#r: remind my heart to beat 💢

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My beloved Mer ...

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aikatsu friends episode 67 spoilers (a rewatch)

I did watch it live but the either the stream sucked or my phone did (was too tired to move 1m away from my bed to get to my computer. yeah) and I missed like 20% of it, mostly in Wakaba’s performance...

I’m glad Wakaba got to wear the Star Harmony uniform, but why doesn’t she transfer there, I wonder? spending all this time training to be an idol can’t make it easy to go to normal school at the same time. (does she go to school?)

even going into this knowing that Wakaba sold out the tickets for her performance, it’s still surprising to hear it the second time. even if she’s known from passing Mirai’s audition and she has a single promo vid on the internet, it makes no sense

Wakaba doll... cute... aikatsu constantly is putting cute merch in the show that it then never makes irl. do the people who make those decisions about what to sell even watch the show

#cuniqueinprogress☆ ...unsure what the point of this shot of Mirai’s aistagram is other than to remind everyone that social media exists in the aikatsuverse. like Wakaba’s sold out all the tickets already. or is this just a normal part of montages nowadays?? hmmm

Mirai: “Good, because we’ve got 100 meetings after this!” cute... I love Mirai... cute.....

so Mirai’s the designer (?) for both Milky Joker and Humming Leaf. that’s fine. I guess. no just kidding it’s not!! I miss designers so much!! I miss designer-idol interactions!! I begrudgingly get why they tossed them aside in aistars (because they were trying out that whole dress make system in the game and had to reflect it in the anime) but they’re clearly not going to do that again, so... why can’t we have cool designer characters... or at least see the approximately 2 we have more often........ I miss Chiharu and Noa.... ｡：ﾟ(｡ﾉω＼｡)ﾟ･｡

anyway this coord is really cute and I adore it. it looks like an R, not a PR, but I suppose that’s the era of aikatsu we live in now.

Wakaba: “I’ll treasure this dress!” (immediately changes it into a JLR)

since Mirai won’t be training Wakaba anymore, maybe she’ll have more time to perform and be on screen from now on.... ... .

Aine’s family’s cafe isn’t even a sweets-only shop, yet this parfait looks a million times better than anything that’s ever shown up in prichan Mirai’s family’s sweets shop.

yet Wakaba runs off after only having a single bite. I’m genuinely sad for the parfait

MARUTTO 💢 why is this her catchphrase

I only saw like one second of Wakaba’s performance before the stream cut out, and when it came back she’d already changed to the JLR. so I didn’t notice until the website was updated with the s3 coords that there was a bird on her head and red shoes, both of which are intensely cute details. I love Humming Leaf a lot

the papercraft look of this stage is neat. before her song started the very first thing I thought of was actually Emerald Magic, bc trees, but obviously the aesthetic of those trees is way different... the second thing was, like everyone else, Every Song With Akari. but it’s just because she has some similarities to Akari that we all were reminded of this, right? in terms of straight-up looking alike her stage is way more like Heart no Melody, which is literally the same thing but runway-shaped, than any Akari song. the song itself is pretty different too.

(and now I’m rewatching oldkatsu game MVs bc I remember some of them having similar fairytale visuals, and Little Beat Little Wing which I used to hate is apparently a song I’m totally ok with now? huh.)

30 or so completely unrelated oldkatsu MVs and one Kono uta tomareihi later, I’m back to watch Wakaba’s stage ;; this is... the first time I’ll have heard the full song... time to find out what everyone’s so angry about lmao

SCREAM I LOVE This whole stage... it’s not my fav song in aikatsu or anything but I like bossa nova, the lyrics are cute, the pop-up book stage transformation is cute, the JLR transformation is cute. the JLR itself is SUPER CUTE. I know it’s literally Maria’s Tyrolean Aries PR 2.0, but that’s my fav coord in All of Aikatsu, so I have no problem with that. overall there’s just a lot of elements of her performance that are to my exact taste.

I’m not super fond of Wakaba herself in Humming Leaf coords, though? I still don’t see why she has this whole natural/handmade aesthetic, they’ve given us absolutely no basis for it in the anime. literally the one time she did a craft on screen she fucked it up (in a way that turned out ok, but still). and her hair’s really dark and aside from the JLR, HL coords don’t have any dark colors to balance it out... I‘m really happy they made an idol with dark brown hair, though... maybe this is all bc I keep anticipating how good Milk is gonna look in HL coords. or maybe it’s bc tumblr user scolek opened my eyes to the fact that Wakaba’s true brand should be Retro Clover...

anyway rewatching her performance immediately after watching it I realized I forgot to say that her dance is super cute too (as tumblr user triplehamburgerjack said, it’s dance-y). ok I think I’ve covered everything

as far as Wakaba getting a JLR in her debut solo live...????? why??? the only reason I can think of is that there aren’t enough eps to do it later..... haha.....

what a nice senpai/kouhai moment 💗 I’m not sure I knew it was possible for Mirai to cry.

next, another ep about Karen being scary

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🧡🤎💜 We love Heathlock (/r) and Ishlock (/p), right? 💜🤎🧡

(Art by the amazing @/artistlara here on tumblr!)

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Peeking ...

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He's here!! Oh my goodness, he's perfect ... sturdy rather than squishy, but that doesn't matter because he's so soft and cute ... my little guy ...

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I just got another update on Plushcliff and--

His harness ...! He's so cute!!

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Happy to say they are getting along well.

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Bundled up in clean sheets ...

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Hellbat sent me some new Heathcliff fanart, earlier, and I haven't been able to stop thinking about it ... I miss him so much.

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I do love this picture I took while unboxing Plushcliff, because my sister picked up Beancliff and tried to get him in the photo, but he ended up getting blurred because he was moving as I snapped the picture ... he looks so silly.

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They have arrived at last!! Also got the Outis mashikore I was missing and a Library of Ruina wall scroll that I shall be hanging up, shortly ... these two were just the priority.

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Having a snack.

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I've been saying this in my Project Moontuals server so often ... there are exactly six Sinners who can do anything they want and I'll forgive them. /lh

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He has competition, and he isn't happy about it. /lh

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Oh, yeah. Before I leave, I wanted to show you guys how similar they look!

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speaking of the twitter sketches....

handing u these :3 (mostly for heathcliff and ishy but i didn't want to crop out sparkly hong lu askjhdkhfk)

OH SO THAT ISHMAEL DID COME FROM TWITTER!! I've seen her on Pinterest a few times, but I wasn't sure if she was official art or not!

Heathy ... look at him go ... he's got business to attend to ~

I have some of the acrylic stands and the cushion that use this particular art style, and they're so cute.

The cushion is actually super hard to find--it's one of my favorite pieces of merch ... I spent ages debating on whether or not to get it, but finally did. Haven't seen it pop up on the merch sites in a long while, so I feel very lucky to own it.