#hammer-wielding killer bunny

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Hi :) would you write one where ChopTop met the reader the the radio station along with Strech*idk if i spelled it right* but the reader dressed similar to him and was in a band herself makeing ChopTop love struck and just his stuttering getting worst and forgeting what to say witch the reader finds cute maybe it would get slightly nsfw to to the ebd but you can pick its ok if its just fluff :3 *sorry if its to long*

((Sorry this took so long! Gotta love my boy Chop-Top and this prompt not only gave me an excuse to rewatch his intro scene but it also seems super fun! It is a challenge to figure out dialogue for him tho because he’s so bizarre in all the best ways. This one didn’t end up being too romantic but I’ve been thinking about maybe writing a continuation for this just cause there’s so much more I can do with it. So let me know if any of y’all are interested! Tagging: @i-cant-get-with-it

Chop Top meets hippie s/o @ the radio station:

It’s been a pretty rough week at the station. Your good friend Vanita had gotten a terrible call-in the other day. Initially she thought it was a prank, as the men had been obnoxious all day, but even she couldn’t ignore the terrible screaming and shill grating of metal on metal. Not when she saw that article in the paper that seemed to match the call-in. She had told you about the plan she devised with some old sheriff, about playing the tape over the radio. To you it seemed like a bad idea and a great way to put a giant target on her back, but she was insistent that she had to do it and make a difference. Despite your worries, you couldn’t just leave her alone, so you decided to stay with her after that night’s broadcast.

Tonight had done nothing to ease your concerns, angry callers had been cursing out the station and since Stretch first aired the tape. L.G. seemed to be the most upset by it, talking about how much trouble Vanita was going to get into, though anyone with eyes could tell how soft he was on her. Sadly, it didn’t seem like the feelings were returned quite the same way. At least not yet, you thought, as you watched her turn down his offer to grab some coffee with him. Guess you two were sticking around for this “Lefty” guy.

Shortly after L.G. left, you heard the phone ring. You went to reach for it, but Stretch got there first. “Hello?…Hello?…Lefty?” You could guess from her side of the conversation that she was being met with silence. You raised an eyebrow and she looked at you, equally confused. The mysterious caller hung up. “What the hell was that all about?” you asked.

“No clue,” Stretch shrugged, “We get some weird callers sometimes, but-.” As if on a cue, you two heard a small slam from the other side of the station. Vanita’s eyes flicked to you. “Stay here, I’ll be right back.”

Stretch had been gone for a suspicious amount of time, when you decided you needed to go after her. You stood in the doorway of the hall leading to the lobby. From there, you could hear Stretch and a strange male voice, talking manically. “Hi, I know what you’re thinking. This is weird. Hope I can handle it.“ You peered out into the lobby, there you saw Vanita nervously backed against her desk, across from her was an odd man. He appeared to be in his 30s, dressed in patched and campy hippie clothes, the odd look topped off with a shappy mop of black hair and lavender Lennon specs. Though a somewhat tacky outfit, it reminded you of the way you and your bandmates dressed, especially when hanging out around at festivals. He started getting up and moving towards Stretch, and you walked out from the doorframe. Both sets of eyes looking your direction.

“Uhhh, hey man…what’s up?” you asked, awkwardly trying to redirect him. He turned to you, and looked you up and down, face unreadable.

“Wh-Who  the hell’re you? I thought it was j-just the DJ?”

“Well it isn’t space cadet! Who the hell are you?”

“I-I-I’m just a fan,” he turned back to Stretch, “Me and my little brother, Bubba, we listen to this show e-every night.” He turned back to you with a sick grin, “Music…is my life.”

You smiled at that, “Oh? I dig it. I’m in a band myself.”

His eyes went wide at that, and the barely contained manic energy in him seemed to ramp up, “O-Oh yeah? Wh-What’re you like? Something h-h-heavy? Like-like Iron Butterfly!”

You chuckled. Despite him being kind of a freaky-deaky dork, you had to admit the spaz was kind of endearing and a little cute. “Kinda. We’re more like Vanilla Fudge or Quicksilver Messenger Service than anything.”

“Far-Out! So-”

“I hate to interrupt,” Stretch cut in, “But the station is closed for the night.”

The man turned back to her, a strange glint in his eye and a sick grin that made you shudder. “Well, y’see, I wa-wanted to phone in my request but, but I al-al-always get too nervous, y’know?” He paused for a reaction before continuing, “But, well, since I’m here. In-In flesh-and-blood…I figured I could just give you my request now right!

Stretch looked to you for help and you just lifted your hands in a shrug-like gesture. “Uh, sure, sure. You can tell me your request and then you need to leave.”

The man chuckled, and started heating up the coat hanger he was holding with an old rainbow lighter. “Al-Alright…How about Cold Stone Fever from uh, Humble Pie! Or uh…” he picked at his scalp, ”In Da Vidda da Gadda babey. Heh heh yeah…” he turned to you, “Real, uh, heavy stuff, y’know.” You hid a laugh behind your hand, at his goofy smile and the fact that he got both song titles wrong.

Then that menace was back in his eyes, “Or…how about s-something like that, uh, Lefty r-request record you played today? How’d it go again?” You and Stretch’s eyes went wide as the man screamed and growled in mimicry of the terrible sounds of the attack. You looked at each other in mutual fear at this man standing between you and the exit. “Wh-What was that anyway? R-Rambo III soundtrack?” he chuckled at his own joke. “Could you play it again? Or, uh, m-maybe you co-could get me a copy!” He grinned, “You could both sign it. To-To-To a far out fan!”

He seemed to respond better to you so you spoke up, “We, uh, actually don’t have a copy. Sorry sir. But we could, er,  play your other requests.”

Something dark passed over his face that you couldn’t quite place. He looked to the side in the records vault. “Hey, uh, is this where you keep the golden oldies? And mayb-” The rest of the sentence was cut off when the lights suddenly flipped on, revealing a horrifying giant wielding what looked like a chainsaw. You and Vanita screamed, she ran off towards the back rooms while you ducked out of the way into the far corner of the room behind and hid on the far side of the sofa. You heard the man from earlier hollering in pain and wailing at the giant to “Get the girl!” You saw the giant run after Vanita through the door, and you peered out from your hiding place. You watched the man from before scream and clutch at his head. “He dented my plate! My brain is burning! Nam flashback! Nam flashback! Leatherface, you bitch, I’ll…Oh just look what you did to my Sonny Bono wig. Oh, God damn it!”

You listened to the man’s cries of pain and rage from your hiding place as you resisted the urge to help him. Judging from what you could make out from his rant, he was clearly with the man trying to kill Stretch. Oh god…Vanita…what have you gotten yourself into? He eventually managed to get to his feet and began to go through the records vault, muttering something about dogs hunting. You covered your ears and tried to block out the terrible sounds coming from behind the door leading to the recording area.

You heard a door open from the other side of the room. “Hey! What the shit?” L.G was back! Maybe he could get the police and everything would be okay.

“Lick my plate you dog dick!” the hippie yelled, flipping L.G. the bird. It would have been funny if the whole situation wasn’t so terrifying.

“What the fuck you think you’re doing in here, you crazy-looking little son of a bitch? Get out of here!” You wanted to scream at L.G. to run out of here and get help, that these guys were totally buggin and super dangerous. But you stayed quiet for fear of revealing your position. This turned out to be a lethal decision as the man lunged at L.G. brandishing a hammer. “Time for incoming mail!” he shrieked, slamming into hammer into L.G.’s skull, “Ho Chi Minh!” Over and over you heard the sickening thuds through your covered ears. You squeezed your eyes shut but you couldn’t pretend it just wasn’t happening. Hell, the same thing was probably happening to Stretch right now .

You didn’t even realize you were crying until you felt the warmth of the tears sliding down your face, but someone else did. You open your eyes to see the killer’s leering face less than a foot from your own, “H-H-Hey there, rock’n’roll b-bunny! T-th-th-thought I lost ya t-there.”

“Please, don’t kill me,” you sobbed, “I’m, like, really sorry for whatever’s making you upset.”

This seemed to make the man nervous, and he started picking twitchily at the edge of a metal plate embedded in his skull. “I-I…I ain’t g-gonna, er, kill you. J-Just…” he looked around the room frantically, as if trying to find a solution to his problem. He spied the hammer over by L.G.’s corpse and his face broke into a grin. He scrambled to grab it, whipped back around, and started getting closer to you, arms out ahead of him as if you were a spooked animal. And I guess in a way you were. “N-Now do-don’t move or-or nothing. It It ain’t gonna h-hurt.”

Your soft sobs turned into bawling, “NoNoNo Oh God PleasePleasePleasePlease Don’t do this Please don’t do this!”

You noticed some emotion flash across his face that you couldn’t figure out. “A-one and a-two and a-three!” and the hammer fell down on your skull. You collapsed, yet you kept fading in and out of consciousness. You heard footsteps coming through the door to the studio and what sounded like the two men having a one sided conversation. “Did you get her, Bubba? Did you get that bitch? She was my fave…but-but she knew! And now…nobody knows!…L-look what you did to my plate, you bitch!…Y-You got her? Di-Did you get her good?…Slap me five!

You heard footsteps coming closer but you couldn’t see what was happening as you felt yourself getting dragged over to a damp section of floor. “I got some too. Bonus bodies! Look at that beef,” you vaguely felt a slap against your thigh, but it was as if you were made of cotton. “Help me get it out of here!,” said the hippie as you felt yourself be hoisted onto the larger man’s shoulders.

 You were tossed in what seemed like the back of a truck, though you were so dizzy it was hard to tell. Finally you succumbed to your head injury and passed out. The giant, Bubba, left to sit shotgun and only Chop-top stayed by, standing over you with a dopey look on his face. “Don’t wo-worry baby, we’ll b-be home soon,” he gave you a sloppy peck on the cheek and ran back around to the driver’s side. “Alright Bubba! Let’s blow this pop stand!” he yelled, and sped off back to where the rest of the family was waiting.

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A trip to Final Fantasy fan fest 2018

“Should you discover,” says the catfish, “everyone seems to be smiling round me.”

It’s true. This enormous fish individual has been waddling by means of crowds of people that grin whilst they duck beneath the beast’s large barbels. A number of individuals are taking pictures. I peer into the gaping mouth of the fish. Two human fingers immediately lurch out, gripping onto the creature’s lips from the within.

“I’m a namazu,” says Missy Allan, the 32-year-old girl within the costume. “It’s an enormous catfish… they usually’re usually actually dumb-looking, and I really like them… I assumed it could convey numerous happiness.”

Once I counsel that additionally it is barely terrifying, Missy is unfazed.

“That’s part of their pleasure.”

She stretches her hand out of the mouth to supply a parting handshake, her human limb showing from the maw of this googly-eyed creature, like a tongue.

That is the sort of unsettling marvel chances are you’ll witness on the Closing Fantasy XIV fan competition, a conference for the monster killers of the eight-year-old MMO, Closing Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn. A get-together internet hosting 1000’s of gamers (though the passes round their necks insist they be known as “adventurers”).

The web universe that unites these followers is like many others. You discover enormous maps, go on world-saving quests, and band collectively to raid dungeons for loot. You dance round cones and circles projected on the ground to keep away from injury, a display screen busier than an Amazon warehouse staffed by bees. The story is drenched within the cheery anime tropes followers have come to anticipate from the sequence.

However this instalment additionally acts as a vortex for Closing Fantasy paraphernalia. Bits and items of the opposite worlds bleed into it. Kefka (the scary clown from Closing Fantasy VI) exhibits up for a struggle. You may play Triple Triad, the cardboard recreation loved by Squall and buddies in Closing Fantasy VIII. You may gamble within the Gold Saucer, a theme park from Closing Fantasy VII. This final crossover is thematically applicable, as a result of this 12 months’s fan fest is going on in Las Vegas.

Other than having an an overwhelmingly alliterative identify, the Closing Fantasy Fourteen Fan Pageant is equal components cute nerdery and fetishistic cat ears, a conference of moogles and magic. Cosplayers strut round like foam peacocks: a spiky dragoon, a vampiric elf, a moon goddess.

The primary corridor is a pit of noise and color. There’s an enormous cactuar. There’s an artwork exhibition. There’s a stage for internet hosting shows from the sport’s creators. And, in fact, there’s a chocobo racing recreation.

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Within the very center of the corridor, surrounded by followers, there’s additionally a protracted wall the place gamers scribble their names.

Right here, for 2 days, a monk and a samurai who struggle side-by-side in a Free Firm (a participant group like a clan or guild) would possibly see one another for the primary time. However the massive deal of the weekend is the announcement of a brand new growth known as Shadowbringers. The primary corridor fills for the displaying of a brand new trailer. Afterwards, director and producer Naoki Yoshida arrives on stage, quickly joined by localisation chief, Michael-Christopher ‘Koji’ Fox, appearing as translator.

Yoshida is a smiling stage presence with a straightened fringe and fingers coated in metallic rings. The followers know him as “Yoshi P” and there’s applause between each small declaration he makes. At one level, the gang begins chanting: “Yo-shi P! Yo-shi P! Yo-shi P!” Till he redirects the reward to the dev workforce, and the chanting mutates. “Dev-team! Dev-team! Dev-team!” It’s the sort of viewers so charged with unbridled fanaticism that it’ll erupt into cacophonous applause at some good field artwork.

Yoshida goes by means of the upcoming options of the growth. There will likely be user-controlled farms. There will likely be dwarves and pixies and thrilling server redistribution (at this an unsettled murmur grips the gang). There will likely be dungeons and forests and cities and homes.

“And yet one more factor,” says Yoshida, in one in all his many crowd-taunting prospers.

“Blitzball!” shouts a person within the crowd, to in-joke laughter.

No, not blitzball. It’s a brand new playable race. The director reveals this by turning and displaying the again of his t-shirt to the gang. It’s a non-chalant Bugs Bunny. Everybody within the room cheers, as a result of it could possibly solely imply one factor: the attractive rabbits of Closing Fantasy XII, the Viera, are coming to the sport.

They’re placing on a present as a lot as making an announcement. At one level, the president and CEO of Sq. Enix, Yosuke Matsuda, comes on stage (to gasps and cheers) wearing a blue cape, wielding a mage’s employees. A jolly sketch ensues between the Japanese builders, one in all them taking part in an interfering CEO, the opposite a tight-lipped supervisor. The entire thing is sort of a pantomime. Did Matsuda simply announce a brand new blue mage class? Oh no he didn’t. Oh sure he did.

It’s a grand present, designed to tickle the feelings of precisely the sort of one who is keen to fly to Las Vegas and gown up as a moon goddess. However the bards and conjurers of this digital land weren’t at all times so completely satisfied. A few of them keep in mind darker instances.

Closing Fantasy XIV had a poor launch. Eight years in the past, gamers arrived (a lot of them migrating from the earlier MMO, Closing Fantasy XI) anticipating a wondrous new world of monsters and journey. As an alternative, they received a glitchy world of bugs, efficiency issues and complicated interfaces.

The elders of Sq. Enix ordered a full retreat. Naoki Yoshida turned the brand new director. They needed to reboot the entire thing. Three years later, it relaunched, sporting the subtitle: “A Realm Reborn”. It seems to have slowly recovered. At present, there are wholesome participant numbers, say Sq. Enix. Though the latest boast of “14 million gamers” is as deceptive as any studio’s massive quantity, because it contains trial accounts and inactive ones (“Be a part of an indeterminate variety of individuals unfold throughout 66 servers!” in all probability doesn’t lower it with the promoting division).

However these numbers matter little to the die onerous longears and cat individuals of the fan competition. They’re too busy racing chocobos to care, or getting into the “cactpot” raffle, or smashing an enormous hammer in a “take a look at your energy” carnival recreation.

A few of them are reaching out to the touch an enormous reproduction of the sport’s quick journey crystals.

This crystal matches in effectively in Vegas, town of facsimile. If there could be a 1:1 reproduction of Michelangelo’s David in Caesar’s Palace, why not an enormous shard of Aetheryte?

On the principle stage, there’ll quickly be a panel about lore, through which a whole bunch of individuals will assist create the flavour textual content for a brand new beast, with microphones handed round to take recommendations. The ensuing monster is a gargantuan liopleurodon with bone armour who eats tiny kings and wears their crowns. The gang known as it “the Vegetarian”, and based mostly on the laughs this suggestion obtained, I can report with confidence that it was a very good joke.

All of the whereas, that wall of signatures is changing into crowded. At first, gamers wrote their names beneath their server. Nevertheless it’s quickly change into a chaotic slab of cursive, with the severs – Cactaur, Hyperion, Ultros – misplaced among the many names.

On the foot of the wall, there’s a portrait surrounded by flowers and trinkets and snacks. A shrine to a long-eared warrior.

That’s unhappy, I feel, this MMO will need to have its personal Vile Rat, a useless participant commemorated by others. So I ask a close-by fan: who was this?

“It’s Haurchefant,” she says.

I frown. Her-osh-o-fan?

“Haurchefant!” she says once more, as if I had not heard of Jesus Christ.

Haurchefant Greystone wasn’t a useless participant in any case, however an aristocratic NPC knight. And amongst gamers he actually has a Messianic popularity. Within the story quests that pepper the MMO, he dies taking a magical spear for the participant character. And since everybody on this corridor performs the identical story, they had been all personally saved by him. He died, in order that we could stay.

Two Sq. Enix employees come to examine the shrine and its trove of goodies. There are Doritos, Nature Valley bars, half a loaf of bread, a handwritten letter (“I do know you might be with me,” reads one line. “I can really feel it”). There are even some greenback payments. I ask a staffer what they’ll do with all of it.

“We’ll take it again to the workplace,” he says, “and recreate it.”

As a lot love and enjoyable that’s bouncing between the partitions of the Rio, there are grievances too. Occasionally, an MMO will take in the issues of the actual world. In Closing Fantasy XIV, there’s a “housing disaster”.

In 2014, a patch added neighbourhoods full of homes to the world. A dungeon diver may now change into a house owner, as long as they’d about three million gil (the in-game foreign money) of their pockets. However on crowded servers, there weren’t sufficient plots to go round. Shortages imply that the paladins and rogues of this land now collect in residential districts each time a patch is because of add new homes. As quickly because the contemporary suburbs pop into the sport, there’s a literal race to purchase land. Two gamers informed me they solely received a home for his or her clan by exploiting an elaborate loophole. They purchased one other clan and inherited that group’s home, one thing you’re “not likely purported to do”.

“It’s important to nickel and dime,” stated one of many householders.

New suburbs full of homes have since soothed demand, and there are different measures to assist hold the housing market wholesome. Should you don’t log in for 30 days, for instance, your property will likely be repossessed. Nevertheless, it stays an issue, say these gamers.

This isn’t the one smudge of actuality to mark the unbelievable realm. Gamers are additionally working brothels in-game, as Kotaku reported final 12 months. There are pubs and houses populated with scantily clad cat ladies promoting naughty phrases to johns, and making artistic use of emotes to get busy.

“Huuuhh!?” says director Naoki Yoshida after I ask about this throughout a press Q and A. He appears stunned, however it’s onerous to consider the creators of the sport aren’t conscious of this most MMO of participant behaviours. I simply need to know the studio’s place on cybersex for gil. Do they quietly discourage this sort of factor? Or are they completely satisfied to show a blind eye to this erotic function taking part in?

“Can I make a really common response to this?” says Yoshida, through a translator. “In the beginning, earlier than you even begin taking part in the sport there needs to be a consumer settlement that pops up and you should have needed to test it off…

“So inside that consumer settlement there’s a clause that states that something that… breaks the legislation, any exercise or any remarks which might be made that should break the legislation or infringe on any kind of legal guidelines, for these gamers… there will likely be punishment… both that being your account being banned or… some sort of penalty will likely be imposed upon them.”

It’s a strict invocation of the legal guidelines of Eorzea, relatively than actual life legal guidelines (though maybe he’s reminding us of that too). Is cybersex actually that regarding? Even when it’s a consensual encounter between two grownup gamers?

“Regardless,” says Yoshida, “that’s nonetheless eligible for an account being banned.”

It possible doesn’t matter to roleplaying matrons and intercourse staff whether or not their methods are bannable or not, since it could take one of many individuals concerned within the attractive dialogue to report it. However whether or not it’s in opposition to the foundations or not, soiled discuss is one purpose why numerous roleplayers hold logging in. Nonetheless, it’s a really sober and severe reply from a person who, lower than 24 hours from now, will appear on stage dressed in a flashy Kimono and singing an indignant rock track. Sure, the competition’s finale was considerably surreal.

This rock live performance featured The Primals, a band made up of assorted builders. The sound director is on lead guitar. The top of localisation is on vocals. Yoshida appeared as a particular singer, wearing a Kyoto-made Kimono with a white tiger emblazoned on it. There’s something surreal (and but very Closing Fantasy) about seeing the pinnacle of a studio performing what quantities to a really costly session of karaoke. However the crowd loves it. They’re one massive holler, signing alongside, glowing batons swinging in unison to tunes all of them know from repeated boss fights. The entire state of affairs could be cult-like, if it wasn’t so adorably geeky.

With the live performance completed, the fanfest is over and the cat ears have to be put away for one more 12 months. Closing Fantasy XIV might be not the MMO for me. However there’s extra taking place on the earth of Eorzea than I may have imagined. The worship of useless NPCs, the housing issues, the strangers cyber-rutting within the corners of fantasy taverns. But alongside all that intricacy and intimacy is a recreation that calls for the love of holy knights, barbarians and even catfish. Once I consider Closing Fantasy XIV any further, I’ll keep in mind the namazu. It’s massive, it’s barely unsettling, and I don’t actually perceive it. Nevertheless it makes lots of people smile.

Disclosure: Sq. Enix paid for this journey.

from SpicyNBAChili.com http://spicymoviechili.spicynbachili.com/a-trip-to-final-fantasy-fan-fest-2018/

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Close-ups of the UUU The Mad Bunny soft vinyl figure from the Madara Ningen x Milkboy collaboration.

(The dog is confirmed to be Pun.)

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As he promised, there is an ongoing lottery application for a Pink Demonic version of the UUU toy The Mad Bunny. It is restricted to kyo-online Premium members and an email with the form was already sent to those who qualify, which... I didn't get because their emails don't reach me?

Not that I'd necessarily win, but...

The toy, if won, costs 49,500 yen.

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Hammer-wielding killer bunny Kyo in all his glory in the Hyouhaku Flavour backdrop video

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The wholesome-ish friendship between Shinya and Kyo

Their latest playful Q&A in Haiiro no Ginka vol. 100 has prompted me to compile examples of this weird but overall wholesome relationship that Kyo and Shinya have and which is not obvious at first.

Situation #1

In October 2017, Kyo gifted Shinya with a custom white version of a MadaraNingen one-piece. As far as I remember, that article of clothing was not available for purchase in white at all, to the public. And of course, we all know that Shinya prefers to wear white.

Situation #2

I think that in response to Shinya sharing a video of him briefly playing with the minicars that were sold as tour goods in This Way to Self-Destruction, Kyo posted a story on Instagram of him revving up a bunch of mini-cars and persistently making them hit his phone propped up on a counter and displaying a picture of Shinya. At age 43. To which Shinya made an Instagram post vaguely hinting that: "Good children should not play with the mini-cars to hit someone's picture!"

Kyo's Instagram Story "The proper way to use mini-cars" video

Shinya's translated response

Situation #3

In late 2022-early 2023, Shinya publicly celebrated his bandmates' birthdays via emojis on Twitter, and Kyo was the only one to respond, in kind.

Situation #4

Kyo posted a cryptic picture of Shinya's video meeting with Mana in an Instagram Story and he has mentioned on Twitter at least once that he was watching Shinya Channel (the making of the FaFa onigiri).

In the same vein, Shinya took his failed attempt at needle-felting a pink bunny in March 2022 and turned it into a miniature hammer-wielding bunny in October 2022, in response to sukekiyo unveiling their Mosaic Shoujo PV which featured Kyo in the killer bunny suit.

Situation #5

This very old video of Kyo teasing Shinya by pinching the side of his dress, Shinya reacting by pushing Kyo a bit and Kyo falling into a robot dance in response.

Situation #6

The coffee maker. In one of the live talks held during the COVID-19 pandemic at concert venues, Shinya mentioned having a coffee maker which was of no use to him, and Kyo expressed interest in taking it from him. Later, in the Galacaa livestream talk between the two, it was revealed that Shinya had promised to give Kyo his coffee maker, but he never pulled through on that offer. Kyo, sporting a doodled face to hide his own, insistently questioned Shinya on this unreliability when the topic was brought up by fans in the comments. Shinya kind of struggled but ended up explaning that the coffee maker was really useless because of a defect, that it would not have been an appropriate gift anymore. But he forgot to update Kyo about it after he tried to contact the manufacturer. Kyo replied like: "Oh, alright then."

At some point, Kyo took the matter to Twitter, confronting Shinya about it with their respective member photos to illustrate the dialogue, and Shinya replied the same way.

Situation #7

In that same livestream, Shinya is so used to Kyo's bullshit by now that he completely ignores Kyo's doodle face sheet and casually leans forward to look past him and at the interviewer, sat on Kyo's right. After a while of this, the interviewer points out to Shinya that Kyo is insistently staring at him with this disturbing face, which is when Shinya becomes startled and nervously laughs upon realizing that, also making Kyo chuckle.

Situation #8

More often than others, Shinya and Kyo are documented chatting on the chairs backstage while they wait for everyone to be ready to start the show. Maybe there's something to be said of how they are the two members of the band to leave the stage the quickest, while Kaoru, Toshiya and Die stay for a while to throw picks.

Situation #9

Miscellaneous pictures of the two:

Situation #10

Apparently it was Shinya's earbuds that Kyo used to play with the cat (also Shinya's?) in this famous old video.

Situation #11

Other interactions on Twitter include commentary regarding the song battles that fans were voting on via that same website, during live broadcasts from their manager Fujieda on Galacaa. Kyo and Shinya were the only two members reacting to the songs that were pulled out of the box, Kyo sometimes replying to Shinya's own tweets wondering what he meant or outright questioning his preference.

Another interaction consisted in Kyo copying Shinya's tweets regarding the release of their Phalaris album and twisting Shinya's cute comments into hellish versions.

Situation #12

Probably a bunch of elusive comments throughout the years, but here's an example of something that Shinya said about Kyo in a magazine interview.

Situation #13

In Haiiro no Ginka vol. 100, the members were asked to send each other member five questions. Some chose to personalize them based on what they actually wanted to ask of the others, while a couple decided to send the same questions to all, but members were not told who the questions came from. Kyo picked up on that anonymous part of the game and when answering Shinya's set of questions, he ended each of his short answers with a second sentence that can either just be the Kansai dialect for: "Aren't you Shinya!", or in other dialects, translates more to: "Shinya, you bastard!" hahah. From what I saw, nobody else hinted at who they thought the questions came from in their answers. In reverse, Kyo took up two of his five alloted questions for Shinya with the simple statement: "You don't know you're dead yet!", a quote from Fist of the North Star which is highly intimidating as it hints that someone has defeated the character so easily and lightning-fast that they are a dead man standing, their body having trouble catching up with the reality that they were slaughtered. Shinya, in response to that repeated tease, stubbornly replies in his polite and formal Japanese that: "No, I'm not dead." Their Q&A with the other members were not nearly that quirky.

Situation #14

At his SERAPH birthday concert in 2023, Shinya said that his three treasures in life are:

DIR EN GREY

SERAPH

sukekiyo

Situation #15

Kyo replying to Shinya's post featuring a very old picture of Kyo (which was however respectfully hidden by Phalarisu-kun) by pulling out the oldest/youngest postcards of Shinya he could find, also commenting to paraphrase Shinya: "Postcards that probably no one has anymore." His own postcard depicting him peeks from underneath.

Shinya replied to that with: "I tried to look for it but couldn't find it 🥺"

Situation #16

On Twitter, Shinya posted a photo with other artists which he explained as: "Yesterday, we had a birthday celebration for everyone born in February and March 🎂 Happy birthday everyone 🎉🎉🎉"

To which Kyo directly replied: "I wasn't invited." (born February 16th)

And Shinya responded with: "The DIR EN GREY guys are a bit mean 🥺"

Kyo never replied to that.

Situation #17

Going to combine two things considering how long ago they were.

Shinya and Kyo were the first members of Dir en grey to meet, and the day right after I posted this compilation happened to be the 28th anniversary of when they first performed together.

There's also an anecdote that, way back then, no one in the band knew how to contact Kyo because none of them had his phone number, but eventually Shinya just casually revealed that he had it all along and said: "Oh I'll just call him"

Situation #18

Shinya and Kyo are the only members who are clearly dog lovers in the band, while Die and Toshiya are part of the cat team. Shinya used to have a dog (chihuahua?) and Kyo now has Pun-cha. Shinya recently wore a sweater with a dog on it.

Situation #19

In a tweet that Kyo has since deleted, he wrote that if there was one grudge he still held, it was that he never appeared on the cover of a Rockin'f magazine. Shinya also wasn't featured, so he added that while he doesn't have a grudge against them, he has declined interviews and comments for a certain magazine after that.

Situation #20

During their European tour 2024, Kyo and Shinya embarked in a playful spat on Twitter, seemingly out of boredom while traveling on the tour bus. It was funny the way it culminated in both of them forcing the other to subscribe to their fan clubs to find out more. On Kyo's side at least, I didn't see anything related to that on kyo-online for real hah.

Situation #21

Shinya took the time to snap a picture of Petit Brabançon playing on the Yunika Vision screens while he was out solving a game, then posting that on Twitter and promoting Petit Brabancon. " I heard Kyo sing while solving a mystery in Shinjuku"

He also made numerous mentions of the Petit Brabancon posters around Gorilla Hall in his video touring that venue:

... Did I miss any? And there will undoubtedly be more to come!

Thank you very much to shinyaburashka, mementoboni, lamenty45 and degtau for your help!

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Hammer-wielding killer bunny Kyo, in all his glory!

Cleaned HD scan of a minuscule acrylic stand.

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It's a year under the sign of the rabbit, apparently?

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I was sorely disappointed that AMOR did not include a creditless version of the Mosaic Shoujo PV, and if you have been following this page for a while, you know how the rest of the story goes!

So here they are: edited HD screenshots of this piece of anthology that is an overjoyed maniac Kyo dressed in a bunny suit, wielding a hammer!

The meme quote from 13 Reasons Why “That's where the trouble began. That smile. That damned smile.” definitely comes to mind. 

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Me after fucking three months to the day of sukekiyo abstinence, on my way to AMOR. 

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Hammer-wielding killer bunny is... Kyo!