#About Touken Ranbu

[antique-lamplight]

is there a name for media that does this. please i think about it so much

[mihotose]

[asterparfait]

wilting victorian hours

[waterlinkedgirl]

Musical Touken Ranbu: Tsuwamonodomo ga Yume no Ato english sub

A passion project if there's ever been one, it's been a longstanding want of mine to finally do this! Needless to say, Tsuwamono and everything it meant is still my favourite plot from Toumyu! I love its character-driven and intricate writing, its heartrending acting choices, as well as the way it invites one to think about what characters think and why, and why they do or don't (dare to) do the things they do.

However, another important reason that I'm letting myself indulge in this, is that recent Toumyu has taken a turn away from this plot, changing the way how Mikazuki is framed, tying different characters to themes that were tied to Kogitsunemaru, and put those characters into roles that would originally have been most natural for Kogitsunemaru to follow.

In that light, then, I hope that these subtitles will allow you to see, even if it's just the smallest sliver, what I loved in Toumyu's take of Kogi and Mika up to and including Kotobuki. To see that it was beautiful. Because I think it was. 💙💛🌙🦊

Keep in mind that the files in the folder below are only the subtitle files, timed and tled to the blu-ray and DMM senshuuraku distribution. The folder also includes a pdf with translation notes, some background information where I felt it would add, and just a little bit of eager gushing about the references made.

You can find the folder with all the aforementioned files here!

Please enjoy, even if it's just with me in your thoughts.

[finnieforkys]

First page of a new sketchbook

[thefangirlinawheelchair]

If I had a nickel for every time I enter a fandom and there's a guy with an eyepatch in it, I’d have five nickels, which isn’t a lot but it’s weird that it happened five times.

[sleepinglionhearts]

here, have some of the things that have been in my sketchbooks for a while

[firefighting-idiot]

Let's all greet Tomita Gou into our citadels!

Tomita Gou is named after Tomita Ippaku (? - 1599), an attendant of Toyotomi Hideyoshi. After Oda Nobunaga's death, Hideyoshi set out to unify Japan as the de jure shogun. After Kuninori Inomata, who served the Hojo clan, captured Meikumo Castle for the Hojo, Ippaku, with Tsuda Morizuki, was sent as envoys to the Hojo clan to let tell them of the punishment for the Hojo.

After the war between the Toyotomi and Hojo, Tomita Ippaku worked as an intermediary between Hideyoshi and Date Masamune. In 1959, Ippaku interrogated Masamune for his involvement in the attempted coup from Toyotomi Hidestugu.

Hideyoshi also sent Ippaku to rule over the Tsu Castle, in Ise Province. Tomita replaced Oda Nobukane, younger brother of Oda Nobunaga. He stayed there until his retirement in 1599, later dying that year.

[whimsicallywiddershins]

There is something about Mikazuki Munechika that scares me. He is an elegent, calm, somewhat silly character. But something about him makes me think of elder gods and ancient beings too powerful to be understood by humans.

[gingermintpepper]

This is such a wild departure from what I usually post but due to the cyclical nature of my interests, I can't stop thinking about Higekiri and Hizamaru's Kemono performance in the 2020 SOGA musical because like?? LIKE??

Nevermind that I'm just very interested in the twins in general, nevermind that I've always held SOGA up as the gold standard when it comes to outfit design in the myus (which has only very recently started being genuinely surpassed with productions like Hanakage's concert outfits or Goumyu's gorgeous, gorgeous tailoring) but there's also something about the whole presentation of SOGA that gets to me. Like a lot of things concerning the Genji twins, the presentation of the play (staging, choreography, costume design) is based around the Higekiri and Hizamaru being two halves of a greater whole, meaning that they parallel each other throughout the whole two hour jaunt. Kemono is such a perfect microcosm of the mirroring they've been doing for the whole production, including them doing the same choreo at specific times, as-above-so-below imagery with Higekiri on the balcony vs Hizamaru on the center floor

But there's also the way that their crest placements have been mirroring each other's on all of their outfits and now, for this performance, they both wear it on their left breast, right sleeves in their respecting black and white.

Just UGH - Toumyu is generally very impeccable with it's sense of staging and organisation of visual themes but they really knocked it out of the park for SOGA and I just needed to talk about it a little.

[yitsuin]

so I know there are no local tourabu fans that are insane in the year 2024 and that my looming merch deadlines are going to eat me alive, but listen ---

[davi-doo]

After all these years I still have a soft spot for Kashuu 🥲 🌹and Matsuda Ryo playing him in the stage play is not helping my case

[atolm]

Getting back into digital art I started to look through drawings I did over the year. Here’s Kasen Kanesada from Touken Ranbu I did early this year.

I’ll end the year with this one… Happy holidays everyone ❤️

[asterparfait]

toukentober day 27: hra (inaba)

[waterlinkedgirl]

Musical Touken Ranbu: Gou on Stage ~ Satomi Hakkenden; New Edition english sub

At long long last I am able to present you the subtitles for the senshuuraku of Goumyu! After a very turbulent year, I'm glad to be lowkey picking up subtitling again. For this performance, though, I won't be able to do a tl notes file. If I were fair to myself, I'd allow myself to write my grievances with what Goumyu's plot does to what had been established for Kogitsunemaru and Mikazuki when those are relevant, but if I were fair to you all, I wouldn't give you a file that's 90% complaining and 10% actual notes or background.

Don't let my grievances distract from the performance though, it's still genuinely fantastic even if the theming choices may be painful to me. Especially Oodenta is fantastic. Goodness gracious.

Keep in mind that this is only the subtitle file, timed and tled to the DMM senshuuraku. The archive version will have a talk at the start, so the starting times of the subs will have to be delayed accordingly.

Download the subs for Goumyu here!

[vividblaze]

Continuing to thrive off Jirou crumbs until the new anime premieres.