#musical: genji

[dawn-in-the--adan]

Umineko no Naku Koro ni ~Stage of the Golden Witch~ EP 3 Character Posters pt. 3

[beybladeninja]

Back to the "Beyblade Burst God AU x Epic: The Musical" crossover!

Next up is "Wouldn't You Like", the second song from the Circe Saga!

I chose Suoh mostly because during the song, Hermes is giving Odysseus a flower that he can use to fight Circe. Suoh fits the role of “flower-giver” perfectly because he’s literally the God of Blossoms and Thorns.

Though during the song, Hermes also states that he wants to “send a message” to Circe. I can totally see Suoh using Odysseus’s desperation to save his men as an opportunity to send a message to Hyde about who’s the stronger deity. The message would be something like “Oh, you can create monsters? Well guess what - I can give people god-like powers through my flowers!”

I tried doing a vantage shot where Suoh is in the process of actually handing the flower to Odysseus, which is why it and his offered hand look as big as his head. I also tried to make him look sly and devious by having his exposed eye open, as his eyes are normally closed, but I’m pretty sure that I just made him look loopy.

I actually did look it up, and “holy moly” is a real flower. It’s a small yellow blossom with pink or red stripes. Though for some reason as I drew this, I had a slightly different image in my head…

(@eggiari , I know you asked me to draw Suoh a while back, so I hope you enjoy this!)

Here’s the song that the drawing is based off of, animated by the lovely Ximena Natzel! See you guys in the next one!

[butcherberry]

Thinking of who would musical kids in Overwatch

And first thought is Blackwatch Genji and Cassidy screaming 'Meant to Be Yours' at the top of their lungs (well more Genji singing and Cass doing sound effects) at 3am

And just Gabe trying to sleep in the next room over

Also them getting the younger ones into it

[satureja13]

And while Sai, Vlad, Jack and Adriano explore Chestnut Ridge, Ji Ho, Jeb and Travis reached Moonwood Mill to play the first gig of their tour. Ji Ho and Jeb are still churned up from their meeting with Leander. It's hard for them to process that the others didn't tell them the truth about Luci to not put the event at Summer Solstice at risk (where Vlad and Ji Ho defeated the Council).

Noxee is trying to make them understand but... Jeb: "My own grandmother! I can't believe she kept this from us and caused us so much pain! And the rest of you too!" Noxee: "We never promised you a rose garden. This is how we roll in the Resistance. We have to act for the greater good - for all of us creatures. We can't put individuals first. You wouldn't want that too."

Ji Ho: "Jeb, Noxee is right. We beat the Council. And even it's only for a while. It was worth it. The thing with Luci, though - I just can't keep pace - I can't. It's tearing me apart." Ji Ho cries. Noxee: "Take your time and let us know if you're willing to continue to fight along with us - side by side."

And then it was time for their performance. They are the opening act this evening. But since Moonwood Mill is populated by - mostly - creatures, they don't expect any troubles.

It's well known in the community what happened at Summer Solstice and the crowd celebrates Ji Ho and Jeb.

They are playing 'Imagine' from John Lennon

'Imagine all the people sharing all the world You may say I'm a dreamer but I'm not the only one I hope someday you'll join us and the world will live as one'

From the Beginning  ~  Underwater Love ~  Latest

[throwedgenji]

The Freestyle Clinic Cypher at The Middle East in Cambridge

[eien-no-gakusha]

Touken Ranbu:  The Contradictory Tale of Genji

Went in expecting fanservice and just a good time, left impressed.

Part 1/3 - Plot:

The videogame source material has a very barebones plot because it knows what it is:  a gatcha game for fujoshi to collect sword husbandos.  Basically, something evil is trying to change (Japanese) history and make the universe implode.  You, the player, are an onmyoji or priestess who is summoning famous swords like mad to save the world.  The touken danshi themselves basically have the personalities of their famous historical figure owners or forgers coupled with quirks related to random facts and legends surrounding them.  Some come with a Hachiko streak from losing their masters or their service in some darker parts of history.  (only your love can heal them!). Classic gatcha game fare.  In other words, there is a lot of room to be creative with this framework.  Just look at all the sexy derivative works spawned from the thirsty fujoshi.  This aspect of the fandom is surprisingly relevant to the plot of the musical.  Stick around and find out. 

Anyways, the plot of this specific show features a Tale of Genji crossover.  The usual evil is messing with history again and a squad of swords are dispatched to fix it.   The problem of the day is the entire Heian court has been isekai-ed into the novel Tale of Genji.  The author Murasaki Shikibu and her fans have all gotten merged with the characters of the book.  The Heian era swords are unavailable for vague reasons, leaving a bunch of young swords not forged in this era to untangle fact from fiction.

Thus, we start with team Kanesada finding themselves escorting a lady-in-waiting who explains that everyone around her has been suddenly larping Tale of Genji and she’s the only sane person left in court.  They realize they are trapped in the book and reenact all the early chapters as they figure out how to undo the curse.  Some of the more hot-tempered swords try to brute force their way out only to realize that book characters have protagonist halos to protect them from getting KOed.  At the center of this vortex, the titular character Hikaru Genji is effectively an NPC who has gained sentience a la RE:  Creators.  We learn he functions similarly to the sword boys as the embodiment of the book.  Not being a weapon, he can’t do much by way of fighting but he is unkillable and can act as dungeon master in his own story by transferring protagonist status to his victims.  In other words, Genji can possess targets to simulate his story as a substitute while he dicks off.  He uses this power to go OOC and try to retcon his own story.  This is all quite convenient for him since he has a complicated relationship with his author.  He is half reverential of her and half resentful.  This culminates in Genji ultimately killing his own author.  In the merged universe, Murasaki Shikibu and her readership have merged with the female leads of The Tale of Genji with Murasaki taking the role of the unobtainable Fujitsubo no Nyogo, Genji’s true love.  In breaking the story with literal death of the author, all hell breaks loose with Genji going rogue.

As the touken danshi dig deeper, they learn the source of this chaos was a result of toxic fan culture!  While many people enjoy Murasaki’s book and come away from it positively, a stalker fan voices his concerns that this is all vapid fiction with no value nor contribution to reality (the “wake up, loser” argument).  They debate about the point of writing “fake” stories.  While Murasaki understands the man’s point of view, she disagrees and refuses to put down her brush as this work is her passion.  The man becomes so upset he is taken over by the evil powers to cause the time rift and alter history.  His reasoning is if everyone is so obsessed with the book, they may as well live in it rather than face the real world. 

Back in the present, the touken danshi are having a bad time resolving the timeline.  They complain about needing grandpa Mikazuki’s help and keep getting possessed by Genji to reenact chapters while he escapes to cause trouble elsewhere.  However, during the final boss battle with evil Genji, the isekai-ed fangirls come to the rescue!  As they reminisce about their love of the novel (well, it would be equivalent of a serialized magazine at time of publication) and how it was therapeutic or inspiring for their real lives, they begin to return to themselves.  Now it’s important to note that Murasaki’s contemporaries did write derivative works or helped her transcribe chapters to share.  Therefore, these fangirls are effectively ancient Japanese fanfiction authors and thus have power to end Genji as much as the original author does.  But they love him as a character too much so are unable to strike the finishing blow and basically toss the responsibility to young Murasaki, Genji’s second wife who he had kidnapped as a child to groom into the perfect woman.  Unable to bear the suffering and moved by the women in his life both as characters and as his fans, Genji lowers his protagonist’s halo and accepts death.  The touken danshi are able to finally fix history and complete their mission.  When they return to modern day, they hear news that archeologists have found physical evidence that Genji existed as a historical figure and thus a conspiracy theory is born!  The touken danshi take this information with mixed emotions.

What an amazing story.  The theme was deep without being too obtuse.  The climax got meta and opened a lot of discussion about the value of fiction, derivative works, the dangers of escapism, censorship, and even spirituality.  Definitely worth a second viewing to digest all this.

There was a mini-revue number in the end where the cast performed an umbrella dance to anachronistic Touken Ranbu music.  Then the cast descended a staircase in parade order for final bows.  It was a much-needed break from the heavy and complicated plot.  It was also a small nod to the main cast’s Takarazuka roots or hina doll staging, which is a common set design when using Heian costume.  The umbrella dance reminded me of the finale Sakura dance OSK does at the end of their performances.  Perhaps this is a proud Osaka tradition.  I haven’t seen a different Touken Ranbu show (yet) so I don’t know if this is a part of the brand.

[luunie]

Hana • Eveline-Eevee footage from Genji Monogatari (1987) (via.)

[vicciouxs]

🐷 & 🎻 for whoever you like :)

thank u sm sweetie 😭💞

🎻 VIOLIN — does your oc play any instruments? what is their skill level (beginner/intermediate/advanced/virtuoso/ect)?

I NEED TO ANSWER WITH HIM. In general, almost all my ocs are connected to music and the art world, but Genji, due to his lonely childhood, developed multiple talents to try not to be so alone, music is his best friend. He knows how to play the guitar, bass, drums and piano, although I wouldn't say that at a virtuous level, maybe the piano and the guitar a little bit yes, but since he plays so many, it is not that he masters any of them perfectly.

🐷 PIG FACE — what is your ocs favorite animal?

Leon is my vegetarian baby. He grew up surrounded by animals and despite his "rough" appearance and large size, he feels compassion for all of them. And if any animal, besides insects, spoke its heart are the sheeps and goats, especially when they are babies.

[cybernightart]

OverWatch headcanon!

✨ slightly sad but sweet Blackwatch edition ✨

Tldr: Reyes has a playlist of aggressive angry songs that he plays for the team after every mission because according to music therapy aggressive music makes you feel better when you're angry or worked up

Reyes used to have a playlist that he would play before and after missions, and also anytime Cassidy or Genji were really upset or angry or going through a particularly hard time. Cassidy and Genji find this playlist again years later after the recall when looking through all of the old OverWatch stuff in a storage room and found Reyes old phone with the playlist on it, they both decided to listen to it to reminisce about the good times that did happen during black watch and to help Cassidy get some form of closure or acceptance to hopefully help him sleep a little better.

The playlist was full of very aggressive and angry songs, ones that you would just want to scream the lyrics to or full on headbang, and it was just a compilation of some of the edgiest songs you could imagine. And when listening to this playlist so many years later they both found it so funny that they didn't realize just how edgy it was at the time, and how edgy Reyes was as well.

Eventually at some point while they're doing this Lucio strolls on in, because they've been chilling in the sleeping quarters as to not disturb anyone trying to get work done in other parts of the base. So Lucio asks what they're doing and once they explain, Lucio says how it actually makes a lot of sense why he would make them listen to this playlist and all these aggressive songs when they were really angry, because scientifically listening to really aggressive angry music when you're feeling angry and frustrated or some combination of emotions that are just building up to make you want to punch a wall, and it's actually scientifically proven that thing to this kind of music will lower your heart rate, relax you, it helps you process your emotions and leads to acceptance even if it is just temporary, it can help you cope during hard times, this is known as music therapy! Same thing goes for when someone sad and they listen to sad music, the sad music will release chemicals in your brain designed to help comfort and relax you and help you process and deal with your sad emotions.

Reyes will certainly not the best commander, he definitely made a lot of mistakes, but at his core he was a good person just trying to help. And he was definitely no therapist, or anywhere near equipped with any knowledge or resources on how to help with trauma ,anger and any of the list of things that Genji and Cassidy were going through or had been through. But even if he didn't know there was actually science behind it, he was helping them at least a little bit to process through everything they had gone through and specifically that we're building up in that moment and help calm them down.

And as we know Reyes has had a family, had a son that he can't see, he's at least got a little bit of fatherly instincts kicking in to want to help leads two hurt scared and angry kids. Because even though they were 27 and 30 roughly at the time, Reyes had known Cassidy for so long since he was still a child (teenager but still) and from what little he heard about genji's family he knows they both did not have a good upbringing. And while he couldn't make the pain go away, or fix anything, he wanted to be there for them at least in some way because at the end of the day he still had to be their commander, they were still a strike team, the black ops strike team that did all of the unknown dirty work of OverWatch. so at least he could do let's play with some music to make it feel better after every mission.

[kiingbiing]

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[stuckinmoonjelly]

Crossing Animals

[wickedlittleoz]

okay but hanzo and genji as the wicked witches from oz WHEN

[club-media]

I made an Overwatch highlight reel with cat memes. Song is "Four Pointed Steel Star" - Kumo 99

[throwedgenji]

FREESTYLE RAPPER REACTS TO HARRY MACK FREESTYLE FOR ALL AGES | HARRY MAC...

[eien-no-gakusha]

Touken Ranbu:  The Contradictory Tale of Genji

Part 2/3 - Cast:

(I’m going by romanization in the program, which might differ from their Takarazuka days)

Here is the list of actors and their program introduction.  There’s more to the Genji Monogatari cast that will be elaborated on in the spoiler section.

OG = Takarazuka OG, specifically otokoyaku TR = Touken Ranbu character GM = Tale of Genji character

 Holy Takarazuka OG Batman!!  What a star-studded cast! For me at least.  I was drooling over this casting. All the named male roles were performed by otokoyaku retired from Takarazuka.  It’s good to see the craft continue outside the big revue companies.  This is in no small part thanks to Nanami Hiroki who actively continued otokoyaku work outside Takarazuka.  There are the likes of Amami Yuuki and Sagiri Sena who have performed genderbent roles in their OG career on occasion.  However, that was an exception in a true to gender cast.  This is the first big production I’ve seen with all female casting outside Takarazuka.  It worked incredibly well since the actors involved specialize in stuff like that.  Also, with Takarazuka otokoyaku garnering a reputation of portraying idealized men, it made sense that they would portray fictionally idealized men about a novel lead by the perfect romantic hero.  Overall, very impressed by the acting talent.  I did enter the lottery three times to see this cast live lol.

 Of the OGs on stage, I’m most familiar with Nanami Hiroki, Ayanagi Sho, and Seto Kazuya.  They happen to play the major characters.  The lead role is Nanami Hiroki as Kasen Kanesada closely followed by Ayanagi Sho as Okurika.  These two swords are basically foils of each other.  Kasen Kanesada is the cultured sword named after the Thirty-six Immortals of Poetry (or the 36 retainers his master killed, depending on your interpretation).  He’s the level-headed leader and refined poetry master, making him ideal for being trapped in a literary work.  Okurikara is the brash brawler sword.  He belonged to the son of Date Masamune and if son resembles father at all, that explains the thirst for battle.  Also, a lot of his design refers to a fierce Buddhist deity who removes obstacles so makes sense he tries to brute force his way out of a problem.  As these two were possessed by Genji, they had the heaviest roles having to play two characters with one having to match Seto Kazuya’s acting.  Both Kai and Ayaka did great and captured their respective characters.  I barely recognized Sho and it wasn’t just the brown-face, she did something a bit different with her makeup.  Akira is perfect for Genji.  She is a versatile actor who can handle both drama and comedy.  Here she wholeheartedly embodies the tragic hero and bitter villain (book protagonist but show antagonist, an interesting twist).  She did such a good job I didn’t even recognize her as the nameless creeper fan until I checked the program.  She played dweeby, shy nerd for that brief scene so convincingly, I thought it was a different actor.

 The rest of the touken danshi serve as fanservice and comic relief.  It’s a bunch of OGs playing Ichimonji swords, mostly relatively new collectables in the game.  All anyone needs to know are the silver color characters are Uesugi swords who are there to be the cool, silent types.  The blond boys have a bit more lines.  Aya Oka as Ichimonji Norimune, expensive old man sword, will act suave and pretty in between scenes.  Nansen Ichimonji by Shiotsuki Syu is the comic relief.  Legend is the sword split a cat in two and was then cursed by the dead cat, hence all the cat mannerisms and frustrated meowing.  So Fuku here has to act the cat and also act the young, explosive lad.  She does the most audience-insert snarky commentary and slapstick of the side characters.  She wasn’t too distracting or detracted from the story.  In fact, she was genuinely funny and earned a lot of intentional chuckles and laughs from the crowd.

 The musumeyaku, as we will call them here, I am not as familiar with as they are mostly idols and actresses from the part of Japanese pop culture I do not follow as closely.  Everyone did a good job and were absolutely beautiful in their juunihito kimono.  Now this is a Touken Ranbu show so naturally the Tale of Genji cast are secondary characters.  However, each of the Genji cast was tasked with a double role that was important in carrying the theme.  Including Akira, they each played a “real” person from the Heian era and a book character.

 Half of the musumeyaku cast are basically random court ladies that, as a group, represent friends and fans of Murasaki Shikibu.  However, they have more to do in the Tale of Genji isekai as Aoi no Ue, Utsusemi, and Suetsumuhana.  What is important to note is their brief lines in the book club flashback when they discuss their favorite characters with the Empress.  The discussion extends to the solace and inspiration they find from the text.  Ironically, they all turn into their favorite characters when sucked into the book so perhaps that is why they so easily went with the flow.  Aoi no Ue’s realworld counterpart is presumably going through a rocky marriage or having trouble conceiving so sympathizes with the character.  Utsusemi finds inspiration in her character’s strong sense of morality and self-respect.  Suetsumuhana is actually a bimbo enjoying the story?  Well, she is basically comic relief on the girl’s side.  In the book, she’s known for that little red nose and the fact that she’s broke and dull because her family fell on hard times so lacks an education.  She even gets a clown mask with a giant nose to represent her morning-after cold for a bit of levity.

 The other ladies carry are more relevant to the theme.  We learn in Act 2 that Lady Rokujo (Genji’s MILF poetry teacher turned mistress), is actually the Empress in real life.  She is having marital and thus political troubles with the Emperor and feels trapped so gravitates towards Lady Rokujo for catharsis.  After all, Lady Rokujo of book fame goes wild and outright haunts her enemies by sheer will.  In reverse, we have Lady Koshosho, Murasaki’s best friend and a humble court lady, reincarnate as the villain empress in the book.  At the center of it all, we learn that the author Murasaki Shikibu has taken the role as unobtainable true love Consort Fujitsubo.  These three women are more prominent in the real world timeline.  The Empress voicing one opinion about fiction as head of book club, Lady Koshosho being avid book promoter and introductory character who links scenes, and Murasaki being the godly author of the book.  Minamoto Maho as both Murasaki Shikibu and Consort Fujitsubo is fitting as the lofty author is as grand a figure in her fictional universe as the idolized woman Fujitsubo.  Genji has a complicated love-hate relationship with her that blurs the line between character and creator.  Not much to say about her as Fujitsubo since she just has to stand there and be pretty while Genji angsts in the foreground.  However, she really shines as the author.  Murasaki Shikibu within the play raises some interesting points regarding storytelling and fiction as we observe her life and the people impacted by her story and finding a place in history.  A lot of Japanese portrayal of women, even with women protagonists, write them rather passively.  In the case of this show, we see internal conflict and agency from Murasaki as she strives to finish her novel against criticism and backlash.  Also, I would be remiss to not discuss young Murasaki, played by a set of child actresses.  The one in my showing was very professional in her line delivery and performed well.  Of course, she was super cute.

 Even extras were noteworthy people with previous works in major franchises, some were household names by Japanese standards.  We had voice actor from a Final Fantasy mobile game, guy in BLEACH musical, and boy band member.

 Overall, all the actors brought their talent to the table so I have no complaints!

[smitt3n47]

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