Silly Game Time: Who's a historical figure you would high-five, and why?
This is where my poor history skills are obvious... To be ✨different✨ I'm gonna pick Hibari Misora. She was like a super famous person in Japan, and said to be the first "modern pop idol" (at least from what I could gather in my 30 seconds of research)
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Tissaia shakes her head. 'Promise me nothing, Yennefer. Flowers fade. Seasons turn. It is the way of it.'
Yennefer stares down at Tissaia for a long moment before she suddenly turns away and reaches up to a low-hanging bough of the apple tree, plucking a sprig off the end of the branch. She murmurs a word, and the cold wood begins to change, growing at speed, small shoots appearing, rising into green leaves, then small buds forming, until a few pink-tinged blossoms have emerged, seemingly unaffected by the cold.
'We are mages, Tissaia,’ she says quietly, looking from the blossomed branch to Tissaia’s blue eyes. ‘I refuse to bow to the inevitability of the cycle, for under our direction, flowers may be coaxed to bloom after the long slumber of frost and snow. When I say I shall return to you, will you wait for me?’
From chapter 5 of @galeaspida's fic And So We Fall Together (The One With The Unicorn)
Love how they just include random people who don’t appear like. Hibari Misora isn’t mentioned, at all? Neither is Ikka?? I understand featuring Ikka as an important mention, because of the time period and other themes. I assume the pop singer is there for similar reason? Or maybe the author just wanted her there. And why is the spotted girl there when it mentions she doesn’t appear? 😭😭
And then who’s that bitch on the left in the background?? I will have to read the author’s other works, maybe they’re connected somehow and those people are mentioned/appear. Still don’t know who background girly is though.
Very good manga. Very short, read it in one sitting.
・Hibari is a pink rose made by crossbreeding in Hiroshima ・A pink rose on Akainu's chest → named after his favorite flower ・Singer Hibari Misora likes pink roses ・SWORD on Akainu's right arm Tattoo, akainu and hibari speak in hiroshima dialect which implies that they are from the same place
“In the latest chapter, Hibari's Japanese speech style is inevitably lost in translation. It is called "Hiroshima dialect", the same as Akainu. Considering only these 2 characters speak that dialect in OP which leads the japanese OP community to theorize hibari is akainus daughter“
There's this spin off approved by Oda about Akainu being a doting father who gets bullied by his daughter who has a huge crush on Koby.
edit:
I'm becoming more and more convinced that Hibari is Akainu's daughter, or connected to him in some other way:
As noted when Hibari was first revealed, she speaks with a Hiroshima dialect in Japanese, with Akainu being the only other character in the series to speak that way as well.
Hibari just used a flower gun in this chapter. Akainu has flowers tattooed onto his body.
In that same Akainu pic, he has a sword on his right arm and Hibari happens to be in the group SWORD.
Hibari's dialogue in this chapter seems to imply that her and Koby don't always get along (mainly with "don't get the wrong idea", though granted this could just be a TCB thing). Yes she was pleading to help save Koby back in 1061, but that was when Koby wasn't there to see her reaction. She seems to have a crush on him, but can't publicly show it to him. Being connected to Akainu can help explain why she has to bottle up her feelings.
Both Kujyaku and Grus had text under their names to specify them more, but Hibari didn't. Feels like she has more to her character but Oda is keeping it hidden for now.
As mentioned in chapter 1061, she feels that she personally "owes" Koby for something in the past, most likely something relating to the Rocky Port Incident. Again this feels like we'll get some lore relating to this too meaning we might get a (very very brief) Hibari backstory. @chromatic-lamina
The VOCALOID:AI technology present in VOCALOID6 was first demonstrated in 2019, when it was used to recreate the voice of deceased Japanese singer Hibari Misora, with deep neural networks changing and adapting the voice of VY1 based on existing samples of Misora's voice. This technology was used within a version of either the VOCALOID3 or VOCALOID4 editor.
Artist - 美空ひばり・津々美洋とオール・スターズ・ワゴン (Misora, Hibari with Tsutsumi, Hiroshi & All Stars Wagon)
Song - むらさきの夜明け (Murasaki No Yoake) [Eng. “Purple Dawn”]
Release Date - October 1967