#Ren Takada

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Yukihiro Takahashi, Haruomi Hosono, Keigo Oyamada (Cornelius), Ren Takada and Kiko Mizuhara

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🆕 「 CONCERT FOR MODERN TIMES (Live)」 by Ren Takada Available for streaming worldwide!🌐 Added to our weekly playlist 🎧 https://spoti.fi/3lgjH73

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Deaimon Original Soundtrack by Ren Takada to Be Released on June 22, 2022

Deaimon Original Soundtrack by Ren Takada to Be Released on June 22, 2022

The television anime Deaimon, a story of bonding through wagashi (Japanese sweets) set in an old confectionary store in Kyoto, is currently airing in Japan. It has been announced that an original soundtrack, which will contain 44 background and insert songs from the anime, will be released on June 22, 2022. The music was produced by Ren Takada, a talented string instrumentalist who has composed…

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Reylo Playlist Track 7: Fantasy - JBJ

hi yes, hello it’s me again. You might have thought i forgot my playlist. I did not, I’m just getting into the kpop songs on the list, like REALLY getting into it now. It’s like nothing but kpop from here on out. You were warned.

Oh JBJ why were you so short lived? oh well it guess all that matters is that they Happened and the came out the gate swinging (A miracle of fan involvement - JBJ were contestants on Korean Reality show Produce 101 and project that gives undebuted idol trainees a kick start in the industry by forming the 11 finalists into a group and promoting them for a finite period. JBJ are 6 contestants who did not make that final 11, but by popular demand debuted on their own under a 6 month contract)

Exposition over.

HOW does this relate to Reylo?

heh.

Now idk about you all, but in the AMAZING corner of Reylo Tumblr that I spend my time in, there’s a lot of discourse around our favorite subject.

Gentle Dom Kylo Ren. And Gentle Dom this song is.

I put a lot of thought into what songs I allow on this playlist. There are NUMEROUS criteria they have to meet. It can’t just be a sexy song, it can’t just be a love song, it’s got to have something personal to Reylo, in lyrics, tone or scale and this song actually barely scraped through, despite that it’s one of my favorites. There are a few lines here that really drive it into the Reylo category and make it not just another seduction song.

Let’s dig in to the lyrics.

You’re not a daydreamer / You’re seeing a fantasy that will stop time and space /

You’ll call me when you desperately want me / I’ll awaken all the senses of your body

I’m sweet poison / You can’t reject or avoid me, no choices / Your breathe and temperature are on fire / Have you noticed?

The first time she sees him she’s surprised that she recognizes him, like a daydream.

“You’re seeing a fantasy that will stop time and space” is one of the lines that really pushed this into Reylo territory for me, for obvious reasons, but also when he force-freezes her on Takodana it really feels like time has stopped around them.

Foremost what we’ve already seen captured here is Kylo’s confidence. He has a slight upper hand on Rey in being trained in the force so he has more of an idea what these visions of this girl he’s been seeing his entire life are, which is more confusing for Rey, because to her it’s all just been “Weird dreams”.

The next two lines recall the confidence of the interrogation scene interaction…

“I’m not giving you anything.”

“We’ll see...”

…and the way he runs his eyes over her.

We also see emphasized, Rey’s inexorable draw to him, which he knows she can’t resist. She is both exhilarated and attracted to him and yet terrified of the new sensations his presence is awakening.

(Your fantasy~) In all your imagination, select your fondest dream / Because that’s me / We’ll set it all on fire / Your burning eyes, your exploding passion / Have as much of me as you can take / I’m your fantasy

I actually have very little to say here, because I think the lyrics speak for themselves.

Like you all don’t need me to point out to you that Rey has literally dreamed about Ben Solo.

Or how Ben literally wants (in TLJ) for them to set it all on fire and rule with Rey.

Or how Rey’s eyes do burn with exploding passion.

Or… any of the rest of it…

So many emotions mixed in this maze, don’t worry / Trust your instincts and follow me / Beathtaking fever, cause we run so hot / We can’t stop now, you’re already in my heart

The moment you call my name, I’m alive / You’re the one who saved me and guided me out of this maze, right /

I hope my voice blooms in your ears and in your heart / You imagine it and I’ll make it real; all your dreams are possible

We now switch to a wider relationship tack, where he talks less about his effect on her and he focuses on telling her how she affects him. How she brings him to life every time she says his name, and he feels guided and saved by her care for him. The TLJ themes are overwhelming, and this is also a great situation where he lets Rey have the upper hand of the moment…

I’m a sweet prison / You can’t escape or catch your breath / You’ll be tamed in my embrace / I know you’ll fall deeper for me...

… and flips the script, sliding right back into Dom mode.

Call my name and let me fill you /I'm a masterpiece and you’ve made me / We’ll set it all on fire / Your burning eyes, your exploding passion / Have as much of me as you can take / I'm your fantasy…

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Favorite Choreo ✨ Dongta Fantasy Dance Break 

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Libertin DUNE

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🆕 「 CONCERT FOR MODERN TIMES (Live)」 by Ren Takada Available for streaming worldwide!🌐 Added to our weekly playlist 🎧 https://spoti.fi/3lgjH73

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Allura/Blue Lion/Lance: "Ive seen the way you look at me when you don't think I'm watching"

No one really knew just how much the Lions saw or heard when it came to the Paladins.  Everyone knew that the Lions were sentient in their own way, and could sense the Paladins to a certain extent.

So when the Lion swap happened, Lance briefly wondered if everything he’d said while in the cockpit and not over comms had been recorded or something.  Because now that Blue was being piloted by Allura, who, in Lance’s opinion was still the most beautiful alien girl he’d ever met, he really didn’t want Allura to find out about some of the more embarrassing things he’d said.

Luckily, after the mess that had been Keith’s first run as the Black Paladin, they had enough extra time for drills.

Lance was finally getting Red’s hair-trigger controls down, and Allura was less occupied with simply keeping up with the team.  Lance leaned back in his seat, still getting used to the red tint of the HUD.  They spent a moment, just floating in space.  

Allura was on the other side of the castle ship, steadily learning to work with Blue.  Lance still missed his first Lion, the one that had originally chosen him.  He kind of missed being a leg.  There was a lot more pressure to being an arm, but someone had to be able to tell Keith when to stop.

“I still can’t believe I thought using such a phrase was the first thing that came to mind.”

Lance sat up when he heard Allura’s voice over the comms.

“Uh, Allura?”

“What did Shiro call it?  A pick up line?  Relaying the intention of romantic interest, combined with an innuendo.  It certainly sounds like something Lance would say.”

Lance realized that Allura’s mic was on, but the feed was only going one way.  He could hear her, but she couldn’t hear him.

“I wonder how often he’s used that line on some other pretty girl.”

“Oh, come on!  It’s a good line!” Lance protested.

“I wouldn’t mind so much, if he was actually serious.”

Lance froze.

“What?”

“He’s funny, and far smarter than he lets everyone think he is.  What do you think Blue?”

There was silence for a moment.

“Blue, you happen to like flirts.”

Silence again, and then the slightly tinny sound of the mic picking up on a recording.  Lance didn’t catch most of it, except the end.

“...you’re out of this world!”

“Oh no.  Nope, nope, I’m done.  Let’s go back to the castle, Red, so I can drown myself in that stupid pool.”

The thrusters engaged and Lance steered the Lion towards the hangar opening.

“That’s gotta be the ultimate betrayal, Blue.  Come on!  I might not be your Paladin anymore, but that’s just low.”

Red landed in it’s hangar, but Allura’s comm unit was still engaged.

“I’ve always wondered if he was serious.  Or just joking about it all.”

There was a crackle.

Lance could make out his own voice again.  Another recording.

“I’ve seen the way you look at me when you don't think I'm watching.”

“Oh!  Well, that’s surprising.  Uh, thank you for that, Blue,” Allura said.  She cleared her throat. 

Lance had no clue what to do with this information.  Clearly this was Blue and Red’s attempts at colluding.  To what purpose, he had no idea.  But he’d essentially eavesdropped on a private conversation, and Lance wasn’t about that. 

He wasn’t sure what to think.  Seeing as Allura didn’t know he’d heard her entire half of the conversation, he now knew she was much more serious in whatever interest she had, than he’d expecting.

Perhaps, he’d have to be more serious himself.

[thecarnivorousmuffinmeta]

What are your thoughts on Near and Mello (Death Note)? You don’t seem to like them as characters

I was about to say that I don’t necessarily dislike them, but, honestly, I do. I really really do.

And hey, look at that, I get to offend an entirely new fandom. 

To be honest though I’m not even sure where to begin.

I suppose I’ll start with the concept of the orphan heirs to the title of L.

Wammy’s Dog Fighting Arena for Boys

Death Note is a fantastic and brilliant anime, however, every once in a while more general anime tropes sneak through and cause it to fall flat on its face. We have L, who for reasons is a sugar addicted man child (well, I actually have thoughts on L, who I quite like, but my theory is that he is the way he is because he’s a jackass who fully intends to be that off putting).

The Wammy orphan bit is the worst of this. We have an orphanage of... children competing for the title of L, an anonymous detective that Watari made up. These children are all super serial geniuses who are even weirder and less socially adjusted than L. Just, kill me.

Even the premise for why they exist is bad. The authors’ in the Death Note guide admit that, when they realized they were going to kill off L, they realized they had a major problem. They didn’t want a repeat arc with another L as a nemesis, SO THEY BROUGHT US TWO Ls, THAT’S COMPLETELY DIFFERENT!

Why I call it anime derp is that the whole ridiculous Wammy’s concept is never addressed. Wammy’s existence, the little we do know of L’s backstory, makes Watari the level of skeevy reserved for manipulative Dumbledore.

The man uses these children and pits them against each other in a high stakes intellectual environment where they stake their entire worth on their still developing intelligence.

In canon, we see what this has done to Mello, L, Matt, and Near. All of them are completely messed up human beings and they either die or never get better. L is an utter jackass who cares very little about justice. Mello becomes an actual gangster and uses the Death Note to make hits on rival gang members (not to mention Sayu, but we’ll get into that). Matt also becomes a gang member and kidnaps multiple women. Near cannot function, at all, in society and when we catch up to him ten years later in that hilariterrible one-shot he’s gotten even worse.

If we’re taking LABB as canon then you have Beyond Birthday who becomes a serial murderer and lights himself on fire in a desperate, insane, attempt to show up L. We have reference to A who killed himself under the pressure of trying to become L. 

We can presume there’s been other orphaned children, who had nowhere else to go and no one to protect them, that Wammy just destroyed so that he could have Batman.

Death Note, however, never touches this with a ten foot pole.

Instead these are our weird and quirky band of heroes who are so weird because... it’s anime and we like weird! Weird means you’re a super genius! Yay genius orphanage!

So, right at the very idea of Wammy’s existing, they already have to win me back. Mello and Near do not win me back.

Mello is a Thug

We’re supposed to feel very bad for Mello, he’s always been second to Near and this messes him up, and he leaves to try and find his own path. I’d say god bless him, you go Mello, except his own path turns out to become a gangster.

Mello’s not a remotely good guy.

Just because he’s pitted himself against Light, and tells us he’s sticking it to Kira and Near at the same time, does not make him remotely good. And that’s what irks me about him, Mello is a great skeezy character, but the story actively wants me to think he’s the hero.

It’s sort of like trying to convince me that Kylo-Ren is secretly a great guy. It’s really hard to sell me on that when we watch Mello in real time and, more, why are we even bothering? Let Mello be the scumbag he is.

First, Mello steals a weapon of mass destruction and immediately begins using it. It’s not about solving the Kira case for him, or at least, it’s certainly not about stopping Kira. It’s about showing up Near, L, and all those who never believed in him. 

That Mello, first, not only steals the notebook from the government, but then gets it into the hands of gangsters, AND THEN USES IT TO ASSASSINATE HIS RIVALS. Well, suffice to say, you do you Mello.

More, this is a guy who tortures, murders, and probably rapes multiple people to get this to happen. Mello’s attempts to retrieve the notebook start with the kidnapping of Japan’s head of the police force. He then kidnaps Light Yagami’s younger sister and... Something very bad happens to Sayu.

We never get confirmed what happen, we don’t see much of her in captivity or much after, however immediately after the events we see her in a wheelchair. At the end of the series, Sayu is catatonic and barely able to express emotion.

It’s highly implied she was raped.

With the kidnapping of Takada, regardless of what you think of her... Nothing good was going to come of that. Mello resorts to the tactics of terrorists just so he can prove he’s a big man.

Further, Mello’s brilliance is never really that brilliant. Yes, he gets the notebook (though notably does not hold it long and loses his name in the process). However, his big win at the end is supposed to be him having realized Mikami would mess up were he to kidnap Takada. He had no guarantee of this, frankly, I think he was just kidnapping Takada in an act of desperation. Because that’s what Mello does when he runs out of ideas: he kidnaps people close to Light Yagami and sees what happens.

This gets both him and Matt brutally killed.

Near’s a Moron

Near is so weird and so maladjusted, my god, and he’s such a pretentious ass. He’s just... knock off L in every way. Which, granted, is kind of what he’s supposed to be. Except that the story never capitalizes on this. 

We see hints of it, Near trying desperately to live up to L’s name and mantle, but it never really delves into it.

More, what we do see of Near’s plans...

I really want to go into the one-shot epilogue, because that said so much about Near, but I’ll resist.

Instead I’ll note that L was 13 days from proving Light’s guilt. It takes Near and Mello combined five years, and Mikami’s dumb ass, to get to the same place. And even then, they nearly all died if Matsuda had been a worse shot.

Near has no idea that he’s nowhere near as brilliant as L. Instead, he gives us the world’s most hamfisted, frustrating, lecture at the end of the series where he tells us that Light was so stupid and that together he and Mello triumphed over evil.

Good for you, Near, I’m so happy for you.

I Just Don’t See the Point of Them

The second half of Death Note, in general, is a slough. It’s not just me saying this, you ask the majority of the fanbase, and they’ll admit it all goes downhill with L’s death.

I think the authors desperately wanted to avoid writing the dystopian politics of what would happen if Light won unopposed. They wanted a detective thriller, the trouble was, that story ended with L’s death.

So they try to feed us the same, but worse, story twice, and it just doesn’t work.

Personally, what I’d rather have seen is Matsuda and company slowly but surely realizing Light is Kira and Matsuda, in the end, having no choice but to assassinate him as they just cannot get any proof. It’s a very different story, but it would have been such a good story of betrayal that, again we sort of got hints of, but never really confronted.

Alternatively, keep Naomi Misora alive, and have her be the spearhead of brilliance we need. As it was, I am eternally sad/amused that she was killed off because she was too damn smart for the series (the authors admit she figured everything out too fast and as a result had to be eliminated).

Just, please, not genius orphan children. 

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inarizaki!

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[Pics] 2.5次元ダンスライブ「ALIVESTAGE」Episode6『Gift』 (2.5jigen dance live alive stage episode6 gift)

visuals update under the cut^^

Cast:

SOARA

Horita Ryuusei as Oohara Sora (大原空) ※お当番

Ishiwatari Mashuu as Arihara Morihito (在原守人)

Yoshida Chihiro as Kagurazaka Soushi (神楽坂宗司)

Ueda Shinichirou as Munakata Ren (宗像廉) ※お当番

Watanabe Hibiki as Nanase Nozomu (七瀬望) ※お当番

Growth

Shiozawa Hidemasa as Eto Kouki (衛藤昂輝)

Ishikawa Shou as Yaegashi Kensuke (八重樫剣介)

Tachibana Ryou as Sakuraba Ryouta (桜庭涼太) ※お当番

Iwasa Yuuki as Fujimura Mamoru (藤村衛) ※お当番

ZIX

Igarashi Takuto as Sugai Makoto (須貝誠)

Yamane Riki as Hishida Mitsuru (菱田満)

Original Character

Gotou Kunihiko as Andou Ikkei (安藤一慶)

Takada Shuu as Hamada Naoto (浜田尚人)

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