#gunjou no fanfare

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Shun Kazanami (Gunjou no Fanfare) » February 14

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Fanfare of adolescence thoughts bcoz i just binged it lmao

Soo the scar Yu gained was like the symbol of confirmation that Yu is not going back to being an idol. Idols are at least half about looks, and as fucked up as it is, having a huge scar on his face would be tragic for an idol's career(also i have a lot to say about the agency ceo but thats a topic for another post). So now that he literally can't be an idol, Yu will obviously be a jockey. I just got here so ppl might have already pointed it out(or not, maybe im being delulu lol) but its been on my mind since he got it lolol

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just realized i've only been bugging people on discord with some new information, and not tumblr. I STARTED A NEW ANIME AND IT IS

FANTASTIC

LIKE I LOVE IT SO MUCH, ITS ABOUT GAY BOYS RIDING POSSIBLY GAY HORSES

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screengrabs of hayato with ponytail

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Check out my cover of OUTSIDERS from Gunjou no Fanfare!

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watched the jockey anime. wrote about it.

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opus.colors ✧ episode 5 ✧ sakaki & ikaruga

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2022 Anime Awards

2/2 lets go Crunchyroll Awards and my own personal takes on 2022 anime because no one asked you are all very welcomed. Top 3 for each category and highlighted my top contender.

Anime of the year

Sasaki to Miyano

Herotaru

The Little Lies We All Tell

Best protagonist

Hinata Tachibana

Shinomiya Kaguya

Tooru Kirishima

Best antagonist

Reo Mikage me including Reo here so he can win something I love him

Katagiri Yuuichi or whatever is going on in Tomodachi Game

Best animation

Sono Bisque Doll wa Koi wo Suru

Spy x Family

Best boy

Bachira Meguru

Kei Shinomiya

Ryusui (let me be delusional okay)

Best girl

Chizuru Ichinose

Hana Ichijou 

Hiyori Suzumi

Best character design

Sono Bisque Doll wa Koi wo Suru

Blue Lock

Gunjou no Fanfare (Hayato come back ill rescue you from the ugly ass horse anime)

Best combat scenes

Chainsawman

Blue Lock (?)

Spy x Family

Best opening

Fabiniku - Akatsuki no Salaryman

Himitsu Koi Gokoro - Rent A Girlfriend

San San Days - Sono Bisque Doll wa Koi wo Suru

Best ending

OUTSIDERS - Gunjou no Fanfare

Kigeki - Spy x Family

Kaerimichi no Iro - The Yakuza's Guide to Babysitting

Best drama

Tiger & Bunny 2

Love is War

Best fantasy

Mairimashita! iruma-kun

BNHA

Best comedy

The Little Lies We All Tell

Spy x Family

Best couple

Asmodeus and Iruma fr

Sasaki & Miyano

Kaguya & Shirogane

Marin & Gojou

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Poland’s Personal Anime Awards 2022

So, I saw people doing this back in January when the Crunchyroll Awards were releasing, and I meant to publish this at the end of January but got busy. So I’m releasing it now! This list will include the categories that Crunchyroll uses, but will not be limited by their nominations, and will also include some of my own categories at the end. This list is based on what series I started and finished watching last year to be a fair judgement (except for the one category I give to Chainsaw Man. I haven’t finished the anime adaption yet but I know it belongs where I put it).

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Anime of the Year: Spy x Family

Best Original Anime: Gunjou no Fanfare/ Fanfare of Adolescence

Best Character Design:

Original Project: Do it Yourself!

Adaption: Dance Dance Danseur

Best Animation: Chainsaw Man

Best New Series: Ya Boy Kongming!

Best Continuing Series: Ousama Ranking/Ranking of Kings

Best Opening:

Musically: Mixed Nuts by Official Hige Dandism (Spy x Family OP 1)

Visually: Naked Hero by Vaundy (Ousama Ranking OP 2)

Best Ending:

Musically: Feeling Good by 96Neko (Ya Boy Kongming!)

Visually:  “Heart wa Oteage” by Airi Suzuki & “My Nonfiction” (Kaguya-sama S3) (Tied)

Best Score: Spy x Family

Best Song: Dream Fanfare by LipxLip (Heroine Tarumono/Heroines Run the Show) I was waiting so badly for this song to be in the anime

Best Director: Bocchi the Rock!

Best Main Character: Arimura Yuu (Gunjou no Fanfare/Fanfare of Adolescence)

Best Supporting Character: Kazanami Shun (Gunjou no Fanfare/Fanfare of Adolescence)

Must Protect At All Costs Character: Kotarou (Koutarou Lives Alone)

Best Action: Ousama Ranking/Ranking of Kings (Cour 2)

Best Comedy: Ya Boy Kongming!

Best Drama: Dance Dance Danseur

Best Fantasy: Danmachi S4

Best Romance: Urusei Yatsura & Call of the Night (Tied) Life with an Ordinary Guy Who Reincarnated into a Total Fantasy Knockout! (Just kidding)

Best JPN Voice: Yoshino Aoyama as Bocchi (Bocchi the Rock!)

Best ENG Voice: Nick Wolfhard as Toto (Goodbye Don Glees)

Best Movie: GOODBYE DON GLEES!!!

Additional Categories!

Best Sports: Salaryman’s Club

Best Isekai: Life with an Ordinary Guy Who Reincarnated into a Total Fantasy Knockout!

Best Slice of Life: Heroine Tarumono/Heroines Run the Show

Guilty Pleasure: Tokyo Mew Mew New!

Biggest Surprise: Trapped in a Dating Sim: The World of Otome Games Is Tough for Mobs

Best of Winter 2022: Ryman’s Club/Salaryman’s Club

Best of Spring 2022: Spy x Family (Cour 1)

Best of Summer 2022: Danmachi Season 4 (Cour 1)

Best of Fall 2022: Bocchi the Rock!

Favorite Manga of 2022 (Something I discovered and started reading in 2022): Koroshi Ai/Love of Kill

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Aki Kyouriki (Gunjou no Fanfare)  » August 8

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gunjou no fanfare review

I really wanted to like it. It’s horse boys. I like horses. It looked like there was thought and care put into it with big names like sawano and oreimo guy and joi (jay oh won and not Joy-ee).  

I was not expecting the BL vibes from the first episode. I wonder if that turned off a lot of the viewers. I mean I definitely wasn’t expecting it from this sort of thing. I don’t know the producers/writers enough to know if the LGBT thing is legit or not. But I don’t trust like that.

Ngl I was expecting more from Yu. He’s kinda boring. Yeah the backstory is interesting to see him go through the change from being an idol to something totally unrelated and having to face the backlash of it. Unfortunately he’s not very interesting personality wise. He’s kind of just A Guy. Not really even an endearing one. Iunno, he hadn’t really done anything that stood out to me. I was waiting the entire series to see what captivated him about horse racing that he dropped his idol career for. I was thinking something about the spiritual horse visions or whatever that he would sometimes see, but it didn’t really add up for me. I just didn’t get it. 

I guess that final race with Shun showed what he always saw when he was horse racing? Was that it? I guess it went over my head. And I guess CEO was his adoptive mother that she groomed him into idol-ing so it was just him growing up and being his own person that he chose to do horse racing.

Anyway next chara, Star girl horse boy jockey Manami Shun. I didn’t like him at first because he came off as the natural prodigy kind (which he was and I dont care for those kind of charas). I liked him more when he went through the kisuke arc. Only because I enjoyed seeing someone who’s usually all smiles finally cry and break down. I’m… not totally surprised that he chose not to stay a jockey. He really didn’t feel like the competitive type and more of the whimsical Horse Boy type. 

Other characters uh… Eri Is There. The fact that they had a staple girl but didn’t do much with her other than to say She Is The Girl. Rip.

I liked Aki’s reveal because after Amane came in, I was like we can’t have Two antagonists being mean to Yu at the same time can we? but it was for different reasons and it was great. Theres not much else with his chara tho other than being the red haired hothead osakan, because of course he is. 

Hayato’s character arc was the best. I wish we got a little more on him and his friend but most of their backstory was through their word of mouth. I don’t really care about his friend though. Real BL hints dropped in that last ep. (HAYATO PONYTAIL IM GONE!!!!!!!)

 Kota was my favorite and I honestly think it might have been more interesting if he was the main chara just because he was an underdog type of chara. Lol maybe I just want my MCs to be a nervous wreck and a noob and I want to see them climb up. (i was rooting for Amane/kota, but I’m sorry nobody could handle my big brain) I can’t say that I didn’t like his growth because I’m proud of him, but he’s just a side chara at the end of the day. rip

Amane was fun but he didn’t really do much. He was supposed to be the Punkass rival but huh? Hanae’s English isn’t the worst but I kinda wish they got someone with better English to voice him. Kind of breaks the immersion sometimes. (Him and sakurai sensei having the English off was funny ngl)

Like can I even call this a sports anime? I don’t really even feel it? Like maybe if there was like, a chara from a rival school and they’d like “let’s meet on the track” kind of thing. I think if we got them racing each other like in the last few episodes earlier I might have thought it was more sporty but I understand if they want it to be realistic and can’t jump right to riding horses without all the build up.

The horse racing world just feels very Adult. Which is maybe why the series is about Adolescence and seeing the jockeys grow up. There were definitely a lot of time skips and they felt a little older when they were doing their internships. The little fake out in the beginning of the last ep gave me real Yuru Camp vibes lol. I love timeskips so I kind of wish we actually got to see it that way. 

How do I feel about the BL “bait”. Like, I don’t know the creators intentions, like, Can I Say that they meant to write Yu and Shun as intertwined souls? Yeah, definitely. It could be LGBT friendly without making the homophobes too mad I guess. Like the way Run With the Wind did it, I guess. But I think Yu and Shun had a little more soft scenes that I’m fine with it. I guess.

Kinda mad that Yu got Shun’s horse whispering powers though. I mean, I get it, in that way that its like “Shun as a jockey is dead but Shun wants Yu to take him with him as he rides horses” or something. 

Also, not really sure what the ghost horse on the right trail symbolizes? The path to jockeyness? Because Yu takes it when he can but Hayato doesn’t see it, and Shun chooses not to go that path. Yeah something like that I guess.

Uhhhh all in all, that… certainly was a show. I guess I was expecting something a little more wholesome because horses were involved? Even though that makes no sense because horses are delicate and stupid creatures apparently. The whole horse racing as a sport feels gross to me though, because I always get those “middle age old men smoking and betting all their money” vibes from it. 

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Update [15/2/24] after the new PV's out:

Well, I was way off lol.

No veteran cast, no Chiaki, Totto or Soma.

The cast is:

Herman Greenhill: Takeuchi Shunsuke

Edgar Redmond: Watanabe Toshiki

Lawrence Bluewer: Enoki Junya

Gregory Violet: Tachibana Tatsumaru

I know Tatsumaru mainly from Gunjou no Fanfare and Ao Ashi. He's cute.

I think Shunsuke kinda suits this character, I trust him, he's a good seiyuu.

I'm a bit meh about Junya voicing that character tbh. I might change my mind after the season starts, but atm I don't really feel it :/ (I re-watched the PV a few times just to be sure about my feelings. And yep, still not feeling it, sorry Junya)

Watanabe Toshiki is a new seiyuu, seems like it's his first main role? Well, good luck!

Ok, what do we think? Are P4 going to be veteran seiyuu or a newer generation?

First thoughts on the visuals:

Edgar and Tamaki could be twins.

Herman is Malfoy (but his house animal is Gryffindor's lion XD). In the manga he looked like a combination of Germany and Erwin, but here...not really lol. But I'll wait to see him animated. Can't base my thoughts on stills.

Lawrence reminds me of so many characters but right now I can't make my mind of who exactly he reminds me of.

Gregory might be my fav just because of his emo vibes (and ace colors). Reminding me of Doppo a little.

Going back to the seiyuu thoughts: I feel like all of them could be veteran seiyuu, but that would be cool getting some newish seiyuu instead!

Do we think Chiaki could be one of them?? Maybe Gregory? Hmm...

I'm very excited to know the cast!

EDIT: I saw a comment from a Japanese fan on Twitter thinking Soma and Totto could be part of the new cast. I was also thinking about them! Because Edgar looks like Tamaki but also, if you squint, he looks like Moriarty, so that's why I thought Soma for him. And Totto - because Gregory reminds me of Doppo (but he could also fit Lawrence I think). So I'm adding those just in case. I'll come back to this post after they reveal the cast ^___~

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Arimura Yuu and Kazanami Shun - Gunjou no Fanfare episode 01

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gunjou no fanfare » episode 01

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