#kayoko's diary

[natsukashii-naa]

1991 anime

[runawaycarouselhorse]

I love how she drags out the bedding just to flop on it and cry.

[luwritesomething]

FANDOMS !!

hi, hello!! here will be listed the fandoms i'm into by alphabetical number. i think I'm not forgetting anyone but this post will be continually updated for i enter a lot of fandoms every month i guess.

under the fandoms marked with a dot [ • ] will be listed the characters i write for. the ones marked like this [ example ] are problematic character i've written about and most likely won't keep writing about. also do have in mind i'm talking about characters here, not the actors/actress that portray them. all being said, here we go!

last updated: 27/03/23

- Alice in Borderland  • ( chishiya shuntaro, kuina hikari, ginji kyuma )

- Agents of Shield.

- Beetlejuice: The Musical.

- DC Comics.  • ( damian wayne, jason todd, dick grayson, tim drake, roy harper, gar logan, wally west. )

- Dead Poets Society.  • ( charlie dalton )

- Derry Girls

- Deadly Class.  • ( marcus lópez argüello )

- Dear Evan Hansen.  • ( connor murphy )

- Diary of a Wimpy Kid. ( rodrick heffley )

- Friends.  • ( chandler bing, joey tribbiani )

- Grease.  • ( kenickie murdoch )

- Hamilton: The Musical.

- Harry Potter: see Wizarding World. 

- Heathers.

- IT.

- Marve / X-Men.  • ( peter parker, harry osborn, alex summers )

- Miraculous Ladybug.

- Modern Family.

- Monster High.

- Moulin Rougue. • ( christian )

- Outer Banks.  • ( jj maybank, rafe cameron, topper thornton )

- Panic.  • ( dodge mason)

- Percy Jackson.

- Powerpuff Girls ( & Rowdyruff )  • ( both the powerpuff and the rowdyruff tbh )

- Riverdale.  • ( fp jones )

- Rumble Fish.  • ( rusty james)

- Scream.  • ( billy loomis, stu macher, randy meeks, tatum riley, sidney prescott, mickey altieri, kirby reid, chad meeks-martin, mindy meeks-martin, tara carpenter, anika kayoko, laura crane )

- Six.

- Supernatural.  • ( dean winchester, sam winchester. ONLY FROM SEASON 1 TO SEASON 7, AND ALTERNATIVE UNIVERSES )

- Stand By Me.  • ( chris chambers )

- Star Wars.  • ( anakin skywalker, luke skywalker, han solo, poe dameron )

- Stranger Things.  • ( steve harrington, robin buckley, eddie munson )

- Tomb Raider.

- The Breakfast Club.

- The Folk of the Air.  • ( cardan greenbriar )

- The Hobbit.  • ( legolas, kili )

- The Hunger Games.  • ( finnick odair, peeta mellark )

- The Lord of the Rings.  • ( aragorn, legolas)

- The Office.  • ( jim halpert )

- The Outsiders.  • ( dallas winston, sodapop curtis, curly sheppard, two-bit matthews )

- The Society.

- The 100.

- Uncharted.

- Wednesday.  • ( xavier thorpe, wednesday addams, bianca barclay, tyler galpin, ajax petropolus )

- Winx.

- Wizarding World.  • ( sirius black, james potter, remus lupin, regulus black, peter pettigrew, george weasley, draco malfoy, james sirius potter, teddy lupin )

- West Side Story.  • ( balkan, riff )

[valentinemybe]

‪Date : November 16th Thu.‬

‪Artist : 吉澤嘉代子‬

‪Album : 秘密公園‬ ‪Title : 綺麗‬

‪Lyrics :‬ ‪誘いかけるネオンに馴染めなくて‬ ‪私たち家出した子供みたい‬

‪美しい記憶を残しておいてね‬ ‪さようならと最後に一度だけ繋いだ‬ ‪この手も いつかは しわしわになるの‬

‪もういない私を 思い出して‬ ‪一人きりの部屋で‬

‪街灯に浮かんだ 恋する私を ああ‬

‪あの夜の私を 思い出して‬ ‪一生綺麗だって 思ってくれるのなら‬ ‪いいな いいな‬

‪Link : https://youtube.com/watch?v=oH1BXa__3wY‬

[fairy-islearchive]

Another good WWII-era movie is Who's Left Behind?/Kayoko's Diary, although this is definitely more of a human piece (it's about a little girl growing up in the Showa era). It's far from the bleakness of Grave of the Fireflies, but it does end very heavily. Based on a Japanese woman, Kayoko Ebina's real-life experiences.

I might watch that this summer! Sounds pretty interesting, and it shouldn’t make me curl up and cry like Grave of the Fireflies did.

[recentanimenews]

Bookshelf Briefs 2/4/19

DIVE!!, Vol. 1 | By Eto Mori and Ruzuru Akashiba | Yen Press – Tomoki Sakai has loved diving since the second grade, when he was awed by the diving of another boy named Youichi Fujitani. Now, six years later, he and Youichi are both members of Mizuki Diving Club, which is in trouble as the new president of the sporting goods company that sponsors it is considering shutting it down. Enter their new coach, Kayoko Asaki, who hopes to keep the MDC open by sending one of its members to the Olympics. To this end, she starts training Tomoki hard since his natural flexibility gives him an advantage. So too does his work ethic, but this does little to soothe the wounded pride of his long-time teammates Ryou and Reiji, who think the coach is playing favorites and refuse to acknowledge that they’re slacking off in comparison to Tomoki. There’s not much else to say about DIVE!! at this point, but I’m intrigued. – Michelle Smith

I Want to Eat Your Pancreas: The Complete Manga Collection | By Yoru Sumino and Idumi Kirihara | Seven Seas – Out of all of the versions of I Want to Eat Your Pancreas, including Yoru Sumino’s original novel and its various film adaptations, it was the manga series that provided my introduction to the story. A touching friendship develops between two high school students—Sakura, who has a terminal illness she is hiding from everyone but her family, and an extremely introverted classmate who discovers her secret. The end of the story is known from the beginning, but I Want to Eat Your Pancreas takes a startling turn to get there. Even though it’s foreshadowed, initially it feels a little unfair, but that’s exactly the point and the characters have to come to terms with it, too. So far I’m unfamiliar with the other incarnations of I Want to Eat Your Pancreas and therefore can’t offer a comparison, but the manga adaptation is a pretty solid work on its own. – Ash Brown

I Want to Eat Your Pancreas: The Complete Manga Collection | By Yoru Sumino and Idumi Kirihara | Seven Seas – Shiga Haruki is an introverted kid who claims to have no interest in other people. Odd, then, that for the majority of the series he substitutes his own name with whatever he assumes other people are thinking about him. His outgoing classmate Yamauchi Sakura is intrigued, and when she comes upon Shiga reading the diary in which she has written about her terminal illness, she seizes the chance to get to know him. Gradually, she draws him out of his shell, and it’s really gratifying to see him start to display passionate emotion when he senses that her diagnosis has gotten worse. Knowing her changed him for the better. My one complaint is that, after a pretty random plot twist, the story just speeds along to the end. I might have to check out the original novel to see if the pace is any more leisurely. Definitely recommended. – Michelle Smith

Manga Plus | By Various Artists | Shueisha – I’ve never reviewed an app here before, but this is a biggie. Shueisha how has all of Shonen Jump out Sunday afternoon—yes, including the tiny “unlicensed” series—as well as selected Jump Plus and Square titles, such as Blue Exorcist. This is day/date with Japan (it really is—don’t make me explain it again). It allows you to see obscure series you’d never expect over here, like theatre nerd series Curtains Up, I’m Off. And you can see the latest popular Jump chapters too, and marvel at how freaking awesome (and strong!) Uraraka was in the latest Academia, or the snugglepiles in the new Neverland. This is basically the app all of us have been waiting for, and it’s free! Go read it now. – Sean Gaffney

Murcielago, Vol. 9 | By Yoshimurakana | Yen Press – The first third of this volume wraps up the previous arc, and does it pretty well. It also gives us even more hints that Hinako is some sort of experimental child a la A Certain Magical Index‘s darker volumes. The majority of the book, though, is much lighter in tone, with Kuroko and Chiyo’s relationship resolved much faster than I expected (Chiyo admits she sort of likes Kuroko when she’s being… well, Kuroko), and also a beach episode that then segues into giant robots that destroy the apartment complex! It’s very silly and filled with large-breasted women acting cool, which is two of the things that people read Murcielago for, and has a an over the top lesbian sex scene with Kuroko and Chiyo, which is another. Fun. – Sean Gaffney

Now Loading…! | By Mikan Uji | Seven Seas – This is a new yuri series from Seven Seas, and given it’s also the final volume you know not to expect too much. It’s cute. It’s basically New Game if they actually went in that direction explicitly. We see a game company with a bright-eyed newbie and a game designer with a tragic past… well, OK, it’s not tragic, it’s just “reality happens, this is Gametown.” Sakurazuki ends up kissing Takagi at the end of the first chapter, and the rest of the book shows how they slowly talk about how and why that happened and maneuver their way into being a couple. There’s also a beta couple of two other employees, which is cute. This will make you smile, but you’ll likely forget what happens in a day. – Sean Gaffney

Spirit Circle, Vol. 6 | By Satoshi Mizukami | Seven Seas – This final volume wraps up the Fortuna life, which is as terrible as possible, and then heads back to the present, where unfortunately Fortuna has hijacked Fuuta’s body. Things are not looking good for this not ending in death. But then a tragic prediction ends up going horribly… not tragic at all, and the day is saved by a butterfly net that the alien couple gave our heroes, which is a sentence that only makes sense if you’ve read this series. Kouko theoretically gives Fuuta a final kiss and then leaves him to Nono, but let’s face it, given those last wishes from Rune and East, we know what’s really going to happen. This was an awesome series, just the right length—just like the author’s prior series, in fact. – Sean Gaffney

The Voynich Hotel, Vol. 3 | By Douman Seiman | Seven Seas – The series continues to veer between terribly silly, terribly dark, and somewhat nauseating. There’s a sense of everything coming to a head here, and that’s the case, but honestly I was struck by how many more people survived than I was expecting. This is probably as close to a happy ending as The Voynich Hotel was going to get, and there’s potential in both the adventures of the now adult detective gang as well as Elena (who I keep thinking of as Maria because she looks just like Maria in Zetsubou-sensei) and Tarou ending up as a couple and opening up to one another. Not for the faint of heart, but if you like weird and heartwarming, this is a good series to check out. – Sean Gaffney

Yuri Is My Job!, Vol. 1 | By miman | Kodansha Comics – I’m very happy that Kodansha has begun licensing yuri titles (or, yuri-adjacent, at least), but I really wish they’d started with anything other than this. Hime Shiraki is a cute first-year high school student who has cultivated an angelic façade in order to snag a billionaire husband. But aside from her looks, she has nothing going for her, so when she’s manipulated into helping out at a café where the waitresses pretend to be prim and proper ladies from an all-girls private school, she proves largely incompetent. What’s worse (and supremely frustrating) is that she fails to comprehend that anyone other than her might be putting on an act, so when a coworker speaks harshly to her in private but gently in front of customers, she is utterly baffled. Honestly, it’s just bad. I liked no one and it was a chore to make it through a single volume. – Michelle Smith

By: Ash Brown

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Monthly Listening: November 2018

The thing about following Japanese music or K-pop is that it goes as if year-end lists don’t exist, because in those industries they really don’t, so they carry on chucking releases until the very end of November and continue to queue stuff for December. There has been a quite a few upsets with records that I’ve liked intensely enough to make some last-minute additions to my tentative lists. I’m still hard at work trying to put it all together, but it reminds me listening never really stops.

Here is a Spotify playlist of my listening this month. Below are all of the albums I checked in November.

2018 albums

Amber Arcades -- European Heartbreak

Billie Idle -- Not Idol

Clairo -- Diary 001 EP

Co Shu Nie -- Aurora EP

Colin Self -- Siblings

Daughters -- You Won’t Get What You Want

Debit -- Love Discipline EP

Denzel Curry -- TA13OO

Emily A. Sprague -- Mount Vision

Empress Of -- Us

EXO -- Don’t Mess Up My Tempo

Felicia Atkinson & Jefre Cantu-Ledesma -- Limpid as the Solitudes

Forest Drive West -- Apparitions

Garrett -- Private Life II

Genie High -- Genie High

Gugudan -- New Action

Haruru Inu Love Dog Tenshi -- Love Love Dust Dream

Hermit and the Recluse -- Orpheus vs The Siren

Hoodrich Pablo Juan & Danny Wolf -- Hoodwolf 2

Hotshot -- Early Flowering

I-LP-ON -- AANET

Innumerable Forms -- Punishment in Flesh

Ipek Gorgun -- Ecce Homo

JBJ95 -- Home

Jeremih & Ty Dolla Sign -- MihTy

Kaho Nakamura -- Ainou

Kayoko Yoshizawa -- Jyoyu Shimai

Kensuke Ushio -- Liz and the Blue Bird soundtrack

Kristin Hersh -- Possible Dust Clouds

Little Mix -- LM5

Lyrical School -- World’s End

Mac Miller -- Swimming

Maison Book Girl -- Yume

Mariah Carey -- Caution

The Mid-Air Thief -- Crumbling

Minimal Afrika -- Swamp EP

Molly Nilsson -- Twenty Twenty

Nao -- Saturn

Neel -- Transition EP

Nitroday -- Lemoned EP

Objekt -- Cocoon Crush

Peaking Lights -- Sea of Sand

Peder Mannerfelt -- Daily Routine

Pinoko -- Hotel

Pistol Annies -- Interstate Gospel

Rosalia -- El Mal Querer

Saka-Sama -- It’s a Saka-Sama World

Sushiboys -- 350

Steven Julien -- 8 Ball EP

Tempalay -- What a Wonderful World

Tendre -- Not in Almighty

Travis Scott -- Astroworld

Twice -- Yes or Yes

Uijin -- Everything Is Practice

Ujin -- I’m Happy to Be Who I Am

Vince Staples -- FM!

Wanna One -- Power of Destiny

Yowler -- Black Dog in My Path

Yumi Zouma -- III EP

Yuri Urano -- Autline EP

Non-2018 albums

M-Flo -- Expo Expo

Mari Iijima -- Midori

Sushiboys -- Nigiri

[runawaycarouselhorse]

[standinginqueue]

This was cute~

[noralwadani]

"Ushiro no Shoumen Dare (Kayoko's Diary) - ED"

when ever i remember this movie , seriously i cry so hard , the song lyrics is the most sad lyrics ever  

[valentinemybe]

‪Date : November 13th Mon.‬

‪Artist : 吉澤嘉代子‬

‪Album : 月曜日戦争‬ ‪Title : 月曜日戦争‬

‪Lyrics :‬ ‪ああ 美しい貴方でも こうしたでしょうか‬ ‪はじまりを殺したら おわりも消えちゃった‬

‪ああ もういちど 生まれてよ 月曜日‬ ‪いま そっと輝きだした鏡は‬

‪ああ 憧れの貴方なら どうしたでしょうか‬ ‪月のひかりに 照らされた‬ ‪わたしは 誰だっけ‬

‪Link : https://youtube.com/watch?v=kh3H0M9bKo8‬

[fairy-islearchive]

It's not!! I assure you Kayoko's Diary is so gentle and sweet and everyday mundane until the very end, that you're lost in their everyday lives and it's only really this one scene where everyone's smiling and peacefully resting in the same room that you get this sinking feeling and then, the ending is utter whiplash. But also believable, because yeah, you already knew it was wartime. They were living fairly good lives until the very end.

Guess I’ll watch it this weekend then : u :