#Daisuke Furuya

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Seraph of the end Vol.32

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What I Read in November 2023

re-read, these guys have soooo many issues. Also mad that they don't kiss. XD

Read along with Dracula Daily again ^_^

another re-read...honestly considering things, Kyoshiro deserves everything Yuya does to him.

re-read, feels a bit odd, but hopefully volume 2 will balance the world better.

I enjoyed this, the religious back and forth is interesting, the world was neat...then an event that was just...so very unnecessary happened at the end. I will try to read book 2...but I'm pretty annoyed.

Last of Karen Savages jane austen readings... sad to run out. But fun to listen too.

still enjoy

I want cool necromancer powers!

Started this the day it came in the mail. Love so much!

[cocotome]

I can't believe I forgot to post this adorable photo of Hirarin and Furuya Touru after the Kiramune event! I just noticed how little we see Hirarin's arms! Like, seeing his forearms is so refreshing lol!!

[detco-fixation]

*somewhere in italy idk*

Lupin (holding the phone): oi Jigen someone needs his papa

A hard case happens and Shinichi needs advice.

Shinichi: Wait one second, I need to ask my dad.

Shinichi walks over to Yuusaku and Akai who overheard him.

Shinichi: Hey Akai, can you help me?

Yuusaku:

Akai: Yeah, sure, what do you need?

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Voltage - Side Character Election 2024 Results

Voltage hosted Side Character Elections over the last few weeks. You were able to vote for your favorite side characters of plenty titles. There was a Part1 (Kyobashis father won!!) that decided on merch for the side characters and this Part2 enabled for the Top10 to get stories for themselves!

1st place gets a longer special story (would have gotten a CG they got 1.5 million votes :') Rip we missed out)

2nd and 3rd get a special story

4-5th get short special stories

6-10th will get mini episodes

Anyways here's the Top10:

**[Koi100] Side Character Election results!** These 10 side characters will receive stories.

1st will get a longer special story 2nd & 3rd will get a special story 4-5th will get a short story 6-10th will get an episode

1st place: Takeru Momose (HLITF) 2nd place: Hayato Miyayama (HLITF) 3rd place: Toru Kyobashi (Kyobashis dad) (MPD) 4th place: Daisuke Chiba (HLITF) 5th place: Mitsuharu Kyogoku (RMD) 6th place: Ryosuke Inui (KBTBB) 7th place: Zach Thompson (MK) 8th place: Jinguji Sonpoku (WDCK) 9th place: Daisuke Agasa (MPD) 10th place: Eito Ichinomiya (KBTBB)

You can find their votes below and the rest of the rankings! There were very interesting prompts for each character - some felt like fanfiction, a bit trolling or interesting character depth 👀

Momo finally gets a story and it's about falling for him instead of Tsugaru 🙈 I wonder how they'll handle his GF ahh. Still i'm so happy! The rest of the Top10 is promising too. Finally Jinguji, Mitsuharu, CHIBA, and Miyayama!! Its so funny how they even had Furuya and Tomohiro and offered a redemption arc for them 🙈 Blood Moon and Kasatsubaki sounded like the actual plot of what their routes would have been like if they wouldnt have gotten cancelled. I wish they were ranked higher!

Also Chaen! Would have been an interesting yandere story. We'd need an animal mascot or villain election!

I also don't get why Plusts manager or overall got so few votes. It hurts 🥲

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seraph of the end | owari no seraph by takaya kagami (story), yamato yamamoto (art), and daisuke furuya (storyboards) • chapter 1: the world of blood legacy

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Owari no Seraph by Yamamoto Yamato, Kagami Takaya & Furuya Daisuke

[the-monkey-ruler]

One Piece (1999) ワンピース

Directed: Uda Kinnosuke / Shimizu Junji / Sakai Munehisa / Miyamoto / Hiroaki Shigeyasu Chomine Tatsuya / Yamauchi / Otsuka Takashi / Yasuyukio Screenwriter: Eiichiro Oda / Junki Takegami Mitsuru / Yoshiyuki / Tsuyoshi Shimada / Suga Sakurai / Takahashi Yoichi / Yushi Hashimoto / Ryota Yamaguchi / Isao Murayama / Hitoshi Tanaka Tomohiro / Nakayama / Naoki Koga / Hirohiko Uesaka / Takuya Masumoto / Atsuhiro Tomioka / Masaji Yonemura Starring: Mayumi Tanaka / Akemi Okamura / Kazuya Nakai / Katsuhei Yamaguchi / Hiroaki Hirata / Ikue Otani / Yuriko Yamaguchi / Kazuki Yao / Yuichi Nagashima / Shuichi Ikeda / Toshio Furukawa / Toru Furuya / Norio Otsuka / Masatane Tsukayama / Takeshi Kusao / Masato Oba / Katsuhisa Takagi / Keiichi Sonobe / Hidekatsu Shibata / Hiroshi Naka / Daisuke Sakaguchi / Junko Takeuchi / Shigeru Chiba / Kotono Mitsuishi / Hirohiko Kakugawa / Hideyuki Hori / Hideyuki Tanaka / Ryuzaburo Otomo / Kintaka Arimoto / Akio Otsuka / Tessho Genda / Mami Koyama / Mika Doi / Junko Noda / Misa Watanabe / Nogami Yuukana / Hayashibara Emi / Mizuki Nana / Sonozaki Mie / Nishihara Kumiko / Hisakawa Aya / Sawashiro Miyuki / Ikezawa Haruna / Saito Chiwa / Kamiya Hiroshi / Namikawa Daisuke / Morikubo Shoutarou / Ishida Akira / Takagi Kiyoshi / Hiyama Nobuyuki / Koyasu Takehito / Seki Tomokazu Genre: Comedy / Action / Animation / Fantasy / Adventure Official website: www.toei-anim.co.jp/tv/onep/ Country/Region of Production: Japan Language: Japanese Date: 1999-10-20 (Japan) Number of Seasons: 21 Number of episodes: 1,122 Single episode length: 24 minutes Number of Movies: 39 Movies Number of Games: 57 Games Also known as: 航海王 IMDb: tt0388629 Type: Appropriation

Summary:

Before his death, the legendary pirate Gol D. Roger left a message about his life's wealth "One Piece", which attracted many heroes to fight for this legendary huge wealth. Various forces and regimes kept changing, and the whole world entered the turbulent and chaotic "Great Pirate Era". Luffy, who grew up in a small village in the East China Sea, was guided by the spirit of the pirate Shanks and decided to become an outstanding pirate. In order to achieve this goal and find the much-anticipated One Piece, Luffy embarked on a difficult journey. Along the way, he encountered countless hardships and met a group of friends with different personalities, such as Zoro, Nami, Usopp, Sanji, and Robin. They joined hands to embark on a legendary adventure... This film is adapted from the popular manga "One Piece" by Japanese manga artist Eiichiro Oda.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Piece_(1999_TV_series)

Link: https://kissanime.com.ru/Anime/One-Piece.57500/

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Names:

Mikaela Hyakuya 🩸

Yuichiro Hyakuya 🖤

Manga: Seraph Of The End

Authors:

Takaya Kagami

Yamato Yamamoto

Daisuke Furuya

Place: Amazon

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THE BOYFRIENDS 🥺💚

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#yuichirohyakuya #mikaelahyakuya #seraphoftheend #manga #takayakagami #yamatoyamamoto #daisukefuruya #amazon #vampire #cursedgear #comfortmanga

[adamwatchesmovies]

Paprika (2006)

Paprika is a fever dream blast of inspiration that is simultaneously wonderful to behold and nightmare-inducing. It ends on a low note but the trip to that conclusion ensorcels you so completely you may not even care.

In the near future, Doctor Atsuko Chiba (voiced by Megumi Hayashibara) uses the experimental DC Mini device to hop into her patients’ dreams and treat their subconscious using her alter-ego, Paprika. When people exposed to the device, including her boss, Doctor Toratarō Shima (Katsunosuke Hori), start exhibiting erratic behaviour culminating in suicide attempts, Paprika must explore the increasingly bizarre dreams they collectively share to find out who is responsible. How does the strange parade of creatures and living objects connect to her patient, Detective Toshimi Konakawa (Akio Ōtsuka), the scientists responsible for creating the DC Mini, Doctor Kōsaku Tokita (Tōru Furuya), and Kei Himuro (Daisuke Sakaguchi). More importantly, why is this happening?

The medium of animation is perfect for this kind of story. You would need so many special effects to bring the otherworldly sights of the dream world to life it would’ve basically turned into an animated movie anyway. Director Satoshi Kon has so many visual tricks up their sleeve. Paprika’s movements are inhibited only by her imagination. This is shown in the mind-blowing opening scene in which she moves from reflections on windows, to pictures on T-shirts to billboards and anything you could think of to get from one place to another. Many scenes show characters morphing or changing as their consciousness gets sucked into the never-ending parade of weird objects invading everyone’s dreams. When you see it, you don’t know whether to run for the hills screaming or force your eyes open so you don’t miss a second. The colours and creativity in these visuals are so dazzling it doesn’t even matter that sometimes you'll have difficulty understanding the plot.

The film ensnares you in this whirlwind of wonder and unease. You have difficulty differentiating reality from dreams, except when someone wakes up and points out how crazy things were a second ago. That’s the power of this story. And then, we get to the conclusion, which is a major letdown. Not only can you decipher the mastermind behind this big thing based on the character's design, the reason for everything doesn’t really make much sense. You’re left wondering if maybe the translation was bad, or if this story really wasn’t all that good and you were just swept up in all the razzle-dazzle. Ultimately, I say there is more to the film than just what you see. The mystery is compelling and the twist keep you guessing. It’s just everything before the conclusion was so great that when this generic ending comes around, it feels even worse than it is.

The last few minutes of Paprika will split audiences. Either you’ll love it and it’ll become a new favourite, or it’ll leave you with mixed feelings, meaning you’ll be blown away by the movie but content with just seeing it once... maybe two or three times. The sights within are nothing short of incredible so regardless of how you may feel about that finale, it’s worth seeing. (English Dub on DVD, May 24 2019)

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Seraph of the end Vol.33

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Paprika (Satoshi Kon, 2006)

Cast: Voices of Megumi Hayashibara, Tōru Furuya, Tōru Emori, Katsunosuke Hori, Akio Ōtsuka, Kōichi Yamadera, Hideyuki Tanaka, Satomi Kōrogi, Daisuke Sakaguchi, Mitsuo Iwata, Rikako Aikawa, Yasutaka Tsutsui, Satoshi Kon. Screenplay: Seishi Minakami, Satoishi Kon, based on a novel by Yasutaka Tsutsui. Cinematography: Michiya Katô. Art direction: Nobutaka Ike. Film editing: Takeshi Seyama. Music: Susumu Hirasawa. 

Almost from the beginning, motion pictures, with their ability to move rapidly through time and space and their frequent embrace of the irrational, have been associated with dreams. The development of animated movies only heightened the identification, and makers of animated films have always been ready to embrace the dreamlike. Satoshi Kon's extraordinary anime Paprika is not only dreamlike, it's also about the dream state and its psychological potential. The word "psychology" etymologically means "the study of the soul," and nothing gets closer to the soul -- whatever that is -- than dreams, unfettered by reason and mundane actuality. So Kon's film is about an invasion of the dream state, predicated on the idea that technology might eventually allow one to enter other people's dreams -- an invasion of the soul. Kon finds the dreamlike not only in movies or television, but also in other manifestations of the imagination like circuses and parades and toys, and ultimately in the internet, which Paprika herself identifies as one of the "areas where the repressed conscious mind escapes." Paprika is an avatar in the dream world of Atsuko Chiba, a psychiatrist who is using the newly developed DC Mini, technology that allows her, as Paprika, to enter the dreams of her patients. But when one of the developers of the DC Mini begins using it for his own nefarious purposes, the boundary between dreams and waking life is breached, with phantasmagorical consequences. Dr. Chiba and Paprika have to find a way to repair the breach. Any summary of the film is inadequate because there's something recursive about Paprika, a dreamlike movie about movies (and other things) as dreams.            

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Both casts for Kiramune live reading~ So much talent in 2 photos! Egu and Miki are so tall! Even taller than Koniyan!

[kxrta]

and now some famous onna-musha (or female warriors)

- Tomoe Gozen (1157 – 1247 assumedly)

While Tomoe Gozen* was mentioned in the Tale of Heike, she may have only been a character, as she doesn't appear in any primary sources on the Genpei War.

*'Gozen' is not a name, but rather an honorific title, thpically translated to Lady

- Niijima Yae (1 Dec 1845 – 14 June 1932)

Born Yamamoto Yae to Yamamoto Gonpachi, a samurai and official gunnery instructor in Aizu Domain. Her family claimed descent from Takeda clan's retainer Yamamoto Kansuke, also known by his formal name Haruyuki, who was a brilliant strategist.

Yaeko was skilled in gunnery having been taught by her father, which is fucking sick. A legend is told of her dressing in her brothers garb in order to fight, though I couldn't find much on that.

After divorcing her first husband in 1871 due to him becoming a prisoner of war, she moved to Kyoto in search of her brother, and became a sub. teacher at Kyoto Women's School, acquired her tea master qualification in 1894 and became a tea master.

She re-married to Rev. Joseph Hardy Neesima [in 1875], a former samurai who lived in the US to seek higher education and promoted for women's rights. Neesima was in the motions of building a Western School that promoted Christianity (which was not appreciated by Buddhists and Shintoists). After the marriage, Yaeko was dismissed from her teaching position, and she volunteered to assist running the new school.

Yaeko played an integral part in the founding of the Doshisha English School. The couple (alongside help from Alice J. Starkweather) later opened a Joshijuku (small girl's school) named Doshisha Branch School for Girls and then Doshisha Girls' School.

After the death of Neesima (1890) shifted her focus to nursing and became a member of the Japanese Red Cross later that same year. Yaeko joined the army and was stationed as a nurse in Hiroshima during the First Sino-Japanese War. Her efforts in improving the social status of trained nurses was recognised in being awarded her first Order of the Precious Crown in 1896.

After the war, Yaeko became an instructor in nursing schools. Then she rejoined the army for the Russo-Japanese War (1904) and as a volunteer nurse in Osaka. This earned her her second Order of the Precious Crown and was further awarded a silver cup at the inauguration of the Shōwa Emperor in 1928.

This diva girl-bossed her way through history right up until her death. Hell yeah.

- Nakano Takeko (Apr 1847 – Oct 1868)

Nakano was born [in Edo] to Nakano Heinai, an official of Aizu, and Nakano Kōkō, daughter of Oinuma Kinai, a samurai in service of Toda of the Ashikaga domain. She was well educated and from a powerful samurai family.

She recieved training in martial arts, in literary arts on Chinese Confucian classics and calligraphy, and was later adopted by her teacher Akaoka Daisuke. Nakano also taught students younger than her, including her younger sister.

Nanako's certification, or menkyo (teaching license) was in Hasso-Shoken, a branch in the major of Itto-ryu*. She both served as the secretary for and taught naginata to the wife of lord Niwase, whom she was employed under at Itakura estate.

She left her position in 1863 when she was adopted by her master, but later reunited with her Edo family.

In 1868 she was in Aizu for the first time, and spent time teaching women and children naginata in Aizuwakamatsu Castle, as well as capturing voyeurs in the women's bathrooms.

At 21, Nakano participated in the Boshin War where she, alongside other women, took the front line without permission, as the senior Aizu retainers disallowed their participation as an unofficial part of the domain's army. This unit was later called the Jōshitai (Girls' Army). This ad hoc group included her 40 year old mother and 16 year old sister, and was lead by Nakano under Furuya Sakuzaemon.

In October of 1868 Nakano led these women to face enemy forces at Yanagi Bridge equipped only with their naginata while Meiji troops had firearms. When the men realised their targets were women, the commander ordered them not to be killed. This allowed to the Jōshitai to kill many enemies before the attack continued. She was downed by a bullet to the chest.

Instead of allowing imperial forces to mutilate her corpse, Nakano had her sister cut off her head to avoid the humiliation, to which she agreed. She passed with her dignity and her head was buried at the family temple where a monument was eventually erected.

*one-sword school, ancestor school of several japanese koryū kenjutsu styles.

further reading

japan's warrior women, Chris Kincaid, Aug 9 2015

a long history of japanese women warriors, Kallie Szczepanski, Jan 22 2020

samurai warrior queens, a drama documentary based on the life of nakano takeko (imdb)

nakano clan, Sumiko Nakano

in conclusion

Sure. I would have loved to continue the narrative of Jin Sakai, as it felt for me as though the end of the game was not the end of the story of the Ghost of Tsushima.

In saying that, Ghost of Yotei shouldn't be blacklisted just because it features a woman. If you don't wanna play the game due to a feminist movement that only might have something to do with the choice of a female lead, then don't play it. Simple. No one is making you buy it. No one is telling you you have to enjoy it. There is no gun to your head.

There is nothing that I have seen so far that makes me think this game should be thrown to the side. The trailer visuals look just as stunning as Ghost of Tsushima and two swords sounds mad. Just because I'm excited about a new story, does not mean that I enjoyed Jin's journey any less.

Also, eat rocks. Onna-musha are fucking awesome.

Ghost of Yotei Summary

They made her a female samurai, which did not exist. At all. It's not like Northern Europe that had rare but extent shield maidens.

And they hired a Feminist cunt to play her. While Disney is still reshooting Snow White, because they hired a Feminist cunt to talk about how terrible the original was, and are regretting it.

Some people say to give it the benefit of the doubt, but nowadays, games do NOT get the benefit of the doubt. They have to prove they are not girlbossing.

They also have her dual-wield, because of course she has to be better than Jin Sakai.

Addendum: And "if you don't like it, don't buy it" does not work in convincing us it will be good. Especially after all of the other times it's been done, and then we're called -ist for not buying it.

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Owari no Seraph / Seraph of the End: Vampire Reign Yamato Yamamoto (Arte), Takaya Kagami (Historia), Daisuke Furuya (Historia)

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Official English translated author comments featured in Jump SQ February 2022 issue.

Show-ha Shoten! chapter 4 - Takeshi Obata

Seraph of the End: Vampire Reign chapter 110 - Daisuke Furuya

Twin Star Exorcists chapter 102 - Yoshiaki Sukeno