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Mystery to Iu Nakare as Read by Experts: Interview with Sociologist, Noritoshi Furuichi

Translated from the Da Vinci magazine August 2020 issue.

Translation Notes:

1. The popular Japanese saying, "onna no shiawase" (a woman's happiness), carries a connotation implying that what makes a woman happiest is being primarily a loving homemaker. It suggests that her happiness lies in her success as a wife, helpmate, and mother.

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What was your impression after reading Yumi Tamura's latest work, Mystery to Iu Nakare?

"What Totonou is unraveling is not a mystery case but a person's heart. He's more of a therapist than a detective," says Mr. Noritoshi Furuichi, who was impressed by the first story.

Totonou, who becomes a murder suspect, says the following during interrogation to the police sergeant who believes that "there is only one truth": "Getting caught up in something so ambiguous, like 'the truth,’ is what causes false accusations.”

Furuichi: "The stance taken by Totonou, who says that there are as many truths as there are people, and who tries to see the world in a flat way, is the core of this work as well as the antithesis of detective fiction. This is something I've always wondered, but most detective stories seem to end when the culprit is caught. But, merely revealing the facts doesn't solve anything. From the day the case closes and onward, the grief of the victims and the troubles of the perpetrators will continue. And that period of time is far much longer. The perspective that there’s no such thing as a single happy ending in reality is what makes this work so interesting."

Everyone who comes into contact with Totonou has their own beliefs and contradictions shattered. In the process, readers are also made aware of the things that have unconsciously bound them.

Furuichi: "I've been reading Tamura's works for a long time, including BASARA, but this one seems particularly tough on the "uncles." The old men who tend to believe that men go to work and women stay at home; who uphold a seniority-based hierarchy where they obey their superiors and give orders to their subordinates; and who put on airs just because of their titles. Through Totonou, this work casts a strong suspicious eye on those men. This specific line in volume 3 gave me quite a shock: "Don't fall for notions like 'a woman's happiness' [1.] either. Because they were probably made up by old men." This line points out that words accepted as truth in our society may actually be just prejudices that are convenient for someone else. However, the work achieves this kind of critique without being preachy. I think this is because the protagonist is always sincere with and serious about the people he faces. That's why all the people who meet him feel enabled to think for themselves and choose to change after being persuaded by his honesty. Totonou is actually very kind. He's usually not too involved with people, but when he realizes the crime by Garo, whom he grew fond of, he properly points it out. He doesn't turn a blind eye in order to be liked. Instead, once he's involved, Totonou continues to worry about Garo and tries to take responsibility for his actions. I believe being reasonable to yourself and to others will ultimately lead to kindness."

By the way, Mr. Furuichi, you naturally used some of Totonou's sayings as your own, but what part of him do you feel is similar to yourself?

Furuichi: "I've had friends say that to me, but I'm not so sure... (laughs). But I guess we're similar in that I do question a lot of things and end up offending someone. I just think it's important to ask, 'really?,' like Totonou, and question the existing state of things. In this society, there is a lot of common sense that makes no sense and customs that are no longer useful. They will continue to exist until someone calls them out. In order to improve and make society more open-minded, we need someone to intervene and question. I wish more people had a Totonou within them. Though more arguments and conflicts would probably arise here and there."

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Youtou Shinnoken: Demon Sword Chapter 57: Living Sin (Part 9)

Hiei does his best to take care of Usui Uonuma, who’s gunning for his Jagan. In turn, Yusuke deals with his old behemoth of an enemy who was once merely B-Class in power level.

Kenshin in turn deals with an enemy from his past with the assistance of one of the Spirit World ferry-girls.

Credit for the pictures goes to Ozzy Oz da Vyrus. 

The original source of this idea comes from Chad Yang. I continued his story idea found here.

The rest of the chapters of my Yuyu Hakusho and Rurouni Kenshin crossover fan fiction are available here and here. Enjoy.

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Up above the Okushiri Military Base....

The flying fortress made of solidified reiatsu (spiritual pressure or pressurized spirit energy) care of the Quest-Class powers of Detective Daiji Matsudaira (the reincarnation of Aoshi Shinomori) landed on the helipad of the base, startling the soldiers there.

Yahiko had earlier requested Botan to fly even higher up than the flying castle with purple beams of light shooting out of it in order to get the drop on the structure.

Literally.

From 50 kilometers above the earth, Yahiko descended straight towards the moving castle, its concentrated jaki beams dissipating against the ghostly human missile and his neutralizing reiki.

He first skydived from the ferry-girl's oar (much to her surprise and chagrin) up in the stratosphere and did his imitation of the Hiten Mitsurugi Ryu's "RYU TSUI SEN! (DRAGON HAMMER FLASH!)" for starters.

The impact then cracked the topmost outer shell of the dense fortress.

A trickle of reiatsu leaked off of the spiritual construct, like scattering fireflies in the night.

He then did one of his own Revisal Techniques of the Kamiya Kasshin School, named, "DOU GAMI! (GOD ON EARTH!)", which rocked the castle further at its core and spread cracks all over its very foundations.

Daiji's solidified reiatsu then turned into a shower of outright sparks, the solidified energy sublimating and ionizing into pure spirit energy.

Finally, the Tokyo Samurai Spirit executed a "TEN GAMI! (GOD IN HEAVEN!)" that started the downward spiral of the moving building, the cracks turning into outright crags and debris as the teenaged ghost got jettisoned high above even the stratosphere, reaching instead all the way to the mesosphere.

He reached a height about 70 kilometers or 43 miles away from earth.

The young samurai kid drove the Onmyouji's prison that whole distance from heaven to earth with a sky-cleaving, earth-shattering strike, or at least a strike powerful enough to send cloudy shockwaves behind them as they broke through the speed barrier.  

"INGA GAMI! (KARMIC GOD!)"

Yahiko's first of two ultimate attacks had enough jaki-neutralizing power to push that huge pillar right into the middle of the military base like a meteorite. A shooting star.

The sublime mix of reiki (spirit energy) and jaki (negative energy) then ionized into their base forms, the kenki (swordsman energy) that bound them fading away into the ether.

All of these forms of energy were neutralized by Yahiko's own strange spirit energy. His own reiatsu or unique mixture of reiki and kenki.

His strike from his self-made sakabatou (Kenshin's reverse-edged sword that Yahiko manifested using his reiki) was powerful enough to warp time and space itself. Like a blunt version of the Jigen Tou.

Only a single helipad-sized spire of the formerly huge fortress was left by the time it crash-landed unto the base.

***

Youtou Shinnoken: Demon Sword

A Rurouni Kenshin/Yuyu Hakusho Crossover Fan Fiction Story by Chester Castañeda

Original Concept by Chad Yang

The Kenshingumi will now take care of their loose ends before fighting the final boss of this arc. This battle is about to explode! FIGHT!

Disclaimer: Yuyu Hakusho is the rightful property of Yoshihiro Togashi, Shueisha, Fuji TV, and Studio Pierrot. Rurouni Kenshin is the rightful property of Nobuhiro Watsuki, Shueisha, Shonen Jump, Viz, Sony Studios, Fuji TV, Studio Gallop, Studio Deen, and ADV. This disclaimer also covers all the other copyrighted materials that are far too many to mention here. Don't sue me please, I'm very poor.

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Chapter 57: Living Sin (Part 9)

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Back at Kitaoimisaki Park...

Usui Uonuma shook his head. The newbie member of the New Ten Swords, Kuronue, was outwitted by the legendary demon fox Youko Kurama as well.

If you wanted something done right, do it yourself.

Amidst the burned shadows and silhouettes that were once Kuronue stood Usui, his previously broken Tinbe practically whole now.

With it now capable of withstanding the heat and impact of multiple Jaou-En-Satsu Kokuryuha (Dragons of Darkness Flames) from Jaganshi (Evil Eye User) Hiei, the black serpentine flames were unable to affect the turtle shell one way or another.

But Uonuma knew that Jaganshi Hiei had one more ace up his sleeve. The Chojin's spies had briefed him about the fire demon and his ability to absorb the power of the fiery dragon beings unto himself.

As expected, Hiei boosted his speed and power tremendously by absorbing the flame dragons of the Kokuryuha right into his body, his youki (demon energy) rising to astonishing levels. To S-Level and beyond.

Under the old Reikai rules, Hiei's presence there would've been considered outright illegal. A demon that powerful shouldn't be in the Ningenkai (Human World).

A demon that powerful was on par with one of the Chojin's Ten Swords.

'So this demon's name is Hiei, huh?' thought the blind man, waxing nostalgic. That was also the name of the mountain where the old Juppon Gatana (Ten Swords) stronghold was.

What a curious demon. He had the speed of Souiro "Heaven Sword" Seta and the strength (or even firepower) of Makoto Shishio.

If Usui could conquer this strong demon, then he'd get one more step closer to standing as equals with the Youkiri (Demon-Slayer) Tenro.

To sit at the right hand of an unborn god. To be able to challenge an unborn god and become one himself.

Nah, perhaps that last one was still a bridge too far for him. But this, defeating the fire demon, wasn't.

The dragons roared and gnawed against the Tinbe but like a mountain standing above the earth with a crown of clouds, it wouldn't yield.

His Tinbe then reformed completely, but there was a gap the size of a sword slash right on its upper top left corner.

That was where Hiei focused his attack, sticking the tip of his Jaou-En-Satsu Ken (Sword of Darkness Flame) right into it, forcing its way in.

Hiei learned a lot from Kurama's little trick earlier with the Demon World Moss. This time around, the jaganshi found a weak point before the shield was able to fully heal or reconstitute itself.

Hiei's aura of youki and black flames flared to life, increasing the pressure on that one little crack, like a pressure cooker about to burst.

More cracks appeared on the shield as the pressure built up further and further. It reached the boiling point and then went beyond it. Through this one weakness, Hiei was able to focus his demonic energies and bust through.

The Tinbe cracked apart in twain and then into a million pieces, and from there Hiei released all of the Dragons of Darkness Flame unto Usui's hapless form.

However, that was actually a ruse.

The blind swordsman and spearman had actually activated a second illusion from Jine Udo's Jagan as Hiei attacked with the full power of the Kokuryuha inside of him, knowing full well that his Tinbe wasn't complete yet.

However, by making Hiei dream that he had broken the false Tinbe, this bought Usui enough time to completely manifest his real Tinbe with the small crack or gap finally filled in.

It was this shield that stopped the Dragons of Darkness Flame cold.

Usui baited Hiei into wasting his one shot at him and it worked. Hook, line, and sinker.

Every last one of the flame dragons crashed uselessly against the reinforced and complete Tinbe, like the waves of the ocean crashing against the sea wall or dam. The tides turned but the wall remained unperturbed.

Hiei's Jagan was now his...!

However, as Uonuma began his counter Rochin stab with the intension of pinning both Hiei and Kurama into the nearest wall like twin butterflies, something felt amiss.

His body then literally fell apart into tiny pieces of meat cubes, red mist spraying all around him.

Usui was able to seal the crack on his Tinbe, but the gap of time he needed to do his counterstrike was all Hiei required to strike back.

In that fraction of a fraction of a second, the super-powered fire demon slashed at him at the rate of a hundred times per second. Or more.

Before Usui could block one strike with his shield. Or counter with a thrown spear to the heart or face.  Or even activate Jine's Jagan at the last second and create another illusion to fool Hiei with.

Moving faster than his sensitive hearing could detect. Or predict.

Moving faster than his mind could fathom.

Moving faster than sound itself.

***

About a hundred years ago, around the 1870s, inside Shishio's hidden fortress within Mount Hiei...

From out of the blue, Usui Uonuma asked Makoto Shishio a simple question.

"Between the Ten Ken (Heaven Sword) and myself, who is more powerful?" he had asked out of whimsy. "Who would win in a fight?"

Shishio chuckled, swirling the wine inside his wineglass as he considered Uonuma's unusual query. He decided to humor his former hitokiri (manslayer) rival.

"You can keep up with Sou-kun's speed up until he uses the Shun Ten Satsu (Instant Heaven Kill), which is him using both battoujutsu (sword-drawing techniques) and the Shukuchi (Reduced Earth) at the same time. If you're able to disable him before that, then you will win."

"Shun Ten Satsu, huh?" repeated Usui. "Why do you think that?"

Makoto drunk his drink in one shot and then gave the glass back to his courtesan and lover, Yumi Komagata.

"It's simple. You can counter anything you can hear, smell, sense, and react to, right? Sou-kun's Shun Ten Satsu is faster than sound. Your Shingan won't even hear him coming."

***

Back in 1993, at Mount Kannon...

Kenshin Himura sighed as he trudged on foot back to Mt. Kannon within the Hidaka Mountain Range of Hokkaido.

He had Kazuma Kuwabara place him near the mountain care of the trusty Jigen Tou (Dimension Sword).

Like in the case of the battle at Mount Kamui, Mount Kannon was outside of Okushiri.

Kenshin had absorbed enough spirit energy from all the Reikai Tantei (Spirit Detectives) earlier to manifest himself and his spiritual body on his own, without being wielded by any of them.

Although he was kind of curious what sort of powers would manifest if his sword were held by the likes of Yahiko Myojin, Natsuki Shinkai, Likka Ikumi, or Daiji Matsudaira.

Perhaps another time, they'd find out.

Most of the energy he soaked up came from Yusuke Urameshi, in fact. It should last him until the rest of the battle.

The fact that Yusuke's reiki was that immense was both reassuring and worrying.

Reassuring in that they had the big guns against the Shin Juppon Gatana (New Ten Swords) this time around. Worrying in that he wasn't sure if it was Rando's Kugai (World of Suffering) curse or Urameshi's own developing powers that led him to have this surplus of energy.

Without all those multiple seals that held back his power, Yusuke might still suffer from power incontinence. He might still be unable to control his full immeasurable strength.

Regardless, Himura had other concerns to deal with. He was busy taking care of this Chinese warrior earlier, who wounded him in battle that made it difficult for him to save Hajime Saito from Feng Xinhai's schemes and Toguro Ani's attempt at possession.

A Chinese warrior that ended up related to him and his dark past after all.

The stranger with white hair and crazed eyes that Kenshin fought was no stranger to him after all. He remembered who the man was.

The man's name was Enishi Yukishiro, all grown up. The younger brother of Kenshin's ex-wife, Tomoe.

Since Tomoe was Kenshin's ex-wife, that made Enishi his brother-in-law. A brother-in-law with a century-old grudge regarding Kenshin's (accidental) murder of Tomoe Himura (nee Yukishiro).

"...Tell me, Battousai. Is my sister smiling down on you from heaven?" so said Tomoe's brother, Enishi.

Enishi had somehow ended up in the Heisei Era and got himself mixed up in Kenshin's current affairs. Himura could've almost sworn that his brother-in-law had died back in the Bakumatsu.

The younger brother of Tomoe was one of many unsettled debts Kenshin left when he died fighting against Makoto Shishio back at Mount Hiei.

In their first meeting in a hundred years, Enishi even gave Kenshin the same wound that ultimately killed Tomoe.

Meanwhile, as Himura neared where he previously defeated the martial artist, the cross-shaped scar on his cheek flared with a twinge of pain. No, actually the cuts felt as painful and fresh to him as the first time they were made.

The scar somehow ached even more than the much deeper laceration on his chest that still hadn't fully healed.

Like a paper cut that microscopically tore through skin and thousands of nerve endings like a jagged handsaw.

As though Enishi's very presence had reactivated Tomoe's curse on him. The curse of the cross-shaped scar.

***

At the helipad of the Okushiri Military Base...

"Get the HELL out of THERE! Sadojima Houji!" beckoned Yahiko as he sheathed his sakabatou while Botan herself swooped down from above then behind him.

He further chided, "That strike wasn't enough to take you down, right? No, you still have the Chojin's powers inside you, you dirty rat. Of course that wasn't enough!"

"You're being too loud, Yahiko! You're bothering the military people!" was what Botan resisted herself from saying, inwardly reminding the Kaoru inside her, 'He's supposed to be loud, you silly goose! The Chojin and his forces are invading Okushiri, remember? If not Hokkaido altogether!'

The aforementioned military base had long ago been put on high alert ever since supernatural beings started attacking different parts of the island at once.

Many of their deployed teams didn't return to the base hours after deployment.

"Stand aside, kid!" one of the soldiers said, who in Yahiko's eyes should've looked more shocked at seeing the seeming U.F.O. land in the middle of their base. "Civilians aren't allowed in here. This is now official military business!"

Another private attempted to grab hold of Myojin, only for him to slip his grasp. The teenaged version of Yahiko willed his ghostly self to become incorporeal.

The Jieitai or JSDF (Japanese Self-Defense Forces) then surrounded what was left of Daiji's solidified reiatsu structure, their guns cocked and ready to go.

What remained of Matsudaira's seal broke apart like a hatching egg.

And from there came forth the Onmyouji (Occult Priest) in all his glory, wearing a mix of a business suit with an occultist robe serving as his overcoat. The true right-hand man of the Overfiend.

With purple glowing eyes and a miasmic aura that flowed all over his body like thick black and crimson smoke from a smoldering flame, Houji spoke in askance.

"Why do you want to fight me, Myojin Yahiko? Do you bear a grudge against me? Do you hate me from the bottom of your heart?"

Yahiko was taken aback by the question. "W-What...?"

"Right now, you have no such hate in your heart," said Houji the Onmyouji. "You're fighting out of a sense of duty to your friends. To your idol, Himura Battousai. Otherwise, you'd have no such quarrel against me."

Or perhaps Sadojima was merely acting as the representative speaker to one other person.

Perhaps Myojin was actually talking to the Chojin (Overfiend) himself. The mastermind behind all these resurrected baddies from the Meiji Era to the Heisei Era.

Just who the hell was the Chojin anyway? Was he Makoto Shishio? Or someone else entirely?

The Onmyouji's ghoulish shikigami (familiars) with their tattered robes and sharp scythes flew at the gathered soldiers, who fired at them to no avail.

"STOP!" screamed both Yahiko and Botan at the familiars prior to the massacre that was about to take place.

None of the military men stood a chance against these supernatural beings.

***

Back in Hokkaido, far away from Okushiri, at the foot of Mt. Kannon...

Kenshin witnessed Enishi's strength firsthand.

The Chinese warrior had become so powerful he drove Himura Battousai himself from the forests of Okushiri all the way to a whole separate mountain range in Hokkaido, miles away from the island.

By pure willpower and hatred, Enishi grew strong enough to give pause to even the powered-up version of Battousai that had his own magical Demon Sword.

The Overfiend had indeed prepared for every last contingency. He was every bit as cunning as Youko Kurama himself.

Earlier, Kenshin's chest actually got hit by Enishi Yukishiro's ultimate attack, the Kofuku Zetsu Tou Sei or Kofuku Zettousei (Crouching Tiger Severing Sword Rush), as a counter to the Amakakeru Ryu no Hirameki (Heavens Gliding Dragon Flash).

Kenshin was also distracted by the fact that Tomoe's brother managed to find him a century later to enact his rightful revenge. His Jinchu.

That was why he was defeated by a technique Enishi must've trained over and over again to counter all sorts of battoujutsu strikes, including the ultimate one devised for the Hiten Mitsurugi Ryu.

Luckily, instead of doing the follow-up strike that would've also missed, Kenshin had the foresight to do a more powerful version of the Dou Ryu Sen on the ground that was enhanced by the vortex created by the succession technique.

This last-minute creative counter was what initially buried Enishi right into the heart of Mt. Kannon.

Regardless, Kenshin arrived back at his earlier starting point.

By Himura's estimation, only he or maybe Yusuke could take Yukishiro out one-on-one. Enishi should not be allowed to join forces with the rest of the Shin Ju.

***

Yahiko manifested his neutralizing reiki and kenki all over the military base with a sparkling blue and yellow light that blended together and formed a green glow. This then warded off the raggedy evil spirits that served as the Onmyouji's shikigami.

It was his own form of spirit pressure. His spirit energy interacted with his swordsman presence in a way that sealed or canceled out the spiritual power of his opponents.

Botan, in turn, flickered back and forth between her original shinigami (death goddess) form and Kaoru Kamiya's form as she saved the soldiers from being reaped by Houji's soul reapers by using her floating boat oar like a bokken (wooden sword) or naginata (glaive).

The two Kamiya Kasshin Ryu practitioners made short work of the familiars before they could take one life of the JSDF military corps.

"Please evacuate from here. You're no match against them," explained Botan to one of the soldiers before swatting multiple weakened shikigami away with her weaponized boat paddle.

One of Myojin's shikigami-dissipating swings swiped mere inches away from Houji's face, creating a thin cut over the bridge of his nose.

"Swinging a sword mindlessly at someone out of hatred is just violence. Kenshin taught me that," said Yahiko. "My duty as the Son of Tokyo Samurai is to defeat you. That is all. I'll even stake my life on it."

Sadojima smirked. "So be it. Samurai-san."

From behind Houji teleported the ever-reliable Gatekeeper Itsuki.

Yahiko turned towards the blue-haired shinigami and told her, "Quick, call Boke (Moron) and tell him to come here right now."

"Boke...?" trailed off Botan.

"KUWABARA! Kuwabara Kazuma! We need him here now! If he needs healing, heal him up as well! He and his space sword are the only ones who can take on that green-haired yoga guy and his goddamn portals!"

"All right! I'll call him! Jeez," said Botan, who turned on her communicator.

"Language, Yahiko!" reprimanded the Kaoru inside her in turn.

Afterwards, Itsuki summoned a multitude of warp gates, this time rectangular and doorway-shaped instead of circular and hole-shaped.

Inside each dimensional door was either the corpse (as well as ashes) or unconscious body of the many different Shin Juppon Gatana members.

It was through these gates that the Occult Priest blasted his purple beams of negative energy. Before, they served as destructive pillars of neon plasma. Now, they were probably used to give the killed or otherwise heavily injured Shin Ju another lease on life.

"Oh no," said Botan. "Not again. He's not going to revive all the New Ten again, is he? Jeez, we just defeated those goons! Learn how to stay down and give up!"

The shining eyes of Houji the Onmyouji then dimmed and faded away, replaced with his actual normal eyes.

"Ah, you returned. The snotty little brat. How does it feel to go back to zero after all the effort you've spent killing the Shin Ju? Like Sisyphus and his rock, right?"

The boisterous nature of the Chojin's conduit had returned. Houji was seemingly awakened from his brief slumber earlier, when he actually sounded "cool" and "aloof" for a hot minute.

"Hey," said Yahiko. "What happened to you earlier? You weren't the one talking, were you?"

Houji raised an eyebrow at that. "What do you mean?"

"Don't play dumb. It was the Chojin who talked to us back then, right?" asked Myojin. "Tell it to me straight: The Chojin is Shishio Makoto, isn't he? Of course, he is! Who else would start a war against the Spirit World with a team called the New Ten Swords? No one but him!"

The necromancer chuckled. "That's a... secret."

With a grunt, the samurai teen jumped and attacked the Chojin's right-hand man with a downward slash from the Jodan-no-Kamae (Fire Stance), which was then blocked by Houji's scythe.

They crossed blades, their different energies clashing against each other as arcs of lightning ripped through everywhere like light-filled cracks that broke through reality itself.

Houji's lack of formal training with his weapon was rendered moot due to his seemingly oceanic flow of negative energy that gave his simple block the weight of the world. Or at least the huge water pressure of the ocean depths.

However, regardless, the beams of purple plasma emanating from the dark priest flickered and wavered as it interacted with the reiatsu of Yahiko.

"That's it! You can do it, Yahiko!" said the Kaoru within Botan. "Show them why I consider you the number one pupil of the Kamiya Kasshin School!"

"Can you really do it, boy?" asked Houji, smirking. "Can you seal away the overflowing, overwhelming power of the Chojin himself? The Living Sin?"

The dimensional doors leading to the Shin Ju were then shut down. Or rather, slashed shut.

Gatekeeper Itsuki chuckled, his slashed eye that doubled as a dimensional portal opening. "He's here."

Sure enough, in one of the doors, the jaki beam was slashed in twain, the negative energy cut down by the spiritual might of the Jigen Tou.

It was from this door that Kazuma Kuwabara emerged, the transparent ghost of a recovering Sanosuke Sagara beside hiim.

"You called, Jo-chan (Missy)?" said Sano.

"YOSHA! (HELL YEAH!) Let's get this party started, samurai boy!" shouted Kazuma, the rambunctious teenager with bleached orange hair similarly styled like his best friend Yusuke Urameshi's hair.

***

And so there he was. Buried deep underneath Mt. Kannon itself like Son Goku the Monkey King from the literary masterpiece, "Journey to the West".

The rumbling inside the grumbling mountain roared deeper and harder. Like it was about to explode and turn into a volcano.

"...BATTOUSAI!" screamed Tomoe Yukishiro's little brother Enishi from underneath Kannon Mountain, spewing hot fire along with the brimstone and magma he was surrounded in.

His spectacles had long ago been lost or burned to smoke and ash by molten rock. The rest of his outfit remained intact though, probably protected by his body's significant aura.

Yukishiro crawled out of the hot magma pits of hell, or at least the otherwise dormant mountain in an explosion of fire, smoke, molten rock, and lava flow that scarred and burned the surrounding forest.

The singes and burns on Enishi's (literally) piping hot body, however, started healing right before Kenshin's eyes.

Not quite at the level of instantaneous regeneration as the Elder Toguro, but quick enough to survive a trip down a volcano and live to tell the tale. Still too quick compared to a normal mortal though.

Besides which, he wasn't supposed to only be burned from the fires of a river of magma anyway. It must've taken thousands of degrees of heat to even leave him slightly scalded at all.

His humongous amount of spirit energy kept him from suffering life-threatening injury. The same way Hiei or Yusuke would've survived such a predicament.

The red-hot blade of the Chinese-styled warrior didn't quite reach its melting point but it cooled down from the sheer blast of miasmic spirit energy from him.

If allowed to run rampant like the rest of the Ten Swords, Yukishiro could very well murder every last one of them. The Reikai Tantei, the Kenshingumi, and the Oniwabanshu.

All of them could die. This high-level martial artist could do what at least 8 of the 10 Shin Ju couldn't. He was a one-man army. He was like their Hajime Saito. A true wild card of sorts.

Kenshin foresaw it all through the Youtou Shinnoken.

The last thing Yahiko and the rest of the Reikai Senshi (Spirit World Warriors) needed right now while battling the Onmyouji and the Chojin's wealth of negative energy was a spanner in the works like Enishi.

***

The powers of most of the reincarnations or ghosts from the Meiji Era—most of Kenshin's comrades—were a result of how their spirit energy interacted with their swordsman energy or fighting spirit, creating what was known as reiatsu.

With Daiji Matsudaira (Aoshi Shinomori's reincarnation), it was the Quest-Class manifestation of objects and materials from his spirit energy.

With Natsuki Shinkai (Yutaro Tsukayama's reincarnation), it was the ability to manipulate kinetic momentum or acceleration, usually in the form of reflection or deflection.

With Likka Ikumi (Misao Makimachi's reincarnation), it was her skill to manifest her thoughts into reality, creating visual mirages or even holographic illusions seen by all.

With Sanosuke Sagara's soul, it was his pure fighting spirit that allowed his ghost to approach Regent-Class regeneration abilities, stamina, and pure brute force that allowed him to affect the physical plain like a rampaging poltergeist.

With Kaoru Kamiya's soul, it was a mix between Botan's soul reaper powers and Kaoru's past swordsmanship skills that allowed them to heal, boost, replenish, bind, manipulate, or otherwise enhance the spirit energy within them or of those around them.

With Kenshin Himura's soul, he became one with the Demon Sword, a demon-slaying blade that could arguably injure or kill a god. His own reiki, kenki, and reiatsu interacted with anyone who wielded his blade in ways that raised their very power levels.

Finally, with Yahiko Myojin's soul, his unique brand of spirit energy interacted with other spirit energy (whether it was human or demonic) in a way that suppressed or neutralized them into nothingness.

Yahiko's unique powers worked like how an acid and a base reacted quantitatively with each other when mixed until the acidity of the acid disappeared. Or how Hiei's Jaou-En-Satsu Kokuryuha was cancelled out by Shinobu Sensui's polar opposite power of Sei Kou Ki (Saint Light Ki).

Their reiatsu was different from the reiki and youki used by Yusuke Urameshi and their comrades due to the use of other forms of reiki within the Meiji Era reincarnations and the use of classic shinigami warrior techniques among the revived spirits.

Reiatsu was more comparable to something like Sensui's Saint Light Ki or Yusuke mixing his reiki and youki together to form something approaching Sei Kou Ki instead of either pure reiki or youki. Even jaki.

It was through these souls—these seeds of hope—that Koenma Daio intended to defeat the Chojin and his unnatural powers that defied death and the natural order of the Spirit World.

***

Kurama's board full of chess pieces were in their proper places, which kept the Chojin in check. They were practically on the verge of a checkmate, even.

The pawns were positioned to divide and conquer the Shin Juppon Gatana, with each Reikai Senshi paired up to their appropriate members.

Their source of power, Houji, had his borrowed negative energy suppressed by Yahiko. Their means of transportation, Itsuki, got sealed off by the Reikai's own Kuwabara and his Dimensional Sword.

Botan was there to heal and replenish reiki as well as assist Myojin tactics-wise care of Kaoru. Sanosuke himself was gradually recovering his spirit energy and fighting spirit for good measure as "Jo-chan" or the shinigami she fused with nursed his flickering body back to health.

Kuwabara regained his second wind even, which allowed him to not only create portals but to close or destroy them with his twin Dimension Swords.

This kept the annoying Gatekeeper from transporting jaki to the injured/dead Shin Ju or even getting the recovered members to help Houji out.

Even with his use of Sensui's seven personalities and the new powers it brought him, Kazuma kept him at bay.

As for the shikigami that served as the Onmyouji's infantry, Sanosuke punched them out with the "FUTAE NO KIWAMI! (DUAL EXTREME!)" while riding shotgun on Botan's oar.  

So why did Myojin feel like something was amiss? Like he had a bad feeling about everything? Like something terrible was about to happen?

A new enemy descended from an unseen sky portal that Kuwabara noticed, slashed apart, and closed too late.

"Huh!?" was Yahiko's reaction to the new arrival. This distracted him even as he ended up on the verge of disarming the untrained Houji. "Who is that? Is it another replacement Shin Ju?"

Kuwabara said, "We've already confirmed that Toguro Ani and Kuronue replaced Suzaku and Udo Jine! It's not one of the New Ten! Must be one of the Dai Shin Kan instead!"

Sanosuke's jaw dropped. "No way...!" which made Botan and Kaoru ask in unison, "Who is that supposed to be, Sano?"

Kazuma jumped into action, intending to slash a portal and kick the newcomer into it, only for his Jigen Tou's energy to start unraveling before his eyes.

The woman in courtesan clothes smiled as she floated down using her umbrella as a parachute (like goddamn Mary Poppins, Botan realized), crimson energy emanating from her pale white skin.

"Ah, it's all coming together now." Houji cackled. "Welcome back, Komagata Yumi. Get rid of these insects for me, if you would please."  

And so Makoto Shishio's personal courtesan and lover arrived, dressed in her classic Meiji Era garb but this time there was a hole in her chest where her heart used to be.

The very place where Shishio stabbed her in order to do a surprise attack on Battousai Himura.

Also, she had long fangs inside her mouth.

"Inner Blood Turmoil," Yumi said as she sapped Kuwabara of all his spirit energy using the Kyuuketsuki Kakuto Ryu (Vampire Martial Arts) that Rando stole from her.

"SHIT! Now even Shishio's girlfriend has superpowers too?!" said Sanosuke, remembering the woman whom he did a bridal carry with as they traversed Shishio's Mt. Hiei stronghold.

"...BLOOD WIND!" she screamed, releasing a red energy-sapping tornado at the Reikai Senshi.

***

Originally, Kenshin was barely able to defeat Enishi and get back in time and save Sanosuke Sagara, Kazuma Kuwabara, and Hajime Saito from the nefarious machinations of Karasu, Feng Xinhai, Usui Uonuma, and Gatekeeper Itsuki at Mt. Kamui.

But now that his detour was over, he had to get back to his original business.

He had to. Or else Enishi would undo everything they'd done so far to suppress the New Ten Swords from conquering the island of Okushiri as well as Hokkaido.

"Sessha (This one) wonders why even though I thought I'd never met you before, you seemed to know everything about me de gozaru (that you did)."

"'Sessha'? 'De gozaru'?" Enishi repeated the words with a snarl and a dismissive snort. "Are you kidding me, Battousai? Why is the most fearsome hitokiri of the Bakumatsu acting like a gentle fool with flowery samurai language? Enough of your lies!"

"This one never thought to see you again after a hundred years. I was sure you were already dead," confessed Kenshin.

"I did die. But I live again. Reincarnated in a new era," said Enishi. "I willed this weak new body I was reborn into to become even stronger than I already was before you died in the hands of Shishio Makoto."

'So he survived the Bakumatsu after all,' thought Kenshin, who believed that Enishi had died of starvation as a little boy in the ensuing revolution.

"Now I will enact the revenge that I was robbed of a hundred years ago! If you've been dispensing Tenchu (Heavenly Retribution) in your time as a hitokiri, then this is Jinchu (Earthly Retribution) for all your sins! Prepare yourself, Battousai! ZETSUGI...!"  

From there, he didn't even give Himura the chance to breathe or any breathing room as he attacked, attacked, an attacked some more.

Tomoe's little brother had grown ridiculously strong. As though he'd been training the last hundred years for this one moment. Empowered purely by hate.

However, one way or another, Kenshin was able to contain Yukishiro's growing threat long enough to assist Saito's rescue or allow the Kenshingumi to go through their mission of taking out Houji.

Himura figured out how his Wattoujutsu (a mixture of Japanese swordsmanship and Chinese kung fu) worked after only seeing a couple of techniques from it.

The Demon Sword's blade then shone with an ethereal light before Kenshin's form changed altogether.

From a 30-year-old man, his body returned to his more youthful 15- to-16-year-old self.

The form he had before he developed the cross-shaped scars. When he was still known as the Hitokiri Battousai. This way, he could engage Enishi the same way he did against any other opponent.

Free of bias. Free of shame or guilt.

"SHUUGEKI TOU SEI! (KICKING SWORD RUSH!)"

This technique of Enishí's involved hitting his opponent from below then kicking the blunt side of his sword at the last second to maximize damage.

Thusly, Kenshin answered the technique back with his own, "SOU RYU SEN! (TWIN DRAGON FLASH!)"

"KAISHI TOU SEI! (BAYONET SWORD RUSH!)"

As for the Bayonet Sword Rush, it was a follow-up whirling counterattack or riposte involving Enishi putting the hilt of his sword against his opponent's sword to add momentum to his pivoting swing.

However, Kenshin had a similar counterstrike technique like that as well in the form of "RYU KAN SEN! (DRAGON WRAP FLASH!)"

"SHO HA TOU SEI! (PALM BREAK SWORD RUSH!)"

From the Jodan Stance, Enishi swept his sword starting from over his head down to the ground. Afterwards, he then placed the palm of his hand on the sword's blunt side to push it forward at full force.

The answer to this move that resembled the Dragon Hammer Flash was the "RYU SHO SEN! (RISING DRAGON FLASH!)", which was the natural Ryu Tsui Sen counter that doubled as a two-handed sword block wherein the sword was held by its handle and tip with either hand.

"CHOU TEN TOU SEI! (UP-AND-DOWN SWORD RUSH!)"

This was Wattoujutsu's version of the Ryu Sho Sen. It allowed Enishi to leap upwards using his sword as his pole vault then attack from the air by pulling his sword towards him by its hilt cord immediately after jumping.

Kenshin drew out the fearsome technique with a feinted Ryu Tsui Sen only to do the "RYU KAN SEN ARASHI! (DRAGON WRAP FLASH STORM!) at the last second, the multi-hit forward somersault sword strikes catching Yukishiro off-guard.

"Ugh!" Enishi landed bad on his ankle, his knees buckling from the force of the centrifugal strikes, the chainsaw-like windmill of strikes drawing a fine mist and squall of blood. "Damn you, Battousai...!"

Kenshin cut Enishi's cursing short with a jarring punch to his jaw.

Battousai Himura had a Hiten Mitsurugi Ryu answer to every one of the white-haired young man's Wattoujutsu techniques. He took advantage of Enishi's barrage of hateful, unfocused strikes with clinical precision.

The fact that Himura didn't realize who exactly he was fighting against until the last second helped him figure out the proper counters to Enishi's Wattoujutsu early on and even bury him right inside the Kamui Mountain itself. Albeit temporarily.

Kenshin imagined he'd have a harder time with the kung fu master swordsman were he distracted by his guilt for killing Tomoe and knowing Enishi's identity from the start.

"Is that all you've got, Battousai?" demanded the scuffed-up, bleeding-from-the-mouth Enishi, who spat away blood as his veins—no, his very nerves themselves—hypertrophied or thickened enough to become visible underneath his skin with vascular density.

This was his Kyokei Myaku (Nerves of Insanity) in action.

***

It was bedlam at the Military Base of Okushiri.

Ten things were happening at once, and barely anyone could keep up.

More soldiers were deployed to rescue the fallen and suppress the invaders.

They waged war against the Onmyouji's shikigami, even though many of them couldn't even see the grim reaper familiars.

They had to use their special thermal goggles to detect and shoot the enemy, but neither bullets nor grenades worked on them.

Botan had more luck dissipating the strange creatures into the ether, but that was because it was part of her job description as a soul reaper.

She did double duty in casting her healing and reiki-replenishing spells on Yahiko, Sanosuke, and Kuwabara while at the same time defeating her share of scythe-wielding reapers created from wayward earthbound spirits infected with the Chojin's jaki.

Also, the bodies were really hitting the floor now. Not due to the Kenshingumi (they were basically all ghosts) or their Reikai Tantei comrade falling into a dead faint.

It was because the vampire (or perhaps succubus) Yumi bit the necks and absorbed the blood of all the nearest JSDF soldiers to power her Kyuuketsuki Kakuto Ryu.

As for Gatekeeper Itsuki, he and Kuwabara were having a portal contest of sorts. He kept making portals while Kazuma kept slicing them apart.

Regardless, it took much longer for Yahiko to seal the power of the Chojin, the borrowed ocean of jaki overflowing with immense pressure from within gleeful Sadojima.

"TSUI GAMI...!? (HAMMER OF GOD...!?)"

Myojin's attempt at the sword-breaking, jaki-neutralizing Hammer of God was thwarted with a simple yet shuddering one-handed scythe swipe that belied Houji's actual physical strength.

"So you intend to beat me at this level of strength?" asked a smug Sadojima before releasing a pillar of jaki that made Yahiko kneel before him, as though bearing the weight of the world on his shoulders.

Yahiko felt like he had plunged deep underwater, drowning in negative energy as the oceanic water pressure increased further and further the deeper he went.

Myojin grunted, grit his teeth, and rose up against the harsh and dense waves of pure jaki that bore down on him in waves, his green aura of reiatsu resisting the crushing force of the Overfiend's distant yet overbearing presence.

Like a black sun whose dark rays and heat reached the earth all the way from space despite being millions of miles away.

It was a tug of war between the Chojin's power boosts and Yahiko's neutralization skill.

Thanks to Botan and Kaoru, the ghost of Sanosuke had healed up and reenergized himself with reiki enough to summon his signature Zanbatou (Horse-Chopping Sword) again at long last.

He had more bandages than usual, half of which were spirit seals from Botan that kept his ectoplasm from escaping his ghostly form.

"ZANBATOU ATE! (ZANBATOU DISTANCE HIT!)"

Sanosuke's Zanbatou Ate, based on Anji Yukyuzan's Tou Ate (Bladed Distance Hit), created a landslide aimed at Houji, who shielded himself with his shikigami ghouls.

"ZANKUU ZANBATOU ATE! (ZANBATOU VACUUM DISTANCE HIT!) "

As for his Zankuu Zanbatou Ate, Sanosuke aimed it at the ensuing Blood Wind air funnel that the courtesan in revealing clothing fired off at him.

The last thing Sano expected was to use that 12-foot longsword against Shishio's lover, the non-fighter known as Yumi.

***

Enishi did a low split-legged crouch, only to charge with an onslaught of strikes instead of doing another Zettousei when he saw Kenshin sink his stance low in kind instead of taking his bait and attacking with the Hirameki.

"SENRAN TOU SEI! (WAR SWORD RUSH!)"

"RYU SOU SEN! (DRAGON NEST FLASH!)"

Sparks flew everywhere as though they were in a steel mill or foundry as they parried and attacked each other with impunity, their swords crossing and chipping at their edges.

Blood and ectoplasm stained the ground soon afterward from both combatants.

Enishi moved faster than Kenshin could react. Like an unswattable fly. Or perhaps a whole swarm of flies. Locusts. Bees. Wasps, even. A plague of wasps. His twitch muscles able to react to attacks or counterattacks by lightning-fast reflexes.

It was like dealing with Soujiro Seta's Shukuchi all over again. Himura couldn't even predict Enishi's strikes by reading his sakki (bloodlust) because he was exuding hatred and killer instinct at all times. At every waking moment.

Like the polar opposite of the Heaven Sword. It was no different to deal with someone who lacked bloodlust compared to someone who always exuded bloodlust. There was no sudden spike of killer instinct you could use to read an opponent's moves.

This forced Kenshin to take the initiative and jump high into the air in order to become the aggressor for a change, even if only to draw out a counterstrike that he could then counter.

"RYU TSUI SEN! (DRAGON HAMMER FLASH!)"

Yukishiro countered by also leaping vertically before Kenshin could drop him with the Dragon Hammer Flash. Afterwards, at the point where his jump force was equal to Earth's gravity, he jumped even further, thus essentially doing a double jump or what was known to basketball players as an airwalk.

"SHIKKU TOU SEI! (SLASHER SWORD RUSH!)"

Kenshin's youtou (demon sword) and Enishi's watou (Chinese-style katana) clashed hard against each other, their impactful vibrations strong enough to shatter steel. However, their mystical swords forged from spirit energy and the life force of their very souls both held true.

However, Battousai or no Battousai, the scarless Kenshin realized he had to take Yukishiro out before his own feelings of despair, depression, shame, and remorse got the better of him.

For even now, he felt like he deserved to get hit by every last strike from Enishi for the sin of accidentally killing his ex-wife in an attempt to rescue her from her kidnapper.

"KUZU RYU SEN! (NINE-HEADED DRAGON FLASH!)"

"UGH!"

Like water crushing rock over time, the constant barrage of counters from earlier finally took its toll on Enishi, leading to several lapses of attention that the Battousai took advantage of to great effect.

Kenshin's persistence paid off, with that last multi-hit attack finally landing on his nerve-filled brother-in-law.

He then prepared to do a supersonic noutoujutsu (sword-sheathing technique). The same one he used to disable the super sensitive hearing of Usui Uonuma's Shingan.

"RYU MEI...! (DRAGON CRY...!)"

Kenshin stopped short of doing his high-pitched sheathing technique when he saw a familiar young woman with jet-black hair, doe eyes, a white kimono, and purple shawl appear out of the half-burnt forest.

She brought with her a nostalgic, heartbreaking scent.

"T-Tomoe...?!" stuttered Kenshin before Enishi's Watou ended up stabbing him right in his chest, on the same wound made by the Zettousei that got him earlier.

The pair of scars on his left cheek reappeared. Bleeding with fresh blood (or, in his case, ectoplasm).

***

Back at the Okushiri Military Base...

The Blood Wind dissipated from the strength of Sanosuke's vacuum slash, but Yumi herself blocked the wind pressure with her open, glowing-red umbrella serving as her shield.

Ah, yes. The Blood Wind.

The double-edged, energy-sapping red tornado created from the heat of the spirit energy it stole and the coldness of an injured body that was losing blood.

However, this woman somehow managed to do Blood Winds without the need to be injured. Or perhaps the hole in her chest served as her injury?

Sagara originally thought it was one of Rando's ultimate moves, only to remember something about him stealing techniques. So this energy-sapping technique was actually her move, wasn't it?

Regardless, what was a desperation move for Rando was a normal move for her. It all made sense now. Or at least that part did.

"How the hell did you get superpowers too, lady?" Sano demanded to Yumi. "You even went so far as to change yourself into a vampire! You really are something else!"

"Stop acting so friendly around me, you boorish lout," said Komagata to Sagara with half-lidded eyes, parrying his probing zanbatou stab from more than 12 feet away with her closed umbrella that doubled as her sword. "You should've stayed as a ghost in the Spirit World. You'll regret crossing paths with us again after a hundred years, Sagara Sanosuke."

Sano left his cumbersome giant sword behind, charged unimpeded, and backhanded the woman. "Nothing personal, Neechan. We can't let you or your psycho boyfriend run amok again in this era either."

"...Bastard! You dare hit a lady?! Youki Duantoutai! (Spirit Guillotine!)" Yumi reeled from the slap that caught her by surprise but then kept Sanosuke at bay with the Spirit Guillotines.

"...Son of a bitch! Rando stole that move from you too?!" said Yahiko before breaking the paper-thin waves of demon energy with "Men (Head)" strikes from the Fire Stance and flying skyward with the God in Heaven technique.

"Not exactly," Yumi chatted with a nonchalant smirk. "I stole some of Rando's moves myself in exchange for the moves he stole from me. Tit-for-tat."

As for Sanosuke, his follow-up attempt at chopping Komagata in half with his 12-foot sword led to it getting blasted full of huge holes care of Itsuki. This made the zanbatou look like a macroscopic slice of grey Swiss cheese.

The scattershot blasts responsible for Sano's predicament originated from a gun attached to Itsuki's right arm. It shot out miniature black holes the size of pinholes but had event horizons the size of bowling balls or bigger. They ate up any type of matter nearest them.

It was a (literal) handgun with black holes as its bullets that the Gatekeeper developed through the help of Shinobu Sensui's Kazuya personality.

Itsuki's Black Hole Gun also ate up chunks of Sano's ghostly flesh whole.

"GUUAAAHH!"

The Gatekeeper had taken advantage of Sanosuke's moment of hesitation in killing Yumi. Sano remembered mid-swing how she had originally died by Shishio's hand and then had her corpse burn along with his in a sudden unintended funeral pyre.

Meanwhile, as the flying Myojin attacked Yumi from above, Botan attacked from below. She flew on her oar mere inches from the ground before getting off her ride and using her forward momentum to smash her paddle right into the vampire. She then let the more athletic Kaoru inside her do the rest.

Using jaki and youki together, the succubus imbued her foldable fan and her closed umbrella with enough blood-red energy to stop the oar cold with a cross-block. She then unfurled her umbrella in time to also prevent Yahiko's Ryu Tsui Sen from hitting her noggin.

From this close proximity, she then used her Inner Blood Turmoil to absorb her attackers' spirit energy unto herself, sapping the two of their reiki and making their souls flicker and fade.

Neither the living nor the dead were safe from this vampire queen.

***

"GOU TSUI TOU SEI! (FALLING BLADE SWORD RUSH!)" screamed Enishi after impaling the distracted Kenshin in the chest.

The Falling Blade Sword Rush allowed the white-haired martial artist to pin Battousai at last, lifting him high up and over his head with his sword and upper-body strength.

"At last. At long last. You're going to die, Battousai! You scum! You criminal! You took away everything from me! Now I will return the favor and take away everything from you! This is my Jinchu!"

The Guardian of the Youtou Shinnoken grunted and coughed, his eyes unable to tear themselves away at the visage and silhouette of his ex-wife Tomoe Yukishiro.

Red tears streamed down his cheeks and bloodstained scar.

"T-Tomoe? I-Is that really you?" he mumbled in disbelief, as though not even noticing Enishi's watou inside of him.

He was no longer Hitokiri Battousai (Battousai the Manslayer). Instead, he transformed back to Rurouni Kenshin (Kenshin the Vagabond).

"Tomoe" then told Enishi with an old man's deep voice, "My apologies. This is the best help I can give you for now. That damn Okashira stole all of the jaki that the Chojin gave me and sealed me and my precious Iwanbos away with it, turning the energy into solidified reiatsu."

"You did splendidly, Gein," said Enishi, who smiled for once. He couldn't face the reanimated corpse of his elder sister eye-to-eye, though. "Now please take that puppet away. I don't want you to soil my sister's memory with it."

Kenshin went pale. He'd been duped by one of Gein's puppets. However, his trickery paid off. He didn't feel like hurting Tomoe's little brother any longer.

"Did you know what I went through to get to this moment, Battousai? As an orphaned boy, I ate human flesh in the battlefield to survive. I was adopted by a rich couple, only for me to kill them because I hated how happy they were. I ended up becoming an arms dealer using their wealth for good measure. I then found out you already died, which sapped me of my will to live. Only to be reborn in this era after I found out you became the Demon Sword's guardian."

Enishi dragged Kenshin's bloody (or ectoplasmic) body all over the forest at the foot of Mt. Kannon, savoring the moment before pulling his sword out and stomping on the Battousai's bleeding wound for good measure.

"I'm not sure whether I should wield your damn sword myself or just destroy you along with that sword. Oh well. It doesn't matter. You could die a thousand deaths and it won't bring back my sister. Even after I died, I couldn't find her anymore. I've lost her forever. All that's left is to make you feel the despair I felt when you stole her away from me."

***

Back at the Okushiri Military Base...

Chaos continued. Fires broke out everywhere.  The wind howled like wolves to the moon. The base crumbled and turned into shambles. It was Hell on Earth.

Hell in Hokkaido.

Komagata's Inner Blood Turmoil created her own version of reiatsu—her youki mixed with the Kenshingumi's reiki, the blood of the soldiers she fed on, and the Chojin's jaki—before releasing that pent-up energy towards Yahiko in the form of the "BLOOD FIRE WAVE!" projectile.

However, thinking fast on her feet, Botan purified the surplus of jaki around them then used it to replenish the reiki she and Myojin lost from being in contact with Yumi.

'Wow. She's doing the thing! The same thing Urameshi did when he got hold of the Meikai's crystal ball thingy,' thought Kuwabara. 'She's purifying jaki into reiki!'

Again, Botan used spirit bandages that doubled as spiritual energy seals, acting more like a priestess than Hinageshi the Shrine Maiden or Houji the Onmyouji.

"Nice one, Tanuki-chan!" said Yahiko. "I mean, thank you, Botan."

Botan smiled at the samurai boy. "You're welcome. Now go get 'em."

'This woman is seriously getting on my nerves,' thought Yumi while eyeing the ferry-girl whose astral body housed two souls instead of just one.

A rejuvenated Myojin then did the sword-breaking "TSUI GAMI!" to neutralize the Blood Fire Wave and the pinhole-sized black holes that Itsuki's sneaky Kazuya personality shot right into his heart and head with the Black Hole Gun.

The samurai kid kept moving forward, practically swimming in the thick of "it", with "it" being the Chojin's ocean of jaki.

Meanwhile, Houji frowned, his arms crossed. 'This goddamn brat! For Chojin's sake, he sure is persistent.'

He thought that the Chojin allowing him more access to his boundless negative energy—enough jaki to, quite frankly, revive the long-dead kingdom of Meikai (Nether World)—was sufficient to neutralize the neutralizer.

However, Houji's jaki output remained relatively low and it even started dwindling.

Like opening your water main at full capacity yet still ending up with less water than you expected when filling up your bathtub. Defying the very will of the Overfiend himself.

'The boy is starting to get better control of his neutralization powers, isn't he?' the Onmyouji thought, tapping his scythe's handle to the ground impatiently.

To Yumi and Itsuki, he only had one command. "Kill him."

Yumi then made it rain blood like the Battousai would back in the Bakumatsu.

A literal rain of blood poured down on them, but each droplet contained razor-sharp scalpels. A bloody rain that cut you apart in order to induce a thicker bloodbath afterwards. It pelted the ground like suppressive fire from a machine gun.

She aptly named the technique, "Bloody Rain."

It was the bloodsucker's way of creating the energy-absorbing Blood Wind without having to sacrifice all the plasma that she had already drained from her other victims.

"I don't know who you are, lady, but you leave that boy alone!" said Kuwabara, who finally had time to intervene.

***

Meanwhile, elsewhere on the island...

Yusuke Urameshi had actually been in a punching match with Toguro Ototo all this time.

Right in the middle of Okushiri Island, in fact. Along the Tsurikake River.

Instead of playing with the percentages of his power, the Younger Toguro instead went all out from the start, displaying 100% of his full strength.

'His B-Level strength,' was Yusuke's unsaid sentiment. He recalled how easily he manhandled the A-Level Rando earlier now that he wasn't faced with any distractions or dirty tactics.

So dealing with Toguro should be a cakewalk now, right?

In kind, Urameshi himself released his first pair of Spirit Cuffs. Just like the good ol' days, they ended up in a slugfest that turned the peaceful river into roiling rapids from the shockwaves of their punches.

"You've struggled in every encounter you've faced with the Chojin's forces so far yet won every time," said the Younger Toguro. "Why is that?"

"I don't know what you're talking about, man," said Yusuke before blasting the gigantic hulking grey behemoth before him with the "SHOT GUN!" technique, bombarding him with the purest of reiki bullets.

The vascular and muscular Toguro pressed on, healing the missing pieces of his flesh instantly like his older brother would.

An impressive feat a power level or two ago. To Yusuke, it had somehow become old hat. Any S-Level worth their salt should be able to regenerate fast enough as long as they had an abundance of spirit or demon energy inside them.

"I took on Rando, Souther (Xinhai), Suzaku, the blind guy (Usui), and the rest of the Chojin's New Ten Swords fair and square. All I'm doing now is killing time and keeping you from ruining Kurama's plans to take your new gang out. Right until your big bad boss, the Chojin, shows up."

Toguro's eyes narrowed behind his shades. 'His reiki is... overflowing. It almost reminds me of the Chojin's own jaki. Immeasurable.'

Yusuke dodged the Shi Dan (Finger Flip Bullets) by reflex even though he had a feeling he could survive direct hits from Toguro's unnaturally strong finger flicks at this point in time.

It was a B-Level against an S-Level (albeit one who was holding his strength back), after all.

The Shi Dan were even more powerful than the strongest human punches, capable of blasting through concrete, but against Urameshi's wealth of spirit energy, he doubted that they'd even penetrate his skin.

Even with his powers sealed, he teetered from being a high A-Level to a low S-Level.  

'Are you hiding your present power level, Toguro? Is your 100% form not your full power?' Urameshi thought.

There was just no way that the likes of Rando, Xinhai, Usui, Saito, or Suzaku would end up stronger than the Toguro Ototo himself.

Then again, while it took Toguro 50 years to reach B-Level, it took only 10 years for Sensui to reach S-Level. Meanwhile, it took less than 3 years for Yusuke to surpass them both and take on a centuries-old S-Level archdemon, Yomi, to the brink of defeat.

To Toguro, Urameshi asked, "What happened to you deciding to stay in Hell for 100 million years to atone for all the crimes you've committed? Were you plucked from Hell by the Chojin and forced to work for him? Answer me, Toguro!"

"...We're not so different, you and I."

"OH, COME ON! Not this tired cliché again!" the teenaged living warhead told off the demonized human strongman in between bone-crushing punches.

He didn't want to hear such things from someone much weaker than him.

***

The veiny (actually nervy) Enishi got talkative all of a sudden, Kenshin realized.

His life story was as unfortunate as the vagabond expected. Maybe even more so. So he even killed a family after he was given a new lease in life? How much of a monster had he become?

This was a lot for Himura to take in. He could barely breathe right now; much less digest Yukishiro's words.

Meanwhile, Enishi snarled in remembrance of the things he'd been through. The people he killed. The opportunities of happiness he turned his back on in favor of a century-old grudge.

The innocents he murdered in order to harden his heart enough to take on a monster like the Battousai. When he died, he resisted the reincarnation cycle for so long, hoping against hope he'd find Himura's soul in the afterlife and drag him to Hell along with him, torturing him for a million years.

However, his chance had finally arrived only a few decades ago. He reentered the reincarnation cycle and avoided becoming an insect or a slug, getting instead the body of a Chinese boy with his memories of the past as a Japanese man intact somehow.

He then trained his body in martial arts, went to prison more than a few times, became a career criminal, and climbed the ranks of organized Chinese crime known as The Triad (what the Shanghai Arms Dealers eventually developed into a hundred years down the line).

In fact, until a few couple of years ago, Enishi occupied the position of Dragon Head that his protégé, Feng Xinhai, currently had. He had a Chinese name himself, but he long ago abandoned that identity in order to completely become Enishi Yukishiro.

He dedicated himself into becoming what he was in his past life and more.

It was because the Chojin himself reawakened his soul's past memories for the purpose of taking down Kenshin Himura.

Under the guidance of the Chojin and his reformed Shin Juppon Gatana, he even learned how to use his spiritual powers on top of reviving the lost martial arts of Wattoujutsu. He studied the Japanese language.

He began slaying demons himself by helping fund technology that linked the Demon World to the Human World with the money he made by being the Triad Dragon Head.

And now, while serving under Tenro the Demon-Slayer's Yakuza Family as one of his enforcers, he finally crossed paths with the man who stole his happiness a hundred years ago.

His revenge, his Jinchu, was literally a hundred years in the making.

"I will kill you now and then the rest of your friends afterwards. I'll break apart the Demon Sword or steal it for myself. Become its new master. From there, in the Spirit World, I will also hunt your ghost and kill you again until all memory of you is erased. Suffer like I did. Suffer for eternity, Battousai!"

Something stirred inside Kenshin when he heard those words. It was one thing for Enishi to swear to kill him. However, what did the rest of his comrades have to do with his revenge? Was he really going to kill the Kenshingumi or even the Reikai Tantei and the Oniwabanshu all in the name of his Jinchu?

Just as Enishi prepared to finish Himura off, a shinigami flew between them like a bolt from the blue.

The woman who sported a black kimono and raven hair zeroed in not on Enishi and Kenshin but instead on the Tomoe puppet of the Puppet Master.

'Ah, I remember her,' thought the Guardian of the Demon Sword. He met that death goddess before while assisting the training of Sanosuke and Yahiko when they first arrived in the Human World.

From his limited interactions with the shinigami, Kenshin surmised that she mainly did research work for Koenma Daio, not unlike the child inspector Sayaka.

'Ayame, was it? She's the shinigami that Kurama assigned to the Southeast Quadrant of Okushiri. Did she follow us all the way here?'

***

Yusuke wanted to end the fight with Toguro using one gigaton punch or one Chou Rei-Gan (Mega Spirit Gun), but he held back. Kept his cool.

He wanted to bet on a "maybe".  As in, "Maybe Toguro is holding back and is about to show me something more amazing than 100% of his power".

Otherwise, Urameshi would've already blasted Toguro back to Hell where he belonged and had a 100 million year sentence to serve. From there, the teenager would've waited for the Chojin or someone to arrive and force him use 100% of his power instead.

Finishing this fight early presented too much of a risk. Like eating an unripe fruit or something. Besides which, if Yusuke went all out, he'd wipe out several mountain ranges and riverbanks off of the map.

But maybe he was risking hundreds of thousands of lives over his own selfish whims.

'Fine. I'll push a little harder, then.'

The ensuing "REI-KOU-DAN! (SPIRIT WAVE BULLET!)" that fissured the surrounding ground and threatened to break the world in half was mostly absorbed by Younger Toguro's beefy body.

Toguro's 100% form before might instead be his 000.1% now. Maybe he'd been training all this time in Hell. Training from Hell.

Or maybe this was all wishful thinking on Urameshi's part now that he had outgrown his boogeyman from his past.

Yusuke put his hip into his last punch, manhandling the "ultimate" form of Toguro that earlier on threw him around like a rag doll the first time they fought.

"You want to rise to your greatest potential, but unfortunately you've already been there and done that and more. You've become too powerful," Toguro said after fixing his twisted neck that had his head staring straight behind him.

"You're not somehow begging for mercy, are you?" asked Yusuke as he hit another bone-crushing uppercut to Toguro's jaw.

"...Nothing challenges you anymore, but you don't want to sever your attachment to this world of weaklings."

Toguro flexed and did a full-powered tackling punch with enough force to move or even obliterate mountains. Alas, this version of Yusuke ate mountains for breakfast ever since achieving S-Level during his fight against Sensui.

This was nothing to him. Drop a building on him, and he'd wonder if it was raining.

He hated to think in such a way, but to him fighting Toguro now was akin to fighting Kuwabara. It didn't help that the behemoth fought straightforwardly and without trickery, unlike Xinhai and Rando.

"You honestly sound pathetic now, Toguro. What happened to you? Keiko can hit harder than that. Put your hips into it!"

But nothing major really happened to Toguro after dying back in the Ankoku Bujutsukai (Dark Martial Arts Tournament). It was Urameshi who had changed.

Any of the current roster of Roku Youkai (Six Demons) could take him on and turn him into roadkill, to be honest.

Toguro's form doubled or even tripled in size. He was now doing his "100% of 100%" technique that had him stake his very soul's life force in order to unleash his fullest potential.

However, his fullest potential ended up just B-Plus in the end. Not even at A-Level.

'Quit messing around and go 1,000% power or something already, Toguro!' Yusuke inwardly begged. But that never happened. He kept dealing with a Toguro who could barely make him flinch.

"In order to continue to live the lie you call your life, you're someone strong pretending to be weak so you could fit in with the rest of the weaklings."

"Stop yammering! I'm more impressed with your big mouth than any of your punches!"

Yusuke did his signature finger gun pose and focused his ocean of reiki at a single point of his index finger, gathering all that limitless energy into one concentrated shot.

"Great fighters refuse to lose, but you refuse to win just to get back that feeling and exhilaration of conquering something greater than you. So what do you do now that you're in a world where nothing is greater than you?"

"Jeez. Shut up already."

Yusuke sighed. If Toguro really was going to unleash a new superpower on him, he would've done so by now. Meanwhile, he himself hadn't even worked up a sweat.

Was this some sort of long-con, "Sun Tzu's Art of War" deal? Was Toguro hiding his power level like he always had, using only a small percentage of his potential? Or was this indeed his limits after his defeat in the Dark Tournament?

"Maybe you're right. Maybe I have been a little careless in my fights lately. However, in the end, I kept winning anyway. So who cares? It's my curse, I know. REI-GAN!"

***

Back at the foot of Mt. Kannon...

Ayame the Shinigami grabbed hold of the corpse puppet of Gein and cut off its spiritual connection with the mad scientist using her reaper powers.

She then said to Enishi, "There's no way your sister is smiling down on you in heaven! Not while you're doing something as terrible as this, stalking Himura-san for decades! A whole century!"

Enishi scowled at the impudent ferry-girl. How dare she say such things to him.

"What do you know? How can you possibly know the pain I've been through? The pain that my sister and her fiancé suffered from? You're nothing but a stranger! You have nothing to do with me!"

Kenshin tried standing up, but Enishi kicked his chest wound and pinned him down with a foot stomp. "And as for you, stay down! I'm not done with you yet!"

Yukishiro was about to punch Koenma's ferry-girl away when she chanted an incantation that led to the body double of his sister Tomoe to frown at him and cry tears of blood.

"Don't you hear it? Don't you hear the cries of despair of your dearly departed sister Tomoe from a hundred years ago? The last thing she wants to see is you suffering or making everyone suffer along with you!"

Enishi shook and shuddered before he himself screamed in anguish, screaming until his throat became ragged. Clutching his chest at that baleful look that rocked him to his very core.

"Shut up! Shut up, shut up, shut up, SHUT UP! Enough of your lies, Reikai! I don't believe any of them for a second!

However, he couldn't for the life of him kill even a puppet of his sister. Any young woman who reminded him of his sister, he couldn't bring himself to kill.

He damn well tried to though, his hatred rising. His cognitive dissonance assuring him these were all lies. That his sister had wanted to kill Battousai all along to avenge her fiancé's death.

That the rumor of how Battousai pledged to not kill ever since he killed Enishi's sister was just a rumor.

That Enishi hadn't wasted his multiple chances at a new lease on life for nothing.

He slashed the Tomoe corpse puppet apart with the Sho Ha Tou Sei, his own tears flowing down as he did so. Nauseated by the act, he moved away and puked soon after.

Even though she wasn't the real Tomoe.

'I have to do this. I have to destroy all their lies!'

He had waited for so long and come so far. In the end, it should still matter, right? If it didn't matter then what was the point of all this?

It was all Battousai's fault. He was the one who ruined his life. He was the one who forced him to suffer like this. Everything was perfect until he came along.

Even in the afterlife, Himura haunted him.

"Himura Battousai must die! Suffer! Die a thousand deaths! A million deaths! I won't rest until he has suffered as much as I have and MORE!"

Yukishiro prepared to do his ultimate attack on Kenshin, only for Ayame to get in his way.

This looked mighty familiar.

He hesitated for a whole second in cleaving the shinigami in half. Here was another woman the same age as his sister. Everywhere he looked, such maidens like her kept reminding him of what he had lost.

A second was an eternity in a fight, though.

Kenshin rose up and blocked Enishi's ensuing sword strike even though, unbeknownst to him, his brother-in-law intended to miss Ayame by a mile anyway.

Himura's heart swelled at doing so. Here and now, the vagabond was able to do the sword block that he failed to do against Shishio.

Had he done the same block against his hitokiri successor, would he have survived their mutually assured destruction? Had he not given up back then and decided to fight on, would he have been able to come back to Tokyo with the rest of the Kenshingumi? With Miss Kaoru?

Kenshin really wished he had fought on instead of giving up and dying along with Shishio. That he did.

"...I will fight to the end to protect those I hold dear! That is my truth!"

Himura's resolve in defeating Enishi finally hardened after wavering for so long, his cross-shaped scar seemingly glowing with a red bioluminescent light.

The crouching tiger faced off against the unhidden dragon one more time.

"KOFUKU ZETTOUSEI! (CROUCHING TIGER SEVERING SWORD RUSH!)"

"AMAKAKERU RYU NO HIRAMEKI! (HEAVENS GLIDING DRAGON FLASH!)"

Last time, the tiger was able to cut deep wounds into the flying serpent even though it was driven deep underground by sharp dragon claws.

Would the tiger finish what it had started? Or would the dragon have something hidden behind its upward flight into the heavens?

***

Kazuma attempted to create a portal to serve as a shield over Yahiko, only for Itsuki to seal that portal with Kazuya's Black Hole Gun, the twin rips in space-time canceling each other out.

However, Kuwabara expected the maneuver and teleported right in front of Itsuki in order to slash apart the firearm at pointblank range with the Jigen Tou.

"Motherfucker...!" shouted the foul-mouthed Kazuya possessing Itsuki's body, grasping his damaged handgun.

Itsuki then awoke Sensui's George personality in order to gain access to a hyperdimensional gun vault filled with Tommy guns, pistols, Desert Eagles, mini guns, shotguns, AK-47 rifles, machine guns, grenade launchers, and bazookas.

He had actually restocked his gun collection by stealing many of the armaments and ammunition available in the very military base they were invading right then and there. Knowing full well that ordinary guns were more useful against living, flesh-and-blood beings like Kuwabara versus the solidified souls of shinigami and ghosts from the past.

In retrospect, this made Houji's efforts to shoot Yahiko, a ghost, with a gun moot. However, Itsuki at least had a backup plan.

"I'll kill you all!" said Hitoshi. "I will purify the Human World by getting rid of all the humans!" His shtick was that he wished for human extinction.

However, before he could use one magazine or clip from his guns, he got pummeled to submission by a revived Sanosuke Sagara.

Botan had healed up the wounds of Sano's ghost yet again with purified jaki turned into reiki. He then got the jump on the green-haired youkai through brute strength instead of fancy teleportation techniques.

'Her again?' thought Houji, noticing how Battousai's woman served the same function as he did with the rest of the Shin Ju. 'That Reikai shinigami is making this mission of ours needlessly difficult.'

Furthermore, every attempt Itsuki made to get away from Sagara was blocked by Kuwabara, who himself punched the demon back into portals of his own that redirected him towards Sano's waiting fists and "FUTAE NO KIWAMI!"

"All right, enough of this!" declared Yumi, who shifted from targeting Yahiko to focusing her Spirit Guillotines and Blood Fire Waves at the Kamiya Kasshin Ryu kendoist turned shinigami Botan/Kaoru Kamiya.

Kaoru assisted Botan in deploying evasive maneuvers against the succubus, with her using the reiki-imbued boat paddle to bat and parry away the projectiles headed towards her before flying away from the bloodsucker.

She then ended up blocking the scythe of the unskilled but jaki-empowered Houji, which kept her from taking flight and escaping. "Keep still like a good girl."

Finally, a black hole appeared where her chest used to be. It was actually a dimensional rift that sucked the ferry-girl's ghostly flesh and ectoplasm away.

Gatekeeper Itsuki then closed the portal that mortally wounded Botan/Kaoru with a wave of his hand.

The ferry-girl's jaw opened, clenched, and froze at a silent scream, her red eyes rolling upwards until only her eye whites were visible.

"KAORUUU! BOTAAAAAN! NOOOO!" said Yahiko with an anguished, bloodcurdling shriek of his own.

Itsuki's mouth curved upwards in curiosity. 'What will you do now, Samurai-san? Is this enough to break you into pieces like what happened to my dearest Shinobu (Sensui) when he saw the Black Chapter Tapes?'

***

Back at the foot of Mt. Kannon...

As Enishi Yukishiro's heart wavered, Kenshin Himura's resolve hardened. Tempered by his will to protect those around him.

The Kofuku Zetsu Tou Sei should've countered the Heavens Gliding Dragon Flash by avoiding the first slash completely and countering the second slash with a well-time riposte, unfazed or even aided by the void created by the first slash.

The Zettousei was seemingly designed to break apart or deconstruct the Hirameki, as demonstrated earlier by Kenshin barely surviving it the first time it was used.

It should've halved the effectiveness of the second slash, but by Kenshin drawing the sword low and removing the ground-based leverage of his crouch, Enishi stood no chance.

Kenshin's much faster and stronger Heavens Gliding Dragon Flash hit low to weaken Enishi's strong crouch then hit high with the multiplied centrifugal force of the follow-up second strike of his ougi, the Crouching Tiger Severing Sword Rush buckling under pressure.

Enishi's counter was ultimately overpowered by the much stronger and better applied succession technique.

However, like before, even after his counter was countered by a more experienced, worldlier version of Battousai guarding a powerful demonic sword, he still kept standing.

Sure, Yukishiro shook like a leaf and heaved belabored breaths because his double-edged, hypertrophied Nerves of Insanity multiplied his pain to the point where an ordinary man would've blacked out in a dead faint.

But he wouldn't go down. He refused to go down. He'd rather die than go down.

Whether he was thrown into magma inside a mountain or cut down to oblivion with the Legendary Youtou Shinnoken (Demon Sword: The True Blade), his willpower continued to defy fate and destiny itself.

He braced himself for Battousai to deliver the finishing blow, relying on his twitch reflexes and his thick pulsating nerves that were practically on fire at this point to launch another counter.

Instead, Kenshin told him, "You didn't really mean to raise your sword at Miss Ayame, did you? Cutting down the fake Tomoe puppet to you was like ripping your heart out."

He spat, "What of it, Battousai?! That's just a puppet I tore apart, not my real sister! My sister that you killed!"

"It doesn't matter if the puppet was fake or not. Ripping her apart hurt you at your core. The pain you felt is real."

"DAMN YOU TO HELL! Push me any further, and I'll do the same to the shinigami!"

Himura replied, "Even though you've murdered others because you couldn't stand how happy they were, you hesitated in killing Ayame-dono. She reminded you too much of Tomoe to go through with it, didn't she?"

"DON'T YOU DARE SAY HER NAME, BASTARD! Her murderer has no right to do so!"

"...In the end, what stopped you was your sister. So I ask you the same question you asked me. Is your sister smiling down on you from heaven?"

Delirious, he started having visions.

Visions of his sister taking care of him when he was sick with the flu, sleeping at his bedside. Cooking for him. Taking care of him. Serving as the only family and mother figure that he ever knew.

His revenge against Kenshin was all he had left. All that mattered. His only reason for being, since Battousai robbed him of the original reason for his being. Without this one goal, he'd be nothing.

He could do anything as long as his sister was smiling back at him.

He closed his eyes. All he could see—the face he claimed was a lie made by the Spirit World—was his sister frowning at him with sad eyes full of pity.

The things he'd ignored earlier that bothered him also started making sense.

Why his sister threw herself in between Battousai and the leader of the Yaminobu.

Why his sister stayed with Battousai for so long and even became his wife (being a deep cover agent wasn't enough to explain that away).

Why Battousai vowed never to kill after "easily" killing so many people for such a long time.

'He did that because he felt guilty after killing my sister! And everyone around him! He's a criminal who's celebrated as a hero because he killed during a war when it's 'legal' to do so!'

He opened his eyes. The image of his unhappy, melancholic sister coalesced into Shinigami Ayame's face while bearing the same grim expression with her mouth.

He fell to his knees and broke down bawling. A broken man.

It wasn't the strike from a mystical demonic blade or the most powerful technique of a ghostly guardian from the Bakumatsu that brought him down to his knees.

No. It was him realizing his sister's disapproval of his Jinchu that unraveled his single-minded determination to kill Kenshin and/or make him suffer for an eternity and a day.

Only sheer willpower kept Enishi standing. So when Kenshin broke even that, he had nothing left.

His will to fight went away. All that was left was anguish, despair, and hopelessness.

"Neesan... Neesan...! (Big sis... Big sis...!)"

What was he supposed to do now?

***

To Be Continued...

The main event is about to start, and it's a doozy. Tenro will finally make his appearance to complete the Okushiri Arc!

Ciao, Abdiel

[twilightvolt]

My Favorite Anime OPs and EDs from 2010-2019

No one asked for this, but i’m doin’ it anyway cuz there’s so many songs out there that i’ve never heard anyone talk about. like, y’all sleep on Yu-Gi-Oh! apparently. lmao

Going by release year, here’s all the OPs and EDs i can remember that i luv (and still do to this day). i may or may not have gotten all the years right. hell, i’m not even sure i got the OP and ED numbers right.

It’ll go by: Song Name - Artist (Name of Anime and Which OP/ED it is) an asterisk means i REALLY like it above the rest.

Hopefully this’ll help introduce you to some new jams you missed out on! ^  ^

2010

Going My Way! ~Road to Tomorrow~ - Masaaki Endoh (Yu-Gi-Oh! 5Ds OP5)*

Close to You - ALvino (Yu-Gi-Oh! 5Ds ED4)

Future Colors - Plastic Tree (Yu-Gi-Oh! 5Ds ED5)

Gravity 0 - Aqua Timez (Star Driver OP)*

Never Give Up! - Sonar Pocket (Digimon Xros Wars OP)*

Period - Chemistry (Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood OP4)*

Rain - SID (Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood OP5)* THE. FEELS.

Uragiri no Yuuyake - THEATRE BROOK (Durarara!! OP)* Y’all remember this one? Lmao

Trust Me - Yuya Matsushita (Durarara!! ED)

Ice Cream Syndrome - Sukima Switch (Pokemon Zoroark: Master of Illusions ED)*

My Soul, Your Beats! - Lia (Angel Beats OP) WAIT HOLD ON, ANGEL BEATS WAS THIS DECADE? I THOUGHT THAT WAS 2009 OR SOMETHING. DAHEQ?

ChAngE - Miwa (BLEACH OP12)

Calling - FLOW (Heroman ED)*

SHIVER - the GazettE (Black Butler II OP)

2011

Samurai Heart (Some Like it Hot!) - SPYAIR (Gintama ED17)* And on this day I realized….SPYAIR is lit.

New World - Twill (Digimon Xros Wars OP2)

Masterpiece - Mihimaru GT (Yu-Gi-Oh! ZEXAL OP)

Boku Quest - Golden Bomber (Yu-Gi-Oh! ZEXAL ED)* I luv watching the actual ending sequence. It fits my cyber aesthetic to a T.

BRAVING! - KANAN (Yu-Gi-Oh! ZEXAL OP2)

Setsubou no Freesia (Longing Freesia) - Daizystripper (Yu-Gi-Oh! ZEXAL ED2)* I’ll be completely honest, this song has been my favorite anime theme over most, if not all others, ever since. It’s kinda held a special place in my heart as it’s got memories of what transpired during 2012 that i don’t think i’ll ever forget. From the summer trip we took down south to me creating my very first OCs, Takuya and his Charmander partner Drake, on paper, i’ll luv this song with all my heart. ^  ^

Lovers - 7!! (Seven Oops) (Naruto Shippuden OP)

Counter Identity - UNISON SQUARE GARDEN (Soul Eater Repeat Show OP)*

Ai Ga Hoshii Yo - Shion Tsuji (Soul Eater Repeat Show OP2)* WANTCHU WANTCHU, I WANT CHUU~

SHINING STAR - 9nine (Star Driver OP2)*

Crossover - 9nine (Star Driver ED2)

Sky's the Limit - Shihoko Hirata (Persona 4 the Animation OP)

We’re Not Alone - coldrain (Rainbow Nisha Rokubou no Shichinin OP)

One Reason - Fade (Deadman Wonderland OP) I can bet you right now half of y’all forgot about this show. I mean i did. Lol

Mayonaka no Orchestra - Aqua Timez (Naruto Shippuden ED16)

Hacking to the Gate - Kanako Itou (Steins;Gate OP)* THIS SONG CLEARED MY SKIN AND RAISED MY GRADES.

Ranbu no Melody - SID (BLEACH OP13)* That main chorus tho. N o i c e .

LISTEN TO THE STEREO!! - GOING UNDERGROUND (Katekyo Hitman Reborn OP8)*

Core Pride - UVERworld (Blue Exorcist OP)

2012

Mask - Aqua Timez (BLEACH ED30?)

Soul Drive - Color Bottle (Yu-Gi-Oh! ZEXAL OP3)*

Wild Child - Moumoon (Yu-Gi-Oh! ZEXAL ED3)* Whenever I hear this song, I either think of school shenanigans or, if school isn't a thing in their world, a high school AU. Lmao

Unbreakable Heart - Hideaki Takatori (Yu-Gi-Oh! ZEXAL OP4)

Artist - Vistlip (Yu-Gi-Oh! ZEXAL ED4)*

Stand By Me - Stereopony (Eureka Seven AO ED)* Ok I know some people don't wanna remember AO, but hear me out here. Lmao 

Brave Blue - FLOW (Eureka Seven AO OP2)*

Key Plus Words - Shihoko Hirata & Yumi Kawamura (Persona 4 the Animation OP2)

Harukaze - SCANDAL (BLEACH OP15)*

Crossing Field - LiSA (Sword Art Online OP) I like making SAO jokes as much as the next guy, but let's be real here. Crossing Field was still a pretty good song.

STAND UP! - Twill (Digimon Xros Wars Hunters OP)* Hunters sucked, but the OP slaps.

Kyomu Densen - ALI PROJECT (Another OP) This show gave me a temporary fear of umbrellas, but this OP is good.

Complication - ROOKiEZ is PUNK’D (Durarara!! OP2)

Light My Fire - KOTOKO (Shakugan no Shana III Final OP)

Mite Mite Kochichi - Memoiro Clover Z (Pokemon Best Wishes ED3)

2013

Dualism of Mirrors - Petite Milady (Yu-Gi-Oh! ZEXAL OP5)

GO WAY GO WAY - FoZZtone (Yu-Gi-Oh! ZEXAL ED5)

Challenge the GAME - REDMAN (Yu-Gi-Oh! ZEXAL ED6)* I swear to god, this should’ve been the final OP rather than Wonder Wings. I really don’t like that song.

Oh, and if you wanna hear more of the lead singer's voice, he's the lead singer of GIRUGAMESH. They didn't do any anime songs while they were still active afaik, but totally check it out if you like J-Rock.

Sakura Mitsutsuki & Genjyou Destruction - SPYAIR (Gintama OP13 and Gintama: The Final Chapter OP)*

After Cherry Blossoms (all quartets lead to the?) - UNISON SQUARE GARDEN (Yozakura Quartet: Hana no Uta OP)*

Non-Fiction Compass - UNISON SQUARE GARDEN (Yozakura Quartet: Tsuki ni Naku OP)

Sayonara Memory - 7!! (Seven Oops) (Naruto Shippuden ED)

BLOODY STREAM - Coda (Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure: Battle tendency OP)* I mean, how could i NOT put this song on here? Lmao

Be An Arrow! - Rica Matsumoto (Pokemon Best Wishes! OP2)

Natsumeku Sakamichi (Summerly Slope) - Daisuke (Pokemon Best Wishes DA! OP)* While the Black & White series was absolutely terrible, I can thank it for spawning some nice OPs.

Egao - Ikimono-gakari (Pokemon Genesect and the Legend Awakened ED)

Take Your Way - Livetune adding Fukase (From SEKAI NO OWARI) (Devil Survivor 2 the Animation OP)* I swear I will never get tired of this song.

Be - Song Riders (Devil Survivor 2 the Animation ED)*

Watashi no Bara wo Kaminasai - ALI PROJECT (Rozen Maiden 2013 OP)

Moshimo - Daisuke (Naruto Shippuden OP)

Burn My Dread ~Spring of Birth~ & More Than One Heart - Yumi Kawamura (Persona 3 the Movie #1 Spring of Birth OP and ED)*

Eden - Aqua Timez (Magi: the Kingdom of Magic ED)*

Out of Control - Nothing’s Carved in Stone (Psycho Pass OP2)*

HERO -Kibou no Uta- - FLOW (Dragon Ball Z: Battle of Gods ED)

2014

Silhouette - KANA BOON (Naruto Shippuden OP16)* Everyone rise for the weeb national anthem.

BelievexBelieve - Bulletrain (Yu-Gi-Oh! ARC-V OP)

ENAMEL - SID (Black Butler: Book of Circus OP)

Masayume Chasing - BoA (Fairy Tail OP15)

STRIKE BACK - BACK-ON (Fairy Tail OP16)*

Burn! - Bulletrain (Yu-Gi-Oh! ARC-V OP2)

DAYxDAY - BLUE ENCOUNT (Gintama OP)* Before Polaris, there was this. lol

Goya no Machiawase - Hello Sleepwalkers (Noragami OP)* I swear Noragami has great taste in OPs. lmao

Fate is in Our Hands - Lotus Juice (Persona 3 the Movie #2 Midsummer Knight's Dream OP)* Y'all know Lotus Juice makes EVERYTHING badass.

One Hand, One Heartbeat - Yumi Kawamura (Persona 3 the Movie #2 Midsummer Knight's Dream ED)* I swear I literally feel like crying every time I hear this song. It's just that powerful.

Unravel - TK from Ling Tosite Sigure (Tokyo Ghoul OP) Ok, lemme explain. I used to hate this song cuz I thought TK's singing voice was whiny as hell. But after a long, LOOOOONG time, it finally started to grow on me. I think it's because of all the song covers I've listened to and, after understanding the meaning behind the lyrics, I appreciate this song a bit more nowadays. 

V (VOLT) and MEGA V (MEGA VOLT) - Yusuke (Pokemon XY OPs 1&2)*

daze - Jin ft. MARiA from GARNiDELiA (Mekakucity Actors OP)

Monochrome - Dancing Dolls (Soul Eater NOT! OP)

2015

Saigo Made ii - Aqua Timez (Gintama ED15 i think?)

Kyouran Hey Kids! - THE ORAL CIGARETTES (Noragami Aragoto OP)* IN THIS HOUSE, WE JUST WANNA HOLD YOUR HAAAAAAND~

Getta Ban Ban (Mad-Paced Getter) - Tomohisa Sako (Pokemon XY OP3)*

XY&Z - Rica Matsumoto (Pokemon XY&Z OP)*

Raise Your Flag - MAN WITH A MISSION (Gundam Iron Blooded Orphans OP)*

Hello, World! - BUMP OF CHICKEN (Kekkai Sensen OP)*

Sugar Song and Bitter Step AKA the song everyone makes fan animated parodies of it’s opening sequence - UNISON SQUARE GARDEN (Kekkai Sensen ED)

Kirifuda (Trump Card) - Cinema Staff (Yu-Gi-Oh! ARC-V OP4)

Speaking - MRS. GREEN APPLE (Yu-Gi-Oh! ARC-V ED4)* before Great Escape from Attack on Titan and Inferno from Fire Force, there was this OP and ED. both of which i feel are better songs. lmao

Tweedia - Rei Yasuda (Pokemon Hoopa and the Clash of Ages ED)*

Diver - KANA-BOON (The Last: Naruto the Movie ED)*

Butter-Fly 2015 - Kouji Wada (Digimon Adventure Tri. OP)

Sono Chi no Kioku ~End of the World~ - JO☆STARS ~TOMMY, Coda, JIN~ (Jojo's Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Crusaders OP2)

Lapis Lazuli - Eir Aoi (Arslan Senki ED)*

Clattanoia - OxT (Overlord OP)*

L.L.L. - MYTH & ROID (Overlord ED)

Nazo 2015 - La PomPon (Detective Conan OP41)* Hearing this brought back memories of hearing the original during my childhood back when Cased Closed was still a thing.

Just Fly Away - EDGE of LIFE (Gundam Build Fighters Try OP2)

Flyers - BRADIO (Death Parade OP) Like Another, this was one of those where i wouldn’t have touched the show itself if my anime club didn’t watch it.

X.U. - Hiroyuki Sawano (Seraph of the End OP)*

Hikari - ViViD (Magi: the Kingdom of Magic OP2)

2016

DiVE!! - Amatsuki (Digimon Universe: Applimonsters OP)*

Ai - Ami Wajima (Digimon Universe: Applimonsters ED2)

The Day - Porno Graffitti (My Hero Academia OP)

HEROES - Brian the Sun (My Hero academia ED)

RAGE OF DUST - SPYAIR (Gundam Iron Blooded Orphans OP2)*

Believe in Myself - EDGE of LIFE (Fairy Tail OP21)*

CRAZY NOISY BIZARRE TOWN - THE DU (Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure: Diamond is Unbreakable OP)

Chase - batta (Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure: Diamond is Unbreakable OP2)* Screw the haters. This song is a bop.

Great Days - Karen Aoki & Daisuke Hasegawa (Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure: Diamond is Unbreakable OP3) As you can see, i luv all of Jojo Part 4’s OPs. lmao

Kaze no Uta - FLOW (Tales of Zestiria the X OP)* Zestiria may have been the most uninteresting experience i’ve had in the Tales series, but at least it’s OPs are straight fire.

Dream Lantern, ZenZenZense, Sparkle and Nandemonaiya - RADWIMPS (Various themes from Your Name) I'm still miffed that they didn't kiss at the end. >:v

Re:Re: - ASIAN KUNGFU GENERATION (Erased OP)

Brave Shine - Aimer (Fate/Stay Night Unlimited Blade Works OP)*

Starting Over - Mr. Children (The Boy and the Beast ED)* Mamoru Hosoda never ceases to make me smile and/or cry, huh?

GO - BUMP OF CHICKEN (GRANBLUE FANTASY the Animation OP)

KINGS - angela (K Project OP) i don’t even know how i remembered this one. I watched K at my local anime club years ago cuz one of my friends suggested it. I barely remember what it was about, though. ^  ^’

Vision - Kusou Linkai (Yu-Gi-Oh ARC-V ED5)

Light of Hope - Unknown Number (Yu-Gi-Oh ARC-V OP5)

Pendulum Beat! - SUPER DRAGON (Yu-Gi-Oh ARC-V OP6)*

2017

Peace Sign - Kenshi Yonezu (My Hero Academia OP2)* SURE IT’S POPULAR, BUT IT’S POPULAR FOR A REASON.

Datte Atashi no Hero - LiSA (My Hero Academia ED3)

Little Pi - Ange☆Reve (Digimon Universe: Applimonsters ED3)

Perfect World - Traffic Light (Digimon Universe: Applimonsters ED4)*

With the Wind - Hiroaki “TOMMY” Tominaga (Yu-Gi-Oh! VRAINS OP)* I’ll be honest, this one took some getting used to, but now i luv it!

Fake Town Baby - UNISON SQUARE GARDEN (Kekkai Sensen and Beyond OP)

Tonari Au - THE ORAL CIGARETTES (Sakurada Reset ED)*

Rain - SEKAI NO OWARI (Mary and the Witch's Flower ED)* I really liked the movie and I just luved the fantasy vibes given off by the instrumentals in this song.

Baton Road - KANA BOON (Boruto: Naruto Next Generations OP)* Y'all say Boruto is trash, but at least the theme songs still boppin'.

Boku wa Hashiri Tsuzukeru - Melofloat (Boruto: Naruto Next Generations ED3)

FEED THE FIRE - coldrain (King’s Game OP)* Thank you Fire Force for introducing me to this wonderful band. ;w;

2018

PAiNT it BLACK - BiSH (Black Clover OP2)* Never thought I'd ever find a band actually named bish. Lmao

Black Rover - Vickeblanka (Black Clover OP3)

Guess Who is Back - Kumi Koda (Black Clover OP4)* Now, if this ain't a bop fit for a triumphant return like "SURPRISE BISH I'M BACK." then idk what is. Lmao

Gamushara & Tenge Tenjou - Miyuna (Black Clover OP&ED5)* i’m mainly referring to Gamushara, but i luv Tenge Tenjou too.

ODD FUTURE - UVERworld (My Hero Academia OP4)*

Make my story - Lenny code fiction (My Hero Academia OP5)*

The Future is Now - Straightener (Digimon ReArise OP)* Yes, I know I'm cheating cuz it's a video game, but it's an opening sequence much like an anime, so yeah.

Breath - Porno Graffitti (Pokemon the Power of Us ED)

Katharsis - TK from Ling Tosite Sigure (Tokyo Ghoul OP3?)*

Here - JUNNA (The Ancient Magus Bride OP)

Renai Circulation - Kana Hanazawa (Bakemonogatari OP4) Imma be honest, i found this song through those Coldplay mashups and other memes. Lmao

I Wanna Be - SPYAIR (Gintama Shirogane no Tamashii Hen OP)

Hana Ichi Monme - BURNOUT SYNDROMES (Gintama Shirogane no Tamashii Hen ED)*

2019

Hana ga Saku Michi - THE CHARM PARK (Black Clover ED7)* I SWEAR NO ONE’S COVERED THIS SONG YET AND I’M SAD. I LUV THIS SONG.

Inferno - MRS. GREEN APPLE (Fire Force OP)

Veil - Keina Suda (Fire Force ED)* This ED gives me feels and i luv it. ;w;

MAYDAY - coldrain (Fire Force OP2)* This sounds like a song i’d hear at Hot Topic and i feel blessed. lmao

Nounai - Lenny code fiction (Fire Force ED2) I swear this anime doesn’t have a single song i don’t like. I’m not kidding. lmao

WILD SIDE - ALI (BEASTARS OP)* IN THIS HOUSE, WE DO NOT SKIP THIS OPENING I STG.

Le Zoo - YURiKA (BEASTARS ED)

Nemureru Honou (Sleeping Instincts) - YURiKA (BEASTARS ED2)*

Kawaki no Ameku - Minami (Domestic Na Kanojo OP)

Polaris - BLUE ENCOUNT (My Hero Academia OP6)* THIS IS THE BIGGEST BOP SINCE PEACE SIGN OML

Touch Off - UVERworld (The Promised Neverland OP)* This show was too creepy for me to continue, but I luv it for what it is. Also NAA NANANANANANAA NANANAAAA~

Sangenshoku - PELICAN FANCLUB (Dr. Stone OP2)* Sorry, but Good Morning World didn’t totally do it for me. I luv this OP way more tbh.

Suisou - Megumi Nakajima (Hoshiai no Sora OP)* The bits before the chorus are just so good.

1•2•3 - After the Rain (Pocket Monsters 2019 OP)

Dark Crow - MAN WITH A MISSION (Vinland Saga OP2)

MOTOR CITY - Kenichi Asai (No Guns Life OP)

Game Over - DATS (No Guns Life ED)

[poeta-ismael-ferreira]

Poema-canção inspirado na cantora Yumi Park

IMPRESSIONISTA

Ela atravessa ruas oásis de silencio ao amanhecer e vai cantando tudo o que vê e lhe toca o coração. Os indigentes dormindo nas calçadas, os transeuntes buscando condução, os mirantes observatórios vigilantes do cotidiano, as igrejas memórias de tonitruantes sinos. Na orla, ela comunga seu canto ao canto do mar que reflete o sol matinal e entoa cânticos de esperança e fé.

Caminho ao amanhecer

Ruas oásis de silencio

Nas sombras das catedrais

dormem indigentes

pedintes e retirantes,

alguns nem sonham mais.

Encontro na Candelária

Outros versos de Adelia.

Sinos da hora matinal

E se cobre de alaranjado

o rosto no Corcovado

zelando a cidade litoral

E a luz do sol reluz as cores do mar

Ilumina, descortina as ruas, meu lugar

E descubro museus e galerias

Os pretos mortos na travessia

O mangue sem sangue azul

No rumo das embarcações

Cruzam gaivotas e avioes

Sou memória de uma historia em Seul

Vivo historias na ferrovia

Nas almas de seus artistas

sonhos sao mais do que o suor.

E nas luzes da Academia

em cores iimpressionistas

Retrato com meu canto tanto amor

[pragentemiudacriacoes]

Festa Encanto com muitas cores e magia para os 5 anos da Júlia Yumi 🥳 Fiz muitos itens artesanais nesta festa! Pena que só cabem 10 fotos aqui, mas nos stories mostrarei mais detalhes!!! Parceiros queridos: @elainerussodoces - bolo e biscoitos (o q são estes personagens Elaineeeee!!!) @papi.baloes - arco baphônico com cores vibrantes #pragentemiudacriacoes #festaencanto #familiamadrigal #festaemcasa https://www.instagram.com/p/CgFpNTIO7wg/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[yumi-imperatriz]

Ao amor não reconhecido.

“Você fica bem de verde.”

Eu planejei durante muito tempo a minha vida. Hoje eu planejo futilmente as cores das minhas redes sociais. Mas no final tudo é distração cuidado com o externo para esquecer do que há dentro. E se por um dia não pensarmos em nós e sim em alguém desgarrado pela rua e falar com ele? Chama-lo de irmão e dizer que o amo e que quero ler um conto que eu mesma escrevi? Que podemos comer um kalzone vegetariano e conversamos de quem somos seguidores? ou se ele pode ser totalmente emancipado e ainda sim seria emocionante. Eu penso que um ato desse é loucura. Eu mesma não tenho paciência com todos os meus irmãos por que gosto da solidão poética, mas ainda sim. Um ato desse sem necessidade de um vídeo no Tiktok seria algo mágico de transbordar algo genuíno e lembranças soltas. As melhores lembranças que existem.

Gosto de sonhar com o acaso quando estou dentro do meu quarto escrevendo. Gosto de imaginar milagres de pensar que minha fé é tão gigante quanto a minha imaginação. Quanto a minha capacidade de criar versos e histórias. 

No fim eu gostaria de ser essa convidada ao novo, de imaginar a possibilidade de passar um dia bom com quem eu amo sem saber que ele é aquele que eu amo. E quando lermos e comermos e falarmos sobre quem seguimos eu saiba que é você.

Yumi Imperatriz

11/12/2021

[kanayamakazuya]

Utopia

Yeochon, 04-12-21. 

O  viciado em tecnologia parecia ter desaprendido a mexer no notebook. Quem diria que logo Kazuya, acostumado com câmeras digitais, um bom celular e um bom notebook estaria ali, olhando para uma tela por vários minutos sem conseguir acreditar no que lia. O mundo dava voltas de fato.

Depois de duas semanas de muito trabalho, finalmente o site da loja estava pronto. O esquema de cores era noir, sombrio e cínico que nem ele. Todavia sua personalidade estava espalhada em cada elemento do site, dos títulos provocativos até à família de fontes, gótica e elegante. Clicar no link, vendo a foto escolhida saltar na tela, fazia seu coração acelerar. 

Reconhecia cada uma das peças disponíveis naquela coleção, havia desenhado uma por uma, desenvolvido as estampas, costurado os protótipos... Tudo havia saído da sua cabeça, dos seus mais loucos sonhos, aqueles tão surreais que não contava para ninguém com medo de soar maluco. 

Será que ainda seria considerado maluco ao finalmente concretizar seu sonho? Ainda tinha muitas perguntas, mas não sabia se queria as respostas. Por hora estava feliz. Não morava em Seul, não era modelo, nem tinha uma moto (ainda). Não havia conseguido nada daquilo que queria originalmente, mas tinha realizado coisas muito mais profundas do que seus desejos superficiais e era essa sua fonte de júbilo.

Kanayama Kazuya, o 'começo calmo nas montanhas douradas'. Os olhos foram para a janela, observando o sol fraco de outono brilhar nas montanhas de Nanyeong e foi então que soube que, por mais que não quisesse ou não visse isso de início, ele foi parar no lugar certo e na hora certa.

Com um suspiro breve e um último olhar para a tela do computador, clicou no botão e publicou o site.

O gato preto o observou com curiosidade, como se soubesse o que estava acontecendo.    

— Feliz pelo papai, Nori? — Kazuya esticou seus dedos ossudos até o queixo do felino, dando umas boas coçadinhas ali. — Prometo que vou comprar um monte de pasta de atum pra você e pro seu irmãozinho.

Voltou os olhos para a tela e uma notificação vermelha chamou sua atenção. Ao clicar nela, viu os primeiros pedidos sendo registrados em tempo real: uma camisa; uma calça flare; duas camisas; um moletom...

O canto dos lábios subiu e então um sorriso se formou. Um novo pedido foi registrado e a vista do rapaz ficou constrangedoramente borrada.  

Kazuya riu quando um pedido ainda maior chegou, tomado por um sentimento de gratidão extremamente profundo, sagrado e precioso. De repente não queria mais estar sozinho com o gato. 

Precisava comemorar a inauguração da loja e queria todos os seus amigos presentes: Taeyang, Jaejin, Gunil, Ning, Yumi, Yoona, Hyejoo, Helene, o casalzinho de namorados-gêmeos e até mesmo certo veterinário bobão que havia decidido sair de sua vida. Tinha tantas outras pessoas que foram indispensáveis para que ele aprendesse a gostar daquela cidade que nem sabia o que fazer. Provavelmente teria que fechar o bar naquela noite: adeus ao resto que tinha na poupança. 

No entanto, antes de qualquer outra comemoração ou fofoca, precisava informar a pessoa mais importante da sua vida.

Foi então que, pela primeira vez em quase três meses, digitou o único número que sabia de cabeça, vendo o nome do contato se acender com um coraçãozinho e caracteres japoneses.  

A ligação completou logo no segundo toque.

— Ba-chan? 

É claro que era ela pela forma como a ouvia xingar horrores do outro lado da linha, reclamando por ele ter passado tanto tempo sem mandar notícias. Kazuya secou uma lágrima chata do cantinho do olho e então soltou uma das suas risadas, puxando o ar no final que nem um porquinho.

— Gomen ne, ba-chan… Posso explicar, tenho muitas novidades.

É, seria uma longa ligação.

[kyungsanpovsbs]

Second task: are you ready?

{ Shim Yumi, @KS99SY }

A quantidade de papéis bagunçados na escrivania não combinava em nada com a imagem organizada e centrada da estudante de medicina quando se tratava de seus estudos. Fora da sala e de suas responsabilidades, Yumi poderia ser considerada uma completa bagunça: barulhenta, risonha, fofoqueira e engraçadinha. Mas quando se tratava de seus estudos? Seus cadernos eram separados em tópicos e cores, sempre acompanhados de pequenas notas bem posicionadas no papel.

O suspiro ecoou por todo o quarto quando tombou a cabeça para trás, forçando a cadeira giratória a dar ao menos duas voltas em busca de acalmar o próprio coração. Aquela não parecia a Shim que todos conheciam, não parecia a Shim que ela mesma conhecia. “Foco, desempenho, organização, estratégia." A voz da mãe ecoou em sua mente, parando de supetão ao bater as palmas na mesa. Precisava parar de quebrar a cabeça por uma simples feira, afinal… Não era sua primeira vez participando e nem a última. E no fim das contas, definitivamente não era seu real foco ao entrar em Kyungsan.  

“Vamos, Yumi, você não é assim.” Disse para si mesma, soltando uma risada tão nervosa que chegou a se assustar. “Jesus, você tá enlouquecendo." 

Os dedos finos começaram a trabalhar, passando a juntar todos os papéis em um único amontoado, voltando a encontrar o notebook fechado que havia se perdido entre eles e o caderninho de anotações, puxando os lábios em um meio sorriso satisfeito. Havia ao menos começado, certo? Certo. Tratou de começar a reler os papéis, separando o que era de fato sobre suas aulas, o que era sobre a feira e não usaria e o que era sobre a feira e usaria. Tudo que pareceu lixo, parou no lixo, e tudo que parecia minimamente útil, tornou a chamar a atenção das orbes escuras, buscando por um de seus marcadores pastéis.

“O avanço na área possibilita o desenvolvimento e aperfeiçoamento de novos biomateriais, estimulando a adesão, diferenciação e proliferação celular, e ainda promove a produção de moléculas específicas do tecido-alvo...” Começou a repetir junto com sua leitura, marcando a longa frase com a cor amarelada antes de seguir para o caderninho de anotações, trocando por uma caneta preta e anotando as palavras chave da temática no papel.  

“As células-tronco mesenquimais… Mesenquimais.” Anotou mais uma vez a palavra, tratando de tomar um cuidado redobrado em sua pronúncia. Já havia lido e relido tantas vezes o documento que, se fosse contar, perderia suas contas, e mesmo assim, não conseguia medir esforços para que cada uma das palavras que saíam de sua boca fossem tão claras quanto a luz do dia - ou de seu abajur ligado ao seu lado.

[projetofotociencia]

(Adenium Obesum)

O ser humano deseja a essência das flores.

Porque elas não cessam seus odores

Não julgam pelas cores

Não estão entre estranhos rumores

Não morrem de desamores

Não acordam de maus-humores

Não são fúteis consumidores

Não se sentem superiores

Não possuem opositores.

O ser humano deseja a essência das flores.

Mas nunca deixarão de ser telespectadores

De uma beleza rica em indolores ardores

Ana Yumi

[engenheiragabi]

40 opções de headband para você ficar deslumbrante

É só a temperatura cair um pouquinho que você já corre para usar uma touca de crochê? Ou nem precisa esfriar que você já aposta no item? Você não está sozinha. A touca é um acessório lindo, que agrega bastante no visual e combina com muitos estilos.

O legal é que você pode tanto comprar quanto fazer em casa a sua linda touca de crochê. Gostou da ideia? Então confira abaixo tutoriais passo a passo para crochetar você mesma e inspirações lindas de como usar a touca. Uma coisa é certa: esse inverno será quentinho e estiloso!

Índice do conteúdo:

Fotos de touca de crochê

Como fazer touca de crochê

55 fotos de touca de crochê que provam a sua versatilidade

Está achando que a touca de crochê não combina com você? Achou errado – e essas inspirações estão aqui para provar isso.

1. As toucas de crochê são democráticas

Camila França

2. Combinam com diversos estilos

Mari Crochê

3. Idades

Pura Mano

4. E cabelos

Livias Häkelmützen

5. Ajudam a transformar completamente um look

Yumi Acessórios

6. Principalmente em uma produção de tons neutros

Nicole Dias

7. Você pode apostar em uma touca de crochê simples

FiQ Fashion

8. Ou em uma fofa touca de crochê com pompom

FranTay Artesanato

9. Algumas toucas tem saída para o rabo de cavalo

Esfriô, né?

10. Ou coque despojado

Andréia Lima

11. E são ótimas para usar com o cabelo preso

Lojinha da Diana

12. Quando se fala em cores de toucas, são muitas as alternativas

Nicole Dias

13. A touca de crochê branca faz um contraste com looks mais escuros

Bia Amaro

14. E fica linda combinada com uma gola da mesma cor

Ana Paula Luz

15. A touca de crochê preta é uma boa escolha para quem ama um toque básico

Ateliê Fios de Antonia

16. Touca de crochê vinho: tudo a ver com o inverno

Karine Lopes

17. Sem falar que é superfashion

FranTay Artesanato

18. O rosa tem o poder de deixar o visual muito mais alegre

Karine Lopes

19. Já os tons terrosos são mais discretos

FranTay Artesanato

20. Que tal um toque de verde?

Rosies Beanies

21. Ou azul?

Sweet love crochet

22. Uma florzinha para finalizar esse modelo infantil

Doreen Goedhart

23. A touca de crochê também pode ter várias cores ao mesmo tempo

Acessórios Kikina

24. Seja em formato de listras

varetasdelsur

25. Ou com um pompom em outro tom

jessbridiemay

26. A modelagem caída tem um estilo mais Tumblr

Dipti Sharma

27. E é a queridinha de quem ama um look descolado

Sueli Fernandes

28. Touca colorida com batom poderoso: luxo!

Ana Lídia Lopes

29. Toucas de crochê com estampas: difícil não amar

M3 Handmade

30. Você prefere touca com pompom ou sem?

FranTay Artesanato

31. As duas opções são lindas

M3 Handmade

32. E agregam bastante no visual de inverno

Leia também: Tiara turbante: como apostar nesse acessório e transformar seu visual

Tem Que Ter Acessórios

33. Olha que inspiração mais fashion!

M3 Handmade

34. A touca de crochê pode ser usada por quem tem cabelo curto

elisiorguhediye

35. Ou longo

Achei em Palmas

36. Pode ser cabelo liso

Simone Guerreiro

37. Ou cacheado

Esthefany Ladijane

38. Trancinhas ficam uma graça

Beachsnowchick

39. Assim como a franjinha aparente

Nikki’s Creations

40. Cabelo platinado com touca? Lindo!

Hellainy Santos

41. Cabelo colorido também

Jessy Duarte

42. Mas a cor também pode estar na touca, como de costume

Embroidery and crochet

43. Vale lembrar que você pode usar brincos mesmo quando estiver de touca

Enchanté Crochet

44. Combinar cor da touca com o brinco e o batom? Pode sim!

Divya Bhat

45. Também é possível usar óculos e touca

CoBra Crochet

46. Como usar óculos, touca e colares? Assim!

Latika Presentes Criativos

47. Sem medo de ousar

elisiorguhediye

48. A serenidade de quem está arrasando com sua touca

Cristiane Nazario

49. Que tal uma touca de crochê criativa?

Divya Bhat

50. Pode ser mais parecida com uma boina

Márcia Macedo Negrão

51. Ou ter um estilo mega descontraído

Urbinarte

52. Como orelhas de gatinho

Samara Silva de Oliveira

53. Já escolheu sua favorita?

Samara Silva de Oliveira

54. A família toda pode ficar quentinha com toucas de crochê

MSK Digital Media

55. Aproveite o frio para usar sua touca sem medo de ser feliz!

Enchanté Crochet

Sem desculpas: todo mundo pode deixar a estação mais quentinha e estilosa com esse acessório.

Como fazer touca de crochê passo a passo

Seja para vender ou para aquecer os seus próprios looks de inverno, vale a pena conferir alguns tutoriais de como fazer toucas de crochê em casa. Os vídeos abaixo mostram tudo passo a passo.

Touca de crochê fácil

Esse vídeo é ótimo para quem está começando a fazer suas primeiras criações em crochê. Os pontos utilizados na touca são os mais básicos e a explicação dada pela Mayara Tavares é bem calma e completa. Confira o tutorial e tente criar em casa!

Gorro fácil maxi crochê

Leia também: Touca de crochê: 60 ideias e tutoriais para aquecer seus looks

Algumas marcas vendem novelos de lã na medida certa de um gorro, o que facilita bastante a vida de quem pretende fazer uma peça só. E justamente com um novelo é possível fazer o gorro do vídeo acima, confeccionado com a técnica maxicrochê. Aprenda!

Touca de crochê com ponto celta

Que tal tentar um ponto diferente para dar um estilo todo novo para sua touca? O ponto celta foi o escolhido no vídeo da professora Bruna Szpisjak. O nível de dificuldade é um pouco mais alto, mas o resultado é muito bonito.

Gorro de crochê rabo de cavalo

Utilizando apenas quatro materiais você produz em casa esse tipo de touca que faz bastante sucesso. O diferencial é a parte aberta para o rabo de cavalo, que pode ter o ponto caranguejo na borda. Aperte play acima e aprenda.

Leia também: Presilha de cabelo: 50 inspirações para todas as ocasiões

Faça você mesma: touca de crochê caída

Para fazer esse gorro é preciso de um novelo de lã na cor da sua preferência, agulha de tapeçaria 13 ou 14, agulha de crochê 4mm e uma tesoura. O vídeo da Marie Castro mostra o modo de fazer ponto a ponto.

Vale dar uma pesquisada nos vídeos do YouTube, pois são diversas as opções de tutoriais sobre crochê que você encontra por lá.

Se você gosta de toucas de crochê, pode também dar uma chance para outros acessórios. Que tal compor seu look com um poncho de crochê?

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40 opções de headband para você ficar deslumbrante

É só a temperatura cair um pouquinho que você já corre para usar uma touca de crochê? Ou nem precisa esfriar que você já aposta no item? Você não está sozinha. A touca é um acessório lindo, que agrega bastante no visual e combina com muitos estilos.

O legal é que você pode tanto comprar quanto fazer em casa a sua linda touca de crochê. Gostou da ideia? Então confira abaixo tutoriais passo a passo para crochetar você mesma e inspirações lindas de como usar a touca. Uma coisa é certa: esse inverno será quentinho e estiloso!

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Fotos de touca de crochê

Como fazer touca de crochê

55 fotos de touca de crochê que provam a sua versatilidade

Está achando que a touca de crochê não combina com você? Achou errado – e essas inspirações estão aqui para provar isso.

1. As toucas de crochê são democráticas

Camila França

2. Combinam com diversos estilos

Mari Crochê

3. Idades

Pura Mano

4. E cabelos

Livias Häkelmützen

5. Ajudam a transformar completamente um look

Yumi Acessórios

6. Principalmente em uma produção de tons neutros

Nicole Dias

7. Você pode apostar em uma touca de crochê simples

FiQ Fashion

8. Ou em uma fofa touca de crochê com pompom

FranTay Artesanato

9. Algumas toucas tem saída para o rabo de cavalo

Esfriô, né?

10. Ou coque despojado

Andréia Lima

11. E são ótimas para usar com o cabelo preso

Lojinha da Diana

12. Quando se fala em cores de toucas, são muitas as alternativas

Nicole Dias

13. A touca de crochê branca faz um contraste com looks mais escuros

Bia Amaro

14. E fica linda combinada com uma gola da mesma cor

Ana Paula Luz

15. A touca de crochê preta é uma boa escolha para quem ama um toque básico

Ateliê Fios de Antonia

16. Touca de crochê vinho: tudo a ver com o inverno

Karine Lopes

17. Sem falar que é superfashion

FranTay Artesanato

18. O rosa tem o poder de deixar o visual muito mais alegre

Karine Lopes

19. Já os tons terrosos são mais discretos

FranTay Artesanato

20. Que tal um toque de verde?

Rosies Beanies

21. Ou azul?

Sweet love crochet

22. Uma florzinha para finalizar esse modelo infantil

Doreen Goedhart

23. A touca de crochê também pode ter várias cores ao mesmo tempo

Acessórios Kikina

24. Seja em formato de listras

varetasdelsur

25. Ou com um pompom em outro tom

jessbridiemay

26. A modelagem caída tem um estilo mais Tumblr

Dipti Sharma

27. E é a queridinha de quem ama um look descolado

Sueli Fernandes

28. Touca colorida com batom poderoso: luxo!

Ana Lídia Lopes

29. Toucas de crochê com estampas: difícil não amar

M3 Handmade

30. Você prefere touca com pompom ou sem?

FranTay Artesanato

31. As duas opções são lindas

M3 Handmade

32. E agregam bastante no visual de inverno

Leia também: Tiara turbante: como apostar nesse acessório e transformar seu visual

Tem Que Ter Acessórios

33. Olha que inspiração mais fashion!

M3 Handmade

34. A touca de crochê pode ser usada por quem tem cabelo curto

elisiorguhediye

35. Ou longo

Achei em Palmas

36. Pode ser cabelo liso

Simone Guerreiro

37. Ou cacheado

Esthefany Ladijane

38. Trancinhas ficam uma graça

Beachsnowchick

39. Assim como a franjinha aparente

Nikki’s Creations

40. Cabelo platinado com touca? Lindo!

Hellainy Santos

41. Cabelo colorido também

Jessy Duarte

42. Mas a cor também pode estar na touca, como de costume

Embroidery and crochet

43. Vale lembrar que você pode usar brincos mesmo quando estiver de touca

Enchanté Crochet

44. Combinar cor da touca com o brinco e o batom? Pode sim!

Divya Bhat

45. Também é possível usar óculos e touca

CoBra Crochet

46. Como usar óculos, touca e colares? Assim!

Latika Presentes Criativos

47. Sem medo de ousar

elisiorguhediye

48. A serenidade de quem está arrasando com sua touca

Cristiane Nazario

49. Que tal uma touca de crochê criativa?

Divya Bhat

50. Pode ser mais parecida com uma boina

Márcia Macedo Negrão

51. Ou ter um estilo mega descontraído

Urbinarte

52. Como orelhas de gatinho

Samara Silva de Oliveira

53. Já escolheu sua favorita?

Samara Silva de Oliveira

54. A família toda pode ficar quentinha com toucas de crochê

MSK Digital Media

55. Aproveite o frio para usar sua touca sem medo de ser feliz!

Enchanté Crochet

Sem desculpas: todo mundo pode deixar a estação mais quentinha e estilosa com esse acessório.

Como fazer touca de crochê passo a passo

Seja para vender ou para aquecer os seus próprios looks de inverno, vale a pena conferir alguns tutoriais de como fazer toucas de crochê em casa. Os vídeos abaixo mostram tudo passo a passo.

Touca de crochê fácil

Esse vídeo é ótimo para quem está começando a fazer suas primeiras criações em crochê. Os pontos utilizados na touca são os mais básicos e a explicação dada pela Mayara Tavares é bem calma e completa. Confira o tutorial e tente criar em casa!

Gorro fácil maxi crochê

Leia também: Touca de crochê: 60 ideias e tutoriais para aquecer seus looks

Algumas marcas vendem novelos de lã na medida certa de um gorro, o que facilita bastante a vida de quem pretende fazer uma peça só. E justamente com um novelo é possível fazer o gorro do vídeo acima, confeccionado com a técnica maxicrochê. Aprenda!

Touca de crochê com ponto celta

Que tal tentar um ponto diferente para dar um estilo todo novo para sua touca? O ponto celta foi o escolhido no vídeo da professora Bruna Szpisjak. O nível de dificuldade é um pouco mais alto, mas o resultado é muito bonito.

Gorro de crochê rabo de cavalo

Utilizando apenas quatro materiais você produz em casa esse tipo de touca que faz bastante sucesso. O diferencial é a parte aberta para o rabo de cavalo, que pode ter o ponto caranguejo na borda. Aperte play acima e aprenda.

Leia também: Presilha de cabelo: 50 inspirações para todas as ocasiões

Faça você mesma: touca de crochê caída

Para fazer esse gorro é preciso de um novelo de lã na cor da sua preferência, agulha de tapeçaria 13 ou 14, agulha de crochê 4mm e uma tesoura. O vídeo da Marie Castro mostra o modo de fazer ponto a ponto.

Vale dar uma pesquisada nos vídeos do YouTube, pois são diversas as opções de tutoriais sobre crochê que você encontra por lá.

Se você gosta de toucas de crochê, pode também dar uma chance para outros acessórios. Que tal compor seu look com um poncho de crochê?

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Azul Tiffany: 70 inspirações para uma casa glamourosa

Uma das paletas mais usadas em casamentos é a da cor Azul Tiffany. Um tom democrático, alegre e luxuoso ao mesmo tempo, perfeito também para a decoração de interiores. Aprenda a usar essa cor em sua casa e tenha ambientes dignos de filme.

Veja como essa nuance do Azul Turquesa pode ser aplicada em paredes, roupas de cama e também em alguns móveis. Além disso, ela pode ser combinada com branco, preto ou rosa. Entenda como o Azul Tiffany ganhou sua fama.

Índice do conteúdo:

História

Ideias de decoração

História do Azul Tiffany

D’Casa Manaus

Ao deparar-se com a cor turquesa é fácil vir à mente uma famosa joalheria, a Tiffany & Co., inaugurada em 1837. A marca traz acessórios de luxo que são objetos de desejo de muitas mulheres. Mas o Azul Tiffany ganhou fama e destaque apenas em 1845.

Esse tom peculiar foi escolhido para colorir a capa do catálogo de joias da loja, o conhecido Blue Book. Rapidamente essa cor ficou ligada à marca, sendo por isso que hoje em dia o Azul Tiffany é considerado como símbolo de sofisticação e glamour.

70 ideias de decoração com a cor Azul Tiffany para uma casa elegante

Uma vez que o Azul Tiffany está associado à uma grande joalheria, esse tom certamente emprestará à sua casa um toque de elegância e jovialidade. Confira essa lista de inspirações com diversas formas para aplicar a cor em sua decoração.

1. O Azul Tiffany pode ser aplicado em almofadas

Amazon

2. E trazer certa sofisticação para a mesa de jantar

Love My Decor

3. A tonalidade cai muito bem em roupas de cama

Duplex 931

4. Unindo calmaria e modernidade

Tudo para Suculentas

5. Por isso, a cor fica perfeita em objetos decorativos

Tudo para Suculentas

6. Sendo contagiante até mesmo nos jogos de jantar

Duplex 931

7. Também fica incrível quando usada em objetos pontuais

Courtney Elizabeth

8. Assim como quando combinada com tons mais neutros

Mil Design & Construction

9. Compor um quarto inteiro em Azul Tiffany também é uma opção

Natasha Musa

10. Mas um pequeno arranjo é igualmente elegante

Creations by Martha

11. A tonalidade traz delicadeza para a decoração

Le Chandelier Bleu

12. Ficando realmente clássica quando combinada com prateado

Love My Decor

13. Sua cozinha ficará linda com o Azul Tiffany

Mil Design & Construction

14. E você poderá ousar escolhendo louças dessa cor

Taylor Lynn

15. Uma vez que ela é totalmente fresh e divina

Casinha Linda

16. Há uma gama de acessórios disponíveis na tonalidade

Chique de Bonito

17. Ficando muito bem combinada com cores quentes e vibrantes

Yvon

18. Uma cadeira nessa tonalidade é capaz de alegrar o home office

Mil Design & Construction

19. Além de animar a hora do lanche na cozinha

Coisas do Lar

20. Você pode combinar um quadro e um pequeno vaso de flores

Suzigan Molduras

21. Ou apenas uma pintura como referencial

Duda Santos

22. O Azul Tiffany também é ideal para banheiros

Amanda Nunes

23. Já um móvel antigo ganha nova vida com essa cor

Blaze and Deb

24. Vasos e recipientes de vidro em Azul Tiffany trazem modernidade

Yvon

25. Assim como banquetas e a mesa posta na tonalidade

Sandra Riskalla

26. Tapete felpudo e uma cadeira em Azul Tiffany para um ambiente perfeito

Casa Casada

27. E por que não decorar com uma antiga garrafa?

Kesia Keiko

28. Você pode estilizar uma caixa para guardar pequenos pertences

The Prissy Crissy

29. Ou combinar o Azul Tiffany com dourado

Tanya Tlo Decor

30. Na dúvida, combine o sofá com quadros modernos e personalizados

Arte Moderna Retrô

31. Com essa cor, até a hora das refeições fica incrível

Duplex 931

32. Os acessórios ficam mais especiais com o Azul Tiffany

Duplex 931

33. E mesmo em detalhes, ele é o centro das atenções

Marília Zimmermann

34. Os quadros decoram com rapidez e facilidade

Amanda Nunes

35. Escolha um ou dois pontos para aplicar o famoso azul

Amanda Nunes

36. Uma ideia é usar objetos decorativos nesse tom

Becky

37. Mas você pode optar por móveis em Azul Tiffany também

Move Movel

38. Para quem ama o tom, acessórios nessa cor nunca são demais

Courtney Elizabeth

39. Azul Tiffany com amarelo é outra aposta certeira

Princess THHK

40. Um papel de parede para sala oferece o toque que precisa

Amanda Nunes

41. Que tal um quarto com parede Azul Tiffany totalmente retrô?

Jill

42. Os móveis nessa cor combinam com várias tonalidades

Arte Moderna Retrô

43. Faça uma bandeja decorativa para o banheiro

Suzigan Molduras

44. Ou combine várias peças em Azul Tiffany para boas ideias

Arte Moderna Retrô

45. Equilibre com cores neutras ou terrosas

Yvon

46. Que tal um kit para cozinha todo em Azul Tiffany?

Courtney Elizabeth

47. Combinado com o rosa fica um encanto!

Marília Zimmermann

48. Branco, bege e azul formam uma paleta divina

Amanda Nunes

49. Ou você pode unir azul e marrom para um ambiente mais neutro

Velona’s Jungle

50. Uma penteadeira Azul Tiffany é o sonho de várias garotas

Arte Moderna Retrô

51. Mas esse tom também ganha corações quando aplicados em sofás

O Minimalista

52. Na dúvida, aposte em almofadas

Almofadas Gut

53. E programe um chá ainda mais especial sua caneca

Très Très Chic

54. Você pode fazer uma moldura artesanal

Jasmin Artesanato

55. Ou adquirir um jogo de pratos com detalhes em Azul Tiffany

Jemma’s Vintage

56. Tenha a certeza de que essa cor deixa a casa muito mais alegre

Artes, Decor e Jardinagem

57. Sendo perfeita para decorar mesas

La Decoração

58. Crie pequenos pontos de cor nas prateleiras

Amanda Nunes

59. Mas veja como apenas uma louça nessa cor já conquista os olhares

Yvon

60. O branco e Azul Tiffany combinam perfeitamente

Amanda Nunes

61. O tom também fica gracioso em um vasinho de plantas

Camila Yumi

62. Seu banheiro ficará mais bonito com paredes em Azul Tiffany

Karen Takashima

63. Você pode ousar combinando a cor com peças artesanais

Yvon

64. Para equilibrar, acrescente uma cadeira branca

Arte Moderna Retrô

65. E se quiser enfeitar apenas um canto, aposte no arranjo de flores

Beth Decora

66. Para um ambiente diferenciado, teste o azul, com branco e coral

Yvon

67. Deixa a hora do seu almoço única!

Ida Parasi

68. Procure sofá retrô para sofisticar

Arte Moderna Retrô

69. Para equilibrar, una a cor com detalhes em branco

Locação & Decoração

70. Se quiser ousar, teste combiná-lo com rosa magenta e amarelo

Arte Moderna Retrô

É interessante perceber como essa cor é única e deixa o ambiente mais moderno e colorido, mesmo se estiver presente apenas em um objeto decorativo. Por isso, ela é a escolha certa para ter mais elegância e estilo.

Impossível não se apaixonar pelo Azul Tiffany, não é? Então, escolha suas ideias favoritas e reproduza tudo em seu lar. Com certeza você terá uma casa muito mais refinada. E agora, que tal aprender como usar tons de azul na decoração?

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Azul Tiffany: 70 inspirações para uma casa glamourosa

Uma das paletas mais usadas em casamentos é a da cor Azul Tiffany. Um tom democrático, alegre e luxuoso ao mesmo tempo, perfeito também para a decoração de interiores. Aprenda a usar essa cor em sua casa e tenha ambientes dignos de filme.

Veja como essa nuance do Azul Turquesa pode ser aplicada em paredes, roupas de cama e também em alguns móveis. Além disso, ela pode ser combinada com branco, preto ou rosa. Entenda como o Azul Tiffany ganhou sua fama.

Índice do conteúdo:

História

Ideias de decoração

História do Azul Tiffany

D’Casa Manaus

Ao deparar-se com a cor turquesa é fácil vir à mente uma famosa joalheria, a Tiffany & Co., inaugurada em 1837. A marca traz acessórios de luxo que são objetos de desejo de muitas mulheres. Mas o Azul Tiffany ganhou fama e destaque apenas em 1845.

Esse tom peculiar foi escolhido para colorir a capa do catálogo de joias da loja, o conhecido Blue Book. Rapidamente essa cor ficou ligada à marca, sendo por isso que hoje em dia o Azul Tiffany é considerado como símbolo de sofisticação e glamour.

70 ideias de decoração com a cor Azul Tiffany para uma casa elegante

Uma vez que o Azul Tiffany está associado à uma grande joalheria, esse tom certamente emprestará à sua casa um toque de elegância e jovialidade. Confira essa lista de inspirações com diversas formas para aplicar a cor em sua decoração.

1. O Azul Tiffany pode ser aplicado em almofadas

Amazon

2. E trazer certa sofisticação para a mesa de jantar

Love My Decor

3. A tonalidade cai muito bem em roupas de cama

Duplex 931

4. Unindo calmaria e modernidade

Tudo para Suculentas

5. Por isso, a cor fica perfeita em objetos decorativos

Tudo para Suculentas

6. Sendo contagiante até mesmo nos jogos de jantar

Duplex 931

7. Também fica incrível quando usada em objetos pontuais

Courtney Elizabeth

8. Assim como quando combinada com tons mais neutros

Mil Design & Construction

9. Compor um quarto inteiro em Azul Tiffany também é uma opção

Natasha Musa

10. Mas um pequeno arranjo é igualmente elegante

Creations by Martha

11. A tonalidade traz delicadeza para a decoração

Le Chandelier Bleu

12. Ficando realmente clássica quando combinada com prateado

Love My Decor

13. Sua cozinha ficará linda com o Azul Tiffany

Mil Design & Construction

14. E você poderá ousar escolhendo louças dessa cor

Taylor Lynn

15. Uma vez que ela é totalmente fresh e divina

Casinha Linda

16. Há uma gama de acessórios disponíveis na tonalidade

Chique de Bonito

17. Ficando muito bem combinada com cores quentes e vibrantes

Yvon

18. Uma cadeira nessa tonalidade é capaz de alegrar o home office

Mil Design & Construction

19. Além de animar a hora do lanche na cozinha

Coisas do Lar

20. Você pode combinar um quadro e um pequeno vaso de flores

Suzigan Molduras

21. Ou apenas uma pintura como referencial

Duda Santos

22. O Azul Tiffany também é ideal para banheiros

Amanda Nunes

23. Já um móvel antigo ganha nova vida com essa cor

Blaze and Deb

24. Vasos e recipientes de vidro em Azul Tiffany trazem modernidade

Yvon

25. Assim como banquetas e a mesa posta na tonalidade

Sandra Riskalla

26. Tapete felpudo e uma cadeira em Azul Tiffany para um ambiente perfeito

Casa Casada

27. E por que não decorar com uma antiga garrafa?

Kesia Keiko

28. Você pode estilizar uma caixa para guardar pequenos pertences

The Prissy Crissy

29. Ou combinar o Azul Tiffany com dourado

Tanya Tlo Decor

30. Na dúvida, combine o sofá com quadros modernos e personalizados

Arte Moderna Retrô

31. Com essa cor, até a hora das refeições fica incrível

Duplex 931

32. Os acessórios ficam mais especiais com o Azul Tiffany

Duplex 931

33. E mesmo em detalhes, ele é o centro das atenções

Marília Zimmermann

34. Os quadros decoram com rapidez e facilidade

Amanda Nunes

35. Escolha um ou dois pontos para aplicar o famoso azul

Amanda Nunes

36. Uma ideia é usar objetos decorativos nesse tom

Becky

37. Mas você pode optar por móveis em Azul Tiffany também

Move Movel

38. Para quem ama o tom, acessórios nessa cor nunca são demais

Courtney Elizabeth

39. Azul Tiffany com amarelo é outra aposta certeira

Princess THHK

40. Um papel de parede para sala oferece o toque que precisa

Amanda Nunes

41. Que tal um quarto com parede Azul Tiffany totalmente retrô?

Jill

42. Os móveis nessa cor combinam com várias tonalidades

Arte Moderna Retrô

43. Faça uma bandeja decorativa para o banheiro

Suzigan Molduras

44. Ou combine várias peças em Azul Tiffany para boas ideias

Arte Moderna Retrô

45. Equilibre com cores neutras ou terrosas

Yvon

46. Que tal um kit para cozinha todo em Azul Tiffany?

Courtney Elizabeth

47. Combinado com o rosa fica um encanto!

Marília Zimmermann

48. Branco, bege e azul formam uma paleta divina

Amanda Nunes

49. Ou você pode unir azul e marrom para um ambiente mais neutro

Velona’s Jungle

50. Uma penteadeira Azul Tiffany é o sonho de várias garotas

Arte Moderna Retrô

51. Mas esse tom também ganha corações quando aplicados em sofás

O Minimalista

52. Na dúvida, aposte em almofadas

Almofadas Gut

53. E programe um chá ainda mais especial sua caneca

Très Très Chic

54. Você pode fazer uma moldura artesanal

Jasmin Artesanato

55. Ou adquirir um jogo de pratos com detalhes em Azul Tiffany

Jemma’s Vintage

56. Tenha a certeza de que essa cor deixa a casa muito mais alegre

Artes, Decor e Jardinagem

57. Sendo perfeita para decorar mesas

La Decoração

58. Crie pequenos pontos de cor nas prateleiras

Amanda Nunes

59. Mas veja como apenas uma louça nessa cor já conquista os olhares

Yvon

60. O branco e Azul Tiffany combinam perfeitamente

Amanda Nunes

61. O tom também fica gracioso em um vasinho de plantas

Camila Yumi

62. Seu banheiro ficará mais bonito com paredes em Azul Tiffany

Karen Takashima

63. Você pode ousar combinando a cor com peças artesanais

Yvon

64. Para equilibrar, acrescente uma cadeira branca

Arte Moderna Retrô

65. E se quiser enfeitar apenas um canto, aposte no arranjo de flores

Beth Decora

66. Para um ambiente diferenciado, teste o azul, com branco e coral

Yvon

67. Deixa a hora do seu almoço única!

Ida Parasi

68. Procure sofá retrô para sofisticar

Arte Moderna Retrô

69. Para equilibrar, una a cor com detalhes em branco

Locação & Decoração

70. Se quiser ousar, teste combiná-lo com rosa magenta e amarelo

Arte Moderna Retrô

É interessante perceber como essa cor é única e deixa o ambiente mais moderno e colorido, mesmo se estiver presente apenas em um objeto decorativo. Por isso, ela é a escolha certa para ter mais elegância e estilo.

Impossível não se apaixonar pelo Azul Tiffany, não é? Então, escolha suas ideias favoritas e reproduza tudo em seu lar. Com certeza você terá uma casa muito mais refinada. E agora, que tal aprender como usar tons de azul na decoração?

O post Azul Tiffany: 70 inspirações para uma casa glamourosa apareceu primeiro em Tua Casa.

Uma das paletas mais usadas em casamentos é a da cor Azul Tiffany. Um tom democrático, alegre e luxuoso ao mesmo tempo, perfeito também para a decoração de interiores. Aprenda a usar essa cor em sua casa e tenha ambientes dignos de filme.

Veja como essa nuance do Azul Turquesa pode ser aplicada em paredes, roupas de cama e também em alguns móveis. Além disso, ela pode ser combinada com branco, preto ou rosa. Entenda como o Azul Tiffany ganhou sua fama.

Índice do conteúdo:

História

Ideias de decoração

História do Azul Tiffany

D’Casa Manaus

Ao deparar-se com a cor turquesa é fácil vir à mente uma famosa joalheria, a Tiffany & Co., inaugurada em 1837. A marca traz acessórios de luxo que são objetos de desejo de muitas mulheres. Mas o Azul Tiffany ganhou fama e destaque apenas em 1845.

Esse tom peculiar foi escolhido para colorir a capa do catálogo de joias da loja, o conhecido Blue Book. Rapidamente essa cor ficou ligada à marca, sendo por isso que hoje em dia o Azul Tiffany é considerado como símbolo de sofisticação e glamour.

70 ideias de decoração com a cor Azul Tiffany para uma casa elegante

Uma vez que o Azul Tiffany está associado à uma grande joalheria, esse tom certamente emprestará à sua casa um toque de elegância e jovialidade. Confira essa lista de inspirações com diversas formas para aplicar a cor em sua decoração.

1. O Azul Tiffany pode ser aplicado em almofadas

Amazon

2. E trazer certa sofisticação para a mesa de jantar

Love My Decor

3. A tonalidade cai muito bem em roupas de cama

Duplex 931

4. Unindo calmaria e modernidade

Tudo para Suculentas

5. Por isso, a cor fica perfeita em objetos decorativos

Tudo para Suculentas

6. Sendo contagiante até mesmo nos jogos de jantar

Duplex 931

7. Também fica incrível quando usada em objetos pontuais

Courtney Elizabeth

8. Assim como quando combinada com tons mais neutros

Mil Design & Construction

9. Compor um quarto inteiro em Azul Tiffany também é uma opção

Natasha Musa

10. Mas um pequeno arranjo é igualmente elegante

Creations by Martha

11. A tonalidade traz delicadeza para a decoração

Le Chandelier Bleu

12. Ficando realmente clássica quando combinada com prateado

Love My Decor

13. Sua cozinha ficará linda com o Azul Tiffany

Mil Design & Construction

14. E você poderá ousar escolhendo louças dessa cor

Taylor Lynn

15. Uma vez que ela é totalmente fresh e divina

Casinha Linda

16. Há uma gama de acessórios disponíveis na tonalidade

Chique de Bonito

17. Ficando muito bem combinada com cores quentes e vibrantes

Yvon

18. Uma cadeira nessa tonalidade é capaz de alegrar o home office

Mil Design & Construction

19. Além de animar a hora do lanche na cozinha

Coisas do Lar

20. Você pode combinar um quadro e um pequeno vaso de flores

Suzigan Molduras

21. Ou apenas uma pintura como referencial

Duda Santos

22. O Azul Tiffany também é ideal para banheiros

Amanda Nunes

23. Já um móvel antigo ganha nova vida com essa cor

Blaze and Deb

24. Vasos e recipientes de vidro em Azul Tiffany trazem modernidade

Yvon

25. Assim como banquetas e a mesa posta na tonalidade

Sandra Riskalla

26. Tapete felpudo e uma cadeira em Azul Tiffany para um ambiente perfeito

Casa Casada

27. E por que não decorar com uma antiga garrafa?

Kesia Keiko

28. Você pode estilizar uma caixa para guardar pequenos pertences

The Prissy Crissy

29. Ou combinar o Azul Tiffany com dourado

Tanya Tlo Decor

30. Na dúvida, combine o sofá com quadros modernos e personalizados

Arte Moderna Retrô

31. Com essa cor, até a hora das refeições fica incrível

Duplex 931

32. Os acessórios ficam mais especiais com o Azul Tiffany

Duplex 931

33. E mesmo em detalhes, ele é o centro das atenções

Marília Zimmermann

34. Os quadros decoram com rapidez e facilidade

Amanda Nunes

35. Escolha um ou dois pontos para aplicar o famoso azul

Amanda Nunes

36. Uma ideia é usar objetos decorativos nesse tom

Becky

37. Mas você pode optar por móveis em Azul Tiffany também

Move Movel

38. Para quem ama o tom, acessórios nessa cor nunca são demais

Courtney Elizabeth

39. Azul Tiffany com amarelo é outra aposta certeira

Princess THHK

40. Um papel de parede para sala oferece o toque que precisa

Amanda Nunes

41. Que tal um quarto com parede Azul Tiffany totalmente retrô?

Jill

42. Os móveis nessa cor combinam com várias tonalidades

Arte Moderna Retrô

43. Faça uma bandeja decorativa para o banheiro

Suzigan Molduras

44. Ou combine várias peças em Azul Tiffany para boas ideias

Arte Moderna Retrô

45. Equilibre com cores neutras ou terrosas

Yvon

46. Que tal um kit para cozinha todo em Azul Tiffany?

Courtney Elizabeth

47. Combinado com o rosa fica um encanto!

Marília Zimmermann

48. Branco, bege e azul formam uma paleta divina

Amanda Nunes

49. Ou você pode unir azul e marrom para um ambiente mais neutro

Velona’s Jungle

50. Uma penteadeira Azul Tiffany é o sonho de várias garotas

Arte Moderna Retrô

51. Mas esse tom também ganha corações quando aplicados em sofás

O Minimalista

52. Na dúvida, aposte em almofadas

Almofadas Gut

53. E programe um chá ainda mais especial sua caneca

Très Très Chic

54. Você pode fazer uma moldura artesanal

Jasmin Artesanato

55. Ou adquirir um jogo de pratos com detalhes em Azul Tiffany

Jemma’s Vintage

56. Tenha a certeza de que essa cor deixa a casa muito mais alegre

Artes, Decor e Jardinagem

57. Sendo perfeita para decorar mesas

La Decoração

58. Crie pequenos pontos de cor nas prateleiras

Amanda Nunes

59. Mas veja como apenas uma louça nessa cor já conquista os olhares

Yvon

60. O branco e Azul Tiffany combinam perfeitamente

Amanda Nunes

61. O tom também fica gracioso em um vasinho de plantas

Camila Yumi

62. Seu banheiro ficará mais bonito com paredes em Azul Tiffany

Karen Takashima

63. Você pode ousar combinando a cor com peças artesanais

Yvon

64. Para equilibrar, acrescente uma cadeira branca

Arte Moderna Retrô

65. E se quiser enfeitar apenas um canto, aposte no arranjo de flores

Beth Decora

66. Para um ambiente diferenciado, teste o azul, com branco e coral

Yvon

67. Deixa a hora do seu almoço única!

Ida Parasi

68. Procure sofá retrô para sofisticar

Arte Moderna Retrô

69. Para equilibrar, una a cor com detalhes em branco

Locação & Decoração

70. Se quiser ousar, teste combiná-lo com rosa magenta e amarelo

Arte Moderna Retrô

É interessante perceber como essa cor é única e deixa o ambiente mais moderno e colorido, mesmo se estiver presente apenas em um objeto decorativo. Por isso, ela é a escolha certa para ter mais elegância e estilo.

Impossível não se apaixonar pelo Azul Tiffany, não é? Então, escolha suas ideias favoritas e reproduza tudo em seu lar. Com certeza você terá uma casa muito mais refinada. E agora, que tal aprender como usar tons de azul na decoração?

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Azul Tiffany: 70 inspirações para uma casa glamourosa

Uma das paletas mais usadas em casamentos é a da cor Azul Tiffany. Um tom democrático, alegre e luxuoso ao mesmo tempo, perfeito também para a decoração de interiores. Aprenda a usar essa cor em sua casa e tenha ambientes dignos de filme.

Veja como essa nuance do Azul Turquesa pode ser aplicada em paredes, roupas de cama e também em alguns móveis. Além disso, ela pode ser combinada com branco, preto ou rosa. Entenda como o Azul Tiffany ganhou sua fama.

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História

Ideias de decoração

História do Azul Tiffany

D’Casa Manaus

Ao deparar-se com a cor turquesa é fácil vir à mente uma famosa joalheria, a Tiffany & Co., inaugurada em 1837. A marca traz acessórios de luxo que são objetos de desejo de muitas mulheres. Mas o Azul Tiffany ganhou fama e destaque apenas em 1845.

Esse tom peculiar foi escolhido para colorir a capa do catálogo de joias da loja, o conhecido Blue Book. Rapidamente essa cor ficou ligada à marca, sendo por isso que hoje em dia o Azul Tiffany é considerado como símbolo de sofisticação e glamour.

70 ideias de decoração com a cor Azul Tiffany para uma casa elegante

Uma vez que o Azul Tiffany está associado à uma grande joalheria, esse tom certamente emprestará à sua casa um toque de elegância e jovialidade. Confira essa lista de inspirações com diversas formas para aplicar a cor em sua decoração.

1. O Azul Tiffany pode ser aplicado em almofadas

Amazon

2. E trazer certa sofisticação para a mesa de jantar

Love My Decor

3. A tonalidade cai muito bem em roupas de cama

Duplex 931

4. Unindo calmaria e modernidade

Tudo para Suculentas

5. Por isso, a cor fica perfeita em objetos decorativos

Tudo para Suculentas

6. Sendo contagiante até mesmo nos jogos de jantar

Duplex 931

7. Também fica incrível quando usada em objetos pontuais

Courtney Elizabeth

8. Assim como quando combinada com tons mais neutros

Mil Design & Construction

9. Compor um quarto inteiro em Azul Tiffany também é uma opção

Natasha Musa

10. Mas um pequeno arranjo é igualmente elegante

Creations by Martha

11. A tonalidade traz delicadeza para a decoração

Le Chandelier Bleu

12. Ficando realmente clássica quando combinada com prateado

Love My Decor

13. Sua cozinha ficará linda com o Azul Tiffany

Mil Design & Construction

14. E você poderá ousar escolhendo louças dessa cor

Taylor Lynn

15. Uma vez que ela é totalmente fresh e divina

Casinha Linda

16. Há uma gama de acessórios disponíveis na tonalidade

Chique de Bonito

17. Ficando muito bem combinada com cores quentes e vibrantes

Yvon

18. Uma cadeira nessa tonalidade é capaz de alegrar o home office

Mil Design & Construction

19. Além de animar a hora do lanche na cozinha

Coisas do Lar

20. Você pode combinar um quadro e um pequeno vaso de flores

Suzigan Molduras

21. Ou apenas uma pintura como referencial

Duda Santos

22. O Azul Tiffany também é ideal para banheiros

Amanda Nunes

23. Já um móvel antigo ganha nova vida com essa cor

Blaze and Deb

24. Vasos e recipientes de vidro em Azul Tiffany trazem modernidade

Yvon

25. Assim como banquetas e a mesa posta na tonalidade

Sandra Riskalla

26. Tapete felpudo e uma cadeira em Azul Tiffany para um ambiente perfeito

Casa Casada

27. E por que não decorar com uma antiga garrafa?

Kesia Keiko

28. Você pode estilizar uma caixa para guardar pequenos pertences

The Prissy Crissy

29. Ou combinar o Azul Tiffany com dourado

Tanya Tlo Decor

30. Na dúvida, combine o sofá com quadros modernos e personalizados

Arte Moderna Retrô

31. Com essa cor, até a hora das refeições fica incrível

Duplex 931

32. Os acessórios ficam mais especiais com o Azul Tiffany

Duplex 931

33. E mesmo em detalhes, ele é o centro das atenções

Marília Zimmermann

34. Os quadros decoram com rapidez e facilidade

Amanda Nunes

35. Escolha um ou dois pontos para aplicar o famoso azul

Amanda Nunes

36. Uma ideia é usar objetos decorativos nesse tom

Becky

37. Mas você pode optar por móveis em Azul Tiffany também

Move Movel

38. Para quem ama o tom, acessórios nessa cor nunca são demais

Courtney Elizabeth

39. Azul Tiffany com amarelo é outra aposta certeira

Princess THHK

40. Um papel de parede para sala oferece o toque que precisa

Amanda Nunes

41. Que tal um quarto com parede Azul Tiffany totalmente retrô?

Jill

42. Os móveis nessa cor combinam com várias tonalidades

Arte Moderna Retrô

43. Faça uma bandeja decorativa para o banheiro

Suzigan Molduras

44. Ou combine várias peças em Azul Tiffany para boas ideias

Arte Moderna Retrô

45. Equilibre com cores neutras ou terrosas

Yvon

46. Que tal um kit para cozinha todo em Azul Tiffany?

Courtney Elizabeth

47. Combinado com o rosa fica um encanto!

Marília Zimmermann

48. Branco, bege e azul formam uma paleta divina

Amanda Nunes

49. Ou você pode unir azul e marrom para um ambiente mais neutro

Velona’s Jungle

50. Uma penteadeira Azul Tiffany é o sonho de várias garotas

Arte Moderna Retrô

51. Mas esse tom também ganha corações quando aplicados em sofás

O Minimalista

52. Na dúvida, aposte em almofadas

Almofadas Gut

53. E programe um chá ainda mais especial sua caneca

Très Très Chic

54. Você pode fazer uma moldura artesanal

Jasmin Artesanato

55. Ou adquirir um jogo de pratos com detalhes em Azul Tiffany

Jemma’s Vintage

56. Tenha a certeza de que essa cor deixa a casa muito mais alegre

Artes, Decor e Jardinagem

57. Sendo perfeita para decorar mesas

La Decoração

58. Crie pequenos pontos de cor nas prateleiras

Amanda Nunes

59. Mas veja como apenas uma louça nessa cor já conquista os olhares

Yvon

60. O branco e Azul Tiffany combinam perfeitamente

Amanda Nunes

61. O tom também fica gracioso em um vasinho de plantas

Camila Yumi

62. Seu banheiro ficará mais bonito com paredes em Azul Tiffany

Karen Takashima

63. Você pode ousar combinando a cor com peças artesanais

Yvon

64. Para equilibrar, acrescente uma cadeira branca

Arte Moderna Retrô

65. E se quiser enfeitar apenas um canto, aposte no arranjo de flores

Beth Decora

66. Para um ambiente diferenciado, teste o azul, com branco e coral

Yvon

67. Deixa a hora do seu almoço única!

Ida Parasi

68. Procure sofá retrô para sofisticar

Arte Moderna Retrô

69. Para equilibrar, una a cor com detalhes em branco

Locação & Decoração

70. Se quiser ousar, teste combiná-lo com rosa magenta e amarelo

Arte Moderna Retrô

É interessante perceber como essa cor é única e deixa o ambiente mais moderno e colorido, mesmo se estiver presente apenas em um objeto decorativo. Por isso, ela é a escolha certa para ter mais elegância e estilo.

Impossível não se apaixonar pelo Azul Tiffany, não é? Então, escolha suas ideias favoritas e reproduza tudo em seu lar. Com certeza você terá uma casa muito mais refinada. E agora, que tal aprender como usar tons de azul na decoração?

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Resiliência ou 回復力 por Sandra Kuniwake no Quintana

Está acontecendo no Quintana Gastronomia a belíssima exposição “Resiliência” por Sandra Kuniwake. Falando com a artista e amiga sobre o que seria a exposição, ela me mandou o que segue: “Depois de dias brancos e frios do inverno, as floradas das cerejeiras sinalizam o início da primavera no Japão abrindo a temporada do hanami matsuri (festivais de contemplação das flores) que anunciam a hora de sair com a família e amigos para se divertir e apreciar a paisagem em piqueniques à sombra das cerejeiras. A flor de cerejeira é um símbolo de resiliência, pois - mesmo sendo delicada – sempre desabrocha depois de um rigoroso inverno. Falo de uma flor, mas a resiliência demonstra a minha essência. Superar as adversidades faz parte da minha trajetória e procuro aprender com elas. Olhando ao redor, percebemos que a resiliência é uma característica forte dos imigrantes que abandonaram sua terra natal atrás de uma vida melhor; do povo brasileiro esperançoso e alegre apesar das adversidades; e da natureza que mostra todo seu esplendor apesar das intempéries. Nessa exposição a natureza tropical é representada pela técnica mista do kirigami com a aquarela e colagem. Cores, texturas e formas tem o intuito de levar o observador a uma experiência diferente a cada olhar.” A mostra conta também com dois artistas convidados – Rute Yumi que traz a temática da cultura japonesa e eu com meu livro “Saudade do Ninho” (que está a venda no Quintana) e painéis com fotos de algumas casas do livro, que também são um exemplo de resiliência, pois apesar do tempo e ganância imobiliária, muitas casinhas ainda resistem e sua presença retrata a resiliência dos imigrantes de várias etnias, que escolheram Curitiba para fincar raízes, com todas as dificuldades que tiveram que enfrentar e superar. Apresento aqui algumas fotos de alguns dos impressionantes trabalhos da Sandra, uma foto dos quadros da Rute, algumas fotos de bonsais que estavam no local apenas no dia da abertura (inclusive uma inacreditável araucária de 24 anos, o único bonsai dessa espécie no mundo) e uma foto do deck de vidro, onde estão os meus (modestos) painéis. A exposição, com curadoria de Birgitte Tümmler, ficará no Quintana Gastronomia (Avenida do Batel, 1440) até o dia 25/09, todos os dias das 11h30 às 16 horas.

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Fashion Talent Lab

Fashion Talent Lab Realizada no domingo 18 de junho no MIB Milano restaurante-lounge localizado ao lado da Bolsa de Valores de Milão, a primeira edição do Fashion Talent Lab, que contou com a participação de sete jovens designers emergentes de diferentes nacionalidades. 

O júri foi composto por profissionais do setor e presidido por Gianni Tolentino, importante estilista. Os outros membros do júri foram: Antonio Oliver (Brasil), Juan Xu-Delves JK (China), Valeriana Mariani, editora e presidente da revista Donna Impresa, Alessandra Vittoria Fanelli, designer journalist (blogger de ObrigadoGrazie realizado com Yumi Kawahara), Rose Lucena, fashion blogger (Brasil), Maria Elena Colantone, brand building management e Lilia Ticec, fashion blogger (Russia). 

O desfile foi realizado em um crescente de emoções pelos sete estilistas que apresentaram suas criações: uma mistura de diferentes culturas, com o objetivo de alcançar as passarelas internacionais de fashion week. 

A vencedora foi a estilista brasileira Emily de Souza que se apresentou com sua marca Vanilla Style, vestidos elegantes e envolventes em tons e cores quentes que lembram o nosso Brasil! Fashion Talent Lab é um evento de moda organizado pela Startime Fashion Agency e Wellness for You. 

_______ Fashion Talent Lab Si è svolta domenica 18 giugno presso il MIB Milano restaurant-lounge situato di fianco al Palazzo della Borsa di Milano, la prima edizione del Fashion Talent Lab che ha visto la partecipazione di sette emergenti giovani stilisti di diverse nazionalità.


La giuria, che ha assistito e giudicato i modelli della sfilata, era composta da importanti professionisti del settore e presieduta da Gianni Tolentino, noto e affermato stilista. Gli altri giurati erano: Antonio Oliver (Brasile), Juan Xu-Delves JK (Cina), Valeriana Mariani, editore e presidente di Donna Impresa magazine, Alessandra Vittoria Fanelli, designer journalist (blogger di ObrigadoGrazie realizzato con Yumi Kawahara), Rose Lucena, fashion blogger (Brasile), Maria Elena Colantone, brand building management e Lilia Ticec, fashion blogger russa. 


La sfilata si è svolta in un crescendo di emozioni dei sette stilisti che presentavano le proprie creazioni: un mix di culture diverse con l’obiettivo di raggiungere le passerelle internazionali dei fashion week nel mondo.
La palma della vincitrice è stata assegnata alla brasiliana e fashion-designer Emily de Souza che ha presentato, con il suo brand Vanilla Style, abiti eleganti e avvolgenti in tonalità e colori caldi che ricordano il suo grande paese: il Brasile! Fashion Talent Lab, è un evento moda organizzato da Startime Fashion Agency e Wellness for You.