#Tsuzuki Kei

[imasallstars]

[04/02] HAPPY BIRTHDAY KEI TSUZUKI!

Voice Provider: Shunichi Toki (土岐隼一)

[gachagachaart]

[ikuhara]

Artwork from VOL 2. of the SideM × FiFs Illustration exhibit “THREE ONE FIVE”

[rakkiinoko]

i drew kei as a marionette for the sidem halloween collab on twitter!

take a look at the full collab and check out everyone's artwork!

[vocalnobiusfish]

🎶🎶🎵🎺🐈‍⬛✨

[incorrect-idolmastersidem-quotes]

Jun: Hello?! HELLO?! Please, GOD, I just want a black coffee! (Piano starts up as Kei enters) Kei: (singing) Blaaack coffee, I'm your coffee guy— Jun: NOOOOOOOO!

[killerof1983]

i love them…. im sobbing

[aestheticallypleasinganimeboys]

Kei Tsuzuki - The Idolmaster SideM GROWING STARS

[fictional-birthdays]

Happy Birthday, Kei Tsuzuki! (THE iDOLM@STER SideM)

[lattedecoffee]

Finished Emio – The Smiling Man: Famicom Detective Club aka FMC3 or just Emio and holy shit that was a roller coaster.

Gameplay definitely feels updated from the 2021 remakes but not so much that it feels like a different game.

Those characters holy shit. Kamihara had frat boy vibes during his first scene but his voice actor was so good I started growing attached anyway and eventually started shipping him with the protag (Taro Ninten is the closest we have to a default name).

Taro has two hands: one for Ayumi and one for Kamihara. Anyway here's a break before I do spoilers.

Okay before I talk about the climax and especially the epilogue I want to call out Junko Kuze for trying to murder me and then stealing my fucking boyfriend. I love her and she's a fascinating character but she married Taro's boyfriend and I'm salty about it.

Okay so that ending. I had figured out that Makoto thought he was Minoru but I wasn't sure if he had some amount of amnesia or if Emio had fucked with his mind. Turns out it was mostly the amnesia but Emio certainly didn't help matters. Although it wasn't as intentionally malicious of a thing as I originally thought given...

When the game basically had Utsugi go "yeah the epilogue's gonna be real fucked up so make sure you're ready before you start it" I was concerned. The game hadn't provided a content warning before this point so I wondered what could be so severe that they'd provide one now. Watching it basically right before bed was probably a bad idea but somehow I had no nightmares (I did have an irrational "what if Emio's in the dark hallway" that made me use my phone flashlight more than I usually would but that's typical for me with horror games. Happened when I watched Markiplier play FNAF all those years ago but I handled it much better as an adult than as a child).

It was tragic and certainly extreme but the things that happened to Minoru never felt unrealistic. A child drowning as part of her effort to escape her abusive father, her older brother killing their father, and said older brother delusionally believing she was somehow still alive all feels like it could be a real story. The key here is that nobody ever stepped in to help Minoru. People recognized there was a problem all the way back when the father's abuse ramped up but nobody ever stepped in. The juvenile detention center heard him talk about Emiko as if she was still alive and did nothing. The Todorokis never pried into his personal life, which is generally a good and respectful thing to do, but we know he will open to people he trusts given he told Ayaka everything about his past. Ayaka was really the only person who tried but she was 17 and already going through a lot herself. She did seem to be helping him open up but once he saw she was being physically abused he projected Emiko onto her and only spiraled downward from there.

And yet despite all of this Utsugi reminds you what this guy actually did. He killed Ayaka after she freaked out at seeing him kill her abusive father (she also hated the guy but seeing your older brother figure kill someone with no remorse is understandably terrifying). He killed two more girls the same way simply because they were scared of him. He kidnapped a now amnesiac Makoto and told him they were both Minoru Tsuzuki and needed to find Emiko. He almost killed again 18 years later only to have his head bashed in by Makoto who had finally remembered who he was thanks to Junko's bookmark. I'm skipping over a lot of things but suffice to say the man ruined a lot of lives. His backstory is not an excuse nor does it mean he should be forgiven. It explains why he did these things and shows us how to avoid similar events.

As for Junko, I love her story. You can understand why she said she knew nothing even though it was in her and her brother's best interest for her not to lie. You understand why she makes Eisuke's suicide look like the murders from 18 years prior. You understand why she goes to the abandoned village alone. You understand why she claims to have killed Minoru. You understand why she threatens Taro's life for Makoto's sake. And yet all of those choices were awful. Had she not lied, her brother's disappearance would have been looked into for much longer as it was now a kidnapping. She stole a suicide note and hid it from everyone, including the victim's family and friends. She shuts Kami out of her investigation and leaves both him with doubts he doesn't want to acknowledge (hence why he lashes out at Taro for pointing out all the reasons Junko's behavior is suspicious). She threatens to kill someone who only showed up because he believed she was in danger. She knows all of this was wrong and it's clear the guilt has been eating her alive, especially after what she did to Eisuke's death. She apologizes through tears while holding Taro at gunpoint and after explaining herself to him still can't go through with pulling the trigger. She just wants her older brother back and was doing anything she could. And while she does have him back, he's going to need a lot of support through physical rehab, hopefully intensive therapy, and a reintroduction to society (he was going into town but pretty much only to do construction work and then leave). And she has to apologize to Eisuke's family and friends. And to Taro, though he doesn't seem to be holding a grudge. Also "I sincerely apologize for any inconvenience I may have brought to your lives" is the funniest way to genuinely apologize for almost murdering someone.

Many characters in the game have been through some sort of childhood trauma. Our protagonist, Ayumi, Junko, Makoto, Minoru, Ayaka, Megumi, Eisuke, Kohei, Mama Shoko, and more. Only Minoru ends up being a serial killer. Only Junko and Makoto do terrible non-murder things. All the rest of these characters do nothing of the sort. Some acquire the supports of both peers and the adults around them, others manage to pull through largely on their own, and some we will never know how their story would have gone as it ended far too soon (either of their own volition or not). The game never says that childhood trauma = doing awful things. The game warns that ignoring signs that someone, especially a child, is not okay will often end in tragedy. Someone has to step in. Only a few people are obligated to intervene, but if the people who are supposed to intervene don't or are part of the problem then someone else must.

Eisuke's friends believe he committed suicide until they're told the crime scene doesn't match that. And yet they were right. They were the only ones who noticed something was wrong, but neither of them were able to do anything besides ask him if he was okay (he'd lie and say he was).

One last thing before I stop writing because wow this post is long: I love how Fukuyama was genuinely just a good guy with negative people skills. I was so worried he was doing something to Megumi and finding out that his response to her confession was to try to turn her down gently while clarifying that he did care about her as a teacher is supposed to care about their students. He didn't succeed in explaining that to her and she ended up assuming the harshest possible interpretation, but she seemed to already have a very concerning view on love (someone doesn't return her romantic feelings and her next question is "do you hate me?") so I'm not sure even the best possible wording could've helped there. As for him and Ayumi, it's up to interpretation whether he's interested in her romantically or not, but I choose to see it as him seeing her as his first student to grow up. He never formally taught her, but he was her upperclassman in naginata club. So she's the first person who he helped teach that he gets to see thriving as an adult. And now they're functionally peers, with her being able to comfort him about how Eisuke's death is not his fault as he had no way of knowing how things would go and made the best choices he could (he also literally saves Megumi + the whole case about midway through the game).

[imasallstars]

[04/02] HAPPY BIRTHDAY KEI TSUZUKI!

Voice Provider: Shunichi Toki (土岐隼一)

[legend-of-zelda-voices]

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Kei Hayami

Roles in LoZ: Faron (SS), Princess Hilda, Seres, Oren, Impa, Blacksmith's Wife (ALBW)

Main LU character: Hilda

Some characters with the same voice:

Dewey (cowboy bebop), Moe's Mother (Brigadoon), Slippy Toad & Katt Monroe (Star Fox 64 3D, Zero), Tomoko Kido (Barakamon), Hiroko Katsuki (Yuri!!! on ICE), Otsubone & Yuki Onna (Kishin Douji Zenki), Aiko (City Hunter 3), Tsuzuki Seike (Warau Salesman)

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In the game:

A Link Between Worlds (Hilda)

A Link Between Worlds (Seres, Oren, Impa, Blacksmith's Wife)

Skyward Sword (Faron)

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Speaking

Tsuzuki Seike from Warau Salesman

She speaks throughout the entire video, but some times are 0:00, 0:10, 0:23, 0:53, and 1:10.

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Dewey from Cowboy Bebop

She speaks at 0:00 and 0:01.

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Miyazawa from Idol Densetsu Eriko

She speaks throughout the entire video, but some times are 0:00, 0:02, 0:08, 0:10, and 0:15.

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Luna from Tales of Phantasia: Narikiri Dungeon X

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Katt Monroe from Star Fox 64 3D

No subs..

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Voice Samples from Kei Hayami

Line 1 at 0:00, Line 2 at 0:53, Line 3 at 1:22, Line 4 at 2:07, Line 5 at 2:32, Line 6 at 3:20, Line 7 at 4:01, Line 8 at 4:28, Line 9 at 5:03, Line 10 at 6:52, Narration 1 at 7:33, Narration 2 at 8:03, and Free Talk at 8:32.

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Singing

"Song of the Hero (Faron)" from Skyward Sword

Faron sings in-game, of course!

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[movies-to-add-to-your-tbw]

Title: Princess Mononoke

Rating: PG-13

Director: Hayao Miyazaki

Cast: Youji Matsuda, Yuriko Ishida, Yûko Tanaka, Kaoru Kobayashi, Masahiko Nishimura, Tsunehiko Kamijô, Akihiro Miwa, Mitsuko Mori, Hisaya Morishige, Sumi Shimamoto, Tetsu Watanabe, Makoto Satō, Akira Nagoya, Kei Iinuma, Tsuzuki Kayako, Kimihiro Reizei

Release year: 1997

Genres: fantasy, adventure, drama

Blurb: Ashitaka, a prince of the disappearing Earth people, is cursed by a demonised boar god, and must journey to the west to find a cure. Along the way, he encounters San, a young human woman fighting to protect the forest, and Lady Eboshi, who is trying to destroy it. Ashitaka must find a way to bring balance to this conflict.

[rakkiinoko]

for the sidem secret santa over on twitter!

[vocalnobiusfish]

娃娃好可愛喔，覺得應該要宣傳一下…！然後畫著畫著回想起8th stage的美好回憶，永野的奮力一丟和土岐先生的剛速球，好開心喔超喜歡8th stage，大家要記得買娃娃喔

[incorrect-idolmastersidem-quotes]

Seiji: (opens the door) You know that's a doll you're talking to? Also, I may have broken your door. Sorry.

Kei (dresses as Cupid): Thanks for bringing that to my attention.