#arisu arisugawa

[kenllre]

[shinehalley]

Advise to how to conquer the guy you like by Sanae Moroboshi, kidnap his boyfriend.

[brie-draws]

Arisu [ Missalina Rei ] / Miku [ An Cafe ] / Mana [ Malice Mizer ] / Kyo [ Dir En Grey ]

[mxliv-oftheendless]

Am I writing a Ballet AU for Arisu x Chishiya featuring Alice Arisugawa and Hideo Himura as a background bickering couple?? Why yes, yes I am.

[theantichrists-blog]

!! Alice in Borderland s2 spoilers !!

[imasallstars]

INTERDIMENSION FESTIVAL: IDOLM@STER★♥LOVE LIVE! UTA GASSEN

Information regarding the first IJIGEN FES 2023 live has been revealed! The live will occur in the TOKYO DOME on the 9th and 10th of December 2023. This first fes will feature three branches of IDOLM@STER performing with four branches of Love Live!

The voice providers participating in this stop are as follows:

DAY 1 ONLY

IDOLM@STER CINDERELLA GIRLS 　Kotomi Aihara (Shiki Ichinose), Hiromi Igarashi (Anzu Futaba), Asami Takano (Frederica Miyamoto), Yuki Nakashima (Yuuki Otokura), Yuko Iida (Kanade Hayami), Honoka Inoue (Nanami Asari), Sumire Uesaka (Anastasia), Aya Suzaki (Minami Nitta), Miyu Tomita (Akira Sunazuka), Ru Thing (Syuko Shiomi), Teru Ikuta (Natalia), Hina Tachibana (Nagi Hisakawa), Nanami Yamashita (Yui Ohtsuki) IDOLM@STER MILLION LIVE 　Haruka Yamazaki (Mirai Kasuga), Azusa Tadokoro (Shizuka Mogami), Machico (Tsubasa Ibuki), Momo Asakura (Serika Hakozaki), Kotori Koiwai (Tomoka Tenkubashi), Atsuki Nakamura (Roco Handa), Emi Hirayama (Reika Kitakami), Yui Watanabe (Nao Yokoyama) IDOLM@STER SHINY COLORS 　Karin Isobe (Kogane Tsukioka), Chisa Suginuma (Mamimi Tanaka), Anna Yamaki (Sakuya Shirase), Shio Watanabe (Yuika Mitsumine), Yuina Mizuki (Kiriko Yukoku), Honoka Kuroki (Amana Osaki), Ryoko Maekawa (Tenka Osaki), Noriko Shibasaki (Chiyuki Kuwayama), Yuu Wakui (Toru Asakura), Rio Tsuchiya (Madoka Higuchi), Saran Tajima (Koito Fukumaru), Miho Okasaki (Hinana Ichikawa), Azusa Shizuki (Nichika Nanakusa), Aya Yamane (Mikoto Aketa)

DAY 2 ONLY

IDOLM@STER CINDERELLA GIRLS 　Ayaka Ohashi (Uzuki Shimamura), Ayaka Fukuhara (Rin Shibuya), Sayuri Hara (Mio Honda), Amina Sato (Arisu Tachibana), Tomoyo Kurosawa (Miria Akagi), Hana Tamegai (Risa Matoba), Makoto Koichi (Haru Yuuki), Asaka Imai (Chie Sasaki), Natsumi Haruse (Kaoru Ryuzaki), Misaki Kuno (Nina Ichihara), Yuri Komori (Koharu Koga), Mina Nakazawa (Yukimi Sajo), Maki Hanatani (Kozue Yusa) IDOLM@STER MILLION LIVE 　Aimi (Julia), Miku Itou (Yuriko Nanao), Ibuki Kido (Kana Yabuki), Arisa Kori (Kaori Sakuramori), Yuri Komagata (Sayoko Takayama), Rie Suegara (Fuka Toyokawa), Saki Minami (Tsumugi Shiraishi), Rikako Yamaguchi (Rio Momose) IDOLM@STER SHINY COLORS 　Hitomi Sekine (Mano Sakuragi), Reina Kondo (Hiori Kazano), Mayu Mineda (Meguru Hachimiya), Hiyori Konno (Kaho Komiya), Haruka Shiraishi (Chiyoko Sonoda), Mariko Nagai (Juri Saijo), Wakana Maruoka (Rinze Morino), Akiho Suzumoto (Natsuha Arisugawa), Yuki Tanaka (Asahi Serizawa), Eri Yukimura (Fuyuko Mayuzumi), Sayaka Kitahara (Mei Izumi), Rina Kawaguchi (Luca Ikaruga), Haruna Mikawa (Hana Suzuki), Rena Ozawa (Haruki Iketa)

DAY 1&2

AQOURS (LOVE LIVE! SUNSHINE!!) 　Anju Inami (Chika Takami), Rikako Aida (Riko Sakurauchi), Nanaka Suwa (Kana Matsuura), Arisa Komiya (Dia Kurosawa), Shukai Saito (You Watanabe), Aika Kobayashi (Yoshiko Tsushima), Kanako Takatsuki (Hanamaru Kunikida), Aina Suzuki (Mari Ohara), Ai Furihata (Ruby Kurosawa) NIJIGASAKU SCHOOL IDOL CLUB 　Aguri Ohnishi (Ayumu Uehara), Mayu Sagara (Kasumi Nakasu), Kaori Maede (Shizuku Osaka), Miyu Kubota (Karin Asaka), Natsumi Murakami (Ai Miyashia), Akari Kito (Kanata Konoe), Coco Hayashi (Setsuna Imura), Maria Sashide (Emma Verde), Chiemi Tanaka (Rina Tennoji), Moeka Koizumi (Shioriko Mifune), Shu Uchida (Mia Taylor), Akina Homoto (Zhong Lanzhu). 　Support Member: Hinaki Yano (Yu Takasaki) Liella! (LOVE LIVE! SUPERSTAR!!) 　Sayuri Date (Kanon Shibuya), Liyuu (Keke Tang), Nako Misaki (Chisato Arashi), Naomi Payton (Sumire Heanna), Nagisa Aoyama (Ren Hazuki), Nozomi Suzuhara (Kinako Sakurakoji), Akana Yabushima (Mei Yoneme), Wakana Okuma (Shiki Wakana), Aya Emori (Natsumi Onitsuka), Yuina (Wien Margarete), Sakura Sakakura (Tomari Onitsuka) HASUNOSORA SCHOOL IDOL CLUB 　Nirei Nozomi (Kaho Hinoshita), Kokona Nonaka (Sayaka Murano), Nina Hanamiya (Kozue Otomune), Kotoka Sasaki (Tsuzuri Yugiri), Kanna Kan (Rurino Osawa), Kona Tsukine (Megumi Fujishima)

[sweetbottletops]

The October 2023 issue of Da Vinci magazine!

Agu got the cover story!

Prior to this she was interviewed in the May issue which you can still purchase at places like amazon.jp. I imagine this can also be purchased there very soon as in Japan magazines tend to come out way before their print date. This looks like the pre-order page.

"I drew the cover illustration for the October issue of "Da Vinci" released on September 6📗 I also draw a new manga for the SNS manga feature." Twitter

And that's not all.... if you order the issue from Animate you can get a clear file of the clean cover image while supplies last.

They are keeping her really busy but it's all good things.

More details on content below the cut.

Release date: September 06, 2023  Format: A4 size  Product form: Magazine  Pages: 180

Natsuhiko Kyogoku/SNS Manga

★ Cover Illustration "The person I was interested in was not a man" Feature 1 The latest work in the "Hyakki Yakou" series has been published! Writer Debut 30th Anniversary Natsuhiko Kyogoku Long Interview with Natsuhiko Kyogoku Guide to the Complete "Hyakki Yakou" Series Luxury Talk! Natsuhiko Kyogoku × Miyuki Miyabe and others Dear Sir, Natsuhiko Kyogoku [Contribution & Interview] Yukito Ayatsuji/Ryo Arai/Arisu Arisugawa Special feature 2 Anytime, with one hand, as much as you want. There is an SNS manga for a night alone [Manga] ★ Sumiko Arai “The person I was interested in was not a man” Hanage no Mai “Kora-kun and Amagi-kun” [Manga & Interview] Diana “Night Words” "Tachi" Penguin Box "Odekakeko Shark" Yajima "Uncle Who Reincarnated as a Cat" SNS Manga Editor Roundtable SNS Manga Must-Read Guide, etc.

[chickenmetenders]

"Sometimes a family can be two men and the two guys they abducted."

Assorted headcanons for the MAMIYA DDD Family ending [spoilers abound!!]

Here's a compilation/archive of messages I posted in the MAMIYA fan Discord about a continuation of the Family ending in Keito's route. In my version, Ryou also gets taken into the family along with Osamu, Satoru, and Keito. I call them KORS for short.

This is absolutely not serious or angsty in anyway, because I was writing this as aftercare for Minato's route lmao. I've sorted through my many messages and did some reorganizing, so they're grouped by topic. (Bolded names: indicates a comment from a server member)

Keito's New Family!!

For the first two months of living together keito is terrified, but ryou being 7 gets over the whole thing in like one month. Like this is just his new normal

Keito starts getting over it (stockholm syndrome starts setting in) once he sees satoru teaching ryou how to make takoyaki

You know i think crab takoyaki could work. I dont like crab but crab meat isnt that far off from octopus

Even after Keito gets over the whole kidnapping thing, he still takes a while to acclimate to his new "family". Like satoru osamu and ryou get used to the family situation pretty quickly (because they are not close to their birth families) but keito is very close to his family so he has to grapple with the cognitive dissonance for a good while

By six months time, he's used to their living circumstances and has affection for the three of them, but in his mind theyre housemates, not family. Like when someone asks about keito's family, his mind still immediately goes to his parents

It probably takes a year or so for keito to finally think of them as his family

(Staring at the words i have written) this is not found family, this is forced family

Gizzia: It's found as in Satoru and Osamu found them and kept them Me: OSAMU DIDNT EVEN FIND HIM, KEITO WENT /TO/ HIM!!!

The Mamiyas

Idk how the family thing is going to go. Like theyre changing their legal last name to mamiya???

Scanning over japanese name change procedures and thinking maybe not<3 i think japanese bureaucracy might be worse than american

Maybe its possible that satoru adopts ryou and osamu into his family registry so everyone thinks theyre a gay couple with a child, but then theyd still be samejimas

(It would be better of them to be samejimas instead of arisugawas because satoru owns all the houses. Obviously)

And then keito would be. Well they can't adopt him too because keito's dad is literally satoru's boss

Samejima could fake keito's death and keep him away from his family? BUT I FEEL LIKE THEYD BE FOUND OUT PRETTY QUICKLY IF KEITO WAS LIVING WITH SATORU

Well maybe its a non-legally binding family where satoru and osamu are back to living together again, satoru has pulled strings to get ryou adopted by osamu, and then he twists keitos arm into moving in with them as roommates

(Or keito moves in of his own volition, with his main motivation being that hes SUPER CONCERNED ABOUT LEAVING RYOU IN THERE)

Satoru and Osamu

Would osamu and satoru still be fighting at this point. I think the years apart would have calmed them down a little

Instead of punching satoru, osamu just slaps his a-- you know what never mind. Actually i think they would just verbally argue but without much bite. Because theyre family now

Vaguely remembering that bit in arisus route where osamu was like "we were partners in crime and i was even thinking about asking her to marry me" well osamu you have a new mamiya who you have committed several crimes with so what will you do now.

[Editing note: I want it noted that my brain short-circuited when Satoru was like "I feel like a newly wed bride". why did he say that]

General KORS Family Fluff

Osamu is the one who picks ryou up from school most of the time because he works from home but the first time keito does it ryou is just so happy. Ryou thinks keito is the coolest

Satoru is the one who teaches ryou how to cook so when hes older ryou ends up with really weird culinary skills. He does not know how to fry an egg sunny side up but he can whip up hollandaise sauce like its nothing

Satoru starts ryou in some kind of martial arts class and osamu hates it because ryou keeps trying to show osamu his skills (ie punching him in the leg)

Keito is still playing in a college lacrosse club and the whole family comes to watch his games. When ryou cant see over the crowd (i dont know what lacrosse games look like sowwy) satoru puts him on his shoulders

Osamu and keito take turns reading ryou his bedtime stories. Sometimes when they both have time they both read to him. Osamu is really good at the evil monster voices and robot voices, and keito is better than him at doing female voices

Despite being shorter than keito, satoru cannot fit into his jackets and coats because his shoulders are just to broad. He can fit into some of osamus longer coats because osamu likes buying clothes a size or two too big. Few of their clothes are viable hand me downs for ryou because he grows up short

Wait. But maybe ryou would grow up to be taller in this scenario because keito makes sure he drinks his milk. So maybe he would fit in their clothes

Satoru's Parental Tendencies (& other adults in Ryou's life)

(Growing realization) i think after keito and ryou move out for work/college, satoru would have the worst empty nest syndrome imaginable

(Assuming osamu satoru or keito doesn't set their house on fire with everyone inside in five years time)

Satoru ends up like a clingy overbearing mother who gets really upset when keito wants to move out for his Vaguely Defined Future Career and only calms down once osamu is like "uhhh dude chill" and keito promises to facetime every day

(I just think this is really funny because keito has his own family who is alive and who he is on good terms with but his actual mom puts up way less of a fuss than satoru)

After that satoru starts redirecting all his attention and affection towards ryou and is just overall insufferable

Ryou: im thinking about going to kyoto for college Satoru: absolutely not you will choose a school in tokyo and you will live in this house

Satoru is the strict parent who is prone to hysterics and osamu is the laissez faire parent who has to console his wife (i am of course delusional). Its like a sitcom

Keito rounds off ryou's Trio of Adult Figures as the unconditionally supportive older brother so i think between the three of them, ryou grows up to be pretty okay??? As okay as you can be when youre a member of the Mamiya family ig

They all frequently go to dinner at the suou's too so ryou is decently close to keitos parents

New Car!!

Anyway. If they all moved in together, satoru would have to buy a new car

Now i think a honda accord would be a good car for a family of four, but it might be a bit cramped if two of them are over 6ft tall, so it might be better if they had an suv

And also satoru loves his foreign cars so he wouldn't buy honda anyway

Okay so the volkswagon touareg could be a good option because it is a luxury suv from germany. However pre 2006 this suv was REALLY big so i dont think it would fit very well in the streets of japan

Cheese: samejima also is really big and doenst fit well in the streets of japan

Suvs werent as big of a thing in 2003, so maybe satoru would go for a sedan anyway... If satoru's going to gravitate towards european luxury brands, then the mercedes benz s class would be perfect for him. Its about the same size as a honda accord

Phle: [the Mercedes Benz S Class was] like literally my old car, it was a 2003 model too

During my playthrough of DDD, the KORS family au helped keep me sane. I think it's a neat idea. i think if it actually happened (and Osamu and Satoru took Ryou in as well) they would've started murdering people within the year, but this isn't about that!! If I wanted insane angst, I would replay DDD Keito/Ryou.

I kind of want to write some sort of fic about this weird family... But after playing EX, my brain has contacted the natsumiya virus and I haven't been able to stop thinking about that. So we'll see lol. I might archive some of my AU twitter threads for that ship onto tumblr, too, because I'm pretty fond of what I wrote.

Wow, this is the first time I've made a post like this on tumblr since I left in 2019! Writing longform is pretty fun.

[the-himawari]

A3! Troupe Event Translation - Sunny Blanc (5/11)

*Please read disclaimer on blog; default name set as Izumi

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Izumi: Woah, I feel like more people are out than last time.

Guy: The number of stalls may have increased as well.

Tasuku: They might have increased the scale since it’s so popular.

Azuma: All of us want to browse different things this time, so let’s meet up again after an hour and show off what we purchased.

Tsumugi: Sure. Alright then, see you later—.

Homare: “How do you do? Arisugawa Homare here. At the present moment, I am at the World Market with everyone in Winter troupe.”

Tasuku: Are you really doing a VLOG here…

Homare: Shall we film together?

Tasuku: I’m going to take a look at the junk parts way over there.

Hisoka: …I’m heading a different direction too.

Homare: I think the sweets corner is next to the used books corner. “Now then, why don’t we head off together! Let’s find a gem that’s one-of-a-kind!”

Hisoka: …*Sigh*.

Foreign boy: 《Ah, that guy over there! 》

Homare: Oh my? It appears that young man at that stall is calling out to you, Hisoka-kun.

Hisoka: ?

Foreign boy: 《Long time no see! Do you remember me? 》

Hisoka: Ah… (It’s the kid who was a customer at August’s candy shop…)

Foreign boy: 《I’m glad I got to meet you again, mister. 》

Hisoka: 《Same here…》

Homare: Hm… his artworks truly are a sight to behold… They are simple, but it is as if they see the true nature of the viewer’s heart… 《Did you paint all of these? 》

Foreign boy: 《Yes! I mostly have landscape paintings here, but I also draw portraits quite often. 》 《Here, like these—I love painting people’s smiling faces or how they look while they’re conversing. 》

Homare: 《Your portraits are fantastic. The expressions are full of life and it warms your heart. 》

Foreign boy: 《If you have something you want me to paint, then I can do it here. 》

Homare: 《Ooh! In that case, draw me like one of your—》

Hisoka: 《Okay, can I think about it and ask you later? 》

Foreign boy: 《No problem. 》

Customer: Excuse me. About this painting here—.

Foreign boy: 《Ah, yes. 》 《Sorry, I have to get back to it—I’ll be in this spot the whole time the event is running, so please come back anytime. 》

Homare: Hisoka-kun, and here I thought I was going to have my portrait painted.

Hisoka: …You’re enough on your own, Arisu.

-pause-

Homare: I bought a lot as usual.

Hisoka: …What are you shopping for?

Homare: I am going to take a quick peek at that shop next. I found a rare poetry anthology last time.

Hisoka: Mmmm…

Homare: —Oh, is this not the art book I have always been searching for? I can’t believe I found it here…!

Hisoka: This smell…

Homare: Hm?

Hisoka: —. (Will I remember again…? I want to remember… but…)

Homare: Take the camera, Hisoka-kun. Film me finding this treasure at the end of my hunt.

Hisoka: …No thanks. That’s a pain.

Homare: …Hmph. That’s why you’re Hisoka-kun.

Hisoka: What do you mean…?

Homare: Never mind. Well then, shall we return to where everyone else is?

-pause-

Izumi: Ha~. We shopped ‘til we dropped. It was fun!

Tsumugi: You bought a lot of spices like usual.

Izumi: Did you get gardening goods, Tsumugi-san? They’re nice.

Tsumugi: It’s fun to look at the wide variety of tools they have in countries where gardening is popular.

Tasuku: Mikage’s impressive too. Those are all sweets, aren’t they?

Hisoka: …I gave up on what I couldn’t hold.

Tasuku: There was more than that…?

Tsumugi: Holding a drinking party after the World Market reminds me of our closing party for our 6th performance.

Izumi: The only thing different back then was the shop.

Azuma: Mhm, Journey didn’t exist yet.

Guy: What would you like for your drinks and appetizers?

Azuma: Seeing as we went to the World Market today, it might be fun to try drinks from all over the world.

Izumi: Great idea!

Tasuku: We’ll leave it to you then, Guy.

Guy: Understood. Please wait a moment.

Izumi: (Sharing drinks with everyone at Journey like this has become a familiar sight.) (It sure is relaxing…)

Hisoka: …

Izumi: (Hisoka-san’s smiling…) Are you having fun, Hisoka-san?

Hisoka: ? Why do you ask?

Izumi: You were smiling. I feel like you smiled more than usual today.

Hisoka: Really…?

Izumi: (I wonder if we could switch up his mood, even a little.)

-pause-

Azuma: Can I get a refill?

Izumi: I’m good with water.

Guy: Coming right up.

Hisoka: Zzz, zzz…

Azuma: He’s sleeping blissfully surrounded by sweets, hm?

Tsumugi: He found a lot of marshmallows, so it looks like he cheered up a bit.

Izumi: I’m glad.

*dreams starts*

Hisoka: (I’m starving… I wonder if anything fell around here…) (What’s that… There’s a bunch of letters written down…) (I wonder what it says…)

Shopkeeper: Are you interested in books?

Hisoka: Books?

Shopkeeper: That’s what that is. My, have you never seen a book until now?

Hisoka: I can’t even read the words… If it’s not food, then I’m not interested…

Shopkeeper: Books aren’t edible. That’s very true. However, you see, books will enrich your life. Well, even if I tell you that right now, it might just go in one ear and out the other… But I pray that one day, the day will come for you when you can think you’re interested in books as well. I’m sure when that time comes, you will have become much happier than you are at this moment.

*dream ends*

Hisoka: —.

Homare: Zzz, zzz…

Hisoka: (This smell… is it from the book Arisu bought… I guess I had that dream because of this scent…) (This time it wasn’t about August. It was before I met him…) (Ah, that’s right… that old lady who was selling books didn’t treat me harshly like a dirty rag. She talked to me.) (She treated me like a human being…) (When I saw that rosary a while ago, I recalled the kindness of a priest in the past.* So there were other people like that…) (It’s just like that old lady said. I forgot…) …

*flashback starts*

Izumi: Are you having fun, Hisoka-kun?

Hisoka: ? Why do you ask?

Izumi: You were smiling. I feel like you smiled more than usual today.

*flashback ends*

Hisoka: (I was smiling… so I had fun… I had lots of fun visiting the World Market with everyone…) (But some day, that memory might disappear… Even though I want to make sure I remember everything…) —.

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*References Hisoka’s SSR MANKAI Memory card story

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[jujumin-translates]

Event | Special Edition: Snowfall Street | Chapter 4

Misumi: Yaaay! We’re in Hokkaido~!

Taichi: We’re finally here! I’m super hyped!

Taichi: A-chan, let’s take a pic with this panel!

Azami: Sure, whatever…

Homare: Hmhm… Aha! A wizard of old shall guide us through the Hokkaido cold…!

Misumi: Ah! Found a Hokkaido triangle~!

Muku: It really is cold here.

Sakuya: It is. But, this kinda cold is sorta nostalgic for me.

Director: Hm… Looks like the snow is coming down pretty steadily right now. Seems like just the right atmosphere for the photo shoot.

Muku: Yeah! A magazine photo shoot in the snow… I’m getting kind of excited.

Director: The agency is going to pick us up now, so once we’re there, we’ll head to the hotel…

Director: After that, we’ll head to the studio to sort out the outfits, and then we’ll go to the shooting location.

Azami: That’s a pretty intense schedule.

Misumi: That’s ‘cause it’s work~.

Sakuya: But I’m still looking forward to the outfits and the shooting location!

Muku: We’re also going to film a video for the MANKAI channel on our last day here, right?

Director: Yup, Sakyo-san gave us the okay to film that project too.

Taichi: That’s not really much of a project though, it’s more of just a travel vlog.

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Director: This time, they went with winter-inspired outfits using white as their base color. You all look great.

Muku: Ehehe, thank you very much.

Sakuya: These outfits are super cute. And they’re super comfy too.

Misumi: This hat is fluffy and super wa~rm!

Homare: Hmm… They aren’t bad.

Misumi: Huh~ Something’s strange about you, Arisu~.

Homare: Me? Strange? Never!

Taichi: It’s not strange, just something seems off…

Azami: Yeah, maybe it’s ‘cause you don’t have your side bangs.

Taichi: Yeah! That’s it!

Sakuya: Now that you mention it…!

Homare: That is my own personal hairstyle, but I thought it would be nice to style it this way for a change.

Taichi: It looks super good!

Azami: …It does. Maybe I’ll try that hairstyle on you again in the future.

Homare: Putting that aside, with clothing this thick, we’ll certainly be able to withstand being photographed outside.

Director: That’s true. Well then, it’s almost time to head out.

Director: We’ll be getting to the shooting location by bus.

Taichi: Alright, let’s head out on the town~!

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Muku: Waah…!

Misumi: This is so~oo cool!

Sakuya: It’s really pretty…!

Director: It really is a fantastic view…! I can’t stop admiring it.

Staff: Okay, so, we’re going to have you each hold an item of glasswork, a traditional product of this city, and then we’ll take the pictures.

Staff: These are the items.

Homare: Oh, how beautiful!

Azami: Huh, they are really pretty.

Taichi: They’re all so sparkly and romantic-looking~!

Cameraman: Alright, first off… Arisugawa-san and Ikaruga-san, we’ll have you two group together and get a shot of you guys as a pair.

Misumi: ‘Ka~ay!

Homare: As you wish.

*Camera clicks*

Cameraman: Okay, that’s good. For this next one, can you please give me a more mature feel~!

Homare & Misumi: …

Muku: Those two are so cool…!

Azami: Well, those two are the oldest out of all of us here, after all.

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Cameraman: Alright, let’s move over here. Sakisaka-kun, Izumida-kun, can I get a smile from you two~?

Muku & Azami: …

Taichi: Mucchan and A-chan’s smiles are super cute~! Super heartwarming!

Director: Yeah, they’re both so gentle and soft.

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Taichi: How about we go back to back for this next one, Sakkun?

Sakuya: Sure, like this?

Cameraman: Ooh, perfect! You both look super cool!

Misumi: Taichi and Sakuya look like they’re having fun~!

Homare: Yes, their smiles are quite nice.

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Staff: Good work today, everyone! Everything we got was perfect!

Director: Same to you as well, thank you so much.

Taichi: Can’t wait to see which shot they use for the cover!

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[marudeinusa]

CC NAME MEANING CORNER

Roko Akito Bolić - He is half-Croatian, half-Japanese. Roko Bolić is the name he went by growing up in Croatia, with Akito being a middle name (this is not common in CRO) that Akito's mother picked upon being urged to choose by her lover with hopes that Akito will eventually follow in his footsteps and come to Japan to join the troupe. Lilijana chose Akito because she liked the sound of it. In Act II of the story, Hikaru picks the kanji to write Akito's name with: 愛飛 (love, affection + fly, leap). Akito despaired, because he wanted to write it as 介人 so it'd be easier for him to memorize but Hikaru insisted on writing it with "ai". Roko is a CRO name of either Greek (Rokus) or Latin (Rochus) origin, and Bolić is a common Dalmatian surname.

Tenjou Junpei - His birth was not officially recorded, and he was called only Junpei as his mother didn't have a surname anymore. Her alias, Kurenai, would sometimes be tacked onto the name for the purpose of school. When he turned 18 Junpei married an terminally ill older girl to save her from her family's clutches, and though she passed before the marriage was consummated, Junpei forever considered himself her spouse and opted to go by her surname, Tenjou. Tenjou Junpei is written as 天上 (heavens) and 淳平 (sincere + ordinary)

Wakamiya Hikaru - He was born in America to a Black American mother and a Japanese-American father (they were not married, the surname is his mother's) under the name Martin Barré. The family relocated to Japan when his mother married a Japanese man, and Hikaru and his mother changed their surnames to his. Hikaru also chose for himself a Japanese name to lessen the othering in school. Wakamiya Hikaru is written as 別宮 (separate, another + temple, palace) and 光 (light, radiance)

Arisugawa Tsubaki, "Arisu" - She hails from a wealthy Japanese family. Arisugawa Tsubaki is written as 有栖川 (exist, posses + inhabit, stay + river) and つばき (phonetic, no meaning). Arisu is written in katakana as アリス.

The Leader / Hoshizora Seiya - When the Japanese-speaking characters speak to/of the Leader, they pronounce it as リーダーwithout translating it to Japanese. Like his brother, he was born without a proper surname, but when he was fourteen he obtained a false birth certificate that gave him the surname of his benefactor, Hoshizora, as his own. Hoshizora Seiya is written as 星空 (star + sky) and 世矢 (society + arrow)

Momomiya Ryuji, "Odile" - Odile (stylized as O • DI • L) is a stage name, and it is pronounced like オディール by Odile and others and like "Adill" by Akito, much to the former's annoyance. Momomiya Ryuji is written as 桃宮 (peach + shrine) and 隆二 (prosperity, noble + second)

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anonymous submitted:

"Criminologist Himura and Mystery Writer Arisugawa" (2016, 2019+)

This tv show is a really good spiritual successor of the original Sherlock Holmes stories. Though the main characters have different names, it is clear who is based on Sherlock (Himura) and who is based on Watson (Arisu). 

This series does an excellent job showing the bond between these two, with the season one finale even having the two attempting to categorize their relationship & settling on an inseparable bond that is strong than friendship. A few minor characters seem to be interested in Himura, but it is always one-sided on their part. The main series is not romantic.

The first season is streaming on Amazon, but the second is still not available officially. This thread here talks about season two (no spoilers listed)

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トキ☆メキ Arisu [ Missalina Rei ]

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Arisugawa Arisu-sen Hitsudoku! Selection[有栖川有栖選 必読！ Selection]: Arisugawa Arisu Must read! Selection

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Arisu Arisugawa is ready for christmas!