#and haruka is like 9 in the first game right ?

[jellophoid]

thinking more about haruka and yumi,,,,,,cus she did regularly visit her throughout the years at sunflower and she was always there even if it was a lie

[unriding]

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ᘏ FANDOMS & INFO — wind breaker, my hero academia, honkai star rail, haikyuu, and blue lock too. there are fifteen drabbles and two lengthy fics included = seventeen posts for october! (｀∇ ´) ψ

OCTOBER 1 - OVERSTIMULATION

KAJI REN X F!READER ﾉ 1112 words ﾉ the game? three bottles of flavored lube. kaji’s turn to guess. and you? you just have to lay there and let him get a proper taste first.

ᘏ ft. cunninglingus, blindfolded (kaji), fingering, overstimulation

OCTOBER 3 - CUCKOLDING

HAYATO SUO X AFAB!READER ﾉ 1096 words ﾉ FICS4GAZA ﾉ sakura doesn’t think he’s ever held his phone in his non-dominant hand… until tonight.

ᘏ ft. consensual recording, cuckolding (sakura), + masturbation, overstimulation, very light choking, creampie, mention of toys

OCTOBER 5 - MASK KINK

ENDO YAMATO X F!READER ﾉ 1189 words ﾉ endo thought you were joking about masks being hot, but … if you really like them so much, then maybe he’ll put on a show just for you.

ᘏ ft. mask kink, very consensual fear play, both degradation & praise

OCTOBER 7 - SUCCUBUS?!

SAKURA HARUKA X SUCCUBUS!F!READER ﾉ 1126 words ﾉ there’s no better way to lose your virginity than to a succubus, right? do those even exist? he was skeptical before he met you.

ᘏ ft. virginity loss (both), aphrodisiac, creampie

OCTOBER 9 - PREDATOR/PREY

GALLAGHER (HSR) X F!READER ﾉ 1667 words ﾉ delivering this basket to your grandmother sounds easy enough, but they didn’t warn you about whatever seems to be lurking at the end ﾉ in other words.. you act out the fairytale: little red riding hood

ᘏ ft. consensual noncon (cnc), predator / prey dynamics, muffling (his glove), oral (receiving) overstimulation, fingering + squirting

OCTOBER 11 - PET PLAY

KIRYU MITSUKI X F!READER ﾉ 902 words ﾉ you think he just likes seeing you embarrassed at this point. tonight, it’s worse than ever before, and he’s loving every single second of it.

ᘏ ft. pet play, toys (anal plug), praise, pet names, double stuffed

OCTOBER 13 - DRY HUMPING

NESS (BLLK) X F!READER! ﾉ 923 words ﾉ it’s not allowed. he knows this. but he can’t help that it gets a little harder not to claim you as his whenever you come back for more.

ᘏ ft. dry humping to wall sex, dirty talk, marking, possessiveness, forbidden relationship, mentions of fingering, face sitting, creampies

OCTOBER 15 - IN UNIFORM

KUROO TETSUROU (HQ) X F!READER ﾉ 1190 words ﾉ there’s about five minutes left on the clock before your coworker comes back.

ᘏ ft. maid cafe, exhibitionism, time crunch for kuroo, squirting

OCTOBER 17 - APHRODISIACS

DAN HENG (HSR) X F!READER ﾉ 1469 words ﾉ it’s only natural that you’d try to play it off, especially when he had already warned you about this ahead of time. your bad, you’ll admit. unfortunately for you though, this aphrodisiac is one of the strongest, and it won’t be going away anytime soon.

ᘏ ft. aphrodisiacs, mutual pining, wall sex, squirting from putting it in

OCTOBER 19 - GHOSTS!

GHOST! HAYATO SUO X F!READER ﾉ 742 words ﾉ SFW ﾉ you seem to be the only one who doesn’t mind the ghost that trails behind you. your friends want to hire someone to get rid of him, but you seem to be weirdly defensive over something that’s supposed to be haunting you.

ᘏ ft. protective suo (this time in a cute way), ghosts, etc

OCTOBER 21 - SCARY MOVIE

ENDO YAMATO X F!READER ﾉ 841 words ﾉ SFW ﾉ you’ve had some bad ideas, but this one has to be your worst. halloween night, sitting side by side with the man who has it in his dna to tease you, rank #1 for scariest movies in existence playing on the big TV, and your friends. the friends you’ve somehow managed to convince (through a dragged out lie) that there’s absolutely nothing in the world that can scare you.

ᘏ ft. horror movies, reader is a bit scared, + endo comfort !!

OCTOBER 23 - YANDERE

YANDERE!UMEMIYA HAJIME X F!READER ﾉ 838 words ﾉ no one would dare hurt umemiya’s girl. they shouldn’t. they wouldn’t dare. but after some time.. he thinks he should give them another reminder. it wouldn’t hurt.

ᘏ ft. yandere, creampies, overstimulation, praise, size kink, marking, soft possessiveness, reader wears a skirt, catcalling (not from ume)

OCTOBER 25 - CAMGIRL

HAYATO SUO X F!READER ﾉ 3520 words ﾉ you always do what the highest tipper says, but looks like that’s backfired! “bring someone to fuck you raw on your next stream” but oh. you don’t have a boyfriend, do you? so the second best option would be to swallow your pride and ask one of your friends.

ᘏ ft. streaming (audience), camgirl! reader, dry humping, creampie, overstimulation, squirting, virginity loss (reader), teasing, tba

OCTOBER 27 - TOYS

TAKIISHI CHIKA X F!READER! 937 words ﾉ a fun dinner with your friends? unfortunately, the group is one chair short, so it’s a given that the couple shares. takiishi wonders which will give it away first: the buzzing between your legs, or the faces you’re making? you seem to be doing an alright job (much to his dismay) but one push should do it.

ᘏ ft. exhibitionism (hinted that endo knows), mentions of fingering & potential threesome, toy usage, reader wears a skirt, risk

OCTOBER 29 - DEALS

DABI (MHA) X HERO!F!READER ﾉ 890 words ﾉ what happens when your curiosity takes you to the league of villains’ hideout? luckily enough, there’s only one of them there to greet you— and the world seems kind enough to let you off with a deal. fuck him once to guarantee his silence, or so you thought.

ᘏ ft. tw dubcon, forced orgasms, fear play, mentions of murder, etc

OCTOBER 30 - MACHINES

MR. RECA (HSR) X F!READER! 753 words ﾉ your voice is a bit too quiet for films. he says to consider this a vocal warm-up— just some personalized training he’s given you to combat your shyness on set, but you think otherwise.

ᘏ ft. clear power imbalance (professor x student), blindfolding (reader), overstimulation & mindbreak (reader), pet names used once

OCTOBER 31 - ROOMMATES

HOUSEKEEPING! — TOGAME JO X F!READER! ﾉ 7784 words ﾉ you don’t realize how loud you are, do you? or are the walls just paper thin? his patience seems to also be running thin, but he’s always thought of himself as someone who tries to be a pretty decent guy most of the time. a decent enough guy that doesn’t fantasize about fucking choji’s childhood friend raw, at the very least.

ᘏ ft. masturbation (kind of caught), size difference, thigh fucking, creampie, semi-possessive togame glimpse at the end, etc

[serialadoptersbracket]

Round 3, Match 19: Artemy Burakh vs. Kazuma Kiryu

Submitted kids:

Artemy Burakh: Murky and Sticky (+others)

Kazuma Kiryu: Haruka, Ayako, Eri, Riona, Izumi, Taichi, Koji, Mitsuo, and Shiro

Propaganda under the cut!

Artemy Burakh:

1. “Pathologic is not the kind of game you expect to make your mother instincts kick in but it indeed does.

The adoption spree starts with the second game protagonist, Artemy, being given a list of 7 children who will inherit the city one day. He does become an important figure in their lifes, but truly adopts only two. Orphans named Murky and Sticky.

After learning about a secret hideout his father had, he goes to check and Sticky is just there. He was a some sort of a student of his father, but didn't learn much. Artemy calls him a stray cat and later house imp, but lets him stay. Slowly they grow close with Artemy promising to teach Sticky how to become a doctor. Throughout the game they have a ton of cute moments with Sticky trying to help the best he can, but breaking equipment while Artemy is away. Also they needed to fix the brewing machine and sticky said he has a guy who owes him one. When they arrive at the place the first thing he says is "distract him the best you can while I work". After you complain about it, he first says he needs stealing to survive, but then calls it the form of art. It's impossible not to love him.

Murky is a lonely autistic girl who lives in a train cabin by herself. With each day you play she slowly starts staying by your house more and more. In the middle of the game Artemy had to catch a deadly plague for her to survive. It can interpreted as her fault, but right after he finds her and asks to come back home. Throughout the game she often says "I don't love you. There is no reason for me to love you". But after getting sick herself she finally says "I love you and always loved". Bro I cried. Also the most important part. Her russian name is Mishka. It can be translated as teddy bear or bear cub. Artemys childhood nickname is Bear and his home is called "lair". Bear family...

Sticky and Murky often argue between themselves, but reconcile in the end. One time he stole some sugar and made a lollipop for her... She says "I don't mind having kinda brother" the same way she says "I don't mind being your kinda daughter" to Artemy.

In one of the game endings they stand in front of artemys old house asking if they will live there and which rooms they can take.

Children adoption: successful”

Link to the rest coming soon!

Kazuma Kiryu:

1. “There's a pretty big section of one of the game that's entirely about taking care of all those kids and it's all really sweet !”

2. “How the fuck did he get 9. There’s like 6-8 games where he’s the main character and he adopts haruka rlly early, but then in one game in the middle of the series, in the beginning like opening scenes he’s like avtually fuck it I’m adopting an ENTIRE orphanage/eight WHOLE children. (not a bit like. He actually did that) he’s the silliest billy badass old man. Grampy Kiryu also, bc haruka has a kid now.”

[van-yangyin]

Get to Know Me - Sims Edition

Thank you @honeybeenrw and @stargazer-sims for tagging me 🙇💕

If it seems like a lot of text, don't force yourself to read it, you can simply ignore it. Sometimes I write too much, I know.

1.- What’s your favorite sims death? Sims eaten by cowplants, although there is an anecdote from when I was little that is very funny because I had a little "trauma" with that death. When I first played The Sims Take the Street on PS2 (the first sims game I played for the first time in my life) together with Lea, we made sims from Fushigi Yugi and we put them to live in a house… They all ended up being eaten by mutant plant (a plant similar to cowplant in that time), being the last one Amiboshi just after his twin brother Suboshi… It was one of our first games so adding a mutant plant was like, "What is this? Let's put it in, it sounds fun" and it ended up being a bit of a shock since at that time we had no internet, no guides or anything and everything was new, from that time for me at the end, after that experience it's ended up being fun, so being eaten by a (cow)plant it's one of my favorites sims death.

2.- Alpha CC or Maxis Match? Maxis Mix, I absolutly like more Maxis Match for hair, but with clothes I usually use both Maxis Match and/or Alpha, same with makeup or skin details, so yes, I'm consider myself Maxis Mix more towards Maxis Match.

3.- Do you cheat when your sims gain weight? Why? When it comes to my/our OCs (Lea's and mine) we leave them as they wish to be, because they've gained or lost it by themselves because they have so wished, in fact one of our OCs, Carla, when gained more weight even became much more beautiful than when she had less weight, at least from our point of view.

4.- Do you use move objects? Yes, quite a lot when I have to place a lot of clutter together or I have to place in a special way the constructions to do what I want and look for.

5.- Favorite mod? I would say MCCC, but there are many times it causes me a headache.

6.- First expansion/game/stuff pack you got? Get to Work on realease. (Lea bought it, not me, but he likes to share, I mean it's stupid to buy the same thing twice when in gameplay we play together)

7.- Do you pronounce “live mode” like aLIVE or LIVing? I pronounce "Modo Vivir", but if it's in English then like aLIVE.

8.- Who’s your favorite sim that you’ve made? I have quite a few… They're all my cute babies, Ryuuya, Luka, Aris, Jack, Kyle, Kyla, Noah, Icaro, Carla. Lux, Kaoru, Ainosuke, Rin, Haruka, and many more but the list would go on and on... Sorry I can't choose... (And yeah we have a lot of original sims that we don't show here yet 😆)

9.- Have you made a simself? I did it once, when toddlers came out, I made myself into a toddler for a contest, but I have never done it again, and that simself no longer exists.

10.- What sim traits did you give yourself? With pack Growing Together that came out I can officially add more than three, right? Creative, Socially awkward, Ambitious, Music lover, Geek and Perfectionist. (The limit is 3 more traits, so I can't put Cat fan, Dog fan and Animal enthusiast [although these three should be considered more likes and dislikes, I don't understand how it can still be in traits], so I have them present but didn't add them, because I consider more as likes and dislikes).

11.- What is your favorite EA hair color? Red. I like black, but it changes and varies so much between different hairs and many of them look gray or bluish that they're no longer my favorite.

12.- Favorite EA hair? The two hairs that were added when Incheon Arrivals Kit came out and the hair from Snowy Escape that has two little clips on it.

13.- Favorite life stage? I don't have any favorite life stage, because all life stages are special in one way or another and I try to create sims of all kinds of ages, although maybe the ones I have the most are teenagers/young adults because I usually create a lot of sims based on video games/anime/shows if that makes sense, so people may consider those to be my favorite kind of stages.

14.- Are you a builder or are you in it for the gameplay? Let's see, I would consider myself mixed, or versatile. During the day from time to time I would consider myself a builder, especially when I make constructions with references that help me to locate myself (although there are times that I also make them without a base, but it takes me a long time to finish them and I consider myself a noob, Kitta's house, Dope Sketch I look at all of you just now). On the other hand, during the night before going to sleep and after dinner I'm more of a gameplay person and I have a lot of fun playing together with Lea.

15.- Are you a CC creator? Yes, I love to create CAS CC (hair, clothes, shoes, accessories, etc…), construction CC (furniture, clutter, whatever I need depending on the moment), small modifications in the sims, I'm usually very versatile, I do recolors and frankmeshing too although most of the things I love to do are from scratch (with references that aren't mine or concept arts that I draw previously which are usually mine) to learn even more, so I usually take a lot of time but I have a lot of fun. Although around here what I usually share with everyone, are hairs made from scratch, some other skin details, poses and conversions from other games.

16.- Do you have any simblr friends/a sim squad? Not that I know of. The person I interact with the most around here is Lea but that's because we are family/best friends and spend a lot of time together, so for me it's like day to day. I would love to be able to have a constant energy and mood so I can interact more to make and keep friends around here. I write from time to time with people and would like to consider them friends but since we don't interact much or very constantly, I don't know if they consider me friends or if they would just consider me mutuals. I know of some people that we consider each other friends but we don't talk much either lately because I'm in my stage of writing little with people. But I don't refuse anyone or anyone who wants to interact with me and in the future something might come out of those interactions (friendship or... what's a squad? srsly I don't know it), I'm quite social/asocial and insecure, sometimes I write a lot and sometimes I write very little with people, so I don't know what they currently think of me.

17.- What’s your favorite game? Have a lot, Kingdom Hearts (yes, I went through the time when you needed different consoles to play the whole saga), Final Fantasy series, The Sims series, Life is Strange series, Resident Evil series, Tomb Raider series, Tales of Zestiria, Arc the Lad series, Minecraft, Spyro series, Crash Bandicoot series, Genshin Impact and I'm sure there are many more games that I haven't tried yet that I could add to the list in the future.

18.- Do you have any Sims merch? Nothing.

19.- Do you have a YouTube for sims? I don't have one, but I would love to, although I don't think anyone would be interested. I mean if you share something it's for someone else to see it and if no one would be interested then it would be like exposing yourself to the world but without being seen. I don't know if I make myself clear. I know that stories of your own sims/anything you do in the community have more room for other people when you do it as video, because when you talk they feel more empathetic with your stories/what you explain but my English is not very good and talking in general/talking to my sims is not my forte (that's something Lea is better at)

20.- How has your “sim style” changed throughout your years of playing? Pictures speak louder than words. I don't have sims screenshots I took in The Sims 2 and The Sims 3 because I can't access the external USB drive were on, so I'll limit myself to The Sims 4 screenshots.

A written summary would be that I currently use more sliders and presets, use 3D eyelashes and natural nails for all my sims and use eye makeup to give more volume to the "eyelashes" and give them more "life". And try to make more different types of noses, faces, eye shapes, etc…. Besides adding natural lips as "make up" (when they don't wear makeup) to make them more "realistic" within my sims realism.

21.- What’s your Origin ID? I don't have anything shared, so I don't know if it's really important to say.

22.- Who’s your favorite CC creator? I have a few and they're the ones I use the most in my gameplays shared with Lea in our sims. They're all amazing so allé voy, @/pralinesims, @/simandy, @/happy-misanthropist (although is currently retired), @/obscurus-sims, @/raccoonium, @/falsogod, @/iowaisms, @/saruin, @/xxxtaiyaki, @/kijiko-sims, @/acha-sims, @/simmireen, @/lea-heartscxiv (yeah is with whom I share my sims game and he makes recolors mainly for me and him) and myself (self-esteem should never be lacking).

23.- How long have you had a simblr? Since last year, end of April 2022.

24.- How do you edit your pictures? So far the only things I use are Photoshop and Clip Studio, but I don't retouch pictures so much, I just "improved" problems with scratches that appear in some parts of sims, eyelashes that are displayed wrong, etc… And then I put one or two tonal change filters in Photoshop, but out of CC I use on sims, it's pretty vanilla the final pictures. If I were to do something else at some point, I would probably put unretouched edit under the cut line to see the differences.

25.- What expansion/game/stuff pack is your favorite so far? If I had to say one for how the world is shown, CAS, objects and gameplay I would say Snowy Escape.

26.- What expansion/game/stuff pack do you want next? Seriously writing, refreshes. I would like to see refreshes and improvements of base game, an impossible dream, I know. Especially refreshes of Realm of Magic and Get To Work. Since Lea and I were forced to switch to EAAppsh*t we haven't bought anything from them anymore.

I know. It's only 26 questions and I've almost written a book just answering them, sometimes I get too excited writing when I know what I'm talking about 💦 Now time for the tags:

I'm tagging @lea-heartscxiv, @falsogod, @freedomending, @pralinesims, @saruin, @the-daydream-archives and @dizzyrobinsims

If you already done it, please ignore and if you have it handy tag me in the one you already did so I can see it, because maybe I missed it or wasn't connected the day you did it. If you don't feel like doing it, you can just skip it. And to anyone who wants to do so, feel free to tag me. If you share as a favorite death the cowplant one, don't wonder anymore if you should or shouldn't do it, do it, for all the sims who have fallen eaten by cowplants.

[archivalofsins]

Firstly, you took the words out of my damn mouth with everything you said about It's Not My Fault oh my god, tfw you're in an anxiety-driven denial competition and Muu Kusunoki is your opponent (you lose) Now for the actual important part of this ask, ask game stuff !! 6, 9, 11, and 12 for Muu 9 (again lmao), 10, and 5 for Haruka 8 and 19 for Kotoko 13 for Amane

Hiya~ Thanks for asking! Also pfft that's a competition anyone would lose.

milgram character ask game ! send the character + the questions

Kusunoki, Muu/ Mu Kusunoki

6. favorite relationships with another character in the prison?

My favorite relationship for Mu is with Yuno. Because the development of their relationship perfectly illustrates what went wrong with her relationship with Rei in real time.

20/06/04 Yuno: Huh, so you go to that high school. So, you are from a rich family then~! I mean, you already gave off that vibe though. What year are you in? Mu: First year…… Kashiki… san…… you’re older than me, right? Yuno: Yeah, I’m in third year. But you can just call me Yuno, I don’t really like the stuffy formalities. It doesn’t really matter who’s older and who’s younger. If you squint, we’re basically the same age anyway. Mu: ……fufu, what’s with that? But ok…… I’ll call you Yuno from now on. 20/10/16 (Mu’s First Trial) Mu: Uu…… uuu…… scared…… I’m scared…… 20/10/24 (Shidou’s Birthday) Shidou: Birthday…… Now that you mention it, it has got to that time of year. Thank you for going out of your way for me. Mu: ……Shidou-san, you don’t seem very happy. You’re the one whose birthday is today, you should smile more. Shidou: No, I am smiling…… even if it doesn’t show. I’m really glad that you’re celebrating for me, Kusunoki-kun. Mu: Is that so……? It doesn’t look like it at all though. I’m not satisfied. 21/06/22  (Haruka’s Birthday) Mu: Haruka-kun, are you awake……? Happy birthday. Haruka: M-Mu-san? I… I-I’m awake…… Th-thank you, very much. I’m… glad…… Mu: ………… Shall we talk? You know, recently I’ve been pretty interested in you. Haruka: ……!! I-in me…? Hehe, hehehe…… interested, in me. 21/07/05 (Mu’s Birthday) Mu: Yuno. Don’t you have something to say to me? Yuno: Huh? To you? Me? ……ahh, uh? Your birthday, right? Happy birthday~ Mu: How mean… Since it’s my birthday, I really wish you’d said something before I had to come and tell you myself. Yuno: Right, right, I’m sorry. I’ll be more careful in future~ Later! Haha… things have become even more of a bother… ……so was that Mu-chan’s real personality, then? It’s probably because the guard did something, right?

22/07/05 (Mu’s Birthday) Mu: Hey~~~ Isn’t everyone a bit gloomy lately? I get that this situation isn’t ideal, but you’re really bringing down the mood for my birthday. Yuno: Haha, surely even you can tell now’s not really the time for something like that right. Nobody’s really in the mood, or rather nobody has time time to deal with something like that. Mu: Boo, how boring. You seem to be free, you can celebrate for me. Go on, celebrate. Yuno: Wow, what a pain. I’m reading the atmosphere properly and keeping quiet. Well, you just go and have fun with Haruka. In the corner somewhere- So you’re out of everyone’s way.

"There’s no special meaning, I got the short end of the stick. I overheard, I found out- How much I’m not needed."

Q.11 Which of the other prisoners do you get along with least? Yuno: I wonder... The ones that are painful just to watch are Haruka and Mu-chan. [ I don’t really like the stuffy formalities. It doesn’t really matter who’s older and who’s younger.] Q.12 Are there any prisoners you don’t get on with? Mu: Yuno has been really cold lately so maybe her a bit. 23/06/22 (Haruka’s Birthday) Mu: Haruka-kun, I brought your food. Are you still alive? Has any mould started growing? Haruka: ……ah, thank you very much. Mu-san. Sorry, um…… I…… Mu: You shouldn’t just lock yourself in your room all day. You have to eat your food properly. Hm, well…… I do understand why you’re feeling down. It feels bad. The atmosphere recently. Haruka: Um, I’m totally fine…… Just a bit, I’m thinking, about how to do it. What to do, what to do, to…… fulfil my promise. For Mu-san’s sake…… 23/07/05 (Mu’s Birthday) Futa: Oi, you. Is he ok? He’s not even left his room lately. Mu: You mean Haruka-kun? Hmm. Yeah, probably. I’ve been bringing all his meals to him so he should be fine. Isn’t that great of me? Futa: Hah? Who the hell says that sort of thing about themself. …..ah, no, well, right now I understand a bit. When you’re feeling down, it’s nice to have someone who relies on you and accepts you. The rest of us can’t really understand you from where we’re standing. But well, if you’re Haruka’s “salvation” then I guess it really is great. Mu: Salvation……? I don’t know what you mean. Futa-kun, you don’t sound like yourself. Did you hit your head or something? Oh, wait, you actually did, didn’t you. Ahaha. Ah, putting that aside though, did you know it’s my birthday today?

They're clearly both rubbing eachother in the wrong way and unlike Mu's previous victim if she tries the same thing with Yuno she'll be the one dying. I would be greatly dissappointed in Yuno if she was taken out by Mu of all people.

9. do you forgive/not forgive their crime on its own?

Mu's crime is forgivable on it's own. She recognizes it was a mistake even if she won't admit that to herself fully and seems to regret it deeply. On top of that regardless of the premeditation involved in the events that occurred it was still a very heat of the moment reaction. It was a stupid decision and she was fifteen or sixteen when she did it. All of those things need to be taken into account when objectively considering her crime on it's own.

Personally I wouldn't really forgive it without several things assuredly happening after that though. Because while her crime may be forgivable and the circumstances around it would give her a bit more leniency thant the others-

Her attitude and behavior towards those around her is not. If she doesn't take steps to get out of this pattern of behavior she'll just keep making the same mistakes over and over again. As we see playing out here in Milgram as well. This will continue until someone is forced to correct it for her. More than likely someone like Yuno who would rather not be bothered but if continually pushed the wrong way will do something.

So under the the pretense that she's removed from school for about maybe several months and sent to family therapy, individual therapy, and communications counseling. I could forgive it. Basically it's go to a correctional facility for you. Because at the end of the day her victim isn't going back to their family and getting the opportunity to learn and grew from this. Mu is the only one capable of doing that now and no one should ever have to die because someone else has poor communication skills.

11. what are your favorite points about their story and the narrative surrounding them?

I like how bullying is handled across both her and Futa's cases. It makes them both a very sympathetic pair in Milgram and one of the strongest narrative pairs in my opinion. I like how they both go from the bullies to the bullied. Futa going from harrassing people on the internet to being harrassed on the internet while Mu goes from being this leader of the bullies to the bullied.

I also like how Mu's characterization handles the concept of being mixed ethnicity with noticeably non-japanese features within Japan. Considering just like in any country the atmosphere towards people who look different from the majority group can be really bad if not suffocating. I really enjoy that despite stating Mu is french and japanese they don't put any french in her music videos visuals like they do with Kazui. Displaying how even though she is french and japanese she was mostly raised in Japan and only went to visit France. It's not a culture she's that drowned in but it's still important to her none the less.

It's incredibly poignant because a lot of children who don't have traditionally japanese features are subject to bullying within Japan from young ages. Like I was just watching this video of the Ainu that goes into a bit of the discrimination people can face for simply looking somewhat different. So for someone like Mu where those differences are more apparent I can imagine she probably had a great deal of issues with bullying in her younger years and consequently learned it's better to be the one doing the bullying then the one getting bullied before entering high school.

Which is something that many victims of bullying do in order to escappe being bullied across cultures. I think this aspect of bullying in general goes greatly overlooked when discussing it. So, I really enjoy how it's subtly highlighted and the implications of that possibly being the case here.

12. what do you wish would be discussed more often about them in the fandom?

A lot of people wound up getting upset with me for how I discussed Mu previously. Mostly because I brought up the negative aspects of her character that many people wish to look away from. This occurs with a lot of characters but it's incredibly sad to me that it's happening to Mu in particular. Because a lot of her character is within those flaws in my opinion. I think a lot of people did Mu's character a great disservice during her second trial but not interrogating those flaws and learning to empathize with them.

It makes sense to not want to a view a character that ones likes as bad. It doesn't feel good to have to interrogate the bad in the things we like and many people can instantly think if someone that I liked could do something that's bad what does that say about me. When the answer to that is it doesn't say anything about you. Because it's not about you it's about them and the choices they made. When people tie their egos to things like this and convince themselves that someone can't be wrong because that would mean they're wrong they create this very stilted atmosphere.

Where no one fictional or real has the space to make mistakes because then what do those mistakes say about me for believing in you. For seeing what you put out and trusting that you were telling the truth just to find out you weren't that you were a bully. Leading to knee-jerk reactions after kneejerk reactions that all just make things worse instead of better.

That cause things like this.

Because when people can't at least imagine the people that they care about an latch onto being in the wrong it hurts them even more when they are. I think it's important to focus on the lesson that Mu's character teaches.

That if one never interrogates the idea that they may be wrong they can never truly actually be right. Because they haven't formed an opinion on themselves they haven't looked at their morals or their own behavior objectively they're just going with how others tell them to feel about. Yet, the only person people are betraying by doing that are themselves. Because if you're right and truly know you're right you won't need anyone to tell you are.

That's what having a moral compass is all about. You pick your own direction other people shouldn't be able to choose it for you. I think if people realized that than they would have understood how immature and misguided Mu's behavior and beliefs actually were. Because it's apparent to me that she hasn't really formed any.

Sakurai, Haruka/ Haruka Sakurai

5. favorite voice drama line/moment?

I really like when he gets upset about Es saying they can change their mind about his verdict. Yet, after being concerned for himself and how that's unfair for him he immediately goes to being concerned about what that would mean for Mu.

It was really sweet.

9. do you forgive/not forgive their crime on its own?

Hm, I don't forgive Haruka's crime on it's own. I think his behavior was shortsighted, selfish, and he genuinely knew better. I understand his homelife was not the best and he was jealous of his sibling. However, that still appears to have been his younger sister and younger sisters tend to look up to their big brothers a good deal. So, I kind of feel bad for her as a younger sibling myself.

Yes, his parents sucked and they were mean to him but chances are if they were fine treating one child like that they were perfectly fine doing it to the other one. Regardless of if she was the daughter they always wanted or not. So, it's kind of like I forgive you Haruka because well no changing it now so why drag it out but taking a step back this was still a rather objectively shitty thing to do.

I'm forgiving you in Milgram because several adults fucked up here not just you but also sucks that girl is dead. Because she simply was not the source of the problem and probably didn't benefit much from these circumstances either considering your parents clearly left you alone to watch her. So, like what attention was she really getting that you weren't. It's not like he did this while they were there we see his mom walk in on the scene.

They were just straight up like watch your sister and out of the fucking blue what did he just go-

I hate you for taking all this very nonexistent attention because clearly neither of them are fucking there and present if he was able to do this. So this girl truly died for nothing when I really take a step back to look at it for what it is. Seems like she just died for being there which she didn't choose to be there.

Just like Haruka didn't choose to be born to the parents they had. Like the fuck was his mom even doing. She's shown to be absent quite frequently throughout All-knowing All-agony like Haruka is wrecking the house at points but she wouldn't fucking know it for all we know she's not even in the country right now. Biggest shock of All-knowing All-agony was seeing her show up finally.

10. is the answer to the previous question different from your vote(s) on the character themselves (do you vote them based on anything else aside from the crime)?

Yep, I voted Haruka Innovent simply because it's shitty to give someone affection and then take it away directly after they expressly specified that was their one fear in their first voice drama.

Yuzuriha, Kotoko/ Kotoko Yuzuriha

If it isn't my favorite menace. We meet again old friend I say as she sics the wolves on me-

8. what is your theory for their crime? if there is general consensus on it in the fandom, do you have any other, not-so-widely-accepted thoughts on it?

Oh pretty straight forward I speculate that she was actually involved in the abduction of those children and the man she killed was a deep cover agent who she framed for the incident. Because quite literally it doesn't make sense for her to be the deep cover agent. Given she was watching him go into the fucking warehouse with a kid the perfect time to get photo evidence of a crime and took zero pictures.

In fact we don't really see her collecting any evidence on him actually committing a crime. We see her pay what seems to be a reporter for information but like criminals do that too. So, that doesn't immediately means she's the good guy here. Also when the guy is framed by his shadow as attacking the kids his shadow

A. Has Kotoko's smile.

B. Is defying all known laws of lighting. Because he's not facing sideways at all and is intead swinging the hammer forward in front of him.

C. Might as well just start attacking him like Kotoko is if it's going to betray him like this.

I don't know why she was doing that Harrow is incredibly suspicious. Simply because we see glimpses of other child victims that we do not see the guy she attacks with at any point in the song. So, it's like girl how do you know this when did you see this? I guess I could assume it was when she broke into this warehouse and she went room by room but that begs another question,

Why didn't you help those kids get out first? Give them some sort of first aid? Anything but hold on I'll be right back- Hell why didn't you even just show us you going room by room. In fact why the fuck is it just clearly the same room just with a different victim in it.

These are not the same fucking child we see him with before. How would you know he did this to this many kids if you were not intimately involved with him doing this.

This is the girl in there when she attacks him. This is the girl she saw him take in there with her own eyes.

If Kotoko was really- just a concerned citizen, then she'd only know about this one kid. The kid we see her see get taken and, in the room, when she intervenes.

The song extraction machine wouldn't be able to pull out these images at all because she would not have fucking witnessed this. This also isn't her mind area. Because this is what that looks like for her-

Meaning this isn't imaginary-

So, why the fuck does she know this~ When the fuck did, she see these other kids~ How the fuck does she know this? If it isn't what she did- I'm genuinely asking because it ain't making much sense. How the fuck did she know this?

How fucking Deep Cover is about to be. Haruka is not the only one killing kids in here that's for damn sure. Because there is no logical explanation for why she would have seen these other fucking kids if she was not involved. And she already said she don't go easy on kids-

20/06/18 Amane: Thank you very much for teaching me. ……but, though I realise it’s strange me saying this after I asked you, I must admit it’s kind of unexpected. You give off the impression of someone who wouldn’t want to get involved in things like this. Kotoko: ……well, you’re not wrong. I’m surrounded by people who could all be murderers, so I don’t plan on going out of my way to talk and make friends. I can’t let my guard down. But I like ambitious people like you. If you want to study more, then I’m happy to teach. Amane: I see…… You look scary at first impression, but I quite like the way you treat everyone equally regardless of whether they’re older or younger than you. You don’t just treat me like a child or anything like that. Kotoko: Treat you like a child? Hah, you’ve got to be kidding. Back when I was your age, I was already the person I am today. I don’t have any plans to let you get away with something just “because you’re a child.” ……remember that. There, I’ve finished marking. 83%. How do I put it… Even though you act like this, it’s not like you’re super brilliant at studying or anything, huh.

I don't know what morals people are expecting from Kotoko but when someone comes out and says exactly how they are in private people should believe them. Kotoko admitted to being just like Futa if she's like him and his actions harmed children/people younger than him then hers probably harmed children as well.

Q.09 Which of the other prisoners do you think resembles you the most? Kotoko: That’s a hard one. I’m only able to answer based on my guess on what they did. But I think the one that probably resembles me the most is Futa? Though he’s also the person who resembles me the least.

And so far the only difference between Kotoko and Futa is- Futa is actually insecure and remorseful about what he did or what his actions caused. So, what's making Kotoko say he's the one who resembles her the least because the thing causing her to say he resembles her the most is her own assumptions about his crime. So, it's not his crime that's the problem.

Could it be his cowardice and inability to commit fully to his cause. Like she does-

Q.03 Do you think any other prisoners who committed the same sin as you deserve to be forgiven? Kotoko: Of course. Haven’t I already said that I believe my actions have been correct? Q.12 What is your motto? Kotoko: “There’s no other way that could let us live, so I walk this path.” [TN: Quote from Mushanokouji Saneatsu.]

The fact that he doesn't commit to completing the objective by any means-

Q.15  Which is more important, the objective or the means? Kotoko: Objective. Does that not go without saying?

I don't know because she doesn't fuccking say it could be as simple as Futa stopping when people apologize unlike her. I can't fucking say but I can say it's suspicious. Yet it is odd that she said the person resembles her the least outside of his crime is the guy worried about protecting those younger than him when he gets in here. Kind of really fucking suspicious. Especially taking into consideration all the injured kid literraed throughout her video.

So, I think she did that but a lot of people don't like to think about her doing that because that would make her the bad guy. She is in a mystical murder prison. If she did not commit murder she'd be at home but she's here with other murderers and recognizes this.

20/05/30 Mahiru: Hey, Kotoko-chan. There’s something that’s really been bugging me, so do you mind if I ask? ……how do you style yourself so well? Have you always dressed like that? But it also looks like something you’d wear for training. Do you play sport? Ah, or maybe some kind of martial arts? Kotoko: ……you really are carefree. Everyone in here is a “murderer” right? Is this really the time to be asking questions like that? Mahiru: Hmm, I guess so. That’s what they said. But nobody here seems particularly scary or anything, right? If I had to pick someone, then maybe you’re the scariest! Ah, wait, do you do like yoga or something? Kotoko: ……I can’t tell if you’re making fun of me or are just an airhead.

She is one of the first people to accept because she recognizes what she did was murder and through guilty by association concludes everyone else here is a killer too and thus worse than her if they've been judged as guilty by Es. Which is why she's so fucking gungho to jump them because she knows she's a bad person and we forgave her but not them so they must be worse.

She doesn't even have to fucking ask she's Innocent they're guilty that's enough. Because no one knows better what Kotoko did then Kotoko herself. SSo, if she's here like oh they know everything and found me innocent hm these other people must be the fucking scum of the earth. Of course there are some I'd have voted guilty myself that are innocent but the guard is young I guess.

TIME FOR THE JUMPING-

Momose, Amane/ Amane Momose

13. any ideas on what would they and their MV be like if they got a different verdict in T1?

I think her song would have been a lot more bubbly. Though we would see more of her sin. It would have more than likely shifted focus to the aspects about it she regrets more instead of highlighting her mother. Yet, it's hard to gage Amane's disposition. I think it would be something along those lines though. Since Kotoko would have still attacked people because she'd have still been Innocent as well. Amane would have probably still been a bit rattled by the situation but I don't think she'd be as hostile about Shidou helping.

Since she seems to only look for people to pjudge when she's being judged and keeps to herself outside of that. Though that may be wishful thinking. It really depends on how much she personally dislikes medicine at the end of the day. However she wasn't throwing any fits when Shidou wass tending to Haruka's injuries trial one. So, I dount she'd really care if she were innocent.

20/07/03 Shidou: Sakurai-kun……? Show me your hand. Haruka: Heh!? No, I…… There’s, n-n-nothing wrong. Shidou: Show me. ……the palm of your hand is bleeding. I’ll have to disinfect it. Does this always happen……? Haruka: A-ah…… It’s, j-just a habit…… I-if I’m nervous, I grip my hands, too hard, so my nails……

Like Shidou was actively giving medical treatment no problem or intervention from Amane before her guilty verdict. So things would probably be pretty different if she was Innocent trial one but too late now!

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Favorite Games

I was talking with a friend of mine and this thought occurred. What are my top 10 favorite games? So these games are those I wouldn't mind introducing to others. Now, these are games, and not franchises. So multiple games of the same franchise can make it on here.

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10) Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory

I absolutely love this game. But... it's from 2005, and the series has been dead for like 10 years. The last game was Blacklist that came out for the Xbox 360. Not even Xbox One. Such a shame. In order for me to play this game again, I have to run it on my old 360 that barely works, or buy it again on the Xbox marketplace. That's probably still worth it given how good this is and how cheap it is now. Super serious story of course, but there are still comic relief here and there, usually in interrogations.

Guard: "I knew it! I knew there were ninjas here!" Fisher: "What?" Guard: "You must be a ninja! How else could you sneak up and grab me like that?" Fisher: "Look, I don't know what you're-" Guard: "Wow! I can't believe it! A real, live ninja!" Fisher: "Listen, I'm going to kill you if you-" Guard: "Wow! Killed by a ninja! Cool!"

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9) <Redacted> 10

... At this point, it's going to be the Redacted series. ... Sure. The 10th entry of my second favorite franchise. This came out in... 2005 as well. Wow.

As much as I like the game, it's not easy for anyone new to pick up, because... story and the characters, I guess. Unless you already know the story, it's not going to be clear what's happening, why, and what comes next. And as a single player game, the AI is pretty important, and... it's very frustrating in a wide variety of ways. They spam an action that mildly annoys you, but they do it like 30 times a minute. And the AI doesn't do sh*t in combat, whether it's working for you or against you.

Unfortunately, this can no longer run on latest Windows. So I have my laptop permanently on "Test Mode" just so I can run the thing. Which means when I eventually get a desktop PC, this game will not be copied onto there.

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8) Hitman: World of Assassination

This game provides a lot of entertainment in very... unique ways. Sometimes, pulling off the perfect assassination is very cool and sneaky. Sabotage a heart surgery (...), make two targets kill each other, sabotage an explosive device that the target is testing out so he blows himself up, etc. Sometimes, the assassination is rather... goofy. Swap a golf ball with an explosive golf ball and watch the target blow himself up in an accident (???). Put a car battery in the washroom and overflow the sink so the target gets electrocuted in an unfortunate accident that no one could've seen coming (????). Punch the target right in the face so they fall over while strolling on extremely shallow waters so they accidentally drown. And on and on.

And of course, the classic Hitman "disguises" that... just... heh. Nothing is quite as amusing as running around in a bank, dressed as Santa Claus, carrying a big ass magnum pistol and blasting people into oblivion. Santa wants his paycheque cashed in now, damn it. Hehehe.

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7) Yakuza Kiwami

The first Yakuza game to make it in here, out of 13 that I've played since 2020. Damn.

The game's great. Combat is amazing, plot is great but not as great as in 0. And Majima Everywhere does get annoying in NG+. But the start of Yakuza Kiwami is like the only time Kiryu is perfectly happy, so... ohhh... And... Haruka...

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6) <Redacted> 11

Much of the same for 10. AI is very annoying, spams same dumb moves over and over because if it did literally nothing the first 15 times, surely the 16th time would...

But 11, which is from... 2006, is the game I've played the most out of every other game, including Starcraft II and Yakuza 0, and even Pokemon Gold version, whose game time maxed out.

I would very much love to start modding this, except I don't know how. Hehe... This game also only runs on my laptop thanks to the Test Mode, so... that sucks.

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5) Lost Judgment: Unjudged Memories

This game's so good. Judgment too. The only downside is how long the games are. And since Judgment series only mention the mainline Yakuza games stuff in passing reference, the mainline Yakuza games are not required!

These are like the first notable cases for me where the bad guys are definitely in the bad but I understand why they're doing it. Like... in Judgment, the bad guys are covering up and continuing with lethal human experimentations to get the cure for dementia to work on humans. The serial killer himself says that at this point, they need to get this drug to work, else nothing could possibly save them. And in Lost Judgment, your ally says that there is no clear right answer here. Though that's because they don't have a correct starting point of morality, but hey. It's a crappy situation where no outcome can be a happy one.

... Though Lost Judgment does have a DLC story, and for the first time ever, that has a happy ending.

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4) Starcraft: Brood War

Ah... the game that I would love to play a lot of... if I wasn't so scared. Hehehe. Not only do you have to fight the game, you also have to fight the other guy who's in the game playing against you. And anyone who's still playing on the ladder probably has been playing the game for like 15 years at this point. If I play on the ladder, I'll just end up getting annihilated nonstop. Someone much better than I am at RTS described it as "getting cyber bullied by Koreans on the ladder".

You need like 300 APM just to manage your economy and macro properly. And with the other guy who's in the game, you now have to scout and see what they're up to and actually know what to do next. So for now, I'll just be satisfied with watching ASL, Ultimate Battles, and Major Pro Team Leagues.

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3) Yakuza 8

... Ow, my heart. The game is so fun. And long. Very long. And unlike 7 where the past games were not strictly required, in 8, all the past games are required for full comprehension. Since half of the main cast is from Yakuza 7, 7 is absolutely required. And since the other half of the game focuses on Kiryu, 0 ~ 7G are all required. So I guess this game can't really be recommended to anyone. It's a super long game that requires the player to have played all the other games in the series so far.

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2) Yakuza 0: Place of Oath

This game was so fun. I kind of wish I could go back to before I played this for the first time, just so I can enjoy it all over again. And since this game is (chronologically) the start of the series, I can actually recommend it to others and drag them into this rabbit hole too.

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1) Starcraft II

... I guess this isn't surprising at all.

The campaigns are fun to play (the story might suck but the gameplay is awesome), and with a huge influx of mods nowadays, it gets even better. Real Scale, where you either get smashed by the Protoss fleet or use the Protoss fleet to smash the enemies, Mass Recall, where you play Starcraft I campaign on the SCII engine, Randomizer, which can comically screw you over at times, Reversed Campaigns where you play the campaign missions but from the enemy's side, etc. The SCII editor is so big that you can do almost anything in it, including making a whole new game using the engine, like Heroes of the Storm.

There's also co-op, which is just a ton of fun. I don't know why people get salty on co-op missions, but some do. And of course, the multiplayer. Ladder is actually very fun. Of course there are the standard multiplayer issues, such as salty players whining about balance and spamming insults, but that doesn't say anything about the game itself, and only how sh*tty people are.

That said, I don't think I can easily recommend this game. SCII may be a lot more beginner friendly, but it's too fast for beginners.

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Whew. So, there were 2 Starcraft games, 4 Yakuza games, 2 games from my second favorite franchise, and 2 miscellaneous.

Why didn't any Pokemon games make it in? Because of course they didn't. I don't like any aspect of those games. Look at what I've been doing lately in Generation I and II. Either glitch heavy runs or challenge runs only. And I highly doubt that Yellow version was made intentionally to allow players to create various Pikachu-shaped abominations before settling them loose in the wild. The only fun I had in playing Pokemon games were when I broke the game with glitches, and RNG manipulations, neither of which are intended.

Why didn't any Halo games make it in? Because I'm not that much of a fan of FPS multiplayer games. And Halo Wars are console RTS, so they suck horribly in comparison with either Starcraft games. Which is sad, since Starcraft 1 was from 1998, and its crappy ass N64 version had more available commands for units than Halo Wars 2.

Why didn't the other Yakuza games make it in? For 2, I didn't feel anything for the personal story and the yakuza story was only decent. For 3, the combat kind of sucks, and it's now the oldest game with 1 and 2 being remade as Kiwami and Kiwami 2. Though after 7 Gaiden and 8, there's a lot of desire to go back to 3 and hang out with the kids in Morning Glory. ... Kiwami 3 when? For 4, the plot kind of... meh. 5 was far too long and the yakuza story did not make a lick of sense, seeing as how the final boss doesn't even know why he's the final boss. 6 has gameplay issues and the yakuza story kind of sucks. 7 is fine and just narrowly didn't make it in. 7 Gaiden is way too short and doesn't have NG+. Ishin is a rather strange spinoff. And Judgment can get a bit frustrating with the combat and the Keihin Gang.

And my second favorite franchise... heh. I'll keep it redacted for as long as no one recognizes it. "Heh. It's all right. Everyone has secrets." ... Even though I don't particularly have a reason to keep it secret.

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MIX EP 9–thoughts about jokes

the beginning of the most recent episode of MIX finds Ooyama-kantoku instructing a first-year player not to erase the scoreboard of their just-finished practice game. Ooyama tells him that when he looks at the scoreboard, he sees a full stadium in the background, insinuating Meisei’s eventual appearance at Koshien.

And then, the first year hits him with this:

This joke makes no sense on the surface, as Mazda Zoom-Zoom Stadium, home of the Hiroshima Carp, is nowhere near the Kanto region in which this story is set, nor does it hold very much cultural significance in Japanese baseball. There’s no reason for this first year to think this is what his coach meant, and even less of a reason to think this would make a good joke other than the stadium having somewhat of a silly name. Adachi would never write a joke as lazy as this. Surely this was an audible called by the showrunners, right?

Well, uh, no. 

Same joke, chapter 79 of the manga, only it kind of works here because of the speed at which the joke comes. This is a recurring problem with the television show, as the jokes often sit for too long, presumably to fill air time (more on that, later). But maybe they would have been better off leaving out this joke entirely, because it doesn’t really work. Or maybe there’s something lost in translation, but I’m not ruling out the likelihood that it’s just bad. 

There is a joke here that does work, whereby Touma’s teacher catches him practicing his autograph during a lecture and Touma wonders how he could’ve known he was doing that. 

The joke isn’t that funny, but it’s presented so abruptly that I can’t help but chuckle, which happens so seldomly with MIX that even jokes that barely pass as acceptable feel like gut-busters in comparison. Good job, MIX. More of this. 

There are a few instances in this episode that spend way too much time on time fillers, notably on Ooyama and daddy Tachibana drunkenly singing the alma mater and our narrator slowly announcing the entirety of each team’s starting lineups (for a scrimmage! a scrimmage!!!). But there’s no worse offender than Ooyama calling for consecutive intentional walks, and for our narrator to explain the recent history of MLB rule changes adopted into NPB, all while kinetic graphics rotate around a slack-jawed Haruka. It takes like a full minute of buildup to explain a thoroughly mid joke, though I admittedly chuckled seeing Ooyama and his “WALK HIM” sign. 

Overall, the jokes were a little better? But still bad? Progress is progress, I guess. See you next week. 

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Here are some more opinions and quick disclaimer: if we have different opinions that’s totally ok. I’m not forcing you to like vbs music or dislike ichika, these are just some of my thoughts.

6 - going back to the favorite vocalist thing, I have a hard time ranking all of the character equally as it’s hard to compare the more masculine voices with the more feminine ones, and I have SUCH I hard time ranking the guys because I really like all of them. But my favorite feminine voices are mizuki, haruka, nene, and an and for the masculine ones it’s super close but rui would have to be my favorite

7 - there are a lot (or maybe a few I can’t remember too specifically off the top of my head) of VS songs that really should’ve been sekai songs. Right now the one coming to mind is meteor for L/N. Even though I’m not their biggest fan, they would’ve SLAYED THAT. It has that rock-ish vibe, it has the space title, and I think it would actually sound good if they lowered the notes (looking at you teo) and obviously I get that sometimes there can be scheduling conflicts or what not that would prevent certain covers from existing, but it’s does make me sad that there’s that missed potential.

8 - co-op shows. This isn’t a problem I have with the game but with the players. Why so many disbands?? I totally get it if you don’t want to play a song that’s picked, but you can just wait another 15 seconds for the show to start and then disconnect so the other 4 people don’t have to get disconnected to like gurrrl. I don’t get what part of that is so hard

9 - why are cover tickets/vouchers SO DAMN EXPENSIVE? When I first started playing they were I believe 10,000 event tokens, and now they’re 30,000 (which btw is 2x the amount needed for the 3 star) and in the wish piece exchange it’s literally 2000 wish pieces, enough to MASTERY RANK A 4 STAR? I dont get why they are so pricey/hard to get when game wise they do not have too much value, and most of the time I play the normal version anyways. I’d be ok with 10,000 event points but 30,000 is wayyyyyy too much

10 - this is more story related so apologies if anything is incorrect, but tell me how the fuck nobody else knows about the existence of the sekai’s besides the members themselves? In the main stories when they first go, they come back and they’re like “oh I must’ve fell asleep” and I was thinking about this when I finally went through the n25 main stories. You’re telling me, mafuyu was in the sekai for this long period of time, so in the real world she’d be asleep, and she wasn’t yelled at by her parents for not studying? Or attending school? There’s a lot of I guess plot holes for a lack of better terms when it comes to the sekai stuff

11 - speaking of n25 (and once again NOT CAUGHT UP) therapy. Now. But besides that and based off of what I know, I am so confused as they are still a group. Don’t get me wrong I love them, but story wise (NOT CAUGHT UP THIS IS BASED OFF OF THE MAIN AND THE FIRST HANDFUL OF EVENTS) one of them has this I hate all of you moment, everybody else works on fixing that person, and then it somehow resolves. Kanade’s who reasoning of I need to make music for mafuyu to make her happy is so toxic, and it frustrates me that everybody else thinks that that’s ok. And mafuyu…. Mafuyu mafuyu mafuyu. I get that at school or with parent yes she’s definitely putting on a mask, and that she’s not actually happy and what not, but with that said it makes no sense that your friends/bandmates almost ascend to the heavens because you ever so slightly smiled. The whole dynamic between n25 is just so toxic and (FROM WHAT IVE READ) it’s also really shallow. I get that games like this don’t usually delve into mental health things, and they still do show some of the harder moments, but for the most part it feels like they kinda just keep it very general and more so imply that someone is struggling, but the main part of the story is the other group members “fixing” whoever is struggling in the story, which again TOXIC. THERAPY. But it’s such a bummer that they dance around these really serious issues that affect people and kinda slap a “my little pony friendship is magic” band aid on it and it fixes it for the moment

I probably still have more to say but eat up for now :)

Feeling very intensely over project sekai right now (I’ve pulled almost 150 times for this damn rui card and I have no more energy to keep farming, and also I didn’t realize that the close game offline bachata was coming back so aaaaaa) so here are some random opinions I have and note that I am not a consistent story reader, I’ve read some of them but not every one

1 - out of the units, VBS has the best music. Period. I’d say 90% of their commissions AND covers are spectacular, there’s really only one or 2 covers I can say I’m not fond of, and some of the songs that I think are just ok are still really good, they’re just not my kind of style

2 - honami is not underrated. I will not tolerate “honami is underrated” this “honami is underrated” that. if everyone in the entire universe thinks says that, she’s not. Now, I really have only read 1 or 2 l/n stories, and if people didn’t say she was the best character ever all the time I’d probably like her more, but she is just kinda meh to me

3 - if we want to talk underrated though, HARUKA. Yes I am biased, but still. How often do you see people getting excited about her in the way they do over literally any other character? She’s easily in the top 5 vocals in the game (honestly I’d put her at one but I’ll go more into why that’s not the case in the next blurb). Personality wise (I haven’t kept up with stories in a while so bear with me and my projecting) she’s feels so genuine and mature, and she’s just got this calming presence to her that I really like. Yet I see NOBODY ever talk about her. Have y’all heard her chikyuu saigo cover?? Or really most of the alts she has? She’s amazing and I love her

4 - I have beef with whoever picks/arranges lines for the vocalists if that makes sense? It really didn’t click with me until I heard a part of the l/n Tokyo teddy bear cover. There was a line (and I don’t remember it off of the top of my head so sorry but anyways) that would’ve been AMAZING with shiho’s stronger, deeper vocals. And they gave it to either saki or honami, and it made this really powerful sound something weak and flimsy. And I’ve noticed this a lot in other songs more broadly too. Honami and saki aren’t bad vocalists at all, but the lines they are given don’t fit their voices, and this happens with a majority of the characters. I’d love to give haruka best vocals, because some of her covers are just so beautiful, but some of the songs she’s in really don’t highlight her type of vocals. Top of my head I’m thinking her near cover, where once again it just sounds weak and unenthusiastic. I know not every song can perfectly fit with every vocalist every time, but this genuinely happens so much and it irritates me a lot (and don’t get me started on the vs tuning 75% of the time yeesh) with this specific issue, I think every group does have it to some extent, but n25 is better at giving the right lines to the right vocalist, followed by vbs. And I’d honestly expect n25 to be able to make weird lines assignments work a majority of the time. They all have pretty versatile voices and in my opinion they have the most professional sound out of the 5 groups. With that said, in the context of the game, I’d have to say mizuki’s vocals are number one for me. The way they are able to almost shapeshift their voice is incredible, and I can’t recall a song where I think they sounded out of place. Haruka is still number 2, but it’s a bummer that so many times the vocals sound off because the va’s are given something that simply aren’t in their range, or their voice doesn’t just doesn’t give off the vibe requested from the song.

5 - Leo/need. Where do I even begin. Like I said I haven’t read much of their story nor do I remember it, but I’ve got beef. Please don’t attack me for this, but I really don’t like ichika. I’m sorry it had to be said but most of the time I just can’t stand her. I get that Leo/need is a band type group and she is the vocalist, but this mechanic doesn’t make sense a in a game where every other group everyone gets vocals in songs and b THE DRUMMER AND KEYBOARDISTS SING?? Like if saki was giving harmonies, that’s fine, and I totally get shiho having more vocal lines then saki and honami cuz stage wise she’d still be more up front and it’s not uncommon for guitar/bass players to add to vocals, but it makes no sense for a drummer to have vocal lines. Like in the slightest. Like that’s not how sound works at live shows?? Or lungs?? And with that in mind, I do think it’s actually insane how Leo/need is just Mike and ichika 90% of the time. And ichika in general just annoys me for some reason. Nothing in specific but she urkes me. Last Leo/need opinion for the moment, but going back to the honami is underrated thing, SHIHO. YALL THE DISRESPECT. I honestly don’t care too much for l/n but shiho is the best thing about l/n. I know her 1 cover is decently talked about, but I am OBSESSED with her from Tokyo cover. She somehow can sound edgy but also soft and light at the same time, and honestly I just think she’s really cool in general, and I wish she got more vocals in songs :(

I have more but I’m exhausted. I’ll probably add on to this at some point

[skrunksthatwunk]

ok now that the dust has settled a bit im actually gonna talk about my thoughts on the rgg summit y8 cutscene. you know the one

ok im talking about the proposals because although i didn't make it clear at the time i uh. i don't like it lmao (<- oversimplifying). let me explain (in 9 points + a tl;dr)

ichiban does strike me as the type to jump the gun and propose early, especially after like 18 years in prison. granted, i never did the dating stuff in y7, but i think it's in line with his character (i like it, makes sense)

him asking kiryu for advice is also fine, seeing as he's So Fucking Frazzled By Getting Turned Down im convinced he would ask anyone (i like it, makes sense)

regardless of my own views on ichiban's love life i. i guess i see that they could've been setting him and saeko up? like saeko's cattiness with seong-hui (who, if you forgot, flirted pretty hard with ichi when they first met) could be viewed as jealousy over ichiban...? i guess? and maybe that time she compliments his hair and he's like "well maybe I'll keep it :)"...? (i don't like it, but makes sense in hindsight as something they may have been trying to establish)

in regards to my thoughts on ichiban's love life: girl they have so little romantic chemistry im not even joking. not more so than like, him and any given member of the ichigang (which isn't nothing (<- ichigang polycule enjoyer) but you really just picked Nearest Girl huh), and arguably less imo. i like them!! i don't even hate them dating per se, but i don't love it being canon. like exploring it conceptually and making fan content etc is cool (go crazy!!), but i don't think they have enough standing in canon as-is to be satisfying as a couple, yeah? it doesn't feel like they were going for that in their y7 dynamic, and i actually found the platonic vibes of their bond kinda refreshing and im sad to see that replaced with a simple (probably offscreen) "okay they're together now" like it was inevitable, or the implication that the only reason their friendship was there was to set up a romance later, and they were just saving it for the next game. (i don't really like it, doesn't make sense)

it feels like they were anxious about where saeko falls in the "romance or relative" dichotomy of the series' female characters (see yumi, yuko, yasuko, hana, mirei (<- less direct, but majima's ex/pretty explicit mother figure to haruka), sayama, makoto, eri (y7, not the morning glory kid), seong-hui, that woman from y5, haruka, most of the cabaret girls as manager and customer, maaaany substory women, that patriarch's daughter in y3, reina, yayoi, the morning glory girls, etc etc). like she HAD to end up with someone in the cast because what else would she do, right? in isolation it's not an awful choice, but within the context of the rest of the series, it's frustrating because she was one of the only exceptions besides like. miss tatsu probably. (i don't like it, makes sense that it would happen in this series)

even if you want/are open to saeko and ichiban being together, shouldn't that be given more time and development? it feels rushed to me to go from hinting at romance (assuming that's what it was in y7) to proposing is like. kind of a disservice to those characters and that dynamic imo (i don't like it, doesn't make sense)

NOT TO MENTION KIRYU'S PROPOSALS?? like. to yumi? to sayama? it feels like that'd be weird to retcon in since we saw their relationships on screen. and if kiryu had an (or multiple?? as arguably implied in the scene???) offscreen relationship so serious he PROPOSED i think that'd also be weird and annoying to not see if you were a fan of that idea. shit man, if kiryu's proposing to someone i wanna meet her!! (because it's going to be straight. i know you know we know. pain) and maybe she'll even get like. depth and agency outside of being a love interest. if we're very lucky. (i don't really like it, doesn't make sense)

kiryu suddenly having ~plenty of experience~ with women isn't homophobic (or aphobic) per se, but. i mean. look there's a lot of good ways to read the way kiryu engages with sex and romance (including ones where he likes women and/or doesn't like men, in case you want to argue with me about that) but what we know for sure is that this series seems to a) be unable to let him hold on to a definite love interest between games b) want him to be a forever-bachelor, either because "i think he would be" or "he's mourning yumi sayama doesn't count" or "he's waiting for the right person" or "he can't endanger someone like that" etc, and/or c) does not want to/cannot validate queer interpretations of him (which the two previous points as well as other context may imply). y'know how around y4 they stopped letting majima and kiryu interact but still hinged big shit on their fated bond or whatever? it's like that to me. sometimes they feel the need to remind us all that they're actually super heterosexual guys. this could be that. if it walks like damage control and quacks like damage control it might very well be damage control. even in straight readings of him it's jarring and out of nowhere and lacks real time, development, and so on in ways that are both unsatisfying and contributing to the problems with women in the series, even more so than an ichi/saeko relationship (i don't like it, doesn't make sense)

during the summit they were careful to be like "well, we don't know what kind of proposal it is exactly ;)" so lemme say this: if it's not actually marriage proposals they're talking about, im not gonna be happy either. clickbait ass. (actually it would be a little funny if they were straightbaiting but im still gonna work under the assumption that it's not because like. did they word the cutscene like that just to show it at the summit like this? freak behavior) (idk how i feel about it, idk if it makes sense, someone should get smacked for this choice but there's a 50/50 chance i would do this in their shoes)

tl;dr i don't hate these ideas in isolation and if you're excited for them then i wish you the best. i hope for all of us that it's actually handled well. to be completely honest, im still interested in what leads them both to this point, and the relationships they may reveal, what they'll try to say with them, what they say about ichi and kiryu, etc. i will play along with ichi and saeko if they can do something cool with it, because i tend to be very flexible about that kinda thing. im not mad about it and i don't hate it exactly, but my impressions of it for the most part are "this seems sudden and out of character for everyone involved in troubling ways that are part of larger annoying/problematic patterns in the series".

[tinyghostvirus]

What if they met before Yuuichiro gave Rockman to Netto?

I mean, I can’t exactly picture both Haruka and Yuuichiro being fine with their children not even seeing each other (especially since, game-verse, they kind of reunited them as soon as they could since Netto was about five when he “got” Rockman if I remember well). So maybe, just maybe, before Rockman was fully completed...

So this is my headcannon, anime-verse. It took Yuuichiro some time to code Rockman’s frame (especially his ultimate program which, I would most definitely say, is his ability to just adapt to absolutely anything), so in the meantime, Saito was mostly hanging around Scilab using a prototype frame that was slowly updated as Yuuichiro was figuring out how to implement each and every single feature a navi should have in a way for Saito to be able to use them (I mean, according to what can be found in the game, I think he may have died between 1 and 4 years old, but I would need to read Japanese to be sure and I can’t, so he would already be “human wired” and would not think as an AI). Here, he dies at about 4 yo, and when the comic is taking place (before the time skip), they are about 9 yo, right before Saito has his memory locked so it looks like Rockman is a new navi (and that would explain why he never says anything in the anime, plus why Rockman feels so... robotic, in the first episodes). 

(And why no helmet? Have you ever tried to put a hat on a child? A hat they can’t remove as they please? Because I have. They would usually throw it in the pool. Or throw themselves in the pool with the hat on... Or throw someone else in the pool with their hat on. Moral of the story : attaching a hat to a child’s head usually ends up with a wet hat :/ )

(Also, I may have started this thing back in 2019... And I forgot about it :/ So some drafts were from back then, and I corrected the lineart as I could because I am lazy, and the last panels were completely redone. And I tried to put that into a logical order. It was a pain. Past!me didn’t apparently think this through...)

[minaramen]

New Year’s special story -  Werewolf Idols ~ LIVE or HEAVEN ~ Part 15: A battle between 16 minds

Part 1 | Part  2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 | Part 7 | Part 8 | Part 9 | Part 10 |  Part 11  | Part 12 | Part 13 | Part 14 | Part 15

Game master: Dawn has come

Game master: During tonight’s werewolf attack, one person was killed

Ryunosuke: Aah….

Haruka: The older Izumi is missing…!

Game master: The current number of villagers is two. The current number of wolves is two

Haruka: Izumi and Kujo are wolves…!!

Ryunosuke: Aah…it’s so frustrating…!

Tenn: We’re going to eat you both, now

Iori: It’ll be a delicious meal

Game master: The wolves win the game. Congratulations!

Iori&Tenn: Thank you

Iori: We won, Yotsuba san!

Tenn: Momo san, we won. Thank you for your help!

Haruka: Aaah…!! We lost…. I’m sorry, Touma….

Ryunosuke: I’m sorry, Gaku…! I apologize to everybody…! Aah…we were so close..!

Ryunosuke: However, you both did an amazing job!

Haruka: I really…

Tenn:...trusted me?

Haruka: Yeah…

Tenn: Fufu

Haruka: Wah! So so frustrating!!

Iori: It was a pretty tiring game to start the year with. However, it was fun

Tenn: Yes, it was. Shall we reach everybody in the afterlife, now?

*Cut to the TV studio, doors open*

Audience: Kyaaaaah…!

Iori: Ah…what a nice place

Haruka: And to think that we worked so hard! There was literal Heaven here, I wish I had died long ago!

Iori: Good for you, coming to such a warm place

Tenn: Happy new year!

Audience: Kyaaaaaah…!!

Audience: Happy new year!!

Audience: Tenn kun, bite me…!!

Tenn: Chomp

Audience: Kyaaaaaah…!!

Momo: Good job, everybody! Come here!

Yamato: Kujo, Kujo! Yaotome said he protected you!

Tenn: I can’t believe it. You’re cute from the very beginning of the year, Gaku

Audience: Kyaaaaaaaah…!

Haruka: I’m sorry, Touma…! I….

Touma: It’s okay, it’s okay! I got here just a moment ago. There are cakes, Haru!

Haruka: Yay…!

Torao: Good job

Minami: Well done, both of you

Touma: Mina, look! There’s inari sushi*! Have some, have some

Minami: Fufu, I think I’ll take you up on that

Iori: Good job, nii san. I’m sorry

Mitsuki: I even thought you were suspicious once! Next time I’m going to trust my intuition!

Iori: I knew you were too dangerous, nii san. That’s why I wanted to bite you fast

Mitsuki: Ahah! Saying you wanted to bite me! You really did your best as a wolf looking idol!

Riku: Hooray! I think we’ll have more job opportunities!

Iori: Nanase san, as a wolf, I’m really glad you were there. Thank you

Riku: Mh? What do you mean?

Yamato: True! I mean, why the hell did you come up with that playact?!

Riku: Ryuko chan was funny anyway

Nagi: I wish I could’ve survived longer!

Iori: You were too dangerous, Rokuya san…and we already had the handicap of Yotsuba Tamaki

Tamaki: Don’t call me a handicap!

Iori: Well, you were! Revealing that you were a wolf, really!?

Sogo: And you still executed me before Tamaki kun…

Iori: That was thanks to my leadership and the fact that Momo san followed me. Normally, Yotsuba san would have been executed first

Sogo: I see. Good, then!

Tamaki: I’m glad you're in a good mood, now…

Tenn: Ryuu, you kept me in suspense. I guess you understood everything at an early stage

Ryunosuke: I just perceived something strange going on. What about you, Gaku?

Gaku: I was too busy thinking about who to protect

Ryunosuke: Right, you were the hunter! Must be a tiring job! So many things to think about!

Gaku: Being a wolf must be hard as well

Tenn: I could rely very much on Izumi Iori san. Also, I had the support of Momo san

Momo: I’m glad this Werewolf game was so exciting! We should play it at the office sometimes!

Yuki: If you prepare a feast like today’s, count me in

Yuki: Anyway, I don’t really like hearing Momo call the werewolves his “besties”

Audience: Kyaaaaaaaaaah…!

Momo: Oh, Yuki! You’re jealous…! What game do you want to play, then?

Yuki: A Re-vale game

Momo: It’d be a pretty deep game! Re:vale biting each other!

Audience: Kyaaaaaaaaah!

Momo: Ah, in the blink of an eye the time is almost over!

Momo: We prepared a little gift for everybody who joined the game!

Ryunosuke: Wah! Big, medium and small baskets!

Momo: Choose whichever you prefer!

Tamaki: I want the biggest one!

Haruka: The small ones are way better! I’ll go for the smallest!

Momo: You can take your time to choose later! Now come here and line up, please! We need to wish everybody a happy new year

Riku: Just one line?

Tenn: We won’t fit in one line. Let’s make two

Yuki: Have you lined up…?

Touma: Yeah!

Momo: Okay, once more! Yuki, take the lead!

Yuki: What was it again..?

Momo: The greeting for the new year!

Yuki: Ah, right

Yuki: Let’s see…happy new year. This year too…

Everybody: Give us your support!

End

TL Notes:

*Inari sushi is also called “fox sushi”

New Year’s Story ends here

Special thanks for your support!!

[project-sekai-facts]

yes

updates:

MMJ!Len got 2 more cards! he's still the only MMJ vsinger without a 2* card though

KAITO still hasn't gotten a cover with WxS but he did get a cover with MMJ (which was also his first song with them in almost 2 years)

WxS!Miku finally got another 4* after 984 days

WxS finally caught up on reward cards!!

except Rui it's been about a year and a half since his last 2* and he currently has least in the game (dw though he's had so many 4*s this year so he's basically only gonna get reward cards next year)

As of the last WxS event, Emu now has a 3* of every attribute! Nene and Rui don't still...

shiho 3 lims in 4 months was bad but is emu sanrio collab lim and (likely) fes lim being less than two weeks apart worse? and if the fes isn't emu then it's probably gonna be b2b cards whoever else it is...

VBS Len still doesn't have a new card. It's been almost 1.75 years (unless you count his 3rd anni 2* but that wasn't an event card). Leoni Luka in the same boat. And momojan Rin. And VBS MEIKO.

Niigo Miku got a new card though! (another 2*...)

Len finally got a lim card outside a vsinger lim event good for him

also N25 MEIKO and Rin finally got new cards in the vsinger lim event back in august

Emu and Rui got a duet cover! And a 3DMV! Nene/Rui is the only pairing left to get a cover now

N25 has gone onto receive a few more full unit covers! They now have 8 total

They also have 6 covers with a vsinger other than Miku now

MMJ Luka got a new card, and VBS Miku got her first event 2*

Nene has been on 9 events this year now (10 if you count last years NY event).

Ena has joined the one year no event club. Her last event just ran on EN.

WxS still has way too many full unit covers

In fact this whole year has been very dry for duet covers. We've only had 12 compared to last year's 24

VBS FINALLY GOT TO GO FIRST ON AN EVENT CYCLE HOLY SHIT (they still haven't gone second)

other stuff that wasn't in the original post:

Emu and Tsukasa still hold the record for longest time since last cover (almost 3 years and 3 months). Tsukasa's voice direction has changed like twice in that time.

Niigo still doesn't have any duet alt vocals. WxS still doesn't have any duet alt vocals that aren't m/f duets

It's been over a year since the last cover song to not feature a vsinger (Amanojaku)

Emu's last mixed event was over 3 years ago. Mizuki hits 3 years on December 10th

VBS Rin and KAITO don't have 3*s. L/n MEIKO also lacks a 3*

There are several vsingers left to get a 2*, including L/n Rin, MMJ Len, WxS Luka, and N25 Rin, MEIKO and KAITO.

WxS Rin and MMJ KAITO have never had 4*s on a unit event

Kanade's last 3* was in the Intersecting Melodies, Glowing Warmth event. 2 years ago. She beat Rui's 670 day record and as of today (december 6th) is at 737 days

Airi still holds the record for longest time between 4*s (191 days) and Tsukasa still holds the record for longest time between 2*s (811 days)

Kanade also holds the record for longest time between lims (455 days). Len went exactly 1 year to the day and everyone else has gone 11 months at most

also due to 4* spam, Mizuki, Kanade and Rui all managed to catch up to Miku's 4* count for the first time I think since launch

Outside of the starter vsingers who have been MIA for over a year and a half (except KAITO), WxS Luka has gone longest without a card (her last card was cheer squad back last may)

This year introduced the concept of Len and KAITO singing solo with all-girl units on covers. The first to do it was N25 Len with Irony, followed by L/n Len on Attract Light, N25 Len again in Kokoronashi, and MMJ KAITO in Akuyaku ni Kiss Scene wo.

It has been 442 days since Toya's last unit event as of posting. He holds the record for longest time between unit events right now. Rui, Ena or Haruka might beat this though.

unsure if this has been mentioned on this blog already, but this was the time between wonderland kaito's original most recent card (cherry blossom fes) to his current most recent card (canary in a quagmire)

wonderland kaito gets done so dirty all the time 😭 it's kind of sad

considering he's the main vocaloid for that sekai that is actually so sad. he had quite a big gap before then as well (Mermaids -> Sakura Across SEKAI was ~7 months). I think they're trying to catch up the other KAITOs because they all have less cards but goddamn colopale you don't have to make wxs!kaito go MIA.

vocaloid card distribution in general is so shit. For example, L/n Miku's first unit event card was on the Echo My Melody event gacha. In November. 2 years after launch. I think the last VBS Len card was his 1.5 anniversary lim as well.

iirc there are two vocaloid characters with only one card right now. One is N25!KAITO (obviously because he only just got added), and the other is MMJ!Len. Yeah his 4* from the Happy Lovely Everyday! event gacha is his only card.

This game has no balance at all

[zevzevarainai]

(AND, just so i'm not copying every question u send to me each time,) do u have any unpopular opinions about a video game (or video games in general) u've wanted to talk about but haven't had the opportunity to yet? i really enjoyed ur explanation of why u dislike yakuza 5 (since it's an argument i personally agree with) so i'm curious to hear more. totally ok if nothing comes to mind tho hghhghg

well lets see the first two that come to mind are why haruka's writing in y6 was not bad and then this one is less unpopular but about how sera in dai is an amazing character that was handled horribly in terms of interacting with her

I'm assuming you wanted me to elaborate so i will briefly touch on Haruka in y6:

The biggest issue that I've seen people having with her in that game is that she is reduced to a teen mom whose character focuses entirely on a baby, which is a valid concern. There are a lot of ways they could have gone with her character and what they did wouldnt necessarily be my first choice, but you gotta consider a lot of other factors (obviously yakuza 5 and 6 spoilers below the cut):

Going into my dislike of yakuza 5, the writers were tasked with having to continue off of the absolute train wreck that was haruka's writing in y5. (this is my post on park and if i did another one i can't find it) Haruka was already traumatized from a very young age and then they were like. Let's make her an idol that will surely aid her mental well being... And now in y6, she has been in the spotlight of the media and she is terrified of it having a negative effect on her family. (which, in my opinion, was why she never should have gone for the idol thing at all since she was hurting kiryu and the orphans, but this is about cleaning up y5's mess)

This poor girl is completely lost and has no idea what to do with her life. The only person she feels she could really talk to is in jail. She thinks it is best to reinvent herself in a new town. Whether this is the right decision or not doesn't matter this girl needs a therapist

She finally finds someone she connects with in Yuta. Yuta doesn't care about her past which is something she needs. She makes a mistake getting pregnant, very likely an accident. This is where people start getting angry.

She doesn't get an abortion like people are telling her to. She's very young to have a child but she still does have a right to the choice. I am unsure whether the anger comes from this, or her getting pregnant in the first place. Either way, it's kind of misogynistic. Accidentally getting pregnant and keeping Haruto does not make her any less tough or brave. I think a lot of people see her character here as being reduced to "women make babies and that's where her worth is," which is a very real problem in media, but i don't think it applies to Haruka.

If you think about it, Haruka had to be tough as hell to carry a baby for 9 months with no support from her family and friends, save her new boss. It's so sad to think about no one going through her pregnancy with her, not even Yuta.

Haruka finds purpose again in being Haruto's mother. She is not dismissed after his birth. I'm not even counting the whole coma deal because it was tragic but it was never a case of "welp, Haruto is more important anyway" when it very well could have been. Kiryu was constantly worried about her even if he did wear a brave face the whole time. The Hirose family cared about her and wanted to help. Akiyama had good intentions and wanted to look out for Haruka. When she woke up, it was a big deal.

The girl literally got hit by a car and went into a coma to protect her son. If you don't think Kiryu wouldn't have done the same thing, I don't know if we played the same game. Then after getting kidnapped, her main priority was still protect her family. She was able to remain calm legit until her father was shot and bleeding out. After that father was proclaimed dead, she still found the strength to go on for the orphanage and for Haruto.

Haruka is an amazing mother and that does not make her any less of an empowered woman!! God dammit!! Would I have liked to see her learn to fight and beat the shit out of people? Yes, but y5 could have done that too when they made her playable. Yakuza needs to include women in the combat, which they made a big step with Yakuza 7 though far from perfect. But that doesn't mean all the women are badly written, necessarily. For example, Makoto is a very deep character that is waved off as weak and fragile when in reality she's extremely strong based on the absolute hell shes been through. (this post goes a little bit into it but it is her and majima focused)

Also Haruto is a blessing have you looked at him? he's so damn cute and we get to see Grandpa Kiryu. why are you complaining

I don't know if any of that made sense but the main take away is Haruka's writing in y6 could have been a lot better but she should not be scrutinized for getting pregnant and keeping the child because it does not make her weak.

thank you for coming to my ted talk.

[oreoambitions]

Okay @mrsluthordanvers I’ll play 1. Why did you choose your url? My original URL was Early Afternoon Ambitions and when I came back to Tumblr after a hiatus I realized I hated it. Chose Oreo bc it was my nickname on World of Warcraft.

2. Any side blogs? Nah. Everyone who follows this blog is subject to my extremely fickle interests. Sorry!

3. How long have you been on Tumblr? Let’s put it this way: this was originally a Faberry blog.

4. Do you have a queue tag? Is that a thing I’m supposed to be doing

5. Why did you start your blog in the first place? See question #3

6. Why did you choose your icon/pfp? I had a Haruka Tenou icon until I got a bunch of hate asks about having an anime icon so I swapped to something still blond and boyish but less likely to attract rude commentary.

7. Why did you choose your header? I’m pretty sure I don’t have a header? Listen, I’m not very good at Tumblr.

8. What’s your post with the most notes? The one about the firefighter I went on a date and a half with. That whole saga is the mostly weirdly popular thing I’ve ever done on the internet. IRL friends still occasionally send it to me and tell me that it sounds like smth I would do.

9. How many mutuals do you have?  Uhhhhhhh several. If you left a funny comment or sent a nice ask I probably followed you back. I may have later unfollowed you because I unfollow pretty indiscriminately when sleep deprived. Sorry about that. I still love you.

10. How many followers do you have? Round about 2,500. Still a smol blog.

11. How many people do you follow? 567

12. Have you ever made a shitpost? I’m not 100% sure I know what a shitpost is, but probably.

13. How often do you use Tumblr each day? I go through phases. I try to hop on for half an hour to answer asks and set up a queue, but I’m really bad at routines in general. Sometimes I’m here for hours. Sometimes I forget about Tumblr for weeks bc I am easily distracted and I have basically zero object permanence.

14. Did you have a fight/argument with another blog once? Nah. I blocked that one terf in the Supercorp fandom. Once someone came at me for a post about a Supercorp/Motherland Fort Salem crossover and blocked me right after commenting. So I guess two very one-sided fights.

15. How do you feel about “you need to reblog this” posts? They’re annoying. If you want engagement, ask an engaging question or post better content. Don’t guilt or pressure people into engaging with you.

16. Do you like tag games? I get tagged in them all the time but almost never do them. Generally my original intention was to keep this blog about content and keep my personal life out of it. Y’all are here for the stories and (usually) not for me! But once in a while they’re fun.

17. Do you like ask games? See the above except I’m even LESS likely to do this than a tag game because I’m always afraid I won’t get any asks!

18. Which of your mutuals do you think is Tumblr famous? I have a couple of mutuals who are definitely too famous to be friends with me but let’s not tag them here bc I don’t want them to realize and un-mutual ;)

19. Do you have a crush on a mutual? I super doooo but there are a lot of reasons it wouldn’t work out and I don’t think she’s interested. Not gonna tag anyone in this. If you wanna do it, consider yourself tagged!

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This is really fun! Seeing all the others doing this, it'll be hard for me to pick only 9 ><

(Left to right, this is according to which anime I watched and loved the most)

1). Levi Ackerman (obviously, do I need any explanation? He's basically one of my first anime crushes that I literally felt my heart jump and palpitate 😘) { Official Mappa art}

2). Rimuru Tempest (This boy is literally my son but also husband??? Weird I know he a slime) {Manga panel forgot what chapter or manga volume😭}

3). Senku Ishigami (I swear I have a type for good looking nerds like him 🫦)

4). Chigiri (Do I need any explanation? I fell hard for this man, literally have old drafts of a fanfic for him)

5). Isigi (The bath house scene when it got animated, I flipped myself over and gone feral, his hair up is so hot 🫦)

6). Kheadera Kazuha!! (This man is so dominant in my eyes but so gentle at the same time?!? *why is he so f---ing hot?! And respectful?!* )

7). Zhongli (I had a hard choice between him and Neuvillette cause in Jap dub, Neuvillette is voiced by Levi's VA, but Zhongli has a special place in my heart, he keeps me safe cause strong shield haha)

8). Komi!! (I have social anxiety believe it or not, and I'm an introvert, and she's one of the characters that I strongly relate when it gets to making friends and socialism, I literally love her so much wanna hug her 🫂❤️🩷)

9). Takashi Mitsuya (This man is like Kazuha but when on fighting mode with other biker gangs in the anime and manga, it's so Levi, I fell hard again for him, oh my~~🫦)

I do have honorable mention of other characters that I also love but not as much as my top 9.

1). Hange Zoe (AOT)

2). Neuvillette (Genshin Impact - game)

3). Tighnari (Genshin Impact - game)

4). Mikasa Ackerman (AOT)

5). Rin Matsuoka (Free! - anime swimming series)

6). Haruka Nanase (Free! - anime swimming series)

7). Izuku Midoriya (Deku) (MHA)

8). Thoma (Genshin Impact - game)

So yeah that's all for now, I'm sorry I couldn't tag people cause my brain has in so mushy the fact it's 2024 is making me anxious for some reason and when I do feel that way, I can't really think straight 😭.

I'm on Academic Break so I have 3 months free time, but still I feel so anxious for some reason, I guess the year has gone way too fast that made me overwhelmed a little so yeah!

I guess I'm like Levi, can't always embrace change.

Happy New Year!

P.S I'm making a New Year's oneshot for Levi 🫦 it's smutty ofc. And I'm currently writing The Assassin's Love Levi x OC Fanfic on Wattpad (_LadyAnn_02) I will post it as a whole completed book when I'm done sorting out the plot and everything so yeah!

Lab u guys 😘🫂

2023 CHARACTER WRAPPED

top 9 characters I loved in 2023:

I decided to highlight the new ones, the new faves that I added to my never-ending long list of husbandos 💖from left to right: Yamada Asaemon Shion (Jigokuraku) , Rei Suwa (Buddy Daddies) , Itoshi Sae (Blue Lock) , Itoshi Rin (Blue Lock) , Hayakawa Aki (Chainsaw man) , Kiyoka Kudo (my happy Marriage) , Himuro-kun (the ice guy and his cool female colleague) , Takayuki Mima (cool doji dhanshi) , Noah Wynknight (the reason why raeliana ended up at the duke's mansion)

I was tagged by @queenrojpag Thank you very much! 💕 I loved your 9 characters and I always adore your red gifsets!

I tag: @gojosattoru , @hayakaws , @apparently-artless , @taohs , @hokusu , @kyojuuros , @okkottsus , @inahochi , @yuujies , @sattosugu , @rubydragon16 , @ashiromina , @homuras , @smol-ackerman , @koushuwu , @inosukz , @silversoulsociety , @incepstla , and everyone else who would like to do it!

and in case you are wondering... this is the list that has been growing for the past 15 years... and I still need to add more hahaha

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i was looking through your final preference ranking, and i was wondering who your favorite character and favorite female character of all time are?

Hehe. You’re wondering who were able to top Platinum as my favorite characters of all time? Well, if you recognize the music that’s been playing on my Tumblr for a long time now, you’d probably guess who my favorite female character is, and as for the male, it’s either one or the other. And based on that preference post, it’s the mad one.

But if you don’t, the answer is...

For my top favorite character of all time, it would have to be... the Mad Dog himself, Majima Goro from the Yakuza series.

And I don’t mean the “normal” version that was in Yakuza 0, before he just snapped. I mean, the MAD version, after he just lets himself go nuts. "Right, wrong... nobody’s got a clue what the difference is in this town. So I’m gonna have more fun and live crazier than any of ‘em!”

... And so he does whatever he wants to, including hiding in a manhole for you to walk over before popping up to fight you.

You can hear his voice in his three karaoke songs that are on this Tumblr right now. 24 Hour Cinderella, As Long as You’re Happy, and GET TO THE TOP! (remix). ... And very briefly in his own anthem...

... Majima Construction Anthem, where he got his formerly-yakuza family to form a construction company, fighting a bunch of Japanese wrestling legends, all the while building a massive condominium known as Kamurocho Hills... which actually completes by the time of Yakuza 5. "For a project like this... look it up on the internet and start building! Complainers get no paycheque! ... Actually, I'll kill ya first!"

Majima is my favorite character of all time, because... why wouldn’t he be? He’s certainly more interesting and hilarious than any of the Dex Holders, male or female. And unlike any of those, he can be quite brutal, because... yakuza.

And my top favorite female character of all time would be... Sawamura Haruka from the same series.

You can hear her voice in MANY of her karaoke songs on my Tumblr: Otometal My Life, I Wanna Change Myself, GET TO THE TOP!, Otomeiro My Life, So Much More!, Loneliness Loop, and Because I Have You.

That little 9 year old girl from Yakuza 1 (2005) who’s been following the player character around, has grown up... and then disaster happened in Yakuza 5 (2012) and 6 (2016)...

To summarize the disaster, after losing absolutely everyone they ever cared about in 2005, the player character (Kiryu) and Haruka have no one else but each other, so they live together and take over an orphanage in 2007. In 2011, Haruka gets scouted by a talent agency, and she gets put on a fast track of becoming an idol. Except she has to distance herself from Kiryu, since the agency can’t allow the manic fans to find out that her adopted father is a retired yakuza legend, and the scandal will kill her chances immediately. So Kiryu has to leave the orphanage and does not see Haruka until the very end of Yakuza 5 in 2012, and the only time he spends with her in that game is the non-canon one in Premium Adventure mode after the game ends.

Haruka never really wanted this in the first place, and she really hates the idea that she’d have to distance herself from Kiryu. So at the end of her debut concert, instead of singing the last song, she declares retirement, reveals her bond to Kiryu, aka, the legendary yakuza, and runs out, effectively throwing her future and career out the window, just so that she can stay with Kiryu.

But the events of Yakuza 5 leaves Kiryu hospitalized, and then he’s immediately arrested for almost 4 years. And during this time, Haruka is hunted by tabloid journalists for being a “yakuza idol”, and decides to run away from the orphanage to prevent the other kids from suffering from her decision. So when Kiryu is released from prison in 2016, Haruka is gone, so he goes to find her, and then finds out that she got hit by a car and is in a coma. Haruka wakes up at the very end of Yakuza 6, and after more yakuza-related bullsh*t, Kiryu “dies” so that Haruka will be kept safe from other yakuza who may want to hurt her in order to get to him. And so Yakuza 6 ends with Kiryu walking away from the orphanage, and from Haruka. Which means, Haruka kicked her career out the window to be able to live with him in peace, and then spent a combined total of like A DAY with him before she never saw him again, and believes him to be dead. ... Ow, my heart.

... And he never did again. ... I want to cry. Hahaha... ... Especially when I play the past games again. “I want to stay with you!” ... ugh...

So why is she my favorite? Well, for one, she’s incredibly mature given her age, so she’s the opposite of being childish, even at an age where it would’ve made sense. And she’s INCREDIBLY hardened. A normal 9 year old girl would’ve probably broken down many times over after being kidnapped three times in rapid succession, got shot at, had a grenade explode next to her, watched MANY people die, had her biological father shoot her twice, watched her mother die to said biological father’s bullet, watched said biological father get stabbed, had a bomb explode disturbingly close... and all that when she was 9. And all she had to rely on was this clearly-yakuza stranger (Kiryu) who was just released from prison, and the only reason why he was looking after her was because he’s actually a nice guy, and they were looking for the same person.

Haruka gets kidnapped 6 times across 6 games, had been shot at many times, even saw her new mother figure murdered, almost got killed by a car, watched her home get obliterated by a bulldozer, saw countless people die in front of her, watched one of her protectors get hit on the neck by a sledgehammer, watched countless people get absolutely brutalized by a legendary dragon (Kiryu), and even watched him fighting two tigers to save her.

And in the end, Haruka watches Kiryu get shot by the bullet that was meant for her, and watches him get shot two more times in the end of Yakuza 6, and then watches him “die” in front of her.

And despite all that, she remains bright and cheerful, and the only thing that ever traumatized her until then was watching Kiryu get stabbed at the very end of Yakuza 3. She’s always super nice to everyone (except to the guy who stabbed Kiryu), even the two “rival” idols in Yakuza 5 who give her so much sh*t due to jealousy.

So Haruka’s devastating history, her strength to overcome it, her super kindness and how absolutely adorable she is in the entire series, following Kiryu around, makes her my top favorite female character of all time. The only “shame” is that in the only game where she’s playable, Yakuza 5, she doesn’t get to fight. Makes sense, since she’s 16 years old, and she’s not going to beat the sh*t out of hundreds of random punks that pick a fight with anyone.

... And she’s partially responsible for the most uncomfortable cutscene I’ve ever seen in my life, and also for the most awkward cutscene I’ve ever seen in my life. And also the more heartwarming dialogues too.

Yakuza 5 Premium Adventure (aka, non-canon) Haruka: “Look, Mister! It’s a Ferris wheel! Wow, it’s so big!” Kiryu: “Want to ride it? You really liked it back in the day.” Haruka: “With you, Mister? Well...” Kiryu: “Why? What’s wrong with me?” Haruka: “It’s just... I kind of want to ride it with a boyfriend, you know?” Kiryu: “B - Boyfriend?!” Haruka: “I mean, if I had one. ... Why do you look so serious?” Kiryu: “... Almost gave me a heart attack...” Haruka: “Aww, you’re so cute when you’re flustered.” Kiryu: “...” Haruka: “... Say, if I did get a boyfriend...” Kiryu: “Hm? What did you say?” Haruka: “Oh, nothing.”

And then if you look at my recent banter posts, one of them (Ferris Wheel) is practically identical to this...

And yes. The Yakuza series (including the technically-not-Yakuza-series Judgment) has rapidly climbed up to become one of my favorite game series of all time. It’s not my top favorite, however, but it is my 3rd favorite. The top two have nostalgia going into them as well, since I’ve been playing them pretty regularly since 1998 (... technically I was merely WATCHING back then). And no, Pokemon is not one of those.