#anyways last saiki post for now </3

[lchariott]

theyre besties your honor

[tengoku-e-no-tobira]

some interesting things i noticed when i read the untranslated jojo manga

not sure if anyone has written something like this post but i'll do it anyway.

you'll see small katakana or hiragana, mostly for vowels, at the end of a lot of characters' sentences.

the vampires' and pillar men's cries are written in romaji, like dio's famous "WRYYYYYYY" and esidisi's actual cry "HEEEEYYYYY".

i couldn't explain this well but some characters say "○○、××はよぉー" instead of "○○、××は". like なんだ、アレはよォー! nanda, are wa yoo-! instead of なんだ、アレは! nanda, are wa!

the characters' lines sometimes have a fuck ton of dashes ー or tildes ～ (i'm not exaggerating)  to elongate sounds and emphasize their expressions.

example of points 1, 3 and 4:

okuyasu: なんなんだァー そのマンガはよぉ～～～～～ッ "nan'nandaaa- sono manga wa yoo~~~~~!" (what the hell's with that manga page?!)

especially in parts 2-4, some of the weird insults the characters say are dated japanese words. examples include タコ "tako" (a bit different from the word for octopus), スカタン "sukatan", and 田ゴ作 "tagosaku".  by the way, "sukatan" is associated with caesar zeppeli in japanese-speaking side of the jojo fandom.

the characters often use じゃあない jaanai or じゃあねー jaanee instead of just じゃない janai/じゃねー janee.

in part 4, tonio ends his sentences with particles partially or fully written in katakana like でス or デス and マス, not です and ます to make him seem to be a foreigner who hasn't mastered japanese. oddly enough, this speech quirk is absent in the poaching seashore one-shot. (please note that this, and the next point are also spotted in other japanese-language media.)

stands who can speak like humans, such as echoes act 3, sex pistols, gold experience requiem, whitesnake, etc. have hiragana in their speech replaced with katakana to make them feel non-human, sometimes just in their early appearances. example:

echoes act 3: ソイツノ「両腕」ヲ重クシタ 地面カラ指一本立テラレナイホドニネ ！

"soitsu no 'ryouude' o omoku shita. jimen kara yubi ippon taterarenai hodo ni ne!" (i've made its hands heavier, so much that it won't be able to lift a finger from the ground!)

there are some exceptions such as the case with foo fighters, whose speech is written normally even in stand form.

there are quite a lot of words that use "english" furigana (kanji reading guides) written in katakana. some examples are:

in early part 3, "stand" is written as 幽波紋 yuuhamon with the furigana スタンド,

再起不能 saiki funou (sometimes read as "retired" リタイア),

星の白金 hoshi no hakkin (read as "star platinum" スター・プラチナ),

隠者の紫 inja no murasaki (read as "hermit purple" ハーミット・パープル),

黄金体験 ougon taiken (read as "gold experience" ゴールド・エクスペリエンス),

山吹色の波紋疾走 yamabuki-iro no hamon shissou (read as "sunlight yellow overdrive" サンライトイエローオーバードライブ),

厳正懲罰隔離房 gensei choubatsu kakuri-bou (read as "ultra security house unit" ウルトラセキュリティハウスユニット). yeah, the last two are the long ones.

on a related tangent: my blog name comes from the "japanese name" for heaven's door: 天国への扉 tengoku e no tobira.

...at least these are what i could recall for now. there might be more.

[luffyvace]

hello lol I'm back

I'm the same anon who requested saiki w younger sister

may I request saiki younger sister meeting his gf ?

(idk if you do stuff the is like continue form another post if u Dont u may delete this request)

HIII again anon!! <3

yes you may!~ from the last hcs I’m assuming reader is the younger sister, btw!

Yes I in fact do! I don’t mind at all! 🩷

The two least annoying people meeting! How cute 🌺

here’s one from the same anon focusing on just Saiki and sister (reader) <3

Saiki definitely wouldn’t be the one to suggest you two meet

not because he doesn’t want you to, but just because he doesn’t feel the urge to introduce the two of you

so either his gf asked once she found out about you or you asked after you found out about her

or maybe you’ve known about each other for a while but never got a chance to properly meet each other!

actually I think it’s mostly likely that it went down as: Saiki’s gf came over to his house (after a lot of begging because he didn’t want her to meet his parents 😆). you two saw each other while your were in the kitchen, living room- etc. either you or she said “who’s that?” and Saiki said “my sister/gf” as he pulled gf away to his room :)

so you probably only have seen each other before

don’t get me wrong he loves the both of you dearly, but he’s just not the type of guy to bring up his loved ones in a conversation unless asked, and even then it has to be with good reason 😅

-now for the actual meeting!! 🤗

Saiki would literally sit you two down in his room and go “(you), this is (gf), (gf), this is (you)”

you’d have to carry the convo from there unless you want it to be that short….

That’d be beneficial if your super introverted like Saiki, but was just kinda curious as to who she was 🤷‍♀️

I don’t feel his gf would be a super extrovert… but I’ll put a little scenario for both personalities anyway :)

if she’s extroverted/regularly friendly,

she’d probably reintroduce herself with her full name, and ask some questions about you! She’ll find you cute and start to think of you as a sister in law almost..! It’s kinda too soon since her and Saiki aren’t married yet but since they’re definitely trying to keep this relationship a secret from you and your brother’s parents..you’ll be the first wedding invite!! <3

She starts to basically “adopt” you LOL!

takes you out to fun spas and has girl time with you!! It’s so cute! 🤗💗💗

if she has siblings she low key favors you over them…..😁

As for a more introverted/calm gf,

she’d probably just (maybe awkwardly) say hi and wave a bit

once again..! hope your extroverted or the conversation will die off there…you end up just returning to your room and wondering questions about her, instead of asking them out loud. 😅

eventually I do think you two’ll warm up. maybe you won’t go out as often since she’s introverted, even if your not. Buuut..! the both of you still have plenty of fun together!! 💗

she gifts you stuff whenever she comes over and will indulge in your likes/hobbies with you! <33

now let’s completely flip the switch—just for fun 🤩

if your jealous/dislike her (one sided),

eek..tbh I don’t think Kusuo would be willing to break up with her just because you dislike her. You’d have to give a really good and truthful reason for him to do that.

soooo you’d pretty much just scowl at her whenever she comes over.. :(

if your upset because you think she’s stealing Kusuo away from you- honey just ask to hang out with your big brother 🤦‍♀️

you’d likely get along if you’d just communicate that

if it’s for some other reason Kusuo will just ignore you (unless it’s valid, as stated), and his gf gives you a confused look before moving on…🗿

on the other hand……❗️

if she’s jealous/dislikes you (one sided),

she’s now the one giving you the cold shoulder, always sticking her nose up at you and telling Kusuo your being annoying 😒

ick..

anyway Kusuo would ask her what she doesn’t like about you and unless it’s valid he’ll just keep you separated

honestly I can’t see him sticking with someone stuck up anyway so karma 😂

But if she’s not snobby and acts normally, yk? Like pretending you like them until they leave to be polite type normal- 😃 then he really just tries to keep you apart

Say you actually did something to make her dislike you, he’ll use his powers to give a (harmless) revenge and teach you a lesson- (LOL)

either that or he snitches if it’s a situation that’s easier for his mom to handle (especially since I feel y’all mom would love his gf)

if you dislike each other,

now that’s a whole different story. He loves you both and really doesn’t know what to do about it. Would first try to talk it out with y’all cuz he’s not gonna betray one for the other, he gives unbiased opinions and if no one’s right he’ll help you comprise some sort of peace treaty.

Now, whoever breaks it is the one in the wrong. Ik big brains right? 😼

On another note,

if your chaotic like his friends he’ll try to keep you two from meeting for as long a possible. Which…considering his luck you meet fairly quickly regardless 😆🤜💥

his gf won’t notice how chaotic you are (like how most ppl w/ out powers are oblivious) and will love you anyway! ☺️ I mean..unless your a weirdo chaotic like nendo 😂

Imagine you start liking each other more than him he’s gonna be pretty darn tiggered-

he uses his powers to get your likeability meters for each other to go down juuust a bit! 😁

something to get you to dislike in the other but not enough to wanna stop being friends 🗿😃

helping him keep gf away from Kuusuke is a must after you learn of her‼️ (y’all parents too) he knows it’ll inevitably happen at LEAST once but if he could minimize it to JUST once that’ll be enough for him 🤦‍♀️🤷‍♀️

you race her all over the city while trying to come up with an excuse as to why, while Kusuo plays a game with Kuusuke to distract him 😒

as painful as it is, it’s better than your eldest brother meeting his gf- he just knows it won’t go well 🙄

or not- 😀 if your chaotic along with said Kuusuke….then it’ll be a war- refer to my previous hcs to know what I’m talking about ☺️💗

In this case you would be keeping tabs on Kusuo to update Kuusuke as to where they are, so he can pop up and be like “heyyy brother heard you were in town- oh! Who’s this? 😏”

ORRR going with Kusuo and his gf so if he wants to teleport he can’t! Bc then if the gf goes “huh?….Did we just teleport?!” and Saiki says “hm? no…?” You can be like “huh!? Yeah we did!! I swear we were just in that store over there! (🤪)” and that way she’ll have confirmation as to what just happened 😊 then!!

Kuusuke will use the confusion to sneak up on Kusuo and introduce himself 😜

Btw this is in the case he’d want to keep his powers away from his gf as long as possible, since he already views it as a nuisance himself and doesn’t want her to ask to use them- 😂🤷‍♀️

I had way more to write abt this topic than I thought I would!! I must say, I rather enjoyed this myself! Hope you did too my love~

-Brook 🏴‍☠️

[blankeststateofmonsters]

Intro Post/Something about me: (Gonna Redo)

Hi! I’m Blank/Flame/You can call me whatever my handle is at the time.

I’m 18. I go by any pronouns

I’m a beginner artist, still learning, one day i’ll get better :3. I also may get back into writing fanfiction, eventually lol. I tend to AU my faves to hell and back. May make a art blog later once i get the balls to post art consistently but any rambles or art is under “Blank Posting”, but this account is probably mostly reblogs.

I’m pretty shy so I may not post much here aside from my silly rambles. Bit cringe but trying my best.

I like to think i’m pretty chill, and I want some mutual’s or friends 😅

My biggest fandoms right now are: Pokemon (But focused on Gen1/2 but trying to play through all gens when i get the time), Vocaloid, And Kirby. Fave chars rn is Kanto Trio, Johto Squad, Kaito and Meiko, and Meta knight.

However, I also like these things:

The Disastrous Life of Saiki K.

Mob Psycho 100

Super Mario

Tiger and Bunny

The Owl House.

Bee and Puppycat

Avatar the Last Airbender

We Bare Bears

DHMIS

The Good Place

and like, more but ^big ones. I get in and out of things often, some faster then others but I still enjoy them. I love hearing new recs for games/shows/music.

I rlly wanna talk about Namelessshipping n Kaimei but i’m also a multishipper, i love hearing about various types of ships n hc’s :3

Umm, if I have anything else to add i’ll edit or redo this post.

Anyways just Hiii, I hope to meet more people, Feel free to ask for Disc or DM :3 (N if there’s any cool servers out there, hi 👉👈)

<3

[danganronpa96]

Hold on I'll ask a few but not a lot since I don't wanna be annoying lol.

Idk I have a fangan with these characters but the show is sadly underrated but have you watched 101 Dalmatian Street? Really good show, really good characters, really cute art. Really scary finale.

There was a question asked in the Penguinronpa QnA, two actually, and I wanted to ask these questions. Since 96 isn't complete you can just do like the characters slash chapters you've done up til then or just do 69 only.

For each character, what would they have contributed if they lasted longer in the story. Like the role. Antag, development, support, that one character who does nothing but survives anyway, etc

What's one thing for each chapter you'd go back and redo, if there was one thing for each chapter?

Sorry for question count I'm a very questiony guy. Also yes, this is York the guy who gave Bojack-o-lattern a ton of nicknames. Also I've watched some of Breaking Bad and watched Saiki K almost all of Season 1 (dubbed). Both are really fucking good. There's an Ao Oni movie apparently but the demon design is apparently bad, wait shit I'm rambling. Let me stop now.

1. I haven’t watched it myself, but as long as you enjoy the show yourself and the characters you’re writing, then that’s great! As long as you’re passionate, you could even convince others to check it out

As these other answers are kinda long, I’m gonna put them under the cut ↓ ↓ ↓

2. I’ll answer this for DR69 as it’s easier as that story is already finished.

Mr. Krabs - probably would’ve taken on an arc of greed or teamwork that would’ve reflected into Luigi in some way

Mario - would’ve taken on a very tight-knit support role for Luigi, perhaps helping him come out of his shell and befriend anyone Luigi would

Dedede - as a comical character in the story, it would’ve been funny if he did get access to a hammer or something and tried to break down a wall, only for it to actually lead them to somewhere useful (or makes a hole that a killer could utilise for a murder case)

Ashley - like a mentioned in a very previous post, she would’ve had an arc of coming out of her comfort zone and making more friends, gaining some confidence on the side to confide in others. She would probably become a close friend to Luigi, who takes on a similar type of parental role he does with Parappa (as one single man can never have too many kids)

2D - I’d like to think we’d get to see him perform at some point. Either as a performance with Miku and Teto, or maybe on his own without the cosmetics and show lights, singing to someone who needs the motivation

Peter - I won’t lie, I don’t particularly want Peter to be an endgame character, even in an alternative timeline. I think he’d continue to just be a comic relief character tho, just not so loudly during the darker parts as we get later into the story

Sans - If Sans was alive longer, sansmaeda would be able to be explored more than just during the trial and some parts before. Perhaps the relationship would cause some problems with trust, or it would change the dynamic of the group in someway (as the first sort of relationship they’ve been accustomed to). On his own, I think he’d begin to actually care about investigating himself and find some pretty useful things

Fluttershy - for Fluttershy, she’d be able to spread her kindness a lot further from when she died. Since she had her own doubts herself, however (seen in her diary), it would’ve been a good opportunity for her to receive help from others rather than just being so selfless. Also, she would’ve been able to share her drawings herself, allowing her to explain her creative process and see the others' reactions to her art

Brian - if Brian was persuaded to keep going, he’d have no regrets, more easily able to accept certain strange things and focus on what’s most important: saving everyone else. I think he’d often try to be self-sacrificial, but others would convince him they all need to stay alive together

3. I’ll continue to answer this with just DR69.

Chap 1 - add more events to the daily life. It felt kinda short, even if it was my first ever dangan chapter, and it would’ve been nice to see more events with the whole cast before one bit the dust. I’d like to see them all do something together -- maybe find a way to escape even if it backfires.

Chap 2 - this is more of a technical thing, but I accidentally forgot to have one of the three practicing the play (either The Conductor, Miku or Teto) mention they were rehearing in Classroom 1-A and not the performance hall during the night of the 2nd murder. This led to some theories believing the latter, which made me feel a bit guilty as it led some theories the wrong way.

Chap 3 - I mentioned before I wanted to also add more events to the daily life of ch3. However, I’d probably remove that um. Luigi having to be a real plumber for Peter scene because it was just gross and I only did it because I thought some people would find it funny I guess?? Like it’s not the worst thing ever but I don’t like stooping to toilet level humour often.

Chap 4 - for this chapter, I think I’d want to justify why Sans killed Peter himself. While taking on a selfless act as he didn’t want Nagito to die is alright, just Peter making fun of Papyrus doesn’t really reflect why Sans would get so mad. However, this was actually because in a very old plan I had, Peter had actually killed Papyrus himself (idk how or why but he did) and that confession would be what had led Sans into killing him. I mean I guess it could’ve been possible in a prequel type thing but it would make things more messy (also impossible considering Papyrus is alive for the albeit dead sequel)

Chap 5 - I think I would add more moments of Luigi seeing Parappa hanging out with Brian and trying to make him happy again. We only really see him trying to talk to Nagito, and not with the other two often. It would be nice to have Luigi at least know one thing they did together, making the moment it all falls apart in the trial much more harder to bear.

Chap 6 - I can’t think of much I would change here. However, I would’ve liked to add a part during the trial where Luigi reminisces on the others who have passed away, and I would add a CG of a collage of all the final moments of each character like how they did in SDR2 and NDRV3. I just think it’d look cool but painful as a reminder of all the deaths in one big image. I’d also add a CG right at the end of all 5 survivors standing together after escaping the school. I was planning to, but I got quite burned out after basically working on that final chapter so intently after such a long hiatus.

4. Hello again! I’m glad you’ve enjoyed those shows so far since I really like ‘em too. It’s nice when people check out the medias I write in my fangans!

[carbonateds-oda]

🎃🦇🦇🦇🦇 Trick or treat!!! 🎃🦇🦇🦇🦇

(it's funny cause your name is candy lol 🤭)

anyways..so in this game, we can give anything..

I give you..

the nosy anon asks you reblogged! 🤭🦇 (and some more)

[disclaimer: I edited it a bit]

[only answer the ones you want to tho!]

[feel free to vent]

[it's not me, it's the post that's being nosy]

[I added/removed some questions too tho]

*** okay let's start! 🤭🎃***

Do you smoke/drink/take drugs? (don't look at me, it was from the post TT - but I'd be lying if I said I wasn't interested HELP TT )

Age you get mistaken for?

Have tattoos/Want any tattoos?

Got any piercings/Want any piercings?

Best friend/close friends?

Biggest turn ons?

Biggest turn offs?

Favorite movie?

Favorite show?

Someone you miss? (honestly, I think I alr know the answer but I'm still going to ask) TT

Most traumatic experience?

A fact about your personality?

What you hate most about yourself? (I'm going to virtually dazai-slap you if you say 'everything')

What you love most about yourself?

What you want to be when you get older?

Your relationship with your sibling(s)?

Your relationship with your parent(s)?

Your idea of a perfect date?

Your biggest pet peeves?

A description of the girl/boy you like?

A description of the person you dislike the most?

Type of people you dislike? (for no particular reason, just personal bias)?

A reason you've lied to a friend?

Do you prefer white lies or harsh truth?

What you hate the most about work/school?

What makes you happy when you're at work/school?

What words upset you the most?

What words are you dying to hear from someone else?

What words make you happy when you hear them?

Are you into girls, guys, or both? 👀

What makes a person attractive to you? (/what's your ideal type)?

Where would you like to live?

One of your insecurities?

Your childhood career choice?

Your favorite ice cream flavor?

Who you wish you could be?

What's the nicest thing someone has done for you?

What's the nicest thing you've done for someone?

Where would you want to be right now?

Sexiest person that comes to your mind immediately? (back off. Oda's mine /j).

What's one phrase you say often? (can be either in English or Spanish)

How many languages can you speak? Enumerate them based on how fluent you are (ex: 1. English; 2. Japanese, etc)

Are you a math or arts girlie?

Have you ever played candy crush? (sorry that's kind of a bad pun 😅🤭)

When a friend wrongs you, do you confront them about it or silently grow distant?

would you rather initiate physical affection or have someone else suddenly give you physical affection?

What's your love language/how do you show love to your loved ones?

and last but not the least

share one random fact you want to share <3

(just make sure its not private info lol)

🎃🦇🦇🦇🦇 Happy Halloween, Candy!! 🎃🦇🦇🦇🦇

my fellow Oda simp who's quite insane and funny 🥰🤭🤭

[pls pls pls i hope i don't come across as nosy TT just answer the ones you want :") ]

🎃🦇🦇🦇🦇 Happy Halloween, again!! 🎃🦇🦇🦇🦇

<333

xoxo

Do you smoke/drink/take drugs?

-I do not do any of those :) but I’d b lying if I said I wasn’t tempted to start

Age you get mistaken for?

-I’ve nvr been mistaken for a diff age so none ig

Have tattoos/Want any tattoos?

-do not but I do plan on getting at least one sometime, prob zelda related

Got any piercings/Want any piercings?

-just my ears rn but I rlly wanna get my nose re-pierced and maybe an eyebrow one too

Favorite movie?

-shrek 2 that movie is just rlly funny in spanish and I grew up watching it a lot

Someone you miss?

-…maybe my brother. but only a rice grains worth. oh and def my cousins I haven’t seen them in a while but I’d die before admitting that out loud

Most traumatic experience?

-every first day of school Ive had ever

A fact about your personality?

-well i have the same personality type as saiki and according to multiple sources, it def checks out

What you hate most about yourself?

-I’ll just take that slap then thank you.

What you love most about yourself?

-im occasionally funny w is nice ig

What you want to be when you get older?

-hopefully a writer

Your relationship with your sibling(s)?

-oof idk anymore but we were pretty close I’d say, we have a lot of similar interests but he’s like way older so he had too much other shit going on for us to b super close

Your idea of a perfect date?

-if we manage to make each other laugh that’s an automatic win for me idrc what we do

Your biggest pet peeves?

-when ppl ask me stupid questions that they could easily answer themselves I rlly don’t like talking more than I have to

Type of people you dislike?

-anyone who knows anatomy bc I’m bitter and envious of them

Do you prefer white lies or harsh truth?

-harsh truth

What you hate the most about work/ school?

-being expected to talk to ppl

What makes you happy when you're at work/school?

-I like having structure and being told exactly what I need to do and when so that

What word's upset you the most?

-“you have to order ur own food” <\3 😔

What words are you dying to hear from someone else?

-an explanation abt sm that happened yrs ago I still have yet to hear their side of things

What words make you happy when you hear them?

-my mom told me it was cold outside and i nearly exploded from joy I’ve been waiting so long to b able to wear sweaters again

Are you into girls, guys, or both?

-both, i am bi (mysel- I’m sorry.)

What makes a person attractive to you? (/what's your ideal type)?

-just someone funny and well read. and if they have a nice voice

Where would you like to live?

-somewhere where it isn’t always hot as fuck

One of your insecurities?

-rlly living up to the pfp, I get hair on my chin w I forget to shave sometimes and it’s dark so ppl close to me can def see it w is embarrassing

Your childhood career choice?

-artist

Your favorite ice cream flavor?

-vanilla, but specifically the blue bell one

What's the nicest thing someone has done for you?

-my six yr old cousin threatened to call the police on my mom cuz she thought she was hitting me and then used herself as a shield to “protect” me😭

What's the nicest thing you've done for someone?

-just lending an ear to sm who rlly needed it ig

Where would you want to be right now?

-can’t believe I’m saying this but school, I can’t function w out the constant over looming threat of deadlines, they keep me in check

Sexiest person that comes to your mind immediately? (back off. Oda's mine /j).

-^ I’m gonna have to ask u to step tf away from my wife please. ok but fr no one rlly comes to mind rn

What's one phrase you say often?

-“no thanks” and man does my fam hate it

How many languages can you speak?

-two, English and Spanish

Are you a math or arts girlie?

-ARTS. I fucking hate math sm

Have you ever played candy crush? (it’s ok lol)

-a few times, on my moms phone though cuz ofc that lady was obsessed w it

When a friend wrongs you, do you confront them about it or silently grow distant?

-silently grow distant I need to fix that fr

would you rather initiate physical affection or have someone else suddenly give you physical affection?

-neither tbh

What's your love language/how do you show love to your loved ones?

-acts of service ig

share one random fact you want to share <3

-my fav soda is Pepsi (idk there’s like three bottles rt in front of me and I can’t think of anything else)

ty for the trick or treat asks 🫶

and Happy Halloween to you too 🎃🍬

[miniaturestitches]

30-day seiyuu challenge/appreciation week 4 + 2 days

Finally got the time to post this!  Got really delayed because so many things got in the way...my computer decided to stop cooperating...tumblr also decided to whisk part of my draft away...

Anyway! here’s the last week for the challenge~ I don’t even know if what I typed makes sense.

Hey, if you guys want to do the 30-day seiyuu challenge (whether mine or someone else’s), can you please let me know? I want to read more appreciation posts for seiyuus~

If you want to see more posts filled with fangirling and my opinions, here is the link to week 3.

22. Seiyuu with fastest voice change

Shimazaki  Nobunaga

Just listen to his character Kaido Shun…

And this guy… 

You'll know what I mean.  The way he shifts in pitch is near instant.  

23. Seiyuu with best main character roles

Nakamura Yuuichi

He doesn’t get casted as those typical loud, heroic, shounen main characters, but you'll want to root for his characters.  (hmm, actually you'll like his characters even though they're support characters.)

He just… "owns" the character he voices.  Once I hear him voice a character, I can't really imagine that character being voiced by anyone else. 

 I feel that his voice really improves the character too; adding depth to the character.  

Special Mention: Hanae Natsuki I'm personally not a fan, but I have to admit that he is talented.  

He is given a lot of main character roles and he excels at it. He is given a lot of main character roles and he excels at it.

24. Seiyuu with best support roles

Kimura Ryohei

I don't know why, but I tend to like his characters more when they're not the main lead.  

His characters tend to make others shine and become more memorable.

25. Favorite seiyuu duo/ combination

Kimura Ryohei + Nobunaga Shimazaki

I'll go ahead and say it, I was very biased for this item.  They don't really get much projects together unlike other seiyuu duos (Kamiya Hiroshi + Ono Daisuke, Fukuyama Jun + Sakurai Takahiro)  but they're dynamics as theGreed pair just worked so well for me.

I just really, really love their tandem as Licht and Lawless!  

I loved it even more when I saw clips of the live Servamp event.

I hope to see more combinations like this in the future.  

Another duo I like is Nakamura Yuuchi + Fukuyama Jun.  Ratio and Birthday was a great tandem.

26. Seiyuus you always mistake for the other

Hatano Wataru and Konishi Katsuyuki 

The sound so similar to me.   

I actually thought these guys were voiced by Hatano Wataru until I checked the credits.

 Well, they were actually casted as son and father once (the Yaotomes in Idolish7)

I guess I'm not alone in thinking that they do have some similarities?

27. Underrated seiyuu

Kimura Subaru I don't think he gets much main voice acting roles.  (Well at least Hypmic got an anime now.)  He has this unique voice which sounds refreshing.    

I myself didn't really notice him before until someone pointed out to me how great he was in voicing Terasaka and Kanba.

Furukawa Makoto

Aside from Saitama (One-Punch Man) people rarely talk about his roles.

I think he deserves more recognition for his voice work. 

I was a bit disappointed when Taiju only got appearances in the earlier episodes of Dr. Stone.  I hope he gets a bigger role in the next season!

Did you know he did the narration in the Saiki Kusuo Psi-nan anime?  

I like his voice as Hatsuharu too.

28. Seiyuu who deserves better roles

Ono Yuki

His voice range is so flexible! 

I always get pleasantly surprised when I find out that he was the voice behind a character. He's one of those seiyuus who make you remember the character, not the voice actor.   

Sadly, I feel like everytime he is one of the main characters, he ends up getting outshined or forgotten...because other seiyuus are more popular.

Kawanishi Kengo

Really impressive work in 3an-gatsu no lion!

I think he deserves more leading roles!  He did get the lead role in Junjo no Magmell.  The anime had so much potential, but I felt that it could have ended better.

He was also perfect as Asagiri Gen in Dr. Stone!

29. Seiyuu who works well with other seiyuus

Miyu Irino

I can't really describe it well.  But Miyu Irino (both character and voice) just blends into whatever role is given to him.  

Classic example is Tachibana Chizuru from Kimi to Boku…like...he just established himself in their circle.

I guess he does get a lot of “outsider” characters who find their way in becoming a core part of a group.

One minute it’s “look at this wild card” and the next minute it’s “since when did you guys get all so chummy?!”

As expected of an experienced voice actor!  He can make his voice work in any genre, any character, with any cast.  

Hosoya Yoshimasa

He works so well with various tandems.

I have a friend who likes the Shimazaki Nobunaga + Hosoya Yoshimasa combi.

While I prefer the Miyano Mamoru + Hosoya Yoshimasa combi~

Whichever combi you like, there’s no denying his talent.  He has a good range of character types!

30. Seiyuus who gives characters life

Suzumura Kenichi

I'm not just talking about making the character lively. (like this adorable furball)

Whether the character is energetic or not, young or not, Suzumura Kenichi makes the character so believable and real.  

It seems to me that, no matter how minor, he makes each character memorable.

and that’s a wrap for the seiyuu challenge~ (for now ^ ^ ) I did have fun doing this and now have even better appreciation for the work they do.  I hope I can repeat this challenge in the future~ there are still so many impressive seiyuus out there!   

[tiramiesu]

i was tagged by @123dream to answer these 20 get to know me questions! thank you for tagging me noah and happy belated birthday💕

🧸 what do you prefer to be called name-wise?

Alex!

🧸 when is your birthday?

October 25th

🧸 where do you live?

Bulgaria

🧸 three things you’re doing right now?

Getting my driver's license, revising for uni and watching Saiki k

🧸 four fandoms that have piqued your interest right now?

None, except for txt maybe, but I don't engage with fandoms that much anyway

🧸 how is the pandemic treating you?

It has been very mentally taxing, last year I was at my lowest, but the past couple of months have been alright. I'm really sad that I'm not able to fully have my university experience tho

🧸 song you can’t stop listening to right now?

Signal by Twice and Talk&talk by Fromis_9 🤸‍♀️

🧸 recommend a movie

The night is short walk on girl

🧸 how old are you?

19

🧸 school, university, occupation, other?

Uni student

🧸 do you prefer hot or cold?

Hot

🧸 name one fact others may not know about you.

I was the biggest Little mix fan back in 2011-2015 and I own their first three albums

🧸 are you shy?

Idrk, I think it's anxiety most of the time

🧸 what are your preferred pronouns?

she/her

🧸 any pet peeves?

People who don't understand what personal space is

🧸 what’s your favourite “dere” type?

I know only yandere and tsundere and I don't like them both

🧸 rate your life 1-10. 1 being really crappy and 10 being the best you could ever be.

I would say a 7 at the moment, whereas last year would've been 2-3. Overall maybe like a 6?

🧸 what’s your main blog?

This one

🧸 list your side blogs and what they’re used for.

I don't have any side blogs, only urls that I've saved. I just post all the miscellaneous stuff in this blog and my followers have to deal with it

🧸 is there anything you think people need to know about you before becoming friends with you?

I can actually become friends with someone pretty easily, it's just that I'm anxious to start a conversation with anyone :) also, even if we don't contact each other that often, I still think of you dearly💕

🧸 tagging

@ritsukou @love4eva @isagf @ti3r (I'm so sorry if you have been tagged before😖 also you don't have to do it if you don't want to🥰)

[infiniteoreos]

literary analysis

probably nsfw just dont read lmao if you know what i’m analyzing thats good if you dont keep scrolling

intro: so about 98% of what i’ve posted over the last week is just reblogging the same conversation about this one really bad fanfiction that some of my mutuals & i attempted to read and we couldn’t because it was just that bad. so im gonna force myself to read the whole thing and suffer

without further ado ladies and gentlemen and everyone else today i will be analyzing the piss kink fanfiction chapter by chapter

chapter 1: first of all it’s written in first person ok so the story begins with kusuo describing how he’s avoided relationships his whole life and then they pretty much just say “well i read an article once that humans need to interact with each other” and thats the justification for him looking for a relationship, and like, what????? bitch you have like 700 friends dude damn pretty sure you dont need romantic attraction to live but ok.

so anyway he goes through a list of all his friends and decides he cant date them bc he would have to tell them he’s psychic so he kind of just picks akechi because he’s the guy that figured out he’s psychic. which, what?????? this just feels like an aromantic trying to force themself into a relationship they dont want :( he picks akechi out of pure logical reasoning and no attraction whatsoever but i mean sure why not.

and then they magically pull some attraction out of nowhere by saying “hes kinda cute i guess”

and then he just kinda takes akechi to his house n fucking kisses him with like no explanation? how did we get here? why???????

akechi comments that theyre going too fast and boy oh boy let me tell you they’re about to go so fast you’ll get whiplash

chapter 2:  (there are 11 chapters of this shit)  this chapter is just some badly written masturbating which is really fucking awkward when the story is in first person and i stg its so hard to read it physically hurts like just? why??????

chapter 3: this is the worst fucking thing i’ve ever seen ok so saiki and akechi are dating now i guess and the chapter starts with saiki being kind of a bitch to the rest of his friends which,,,, no??? why??????? and then theyre on a field trip to a museum. i will not be describing this portion. ok ok ok let me explain the problem with this shit. so like at first, piss kink,,,, kinda ew i guess,,, but in my opinion the worst part of this is that this happens in public??? this fic has no damage control and they just throw shit at you.

they never build up to anything or talk about anything, stuff just kind of happens and i think thats what makes this so overwhelming to read. 

this writer literally can’t decide if they’re gonna write saiki in character or not bc the first couple paragraphs seem pretty normal and then you get here and hes like “lets fuck on a school field trip lmao” and if that isnt the worst thing ever then what is??

chapter 4: in this one teruhashi is like “whos that fucker whos always following saiki” and gets kinda jealous and then saiki and akechi fucking teleport to a random desert island and there’s some badly written fucking which,,,,

jesus christ can they maybe not fuck in the middle of the school day???? it’s like the author tried to write a normal story where they go to school and shit and then when they were done they were like fuck it and just haphazardly scattered sex scenes in places where they make no sense 

akechi doesnt piss himself in this chapter for some reason 

and i mean they just dont go back to school or anything they just fall asleep on the desert island and then it ends

chapter 5: s u c c

chapter 6: so theyre on a date at a cafe and saiki is eating coffee jelly and teruhashi is also there for some reason i think they say shes hanging out with mera but lmao jk she just aggressively flirts with saiki and akechi just goes “biTCH fuckn leAve us aLone” and then they get beat up by everyone in the cafe because they insulted teruhashi? then they go home and,,,

and for fucks sake can this author maybe not use terms that you hear in 6th grade science class to describe this kinky shit?????? like damn it’s already bad dont make it woRse

chapter 7: its valentines day now. teruhashi has chocolate for saiki bc why not.

saiki is most definitely planning some more desert island fucking

the setting very suddenly changes but im just gonna assume theyre on the island now,, in the middle of the fuckn school day,,,, for the second time,,,,,,

*sigh*

😔😔😔😔 why am i doing this to myself

chapter 8: if the fic is supposed to be focusing on the smut then why are the smut scenes so short and so horrible????????

chapter 9: lmao this is an announcement from the author saying they wouldnt update it any more so i guess this has been cut short.

my opinion: ok ok ok so like this is super cringy and there is no good pacing whatsoever lol

the author also says that it started out seriously and then it became a joke towards the end so i mean i guess that makes sense? but the beginning was worse than the end in my opinion so i mean- 

the worst part is most definitely chapter 3 bc they really just throw you in here with no explanation,,, this is also just a major flaw of wattpad is that there’s not really any good filters or anything so they can just do whatever they want and you cant just be like “damn why didnt i read the tags” 

the best most tolerable part? i think the one that causes the least physical pain is probably chapter 6, it takes place in a setting that makes sense in the show and teruhashi acts pretty normal i guess?????

lowkey if i were gonna try and fix this to make it suck less i would definitely make it shorter so they only fuck once or twice because there’s too much fucking without any plot line in between. And they definitely wouldn’t be doing it in public or in the middle of the school day. And they should probably like communicate about it like a healThy cOuPle bc if theyre gonna be getting into some kinky shit then maybe some consent would be nice 😡 bc consent is poggers

[wolfy-daydreams]

This daydream is number 38. All posts are collected under the tag #38Atlas. It's a combination of Greek Mythology, several anime, and ATLA (don't ask how I was able to fit this one without making it a multiverse, this was a new experience for me too lol).

So before I'm gonna give updates here is the context (hopefully in the future I can just start from the beginning when I create a new plotline but for now I'm committed to this one). This is the story told chronologically (not necessarily how the story went in my head)

The world starts with two beings: Uranus and Gaia (Greek Mythology). They have kids and all that good stuff (cue the plot of Lucifer, the show). Then Uranus (aka God) decides that he is tired of this bunch and basically does Apocalypse time (yay, reset that shit).

Uranus and Gaia get kids again (and now we're back to Greek Mythology). Here the usual stuff happens. Kronos castrates his dad because that's canon for some reason. Titans get born and stuff (cue Attack on Titan even though I've only seen like 3 episodes). Finally our main character is born, Atlas. In this daydream/plotline Atlas has always been a little distant. He doesn't much care about anything really and sees himself as... well basically "woke" describes that best. He oftens calls others naïve fools if they show no signs of appreciating or honouring the things he does. He is also big on rules and is extremely stubborn about them, even if he doesn't actually want to follow his principles, he stays grounded.

Anyways blah blah, Titan War happens (Greek Mythology again cuz why not). And now all the Titans are got yeeted into Tartarus by Zeus. And yes, just like the myth Atlas sides with baby eating Kronos because 🌠family above all rule🌠. Atlas escapes Tartarus though, which is something no one's ever managed before. Sooo, Zeus gives him the punishment that he needs to hold up the sky for all eternity.

So our boi Atlas is holding the sky, which is quite heavy btw. And then he meets a mortal called Won (cue Avatar the Last Airbender shite). At this point the human population is not going near extinct because Titans are hungry motherfuckers. No, now humans have learned 🌠bending🌠 from weird af animals and stuff. Anyways, Won is an airnomad (because I said so) and he wants to bring balance between the 4 elements and stuff. He feels strongly that it can only be achieved by one Symbol of Peace that can bend all 4 of them, and obviously that Symbol must live forever duh.

Other than that, Won and Atlas get along great. They are bestest of friends (although throughout their entire friendship there is definitely some gay energy going on. So far I'm thinking Atlas has a crush on Won, but doesn't wanna express it because he has his own stupid rules and stuff. Fun times. Also Won is definitely the gayest out of the two, just saying). At some point, Atlas decides to grant Won's wish and makes him the Avatar and stuff. He does by energybending and because he is a fucking deity so shut up, I don't need to explain myself. So yeah Avatar line starts and yakno the story. (Btw this also around the same time Lore Olympus takes place, so yeah. We'll get into that plot when I technically "finished the story" and then just decided to keep it going like an idiot)

Alrighto, fast forward like thousands of years and at this point, the Avatar is probably dead. Most people can't bend anymore because the population declined way too much when it comes to that stuff. And the people who can bend don't know any of the forms to do so. Fun times, oops.

Now we got technology and shit, and the gods are just kind of having a vacation. So the humans don't really believe they exist anymore, because srsly go show ppl you exist guys. Now cue whatever modern day anime with people having secret superpowers (think Saiki, Assassination classroom, etc.). This is the era where bending powers have evolved to just having a weird mix of stuff to the point where people's powers don't even resemble the elements anymore. Now at this point no one knows of the existence of superpower people.

Also Atlas has just been holding up the sky all this time and has decided to collect some ingredients for a potion. Not all the ingredients are known but two of them are a part of Appollo's lyre, and a golden apple from the myth Heracles and Atlas. He is getting kind of exhausted holding up this one heavy object for like millennia so he decided that he could get out of this punishment by turning himself mortal. At this point he has the potion all ready and is just vibing with his arms up (cuz holding sky, duh).

Then, suddenly! It comes out that superpowers are exist. And out of no were tons of people with powers come out (oh no, I wonder where those came from. I have no clue at allll). And boom, let's call them quirks baby (cue Boku No Hero Academia).

And then... Atlas drinks the potion. This causes a human couple to have a baby (don't worry, no possession, Atlas was this baby from the very start). And since they moved from Japan to London they decide to give him an English-ish name: Castor. Their last name is Kubo btw. Also because ya'know CASTOR IS NOW HOLDING A TITAN SOUL SOMEHOW, the birth was obviously complicated. So his mother got permanent damage on her legs and lost her job because she now needs a cane and shit and her job requires like... legwork. So basically Castor's dad needs to get all the money now, which means he has to basically work 24/7.

So yeah that's it for now. Cue part 2 where I actually get into the story because this is where it starts (also jfc, thank you for reading this long af post).

Cheers!

Wolfy

[starstruck-with-love]

inhale

Anyways UPDATED SAIKI-K INSERT AAAAAAA

About time amirite (god i hate looking at it jskdsfs)

heres the link if you wanna check out the OG post  

An Ruiz

Age: 16

Silent unless spoken to

“I have NPC syndrome, okay?”

(It’s actually social anxiety)

Unless the person is somebody he trusts and feels comfortable with, in which he goes to hang out with as much as he can

Doesn’t start conversations unless he’s comfortable

Apathetic to strangers/acquaintances

He’s incredibly compassionate towards friends, though

He has low self-esteem

Like really low self esteem

He’s working on that though

Did I mention he also has bad anxiety

Hes the type of person that studies last minute for exams and gets an A

Then again, “last minute” means 2-3 days straight to him

Lowest grade is an 85

An has a habit of using word-filler often while talking when a) he’s talking to a stranger or b) he’s caught by surprise

Makes first impressions of of peoples’ actions rather than their looks

It is difficult to make An change his opinion on someone if it’s not something he’s partially interested in

exhibit a) “contrats on winning volleyball, can we go inside now?”

exhibit b) “You like [this game]? What are your thoughts on it? I thought it was really good, the storyline was amazing and I love how the characters were-”

Well

Unless you press specific buttons

Anyways

He is usually seen either a) drawing or b) doing schoolwork

He doesn’t go out often unless he’s invited

General anxiety is the cause of this

“Do it now, regret it later.” is his motto

(It’s a good motto)

He curls his hair

His normal hair is straight but he doesn’t like it that much

Here’s a representation

An doesn’t wear contacts bc they scare him

Speaking of

He has a habit of repressing his negative emotions

Happy? Yeah he’ll show it. Hungry? Sure..? Curious? Yup!!!

Angry? Most likely not. Fear? Nope. Any hint of sadness whatsoever? Absolutely n o t

He really likes thinking up of stories

Even if he doesn’t draw them

Just thinking about them is good enough for him

Once he becomes friends with Kaidou…

Hoo boy

So Many Stories about Dark Reunion and Jet Black Wings

(not that he ever tells Kaidou about them)

He really likes spending time with Kaidou his friends

His usual style is comfortable jeans, t-shirt and a jacket

Although there are days where he feels nice and thus he dresses nice

“Why are you wearing that?” “I just felt nice :>”

He is often seen with bandaids on his hands about once a month

It’s because he often pricks his fingers accidentally when he sews

He likes sewing btw

Some of his clothes were sewn by him, actually.

Not that anybody would know because he never tells anybody

The first time Kaidou noticed these bandaids he got really worried because they were a lot

At learning that An often gets hurt by sewing needles, he buys An a thumble

(An still manages to hurt his hands often though rip)

An sews a really cool jacket for Kaidou on his birthday

Needless to say, Kaidou loves it

And An loves Kaidou what

An likes to imagine himself as a prince

Naturally, Kaidou as his knight

Ok i think that’s all

wahoo

[cloudydoodle-moved]

everytime rhea cloudydoodle posts on their tumblr i get that good good dopamine, their ocs?? Gooooooood shit!! Please info dump about them all because want to love them

sorry for takin so long to reply to this ask!!!! ^^;; 's all under the cut! :3

PLUTO

i don't know if i ever mentioned his age? he's 15!

also, he’s mexican!

he has a black cat!! her name's kuro because...y'know. she's a black cat. pluto's a simple guy, alright? lol

he absolutely loves music! he likes most songs/genres, but he really enjoys vocaloid and cutesy songs (though he won't ever admit it).

a couple of his favorite songs are shama by niru kajitsu (miy_yuu's cover to be specific!) and otsukimi recital by jin.

also he knows every single lyric of renai circulation.

he has terrible posture. please help this boy. he's already 5'3". save his soul. (he's the shortest one in the main 4 ahaaa)

he supresses his emotions a lot of the time, even happiness. he doesn't wanna deal with any of that, no sir.

he's good at staying quiet. like, it's almost scary how silent he can walk across floors.

(he's spooked koko about a million times because of this. at first it was unintentional, but now pluto has some fun with it.)

he types pretty normally when it comes to texting, like;

pluto: What are you guys even talking about. What's happening.

he'll die before he uses an emoji. he's fine with emoticons like :), but he will Never use emojis.

he'd probably wear crocs. he tucks his sweatpants into his combat boots. he's a fashion disaster.

he's really observant!! he'll notice the tiniest things, like a change in typing style or perfume. he probably won't point it out, though.

he barely listens in class, and yet he somehow always gets decent grades. koko mourns dramatically about this.

he doesn't like most coffee or tea. if he really has to, then he'll drink iced coffee. honestly? he just likes cold water.

sometimes he writes in this little pocket journal. he'll kill anyone who tries to look through it, because, y'know.

he's terrible at any physical activity, especially push ups. please, he is just a noodle.

he, of course, really digs space. it's one of his biggest interests! he's bursting at the seams to infodump, but he doesn't wanna bother anyone, y'know?

he chose the nickname pluto because he is very cool and edgy and it just kinda stuck.

he's surprisingly kind sometimes? because he's really observant, he catches on if he sees someone being...off or sadder than usual.

he'll try to just. give the person a small gift/note, and he'll run off like a dumb tsundere lol

he doesn't watch a lot of anime (or shows in general), but he really enjoys the disastrous life of saiki k (because who wouldn't?). he and koko watch it together whenever they're feeling shitty.

fun fact: every time i get a new sketchbook, i draw him first.

KOKO

he's 16, but he's in the same grade(??? whatever the word is) as pluto! funky birthday tingz, y'know?

he's half indian and half filipino, which explains his last name (castillo-madan)!

anyways. in canon, he chose koko as a nickname instead of niko (though he'll def accept that nickname too) because it was a nickname that navya called him as a kid, and he just vibes with it.

(also, he wanted to avoid as many nico nico nii jokes as he can)

he watches a lot of anime! he's the reason why pluto got into vocaloid, too. he stans miku and also momo kisaragi. what a king.

he LOOOOVES the movie kimi no na wa/your name. zen zen zense is one of his favorite songs, like, ever.

his fav anime (animes?? i never know which one's right...) are mob psycho 100 and march comes in like a lion.\

he's loud and energetic and tries his best to cheer people up!! he also has owo bracelets, because he's just Like That.

he has adhd! he's trying his best.

he's very passionate about the things and people that he loves!! when he gets a new interest, it hits *hard*. he'll get absolutely hyperfixated on it.

his favorite show ever is probably avatar: the last airbender. he stans zuko and toph.

he's so bad at sleeping right. i say this because i forgot to give him his eyebags in his ref :( 

his typing is a disaster, like me! like;

koko: AGHIUSGHSDHKJ HELLOOOO?!?!!? am i in HELL what's going ON

the only emojis he uses are heart emojis! his favs are the yellow heart & revolving hearts.

when it comes to physical activity, he’s not the best at things like running, but he’s pretty alright at carrying heavy things! 

he’d die if he didn’t have coffee. please help this man.

sorta like pluto, he pushes a lot of his negative feelings to the side (...sayori/kano kinnie?). he’s bursting apart at the seams, but he’s trying his best to stay cheerful. gotta stay happy for his friends!

he can kinda play the guitar!! he doesn’t pick it up very much, but he can probably play a few simple songs!

his mind is either empty or has 390824234897 different thoughts. there is no inbetween.

he gets really invested in characters and likes writing down character analyses sometimes!! he just vibes with them a lot

(some of his favs are kano shuuya and shinobu kochou :p)

fun fact (that makes me cringe): he was named after kokobot on kik. that was my terrible decision when i was like 10

can you tell i project onto them a lot??? my weeb-ness??? and part of me feels like i got their characters a bit off, even though i’m the literal creator USDAHGJHGKJ...

thanks a bunch for asking about them, nonnie!!! :D and sorry if anything’s messy;; i wrote it all throughout the day and am too lazy to proofread it ;; (and also technically english isn’t my first language, so sorry for any mistakes!!)

[eyfey]

Do you have advice on how to improve on translating? Also, what made you want to start translating? Major props to you for translating Saiki because Akechi Touma’s lines kinda make me wanna die inside.

Thanks!!! (though tbh Akechi’s blathering is not NEARLY as bad as the non-stop puns/obscure references lol)

For what made me start translating:I found some Pyu to Fuku Jaguar raws for cheap at a used bookstore and started learning Japanese so I could read them. Once I got a little faster at reading, I noticed the Jaguar scanlation team had lost their translator, so I offered to join. My first translations were super not great (the only reason they’re even somewhat accurate is because Mangahelpers was more active at the time and I posted my translations there in the forums for people to proofread/asked for help whenever there was any kanji/grammar I got stuck on.

(If you want to go read my first translation, it’s ch62 of Pyu to Fuku! Jaguar. …Looking at it now, there’s so many places I could’ve translated better lol)

Since then I’ve gotten a lot better:

So here’s my hot tips on how to get better at translating!!!(under the readmore ‘cause it’s looong)

The number one thing that I recommend is… Just Translate! Pick up some raws and start doing some translations! They’re probably gonna be bad at first but who cares! You gotta start somewhere! Translating forces you to think about how to actually translate stuff and makes you look up words/grammar you don’t know. If you’re translating for a group/actually releasing your translations: You’ve got deadlines now! People looking forward to your translations! You’ve got consequences that will make it harder for you to slack off and drop your studies!

Google things! Whenever there’s a word/phrase/grammar that you don’t know: Google it! Google is a translators best friend!!!

Here’s some keywords I use:“[vocab/phrase in japanese] 英語で” will give you a google translate of the vocab, and if you scroll down a little like a weblio page or something with some translations for the vocab (the weblio/other pages are usually more accurate than the google translate option).

“[grammar in japanese] grammar” - Example 食べさせた (tabesaseta). Can’t remember what the -saseta verb ending meants? (I don’t blame you lol) Google “させた grammar” and you’ll get some pages in english explaining it along with several examples.

Have another translator proofread your translations! They can help you with vocab/grammar, parts that you misread, or even just suggest different ways to translate things that might fit better in different situations. The first scanlation group I was in did this and I learned soooo much that way! I don’t know how many other groups do this though (or how many other groups even have more than one translator) so maybe I just lucked out!

Fun fact! If something seems out of place when you’re reading/translating, it’s probably one of the following:a). A pun/cultural reference. b). A specific phrase/saying that shouldn’t be taken literally. (Googling the entire phrase will usually give you an equivelant phrase or appropriate definition in English.)c). Some weird grammar that you’re translating wrong (do a deep google: a lot of grammar forms have multiple meanings/change meaning based on very small factors/are very similar sounding to other different grammar forms)

Understand that a literal translation is not always a good or accurate translation: There’s some famous Natsume Souseki shenanigans where the line “I love you” was translated as “The moon is beautiful” in Japanese, because of how Japanese people are more shy or something and would never say “I love you straight out”. Natsume Souseki is valid- some things when you translate directly lose their nuance and change the meaning to something completely different.

That being said, changing TOO much will also ruin your translation. It’s a fine balance.The point is: once you understand what the Japanese says, you gotta think “okay now how would they say this in English?” If this series were originally in English, how would the author write that dialogue? What is the main point that needs to get across and what is the tone and how do you accurately convey both of those in English?

Consume! Consume media! Read stuff! Watch TV! Listen Learn how people talk! Get a bunch of English vocabulary up in your head and save it for later. Translating is not just understanding, it’s also WRITING. You need to have at least SOME understanding of how to write a poem if you want to translate a poem. You need to have at least SOME understanding of how to write comics/fiction if you want to translate comics/fiction.

Read/watch translated stuff! See how other translators translate certain words/phrases and take notes. Steal their cool ways of translating things and incorporate them into your own translations. Notice what DOESN’T work in a translation and make a mental note to not do that. (Season 2 of Aggretsuko on Netflix had me going “WOW that’s a good translation!” constantly while watching it. Good job Aggretsuko S2 netflix translator!)

Google again! Remember how you had to google to learn Japanese words? Good! Now google English words too! Google vocab terms! Google synonyms! Google phrases/sayings! Google words to make sure you’re spelling them right! Google grammar to make sure you’re using it right! GOOGLE!

Accents/dialects: Tread carefully with accents and speech quirks. Sprinkle them in, don’t lay them on heavy. Read the dialogue you’ve written and think “Does this sound like how an actual person would talk? or does this sound like someone putting on a shitty fake accent?” I’ve seen so many translations where people slam the accent on so hard you can’t even read the dialogue any more… It’s not great. *Exceptions for if the character IS putting on a shitty fake accent in Japanese, in which case go hog wild.

Puns: If you hate yourself, you will try to translate the puns instead of putting a translators note. Don’t worry too much about translating the pun EXACTLY. With puns/jokes, there’s two important factors at play: 1. What is the joke? Is it a reference? Is it a play on words? 2. What is the text ACTUALLY saying?Start by translating the line with no pun, just regular dialogue, and then adjust from there. Then re-word to try and fit in the pun- swap out words for ones that lend themselves better to punnery, or change which part of the sentence has the pun worked into it. (Wanna know a secret? Sometimes*, if the pun is the main focus of the line and there isn’t actually any important meaning to the dialogue? You can just write whatever the fuck you want to fit the pun. *but only if you’re ABSOLUTELY sure that it’s 100% about the pun and there’s no other significance)

しかたがない: This sucks. This phrase sucks. “It can’t be helped” sucks 98% of the time. “What choice do we have”, “Fine then” “What did you expect?” “I guess” “If you insist” “Whatever”. There’s a million ways to translate it, but no one way works for every situation. Sometimes you can just take it out completely. It all boils down to “I don’t want to do this but I’m doing it anyway” so think of what someone might say in that scenario that conveys that feeling and still feels natural.

Sentence structure/double bubbles: Japanese grammar structure is weird. Sometimes they do stuff like put the subject at the end of the sentence. It sounds weird when you do that in English. Don’t do that in english when you’re translating it. If you’ve got a line like 強いね、君は (tsuyoi ne, kimi wa). Please don’t translate it as “You’re strong, you are”. Just translating it as “You’re strong” is good enough. If you want to try and keep the pause in there, you could do something like “Yknow, you’re pretty strong.” If you’ve got something like this that’s split up across multiple speech bubbles- DON’T try to translate each bubble individually. Translate them all together as one big block of text, then divide it where it feels natural, and THEN re-distribute it to the speech bubbles. Sometimes what was in the last bubble will end up in the first bubble.

If it sounds awkward in English- Change it. Figure out what doesn’t sound awkward and make it be that.

PROOFREAD. You’re gonna spell things wrong. You’re gonna misread things. You’re gonna go back and decide to change the wording of a sentence but forget to change the tense of one of the words. You’re gonna translate something too close to the Japanese sentence structure and you won’t really notice it the first go around but when you go back to proofread you’ll be like “Wow. No one talks like that in English.”

For reference, here’s my translation/proofread process:

1. Translate. Get it into English. Doesn’t matter if it sounds janky or awkward right now, just try to get the meaning down in English. Anything you’re not sure you translated right? Mark it so you can double check it later. (I usually do this in a google doc on my phone.)2. 1st passthrough. Go through, and turn all that janky english into more natural sounding English: Check for anything that sounds off and give it some tlc. Reword anything that needs it. Do some hard research on the places you weren’t sure about the first time.3. 2nd passthrough. One more sweep through to polish up any parts that still sound awkward in English. If you’re not pressed for time it’s good to do this one a day or two after the previous passthrough so you’ve had some time to let the translation simmer in the back of your mind. Maybe you’ve come up with a better way to word something? Maybe you came up with a good way to make that joke work?4. Final proofread. Usually I do this after it’s been typeset: Sometimes something that read fine as a script doesn’t read so great when put on a page, divided into bubbles or split into separate pages. Adjust those parts. Check extra hard for any missed typos or messed up grammar ‘cause there IS going to be some that slipped through.

KEEP NOTES: If you’re working on a series, consistency is important and makes you look professional! Keep a document somewhere with translation notes so you can do a quick consistency check whenever necessary. Write down things like: How to spell/translate the names of characters/places/special attacks/etc (especially side characters that only show up every once and a while), how you translate certain catch phrases, how you handle certain characters’ speech quirks. You WILL forget if you spelled that name with one R or two Rs and it’s WAY easier to keep it all in one document than to have to go back and scan through every chapter until you find the ONE panel to see how it was written before. It also helps if you have multiple translators working on a series.

Put your name on your translation scripts if you want to be credited! Doesn’t have to be on every page, just once at the top- I used to not bother 'cause they were always just uploaded directly to the scan groups/never publicly uploaded, but then one day someone used one of my translations and the credit page just said something like “don’t know who to credit” lol

…and that’s all I can think of right now! Hope that helps!

[arcaneranger]

Final Thoughts - 2018 Long Shows

It’s finally here! I’m so close to being done with 2018 (...mostly. We’ll get to it) that I can taste it, but in the meantime, this list is gonna be weird, because there will be things that were already on other lists since I revised my rules of what should be classified how. This post is specifically for any show that ended in 2018 and lasted longer than 13-ish episodes (including shows that aired a second season during the same year or within six months of finishing the previous one), which means that there’s about as much on it as a usual season of shows, but they all had more time to impress - or disappoint me. I’m doing a better job in recent seasons of getting to everything, but last year there were unfortunately things that I missed (I was burned out in the winter) and just have to leave aside for now because I can’t wait any longer for these lists.

Anyway! As usual, let’s start with what I skipped!

* The Seven Deadly Sins: Revival of the Commandments, The Disastrous Life of Saiki Kusuo S2, Cardcaptor Sakura Clear Card, Garo: Vanishing Line, and Mr Tonegawa: Middle Management Blues because I haven’t seen their previous seasons or parent works. (Yes, even Cardcaptor Sakura. Y’all can shoot me later.)

* Hakyuu Hoshin Engi, Beatless, and Basilisk: The Ouka Ninja Scrolls because by the time I was rounding things up, I hadn’t heard a single positive thing about any of them.

Next comes what I dropped -

WORST OF THE YEAR: Steins;Gate 0 (4/10)

What a fucking mess this show was. Aside from a very noticeable downgrade in production talent from its predecessor, the plot meanders and flirts with maybe actually happening this time before just dropping out again, over and over, to the point where I was perfectly willing to drop it two episodes from the finish line because it was such an insult to fans of the original. (Also, continued disgusting mistreatment of the transgender character.)

Gundam Build Divers (4/10)

Taking the Build series from being a well-written kids show to an averagely-written kids show that hides itself in decent mech designs.

Katana Maidens (4/10)

I remember so little about this show, and granted that I did drop it after one episode almost nine months ago, but what I did remember was that it gave me strong KanColle vibes with laughably inconsistent animation and flat characters. Meh.

Darling in the FRANXX (5/10)

This should probably be lower on the list, but I got out of Darling while the getting was good, sixteen episodes in. I understand that future episodes of the show cemented it as crappy right-wing nonsense in addition to pushing worldbuilding out of its fortieth-story window, but the moment it lost me was much sooner, when the crazy yandere female lead was reduced, almost instantly, to Good Anime Waifu as a reward to the protagonist for going against his friends with his selfish motives.

Persona 5 the Animation (5/10)

In addition to not actually finishing in 2018, Persona 5 just did not give me a single reason to watch it when I’d already finished the source game, with middling-to-bad visuals (thanks to the switch from Production I.G. to A-1 Pictures, and not even the team that created the much better-looking Day Breakers OVA before the game was released in the U.S.) and phoned-in music, which is especially unacceptable in a Persona adaptation. Also, we all absolutely called that the studio couldn’t tell the story of the entire game in just 26 episodes.

Record of Grancrest War (6/10)

There’s people that like this one a lot, but I didn’t see much that interested me in the first two episodes. I’ve heard better things about the manga.

Golden Kamuy (6/10)

I had problems with the first half of Golden Kamuy that the second half simply didn’t fix, and it became difficult for me to keep watching - the show still interrupted almost every fight scene with a dick joke, but still wanted to maintain a serious and occasionally frightening tone - and those things simply don’t go together. It needed to either spend more time being funny, or keep its lowest-common-denominator humor out of the fights.

Next, I have two shows that are (potentially permanently) On Hold, simply because it’s time for me to move on and I don’t have the time or energy to marathon them when the Winter shows are starting to wrap up:

Kakuriyo: Bed & Breakfast for Spirits, because even though I initially dropped it, I’ve heard a lot of good things since and I want to eventually give it another shot.

Yowamushi Pedal Glory Line, because despite the fact that I still enjoyed the previous season, this one started right in the middle of my burnout and I only heard bad things about it. I’ll get to it eventually, but it’s a shame that this series has been on a clear trend downwards since its revival.

And finally, the stuff I finished!

The Ancient Magus’ Bride (6/10)

Keep in mind that this is here entirely on the merits of its aesthetic and its side characters - in the end, Ancient Magus’ Bride is a Beauty and the Beast story where the beast gets what he wants without learning to be less of a dick or even apologizing for his clearly wrong actions.

Major 2nd (7/10)

Always pleased to have even just Good sports shows around, and this one is a very effective reboot of a classic series that’s never made its way stateside (man, the underperformance of Big Windup! really did a lot of damage to this genre in the West). With good character development and a decent second-generation premise, Major 2nd has the potential to be the beginning of a solid baseball story, assuming that it gets a needed followup.

IDOLiSH7 (7/10)

I dropped IDOLiSH7 when it first aired, and though I wound up enjoying it after I was very strongly urged to revisit it, the problems it started with never quite left it behind - that is, it has an okay cast of characters but doesn’t present even passable performance sequences, and if you’re going to include big song-and-dance numbers, they have to be good, or you may as well just be UtaPri.

ClassicaLoid Season 2 (8/10)

In 2017, I gave the first season of ClassicaLoid a near-perfect 9/10, and while this season gives us a satisfying conclusion to the story, it does things both a little better than the first, and also not quite as great. It’s story is much more well-integrated over the runtime so it doesn’t happen all at once in a few chunks, and the jokes that work are still absolute genius, but there’s simply too much that doesn’t quite land correctly, and a little too much immature humor, for it to reach the same lofty Hall of Fame heights as the first season. Still, one of the most underrated shows I’ve ever seen.

My Hero Academia Season 3 (8/10)

God, Izuku in that onesie is too damn cute.

My problems with Hero Academia are frustratingly persistent - the show is at its best when the students are competing with other students, because outside of last season’s Stain (a villain whose motivation is specifically related to the world of MHA), the villains are just not at all compelling and they all seem a little too generic for their own good. I just want Horikoshi to be a little bit less predictable of an author and do a little less reading of the Standard Shounen Playbook. Luckily, when it works, it works magnificently.

March Comes in Like a Lion S2 (8/10)

March remains director/auteur Akiyuki Shinbo’s most accessible work, and one of his masterpieces, as a well-paced and marvelously moody story of a depressed shogi prodigy learning to be a normal teenager before his youth completely passes him by, and the fantastic characters that surround him with their own complex problems and motivations. I just really, really hope it gets a third season eventually, because this one did not leave off on a satisfying conclusion.

Speaking of which...

Food Wars! Shokugeki no Soma S3 (9/10)

It’s almost a shame that My Hero Academia became hugely popular purely based on its accessibility to American audiences, because Food Wars pretty squarely deserves to be the reigning Shonen Jump king - each season has only improved on the previous one, and this one was based entirely on a continuing arc that could only have happened in the universe of this show, Fighting Food Fascism. That being said, it also leaves off right in the middle of the arc (because it had almost caught up to the manga), meaning that we have to hope that it can remain relevant long enough for there to be enough source material for another season. I’ll be crossing my fingers until they snap.

Banana Fish (9/10)

Yes, this has risen a point since my review, but Banana Fish still deserves to be thought of as both a complete masterwork of crime fiction, being fantastically paced and expertly plotted in the use of its many, many twists, and a work that disappointed the side of me that hoped that, in adapting it into the modern day, MAPPA could have managed to get the author to let them depict what is clearly a queer relationship with the authenticity and legitimacy that it deserved. It’s still amazing, though, and Amazon should be pushing it with their most lavishly-made originals. At least it was the last noitaminA show they’ll get to totally bury.

And, finally, the one you all saw coming.

BEST OF THE YEAR: Lupin the 3rd Part V (10/10)

Lupin is, quite simply, one of the pinnacles of the medium. A simple idea that can (and did) go in thousands of different directions, handled by highly creative writers and an animation staff that has been knocking it out of the park for years, despite the fact that it is criminally (heh) unrecognized in the West. To put it simply, there’s a very, very good reason that it’s been around since the 70′s.

Okay! All I have left to do is finish Dragon Pilot (waiting on a friend) and we can get the last two lists out of the way! We’re almost done...

[voiceofreader]

Which characters do you write for?

This is a good way to finally make me write this list cause I’ve really been needing to.

It’s hard as a grey-asexual writer. Because I’m very picky about my character preferences. 

Partially, some characters I view as paternal figures and it feels wrong, and also characters I don’t feel any attraction towards, personally, or I don’t know much about. Either way, it’s hard to write for someone that I can’t get into a certain mindset for.  Like All Might, or Aizawa. I can’t write them in a romantic or nsfw way.  All Might is too much of a dad for me to write about. And Aizawa is crawling into parental territory.  

Maybe it’s because I have parental issues, that it makes much older characters parent like to me. 

Just like Allura, or Coran. I can’t write for them because I’m not attracted to them in anyway. Coran is a dad/weird uncle. And Allura is space mom. 

Also, it’s hard for me to write female character x reader. Not saying I won’t do it. It’s just I’ve never written any type of material like that. Anything I’ve ever written has been so far, male character x reader. 

MAybe it’s because I’m too intimidated by how hot the girls are idk or that I’ve only ever been in one gay relationship and it was extremely unhealthy and scarred me. I’m a useless gay/

ANYWAYS LETS JUST JUMP INTO IT (going down the list of shows I’ll write for, that’s on my rules post) Now, these characters I’m putting down, are ones I’m the most comfortable and confident writing for. That doesn’t mean you can’t request others. But, on the other hand, just know you could be asking for a character that I never thought anyone would want a certain scenario/headcanon/prompt for and I’ll mentally cringe and ignore it. (Though I should really let people know I can’t write for them so people stop requesting them but I’m too scared of confrontation)

FMA:B: 

Edward Elric 

Alphonse Elric (depending on the scenario, I may not write a nsfw for him)

Ling Yao and or GreedLing

I would include Roy Mustang, but he’s in my otp with Riza and I can’t betray my queen.

Fruits Basket:

I know it’s an old show but I love it and ITS GETTING A REBOOT SO MAYBE PEOPLE WILL ASK FOR IT??

Haru Sohma 

Yuki Sohma

Kyo Sohma (I’m a slut for him, so ask away for him)

Shigure Sohma (Be warned, some scenarios I might not do)

Ouran High School Host Club:

ITS MY FAVORITE SERIES EVER, IDC THAT ITS NO LONGER RELEVANT

Literally all of them. Except parents obviously.

OHSHC is just filled with beautiful characters.

I’m the biggest hoe for the twins, Tamaki, and Kyoya

Soul Eater:

Soul Evans

Death the Kid (He is my favorite oof)

Black Star

Maybe some Crona?? 

Fairy Tail: 

Natsu Dragneel (I currently have a fan fiction of him that’s like on chapter 76??)

Gray Fullbuster

Lyon Vastia

Sting Eucliffe

Rogue Cheney

Gajeel Redfox

Loke/ Leo

Blue Exorcist:

Mainly just Rin 🤷‍♀️

Durarara!!

Masaomi Kida

Izaya Orihara

Saiki K:

Saiki (Although, I suck at writing for him, because while I love him, I think of him as a ace/aro.)

Kaidou Shun

Harry Potter is on the list just cause I have a mess of a fanfiction that I wrote when I was 11 that’s on chapter 37 or something. It was originally a Draco Malfoy thing, but then it kinda went to Harry, now George is endgame. I also recently started up a George Weasley fanfic, though that’s never going to get finished.

Voltron:

Keith Kogane (is my daddy)

Lance McClain 

Takashi Shirogane

(I can’t write nsfw for Hunk or Pidge, and I may also not write for them in general because they are my precious cinnamon rolls and are just babies)

James Griffin is a daddy, so sure, I’ll write for him although, he gets no real character development to go off of. 

Avatar the Last Airbender and The Legend of Korra

Zuko

Maybe Sokka????

Mako

Seven Deadly Sins:

I haven’t seen the second season yet. oops

Sir Meliodas

Ban

King

Mystic Messenger: (mind you, I haven’t played the game in quite some time, and I have played Saeran’s route like 3 times and couldn’t get his good ending so idk how he plays out)

707, Luciel Choi, Saeyoung Choi

Saeran Choi

Yoosung Kim

My Hero Academia:

Katsuki Bakugou (is the love of my life)

Shouto Todoroki

Hitoshi Shinsou

Eijirou Kirishima

Denki Kaminari

I might write for Izuku Midoriya, but nsfw may or may not happen depending on the conditions. Like, for me personally, I don’t find him a big dominant boy.  I currently have an alpha!Midoriya thing in my requests and every time I look at it, I mentally scream because I don’t know how to go about it. Izuku is a broccoli baby. 

Anywho, now going back over this, I realize, that the majority of the things on this aren’t relevant anymore and y’all only care about Voltron and My Hero Academia.

Anyways, I’d also like to pout out at this time, I’m extremely adhd. So that means, I’m shit at life in general. But I have a hard time starting and finishing things, especially these requests. I get two out, there’s four new ones in the next 12 hours. but i love all of you, so it okay. 

[thejpfdude-blog]

The Week in Anime (Week of 3/26/18)

Herro everybody and welcome to a late version of TWiA! Sorry for the unannounced delay -- got a bit sick and focused more on rest. But I’m (somewhat) better now, just in time to talk about a few shows’ conclusions, including one which is early AOTY. So with that, let’s start it off right away with...

The News Corner:

So this time there’s actually something I can talk in pretty good detail about, and that’s:

Hitoribocchi no ○○ Seikatsu anime announced!

One of the few manga I’ve read (and enjoyed), this is basically a moe, less cringy version of WataMote. Basically it’s about a girl named Hitori Bocchi with severe social anxiety. She enters a new middle school without her only friend, who forces her to make 100 friends at said school. Cue the shenanigans.

Now I’ve read a handful of chapters of this one, and it’s a good ‘un. Obviously it’s #relatable, but it’s also pretty cute and very fluffy -- no drama here. Plus all of the characters’ names are puns: Hitori Bocchi -> hitoribocchi = alone as an example. Oh and it’s by the same mangaka as Mitsuboshi Colors, though I think this one is the better work in my biased opinion. Pretty excited for this one, maybe more than I should be.

K now rankings, featuring finished shows!

Rankings:

1 (0). Yuru Camp△ (9/10 FINAL) [12/12]

2 (0). Koi wa Ameagari no You ni (8.5/10) [11/12]

3 (+1). Violet Evergarden (8/10) [11/14]

4 (-1). Saiki Kusuo no Ψ-nan 2 (8/10) [10/24]

5 (0). Poputepipikku/Pop Team Epic (6/10 FINAL) [12/12]

6 (0). Takunomi. (6/10) [11/12]

7 (+1). Dagashi Kashi 2 (5.5/10) [11/12]

8 (-1). Gakuen Babysitters (5/10 FINAL) [12/12]

Awards:

Best Comfy: Yuru Camp

Let me start by saying this: the last episode of this was a bit underwhelming. Though that would be case when they continue off the previous episode, it didn’t really feel like a finale. I did like the throwback to the first episode with Nadeshiko/Kirby going to the same campsite Rin did in episode 1. It all goes full circle.

Now overall thoughts on the show. It was good. Actually more than good, it was probably one of the best airing shows I’ve ever seen. That’s not an exaggeration: ReLIFE is technically the highest-ranked show I watched while it was airing, but that doesn’t really count since all of the episodes came out at the same time. So the next man up is Yuru Camp, a show that I watched the moment I woke up on Thursdays, no matter how busy I was with life. Every episode was filled with maximum comfy, hilarious antics, and great Irish folk-inspired BGM. With the exception of one episode, it was consistent in animation/character design (which btw was great: I loved the design of every character). Not to mention the backgrounds of the campsites were A+. I could go on, but 1. I’m still a bit sick right now and 2. I’m gonna save the big details for the end-of-season award post.

So tl;dr, Yuru Camp is really really good. It’s not K-On where I recommend it to people who generally don’t watch SoL shows, but for those who want some comfy in your life or like CGDCT/SoL shows, I would highly highly recommend this. 9/10, a fantastic journey.

Worst Finale: Pop Team Epic

Wow that was something. Not really what I expected, but also entirely what I expected. As expected of the shitpost of the season.

So I guess this is the part where I analyze the show and talk about it, but to be honest, I don’t have much to say about it. There were some really amazing segments (freakin’ Hellshake Yano) and there were segments that flew over my head even after learning about what it parodied. Honestly, I’m impressed with the amount of work for what amounted to be such a huge shitpost. If there’s one thing I’m disappointed in it’s that they never used the “hambaga” joke, the one I’m sure a lot of people know given it’s usually the strip that introduces you to Pop Team Epic (I know it did for me). Still, I enjoyed watching the episodes twice, and at the end of the day it was a nice way to start off the weekends. So a good 6/10 overall: would reluctantly recommend.

Best Brother Complex: Gakuen Babysitters

Ah yes that was an episode. It was a nice ending to show the friendships and relationships that Ryuuichi makes throughout the season all in one place. Very fitting for the finale.

But now I have to talk about the #1 issue I had with the show. Actually scratch that, let me start with the positives -- it was very cute. The kids made for some fun times, and there were some legitimately tear-jerking episodes in the beginning parts in regards to Kotaru and Ryuuichi with their situation.

Towards the second half of the show, though, is when I realized something. And that’s that Ryuuichi is a pretty bad character. He’s your standard nice guy MC, with some knowledge in childcare added in. I realized this during the Valentine’s day episode (and any subsequent episode featuring either Yuki or Inomata). Now this probably isn’t really a problem for the demographic of this show (mostly female), but as a male I found the dude a bit generic. It also didn’t help that he had a really close relationship with Kotarou. Like a bit too close. I’m not saying he has a straight up bro-complex like the award title implies, but when Kotarou pretty much influences his social life, it’s something. Yeah there’s the whole thing with their parents dying and all that, but it’s still concerning to me how much he thinks about Kotarou. Well maybe it’s just my viewpoint, seeing as I don’t have siblings/never had my parents die (though I did live in a single-parent household). So I guess chalk it up to “wasn’t really my thing”.

Even with that, though, this show was enjoyable to watch, and I don’t regret picking it up. A high 5/10 for me, would recommend.

Best Episode of the Week: Violet Evergarden

Okay, I thought last week’s episode was sad. Well, this week’s was even worse in that regard. I don’t know why, but this week’s episode hit me harder. AND NOW SPOILER WARNING (btw if you haven’t been watching this show DO START NOW because it’s really started to pick up recently).

The moment I saw Aiden and his picture of Maria, I knew things would go wrong. That only got worse when he got shot, though there was some hope when Violet saved the dude. But then the slow death was a killer, and the letter delivery was the killing blow. Yes my friends, I shed one tear. I know, amazing.

In all seriousness, I’m loving the episodes so far from Violet Evergarden. I love it when an anime gets me invested in a show to the point where I put all of my emotions towards it. It’s happening with this show and After the Rain, and the last notable time it happened was with ERASED. At that point it becomes more like something you experience, rather than something you watch. And all of this wouldn’t have been possible without the episodes people called “slow”. Sasuga KyoAni for the long con.

And that’s all for this week! Look out for the annual “Shows I’m Watching for the Spring 2018 season” post which should be out within the next few days. Anyways, thanks for reading and I’ll see you in the next post!