#Tanaka Rie

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[suminomiyyas]

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Ever wanted to hear Suigintō’s voice actress sing a Queen pastiche?

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It's Kurebayashi tradition to order the most diabetes-inducing sweet mid traumatic lore dump

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Cosmic Era has transition techs beyond our wildest dreams

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Hey. This is my possibly favorite Noble Phantasm line in FGO.

But you can’t appreciate it if you don’t get the Buddhist reference, so come over here and let’s learn some Buddhism with the sexy nun:

What, you might ask, is an abhisecana (or abhisheka) rite?

As I understand it, it’s an initiation rite for a practitioner who is advancing in their study of the Dharma. In some Buddhist schools, including Shingon—the school from which Tachikawa-ryu, Kiara’s school, branches off (which we don’t know much about, because it’s long-dead IRL and was subject to political book burnings, but that’s another story—this rite involves a student being assigned to a bodhisattva, whose teachings and/or qualities they will study to guide their development and give them direction.

Rather than let a student choose a bodhisattva based on their preconceptions at the time of the ritual, they are blindfolded and cast a flower onto a mandala—like the womb realm mandala, shown below—and whoever it lands on, that’s who they go with.

But Kiara is, as always, encouraging living beings to give up their heavenly aspirations—to cast their flower instead on the mandala of the realm of desire. Let it fall where it may—chase whatever vice or illusion your whims take you to.

But make no mistake.

However it falls, there’s only one bodhisattva that will watch over you as you dance in the palm of her hand.

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Happy 45th birthday, Rie Tanaka!

Characters pictured above (from left to right):

Lisa (Mara Junot) from Genshin Impact

Chii (Michelle Ruff) from Chobits

Neptune/Purple Heart (Melissa Fahn) from Neptunia

Suigintou (Karen Strassman and Jessica Calvello) from Rozen Maiden

Lacus Clyne (Chantal Strand, Stephanie Sheh, and Caitlynne Medrek) from Mobile Suit Gundam SEED

Darya Nikitina (Rachel Robinson) from Dr. Stone

Treyni (Jamie Marchi) from TenSura

Elsha (Elizabeth Maxwell) from High School DxD

Aphrodite (Reba Buhr) from Record of Ragnarok

Maria from Hayate the Combat Butler

Maho Nishizumi (Kimberly Prause) from Girls und Panzer

Mitsuru Kirijo (Tara Platt and Allegra Clark) from Persona 3

Rosetta from Granblue Fantasy

Chosen One's Archpriestess Veronica (Analesa Fisher) from Guardian Tales

Ameliance Leveilleur (Gemma Whelan) from Final Fantasy XIV

Bela Dimitrescu (Bekka Prewitt) from Resident Evil

Characters not pictured:

Himeko (Cia Court) from Honkai: Star Rail (given that the image was made before HSR was out)

Kiara Sessyoin from Fate Grand/Order

Sakuya Izayoi in Touhou: A Summer Day's Dream

Duke of York from Azur Lane

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Dude there’s no way you can put that into your mouth

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