hi hello im just gonna throw down (milgram pun haha) a bunch of music here that i like. um. yeah it’s
artist - favs
noa aburasoba - honey trap, any angle
aimi - help, meritocracy
shunichi toki - science, envy
satsuki - mesmerizer, juvenile
yorushika/n-buna - just a sunny day for you, thats why i gave up on music, tale of the deep sea lily
visty - endless dream, for my stella
gokuluck - catharsis, stronger
deco*27 - vampire, literally all of milgram, covers included
yoshino - vampire cover
miho okasaki - mirror
vane lily - butcher vanity, paparazzi murder party
ghost and pals - honey i’m home, happy days
yuu miyashita - deus ex machina, grain, kirin ga shinu made, kuruoze, parasite piano, coquetterie dancer, kilmer cover, yuuka (i love yuu miyashita so much) (go listen to doctrine doctrine too!!!)
mafumafu - keitairenwa (also all of soramafuurasaka’s songs)
eve - fightsong, insomnia
hya - snake, mad mermaid
raise a suilen - twin tale, vip monster, bring it on cover
azari - wink, black out, casino (really all of azari but ykyk)
more more jump - the peachy key, milk crown on sonnechka (or however u spell it) cover
vivid bad squad - rad dogs, flyer
kankan - fiction, all fool, nightless city, boost anima
the alien stage soundtrack
nightcord at 25:00 - idsmile, bug, jackpot sad girl
rondo - 雨音 (forgot what it’s called in english so i js typed it in chinese)
roselia - flashlight, r, charles cover
wadatakeaki kuragep - my r, trash&trash (shoutout to lollia’s english my r cover thought because that azula animatic changed little me’s life)
did i say all of milgram already
leo/need - needLe, ikanaide cover, teratera, stage of sekai (live laugh love l/n)
hifumi - i am too lazy to find out what the songs are called in english
mili - world.execute(me);, summoning 101, rtrt
96neko - buriki no dance cover
afterglow - sensenfukoku, mental chainsaw cover
mygo!!!!! - silhouette dance, non breath oblige cover
ho-kago tea time - no, thank you!, cageyake girls, fuwa fuwa time, rice is a side dish, tenshi ni fureta yo (makes me cry literally)
Kapag pinapakinggan ko ang “Tenshi ni Fureta Yo!” Sa playlist, bigla nagflaflashback yung early teenager years ko. Bigla nagflaflashback yung relaxed life na walang iniisip. Tanda ko pa panahon na papanoorin ang K-On sa laptop. Kahit nung high school naman ako meron na talagang Nostalgia factor yung series na ‘yan, pero mas lumala pagkatanda. Nakakamiss lang talaga walang iniisip na future. Livin’ the moment lang ba
(Don't lie. You cried like a baby when you heard Tenshi ni Fureta yo!)
Let's wrap up the year with a heartwarming rewatch of one of my favorite KyoAni titles. Of course, music, along with the arts, is my escape from the dull, depressing reality I must endure each and every day. Case in point, this anime.
After almost a decade, I finally took time to look back at this title and see if it still had charm. Despite already reviewing this in 2015, I do want to touch on a new observation since then:
I noticed how the production order seemed a bit messy near the end (getting close to the movie). In fact, watching the extra episodes post-ep. 25 makes the conclusion awkward. The movie was able to resolve this issue afterwards. Still, it took my brain 8 years to notice that. (My brain is dying...)
Regardless of the production order these episodes were in, I really enjoyed revisiting this title for still having this down-to-earth vibe of four high-school girls just trying to make the most of high school memories in the form of LIGHT MUSIC CLUB.
Final verdict: STILL GOT THE GOODS FOR A 15 YEAR OLD ANIME; RECOMMENDED IF YOU ARE SICK OF THAT IDOL ANIME BOOM
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With that, this concludes all the anime watches for 2023. The wheel has been decommissioned for I really don't give two shits for that method anyway...
As for the 2024 schedule, it is not 100% complete yet. However, I do want to say want one thing: THERE WAS ONE ANIME TITLE ON THAT WHEEL I FORGOT ABOUT. Thus, I have decided to automatically make this forgotten contender the first rewatch to the new year.
Oh, and I'm sure you don't have a landline phone in your house; otherwise, she might appear. Stay tuned in January...
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Until then, I will be wrapping up the rest of December with some Love Live related stuff and holiday related content. Here's hoping your holidays will be full of snow...I NEED SNOW.
Suzuha Yumi once again posting a really melancholic song, an oldie from 2019 but certainly a goodie. Fantastic stuff but just as importantly: It’s her birthday! Happy birthday!
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Twilight Garden
Composer/Vocalist: 鈴葉ユミ
ah, kimi wa yasashii haru no hidamari no you de
hikari ni hohoemu tenshi no toiki ni fureta yuugure
You're simply so gentle, like a day in spring
Your light just radiates me like an angel's breath within dusk
daremo shiranai koko wa futari no niwa
tsuki dake ga shiru himitsu wa ikegaki no mukou
No one knows of this secret garden of us
only the moonlight can see us through the fence
akai shayou no kage hiraku ibitsu na hanasaku ano niwa
awai koigokoro no you ni hakanaku tokeyuku omoi ga
setsunasa ni furueteru 「futari no hakoniwa」
A garden that changes once it's blanketed in red by the setting sun
these feelings which thaw like a frail heart in love
tremble with sorrow, in this garden of us two
hanakotoba wa ne kimi ni idaku watashi no kimochi
My feelings for you are hidden away in my heart
meguru kisetsu wa irotoridori no yume wo tsumugu
kaketa kureyon de
zutto onaji keshiki egakitai no
The ever changing seasons weave together such colorful dreams
even though the crayon may have broken
wanting to paint the same scenery forever
toge ni doku wo
sotto sotto kitto 「kowakunai yo」
motto zutto 「isshoni itai」
nee sotto motto 「chikaku ni kite」
mou samenai katarai
The poison in those thorns
slowly, slowly yet surely "Don't be afraid"
a bit more, forevermore "Let's be together"
Hey, slowly, a bit more "Come closer"
A lover's vow, to never wake up again
kiyoraka na omoide ga tsumetai aki no kaze ni yureru
itoshii hazu no koe ga tsumi ni somatta tooi tasogare
Such immaculate memories are blown away by the autumnal wind
The voice that I assumed had loved me, now reeks of sin in the distant dusk
kyoukai no kane no ne ga nagusame no you ni utau yoru
The church's bell sings through the night as if consoling me
aoi tsukiakari ga nijimu karen na hanasaku ano niwa
kazumu osanagokoro ima mo kimi wa shoujo no sugata de
itsumademo waratteru 「watashi no hakoniwa」
The fair flowers are covered by the blue moonlight in that garden
This childish heart has been clouded even now by the sight of that girl
I'll always be smiling here, in this garden of mine
Let’s divert to what this series is really about; there’ll be more time for story overviews later.
K-On has been a pretty big influence in my project, even though I’m not sure how I exactly introduced it in the first place. If the Keions were simply characters in the series, then explaining their involvement in the first year would be a breeze, but there’s one thing I did back then that I’ll explain in this.
As I stated in #3, Ritsu Tainaka replaced Amy Pond in Series 1, 2 and 6. Her story as the Doctor’s companion is the same as Amy’s, so there’s no need to go into detail about that. All you need to know in that regard is that the Ritsu I’ll be talking about is the original HTT counterpart and not the Amy counterpart; I’ll explain her later.
Kai Hirasawa: The Adopted Husband
This “adopted husband” business is going to happen for a few other OC’s, so take note of that. Some of them were also known by other names in the past, but for this, they will be addressed by their current names.
This is Kai Hirasawa, the K-On OC I made for the project.
Kai Hirasawa was originally born as the older sibling of Tomoko and Tomoki Kuroki, but his parents put him up for adoption since they didn’t feel ready to bring a child up at the time. He was adopted by a Chinese family and moved to Hong Kong until the age of five. In a plotline inspired from the movie McDull, Kung Fu Kindergarten, his adoptive parents sent him to the Wudang Mountains in Hubei, China after his kindergarten teacher discovered his gift for kung fu.
At the age of twelve, Kai graduated and his parents sent him to Japan to attend middle school and high school. The high school Kai attended was a sister school to Sakuragaoka High, where the HTT girls attended, so he became good friends with them at some point, eventually becoming a couple with Yui.
Some time after he graduated, Kai’s life was merged with the Doctor’s by Yuki Nagato just before the events of The End of Time, because she believed that it would help him in his final battle. When he was separated again following the Doctor’s regeneration, he and Yui (because she had ties with him) became amnesiac for a short period of time. During that time, they got married and it wasn’t until right at the wedding ceremony that the Doctor passes by, during his final reward, and recovers their memories, returning them to their true identities.
From that point on, Kai lived with the Hirasawa family. Like Yui’s parents before them, Kai and Yui became a lovey-dovey couple, perhaps even more than Yui’s parents were. He became a part of the Zhuge family, or rather, one of its founding members, when he met the protagonist and one of his prototypes, Kyōko Izumi, and helped them fight off the Karn Army.
In an alternate timeline, where Yui became famous before she Michael Jackson’d herself ala Takotsuboya’s That Is It, Kai became depressed and committed suicide by gaining the power to open the Time Vortex and throw himself in it. Of course, the Doctor immediately destroys that timeline so it never really happened. This is one of the fanfiction stories I published online years ago.
Character highlights in the series
In the 50th Anniversary Series, I did a little character arc with Nodoka. In Block 6, she would be revealed to be one of the protagonist’s echoes that got created when he scattered himself throughout his own timeline (or a baby made out of dust and clay by the echo, which is what I wrote in the episode). In Block 9, we have her and Azusa saying that Yui doesn’t love them anymore (as friends) because she became so close with Kai. At the final climax, when the Master activates a nuclear device to destroy Koshi Castle, Nodoka prepares to sacrifice herself to deactivate it, but the Fourth and Fifth Doctors along with Momoka stop her from doing so, convincing her and Azusa that they, at the very least, still have other friends. In the end, the Doctor had them talk it out with Yui, Kai and Ui and they got back on good terms, not that they were ever on bad terms in the first place.
In one of the 2014 CNY Specials, the HTT girls are featured in a cameo as they have a naked pool party (it was topless in the version I did, but it might as well be, plus those scenes were removed in the family-friendly version of the episode).
The Keions have never fought as an army because K-On was adapted after the period Three Kingdoms was set in. However, in the Series 9 finale, Kai and the Keions are part of an army fighting on Hiroki’s side against Girl Power and the Kurayami Alliance in Ōsaka.
HTT becomes Boukenger
By 2018, things had changed for the Light Music Club girls. Ho-kago Tea Time and Wakaba Girls joined forces and became an indie music collective called the Light Music Studio (Japanese here, K-On Studio?), but we wouldn’t see that until Soulbound Series 3 the year after.
By that time, the other members of the Light Music Club got boyfriends as well. Banding together under Kai, the group called themselves Home-Away Support Boys Time, but the year after, they joined the Light Music Studio and renamed themselves Midnight Boys. Here are the members of that group:
Kai Hirasawa (leader, Yui’s husband)
Yūto Tamaki (Ritsu’s boyfriend)
Nozomu Setana (Mio’s boyfriend)
Makoto Kunemiya (Tsumugi’s boyfriend)
Satoshi Tainaka (Ritsu’s brother and Azusa’s fuck buddy boyfriend)
Hirosuke Masaki (Ui’s boyfriend)
Yōta Kiyono (Jun’s boyfriend)
As a bonus, here’s a little design of Hirosuke I did for Yui’s birthday spam in 2015.
Fun fact: Back in 2017, I posted a commissioned fanart of Mio with “Nozomu” on the K-On page and triggered a lot of fans, but I only did it because another admin was doing it as well. Also, with the exception of Kai, Satoshi and Hirosuke, the other boyfriends didn’t have last names in Gokaiger until I added them in Soulbound Series 3. Am I homophobic for denying yuri headcanon ships? Maybe, but it’s just how my story goes.
So the K-On girls joined the Superhero Project, gaining the powers of the Boukengers as follows:
Ritsu Tainaka (BoukenRed)
Azusa Nakano (BoukenBlack)
Tsumugi Kotobuki (BoukenBlue)
Ui Hirasawa (BoukenYellow)
Mio Akiyama (BoukenPink)
Jun Suzuki (BoukenSilver)
There were two other members of the Boukengers who got promoted and joined the Gokaigers by the start of the series:
Yui Hirasawa (GokaiYellow, formerly BoukenYellow)
Yui was selected to be a Gokaiger in the series prelude because of her swordsmanship and her determination to overcome her airheadedness.
Kai Hirasawa (GokaiSilver, formerly BoukenSilver)
When Yui became a Gokaiger, Kai was determined to be with her for fear of her dying like she did in That is It. In the first episode, he picks up the Gokai Cellular and GokaiSilver key that the Doctor (GokaiRed) dropped in a battle. He then abandons his role as BoukenSilver and disappears as he fights as GokaiSilver in secret. After revealing himself and explaining to everyone what happened, the Doctor takes back Kai’s morpher and key, asking him to think of what he can do to impress them. Soon after, he finds his courage to protect the world from the Zangyack Armada, which leads to the Doctor giving Kai back his morpher and key, as well as giving him the Q-Rex Megazord.
How Ritsu became “Amy”
This was a question that was buried in the back of my head for years until I finally decided to answer it in the Space Squad trilogy. Truth be told, I probably would have forgotten otherwise.
In the third Space Squad movie, Rassilon, who made his way to the 21st century after his exile from Gallifrey in Hell Bent, lured the Doctor to Trenzalore (which in my canon is just an area on Earth) in the Makū Dimension and used the TARDIS to power up an Axis Converter, which kills it and causes the dimension to expand throughout the universe. Rassilon fast-forwards time around him and the Doctor so that it becomes the Trenzalore as seen in The Name of the Doctor (this implies that said episode and the Block 6 adaptation took place in the Makū Dimension).
The Doctor goes to his size-leaking TARDIS and merges himself with the exposed heart of the TARDIS, causing the column to become an entrance to the Doctor’s timestream. As he uses his regenerative energy to repair his TARDIS and his timestream, the events of The Name of the Doctor (and its adaptation) take place, meaning that the Doctor can’t get out for the time being, even though he knows that being inside of the heart for too long is no better than looking into the Time Vortex. Clara Oswald fixes the damage to the Doctor’s timeline caused by the Great Intelligence (and Hiroki’s past self does the same to his as well), but there is still some damage left, specifically towards the beginning of the Fifth Doctor’s life.
Meanwhile, Ritsu and the Boukengers encounter Ritsu’s older self in 1968 New York (after the Weeping Angels sent her back in The Angels Take Manhattan). 1968 Ritsu tells 2018 Ritsu what happened, which leads her to go into the Doctor’s timeline when everyone regroups at the TARDIS. She sends an echo of herself to fix the remaining damage, creating the Ritsu Tainaka who became the first companion to travel with the Fifth Doctor following his regeneration. With his timeline now fixed, the Doctor repairs his TARDIS, allowing everyone to leave the Makū Dimension. Of course, the Doctor and Ritsu survive as well.
In a special feature included with the final episode of Doctor Who, the 2018 Christmas Special, HTT perform three songs at the UNIT Christmas Formal, namely Fuwa Fuwa Time, Pure Pure Heart and Tenshi ni Fureta yo! Kai and Azusa join in with the last song as well. You can argue that it would have been a good ending song for the series, but I felt that it was originally more a song for Azusa compared to Anna Tsuchiya’s Voyagers, which I used as the ending song because it signified farewells in general.