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Poppin’Party - Returns (Lyrics Translation)

Being separated from the place we began, We noticed the true form of our dreams Looking up at the clear skies high above, There’s a place we can always return to…

The further we drift apart The more we hold it dearly During times like these all I wish for Is to meet the you who’s facing forward singing

No matter how dazzling the sky is, (starry sky) There’s only one star we’re grasping onto Thus, there’s no need to feel lost now (Without being lost) I want to reach towards that “future” with you all…

The song that shakes my heart Returns (towards tomorrow) Sing it once more, let it resonate once more With just your true feelings (towards tomorrow) Eternity mixes together with the future

A future that may yet come to pass, A past that may have already been lost To my own reflection within the mirror, “Just who are you?” I tried asking it

Searching through the wave of people I jumped out barefoot I don’t want to lie to myself So please, let me see the continuation of this dream

No matter how eternal the sky is (forever sky) There’s only one place we arrive at While lost within the endless maze (endless story) I picked up the pieces of our important “past”

The song that wanders through time Returns (once more) Our memories cross paths with that dream With just your true feelings (once more) Our fate mixes together with miracles

On the other side of the final door You smiled at me Why is it my heart trembles so? At the very least, let me cry until my tears dry

While battered by the cold rain (forever rain) There’s only one dream keeping us warm No matter what happens ahead of us (I never change) We’ll continue to feel the “now” of this dream

The song that shakes my heart Returns (never again) We won’t part again, I won’t let you go again Even if we’re lost, no matter how many times (this dream) This song, this place, I want to return to it

Thank you… The song that shakes my heart Returns

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Hina: Hey, Maya! Drums!

Maya: *eyes light up*

Hina: Eyeliner!

Maya: *eyes dim*

Hina: Amplifiers!

Maya: *eyes light up*

Hina: Blush!

Maya: *eyes dim*

Hina: Pedals!

Maya: *eyes light up*

Chisato: Please stop before I hit you both

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Tae, grabbing Hagumi's wrist: Hagumi!

Hagumi: Otae...?

Tae: I'm glad I caught you before you left. I have something really important to tell you

Hagumi: Yeah?

Arisa & Misaki: ?

Tae: See you tomorrow, Hagumi

Hagumi: Yeah, see you tomorrow!

Tae: Okay, thanks for waiting, Arisa, we can go now

Arisa & Misaki: ????

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Hina: Hey, Maya! Drums!

Maya: *eyes light up*

Hina: Eyeliner!

Maya: *eyes dim*

Hina: Amplifiers!

Maya: *eyes light up*

Hina: Blush!

Maya: *eyes dim*

Hina: Pedals!

Maya: *eyes light up*

Chisato: Please stop before I hit you both

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Chosen Children in Digimon Adventure Last Evolution.

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Lygerastia / NagiAka

Nagisa is not one to explicitly show his affection.

The only indication to others that they are dating is only their intertwined fingers when they’re together. He never gives her kisses nor hugs her outside his or her house. While her rising popularity does contribute to their level of public display affection, Nagisa is inherently like that. In public, he shows his love in much more subtle way, like offering her a hand when she gets off from a higher place, squeezing her hand lightly right before they go their own ways, and tucking her stray hair when she’s eating. He’s always been ‘less talk, more action’ kind of man. And she loves him dearly because of that.

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Today’s Bandori praise: ignoring and subverting stereotypes!

Just off the top of my head…

Lisa calls herself a gyaru, but whereas in most shows that’s played up to a grotesque degree, Lisa’s just … a normal person. One of the most down-to-earth and kind, at that.

Kaoru is supposedly a charming ladykiller, but in reality almost no one is actually falling for her (sorry, Rimi). Her interactions with Chisato show that she knows she’s just putting on an act to cover up her actual feelings.

Maya is an awkward AV nerd, but she still gets to be an idol — and no one expects her to change her personality to better fit that image; she’s accepted as she is. (Except sometimes by Chisato, but Chisato’s my least favorite for a reason.)

Sayo starting out as a cold, uncaring perfectionist, but having slow, lasting character development until she isn’t that way.

Anime loves to use breast size as a symbol of a character’s lasciviousness, but here two of the largest-chested are Rinko and Arisa, the two most introverted and shy.

Speaking of body types, Himari is a little bit fat. Not much, but how many other anime/etc. have any weight variance among characters, especially women? Certainly a nice change of pace compared to all the shows that have someone going “Oh no I need to lose weight!!” while looking exactly as rail-thin as everyone else. (Best ever subversion of that trope goes to YuruYuri s2e7, for explicitly calling out the harm it does.)

And of course, Kasumi coming across as a hyper-genki girl, but her songs are full of loneliness and tears. And on the other side there’s Arisa who is both a recluse and can’t stand to be alone. It’s why I think they make such a great couple (in both the shipping sense and just meaning well-written).

I don’t know how many of these were intentional choices, but at worst it means they weren’t even thinking about these tropes, which is more than most anime/related media can say.

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Below is an english translation of the first part of the 3☆ Hagumi card story from the ‘A Fleeting Night’s Dream’ event! Enjoy!

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Hakata Tonkotsu Ramens

Friend: so, there’s this series about a found family of hitmen who adopt a child. Also one of the MC’s is a survivor of human trafficking who crossdresses for his hobby.

Me:

Anyways. I really loved this bizarre series. I never thought I’d even care about characters who torture and kill for their job without remorse and yet. The cast was really, for the most part, fantastic. Every character is someone the majority of society would consider technically a bad person–murderers for hire, torturers, hackers, etc. But when we delve deeper, we see their humanity despite their crimes. Martinez is a torturer, but he has standards, oddly enough. Jiro works with Martinez, basically raises Misaki, a five-year-old girl, with love, and lets her adopt a cat. Despite Enokida seeming like a stereotypical emotionless cool hacker, he’s actually quite complex. Each one of them is a victim to in some sense, and even if they aren’t exactly, say, directly fighting back against the abuse they endured, they’re still fighting through finding some kind of family and humanity against through each other.

It’s a very fine line to walk thematically, and HTR does it beautifully. The framing allows you to rejoice with these characters who have suffered a lot and caused a lot of suffering too as they find happiness and belonging with each other. It doesn’t try to excuse them for their crimes, and the characters are mostly self-aware that they are doing horrible things and own up to it, but they just want to find some hope even in the middle of it. And it somehow pulls it off as a touching and exciting series, with a ton of action and intriguing plot developments and one genuine twist I did not see coming.

Lin was the standout character for me (shocking no one; he’s the one I mentioned above) in his complexity and arc. The series doesn’t excuse him (or any characters, because the framing is really on point), but it also shows you his humanity and makes you root for him. He’s a disaster child in a lot of ways, traumatized out of normal development and struggling to find out how/if he can fit into the world without his mother and sister, a world that’s only been cruel to him, and when he doesn’t really conform to gender norms (but considers himself a guy ftr). But he still craves connection and yet paradoxically is desperately afraid of it, afraid of getting hurt again, and yet his motivation has always been people he cares for.  His slowly learning to trust Banba and the rest of the Ramens was beautiful, and Banba/Lin is an OTP.

like tell me that’s not romantic framing right there 

I would have loved for their relationship to move out of subtext (because it is definitely intentionally subtextual) and into the actual text, but the fact that it stayed subtextual still didn’t feel entiiirely like baiting to me, because the emotional payoffs were still there and neither of them were then randomly shoved with someone else. But we’ll see what the light novels do with it, and if there’s another season. 

Which brings me to the one character I thought was perhaps the weakest: Saitou. He’s our everyman character, our introduction to this strange world, and he’s often played for comic relief. I enjoyed most of his comedy, but at times it felt a bit tired because he doesn’t particularly offer much in terms of growth for the other characters–at least not yet. I think there’s potential there.

What’s interesting to me is that a lot of the characters would be outcasts even if they weren’t the criminals they are. Lin is a crossdresser and heavily impacted by his childhood trauma. Jiro is an okama. Martinez is not Japanese. Misaki was horribly abused as well. Yet Banba and Saitou are both fairly normal for society, but they’ve made choices to step into a different world for different reasons. Enokida was tossed out of society for his criminal activities. And yet the audience, via Saitou, learns that they are kind of just like any other people despite their crimes, capable of love and growth and loyalty.

Anyways. I highly recommend this quirky anime. It’s got the compelling characters, the unique premise, and the themes. And this was me for a lot fo it (for the record, if something emotionally moves me at all, I cry. It’s not a tragedy).

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i just had the funniest experience in vr chat, i joined a random server and the one i joined had Japanese people so i waddled around in my goofy club penguin avatar that i have saved, after a while a guy walks up to me and clones my avatar so were both penguins then another guy shows up and clone my avatar

now keep in mind there only speaking Japanese i don’t know what they are saying, then another guy joins in, so i got a group of three penguin friends

we just waddle around and goof about, the one of them tries to talk to me, but not only do i not have a mic i also don’t speak Japanese, they figure out i don’t speak Japanese and start listing various places, they get the part of being European right, and after listing a lot of places they ask if im from the UK and when i nod they all just start cheering. after hanging out for a while one of them gets real close to me and whispers…

“penguin brothers forever”

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Learning to deal with your sister in-law pt. 1 of infinite

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twitter arts with pasupa members to bless your day ♡.

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Positive afterglow wall papers, 2019 is gonna be a good year for us all

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I can’t believe Kokoro went from “Who are you again” to Misaki to this, I’m crying in the club y’all.

THIS IS THE CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT I WANT BIH

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EVERYONE PLEASE LOOK AT THIS CUTE LITTLE RINKO TO HAVE A BLESSED NEW YEAR

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Kokoro: Misaki, Misaki!

Kokoro: Will Michelle come to rehearsal today?

Misaki: Sorry, she has to study for bear exams

Kokoro: Kokoro~n