#sora kite

[kudotsurugi]

One random day, on a bridge in Mac Anu, a popular meme was re-enacted.

For Those of you unaware, the original .hack//(pronounced "dot hack") games by CyberConnect2, starred the character Kite, a new player to the in-universe MMORPG "The World". There have been many iterations of The World in the .hack// franchise, and also as many character expies of Kite. So much so they made their own visual guide to tell you who's who.

So, I decided to take 5 'Kites' from the franchise and recreate the Spider-Man pointing meme.

From top left to bottom middle, we have:

Kite, protagonist of the original .hack// games(Infection, Mutation, Outbreak and Quarantine, "IMOQ" for short)

Shugo, the protagonist of the anime and manga .hack//Legend of the Twilight

Sakuya, the lead character in the anime OVA .hack//Quantum

Sora/Kite, aka Sora Yuuki, the protagonist of the Feature film .hack//The Movie: Beyond the World, and guest character in the PSP game .hack//Link.

"Tri-Edge"/Azure Kite, the initial antagonist of .hack//G.U.

[hellyeahdothack]

Happy New Year, .hackers!

2024 is the year .hack//The Movie: Beyond the World takes place. Sora Yuuki, a 14 year old middle school student, reluctantly begins playing the wildly popular game The World FORCE:ERA. On her first day playing, she meets a mysterious woman dressed in white.

Strange things begin happening in The World. What part will Sora play?

[kcuf-ad]

Who would win, Zarc or you?

Sylvio: If Zarc summoned his unfair monster, he might cause a little trouble.

But would you lose?

Sylvio: Nah, I'd win .

[squishosaur]

hm. i think i will ignore the last 8 episodes of arc v

[project-sekai-facts]

On multiple occassions, the illustrator of a cover 2DMV has been the same illustrator as the original Vocaloid MV for the song. These instances include:

Hachisan for Hibana -Reloaded-

Awashima for Umiyuri Kaiteitan

omutatsu for Attract Light

Tama for Ren'ai Saiban

Mogelatte for Dreamin Chuchu

Hachisan for Vampire

iyowa for Kyu-kurarin

Glider for Bouken no Sho ga Kiemashita!

Cherico for Chururira Chururira Daddadda!

Nou for KING

akka for Otome Kaibou

Sashi Miyama for Aishite Aishite Aishite

Higashi no Sora made Ai ni Kite for Gehenna

Kinoshita also illustrated the MVs for both the Emu, Nene & Rin and Happiness Sentai Sunny-Sunny☆Wonder covers of Positive☆Dance Time.

[honeyspotpie]

Okay so I wish the Ninjago fandom made more names for platonic duos/trios :/ maybe I'm just a spoiled MonkieKidder who's used to every single character combination to ever be conceived in someone's head having a name lol... So as a gift to you all enjoy some of my Dragons Rising platonic (mostly duo) name suggestions! (I'm giving explanations for them just in case, even if most are obvious)

Arin + Sora = GrapeFruit Duo (I talked about this before but grapefruits are orange and (kinda?) pink just like them! Plus fruit themed duo names are my favorite ever :3)

Lloyd + Arin = ApplePie Duo (apples are associated green (like Lloyd!) and pies are Arin's thing! And I adore them and apple pie in general <3)

Lloyd + Arin + Sora = Hibiscus Tea Trio (this one just makes sense to me okay... The hibiscus flower is very Sora-Arin coded in my head and tea alludes to Master Wu therefore Master Lloyd blah blah you get it!!!)

Wyldfyre + Kai = Blaze Duo (speaks for itself)

Wyldfyre + Arin = Flicker Duo (just warmth, spark, light and all that... themcore... And simply calling them "Flicker" is so so cute)

Wyldfyre + Sora = PyroTech Duo (like pyrotechnics!! Kinda iffy on it I will see... Wyldcat is really cool too but it's more so their ship name^^)

Arin + Sora + Wyldfyre = Sunset Trio (I struggled with this one the most but I decided on Sunset because a) it reflects their colors (orange, pink and red are all sunset-y colors) and b) the sunset can represent the old ninja "setting" like the sun to let the new generation "shine" instead :D)

Sora + Nya = CatFish Duo (catfish are extremely silly I love them so much... cat because Sora's cat motif and fish because water/ocean so Nya!)

Arin + Nya = TidePod Duo (this was, no joke, my first thought when coming up with a name... I was thinking of orange and blue things and Tide Pods were the first thing that came to mind... Guess my humor is just forever stuck in 2019 haha)

Sora + Euphrasia = KittyKite Duo (kitty for Sora and kite because it flies in the wind so Euphrasia! This one rolls off the tongue :P)

Arin + Euphrasia = Tornado Duo (because Arin's Spinjitzu - spinjitzus are just mini tornados and tornados are air/wind disasters it just makes sense :0)

Honorable mention goes to the Geo + Sora duo (I JUST LOVE THEIR CANON INTERACTION AND THE WAY THEY PARRALEL EACH OTHER^^) I would probably call them something among the lines of "Repair Duo" or "RepairShop Duo" :]

Anyhow if you have any suggestions or ideas yourself, feel free to rb or comment!!!

[sirenjose]

Norton is Alive in the Final Game

This is going to be less of an organized post and more just a collection of points. I wanted to post a theory I wrote about Time of Reunion here based on quoththeowl31's request, but I wrote the original theory right after the event (I needed hope) and it's been quite some time since then. I would've felt guilty just copy pasting it here considering how long its been, but I didn't have the energy to make it nice and neat. So I'm just going to take the important points from my previous theory, revise them based on what info we currently have, and go from there.

(Sorry, I only had the energy to be lazy for this. Hopefully this is good enough for you.)

Alice (Little Girl) is running from Orpheus during Time of Reunion in-game.

She disappears in Da Capo after Orpheus beats up Norton, leaving only her diary behind. The same thing happens at the end of the Time of Reunion event in-game. The diary is left on the ground near where Orpheus lies.

Possible Orpheus scared Alice due to his actions, even if he thought he did it to defend her.

This is the “final game”. No bodies are found except Orpheus’. The fire didn’t consume everything, so if Norton really were dead, his body should be around there somewhere, but it isn’t.

Melly and Alice are never found either, but if they did manage to leave, we’ve heard nothing about them.

(Reusing an idea I read from quoththeowl31 that I really liked)

Little Girl helps other survivors. If Orpheus was Nightmare, that’d mean she’d have to help Norton, Melly, or whoever the 4th survivor is (whether that’s Frederick or otherwise). Novelist was banned in this mode, meaning Little Girl couldn’t support him (and it’s possible this could have been meant to also signify Little Girl didn’t support him in the story either).

Alice is a rescuer. The only person we’ve seen hurt and chaired during the in-game cutscene was Norton. Ergo, it’d be her responsibility to rescue him.

Norton is a survivor built to harass the hunter (and potentially by-time for others/help others escape from the hunter), while Melly is built for kiting and running. This could explain why Norton is the one who is the one wounded during Time of Reunion

Norton and Melly, each time they appear as hunters during the animations, are always reaching towards Little Girl aka Alice, not Orpheus.

Norton was using the axe to break the door to the room Orpheus had locked himself and the girl in. The axe disappears right after he makes a big enough hole, meaning Norton didn’t intend to use it to hurt either of them.

Melly in Alice’s diary was said to be trying to persuade Alice to leave, but she refuses due to not finding the answer she’s looking for yet.

If Alice/Little Girl knew Norton and Melly were trying to help her, she likely would’ve sided with them. That could also be why she disappears after Orpheus beats up Norton (as well seeing how Orpheus truly is/how messed up he is). Or she disappeared so Orpheus, upon losing sight of her, she’d be freed and could help Norton without Orpheus stopping her.

Orpheus isn’t a reliable perspective. The memories we’re seeing are because of the Hydra drug, which “rebuilds” memories. “Rebuild” rather than “regain” or “remember” means the “rebuilt” version can look the exact same as the original, but it’s also possible for it to somewhat differ from the original version. For example, the memories Hydra gives Orpheus has Orpheus being chased by Nightmare, which we know is impossible as Orpheus is Nightmare, as well as shows Alice as Little Girl rather than her actual, present day version as Alice the Journalist. (Similar to what happens to Sora during Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories.)

There are inconsistencies in the animation, which can help show that it, like the Time of Reunion event in-game, isn’t the exact truth. Besides Alice appearing as Little Girl rather than Journalist Alice, as well as how we can see hallucinations exist considering we see Melly and Norton appearing as hunters, but we know this is a hallucination as, for example, after Orpheus punches Melly, we see the real Melly briefly afterwards.

Norton doesn’t have his signature burn scar over his eye

Norton doesn’t have his nose piercing

Only Orpheus and Little Girl are in color. Norton and Melly are in black and white.

Only Orpheus and Little Girl have real eyes. Norton has button eyes.

Norton isn’t fighting back. When Orpheus tries to punch him a 2nd time, Norton actually grabs his hand, struggles to keep him still while Orpheus continues to try to attack him, and then grabs Orpheus’ other hand when he tries to swing that at Norton too. In the second or so that Orpheus can’t attack, we see Norton trying to say something to Orpheus, but Orpheus isn’t listening and continues to attack. Norton this whole time hasn’t made any moves to attack Orpheus himself.

The strange scene where Melly is hiding in a locker, Norton touches something on the floor, walks over to the locker, shakes it once, hits it once, shakes it one more time, then runs out. It’s kind of nonsensical. If he was running from something, we’d see Norton moving quicker and more furiously, yet the nonchalant way he goes about his business before slowly walking to the locker says otherwise. Right after this, Melly opens up a trapdoor once Norton leaves. It’s possible Norton’s actions were a signal to Melly, potentially signifying that it was Norton, not Orpheus, and him trying to potentially say Orpheus wasn’t around, and that could’ve been why Melly only opened the trapdoor afterwards. This could mean Melly and Norton are working together, and as both of them seemed to be trying to reach for Little Girl specifically, that could help further prove the idea.

The only time we see Norton and Melly going against each other is when Norton punches Melly and causes her to drop the flashlight that Orpheus then picks up. I think the only reason this happened was because they might’ve known Orpheus was watching and had to pretend. Even when Orpheus firsts locks himself in the room with Little Girl, closing the door right as Hunter Melly appears in front of the door, in a few seconds, we see the axe coming through the door, signifying Hunter Norton is right outside the door now. Both Norton and Melly should be nearby, outside the door, but they’re goal is getting into the room, not fighting each other.

We also see both of them running past Orpheus at about the same time.

There’s also how Melly during Time of Reunion is shown to be using her bees to try to get Orpheus hit and killed by the hunter.

“Da Capo” is a music term and means to “go back to the beginning” of the music. This only happens once, with the second time you reach this symbol it doesn’t repeat, and instead goes to a different measure. This basically seems to symbolize doing things over but reaching a different ending.

Da Capo and redoing something can connect to COA 4, as Highway Cavalier and the others repeatedly die and are forced to redo the race over and over. Highway Cavalier does defeat Molten Hound and win the race in the end, receiving a “powerful life force” as his reward in the end. Molten Hound, who is absorbing the life force of the racers forced to redo the race in loop after loop, can parallel Orpheus as Nightmare, who does something similar with the participants of his experiments. Highway Cavalier obviously parallels Norton, while Melly can parallel Reflective Mirror, someone who at first did not get along with and was on different sides from Norton, but after Norton changes and starts to care, he saves her from dying at one point, and they become allies.

Considering what we know about Alice based on her letter to Orpheus in the 2nd anniversary package, where she says she’s going to save him (Orpheus) this time, she could parallel Pumping Tires, who sacrifices himself for Highway Cavalier to ensure Highway Cavalier can win the race and defeat Molten Hound.

There’s also how the COA 4 races were taking place in Yidhra’s Dreamlands, and Yidhra in canon seems to relate to Oracle and Orpheus’ drugs via the fern, as well as to Darkwoods where the Final Game takes place.

Norton in his 2nd letter was asked to assassinate some female in exchange for a lot of money. Despite this, we see in this letter that he (Hunter Norton/Fool’s Gold) is trying to convince himself (Survivor Norton) to go through with the job and kill the female for the money. This is similar to Norton’s backstory trailer, where we see Norton fighting with himself before he sets off the explosion in Golden Cave. We see him holding his head, as well as both him and his hunter version at the same time, before seeing Fool’s Gold win and cause the explosion.

It’s possible during the Final Game, Norton chose to reject the assassination request and side with Alice instead, similar to Highway Cavalier’s change from selfish to working with others during COA 4 to the point in previous loops he gets himself killed while trying to help them.

Norton in Time of Reunion is shown to be eliminated via chair rather than bleeding out. This means there is a chance he survived. (Orpheus is also shown with scars on his hand from the wires on the rocket chairs, meaning he survived despite being chaired. It’s possible he was rescued, but in-game, if you’re eliminated via chair, it does say “returning to manor”, which could be what happened to Norton).

Little Girl, as well as Nightmare, disappeared because Orpheus forgot about them. Because the gas he released via the valve is shown to have the Dionysus/Mnemosyne symbol, which is the drug that makes a person forget.

Strange split screen during the scene Orpheus attacks Norton. Suspicious we can’t see exactly who the shadows are, even though the left side shows us Orpheus and Norton. Considering we know the hallucination drug can cause people to see someone as something else, it’s possible the fact we can’t see who’s on the right may hint that maybe they aren’t who they seem to be. It’s possible rather than attacking Norton, he’s actually attacking Alice, which could also tie to why she sees him as Nightmare, as well as why Little Girl runs away from Orpheus during the Time of Reunion event.

Orpheus is focused on the past before the tragedy. He is “looking back”. He also “looks back” after attacking Norton in Da Capo, and when he does, Alice is gone. And like in the original myth, when Orpheus looks back, Eurydice vanishes forever. The fact Alice is gone could mean he did in fact attack her and caused her to disappear despite what he thought he saw.

Last thought. We see Little Girl disappear at the end. And based on Alice’s letter to Orpheus, this seems to echo this. If Yidhra really is involved, what if she made Alice, as well as Norton and Melly, disappear. Similar to what happens to the Lakeside villagers. And potentially similar to what Eli describes in his 4th letter, as he describes “dissipating” just like how we see happen to Little Girl in the animations as well as in-game at the end of Time of Reunion.

As Yidhra’s letters seem to connect her to the fern used in the drugs, as well as to Darkwoods, where the final game is, and where we can find a bonfire that Yidhra’s form can appear in, it’s possible she could’ve made Alice, Norton, Melly, and potentially all the other participants of Orpheus’ game disappear, similar to how she makes the investigators who wander into her territory see the steps to the Dreamlands.

Alice in her letter to Orpheus in the 2nd anniversary package does say “As I gradually regain my consciousness, I’ll find a way to escape from the prison that locks me in”, and though I don’t see how she could write a letter to Orpheus if she had already been sent to the Dreamlands, I still wanted to suggest the idea that the “prison” she refers to is the Dreamlands. In which case, the “hunter” Alice references she could potentially use could be Yidhra: https://www.tumblr.com/sirenjose/738327507924828160/oracle-orpheus-drugs-and-yidhra-theory?source=share.

That or Joseph. Both him and Yidhra seem to be potential solutions: https://www.tumblr.com/sirenjose/737972149259829248/did-joseph-make-the-portraits-are-they-still?source=share.

Joseph is all about saving people from death, which he does by taking a photo of them, causing their souls to be trapped within the photo and their bodies to seemingly go missing. He had a wall of portraits of people that went missing, and we are now getting portraits of survivors for their 5th birthday. In which case, the “prison” Alice references could be that photo, and the hunter she suggested wanting to use could be Joseph.

[utapri-translations-uuuu]

Angel’s Note - Lyrics + Translation (エンジェルズノート)

Please do not repost/retranslate without permission.

Kanji:

【Ej・Ya・Sh】 Happy birthdayをみんなで歌える喜びを胸に

【Ei・Ki・Ng・Va】 Kiss and sing and more　重ねた特別な

【All】 夢のケーキを

【Va】 晴れた　なんてことない日常が眩しくなる

【Ng】 背伸びしたくなるよ　君といると　もっと振り向いて欲しくて

【Ki】 たぶんいつも以上　言葉数が減って

【Ei】 真面目過ぎる横顔(かお)　変じゃないか？と感じてた

【Ya】 Be the shine　包むような　存在でありたい Uh...Self-centered

【Sh】 前を向き続けられるReason　そばにいるだけで

【All】 力が溢れる

【All】 Angel's Note　君から貰えた愛の感動(メロディー)は

天国(HE★VENS)へと続く

【Ej・Ya・Sh】 Love song

【Ei・Ki・Ng・Va】 Our song

【All】 行進曲(マーチ)になった

【All】 Angel's Note　君へとまた繋がるステージから

【Ej・Ya・Sh】 奇跡すら

【Ei・Ki・Ng・Va】 霞んで見える

【Ej・Ya・Sh】 トキめいた

【Ei・Ki・Ng・Va】 瞬間をあげる

【Ej】 扉開いた次は　更に上(そら)へと

【All】 飛んじゃうから Are you ok？

【Va】 道は果てしないよ　それこそ涙して

【Ng】 喧嘩しちゃったり　傷つけちゃったり　恋ってのは複雑(リアル)だよね

【Ki】 だけど時間が過ぎ　振り返った時に

【Ei】 凹凸の数が音楽になってるはずだ

【Ya】 Be the one　歌うように　抱き締めてゆく Everything you do

【Sh】 一つ一つの経験たち　思い出に変えて

【All】 未来を渡ろう

【All】 Angel's Note　真っ白なページを埋め続けてゆく

悔しさ嬉しさも

【Ej・Ya・Sh】 All write

【Ei・Ki・Ng・Va】 All right

【All】 隠さず全部

【All】 Angel's Note　言葉を詞に変えて届けてゆこう

【Ej・Ya・Sh】 なんだって

【Ei・Ki・Ng・Va】 乗り越えられる

【Ej・Ya・Sh】 ついてきて

【Ei・Ki・Ng・Va】 信じてほしい

【Ej】 幸せぎゅっとしよう　何度も伝えたい

【All】 笑う君が大好き

【All】 Angel's Note　君から貰えた愛の感動(メロディー)は

天国(HE★VENS)へと続く

【Ej・Ya・Sh】 Love song

【Ei・Ki・Ng・Va】 Our song

【All】 7人曲(オーケストラ)に

【All】 Angel's Note　毎年記念日はキスをしないか？

【Ej・Ya・Sh】 奇跡すら

【Ei・Ki・Ng・Va】 霞んで見える

【Ej・Ya・Sh】 トキめいた

【Ei・Ki・Ng・Va】 瞬間をあげる

【Ej】 扉開いた次は　更に上(そら)へと

【All】 飛んじゃうから Are you ok？

Rōmaji:

【Ej・Ya・Sh】 Happy birthday o min'na de utaeru yorokobi o mune ni

【Ei・Ki・Ng・Va】 Kiss and sing and more kasaneta tokubetsu na

【All】 Yume no kēki o

【Va】 Hareta nante koto nai nichijō ga mabushiku naru

【Ng】 Senobi shitaku naru yo kimi to iru to motto furimuite hoshikute

【Ki】 Tabun itsumo ijō kotoba kazu ga hette

【Ei】 Majime sugiru kao hen janai ka? To kanji teta

【Ya】 Be the shine tsutsumu yō na sonzai de aritai Uh… Self-centered

【Sh】 Mae o muki tsudzukerareru Reason soba ni iru dake de

【All】 Chikara ga afureru

【All】 Angel’s Note kimi kara moraeta ai no merodī wa

HE★VENS e to tsudzuku

【Ej・Ya・Sh】 Love song

【Ei・Ki・Ng・Va】 Our song

【All】 Māchi ni natta

【All】 Angel’s Note kimi e to mata tsunagaru sutēji kara

【Ej・Ya・Sh】 Kiseki sura

【Ei・Ki・Ng・Va】 Kasunde mieru

【Ej・Ya・Sh】 Tokimeita

【Ei・Ki・Ng・Va】 Shunkan o ageru

【Ej】 Tobira hiraita tsugi wa sarani sora e to

【All】 Tonjau kara Are you ok?

【Va】 Michi wa hateshinai yo sore koso namida shite

【Ng】 Kenka shi chattari kizutsuke chattari koi tte no wa riaru da yo ne

【Ki】 Dakedo jikan ga sugi furikaetta toki ni

【Ei】 Ōtotsu no kazu ga ongaku ni natteru hazu da

【Ya】 Be the one utau yō ni dakishimete yuku Everything you do

【Sh】 Hitotsu hitotsu no keiken-tachi omoide ni kaete

【All】 Mirai o watarō

【All】 Angel’s Note masshiro na pēji o ume tsudzukete yuku

Kuyashi-sa ureshi-sa mo

【Ej・Ya・Sh】 All write

【Ei・Ki・Ng・Va】 All right

【All】 Kakusazu zenbu

【All】 Angel’s Note kotoba o shi ni kaete todokete yukō

【Ej・Ya・Sh】 Nan datte

【Ei・Ki・Ng・Va】 Norikoerareru

【Ej・Ya・Sh】 Tsuite kite

【Ei・Ki・Ng・Va】 Shinjite hoshī

【Ej】 Shiawase gyutto shiyou nando mo tsutaetai

【All】 Warau kimi ga daisuki

【All】 Angel’s Note kimi kara moraeta ai no merodī wa

HE★VENS e to tsudzuku

【Ej・Ya・Sh】 Love song

【Ei・Ki・Ng・Va】 Our song

【All】 Ōkesutora ni

【All】 Angel’s Note maitoshi kinenbi wa kisu o shinai ka?

【Ej・Ya・Sh】 Kiseki sura

【Ei・Ki・Ng・Va】 Kasunde mieru

【Ej・Ya・Sh】 Tokimeita

【Ei・Ki・Ng・Va】 Shunkan o ageru

【Ej】 Tobira hiraita tsugi wa sarani sora e to

【All】 Tonjau kara Are you ok?

Translation:

【Ej・Ya・Sh】 With the joy in our hearts of being able to sing Happy birthday together,

【Ei・Ki・Ng・Va】 Kiss and sing and more: We offer you a special dream cake

【All】 Filled with these precious moments

【Va】 Clear, ordinary days become dazzling

【Ng】 I feel like standing taller when I'm with you, wanting you to notice me even more

【Ki】 Maybe I’m talking less than usual

【Ei】 And I wonder if my serious expression in profile seems odd to you

【Ya】 Be the shine, I want to be a presence that envelops you Uh…Self-centered

【Sh】 The Reason I can keep looking forward is that just being by your side

【All】 Fills me with strength

【All】 Angel’s Note, The melody of love I received from you

Reaches into the HE★VENS

【Ej・Ya・Sh】 Love song

【Ei・Ki・Ng・Va】 Our song

【All】 Has become a march

【All】 Angel’s Note, From the stage that connects me to you once again,

【Ej・Ya・Sh】 Even miracles

【Ei・Ki・Ng・Va】 Don’t seem that impressive in comparison

【Ej・Ya・Sh】 I’ll give you a moment

【Ei・Ki・Ng・Va】 That’ll make your heart race

【Ej】 Once the gate opens, we’ll soar even higher

【All】 Into the sky, so Are you ok?

【Va】 The path is endless, and that's why we shed tears

【Ng】 We fight and hurt each other; love is complicated, isn’t it?

【Ki】 But when time passes and I look back,

【Ei】 I’m sure the ups and downs will have turned into music

【Ya】 Be the one, As if singing, I’ll embrace Everything you do

【Sh】 Let’s turn each and every experience into memories,

【All】 And cross into the future

【All】 Angel’s Note, Continuing to fill up the blank pages,

Let’s write down everything,

【Ej・Ya・Sh】 Both regret and joy

【Ei・Ki・Ng・Va】 All right

【All】 Without hiding anything at all

【All】 Angel's Note, Let's change words into lyrics and deliver them

【Ej・Ya・Sh】 We can overcome

【Ei・Ki・Ng・Va】 Anything

【Ej・Ya・Sh】 I want you to believe

【Ei・Ki・Ng・Va】 And follow me

【Ej】 Let's hold on tight to happiness, I want to tell you again and again

【All】 I love when you smile

【All】 Angel’s Note, The melody of love I received from you

Reaches into the HE★VENS

【Ej・Ya・Sh】 Love song

【Ei・Ki・Ng・Va】 Our song

【All】 Becomes a piece meant for a seven-person orchestra

【All】 Angel's Note, Shall we kiss every year on your anniversary?

【Ej・Ya・Sh】 Even miracles

【Ei・Ki・Ng・Va】 Don’t seem that impressive in comparison

【Ej・Ya・Sh】 I’ll give you a moment

【Ei・Ki・Ng・Va】 That’ll make your heart race

【Ej】 Once the gate opens, we’ll soar even higher

【All】 Into the sky, so Are you ok?

[bogcreacher]

I love your art style!! I also really like your Wof Ocs! (especially Mako and Red Kite)

Could you tell me which is your favorite tribe in the Wof and explain why? (Sorry if the grammar is weird or wrong, I used a translator)

thank you so much, I’m glad you like them! :)

my favourite are MudWings! I think they‘re kinda under-appreciated both in the books and amongst fans, and I love writing speculative headcanon stuff for em. I hope we see more of them in Arc 4 (especially Sora)

[vsynthbday]

happy anniversary to "Gehenna" (ジェヘナ) by wotaku (ヲタク)! this song came out 5 years ago today.

art by Higashi no Sora Made Ai ni Kite | youtube upload | august 9th, 2024.

[Image description: A screenshot from the official music video for "Gehenna". It depicts an unnamed character holding a blade in their right hand. They have long light purple hair and green eyes and are wearing a gray, light purple and coral red dress with a white bow. Around the character are two fishes. The background is mainly white, with tables being around them. End image description.]

[gayestyugiohcharacter]

MAIN BRACKET-ROUND TWO

(sorry that they aren’t connected, the site i used wouldn’t let me)

ROUND ONE WILL HAPPEN AUGUST 20

war listing undercut

edo/aster phoenix vs rovian kirishima

yubel vs spectre

vector vs durbe/dumon

ryoken kogami vs miyu sugisaki

yuma tsukumo vs jack atlas

asana mutsuba vs takeru homura/theodore hamilton

astral vs jun manjoume/chazz princeton

rin vs cathy katherine

michael arclight vs damamu

tatsuhisa kamijo/lucidien kamijo vs asuka tenjoin/alexis rhodes

aoi/skye zaizen vs. yuya sakaki

yuzu hiiragi/zuzu boyle vs serena/celina

yuna goha vs judai/jaden yuki

byron arclight vs johan/jesse andersen

roboppi vs kyoji yagumo

yusei fudo vs mr. heartland

number 96 vs sherry lablanc

yami kuroda vs haruka kamijo/tiadosia kallister

yuri vs flame

masumi kotsu/julia krystal vs yuamu ohdo

zuwijo zir velgear vs yudias velgear

romin kirishima/kassidy vs droite/dextra

aqua vs kaito/kite tenjo

alito vs getta taira/tyler getz

ruri kurosaki vs ai

sora shiun’in/perse vs mizael/mizar

yuto vs ryoga kamishiro/reginald kastle

yuo goha vs cronos de medici/vellian crowler

andore/andre vs fubuki tenjoin/atticus rhodes

rio kamishiro/kastle vs crow hogan

yugo vs yusaku fujiki

thomas arclight vs dennis macfield

[otakween]

Digimon Adventure Drama CD 3 (Character Song + Mini Drama 3)

The final part in this drama CD trilogy! There are other Digimon Adventure CDs for me to go through, but this is the end of the character song + mini drama collection. So great that these are easily accessible online. I've had a lot of fun going through them.

Download link

Translation

The Stolen First Dreams of the Year - Parts 1 & 2

The gang realizes that none of them had a New Year's dream (it's a Japanese tradition to analyze your first dream of the year). Yamato and Takeru go to investigate and Bakumon reveals he ate everyone's dreams! Dun dun dunnnn

Gotta love the totally realistic conversations of people being like "you didn't have a dream either, so weird!" I feel like I don't remember my dreams most nights lol.

I've always known that tapir were associated with dream-eating in Japan (due to anime and video games), but I've never looked up the origins of this. According to Wikipedia the nightmare eating, supernatural "baku" and the tapir are both called "baku," but they're different...but also baku look just like tapir lol. Not confusing at all!

In part 2 of this drama Yamato and Takeru are trapped in Takeru's dream. Takeru is a cat, Patamon's a kite, and Gabumon's a shishimai. I thought it was funny that Takeru had a profound reason for Patamon to be a kite, but Gabumon was a shishimai because...he just kinda looks like one lol

Takeru uses the power of lucid dreaming to defeat Bakumon and escape his dream...that's a pretty obvious weakness

Image Song 1 - Walk on the Edge (Yamato Ishida)

Translation

A very "cool" song for Yamato, very fitting. A lot of it is directed at Taichi, telling him to stop being so hot-headed and just be cool, like Yamato.

I feel like there's some conflicting vibes here because at one point in the lyrics he's like "we're the chosen children, we can do anything!" but then he's like "I'm fine on my own." Kinda jarring that both ends of his arc would be put into one song like that. Like...pick a personality.

I liked that they incorporated his harmonica in the song's intro. Smart.

Image Song 2 - Be All Right (Takeru Takaishi)

Translation

This had a similar vibe to Hikari's song, kinda abstract and hopeful about the future. (Makes sense since Hikari and Takeru become a duo).

I feel like Takeru's voice actress didn't even try to do her character's voice when singing this. It just sounds like some lady lol. In my opinion, when it comes to image songs, I prefer the song to sound more authentic to the character than to sound "good."

The Digimon’s New Year Performance

This was definitely the best gag drama yet! They threw a lot of dumb jokes in there that made me laugh/roll my eyes. Best bits were probably: Gabumon finally taking his fur off (in the AUDIO drama), Tentomon speaking without his accent (cursed), Sora and Joe praising Piyomon and Gomamon for their lame tricks and Hikari judging Tailmon for acting cutesy.

I felt bad for Agumon for being booed, glad he got his revenge at the end lol.

Image Song 3 - Shinka de Guts! (Partner digimon, minus Tailmon)

Translation

This one snuck up on me. It's so cute!! I feel like this is one of those anime songs that make you feel like you can do anything and everything's gonna be alright ;w;

Love hearing the digimon sing. This is what I was talking about in my critique of Takeru's song. I love in-character songs that aren't worried about sounding kinda goofy.

The digimon sing about their power together and their love for their human partners, very wholesome. There were also some lyrics thrown in there about taking it easy and stopping to smell the flowers. Cozy.

[lutervania]

LUTER HIHI!!!! silly question whats ur favorite dialogue line from dra1 and then sdra2??

my personal fav is yuki/utsuro mentioning warming up by the fire, then sora bluntly asking will santa come down a burning chimney incinerating him

HAIII KITE (U CAN CALL ME KYO BTW) god theres so many good lines in both games its so hard to choose one so. for dra its definitely these two 😭😭

FOR SDRA2 itsdef these. Both from mikado cuz hes hilarious

also these lines. hes So gay with syobai

[twilightmalachite]

Machina - Test World 1

Author: Kino Seitaro (with Akira)

Characters: Mika, Sora

Translator: Mika Enstars

"What Sora’s been into lately… Hmm, there’s so many it’s hard to narrow it down to just one, though. I suppose he's been having fun building towns in SSVRS lately?"

Season: Winter

Location: Starmony Dorms Courtyard

Mika: There’s still snow out, huh…

Uu, so cold… Maybe I should’ve warmed up a bit before comin’ outside.

No, that sorta laziness would concern Oshi-san. I gotta keep on creatin’ without any detours…!

…I say that, but it’s not like I’ve thought of anythin’.

Nnah~, maybe there’s somethin’ interesting out here…?

Sora: HaHa~! Make room! Make room please! Sora’s coming through!

Mika: Nnah, Sora-kun? What’re ya doin?! You jus’ ran on past…

Sora: Sora’s flying a kite! HiHi~, you see what’s in Sora’s hand?

Mika: Ah, kite flyin’, huh?

That’s a tasteful way to have fun. Have ya been out here flying a kite all by yourself?

Sora: HuHu~, Sora was gonna invest himself in games he hadn’t played yet during winter break, but he wanted to move his body~!

There was a kite to fly in Starmony Dorms, so he borrowed it. ♪

Mika: I see. Sounds like a good change of pace from stayin’ home all winter, huh?

A kite, huh? Hmmm, kite… Maybe it’ll give me a good idea…?

…Nnah~, nothing comes to mind.

Sora: ? Searching for ideas?

Mika-chan-san has a gloomy color, huh~. Sora can tell he is deeply troubled!

Mika: Well, it means a lot to see ya worried, but the issue here’s…

(Ah, I know, maybe I could ask if Sora-kun knows about the current trends?)

(Sora-kun knows lots about new technology and such, right? Talkin’ to Sora-kun may give me some ideas.)

Hey, Sora-kun, could I ask ya a few questions?

Sora: Yes! May may be asked!

Mika: Thank ya~. I’m havin’ some trouble…

I’m actually at a loss on what to do fer my next work. I gotta be able to make somethin’ worth showin’ to even Oshi-san.

I was thinkin’ you could tell me what you’ve been into lately, maybe it could help me with my work?

Sora: What Sora’s been into lately… Hmm, there’s so many it’s hard to narrow it down to just one, though.

I suppose he's been having fun building towns in SSVRS lately?

Mika: Building towns!?

What a large-scale hobby… You mean buildin’ towns in the game world, right?

Sora: Yes! Sora builds while playing in virtual reality. He’s working with someone from a game company that used to work on SSVRS!

And, in the newly made “Test World”, in-game money can be used to open shops and buy furniture for a house!

Mika-chan-san’s good with creative stuff, so it may help him out! ♪

Mika: I see, makin’ stuff in a game world, huh… It’s amazin’ how much technology has advanced nowadays.

Nnah~, but thinkin’ of it, I got motion sick easy with the SVRSS goggles…

Sora: HaHa~☆ No need to worry about that!

The VR goggles have been improved a lot using the data from back then, so I’m confident Mika-chan-san will be able to use it comfortably~!

Mika: You were able t’do that…!? What fast work… I can’t keep up with this tech!

Sora: Don’t worry, Mika-chan-san will get used to it eventually!

Yuuki Sense~ is playing in the Test World now, does Mika-chan-san want to join in?

If Mika-chan could get inspired by the digital world, Sora thinks it’ll be worth it~♪

Mika: I ‘unno. It’s a world I dunno much about, so I’m nervous, but if I don’t try takin’ the first step, I might not be able to create my new work…

I’ll do it, Sora-kun! I’ll also get some inspiration from the digital world!

Sora: HoHo~, Mika-chan-san’s greedy for art~♪

Sora: Sora will bring Mika-chan to Yuuki Sense~ who's playing in the Test World, then!

Let’s all have fun playing in the SSVRS world! ♪

Better than one is two, and better than two is three!

I think by making the Test World more lively, it’ll become an even better town~! ♪ HaHiHuHeHo~☆

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[spacefinch]

Bird names that also make good people names: a list

Feel free to use the names in this list for yourselves, for your OCs, for whatever you want!

Anhinga

Ani

Apalis

Aracari

Astrapia

Avocet

Barbet

Reedling

Bittern

Brambling

Canary

Condor

Cotinga

Coua

Crow

Dacnis

Darter

Dove

Dovekie

Dunlin

Egret

Eider

Elaenia

Emu

Falcon

Finch (that's me!)

Francolin

Fulmar

Galah

Goshawk

Grandala

Harrier

Hawk

Heron

Hobby

Hoopoe

Iora

Jabiru

Jacana

Jackdaw

Jaegar

Jay

Junco

Kea

Kestrel

Kinglet

Kite

Kittiwake

Kiwi

Lark

Lory

Macaw

Magpie

Mallard

Manakin

Martin

Merlin

Monal

Murre

Myna

Nene

Nighthawk

Nightingale

Oriole

Osprey

Ostrich

Owl

Parotia

Parula

Petrel

Phoebe

Pigeon

Piper (as in "sandpiper")

Pipit

Pitta

Plover

Prinia

Quail

Quelea

Quetzal

Rail

Raven

Reedling

Rhea

Robin

Roller

Rook

Rosefinch

Rosella

Sanderling

Seriema

Serin

Shrike

Siskin

Sitella

Skua

Skylark

Sora

Sparrow

Starling

Swift

Tanager

Teal

Tern

Tinamou

Tityra

Thrush

Tody

Trogon

Troupial

Tui

Turaco

Vanga

Veery

Verdin

Vireo

Weaver

Whimbrel

Wigeon

Wren

[wantonglances]

So I watched dot hack sign on your recommendation, but I don't get the ending. Who are those characters that show up and join the party? Why is Sora magically free? I'm confused ;_;

ASKDL;KL I'm so glad someone actually watched it on my rec. the last episode (maybe the last two? idr if it's just the one or both) technically take place after the events of the games this anime is a sequel to. since you said you don't get the ending, let's say that it's just the last episode that has these new characters. episodes 1-25 are the first part of the story, then the .hack// quadrilogy, referred to for ease of discussion as IMOQ, then episode 26 of .hack//SIGN. teeeeechnically there's another subseries in there called .hack//LIMINALITY but the narrative has it told in four parts, interspersed in-between the game installments. and that series can only be found 1) on the individual discs that came with the PS2 games, 2) on pirating websites. which is to say, it's not uninteresting, just not mandatory watching imo. SIGN is mandatory for understanding IMOQ, and kiiinda also vice versa. the last game, Quarantine, introduces previously anime-exclusive characters like Tsukasa, Subaru, and Sora, but they're not important to the story, just easter eggs for the SIGN watcher.

ANYWAYS, the events of Quarantine have Kite (blue haired guy in orange clothes at the end of SIGN) and friends saving Sora from Skeith, the entity that absorbed him in SIGN. Mother, the entity communing with Tsukasa, is defeated and The World is saved, so everyone has a party to celebrate. the white haired winged guy, and the red haired Blademaster who were with Kite at the end of SIGN, are actually Balmung of the Azure Sky, and Orca of the Azure Sea, the Descendants of Fianna that Bear and Subaru both mention in early episodes as being defenders of The World. Kite becomes the third Descendant, Kite of the Azure Flame, not just because of his role in defeating Mother (known in IMOQ as Morganna) but also for triumphing against an in-game boss known as The One Sin, a threat similar in scale to Mother/Morganna (but with less irl fuckery)

hope this helps to clear some of it up!!