baby's first stella-inspired fanart
dice's design is supposed to be little prince-esque, also used it in this one. im v fond of his pointy crown so it stayed in the illustration, although it'd be funny if they approached ramuda and he looks This showy
i wanted gentaro's to look like the robed figures in the game Journey. since he's from a desert planet (and one i assumed to be extremely hot bc...crystals above ground?! the pressure...), i imagined his aesthetic of being all covered up will match this environment too. protection from intense weather.
and ramuda........not a lot to see there lol stereotypical scientist.
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DIVISION ASSEMBLED: CHUUOKU
although i am loving the hell out of reverse 1999 as its own thing now i haven't forgotten that the whole reason i picked up the game in the first place is to collect hpmi voice actors who are also voicing characters in the r1999 jp dub
and just four patches in! we have!! a complete division!!!
regulus & nemu: yamamoto nozomi
sophia & otome: kobayashi yuu
tennant & ichijiku: takahashi chiaki
IT'S A WIN FOR THE WOMEN (RIGHTEOUS AND DESERVED)
tragically otome cv is voicing an npc here so alas i cannot fulfill my dream of creating teams that are hpmi divisions, unless......
eternity & honobono: fairouz ai
THAT'S RIGHT WE HAVE HONOBONO TOO (and i am currently building her so maybe... maybe i'll see if she can work in a team with regulus and tennant somehow, since otome doesn't seem to want to be playable)
anyway we're 1 out of 7 divisions complete now... kijima and shiraimu i am looking at u, get in this game rn
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30 days Hypnosis Mic challenge
DAY 9: favorite duet song
🎤 「Murder at the House of Magic (奇術館の殺人 / Kijutsu-kan no Satsujin) 」 - Gentaro & Dice (2nd duet)
(link)
Just to make it immediately clear: my obsession level is high (yes, this post is going to be super long, and yes, I apologize in advance for that). I'm not exaggerating when I say that I know every single word of this song by heart.
I even made a fanart for this song. Check it out, if you're curious 👉 (link)
I became aware of the existence of this duet far too late, in April 2022, i think??, and in the saddest way possible: through the wiki while searching for only God knows now what kind of other stuff.
Of course, considering that Dice and Gentaro are two of my fave characters ever, it was a scandal for me not to have known earlier about the existence of a new duet of theirs, other than Once upon a time in Shibuya, which is iconic in itself, so I went crazy, obviously, and dashed off in search of the song (with very little success, I have to say)... and when I finally found it and it started playing, I almost had a heart attack.
What. the actual. hell. was. that.
I expected everything, except something of that sort.
Right from the very first notes, I knew this was gonna be BIG stuff.
I mean, VERY BIG.
The vibe it gave me, initially, was something alien, the instrumental intro smelled a lot like the X-files theme song to me (link).
Then Gentaro started, in his usual calm and sexy tone, and I caught the word "satsujin jiken". But so far, let's say, nothing exceptionally new. I knew I should expect some mystery to solve... I mean, the title spoke loud ¯\(ツ)/¯
But poor little naive Anna, soon after the bomb was dropped straight to the center of an indefinite part of my brain.
A serious Dice.
A bloody serious Dice.
A Dice that, instead of rapping, was literally speaking (or at least, the initial impression was seriously that).
I...I've never heard Dice speaking in such a hard, deadly serious yet sexy, defiant, cocky and confident tone, like... I- ... I didn't even think he could ever speak in such a way!? Like. Dice. HELLO?!
Where is my genuine idiotic cute drenched cat gone?! I'm scared?? But at the same time extremely intrigued??
WTF?! Help??!!
Let's make one thing clear: when I first heard the song, I obviously had not read the translation yet. So, how shall I explain what I thought ... mhm... the impression was that he was speaking not in a good-guy-trying-to-be-cool sense, absolutely not.
His tone was blatantly the tone of a thug. And a particularly dangerous one.
The impact of the very first verse of his, "Danna shindanda na, zannen da" was something absurd. I swear. Something of disarming power.
And then the tone used in the "tamannee na" immediately afterwards. Guys, I swear to you. I had completely lost my mind. I was totally in love with this new Dice, you have no idea.
I was going crazy, I just wanted to know WHY he was talking in that absolutely crazy HOT way. I LOVE how it's clearly perceivable that Dice is speaking with a smirk on his face, that of someone who is sure that he cannot be set up.
And I could go on listing word by word all the vocal proclivities that have slowly sent me further and further into the hyperuranium BUT I will refrain from doing so for your sake, because this post would probably become longer than it already is going to be.
And then the refrain. Simply BRILLIANT.
I mean, it's already not enough that this too, like Stella, is a song set up as a story told by Gentaro, in which he then becomes one of the characters in the plot (you can't tell I have logic behind my preferences, can you?), but a semi-occult code was also inserted?????? Who the hell came up with the idea of putting the spelling of Dice and Gentaro's names at the beginning of each verse of the chorus? WHO?
Give a fucking award to the composer, I beg you:
(A)Up & down, Rikou na yatsu wo, Sukkari damashite Ganchuu nai
Wakattenda Dare na no ka Izure wa Subete wo raizarai;
Yurusan, Meshi toraeru, Nogasanai shi Genkei nai
Takara, Rou sezu shite, Umaku moratte Say Good Bye
I don't know if i'm making the point clear enough, here.
And then the whole Uh!(Ah!)Uh!Uh!(Ah!) thing.
Gentaro firing off his "Ichi wa ichi, zero wa zero, hachi wa hachi" with that studied air of his who knows he has the other guy completely on the hook.
And the way you can perfectly sense that the mood of the conversation is starting to turn against Dice, when he throws out that "Nani?!" and then that "Kuso!" so particularly intense (KYAAAAAHHH (⁄ ⁄>⁄ ▽ ⁄<⁄ ⁄)).
OH, and I can't help but mention how the "Hachiji nijuppun" thing practically became a meme between me and @justanotherniky (fixed message in chat at 8:20 p.m.: "HACHIJI NIJUPPUN" when we don't happen to forget about it).
I swear guys, you have no idea how much I lost my mind behind this duet. Because c'mon, I don't know if you guys are realizing, but it's fucking genius.
And, last but not least, how not to mention the classic "Uso desu kedo ne~" at the close.
Epic.
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