#Yuya’s Journal

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Yuya Florence

A magicless human from other world seemingly with no memories or perhaps locked memories.With only a driver license and  journal that gives them some identity .Now in this new place Yuya is just trying to survive what NRC throws at them hoping to recover what they lost.

Twst- The shooting star over the castle in the beginning of movies

Personality 

Kinda complicated to explain but Yuya honestly doesn’t have a consistent personality in the main story because they change to how to protect themselves or what the situation needs/happening around them it’s in the way of her trying to survive and does it subconsciously . Out of main story when there isn’t a crisis and can somewhat relax Yuya is kinda childish, sassy at times, blunt , more on the quiet side,Petty,chaotic asking the most random questions,  intrusive thoughts are likely to win but is deeply hurting on the inside.

Basic info

-Age : 18

He/her/ They

Voice claim: Eng-Veronica-Heathers the musical (OG) Jp-Ibuki mioda-Danganronpa

-height : 172 cm

-Birthday : August 8

-dominant hand : Left

- Family: Mother(deceased ), Yolonda, aunt, uncle, 2 older cousins, pretty big family but those are the main ones

-Homeland: USA, Earth

-Nicknames : Srimpy(Floyd) Yu-Yu (Cater, Lilia, Kalim) Trickster (Rook) Herivore or Omnivore if ignored (Leona) Child of man( Malleus) Human/Human perfect (Sebek) Troublemaker (Idia) Yu(everyone else) Perfect (basically everyone but main after Book 3)

-favorite food: Chili oil noodles, candied lemon, strawberry lemonade

-hobbies/likes : Rhythm games,horror movies, collecting cute bags, scrapbooking/journaling , Photography, crocheting and knitting

-Dislikes: Bland food, Green tea, Fuzzy socks, Ants ,smell of alcohol, feeling sweaty, strong smells

-Pet peeve : Forgetting things

-Favorite subject: Alchemy

-club : hopes between clubs mostly at board game club

-Talent: lock picking, Cooking, Dodging

More info

- Has a bit of an obsession photography because they represent memories and Yuya doesn’t want to and scared to forget again

-Got called a beast tamer and ran with it, can make friends or form some kind of bond with all kinds of creatures, Ghosts etc.

-Yuya sleep walks and it gets worse over time

- trying to keep it together

- Will fight like her life depends on it even outside the overblots

-Yuya was really in denial of being in other world up until the end of book 2. Getting a scar from Leona’s OB was how it really settled in for Yuya that Twisted wonderland was not a dream. Before that his thinking was “I don’t belong here so surely someday I wake up and I’ll be back where I belong “ was how they were trying to rationalize being in an another world.(Didn’t get any scars from Riddle tho)

-Yuya is insecure about the scars they get not even like to look in the mirror

- After OB will get a dream of the full movie. Will have dreams about people outside of the OB like the staff members and will get full context after 3 dreams.

- Yuya doesn’t really good out of his way to talk to people most times it was others who introduce/ be introduced but if Yuya ran into someone they’ll still introduce themselves to be respectful.

- Took a bit for Yuya to warm up going out to talk to others (Ace, Deuce and Grim are bit of the exception given how they’re always around each other tho Yuya was mostly quiet in the beginning)

-Gave up on hope of ever being able to get home after book 4 and  focus on trying to get their memories back

- Doesn’t ask for help for themselves but to help others or if Grim asks them to like in book 4

- got a staff weapon after book 2

-Starts to tired being the Perfect and having to help others is all they’re worth and scared to know what happens if they stop helping others,” will I be forced to leave Ramshackle is the only home I know”

- Skips a lot of orientation/assembly stuff. Some tried to scold Yuya “ Your the ramshackle perfect you need to set an example” along those lines but Yuya would just ignore it or respond  “ Since when has anyone respected me as a Dorm leader”(Yuya doesn’t like the memory of orientation )

-Human arm rests taller or shorter doesn’t matter (Floyd,Leona,Cater,Ace are the main perpetrators)

-“Where did you get that!?!?” “…don’t worry about it”

More about Yuya

Outfits

Backstory

Yuya after their mother passed got sent to live with her Aunt family. It was basically to make them look good and all must make it look like they were the perfect family.

Yuya didn’t really get to be their own person but the mold his aunt and uncle wanted which ties into why he doesn’t have a consistent personality

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Journal 6 Feb - ChatGPT and Me:

Different directions in Prompting

The current I Ching project is to create images from the sayings in the I Ching which are not always subject specific. That is having direct nouns which can more easily lead to image creations.The goal is to see what Midjourney creates.

A similar basic prompt sent to Midjourney Prompter by Yuya Kikuchi, a ChapterGPT tool, create prompts which a more descriptive and include more subject detail. This does direct Midjourney.

Compare :

Original Prompt : Create an oil painting in the style of the Renaissance, of Beneficial to act in major undertakings. focusing on rich, deep colors and detailed textures. The composition should feature dramatic contrasts of light and shadow, with a sense of depth and three-dimensionality. –iw 0.5 –ar 3:2 –v 6

Titian is not mentioned directly but reference using styles applicable to him.

ChatCPT My request : An oil painting of Beneficial to act in major undertakings in the style of Titian. Titian is mention directly to see what style prompts ChatGPT creates Midjourney Prompter : "Capture an oil painting that embodies the theme 'Beneficial to act in major undertakings', styled after the Renaissance master Titian. Focus on the dramatic use of light and shadow, typical of Titian's work, to highlight the significance and impact of decisive actions in critical moments. Incorporate rich, deep colors and detailed expressions to convey the weight of decisions and their beneficial outcomes. Frame the subjects using the golden ratio for a balanced and harmonious composition, emphasizing the depth and emotional intensity of the scene. --ar 3:2 --v 6.0

The ChatGPT with more direction and more mentions of Titian in the prompt does give a more Titian style prompt. However the original prompt creates a useful image which equally reflects the prompt without an overwhelming artist style.

It depends on the artist's direction

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[ad_1] The IceCube Lab under a starry, night sky, with the Milky Way appearing over low auroras in the background. Yuya Makino, IceCube/NSF hide caption toggle caption Yuya Makino, IceCube/NSF The IceCube Lab under a starry, night sky, with the Milky Way appearing over low auroras in the background. Yuya Makino, IceCube/NSF A giant detector buried deep within the Antarctic ice at the South Pole has obtained the first evidence of eerie particles called neutrinos coming from the innards of our own home galaxy, the Milky Way. The discovery is a step towards scientists being better able to use particles to study hidden or elusive phenomena in the universe, rather than having to rely on light seen by telescopes. Neutrinos are subatomic particles that have been compared to "ghosts slipping through the night," because they're so insubstantial and seem to barely interact with the rest of the physical world. The Earth is constantly being bombarded by neutrinos, but most originate in the sun or in the atmosphere. An artist's composition of the Milky Way's interior, with neutrino emissions in blue. IceCube/NSF (Lily Le & Shawn Johnson)/ESO (S. Brunier) hide caption toggle caption IceCube/NSF (Lily Le & Shawn Johnson)/ESO (S. Brunier) An artist's composition of the Milky Way's interior, with neutrino emissions in blue. IceCube/NSF (Lily Le & Shawn Johnson)/ESO (S. Brunier) A decade ago, a particle detector known as the IceCube Neutrino Observatory managed to find neutrinos coming from outside our solar system. They've known that some are coming from outside our galaxy, and they figured that some must come from the Milky Way, too. IceCube has been hunting for those. "It was accepted that there would be neutrinos coming from our galaxy, but we didn't have any evidence until now," says Ignacio Taboada, a professor of physics at the Georgia Institute of Technology and IceCube's spokesperson. The IceCube team says in the journal Science that it's used machine-learning techniques to sort through ten years of data, revealing neutrinos emanating from the inner parts of the Milky Way. But it's not yet clear whether the neutrinos are coming from a collection of specific sources or if it's a more diffuse kind of emission. "It's probably a combination of both," Taboada says. One of the most exciting things about this discovery is the possibilities it opens up for learning more about the origins of cosmic rays, he says. Cosmic rays are subatomic particles that travel through the universe at almost the speed of light, and although they have been studied for over a century, much about them remains mysterious. [ad_2] #Ghostly #neutrinos #coming #interior #Milky #NPR

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So I got gifted this “Library of Teas” today and oh my god I’m absolutely in LOVE with the packaging! The tea boxes are all made to look like little books on a book shelf!

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5 Underrated Video Games

1. Night in the Woods

Margaret "Mae" Borowski is a 20-year-old college dropout, who relocates back to her hometown of Possum Springs, which has been struck by the closure of the coal mines and the stagnating economy. She meets up with her old friends, including gloomy but intelligent Beatrice "Bea" Santello, hyperactive delinquent Greggory "Gregg" Lee, and Gregg's quiet, modest boyfriend Angus Delaney. Mae also learns that another one of her old friends, Casey Hartley, has mysteriously disappeared.

Mae spends several days exploring Possum Springs and spending time with her friends, but she also begins to have strange and vivid dreams. At the town's Halloween festival, Mae witnesses a teenager being kidnapped by a mysterious figure. The four friends begin working together to figure out what is going on, with Mae's mental health slowly deteriorating with every one of her dreams. After intensive searching, the four stumble across a strange group of cloaked figures in the woods, who chase after them; Mae ends up falling and lapses into a coma.

Mae eventually wakes up and returns to her friends, and she reveals that the reason she dropped out was due to her increasing dissociation from people and the world (it is implied that Mae suffers from some sort of depersonalization disorder), seeing everything as merely shapes. Mae's journal, in which she draws pictures for each major event in the game, was given to her by a doctor to write down her emotions after she bludgeoned a student with a softball bat six years ago as a result of a dissociative episode. Due to this incident, the townsfolk became wary of Mae and caused a financial and emotional strain in her family. As her dissociation worsened at college, Mae mustered up the strength to leave and return home, hoping that being back in Possum Springs would help her return to normal.

Still wounded, Mae decides to venture out into the woods alone to find the group who chased her and the others, only for Gregg, Bea, and Angus to refuse to let her go by herself. The group enter the old mines and meet the mysterious group, who are revealed to be a cult. The cult turns out to be behind the kidnappings of several residents, including Casey, taking those whom they deem useless to society and whom they say will "not be missed" into the mines to sacrifice them to a god-like chthonic entity called the Black Goat in hope that the Black Goat will revitalize the economy of Possum Springs. The cult's leader allows the group to leave, threatening them never to tell anyone about the cult – however while riding up the mine's elevator, a member of the group attempts to kill Mae. The others manage to save her and the elevator falls, collapsing the mine and presumably trapping the cult underground.

Depending on who the player interacted with the most throughout the course of the game, Mae will sit down with either Bea or Gregg and talk about the events of the previous night, and all the things that have happened in Possum Springs. The others join them shortly after, and Mae tells them that although they will all be forced to grow and adapt to life as it goes on for better and for worse, they can still enjoy their time together now. The game ends as the four decide to forget about their problems for the time being and have band practice.

2. Among the Sleep

Among the Sleep is a first-person exploration game seen from the view of a toddler. The player can move the cursor to walk or crawl around, the latter of which is faster and is required to slide through obstacles blocking the way. Running is also an available option, though the player will fall down if it is done for too long. The player can interact with and push objects, and open doors and windows. Sometimes, the handle to open doors is too tall to reach for the player, in which case the player will have to push and climb chairs for additional height. Other than chairs, the player can climb boxes, tables, and various things to reach otherwise unreachable ledges and heights. Certain objects can also be held as well as thrown away. Others can be stored to the inventory and taken out again for later use.

For most of the game, the player is accompanied by a sentient teddy bear named Teddy, a birthday present from the toddler's father. The player can hug Teddy, who emits light that helps the player navigate through darker environments. The light will wear down after a while, but will recharge if left unused. If the player drops Teddy, which always happens whenever they arrive from sliding through pipes to a new level or environment, they will have to pick it up first before advancing again.

Throughout the game, the player is followed by two monsters: a feminine figure that haunts the first three levels, and a trench coat-wearing figure that haunts the final level. The monsters' appearance is indicated by the blurring of the vision, grating sounds, and in the case of the feminine figure, a slow lullaby (Trollmors Vuggesang), "Trollmother's Lullaby") hummed about. There is no way to fend off the monsters; if they appear, the player will have to run away or hide under tables or chairs until they go away. If the player is not quick enough to evade the monsters, a short cinematic will show the monsters taking hold of the player, which results in a game over, followed by a continue screen with a pacifier. Clicking the pacifier restarts the game from the last checkpoint. The player can also get a game over by other means, such as falling into water or chasms.

The game is largely linear and involves going from point A to B, though the expansive environment with multiple obstacles may induce the feeling of being lost. After some time exploring the player's house, the player is taken to a dreamlike location with a gingerbread house-like hut that serves as a sort of hub level. The house contains a circular door that leads to a new level, surrounded by four containers where "memories" obtained from each level are stored. After the player finds a memory and heads to a tube at the end of the level, they will be returned to this hut. Once four memories are stored, the player can insert Teddy's right hand below the circular door to return to the player's house.

In the extra DLC level, instead of exploring dreamlike locations, the player is taken to another house with the objective of finding and thawing five frozen dolls by playing music or turning on the TV. The gameplay is still the same, with the feminine figure haunting the player, but the player is also confronted by a fireplace monster in the underground section that advances and closes in through an aisle.

3. Rule of Rose

Described as "essentially an interactive movie" by its director Shuji Ishikawa and associate producer Yuya Takayama, the narrative of Rule of Rose centers on the traumatic childhood memories of Jennifer, "an ordinary, vulnerable girl"; these memories sometimes manifest in exaggerated ways. Set in England, the game opens in 1930, as 19-year-old Jennifer is led to an abandoned orphanage by a boy. She follows him to a grave in the courtyard, where she digs up a coffin with a bloody sack inside it. Four children sneak up on her and pour water on her, before shoving her into the coffin. She awakens in a largely abandoned airship in flight to an unknown destination, ruled by a cruel group of young girls known as the Red Crayon Aristocrats, despite the presence of adults on board. Under the threat of death, Jennifer must appease the Aristocrats by bringing an offering for them each month. Assisting her is Brown, a dog she frees from confinement in the airship, and the chronically sickly Wendy, who is the only child to be friendly to her.

Jennifer eventually regains her memories of being cared for by the farmer Gregory Wilson, after she was orphaned in an unrelated airship crash. There, he was kind to her, though he confused her with his dead son Joshua, kept her prisoner, and periodically slid into melancholy alcoholism. Discovering her one day, Wendy began to exchange letters with Jennifer and eventually convinced her to escape, but not before Wendy stole his gun. The two then renewed their oath of "everlasting, true love," with Jennifer's stuffed bear exchanged for Wendy's brooch. Back on the airship, Jennifer ascends to becoming part of the Red Crayon Aristocrats, after retrieving the stuffed bear for the Princess of the Red Rose, the co-leader of the Aristocrats.

The game's setting then transitions to the now-inhabited orphanage. Bullied by the children, Jennifer is horrified to find that she has become the offering of the month; meeting up with Wendy in the courtyard, she loses Brown and later finds his corpse in the Aristocrats' meeting room, where he had been killed in her place. Wendy then reveals herself as the Princess of the Red Rose. Jennifer, now a child, slaps her and casts aside her brooch, hating the Aristocrats and herself for being too cowardly to oppose them. Afterward, the Aristocrats approach Jennifer, now an adult, in the hopes that she will replace Wendy as their leader, whom they have deposed. Wendy, however, retaliates against the children by mentally conditioning Gregory into assuming the persona of "Stray Dog," a dangerous creature she had invented to assume power over the other children. She then brings Gregory, as Stray Dog, to kill everyone in the orphanage. Only Jennifer escapes the onslaught. Before being killed off-screen, Wendy, now remorseful, confesses her role in it, which had been sparked by her jealousy over Brown. She then gives Jennifer Gregory's gun. Gregory then returns to kill Jennifer, and in a moment of lucidity, he asks "Joshua" to give him back the gun, which Jennifer does. He then kills himself.

Rule of Rose concludes with Jennifer, as a child, waking in the large empty orphanage and reflecting on the events and characters. Jennifer vows to remember the other children, especially because the media coverage of the children's deaths had diminished after it came to light that Jennifer had been the survivor of two horrific events, and meets with Wendy and Gregory. In the final scene, Jennifer visits Brown, now a puppy, in the shed and puts a collar on him. She completes a Bucket Knight nearby, symbolizing that she can always remember and return to her memories of Brown. Promising to protect him for eternity, she then closes the door on him.

4. Tattletail

The game takes place in 1998 over the course of 5 nights, beginning on December 20th and ending on Christmas Day. The player wakes up on Night 1 to open their Christmas present early. The present is the new fad toy, a purple Baby Talking Tattletail (based on a Furby). After playing with the toy briefly (which involves feeding and grooming it), the player puts it back into its box and goes back to bed.

On Night 2, the player finds the same Tattletail in the tumble dryer, with no indication of how it got there. The player then charges it, wraps it back up into its box and goes back to bed.

On Night 3, the player encounters the contents of an old nursery in the basement. In the corner sits the now-recalled Mama Tattletail, along with a cassette tape which can be played using the toy. The tape contains a snippet from a story in a read-along style - including prompts to "turn the page" - about how "the children thought that Mama would never find them as long as she couldn't see them" but Mama would find them nevertheless. The player returns upstairs to find that Tattletail has made a mess. Tattletail asks to be taken to “Mama”. The player returns to the spot to find that Mama has disappeared. Mama Tattletail then starts to hunt down the player when they try to clean up after Tattletail.

On Night 4, after a lengthy hide-and-seek session with another Tattletail, the player finds a VHS tape that shows several interchangeable camera feeds from what seems to be a Tattletail commercial (which is actually footage from the trailer). After some time, some of the camera feeds' names turn red, the lighting changes from blue to green and trash bags and obscured parts of inanimate or writhing human bodies appear.

On Christmas Eve, Baby Talking Tattletail invites the player to the basement to join a "party" with a yellow and blue Baby Talking Tattletail, with two more that the player must fetch. After the player gets them, they must pick up their own Tattletail and get some supplies from upstairs. The player then finds out that the Talking Tattletails have made a pentagram out of the Christmas lights with the VHS tape in the middle, and have begun chanting in a seance. After rewinding the VHS tape, Mama appears and steals the candles and the player must find them in vases scattered around the basement while avoiding being attacked by Mama. Once the seance reaches its climax, the tape begins to levitate and the player must destroy it. The seance then ends and the player goes back to bed.

5. Duck Season

Summer 1988 and your mom has just rented the coolest new game for your Kingbit Entertainment System. As you play over the course of the day it becomes apparent something is different about this game than the other games you own. Duck Season is a throwback to the golden age of 1980's gaming and movies with a hint of horror in a Spielburgian universe. Re-live a slice of childhood as you transported to an eerily familiar memory and play out the dark story that unfolds over a single day/night as your imagination takes over.

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The Freedom of Expression Ep 10 - Stir caused as Don Nomura uploads a photo of his father, Nomura Katsuya's corpse.

K: This is Dir en grey's Kaoru, starting another episode of The Freedom of Expression. Joe san, Tasai san, welcome.

J, T: Thank you *1

K: Can we have the topic for this episode, Joe.

J: Yes, 'Don Nomura uploads a photo of his father, Nomura Katsuya's corpse to Twitter. Twitter is on fire with calls to delete it.'

Well, the former baseball manager Nomura Katsuya died on the 11th of February, and the photo of his corpse...Well, we say its his son, but they are not related by blood right? Its Nomura's wife, Sachiko's son (*from a previous relationship*). Well, anyway, they are family right? He took a photo of the corpse (*at the funeral*) and uploaded it to social media. Many voices have been raised saying it looks scary or creepy, so 'please delete it'.  Well, how should we think about this? It was a theme which caught my interest.

T: In Japan, we don't generally do that, do we?

J: We don't. Even with the death of close relatives, we don't tend to take photos, do we?

T: Right, we don't take commemorative photos with everyone gathered.

J: No, we don't. I think we tend to give the deceased more of a solemn send off. But I have lived in America for a little while, I mean, not all American's are like this but, you could say for Christianity, they have quite individualistic funerals. Also, when they say goodbye, they sometimes kiss the corpse and so on. Thats normal, and some people even take photos, but the circumstances might change if someone were to upload a photo to social media for all to see. Kaoru, how do you feel about this?

K: Well, lots of people can see it, so maybe its ok to bothered about it...but i don't really mind.  I mean, its his relative, it might be different if it was a stranger...but he's not just some wierdo. Well..I have a feeling its....????*2

T: I've covered Noumra san while I was a sports journalist, and when I was shown this recent photo, in my heart I thought..hmm, his face looks nice, he looks at peace.

J: I see. Well, opinion is very divided on this, but another thought I had about this one photo is...For a while I was chief editor for the magazine Days Japan. Its a photo journalism magazine, and it quite often included war photos. And in that case, well, for war in the middle east etc, the bodies of people who had died were visible in them, so there was a lot of debate about whether or not we should run them. At that time, one line that we took was that, for example, we would not run photos of people who had died in natural disaters, but in relation to war, we thought we must think about why it happened, and that the bodies might hold a message in relation to that. Obviously, we avoided very grotesque photos, but we did run numerous photos of bodies for this reason. Another thing I also conversely thought is, well at this point I don't know if movies do this, but there is a documentary movie called, 'Utanohajimari', I went to see it recently and was quite surprised. At the beginning of the movie, there is a birth scene, and there was a message warning viewers about the scene, that it wouldn't be censored. It was written that you will be watching it uncensored. So I thought, oh ok, but at the same time, in relation to birth and death, the two biggest events in a persons life, the start and the end...in this country we can't quite express ourselves freely. Its essentially a culture of trying to hide these things...I vaguely thought about this. We can get whatever  information we need to live our lives from all sorts of places, and if we don't have that we are seen as falling behind. But, as humans we need to think about why we are here, why we die, where did we come from, where are we going...well, its getting a bit philosophical, but we are living in a comparatively blinkered fashion in this respect. If you upload a photo like this to social media in a country where this type of thing is always concealed, you don't know if they is gonna be a kind of allergic reaction to it. In music and the arts and stuff, there are themes of death, and other things that we should be thinking about, but I think community in this country is missing these expressions....I mean, this photo is not intended  as a work of art, is it, Nomura san's body? Ive kinda thought about that.

K: I thought so too, you don't see it often do you? There was that...???*3

J: Ah, yes yes

K: There was a lot in that. Compared to that, this is..

J: Well, its true, in this country birth and death aren't exactly 'taboo', but we deal with it....Well, we are not a particularly religious country, so maybe that has something to do with it.

Kami: As for me..

J: Oh, he's here.

Kami: I saw that photo, the photo of him wearing his uniform, and I was moved.

J: Oh he was moved.

Kami: Mmm, I though 'Ah, its Nomura san', and like, 'Oh, The Swallows (*baseball team) .

J: I see. Instead of Rakuten, right?

Kami: No instead of the Hawkes where he got a triple crown. Like, he was greater when he became a manager. Like with Yakult. He kind of raised those teams.

K: He was worldly.

T: If he'd been wearing Hanshin or Rakuten uniforms it would be a bit....right?

K: Yeah. He'd say, 'No, not those!'.

J: I really think so.

K: I think Nomu san had great power with Hanshin and Rakuten. Later Hoshino san also had a lot of success, but yeah, think Nomu san had great power.

J: He made them, right? The base for a winning team.

K: But of course, the Swallows...

J: Yeah, whatever you say, Nomu san was there, and raised Furuta. At that time, we didn't know how far the word 'ID baseball' would go.

T: Thats right.

J: I think its amazing how that penetrated the world.

Kami: Its amazing how he got a triple crown as a catcher. But he didn't really boast about that during his active years. People are thinking of the Swallows when they see him in uniform now right? Thats what i imagine anyway. He wasn't like 'Look at me!', he was more like one of the team. I feel it deeply, I feel the art.

J: Certainly I think it has that kind of message.  By the way, do you become a god after dying? How does it work? Are you born a god? I've always wanted to know this.

Kami: Gods?  Gods are there from the start.

J: Oh from the start? You are born a god?

Kami: No, we're not born, we just are.

J: Oh its like that?

T: Thats complex

J: I see, thats deep.

K: They already are, right?

J: Yeah

Kami: Gods don't have a beginning or an end.

K: Wow

J: Is that so?

K: I want to try saying that.

J: Right. ..He hasn't even proved once that he's real though.

K: But it means you must be around for billions of years.

Kami: Its not billions of years, iｍ ever-lasting. 

K: Oh, again.

J: Out it comes. He came out with that.

Kami: You guys just can't understand it.

K: No, we can't, not at all.

J: He always says it in a really cool voice too.

T: If i said that to my wife, she would laugh at me so much.

J: 'Im ever lasting too'.

*K laughs*

J: She'll usually say 'whats wrong with you?!'

This is really terrible. So, Kami, you don't die, you are not born?

Kami: Yeh, im timeless.

K: But you have an hourly wage, right?

*J laughs*

J: He has no concept of time but he works for an hourly wage!

Kami: Yes, thats right.

J: He's so stupid.

T: An incredible god.

J: I mean it. A god who needs money, like he needs to eat.

K: Its realistic right?

J: Yes, realistic.

K: He drops in just like that, doesn't he.

J: Im thankful for him...Well i have some sympathy for him, he's ever lasting, but he still has to eat, and earn a living. I don't know if im thankful or not thankful.

Kami: Thats why people call me a cheater.

T: He worries a lot about getting called a cheater.

K: We hear it a lot though.

T: Right, its hitting him where it hurts.

J: He says it everytime, I think if effects him a lot. But like Kami says..wearing a Yakult uniform...right?

K: Yeah

J: And his face looked really peaceful. I think perhaps, living in this country, we are a bit too indifferent towards birth and death.

K: There were probably quite a few young people who have never seen this kinda of thing before, so they won't be used to it if they are seeing it for the first time.

T: Its quite a complicated feeling coming into close contact with death or a dead body like that. When my relatives, or my grandma etc have died...I can't put that feeling into words, when you see them..what is that feeling. Do you have that experience, Joe?

J: Well, yes within my family, or friends. You can't put it into words...

T: Its a kind of lonliness, but not quite..and also a bit frightening. Its very difficult to express...the feeling when a person dies.

K: In those times, its like there is an atmosphere of trying not to say anything wierd. Like, there are certain set greetings like 'Im sorry for your loss'. There's this kind of pattern. I think that creates this kind of atmosphere.

J: Yeah, maybe.....I know a lot of people in bands, and when that type of person dies, thier funerals are quite individualistic..its kind of a relief to see. There are different ways to pay respects or connect with a death, and I think we ought to consider that more. I don't think its right to make death into a taboo.

T: Recently, Uchida Yuya san had a very 'rock' send off, didn't he?

J: Yes, he did! ...so I had these thoughts and picked up on this news.

K: Well, lets finish up here. Everyone please subscribe.

T, Kami: Please.

J: Thank you very much

*1 Im wondering what's the best way to translate 'よろしくお願いします/yoroshiku onegaishimasu'..

*2, 3 These bits frustrate me, as I can hear what he's saying, but i can't seem to figure out what he means. I feel like im missing something really obvious.

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WIP Tag Game

Rules: post the names of all the files in your WIP folder, regardless of how non-descriptive or ridiculous. Let people send you an ask with the title that most intrigues them and then post a little snippet of it or tell them something about it! and then tag as many people as you have WIPs.

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I've been known to switch fandoms a lot and never clean out my WIP folder in my drive, so get ready for a wild ride XD

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Lord of the Rings Discovery Gigolas Modern gigolas new feelings Untitled document

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The Legend of Zelda Cowls and Kisses College AU

Sonic the Hedgehog Intimacy and openess Shadow's bad day Something New Anonymnous Red at Work (sequel to Royal Blue in Neon Light) Maria lives AU untitled document

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[sparklyjojos]

CARNIVAL DAY recaps [8/13]

Today’s recap: Ghostly investigations, the Ultra Evil Really Bad Guys in an awkward Mexican standoff with Slightly Less Bad Guys, and XX’s thoughts on writing.

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FORTY-FIVE

14 Jun 1997 — 20 Jun 1997

CONTINENTAL DRIFT

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The writer detective XX wrote a few stories (including the seppuku detective one) that would be put together in one book. The work would be published under the name “Seiryoin Ryusui” and—on Yasha’s request—called 19box in memory of Juku, whose DOLL nickname was Jukebox. [19box or Juke Box is an actual book by Seiryoin that indeed contains the seppuku detective story.]

On June 6th, Yuiga Dokuson fled JDC leaving a confession about being the Billion Killer. It’s now been three weeks since his escape and still no new confirmed Billion Killer cases have happened. The Crime Olympics still continue, but at least everyone knows they will be over in two months.

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All stories influence people, for better or for worse, and the story with the biggest, sharpest impact is the news. Then again, even entertainment has a major impact on people. The pen is mightier than the sword; the story is the strongest weapon. [Insert a horrible pun about how kakuheiki, “written weapon”, is as strong as kakuheiki, “nuclear weapon”.]

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(...when Hikimiya Yuuya had been working with the AI Desert Colosseum in February, he found an unbelievable secret file.

Below is Hikimiya Yuuya’s testimony. [Originally in first person.])

Once Hikimiya got out of shock upon seeing the different numbers of daily deaths, he instantly went to the hospital to talk with Frau D (or at least went there as fast as he could in a wheelchair). Frau D only told him to show the file to DOLL’s leader Madame Alpha to get answers.

Madame said she hadn’t seen this particular file before, but she had known all along that the UN numbers were faked. Good thing Hikimiya didn’t tell anyone else about it—if he did, he’d probably be disappeared on his way back to DOLL. He accidentally got mixed into a matter bigger than just the UN; a shadow organization was at play here, and one misspoken sentence could possibly doom the human race.

Madame then told Hikimiya what her Zero Reasoning actually was. The Japanese word for “zero”, rei, happens to sound exactly like the word for “soul”. Madame’s ability was seeing and talking to ghosts. The difficult part of her reasoning was discerning whether or not the ghosts were telling her the truth.

Other people would find it hard to believe, but Madame knew best that the souls who helped her solve cases were certainly real. She purposefully stayed away from other people, as anyone being too close to her for a long time would also start seeing ghosts, including those who had died in less than pretty manners. Several people even landed in the hospital from shock.

The ability wasn’t perfect. Madame would have a problem talking to souls who spoke different languages. The world of ghosts was also pretty complicated and consisted of more than just nice, well-behaved souls (but it’d take too long to explain everything now). Thanks to her powers, Madame knew better than anyone how drastically the known history changed throughout the ages, true events replaced with fake stories so different from what the souls told her about their times. She was also aware that knowing the truth was not always a good thing.

Using her ability as a sort of a soul information network, Madame was able to learn many things about the Crime Olympics.

They say that Christopher Columbus kept two journals out of fear of being deemed insane by his crewmates: a fake one that everyone else could read freely, and a secret one talking about his true goals. The death count data files similarly used two kinds of information. The true one (what Hikimiya found) allowed the UN to grasp the real situation, and the fake one (the official stats) were displayed to the common man.

To explain why that was necessary, Madame told Hikimiya about the Cosmic Bomb—the Moon. The Bomb was set to fall on August 10th, but it wasn’t impossible that the enemy would drop it earlier if they felt threatened. It was in the world’s best interest to not interfere too much in their plans—to make them think four million people really died each day—before a good way to counter the Cosmic Bomb was established.

As for how Frau D got his hands on secret data, Madame thought the reason was very simple: Frau D was one of RISE’s Dogs, probably responsible for leaking info from DOLL.

Right after this conversation, Hikimiya returned to the hospital for more answers. Frau D stated that Madame was smart enough to understand how to stay alive by keeping quiet. He confirmed that he was a Dog. However, the secret file was not meant for RISE at all, but for Hikimiya. That’s why the password was YUYA, and why the report was addressed to “Desert Colosseum”—once Hikimiya inherited the AI, he would become the next “Desert Colosseum”. The signature D meant Frau D and referred to his identity as a Dog (all of them are designated as D-[numbers], for example Frau is D-159837).

Hikimiya felt like there was something strange about Frau D’s demeanor during that conversation, and only realized a few days later—after the Crystal Nightmare—that the S-detective knew he would be killed soon.

But that wasn’t the last Hikimiya heard from Frau D, as Madame passed him a message from his soul. It was strange hearing Frau D so unusually serious (even if the words came from Madame’s mouth).

Frau D wanted to apologize. The whole “I love you” thing was just another one of his jokes, and he chose Hikimiya solely on the basis of his skills and ability to become the next Desert Colosseum. Thanks to Madame, he was never afraid of death. Aside from RISE, he also belonged to the suicidal sect of DICE, who were the ones to kill him in the end. “Desert Colosseum” was still indispensable to RISE—and that meant they would rely on whatever data Hikimiya would send them in the future.

After relaying the message, Madame commented that Frau D was actually a really serious man; you don’t become an S-detective by acting like a clown. She could speak with him easily so soon after his death, but making contact would get progressively harder with time, so Hikimiya should better become “Desert Colosseum” as soon as possible while he could still get ghostly tips.

It was the first time Hikimiya truly felt respect for Frau D. Though now that he thought about it, maybe even earlier he felt a sort of a strange, begrudging affinity.

On the day Frau D died, news came about Juku, Ronely Queen and Ushiwaka Gigolo. Juku’s death was especially hard on Hikimiya, considering they had worked as partners in the past. Then Firannu Meirunesia died a week later.

Hikimiya of course wanted to talk with the dead detectives, but Madame was so busy with all the cases she had no time to spare, and calling specific souls was hard—her work was mostly just waiting until someone with the right information came to her. Asked about Ryuuguu Jounosuke, she said that she’s sorry, but from what she could see he really was dead. At least she was able to assure Hikimiya that Otohime was still alive, held prisoner by RISE together with Amagi Hyouma and Tsukumo Nemu.

The day Frau D was killed, Hikimiya found a new entry in the database that belonged to a fake F-detective, “Flower Design”. [At least I think that’s the right romanization for that]. Frau must have made that fake detective so Hikimiya could hide behind the identity and obtain information safely. It was hard to work a double job as both “Hikimiya Yuuya” and “Flower Design” behind the scenes, but the exhausting training under Frau turned out to have been a blessing in disguise.

Hikimiya analyzed the death count reports (which by this point reached early March) and found that while in the big picture the number of deaths rose steadily, it actually came in waves. Doing some statistical magic, Hikimiya realized that the death rate usually fell a bit during weekdays, but then rose significantly on each Sunday—right after the Billion Killer cases. Step back, two steps forward… It’s like the Billion Killer served as a periodic impulse that kept the Crime Olympics going. The Crystal Nightmare caused an especially high rise in victims, too.

Hikimiya made some calculations. The numbers were at first much lower than the proclaimed “four million deaths a day”, but if the growth continued, it would lead to a bigger overall number of deaths.

Constant four million a day would give 1,4 billion total deaths in an entire year.

But if the numbers continued to rise, the final figure would instead be 3,7 billion, more than half the world’s population—assuming the Cosmic Bomb wouldn’t kill everyone else.

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FORTY-SIX

21 Jun 1997 — 27 Jun 1997

MOHENJO-DARO

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(It was once thought that alchemy could produce homunculi in bottles.

Black Rook is a human obtained through cloning, a three years younger identical twin of Ryuuguu Jounosuke, with whom he shared this name. Yearning for an identity of his own, Black called himself Ryuuou.

RISE had the cloning technology long before his birth, but didn’t see a reason to use it, as getting normal imposters was much easier. They say that everyone has at least three perfect look-alikes in the world—RISE had no problem finding those three with their omnipresent reach.

The truth is that the original Jounosuke was supposed to become Black Rook at first, but RISE made a critical mistake while raising him. In the end, the clone achieved what the original couldn’t and became Black Rook.

Below is Black Rook’s testimony. [Originally in first person. As expected, he might be… biased.])

From what Black heard, his older brother had travelled all over the world with their parents as a young child in order to naturally pick up native accents of many languages. He was successful at this goal, but in the process he became so used to the outside world that he couldn’t stand the dim closed spaces of the Sanctuary (which was back then still under construction), even showing signs of serious childhood claustrophobia. He was constantly upset and kept crying no matter how long RISE tried getting him used to his new life. Childhood claustrophobia sometimes vanished with age, but there was no guarantee it would happen.

In the face of this, the Doctor decided to start anew and cloned the boy, and so Black was born. To avoid past mistakes, RISE made sure he got used to the Sanctuary since birth, the fortress transporting him to all those different countries and essentially becoming his home. Staying in the Sanctuary instead of with foreigners led to him not quite reaching the language mastery of his brother, but the difference was marginal and didn’t really matter.

When RS became the leader of RISE in 1987, Black formally inherited the position of the Sanctuary’s Master from his father Kintarou. Similarly, Endou Naoto became the next Doctor / White Rook after his father Naomasa.

RISE continued to fight their long battle. Black didn’t really understand if there was an objective good or wrong, but he knew for sure that the Beasts wanted to destroy the human race, and RISE’s Gods wanted it to continue in whatever shape. A battle between good and evil.

Their greatest enemy was a secret group called Akutou 666 Rengou (lit. “the 666 villains union”), known in short as Akuren. It was much older than RISE and had been threatening humanity for thousands of years.

Akuren was a worldwide information network created by the 666 most evil people of the world, all their names written down on a secret Luck Black List. Aside from the top 666, there were also two lower “replacement groups”, each also counting 666 members, so 1998 in all. Those who died or were arrested would be erased from the list, though one could always get on it again later. Note that the first group members were too skilled to be eliminated from the list unless they died.

All the historical villains one may have heard of—like Nero, Catherine de’ Medici, Ivan the Terrible, Rasputin, Aleister Crowley, even Hitler—all reached no higher than the second group of Akuren. Those in the first group are all untraceable and take care to erase their pasts, only their horrible impact on the world hinting at their existence, their true nature that of pure evil beyond imagination (Black doesn’t even want to think about the stories he heard).

Akuren categorizes all people on Earth into thirteen tiers of evil, starting from 1 (those unwittingly doing everyday evil), going through those who commit crimes as part of a company policy or “usual” criminals (4-5), through famous organized crime (6), through those with political power (7), through country elites with even more influence (8), through secret organizations ruling those elites (9), through the evil that controls the history of humanity (10), the first group of Akuren (11), the few members of Akuren that have transcended the concept of pure evil (12), and the “ultimate organization of extreme pure evil” (13).

Upstanding citizens are classified as tier 1 (it’s impossible to be lower, as every single human eventually hurts another human, if only by existing). Tier 10 would include Akuren’s first group and half of the second group, together 999 people. Tier 11 would apply only to the first group; they’re so strong that an S-detective could maybe manage one or two of them at once, but not several, and certainly not 666. Tier 12 are those from the first group that aim for even more evil and want to throw the world into darkness. Tier 13 is so secret that even RISE can’t get any information about it, more suspecting their presence than knowing for sure.

The members of every group of Akuren are numbered from 001 to 666, with those numbers moving if someone falls off the list. Number 001 is always the person who stayed in a group the longest, while those from lower groups will enter a higher group starting from 666. Groups two and three have to provide information for the network, but those who already rose to group one are privileged and can simply get data without having to give any in exchange.

Akuren attempted to wipe out the human race many times before, their crimes usually showing as wars on the surface. The Persian Wars, the Peloponnesian War, Alexander the Great’s conquest, the Seven Years’ War, the Hundred Years’ War, various Prussia wars, the Russo-Japanese War, both World Wars, the Cold War…

After WWII, the 12th tier of evil first showed itself, possibly with the 13th one right behind them, and the most serious plan to destroy humanity (including themselves) had been in progress ever since. Their twisted reasoning is basically, “everyone has to die one day, and when I die, the world may as well not exist for me, so why not bring everyone else down with me while we’re at it”.

The current Crime Olympics were conceived as yet another of Akuren’s plans to destroy humanity. RISE was created to gain control over this plan in order to prevent the ultimate tragedy and limit the damage as much as possible. Of course on the surface they still had to act like they’re cooperating with Akuren, and so had to put the Crime Olympics into motion like they were supposed to.

Akuren acted like they didn’t notice their true enemy, but considering the quality of their information network, they had to already know about RISE’s goals. However, RISE was too useful to get rid of it so quickly. Fifty years of preparations passed in a pretend cooperation between the two organizations. RISE has three trump cards in their deck: Alive, the Billion Killer, and the Cosmic Bomb.

RISE’s true goal was purging evil at the root for the sake of humanity’s survival. If they left Akuren alive, it would just lead to another attempt at total destruction in the future. RISE had already succeeded at using the Crime Olympics to kill the lesser ranks of evil in droves, even though it cost a lot of other lives and the true malicious elites were still staying safely hidden. If RISE didn’t kill off those elites before August 10th, the Cosmic Bomb would fall.

Those “worst of the worst” were called Pure Ultimate Beasts. The purest evil often wore the masks of saints; they truly were beasts disguised as humans, creatures that would kill with a smile. The first group of Akuren was too careful to be easily led into a trap, so RISE had to start with eliminating the lower groups and make their way up.

All the above was a very rushed explanation, but the gist of it is that humanity is in a horrible spot. If they don’t do anything, the Cosmic Bomb will fall; if they try to fight openly, perhaps the Bomb will just fall faster. The fate of humanity is in the hands of RISE—of Black Rook.

...but Black feels a bit weird those days, like something is very wrong with him. Perhaps it’s just a lingering symptom of Alive... or perhaps he’d been caught into Akuren’s trap? Something feels wrong. With the Sanctuary, with RISE and with himself. Something is strange. He’s supposed to stop the Cosmic Bomb, and has been for sure making preparations, but now he can’t remember how to do it, as if he simply forgot something so important. He can’t remember… What the hell happened to him? What the hell is going on? It’s like he’s not himself.

Has he also been brainwashed…?

[End of testimony.]

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Writer detective XX continues to write. He feels a strange compulsion to do it, a sense of mission, almost like someone is forcing him to write. Sometimes he wonders if he hasn’t been brainwashed.

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FORTY-SEVEN

28 Jun 1997 — 04 Jul 1997

HONG KONG

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Writing as “Seiryoin Ryusui” is weird to XX, like wearing someone else’s clothes. He’s been feeling like he isn’t truly himself. But if it’s so weird to him, why does he simultaneously have the compulsion to not just continue writing, but to write as “Seiryoin Ryusui” specifically? Nothing else changed. It’s just that whenever he works as “Seiryoin”, he ceases to be himself. Almost like someone else is guiding his hands, like he’s only the first reader instead of the writer.

Inugami Yasha wants XX to write a book about the Crime Olympic as soon as possible. Yasha’s plan is to use the power of stories positively, to light up at least some of the darkness surrounding them.

No one is faster to rise to fame in mass media than the worst criminals caught red-handed. “Seiryoin Ryusui” wasn’t that popular, but his name is still spread around because of the Cosmic Jokers case, so releasing a book under the same name will gather the world’s attention. This will possibly allow them to lure out the actual mysterious “Seiryoin Ryusui”. The book will be technically fiction, just like Cosmic and Joker, but will give readers enough clues that maybe someone solves the still unfinished mysteries, or gets to the actual truth behind something that has been considered solved.

To be honest, XX hates the writing style in Cosmic and Joker. It just seems bad and unbalanced to him. Strong J Outa the editor thinks it’s because XX has a similar writing style, so reading “Seiryoin” feels to him like reading his own old works, which is rarely a good experience for a writer. The important thing is keeping that unbalanced style while writing about the Crime Olympics.

Languages, just like anything else created by people, aren’t perfect. No matter how much one tries, a recording of events will never be perfect specifically because of the nature of words. Even non-fiction is fiction in the end. Words on their own aren’t the truth, but the moment someone encounters someone else’s words, they may read out the truth between the lines—which is what Yasha hopes for by releasing the Crime Olympics book.

(By the way, it’s been a month since Dokuson disappeared, and not a single Billion Killer case has happened in the meanwhile. There were giant cases happening at 1 PM local time on Saturdays, true, but no symbolic skull has been found.)

XX still can’t get rid of his strange feelings. It’s almost like there’s someone else within him, “the true writer”, perhaps even “the true culprit”. Strong J Outa dismisses these worries and says that in a sense, the mystery writer is always the real culprit manipulating the characters. A mystery novel is not as much a showdown between a detective and a murderer, as a showdown between the writer and the reader. The challenge is not just solving a mystery, but also solving the writer’s intent put in his work.

The idea of the writer as the culprit is sort of a taboo that everyone knows about, but that isn’t really relevant inside mystery novels by design. All fiction is real as far as the world within that fiction is concerned. There’s no reason to escape into delusions about a writer making all this happen; instead XX should focus on writing and fighting crime this way.

19box is set to be finally released on July 5th.

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(And in the latest news...)

On June 14th, the entire island of Tasmania suddenly moves towards mainland Australia and smashes into it, resulting in 100,000 dead or injured and several small islands sinking. Right afterwards Tasmania returns to its proper place. How all this happened is a mystery.

On June 21st, about a hundred tourists visiting Mohenjo-daro in Pakistan are found naked and dead. The cause of death is unknown, but the incident is thought to have been influenced by the Carnival Dice cult.

On June 28th, all the power lines of Hong Kong are suddenly cut, leading to a complete power outage. Massive fires start in the aftermath. Giant playing cards are found around the place, so the group F4C is suspected. The situation becomes so bad it leads to political shifts and Hong Kong being completely returned to China.

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On July 5th, a mysterious continent surfaces from the depths of the Pacific, so unimaginably huge that it takes half the ocean’s area. The continent’s sudden movement causes kilometer-tall tsunamis to rush towards other lands. It’s only a matter of time until the record waves reach the shores and destroy anything in their path.

Japan has twelve hours to prepare for the wave.

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[>>>NEXT PART>>>]

[roseicicles]

⚠📓💢💡 [for Serena & Yuzu!]

Get to know my character through an ask!

⚠ - What has your character almost done that made someone talk them out of or convince them not to do it?

📓 - If your character keeps a journal, what is the most secret thought they keep in it? 

💢 - What frustrates your character more than anything?

💡 - What is the best idea your character ever had? 

“Wanting to go to war, but being forced talked out of it. Like what the hell? I wanted to join in the battle! Let me fight some puny duelists.”

“That duels are actually...Really enjoyable.”

“Jackasses that are mean to other people, or try threatening them by turning them into a card.”

“My deck.”

“When I was a little kid, I wanted to go out with Yuya at a certain time of the day, but we were really little back then, so we couldn’t.”

“That I wish I could sing. It’s nothing duel related, but I’d love to try it!”

“Frustrating things that other people do! They’ll get whacked for that!”

“Joining the fun duel school I’m at.”

[hajimeishikawa]

Paper

“Fermi surface and light quasi particles in hourglass nodal chain metal β-ReO2

Daigorou Hirai, Takahito Anbai, Takako Konoike, Shinya Uji, Yuya Hattori, Taichi Terashima, Hajime Ishikawa, Koichi Kindo, Naoyuki Katayama, Tamio Oguchi, Zenji Hiroi

Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, 35 405503 (2023).

“Superconductivity at 12 K in La2IOs2: A 5d metal with osmium honeycomb layer” Hajime Ishikawa, Takeshi Yajima, Daisuke Nishio-Hamane, Shusaku Imajo, Koichi Kindo, and Mitsuaki Kawamura

Phys. Rev. Materials 7, 054804 (2023)

“Complex magnetic phase diagram with a small phase pocket in a three-dimensional frustrated magnet CuInCr4S8”

M. Gen, H. Ishikawa, A. Ikeda, A. Miyake, Z. Yang, Y. Okamoto, M. Mori, K. Takenaka, H. Sagayama, T. Kurumaji, Y. Tokunaga, T. Arima, M. Tokunaga, K. Kindo, Y. H. Matsuda, and Y. Kohama

Phys. Rev. Research 4, 033148 (2022).

I made H-T phase diagram by magnetization measurement.

“SmI3 : 4f5 honeycomb magnet with spin-orbital entangled Γ7 Kramers doublet“

Hajime Ishikawa, Ryosuke Kurihara, Takeshi Yajima, Daisuke Nishio-Hamane, Yusei Shimizu, Toshiro Sakakibara, Akira Matsuo, and Koichi Kindo

Physical Review Materials 6, 064405 (2022).

Isn’t SmI3 an antiferromagnetic Kitaev spin liquid candidate?

“GdV6Sn6 : A Multi-carrier Metal with Non-magnetic 3d-electron Kagome Bands and 4f-electron Magnetism”

H. Ishikawa, T. Yajima, M. Kawamura, H. Mitamura, K. Kindo

Journal of the Physical Society of Japan,  90, 124704 (2021).

GdV6Sn6 is a layered stannide where V-kagome lattice and Gd-triangular lattice coexist. While unconventional magnetotransport is expected by the interplay between the band structure inherent to the kagome lattice and frustrated magnetism, its physical properties are not investigated  since the discovery in 2011 (L. Romaka et al. J. Alloys Compd. 509, 8862, 2011). We have synthesized high quality single crystals and investigated its physical properties by resistivity measurements up to high magnetic fields and the first principles calculations.

“Phase transition in the 5d1 double perovskite Ba2CaReO6 induced by high magnetic field”

H. Ishikawa, D. Hirai, A. Ikeda, M. Gen, T. Yajima, A. Matsuo, Y. H. Matsuda, Z. Hiroi, K. Kindo

Physical Review B, 104, 174422 (2021).

We discovered a novel magnetic field induced phase transition at 50 T in the spin-orbital entangled magnet Ba2CaReO6 with Jeff = 3/2 state. We demonstrate that magnetic properties of the Jeff = 3/2 magnets can be drastically changed by magnetic field as well as by cation or anion substitutions.

“Pressure-induced phase transition in the J1 − J2 square lattice antiferromagnet RbMoOPO4Cl”

H. Takeda, T. Yamauchi, M. Takigawa, H. Ishikawa, Z. Hiroi

Physical Review B, 103, 104406  (2021).

“Ligand dependent magnetism of the  Jeff = 3/2 Mott insulator Cs2MX6 (M = Ta, Nb, X = Br, Cl)”

H. Ishikawa, T. Yajima, A. Matsuo, K. Kindo

Journal of Physics.: Condensed Matter, 33 125802  (2021).

The magnetism of the  d1 ion system with strong spin-orbit coupling is systematically investigated. We found that the magnetism is strongly affected by the type of ligand anions, of which roles are often overlooked.

“Nonmagnetic ground states and a possible quadrupolar phase in 4d and 5d lacunar spinel selenides GaM4Se8 (M = Nb, Ta)”

H. Ishikawa, T. Yajima, A. Matsuo, Y. Ihara, K. Kindo

Physical Review Letters, 124, 227202 (2020).

The ground state of lacunar spinel type molecular magnets with 4d and 5d electrons are investigated. We identified non-magnetic ground states and a novel intermediate phase in GaNb4Se8.

“Kitaev Spin Liquid Candidate OsxCl3 Comprised of Honeycomb Nano-Domains”

K. Kataoka, D. Hirai, T Yajima, D. Nishio-Hamane, R Ishii, K.-Y. Choi, D. Wulferding, P. Lemmens, S. Kittaka, T. Sakakibara, H. Ishikawa, A. Matsuo, K. Kindo, Z. Hiroi

Journal of the Physical Society of Japan, 89 114709 (2020).

“Zero-energy excitation in the classical kagome antiferromagnet NaBa2Mn3F11”

S. Hayashida, H. Ishikawa, Y. Okamoto, T. Okubo, Z. Hiroi, G. J. Nilsen, H. Mutka, T. Masuda

Physical Review B, 101, 214409 (2020).

“Thermal-transport studies of kagomé antiferromagnets”

M. Yamashita, M. Akazawa, M. Shimozawa, T. Shibauchi, Y. Matsuda, H. Ishikawa, T. Yajima, Z. Hiroi, M. Oda, H. Yoshida, H.-Y. Lee, J. H. Han, N. Kawashima

Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, 32, 074001 (2019).

“Superconductivity at 4.8 K and Violation of Pauli Limit in La2IRu2 Comprising Ru Honeycomb Layer”

H. Ishikawa, U. Wedig, J. Nuss, R. K. Kremer, R. Dinnebier, M. Blankenhorn, M. Pakdaman, Y. Matsumoto, T. Takayama, K. Kitagawa, H. Takagi

Inorganic Chemistry, 58, 12888 (2019).

La2IRu2 crystallizes in the Gd2IFe2-type that is known as “Intermediates between Cluster Compounds and Intermetallic Phases” (M. Ruck and A. Simon, ZAAC, 619 1993). We discovered superconductivity below 4.8 K with high upper critical field preceded by successive phase transitions at 140 K and 80 K. We discuss its properties based on experimental results and first-principles calculations that revealed uncommon formal valences La1.5+, I-, and Ru-.

“Ordering of hidden multipoles in spin-orbital entangled 5d1 Ta chlorides”

H. Ishikawa, T. Takayama, R. K. Kremer, J. Nuss, R. Dinnebier, K. Kitagawa, K. Ishii, H. Takagi

Physical Review B, 100, 045142 (2019).

A2TaCl6 (A = Cs, Rb, K) crystallizes in the ordered double perovskite structure where uncommon Ta4+ (5d1) ions form the face-centered-cubic lattice. We argue the realizations of “magnetically hidden” orders of spin-orbital entangled Jeff = 3/2 multipoles with strongly suppressed magnetic dipolar moment. 

“Engelhauptite: A variant of S = 1/2 kagome antiferromagnet”

H. Ishikawa, D. Nishio-Hamane, A. Miyake, M. Tokunaga, A. Matsuo, K. Kindo, Z. Hiroi

Physical Review Matererials, 3, 064414 (2019).

A natural mineral Engelhauptite, a sibling of a spin-1/2 kagome lattice antiferromagnet Volborthite, have been synthesized for the first time. Relationship between Cu-3d orbital arrangements and magnetic properties are discussed.

“Orbital Transitions and Frustrated Magnetism in the Kagome-Type Copper Mineral Volborthite”

Z. Hiroi, H. Ishikawa, H. Yoshida, J. Yamaura, Y. Okamoto

Inorganic Chemistry, 58, 11949 (2019).

Volborthite is a curious quasi-2D quantum spin system which was first investigated as a distorted kagome antiferromagnet. It is now regarded as a spin system made of coupled trimers and a candidate for realizing the magnetic field induced spin nematic state near the 1/3 plateau state. The up to date experimental results are summarized in this review article.

“Spin waves and spin-state transitions in a ruthenate high-temperature antiferromagnet”

H. Suzuki, H. Gretarsson, H. Ishikawa, K. Ueda, Z. Yang, H. Liu, H. Kim, D. Kukusta, A. Yaresko, M. Minola, J. A. Sears, S. Francoual, H.-C. Wille, J. Nuss, H. Takagi, B. J. Kim, G. Khaliullin,  H. Yavaş, B. Keimer

Nature Materials, 18, 563 (2019).

“Possible observation of quantum spin-nematic phase in a frustrated magnet”

Y. Kohama, H. Ishikawa, A. Matsuo, K. Kindo, N. Shannon, Z. Hiroi

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 116, 10686 (2019).

“Magnetoelastic couplings in the deformed kagome quantum spin lattice of volborthite”

A. Ikeda, S. Furukawa, O. Janson, Y. H. Matsuda, S. Takeyama, T. Yajima, Z. Hiroi, H. Ishikawa

Physical Review B, 99, 140412R (2019).

“Extremely wide 1/3 magnetic plateau of volborthite Cu3V2O7(OH)2⋅2H2O in ultrahigh magnetic fields up to 182 T”

D. Nakamura, T. Yamashita, H. Ishikawa, Z. Hiroi, S. Takeyama

Physical Review B, 98, 020404R (2018).

“Magnetic state selected by magnetic dipole interaction in the kagome antiferromagnet NaBa2Mn3F11″

S. Hayashida, H. Ishikawa, Y. Okamoto, T. Okubo, Z. Hiroi, M. Avdeev, P. Manuel, M. Hagihala, M. Soda, and T. Masuda

Physical Review B, 97, 054411 (2018).

“Spin dynamics in the high-field phases of volborthite”

M. Yoshida, K. Nawa, H. Ishikawa, M. Takigawa, M. Jeong, S. Krämer, M. Horvatić, C. Berthier, K. Matsui, T. Goto, S. Kimura, T. Sasaki, J. Yamaura, H. Yoshida, Y. Okamoto, and Z. Hiroi

Physical Review B, 96, 180413R (2017).

“Topochemical Crystal Transformation from a Distorted to a Nearly Perfect Kagome Cuprate”

H. Ishikawa, T. Yajima, A. Miyake, M. Tokunaga, A. Matsuo, K. Kindo, and Z. Hiroi

Chemistry of Materials, 29, 6719 (2017).

Inspired by the mineralogical phenomena “pseudomorphosis”, we have topocheically synthesized pseudo crystal of a spin-1/2 kagome antiferromagnet Vesignieite. Magnetic studies on the crystal revealed the antiferromagnetic state with in-plane weakf-erromagnetic moment, which gives a clue to identify the spin order.

“J1-J2 square-lattice Heisenberg antiferromagnets with 4d1 spins AMoOPO4Cl (A = K, Rb)”

H. Ishikawa, N. Nakamura, M. Yoshida, M. Takigawa, P. Babkevich, N. Qureshi, H. M. Rønnow, T. Yajima, and Z. Hiroi

Physical Review B, 95, 064408 (2017).

AMoOPO4Cl (A = K, Rb) is a rare realization of in the 4d square lattice spin system. MoO5Cl octahedra carry  pure spin-1/2 moment and form the J1-J2 square lattice with large antiferromagnetic J2, which yields columnar antiferromagnetic order.

“Emergence of nontrivial magnetic excitations in a spin-liquid state of kagomé volborthite”

D. Watanabe K. Sugii, M. Shimozawa, Y. Suzuki, T. Yajima, H. Ishikawa, Z. Hiroi, T. Shibauchi, Y. Matsuda, and M. Yamashita

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 113, 8653 (2016).

“One-Third Magnetization Plateau with a Preceding Novel Phase in Volborthite”

H. Ishikawa, M. Yoshida, K. Nawa, M. Jeong, S. Krämer, M. Horvatić, C. Berthier, M. Takigawa, M. Akaki, A. Miyake, M. Tokunaga, K. Kindo, J. Yamaura, Y. Okamoto, and Z. Hiroi

Physical Review Letters, 114, 227202 (2015).

Large and high-quality single crystal of a distorted spin-1/2 kagome lattice antiferromagnet volborthite were synthesized, which enabled detailed magnetic characterizations. We have observed successive magnetic field induced phases including the 1/3 magnetization plateau and a phase without clear magnetic order. A possibility of the realization of spin nematic state is proposed.

“Na2MoO2−δF4+δ – a perovskite with a unique combination of atomic orderings and octahedral tilts”

H. Ishikawa, I. Munaò, B. E. Bode, Z. Hiroi, and P. Lightfoot

Chemical Communications, 51, 15469 (2015).

A new molybdenum double perovskite with unusual cation, anion, and vacancy orderings is discovered via exploratory solvothermal synthesis using hydrofluoric acid and organic molecule templates.  

“Helical order and multiferroicity in the S = 1/2 quasi-kagome system KCu3As2O7(OD)3″

G. J. Nilsen, Y. Okamoto, H. Ishikawa, V. Simonet, C. V. Colin, A. Cano, L. C. Chapon, T. Hansen, H. Mutka, and Z. Hiroi

Physical Review B, 89, 140412R (2014).

“Kagome-Triangular Lattice Antiferromagnet NaBa2Mn3F11”

H. Ishikawa, T. Okubo, Y. Okamoto and Z. Hiroi

Journal of the Physical Society of Japan, 83, 043703 (2014).

Peculiar MnF7 pentagonal bipyramids in NaBa2Mn3F11 constitute a unique frustrated spin lattice that we named “Kagome-Triangular lattice”. Depending on the relative magnitude of nearest-neighbor interaction J1 and next nearest neighbor interaction J2, kagome lattice (J1 >> J2), triangular lattice (J1 = J2), and triangular clusters (J1J2) are realized. We revealed basic magnetic properties based on bulk magnetic measurement and discuss a possible magnetic order. Incommensurately modulated magnetic structure and zero-energy excitation are revealed by subsequent neutron scattering experiments by S. Hayashida.

“Magnetic Properties of the Spin-1/2 Deformed Kagome Antiferromagnet Edwardsite”

H. Ishikawa, Y. Okamoto and Z. Hiroi

Journal of the Physical Society of Japan, 82, 063710 (2013).

We have synthesized a natural mineral Edwardsite for the first time, where spin-1/2 Cu2+ ions form the distorted kagome lattice with large interlayer separations. It exhibits magnetic order with weak ferromagnetic moment at low temperature.

“A novel crystal polymorph of volborthite, Cu3V2O7(OH)2·2H2O”

H. Ishikawa, J. Yamaura, Y. Okamoto, H. Yoshida, G. J. Nilsen and Z. Hiroi

Acta Crystallographica Section C, 68, i41 (2012).

We have discovered a new orbital ordered crystal polymorph of Volborthite by preparing high quality single crystal.

“Distorted Kagome Lattice Generated by a Unique Orbital Arrangement in the Copper Mineral KCu3As2O7(OH)3”

Y. Okamoto, H. Ishikawa, G. J. Nilsen, and Z. Hiroi

Journal of the Physical Society of Japan, 81, 033707 (2012).

[doniashtanga]

Ashtanga Yoga Tokushima Retreat 2019

～～静かな自然の中で本質を探る～～

＊Ashtanga Yoga Mountain&Ocean 主催＊

《講師》

Doni

更科有哉

谷戸康洋

《リトリート内容》

毎年恒例となりました、徳島県海陽町にある四国最古の禅寺”城満寺”で、

Ashtanga Yogaのリトリートが今年も開催されます。

今年も去年に引き続き、Guest teacherとして更科有哉先生と、谷戸康洋先生をお迎えします。

インドで受け継がれるヨーガとはどのようなものなのか。

インドで学びを深める3人の講師がそれぞれの視点から見てきたヨーガの世界をお伝えします。

伝統的に受け継がれるAshtanga Yogaの教え。

その教えが伝えようとする本質は一体なんなのか。

アーサナの時間だけではなく、呼吸法や、座学の時間。

日本で脈々と受け継がれる自己を見つめるための禅の教え。

山、川、海と美しい自然の残る徳島県海陽町。

自然の中に身を置き、触れることで、マットの上だけでは気づくことのできない様々な知識に触れてみましょう。

リトリート期間中は、地元の野菜を使ったヴィーガン料理（五葷抜き）やお寺での食事作法。

美しい海を前に自然を肌で感じる藍染体験や、畑や田んぼに触れることで「食」を考える時間も。

最終日には更に奥深い自然の中へ。

トラベルティーチャーDoniが様々な場所をヨーガと共に旅をしながらたどり着いた秘境”久尾（KUO）”

そんな海陽町の山奥の村”久尾”で今年、オーガニックヨーガヴィレッジを始動しはじめました。

日本の山奥に突如現れる小さな村はまさにLittle India。

そこで繰り広げられるシンプルな生き方。

手間や愛情をかける大切さ。

ヨーガの知識が日常に溶け込む生き方をぜひこの小さなインドよりお持ち帰りください。

最終日の朝には村を流れる川を前に3人の講師によるマイソールクラスも予定しています。

伝えたい想いを余すことなく詰め込んだ4日間。

美しい空間で、素敵な学びとなりますように。

※8/12～15は徳島市内で阿波踊りが開催されます。

ぜひ、お時間のある方は日本の美しいお祭りと合わせて徳島にお越しください。

※今年はリトリートのプラン内に、サーフィン体験は含まれません。

ご希望の方はリトリート後、個人的にマリンスポーツをお楽しみください。

※城満寺は会場提供になりますので、城満寺への直接のお問い合わせはご遠慮ください。

【日程】

2018年 8月17日～19日（２泊３日コース）※城満寺でのクラスのみの参加

            8月17日～20日（３泊４日コース）※最終日は城満寺からヨーガヴィレッジへと移動します。

【定員】

2泊3日コース…6名

3泊4日コース…16名

計22名

【料金】

２泊３日コース　￥48000

３泊４日コース　￥62000

【プロフィール】

●DONI

あらゆる自然の中を旅しながらヨーガを伝えるトラベルティーチャー。

徳島県のオーガニックヴィレッジを拠点とし、山や海、畑などの大地に触れる生活を送ることで、自然の中からシンプルな考えや生き方を学ぶ。

毎年、年間の大半をインドで過ごし、Rolf&Marci Naujokatのもとでアシュターンガヨーガとアイアンガーヨーガのプラクティ���を行う。

シーズンを通して、師の元ではアシスタントを任される。

インド・マイソールKPJAYIでのプラクティスやインドのアシュラムでの生活からヴェーダーンタの知識を学び、日々実践、探求を続ける。

「食」の考え方を伝えるため「ヨガとごはん」を結成し、日々の食事からもヨーガの知識に触れられるクラスを開催する。

●Yuya Sarashina : 更科 有哉

1977年に生まれ、北海道 札幌市で育つ。

インド・マイソール KPJAYI にてSharath Joisに師事。 その高い技術と集中力から生み出されるAsana（ポーズ）は正に肉体のArtと呼ぶに相応しく、世界最高峰の巨匠 マリオ・テスティノ氏の撮影に同行。ファッション誌 VOGUE・2015年には同氏の写真集『 Sir 』にも掲載される。

2009年から2017年まで7度に渡る、車での日本全国縦断 Yogaの旅《 INTO THE MIND TOUR supported by patagonia 》を敢行、大成功を収める。

2010年 Sharath 氏より正式指導者資格（Authorization）を与えられ、2011年 Authorization Level 2を与えられる。

2017年には宝島社から『 男のヨガ 』を発刊。

Ashtanga Yogaで得た、インスピレーションやエネルギーをART活動に注ぎ、『 YUYA SARASHINA YOGA EXHIBITION 』を東京 丸の内で開催。写真や映像、芸術、内側と外側を旅することに重きを置く。

2014年 Best of Yogi受賞。by Yoga Journal Japan

18年『 情熱大陸 』に生徒・指導者と出演し、YOGAを始めるきっかけや、入口を広げている。

●Yato Yasuhiro：谷戸 康洋

高校時代、器械体操でインターハイ、国体出場。

2006年、white birch yoga group(ホワイトバーチ ヨガ)設立。

2012年には自身のスタジオ「fika」を山梨県昭和町に設立。

fikaを中心に山梨県内外、更には国外でも指導。

雑誌Yoginiではヨガ哲学のページを幾度と監修。

雑誌Yoga journalでは「漫画で読むヨガ哲学」を監修。

OSHMANS監修のヨガアプリOSHyogaではモデルインストラクターとして出演。

高齢者向けのヨガクラスから企業でのストレスをリリースするための出張ヨガクラス、教育者向けのヨガやスポーツ選手に向けてのヨガなど県内外問わずクラスを開催。

県内の高校や専門学校でもヨガクラスを定期的に開催中。

通常クラスとともにヨガの指導者の養成も積極的に開催。

ポーズを深めるテクニックや個々にあうアジャストメントや練習方法、ヨガ哲学クラス、ヨガ×キネシオロジーのヨーガセラピーなどはオリジナリティーに溢れた人気クラス。

現在はサンスクリット語、ヴェーダーンタをSwami Cetanananda師より学んでいる。

【城満寺へのアクセス】

～～城満寺～～

徳島県海部郡海陽町吉田

●JR牟岐線

徳島駅→阿波海南駅（約140分）

●バス

大阪駅→海部（約270分）

●車

徳島駅→城満寺（約120分）

※JRかバスでお越しの方は、阿波海南駅（JR）か海部駅（バス）までお迎えに行きます。

事前に到着時刻をご連絡ください。

本数が少ないため、乗り遅れのないようご注意ください。

※車でお越しの方は城満寺敷地内の駐車場をご利用いただけます。

※徳島阿波踊り空港をご利用の方はお早めに航空券を購入されることをお勧めします。早割航空券があります。

【ご予約方法】

6/3（月）AM6:00に下記SNSやHPにて必要項目を掲載いたします。

必要項目を明記の上、ご連絡ください。

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※例年同様、すぐに定員に達することが予想されます。

ご希望の方は予約開始後、お早めにご連絡ください。

[cheerleaderman]

Twst OC list

Will be updated as I make bios

MAIN

Yuya Florence - Twst Shooting star over the Castle in the beginning of movies

A magicless human from other world seemingly with no memories or perhaps locked memories.With only a driver license and journal that gives them some identity .Now in this new place Yuya is just trying to survive what NRC throws at them hoping to recover what they lost.

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Astrid Primrose - Twst The enchanted Rose

A quite person who doesn’t want to stand out.Some-people think he’s hiding something deep given his curse but others see him as friendly and helpful.

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Flori Orielle - Twst The Golden Flower (Tangled)

A boy with a strange obsession with poison. Many hope he uses this knowledge for good and that they don’t need to double check anything given to them.

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Iris Valor - Twst mortal potion (Hercules)

A innocent looking boy with a love for machinery, despite his more friendly appearance his rumored unique magic that has some steering clear .

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IN BETWEEN -> MAINLY LIVE IN MY HEAD

Yolonda Florence - Twst Cinderella Castle

The cousin of the perfect who comes to Twst in their second year. After hearing what happened and that Night Raven is technically responsible for her cousin death ,Yolonda has a strong disliking for the school.

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Lottie Hatterson - Twst Mad Hatter

An energetic out spoked boy who loves parties and wants to be in the event planning industry.Due to his playful nature other seems not to take him seriously.

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Rolene Orielle - Twst Rapunzel

The heir to their family who has complicated relationships with their family expect their cousin due to finding out the truth behind their birth/upbringing.

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Celine Wilson - Twst Glass slipper

A clam boy with a love for fashion. Many find him to be beautiful and like a gentle older brother. Despite being friendly people don’t really know him on a deeper level.

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Nora Cerealia - Twst persephone

The heir to her family’s business who others in her town hold in high regards. From this she tries to meet the high expectations but how long before she crashes.

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Elara Della - Twst Megara

The childhood friend to the Shroud family is what most people only know about her due to her mostly being close off from her own trauma.

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Dion Elowen - Twst Spike pacifier (Hercules)

A family oriented boy who loves video games and is working on his dream of making his own on day

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Not main ones but still here

Fallon Hook - Twst Captain Hook

The therein sibling - Twst Cinderella and step sisters

Nadira and Tamer - Twst Cave of Wonders and Iago

Yahir, Eri , Verity

Evelyn Franklin - Twst Sally (NMBC)

Yvonne,

Xiuying - Twst Mulan’s hair comb

RSA fandorm (wip)

Wonderling (Alice) and Ellendel(Cinderella)

Game sprites

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[akairin7]

Takaki Yuya - Daimei no Nai Monogatari Romaji and Lyrics Translation

Hallo, I'm back with the translation of Yuya's solo song. As Yuya said before, his solo song would be a ballad song. It's so nice.

And here the romaji and the translation. I got the Kanji lyric from inoochine_411 on twitter. I'm sorry if you find any mistakes in the english translation because literally I'm not the nativ. Please feel free to correct my translation 😄

If you're Indonesian, you can find my bahasa translation in my live journal https://akai-rin.livejournal.com/

Romaji

Deeto shitari soine shitari Shiawase ga afureru kedo 

Kimi no kao dake ga Boyake mienai

Me o samashite yubi de kimi o sagasu kedo 

Kuki tsukamu tomadou asa o nando mo mukaeta

Yume de shika kimi to aenai 

Koe ya nukumori wa konna ni hakkiri shiteru noni 

Naze doko ni mo kimi wa inai

Moshi kimi ga Deja-Vu dato shitemo I love you 

Kesenai omoi ga boku o ikashiteru kara 

Mihatenai yume ni mote asobare temo 

Kamawanai konna ni mo shinjiteru aitai

Koware sou na yoru ni hitori kimi no na o tsubuyaku kedo 

Saikin ja kimi no yume o mirenai

Tameiki sae tsukenai hodo machijuu o sagasu keredo 

Kimi no kage sura mitsukerarenai yo

Moshikashite kimi mo boku o sagashite kureteru no kana 

Kasukana kibou sae mou jikan no yami ni kie sou

Moshi kimi ga Deja-Vu dato shitemo I love you 

Kesenai omoi ga boku o ikashiteru kara 

Mihatenai yume ni mote asobare temo 

Kamawanai konna ni mo shinjiteru aitai

Itsuka kanarazu kimi o mitsukeruyo 

Dakishimetara hanasanaikara zettai

Moshi kimi ga Deja-Vu dato shitemo I love you 

Kesenai omoi ga boku o ikashiteru kara 

Mihatenai yume ni mote asobare temo 

Kamawanai konna ni mo shinjiteru aitai

Matte te ne ima kara aini yuku 

Oyasumi

English Translation

Going on a date, lying together and the hapinnes was overflowed 

But your face seems so blurry

I opened my eyes and my fingers looking for you 

But just the air and pounding morning that I was grasped

Even in the dream, I can't meet you 

Although your voice and your warm was so clear 

Why you're not here

If you're just Deja-Vu, however I Love you 

Because this unerased feeling is making use of me 

Being played with the impossible dream 

I don't care, I believe that I want to meet you

Being alone in the broken night, I'm murmuring your name 

Lately I didn't see your dream

I sighed searching in the city 

I didn't find even your shadow

Did you also looking for me? 

The vogue hope seems to be disappear into the darkness of time

If you're just Deja-Vu, however I Love you 

Because this unerased feeling is making use of me 

Being played with the impossible dream 

I don't care, I believe that I want to meet you

One day I will find you 

I will hug you, surely won't let you go again

If you're just Deja-Vu, however I Love you 

Because this unerased feeling is making use of me 

Being played with the impossible dream 

I don't care, I believe that I want to meet you

Please wait, I will meet you now 

Good night

[cryptidyuu-boo]

Oh, to be part of a small gang of paranormal investigators traveling across the country in our old van, solving mysteries with our dog and stopping capitalist plots...

[art-by-kou]

Zero’s very ideals for what is good and wrong is different from others. Zero was intelligent, cruel and manipulative, and they did not hesitate in doing “necessary evils” for the sake of saving 6 billion people.

His motives were complex and he was not an easy character to understand. Perhaps not to Reiji.

“The end justifies the means”, after all.

[NOTES]  If you are interested in reading, please note there are minor spoilers for the game trilogy Zero Escape, but I’ve left things out of context as much as possible. Otherwise, have a young-ish Reiji. I feel like he’s rarely on my dash actually.

The room was dimly lit by the streetlights from Minami city. The walls in the LSD tower was deadly quiet save for Reiji’s hand tapping on the mouse.

Three monitors, side by side on his desk, showing the documents from Akaba Leo’s laboratory. He leaned back, taking his glasses off while pinching the bridge of his nose in irritation.

That machine… that had transported him to the fusion dimension… there was no proper written document for it. Other than a few notes and journal entries, he wasn’t sure how easy it was the salvage what he had.

He should have tried duplicating another of the same device first.

As he had shut his eyes, it was only then that his eyelids were feeling slightly heavy. Reiji was far from sleepy though, as the thoughts of a few hours prior had ran through his mind.

XYZ dimension…

Synchro dimension…

His thoughts about Akaba Leo’s destructive plan was interrupted when there was a notification from his duel disk.

“Hi Reiji, sorry, you had called earlier?” Yushou’s voice rang through the room as the boy leaned forward to face the screen. Perhaps he was looking a bit too serious, because father continued on. “Did something happen?”

“Yes,” he replied in a curt tone. “I’d like to meet with you, urgently, to discuss about Akaba Leo..”

“...? You’re not referring to him as your father?” Yushou’s eyebrows were raised before he remembered about the boy’s request. Did that mean his son had found his missing partner? “Yes sure… would you prefer somewhere where no one can eavesdrop?”

Within the next few minutes, one of the old labs for Solid Vision was chosen as a meeting location, and the phone call had ended. At this, Reiji stood up as he put on his glasses again.

Next to the keyboard, there was a mess of papers and disks. Half of them were pulled from the downstairs lab right after he got sent back forcibly from the Fusion dimension. Hastily, he started piling them into a pile. While doing so, he accidentally knocked into a small gaming disk.

Zero Escape.

It was one of the few games that he had played more than once, that he knew the entire complex story, and the details for all the puzzles. The face of the hooded figure with the nuclear gas mask stared back at him. [1]

This was the very figure of Zero, the mastermind, and villain in the Zero Escape games.

They were one of Reiji’s favourite characters in the series. Zero was intelligent, seemingly cruel and manipulative. They placed bombs in their kidnapped victims’ bodies, and they had carefully planned an entire game of puzzles for the victims to solve. If they wanted to live, that is.

The mastermind’s motives were complex, Reiji remember when he had reached the final conclusion of the game for the first time. Their very ideals for what is good and wrong is different from others. It didn’t matter if one was friend or foe, they did not hesitate in doing “necessary evils” for the sake of saving 6 billion people.

But the end justifies the means, Reiji thought to himself as he closed the drawer. Just before he left his room, he took out a red scarf and wrapped it around himself. Since it was new, the length was perfect.

His thoughts distracted back to Zero the mastermind again, he almost let out a bitter laugh. A person finding out the world was in danger, to be attacked by another dimension. It was almost the start of a heroic story.

If he were the main character for any story, he’d have to be like Zero, the worst hero. [2]

“Reiji-san?” [3] A familiar voice called from a few rooms down, and Reiji walked a bit faster to see his mother standing by her room door..

She gave a rare smile, that he couldn’t remember when he had last seen. “I knew the scarf would fit you.”

“Yes, thank you for that.” he said. She seemed to be in be in a better mood compared to earlier this morning, but he could see clearly the tired eye shadows. “Have you eaten yet?”

It turned out she hadn’t. Reiji wasn’t even surprised that in the middle of her fits, she had forgotten the time. Akaba Leo hadn’t even a sliver of care when he mentioned about her, this was the same man that Yushou was referring to as his “father”.

“I have a meeting to go to, but it won’t be quick,” he said looking up at the woman in the eye, showing. “After that, shall we eat together, mother? I have things to talk over with you.”

She was delighted as she bade him goodbye with a wave. As he walked away, there was a short moment where his face twisted into agonizing frustration. If only she knew, he wasn’t going to be able to listen to her idle chat tonight.

The ride in the elevator was short, and soon he had reached the front entrance. The reception desk was empty at this time. It was long over business hours, and there were hardly any teenagers on the street when he exited the LSD tower.

A wave of cold wind rushed at him. Reiji tugged the scarf a little tighter and walked towards the other side of the road, just like the other adults here.

[NOTES]

[1] As you can see, I’m using the Zero from 999 and VLR, but the machevillain personality extends to all versions of Zero. I think the most relevant example of Reiji being like this was when he “simply allowed” the Minami Championship duelists to be carded, to prioritize the safety of the local citizens.

[2] The worst kind of main character was actually something the developers had thought for the original Zero in the first game.

Maybe in some AU Reiji is actually the main character instead of Yuya. Because unlike the previous Yugioh series, Arc-v was the first series where there rival character doesn’t have a dragon as an ace-monster. It went to the main character instead.

[3] I decided to leave the honorifics there, because it really felt uncommon for a mother to refer to her son so formally. I could see in the anime how she had trusted his judgement. Reiji’s like the current man of the family I suppose, with Leo gone. O3o

[4] I guess I was trying to hint that Reiji is forcing himself to live up to the standards and expectations as an adult, because he can’t be some naive kid if he’s gotta outsmart Akaba Leo..

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New fan studies research - July 4th, 2017

A weekly list of new/recent fan studies research that’s just been added to the Fan Studies Bibliography. Works are divided into things that are open access (=immediately readable for anyone) and not open access (=behind a paywall or not yet public). Mostly new theses this week.

If we missed anything or made a mistake, submit a correction and we’ll fix it in next week’s edition. Happy reading!

Open access:

Arunrangsiwed, Proud. “Heroic Role and Attractiveness as the Cause of Creating Slash or Yaoi Fan Art.” BU Academic Review 16.1 (2017): 18–30. Graham, James, and Alessandro Gandini, eds. Collaborative Production in the Creative Industries. University of Westminster Press, 2017. Available: https://joacm.org/index.php/joacm/article/download/970/842

Jang, Kyungjae. “Religion or Fandom? Secular ritual in pop-culture pilgrimage.” In 9th Annual International Religious Tourism and Pilgrimage Conference, 2017. Available: http://arrow.dit.ie/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1043&context=irtp

Josephy-Hernández, Daniel E. “The Translation of Graphemes in Anime in Its Original and Fansubbed Versions.” TranscUlturAl: A Journal of Translation and Cultural Studies 9.1 (2017): 78–104. https://journals.library.ualberta.ca/tc/index.php/TC/article/view/29189

Marks, Benjamin. “‘ Sick, Dead, or Lying:’ A critical textual analysis of asexuality in popular culture” (2017). Available: http://ir.uiowa.edu/honors_theses/68/

Pande, Rukmini. “Squee from the Margins: Investigating the Operations of Racial/Cultural/Ethnic Identity in Media Fandom.” PhD dissertation, University of Western Australia, n.d. Available: http://research-repository.uwa.edu.au/files/14746940/THESIS_DOCTOR_OF_PHILOSOPHY_PANDE_Rukmini_2017.PDF

Sanikidze, Kakhi. “Blogging Eurovision: An Unconventional Online Space for Everyday Political Talk.” MA thesis, Uppsala: Uppsala University, 2017. Available: http://www.diva-portal.org/smash/record.jsf?pid=diva2:1114413

Turberville, Taylor. “The Female Justice League: The Misrepresentations of Women in Comic Books” (2016). Available: http://writingandrhetoric.cah.ucf.edu/stylus/files/kws5/KWS17_Turberville.pdf

Wang, Danqing, and Juan A. García. “Popularity and Activity in Social Networks: An analysis of their impact on chinese online series.” International Journal of Marketing, Communication and New Media 5.8 (2017). Available: http://u3isjournal.isvouga.pt/index.php/ijmcnm/article/view/225

Wang, Yiran. “Resistance and Compromise under Power Structures of Sexuality: A Case Study on Real Person Slash Fans in China.” MA thesis, Lund: Lund University, 2017. Available: http://lup.lub.lu.se/student-papers/record/8911918

Wolters, Katie, and others. “Why we need femslash.” MA thesis, University of Leiden, 2017. Available: https://openaccess.leidenuniv.nl/bitstream/handle/1887/49645/Wolters_MAThesis_29April2017%20.pdf?sequence=1

Not open access:

Cheung, Kelly, and Kerry-Ann O’Sullivan. “‘Big fans’, ‘Experts’, and those ‘In need of a challenge’: Teacher attitudes to ‘manga and anime kids’ in the Secondary English classroom.” English in Australia 52.2 (2017): 28. Franceschi, Valeria. Exploring Plurilingualism in Fan Fiction: ELF Users as Creative Writers. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2017.

Grant, Frances M. “Digitized Translations: Anime and Online American Illustrators.” MA thesis, Maryland Institute College of Art, 2017. Available: http://search.proquest.com/openview/2e4e74f7e5403c8c46abc06d14ee2e0a/1?pq-origsite=gscholar&cbl=18750&diss=y

Kiuchi, Yuya. Fifty Shades and Popular Culture. McFarland, 2017.

Tang, Ailie K. Y. “Key factors in the triumph of Pokémon GO.” Business Horizons (n.d.). Available: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0007681317300940

Wang, Dingkun, and Xiaochun Zhang. “Fansubbing in China.” Target. International Journal of Translation Studies 29.2 (2017): 301–318.