#I ship her with Soramaru so hard

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I love Nishiki. She still reminds me of Shirasu since she is a Fuma but she is so damn nice and strong 😭

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Love Live height differences - a cautionary tale

I went on a LL seiyuu video binge session recently, and came across a Korean-subbed video of a clip from Shikaco’s radio show. I’m too lazy to try subbing it, but I liked the contents enough that I want to at least share it as a text post.

On Ep130 of Shikaco’s radio (air date: September 27, 2016), Shikaco received a fan letter asking if there were anything that she particular liked or disliked about being tall for a girl. Shikaco quips that she’s definitely on the tall side, but she’s not super-duper tall when it comes down to it.

(For those of you too lazy to Google it, Shikaco is 163cm tall, which is just under 5′4″. So yeah, tall for a Japanese female, but not that tall.)

Shikaco does note that she was the tallest in µ’s, though. That leads her to mention that one big downside to her height was that since Hanayo is a short girl, Shikaco often had to crouch down to match Hanayo’s pose for µ’s formations. It wasn’t just a slight bending of the knees either - she’d scrunch down to nearly half of her normal height. Shikaco laughs about how this really screwed with her leg muscles, but then she starts to become more serious.

Around the time of the 4th live, Shikaco had been complaining a lot about her thighs hurting all the time, especially when they’d have to walk down stairs. The way that Shikaco tells this portion of the story makes it seem that her complaints were mostly lighthearted at the time. After a while though, she went, “Wait, what if this is an actual problem?”, and decided to get a check up at a hospital. It turns out that she had developed muscle damage because of the constant abuse to her posture Σ(ﾟДﾟ ). Her word of advice to everyone: it’s not good to crouch down so much!

Some of us might be aware of how the seiyuu go through a lot just to match the hairstyles and hair colors of the characters, such as:

Ucchi enduring a bajillion pins in her hair for Kotori’s hair loop

Soramaru measuring the part in Nico’s bangs at exactly 35º

Nanjolno going through 6+ different wigs for Eli’s “simple” ponytail

Pile and Ucchi and Kussun dyeing their hair for Final Live

Shukashuu cutting her hair short for the first time in her life

Suwawa and Furirin partially dyeing their hair for 1st Live

There’s also the grueling training they have to go through to survive singing and dancing in front of thousands of people for two-day live concerts. But to worry about the character’s height on top of that…these girls work so hard for this franchise, and every story I hear about what they’ve done for the sake of the characters and the fans makes me love them even more. (இ⌓இ )

Bonus - some thoughts I had about Aqours heights while typing up this post:

While I’m on the subject of heights, let’s talk about the “Shikaco” (AKA the tallest in the group) of Aqours - King.

Supposedly, King is also 163cm tall. Based on this number, King is a whopping 11cm taller than Hanamaru - compare that to Shikaco’s 7cm height difference with Hanayo.

Note: I say “supposedly” because Arisha’s official profile says that her height is 164cm, which means that she should be taller than King. However, there’s lots of evidence that proves otherwise, such the fact that AZALEA lines up in height order of Suwawa-Arisha-King for their subunit greeting. If that’s not enough for you, then take a look at the LisAni lineup photo.

Ignoring the fact that Rikyako is in front of Shukashuu despite the two of them supposedly being 152cm and 150.5cm tall respectively (I refuse to believe that Shukashuu is truly taller than Rikyako *shakes fist at photo*), this lineup is a good guide on the height order for the seiyuu of Aqours. At the very least, you can see that King is unmistakably the tallest. King’s agency profile doesn’t list her height, so that 163cm floating around on Google results for “takatsuki kanako height” is probably inaccurate if we assume that Arisha isn’t straight-up lying about her own height, haha.

The only solid evidence we have for heights is during the very first Aqours niconama back in January 2016 (it’s been over a year since then, omg time sure does fly). Suwawa had recounted a story of how shocked she was at the placement of the mic when she was recording for the KimiKoko album - as Furirin had gone before her - and her amazement that someone that small was in the cast, as the seiyuu had not met each other at that point. Furirin then mentions that she and King have the ideal 15cm height difference for couples. Seeing as Furirin outright says that she’s 148cm tall (at about 49:17), this is where we get the 163cm figure for King. Arisha and Ainya then explicitly say that they’re 164cm and 147cm tall respectively when they point out their own lovely height difference and thus the kmny ship was born.

I’m still not convinced that Arisha is supposed to be taller than King. Perhaps the 15cm height difference between Furirin and King is just a ballpark, like how Arisha and Ainya also claimed the title with their 17cm difference, because King would have to be at least 17cm taller than Furirin to be taller than Arisha. Whatever the case may be, for the sake of having a concrete number to discuss, I’m just gonna assume that King is somehow both 163cm tall and the tallest seiyuu in Aqours.

Incidentally, the biggest character-seiyuu height difference is the 16cm gap between Mari and Ainya, standing at 163cm and 147cm respectively - breaking the previous 12cm record held by Eli and Nanjolno, at 162cm and 150cm. Guess Love Live has a thing for short singers voicing tall blondes.

…wow, I got really off-topic with the height talk there.

Anyways, just wanted to say that I’m lowkey praying for King to not pull a Shikaco and screw up her muscles or something from playing the part of a character who’s a lot shorter than she is. IIRC King has said something before about trying to make herself appear more small when voicing Maru. (꒪⌓꒪) Hope she takes care of her health!

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school live love festival idol

THANKS AKI!!!! i will try to make this specifically abt School Live Love Festival Idol since someone else asked lvoe live general

How I entered/learned about the said game/show/movie/etc of that fandom

from fanart on tumbly dashboard... i think specifically it was kotori hahaha. also rhythm game ?? with cute girls ??? sign me up......

Fave character

i said my fav mus/aqours girls so my favorite normal girl is mutsuki takamagahara ahahha. shes so cute wtf. also maybe this is extraneous but my favorite cards are slg nico, fairy rin, constellation rin ((mostly every rin ur)) ETC

Least fave character

i already said but im sorrie lmao im p sure my least favs are some of ur favorites? TuT

OTP(s)

well i guess specifically i am big fan of nicorinpana platonic or romantic or What Have You. and of the Main Ships my favorite is rinpana! 

Pairing that everyone likes but I don’t get

i guess i cant rly answer this again

Fave thing about the fandom

we all Band Together and Suffer

The most despised thing

i really dont like it when people bash kotoris voice lol. i dont like it when people bash nozomi/nico/hanayo/etc voices either but kotori especially bc ucchis pitch control is actually excellent like shes actually. such a good singer. and i mean its not her natural tone of voice and its probably insanely difficult to do but people just call her squeaky. shes just so talented wtf. i mean it grew on me ofc but i rly like her voice esp in some of her solos. wait also i dont like when people hate on nicos voice bc soramaru literally like has to change her voice so much to do nico and it must be so hard and AAAAAAA ANYWAY SORRY IM DONE OH ALSO people who hate on aqours (although i think it happens less now?)

If there is something I would change from said game/show/movie/etc., what would it be.

bleas @ klab increase the scouting rates my crops are dying PLEAS