#haikyu audio

[greenfoxeyedbrunette]

"You wanna cum? You wanna cum, baby?"  your partner says with a voice crack as he pumps his thick throbbing cock up into you at a consistent pace. Your back facing him, you nod and whisper "please..." Getting overwhelmed with him hitting the right spot, you repeat louder than a whisper "pleaasse..." In response, your partner quickly carries both of your legs up by the back of your knees. Splitting your wet pussy rapidly. His d*ck's so hard and feels so good. "Fuck! Too much!.." you shudder as you reach your high. "Nnnh.." You whimper as your lover slides his tongue in your mouth. Slowly and deeply kissing you, he carefully lowers your legs to caress your body and soothe you.

jean kirstein, daichi sawamura, kuroo tetsurou, muriel, kunigami rensuke, tokimitsu aoshi, wakatoshi ushijima, miya osamu

[mangoxanax]

♰ introduction .♱

Hellooo! my name is micah ! or u can call me micc i am a writer & traditional artist :3 this is not my first time posting but i just thought id make an introduction so, lets get this show on the road ! ★

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MICAHS INTRO!

🦇﹒──── 🖤！ᶻz ⸜⸜⸜⸜⸜⸜⸜⸜ㆍ🎱﹒

◞ ★ ︉﹒names listed in straw page below︔ current one is Xan.

ᨳ 19 ﹕bday-may 19th!

◞ ★ . " J + X "

◞ ★﹒- - - - genderfluid︔

ᨳ pansexual & pref 4 men ﹕

◞ ★ ︉﹒ ︉likes︔ mlp, 2000s anime, rock music, history, marine biology, sanrio, COD, bluey, and Splatoon, scream and other slasher films ^^

ᨳ dislikes ﹕silence, and thunderstorms (dni if you make rape or gore jokes

◞ ★ ﹒I'm delusional, i have adhd and autism, and im a hopeless romantic︔🫧; ︉im a black creator so id be appreciative if you'd support me!! ^^

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◞ ★ also I'll write for ; redacted characters, yuurivoice characters, slashers, jjk, haikyuu, COD, Mha (mainly mha) , and occasionally my own characters ^^

◞ ★ and i will write these genres ; fluff, smut and some angst. i dont rlly like angst so it'll prolly be scarce.

◞ ★ I will NOT write these kinks ; dub-con, cnc, r4pe, incest, f00t f3tish and other dark kinks. i shouldnt have to justify why.

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tysm for looking at my introduction! asks will be open during sometime of march or febuary so feel free to ask then and hopefully i will get some fics out! >0<

[girlwithalotoffeelings]

Hey guys!!

Big news, I know I haven't written anything in a while but I swear I got valid reasons this time😭

I actually got offered a book deal to publish my book so I've been away working on that. It's now a couple inches off the ground so I'm back for real this time💀

Send in some asks ya filthy animals!

[i-literally-cant-with-this]

A/N ::: YOU GUYS. You guys. I feel like this is one of the hottest fucking things I've ever written. I've been so strung out on Ushiwaka from Haikyu!! lately - like, literally. I think about him while I'm working. It's fucking absurd (I realize this). But I have tried to write something for the last 3 days. Maybe 4 or 5 different tries. And then I heard this AMAZE-BALLS audio today and it's like the damn stars aligned. And here we are, friends. I hope you like this.

C/W ::: Wakatoshi Ushijima x F.reader (chubby reader - because I fucking said so). It's kinda cheesy. But my god. I'd do almost anything to have this man standing before me. Also, I don't want to get into this shit because I'm lazy tonight. If you were tagged and didn't want to be tagged in Haikyu!! stuff you're a dumbass. Just kidding! Tell me and I'll make a note of that somewhere. If you want to be tagged in future writings of this nonsensical whimsy, send me a message and I'll make a note of that somewhere. So ...

MDNI AFTER THE CUT PLEASE AND THANK YOU.

WC ::: 1,072 (about 2 3/4 pages).

Can't stop thinking about Ushijima.

Thinking about him kissing you so softly, despite being so much larger than you. He handles you like you're fine china. Like you'd break if he were any more thorough. The way his hands roam the dip in your waist, how they seek out the soft warmth of your belly pudge.

How he runs his hands down the lower half of your back and suddenly grabs your ass and hoists you up onto the front of his body.

It happens so quickly that all you have time to process is how you're practically being held up by his cock. Like a little ledge you're resting on. So precariously.

How you're grinding against it as he holds you close, how he's nipping at your ear and muttering about how good you feel so close to him.

You moan and lean into his touch as you rut against him. Your hips pretty much doing their own thing. You can't help it.

His breath against your skin - just the way he  breathes  on you is making you irreparably wet.

And then suddenly, he's moving you again. Carrying you, really. To the bedroom. He lays you down gently, hovering over you.

He pulls back just long enough to take off his shirt, and you realize it's the first time you've seen him like this. With wild abandon in his eyes, staring you down as he begins to unbutton his jeans.

You're practically panting at this point. Your cunt throbbing with the need to be filled. And then it's there. 

Ushijima's cock.

You'd seen it before, but never up close. It's so thick and veiny, and you're a little scared of how it's going to fit inside you, but you want it more than anything.

He climbs back on top of you, kissing you again, his tongue searching yours out as he slowly,  so slowly sinks into you.

You gasp and moan as he fills you up, stretching your walls in a way you didn't know was possible. It's just on the edge of painful, but the pleasure that radiates through you from having him inside you is enough to keep you from pulling away.

Even if you wanted to, he wouldn't let you go anywhere. His grip on your smaller body is nothing short of a pleasant vice. And he's not even holding onto you with all of his strength. You can tell.

Ushijima starts to move inside of you, and you feel yourself melting under his touch. He's fucking you with a gentle urgency. Like he wants to savor every thrust but also desperately wants to release this pent up craze within him.

You're getting lost in the rhythm of his movements. The sound of skin slapping skin and the way his breath catches as he fucks you.

The pain from your legs being spread so wide to accommodate his significant body is nothing but an afterthought now. 

You start to feel a warmth building up inside you, and you realize you're going to cum soon.

You try to say something but he interrupts your confession with one of his own. "I want to cum inside you," he whispers, his lips against your ear.

Your eyes go wide at his words, but before you can protest, you feel his cock twitch inside you.

"Wait, I'm not -" But it's too late. He's already cumming. You feel his hot seed filling you up, and you're so overwhelmed that you can't help but cum with him.

Your cunt clenches up so tight around him that he moans and shudders, rolling his hips against yours again and again.

His breathing is heavy, and you can feel his cock hardening against you.

You lock eyes with him, and he looks at you like you're the most beautiful thing he's ever seen.

He wraps his long arms around you, pulling you on top of him.

You straddle him, taking him inside you again. He's even bigger than before. You sink down onto him, feeling his cum squish out of you.

He starts to thrust up into you, his hands gripping your hips with a newfound possessiveness.

You ride him like this, your eyes never leaving his. You can see the desperation in his face, the need to be connected to you in this way. It's so intense, and it sends shockwaves of pleasure through you.

You lean over and kiss him, your tongues meeting, and he moans into your mouth. You're so close to cumming again, and you can feel him getting close too.

You grip onto his shoulders, holding on for dear life as he fucks you harder and faster. Hitting every spot inside of you that you never knew existed.

He leans up, taking one of your nipples in his mouth and sucking on it as he fucks you.

It's too much. You're cumming again, and you can feel your walls clenching around him, milking him for all he's worth.

Seconds later, his hands are flat on your back, pulling you close to him. He's pounding up into you with a depravity that makes you want to give up every facet of control you have left of yourself over to him.

And then he's cumming again, his seed filling you up even more than before.

He's breathing hard, his face buried in your neck. His body is wrapped around you so tightly, as though he can't bear to let you go.

You feel content. So safe with him. Like you could stay like this forever.

He pulls out of you, and you feel his cum dripping down your thighs.

He smiles at you, and tsks. "Look at this little mess we've made. I'd better clean it up before it gets all over the sheets."

He kisses you once more, his tongue darting out to taste your lips. And then he's down between your legs, his tongue licking you clean.

He's so gentle, so soft, you almost forget how intense it was just a moment ago. But then he's back up, his lips on yours, and you can taste yourself on him.

You fall asleep in his arms, so utterly spent that you can't keep your eyes open.

But you know that you'll wake up to him kissing your neck, his cock already hard and ready for you again.

And you pray to any God that will hear you that this cycle will never end.

@mackenziebrooks (I hope it's ok to tag you!) @romantichomicide95 (sorry babe, you're in my sights cuz you've seen this!) @arlerts-angel @darkstarlight82 @katkusuo @kazutora-kurokawa @southside-otaku @viburnt @bakubunny (this should be next on your to-watch list, Bunny!) @reiners-milkbiddies (tell me to stop if you only want TokRev stuff!) @trevengersprincess (you can tell me to stop, too, if you only want TR stuff) @hanmaslilslut (taking a shot in the dark here - I saw you posted other Haikyu!! stuff!)

[owlyflufff]

one of the best ways to personally understand and write Akaashi and Bokuto’s characters would be to look at official material outside of the anime and manga. By that I mean I really do encourage:

1. Watching the stage plays - it helps a lot to understand Bokuto and Akaashi’s mannerisms and gestures. Even if those two are in the background, it’s nice to observe how they act and the difference between their actions as well, more so how they react to things (example would be Bokuto screaming and hollering when Karasuno scores a point against Inarizaki over Akaashi who simply claps)

2. Seiyuu events - these are certain events that are hosted with the voice actors of the characters in Haikyu!! Often, there’s an extra segment where the seiyuus voice their characters in a situation or story in front of a crowd, it adds unto understanding how Bokuto and Akaashi speak. Considering most, if not at least 75%, of the dialogue in Haikyu!! is centered on volleyball, it sort of difficult to write for the HQ characters when you don’t quite know how they would speak in regular conversations about mundane things, Bokuto and Akaashi being no exception. The seiyuu events particularly the segments where they voice are a really good way of getting a vibe of how they would talk and what they talk about even (especially when the dialogue is not part of the anime/manga)

3. Audio drama - similar to two, audio dramas on the other hand are recorded audios of the characters voiced once again by the seiyuus. It helps in understanding how their dialogues works and how they speak. From what I know, there’s only one Fukurodani audio drama but you can get a good grasp of the way Bokuto and Akaashi bounce at each other in terms of conversation. 

4. Haikyu-bu - Although it’s not written by Furudate-sensei, it is still considered official material under the Haikyu!! franchise which makes the dialogue, actions and personality still tied and true to how Bokuto and Akaashi act in general and again, good resource to understand how they act and speak.

this can honestly go for any Haikyu character! I just wanted to ramble a bit and help anyone in case they want to have other source materials to better their characterization/ dialogue for them, even I’m still trying my best to fine tune the way I characterize Bokuto and Akaashi <33

[neutinya]

Everyone say rip Oikawa. 

This is my “Iwa goes to Karasuno instead” AU and is secretly dating Seijoh’s captain. It’s a revamp of an older piece with the change of Iwa at Nekoma to Karasuno instead cause I think Iwa and Karasuno’s dynamic would be cute lol.

All related works to this AU will be tagged with #Iwa goes to Karasuno AU in the tags :D

[suckishima]

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Haikyuu!! s04e05 - Hunger | When Kageyama and Hinata see each other again

I heard this in my head every time I watched this scene, and I couldn’t resist

[angelsdiaryy]

the haikyu!! boys reaction to catching you listening to asmr of your favourite anime/game character <3

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bokuto. k

“babeeee”, he says walking through the door announcing his arrival home. he’s met with silence and confusion and figures you’re just in your room. unaware of your boyfriends presence you roll around and giggle to yourself listening to the asmrtist flirt with you. “what ya listening to?”, bokuto asks removing your headphones. you scream and turn to face him trying to snatch back the headphones. “whoa whoa what’s up? ya listening to porn or something?”, he says laughing and putting the headphones on. “behave yourself, traveler.”, the voice says and you watch bokuto’s smile fall into confusion. you yell turning off your phone before he could hear more and jump on him throwing off the headphones. “uh-y/n was that-albedo from genshin?”, he asks with a humorous tone. you wish you could crawl into the mattress and just disappear out of embarrassment. “yes”, you squeak out from behind your hands. “what did you do? commission his voice actor?” “no! it’s just an asmr video i found on youtube and got curious”, you confess. he goes to say something but bursts out laughing instead. “koutaro!!”, you exclaim hitting his chest with your fists. he laughs himself to tears before wrapping his arms around you to stop your assaults. “okay okay i’m sorry i’ll stop.”, bokuto says swaying you softly. “don’t ever bring this up again. this is between just you and me.”, you state with all seriousness. “okay fine whatever you want, traveler.”, he says running away from you yelling after him.

kuroo. t

“come on little bird, no one’s gonna see us”, the asmrtist says through the headphones as you do your chores around the house. you giggle to his flirty words completely unaware of your boyfriends return home from work. “love i’m home and i brought food!”, he exclaims holding up the bag in preparation of a hug. but it doesn’t come so he goes looking for you in the kitchen where he finds you washing the dishes. he smiles about to announce his presence before he hears you giggle and notices the headphones. with his curiosity peaked he sets down the food and slips the headphones off putting them on himself. you gasp twisting around to see kuroo making an unidentifiable face. you yell hoping to mask the audio until you grab your phone shutting it off. “uh i can explain-“ “who was that?”, he asks face unmoving. “hawks from my hero academia, it’s an asmr role play audio”, you confess not daring to make eye contact. “i think i would’ve rather you been on the phone with an actual person.”, he says causing you to yell and punch his arm. “you asshole!!”, you exclaim while laughing embarrassed.

miya. a

“oh traveler you are so dreamy”, the audio says as you smile to yourself biting your finger to stop the giggles. atsumu notices you after a while of you being curled up into a ball at the other end of the bed. he huffs wanting your attention before bed so he grabs ahold of your phone playfully. “what’s got all yer attention from me, huh?”, he asks before his face falls short. you yell trying to grab it back but he only stands and holds it above his head. “am i not enough for you anymore? you need another, he’s not even real!”, he exclaims dramatically. your face burns red at being caught listening to a heizou asmr audio. atsumu then laughs seeing your face. “i’m only teasing, you weirdo. i’ve been knowing you listening to this stuff.”, he says causing you to yell. “so what made you comment on it today?!”, you exclaim grabbing back the phone. “i was feeling left out and wanted cuddles”, he says matter of factly.

[recentanimenews]

Businessman Play Badminton in New Original TV Anime Ryman's Club

  The business boys of Sunlight Beverages are grabbing their racquets to go all out in a brand new original TV anime from Aimi Yamauchi, Teruko Utsumi, and anime studio LIDEN FILMS. The TV anime, titled Ryman's Club, was announced today to begin in January 2022 in the NUMAnimation block on TV Asahi and affiliates. The first teaser trailer was released alongside two visuals of the business/sports boys in their respective uniforms, and the lead staff and cast.

    Business suits visual:

  Sports uniforms visual:

  Aimi Yamauchi (Tokyo Revengers episode 9 storyboarder and episode director) conceptualized Ryman's Club alongside Teruko Utsumi (Sarazanmai), and will both be writing the series with Yamauchi directing at LIDEN FILMS. Yozakura Quartet manga creator Suzuhito Yasuda drew the original character designs while Maziro (22/7 animation director) will be adapting them for anime. The rest of the staff include:

  Art Setting - Masahiro Sato (H.E.D. Works)

Art Director - Masatoshi Kai

Backgrounds - Studio KAIMU

Color Setting - Emiko Onodera

2D Works - Gaku Watanabe, Shun Nakajima / Asahi Production Design Department

3D Works - FelixFilm

Director of Photography - Naho Hasegawa

Photography - Asahi Production

Editing - Mai Hasegawa (editz)

Music - fox capture plan

Audio Director - Satoshi Motoyama

Audio Production - Glovision

  Alongside the announcement of the cast, the character art was also released for the boys in both the business suits and the sports uniforms.

  Junya Enoki (Yuji Itadori in JUJUTSU KAISEN) as Mikoto Shiratori

    Shinichiro Miki (Sir Nighteye in My Hero Academia) as Tatsuru Miyazumi

    Kaito Ishikawa (Tobio Kageyama in Haikyu!!) as Sota Saeki

    Ryota Osaka (Naoto Tachibana in Tokyo Revengers) as Toya Saeki

    Tetsuya Kakihara (Natsu Dragneel in Fairy Tail) as Kouki Takeda

    Ryman's Club follows a group of businessmen from Sunlight Beverages who start a badminton team at work as a corporate team that takes on teams from other workplaces. The series is scheduled to start in January 2022 on TV Asahi’s NUMAnimation block.

  Sources: Comic Natalie, Ryman's Club on Twitter

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Daryl Harding is a Japan Correspondent for Crunchyroll News. He also runs a YouTube channel about Japan stuff called TheDoctorDazza, tweets at @DoctorDazza, and posts photos of his travels on Instagram. 

By: Daryl Harding

[girlwithalotoffeelings]

your blog <3

You are so sweet😭😭😭❤️❤️

[carriagelamp]

Since it’s Pride Month, I decided this year I wanted to raid the library for a bunch of different queer books to read. Mostly graphic novels in this case, because I’ve had a hard time settling into much reading lately... thought hopefully now that it’s summer and I finally have my second shot I’ll be able to relax a bit more and dig into some heavier novels again. For now, enjoy some light, queer reads that I indulged in this June.

A Wolf Called Wander

A beautiful novel I had been hearing lots about. This story follows the young wolf Swift, who grows up knowing that he and his pack are the mountains, and the mountains are them. It’s in those mountains that he grows and learns and loves… until disaster strikes and he finds himself viciously torn apart from his family and forced out of the mountains that have always meant home to him. Forced to survive on his own. Swift then begins a gruelling journey that makes him face injury, starvation, and the everpresent danger of humans as he seeks a new place he can call home, and new people with whom he can form a pack.

This is all based on the true story of a tagged wolf known as OR-7, following the unbelievable route he took through Oregon and northern California! It was a very neat read, and I’d definitely recommend it if you enjoy stories told from an animal’s perspective because this book is a master class in it.

Bloom

I decided for June to try to read a handful of different queer books, and this was one of the first graphic novels I picked up. It is a super sweet story and the art is lovely. It’s about Ari, a boy who has just graduated high school and is now desperate to move away from his small town and his family’s struggling bakery, to join his band in the city where they hope to make it big. An agreement is finally reached: Ari’s father will let him leave, if he can find someone who can replace him in the bakery, which is how Ari meets Hector, someone who sees artistry and peace in baking. For anyone that’s read Check, Please, it gives off those types of vibes!

Boule et Bill: Bill est Maboul

Another book of Dupuis comics, because I can’t get enough of them! This one I just stumbled across and ended up reading on a whim but it was very cute. Geared younger than the others I’ve read, but still quite funny. It’s the charming hijinks of a young boy, his dog, and the family they live with. Each page or so is a different stand alone joke, a bit like Calvin and Hobbes except expanded beyond a single strip.

Chicken Run: Chicken Pies for the Soul

This was a ridiculous urge I got and had to follow. I recently rewatched Chicken Run (which is, of course, one of the best movies ever made) and felt the need to see if it had ever been novelized. Well, I found something better than a novelization! This is a chapter book with “advice” and stories written by the various characters, post-movie. It really does a good job with grasping the different characters’ voices and making something simple and funny out of it. It was very cute (and available on The Internet Archive if anyone else feels like reading something ridiculous!)

Doodleville

I picked this up on a whim and honestly, I shouldn’t have bothered. It was not very impressive. Very mediocre, awkward feeling artwork, and a story that only slightly manages to redeem it. The concept was kind of neat, and I did like how the ending came about, the rest was rather… plodding. I did not like the main character at all, her friends felt very Intentionally Quirky Aren’t We Cute :3 in a way that just tries too hard, and… yeah. Meh. It technically gets the “queer graphic novel flag” but it’s so in-passing that it feels rather excessive to give it that.

If you are interested, it’s about a world were doodles actually exist as living creatures that can be drawn into existence (the rather unsettling implications of which is never fully explored). This is all well and good, until the main character draws a monster and takes it with her to her art club... where it begins ravanging not only her doodles, but those of her friends. Together they need to work together to figure out how to stop this menace.

FRNCK v4

Phenomenal. I adore the FRNCK series, and book four wrapped up the first “cycle”, revealing several of the big secrets dogging the series so far, and changing how things are going to be able to run in the future.

If you haven’t seen me talk about it before, FRNCK is a graphic novel (a franco-belgian bande dessinée) about a young orphan, Franck, who’s chafing under the constant parade of uninterested foster parents that visit the orphanage he lives in. Determined to learn about his mysterious abandonment instead, he flees the orphanage… but finds himself tumbling through time, landing among a family of cave-people who rather reluctantly take him in and ensure this modern boy doesn’t die in the strange, dangerous new surroundings he finds himself in. You can get these ones in English as e-books, so if you want a really kickass graphic novel series to read please try these.

Haikyu!!

I’ve heard so much about Haikyu!! that I finally gave in and picked up the first book from the library. And I gotta say, it’s well worth the hype! This series really does capture the best parts of a good sports manga -- which is to say the team is filled with interesting, enjoyable character who all need to learn to pull together, boost each other’s strengths, and cover for each other’s weaknesses. Love me some found family tropes and this series oozes it in the best possible way. And then you also get some very cool action scenes as it makes high school volleyball seem like the most intense thing on earth. I can’t wait to continue it

Queer Eye

I haven’t been keeping up with Queer Eye but I was watching it ravenously when it first came out, and this seemed like a very cathartic book to read… and it really was. It had the same gentle, loving encouragement as the show. It doesn’t expect you to change your entire life, but to learn to embrace who you are, and take small steps to enhance those things. There a segment written (presumably) by each member of the Fab Five, explaining the mentality behind what they do on the show and how you can grow in those areas too. It’s very zen.

Spinning

I got this graphic novel out at the same time as Bloom, but it was the one that interested me less of the two... though that’s just because I have less interest in “real world” slice of life as a genre and this one is meant to be autobiographical. If you’re into that, you’ll probably love this because it really is stunning. Very pretty, and the format and pacing is all really well done. It’s a coming of age story for Tillie as she grows up dealing with a crosscountry move, complicated friendships, a burgeoning attraction to girls, and attending competitive figure skating classes.

This Place: 150 Years Retold

A stunning and heart-wrenching graphic novel told by a collection of different First Nation’s authors/artists, recounting oral histories about the 150 years since the colonialist formation of the country known as “Canada”. In other words, this is a post-apocalypse story, but one that really happened and that entire peoples are still fighting to survive. It’s very eye opening and beautifully told. Very strongly recommend the read, especially if you’re at all interested in history.

Torchwood: Serenity

Whoops, not technically a book. I had thought these were technically audiobooks at first, but rather they’re audio dramas that were played on the radio. Still, I decided to include one because I’ve been listening to them like a person possessed and they’re too fun not to at least mention. Let me indulge in my obsessions.

If you don’t know Torchwood, it’s a BBC series that spins-off from Doctor Who, focusing on the enigmatic and flirtatious Captain Jack Harkness, who is running the covert organization known as Torchwood, which is tasked to protect humanity from and prepare them for alien contact. It’s goofy and campy but also more adult and heavy than Doctor Who tends to get, so it is (in my opinion) a really fascinating series. Though it also has content warnings coming out the wazoo so maybe make sure it’s for you before delving in.

Serenity specifically is possibly one of the best Torchwood stories I’ve ever experienced. The Torchwood team concludes that there’s an undercover alien hiding in the idyllic gated community Serenity Plaza, and so that means it’s up to Jack and Ianto to go undercover as a happily married couple and flush out the alien without being discovered first. Even if it means being sickly sweet together, pretending to care about the local neighbourhood barbecues, and actually caring a bit too much about the Best Front Lawn competition. What is truly magical about this one, is that it manages to make it a Fake Dating AU despite the fact that Jack and Ianto are actually dating in canon. But they’re both used to dating as a pair of alien hunters with insanely dysfunctional lives, and who now need to figure out how to deal with domesticity. It is marvellous.

Wilderlore: The Accidental Apprentice

A middle grade novel that felt a bit like a cross between Harry Potter and Pokemon. It’s about orphan Barclay Thorne who wants nothing more than to be accepted in the rule-bound village of Dullshire, and live up to his apprenticeship as a mushroom farmer. He certainly wants nothing to do with the fearsome Beasts who live beyond the village, deep in the Woods or the sinister Lorekeepers that bond with them. It was, after all, a Beast that had killed his parents all those years ago. But when he finds himself at the very edge of the forest, hunting for an elusive mushroom, he is suddenly unable to avoid any of that. Not when a wild girl and her bonded dragon appear to summon a horrible Beast and end up getting Barclay bonded to it instead. Now, if Barclay ever wants to be welcomed back into his home, he has no choice but to venture into the Woods and find a way to sever the bond imprisoning him to the massive, monstrous wolf now imprinted on his body as a living tattoo.

I honestly can’t decide how I felt about this one. I feel like it’d be a really fun read for maybe a grade 5 to 7 student? I was a bit more meh about it. It was fine, but it was very hard not to draw unfavourable parallels to Harry Potter. But for a kid who’s never read Harry Potter? Or even an adult that has but is looking for something different to scratch that itch, this might be a good book to try. I’ll probably try reading the second book when it comes out.

[sayumiit]

Murase ( Hinata’s VA ) singing “Imagination” from Haikyuu!! by Spyair

[quirrrky]

this is so weird but i didnt know where else to say it. i got high and sent a bunch of my friends audio messages about how much i love them and i started rambling to myself about saying the same things to all the haikyu characters im in love withhh

HAHHAHAH this made chuckle! I wonder who those hq boys are and what you rambled abt them! your friends! xD they might be so blessed by your cuteness that day...they should have recorded for recap purposes <333

[natsumi-no-hotaru]

There and back again: a megane-ko’s adventure

AKA. An ode to six months of time wasted backpacking across Teyvat and counting

Act 1: The call of the wind

[Spoilers for the Mondstadt Archon story, character quests, and past game events] 

It started out innocuously enough, just a game ad among hundreds of tasteless ads appearing on a mobile game that the girl plays religiously everyday. The animation caught her eyes and the sound was automatically mute, unlike those other annoying shopping and body training ads, so she actually watched the entire ad without skipping after 30 seconds were done. What a pretty-looking thing, and not least, playable on mobile, she thought. Skip to a couple more times the ad reappearing on her game. Maybe it wouldn’t hurt to check that intriguing adventure game out, she mused. After all, things were getting a little stale in Animal restaurant. 

Turned out the 100+ MB download was just the beginning, to be followed with 5G+ worth of game data. What was originally a half-hearted bid to satisfy her curiosity at her convenience quickly became an serious contemplation over picking up video gaming after bidding it farewell for more than a decade. This called for a tour of the Genshin Impact website to bring an end to the back-and-forth debate. And true to her character, for all things anime-related, it all came down to that all-time make-or-break factor - you guess it - voice actors.

There is just no saying no to Ayumu Murase, who voiced the inimitable peace-loving Pasha Mahmut of Shoukoku no Altair, the mysterious, cold-blooded yet so human Cartaphilus of the Ancient Magus’ Bride, the ever-buoyant, passionate and so lovable Hinata Shoyo of Haikyu!!!, and Muhyo Toru, the arrogant but fiercely loyal genius of Muhyo and Rouji’s Supernatural Investigation Bureau.

… And Kouki Uchiyama, who lent his voice to Yuri Plisetsky, her beloved angry teenage son from Yuri on ICE!!, Ruth, the gruff but sweetly protective familiar of Chise from Mahoutsukai no Yome, the jerkish yet dependable Kei Tsukishima from Haikyuu!!!, the chilling and calculative villain Shigaraki Tomura of Boku no Hero Academia, and lately, the adorable, warm-hearted, kakkoii emo heartthrob of Horimiya.

With such a persuasive sales pitch, it was no surprise that she sold her soul to the corporate devil decided to give the game a go. 

…. Yes, it’s me we are talking about.

The protagonist’s world-crossing storyline and exploration of Teyvat quickly drew me in. At a first glance, his flying mascot of a travelling companion, Paimon, looked very cute drifting in and out, but the language option existed for a reason and it was an easy choice to swap English audio for Japanese one. I thought it would take a while to meet Venti, so it was such a pleasant surprise to hear Ayumu Murase’s voice within the first hour of gameplay, with Venti whispering reassurances into the Traveler’s ears and being the literal wind beneath his wings as he took to gliding for the first time. It went without saying that Ayumu-chan outdid himself as Venti, the playful, gentle yet mysterious and elusive bard, someone who’s more than what meets the eyes. My first impressions of Genshin Impact were certainly so far so good, at least on the voice acting front. 

Venti, Teyvat’s very own tone-deaf bard lord of song 

Before diving into my adventures, perhaps it would be good to take a few steps back and familiarize you a little bit with the game’s premise. Our protagonist, (I chose the male twin for his long braided hair which reminded me of my own), is a Traveler from a distant world. Upon his arrival with his twin sister in this new world, they were drawn in to a battle with a Goddess, subsequently separated and sealed away. After an indeterminate time, the Traveler found himself awakened in the continent of Teyvat and ardently sought to reunite with his twin. Thus he set out on a journey to meet with the gods (Archons) in Teyvat, known as The Seven, in order to find clues about the Goddess and his twin. As the Traveler embarked upon his quest with Paimon, new characters began to pop up, tag along and show him the ropes in this world that he stumbled upon. 

Noelle, the knight-in-training, bids newcomers a warm welcome to Mondstadt.

Arriving at Mondstadt, he was welcomed by a company of Favonius knights, all with colorful personalities and quirks. Most memorable were certainly Amber, the Outrider, for her endless reserve of energy and enthusiasm that was neither cringing nor evocative of the manic pixie stereotype (and her simple but adorable costume!), and Kaeya, the Cavalry Captain (I had yet to see a horse in the 2 nations introduced thus far), for his tactical calculations, quick wit, beguiling charm, and his dope outfit. His voice actor (Kohsuke Toriumi) did a beautiful job conveying Kaeya’s duality: the easy-going, agreeable, glib facade that skillfully disarms and provides diversion, and the serious, dependable, independent-minded soldier - both sides are ruled by his special brand of cold, detached rationality. To use the Traveler’s own words, Kaeya’s actions may well be interpreted as “flirting with the dark side”, but truly, other than Jean, the de facto leader of the Knights, there is no one more protective of Mondstadt than Kaeya (for now at least). 

If you ever need me, let me know. Let’s not make this a transaction relationship.

[Kaeya to the Traveler, on Employment Relationship]

As much as I enjoyed Kaeya’s convenient and easy-to-use skills, it did not take long for me to put the Cavalry Captain on the shelf. My judgement was then overly influenced by the opinions of others, particularly the tier lists of gaming sites, most of which consigned Kaeya’s usefulness to that of building bridges (he can freeze water to make walkways). Given the nature of gacha games (lottery to get high-tier characters and weapons) and GI’s gameplay which overly favors DPS (high-damage) characters, offense over defense, it seems to be no great loss to relegate free-to-play characters to the benches, all the more so if one only seeks to get the big numbers ASAP and is ready to pay for higher ranked characters via gacha pulls. About a week of playing, I got my first 5-star character, Qiqi, offense healer extraordinaire, and Kaeya lost his position in my party. So much for claiming to be Kaeya’s biggest fan, oh heartless me.

I am Qiqi. I am a zombie. I forgot what comes next.

It was around this time (early November) that my coworker friends joined me in Teyvat. Both are veteran gamers so they quickly caught up to where I was (which was not that far ahead) and soon overtook me in both level and mastery of gameplay, to the surprise of no one (lol). I may have come to GI for the single-player experience (with none of the PvP pay-to-win stuff that made the 2000s MMORPGs I played so cancerous) but the company is much, much appreciated. There’s just nothing like playing the same game with a tight group of friends, laughing over silly but oh-so-accurate memes, helping each other (read: me) out with crazy daily commissions (seriously Ellin the wannabe knight, how the archon do you expect to learn the technique of felling 5 wooden dummies in one go as executed by 5-star characters?), commiserating over red ping (too many players on the server at the same time), and amusing ourselves with my spectacular fails (if I had an Acquainted Fate aka. lottery pull for every time I fell down a cliff, a mountain ledge, a domain’s platform… I would definitely have Diluc C6 by now) and general tomfoolery (innumerable attempts to bouken da bouken poor Benny from the peaks of Dragonspine by L-kun, and my obsession with shooting down all manners of poultry). Without them, I would still be fumbling around with under-leveled characters and ineffective team compositions (party of 4 characters). I would have given up on all sort of bosses and challenges, and might very well have quit the game by now.

… Actually, my wallet may thank me for it, even if I’m no where near a whale (just a baby dolphin?) but I digress.

Benny, the unluckiest (and most self-depreciating) adventurer alive

Much as things were getting exciting in game, so was real life in terms of work. The last months and weeks of 2020 were draining in all senses of the word - physically, mentally, and psychologically. One could hardly take a breather, only to get plunged into urgent work again, rinse and repeat. In that state of constant stress and vigilance, I found it all the more tempting to shut out the world in favor of seeking out the oasis that is GI. As overworked and high-strung my brain was, I spent whatever little pockets of free time indulging in hedonistic oblivion. My novels, manga and anime were put to the side, not just because I no longer had time for them but rather I felt incredibly guilty for not writing about the interesting things I watched and read and thus decided on abstinence until I, metaphorically speaking, could pick up the pen again. This, of course, would soon enough lead me down a slippery slope of from which I am trying to make my way up again, through no other way than writing to give meaning to this new obsession. 

My Lady Ningguang, for whom I would go to the end of Earth Teyvat

November came and went like a whirlwind in hindsight, but back then it felt as if the routine of jumping through lit-up hoops after hoops like circus-trained lions would never end. That was all I could recall of what happened in the so-called real life. In GI, it was an entirely different affair - if only time could just slow down a little. So much of the open world to explore, an abundance of game lore (so much of it presented as actual books even) and world quests to delve in, characters to level up and team comps to try out. The arrival of patch 1.1 on Nov 11 (so many ones, now that I write it out lol) introduced even more new features, characters, and Unreconciled Stars, its flagship event. It consisted of a series of timed combat challenges to salvage the strange meteorites befallen upon the lands which, upon direct contact, threw people into deep slumber and embroiled them in unnatural dreams of scaling a treacherous frozen mountain. The accompanying storyline and quests made for an absorbing experience, especially with the subsequent revelation of the Fatui’s (a major antagonistic faction with expansive influence across Teyvat) string-pulling behind the meteor shower and Scaramouche’s cryptic parting words of “the stars are a lie, the sky is false”.

Amber, the fire amazon goddess that captivated A-senpai (my other coworker) from the start

Unreconciled Stars was also the first event that my coworkers and I took part together. The challenges allowed for completion in both modes: solo and co-op (as in cooperation with other players), with different levels of difficulty and rewards. To put it simple, my coworkers could go solo, even at the highest difficulty, but I could only manage the lowest. Besides the classic mistake in allocating resources (spreading them across all characters instead of prioritizing a few) which made it incredibly hard to have strong characters and teams, my game play also suffered from weak hand-eye coordination (it took me forever to learn dashing, and dodging is at times near mission impossible with my laptop's processing speed) and a general reluctance to try and figure out the more challenging portions of the game (let’s just say my first fight with Dvalin was long, long overdue). So, to get any meaningful amount of loot, I had to enlist my coworkers’ help. They were, of course, perfectly ready to lend a helping hand. It was so much fun to fight alongside them one battle after another, with A-senpai commandeering Amber as if she was a 5-star character (she was damn good), and L-kun’s newly gacha-ed Childe brandishing his envious bow and dagger combo. Things went swimmingly; all of us cleared shop, got the level-up materials we needed and obtained Fischl, the Prinzessin de Veruiteilung (in the case of L-kun, a Constellation of Fischl - think of it as a character upgrade). All’s well that ended well, right?

Fischl: Ozzie, my dear familiar… Oz: “Ozzie?” What’s gotten into you… Fischl: Her Majesty beseeches you to unfurl your blessèd wings, and with them blot out the heavens, plunging the world into eternal night… Oz: If you didn’t bring your parasol with you, that’s your own fault, mein Fräulein!

[Fischl and her familiar, Oz the Raven, on When the Sun is Out]

There was no doubt at all that I was having the time of my life in GI, playing alongside my incredibly supportive coworkers. Yet, as the fun doubled and tripled, tendrils of frustration crept in. Why am I so bad at this game? Why am I not good enough to handle these challenges by myself? Much as I tried to squash these thoughts of self-doubt and inferiority, they kept cropping up and tainted my enjoyment of the game and the company of my coworkers. L-kun’s constant reassurance that it was fine for me to rely on others’ help to get by until I had more resources and stronger characters, did not make me feel better for long. A-senpai often reminded me to not rush because games like GI are supposed to be a long run unless you are a whale, along with a plethora of insightful observations about the various “gates” that GI put in to slow the progress of gamers due to the limited initial game content. Simply put, if gamers can easily gain adequate experience from grinding to level up characters like any other game, freely farm leylines for experience cards, and domains for artifacts and materials without having to use the daily pittance of resins to obtain rewards, and/or have better rates of gaining decent artifacts (equipment for characters), most gamers will finish all the available content too quickly and quit the game before the next update. Yet, be it logical appeal or friendly support, neither could fully convince me to stop comparing myself to them, to not envy their skills (and feel bad about my own sad incompetence), and to just enjoy the journey, without overthinking about the destination. Ironically enough, I came to GI to get away from the stress of work and the ennui of yet-unrealized dreams, yet somehow I ended up with even more baggage. 

Xingqiu is one of the few characters whom I instantly fell in love with at the character trial. His Hydro blades are the heights of effortless and functional elegance. Be they swirl around him for protection or perform a volley of multiple slashes, they are absolutely mesmerizing in their deadly ease.

Thankfully, I was not doomed to languish in the depths of inferiority complex and disheartenment. December brought with it the brisk Northeastern winds, the comfort of bundling up in warm layers, and the end of a much tumultuous year. Though our workload lessened at a much slower pace than expected, a weight was nonetheless lifted off our shoulders. Less work, more GI led to a greater awareness and recognition of the unhealthy one-sided competition that turned GI into some alternate version of work, where instead of enjoying some peace of mind, I still forced myself to meet some absurdly high standards from god knows where. I wonder what was so wrong with getting help from peers with more gaming experience than I do? If spending some money now and then (reasonably and within my means) would make GI more enjoyable and less of a steep climb, why not? It’s my gaming experience, why should I be concerned with anyone’s assessment? Female gamer or not (yes, A-senpai, the teasing stung quite a bit, light-hearted and brief it was), I should be committed to GI, if and only if I can fully enjoy myself without pressure of any kind. 

When I run with you, when I hunt with you, I am happy. With you, I am not a wolf, I am not a boy, I am just me. I am Razor. Because you are my friend. You are my Lupical. I hope you feel happy, too!

This epiphany came about as I read this Vice article on cultivating a healthier relationship with GI and gacha games in general. There was nothing in it that my coworkers had not said at different previous occasions but having the entirety of it slapped on my face finally released me from the all-consuming competitive mode. I resolved to improve at my own pace, to stop shying from solo boss challenges, and to give myself credit where it’s due. Considering the insane lags my laptop got when heated, it was a huge achievement to even get as far as I did, or so my coworkers kindly reassured me. It is for sure an exercise in masochism (not the pleasurable kind) to play bow wielders on my laptop. With my coworkers’ support and encouragement, I disabused myself of the notion of being too dumb for GI and bade farewell to my insecure and hypercompetitive self, cos here came the brand new Altair!

Noelle, the ever faithful maid knight, whose tireless strength, sky-high sense of responsibility and caring heart make her the equal of 100 knights put together. 

Armed with new resolve to play at my own pace, I decided to stay at Adventure Rank 35 and not ascend to keep my world level (which dictates the difficulty of mob and boss) more manageable for gathering resources to strengthen my characters. My roster had expanded quite a bit, with the addition of Xingqiu, the boy genius disciple of Guhua school of martial arts, and Ningguang, my beautiful sexy lady of Geo, leader of the Liyue Qixing - 7 most powerful merchants in Liyue. Xingqiu’s blades go brilliantly with Qiqi’s to freeze opponents, rendering them more vulnerable to Shatter (literally broken to pieces) by Ningguang’s homing Star Jade projectiles. Add in Noelle’s protective shield and you have the entirety of my then-strongest team. While the mechanics are sound on paper, the actual damage output failed to live up to expectations. My DPS candidates, Noelle and Ningguang, needed at least their first Constellations to unleash their true potential, which could only obtained via wishes aka. gacha pulls. Since their rate-up banner (increased probability) was not available back then, I tried to look for another DPS that is strong right off the bat, even without any constellation. The answer came in the December wish banner, featuring Razor the Wolfboy and Zhongli, the Wangsheng funeral parlor consultant bearing the intriguing epithet of “Vago Mundo”. 

Lupical means wolf home— no, lupical means wolf family. My lupical lives in the woods. They say I am their lupical.

Getting Razor is a no-brainer, considering he is arguably the strongest 4-star claymore user in GI, with normal attacks delivering incredible physical damage. This translates to consistent high damage against most mob, unlike attacks of a specific element whose damage varies with the elements of mob/enemies. Since the bulk of his damage comes from physical hits, even his elemental skills - Electro - serve to boost physical damage. Electro and Cryo combine to cause Superconduct, which lowers enemies’ defense to physical attacks, so pairing Razor with Cryo characters like Qiqi (or Kaeya, when I later on got him off the bench) turns my favorite Wolfboy into a lethal all-purpose fighting machine. 

Osmanthus wine tastes the same as I remember... But where are those who share the memory?

While there’s every reason to get Razor, I can’t, for the life of me, recall exactly why I wanted Zhongli in the first place. Sure, there were factors that certainly influenced my decision: Tomoaki Maeno’s deep, soothing voice (oh hey there, White Blood Cell-san!), my undeniable attraction to Geo characters (the time I spent ogling Ningguang’s shapely calves...) and Zhongli’s generally appealing aesthetics of gold and black. But none of this was the clincher. To be honest, it felt like one day I just woke up and decided I wanted someone who could throw meteorites on enemies and I was not taking no for an answer. And since I used up the last of my free Primogems and wishes on Razor, it was time to uhm... dish out some cash? To use the words of L-kun, “I whaled for Zhongli so much Childe called me to get his whale back.”

A vista of the gorgeous Liyue Harbor

It was late after workhour that I tried to pull for Zhongli, in the company of A-senpai. It was a big step for me, putting money into a game again, something I had not done in ages. To my great relief, I got Zhongli and did not have to spend more than I did (upon the 90th pull, you are only guaranteed a 50% chance of getting the featured 5-star character in the time-limited banner, the other 50% gives you a character from a pre-determined year-round selection of 5-stars). It felt like turning a new page, like receiving a new promise, a kind of reassurance that sometimes I would get exactly what I want, even if real life may never work out so well. And so Zhongli joined my adventure team, and soon enough my ultimate power duo would come to be. 

The sideway-leaning pillar aka. stone stele is actually a skill of Zhongli. Normally, it would be well, planted in a more vertical fashion but when you don’t pay attention to where you stand, this happens. It is a very useful thing, not only as a source of energy in battle, but also in exploring the terrain, but it does give rise to unfortunate phallus-inspired nicknames... which I shall not elaborate here. You can do your own reddit/ youtube search, thanks. 

The arrival of Zhongli, or as I like to call him now, Shouri-sensei, makes it only right for me to take you back to the next act of the Archon Quest (main storyline) unfolding in Liyue Harbor, of which sensei was the director, the playwright and a cast member all at once. Our Traveler, after helping Venti to return his longtime partner, Stormterror, the once Dragon of the East wind, to his senses, came to the Land of Geo just in time to witness the Rite of Descension, a much anticipated annual ritual by which the God of Geo, Rex Lapis, would appear among his people and give them prophecies of economic guidance, setting their business on a good course for the year (sweet, right?). However, things often went awry more often than not for the Traveler. Halway through the ceremony, the King fell from the sky, drenched in blood and dead upon sight, to the utter shock of all present and Ningguang, who presided over this year’s rite. Amidst the confusion, the Traveler would have been taken in by the guards acting on Ningguang’s orders as a murder suspect, if not for the timely assistance of Tartaglia, a Harbinger - a top ranking member of the Fatui. Thanks to the helpful pointers of Tartaglia (Tatty for me, if you don’t mind), the Traveler took to clearing his name by visiting the closed-off abodes of adepti, enlightened and magical beings serving Rex Lapis, to tell them of their lord’s demise and ask for help.

Huaguang Stone Forest, the peaks where the adepti call home 

Returning from the mountains, the Traveler shared his information with Tatty, who, in turn, informed him of the Liyue Qixing’s decision to hide Rex Lapis’ descended vessel and not let anyone see it while searching for the true killer. This would throw quite a wrench into the Traveler’s plans to seek out the Seven Gods of Teyvat (for leads on his sister), which were inadvertently divulged by Paimon to Tatty. Being an incredibly resourceful and sociable guy (to almost make you temporarily forget that anyone of the Fatui would unfailingly be up to no good), Tatty promised to arrange a meeting with someone who could “break the stalemate”, and of course, sought to advance his own less-than-altruistic plans. 

After all, should one wish to pay a visit upon the recently departed, where else is one to go but to the funeral parlor in charge of the ceremony to see him off? 

This is where I will take a break for now and post this ramble, whose length and scope have grown to far exceed my initial expectations since its inception at the start of this year. There is still much to tell about my adventures, now that the chapter on my struggle is done and dusted (could you tell that it was incredibly hard to write?). The next act will feature boatloads of fun, including my Lady of Geo being a total kick-ass, a Samaritan in the snow, the festivals of light and love, and the many wondrous sights of Liyue and Mondstadt! It is gonna be a bit of a long journey so please await my updates with patience? Ehe!

You are not so cruel as to say no to Benny’s super-pumped face right?

Jokes aside, I can’t wait to gush all about my deep deep love for the ultimate Geo duo imo and the rich lore and stories of Liyue! Stay tuned for Act 2: Romance of the Rock!!

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