#Takashi Kawamura

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prince of tennis seigaku stickers

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Random thingies i did :3

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found this in my old laptop

[kisa-ownworld]

(Part 1) This took me a while to do but I"VE FINALLY DID IT!!!! YAHOO!!!!!

So this is my first impression of Prince of Tennis/Tenipuri characters, starting with the Seigaku team. For now, I've only watch playthroughs of Gakupuri and saw a bunch of clips from the show. (maybe i'll check out the series in the future) I've ended up really enjoying the characters which lead me to making these powerpoints just talking about them.

I've also discovered that u can draw in powerpoint so i decided to try it out and have some fun with it, Hope the doodles makes the slides more fun-looking!

(Part 2)

[incorrectpot]

Seigaku’s third years two years ago:

Taka-san: First tournament!!!

Tezuka: Why are you so loud?

Eiji: Whuu-huu!!! Yeah!!

Fuji: Hell yes! Let’s go kill this bitch!

Everyone: …….

Inui: This is a tennis tournament

Fuji: Right. Yeah, sorry

[sonadowfujoshi]

Sonic Frontiers Original Soundtrack: Stillness & Motion - CD Liner Notes

Sonic Frontiers, scheduled for release on November 8, 2022 (Tuesday), will have an original soundtrack CD “Sonic Frontiers Original Soundtrack Stillness & Motion” released on December 7, 2022 (Wednesday), containing 150 tracks of background music from the game, including the main theme song “I’m Here.” In addition, the soundtrack is scheduled to be released on music distribution services from…

[thatoneblogaccount]

I've never thought about it before, but what exactly was the idea behind putting the Fuji-Kawamura-Tezuka trio on merchandise?

Exhibit A:

Exhibit B:

Exhibit C:

Fuji-Kawamura? Alright, they're close and sometimes doubles partners. Fuji-Tezuka? Also reasonable. Tezuka-Kawamura? Does Tezuka even have a direct conversation with Kawamura more than once in the entire series??

Nasuko (the Fuji-Kawamura singing duet) being Tezuka's backup vocals for his Valentine Kiss feels like the icing on this confusing cake. Maybe they can band together and form a new band: The Brunets.

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Seigaku Masterlist

Tezuka Kunimitsu

Stoic nsfw

Sleeping in their jersey on the floor

Shuichiro Oishi

Fuji Shususke

Piggy-back ride

Unwanted kiss

NSFW headcanon with their girlfriend

Sleeping in their jersey on the floor

Eiji Kikumaru

NSFW headcanon with their girlfriend

Momoshiro Takeshi

Shy confessions

Kawamura Takashi

Inui Sadaharu

Kaidoh Kaoru

Artistic S/O

Ryoma Echizen

Piggy-back ride

Unwanted kiss

[youroriginalsublimecupcakestuff]

Happy birthday to all those others characters born on may 5

[mogai-headcanons]

Tezuka Kunimitsu from The Prince of Tennis is a gay asexual cis person who uses he/him pronouns, and he's dating Fuji!

Oishi Shuichiro is a biromantic demisexual bigender person who uses he/him and she/her pronouns, and he's dating Kikumaru!

Fuji Shusuke is a GNC gay AFAB person who uses all pronouns!

Kikumaru Eiji is a pansexual catgender person who uses he/him and nya/nyas pronouns!

Kawamura Takashi is a heteroflexible asexual demiboy with social anxiety who uses he/him and they/them pronouns!

Inui Sadaharu is an aromantic asexual boyflux person who uses he/him, ze/hir, they/them, and hx/hxm pronouns!

Momoshiro Takeshi is a pansexual cis person who uses he/him pronouns, and he has a crush on Kaido!

Kaido Kaoru is a gay demisexual trans man with bipolar disorder who uses he/him pronouns!

Echizen Ryoma is an autistic demiromantic asexual trans man who uses he/him pronouns!

dni link

[robyn-weightman]

I found another Japanese translated book about cats. This one is through the same publisher as my favourite book -The Guest Cat by takashi Hiraide - which I will never stop raving about.

Let's hope If Cats Disappeared From The World by Genki Kawamura is as brilliant 🥰

[magicalanimenetwork]

Dancing★Star Pretty Cure The Stage is an upcoming stage play coming to Tokyo and Osaka featuring an all male Precure group?!

Toei is really testing the waters this year huh? I could tell someone has been wanting to do this for years since Seiji and Pikario, but now Toei is finally allowing it. I guess this show and Cure Wing’s popularity will determine if we get more males in the future.

I hope it’s all or nothing, cause Toei has chickened out in the past…

~Staff information~

Original Work: Izumi Todo

Supervisor: Takashi Washio [Toei Animation] (鷲尾 天 [東映アニメーション])

Character Designer: Toshie Kawamura (川村敏江)

Director & Writer: Hosa Kayou (ほさかよう)

[alexandrarosa]

East Asian literature/movies/shows I’ve been currently enjoying and falling in love with:

Already consumed:

The housekeeper and the professor (or my preferred title: Professor’s beloved equation) by Yōko Ogawa – Japanese slice of life (find my short review here)

My neighbor Totoro by Studio Ghibli

Revenge: Eleven dark tales by Yōko Ogawa – slice of life-ish horror

First Love: Hatsukoi – slice of life Japanese romance (find my analysis here)

Little Forest – Korean slice of life movie

Something in the rain – Korean slice of life romance

If cats disappeared from the world by Genki Kawamura – Japanese slice of life meets Goethe’s Faust

The guest cat by Takashi Hiraide – the most slice of life book I’ve read

When the weather is fine – korean slice of life romance (find my posts about it here and here)

The Memory Police by Yōko Ogawa – dystopian fiction (if you enjoyed Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury you’ll love that too)

I will be your bloom – Japanese… I don’t even know how to describe the genre – it was wild, weird and wonderful (the analysis will be coming your way soon)

Sweet bean paste by Durian Sukegawa – Japanese slice of life

Your eyes tell – Japanese drama/romance – it wrecked me thank you very much, can’t recommend it enough

Please look after my mom by Kyung-sook Shin – Korean drama, very emotional

Norwegian wood by Haruki Murakami – Japanese romance, psychological drama

Currently consuming:

Garden by Hiroko Oyamada

To be consumed:

Ponyo by Studio Ghibli

Arrietty by Studio Ghibli

The wind rises by Studio Ghibli

Love like the falling petals – Japanese romance movie

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With how OtonaPre ended up being mid and had several questionable choices, I know that there are some, myself included, who are worried about how the MahoPre adult sequel will turn out. Even so, I remain cautiously optimistic, as this was always the one out of the two I was the most excited for.

Going back to the initial announcement for both OtonaPre and the MahoPre sequel, it's interesting to note that they only tentatively call it Mahou Tsukai PreCure! 2. They don't outright call it something like Otona Mahou Tsukai PreCure!, so maybe it's not really tied to the OtonaPre brand.

This would be a welcome change because one of the main problems with OtonaPre was that they tried to juggle a main cast of 8, arguably 10, or even 13, in just 12 episodes. This meant that several characters got shafted in development, notably Rin, Komachi, and Mai. In a MahoPre sequel, we'd only really need focus on Mirai, Riko, Haa-chan, and Mofurun, and maybe a few of the other side characters. Realistically I don't see what other seasons they could try and jam into MahoPre2, like not GoPriPre or KiraPre. MahoPre has such a distinctive style to it with all the witchcraft stuff.

Another thing to note from that initial announcement is that MahoPre2 will be airing on the late-night Animazing!!! block owned by TV Asahi and ABC TV, on Sundays 2:00-2:30 AM. This is quite the unusual choice because even OtonaPre, which aired on NHK-E, aired as late as Saturday 6:30PM. Similarly, Tokyo Mew Mew New aired around midnight when it broadcasted. I don't know what this really means in terms of "adult content" though, because even TMMN was mostly restrained in that regard. OtonaPre aired on a night/afternoon timeslot, but it also aired in the same block that had stuff like Spongebob, so they couldn't get too "adult," the most being stuff like alcohol consumption and climate change.

From this article back in March, Producer Takashi Washio notes that when NHK-E ("E" standing for education) was chosen to air OtonaPre on, he was asked if they could focus on topics related to SDGs, sustainable development goals. This is why OtonaPre has a large focus on climate change and sustainability, despite it feeling a bit out of place. I appreciate the focus on such topics, but I felt like it was taking up too much space in OtonaPre when combined with the topics of adulthood struggles and usual PreCure stuff, especially for just 12 episodes. I also think that the aforementioned Tokyo Mew Mew New, which aired last year and earlier this year, was much better at conveying these topics.

There's not much we know about MahoPre2, but I think I can say for certain that it won't have much of heavy environmental theme to it, and more so focus on expanding the lore of the Witch World. I expect the sequel to have 12-13 episodes like OtonaPre did, so not trying to jam several themes into such a limited scope will be good.

Another thing, that's a bit small is that, personally, I wasn't a fan of the art direction, notably the character designs, of OtonaPre. Toei outsourced the anime primarily to Studio DEEN, so most of the staff, character designer, series director, animation directors, art director, etc. were assigned to people who didn't seem to be that familiar with the series and the final product sort of reflected that. It's understandable why Toei outsourced most of the production, as this year, they also had to focus on the usual yearly PreCure, One Piece, the Sailor Moon Cosmos films, etc., and I expect more of the same next year for MahoPre2.

But I think that, at least in terms of character designer, we might get Emiko Miyamoto, who was the CD for the original MahoPre, back. The reason why Toshie Kawamura, who was the CD for Yes! Pretty Cure 5 and Yes! Pretty Cure 5 GoGo!, didn't come back for OtonaPre, seems to be that she's currently not accepting new work due to her poor health, as stated in her Twitter bio. This makes sense, as Kawamura recently did the character designs for the all-male Dancing Star PreCure, which, as a live-action stage play, had less commitments for her to deal with compared to OtonaPre. In contrast, from what I could gather, Miyamoto appears to be in good health, and she hasn't really done much work since Dragon Quest: Adventure of Dai, which ended last year. She did do some small animation work for the recent PreCure All Stars F film, but that's pretty much it. I think there will be time for her to return next year for MahoPre2, along with other staff like head writer Isao Murayama and series director Masato Mitsuka.

Ideally, I would hope that MahoPre2 has the women transform into adult Pretty Cure, unlike what OtonaPre did, but there's really nothing right now that I can predict, other than that it seemingly not being apart of the OtonaPre brand may raise some hope.

So yeah, these are the reasons why I'm holding out hope that MahoPre2 will still be good. Hopefully they don't do what they did in OtonaPre and have Mirai and Riko be paired off with random faceless men, and instead with each other. They have to make it gayer, with maintext, not subtext, like how they kissed in the manga.

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Seigaku members have some words for you

[godzilla-reads]

Japanese Books With Cats

"The Guest Cat" by Takashi Hiraide (trans. Eric Selland)

An author and his wife move into a new house and start getting visits from their neighbor's cat.

"The Travelling Cat Chronicles" by Hiro Arikawa (trans. Philip Gabriel)

Nana the cat is on a road trip with his person, Satoru. He doesn't know where they're going or why, only that they are visiting Satoru's old friends.

"The Cat Who Saved Books" by Sosuke Natsukawa (trans. Louise Heal Kawai)

Bookish student Rintaro Natsuki is about to have to close his late grandfather's bookshop when a magical talking cat named Tiger enlists his help to save the world of books.

"If Cats Disappeared from the World" by Genki Kawamura (trans. Eric Selland)

Our narrator's days are numbered as he finds out he is going to die. His only solace is his late mother's cat Cabbage, until the devil shows up and wants to make a deal.

"I am a Cat" by Soseki Natsume (trans. Graeme Wilson and Aiko Ito)

Written from 1904 through 1906, Soseki Natsume's comic masterpiece, I Am a Cat, satirizes the foolishness of upper-middle-class Japanese society during the Meiji era. With acerbic wit and sardonic perspective, it follows the whimsical adventures of a world-weary stray kitten who comments on the follies and foibles of the people around him.

"Oh Tama! A Mejiro Novel" by Mieko Kanai (trans. Tomoko Aoyama and Paul McCarthy)

Oh, Tama! takes the reader deep into the haphazard lives of Natsuyuki, the protagonist, and his loosely connected circle of dysfunctional acquaintances and family. Trying to keep some semblance of order and decency in his life, working as an occasional freelance photographer, Natsuyuki is visited by his delinquent friend Alexandre, who unexpectedly entrusts him with his sister's pregnant cat, Tama. Despite his initial protests, Natsuyuki accepts his new responsibility and cares compassionately for Tama and her kittens.

"She and Her Cat" by Makoto Shinkai and Tsubasa Yamaguchi

This is the story of Miyu, a woman who lives alone with her cat, Chobi. As Miyu navigates the world of adulthood, she discovers both the freedom and loneliness that come with living independently, and Chobi learns of the outside world through her actions. Time drifts slowly for Miyu and her cat, but the harsh realities of the world soon catch up...

"A Man and His Cat Vol. 1" by Umi Sakurai

Convinced he will never find a home, an "ugly" pet shop cat is thrilled when a man comes in and falls in love. These are their adventures together.