#how wonderfully picaresque

[usatokkiss]

charlie and ben :)

[bakersgrief]

Lucilan is just the best ever. They literally invented gay people. I wanna play with them like dolls. I wanna put them in so many aus. Coffee shop au, domestic au, modern au, office au, college au, mafia- oh wait oh no oh fuck

[winterswhite]

A3! Play-Off: Round 1 - Battle 8

How Wonderfully Picaresque vs Trump the phantom thief

Find the bracket here

[galaxystar17]

FAVORITE PLAY CHARACTERS - BANRI, ROUND 2, SIDE A, POLL #6

[mspaintmankai]

Why You Should Vote For How Wonderfully Picaresque: A Comprehensive Guide

Vote in the A3! Play-offs here! But first, read this:

In Conclusion:

Vote here!

[a3playshipbattleroyale]

[ginjithewanderer]

Translation Masterlist: A3!

Translations for A3!. Backstages are listed by character, then by rarity, and then by release date.

Backstages:

SR Chikage Utsuki - Raven in the Dead of Night || Part 1 - Part 2

SSR Chikage Utsuki - MANKAI Memory || Part 1 - Part 2 - Part 3

SR Banri Settsu - Always On-Target ☆ Easy || Part 1 - Part 2

SR Juza Hyodo - Banquet of Blooming || Part 1 - Part 2

SR Juza Hyodo - Brilliance of Blooming || Part 1 - Part 2

R Sakyo Furuichi - How Wonderfully Picaresque || Part 1 - Part 2

SR Sakyo Furuichi - Gratitude and Repayment LIVE! || Part 1 - Part 2

SR Sakyo Furuichi - Stay Safe Today || Part 1 - Part 2

SSR Sakyo Furuichi - Sake Cup Among Chrysanthemums || Part 1 - Part 2 - Part 3

SR Homare Arisugawa - MANKAI Playback || Part 1 - Part 2

SR Homare Arisugawa - Banquet of Blooming || Part 1 - Part 2

SSR Homare Arisugawa - MANKAI Encore || Part 1 - Part 2 - Part 3

SSR Homare Arisugawa - Emotional Orange || Part 1 - Part 2 - Part 3

R Azuma Yukishiro - Assorted Roll Cakes || Part 1 - Part 2

Plays:

South. Hill. Prison || Part 1 - Part 2 - Part 3 - Part 4

the Rad Red

Mini Chats:

Rabbits Party! - Kazunari and Sakyo's chat

6th Anniversary Pair Chat - Reinhart - Banri & Juza

Home Screen Lines:

Director's Birthday - 2022 - 2023

Culture Day - 2022

Sakyo's Birthday - 2022

Christmas - 2022

Tsumugi's Birthday - 2022

New Year's - 2023

Guy's Birthday - 2023

Azuma's Birthday - 2023

6th Anniversary - 2023

Homare's Birthday - 2023

Mizuno's Birthday - 2023

Tasuku's Birthday - 2023

Troupe Blog:

Anniversary Relay Blog - 2023

Songs:

Dawn of the Red (game size ver.)

[melodybottles]

oh, wait. while i'm here. i don't think i'm ever going to finish this one at this point (partly because it's so old and thus my style + how i do things has changed enough since then it would be noticeable, and partly because i've switched back to lineless work and do not want to return to lineart even for completion's sake) so i'm going to share how far i got with the WIP i spent 3/4 of 2021 complaining about because it had so many people in it!

a3! phantom thief f's scenario i started after trump the phantom thief got announced.... i had all of the roles from the vocaloid song matched up to various cards + play roles (those being listed under the readmore...)

maybe someday i'll try this again as a lineless piece! for now, it's never getting finished so i wanted to share what i DID get done because it's. a big piece and i got a decent chunk of it done!

the roles btw were:

Banri - The Mafia (Luciano, The Roman Episode / How Wonderfully Picaresque)

Azuma - The Doctor (Philip, Sympathy for the Angel)

Tsumugi - The Actor (Lucifer, Stray Devil Blues)

Azami - The Mechanic (Kid, Fallen Blood)

Guy (Guy) - The Auctioneer (Tsuzuki, HOTEL COMPASS)

Hisoka - The Politician (Shiki, Master Likes a Mystery)

Sakuya - The Waiter (Actor's Cafe)

Kumon - The Policeman (Watson, Scarlet Mirror)

Masumi - The Magician (Kiel, Magicians' Pure Love)

and, of course:

Muku - The Journalist / Phantom Thief F (King, Trump the phantom thief)

(my longterm favourite theory for whodunnit was always that the journalist was the thief, so!)

[a3yumemira]

Yume Directors getting caught Acting: A series 3

How Wonderfully Picaresque

    “Oi, Lansky, get yer ugly mug over here.” Banri had just opened the door to the rehearsal room, his mouth open to say something, Juza right behind, but he paused when he heard Yubi, in a tone of voice he’d never heard them use, say one of his lines. Or, what sounded like one of his lines. 

    “Ya wanna say that again?” Mira said with about as much vitriol as Juza usually used with him. 

    “Get. Yer ugly mug. Over here.” Yubi said, their words holding venom they’d never seen before. Mira stood from where they had been sitting in a chair and got in Yubi’s space, but Yubi didn’t flinch, didn’t move, just glared right back at their friend. 

    “Now say that to my face. I dare you.” Banri saw Yubi smirk. 

    “It’s not a secret that yer ugly.” What happened next surprised both Banri and Juza, given that the other tried to move past him in response. Mira grabbed the collar of Yubi’s shirt. 

    “You better watch your mouth if you know what’s good for you.” Mira warned, voice low and threatening. 

    “Should we do something?” Taichi asked, making Banri look behind himself to see the rest of the troupe. “I mean! We need to get Sakyo-san right?!” He looked antsy. He couldn’t blame the kid, this was an unsettling sight given that those two were best friends. Taichi started hurrying down the hall

    “I’m right here Nanao.” Sakyo said from his spot next to Omi. To Taichi’s credit, he probably didn’t see him there. 

    “You’re right there! Do something!” Taichi pointed towards the directors who were still in character, but a few feet away from each other now. 

    “You need me, Lansky. You can’t deny that.” Cocky Yubi was pretty cool, Banri couldn’t lie. 

    “I don’t need you.” Mira spat. “Yer just going to get in my way.” Yubi shrugged in a way that Banri recognized as how he usually shrugged, not how he shrugged as Luciano. 

    “Say what you want, but yer stuck with me. The boss’s orders.” 

    “They’ve strayed off script…” Sakyo murmured. 

    “I think they weren’t even on script to begin with.” Banri added. He had memorized the whole thing, and he didn’t recognize a single one of these lines. “It’s like they’re just trying to get into the character’s heads.” 

    The directors had said a few more things that Banri hadn’t been paying attention enough to catch before the atmosphere became lighter. 

    “Thank you so much for doing this for me, Yubi.” Mira thanked their friend with an easy smile. Yubi smiled back, their usual tone back in their voice. 

    “Of course! I hope that helped you understand the direction you should guide them in.” Mira nodded, picking the script up off the table. “Though, not using the script was pretty tough for me.” They laughed. 

    “Sorry. I wanted to try it street act style to see if that got me out of the mindset of their mannerisms being set in stone.” Mira apologized, laughing a little too. They looked towards the clock. “Is it really…?” Banri locked eyes with them and they paled. 

    “Oh! How long have you guys been standing there?” Yubi asked, looking a bit nervous. Banri shrugged. 

    “A while.” He said with a smirk. He walked into the room, the rest following him. “Seeing you two look about ready to fight each other was-” 

    “So scary!” Taichi interrupted. 

    “It was very convincing.” Omi added with a small chuckle. 

    “It could use some work. The line delivery was a bit awkward.” Sakyo criticized. Yubi laughed as they moved past the Autumn Troupe. 

“I’m not as familiar with the characters, so that might be why. Anyway, I’ll see you guys later. Have fun in rehearsal~.” They said before closing the door. Banri looked back at their director and realized that they had their script on their face. 

“What, you embarrassed or something?” Banri asked them, lowering their script. They glared up at him with a pout. 

“You guys could have said something! You let us cut into our precious practice time!” They said indignantly. 

“Can I grab Settsu like that during the play?” Juza asked, looking at the script. 

“Ah… I’d rather you didn’t…” Mira said, but Banri turned to him and smirked. He was going to change how he acted based on how he’d see how casually Yubi had played Luciano, why couldn’t Juza do the same?

“I say do it.” He told him. Juza glared at him before nodding resolutely. 

“Please… why?” Mira bemoaned, putting their script back on their face. 

[huhwhatyak]

MANKAI STAGE  —  How Wonderfully Picaresque

[bambuwu-writes]

Heyo, I really like your blog it's really cute and prettie! Could you please do taichi with an s/o who is usually cold to everyone but really sweet to him (its okay if you don't want to do it) anyways have a nice day and please stay safe :] <3

Ok im so sorry, he was a little scared of you (ó﹏ò｡)

Like!!! You seemed so cool!! And he always saw you smiling to yourself when no one else was around! But he was way too nervous to talk to you

Reason being, he had once seen you have a FULL BLOWN ARGUMENT WITH SAKYO OF ALL PEOPLE (he was asking why you were loitering outside of the theatre and you were not about to tell him you were waiting for that cute little red-haired skater boy to come outside, so you did the next best thing and told gramps to piss off <3)

A little context: you had gone to see the closing night production of “How Wonderfully Picaresque” and your heart melted at that kid roughly your age playing such a sweet and tragic character.,,.,you really wanted to meet him but were a touch nervous to go up to him after the show so you kindaaaaaa started walking past the mankai dorms every now and then to see if you could ever catch that kid alone and talk to him

You caught him one day on a grocery run!!!! Lets goooooo!!!!!!!!

He was absolutely enamoured with what Kazu referred to as your “gap moe”

Like, you would bring him candies and pretty flowers every now and then!!! And his heartttttttttttt!!!!!!!!!!! Waaaaaaaaa!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

And then he got to see you banter with banri like you were made for it??? He loves watching both sides of you so much it’s unreal

Eventually everyone in mankai learns how you work, so if tenma is ever trying to nag you to help him hold the bags on a grocery run he’ll make sure taichi is in the room. He’s annoyingly clever, because taichi goes where you go, so now you, taichi, and tenma are hauling back broccoli and eggplant and tenma is barely holding anything >:)))

[galaxystar17]

FAVORITE PLAY CHARACTERS - AZAMI, ROUND 2, SIDE B, POLL #7

[taichissu]

if y'all like goncharov and want to find more media about gay mobsters just watch how wonderfully picaresque

[nellygwyn]

Lots of people don’t know this but Jane Austen got the title for ‘Pride and Prejudice’ from a line in a c.1782 novel called Cecilia by Frances Burney. Burney was one of Austen’s inspirations and favourite novelists. Indeed, in Burney’s papers, it seems one of her subscribers was a young Jane Austen. At the end of Cecilia, Burney writes ‘Remember: if to pride and prejudice you owe your miseries, so wonderfully is good and evil balanced, that to pride and prejudice you will also owe their termination.’

Cecilia is about a beautiful and intelligent orphan named Cecilia Beverley who inherits a large fortune from her deceased father and recently-deceased uncle. In order to receive her fortune, however, Cecilia must find a husband willing to take on her surname. Meanwhile, she is put into the care of three guardians, picked out by her uncle, and all three have pretty big character flaws. One of them, Mr Delvile, is proud and haughty and absolutely obsessed with lineage and his family name. Horror, then, when Cecilia becomes attracted to his more-subdued eldest son, Mortimer, after the latter saves her from an embarrassing moment at a high society masquerade. Their romance is thrown into uncertainty because Mr Delvile is too proud to let his son become a Beverley. 

I wrote all of this out because I find it interesting how some of this story has echoes in Austen’s P&P. Of course, in P&P, the love interest is the proud and haughty one, and Elizabeth Bennet is no perfect Cecilia-esque heroine who is humble but beautiful. But I just read a paper on how Burney’s heroines are all female versions of heroes from 18th century picaresque novels, thriving by their wits and proving themselves to noble/ fabulously wealthy suitors. The women in Burney’s novels must prove themselves worthy and wily enough in order to obtain a marriage & happy ending. The men, quite frankly, do very little. In P&P, both Elizabeth and Darcy have to work for their happy ending, although Darcy arguably does the most self-improvement. This isn’t the case in all of Austen’s novels. For example, Marianne Dashwood has quite the reality check in S&S, but I do think Austen never wholly subscribes to the idea that only the woman needs to work for a relationship (particularly if that woman is of a lower social standing than her male love interest). Love is a joint venture.

[a3playshipbattleroyale]

(submitter specified homa!dewey, so that's why it's specified in the poll. he is very attractive. but it's also really funny to me that this is the only poll where one of the characters is just played by a whole real person.)