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The ‘SESSION LIVE Ai wo Sasageyo ~the Secret Shangri-la~ ’ event has been announced. The event will begin on the 17th of November at 12:00 JST.

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Previews of the ‘Outlaws of the Sea’ Yamato UR and Van SR have been revealed. They will be available beginning on the 16th of November at 12:00 JST.

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I was looking at when all the Animate lottery stuff is due (should I actually win an A prize) and was like "Oh good! The application period ends after the next CD releases! So I can ship in pairs and save money!" BUT NO. Because shipping with the proxy in question will take like a week (like it did with the Solo Best CDs). And that'll be too late!!!

So I'll have to ship individually.....6 different CDs.....On the off chance I win.....That's so expensive....

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More Quartet Night CDs for the TABOO NIGHT XXXX movie have been announced!

Starting on Wednesday, February 5, 2025, solo CDs, duet CDs, and medley CDs of the four members will be released every other week for three consecutive months! You can find the list of CDs, songs, and all details at the website here!

They release in standard order, Reiji through Camus. Then the duet CD with a Reiji and Ranmaru duet, and Ai and Camus duet. Just like SAMURAIZM and UUUU, there is a special edition for each pair but the tracks are the same. The final CD is new medley songs. This contains 1 more Quartet Night song, and then 1 more song per boy with the other 3 as backup vocal/chorus.

All of the solo CDs come with 1 drama track, and the duet and medley CDs have multiple drama tracks.

Ordering each CD through Animate JP or Broccoli before January 26th will get you a special clear card for that CD. Ordering all 6 CDs through Animate JP or Broccoli will get you special bonuses. Animate has an autograph board and 7 CD storage box (you only have to order 1 version of the duet CD, but it will fit both if you get both). And Broccoli will have a drama CD. And then there's lottery prizes from the Animate CDs. This is all very similar to how it was with the QN Solo Best CDs.

All of these CDs should release as usual on US iTunes as well. The only exception will be the previously announced Quartet Night TABOO NIGHT XXXX CD which will likely be streaming only on Spotify and YouTube Music.

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They announced the rest of the Quartet Night movie cds. I'll maybe try and make a nicer post later. For now, here's the tweet.

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NEW SK8 PV!

We finally have new art!! They've released a new trailer with glimpses of the OVA!

(https://x.com/sk8_project/status/1855037591726559327)

They also gave us some descriptions of the stories! Here are my translations of them!

Rain and Cats, convenience store ice cream, soda flavored

One Sunday, Reki, Langa, and Miya were at the skate park, as usual, when they are caught in a sudden downpour. They take shelter at Reki's house, and end up playing karuta with deck they find there--!?

Someday we'll be able to become serious

We go back in time to when Sakurayashiki and Nanjo were high school students living in obscurity. They're still competing with each other as usual, but after a series of competitions, the conclusion they arrive at is...

Morning Routine

This is a story that reveals just a tiny bit of the mysterious daily life of Ainosuke and Kikuchi-- They each have their secret routines, when there's a crossover between the two, and then a certain someone appears.

Do your best Hiromi-chan!

By night, he is an anti-hero, Shadow. By day, he works hard at a flower shop. These are three short stories that capture the daily life of the precious and kind Hiromi.

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hey, do you mind tagging your us politics posts? i'm a black queer person and i don't really appreciate all the doomer posting :/

I can absolutely tag them no problem! Because I get it that people wanna use Tumblr/the internet as an escape. I doubt I'll do too much more, because I've also just been tired and trying to escape. All future posts I'll tag though. It was just a couple in the moment while I was also reeling from the election and coping.

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Everything feels awful right now but it isn't really. We still don't officially have a winner, but regardless of how the presidential election ends up, I wanted to take a minute and find what lights I can in the 3 a.m. darkness. Here's what I know:

* Kentucky overwhelmingly rejected an attempt to undermine the public education system by offering private school vouchers:

* Delaware has elected a transgender woman to the House of Representatives, the first out trans person of any gender ever elected to congress:

* For the first time in history, two Black women will be serving in the senate at the same time, and they are only the fourth and fifth Black women ever elected to the senate:

* New York State has passed a constitutional amendment enshrining the rights of pregnant people (including the right to an abortion), LGBTQIA+ people, the disabled, immigrants regardless of legal status, and other at-risk groups:

* Democrat Josh Stein has beaten self-avowed Nazi Mark Robinson to become governor of North Carolina:

That's everything I know off the top of my head. It's not many bright spots, but it's not zero. I'm going to try to find more and I'll add them to the post. It's the only thing I can think of to do that isn't sobbing and throwing up or looking up Canadian immigration rules.

If you know more good news, I encourage you to add it in reblogs.

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at this point i really can't even figure out what i'm most scared about. the military being deployed against protesters? sliding back into a high emissions climate change scenario that will accelerate species extinctions and human suffering? inevitably an attempt to gut the endangered species act again? RFK Jr being in charge of vaccines? a stacked supreme court? all of the shadiest, most violent and corrupt politician dudebros replacing qualified government officials at every level in order to demolish any rule of law or accountability for crimes committed by the president? more mass shootings? xenophobic violence reaching a peak? border wall 2 electric boogaloo?

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tweets that did get a chuckle out of me

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Box Event Guide

Use box keys gained by clearing songs to open present boxes and receive items and emotional pieces as rewards.

Event Page

Event story - Tap to go to the event story page.

Event bonus - Shows which emotional pieces give an event bonus when on your team.

Event missions - Tap to go to the event missions page and redeem mission rewards. (Only visible after completing one song)

Final ranking rewards preview

Event box - Shows current amount of keys in possession. Tap to go to the Event Box page to open boxes.

Event rank - Shows your current even rank. Tap to view full event rankings.

Live - Tap to be taken to the Live screen and select a song to play.

Event Missions:

Log in - Live Skip Ticket Clear [event song 1] 3 times - LP Charge Clear [event song 1] 5 times - Event Bonus Item Clear [event song 2] 3 times - LP Charge Clear [event song 2] 5 times - Event Bonus Item Clear [event song 3] 3 times - LP Charge Clear [event song 3] 5 times - Event Bonus Item Clear [event song 4] 3 times - LP Charge Clear [event song 4] 5 times - Event Bonus Item Clear [event song 5] 3 times - LP Charge Clear [event song 5] 5 times - Event Bonus Item Clear [event song 6] 3 times - LP Charge Clear [event song 6] 5 times - Event Bonus Item

*LP Charges gained via event missions expire at the end of the day that they are claimed.

Songs:

During rhythm gameplay, some notes will have key icons on them. Be sure that you don't miss any of these as they directly relate to the amount of keys gained at the end of a song. In the second image above, you can see that I gained 1980 keys. In the image, the categories determining the amount of keys gained are: base event keys (600), event song bonus (+300), event skill bonus (+1080), and event bonus item (0).

On the live page, event songs will be marked with the pink and white イベントボーナス曲 text. Play these songs for the most event keys.

Playing the songs that have the highest count of notes on the highest difficulty you can. It may vary by player, but generally the most efficient song will be whichever song is the longest in the setlist. See song lengths here. Failing that, it will be the highest difficulty song. Take notes and compare which is most efficient for you.

Combo and score do NOT matter for Box events. Only the amount of key icons successfully tapped. Play on the highest difficulty that you can clear.

See end section for more tips.

Opening Boxes

Once you have gained event keys, navigate to the Event Box page (#5 as marked on the event page image). Simply tap on any of the boxes to open one. The reward will be random.

Tap the blue button to auto open boxes. Occasionally a box will shake, indicating that it has an item that you are missing in the current line. Auto opening boxes may ignore the shaking boxes and continue to open randomly, taking longer to fill a line.

One the entire line of items at the top of the screen has been gained, you will gain the reward for completing that step, and unlock the next.

You can preview the upcoming rewards by tapping the icon in the bottom left, and navigating through the steps with the arrows in the top right of the popup.

General Tips:

Emotional Pieces/Team Comp Tips:

Use pieces with an event bonus skill on all of your teams regardless of attribute.

Utilise pieces with an event bonus skill as soon as you can unlock another copy of them.

Live Guest Tips:

Choose guests with the highest event skill bonus for live shows. You can see the percentage they boost event points by in pink above their right title. Eg. 'ライブで盛られるイベントポイントを40％アップ' meaning it 'raises the received event points by 40%.’

You can reset guests using the 'ゲスト更新’ button in the top left when choosing a guest to find the best one. It's a bit tedious, but getting a 60% or higher bonus every time really adds up.

Use your event bonus (glowstick) items to raise event points when you use guests with the a high event bonus skill (+80% or +100%).

Follow guests you see with high event bonus skills so they show up as a guest for future live shows as well.

Live Tips:

If you're not short on time, stick to 2 LP for regular gameplay. Higher amounts of LP usage give diminishing rewards. 3-5LP are okay, especially if you're short on time or just want to progress as quickly as possible without caring about LP efficiency. Moreso for for 10LP. If you use 5-10LP, it seems best to save it for when you can use a guest that has an 80% or 100% bonus.

Make sure you’re playing the event songs.

Play the longest song on the highest difficulty you can, or otherwise whichever gives you the highest amount of keys. Score and combo do not matter for Box Events, only key multipliers.

Skip tickets used to be not worth much, but after some changes they now give only slightly less than playing manually so they’re much more valuable. Thanks to @blueesnow for the comparison!

Only use auto if you can’t play yourself and don’t want to/can't use any more skip tickets. If you are auto-ing a song, auto it on expert to get more points (I think).

If you miss a key icon note you can exit a song by pressing the button in the top right corner, then pressing left button, then the right button to confirm. You don’t lose any LP or items spent on the song. Especially useful if you’ve used a lot of LP or an event bonus item and don’t want it to go to waste.

Other Tips:

If you have enough event keys to finish a step with an event piece reward, do it. Redeem and put every event bonus skill piece on your team as soon as possible. You dont want to be playing event songs without that potential extra event bonus skill on your team.

Since key multipliers are the only thing that matter for Box events, feel free to fill out the rest of your teams with pieces that you want to level up, or characters you want to raise bond with.

Use items marked with a pink speech bubble that reads 日限定 before they expire daily at midnight Japan time.

The missions can be cleared by using 0 LP. The LP Charges gained from event missions must be used the day that you claim them from the missions screen. You may want to wait to claim them until you’re sure you have time to use them, or until later in the event when you will have more event bonus pieces on your teams, and therefore can get higher returns from using them.

For the same reason, you may want to save your Event bonus items for later in the event.

Set pieces with event bonus skill your guest helpers in Menu>Player Detail>ゲスト設定>Pick one per attribute using the 変更する button. This doesn’t help you, but its common courtesy since they will be your guest helpers for other players.

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i needed to make this VDJDVSJVS 😭💕💕💕

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Box Event Reveal

A preview of the Eiji UR and Shion SR for the ‘HE★VENS Special Training!’ box event has been revealed. The event will begin on the 2nd of November at 12:00 JST.

Costumes and voice lines are not included with these emotional pieces, and are likely to be available at a later date similar to the structure for the 'Starish Special Training' event/Ultra Blast costumes.

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Box Event Reveal

A preview of the Eiji UR and Shion SR for the ‘HE★VENS Special Training!’ box event has been revealed. The event will begin on the 2nd of November at 12:00 JST.

Costumes and voice lines are not included with these emotional pieces, and are likely to be available at a later date similar to the structure for the 'Starish Special Training' event/Ultra Blast costumes.

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mutuals, non-mutuals, ops of years old posts, you can all catch these paws

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Early voting finally started for me. So Ringo would like to tell all of you in the US "Go vote!!!!"

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I've seen a lot of posts criticizing terminally-online leftists for thinking that not voting will somehow send the Deomcratic party to the left instead of to the center, and while that is true

I haven't seen many pointing out that voting actually works for progressive causes.

Joe Biden moved to the left significantly on climate because the left wing of the party wanted to work with him. The centrists in the party, like Joe Manchin, frustratingly dragged their heels on everything because they weren't that interested in getting things done. But the leftists in the party, like Bernie and AOC, actually engaged in talks and compromises and pulled Biden much, much farther left on climate than where he started. A lot of great green policy came out of the last four years!

There was even a Pod Save America interview a few months ago where one of Biden's cabinet members (very diplomatically) confirmed that the leftwing of the party was so much better to work with than centrists like Joe Manchin. (Probably because leftists actually care about the things they talk about and want to do things besides go to fancy Washington parties and stay in congress for a million years.)

So, I really cannot stress enough that actually showing up and working with people actually does pay off for your cause. You can do more for the things you care about when you are at the table. Your vote actually does create the change you are seeking, even when you are voting for someone who is not 100% aligned with you.