#TMM tour spoilers

[theworstcreature]

TMM TOUR SPOILERS BELOW BUT I NEED TO SCREAM ABOUT THIS

OH MY GOD YOU GUYS DURING SGTL AND WSV THEY SAT IN MY SECTION I GOT A VIDEO BUT ITS KINDA SHIT 😭😭😭😭 BUT LIKE AT ONE POINT I WAS LEGIT TEN FEET AWAY FROM JACK OMG IM GONNA REMEMBER IT FOREVER HE WAS RIGHT FUCKING THERE

ALSO DTOML OMG SO GOOD IM STILL GOING INSANE LIKE WHAT

I traded SO MANY BRACELETS with people the AJR fans are SO NICE I LOVED IT

Before the concert even started we were chillin in the stands messing around waving flashlights and bright colors on our phones to people on the OTHER SIDE KF THE STADUIM omg it was so fun

They never played the dumb song or hole in the bottom of my brain tho💔💔💔💔💔

And 2085 STILL absolutely slaughtered me bc honestly how could it NOT

Also I kinda got a PHOTO OF THE BOW ⁉️⁉️

(Technically a screen cap from a video but STILL)

Unrelated but I GOT THE INERTIA SHIRT AND THE PURPLE TOUR SHIRT OH MY GOD THEYRE SO PRETTY IM OBSESSED MY FRIEND GOT THE PURPLE AND THE GREEN SHIRT AND RHE GREEN ONE JS SO SO SO DAMN COOL

Also I’m PROUD to say I got the song breakdown right AGES before my friend did (AND I got dtoml by the first NOTE)

BANG MADE ME LOOSE MY FUCKING SHIT IR WAS SO GOOD AND FUN AND RARGHHHHHHHHHHHHH

INERTIA DAMN NEAR MADE ME COLLAPSE ON THE SPOT IT WAS MAGNIFICENT GRAND BEAUTIFUL AWESOME EVERY POSITIVE DESCRIPTION POSSIBLE

Also the turning out trilogy WAS PLAYED OMFG

Anyways I am not the same person I was on Friday and I need to see that concert like five more times

[hero-of-fortune]

so,,, the maybe man tour, huh? Wowza 😮‍💨

if you saw me post this earlier without his little beard shhhh no you didn’t what are you talking about

[cocatgaming12]

Went to The Maybe Man tour last night! It was such a wonderful experience.

[eclipsedcrystalstar]

It’s the only part of The Trick that he actually sings in concert but man the way Jack sings

“We’ll get out of this, cause I love you I do. We’ll get out of this, cause I love you it’s true, but if you’re doubting this, if you’re doubting that I do. Then oh my God I’m screwed”

The way he drags out the “I” for the second “I do” just wonderful, it matches so well with the soft guitar instrumental from Dear Winter it’s paired with for the concert

[hookahpop]

allowed myself to look up the setlist for the maybe man tour and how tf am i supposed to function for the rest of the day

[snekthedemonnoodle]

GUYS IM FUCKIN DEAD

SPOILERS AHOUT THE TMM TOUR BELOW READ AT UR OWN RISK

OK SO AHSJDHSLAHALKA

FIRST OF ALL THIS ISNT REALLY A SPOILER BUT ARNETTA WAS AMAZING AS ALWAYS

SECOND OF ALL FOR WORLDS SMALLEST VIOLEN AND SGTL THEY WENT AND SAT IN THE CROWD AND SANG. MY SEATS WERE KINDA CLOSE SO I RAN UP AND I GOT A SMILE FROM RYAN!!!!!!!! HSGSJAGAKWHALSKAJA I DID IN FACT CRY ABOUT IT LATER

UHHH THE VISUALS WERE FUCKING. AMAZING. HOLY SHIT YOU GUYS THEY REALLY REALLY DID GO ALL OUT WHAT THE FUCK

UMM THATS KINDA IT TO AHAHHDJAHAKA

ITS LITERALLY GOING TO TAKE ME A MONTH TO PROCESS LAST NIGHT OMFG

[noctisvixen]

So I went to TMM Tour with one of my roommates recently and like...

Very glad my first live tour/show was AJR and with an album that I connect so much with. Like oh my god, there were tears and I could literally feel the music under my feet and in my chest. It was almost like having a second heartbeat. I won't say more to avoid spoilers for those who want to see it live <3.

If you haven't decided on seeing them live, you definitely should! It was probably one of the best experiences in my life and I definitely plan to see them again on their next tour.

[jetlaggingbehind]

breaking news: mistholme s4e11 leaves local podcast fan an emotional wreck!!

EDIT: adding an id with thanks to @princess-of-purple-prose​!

[ID: Blue-toned art of the Audio Tour Guide, or Mistholme, as a human. It is against a black background in which bold words float: "Silence, Mistholme." Mistholme, who has a short ponytail and is wearing a vest with a collared shirt, chokes and clutches its throat with shock and distress. A scratchy white aura backs its head. End ID]

[curestardust]

if you want: mediocre idol anime with a lot of missed potential

It had a promising start and a letdown of an execution.

The first episode is actually quite interesting. We’ve an idol group called “Ongaku Shoujo” aka Music Girls who’re quite unpopular. At one of their busking events in the airport, our main character Hanako runs into them. She is the daughter of two musicians who’re there for their Japan tour. After the girls do their performance they find out that Hanako has an extraordinary ability of learning dances just by seeing them once. However, when she gets on stage it turns out that she is absolutely shit at singing.

So you’re probably thinking: aaahhh, so she will join the group and work hard to improve her singing and then they get popular in the process? Well, no. Hanako is immediately shafted into a staff position and...that’s it. So what IS it about then? 

The group getting popular. Obsviously, this is an often used schtick in idol anime but the way they went about it was horrible, you know why? Cause WE DON’T SEE IT!

Ongaku Shoujo has 11 members and this anime has 12 episodes. Each episode advances the “plot” a tiny, tiny bit while it also puts one or two of the members in the spotlight. This formula is fine. I can at the very least list one personality trait of each girl even if I don’t remember their name. 

Back to the plot, we’re barely shown them getting popular. It’s obvious from the fact that they’re invited to shows ans given CF opportunities but besides a few moments it really doesn’t come off as them being a “popular”.

Even worse is the second main character of the anime, Ouri who is the leader and the center for the group. She has an incredibly annoying personality. Has a really short fuse, likes to shout at people and act on impulse and doesn’t discuss her problems with her members. 

Aaaand the finale episode. Without spoilers: the biggest bullshit of a deux ex machina I’ve ever seen.

Technical side isn’t even worth talking about. Average to laughable art and animation and mediocre music, of which there’s few anyway. 

So, yeah. The majority of the cast is kinda lovable but it’s really just. Lame. Not worth watching if you have any standards whatsoever. [4/10] (x)

BONUS: Ongaku Shoujo’s “origin” is worth a few words. A 25 minute long OVA by the same name aired at the Anime Mirai in 2015. And it’s pretty good! The animation is fluid and the artstyle is soft and nice to look at. They manage to fit all the highs and lows of the story, which IS a quite typical idol anime themed but it’s not too jarring. I honestly thought that the TV version was going to rework the story we saw here but unfortunately besides 2 of the characters resembling and having the same names as the 2 protagonists of the OVA, there is no further connection between the two. But if you want something short and sweet idol stuff, I’d recommend. [7/10] (x)

Recommend: HELL Yeah! | Yes | Eh??? | Nope | This anime killed my parents

if you want: family movie / interesting take on the flow of time

Mirai no Mirai is a movie with an interesting basis. 

Our main characters are a family, the Ootas. At the start of the movie we find out that the mother has given birth to their second child, Mirai. We mostly follow around their first child, Kun.

The movie presents an idea: what if time was not linear but fluid where characters from other times could visit you and you could visit them? We’re shown this idea through Kun. He is goes through the many problems a boy his age would go through. Jealousy because of his new sister, the frustration of not being pampered 24/7, trying to learn new skills for the first time etc. Each time he dashes out into the yard out of impulse where the tree would light up and throw us into the fantasy side of the story. The first few times he meets the personified version of the family dog and her sister from the future but as the movie goes on these time jumps become more extreme. Kun meets multiple of his relatives in numerous points of their lives where he learns something related to the problems he is facing...or he is supposed to.

The idea of the movie is fascinating and was the reason I decided to watch it, but multiple problems plague Mirai no Mirai which can drastically take away from the enjoyment of the movie. 

The most drastic one is Kun’s personality. Making an impulsive, loud, rebellious and rude 5 year old boy the main character of the movie was a questionable desicion. However, this wouldn’t have been as annoying if he showed improvement. Each time he comes back from the other world the tree took him to, he seems like he learnt a lesson. But when we cut into the next scene that’s all gone and he is acting as annoying as ever. It doesn’t really show that his meetings with his other relatives left any long-lasting impression on him.

The others are more technical. Many of the voice actors are rookies and it shows, especially on Kun which is another questionable decision, considering that we have to listen to him throughout the whole movie. 

The animation and the art direction are both quite well done, with the background being expecially gorgeous. However, they used CGI with certain scenes and it’s quite obvious due to the different movements of those scenes. When used sparingly, they were fine, but there was a scene near the end with a HEAVY use of quite ugly CGI that didn’t really fit the tone or the look of the movie and it was...weird.

I’m pretty sure that I’m simply not the target demographic for this movie. People who could relate to the struggles of the parents trying to balance work and kids while also being able to find Kun and Mirai’s constant whining adoring would most likely enjoy this more. [6/10] (x)

Recommend: HELL Yeah! | Yes | Eh??? | Nope | This anime killed my parents

if you want:an amazing magical girl anime / one (1) actual healthy romance / nice cast of main characters

Haying reached another milestone, I yet again decided to rewatch one of my childhood favourites and this time I settled on Tokyo Mew Mew.

TMM, Mew Mew Power in English and Vadmacska Kommandó (Wildcat Commando) as I personally knew it, still holds up surprisingly well.

Having aired in 2003, Tokyo Mew Mew sticks to the magical girl themes mostly present at the time which is the story putting just as much emphasis on the romance as the magical girl aspects. The latter of which uses formulas that are still in use today: monster-of-the-week, colour coded characters, the Big Bad etc.

While we have 5 Mew Mews in the team but Ichigo, our leader and pink magical girl, gets the most airtime our of all of them. The other girls get a few episodes mostly focused on them here and there but it’ll be kinda a letdown for those who’re HUGE fans of one of the other Mew Mews.

Which is why it’d be quite a big problem if Ichigo was insufferable but she isn’t! She does have the usual tropes: ditzy, noisy and all-over-the-place. However, she is also loyal, kind, hardworking and strong. 

Now I’d like to say a few things about the romance. It’s incredibly rare to get that right in magical girl anime. Almost every relationship I’ve seen was unhealthy or annoying. But not here, oh no! In the very first episode we find out that Ichigo has landed a date with the school’s most popular guy, Aoyama. This makes it so that we don’t have to suffer through the “will they, won’t they” and we arrive when their relationship begins to take root. They go through highs and lows but they support each other all the way and I just love them.

But as good as the Aoyama romance is, the others are....not so much. As usual the romances center around our main character, aka Ichigo. The 2 culprits are Ryou and Quiche. Ryou is the brain behind the Mew Mew Project so he’s sort of like Ichigo’s boss. He doesn’t outright pursue her nor seems too interested in her however he has a bad tendency of kissing Ichigo a few times and NO. I very much didn’t like that. However, while he kinda exists the picture toward the end we have the rapey romance aka Quiche. He is an alien aka the enemy. He become infatuated with Ichigo for seemingly no particular reason and is just generally uhhhh...rapey. Unfortunately, his character doesn’t really go through much of a development which is a shame.

Anyway, before I finish, let me bring up the transformations. U G H. Yes they are much more simple than the ones today but I’m still in love with them. My favourite was Minto’s. The fluidity of her movements, the angles used, the material of her clothes and the pure creativity....they’re just gorgeous.

So, my true score of this is a 9/10 but my nostalgia would kill me if I gave this anything other than a perfect score so there’s that, If you’re a magical girl fan, Tokyo Mew Mew is a MUST! [10/10] (x)

Recommend: HELL Yeah! | Yes | Eh??? | Nope | This anime killed my parents

[theworstcreature]

TMM TOUR SPOILERS BELOW

I will NEVER live down the fact that the actual real live ajr brothers sat in MY SECTION like at one point 15ish feet away from me !!!!!!!!

I was going INSANE the whole time like I would give my video but it’s shaky bc I was going feral and you can hear my GOBLIN SCREAMS during certain parts so enjoy this goofy ass screen cap instead of jack skedadeling away from my oh so lovely video<3

My life peaked in that random stadium two states away

[theworstcreature]

hi mutual, how much for u to. tag spoilers for the ajr tour as #ajr spoilers or #tmm spoilers (ur choice!!)

I don’t plan on posting many spoilers, but if I do, they will be tagged with the #tmm spoiler and have a read more before the actual spoiler =)