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A fujoshi never forgets

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Amy is such a cutie

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To Feel Many Other Ways

nerves and pain and telephone poles and being naked

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the way queerness exists so casually in wayama’s works makes me so happy

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he accepted it so quickly lmfao

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gay 🫵🏻

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Since karaoke iko is airing, here's an interview wayama yama did back in 2021

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i should be an advisor on anime translations i think

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🌸 Blushing vs Crying Satomi 🌸

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Well, I figured if I'm gonna get one anyway, I'd rather it be a word than a picture. Then again, I don't particularly like any words.

(Let's go karaoke!, ep. 4)

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The official Twitter account has confirmed that the 5th ep of the "Let's Go Karaoke!" anime will air after the "Captivated, by You" adaption finishes its own run of 5 eps at the end of September, and will be an original story (that wasn't in the manga) about what happens following the karaoke contest...

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I'm just not over how the anime crew made the end of カラオケ行こ | Let's Go Karaoke! even gayer than the manga, despite being a largely faithful adaptation. Admittedly I haven't seen the live-action adaptation, and I think at least some stuff came from that (at least in one of the earlier episodes), but goodness, the anime crew blew it out of the park.

Like Satomi reaching desperately for Kyouji while singing??? That wasn't in the manga. That yearning.

A lot of stuff was just panel for panel adaptation with expansion between dialogue, but this part wasn't (at least not exactly): after Satomi flicks Kyouji's arm away, Kyouji keeps his hand on Satomi's back.

(I mean his arm kinds of sits there in the one manga panel where Satomi is talking, but I appreciate the anime crew just left his arm there)

And then this shot, where the Yakuza are all laughing.

In the manga, Kyouji does pat Satomi on the shoulder/hold his shoulder at least briefly, but when Satomi is thinking about it, he's not in the panel, it's just a shot of Kyouji's smiling face in front of the crowd of Yakuza (which is after this in the anime). Kyouji isn't shown to leave his arm there. But the anime did it. Bless. Poor Satomi and the confusion of puberty alkdjlaj

And just the way the anime shows the slowness of how Kyouji sets his arm on the back of the airport bench around Satomi. The focus on minute movements and the soft fondness in Kyouji's gaze.

I've heard there's some issue with parts of the official English translation, so I'm not sure if what's in the manga is another mistranslation or maybe something odd with the English subs on Crunchyroll, but I find it interesting that while in the English translation of the manga, Kyouji says, "I figured it wasn't fair for you to have some old geezer hanging around while you're trying to enjoy your youth..." In the anime English subtitles, he says, "I just figured it'd be a damn shame if some old fart messed up your youth any more than he already did." Obviously there's kind of some dubiousness about how self-aware Kyouji is about the effect he has on Satomi and what his goals are (though personally I think he's entirely "innocent" in the sense that he's just a Yakuza with bent morals anyway, but also he probably sees it more as a mentorship relationship than anything else, in a similar way to how his boss helped him when he was struggling), and obviously in the sequel he's a lot more aware, at least eventually, of Satomi's feelings and how their relationship might seem, but at least in the subtitles, he seems a bit more self-aware that maybe it's for the best if he took a step back, at least while Satomi is in middle school (though it also might have been he was worried that Satomi would endanger himself more while he was too young, given he just ran into a dangerous neighborhood, twice, looking for Kyouji). He might be aware that Satomi has a crush on him, even back then (which is pretty normal for horny teenagers) but I don't think Kyouji ever intended to do anything with it. Even in the airport, I think he just genuinely likes Satomi as a person, not from a romantic or physical sense. He's like a cat playing with a toy. Obviously, though, Satomi hasn't let his feelings go.

This close-up shot and the angle is killing me. Poor confused Satomi.

I also really love the frequent shot changes to show them sitting together. The manga made Satomi look a lot smaller than he is, I guess, but the anime actually makes them seem more of a height with each other (at least while sitting, though obviously Kyouji is still a bit taller).

The slowness of this shot and his eyelids lowering and he's clearly like, "Hmm, do I explain to this confused young person or just keep teasing him like the shit I am." Yeah, your name, Satomi. That's the only thing he likes. Definitely not you, the person.

The way they showed Kyouji put his arm back around Satomi earlier kills me. Poor Satomi, getting teased so much. Also I'm so confused about the subtitle choice. So far as I can tell, Kyouji is saying, "Look at you, big brother!" (He says "brother" in Japanese, at least). But the subs say, "Look at you, big boy!" alkdjalda I'm not sure if that's what he's saying actually translates to???

The way the anime has him lean in closer and his Japanese VA modulates his voice to be softer just ends me alkdjlaj Poor Satomi.

This close-up and the little one eye towards Satomi open just adlkajlaj Amazing.

And this close-up on Satomi's blush, while he's still got Kyouji's arm there. Just... ah. Poor guy. Harassed by this terrible Yakuza.

This shot ended me.

Kyouji's Japanese VA says like "mmmn" or something before moving on to the next line of dialogue, on top of this framing and gazing at Satomi just... The soft fondness again. Satomi being like -nervous college student bothered by this ridiculous older guy- Just dead. Dead.

Maybe that's why they did this funny framing for the last shot, which in the manga, has no background.

Yes, I know what an airport terminal is. But the way you have "Terminal" with the arrow pointing at Satomi (and Kyouji) is just alkjdlaj He's defeated by this terrible man.

Such a great adaptation. I have no idea what they're planning to do with the last episode. It's not enough for all of the sequel, which is ongoing anyway, though I'd love this team to adapt the sequel, too. Obviously next week will start the adaptation of Captivated, by You, but the final episode is meant to be another episode of Let's Go Karaoke. I assumed they'd do Kyouji's backstory in the last episode, since it was the end of the graphic novel, but obviously that's not happening now (and clearly it wasn't enough to fill a whole episode, so I see why they didn't). Apparently folks are saying it's something entirely new and not in the manga? That should be fun. Looking forward to what they do with Captivated, by You.

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videogames from the good future

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I wonder where Kyouji is and what he's doing now.

(Let's go karaoke!, ep. 4)

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Lemres and Schezo from puyo puyo tetris, commission for @rainbow-elixir! Thank you :D