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100 line truth end

ok not the truth END but at least the common route to get to it.

if theyre lab babies with fake memories, then why is eito buff. why was yugamu experimented on and literally can extend his arm. well ok i guess that could have happened actually and then they planted memories in him to explain it.

idk that much abt yugamu, i havent done any routes where he's a main character.

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100 line, end 47

when takumi trusts [redacted] as soon as [redacted] i was like 'baby boy nooooooo. its an act......' and sure enough, i was right.

takumi.... i dont think you really hate [redacted]..... you were just hurt......

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100 line

i thought i was going on a hiruko route but somehow it turned into some kind of harem/galgame

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hype for the touch detective rerelease next month on switch…

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definitely the embodiment of autism

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A man in his thirties and his favorite job is beating kids

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doujin/early album sound horizon songs are like A <<Life and Death Device>> That Cycles Through <<Fantasies>> (read as horizons)… [thanatos leitmotif followed by morse code in reverse that you can only decipher if you enter your social security number into the official website]

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the new AC album is not really my cup of tea.... genre wise.

but im glad its something other than herbarium.....

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but then where is the real me?

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【NYLON JAPAN】 Dramatica ACT 4 Interview

Original Article

translation by phantombanquet

What day is it today? It's the opening day of the stage play!

From left to right: Ikkei Yamamoto (Hokuto Hidaka), Taiki Yamazaki (Shu Itsuku), & Kazuma Yasui (Wataru Hibiki)

Today is the opening day of Theatrical Company Dramatica ACT 4 / “Witch and Gingerbread House”!

Once the curtain rises, an enchanted world of fairy tale and mystery awaits.

Taiki Yamazaki, Ikkei Yamamoto, and Kazuma Yasui pose in outfits inspired by the idols they play.

Take a look at the elements that are reminiscent of Shu, Hokuto, and Wataru!

From left to right: Ikkei Yamamoto (Hokuto Hidaka), Taiki Yamazaki (Shu Itsuku), & Kazuma Yasui (Wataru Hibiki)

QUESTION: Today is finally the opening day of Theatrical Company Dramatica ACT 4 / “Witch and Gingerbread House”! This work is a unique 2.5 dimensional stage project in which the idol characters based on the popular app game ‘Ensemble Stars!!’ act as actors in an original story separate from the game's story. Please tell us the things that you keep in mind on stage when playing a role in the theatrical company ‘Dramatica’.

Yamamoto: As for the theatrical company ‘Dramatica’, I am conscious about the process of creating the stage and amount of time needed to interpret the role as a character since I think these are very important. For example, I played the role of Goku in Dramatica ACT 1 / “Journey to the West- The Eternal Legend,” but rather than deliberately expressing “Hokuto playing as Goku,” I think asked myself, “If I were Hokuto, how could I put a lot of effort and stress in playing as Goku?” and I think it is important to worry together with them during rehearsals. I felt for the first time that when the character and I—as the actor—are in harmony with each other, the two roles in my mind become one. And I think it would be great if that aspect becomes the charm of the theatrical company ‘Dramatica’.

Yamazaki: When I asked to play in ACT 1, someone pointed out that I was acting too similar to Shu Itsuki. It's always a difficult thing to figure out the amount of seasoning to use. This time in “Witch and Gingerbread House,” I also still want to retain the character of Shu Itsuki in some parts of my performance.

Yasui: It is really difficult to play the role as Wataru-san. Since his character is an acting genius, I can never fail. During ACT 1, I honestly felt like throwing up because there was so much pressure (Laughs). But after finishing ACT 1, I think that pressure has changed for the better. I realized that if I think too much, I would get stuck. It's hard to express it well, but I believe I am more conscious of how much I can match with Wataru-san's mindset when he does theater performances.

QUESTION: All of you appeared in ACT 1 and ACT 2, what can we expect to see more of this time around?

Yasui: Although I play the same ‘Wataru Hibiki,’ the character I play changes drastically depending on the performance, which is always very refreshing. Of course, this time, ACT 4 also has a different role to play! Moreover, there will be interactions with idols who have not appeared before, so I hope you look forward to seeing how this will cause a chemical reaction to spread. I am sure that something new will happen that wasn't present in ACT 1 or ACT 2.

Yamazaki: During ACT 1, I started out feeling rather clueless about how to do it. But once it begun, I felt a great amount of strength to stand alongside with my colleagues. It is a memorable work in which we put in a lot of effort to establish one new genre. This time, since I also performed in the previous two productions, I am much more familiar with various aspects, so I hope to create it a work that will make people think, “This is Dramatica!”

QUESTION: In addition to appearing in Theatrical Company Dramatica ACT 4 / “Witch and Gingerbread House,” Yamamoto-san will also be in charge of directing the play. Please tell us your expectations in terms of the stage production.

Yamamoto: The most important thing is for the audience to enjoy the show, and I hope that my direction will help them immerse themselves in the performance. I would like for the audience to finish watching the play without leaving the world of “Witch and Gingerbread House” until the curtain rises and falls. Hence, there are various production devices, such as stage sets moving along with the scene and the changing of the lights, but I believe that it is ideal for the audience to enjoy this real-time changes than stress ahout them. The appeal of theater performances is that it allows you to enjoy the phenomenon happening in front of your eyes as a form of entertainment. Without that, it wouldn't be any different from watching a drama or a movie. I hope I can direct in a way that will make the audience feel the fun and greatness of theater as a ‘real’ thing.

QUESTION: Lastly, please tell us the appeal of Theatrical Company Dramatica ACT 4 / “Witch and Gingerbread House.”

Yamazaki: In this case, the visuals are full of Shu's worldview, and are quite dense and extremely detailed. I will be performing with Mika Kagehira (played by Hiroki Ino) from the same unit for the first time in a while. In addition to Mika, there will be idols other than members of Dramatica who have not met in the previous stage plays, so I hope that you look forward to seeing how they will interact with each other!

Taiki Yamazaki

X (formerly Twitter): @TTTTTTAIKKI103

Born on October 3, 1995 in Shizuoka Prefecture. He won the Judges’ Special Prize at the 23rd JUNON SUPERBOY CONTEST. He began his acting career in 2011, and in 2017, he appeared in Uchū Sentai Kyuranger Hebitsukai Silver/Naga Ray. Currently, he has been active on several stages including “Ensemble Stars! THE STAGE” series as Shu Itsuki, Musical “Thrill Me” as Him, “Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street” as Anthony, and numerous other roles. In addition to acting, he has a wide range of activities, including music where he performs under the name Nemurinitsukumade Tsukiatte. The Theatrical Company Dramatica ACT 4 / “Witch and Gingerbread House,” in which he plays the role of Dicy¹ (played by Shu Itsuki) will be performed from August 23rd (Friday) to September 3rd (Sunday) at Shinagawa Prince Hotel Stella Ball in Tokyo.

Ikkei Yamamoto

X (formerly Twitter): @IKKEI_YAMAMOTO

Born on June 1, 1989 in Tokyo Prefecture. He is active in 2.5 dimensional stage plays of various well-known works such as “Ensemble Stars! THE STAGE” series as Hokuto Hidaka, “The Vampire Dies in No Time” as Draluc, Musical “Moriarty the Patriot” as Louis James Moriarty, “ROCK MUSICAL BLEACH ～Arrancar the Beginning～” as Byakuya Kuchiki, and others. In recent years, apart from acting, he has also expanded his range of activities, including directing. The Theatrical Company Dramatica ACT 4 / “Witch and Gingerbread House,” in which he plays the role of Arc¹ (played by Hokuto Hidaka) will be performed from August 23rd (Friday) to September 3rd (Sunday) at Shinagawa Prince Hotel Stella Ball in Tokyo.

Kazuma Yasui

X (formerly Twitter): @XOXO_KID616

Born on February 12th from Aichi Prefecture. He has appeared on several popular 2.5 dimensional stage plays such as “Ensemble Stars! THE STAGE” series as Wataru Hibiki, “Tokyo Color Sonic!! the Stage” as Kairi Kurahashi, and others, as well as in the Off-Broadway Musical “bare” starring as Jason. He also performs music under the name ‘Yasui Kazuma.’ The Theatrical Company Dramatica ACT 4 / “Witch and Gingerbread House,” in which he plays the role of Patty¹ (played by Wataru Hibiki) will be performed from August 23rd (Friday) to September 3rd (Sunday) at Shinagawa Prince Hotel Stella Ball in Tokyo.

TAIKI:

Shirt ¥44,000, pants ¥44,000 (both GALAABEND / SARDIVISION PR), belt ¥7,150 (Wrangler / Edouin Customer Service), ring ¥63,800 (GARNI / Garni Tokyo), boots ¥45,100 (YOAK / Hemto PR)

IKKEI:

Shirt ¥89,650, tank top ¥80,300 (both SHEK LEUNG / INNOMENT), shirt around waist ¥60,500 (FACETASM / FACETASM AOYAMA), pants ¥39,600 (SHINYAKOZUKA), ear cuffs ¥10,890 (JUSTINECLENQUET / The Wall Showroom), tie ¥15,800 (Queen & Jack / Esteem Press), shoes ¥36,300 (Timberland / VF Japan)

KAZUMA:

Shirt ¥48,400 (RequaLL / Esteem Press), skirt ¥38,500 (GALAABEND / SARDIVISION PR), pants ¥22,500 (COS / COS Aoyama Store), glasses ¥36,300 (GENTLE MONSTER / M), necklace ¥28,000 (Marland Backus / Marland), ring ¥55,000, heart ring ¥30,800 (both from LAMBDA), shoes ¥46,200 (MIKAGE SHIN / Sakas PR), socks: stylist's personal items

MODEL: TAIKI YAMAZAKI (IMAGENE) @RRRRRLIGHT103, IKKEI YAMAMOTO (ARTIST JAPAN) @YAMAMOTO_IKKEI, KAZUMA YASUI (KETEL) ＠NATSUNOYASUI

PHOTOGRAPHER: NAOTO KAWATAKE ＠NAOTOKAWATAKE

STYLING: SHO FURUKAWA @SHOFURUKAWA_

HAIR: HIROKI KITADA ＠HIROKI_KITADA

MAKEUP: HINATA SAKURAGI ＠H__PPPPP

EDIT: SARA OMORI, AIRI ASAHI

TEXT: AIRI ASAHI, AYU TSUCHIYA

DIRECTION: YURIKA NAGAI

WEB DESIGN: NAO WATANABE, ANJU OKAWA

translator's note:

¹ - There are no official released English localization for the names of the characters in ACT 4, so I've decided to translate them literally instead. This will change once an English localization of their names is released.

additionally, this isn't fully proofread (English & Japanese because both are not my native languages) since i just translated this by myself. if there are any errors, please feel free to correct me through dms 🙇🏼

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High Res - Official DGM Card Scans. Lavi and Allen

You may use these scans, but if you edit and you don’t credit Hoshino I will shit in your Christmas stocking. I went through the trouble to edit them to look as best they could, at least give Hoshino due respect.  You don’t have rights to edits if you don’t credit. 

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what revo did for 'watashi ga hontou ni hoshikatta mono'.... heh

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I listened to Yumeoi Kakeru's 1st story album "Ongaku ga Kieta Machi"... certainly I hear the Shoujo Byou influence (and Sound Horizon).

It has a more modern setting than I expected (music player, earphones in tr02, live streaming in tr03)... well I guess I can overlook it, but the first track has this fantasy vibe, especially with the character Amadeus having wings...?

01 Seihitsunaru Distopia

Introduces the setting of a city where art has been banned... The character Amadeus seems to want to bring back art, it's his form of love... Art which involves death is the most memorable... So he's like "Can music kill people?" Um.... Okay not gonna lie, he's totally my type but my dude. What part of that makes sense. Why kill people... This is the ultimate Shoujo Byou-ism (well, chuunibyou-ism)

02 Sora ni Egaita Koufukuron

The girl, Aria, runs away from home and decides to look for where she belongs... Since music is so important to her, but her family and country took it away from her. She receives a mysterious letter with music that should have been banned, and she makes up her mind.......... to find her place in the sky.....

It's a pretty easy song to understand.

03 Attention Note

A rather modern sounding song. The Vocaloid? influence is pretty obvious here. (Idk about you, but many Vocaloid songs have this kind of Vibe. and many modern J-pop songs too.)

Casanova isn't really that invested in music, but more like... um attention seeking? A kind of revenge for how he was treated in the past. He's basically an underground idol. If that's what you call it? One day, his new announcer guy (totally Amadeus in disguise), gets him a really killer song. The girls are like "wow that totes stabbed me right in the feels" and then boom, "Can we stab you too?". (still dont know how to phrase this to make it sound more natural in english yet keep the play on words)

04 Saitei Saibanshou

One day, Fenimi (?) hears some song over the school's PA system and suddenly realizes all the heinous going-ons of her school (bullying, harassment, that stuff). So she takes it upon herself to judge them... Later, she sees a evidence of herself of a crime (a picture of her with scissors in her bag) and realizes she was also guilty... And receives her punishment.

The other two had to do with art, but I'm not sure what this one does. I guess just the fact that she heard Amadeus' song?

05 Aa Subarashiki Ongaku

There's no music video for this song onwards. Yet? I think?

It begins with a reprise of Tr02... Because it's about Aria's brother, Joshua. I believe he's trying to find out who responsible for Aria's death... Also, it has the Roman (SH) riff in here?

Well, he does find Amadeus. Amadeus' music can manipulate people's evil thoughts... Joshua learns more about Aria's feelings, how she wanted to find where she belonged. So he feels sucky. But idk what happens to him. I don't feel like Amadeus will let him off the hook just like that??????

06 Paradox Asymmetry

This really reminds me of Moon Symphony's Overdose Nightmare. Well this kid's name is Loony. The beginning sounds make it sound like they're in a hospital. They're in a time paradox? Time loop? There's some kind of unstoppable instinct that drives this loop of killing themself. But in a dream?

07 Ushinawareshi Saishuu Gakushuu

Ciel (Lize Helesta)'s singing and way of talking is very reminiscent of Shoujo Byou. Somehow.

I think she descends some stairs, something about her teacher... She finds Amadeus and she knows he's the one responsible for all the deaths, and she must hate him. He taunts her into killing him, to make his music's grand finale but she refuses to continue the cycle of hate.

It's a completely Marchen ending.

08 Andante

An ending song. I was surprised such a gruesome tale was being recounted to a child... I thought the storyteller was just telling this story in general. not to a little kid.

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Overall, it's a modern spin on Shoujo Byou's brand of chuunibyou. I think there are some world building things that could be improved (the modern / fantasy thing). It was enjoyable though. Not the height of story music, but it works just fine.

My favourite songs are tr01 and tr07. They are also the most Shoujo Byou-like in my opinion. Sorry for constantly comparing them. They definitely sound different enough to be original. It's not like how some people compare Giten Seksalice to Sound Horizon, I swear. I say it in a positive way.

....Also there is a considerable story telling portion in the MV. Which is fine, but does make it hard to interpret the songs in the second half, whose MVs are not up yet.

It would be good to have a physical release. I think. Yumeoi seems like he would do something interesting with it. Because of the Sound Horizon influence.

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OH..... so past lavi Does have white hair...... i see

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dgm 252 (spoilers obviously) (extremely disjointed thoughts)

ok so i understand that it seems the "role" of recording the holy war has the name "lavi", which is why the past bookman junior and now the present junior have the same name.

but seeing as how past!allen was de-aged by apocryphos' attack, then lavi hugged/shielded him during that blow, I guess they were both de-aged and lost their memories???? ok at the beginning of the chapter, allen looks to be the same age-ish as the current one so like 15-18 idk how old he is rn. and then later he's noticeably older, so sure let's say 40. then allen deaged to maybe idk 5 y/o. and then the series starts and he's 15 again.... that makes 35 years i guess. or what if they blimped out of time for a bit and then the spiral spit them back out??? the noahs already have some kind of parallel universe? time travel? I really dont remember? whatever thing going on

past!lavi has droopy eyes...... I feel like this is a very noticeable trait that present!lavi has. and like. with past!allen you can very clearly tell it's allen, only with his original hair colour. his face is very allen, ignoring his hair. I feel like past!lavi and present!lavi are the same person????????/

past!junior disappeared, so I think this is why there is no body??????

though ngl he really looks like cross in the last panel. idk.

.......wait who has a picture of present allen and lavi standing next to each other. i feel like the height difference between allen and cross is bigger. i really dont think the past!lavi is cross, in my heart. if im wrong, im wrong.

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...also it's hilarious that allen and neah only spoke once. wtf?

past!lavi offered to be neah's host but at that time it was already "too late"... but neah really looked like he was hurting a lot at that time so like what? is it because of his "contract" with past!allen that even if he died at that point, he was transferred to allen's body no matter how far they were. not that it really matters that much i guess...?

lavi considers neah his friend, but doesn't call him that because probably neah would tease him for it... i think? on the other hand, neah considers allen his friend but they only talked once? allen knows nothing about neah? what was allen's wish? to live? to end war?

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......i still don't understand why apocryphos is personally obsessed with allen. he targets past!allen because he's the 14th's host, tries to kill him, notably fails. and now (present day) he's raving on about him being an angel. is it because the innocence that he tried to use to kill him actually accepted him instead?????

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i was shopping during my trip to Tokyo and the sales lady was like "oh your Japanese is pretty good, is it because of anime?" (gestures at my hiver charm) (nihongo jouzu'd)

me: yeah haha

her: oh what's your favourite anime?

me: I don't really have one... I have a favourite band, Sound Horizon, though and this charm is from that

her: oh I didn't know they had characters! I don't know Sound Horizon, but I heard about it from Shingeki no Kyojin?

I think it's expected, but it's nice to know Sound Horizon still has some kind of "presence" because of Linked Horizon's popularity

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dgm 251

i was a little ? over lucia's cryptic talking about how soft grey looks auburn in the light, but thinking about it a bit....

well i guess the past bookman jr had grey hair (sus)

the deliberate misdirection hoshino had going to make readers (me) think the bottle-glasses long haired man was past!allen and thus would have auburn hair. but it would be grey (see point 1)

....Though honestly i think something happened that fused past!allen and the previous bookman in some way. something about how bookman sr reacted to allen the first time they met but i dont feel like rereading that

Anyways i did think that the glasses wearing long haired man was bookman jr so at least i was right about that part