#bcs i thought itd be very funny 😭😭😭

[skitskatdacat63]

This is probably missing some, but here is my “Here me out” cake!! I am open to giving explanations :)

I am tagging @lil-shiro @soup-racing @pitayyaaa @suzuki-ecstar and anyone else who is interested! I just picked people who exprssed interest so I’m not unwilling implicating anyone in this public humiliation ritual sjdkdl

Below are some popsicle stick and cake pngs for ease !!

[chisungie]

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[slamdunkhcs]

THIS IS SOMETHING I TALKED TO MY FRIEND ABPIT OMCE AND I THOUGHT ITD BE FUNNY TO POST

slam dunk boys on tiktok

Mitsui

Mitsui would lowkey be the mf that posts cringy dancing videos/trends to make himself go viral. BUT IT WOULDNT WORK 😂😂😂😂

And he’d be annoyed asl about that. I feel like he’d be the type to chase clout on social media and he’d be FIENDING for those likes and followers.

I FEEL LIKE HE’D BE A LIL THIRSTY ON TIKTOK — like he wouldn’t be up in girls’ tiktok comments but he would def like and repost any girl he thinks is pretty. AND IF HE WAS FEELING BRAVE, he would find and add the girl’s IG.

His for you page would be a mix of pretty girls, NBA basketball player edits, and like sped up music. He’d be making edits of his own basketball highlights with capcut and posting them 😂

He’d spam videos to Ryota and Sakuragi, especially basketball edits.

Miyagi

Ngl he’d be the only one on the team to fr have clout 😂😂😂

He would post both thirst traps AND photos/videos of ayako. He’d love to post her to the cute TikTok trends (like this). Ayako would jus like the post and not say ANYTHING

One thing about Miyagi is that he dresses GOOD, and he’s gonna show that off! He’d post outfit of the day videos and he’d gatekeep tf out of his clothes. Like he’d straight up ignore any comments asking him where he got his clothes from 💀

He seems like the type to not respond to ANY TikToks he’s sent. Like Sakuragi would SPAM videos and Ryota isnt even opening any of them

If Ayako sends him things on TikTok tho.. OPENED IN LESS THAN A SECOND. He’d have his notifications turned on too so whenever she posts, he is all up in her comments. He’d reply to any other guy in her comments talking some “She’s mine lil bro”

Rukawa

I don’t think Rukawa would be very into social media, but if there’s one social that he has, it’d be TikTok

He’d probably have a completely empty acc with like no pfp, 6 followers, and no posts. He would NOT care about being famous on there, although if he even jus posted a video of himself, he’d instantly go viral.

His fyp would be cats, music recommendations, english lessons, and basketball. That boy has NO interest in anything else on there. And he thinks that the other guys’ videos are corny, especially if he saw Ryota’s thirst traps 💀.

But if he EVERRR made a guest appearance on the guys’ videos, he would instantly blow up. Like all the comments would be asking him who he is, what his @ is, and why he’s so mf fine. He’d make his acc private after that 😂

I like to think that his fan girls would try to find his TikTok and stalk his reposts to see what kind of guy Rukawa is, and what he likes

Sawakita

HE’D DEF BE FAMOUS ON TIKTOK, maybe even more followers than Miyagi.

I think he’d initially blow up bc him and his teammates would do the dance trends for fun during practice, but all the girls would comment things like “That guy in the middle is so fine 😍” or “He’s the only fine one 😭😭”. AND HE’D BE USING IT AS A WAY TO DISS ON THEM, like “None of those girls even want you” 😂 (then he gets his ass whopped)

Ok I don’t think he’s the type to be thirsty but from time to time, he’d def like and repost a pretty girl on his fyp AND HIS FAN GIRLS WOULD NOTICE IT AND GO CRAZY.

He’d def post highlights from his games over famous tiktok sounds (LIKE THE “I done did the impossible” one) and he’d have girls from diff schools start showing up to his games after finding him off TikTok

I feel like he’d jus post on Tiktok for fun? Like he’d post a little bit of everything; basketball, him lipsyncing songs, dance videos with his friends, and even TikTok lives. He wouldn’t really care about being famous on TikTok so he’d jus post whatever makes him feel good yk?

I like to think that he follows the Shohoku boys (even Rukawa somehow) and from time to time, he comments on their posts with “🔥🔥🔥”

[ohbo-ohno]

i hate typin long words sometimes its hard to rlly explain but bc of college too i just found it sm more easier to cut out certain vowels w words (it drives my friends insane sometimes esp when i send a message nd its so full of typos bc i thought itd b funny to turn off autocorrect ?? like no.. i am not gna type out certain words.. so used to it by now

on that note, reader ignoring the txts from ghoap bc shes upset at them nd it isn’t even abt getting kidnapping. like they did smth to upset her and they’re jumpin hoops tryin to figure out what they did 😭 can imagine johnny just being pouty bc they’re away at their job and whinin to ghost and ghost just “>:(“ bc how dare u ignore them..

i love it lol. i have like at least one spelling mistake in every message i send to someone, i end up getting texts from friends that are like "wtf did you just try and say" cause im too excited to send the fucking message to bother rereading. you're relatable as hell.

two ways you can go with this in my head

(a) you're mad at both of them, but you absolutely refuse to tell them why. it should be obvious and quite frankly in your mind it's worse that they don't even know. leaves them pulling their hair out. but this is your first argument as a couple that doesn't center around the whole kidnapping thing so they're trying to like actually work through it lmao. ends with johnny laying himself over you and whining while you just stick your nose in the air and cross your arms. simon tries to be all soft, thinks maybe if he's nice it'll tempt you to tell him. strokes up and down your side, nose in your hair, says a whole bunch of pretty words. you are not fooled lol. they get it out of you after a few rounds of frankly exhausting sex that night lol

(b) you're mad at just one of them. if you're mad at just johnny, simon gets sooooooo cocky. tugs you into his arms, mimics all the ways johnny usually touches you just to drive it home in johnny's head that he's not touching you. keeps you glued right to his lap and tells you you can tell me love, we can make sure he apologizes properly together. make sure mean johnny never hurts you again, hm? and johnny is a mix of pouting and pissed across the couch. if you're mad at just simon, johnny will join in with you. he'll throw an arm over your shoulder and just start making shit up lmao, start saying simon's done all this shit that he hasn't just because it's fun to team up with you on something. you're actually mad but johnny is mostly trying to goad ghost into really good sex. this has a very interesting result that night lol

[narwhalandchill]

hsr 2.1 kit leaks

ok idk how but even w the preliminary aventurine kit leaks i didnt register before seeing a comment on how he would actually just shred in herta+himeko FUA teams for PF too and im just? obsessed actually i Love this

like PF is already in that weird place where sustains are kinda good still but kinda useless but aventurine being an actual FUA sub dps in addition to his shielding is just? so fucking good and will go so well with the never ending follow up after follow up death spiral that himeko and herta inherently bring to PF it should be a massacre 💀💀 i cant wait

anyway his kit looks sick i rly love how its designed. ACTUAL sub dps potential in a sustain finally 😭😭 and how much crit rate (40%) he gets just from reaching 3600 def is just? so delicious. obviously the fact that he will want crit, def, spd and possibly eff res too means you kinda need to invest hard into his build to rly get the most out of him but i love that blonde fucker so. yeah ill commit. i farmed my ass off for my fu xuan to be as stacked as she is i Will do it again 🫡🫡

the eff res hes giving to the team is actually massive too ?? CC immunity to himself when his passive effect is up? shields on skill no ult dependency and shield stacking on teammates being attacked and FUAs (and like. hes not dependent on FUA teams lmao its just going to boost him) just like that???

AND hes fast as fuck somehow like what 😭😭😭😭 bro looks stacked as hell i hope he stays strong. aventurine with that 106 speed rly out there running from the consequences of his antics 🏃‍♂️🏃‍♂️🏃‍♂️💀

anyway wow im hype for this bastard i Cannot wait for his animations

as for acheron im. somewhat interested? but not like too pressed abt it for now. her stacking mechanic seems interesting and ive already seen the asset leaks for her red ultimate state (which is like 700% better than her base design) but if you only see that design for a v short time idk how much itll motivate me to get her.

the lack of LC options definitely hurts like. all i realistically have for her is s3 GNSW but thats on kafka rn. ig if i got acheron i prolly wouldnt be running them at the same time but its still food for thought ig

also she really copied neuvillettes homework for that nihility team passive HSJSJSKSKF idk how i feel abt it like w our current cast it kinda feels pretty tricky to genuinely get a strong team going for an actual max stack team for acheron. like run her with pela and what? guinaifen? ig we will see what shes all abt

ig i just dont feel as much of an incentive for a lightning dps for now w kafka but eh i might go for acheron still. i do have a guarantee tho so it might be nice to save it for aventurine straight up bc then i could maybe go for his LC since it gets him even more sub dps potential but who knows

ig only gripe w aventurine (which isnt that big of deal rly) is the current lack of FUA charas like idm building ratio eventually even having daniel (and them having such heavy synergy is very funny. renheng could never 💀) n i could see myself maybe getting topaz even if im not a huge fan of her character (tho i do think shes well written; my mixed feelings r a result of her being complex) but idk. i hope we get more leaks for upcoming FUA charas.

obviously theres xueyi but her FUAs arent That frequent and unironically i wouldnt Want someone like aventurine w his likely frequent FUAs on her team eating away the toughness bar from her so itd only really work against enemies who are quantum weak but not imaginary. but worth thinking abt still. at least herta n himeko will be a guaranteed PF synergy for him so thats hype

and most important of all: def mainstat with double crit we are so back. relics with double crit that half rolled into def we are so back. etc etc etc

[fyodior]

i would like to speak to ❄️ anon (if they do not mind) and recommend sk8 first. I LOVE WINDBREAKER BUT SK8 IS JUST SO CUTE AND FUN AND IT HAS GREAT CHARACTERS AND A GOOD STORY. if ur like me and prefer story and the people and stuff over action id also recommend sk8 first. i am very biased towards sk8 despite loving both. both are short tho so it wont take long to watch them. i just really like sk8 (im also slightly biased bc canadian character and im from canada so i just find it extra fun to see like. humour about that. im not even that devoted to my country, i just dont often see canadian characters in media that isnt canadian unless theyre for the butt of the joke)

also miss flora, if ur reading this, i know how you said you wonder what state the guild is from but i always wonder what province/territory (and sometimes city) langa is from. like i dont think hed be from ontario, especially not toronto. i dont think hed be from a major city like vancouver. he seems to have enjoyed living in canada too much to have lived in quebec (ik ur americans so for context, quebec is the very french province. they generally hate all of canada and pretty much all of canada hate them too. except 18yr olds bc the legal drinking age there is a year younger so they have to put up w 18yr olds visiting just to get drunk.) i honestly think hed be from farther north, lots more places for him to ski. i think its be really funny if he was from one of the territories or like. alberta.

- 💄

yes thats a very good comparison of the two!!! they are both only 12 eps (if i remember wbk correctly) so not long watches at all but it just depends on if you’re preferring story or action.

and honestly i completely forgot langa was canadian LMFAO thats such a good character trait for him 😭 also i love when animes hand us a very obviously japanese native level fluent VA and are like. they’re from canada. suspension of disbelief is key

interesting take tho!! you’re right i know nothing about canada but i like your thought process!! itd be kinda sexy tho if he was from qbc and could speak french too……..

[narugen-moved]

anyway as i was saying so okonogi is hoshina’s manager and she’s friends with mina and she’s like. well. They Need Someone ASAP…….. so does subject matter expertise really matter rn so she rings mina up and is like Hey. I need a favour i PROMISE u will be compensated and listen… mina loves okonogi dearly so she’s like Okay sure whatever (not really thinking it through) and when she shows up at the photoshoot studio minutes later she’s like

mina: OKONOGI I DONT THINK-

okonogi: good! just don’t think. we need your help please the model has been waiting for ages and his make up and everything is all done PLEASE mina 😭😭😭😭

and mina is a nice person who will not say no to okonogi on the verge of a breakdown so she’s like. I’m…. i’ll do my best 😧…

hoshina, who is still in the dressing room and hasn’t seen mina yet (but is very patient about okonogi finding someone to replace the dogshit photographer bc he’s Kind and was gonna contact his own connections if she hadn’t) steps outside and when he SEES mina for the first time

he goes up to her and is like… i didn’t know this would be a paired photoshoot..? :) and okonogi is like NOW IS NOT THE TIME HOSHINA.

mina, who is VISIBLY DRESSED LIKE SOMEONE WHO DROVE FROM HOME bc she was editing her bird pictures with her cat (bakko) cuddled up next to her: ❓❓❓❓❓❓

and hoshina genuinely thought mina was a model so he’s like Oh Whoops. my bad. who are you then and okonogi is just like Get behind the DAMN camera YOU HAVE MORE SCHEDULES AFTER THIS!!!!!!!!

and so mina who is aware of various camera functions and techniques and whatnot photography blah blah actually does a very decent job and leaves the posing to someone else in the room

anyway i just think it would be So Funny if hoshina pesters okonogi ENDLESSLY about the gorgeous photographer (and she’s like No.) (why okonogi chan??1?1?2?) and okonogi doesn’t even have a proper reason so she eventually rolls her eyes and caves in… agrees to let him meet mina ON mina’s terms and mina is like just baffled why does this model want to meet me again so bad

but she’s like oh well whatever she has an extra ticket for a short trip meant for birding outside of tokyo that kafka couldn’t go to and itd be a waste so she’s like. Do you want to come.

and hoshina ‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️ he’s like Wow.! what a win! except he isn’t prepared at all to be trudging through HORRID conditions and he’s a Loser so he ends up fighting for his life and mina is like you don’t have to follow me when i take pictures of the birds if it’s too early..? if it’s too muddy…? etc etc and she’s being Nice About it but all hoshina can hear is: LOL YOURE A LOSER!!! so hoshina is like i am just fine. :)

anyway he gets to hear mina ramble about different birds and whatnot and all in all even if he nearly died 50 times. god he’s so glad he came. and they watch the cranes at sunrise and it’s such a spectacular sight HES SOOOOO FUCKnnnnnnnnenfekjdockf CAN YOU IMAGINE. god and hoshina is so used to having HIS pictures taken. to being fawned over. to being the center of everyone’s attention. but for once in his life he sees the sight of mina, bathed in the morning sunlight, watching a million cranes fly past and he whips out his phone and tries so hard to capture the beauty of it all (and it’s such a bummer how jt cannot. doesn’t. compare to the actual thing)

and while hoshina merely wanted to see mina again bc she was Pretty. he may have fallen a bit in love on that trip.

also. also. mina who somehow ends up pointing her lens at hoshina involuntarily and Godddd GOD… i’m head in hands

hoshina DOES NOT SHUT TYE FUCK ABOUT MINA AND IS TEN TIMES MORE DOWN BAD WHEN HE RETURNS AND OKONOGI HAS 50000 headaches over it. mina herself is going through it. she looks at her pictures and for the first time sees Human. a person. more than her wildlife subjects and it’s such a baffling. a baffling feeling. a baffling thing

she doesn’t know what’s going On. FUCKKKK

anyway they eventually do model together for a shoot. and this time it’s hoshina who’s asking mina for her time. and god do they make such a gorgeous duo. hoshina promptly dies when she steps out of that dressing room and even though she’s so awkward at posing she’s SO BEAUFOFUL hoshina has to wonder how she doesn’t have a modelling gig yet.

i’m crying FUCK IDK HOW THIS WOULD END IN A FIC BIT GODIDDDDDSDDFFVFDD 💥💥💥💥 anyway yeah

birding today and as i was walking with my fuckass lens i was like oh my god ashiro mina wildlife photographer and model! hoshina and okonogi who is hoshina’s manager now listen his photographer for his latest photoshoot dipped on them and THEY NEED a photographer PRONTO wait i will continue this later

[vyvesvi]

wow okay last one before the finale...live reacting to the twitter thread

ep 10 -⚠️ ELIMINATION SPOILERS BEYOND THIS POINT ⚠️

as soon as i saw haruka 19...it's over isn't it

suzu 14...saw that coming oops

SAKAGUCHI RINO TWELVE WE ARE SOOOOO BACK OMG

keiko dropping to 11 ou was just getting used to her too

iida shizuku...10...people who are keeping up with japanese fans saw this coming but i for one did not! can i have justice for MY nugu picks pretty please?

kokoro 8...i must admit i giggled

kokona gets the award for most stable rank lol

praying it's ran & momona for 1&2 i think either of them would be great honestly (altho ran is my girlie ofc)

tsuzumi SAFE! (duh)

need tsukushi to sneak in real bad this is all so unfairr

ayane 5th queen we love you

actually holy shit rinon hasn't been called yet.......or joa (maybe her push was too obvious)......

it's time to say goodbye to sakura, serina, tsukushi, mena, kokona 1, probably yui............

woahhhhhh rinon top 4 😭 girlie is DEBUTING

i think 1 momona 2 ran 3 rinon 4 miu maybe

and ran & rinon are top 4 without benefits who else smiled 😁

ran 4th oh....but without benefits!

rinon 3rd slay

theyre 81,000 votes apart oh dear...ran centerism was fun while it lasted

i wonder if any keiko fans switched to rinon

exoecting suzu to rise in the finale but idk how high...her & kokoro fans r abt to panic vote especially hard i think

wait holy shit.

holy shit.

WHERE ARE NAGOMI AND HINA??????????

yui ill miss you so bad go to mdh queen

okay momona #1 as expected

wild

hina's not even a candidate for 20............

joa/serina/kagura/nagomi...this is terrible

dpmo. (they pissed me off)

this is fucked with my luck she'll be 11th in the finale good lord

i dont dislike all of the ppl im abt to mention but how do haruka kagura and rio keep sneaking in. haruka is cute and clearly has a crazy one pick but over hina & nagomi is CRAZY. rio literally hasn't said a word all season like i know absolutely nothing abt her even tho she's top 20 & i make it my business to learn abt every single contestant like

anyways this is current top 11

i have very few thoughts. im scared rino's one pick might not be strong enough but im praying for a sukai/keigo story. i wouldn't care if 2.5 people here dropped honestly. it's a shame nano had a scandal bc i would've liked a slightly more mature direction for this group and now it probably wont happen.

i expect shizuku to drop & maaaaybe rin too but we'll see. everyone else is pretty solid though.

ou the finale airs 9pm friday the 15th for me...expecting no ep on thursday or a recap ep maybe?

just waiting for the ranks of the other 15 and then ill finally go to sleep

oh the finale songs (sozo ijo & choppy choppy)

rino wanted subvocal 2 for sozo but rin moved her to rapper 2...dpmo

kokoro subvocal 2 for choppy...ik the top girls r afraid of angering kokoro stans but cmon this cant be...

momoka we love you but you didn't pick smart...but then again itd always be a what if if she didn't put her #1 choice

ran rap #1 on choppy is funny

wonder if someome will move ayane to main vocal

miu immediately did exactly that only for momona to make ayane sub vocal 6 on the other song..........oh uhm. girl you know you have to debut together right 😭

it doesn't matter anymore i suppose but ayane stans are gonna hold this grudge for a bit

rinon didn't have to move keiko imo but we move

well this was a mess. part of the reason rino has been struggling is bc she started out focusing on rap when she's a great vocalist. and now she's rapping in the finale. it doesn't matter that much at all but damn

thelma is very cute :( we needed sugai hidenori here too tho i miss his passion and unique vocal techniques

yumeki crying lmfao...

ranks finally out

SERINA 21??????? 21???????? SHE WAS SO CLOSE AND NEARLY DEFEATED THE EVIL OMG........

joa 22, nagomi 23, hina 26...no one saw that coming idc what anyone says

i think joa's push was too obvious with run run

ayano 24, sakura 28, yui 25, tsukushi 27...all such a shame

i think yoshida hana (30) will get scouted though 🙏

i was so convinced mena was gonna be big during preshow...all for 31.

the rest is pretty expected honestly, i think kokona's eye contact battle got her this far which is hilarious bc that's totally what made me pay attention to her

in conclusion im sick to my stomach goodnight everyone

pd 101 japan picks & commentary (3)

preshow & ep 1

ep 2 - ep 5

ep 6 general commentary

this ep was kind of lowkey. not really sure how i feel about the team selection being entirely determined by rank - pretty sad that karen & momoka, amongst others, probably wont get to show their actual main abilities

the teams that performed were hero, shine a light, wa da da, & run run. ranking: run run > hero ≥ wa da da > shine a light. i don't really like the song choices (songs that already have choreo for a dance round, only one non-idol dance song, plus the singers/producers for that song helped arrange all of the vocal performances? makes me wonder if the final group will be getting a LAS song) but at least theyre all in japanese this time (for the vocal & rap groups at least)

run run: good performance but i have a few gripes. 1 - why was it worth more points? they said that the choreo was harder but the whole mission was for the girls to create choreo so... i dont actually expect that the trainees on these shows are doing all the arranging and writing and choreography themselves (much less on pd japan where virtually no one has a trainee background) but the whole set up of the mission kind of says the quiet part loud, you know? 2 - the distribution was a complete mess. loved joa as the center but the rest were basically backup dancers...for a choreo that theyre ostensibly creating themselves the difference in screentime between each person just doesnt make sense. and that was reflected in all of the ranks apart from yuuki & yurara i think. storyline: i found the koto/yuki storyline pretty meh. joa did actually do better than both of them so...? still, in another series this wouldve had a massive conflict edit & im glad pdj doesn't really do that. sad mitsuki & serina didn't get much screentime, i think mitsuki should've gone for antifragile actually, she needed to be on a team where the styling would've worked with her & allowed her to show more of a charming side on stage (friend that i watched LOVED her in cheer up, made me pause to figure out who the "gorgeous regina george lookalike" was.)

hero: ando yui is my daughter but i have to admit that she has a tendency towards shouting some notes. still, i feel like she has a ton of potential and im glad that she got to redeem herself after the audition. tsuzumi is basically in and she 100% knows it, so it's interesting to see how she's dealing with it. more than anyone else in the top it seems to really be impacting her, but she also seems to have a lot of close friends on the show who understand & are supporting her. to be honest, i usually don't like contestants like mayu but...idk. i see a lot in her but im not sure why. it seems like voters are starting to get serious so her rank has dropped a lot but i i'll miss her when she's eliminated. i hope there's some opportunity for her beyond the show.

wa da da: kind of sick that no one chose wa da da 😭 the stage was pretty messy in my opinion but mana did great, she's such a performer. personally ranka isnt one of my picks but i like her intensity a lot & she definitely deserved her rank. i don't think this is her moment exactly but i could see her being recruited somewhere after this. she would suit a kind of dramatic vibe. karen is interesting to me because while she doesn't dance well i found that she really fit the stage. i also love her attitude. there's no way she won't rise but im not sure that itll be enough. last and least,

shine a light: im a big jo1 fan but i knew this wasn't gonna go great from the outset. the energy of the original song is part of what makes it so good so the fact that they removed that.....i also think it's kind of notable that hina said that she didn't want it to be a ballad and was kind of steamrolled........anyways. we saw the performance. i've always said that i wanted hazuki to get more screentime & establish herself and this was her chance but...rip. from the second her voice cracked it was over for the whole team. every single person messed up except for hina. i know that this wasn't a super strong vocal group but it's so sad that they did the worse they've ever done on stage. i expect hina's rank to continue to rise, and hazuki in particular will fall (not because she was the worse but because she has the smallest fanbase & isnt insulated from mistakes like some of the top contestants). curious about what will happen with chiharu because honestly...no one really expected her to sing super well and she was gorgeous so. we'll see

member commentary

change is always possible but this is my stable top 4. rino & ran's teams weren't in this episode but it's a very good sign that rino still got screentime singing well & being a good leader. not thrilled that her rank dropped (14 → 17) and there are a lot of strong contenders in the early teens right now. in truth, i think some of them would be a much better fit for a spin off project (which have much higher success rates than the ones from korean produce) & rino would make more sense in top 11 but that's neither here nor there.

mana, as i said earlier did sooooo well in wadada, although im curious as to what she would've picked had she been given a real choice. im hoping her rank will rise - she didn't get a push in this ep but she was significantly more visible than a lot of her teammates so fingers crossed.

serina is just a good [potential] idol. i was surprised that she went for dance since her vocals are what i noticed first but she pulled off run run well. i wouldve picked shine a light or even antifragile for her though. unfortunately she got very little screentime & storyline but i'm sure run run will win so maybe that 20k will help maintain her spot.

standouts in this ep

not gonna break it down again but yeah. love the girlies love the vibes

other thoughts

call me crazy but im so so sure that these three will be recruited by lapone for a gg after the show. with the top 11 having skewing less cute im hoping that this becomes a reality bc these three fit eachother more than they fit momona/nano/ran/rin/etc. oda aruha (and maybe moro anon) would be here too but alas.

people i'd like to have seen in this ep

rin is riding a wave right now and she needs momentum to stay top 11. looking at the ranks now, kokona dropped 10 places (19 → 29) 🙃 rinon & ayano are fine, but i wanted to see them keep momentum as well. i like akiyama ema for some reason but to survive she desperately needs screentime and a good performance. I'm even more worried about tsukushi - her dropping from 18th to 31st after doing incredibly well is kind of insane. what i've said about tsukushi needing a storyline in the past still stands. i can already tell that her part in bijin will be great but with rinon & keiko im not sure what her screentime potential is.

ep 6 voting list

no surprises here, although im not sure what the voting has been reduced to? if it's only 5 i'd have to go with mana, rino, rin, serina, and then alternate kokona, yui, and mayu. i know that the "this person is safe so i wont vote for them" logic is flawed but i can't help it. good thing intl fans cant vote so this isn't a real concern! 🤪 /s

ep 6 semi-realistic top 11

only change is that i replaced kokona with joa. i have to say, im not thrilled about how many "givens" there are this season. it's not that i dislike them but it makes for a kind of boring top 11, at least until we get to 1 & 2 pick voting. rin was a nice surprise but i think the production has been pretty mask off about their picks. interestingly, i think it might bite them in the butt that momona & kokoro in particular don't actually get that much screentime. for people who are seeing them through the show for the first time (and also dont keep up with twitter discourse) probably feel that their ranks came out of nowhere. ran has gotten good screentime but she's definitely also buoyed by her original fanbase. miu, joa, & tsuzumi have good screentime & storylines so when joa goes up to top 11 i won't be surprised. rin had a good storyline so she makes sense. ayane doesn't get very much screentime but her voice does the brunt of the work. nano is a (capable) visual pick but she doesn't have a storyline. suzu has had a fanbase since the theme song but i expect her to fall a little honestly. we'll see. keiko is new to the top 11 this ep, i hope they reveal the actual ranks this time because that will influence my thoughts. keiko has great screentime and a litle bit of storyline so her rising makes sense. kokona is interesting to me because her rank is so stable based on not very much honestly. i don't dislike her but her lack of expressiveness on stage is probably something they'll try to build a storyline out of later.

i have a lot of confidence that rino will debut elsewhere after this but in the interest of creating a group i would actually like...