#reiji otsuka

[sodademon]

enstars ocs rotating like macking cheese in the michael wave.... in order theres toshiro (leader of their unit) with hideki and reiji !!

[rikeijo]

My friend doesn't think Yuri and Victor is in love romantically and it's more of adrenaline/trust is what's fueling their actions including some of the clickbait stuff since there isn’t anything official. I can understand where she’s coming from since I don’t usually like shipping unless it’s cannon but Yuri On Ice is a special case. Is there any comment from the creators about this? I saw say the creator confirmed they’re soulmates in an english blog but there was no source so I wasn’t sure if it’s legit

Hi! Thank you for the ask!💜

I also can't say I don't understand where your Friend is coming from.

Unfortunately, there was never any concrete confirmation that the relationship between Y&V needs to be seen as romantic. The official statement has always been that everything is open to personal interpretation of each fan.

The soulmates comments are from here and here.

Otsuka Manabu was pretty close to confirming Y&V during a con, but I have never heard/seen a transcription of his statement in Jp - it seems, however, that he indeed confirmed that Sayo wanted to portray 'romantic love'.

Adding my personal opinion - for me, the biggest 'proof' is that Yamada Reiji, Sayo's personal friends, talks openly about their relationship as gay. In Jp, it is still a taboo to some degree, and certainly was 10 years ago, to suggest that somebody may be gay - like there is zero openly gay Jp figure skaters, but there are countless discussions about ホモ疑惑, 'suspicion that somebody may be gay/the f word' (probably people, who are into Jp fs, know who has the longest history of being discussed in this way), but the word 'giwaku' is also used for eg. when somebody is suspected of doing something bad/illegal etc. That these discussions aren't 'neutral' is pretty clear. Because of the general taboo/negative stereotypes&connotations, imo, if Sayo wasn't content with Y&V relationship being seen that way, imo, her friend would surely respect that and wouldn't talk about it so openly and consistently - but 2016-2019, he always talked about YoI as a gay romance (and yeah, you can find negative comments from YoI fans under his videos bashing him for that). Fun fact is that he also admitted that Sayo used one of his works as inspiration for YoI, a manga titled... 'Agapes' 😆. The plot is about a gay guy in love with a straight guy. It's not my interpretation, but on Jp side, one interpretation of YoI's story that you can come across reading metas, is that it is indeed a story about a gay guy (Victor) in love with a straight guy (Yuuri), who really just looks up to him as his hero=the champion figure skater, and doesn't see him as romantic interest; that's why figure skating is always the bridge between them etc. In 'Agapes' the bridge is also a sport, to make things even more interesting - baseball.

On the other hand, it's also true that there was a lot of accusation of queerbaiting on both sides of the fandom - especially, after some of Mitsurou's statements. Here, imo, it seems the Eng fandom simply filtered out her less nice comments over time, to protect YoI's reputation of not being just another queerbait sports anime. (I don't think that it is anyway, but I also don't think it's as simple as 'Y&V are engaged and if we ever see a continuation they will get married'. It seems that this is what a lot of people in the Eng fandom want to believe.)

There is the rings-related stuff, about how engagement rings are not for engagement (but it's in the name...? yk, engagement? like people get engaged to be married?), but there is much more out there - listening to her mental gymnastics, I personally could summarize it as 'I wanted to portray 'deep emotions™' the way I wanted to, and yeah, people may misunderstand that, but that is their problem and I don't care, I'm not afraid of being misunderstood'. A lot of more progressive fans and YoI-antis alike were ridiculing these gymnastics in combination with eg. the 'exchanging of rings in front of the church' scene, as 'if you want to fujo-pander then pander, if you want to make them gay then make them gay, if you don't have the courage to do either, then just stop, bc that's pathetic' - in this context, it seemed she tried pretty hard to make people 'misunderstand' the relationship, including all those romantic/some people say 'pandering' scenes in the show, but then, when asked, it was always 'no, it's not like that, you see, people who work together...', but people are not idiots, so they were calling her out for that, simply speaking.

I was ranting a few times in the past why, imo, she decided to take this stance.

[wingstriker]

Today, we're going to talk about voice actors. Take Emiya (Assassin), aka Kiritsugu Emiya. Before I got into FGO, I only knew this character as a guy who shared the same JP voice actor as my favorite FFXIV character, Cid nan Garlond. (Sorry for the weird image sizing, I don’t know why Tumblr treats them differently. Probably has something to do with the image width.)

I had read a little bit on a Fate wiki about Kiritsugu, but I didn't really pay attention, nor did it make any sense to me since I knew nothing about the Fate universe. Holy Grail War? Sealing Designation? Dead Apostle? WTF, I don't get this. {/forgets everything she read}

The only two other roles I recognized for Rikiya Koyama were:

Witchblade: Reiji Takayama, and

Kaze no Stigma: Genma Kannagi

I'd seen both of these series before learning about the JP voice actor that played these characters.

I guess it's also interesting to note that one of his other roles was JP Wolverine/Logan. XD

Fast forward to now, learning that Junichi Suwabe (Archer Emiya) voiced JP Warrior of Darkness, and so I had to double-check this by re-watching some FFXIV cutscenes in Japanese last night. (I normally have them set to English voices.) And yup, this is definitely Archer Emiya.

FFXIV Warrior of Light VS Warrior of Darkness (Spoiler Alert)

That spoiler warning is valid, it's a major plot point.

I also checked the credits, and yup...

This made me curious. It was well known that Square-Enix employed very famous JP voice actors in FFXIV. Just how many of them were also in the Fate series?

It turns out... A LOT OF THEM.

Merlwyb Bloefhiswyn => Atsuko Tanaka

aka Medea, Carmilla (Assassin), Jing Ke

Kan-E-Senna => Rie Tanaka

aka Kiara Sessyoin

Yda => Aya Endo

aka Gilagmesh (Child), Morgan le Fay (Fate/Apocrypha), Quetzalcoatl

Minfilia => Miyuki Sawashiro

aka Mordred, Rama, Archer Orion (Artemis), Florence Nightingale

Gaius van Baelsar => Akio Otsuka

aka Iskandar

Livia sas Junius (and Lucia BTW) => Sayaka Ohara

aka Irisviel von Einzbern

By the way, it's interesting how the JP voice actors for Irisviel and Kiritsugu got to meet up again in FFXIV except uhhh... While Irisviel is Kiritsugu's wife, let's just say the relationship between Livia and Cid is... Not very good.

Now, adding the English voice actors into the mix, again starting with Cid nan Garlond and things get even more interesting.

Cid nan Garlond => Grant George => Diarmuid Ua Duibhne

Or messed up.

Grant George => Gilgamesh, Fate/stay night (2006) & Fate/stay night: Unlimited Blade Works (WTF dude.)

Add Fire Emblem Heroes to the mix and haha, I think my brain is gonna melt. DX

Grant George => Sigurd, Clive

Chrom, Ryoma, Azama, Shigure => Matthew Mercer => Kiritsugu Emiya

And now we've gone full circle, GG game over.

P.S. - I didn't even talk about Diarmuid's JP voice actor, Hikaru Midorikawa, because he's one of the veteran voice actors that has a lot of ties to older anime I watched years ago.

Or how Cú Chulainn's JP voice actor played Hiten in Inuyasha! (Yet another character that uses a lance, hmmmmm.)

Ok, I'll shut up now.

(Cross-posted from Pillowfort.)

[killing-school-cruise]

(Cheesy Intercom Chime)

This blog is going to be a little place for me to post work on my Danganronpa OCs and the narrative I’ve created with them. I plan to eventually make a legitimate game or at least a mimic of one, but that would be pretty far down the road from now.

(I will of course also be posting actual DR fanart, if that’s your thing.)

Anyways, we play as Nyoko Umeda, the Ultimate Lucky Student of her grade who finds herself aboard a cruise ship along with her fifteen classmates. We all know how that goes. (Names and talents of class members under the cut!) If you plan on joining me on this journey, thank you so much! I will try to make this enjoyable for anyone who might be listening in, and hold out on spoilers so that the final product is that much more fun. Welcome aboard the MS Despair!

- Yui Ando, Ultimate Daredevil - Himari Fukuda, Ultimate Botanist - Mayumi Goda, Ultimate Chemist - Sachi Hasegawa, Ultimate Volleyball Star - Hideyoshi Kajiwara, Ultimate Theatrical Performer - Takahiro Kudo, Ultimate Director - Kotaro Murata, Ultimate Conspiracy Theorist - Kosuke Nagata, Ultimate Butcher - Hana Nishimura, Ultimate Memory - Touma Okazaki, Ultimate Soccer Pro - Kenzou Otsuka, Ultimate Debater - Suguru Saito, Ultimate (Hair)Stylist - Reiji Sakamoto, Ultimate Survivalist - Kazumi Sugimori, Ultimate ???????? - Fumiko Tanji, Ultimate Psychologist - Nyoko Umeda, Ultimate Lucky Student