually drawn with blue eyes, presumably to match with his red Mana Maker. 2P Rchi is also common enough - she tends to be drawn with a blue and black scheme, to contrast with her canon pink and white scheme (example).

2P Alba and Ros have varying personalities in fanworks, but the one consistency seems to be that their personalities are nothing like canon. 2P Ros tends to be the silent serious type or a yandere. 2P Alba tends to be an innocent happy boy or a yandere. You may be seeing a pattern here.

Note also that 2P Ros is usually referred to as 2P Creasion, for obvious reasons.

Japanese terminology glossary

2P Alba/2P Ros: 2Pアシアル - 2P ashiaru or 2Pアルアシ - 2P aruashi. Both are sometimes shortened by removing the “2P”.

Less Common AUs

These AUs aren’t seen quite as much as the juggernauts above, but you’ve probably still seen them around occasionally.

High School Detectives/Police

There’s a few different detective-related fanworks floating out there, based on one of the three official chapters: Detective Ros in Senyuu SQ, Senyuu Police from the webcomic, and High School Detective Teufel in Main Quest Vol. 6, which hasn’t been scanlated yet (runs):

I haven’t seen too much art of High School Detective Teufel, but I’ve seen a couple fics and art out there for both Senyuu Police and Detective Ros, mostly Senyuu Police.

Himura + Yami

(Image from Haruhara’s Skeb.)

This isn’t really a Senyuu AU, but it shows up enough to include it here. Himura and Yami are two characters that Haruhara drew - you can see this original picture of them on page 12 of the artbook here. Himura is the redhead - at first, he meant to draw Alba, but he decided in the end it wasn’t Alba anymore and renamed the file to “Himura,psd.” Yami is just a fan-name - he’s only referred to as “the boy that shouldn’t be seen” in the artbook. Himura and Yami eventually appear in Gakumon! with the names Rahimu and Damia respectively.

Senyuu fanworks that include them usually have Himura being an Alba that fell into despair after Ros’ disappearance, while Yami is a physical manifestation of his despair.

Japanese terminology glossary

Himura-kun: 火村くん

Himura-kun/Yami: やみひむ

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Rosicks + Hialba

This is yet another AU that was born from a mere two pieces of official art:

(Image from Haruhara’s twitter.)

(Image from Haruhara Robinson channel.)

The first picture is entitled “Soldier Rosicks” - Haruhara posted it saying it was a Ros beta design. The second picture is an scrapped Alba design for web season 2. Hialba was originally revealed on the NicoNico channel Hiaruron that Haruhara shares with a couple other artists, and so he got the name “Hiaruba” --> Hialba from the channel name.

Fanworks typically have Hialba as dead inside and sad because of Ros’ disappearance, and Rosicks as a gruff irritable guy who isn’t Ros and doesn’t like being compared to him. Cue angst because Hialba sees Rosicks as just Ros, etc.

Japanese terminology glossary

Hialba: ひあるば

Rosicks/Hialba: ロシひあ - Roshihia

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Sheepba

Sheepba originates from a New Year’s illustration Haruhara made for the year of the sheep:

(Image from Haruhara’s pixiv.)

While Haruhara has done this for multiple years - there’s illustrations of Alba as a dog, a rat, etc. - Sheepba in particular became particularly popular. Why? Is it the floofy body? The innocent expression? Nay. I say there’s but one reason for Sheepba’s popularity in comparison to other Chinese Zodiac/Alba hybrids-

Haruhara has produced a crapton of Sheepba merch over the years.

I believe he’s made coloured sheep versions of other characters too for merch, but I unfortunately wasn’t able to find any of them. I was, however, able to find outlined drawings of them:

(Image from Haruhara’s twitter.)

Enjoy this flock of Senyuu sheep. And be prepared to see some uh... questionable things if you choose to browse the ひつじるば - Hitsujiba tag.

Wild West

This AU comes from the Wild West parody in this chapter. The fanworks I’ve seen tend to have Ros be some dangerous outlaw with a huge bounty.

Obscure AUs/Outfit Changes

These AUs tend to be only used as outfit changes, or aren’t seen often at all.

Feral Ros + Adventurer Alba

Basically a Tarzan AU. Based on this Haruhara Channel comic: Official Japanese | English Scanlation.

Formal Wear

You may sometimes see Alba and Ros wearing suits. There’s two pieces of art this originates from:

(Image from Haruahara’s twitter.)

(Image from Haruhara’s twitter.)

There’s also a corresponding Ros-in-suit-with-striped-shirt photo that you can see in the artbook here.

Karaoke

You may have seen characters dressed up as what seemed like waiter outfits. That may have come from the Senyuu Karaoke collaboration that happened around when the anime aired:

(Image from collaboration website.)

Kindergarten

This comes from the recent Haruhara Robinson channel comics - Senyuu Kindergarten Story #1 and Story #2.

It features Alba and Rchi as kindergarten teachers to the rest of the Senyuu cast.

Saeki-san

Haruhara was the writer for a manga called Dignified Asleep Saeki-san (Official Japanese | English Scanlations), which was a romcom that featured a girl called Saeki determined to sleep in class, and a boy called Tokimiya who sits next to her.

When the manga began serialization, Haruhara drew a parody sketch of the manga where Ros is Tokimiya and Alba is Saeki.

(Image from Haruhara’s twitter.)

Scientist Ros

You may have seen art of Ros wearing the glasses + lab coat combo from when he made the Mana Maker in season 3:

Or from when Alba had his... questionable body measurement exam in Senyuu+:

Or when they both wore glasses in the Haruhara Robinson Channel doujinshi Crea-kun Has Cheerfully Fallen to the Dark Side:

University

A while back, Haruhara drew a picture of Alba and Ros in the winter wearing coats:

(Image from Haruhara’s pixiv.)

A little more recently, he was commission to redraw the image:

(Image from Haruhara’s pixiv.)

Fanworks that use Alba and Ros in these outfits often treat them as university AUs (and usually have them on a date.)

Urashima Tarou

Urashima Tarou is an old Japanese fairytale which Haruhara used as the setting for one of his omake segments. If you’ve seen turtle Alba:

Or Ros in old-timey fishing clothes:

That’s where it’s from.

Vampire Ros

The typical Vampire Ros design comes from an SQ chapter where Alba and Ros disguise themselves as demons after chasing Elf into the demon world.

Alba is usually either a werewolf (presumably because werewolves and vampires are a common pair) or some hapless human that Ros sucks blood from.

Wedding

(Image from Haruhara’s twitter.)

Haruhara drew this when he was getting married(?) because it apparently felt less embarrassing to draw his protagonist getting married than to draw him and his wife.

Fans promptly used the outfit to marry Alba off to Ros, likely galvanized by the Mana Maker + Hero Symbol combo on Alba’s head.

Canon Adjacent AUs/Canon Alternate Characters

Moved to an overflow post here because this one got big enough that Tumblr stopped saving my post.

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Diabolik Lovers Anime Official Fan Book: Sakamaki Ayato’s Cast Interview [ENG Translation]

Character profile ll Character design ll Character interview

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MIDORIKAWA HIKARU

Q1: What were your initial thoughts when you first came into contact with the series?

I had never voiced blood drinking scenes before, so my initial thoughts focused mainly on wondering how I was going to pull those off. There are a lot of things you do not know until you actually try them for yourself at the recording sessions, and I have the impression this was strongly the case this time.

Q2: Ayato is an ‘ore-sama’ style do-S, but are there any similarities between the two of you?

In general, I’m actually an M. (lol) However, this doesn’t mean I don’t have any sadistic tendencies at all since I can actually relate to Ayato’s trickster-like personality and his mischievous attitude. But I remain an M at heart. (lol)

Q3: Amongst the six brothers, who is the most like you? How are you similar?

I somewhat had an idea from the situation CDs and the game, but during the recording of the anime I got to experience the other brothers first-hand and I was shocked by how they were even more intense characters than what I had imagined. (lol)

I can’t predict Kanato’s mood swings at all, and even Reiji who I always perceived as the most composed character has some really harsh lines. Shuu is the character I always liked best just based on appearance, but taking a bath with your clothes still on is a little... (lol)

I’ve known him the longest, so my answer will have to be my beloved Ayato.

--> In Japanese, he says ‘愛着のあるアヤト’, which translates to ‘the Ayato who I have an attachment to’.

Q4: What were you conscious about while voicing him?

I voiced anime Ayato with a slightly higher tone, but as the story begins to head into a more serious direction, it steadily changes to a lower one.

During Ayato’s childish moments such as with the Takoyaki, I also adapted to the other characters to create a balance in which his tone would not become too high.

Q5: Do you have a certain part you particularly struggled with?

There were times where we had to do the voicing without having the images.

--> When the voice actors are recorded, they either have the polished version of the anime rolling in front of them as a guideline, or they will get the WIP drawings so they at least have some idea of what the scene looks like.

Also during the essential blood sucking scenes, there were times where I had to constantly fix my mistakes while voicing. Instead of simply wanting it to seem realistic, I kept on thinking to myself ‘will the fans be pleased if I do this?’. I was especially focused on making him sound sexy.

Q6: What’s a particularly impactful scene?

That has to be the scene where they sleep next to each other at the end of Episode 8. The way Ayato, despite being an ‘ore-sama’ style do-S all the time, let’s his softer side shine through. (lol)

--> He uses the term デレ or ‘dere’ here, which you might know from words like ‘tsundere’ or ‘yandere’. It’s often used to refer to someone’s soft side.

Don’t you think it’s impactful because you get to see a side of Ayato which he usually doesn’t show?

Q7: What would you do if you were to be enslaved by a Vampire yourself?

I wouldn’t want it to be a full-fletched veteran Vampire, but a freshly-turned female Vampire timidly asking me: “May I suck your blood, please?” may not be that bad. (lol)

Being asked stuff like “It’s difficult to drink so could you do this, please?” because she’s bad at sucking, for example. (lol) If it’s a clumsy girl like that, I could get on board with it.

Q8: Please leave a message for the fans!

The anime has been carefully put together and turned out to be a much greater work, exceeding my expectations.

It would be great if you could enjoy the world (of Diabolik Lovers) to its fullest, including the DVDs, anime and the CDs.

If the “Diabolik Lovers” anime becomes a hit, there might still be more coming in the future, so we’re all counting on your support!

#diabolik lovers #dialovers #ayato sakamaki #diabolik lovers fan book #diabolik lovers translation

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kanasmusings · 6 years

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[Summary/Thoughts] Lycoris no Mori Drama Tracks - Part 2 B

Here’s the final installment of the summary of Lycoris no Mori! This is obviously not spoiler-free so please read at your own discretion ^^

Part 1 | Part 2 A | Part 2 B

I’ll also be translating the official character diagram for this series ^^

Under the cut for length, enjoy~ Also, sorry in advance for cursing in some parts of the commentary ^^

Here’s the long summary of the final track:

Continuing where we left off, Alvin (Masato) continues on saying what he can offer Tokiya to help capture Otoya. Cecil still goes on and tempts Tokiya, whispering to him how he should just kill Alvin, too, while he’s at it. Cecil then questions Tokiya as to why he’s hesitating.

Masato continues on with his super dramatic and poetic monologue, saying that he doesn’t have much longer to live and how it’s his destiny. Masato then goes on and says “there’s no one left to save Blood” He persuades Tokiya to kill him and the scene gets cut.

The next scene is Ren running and hoping that he makes it in time. He has a flashback of his conversation with Reiji. They argue about why Reiji did what he did and Reiji says that he had no other choice but to let Otoya go because there’s no one out there who’ll save him. Ren says that he would have but Reiji retaliates that Ren’s only doing it for his pride.

The flashback ends when Ren reaches Masato’s house. Cecil’s there again and comments on how Masato’s scattered blood looks like a lycoris flower. He says afterwards that it was obvious Masato would die since he’s someone a lot of people hate. (Cecil, you’re so heartless)

Cecil taunts Ren into thinking that a werewolf killed Masato and Ren runs off to search for Otoya. After Ren runs away, Cecil goes into a short monologue about how “all the pieces have gathered and that it can’t be stopped anymore.”

The next scene is a scene between Tokiya and Otoya. Tokiya calls Otoya’s name and he talks of how they fulfilled their promise to see each other again.

Otoya talks about how the lycoris flower is his favourite flower and how it resembles the both of them. They have a heart-to-heart talk here but I won’t go and describe it because it’s too detailed and I’ll just leave it for when I’ve translated the drama CD.

When Tokiya says that he’s on Otoya’s side, Otoya gets upset and calls him a liar. Otoya goes on about how he trusted Tokiya and thought they were friends. He then reveals that he knew all along that Tokiya was asked to kidnap him and all that. Tokiya retaliates and says how it’s not what Otoya thinks. He goes on and says that the happiness he felt when he was with Otoya was not a lie. Otoya gets teary eyed and then says that he really loved Tokiya.

**ALL PARTS AFTER THIS WILL BE A SPOILER FOR THE ENDING!!** If you don’t want to be spoiled before I release the full translations by tomorrow, I think it’d be a good idea to stop here XD But if you really want to read, then, go ahead ^^

Otoya freakin’ stabs Tokiya and says that if Tokiya was going to die, it’s better that he be killed by Otoya than by anyone else. Otoya says that by doing this he’ll be able to understand Tokiya’s sins and feelings more. Otoya says that he’ll free Tokiya from this harsh reality. Tokiya says that that’s the best way to go and says that Otoya’s such a nice person. Tokiya fucking says that the wound he received from Otoya is the proof of happiness (what the hell Tokiya????)

Tokiya smiles as it seems like he’s dying and Otoya says that he’s happy to see Tokiya smiling. (WTF???!!) And then Tokiya goes on and says how it’s wonderful that the last thing he sees is Otoya’s smiling face.

Tokiya asks Otoya to promise that he’ll forget all about Tokiya. That Otoya should live and search for a new world in his place. Tokiya wishes for Otoya to find new happiness. Otoya says that he won’t forget and how this moment is the happiest moment he’s ever had. (a little twisted but, okay…)

Tokiya says that dying in Otoya’s warm hands is a happiness that nothing can ever surpass. He thanks and says that he loves Otoya (literally! He goes 「愛している」) before he draws his last breath. Otoya says that he loves Tokiya, too. (stay calm, my heart)

Cecil then laughs maniacally and says that Otoya’s heart is now finally his. Ren runs into the scene asking if Otoya’s okay. Ren threatens the already dead Tokiya to get away from Otoya. Ren’s taken aback when he says Otoya drop a knife and to find out that Tokiya’s already dead.

Otoya says he killed the werewolf. Ren approaches Otoya and asks if he’s okay or if he’s hurt anywhere. Ren’s relieved when he finds out that Otoya’s fine and says that it’s a relief that the werewolf’s already dead. Otoya’s obviously mad and says that Ren has no right to call Tokiya evil or to accuse him of doing anything wrong.

Ren says that Tokiya killed Masato but Otoya reveals that it was him who actually killed Masato. Ren’s surprised, of course.

There’s a flashback between Masato and Otoya where they talk about how Reiji was planning to sell Otoya and the one who accepted the mission was Tokiya. Otoya’s in shock obviously. Masato then tells Otoya to kill him. When Otoya refuses to, Masato attempts to stab himself but Otoya stops him. Masato dies either way and Otoya cry-laughs(??) and begs Masato to not die.

The flashback ends and Ren doesn’t want to believe it. Cecil takes over Otoya’s body and picks up the knife and kills Ren.

Cecil does a little monologue about sins and wishes and all that.

The final scene is between Otoya and Tokiya. Otoya runs over to where Tokiya is and says that he’s there to fulfil their promise. Tokiya says that Otoya should’ve just forgotten about him and Otoya says that there’s no way he can do that. He says (guys, and this is true) that he can’t imagine a happiness where Tokiya’s not there. Tokiya takes Otoya’s hands in his and says that they’ll be starting a new life together.

Aaaaanddd, that’s how it ends.

My thoughts on this track:

Okay, wow. I didn’t really expect that it would be this dark. That was a wild ride.

Positive personal notes about the drama tracks were:

1.) It’s really dark and I’m a sucker for those kinds of stories.

2.) All the Tokiya x Otoya content that we were blessed with.

3.) TOKIOTO!!! (More like Randolph x Blood but still!!!)

4.) “愛してる” This line is enough to kill me.

5.) Also, a personal achievement, I figured out that Otoya’s basically a teenager (young man in the official description) and everyone else was just a little older than him lol.

That aside, overall I think it’s really good!

Positive general notes: (Unbiased thoughts this time XD)

1.) The UtaPri writers really know how to make a good story. They utilized their theme well and made it their own unique story despite being an adaptation of a famous fairy tale. It’s really well done!

2.) The characters were very good and even if some of them were only there for a short while, their presence was not wasted. They all had memorable lines that they said and I think that’s a great way of utilizing a character’s potential even though they’re only there for a few minutes.

3.) Voice acting! I knew I wouldn’t be disappointed given the fact that they’re all veteran seiyuus but hearing all their emotions and projecting it was a wonderful experience. Especially during the ending scenes. Otoya’s yandere voice hnggggh.

Negative general notes:

1.) The story’s too fast-paced. There were times when you think everything’s happening too quickly and it’s hard to try and catch-up with what’s happening. Some questions are left unanswered and Cecil still confuses me lol. Two tracks are definitely not enough. I’ll buy a whole drama CD with just this AU if need be XD

2.) I’m a little confused about the ending. Did the two of them die and meet in the afterlife?? Did Tokiya somehow manage to be revived and Otoya went searching for him??? I personally want it to be the second one but it’s so vague.

3.) The other characters somehow just disappear from the story. Ranmaru was made a big deal in the first track but somehow he loses significance in the second track. Cecil’s still a mystery lol. (Or maybe I just wasn’t paying close attention to him lol)

Well, in short, it’s a story of a meeting that never should’ve happened and the consequences they faced afterwards. Should they go down the forbidden road or should they go back to where they think they’ll be happy? That’s the basic premise.

I really loved it and I hope that UtaPri does more works like this. It’s refreshing and takes you away from its normal otome genre. It’s a wonderful installment to an already wonderful franchise.

And, that’s about all I have to offer for this CD. Please look forward to the complete translations ^^

P.S. if anyone’s willing to share with me the drama tracks for “Trois” and “Lost Alice”, I’d gladly do a translation for them, too ^^

#utapri #thoughts #ryota talks #tokioto #tokioto because i guess they're canon in this drama cd now lolol #there are a lot of i love yous between the two of them #they start a new life together at the end

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