#eripiyo x maina

[dimplesridley]

someone who's seen the oshibudo film, can you please share if the eripiyo x maina content is good 😭

[jjs-brainrot]

Look, I gotta feed off of what little Eripiyo x Maina crumbs OshiBudou is willing to throw my way...

[yurianimemangaworld]

[eripiyo-san]

—On that day, you nearly killed me｡.｡:∞♡*♥ 

Beautiful introduction of a well-clothed Eripiyo-san, falling deeply in love.

[animegadaisukiidesu]

[kessielrg]

Tagged by @human-nxture to list 9 of my favorite characters, and then tag 9 folks to play along. But I don't know 9 people who like to be bothered with tag games, and I spent way too time trying to remember what characters make me irrationally happy when they're on screen to constitute as a 'favorite'. 😅

Oswald the Lucky Rabbit (Epic Mickey) Silver the Hedgehog (Sonic the Hedgehog) Mega Man X (Mega Man X) Oopsy Bear (Care Bears: Adventures in Care-a-lot) Eripiyo (If My Favorite Pop Idol Made It To the Budokan, I Would Die) Xion (Kingdom Hearts) Axl (Mega Man X) Ventus (Kingdom Hearts) Maina Ichii (If My Favorite Pop Idol Made It To the Budokan, I Would Die)

[oshibudo-everywhere]

Can we all agree this is how Oshibudo ended?

[shiozoku]

Share your pride, day 4... pride month mood board!

I don’t know how to make a mood board so I’m just going to share some lesbians....... in a song!!

[kurayamineko]

Oh Eripiyo <3

[minsarasarahair]

This is so bittersweet! A love story between an idol and a fan is always painful.

[galagalacherry]

♡ Eripiyo & Maina ♡

Like or Reblog if u save

Do not Reupload

[kazehayajaneru-sama]

AAAAAAAAA BEST SHIP NEXT TO ERIPIYO X MAINA

[yurianimemangaworld]

If you want to be with her...

[curestardust]

if you want: some insight on Japanese underground idol groups and idol group wotakus / or you’re a wotaku yourself and wanna sympathise a bit / comedy / pretty and cute idol girls uwu / a possible really fun time if you vibe with the tone of the show and its humour

Now, first of all I need to state that while I’ve more than enough experience with idol culture, I follow K-pop and not J-pop, which seems to have quite a few differences from what I’ve seen. So, I apologize if I make any mistakes.

Second, some terms that are good to know for this anime: the “Budokan” mentioned in the title of the anime is a big sports stadium which also holds concerts. Naturally, the only groups who can perform there are ones who would be more or less guaranteed to fill up all seats in the arena and thus performing there is a huge goal set by any idol group (see: the K-pop groups I follow who’ve also made a debut in Japan often dream about performing in the Tokyo Dome). Then we’ve “chika idols” which as I understand are underground idols. Basically a term for small groups who either perform outside or have a quite small venue (usually on the basement floor). Finally, the term most often used by the anime is “wota” which is just short for wotaku. From a quick research, wotaku seems to have no difference from “otaku” and is only written with a “w” because the Japanese writing is in Katakana and is written with “ヲ (wo)“ while otaku is written with Hiragana using “オ (o)”. Also, we’ve the anime “Wotaku no koi wa muzukashi” where wotaku is also used but with the exact same meaning as otaku. I’m talking about this so much because the anime implies that “wota” is only a term for otakus who’re into Japanese idol groups. It seems that outside of Japan, wota does seem to hold this meaning nowadays (I don’t know if the same is true for them) but I just wanted to talk about this cause I thought it was interesting.

So, our story’s protagonist is Eripiyo, a 20yo woman who accidentally stumbles upon a chika group’s outside performance. This group is ChamJam, sporting 7 members with completely different personalities and appeals. Eripiyo falls head over wota heels for one of the members from first glance. This member is Maina.

Fast forward a little bit and Eripiyo has been transformed into a super wota. Maina’s representative colour (an often used gimmick with idol groups) is salmon pink and as she only has one piece of clothing in that colour (I’m going to guess it’s her middle school track jersey) she refuses to wear anything else but that. She has hit up a friendship with two others, Kumasa who is kind of a wota veteran and Motoi who is the complete opposite. (I’m going to be using the term “bias” for “favourite member” as we do in K-pop circles cause it’s shorter) Kumasa’s long time bias is Reo, the center and most popular member of ChamJam. Motoi’s is Sorane, an also quite popular member. While Eripiyo’s is Maina...who has one fan. That being Eripiyo.

This is especially awkward during the handshake events, After the performance, fans can buy X number of CDs with their biases covers for which they get handshake tickets, 1 usually being for 5 seconds. Seeing Maina standing there with no one in her line is really... depressing. Eripiyo obviously tries to rectify the situation by buying EVERY single album of Maina’s and yet, these 2 can’t have a proper conversation even with that time. Maina is shy and has a hard time speaking up which Eripiyo takes as her feeling awkward so she talks her head off the entire time. This leads to my least favourite trope of “misunderstandings caused by not speaking clearly enough”. Thankfully, none of it leads to drama and is more just a set-up for funny situations (but I still hate it!).

Honestly, the humour gets quite repetitive after a while, most of it just being recycled from the first few episodes. Eripiyo is also going to be a very hit-or-miss character. She is either hilarious or she will get on your nerves very quickly. Luckily the anime ended before that happened to me but her constant screeching was oof, too much. 

After a few episodes, they start showing more of the ChamJam members and their behind the scenes of their idol lives. They painted the most realistic scene for me, with them sometimes not getting along or getting pissed off over not being more popular. Most of it though, was cute and fun and 2 of the members are veryyyy strongly “hinted” to be in a relationship (we just don’t see them kiss but they’re together y’all).

For a fellow idol fan (although on the more saner side thankfully), it was interesting to see the differences in the 2 idol cultures. Also, sometimes I feel like screeching over a single picture of my bias as Eripiyo and I’ve seen the behaviour of the 3 main wotas in K-pop communities before so I kinda sympathise with them. 

“Oshibudo” is a good anime overall. The animation, designs and the colour pallette are excellent (except for those...very few CGI shots that are seriously one of the worst made character models I’ve ever seen). The music is fun, there’s a wide variety of characters and if you’re a fellow idol stan, you’ll probably find a bias for yourself in ChamJam as well. The humour and the subject matter are what can make or break this anime for its viewers. I’d definitely suggest watching episode 1 if you’re even slightly interested. The tone for the rest of the show is all there so you can make a quick decision based on it.

[7/10] (x)

Recommend: HELL Yeah! | Yes | Eh??? | Nope | This anime killed my parents

[animegadaisukiidesu]

[mishihiroo]

Fanart Maina X Eripiyo