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【DL】 Action Stage 「Helios Rising Heroes -The WEST-」 Live Stream

Excited to finally share THE WEST subs! Sorry for the long wait, it's been quite a tough road to reach this point, but I assure you it's worth it. Out of all 3 stages, THE WEST is likely my favorite, so I really hope everyone enjoys it as much as I did. (╥﹏╥)

I can't thank @thiswasmadeonawhim enough for the incredible work they did on the subs, and twee, pokei and amy for lending a hand with the songs.

Anyway! This isn't the final piece of good news. BD subs are on the way. Keep an eye out!! ദ്ദി(˵ •̀ ᴗ - ˵ ) ✧

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Action Stage 「Helios Rising Heroes」 -SUMMER FESTIVAL-

Awesome news! They finally showed the new stage key visual and added more to the story, so I figured I could finally post about it!

STORY

Raise the Curtain!! ~Come what may, let the show begin!!~

The city of New Million, where a million dreams come true, has flourished thanks to the efforts of its heroes―― In this city that welcomes visitors from all corners of the world, a dome-shaped stadium has been built on the water: the 'Grand Sea New Million.' The plan is to kick things off with a summer festival, and the stadium management is asking the 'heroes' for their help. In the interest of the city, 【HELIOS】 is fully committed to collaboration. The 'heroes' will not only take the stage at the festival, but they'll also assist in managing the event, collaborating across different sectors to kick off the festival. Nonetheless, problems keep occurring one after the other――. To make things worse, Eclipse's schemes are quietly unfolding behind the scenes of the event.

Will the curtain rise on the "Summer Fes" without any issues!?

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CAST

South sector Brad Beams: Ryouma Baba Oscar Bale: Masafumi Yokoyama Will Sprout: Naoki Kurata

North sector Marion Blythe: Sousho Tomimoto Victor Valentine: Shuji Kikuchi Gast Adler: Masataka Kimura

West sector Keith Max: Seiya Inagaki Leonard Wright Jr: Jun Noguchi Faith Beams: Gaku Takamoto

East sector Jay Kidman: Juri

Nova Summerfield: Shojiro Yokoi Dino Albani: Yuya Asato

Sirius: Kento Ono Shin: Yuta Osumi Siams: Taishi Sugie

Live part Special guest appearance at the Tokyo shows:

08/08 14:00 Billy Wise: Naoya Iwaki

08/13 13:00 Akira Otori: Yojiro Itokawa

Special guest appearance at the Osaka shows:

08/23 18:00 Ren Kisaragi: Yugo Sato

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Comment from the director, Kotaro Yoshitani:

The live show of HeliSta is a captivating experience, akin to a theme park filled with everything HeliSta has to offer. Despite being a live show, HeliSta Live is anything but peaceful. Where there are heroes, there is Eclipse, which naturally leads to incidents and fascinating human drama. From a thrilling and suspenseful storyline filled with excitement, we transition into an electrifying live performance. As mentors join forces, rookies give their all, and Eclipse implements its schemes all while running around the venue, we will present a performance that transcends the Action Stage, reimagines a live performance, breaks down sector walls, and challenges the distinctions between allies and enemies! As a huge fan of 'HeliosR', I'm excited to share the finest entertainment with all the commanders. Get ready for the hottest summer in HeliSta history!

✦ As confirmed by this post, the live part will include both old songs from past stages and new songs!

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Decided to compile all their profile sheets together.

source: x

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「HeliSta」 mini live stream (12/13/2024)

It’s really starting to feel like this is a helista-only blog. I’ve got a million things I want to write about, but helista just keeps stealing the spotlight (๑>؂•̀๑)

While I'm sure everyone is aware they cannot say much about the stage before the actual performances begin, we still managed to get some info about 'THE NORTH'.

This is totally unrelated, but just before 'THE WEST', Juri dropped by one day and brought the cast donuts. Everyone started spamming the donut emoji when the stream started which prompted Seiya to confess he actually ate FIVE donuts all by himself at the time.

Marion is both adorable and cool. They bring this up a lot. He can be pretty cute, but since he’s still young, there are often conflicts between him and his teammates. Unlike Keith in 'THE WEST', who's got experience under his belt, Seiya points out that this aspect adds a unique vibe to the stage.

The way they talk about their characters suggests that Jay and Keith will mostly likely not have much impact on the storyline this time (although Seiya suggests keeping an eye on how Keith gets introduced this time). On the other hand, they do mention that Shuji, who plays Victor, is really cool and will have plenty of chances to shine. Gast and Ren too.

The live part has already been confirmed, but the two also reveal Jay and Keith will have a song! Not sure if this song will be one of the higawaris, but they do mention that it's somewhat... mature. Sexy even?

Really looking forward to the live part now. ദ്ദി ༎ຶ‿༎ຶ )

After announcing 'THE NORTH' earlier this year, it seems like they’ve been busy with all sorts of new stuff, and honestly, I’m all for it! I also can’t wait to see all the curtain call videos in January, ahah.

Ending this post with Juri's post live stream's dad joke:

"I had such a fun time chatting with Inagakeith. ーJ(u)ay"

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Action Stage 「Helios Rising Heroes」  THE NORTH

-THE NORTH- stage visual and cast reveal is here!

I can't believe it's finally happening, but I also can't believe we're getting to see some actors once again. I've missed Kura and Masa so much... (╥﹏╥)

The story

HELIOS, shortly after the 13th training team was established――

North Sector, which had been proudly ranking first in the Sector Ranking, encounters unforeseen challenges. Because of North's drop in the ranking, Marion, the youngest mentor in history, feels humiliated and is unable to control his emotions nor his frustration. Victor, the other mentor, is only interested in researching substances, and while Gast, their rookie, struggles to fix the team, Ren, the other rookie, is obsessed with revenge against Eclipse, the ones who killed his sister and parents.

The group is far from united.

As though matching the state of this divided team, the city's security deteriorates and problems arise one after another.

On top of that, an Eclipse member called "Zero" begins to appear in North City…

The cast

Marion Blythe: Soushou Tomimoto (instagram) Victor Valentine: Shuji Kikuchi (twitter) Ren Kisaragi: Yugo Sato (twitter) Gast Adler: Masataka Kimura (twitter) Will Sprout: Naoki Kurata (twitter) Nova Summerfield: Shojiro Yokoi (twitter) Shin: Yuta Osumi (twitter) Siams: Taishi Sugie (twitter) Keith Max: Seiya Inagaki (twitter) Jay Kidman: Juri (twitter)

Promotion movie

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I seem to have forgotten about this one...

I've deactivated my old archive account because I'll soon move all my translations elsewhere, but I kind of didn't want to let these go to waste, so I decided to post them here.

Cartoon★Helios HeliSta version (2022)

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I've deactivated my old archive account because I'll soon move all my translations elsewhere, but I kind of didn't want to let these go to waste, so I decided to post them here.

Cartoon★Helios HeliSta version (2022)

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Touken Ranbu 101 (Entry Guide)

((I originally wrote this for Anilist, but I made a modified version for tumblr just for more accessibility.))

So you wanna Touken Ranbu, but have No idea where to start? Don’t worry, we’ve all been there before. This will be a brief yet extensive guide on where to even start here. Starting first with overall world explanation, then sorting through all the different media based on 1) Adaptation and 2) Entry Level Rating (Last updated: 01/13/2024)

What is Touken Ranbu?

Touken Ranbu started as an online browser game back in 2015, and later received a mobile phone application version around 2016. It is NOT a dating sim. TKRB fits under the Joseimuke demographic, in which the main target audience is older women, but don’t feel discouraged from exploring if you don’t fit the targeted range.

Synopsis: (from the tkrb wiki)

Touken Ranbu (刀剣乱舞) is an online web browser game by DMM and Nitroplus. Players assume the role of a Saniwa sage (審神者) who travels into the past to defeat evil forces that are trying to change the course of history. As a sage, you have the ability to bring famous historical swords to life as touken danshi (刀剣男士). Your duty is to bring these blades to life, create an army, and defeat the enemies!

Since then, Touken Ranbu has received various types of adaptations, ranging from anime, manga, novels, stage plays, musicals and live action movies, all of which are based on the universe created by the game. An important thing to note: None of the different series are related to one another. They all take place in their own citadels meaning that one sword from one version will not be the same in another citadel, aside from their base sword personality. Their base character traits and personalities can be gathered from their in-game dialogue, and are then refined and deepened based on the writer. In addition to this, Touken Ranbu just recently celebrated its 9th anniversary, and with that, a whole slew of new media to consume.

Touken Ranbu: Hanamaru

Starting with the first anime adaptation: TKRB Hanamaru (HNMR). TKRB HNMR focuses on sword life at home in the citadel and is heavy slice-of-life material. Ranging from family bonding, division of household chores, playing with animals and topics like this. It also includes some sortie and battle scenes, but nothing too heavy so it also makes it safe for people of all ages. Really the definition of “cute boys doing cute things”.

Hanamaru Season 1

Hanamaru Manga

Hanamaru Season 2

Hanamaru Movie Trilogy

So far it’s also the longest anime/manga adaptation with 2 seasons (12 episodes each) and a 3 movie series (a 3rd season of sorts). As well as a manga adaptation, so far only based on the first season of the anime as well as one covering the events of the 3 movies. In addition to that, there’s also a novelization of the 3 movies. This adaptation also has the largest cast of swords, currently at 86 swords, so i rate it a 7/10 on the Entry Level Rating scale.

Reasoning: HNMR is a great place to start and slowly learn about the different swords, small bits of their history as well as their relations to one another. I would just recommend coming back to rewatch HNMR more than once to pick up on things once missed, as it also makes jokes based on some other sword related things not within the anime. In addition to that, the large number of cast may be intimidating to those diving right in, that is unless you are used to learning 40+ new characters in one go.

Katsugeki/TOUKEN RANBU

The next anime adaptation would be Katsugeki (KTGK). TKRB KTGK is the more Serious™ TKRB anime adaptation when compared to HNMR. It’s also shorter having only a 12 episode anime, one manga adaptation and an upcoming movie (currently still in limbo, thanks ufo-table)

Katsugeki Anime

Katsugeki Manga

Katsugeki Movie

KTGK focuses on the battle and timeline protection aspects of the game, but from a perspective that can be both inviting but also confusing to new viewers. On the other hand, it features only a certain number of swords so it’s easier to learn about the characters as you watch. For this reason I rate Katsugeki a 6/10 on the Entry Level Rating scale

Reasoning: KTGK may have a smaller cast, but many fans agree that their take on one of the swords in particular is out of character. Regardless, I’d say that KTGK is a good anime to first introduce people to the Concept of the universe. To show that it’s not just pretty boys posing with swords, show how every sword has a history and something that they want to protect.

Touken Ranbu Anthologies

The TKRB Anthologies require NO background knowledge but also ALL the background knowledge at the same time. However, this doesn’t mean that it isn’t as accessible for those who don’t know the swords. There are a large number of them and it doesn’t matter where you start with them.

Hibana Mae Touken Danshi

Uijin

Senjin

Hibana Chirase Touken Danshi

Touken Danshi Makuaigeki

Shutsujin Junbichuu

Homare

Shutsujin

Ki no Jin

SQEX no Jin

Touken Ranbu Gakuen

Story wise, these have no stories. They’re all one-shots or shorter, just drawn by sword fans for sword fans. I rate the anthology series a 9/10 for the Entry Level Rating scale due to their easy to consume length as well as how many swords they manage to cover in one go. There’s no way you can go wrong with the anthologies. Don’t like a sword? Just keep browsing til you see a 4Koma of a sword that fits your tastes more then. Much like Hanamaru, I highly recommend coming back after you’ve absorbed more sword knowledge so those jokes can hit one more time.

Touken Ranbu 4-Koma

Much like the anthologies, the 4-Koma chibi anthology series is Even Shorter and easier to consume. So far has 4 volumes.

Anthology Comic 4koma Ranbu

Entry level wise, I rate it an 8/10. Nearly up there with the rest of the anthologies, but still not high  enough standalone to cover just as much. Still a cute series nonetheless.

Touken Ranbu Side Story: Tale of Ayakashi

The Tale of Ayakashi manga series is still releasing, but it’s a good read which features many different swords in different scenarios involving Spoopy Spirits.

Touken Ranbu Gaiden Ayakashi Tan

I rate it an entry score of 6/10 as you may need to do more reading on the side regarding the swords and their connections as well as the ayakashi featured. (they come with small snippets of info, but reading in depth is also fascinating)

Touken Ranbu ~Nihongo Tsurezure Sake~

Another manga currently releasing, this one focuses on Nihongo, one of the heaviest drinkers of the citadel, cooking meals for his fellow swords in the citadel. The focus here being mostly on food that tastes great with a side of alcohol (usually sake). This one gains an entry score of __5/10__. It features other swords, yes, but the main focus is still the meals so I’d say it hits better after you get to know them all first.

Touken Ranbu Musical

The TKRB Musical is one of the 2.5D adaptations that TKRB has spawned. Not to be confused with the stage play series, which I’ll get into later. Currently TouMyu as a franchise has well over 30 productions, including unique stories, reruns, solo shows, duo shows, and live concerts, in just under 8 years. Over the years, TouMyu has grown to inspire and create more adaptations based on their individual plays, including (currently) 2 manga adaptations, and 6 official novelizations.

Atsukashiyama-Ibun

Bakumatsu Tenrouden

TouMyu manga adaptations are just 2 volumes and pretty fast reads. As for whether they can substitute for the Musicals themselves, I’d say yes. They do a fantastic job adapting the main story into an action packed manga. However, I’d also recommend the musicals themselves, at least to try the medium out but also to experience them in their original form. For this reason, I rate the Musical manga adaptations a 6/10

As some Myu samples, the latest 2 MVs featuring Tsurumaru and Ookurikara:

Touken Ranbu Stage Play

Much like TouMyu, the TKRB Stage Plays are another 2.5D project that started at the same time as TouMyu and takes place in its own universe and timeline. So far, there have been no manga adaptations, however, there is an anime series in the works to adapt the first TouSute stage play. It’s now set to release in April 2024!

Touken Ranbu Kyouden Moyuru Honnouji

Just like TouMyu, TouSute has multiple entries for the series as a whole. Running also since around 2016, the stage play adaptation features 12 unique productions as well as one pseudo live event. Rating this based on the stages themselves, I’d give TouSute a beginner level of 4/10.

Reasoning: This is not because it’s a bad adaptation, in fact it’s an amazing series ((I’m biased)), It’s just that it can all be overwhelming to take in at one time. What I recommend is trying another series or two first before diving straight into TouSute, as they require you to know a bit more about the characters when going in other than just basic facts. This really requires you to understand their history and Why they act the way they do when faced with certain obstacles and challenges. If you ever do plan to watch the stage plays though, I recommend going in release order!

Because most of Sute’s youtube videos are region locked to Japan, I have come with a BD pv video. Here, have a stage PV for Tenden:

Touken Ranbu Movie

Not to be confused with any of the other 2.5D series, the TouEiga is as well another citadel of its own. The cast is majority the same from TouSute, however, so it may confuse those just starting out. So far, only the first movie has one manga adaptation. There is a total of two movies, one from 2019 and one from 2023. Both feature a lot of the same swords, but the 2nd movie adds a few more to the roster as well as mixes in some sentai-esque elements so I feel that it may appeal to a wider audience who may not understand a lot of the sword mechanics.

Eiga Touken Ranbu

Since this movie is a one off, it and the manga adaptation both rank in at a 7/10 for entry level reasons. I’d say for this all you really need to know is who Oda Nobunaga and Toyotomi Hideyoshi are and you’re good to go. The second movie keeps the ranking still at a 7/10 since both are really a non-committal piece of media. You can go in and just vibe and decide if you wanna look into it more later.

Touken Ranbu Kabuki

Our newest live action adaptation will be a Kabuki adaptation of Touken Ranbu: TouBuki. The one and only show ran back in July in 2023. Kabuki, being a traditional theater art in Japan, may seem intimidating at first to someone who has never watched it (this is coming from personal experience), but the adaptation in general was an enjoyable watch and very engaging. Written from the perspective of: If Touken Ranbu were to receive an adaptation written back in the day, there’s a great authentic feel to the production. For a starting point, just due to the hurdle, I rate TouBuki a 5/10 for beginners.

Touken Ranbu Outdoor Ibun - Touken Camp

In this spin off, it’s a whole manga where the swords go camping with each other but also cook food. So sorta like Yuru Camp only with sword men.

Touken Ranbu Outdoor Ibun - Touken-Camp

So also like the Nihongo cooking manga, just a different artist and aesthetic. So cause it also is food based, and also camping based, I rank it a similar 5/10 for beginners. Start someplace more… Sword.

Wanpaku! Touken Ranbu

Ok, ok so this series is gonna be an anime, unknown at this time if it will be a full 23 min anime or a short 5, 10 or 15 mins each episode (my bet is on a short form but MAN imagine if they give us something like Uchitama), that is based on a plush toy line series of the Touken Danshi made in collaboration with Sanrio, which explains why they’re all just so cute!

Wanpaku Touken Ranbu

Since this still has no other news out, I can’t rate it on if it’ll be a good intro to the series or not but surely it’ll be a good light watch for any saniwa out there.

Ending Statement

I hope that this guide was helpful for those trying to get into the series. As always, a great place to start as well is the game itself, which is available to download in Japanese on both mobile devices as well as straight in your browser.

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Action Stage 「Helios Rising Heroes」  2

Action Stage 「Helios Rising Heroes」  2 has finally revealed its visual!

Here's the promotion movie.

Story.

Following the 13th generation's entrance ceremony, the new heroes, the rookies Junior and Faith, are assigned to the West Sector.

However, as per the mentor leader Brad's wish the two are put into an unusual team with only one mentor. Furthermore, their mentor, Keith, has no motivation to teach the two newcomers and leaves them to themselves. Junior wants to be transferred because he is dissatisfied with the team's lack of motivation, while Faith doesn't seem to have a care in the world. Instead of improving teamwork, the gap grows wider. Meanwhile, the gear that connect the past and the present begins to move due to an incident caused by Eclipse.

It all started with Lost Zero four years ago. ―With the death of a hero.

Cast.

Keith Max: Seiya Inagaki (Twitter) Leonard Wright Jr: Jun Noguchi (Twitter) Faith Beams: Gaku Takamoto (Twitter)

Billy Wise: Naoya Iwaki (Twitter) Nova Summerfield: Shojiro Yokoi (Twitter) Shin: Yuta Osumi (Twitter) Siams: Taishi Sugie (Twitter) Sirius: Kento Ono (Twitter) Dino Albani: Yuuya Asato (Twitter) Brad Beams: Ryouma Baba (Twitter)

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For a few months now I've been joking about Helios announcing a second stage during their offline event and I wasn't really believing there'll be a second one any time soon, but oh boy! How wrong I was!

I'm actually so surprised and happy our "copium" actually turned into reality! Action Stage "Helios Rising Heroes" will be back in March 2024 and the main focus this time will be West Sector! I hope they'll announce the cast soon because I can hardly contain my excitement right now!

From the few seconds of the video they posted on Twitter, though, it sounds like we might also get new members beside West (I'm actually hoping to see at least Billy), but for now all we have is just a video, so who really knows...

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【DL】 Action Stage「Helios Rising Heroes」BD

Hello everyone, we’re back with more HeliosR!

I’ve posted the same picture with the same title not long ago, so you might be wondering what’s changed, right? Simple: HeliSta Bluray was finally released a few days ago! Whim ( @thiswasmadeonawhim​ ) and I worked painstakingly to get the subs out as soon as possible, so here we are! New downloads for everyone! Also, please make sure to thank them when you get the chance for the amazing work they did with the subs!

And PLEASE consider buying the physical copy (I will leave the link here) to support the stage, actors and everyone who worked behind the scenes so we can have more HeliSta!

Rules and links for under the cut.

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Please DO NOT upload the stage on streaming platforms.

Please DO NOT post screenshots or gifs on Twitter et similia. Please do realize that what we are doing is not legal and could result in future stages not being accessible to overseas fans.

Please DO NOT remove the credits.

If someone asks for links, PLEASE redirect them to this post.

☆ SOFT SUBS: DOWNLOAD

☆ HARD SUBS: DOWNLOAD  ※ DM me for the decryption key. Anonymous messages will be ignored.

NB. If we find out videos, screenshots or gifs of this stage on public spaces we will delete all the files without prior notice. Please be respectful, we are not asking much! That being said, enjoy the stage!

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It’s at times like this that I realize I really cannot take pictures as good as I want them to be, but!! despite everything!! my HeliSta copy finally arrived yesterday!

I won’t be able to fully enjoy it yet because I am busy with exams and right now I am trying to finish fixing the subs to match this version to release it in a few days (hopefully), but I can’t wait!

I just want to say that the ad-lib parts are far greater in this version. They really went all out for this, so please consider buying a copy if you can!

Once I take my time to watch the backstage and all there is left to watch I’ll probably write more about it.

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【DL】 Action Stage「Helios Rising Heroes」

To celebrate the release of HeliosR first stage play at the end of the month, Whim (@thiswasmadeonawhim​) and I are happy to finally be able to share this project with everyone~!

If you’re able to, please do consider buying the Blu-ray to officially support the series and actors.

Rules and download links for both subs and video under the cut. Enjoy!

☆ RULES:

Please DO NOT re-post the subs outside of Tumblr!

Please DO NOT upload the stage on streaming platforms.

Please DO NOT post screenshots or gifs on Twitter et similia. Please do realize that what we are doing is not legal and could result in future stages not being accessible to overseas fans.

Please DO NOT remove the credits.

If someone asks for links, PLEASE redirect them to this post.

☆ SOFT SUBS: DOWNLOAD ※ If you can prove that you have purchased​ from @thiswasmadeonawhim​ one of the other streams that was released but not the one that was subbed (The morning perfomance on December 10th) or your recording doesn't include any filler thus the subs not matching without retiming, you can contact them for the HD stream version.

☆ HARD SUBS: DOWNLOAD ※ DM me for the decryption key. I apologize for the extra step, but please understand that this is to better control who gains access to the file.

NB. If we find out videos, screenshots or gifs of this stage on public spaces we will delete all the files without prior notice. Please be respectful, we are not asking much! That being said, I hope you enjoy the stage!