#kgprambling

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yeah. yeah

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shoutout to kagepro's most narratively convenient truck. mr2 couldnt have been done without you

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seto still one of the most awesome characters to me ever i think its amazing that theres a character whose whole schtick is not being noticed (eye power = me wo nusumu / stealing eyes; nusumu = to steal without being noticed) and so he ends up barely doing jackshit in the plot despite being heavily related to characters who are very involved with the plot while also being the actual guy who arguably kickstarts the plot or at least every timeloop. yet he barely does shit at least not until the 2017 novel which is like the second to last kgpr entry ever so for a fat 6 years we had no idea what hes been thinking abt ever. and then oh it turns out He Knew Everything and nobody noticed nobody = both us the audience and the characters in the story themselves, and his whole positive attitude is a farce and hes worse than kano when it comes to being a liar and ohhh heres another hitter, turns out him lying and hiding his feelings was smth that was influenced by kano and ayano kgpr's top two liars who fuck the story over with their lies like oh ok.... OK... and of course this whole "not being noticed" thing then ends up extending beyond the text and he ends up getting excluded from actual merch and promotional material too like LMAO also not to mention how hes arguably the character whose received the least amount of resolution cuz hes one of the last characters to receive development like... JKLSFJSDLK and with kagepro in the copyright hell its in hes probably never getting that sweet sweet resolution. hes in hell forever! incredibly funny and insane character i love him dearly, happy birthday fucker

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no way, the official translation translated やばい as 'yikes' 😭😭😭

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ppl have joked and laughed abt ayanos scarf getting progressively longer which i love, but i also wanna point out that the same can be said abt kano's hoodie LOL

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seeing how ene had 3 songs right off the bat, was the first character to receive an appearance & voice actor, and was also the cover art of kgpr's first album Mekakucity Actors, it makes me wonder whether she was originally supposed to play a much bigger role, smth more similar to the role that shinaya + mary plays. could it hv even been possible that she was originally the protagonist at some point? hmmmm

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owhhh this concept sketch of ayano...

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hibiya's actually one of the worst victims of jin's misogynistic writing which is Lol but seriously how sad is it that a character whose meant to represent the helplessness of a child being deprived of autonomy in the face of the cruelty of adults and the courage and drive possessed by a child who just wants to be with their friend, is instead reduced to being an incel stalker freak for a good 40-60% of his appearances.... like damn

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kagerou project is like we heard you liked non-linear storytelling so we wrote a non-linear story w multiple medias that told its story non-linearly and was released and finished alongside every other media non-linearly. also theres no ending

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mekatrio official art compilation bc this is the type of person i am.

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also theres like so many lingual intricacies when it comes to the titles of their eye abilities, like the eye abilities of takane (目が覚める/me ga sameru) and haruka (目を醒ます/me wo samasu) both literally mean 'eyes waking up', but takane's 覚める/sameru has the more general meaning of 'waking up from sleep', while haruka's 醒ます/samasu is more like 'sobering up from a state of intoxication'. and what takane's 目が覚める/me ga sameru means specifically, i could find that it can mean like, 'waking up, jolting awake', but i couldnt figure out if haruka's term 目を醒ます/me wo samasu has a particular idiomatic meaning, but i did read that 覚 and 醒 can be used interchangably, so..... 🕺i think its very cool that harutaka have abilities that are very similar in meaning to one another, and that they sound similar too!

and then there's also the abilities of momo (目を奪う/me wo ubau) and seto (目を盗む/me wo nusumu), where both of their abilities literally have the meaning 'to steal eyes', but momo's 奪う/ubau means 'to forcefully take something away', while seto's 盗む/nusumu is a more general term of 'dispossessing someone of something'. but when you stick these verbs into a phrase relating to eyes, they become idioms where 目を奪う/me wo ubau means 'to captivate/draw eyes in', while 目を盗む/me wo nusumu means 'to do something behind one's back/without them noticing'.

and the english term that both fans and official translators use for kido's ability (目を隠す/me wo kakusu) is 'concealing eyes', but this term differs a bit from it's japanese meaning. bc the term 'concealing one's eyes' in english is a rather uncommon phrase and could mean anything from blindfolding your eyes, covering them up with your hands, closing your eyelids, or even hide the fact that you have eyes with like, makeup! but in japanese it's likely more precisely to be something like "hiding your eyes/covering up your eyes":

and also 'hide and seek' in japanese is 隠れん坊/kakurenbo. so 隠/kaku for most intents and purposes means 'to hide'..., but i do understand why the fanbase at large has gone along with the term 'concealing' instead of 'hiding', bc the term 'concealing' has the implication of 'keeping something away from somebody', and in kido's case, she's keeping the presence of specific things away from the sight of others! very cool 😎

and also mary's default medusa ability (目を合わせる/me wo awaseru); 合わせる/awaseru means 'to match, to connect, to link up', etc, so her ability literally means 'to connect eyes', but the idiomatic meaning of 目を合わせる/me wo awaseru is 'to make eye contact'. so the agreed upon english equivalent for her ability is 'locking eyes', bc she 'locks' you into having eye contact. also i love that her song tagline for Imagination Forest is 目を合わせる話/me wo awaseru hanashi, which literally means 'eye contact story', but most translators have translated it to 'A story of seeing eye-to-eye'. like thats such a good translation 🥺🥺💕

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this was a sickly sickly time... no cuz "this project that nobody knows the plot of will now receive an anime" -> novel where we receive azami lore + learn that konoha cant DIE -> insane music video where we finally understand the plot of this project (aka its a timeloop inside of your fucking timeloop) -> THERES A GOOD ENDING where haruka lives and ayano + hiyori dies??? (We have 5 main characters who still haven't received any backstories.....) -> EVERYBODY IN THE MANGA JUST GOT FUCKING KILLED....?!?!?

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and scans of um.... some mysterious booklet... i believe this only came with the limited edition release of Mekakucity Records? i knew tht the Mary's Fictional World comic was part of this, but i didnt realize there was more content to it :o

also tumblr is being a pain meaning that i can only hv 30 pics per post... smh.... so this will be part 1! ill add the other parts in a reblog

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also when ppl say 'well theres no way the mkd can lose their snakes in the ending bc they need their snakes to live' like Ok then how the hell does haruka live post-STR huh. im pretty sure haruka doesnt have super strength nor is he immortal now cuz konoha Fucking Died. and like haruka very much Died in the story but now hes back without a snake so.....?

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scans of mekakucity days' lyric booklet (?) down below 😏