#IS THAT STILL GREG AYRES

[bunny-carrothunter]

Frost unintentionally hitting a deeper voice did a few things to me.

[fandom-trash-xl]

I've found it, the closest we're probably going to get to hearing (dub) Frost doing Frieza's iconic "ohohoho" noblewoman laugh. Yet not in the form of a Frost line- it's technically Guldo doing the impression, but those two share a dub VA.

(Original audio is from Supreme Kai of Time's City Patrol in Xenoverse 2, specifically #6, "Ginyu Force Gala")

[quartztwst]

DROP THE EXPLANATION I NEED ANSWERS 😡😡

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EHEMEM

I believe that Jade Leech with Sebastián Microsoft English voice sucks because it lacks creativity and also it wouldn't really fit him. And of course people make their headcanons of him with Sebastián's ENG VA and I don't really mind it LMAOOOO. Do whatever you want.

But it doesn't sit right with me and I know it's a little thing to complain about but it's just corny and uncreative. I do feel like the reason people say this is because Jade Leech and Sebastián McDonald's share similar traits and also have the same creator but I find it boring.

It also doesn't really fit him. But I do find Kyoya Ootori's voice fitting for him.

BUT YOU KNOW WHO IS MORE FITTING FOR THAT VOICE?

AZUL ASHENGROTTO.

Azul fits better with Kyoya Ootori's voice better than Jade.

I've also seen people headcanon Barbatos from Obey Me with Sebastián Microphone's voice just because they're butlers but that's so... BORING???

I guess I just find Sebastián's voice boring. A lot of people find it still hot but I find it boring now.

I just want more thought put into it instead of "omg this character is just like that character!!!"

It's getting old 😭😭😭

BUT THE PERSON I FEEL LIKE FITS FLOYD is Greg Ayres. The raspy voice is really fitting for Floyd. Greg Ayres voices Nishinoya Yu and one of those twins in OHSHC. His voice is sometimes chaotic, childish, and serious so I feel like it can fit Floyd perfectly.

I've seen voice actors in TWST dubs and I haven't seen anyone actually capture the chaotic and childishness in his voice. They're mostly following the loopyness and drunkness(?) of his words and sometimes it sounds very off. But that's because Floyd has a lot of range because his JP VA has a lot of range and probably not a lot of voice actors can do that.

Also, I really like how every TWST dubs have voiced Azul. It's very Azul LMAOOOO

I really love how they added a little Ursula to him. Very cute and also he sounds fruity (AS HE ISSSS). I REALLY LOVE NOYABBLE'S AZUL VOICE 😭😭 IT'S SO URSULA LIKE THE VA KNEW WHAT THEY WERE DOINGGFG

BTW THEIR FLOYD AND JADE VAS ARE CHILDE AND ZHONGLI ENG VA IMITATORS??? ITS SO FUNNYBLMAOOO

Noyabble's Jade voice sounds very breathy and quiet? Low? Very low. I DON'T MIND IT because I feel like their voice fits Jade well. His voice is very calm and soft which I like but I KEEP HEARING THE ZHONGLI??? The talking patterns sometimes feel like Zhongli 😭😭

Floyd's voice is too light for him 😭😭 I like that part where Floyd mocks Riddle's accent tho I found it silly LMAOOO

anyways I am the best Jade VA ever (I did a whole robot voice for him please do not hire me)

[noxiatoxia]

am thirsty for kaohika headcanons

hikaru is a sigma male gamer incel (the i in incel stands for .) EVIDENCE: anytime we see the twins near video games it is HIKARU playing them (both a present and flashback shot in ep 9, and in ep 20 it is hikaru who suggests they play video games and he COMPLAINS THAT EVERYONE ELSE IS TOO EASY TO BEAT!!! CAN YOU SAY PRO GAMER !??!) now while we don't see the opposite i doubt kaoru is bad or anything. im sure he can hold his own against his brother. but i feel hikaru always manages to outclass him just a little in every game. i think because hikaru has that gamer rage flowing thru his veins he is more competitive and DEDICATED to his craft. kaoru doesnt care all that much.....he just plays cuz its whats hikaru is doing......if kaoru chose his own game to play it would probably be animal crossing. and no i am not "" female - brain """ coding kaoru ...i just think he Tires of fast-paced games. hikaru loooves those damn beat 'em ups and FPS but kaoru wants to create a dystopian hell society and trap all his villagers in holes. he also loved mystery games. ace attorney and danganronpa. the joke here is greg ayres voices monokuma.

okok anyways tying it back to incest: IMAGINE. hikaru going thru his manly gaming sesh of Chibi-Robo Zip Lash for the Nintendo 3DS. "Hikaru im bored" Kaoru says but Hikaru is like "give me a moment" and like 5 minutes turns to 10 turns to 20 and he's still on that damn Chibi-Robo Zip Lash. So kaoru is like "you're gamer? you want a gaming challenge?" and before hikaru can ask him where the article went in his first sentence Kaoru is SLONKING HIS SHIT!!!!( SILLY SADASS STYLE !!!?!)its like those "THIS GAME WILL MAKE YOU CUM IN 5 SECONDS" but instead the objective is to NOT cum and finish Chibi-Robo Zip Lash (for the Nintendo 3DS). WHO WILL WIN !?!? it is a fierce battle indeed... (kaoru wins obviously)

[themattress]

Danganronpa Voice Compare

Monokuma is voiced by Brian Beacock in the games and Greg Ayres in the anime. In the first game, Beacock's performance was kind of all over the place, but he settled on a character voice by the last trial and stuck with it for the rest of the series (discounting that misguided attempt at sounding "warmer and friendlier" in the first half of V3 due to the character now being a parent with cubs, which only ended up being ear-splittingly annoying). Ayres, meanwhile, maintained a consistent voice from start to finish: high-pitched and whimsical yet also sardonic and cruel, with a pronounced growly quality as befitting of a bear. So I'm giving this one to Greg Ayres. I love Beacock's voice for him too, but Ayres' take is just more fun.

Both Junko Enoshima and her twin sister Mukuro Ikusaba were voiced by the same person: Bennett Abara in the games and Jamie Marchi in the anime (in the first two games, Erin Fitzgerald also voiced Junko's "cool", "professor", and "Monokuma" personas). Both give highly committed performances, but my preference comes down to one major difference: Abara makes the Japanese-accurate choice of making Junko sound different than Mukuro impersonating her, with Mukuro sounding more aggressive and Valley Girl-y whereas Junko is smooth and sinister. Marchi, meanwhile, bafflingly has Junko sounding exactly like her phony counterpart, Valley Girl-isms and everything, which undercuts the menace she's supposed to have. Similarly, her Mukuro keeps the voice on even as she's dying, whereas Abara makes her voice drop in pitch and sound more natural. So Bennett Abara wins here.

Kyoko Kirigiri is voiced by Erika Harlacher in the games and Caitlin Glass in the anime. Both sound pretty similar, but Glass nails it right out of the gate, whereas during the first two trials of the first game Harlacher seems to swing back and forth between a natural sounding tone and a more forced, stilted, almost robotic tone, which makes several lines sound weird and accidentally funny. That's why I'd say that Caitlin Glass edges out for me, if only slightly.

Byakuya Togami is voiced by Jason Wishnov in the games and Jessie James Grelle in the anime. If he had kept sounding like he did up until the second trial, I would have given this to Wishnov. He has the cold, intellectual and smug tone down perfectly. But then starting early into the second trial, his vocal pitch suddenly rises and he starts using strange inflections or some sort of faint accent that makes Byakuya sound like a total dweeb! There are times where he still does a good job, mainly when Byakuya has to emote strongly, but beyond that he sounds like Sheldon Cooper from The Big Bang Theory! Grelle may be a little hammier in the role than is necessary, but their voice is charismatic and consistent, and I can take him seriously as essentially a modern day prince, so Jessie James Grelle is the superior VA.

Toko Fukawa is voiced by Bennett Abara in the games and Carli Mosier in the anime. Both do a great job, but I'm once again going with Bennett Abara here, since Mosier tends to be "on" at all times in terms of making Toko sound extremely neurotic, while Abara, in addition to giving her a more endearing stuttering quirk, can play her more subtly when needed, which especially helps in Ultra Despair Girls where the character has a lot more serious moments.

Toko's split personality of Genocide Jack, however, is voiced by Erin Fitzgerald rather than Bennett Abara, while the anime retains Carli Mosier as her VA. On the one hand, Mosier sounds more like what you'd expect a crazed serial killer whose tongue is constantly flopping out of their mouth to sound like. But on the other hand, the energy and distinctive cackle that Fitzgerald provides is iconic, and while her initial performance is a little too high-pitched, she evens it out in Ultra Despair Girls. Tough call, but I ultimately have to go with Erin Fitzgerald.

Yasuhiro Hagakure is voiced by Kaiji Tang in the games and Christopher Bevins in the anime. Let's get this one out of the way quickly - I think Bevins is the weakest link of the original anime dub cast by far. He's doing this stereotypical stoner / surfer dude voice and it just sounds annoying, which makes it frustrating that Hiro ends up surviving to the very end and you have to put up with that voice. Tang not only sounds more natural, but his line readings are legitimately hilarious, making Hiro more likely to amuse you even as he annoys the other characters, so you don't mind being saddled with him the whole game. Kaiji Tang wins.

Aoi Asahina is voiced by Cassandra Lee Morris in the games and Felicia Angelle in the anime. Their voices are eerily similar, to the point of being practically identical. That means the decisive factor comes down to performance, and the fourth chapter is where that really comes into play due to the emotional material the character has. And even though the anime version of it sucks compared to the game, Angelle has the stronger performance. With Morris there's too much of a sense that she's acting and is following a voice director's instructions, whereas Angelle legitimately sounds like a broken girl. Not to mention that because it transpires after the gameplay portion of the trial much of the most emotional material isn't fully voice acted in the game, whereas it is in the anime. So Felicia Angelle is my choice.

Sayaka Maizono is voiced by Dorothy Fahn in the games and Monica Rial in the anime. It's funny...Fahn is great in Danganronpa except for this role. Her voice for Sayaka sounds too plain and doesn't match up to the allure that Makoto is constantly describing, nor can you really picture her as a confident idol on stage. The worst part is her breakdown after seeing Monokuma's motive video: Fahn's acting is way too subdued and so I don't buy into it like I should, which harms the effectiveness of the events that follow. Rial sounds a lot cuter and more energetic, plus she absolutely nails the breakdown, thus Monica Rial easily wins here.

Leon Kuwata is voiced by Grant George in the games and Justin Cook in the anime. I'm sorry, but George kind of sucks as Leon. He sounds too much like a doofus to believe that this guy has even remotely a shot at being seen as a cool superstar, and aside from a few moments here and there his performance is the first class trial is just awful. It feels like he wasn't shown how his character was supposed to look when saying these lines, turning his breakdown into a silly, underwhelming occurance. Justin Cook is thus the better Leon.

Kiyotaka Ishimaru is voiced by Sean Chiplock in the games and Austin Tindle in the anime. Both give similar performances and both are very good, especially in the genuinely emotional moments they have in the second trial. However, I feel like Tindle's voice sounds a little more believable as a high schooler despite being older than Chiplock. So Austin Tindle wins.

Mondo Owada is voiced by Keith Silverstein in the games and Chris Sabat in the anime. This is a weird one because Silverstein has by far the better voice while Sabat has by far the better performance. Silverstein is able to sound believable as a teenager whereas Sabat sounds like a grown man. I get why they wanted him to provide his Kazuma Kuwabara voice for the character given the similarities, but it's highly distracting. On the flip side, Silverstein suffers from the same wonky voice direction that has plagued other VAs in the first game, sounding irate when he should sound furious and calmly solemn when he should sound on the verge of tears, which is an issue Sabat doesn't have. Therefore, it's a difficult choice for me to make. I'd ultimately say for voice alone Keith Silverstein edges out, but only a little.

Celestia Ludenberg is voiced by Marieve Herington in the games and Lindsay Seidel in the anime. This is yet another extremely hard choice to make, because both of them are really, really good. Herington gives a stoic, intentionally stilted performance with a French accent, which pays off in the third trial when she begins hamming it up like crazy with a sharp-voiced Texan accent that gives way to her struggling to regain the French accent and sounding psychotically high-pitched and emotional when attempting it. Seidel, meanwhile, has no accent and speaks in a charismatic, refined tone of voice, then goes equally sharp and bombastic when breaking down during the third trial. Both performances fit the character like a glove, so it's going to take something very small to push one over the other for me. And that small thing is Celeste's last words, which are delivered calmly yet with clearly suppressed emotion in the natural Texan accent by Herington, while Seidel sticks with her usual voice which isn't as effective. So for that, Marieve Herington wins, even if, again, just barely.

Hifumi Yamada is voiced by Lucien Dodge in the games and Tyson Rinehart in the anime. We're yet again facing another dilemma, since Dodge's performance in the original game is wildly inconsistent due to the voice direction problems. Sometimes he gets it down and has the piggish rasp in his voice that the character is supposed to have, but other times he just sounds like an ordinary nerd which doesn't fit the character design. Rinehart is a lot more consistent, but the voice he uses which seems to be channeling Comic Book Guy from The Simpsons only works for Hifumi's comical moments, meaning the few times you're meant to take him seriously or feel for him go right out the window (Felicia Angelle even made fun of this fact when talking about Hifumi's death scene). But then, Hifumi is kind of hard to ever take seriously in the anime as is; the design looks even goofier translated to animation and is chronically off model in terms of both height and weight. So I'm going with Tyson Rinehart.

Sakura Oogami is voiced by Jessica Gee George in the games and Rachel Robinson in the anime. Finally, an easy choice! George's voice is on point, but her line delivery sounds way too aggressive at almost all times, which goes against the Zen-style calm that's supposed to be the character's default. In V3, her performance is better, but the voice has deteriorated and sounds too macho, which again goes against the character who is supposed to be quite feminine despite her outward appearance. Rachel Robinson carries this one pretty easily.

Chihiro Fujisaki (and Alter Ego) is voiced by Dorothy Fahn in the games and Kara Edwards in the anime. While both do a fine job, the fact of the matter is that whatever you think of Chihiro, the character is meant to be biologically male. I don't hear that in Edwards' voice, while I do in Fahn's, which is fittingly androgynous. Dorothy Fahn is thus my preference.

Jin Kirigiri is voiced by Keith Silverstein in the games and J Michael Tatum in the anime. Silverstein does fine; the problem is that his voice is way too distinct, so all you can think when hearing him is "that's Mondo!" and it's really distracting. J Michael Tatum is the winner.

While voiced in one line by Cassandra Lee Morris when she was a brief, nameless cameo in the first game, Komaru Naegi is voiced by Cherami Leigh in Ultra Despair Girls and Alexis Tipton in the anime. Tipton is a great VA and does a fine job, but Leigh is naturally the one who gets all of the good material. So Cherami Leigh wins, and it's not especially close.

For all the rest, it's the game VAs who win over the anime VAs, and here's why:

Aaron Dismuke sounds like a generic, thuggish young gangster, whereas Derek Stephen Prince imbues Fuyuhiko with all of the proper temper, snark, emotion and vulnerability. In fact, I'd argue that Fuyuhiko is one of Prince's best roles ever; that is how good he is.

Similarly, Clarine Harp's Peko is standard warrior woman fare, lacking the cuteness and emotion that Janice Kawaye provides which matches up with Kotono Mitsuishi's take.

No matter what you think of Wendee Lee, her voice is way more fitting for Akane and less annoying than Garrett's, and while Brina Palencia is an excellent VA, her voice for Ibuki isn't as appealing as Julie Ann Taylor's who has way more of an off-the-wall energy to her.

Scott Frerichs is clearly just doing an imitation of Chris Tergliafera, whose bombastic, iconic, hold-nothing-back performance as Gundham single-handedly made his whole career.

Finally, WTF is up with Munoz's voice for Usami / Monomi!? It's as if she was just told that the character is a teacher so she gives her a cartoonish "teacher" voice, which not only sounds irritating but it's also all wrong. Being a teacher is just the role Usami / Monomi has accepted, her base character is that of a Magical Girl. Rebecca Forstadt nails that voice, sounding almost identical to Takako Sasuga, meaning she wins the biggest curb stomp victory here.

[into-september]

Code Geass up to ep 8-ish

oh my god Suzaku is voiced by Takahiro Sakurai in Japanese

(the dub crew also includes George Grant and Crispin Freeman and I kept thinking "Greg Ayres? sounds kinda funky tho" and it wasn't! it was Brian Beacock)

it say something about something that this was the most important thing I have to say about the show this far

The experience of very Clamp characters in a story that has some smidge of intelligence about the topics it discusses. I like.

Every time Suzaku talks to a girl I start shipping him with her. Suzaku/Kallen, Suzaku/Nunally, Suzaku/swim team classmate with a tsuntsun crush on Lelouch but it sure was Suzaku who fell on top of her

Lelouch and Suzaku's friendship feels regretfully pastede on yey this far. Might be a dub thing.

Might also be that I'm not really vibing with Lelouch. Like I get that he's supposed to be a good kid radicalised thanks to shitty dad, but at the point where he was shooting his half brother at close range after he mind-controlled several soldiers into gunning themselves down it's kind of a hard buy that this is someone who has. You know. Normal human feelings. No matter how cute he is about poor disabled little sister

Still selling that conflict way, way better than Light Yagami did, I'll give him that though

But re. the Clamp thing: this is show is alternate history Evil American Empire vs plucky colonised rebels in this day and age, less than a week after I finally got around to watching "The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2" and having thoughts about that one, and I'm here talking about the high school shenanigans and the most I can say about Lelouch's ambitions is that Donald Sutherland's name sure was an irony in today's context

I do want to know if Lelouch and Euphemia had some kind of relationship

[cosplayinamerica]

by Zippy

After visiting my first anime convention in my final months of college in March 2007, DaigaCon in Bowling Green, Kentucky, I knew I needed to seek out more conventions to feed my burgeoning love of anime and the fan community. This led me to wake up my sister super early on September 22nd, 2007 to take the nearly two hour drive down from Chattanooga to the Cobb Galleria, where I’d participate in my first, but certainly not last, Anime Weekend Atlanta (AWA). At the time AWA was celebrating its 13th year, with a “mere” 10,000 attendees, a third of what was estimated to have attended in 2022. 

For my eyes though, entering Anime Weekend Atlanta was like discovering a bustling Otaku metropolis full of strange sights, sounds, and perhaps smells too. I planned a full schedule of panels including one featuring some of my favorite podcasters Anime World Order, which I found had Otaku Generation members in attendance as well – I fanboyed hard over all of them. I also ensured we would meet some of the guests, and specifically my sister and I both wanted to meet Greg Ayres who then, and everytime I’ve met him since, has been an absolute treasure. Of course we also marveled at all the cosplays too, and to this day my sister and I still recall some of our favorite cosplays we saw that year including a fancy deer cosplayer who bowed upon meeting us! After exhausting ourselves with panels, events, and running around, with the tiredness leading to some sibling squabbles, we took a break and relaxed in line outside the door for the concerts of the evening featuring Peelander-Z, The Emeralds, and The Captains. After rocking alongside the bands, in the late PM early AM hours, we drove back where I summarily had my first post-AWA sleep and recovery. This day still is treasured in my heart and my memories.

Since my trek down to my first AWA, my love of the con, as well as its importance in my life, has grown year after year. As a member of the press in attendance for many years, I had the pleasure to interview some incredible people including the author Helen McCarthy, music artist and producer Taku Takahashi, Otaku USA founder Patrick Macias, and DJ/producer TeddyLoid to name a few. I’ve also made many lifelong friendships, which makes AWA feel as much like a reunion as it does a convention. I’ve even had my share of heartbreak connected to the con, with friends who used to attend with me passing away, and also missed moments and lost connections over the years. All in all it has added up to the con becoming an incredible part of my life, which I think is why I was especially feeling emotional leading into this final year at the Cobb Galleria.

This year was my 16th trip to the convention, which I’ve attended consecutively (excluding the year of the Covid cancellation) since that first trip down in 2007. (This was also Anime Weekend Atlanta’s 29th year in existence.) My place in fandom has certainly evolved since then, as I’m now the former president of an anime club, former radio host of an J-Pop/J-Rock/anime college radio show, and former director for an anime con that ran for seven years. My time spent watching anime has dropped significantly too, less due to lack of interest and more time obligations, and so though my love of anime, anime cons, and the culture therein has never waned, I’ve seen myself go from a young upstart to becoming a somewhat elder statesmen looking on as new generations take their own paths into the fandom. I caveat that all to say that coming into this year’s Anime Weekend Atlanta was emotional at the onset, as the rumor mill had predicted – correctly so – a move from the Cobb Galleria, AWA’s home for the last twenty years, to the future home of the con the Georgia World Congress Center.

Many of us undoubtedly had and have mixed feelings about the move, though as a past con runner myself I certainly understand many of the pressures and the reasoning for the move, but without yet thinking too much on the future we all wanted to focus on the time and present and to enjoy this convention to its fullest. Thanks to a combination of wonderful weather, an incredible array of guests, panels, vendors, and artists, nearly everyone I encountered was able to do just that and seemed to really enjoy their AWA experience to the fullest.

Certainly there were some changes: the hotel introduced wristbands for the lobby, the main path of flow between the Cobb Galleria and the Renaissance Waverly was reversed (I eventually got used to it), and registration was in the old theater, which feels like it should’ve been used from the start. Yet what remained the same spoke to the success of the con over the years and presented a positive outlook for its future. I’m specifically speaking of things like the packed, yet fun if you got inside, Super Happy Fun Sell. I’m also including the many incredible music performances such as the rave, highlighted by the inclusion of TeddyLoid and Taku Takahashi of M-Flo. I of course have to shout out the full array of guests, who drew folks to their panels and to the back of the dealer’s hall for autographs in droves. Likewise the panels were awesome as always, including Dave Merrill’s Anime Hell, a panel whose presence over the years has been like a steady anchor in the everchanging schedule. (Merrill helped create Anime Weekend Atlanta, and previously served as con chairman.) Lastly and most importantly everywhere in the con there were fans of all ages, some in cosplays which is always incredible to see, who through their presence and participation in the con showed their love for the fandom and for each other by helping to create this place for us all to just geek out for a weekend.

It’s important I think to remember that the fans are the rock of conventions like Anime Weekend Atlanta. Merrill in his opening for Anime Hell highlighted the work of every fan at the con, and in the American anime community at large, who through our presence and support not only helped make Anime Weekend Atlanta happen all these years, but also helped build the anime fandom that now flourishes in America. “We did that”, Merrill emphasized, giving credit to fans over companies. That’s an incredibly resonant point and a reminder that while AWA may change in various ways over the years, as long as fans remain, and as long as it’s a welcome home for this community, no matter where the convention will take place it’ll have a lasting life for present and future anime fans for many years to come.

Zippy is a contributor to Cosplay in America as well as editor of Last Looks

[lunawings]

I did something cool this past weekend! Well really, I did a lot of cool things, but one I wanted to mention in particular.

I was at a tiny little convention up in Maine that apparently Greg Ayres is (the only?) celebrity guest at every year. This year, he brought an unreleased English-language CD of music for the anime BECK Mongolian Chop Squad, which I have never seen, but still, I had to go listen.

Greg asked us not to record and I respected that. But it was just a cool thing to be in the room and discover something like this since I watch lost media videos on YouTube all the time.

I don't know if anyone is searching for this, but I wanted to put it out there that if you are, simply find a convention Greg Ayres is at and go talk to him (a pretty easy thing to do).

(This was at Animaine 12 in November 2024 btw, the year on my badge is wrong.)

[ultraericthered]

Anime Update V2 49

NOTICE: There’ll be something of a hiatus before the next of these posts due to two reasons - it’s the big V2 50 and I want to prepare extra for it, and I’m currently on vacation and started on a special anime rewatch (my current icon should clue you in).

Tokyo Magnitude 8.0 - Episode 1 of this series was certainly something, spending its whole run time on just showing us what the main characters are doing at that time in their lives, a steady but anxious build up to when Mirai tempts fate by saying the whole world could break apart for all she cared...and then at that very moment, it does. Even before the earthquake, this is a bit of a challenge to sit through since Mirai is just such an unlikable little shit of a main protagonist, but I love that she is because it’s in a very human, dare I say even relatable sort of way and adds that much more weight to the drama that’s going to be unfolding with her as our lead. In the dub, Luci Christian is almost unrecognizable in her performance as Mirai, same going for Tiffany Grant as her little brother Yuki. Side characters aren’t so fortunate, as the likes of Brittany Karbowski and Greg Ayres are very distinct to make out, and apparently they will be used a lot. Lastly, that “M/elody” ending song is a major banger!

Hunter x Hunter - While Hisoka meets back up with the Spiders as they intend on tracking down a Nen user whose ability can remove others' Nen, and Gon continues his training with Biscuit while Killua is recuperating his hands, Team Tsezgerra takes on Team Genthru. And after all that action, there was a startling twist at the end where Tsezgerra exits the game but finds no one on guard where all the Greed Island consoles are stored, finds Mr. Battera crying as he reveals the whole deal behind the game has been cancelled, and then Team Genthru break in there too, free to reign as they please!

Fruits Basket - An episode that started out cute with a talk between Hiro and Kisa turns into a major downer when we follow Rin and finally learn her devastating backstory. On top of the parents who adopted her being super fake and ultimately heartless creatures who had no business looking after a child in the first place, the romantic relationship with Haru that she got into causes her more trouble when she starts fearing that she’s going to drag him down and keep him bound to the Zodiac Curse, and then just to pile the trauma on more, Akito fucking pushes her off a balcony and sends her to the hospital! No wonder this poor girl is so beyond messed up now...

Date A Live S4 - Uh...okay, I noted that something was off when it looked like Shido was going to be killed in his room only for him to not be, but I totally didn’t anticipate the reveal of him having been killed by DEM already and having been saved from such deaths 204 times by Kurumi. Suddenly, everything about what Kurumi had been doing these past few episodes, the whole deal with Shido included, made so much more sense. The reveal I did see coming, however, was that <PHANTOM>, mysterious agent of the Spirit of Origins who’s created all the other Spirits, is actually Reine...or at least some version of her since the Reine we know is still with the Ratatyskr crew elsewhere at the same time. And then the episode just sort of ends without any finality, but we’re told that this is leading directly into Date A Live 5, the final season. Will have to await that for a while, but I hope it ends up looking and playing out better than this season did. 

Re:ZERO - Picked this up with two episodes that showed us a return to the capitol, the gathering of the Royal Selection candidates (Emilia, Priscilla, Krusch and Anastasia), the surprise reveal of Felt as the fifth and final candidate because apparently she has a noble blood lineage and Reinhard decides to be her knight (and while I’m selective about when I support systemic reformations via anarchy and forceful upheavals, I’m 100% with my girl Felt on her intended revolution based on what we’ve seen of this place!), Subaru being a dumbass by deliberating disobeying Emilia and showing up at the event (and some hints that Roswaal might’ve factored that into his mysterious plans), uncomfortable prejudice and scorn being thrown at Meelie for being a silver-haired half elf, and Sir Julius being totally justified in his anger at Subaru only to then take that rage completely off the rails by challenging him to a duel to the death over it! Geezus!

But it was everything after Subaru got thoroughly clobbered by Julius that sticks out the most in my memory, this absolutely breathtakingly harsh final scene between him and Emilia where Subaru is berated and tries over and over to justify to Emilia (and to himself) why he had to do what he did for her sake and to repay the debt he believes he owes her for all the loops she’s helped him in, all while holding Emilia up on a pedestal that she never asked to be put on. But as Meelie refuses to take his shit, eventually the guy just completely cracks and goes full Mask Off, rambling about how it’s actually he who should be owed a debt by Emilia for all the great things he’s done for her, that the courage and generosity he’s shown her and all the help he’s given her entitles him to the best treatment, including being Emilia’s knight. I was slackjawed at this moment and internally rooting for Meelie to LEAVE. HIS. ASS. And thank heavens, that’s what she does. Seeing how unstable and needy he is, and how poisonous their association with each other has gotten, Emilia cuts ties with Subaru and leaves him in the recovery room a pitiful, sobbing wreck. And folks, this is only the peak of the downhill slope! Rock bottom still awaits Subaru Natsuki in episodes to come...

Fate/Stay Night: Unlimited Blade Works - Honestly I found it a bit unnecessary to follow the premiere with ANOTHER one hour special episode just to catch us up with Shirou and explain where Saber came from. It was interesting to see some ground retread for this animation style and these new dub VAs, and also some material never adpated in the Deen anime (I particularly liked seeing Matt Mercer-voiced Kiritsugu again, that shit hits hard after Fate Zero), the one detriment is still Shirou’s voice. Bryce Papenbrook’s weird midway between Naegi and Nagito that he uses doesn’t do it for me, so I’m always going to think of Sam Reigel as Shirou Emiya. 

Symphogear G - The final two episodes of this season matched up in both expectation and quality to its predecessor. The fight between Kirika and Shirabe leading to them just holding nothing back in confessing love to each other was not a surprise, though seeing Shirabe also having Fine’s soul and abilities, Kirika’s attempted suicide, and a divine meeting with Fine herself certainly were. Also sort of predicted but still loved seeing Chris turn out to be a double agent, having worked out a deal with Tsubasa without a single word needing to be spoken between them. The big turnaround for Maria, the last stand of Dr. Ver, and the passing of Nastassja were perfectly satisfactory (Ver’s super Extra hamminess, constant cowardice, and big mental breakdown were especially great to watch), and we got a cosmic level final battle to put the previous finale’s final action to shame! Hibiki being totally free of the Gugnir scrap in her heart, Miku playing a key part in saving the day, the villainous Symphogears now joining the main friend group, and the message at the end were all multiple cherries on top of a concoction that already tasted so sweet. 

MAR - Nanashi VS Gallian. This is what the whole round was being built up to since before it started, so it had better damn be interesting. And oooh man, was it ever. Turns out Gallian is the former leader of Nanashi’s guild who’d found Nanashi and brought him into the guild, gave him a name, trained him and worked alongside him as a brother, and made him his successor...but Nanashi at first could not recall any of this because Gallian had wiped his memory of him! Seeing Galian with the Chess Pieces now, I thought to myself  “wouldn’t it be something if we learn how far back this goes and that Gallian was never that good a guy to start with...”, and the show went on to give me exactly that! This scumbag even let Peta slaughter so many of his former comrades and raze his old home to the ground, feeling no remorse for trading it all out for power! Once we knew this, I was really wanting to see Nanashi take him down, and the moment it happened was oh so glorious to witness.

Gintama - Circled back around to that beach episode I gave a pass on earlier since I’m on a beach vacation right now. Odd Jobs, Otae, and Taizo Hasegawa head to the beach to get rid of a monster that's been terrorizing the area. It goes about exactly as you’d expect.

AND

Gurren Lagann, Kill La Kill, & Sakugan - Gurren Lagann was just Gurren Lagann (the weird as shit episode 6 that seems to exist just to riff on stupid anime tropes while reveling in its own stupidity and making fools of every character) and Kill La Kill was just Kill La Kill (Nui’s majorly trolling and Ryuko’s majorly hating, at the cost of poor Senketsu!), Sakugan was an entirely new experience. I’ll admit that the main characters names made me laugh a lot of times when they got spoken (”Gagumber” and “Memempu” just sound so silly), and the whole thing was just all kinds of strange and goofy for the most part, but the idea that they’re a single father and daughter team out to survive in an enviornment where there are kaiju and other such hazards out to kill them definitely has promise. Also, that death of the other father-daughter team - what was that? That was so much tonally darker and more dramatic than anything else in the episode! Are such random demises going to be a thing here? Cuz I think we’d need more mental preparation and down time!

[percepeony]

Do you have any headcanons about Bevhavioral Event Network?

Only one, which is their voice actor being Greg Ayres, who voiced Monokuma.

Yknow what, I remember headcanoning BEN’s personality a mixed of Monokuma’s and Kokichi’s back then and I still do. They just fit them so well.

(when my creepypasta and danganronpa phase were colliding ahhdjs)

Thinking of it now, I might just do a small animatic of BEN playing as Monokuma

That famous catchphrase, “IIIIIT’S PUNISHMENT TIMEE!”

If BEN was in Monokuma’s place, you bet your darn ass they would let the killing game go on in full cycle without letting anyone die just for their amusement. They’re just so unhinged and I love it sm 💚

P. S. I personally love that one headcanon that I read here where BEN, as a student, would be the type to be very competitive and cocky in any possible way and would always get high grades like straight up A++. And them as a teacher would be your worst nightmare like they would definitely humiliate you for being dumb and would snap at anyone who would oppose them.

Edit: forgot to include this but BEN being nonbinary is pretty suitable for them since based from the jadusable wiki, their pronouns are it/they so 👌 also because they’re like a hivemind so it’s pretty understandable

[angel-is-not-creative]

Evangelion part 2

SUB/DUB

⭐⭐⭐⭐+1/2

I actually want to start this off with a quote that I think is relevant to the discussion we had on Monday.

In many parts of the world, war is a game in which the individual can win counters-counters which bring him prestige in the eyes of his own sex or of the opposite sex... The tie-up between proving oneself a man and proving this by a success in organized killing is due to a definition which many societies have made of manliness. Warfare is just an invention known to the majority of human societies by which they permit their young men either to accumulate prestige or avenge their honor or acquire loot or wives or slaves or sago lands or cattle or appease the blood lust of their gods or the restless souls of the recently dead.

We have begun to tie masculinity, violence, war together, which only leads to more dangerous men and a more dangerous world.

Shinji my poor poor boy, I'm not usually one for sympathizing with male characters (/j) but wow some of his lines just straight-up hurt. His being so happy to have been praised by his father was so heartbreaking.

It becomes clear in episode 16 that the adults are not all that worried about making sure Shinji makes it out of any situation alive, but rather that the Eva is rescued. They place the robots over the life of a human that is doing the killing for them. Despite being let down by many people in his life, Shinji continues to take the blame for everything.

The only person who is willing to protect him is his mother through the form of the Eva, she cannot protect him herself as she has been killed by her father (again showing the damage he has done to Shinji) but she can still protect Shinji as he is ultimately still innocent.

I find Asuka to be a little more relatable personally and her story is heartbreaking in every way. Having been abandoned by her parents, she doesn't feel like she can rely on anyone. So she has to be the smartest and the strongest so she never has to depend on anyone to save her, she can always save herself. She has been placing her value as a human in her ability to pilot Eva, which is why it hurts so bad when Shinji

(why do I have to suffer through this just because I'm a girl, it's not like I want children anyway... how did the Evangelion writers crawl into my head?)

Okay on to the gays!! (I'm starting to think Greg Ayres only knows how to voice gay icons). I can't imagine the pain Shinji felt in episode 24. He is has been bonded and hurt by the people who were supposed to love him, and now there is one person who claims to love him as he is but he has to kill him. He feels so hurt by the betrayal at first because it was another person who was supposed to love him and lied. Yet it wasn't really a lie, Kaworu does love Shinji, he represents a part of humanity that Kaworu cannot understand, it is something he wants to save, so he sacrifices himself for Shinji (something his father would certainly never do).

and now the confusing ending. The episodes starts with a really existential moment from Shinji where it seems they are all considering combining into one person. Shinji wonders who he would be without Eva, what truly makes him different from the people around him, and what his place in the world really is. Once he accepts that he could love himself and that his life is worth living as is, he is met with every important person in his life clapping (and then everyone clapped). I assume this was all some kind of test to get Shinji to find some self-worth and place his trust in others.

I'm gonna go read an explanation post now here is some Asuka content

shes a lesbian i make the rules here

[slade-neko]

Started watching Danganronpa: The Animation.

First thing I noticed is the change of voice actors from the original game. Like 95% of the characters have been re-dubbed and it kinda bugs me.

Their game voices have already been embedded into my mind, now I have to re-hear them as new voices. Mondo isn't Mondo without Keith Silverstein's voice. Now he's Chris Sabat? Which sounds like a delinquent Vegeta who's been to juvie. And everyone else just feels off too. Hiro's not the same without Kaiji Tang constantly screaming "Pleeeeease!" Oddly, Makoto is still voiced by Bryce Papenbrook, so that's nice.

Though my biggest gripe is Monokuma. His game voice is far too iconic sounding to just be re-dubbed. Greg Ayres is a good voice actor, but Brain Beacock seriously made Monokuma.

"A dead body has been discovered!"

[intheticklecloset]

I ramble about Abe because I love him

Below the cut because it's kind of long and very specific but I just had to write it out. <3

Can I just take a minute to explain how happy I am with Abe's English VA?

The first time I watched Big Windup I watched it subbed, because at the time I thought that was all that was available. I didn't know there was an English dub until I'd finished the first season (went on a rant about it, too). So before I dove into the second season I immediately rewatched the first with the English dub and to this day I am SO HAPPY that I did it that way. (I won't bore you with why because that's not what this post is about!)

Here's the thing. I had obviously gotten used to Abe's Japanese VA while watching it through the first time. And since he's my favorite character I was most excited to hear what he'd sound like in English. I had this idea in my head that he'd have a deeper, more serious kind of voice tone, based on who they'd gotten to play him in Japan.

Imagine my shock when GREG AYRES came out of Abe's mouth!

I loved Greg Ayers already; he voices a handful of characters in other anime I've seen (most notably Nishinoya from Haikyuu) and I really liked his voice before, but when I heard this light, boyish sound coming out of a character that I interpreted to be really serious it threw me a little at first. I was like, "Really? They chose HIM to voice ABE? That's...interesting."

What's even more interesting to me is how I've grown to adore Ayres' take on Abe's character. Again, I was used to him as Noya, who's this crazy positive ball of energy. But Abe is a more laid back kind of guy (until he gets riled up about something, usually concerning his impatience with Mihashi), so his lines are usually more standard and subdued than Noya's "LET'S GO LET'S GO LET'S GO" personality. But you know what? IT WORKS.

It is the craziest thing to me, but Greg Ayres as Abe WORKS in a way I cannot explain but am just so, so happy about. I love the life he gives the character, and honestly it's so funny to me to hear him yelling at Mihashi when he gets angry because it's so opposite of what I've heard from him in the past but he's GOOD AT IT.

It's also even more reason for me to wish they'd dubbed season two. Abe has SO MUCH GROWTH in that season that I'll never get to hear Greg Ayres' take on and it just makes me so sad because I love Abe so much.

God, I love Abe.

Anyway, I just wanted to ramble. After that anon asked me what I liked about the anime earlier I'm still sitting here thinking of all the little things, but this one is a bigger deal to me personally, so I wanted to share my thoughts. If you actually made it this far, kudos to you. XD

[queen-of-my-goofball-army]

"The term "peer pressure" usually has negative connotation. It usually is about getting people to do bad things. When I eventually caved into my version of peer pressure from my two best friends in the Haikyuu fandom, they seemed certain that there would be another husbando that joined my army. Needless to say I'm embarrassed that my friends know me so well they're able to read me like an open book."

Guys, this feels like the end of an era. I never thought that I'd actually get to the point where I would be all caught up with Haikyuu. Where there would be no more platonic comfort characters or husbandos for me to talk about. This show has made such a huge impact on me as a person. In a lot of ways, it's ruined me but I was so happy when I would watch the show. It's such a motivating and beautiful show of friendship and finding your place in the world. It was a show that took me by complete surprise and pretty much ran over my type with a dumpster truck with the amount of goofballs that plagued this series.

I was putting off completing the fourth and final season that's out right now because for one it's only in Japanese as of right now. I had to switch gears and switch languages which was a bit of a challenge. It was especially hard from me to go from hearing Greg Ayres's adorably high pitched voice to a deeper voice. It low key kind of hurt my soul. But at the same time I'm glad that I caved and watched the show in Japanese because I got the pleasure of watching Atsumu Miya. He was worth the shift of gears from languages, characters not sounding like how I'm used to hearing them sound, weird inflections for the humor, and everything that was different from the chaotic dub.

Atsumu was one of the characters that my two best friends (@moons-and-stars-and-shit and @lazyangryhedgehog) had been warning me about and also hyping me up to get to over these last few weeks since I finished season three and started a simping discord for my two favorite crazies. Both of them were insistent that I watch the show's final season that has been made to date because they knew that I'd fall in love with the setter for Inarizaki Academy.

We first meet Atsumu it's at the All Japan Training Camp. At first I didn't really know how to feel about the setter. I admitted to myself that he was cute but that was about all that was there. But once we actually saw him start to play volleyball with his twin brother (if you ship these two I swear to god I will stomp you with my hooves-) and the energy that his team carried I found myself being drawn to the setter more and more. Once I had realized that I had already caught feels for yet another setter I was already in too deep.

The best thing about Tsumu though is that he isn't rooted into one specific position. He sets sometimes, he spikes other times while Samu sets for him. That was the beauty of his character was that he was versatile but also scary good at what he could do on the court. He posed a legitimate threat to my best boi Nishinoya because he couldn't receive his serves properly. There are very few people that can pose an actual threat to Noya that he can't recover from and he needs to rely on other people in order to help him out. Atsumu was the only one that I remember seeing in this entire show that made Noya terrified that he couldn't help out his team.

I loved the antics of Atsumu with his teammates. His childish nature and just free spirited love of the game was what drew me into his character. He was just so deep down childish and often had to be babysat by the other members of his team. But it was obvious that they all still deep down cared about them even when Tsumu and Samu would do things that they didn't practice beforehand. If I had to label an exact moment when I knew that I was absolutely forever screwed and that h was a part of the army it was when his brother told him that he regressed at least five ages during a game and I laughed so hard I was crying. His love of the sport, combined with his childlike nature, adorable accent that I hope will be dubbed right when the time for that comes, and the fact that he was still encouraging of Shoyo despite the fact that they beat his team.

Growing up, my type was always the characters that would make me laugh the most. They just stored so much serotonin inside of them and made the show even better. Tsumu became one of the Haikyuu characters that made me laugh the most other than Kuroo and Tendou. To say, getting into this show that I was expecting to come out with nine more husbandos than I had going into it, was a surprise for me. It's been a journey but I'm so grateful for this fandom. This show has brought me an amazing friend that I love now, it's also taught me so much about myself. It's about determination and never giving up. This show inspires me continuously and I love it's characters more than anything. Thank you everyone for coming with me on this journey of chaos. I'm so appreciative of every single like, every single conversation that this show has brought to me. So many amazing people are a part of this fandom and I hope to meet many more of them in the future.

I've also decided to start doing requests for edits again! I'd love to start making them for other people than just myself and friendship appreciation edits.

[genesisrose74]

AM I??? ME?? THE RESIDENT TENDOU SATORI SIMP A HAIKYUU FAN??? DAMN RIGHT! but i 100% agree with the va comments,,, ngl i kinda prefer dub sometimes JUSt becuase Daichis country boy voice cracks me up and the way Tanaka carries the entire dub,,, also for the stage play the actor for hinata (Kenta Suga) is a ray of sunshine and i love him,,, i could rant so long about anything haikyuu I swear

FKDSJFJFDJ I LOVE CHICKEN TENDOU SO MUCH, I DID NOT LEARN “BAKI BAKI NI ORE~” IN BOTH THE SUB AND DUB JUST TO DISLIKE THE UNHINGED FERAL CHILD

No for real though, for only showing up for season three and a little teensy bit of season four, he’s got so much character and depth to him that I frankly find it impossible to dislike him. 10/10 taste

Dub Haikyuu is genuinely the funniest thing, and personally despite a few instances very early on where some of the scenes are a bit questionable emotionally (looking at you, crying hinata from season one), the emotion is still there for me. Also, hard agree with Daichi and FREAKIN TANAKA IS THE BEST. Another unpopular opinion, but dub Nishinoya >>>> as well. First time I watched Nishi in the sub I almost choked because his voice was so deep skssjksdk—

Oh and additionally, THANK YOU FOR THE DUB APPRECIATION!! Frankly if I find an anime with a dub option that I deem decent, I will absolutely watch it. Some of my favorite voice actors are from dub anime - for instance, Greg Ayres (who voices Nishinoya and a whole bunch of other lovable anime characters), Todd Haberkorn (who is Natsu Dragneel + Hikaru Hitachiin), and Justin Briner (who does the English voices for Izuku Midoriya and Hanako). Like, they’re all so damn talented and I will stand by that despite all the shit that dubs get. Both sub and dub can be good or bad people!! Don’t hate on each other for watching one or the other!

Anyways lol, the stage play is a gift to the world, I love it so much. Nekoma’s cheer especially is just MMMM — love it to pieces and it looks so fun to witness and be a part of ☺️ they’re all lovely

[hcllsbells]

Name: Noel Jinglemeijer Age: Unknown, died when twenty-one, possibly in the 2000′s Date of Birth/Date of Death: December 24th/February 12th Place of Birth: Unknown Gender: Male (DFAB) Race/Species: Demon/Reindeer Language(s): English, Latin

Physical Description Height: 4′6″ Weight: Unknown

Sin: Pride

Eternal Punishment: The soft jingling of bells whenever he moves.

Weapon of Choice: Christmas tree shaped Shuriken stars/blades

Body Type: pudgy, chubby

Occupation: Minion of Alastor (main verse, @grimgrinnr)

Personality/Attributes Personality/Attitude: Bubbly & extroverted, a bit of a daredevil & prankster, ill tempered, gets jealous easily, impulsive Mental illness(es)/disorders: borderline personality disorder, PTSD Sexual Preferences: Pansexual Demiromantic Place/Type of Residence: Family: Winthrop & Cadence (parents), Hollie (twin sister)

Trivia:

-his favorite holiday is Christmas.

-LOVES to sing holiday songs!

-loves to play pranks on others, no matter how cruel the prank.

-rarely leaves Hollie’s side.

-has a huge crush on Alastor, and it’s... not exactly a secret. 

-has normal demonic powers/magic, but also has christmas & winter related magic/abilities.

VA: Hikaru Hitachiin (Todd Michael Haberkorn)

Name: Hollie Jinglemeijer Age: Unknown, died when twenty-one, possibly during the 2000′s Date of Birth/Date of Death: December 24th/February 12th Place of Birth: Unknown Gender: Female Race/Species: Demon/Reindeer Language(s): English, Latin

Physical Description Height: 4′6″ Weight: Unknown

Sin: Envy

Eternal Punishment: The soft jingling of bells whenever she moves.

Weapon of Choice: Peppermint stick shaped scythe

Body Type: pudgy, chubby

Occupation: Minion of Alastor (mainverse, @grimgrinnr)

Personality/Attributes Personality/Attitude: A little more reserved than her brother, impish, gets jealous easily, sensitive, thinks things through Mental illness(es)/disorders: generalized anxiety disorder, PTSD, borderline personality disorder Sexual Preferences: Pansexual Panromantic Place/Type of Residence: Family: Winthrop & Cadence (parents), Noel (twin brother)

Trivia:

-like Noel, her favorite holiday is Christmas.

-she knows how to ballroom dance.

-she adores Christmas songs.

-rarely leaves Noel’s side.

-is a HUGE Alastor fan.

-has normal demonic powers/magic, but also has christmas magic & winter magic and abilities.

VA: Kaoru Hitachiin (Greg Ayres)

BACKSTORY:

* The twins were born in a quiet town on the eve of Christmas. Winthrop & Cadence named them ‘Noelle’ & ‘Hollie’. Noel was physically born female, choosing to go by the ‘male’ version of his name when he came out at age fourteen. The twins adored Christmas, just as their own parents did. The family was incredibly loving and close, nothing could break their bond.

* Sadly, their mother fell ill one night and for four months was bedridden. On Christmas day, Cadence revealed to the twins… that she was dying. Lung cancer, perhaps if it’d been detected earlier things would have turned out better. Not wanting them to be sad on such a special holiday, Cadence ignored her pain to ensure they all had a wonderful Christmas. Tears were shed, of course, but the twins didn’t resent the holiday even though they should. No, it made them appreciate it even more. Later that night… Cadence passed in her sleep.

* The twins, though still had Christmas in their hearts, no longer had kindness. Because of their mother’s death, they decided the only friends they needed were each other. They grew bitter and envious of others, especially those who had mothers, and chose to delve into rather… illegal practices such as theft, street fights, and arson.

* Soon afterward... the Radio Demon himself appeared to the two, and offered them a deal. Their mother back, for their souls. The twins, desperate to have their mother back in their lives, agreed and shook Alastor’s hand. It didn’t take long however, for their crimes to catch up with them... or the police for that matter.

* Was it Alastor’s doing? Who knew. The twins resisted arrest and attempted to attack, which only resulted in them getting shot directly in the neck and killed.

* Sent to Hell for their crimes, they now work as Alastor’s ( @grimgrinnr ) minions. ...not that they mind; they enjoy his company!