#Shingo Tojo

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This was my gift for @rosemirmir for the Toku Holiday Exchange where I went a little overboard and lost my mind over the intimacy of Hayakawa's relationships with Tojo and Asuka. I wanted to create a comic around the poem What is the Most You Can Ask of Air by Lorna Crozier. It comes from her poetry book after that which is full of poems expressing her feelings and little experiences after the passing of her husband.

(Edit: just fixed a page that I realized was placed out of order)

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2019 2.5D Actors ranking

I decided to do two rankings of my top 50 2.5D actors. One in terms of acting skill and level, and one in terms of how much I like them. 

RULES: 

1. I must have seen them in at least one 2.5D production and at least 2 different stage shows. And liked them in at least two different roles for their acting level

2. They must still be active in 2.5D shows.

3. I have not taken how much I like the actor into account. I am not a fan of all of these actors. I simply think they have exceptional acting ability.

Please don’t get offended, these are my opinions.

In the brackets I have included maximum three roles that I liked them in

So here is the ranking:

1. Suzuki Hiroki (Yato, Mikazuki Munechika, Arakita Yasutomo)

2. Honda Reo (Kikumaru Eiji, Ikaruga Misumi)

3. Aramaki Yoshiko (Yamanbagiri Kunihiro, Tsukioka Tsumugi)

4. Yamamoto Ikkei (Rinkai Line/Yamagata Shinkansen, Oishi Shuichiro)

5. Miura Hiroki (Atobe Keigo, Higekiri)

6. Sato Yugo (Kisarazu Atsushi/Kisarazu Ryo, Kaminari Denki)

7. Kuroba Mario (Kikumaru Eiji, Kise Ryouta, Mikazuki Munechika) 

8. Tateishi Toshiki (Yukimura Seiichi, Chigasaki Itaru)

9. Tanaka Ryosei (Inui Sadaharu, Joetsu Shinkansen, Arisugawa Homare)

10. Izaki Ryujiro (Kamio Akira, Asuka Haruto, Holland)

11. Tamaki Yuki (Toudou Jinpachi, Snake, Kogarasumaru)

12. Someya Toshiyuki (Tsurumaru Kuninaga, Hirakoba Rin, Ishigaki Koutaro)

13. Ota Motohiro (Iwaizumi Shunsuke, Takasugi Shinsaku, Sengo Muramasa)

14. Makishima Hikaru (Kaidoh Kaoru, Usui Masumi)

15. Noguchi Jun (Sakisaka Muku, Jinnai Enta)

16. Sasaki Yoshihide (Shiraishi Kuranosuke, Druitt, Akechi Goro)

17. Shiota Kouhei (Jackal Kuwahara, Tanaka Ryunosuke, Sakamoto Ryuji)

18. Sana Hiroki (Kaidoh Kaoru, Maraich, A)

19. Yamada James Takeshi (Takao Kazunari, Cancer, Holland)

20. Ozawa Ren (Toudou Heisuke, Jyuishimatsu, Sawamura Eijun)

21. Takagi Shun (Influenza/Mumps, Fred Abberline, Kamoshida Suguru)

22. Tanimizu Riki (Nansen Ichimonji, Fujise Kazuya)

23. Aoki Jin (Kita Ichimura, Tamanegi, Mutsunokami Yoshiyuki)

24. Ueda Keisuke (Nakahara Chuuya, Japan, Mikage Hisoka)

25. Kitamura Ryo (Toudou Jinpachi, Yagen Toushirou, White Blood Cell)

26. Norizuki Kouhei (Noell, Kurosaki Ichigo)

27. Ishida Shun (Oishi Shuichiro, Tamanegi)

28. Yamazaki Shougo (Taki Haginosuke, Ren/Sei)

29. Araki Kentaro (Minamoto no Yoshitsune, Tsurukubi)

30. Hiramaki Jin (Oishi Shuichiro, Sekimura Mikado)

31. Sakamoto Shogo (Echizen Ryouma, Horikawa Kunihiro)

32. Asuma Kousuke (Oikawa Tooru, Ichimura Gin, Hattori Hanzo)

33. Isawa Takuma (Yanagi Renji, Akiyoshi Fuuta [Not 2.5d])

34. Masuda Toshiki (Yukimura Seiichi, Oda Nobunaga)

35. Jinnai Sho (Yanagisawa Shinya, Soma, Sumeragi Tenma)

36. Nakamura Taro (Hyodo Juza, Ishida Tetsu, Niiboshi Reo)

37. Izumi Shuhei (Undertaker, Shi, Fukuzawa Yukichi)

38. Futaba Kaname (Saeki Koujiro, Ni)

39. Iwaki Naoya (Hirakoba Rin, Mizuki)

40. Kitagawa Naoya (Minami Kentaro, Honebami Toushirou, Sarutobi Sasuke)

41. Gomoto Naoya (Hisagi Shuhei, Kinjou Shingo, Takasaki Line)

42. Kawakami Shouta (Akutsu Jin, Zaraki Kenpachi, Daihannya Nagamitsu)

43. Kamisato Yuki (Chiyoda Line/Akita Shinkansen, Urie, Ageha)

44. Kimeru (Tokugawa Yoshinobu, Seibu Ikebukuro/Ginza Line/Joban Line)

45. Takasaki Shouta (Kikumaru Eiji, Yamazaki Susumu, Tobu Tojo Line/Shin’etsu Line)

46. Kamakari Kenta (Shishido Ryo, Takeda Ittetsu)

47. Hirose Daisuke (Kisarazu Atsushi/Kisarazu Ryo, England, Okita Souji)

48. Tomotsune Yuuki (Kondo Isami, Tadokoro Jin, Godot)

49. Kimisawa Yuki (F. Scott Fitzgerald, Hatake Kakashi, Watanabe Osamu)

50. Hashimoto Shohei (Akutagawa Ryunosuke, Taikogane Sadamune, Nishinoya Yu)

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‘60 days’ of Voltage updated

I did a 60 days of Voltage challenge thing like 4 years ago, but I thought I’d update it since I’ve read a lot more since then.  I’m not doing it in 60 days though, and I removed/changed some questions.  Like the one about GREE, not even sure if its still a thing lol, yeah hi I’ve been in the fandom for a while.

Favorite guy(s)?

Takuto Hirukawa, Takao Maruyama, Chiharu Utsumi, Makoto Morimachi, Araya Kuze, Kyobashi Katsuyuki, and Shintaro Ando…in that order…maybe, I really can’t decide.

My first favorite was either Takuto or Takao, so even if they aren’t #1 they’ll always hold a special place in my heart for being my first Voltage husbands

The guy(s) you thought you’d dislike before reading their route?

Roberto Button, Koichi Natsukawa, Asahi Kakyoin, Hiro Sarashina, and Rihito Hatsune to name a few.

Least favorite guy(s)?

I haven’t disliked any character that I’ve played, yet.

However IF I had to pick Hiro Sarashina, Asahi Kakyoin, and Satoru Kamagari are the ones I like the least out of all the routes I’ve read so far.

NPC(s) who need their own route?

Tsukishiro from Our Private Homeroom!  At least give him a sub story…it could be like Chiharu Utsumi’s Forbidden Route which branches off of Shinichi Kagari’s route.

Your favorite…

Tsundere guy?  Takuto Hirukawa Flirty guy?  Kiyoto Makimura Unrequited love?  Shohei Aiba Childhood friend?  Makoto Morimachi Alpha guy?  Genji Higashiyama Sadistic guy?  Kyobashi Katsuyuki Stoic guy?  Keiichiro Minase Funny guy?  Shintaro Ando Sweet guy?  Takao Maruyama Yandere guy?  Araya Kuze Old guy?  Jinpachi Yushima, hahahaha… Mature guy?  Chiharu Utsumi (he’s mature for his age...sort of...sometimes...once or twice...hahahaha)

Favorite guy from…

(Games I’ve played every character’s season 1 main story)

Serendipity Next Door?  Shinobu Narita

Favorite guy from…

(Games I’ve played at least 50% of all character’s season 1 main story)

10 Days with My Devil?  Shiki Kurobane Bad Boys Do It Better?   Keiichiro Minase Be My Princess?   Keith Alford Dreamy Days in West Tokyo? Haruki Tanemura Enchanted in the Moonlight?   Samon Finally, in Love Again?   Sosuke Kikuchi In Your Arms Tonight?  Kiyoto Makimura Kiss of Revenge?  Kyosuke Narumi Love Letter from Thief X?  Takuto Hirukawa Metro PD Close to you?  Kyobashi Katsuyuki My Forged Wedding?  Takao Maruyama My Last First Kiss?  Makoto Morimachi My Wedding and 7 Rings?  Seiichirou Hayami Our Private Homeroom?  Shuya Komaki Our Two Bedroom Story?  Shusei Hayakawa Pirates in Love?  Nagi

Favorite guy from…

(Games I’ve played at least 2 character’s season 1 main story)

After School Affairs?  Chiharu Utsumi Celebrity Darling?  Shinnosuke Ichijo First Love Diaries?  Nao Fujimori Kiss Me on Clover Hill?  Shoichi Kiyota Kissed by the Baddest Bidder?  Mamoru Kishi My Sweet Bodyguard?  Hideki Ishigami Office Secrets?  Shingo Kai True Love Sweet Lies? Naomasa Sakura When Destiny Comes Knocking?  Shintaro Ando

Favorite guy from…

(Games I’ve played only 1 character’s season 1 main story, but don’t let that fool you I really like these stories)

Be My Princess 2? Maximillion Levaincois Destind: Mr. Almost Right?  Araya Kuze (my will power is apparently super easy to break...but Araya is the best...If I can romance a childhood friend yandere character then I will apparently throw away my morals hahahaha) Diary of a Step-Sister?  Masaki Saionji Love Brings You Home?  Hazuki Tojo In Your Arms Tonight 2?   Kazuya Seto Sakura Admist Chaos?  Yukimura Sanada Seduced in the Sleepless City?  Chihaya Koda

Favorite guy from…

(Games I haven’t played yet, so these are the ones I think will be my favorite…)

A Knight’s Devotion?  Ken A World With(out) You?  No one (Kotaro Kamiyama if I had to pick?) Butler Until Midnight?  Tomoki Matsuba Campus Romance 101?  Kaneto Fujimuro Class Trip Crush?  Hajime Shindo Codename: Cupid?  Motoharu Kotani Dangerous Seduction? Kentaro Inui Era of Samurai Code of Love?  Soji Okita Exclusively Yours: An Office Affair? Arata Osaka Forget Me Not, My Love?  Kenshin Shiota Kings of Paradise?   Yosuke Sagara Her Love in the Force?  Seiji Goto Irresistible Mistakes?  Natsume Asaoka Masquerade Kiss?  No one (Kei Soejima if I had to pick?) My Lady Juliet?  Haruto Miyake Tokyo Love Hustle?  Suzuki Mado or Harushige Chiluba if I had to pick?) Oops, I said yes?!?  Shu Hasunuma Professional Boyfriend?  Ikki Tatsumi Romance MD: Always On Call?   No one (Tetsuya Hosho if I had to pick?) Rose in the Embers?   Kyosuke Takatsukasa Scandal in the Spotlight? Iori Enjyo Star-Crossed Myth?  Karno Wanted: Romance Renegades? Shinji Ayano

Do your favorites have a trend in their appearance?  Their personalities?

I think it’s no secret that I like the black hair bespectacled and suit look.  As for personalities, I see a mix of tsunderes and childhood friends.

I’d have to go full spreadsheet mode, which tbh kind of sounds like fun, but I have a hypothesis that characters with similar personalities will have similar appearances.  It could just be a quirk of how Voltage styles their characters.

Favorite MC?  Least favorite MC?

I don’t really notice bad or good MCs.  I think either I’m just really good at immersing myself into the role of the trope filled naive MC, or I’m just too laissez-faire to get bothered by it. I’ve thought about it and I do have a few favorite MCs: Our Private Homeroom, Metro PD Close to You, Dreamy Days in West Tokyo, When Destiny Comes Knocking, and Destind: Mr. Almost Right.

Sakura Amidst Chaos, Celebrity Darling, and Be My Princess’ MCs come to mind as my least favorite MCs.

Best route(s)?

See the ‘Favorite guy from…’ section.

Worst route(s)?

Hiro Sarashina’s route isn’t BAD, but the progression of the romance felt weird to me like it all of a sudden skipped a step.  If you hadn’t noticed yet I have lots of mixed feelings about Hiro lol…

I think Yamato Kougami’s My Wedding and 7 Rings route was ehhhh.  It would have been a great story if they just left the twist out.  Just FYI his My Forged Wedding route is MUCH better.

Most realistic route(s)?

Realistic?  Uh…I dunno man, I romance guys in video games what do I know.

Saddest route(s)?

Sad?  We don’t tolerate sad stories in this household.  I like a few angsty plot points here and there, but I’m not about overly sad stories.

Happiest route(s)?

All of them?  My Forged Wedding and Dreamy Days in West Tokyo are pretty packed full of fluff.  I’ve read almost all of the main stories from these games, so I can confidently say that if you want a happy story play those.

First Voltage game?

My Forged Wedding or Love Letter from Thief X I believe.  I found Voltage probably mid to late 2012, when I was 17.

I played some of the GREE games, but I just didn’t like the story tickets and checkpoints system…that’s why I stopped playing visual novels from other companies like Arithmetic, NTT Solmare, etc.  I miss Starstruck Love lol.

Favorite Voltage game?

In terms of overarching plot…

Dreamy Days in West Tokyo, Diary of a Step-Sister, In Your Arms Tonight, In Your Arms Tonight 2, Kiss Me on Clover Hill, Kiss of Revenge, Kissed by the Baddest Bidder, Love Letter from Thief X, My Forged Wedding, My Sweet Bodyguard, Our Private Homeroom, Our Two Bedroom Story, Serendipity Next Door, and When Destiny Comes Knocking are my favorites.

You could say I like the student life and slice-of-life genres haha.

But I’m pretty sure My Forged Wedding’s plot is my absolute favorite.

Least favorite Voltage game?

Any game that the main stories are Love Choice.  Also games with the story tickets and checkpoint system.  I need to be able to read at my own pace.

Of the games I have played?  Sakura Amidst Chaos maybe.  I guess I like modern stories more. 

Games you haven’t played, but want to?

Butler Until Midnight and Class Trip Crush.

Games you haven’t played, but only have a lukewarm desire to play?

A Knight’s Devotion, Scandal in the Spotlight, Star Crossed Myth, and Codename: Cupid.

Games you haven’t played, and will probably only play when the stars align?

Dangerous Seduction, Era of Samurai Code of Love, Her Love in the Force, Irresistible Mistakes, Kings of Paradise, and Rose in the Embers.

Games you’ll NEVER play?

Tokyo Love Hustle (which sucks because the music and art are really great), A World With(out) You, Masquerade Kiss, and Destind Mr. Almost Right*…at least until ‘Love Choice’ is not a thing anymore, although tbh they don’t interest me even were they not Love Choice…

I also don’t have any plans to play the PARTY or Liar! games…even if they did migrate to the Love 365 app.

*yea I fucked that one up...but I did it for my love Araya and what are morals anyway?  I used hearts I had saved up from the previous daily wheel, it’s not like I spent money on it!

Favorite special/sub story/spinoff story?

Seduced in the Sleepless City’s Castaways, In Your Arms Tonight’s Baby Trouble?!, and all the His POVs are my favorites!

In Your Arms Tonight’s Another Story for Shohei and Genji were…really good!  I just needed to see them suffer a little bit with the MC not divorcing Koichi at the beginning…sorry not sorry.

Favorite epilogue, sequel, season n# story?

I’m slowly running out of Season 1 Main Stories I want to read, so I’ve started to branch out for my most beloved characters.

The formation of the relationship is really the most exciting part of the story for me, but for some characters maybe it’ll be nice to see the entire relationship from start to finish.

What plots, genres, themes, characters, etc. do you want to see in the future?

I really want the Japanese only titles to be translated…

Kimi o Aisu Nandodemo* and Hana Yori Dango ~F4 to Fāsutokisu~…for sure I would love to play.

*Kimi o Aisu Nandodemo aka Forget Me Not, My Love WAS TRANSLATED!!  It looks like Voltage has been bringing a lot of titles over, I’m not sure if they’re translating every title in the japanese app to english (I hope they do)...I’m just really excited!

As for totally new IPs…

Something sci-fi?  Time travel?  More love triangles?  More student-teacher relationships?  Villain romanceable characters?  MCs who are nerdy, tomboys, athletic, cynical, or antisocial?  GENDER BENDERS???  OH MY GOD.  Do I love any plot more than ‘Girl dresses up as a boy to be in an all-boys school’?  NO I DON’T.

There is only one thing that could top a gender bender……Yandere.

I doubt Voltage’s yanderes would be as dark or extreme as I like my yanderes, but… just take Kazuya Seto and Luke Foster (who I’ve heard is yandere-like, I’ll have to check it out someday) and just turn it up to eleven.

...Araya Kuze is a yandere...a soft yandere to be sure but he’s definitely the closest of all the characters I’ve seen.  He’s just...*chef kiss*

Things that Voltage should improve on?

Love Choice.  GET RID OF IT.  The main appeal of Voltage for me is the ownership of the stories.  Once you purchase the story…it’s yours.  Read it at your leisure, however many times you want, forever.

More stories where the endings are not just Super Happy, Happy, Neutral, Good, or Bad endings.  Potentially splitting the story paths up more than just different endings, although it could be done with separate stories I guess.

This is just my opinion, but most of the new games and new stories coming out are too focused on being ‘adult’ and sexual.  I just don’t come to Voltage for smut.  I’m here for romance, story, and relationship development which yes can include sex, but I’d almost prefer if it just faded to black instead of playing the 'how many different ways can we describe Eisuke thrusting into the MC’ game.

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