#haruna and aoi event

[ububunes]

I don't like this one very much.

[caramelmochacrow]

yk i was working on a post where i tried to guess the next relations event after the kurumi and miiko relations but ig i was gonna be wrong either way bc there wasnt going to be any relations after that lmfao 🥲

[kalmeria]

btw aoi is he/she/they. to me.

[mana-kase]

yeah...

[zero-on-the-clocktower]

More of me rambling about Star Rail time.

I love Arlan and Yanqing as characters a lot. (Characters wanting to prove themself is a great way to endear them to me.) However, because of them being considered low tier characters in the game (Which I personally disagree with somewhat. I don’t have Arlan but Yanqing has been a consistent damage dealer for me since I got him from the starter banner.), people spend pretty much all their time talking about how they’re useless and how they hate Yanqing ruining their 50/50s and how they’d rather get 20 of the special currency than get Arlan and it just bums me out. Hardly anyone talks about their actual characters, and the few that do don’t actually discuss anything interesting. They just meme about how in the story Yanqing got matched up against the strongest people on the Luofu. Or they argue about Arlan’s age. (I also saw a disgusting meme about him, so I won’t get into that here.)

I had assumed that being free of the Danganronpa fandom and getting into more niche stuff would have kept me away from awful fandoms, and it fortunately has, (Except for how some people in the D4 fandom reacted to the Aoi Haruna event, but since a lot of that was due to bad writing on the game’s part, I’ll let it slide.) but the one time I like something popular, it turns out to have an awful one. I know I shouldn’t have expected less from a gacha game, but I try to hope for the best.

I tried to look for a more curated space but 2/3 of my friends who are into it are very into the shipping aspect (which is a whole other thing I’ll get into sometime) and also the whole building characters perfectly for the meta thing (which I’ll maybe also get into my feelings on that), so they didn’t have any spaces to recommend me. My third friend got into the game because of me and tends to like to just talk about games to me, which I like, but I also like talking to more than just one person. Hopefully I can find somewhere that makes me feel comfortable.

[thrilling-oneway]

whenever people want to hate on d4dj why do they jump straight on "It's queerphobic bc..." as if it doesn't have the best queer rep of any rhythm game out there.

1757 words about queer representation in D4DJ and other rhythm/gacha games below cut

Like there are actual valid reasons to not like d4dj. There's definitely an issue with sexualising the high schoolers, I've made posts talking about it before. But at the same time, if you as someone who plays other of the major gacha/rhythm games is going to say that, you should probably address that SIF, bandori (and maybe enstars? it's been a while since I played) have some dodgy cards as well. Admittedly these cards are mainly old whereas D4DJ is still producing these, but you shouldn't act like your preferred game is perfect either.

But especially saying that D4DJ is queerphobic is so weird. To say that just proves you have no idea what actually happens in the game, and you're just taking screenshots out of context.

Firstly hayakoko. Okay so in the flashback where they get together they said "but we're both girls". Yeah, it's a cliche line that screams 'written by a hetero person', but within the context of the story it's not that bad if a little cringe. Neither Hayate or Kokoa had liked a girl before they started dating, this is literally stated on screen: Hayate says that she was a little surprised to realise that she had a crush on Kokoa. They're baby gay at this point in time. I think Kokoa's an interesting one to point out as well, because she's the one who said the line in the first place, and even after she admits that she likes Kokoa as well and they start dating, the True Love Kiss side story shows her being insecure about PDA in school. It reads a lot like she's had a very heteronormative upbringing, which is very common for queer people. It's probably more common in Japan where they still don't have equal rights for queer people (they don't have marriage equality, same-sex couples can't marry, the exception being if one is trans and hasn't legally changed their gender. and after they're married they can't legally change their gender). Not to mention she goes to catholic school, and as far as I know there's some issues there. So I don't see anything wrong with Kokoa not wanting to be out publicly, and being a bit insecure when she and Hayate confess. You gotta remember they are 15 as well (and ~14 when they started dating). Their relationship isn't going to be perfect, and that's normal.

And then Aoi and her gender presentation. Aoi has always been a very masculine presenting character, and is explicitly GNC, so I can understand that some people were disappointed with her wearing long hair and a ballgown in the Aoi & Haruna Relations event. But the anger some people hold towards this. Come on, how badly can you miss the point? Aoi's gender presentation has been a part of her character since her initial card story. She says she actually used to dress more feminine and have long hair in high school, but decided to change her look because she thought she suited the shorter hair. She also mentions that when she presented fem, she would be told she looked like a cross dresser, which obviously offended her. It's not hard to see that Aoi just wants to be seen as Aoi. It's not about how she presents her gender, she's still Aoi no matter how she dresses - Tsubaki mentions this in the A&H Relations. Nothing was retconned or de-canonised when Aoi wore hair extensions and a dress, it wasn't a sudden unnecessary change. The event explores the fact she wants to try different looks outside of her usual 'princely' one, but she's a bit of a people pleaser and is unsure about it because people associate Aoi with "androgynous good looks". There was no pressure from anyone to be feminine, there was actually pressure the other way. She wore a dress and had long hair for one (1) event, and 2 illustrations. Her most recent card has her in trousers with short hair again. Like you don't have to pounce on it being erasure because Aoi wanted to dress more feminine one time. She doesn't hate being GNC now, she's not permanently feminine now - Aoi being GNC is a part of who she is. Aoi being fluid with her gender expression is a part of her queerness and I don't get how you can miss the point so badly to call it erasure.

D4DJ is genuinely one of if not the best mainstream gacha/rhythm game for queer rep. There's so much more than just this: Tsubaki and Aoi are canonically in love with each other and there was even an attempted confession (they got interrupted), KyoShino have implied romantic feelings, same with NagiHiiro and RinMuni (mainly from Muni's side). Haruna was pretty much confirmed as lesbian during the A&H relations, and has had crushes on two separate characters. Saori's sapphic as well (there's one or two implications that she's bisexual). Having Hayate and Kokoa in a relationship opens the doors to more ships becoming canon in the future. The only negative representation I can think of in this game is Noa, so if you really want to go out of your way to say D4DJ is queerphobic, there you go. Noa likes cute thing, cute girls, and flanderisation took hold quickly to the point of her being creepily obsessed with the ri4 girls and a few others, and literally stalking them. Yikes. Her writing is improving though, especially in All Mix where she just occasionally comments on how cute they are without taking it too far, and they actually let her have other personality traits expressed that had pretty much been forgotten.

My point here is that if you're going to say D4DJ is bad rep or homophobic, you're admitting that your game is worse for representation. I'm not saying that the games in the "Big 3" (proseka/bandori/enstars) are bad by any means (idk about enstars actually I didn't play for very long), but D4DJ has definitely taken some big steps in queer representation that those games are seemingly too scared to make. Having a canon sapphic couple is a game like this is a huge deal, I'm not even sure if it's been done before. And before anyone says "but anhane and minoharu went on a double date in Buddy Funny Spend Time", neither of those pairs are stated or even fucking implied to be in a relationship outside of that event. It kinda just happens in one event, and even then it's still a bit vague on whether either of the couples are actually dating in the event. It's definitely heavily implied that anhane/minoharu have mutual romantic feelings, so they are arguably canon in that sense, just not in an established relationship sense. Bandori has done this as well with PareChu, have them go on dates and be clearly romantically interested in each other, only to never actually be a couple (I know tsumutsumu and reochi have called parechu an official couple, but that's word of saint paul rather than word of god, so take this how you will). Hayakoko is HUGE for this genre, and could mean good things in the future of other rhythm games (especially other Bushiroad ones).

--Break here where I went on a tangent about non-D4DJ queercoding--

Outside of schroedingers dating, both bandori and proseka have characters who are implied/canonically queer. I'll make this short because this is getting really long now and I apologise to anyone who's still reading.

For bandori, Arisa has a crush on Kasumi, Kaoru can be considered as canonically lesbian just from how she's presented, YukiLisa has a lot of implications for romantic feelings, as do MocaRan. Himari is also an interesting case, as she could be read as bisexual or comphet lesbian, it's never really made clear (at least as far as I know, I stopped playing bandori a while ago, and am not up-to-date on story, so anyone who's still reading feel free to add to this or correct me). There's probably some stuff missing here as well.

As for proseka, it actually has quite a lot of queercoding. I already touched on anhane and minoharu earlier, but Kohane and Minori are both heavily implied to be lesbian, An as well (although there's like one or two hints that she could be bi. I can cite them if needed). Mizuki is canonically transfeminine (their gender is unconfirmed), and they have been shown to be attracted to women. ShizuAiri and AkiToya have a lot of romantic implications in their relationships, EmuNene has gradually been getting more and more actually (Amidst a Dream). Ena is implied wlw and Rui is implied mlm okay I think I got everything tangent over.

--End of break--

Regardless of my criticisms, all of the games I've mentioned definitely show how much queer rep has grown and become a lot better in the last decade or so. While not focused on the rhythm game, the first generation of Love Live (2010-16) queerbaited* a fair amount. To give one example, there's an 'interview' with Honoka from 2015 where she heavily implies that she's straight, despite having ship tease with other female characters. Compare that to what we have 8 years later, and you can definitely see improvement. However I think it still needs to be addressed that what we have isn't perfect, and it probably will take while to get to a point where we can have more openly queer characters/couples, especially considering Japan as a country (and american/else localisation teams). But I think more people need to recognise how important D4DJ is for queer representation within this genre. It's really not common to have queer romance and gender presentation be directly addressed and frequently shown, and not just for the sake of making money.

I'm bad at ending essays.

* Queerbaiting - intentionally and maliciously leading a queer audience to believe they will receive representation which is then not provided. Whether the rhythm games mentioned do this or not is... debatable? It's done for the money which ticks the intentionally malicious box, queer people aren't for capitalising on. But a good amount of the time it's done to bait straight people who like yuri/yaoi. I do think it's queerbait though like heavily ship teasing a couple and then throwing in a line to imply one of them is straight definitely queerbaiting. april edit: it took me over a month to realise that there were words missing in that last sentence sorry about that. hi anyone who's reading this in the future

[d4dj-popularity-tournament]

With the bottom 8 girls having settled for the last 4 spots, it's time now for the main event. We begin our 6 week journey in earnest now as the full bracket opens up.

Starting in the same #2 spot as last year, will the previous champion Rika repeat?

Or will the new #1 Kyoko push through after being knocked out of last year's Final 4?

Last year's runner up Tsubaki has dropped down to the #4 spot, can she make another run at the championship or is her slide a sign of an early knockout?

Meanwhile last year's Cinderella Kokoa, who made a run from her #27 spot all the way to the region final, finds herself with a much higher #16 spot. Wil that higher ranking turn into another run, maybe even to the championship? It'll mean going through Kyoko, her eliminator and new top dog, much earlier in the tournament.

Or will a new Cinderella rise from the lower ranks to challenge one of the top spots?

All these questions and more will be answered, and it all start now!

In the Peaky P-key region we have

#1 Kyoko Yamate vs #32 Yuka Jennifer Sasago

#16 Kokoa Shinomiya vs #17 Maho Akashi

#8 Aoi Miyake vs #25 Weronika

#9 Muni Ohnaruto vs #24 Lumina Ichihoshi

In the Merm4id region we have

#2 Seto Rika vs #31 Miiko Takeshita

#15 Towa Hanamaki vs #18 Marika Mizushima

#7 Noa Fukushima vs #26 Ibuki Niijima

#10 Rinku Aimoto vs #23 Nagisa Tsukimiyama

In the RONDO region we have

#4 Tsubaki Aoyagi vs #29 Neo

#13 Esora Shimizu vs #20 Michiru Kaibara

#5 Saki Izumo vs #28 Hiiro Yano

#12 Kurumi Shiratori vs #21 Haruna Kasuga

And in the Unichørd region we have

#3 Saori Hidaka vs #30 Rei Togetsu

#14 Shinobu Inuyose vs #19 Dalia Matsuyama

#6 Hayate Tendo vs #27 Elsie

#11 Miyu Sakurada vs #22 Sophia

[imasallstars]

The cover art for アイドルマスター SideM 超常事変～対立スル正義～ 主題歌「幻想のUtopia」/「安寧のDystopia」  album has been released and the album is set to be released on the March 11th 2023. This album features the two theme songs for the Paranormal Academy sequel event, Paranormal Incident ~Conflicting Justice~

The crossfade of the album is located here

Tracklist:

Tr.01　Gensou no Utopia 　Lyrics: Yohei Matsui　Music&Arrange: Atsuki Okuma (Arte Refact) 　Singer(s): Pierre, Yusuke Aoi, Kyosuke Aoi, Hideo Akuno, Ryu Kimura, Hayato Akiyama, Jun Fuyumi, Natsuki Sakaki, Haruna Wakazato, Suzaki Akai, Soichiro Shinonome, Asselin=Beelzebuth II, Nao Okamura, Michio Hazama, Takeru Taiga, Ren Kizaki, Shu Amamine, Momohito Hanazono, Eishin Mayumi Tr.02　Annei no Dystopia 　Lyrics: Yohei Matsui　Music&Arrange: Yuki Honda (Arte Refact) 　Singer(s): Toma Amagase, Hokuto Ijuin, Kei Tsuzuki, Rei Kagura, Minori Watanabe, Seiji Shingen, Shoma Hanamura, Kuro Kiyosumi, Shiki Iseya, Yukihiro Kamiya, Makio Uzuki, Saki Mizushima, Shiro Tachibana, Rui Maita, Jiro Yamashita, Michiru Enjoji, Daigo Kabuto, Kazuki Tsukumo, Amehiko Kuzunoha, Sora Kitamura Tr.03　Gensou no Utopia (off vocal) Tr.04　Annei no Dystopia (off vocal)

[charismaofobedience]

i feel v funny being the only person i know of who has a d4dj special interest because ill mention random facts or story details like saki being the youngest pm member while the others are on their third and final year or how saori is into "old" age technology like cassettes and how noa is really into theater which makes me surprised she wasn't even mentioned in the romeo and juliet haruna + aoi event and makes me sad since this isn't explored at all or how it's implied tsubaki is a heavy sleeper and doesn't even change clothes to sleep and her fascination with western media or how nagisa enjoys making jewelry or how the towa + noa relations event had them as a myth of birds that don't work without each other or—

[heatwa-ves]

1, 8, 10, 13 + aoi d4dj !!

oh hell yeah aoi loml

utc because I talked way too much here

1. My first impression of them

first time I saw her was when my mutual was doing polls for each unit in d4dj and I saw her initial 4* this one here and my first reaction was just oh my god she's so fine

8. Your favorite outfit of them

oopsie there's a lot here 💖

in order- her host event outfit I love everything about it especially her hair and piercings... the indigo bullet outfit is just fucking gorgeous on her I love when women are reenacting scenes from tragic mafia movies or whatever. 1st anniversary outfit is just pretty I like it a lot and the card for it is one of my favs, the valentine's outfit is so pretty and I love the ruffles and the coat over her shoulders... the 5th one there idr what it's called I really like the top half of the design like her hair and the corset but I don't like the sleeves and the bottom half of the outfit that much.. and finally her swimsuit is there not because it's an amazing outfit but because it makes me so happy that they didn't give her a bikini like most of the other girls and lbr she is a knee length shorts kind of person. AND FINALLY because I've typed for way too long shoutout to her navigation outfit for having like trousers and not the full ballgown skirt like most of the other characters have on their navigation outfits

10. Describe the character in one sentence

"denser than a brick" babes please how can one girl be this oblivious I feel bad for tsubaki

13. Your favorite friendship they have

ooh I love her relationships with all of rondo especially hiiro they're best friends.... [girl who hasn't read prayers will be answered yet voice] and their relations cards... I'm Fine. do you ever think about how they were essentially the founding members of rondo as we know it. thinking about their life before meeting the others. thinking about their first meeting. I'm so fine.

also I like her relationship with a lot of the other djs of other groups particularly saori haruna and maho and I think she has an interaction with shinobu too.. she's like an older sister/mentor in DJing for a lot of them and they all, especially haruna, look up to her a lot and it's sweet.. also her relationship with marika there's one card where they go to a cafe together 💖 anyway I could say pretty much anyone here she has a good relationship with pretty much every character

[ububunes]

[caramelmochacrow]

ok i just read the event story for the current event and i think it's... ok. not bad, per se, but ok.

i wrote my tsubaoi fic before i (obviously) read it and it's. very interesting to find out aoi is canonically a people pleaser (well, considering the fact that she's an amazing dj, it makes sense). her being called the 'queen of yoba' is very very interesting, i'll be keeping that piece of information in the back of my mind for future reference. (peaky p-key & rondo fic might come in the future lol)

aoi liking her long hair is interesting, i think i need to re-read that card story to make sure im not making up some stuff. (my mind likes doing that a lot.)

maybe bc i like masculine clothes more than feminine clothes, but aoi can wear cute dresses and she doesnt need to get her hair super long, hell, she can even get like. shoulder length hair and just tie it up and stuff. (honestly that opinion might get me killed and make me an outcast so im not gonna talk further abt it lol.)

also. like. the difference between the way haruna and tsubaki saw aoi is interesting.

haruna saw her as an idolized version of a person: kind, considerate, caring, and patient. all of those things are aoi, but that's only what she saw. nothing else.

tsubaki, she saw those things as well, but she also saw aoi's fear of bugs, her way of just helping people even if that means she will get injured or make herself lose time, her naivete (denseness), and her stubborn side.

tsubaki telling haruna that she doesnt see the other parts of her, even when aoi showed those parts to her, is soooo interesting.

aoi has an amazing poker face, that is literally her specialty other than making jam and she also has a way with words. so she can just make u forget it really easy.

but tsubaki (i think) is the only one who didnt fall for that.

(or maybe im just reading into this too much. idk.)

also!

PLEASE REMEMBER THAT AOI AND ALL OF RONDO AND MERM4ID ARE LITERALLY TWENTY YEAR OLD 2ND YEAR COLLEGE STUDENTS AND HARUNA AND ALL OF LYRILILY, HAPIARA, PEAKY, AND PHOTON ARE ALL A SIXTEEN-SEVENTEEN YEAR OLD 2ND YEAR AND 3RD YEAR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS.

[seftravels]

HARUNA AOI EVENT AOHARU SHIPPERS WIN

[dangandj-d4ronpa]

DanganDJ Relationships

Can be romantic, platonic, familial, etc. 

Rinku: Makoto, Hina (donuts), Leon (Rinku's chameleon), Chisa, Ryota, Rantaro, Tenko (Tenko thinks she's cute), Kiyo

Maho: Teruteru, any of the athletes

Muni: Chihiro, Kazuichi, Usami, Jataro, Ryota, K1-B0, Angie, Miu

Rei: Kaede, reserve course students, the wealthy, and the musically inclined (Byakuya, Celeste, Sonia, Fuyuhiko, Kirumi)

Kyoko: Kirigiri, Sayaka (singers), Leon (discontent with their Talent)

Shinobu: Chiaki, Makoto and Komaru

Yuka: Any of the athletes, Mahiru, reserve course, Komaru

Esora: Rich students (Byakuya, Celeste, Sonia, Fuyuhiko, Kirumi) or technologically inclined (Miu, K1-B0, Chihiro, Kazuichi)

Ibuki: Any of the athletes, especially Nekomaru, Mioda

Saki: Chiaki, Kazuichi, Peko, Jataro, K1-B0, Kaito

Noa: Toko, Chihiro, Junko, Izuru, Chiaki, Nagito, Kazuichi, Hiyoko, Kotoko, Shingetsu, Chisa, WoH, Tenko, Miu, Gonta

Towa: Hina (donuts), Sayaka (idols), Izuru, Chiaki, Mikan (nurse event), Komaru (Towa City), K1-B0, Tenko

Rika: Leon, Mondo, Celeste, Junko, Kyoko, Nagito, Akane, Ibuki, Hiyoko, Masaru, Shuichi, Rantaro

Saori: Toko, Chiaki, Nagito, Mikan, Komaru, Chisa, Ryota, WoH, Maki, Kirumi

Marika: Junko, Mukuro, Jataro, Kotoko, WoH

Dalia: Athletes, Hiyoko, Kiyo, Angie

Tsubaki: Mukuro, Sayaka, Peko, Maki

Aoi: Hina, Gonta, Leon, Peko, Tenko

Hiiro: Yasuhiro, Sayaka, Celeste, Kyoko, Hifumi, Teruteru, Chisa, Nagisa, Miaya, Monaca, Shuichi, Kirumi, Miu, Tsumugi

Nagisa: Leon, Mondo, Ibuki, Shingetsu

Miyu: Hina (swim), any Luck students, Chisa, Angie, Miu, Shuichi, Kaede

Haruna: Leon, Taka, Mikan, Kyosuke, Juzo, Chisa, Angie

Kurumi: Mondo, Fuyuhiko, Mikan, Monaca, Himiko, Kirumi, Miu, Gonta, Kokichi

Miiko: Sonia, Mikan, Fuyuhiko, Gundham, Monaca, Chisa, Himiko, Rantaro, Kiyo, Angie

Call of Artemis/LMO: Any of the staff like Chisa, Juzo, Kyosuke, Kazuo, Koichi

Michiru:

Lumina: Sayaka, Junko, Chihiro, Chiaki, K1-B0, Kaito

Kokoa: Juzo

Hayate:

Neo: Sayaka, Mikan, Gundham, Kyosuke, Kazuo (Sho), Ryoma, Kiyo, Kokichi

Sophia: Toko, Junko, Hajime, Nagito, Mikan, Seiko, Sonosuke, Juzo, Ryoma, Miu

Elsie: Celeste, Byakuya, Hajime, Fuyuhiko, Sonia, Peko, Hiyoko, Ruruka, Kirumi, Miu

Weronika: Akane, Ibuki, Gundham, athletes

Any of the foodies with any of the foodies.

[otame]

Personally, if they ever come across my AU of them?

Oh they'll feel concerned, both for me and their counterparts.

Cause who just decided to slam unhinged trauma on these guys? (Not me, jkjk ;)

The GO kids? They'll feel kinda sorry, kinda scared(bcs who wouldn't be scared when you find out there's an unethically experimented, family abused/traumatized, mentally problematic, jaded and basically fucked up version of yourself?), and sorta amazed that they have abilities.

The GO adults(Endou,Kidou,Gouenji and Haruna)? They'll feel more concerned, because...

their counterparts in REC? They are basically Murder Drones/FNaF(for Kidou and Haruna) and Mandela Catalogue/Vita Carnis(for Endou and Gouenji) incarnates. Of course they'll feel extremely concerned for them. For varying reasons. But they'll also be baffled when they find out that their four counterparts had adopted, the entirety, of GO Raimon(in REC).

And of course, the Canon!GO kids and Canon!GO adults, when they hear of the 14 years' worth of trauma they went through (I'll list it down for you guys to get an idea)...

(Trigger Warning)

•Domestic abuse, child abuse, child labor, exploitation, S.A.(if you know, you know), brainwashing, gaslighting, sexism, biased religious beliefs, homophobia, transphobia, unethical experimentation, human trafficking, torture, doxxing.

...and once Canon!Go Raimon hears it all, it'll definitely make them question on how the hell then did they handle that weird time of their life(aka Go,Go Chrono Stone, Go Galaxy) without mental breakdowns(ohhhh if they only knew).

But then REC(Raimon Eldritch Chronicles)!Raimon reassures them that past is past, and they're still working on to move on, but it's a start.

Then REC!Go Raimon will distract Canon!Go Raimon with their abilities, REC!Tenma, Aoi,Shinsuke, will fly their canon counterparts up in the sky, REC!Shindou will probably chat with some of the local animals leaving Canon!Shindou in awe, REC!Tsurugi's mere existence will leave Canon!Tsurugi baffled because, not only, is REC!Tsurugi entirely different from him, from how he looks like(REC!Tsurugi's hair is let down, not spiky anymore, it's silky smooth), to his demeanour(the events in REC slowly but surely made him come out of his introverted shell and he is now more open and more softer), to the mere fact that he has children.(Granted, his eight children are technically his clones, but shush.)

Canon!Hayami is even more baffled with the fact that REC!Hayami has a bit more confidence in him self("It's not confidence, it's just spite against my own negativity" he says), the Hamanos are just the silliest dorks there are, Canon!Akane will be in awe of REC!Akane's light bending abilities(she'll definitely try to picture REC!Akane in action, she'll definitely also try to picture REC!Shindou because that man? He is majestic as fuck with his peacock and deer traits).

I can write an essay about this but that'll be saved for another day.

No 'cause imagine IE characters went on the IE fandom. What would be their reaction ?

[putschki1969]

Sword Art Online FULL DIVE 10th Anniversary Event

Yuki Kajiura and her team participated in the 10th Anniversary event “Sword Art Online -Full Dive-”, which was held at Tokyo Garden Theater on November 6th. A rip is already on Bilibili! The YK section starts at around 1:23:00

Keiko Tweet | SAO Tweet | Keiko Instagram

Setlist overture~swordland moon and shadow Aerial fight MC luminous sword a sword of bravery in her heart she has to overcome her fear -- longing -- 蒼穹のファンファーレ : I really like that we got everyone on stage for this brand new song. Feels like a proper celebration. The studio version is not my favourite because I am not a fan of Aoi Eir, ASCA or ReoNa but this live version is pretty neat.

[Date and time] November 6, 2022 [Venue] Tokyo Garden Theater [Participating Cast &Artists] Cast: Yoshitsugu Matsuoka, Haruka Tomatsu, Miyuki Sawashiro, Rina Hidaka, Kanae Ito, Aoi Yuki, Ai Kayano, Nobunaga Shimazaki, Hiroaki Hirata, Hiroki Yasumoto, Inori Minase Artists: Eir Aoi, ASCA, ReoNa, Luna Haruna, Yuki Kajiura, Surprise Guest: LiSA

Participating Members: Yuki Kajiura (Piano) Vocals: Remi, KAORI, KEIKO, YURIKO KAIDA, Joelle MUSICIAN: FRONT BAND MEMBERS Koichi Korenaga (Guitar), Kyoichi Sato (Drums), Tomoharu “Jr.” Takahashi (Bass), Rie Akagi (Flute), Hirotaka Sakurada (Keyboard), Yoshio Ohira (Manipulator) -Hitoshi Konno Strings- Hitoshi Konno (Violin), Tomomi Tokunaga (Violin), Naomi Urushibara (Violin), Shiori Watanabe (Violin), Tomohiro Kobayashi (Viola), Takayoshi Okuizumi (Cello)

■ Official Website: https://sao-p.net/

Live Streaming Option for Overseas Fans

Streaming Platform: Stagecrowd Ticket price: 4,500 yen Purchase period: October 29 ~ November 13 Archive period: ~ November 13