#Yuuki Kono

[casside-sionnach]

[tank041]

Genderbend Nijigasaki redraw again.

How did I cook?

[kurayamineko]

[vany-kun]

Kanata won't wake up...

[mizukagami-takamagahara]

Favorite and least favorite Blazblue characters?

Yay~ finally getting to this ask. I’ve got a lot of really cool asks (thank you everyone so much) that I’ve been wanting to get to, but my health is Rather Poor, and when I do answer these things, I want to be able to put a lot of energy and attention into them.

Now, getting to the ask! I had a lot to say, and it all came out messy... and somehow, I only ended up talking about one character, Nu 13. Who fits as both one of my favorite and one of my least favorite characters, for reasons detailed below. To not make this an entire fucking novel, I'll cut the post off here and consider it an early birthday post for her.

That said, here's a quick run down of some other stuff I didn't get to talk about, relevant to your question.

My other Hated Fave is Nine/Konoe. One of those “I love the character but if we were stuck in a room together I’d maul her” situations. I consider her to be a misandrist, and I have a very charged history of like, generational reactive sexism in my family, so her generational reactive sexism (relationship with her father coloring her relationship with men overall) enrages me. On the other hand, it’s so well written, SHE’S so well written, she’s an incredible character and I adore her as an art piece. She is like a cathedral to me. The most beautiful symphony in a key you hate.

Touched on briefly in the post below, my all time absolute favorite is Terumi/Susano'o. That's a story for another day. I like him in a very particular way where he's like, the best character ever, but also he's constantly on probation. Or reverse probation? I need to see him try to kill/maim/ruin someone once a month or he's at risk of being evicted. Being the champion is a title you have to defend, y'know?

I think the character I study the most and talk about the most is Noel, although to my tastes, she's very middle of the road. I feel neutral about her. I just use her as a guinea pig for all my BB related project. You know Dangan Ronpa? How they used Sayaka and Leon as a starting point/beta test for everything? It's kind of like that, except I haven't gotten so sick of her yet that I'm killing her off or anything.

With all of that covered, allow me to get into the actual post! Thank you for your patience!

Off the top of my head at least, I can’t honestly think of BlazBlue characters I dislike. Every character that comes to mind shares something that makes me hesitant to actually claim I dislike them. That is, the characters I like the least are the characters I understand the least. Spinner Superior and the entire Bloodedge Experience cast make the list… but I haven’t read BE. Valkenhayn makes the cut- another character I really don’t pay attention to. Bullet, Hibiki, maybe Amane- all characters I really just… haven’t paid much attention to yet.

I don’t really want to claim I dislike them at this point, because when I really think about it, I’m like 99% sure that I lack interest in them BECAUSE I haven’t taken the time to look at them.

One of my hobby/goal/things in my free time is working on these BB character documents, analyzing everything I can about each character in the series for my own personal work. I have a feeling that when I get to really analyzing and writing about these characters, I’ll find things I like about them.

Here's a quick look at my files, to see what I'm talking about. Have mercy, it's very WIP.

There are two characters that stand out to me in an… almost “love to hate” way, but not quite. I have a lot to say about these characters, but I’m still tired, and this post is going to be LONG as is, so I’ll try to keep it brief.

Author's Note: I fail to keep it brief.

Before BBDW, my least favorite character was DEFINITELY Nu13. Ironic, because she almost got me into BB back in the Continuum Shift days. I saw her and some of her crazy behavior and thought... well, not much, just kind of an error message in my head going “hot woman spotted.” So I looked into her, and her story!

And got bored immediately. At first I was intrigued- I love violent characters that could arguably be described as “rabid” or “feral,” but upon further inspection, she had one of the few character flaws I just can’t look past. She was absolutely static. Immutable. The only character she was willing to interact with was Ragna, and even when interacting with him, she couldn’t hear a thing he said. In my interpretation, at the time, this made her a character that couldn’t connect with the outside world in any way. To me, she was an island. Absolutely remote. And completely useless to my interests.

A fear years later, a few months before the launch of Chronophantasma Extend, I ended up getting into BlazBlue anyway powered by sheer Terumi thirst. Are you guys starting to get a picture of my type yet? From then on, BB has remained my all time favorite series, and Terumi/Susano’o continues to be in my top three favorite characters, usually comfortably wearing the “#1 all time fave” crown. I suppose that answers the other half of your question.

Throughout this time, Nu still didn’t appeal to me at all. Locked in as my least favorite, definitely. Eventually, I got my college roommates into BB. One of the girls fell in absolute love with Nu. I couldn’t understand it at all. In hindsight, she’s right on every point about Nu that she likes, and I really appreciate those traits now too- but I couldn’t see it at the time. She was able to see Nu as an incredibly tragic character for the same reasons I saw her as inert. In the C-Series, Nu is alone, horribly alone, locked in her pain and her delusion. I saw that and ultimately felt she was beyond saving, but my associate felt that made her into a beautiful tragedy, a princess more worth saving than any other. Maybe I’m getting a little abstract out of nowhere here, but I now feel that’s the best way to look at Nu’s story- she’s locked away in this fairy tale delusion. Ugh, I have more to say on it, but look at how long this has gotten already!

Anyways, then BBDW came out, and Mori gave us a glimpse of what he intended to be the next step in Nu’s story. Juusan, XIII, Thirteen. And hooooooooooooly shit my guys, I absolutely love Nu, XIII, and her arc now. It’s her fucking healing arc! It’s her fucking growing arc! She’s finally able to start becoming a person, fleshing out, interacting with the world!

I’m not the type who really needs or even WANTS redemption arcs for characters, but Nu DESPERATELY needed this chapter. My biggest gripe with her, as mentioned, was that it seemed impossible for her to have any kind of relationship with ANYONE. I guess I was a little close minded- I needed to see evidence that Nu could be reached, that she could wake up from her fairy tale slumber and start really living. And we have that now, in XIII.

Looking back on the writing from the earlier games, when I hated Nu so much, I see those scenes in an entirely different light. Her first fucking scene in every route is waking up, our sleeping beauty. But she wakes up to the same dream every time. She’s put right back into her coffin, death, to dream and dream and wake and be killed again. Isn’t that kind of beautiful??? Her CT story mode IS a dream, it’s a desperate dream, the one she holds most dearly but doesn’t even understand- Nu is a character who THINKS what she wants more than anything is a romantic love with her prince charming, but we see in her story mode there, and in the relationships that finally save her, that what she really wanted was a full relationship as a real person. Platonic relationships, with no expectations, just someone seeing her and maybe offering her a smile. She craved, needed, the ability to connect with others, but that was a dream so far out of reach she couldn’t understand it. I KNOW I’M RAVING AT THIS POINT, I DIDN’T MEAN TO, BUT C’MON IT’S BEAUTIFUL.

And, and!!! As I mentioned, the relationships that finally save her, finally wake her up from the dream the same way the BB world is being woken up from ITS looping dream (WHICH IS ANOTHER AWESOME CONNECTION AND GREAT WRITING, THE WAY NU AS A CHARACTER CAN BE SEEN TO EMBODY THE LOOPING WORLD, NEW AND BROKEN AND UNABLE TO CHANGE WITH NO HOPE OF TOMORROW)

Ahem, ahem-- It’s familial connections. She so badly wants that romance with Ragna, but it isn’t the love of a prince that saves her- it’s when he accepts her as his sister. It’s when he accepts her as a victim and her own person and not a bastardization of Saya, and comes to save this lonely girl. An echo of his little sister he couldn’t save. HIS ENTIRE JOURNEY WAS TO SAVE HIS SISTER AND HE FINALLY DOES. IN SO MANY WAYS, INCLUDING IN THAT MOMENT OF REACHING OUT TO NU.

And then it’s Noel. And Lamba. Her sisters. Again, people who once saw her as a disgusting representation of what they feared the most, a replacement or a copy- when they let that go, see past it, and really face her, they take Nu in as their little sister. And its their patient love that heals her. Just like Ragna, when they first met Nu, her connection to Saya and themselves terrified them, infuriated them, but now they look directly at that connection and don’t see it as a threat. It fills them with compassion. It can be a lovely thing, to share something so fundamental as your creation with someone else. There’s love in that. They see it now and are able to offer it to her.

This answer has been very messy and very long, but hey, let’s pretend it isn’t that bad. Give me some mercy, I’m on so much cough syrup.

[gabbyp09]

[mmag-translations]

Outside x Inside | By Tohonifun Tags: Comedy.

Setsuna, Kanata, Karin and co. deepen their bonds with the people outside of their club! What could possibly go wrong?

Read it on Dynasty Scans Commissioned by Anonymous.

[incorrect-lovelive-quotes]

Rina: "Quick poll! Xbox One or PS4?"

Ai: "Xbox One."

Kanata: "Huh?"

Setsuna: "PS4!"

Mia: "Both great."

Emma: "I like the Wii!"

Rina: "Thanks, grandma."

[animemakeblog]

“Nijiyon Animation” The Second Season of  Announced for Spring 2024

Nijiyon Animation revealed a second season at the Love Live! 6th Live of Nijigasaki Gakuen School Idol Doukoukai! I love you and you love me, Aichi Performance. A promotional video and key graphic were also uploaded to the official website. April 5 at 9:54 p.m. on Tokyo MX and April 8 at 9:56 p.m. on BS11 will be the premiere times for the sequel.

[nihongoseito]

RADWIMPS 「スパークル - movie ver.」 - 歌詞と英訳

wow, what a throwback! my friend became (rightly) obsessed with this song recently, so i translated the lyrics for her. enjoy this classic :)

まだこの世界は僕を飼いならしてたいみたいだ 望み通りいいだろう 美しくもがくよ

it seems this world is trying to tame me again as you wish, and i’ll struggle beautifully too

互いの砂時計眺めながらキスをしようよ さよならから一番遠い場所で待ち合わせよう

we’ll kiss while watching each other’s hourglasses let’s meet at the place farthest from goodbye

辞書にある言葉で出来上がった世界を憎んだ 万華鏡の中で8月のある朝

i hated this world that was make from words in the dictionary one august morning inside a kaleidoscope

君は僕の前ではにかんでは澄ましてみせた この世界の教科書のような笑顔で

you seemed shy and reserved in front of me with a smile like one out of this world’s textbooks

ついに時はきた 昨日までは序章の序章で 飛ばし読みでいいから こっからが僕だよ 経験と知識とカビの生えかかった勇気を持って 未だかつて��いスピードで君の元へダイブを

it’s finally time, until yesterday it was the preface to the preface you can just skim it, because i’ll take it from here with my experiences and my knowledge and my moldering courage with never before seen speed i’ll dive to where you came from

まどろみの中で生ぬるいコーラに ここでないどっかを夢見たよ 教室の窓の外に 電車に揺られ運ばれる朝に

inside a dozing dream in a lukewarm soda i saw someplace that wasn’t here outside the classroom window in the morning being swayed and carried by the train

愛し方さえも君の匂いがした 歩き方さえもその笑い声がした

even the way you love smells like you even the way you walk sounds like your laugh

いつか消えてなくなる君の全てを この目に焼き付けておくことは もう権利なんかじゃない 義務だと思うんだ

some day you’ll disappear and be lost so burning your everything into my eyes is no longer my privilege, i think it might be my duty

運命だとか未来とかって言葉がどれだけ手を 伸ばそうと届かない場所で僕ら恋をする 時計の針も2人を横目に見ながら進む そんな世界を2人で一生いや何しょうでも 生き抜いていこう

we fall in love at the place where no matter how much i grasp at them words like fate and future will never reach the clock hands watch us out of the corner of their eye as they march on in this life—no, in any life, the two of us will survive such a world as that

mada kono sekai wa boku o kainarashitetai mitai da nozomidoori ii darou utsukushiku mogaku yo

tagai no sunadokei nagamenagara kisu o shiyou yo sayonara kara ichiban tooi basho de machiawaseyou

jisho ni aru kotoba de dekiagatta sekai o nikunda mangekyou no naka de hachigatsu no aru asa

kimi wa boku no mae de hanikande wa sumashite miseta kono sekai no kyoukasho no you na egao de

tsui ni toki wa kita kinou made wa joshou no joshou de tobashiyomi de ii kara kokkara ga boku da yo keiken to chishiki to kabi no haekakatta yuuki o motte imada katsutenai supiido de kimi no moto e daibu o

madoromi no naka de namanurui koora ni koko de nai dokka o yume-mita yo kyoushitsu no mado no soto ni densha ni yurare-hakobareru asa ni

aishikata sae mo kimi no nioi ga shita arukikata sae mo sono waraigoe ga shita

itsuka kiete naku naru kimi no subete o kono me ni yakitsukete oku koto wa mou kenri nanka janai gimu da to omounda

unmei da to ka mirai to ka tte kotoba ga dore dake te o nobasou to todokanai basho de bokura koi o suru tokei no hari mo futari o yokome ni minagara susumu sonna sekai o futari de isshou iya nanshou de mo ikinuite yukou

[casside-sionnach]

Yuuki and Asuna SOA Mother's Rosario

[tank041]

Genderbend Nijigasaki I made days ago.

Might post Aqours and μ's one later.

[kurayamineko]

Yuu-chan continues to be such a sinful girl <3

[saltprince]

First of all, I just want to tell thank for your hard work. You've done an amazing job for the English community with your translations. My enjoyment of GBF's songs would not be nearly as great if it wasn't for the fact that I'm actually able to understand what the singer is actually singing and what the lyrics actually mean.

2nd, if it isn't too much trouble for you could you add Cloudy World the original song from Stella Magna's album to your translation backlog because it's the only Granblue related song that has sung lyrics that I haven't been able to find any lyrics for at all not even Japanese lyrics.

I'm just genuinely curious about the lyrics to this song considering the fact that this song released in a Granblue related album and the fact that Ono Yuuki is the main and solo vocalist for this song makes me wonder if this song is just a unofficial theme song for Danchou.

But please don't feel pressured, you'vs done amazing work and that can't be stated enough.

Wow. Thank you so much for the kind words, that means a ton. It's a bit hard for me to truly know how much what I'm doing has impact, so I appreciate this more than I can convey. These messages really do so much to keep me going!

To answer your second question: Cloudy World is already on my list! You'll be happy to know it seems to directly refer Over The Sky, which is another song the MCs did.

To tide things over while I work on the translations, I'd like to give you the lyrics to the song since you said you can't find them online anywhere. I've transcribed these from the CD jacket. This does not include my translation draft, but at least you'll be able to sing along. I'll place it under the cut.

Thank you for your message!

Cloudy World lyrics

いつか夢に見た　リアルさの欠けたヴィジョン itsuka yume ni mita riaru sa no kaketa vision 荒唐無稽だと　無意識のブレーキかけてた koutou mukei dato mu'ishiki no bureeki kaketeta 鼓動隠して kodou kakushite

曇り空　山の向こう　光指す切れ間見た kumori sora yama no mukou hikari sasu kirema mita

そうだ　このまま　ただ待ってるだけじゃ sou da kono mama tada matteru dake jya 空は灰色のまま　歩き出そう sora wa hai'iro no mama aruki dasou

Cloudy World　この曖昧な世界で　標なく進むのさ Cloudy World kono aimai na sekai de shirube naku susumu no sa つまずいても　不安になっても　凍えても tsumazuite mo fuan ni natte mo kogoete mo 目の輝き灯火（あかり）にして　踏み出そう me no kagayaki akari ni shite fumi dasou

カタチはないけど　この手で掴んだイメージが katachi wa nai kedo kono te de tsukanda imeeji ga たしかに在るんだ　この手の上に確実に tashikani arunda kono te no ue ni kakujitsu ni もう離さない mou hanasanai

明日（あす）の空　また曇りかな　自分自身だ　変えるのは asu no sora mata kumori ka na jibun jishin da kaeru no wa

空を　見上げる　位置を探そう sora wo mi'ageru ichi wo sagasou ここにはもう留まれない　走り出そう koko ni wa mou todomarenai hashiri dasou

あの時　胸ときめいた好奇心　あれがきっと宝物 ano toki mune tokimeita koukishin are ga kitto takaramono 大事にしよう　ぼくだけが価値を　忘れなければ daiji ni shiyou boku dake ga kachi wo wasure nakereba 虹の彼方へだって　行けるさ niji no kanata he datte ikeru sa

雨の日急に飛び出して　知らない景色見ようとして ame no hi kyuu ni tobi dashite shiranai keshiki miyou toshite ひたすら走ってた　高鳴りを感じてた　抑えられなかったんだ ah hitasura hashitteta takanari kanjiteta osaerarenakattanda ah

どれだけ　目指すものが遠くても　距離感わからなくても dore dake mezasu mono ga tookute mo kyorikan wakaranakute mo 前を向いて　足を出して　それを繰り返せば　恐らくたどりつくだろう mae wo muite ashi wo dashite sore wo kuri kaeseba osoraku tadoritsuku darou

Cloudy World　この曖昧な世界で　標なく進むのさ Cloudy World kono aimai na sekai de shirube naku susumu no sa つまずいても　不安になっても　凍えても tsumazuite mo fuan ni natte mo kogoete mo 目の輝き灯火（あかり）にして　踏み出そう me no kagayaki akari ni shite fumi dasou

踏み出そう　前へ fumi dasou mae he

[morimyulyrics]

OOF this track. It packs quite the punch. Last time we had Fred, and this time we've got Moran. Oh how I love it when the Moriarty group sing about how dedicated they are to William. For Moran's song, it's the way it ends that gets me every time. I want versus I can't, and Izawa Yuuki has this powerful way of showing just how much he wants it, but accepts that he can't.

The steel soldier cries

鋼の戦士は嘆けども | Hagane no senshi wa nagekedomo Character: Sebastian Moran

Kanji ウィリアム俺は　お前を救いたい 誰よりも　誰よりも でもお前は　それを望まない 猛った覚悟は　空を切る：たけ

この拳は　ただの鉄屑 お前を苦しみから　守れない 鋼の戦士は　嘆けども お前の心を　抱けない

ウィリアム　俺はお前の 英雄（ヒーロー）に　なりたかった けれどお前の　瞳は 遠い彼方だけを　見つめてる

ウィリアム　俺はお前に 命捧げ朽ち果てても　良いんだ けれどお前の　その胸に 俺のこの手は　届かない

俺は　お前を　救いたい 俺は　お前を　救えない けれど…

Romaji William ore wa omae wo sukuitai Dare yori mo Dare yori mo Demo omae wa sore wo nozomanai Teketta kakugo wa sora wo kiru

Kono kobushi wa tada no tetsukizu Omae wo kurushimi kara mamorenai Hagane no senshi wa nagekedomo Omae no kokoro wo idakenai

William ore wa omae no Hiiroo ni naritakatta Keredo omae no hitomi wa Tooi kanata dake wo mitumeteru

William ore wa omae ni Inochi sasage kuchi hatetemo iinda Keredo omae no sono mune ni Ore no kono te wa todokanai

Ore wa omae wo sukuitai Ore wa omae wo sukuenai Keredo…

English William, I want to save you More than anyone, more than anyone But I know you don’t want that Your determination can slice the skies above

This fist of mine is but scrap metal for it cannot even protect you from pain Even if I, a steel-cold warrior, cries out to you I cannot hold your heart

William, I wanted to be your hero so badly But your eyes were always fixated on the horizon beyond

William, I would gladly offer you my soul and let it rot But my hand cannot reach your heart

I want to save you But… I can’t save you

[gabbyp09]