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mefiman · 3 years ago

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Hamato Family’s First Visit to the Hidden City

Story request by @rottmntrulesall. Hope you enjoy the story, bud! ^^

"C'mon, everyone! Hurry up!" Michelangelo's impatience was obvious in his excitement. He and his siblings were finally going to show their dad's relatives for the first time to the Hidden City for two reasons; one: to view the many wonders of the other world and two: to have a formal, proper meeting with Draxum's parents. The latter part had instilled some unease into the Hamato siblings, especially Saki who was wary about stepping foot into a mysterious world and was about to see for himself the father and mother of the "monster" who altered his younger brother many years ago.

"Are you sure this place is safe?" Hamato Kenji asked. Raphael glanced at his uncle, understanding his uncle's concerns. "We've been there a lot, Uncle Kenji! We did encounter a few dangers there before but other than that, the people there don't usually attack humans unless provoked." Raph assured his uncle.

"There are a lot of places to visit like the many resorts and spas if you want to have a massage and ooh, Señor Hueso's Run of the Mill Pizza where they make one of the best pizzas! I know the manager of that place, we're amigos~" Leonardo took the chance to quip in.

"I can't wait to see Grandpa Mons again! Wait till you guys meet him yourselves, he's the nicest, sweetest grandpa you'll ever meet! He's still as strong as he's gentle!" Mikey said happily.

"I wonder if Grandma Chemia has some wicked new inventions to show me!" Donatello exclaimed.

"This would be my first time seeing my grandparents, Arachne..." Ariadne whispered to her best friend, Arachne.

"You've never seen them before?" Her friend asked.

"Once when I was a baby... I haven't seen them for years." The yokai femme told Arachne.

"Alright, kids, you've shown us all that you're excited to bring us to visit the Hidden City, Mikey, can you open the portal now?" Splinter asked.

"Sure, Dad!" Mikey got to work quickly.

Draxum felt a tinge of anxiety inside himself. He could not recall the last time he visited his creators ever since he moved out of home to pursue his alchemy researching, away from his parents' constant arguments, half of which is about their preferred methods of raising him. It was a surprise how those two still manage to live under the same roof despite their obvious clashing personalities. He guessed that they tolerated each other just for his sake. His parents had never produced any more offspring after him and one of Arachne’s parents...

"Hey, are you okay, Dad?" A female voice asked him. Draxum jolted from his pondering to find that his daughter, Poison Ivy asking him out of concern. He just gave a small smile as he ran his clawed hands over her helmet. "Am fine, just thinking about your grandparents." He assured her. He marveled how Ivy much had grown from the last time he scientifically created her with his and Lou Jitsu's DNAs; she being so tiny as a developed newborn infant growing in a liquid chamber to a young lady around the boys' ages. From what he knew later on, Splinter raised her along with the Turtles. Ivy had lived her life at first as a normal human teenager until her yokai genes started appearing. The initial discovery of her origins did shake her world but over time, she had learnt to accept and use them to assist her brothers in their adventures. She was intelligent like Draxum and his mother with his father's gentle, mature nature as well as Splinter/Lou's sassiness. She loved to study on botany and coincidently, her powers involved using vines and summoning plant like monsters at will. She recently revealed her sexuality preference as a lesbian and had a girlfriend who is a fellow classmate and witch trainee/apprentice in disguise. Both her creators and siblings were happy for her. As of now, she was cradling her younger sister, Venus de Milo was giggling and squealing as April, Ariadne and Arachne cooed and tickled her belly.

The group watched Mikey draw a symbol on the wall at an alley. Once the symbol was drawn, an open portal revealed. The Hamato siblings' mouths went ajar, not believing what they just saw. "if you think that's mind blowing, you haven't seen nothing yet!" Mikey grinned. His three other brothers and the three girls each took hold of one of their Hamato uncles and aunts's hands. The moment they all jumped into that portal, they found themselves staring at a massive part of a what seemed to be a huge city. The sky above was unlike Earth's skies; instead it was orange with some brown. The architecture of the buildings there were monster shaped with some tall, castle like structures far away from the city. There were a lot of people of all shapes, sizes, colors and appearances walking, running, passing by each other, buying their needs or doing their usual business trades. The Turtle family allowed their Hamato relatives to take in their first view around them. Saki's eyes were bulging out of his sockets, he could not believe for his life what he was seeing. Anthropomorphic, mostly consisting of animal, everyday objects, monstrous and supernatural like individuals roamed every part of the streets around him, he felt as if he was having a strange dream that defied logic! Nori on the other hand, looked right and left, taking in interesting sights that captured her attention. Underneath a calm façade, Kenji was freaking out internally at the new, foreign view. Hiroki was squealing in delight similar to a child had just discovered a world made of toys and sweets. Her twin, Hikari was a bit calmer than his sister, feeling a thrill of danger running through his veins. Last but not least, the youngest Hamato sibling, Mei's stance looked poker face yet she looked around to see if there were any Gothic like people that she can interact with. The Turtles and the girls grinned, seeing the reactions of the others.

"What do you think? Surreal, huh?" They ask.

"Amazing.."

"Fascinating..."

"I can't believe what I'm seeing..."

"Someone please tell me that I'm dreaming..." Saki mumbled, still not believing.

"No, you're not," Draxum replied, going straight to the point with an indifferent expression. "May we please hurry to my parents' house, I bet they're waiting for our arrival..."

"Oh yeah!" Mikey clapped both his hands once. "Lead the way, Draxy!"

Draxum sighed as he took the lead of the group. Along the way, there were a few whispers around and behind Draxum coming from the city people but Splinter and Ivy took hold of both his hands and gave a comforting, assuring squeeze, making him feel better. Ariadne gave her uncle a comforting hand on to his shoulder. They were soon out of the main city square to a further distance into the woods. They had to climb up a hill for a while until they reached a big mansion residing there.

"We are here at last. My childhood home..." Draxum said, looking at the grassy, serene valley below, reminiscing the times where he as a little one ran galloping around the field, cartwheeling with glee among the flowers and his sire teaching him the basics on how to defend himself the predator way. Both father and son spend their days in the early years, sparring with each other...

"Draxum, my son!" The former alchemist warrior villain snapped out of his memories to find himself being engulfed into the arms of none other than his dear, loving old father, Monsrage who brought his only son into a crushing bear hug which knocked the wind out of his lungs. "How have you been, my little baby boy? It's rare that you visit us but it's so wonderful to see you bring your family along! How delightful!" the older yokai gushed, his bushy tail wagging with unlimited enthusiasm like an excited puppy. Monsrage was rather huge and muscular with perked up, pointy ears, silky straight black hair unchanged through time and a fairly long beard to match. Like Draxum before, he wore a battle mask. He had a significant dark upperlip. His body had different shades of blue just like his son, Draxum when he was armored. Monsrage's eyes were the same like Draxum's. His feet in particular, was a noticeable difference. Unlike his wife and son, his feet were shaped like a lion's paws, fitting for him coming from a predator species.

"Father, it's great to see you... but can you please let go now? I can't breathe..." Draxum choked out, being smothered by his sire's busty chest. Monsrage immediately loosened his grip, apologizing profusely while checking to see if he had accidently broken any of his son's bones. Draxum shook his head, smiling a little. His sire had never changed all these years, still a concerned worrywart. And he bet his mother had not either...

Chemia on the other hand, was greeting the rest of the visitors with feverish energy. She was a redhead with shades of pink for her skin colour and her ears, long and drooped. Her eyes had a little twinkle in them, a part of her eccentric personality and plump, red lips. Like her husband, she wore a mask. Donnie, April, Arachne and Ivy were given a whirlwind hug the moment they came in front of her. Monsrage went back to the mansion with his son to give the new visitors, the Hamatos, April, and Arachne a warm greeting as well as welcome his beloved grandchildren with his signature bear hug and proceed to pepper their faces with smooches which they were delighted to have especially Mikey, Ariadne, Ivy and Venus. Monsrage and Chemia ushered them all into their humble abode. The Hamatos were initially skeptical about meeting Draxum's family but they were soon warmed up to them. Later on, the mansion was filled with guffaws of laughter as Monsrage showed them all baby pictures of his son which embarrased the poor warrior scientist. Donnie, April and Ivy were treated to Grandma Chemia's latest creations. Monsrage himself had a blast, playing with Venus and sparring with the Turtles and the girls. Arachne was delighted to meet her grandparents as a young adolescent, telling them about her achievements, adventures and that her own parents are doing well. The Hamatos became comfortable talking with Draxum's parents over some snack delicacies. Overall, everyone had a wonderful time at the Hidden City.

I had fun writing this! Was tiring but oh so worth it.

The Hamato siblings (minus Lou/Splinter) and Venus de Milo belong to @rottmntrulesall while Ariadne and Arachne are the OCs of @mikeykawaii/@mikey-ho. Monsrage, Chemia and Poison Ivy along with the mention of the witch girlfriend belong to me, @mefiman. I hope you don’t mind me incorporating your girls into this story, @mikeykawaii but I’ve been dying to add them in, especially Ari meeting her grandparents! ^^

#rottmnt #rise of the teenage mutant ninja turtles #rise of the tmnt #tmnt #my art #ocs #baronjitsu #a teeny bit mentioned

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tang-wei · 6 years ago

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Ichinose Guren’s World Resurrection at 19 Volume 1 Chapter 2 Part 1 Translation~

Title: The survivors

Translator: @tang-wei

Raws: My own copy of the LN

The masterpost for the curious, and the translation schedule for the impatient

T/N: Let’s get this show on the road, baby!

Rewind time a little. To a few minutes before the destruction. Christmas night. 10:24 pm

There was a religious organization in the Aichi prefecture, one of the cities where the followers of 『Mikado no Tsukki』live. There was a big forest-park on the outskirts of the city, and in that park, there was a mountain with restricted access. Between the trees. After a couple of hours away at a place without a proper road, there is a torii in the mountain, it seems as if it was worshiping some god, but in reality, there was nothing worshiped there. No, in the first place, this land this park sits on belongs to the 『Narumi Family』 which was a relatively large and enthusiastic family among the followers of the religious organization 『 Mikado no Tsukki 』 . 『 Mikado no Tsukki 』 states that god does not exist, so it is natural god in this torii. But why is there a torii thenー?

"............" Narumi Makoto thought about such things.

He was often punished by being made to tie a lantern to the torii in the woodsーbut why is there a torii, when there is no god? He had not had such doubt so far. This mountain was familiar since childhood, but he did not know the reason why this torii exists. Narumi narrowed his eyes. Light mocha hair, droopy eyes. Below that, a mole. He may just be eleven years old, but from the young age he was told that he was going to become a leader of『Mikado no Tsukki』in the future, and so he needs to train his body. There was a wooden sword at his waist. Today, he was supposed to be training his magic and swordsmanship, but on the way, he decided to run away to the mountains. On the mountain, on top of the tallest Cedar tree that can even seen from town, he looks at the red torii. “.......Hey Shuusaku. What’s this torii doing on our territory?” Then a boy with a calm expression who was sitting at a tree branch slightly below Makoto’s answered. “Don’t think about such things, let’s go home already Makoto. Or else they’ll be angry.” “They won’t be angry.” “I’ll be angry.” “It’s okay if you’re angry.” “Hey, that’s terrible, Makoto.” The boy said in a calm voice. He is Iwasaki Shuusaku. He was also the same age, 11 years old. His parents think that Shuusaku is a good candidate to become Makoto’s follower, but Makoto himself thought otherwise. They grew up in the same place from when they were children, and they’ve been studying and playing with each other. Naturally, they grew up like brothers. Or childhood best friends. One day when he became 6 years old, Shuusaku began to speak in honorific terms, and he immediately disliked it and they fought over it. Although Shuusaku was calling him Ma-chan up till then, he started calling him “Makoto-sama” and said that it was fate and said that he had to do soー and then Narumi punched Shuusaku in the face. ー Don’t be silly. It's not that kind of relationship. You and I are brothers. Narumi said so, but Shuusaku insisted that they did not have that kind of future. For each other, this is the best. Narumi then decided that if Shuusaku ever -sama on his name, he would not talk to him. Once he set his mind to it, he would not yield. To not be led astray by the words of others*- it was the Narumi family's teachings. So he endured it and continued the hard days where he tried not to speak to him. In the meantime, Shuusaku still had the same kind of calm face as before, and still followed him around. Shuusaku has been persistent in trying to get him to speak many times, without giving up. It was obvious that they were always together, so it would have been painful on Shuusaku as well. Makoto-sama. Please listen to me. Makoto-sama. In such a situation I would be scolded. Makoto-sama. Makoto-sama. Makoto-sama. Three months after this started, the days where he did not speak continued, and one day Shuusaku broke. It also happened on this cedar tree on this mountain. Shuusaku said. ーI understand. I’ll drop the -sama. And I’ll stop speaking formally. But I can’t do that in front of your parents. Also, since calling you Ma-chan is impossible, I’ll just call you Makoto. Is that okay? Narumi smiled, it was 3 months worth of patience. ーMa-chan is fine. ーPlease give up. ーNot breaking for 3 months is harsh, Shuusaku ーThat’s my line. I cried every night. ーDon’t cry~ It was that kind of conversation here. And after that, Shuusaku called him Makoto. Thinking about it, it wasn’t a bad idea. Since they were going to be adults soon, it would be better to call him Makoto than Ma-chan. Right now, they are 11 years old, but once they become adults, they will become followers of the Ichinose family who lead 『Mikado no Tsukki』 and change the world. In the world where the Hiiragi family rule, to make 『Mikado no Tsukki』 the best. They have to study and train and quickly grow up, until they were old enough to help. For that reason, Makoto and Shuusaku were practicing in the mountains. There still were some magical invocations that he still could not do, and so he continued to train without sleeping. The reason was because Guren-sama said to follow him. Because at the funeral of Ichinose Sakae-sama, Guren-sama said that he would continue to fight to change the world. That’s why he thought that he had to serve that ambition. Since then, he planned and trained more than ever. Of course, Shuusaku also trained with him. They are brothers, and they will serve the Ichinose family together. Thus, they had to be strong as well. So he brought Shuusaku to this mountain. And in the last few days, undergone training that would have made the old him die if he did itー “Which god is enshrined by this torii?” Shuusaku replied to the question with confused look. "Uh, Makoto." "What?" "When you came to my placed, do you remember what I was doing?" “When?” “5 days ago.” “What were you doing?” “Eating dinner.” “Ah, croquettes." “Croquettes are my favourite, but I only managed to eat two mouthfuls before I came up the mountain.” “Hn.” “We’ve not been home for 5 days.” “Have we become stronger?” “We have to return, there are plans for me, and there’s a schedule for you ──” But Narumi cut him off and said, “With our training plan, I can not help Guren-sama, I have to make it more demanding." “But the trainers....” “I already told you. The curriculum has to be changed. But even as it is being changed, I still need to train.” “Understood. I just want to eat croquette.” “Ah, it’s just that you were getting upset. I’ll buy you croquettes from the convenience store on the way back.” “I like my mom’s croquettes best. You know that.” “Mama’s boy**.” “I’m already 10, yeah? I only see my mother once in a while.” Shuusaku said. Shuusaku’s mother was a famous sorceress named Saki Shien, a celebrity in the magical world, always travelling around Japan. She was hardly at home. As far as Narumi knows, she did very little child raising. The only dish she knew how to make was croquette. So of course, Shuusaku liked his mother’s croquettes. The taste was normal. Narumi had tried them before. The one’s made by Narumi’s family were much more delicious. That’s why Shuusaku was a mama’s boy. Narumi said. “Maybe Shien is in the prefecture today?” Shuusaku shrugged. “She’s supposed to be gone for 5 days.” “Do you want to see your mother?” “Of course I want to see her.” He truly is a mama’s boy. Narumi nodded his head. “Alright then, let’s go home.” “Ah?” “I want to see Shien too. And I want to show my trainer that my magic is better than his now. Ah, I got it! We can let Shien set a harder curriculum for us.” Then, Shuusaku replied. "Mother told me that a good foundation is the most important." “Do you think because you learnt from Shien your spell casting is much better than mine?” Or maybe it’s genetics? Shuusaku always had an aptitude for spells. With the same amount of training, his spells were much better than his. Because of that, Narumi is putting in double the effort to become stronger. “Makoto’s magic is strong.” “Only because I put in double the effort.” “Yeah, yeah.” “Hey, do you think I’m stupid?!” “Let’s go home~” Narumi smiled, put up his hand and extended two fingers. He concentrated his consciousness into using magic, “…………” Once again, looking at the torii underneath the tree, “So, returning to my first question.” Shuusaku also turned to look at the torii. “Do you think the story of God is real?” “Hm.” “God does not exist.” “Well, that’s what we learnt.” The ones to truly follow, the Ichinoseー That was the teaching so 『Mikado no Tsukki』. “Well, then what’s this torii for?” “Well, I never thought about it before, but it certainly is strange. There’s always a god in every shrine. It’s a different realm of powerーbut why is it here in our land. I wonder if there’s something about it.” “Do you want to ask Shien?” “But studying the history of spell casting ー” “Ah, well I need to pass that curriculum. If not I cannot become stronger.” “After all, it is Makoto’s place to become the leader. But for me, as a follower, my magical training is more strength-based.” “Guren-sama is the leader. I will help him.” “Guren-sama said that it was necessary to have both knowledge and a sound mind.” "... Hmー. Okay then. Certainly. You may become stronger while I study." Narumi says, and Shuusaku smiled. “That's why I’m here. You’ll be a good leader, and I’ll be your shield.” “But isn’t it better for the shield to be smart?” “......Hm.” “Then the shield should also study too.” "Makoto just doesn’t want to study alone, right?" “Hehe.” And then Narumi laughed. “Anyway, let’s go, Makoto.” “Okay.” And thus, the two departed.

!! Chapter 2 Part 1 (of 3) END !!

Translation notes:

* To not be led astray by the words of others

I believe that this is an idiom, but I’m not too sure (drawbacks of not formally learning the language rip). But it means to say that Makoto would stand true and fast to his principle (of ignoring Shuusaku), and would not be swayed by anything, the idiot

** Mama’s boy

Oh this is an amusing one. In the LNs, it is written as 'maza-con' aka mother complex. in the western world, this means something much more sexual than Makoto teasing Narumi that he's a mother’s boy, hence I elected to use mama's boy instead of mother complex. Btw, a mother’s boy is someone who absolutely loves his mother to the point of obsession/ idolization. Mother is best, mother can do no wrong, etc. It also comes with the negative undertone that as an adult, the guy cannot do anything without asking his mother first (for permission, for advice etc) and is a wuss

T/N: I haven’t translated in so long... I forgot my own tagging system OTL, I hope ya’ll forgive me, and enjoy these utterly adorable kids (I mean, Makoto straight up ignored Shuusaky for 3 months!!! these kids!!!! U R G H). I’m glad to know they survived the apocalypse, that’s all.

<< Chapter 1 || Buy the translator a kofi? || Chapter 2 Part 2 >>

#owari no seraph #ichinose guren #makoto narumi #iwasaki shuusaku #ichinose guren's world resurrection at 19 #guren ln #mushroom translates

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sambart93 · 7 years ago

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2017.07.25 Yume no 100 Ouji Stage Review

The full title is ‘Yume Oukoku to Nemureru 100 Non no Oujisama’ but that’s way too long to put in the title! xD And everyone tweeted with the hashtag ‘YumeStage’ so hence the title here.

PS. This time the drinking game is; drink everytime I say ‘sweet’ or ‘sweetie’ xD

I saw this twice in one day and I’m super happy I did! No regrets here!

Official Site here Official Twitter here Press Coverage 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 Video Coverage 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 PreOrder the DVD or Bluray 1, 2, 3, 4

Cast and Characters

JEWEL KINGDOM Ozawa (RenRen) Ren as Tiiga Takasaki (TakaChan) Shouta as Rido Adachi Yuuto as Sai

WONDER KINGDOM Saki Masato as Madhatter Takamatsu Kouichi as Capita Kobayashi Tatsuyuki as Heart Iiyama Yuta as Cheshire Cat Uesugi Teru as Machia Kawasumi Bishin as Chrono Takane Masaki as Dormouse

SNOW KINGDOM Yoshioka Yu as Frost Takahashi Rio as Glacier Yamanaka Shouta as Schnee Ensemble: Aoki Shunsuke, Nagome Jin, Harada Masahi, Haruyama Sho, Hino Toshihiko, Ieda Yuuki and Nakano Riku.

Non-Spoiler Review

Overall: Guys!! This play is still playing in my head big style and it’s been over a month since I saw it! I went in knowing nothing about this stage and I just went with the mindset of ‘I’m going to enjoy this no matter what’ and goddammit it paid off. I enjoyed this so freaking much! I really want a second stage too and I’m defo buying the DVD. It definitely isn’t the best Idol Stage there is -- there’s only really one decent song in the entire stage -- BUT the amount of adlibs and the amount of funny moments and how the boys themselves just seem to be enjoying it, really shines through! Because Yume Stage wasn’t so ‘high value’ compared to the other Idol stages, the boys really had room and freedom to just fuck about and enjoy! It really was amazing in terms of how enjoyable it was. Also the story is simple and cute enough that literally anything could happen and I loved the little twists we had! This stage also really let me understand WHY RenRen is so damn popular -- he really stole my heart in this stage! THAT and his cute tiny tushie -- we’ll not get into that conversation just yet. I totally get why he’s popular thanks to this stage. Everyone was freaking adorable! Seriously, this is probably my favourite stage of the summer! It’s the only stage where I was like ‘hell yeah!’ pretty much the entire time AND it’s the only stage this summer to STAY in my brain for so long. I’m definitely getting this BR! Rating: If we compare it to other stages and other idol stages then people would probably rate this a 6 out of 10. But for me it’s like an 8/10. Guys, I can’t stress enough how much I enjoyed this stage.

SPOILER Review

PreShow

This was one I put in for the senkou on a whim… It has TakaChan (Takasaki Shouta) in it; TokiEnta was doing a cast senkou for him so I decided to put in and then I learnt if you went to the two different endings, you got a special good so I put in for two and managed to get both of them! I got the second to last and the final show which I thought was super lucky! So I went and to be honest, I’ve never played the game, didn’t intend to and to be honest, I’m kind of sick of all the idol stages they keep doing so at first I wasn’t all that excited for this show… BUT THEN I saw some of the visuals and TakaChan’s and Bishin’s looked sooooooo cute and even Yamanaka’s visual looked good -- and he;s not even the twin I prefer! Also I realised it had Yoshioka Yu in it, and I love finding chances to be able to support him! So I got somewhat excited… AND THEN the show started and I saw all the dress rehearsal pics and DAMN my excitement went THROUGH the roof! Just on the pics it looked like so much fun! And guys… I wasn’t wrong… allow me to explain….

The Show

So about 10-5 minutes before the show starts, the Ensemble Guys come out and do like a ‘welcome’ skit as well s explaining the rules, and every time it was a little different. One guy was totally hilarious and always did this funny movement when saying ‘I’m sorry’ -- he’s essentially the ‘sumimasen/sorry’ guy. They would also come out at different times and from different parts of the stage. However, we had Harada who would come from audience entrance and down the stairs and I was super lucky because he came past me in BOTH stages! And he’s super fucking cute! I literally fell in love with him straight away! He’s sooooo cute!!!! *dead*

I’m okay... and this is just the Ensemble! So already I was like ‘yes! This is gunna be good!’

BUT as it got closer to the start time, I saw people taking out penlights and I immediately thought ‘fuck.’ because there wasn’t a penlight on the goods list so I assumed ‘ah we don’t need one’ but I wish to god they had been like ‘have your penlights ready!’ I so wanted to join in and I felt super bad and out of place that I didn’t have one! Both times I was like ‘fuck’ but the second time around I knew the songs so I could just clap along -- and I was loud xD In the second stage they should really bring out a penlight -- or at least I need to remember one.

The story for this was very cute:

We have these three countries’ princes who’ve all reserved this special hotel for a certain someone’s (the girl who plays the game) birthday BUT because they all booked the same place; it was triple booked. So they decide that the winner of a performing contest will win and use the room. But some monsters turn up shortly after, of course, and some of them end up being with different groups and are trying to find their way back to each other. On top of that, magical mushroom pixie dust has been released and it’s making some of them become really truthful about their feelings.

So you can see; simple plot therefore lots of room to grow and had adlibs and have fun and boy they had fun!

The story was the most hilarious ON the day I went because that day was Yoshioka’s birthday! So at the end of both curtain calls I saw, TakaChan was like ‘Ren! You forgot the most important thing! guess who’s birthday it is!!! YOSHIOKA! HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!’ He also started singing one of the songs from the stage to him and the audience started clapping along but he quickly got embarrassed and stopped xD Takachan took every chance to say happy birthday to Yuu xD

As mentioned in the Non-Spoiler section, the songs aren’t the best BUT they are real cute. Each Country of Princes had their own group song. My favourite was definitely the Snow Country’s song; it felt the most powerful and it was a rock song and the dance was a little sexy and I feel like they really turned up the volume for that one. They also had all member songs too.

Snow Country’s song is the best! It’s powerful and cool just like Yoshioka xD Also Cheshire lots some fairy dust and it made people honest Which was hilarious! Cos we had guys like ‘I don’t need my brothers– no wait I love my brother! I wanna be like him!’

There was a lot of audience interacting in this one in terms of they go into the crowd a lot and there’s a scene with Tiiga, Rido and Sai talking to the audience towards the beginning of the stage, and they go into the crowd while they sing etc.

This stage really made me want to play the game, just because the actors did so well in making them so damn cute and adorable!!! BUT the fact it’s a vertical screen game, kind of puts me off it. AND my phone really can’t handle another game on my mobile xD BUT it looks really good... I’m a Cute-Kei, I love cute characters; just look at them here! AND they did an Ensemble collab and have Shinkai Kanata! Oh no.... I might start this.

Speaking of characters: Guys I'm in love with so many of them!!! Let’s go through the actors and characters:

RenRen as Tiiga: I finally saw the charm in why people like RenRen today too which isn't good because now I want to buy his Gekkan photobook and he recently brought out his own First photobook and I want to get that too! He was totally adorable in this! I always knew he had an endless amount of energy (just like Ryuji, Ogotan etc.) but he really showed it here. Also he was amazing with the comedy timing and his adlibs were awesome too! He’s so sweet too! During the curtain calls (get onto that later) he was sweet and very sincerer and I liked the way he spoke. His character is very similar to his Ensemble Stars characters. This is both a good thing and a bad thing. This is a good thing because it was character that we all know RenRen can do. he’s also the type of character everyone likes: loud yet lovable and very truthful to himself (most of the time). BUT it’s a bad thing because it was difficult to separate Tiiga and Akehoshi Subaru; at times it felt like I was just watching RenRen act in Ensemble rather than be like ‘no this is Tiiga and this is Yume Stage’ so that’s a little downside. But he had so many good scenes. I really loved his scene where Frost freezes his leg and he can’t move his leg - very well done acting by RenRen there. Another time, in anger he punches the ground then slowly starts to rub his hand which I died at both times.

AND he had his classic ‘why bother giving him a mic because his natural voice is so freaking loud, we can all hear him without a mic’ xD and did I mention his tushie? I try not to perv on actors as much these days but his butt is so cute! I can’t not look! Seriously, if you see the pics of him in this outfit! It’s real cute xD

Takasaki (TakaChan) Shouta as Rido: TakaChan... TakaChan is always an idiot but a lovable one. And poor Takachan, he really tried to sing xD however, just like RenRen, he played a character somewhat to his Ensemble character (Izumi); he had this stoicness about him and this proudness, BUT Rido is a lot cuter and more innocent and I really liked seeing his and RenRen’s dynamic. They were just so good together and TakaChan, being the fail he is, just cracked up a lot on stage while RenRen so professionally kept it together. There was a good similarity and contrast between them. And can we talked about how, although the gloves he wore were sexy, he had trouble flipping pages of books and stuff with them on which was adorable. OH! There was a scene where the three of them (from Jewel Kingdom) had to act out a play - very badly by the way - and RenRen was in charge and yelling at the other two at what to do and then Rido was upset he was playing the villain and got very sick of Tiiga’s demands and controlling that he rolled up the script they were using, used it as a sword, jabbed RenRen a few times but then whacked RenRen over the head, really hard -- it was super funny BOTH times. Such a good moment between them two.

But this little shit with his sexy pictures; look at this:

Kill me now.

Adachi Yuuto as Sai: This one was a surprised (most of them were), he very quickly got into my heart. I wasn’t interested in him at first just because I don’t know the actor but Sai turns out to be this cute, sweet Prince who’s totally adorable (I know cute and adorable are the same). I ended up really liking Sai but he is a little overshadowed by RenRen/Tiiga and TakaChan/Rido’s strong personalities. But he does play the nice middle ground between their huge personalities and keeps the trio relationship balanced.

Saki Masato as Madhatter: Saki is one of those actors who’s very type-cast. You know exactly what his character is going to be like before you see him on stage because he is that type-cast. This one was no different; I totally get why he got this role. His character was obviously, proud and very self-righteous and very much like ‘I know what’s going on. Why should we give up the party room for you’ and stuff. I really liked his fighting style with his stick though. Unfortunately he was one of the lesser ones in terms of stage time so we didn’t really get to know him that much, so I don’t have much to say. But his performance was great and I love the fact he’s the Mad Hatter and his costume was awesome and his fight scenes were great too! He gave what you would expect of him which is good enough.

Takamatsu Kouichi as Capita: This one really shocked me. When he came on stage I thought ‘this guy looks familiar’, and then a few minutes later it finally clicked ‘he’s from Star Concerto!!’ I had no idea both him AND Bishin (also in Star Con) were in this stage! So I was immediately pumped and kept an eye on him. Unfortunately his character also didn’t have a lot of stage time like MadHatter so we didn’t get to see much of him. BUT I really loved his fight scenes. He’s one of those characters who is so powerful he doesn’t need to attack when it comes to a fight. The enemies would charge towards him and he just dodged them so flawlessly and only attacked to deal the final blow. He was such a badass fighter. And I rather love that he had this pipe to s--- omg I’ve just realised he’s the caterpiller from AIW!!! Why did it take me this long to realise Capita = Caterpiller!! That’s why he smokes!! It was really cool that he was just ‘smoking’ it on stage the entire time and never even stopped when he was flawlessly fighting. I really liked his costume too! I think his costume is my favourite out of them all. I just hope in the second stage though, we get more character development and backstory from him because I do want to know more about him. But now that I know he’s the Caterpiller(!) I kind of understand why his character is so chill and passive about all the incidents that happen.

Kobayashi Tatsuyuki as Heart: I was surprised by how much I liked this character. I liked the visuals originally, but didn’t so much find him a priority or of anyone I should focus on. But his character is so sweet! He’s like the Naruko of Yume Stage: Very loud and energetic and rather confident, but also full of heart and always chasing after the MadHatter because he respects him and wants to be like him and thinks he’s the coolest thing to walk the planet. If I remember correctly, he was the strongest singer too. His wig is totally adorable with the little heart mark on it too!

His is another costume I fell in love with and totally want! xD I’m pretty sure this is his first stage too and he did a great job! He always brought great energy to the stage and when he got separated from MadHatter he was cute too!

Iiyama Kouta as Cheshire Cat: This one... as soon as he walked on stage, I was like ‘oooooh who’s this sexy minx?!’ and by god he was sexy! He was probably the best at being cat-like -- and in a sexy way! It didn’t help that he was the mischievous character and it’s because of him, who had the magical mushroom pixie dust, that the dust got out and made people become rather truthful to themselves and to others. Granted he just wanted to have a bit of fun and was without malcontent, and he did spill the contents out by accident xD but it still; caused quite a ruckus and was rather full to see unravel. Also there’s a scene with him and Chrono -- it was part of a higawari (daily changing scene) --where he basically just tells Chrono to do something and Bishin/Chrono literally cannot say no, which naturally makes it comedy gold for the audience. Turns out this actor is actually super popular so by the time I finished the Afternoon show (and with it being the final show) his bromides were completely sold out -- I guess his beautiful pictures in the photobook will have suffice. It’s only naturally he’s popular - he was super sexy and cute at the same time and was a really good sexy cat AND he’s freaking RenRen’s group member so that makes him auto-popular right? ... According to his profile he was in YowaMushi Pedal too?! *googles* ahhh yeah.... that’s him... anyway enjoy this photobook pics of him <3

Uesugi Teru as Machia: I feel really bad for how low my expectations of him was. He was pretty decent in Marker Light Blue (see here) but after my friend said he was like the weak link in TsukiUta, my opinion of him kind of went down a little so while watching stage I was pretty critical towards him and really scrutinising if he did something good or not. I have to saw he had a cute character and I really like how he used his actual fake dog(?) ears when he was trying to get everyone back to their friends and such -- his ears had super good hearing.

I really liked when he was explaining to Frost what his brother was saying from afar and he used very interesting and comical movements. But overall, he was definitely the weakest in the stag. He’s not actually a bad actor but in comparison to all the popular and more experienced actors around him, it was a little obvious he was somewhat newer. I do look forward to seeing him again in Marker again in November though (see link here). I think he has room to grow and improve so it’s not a bad thing... did I justify my opinion enough yet?

Kawasumi Bishin as Chrono: I was interested in Bishin’s character the moment the visuals came out; firstly, he enver plays (full on) cute charactyers and this character is in pink and has bunny ears and his visuals looked so good. The moment they came out I had already decided to buy his bromides. And he did not disappoint in the stage! He was so adorable and his character was great! Esepcially with him and Cheshire Cat’s constrast and their pairing was great! Bishin’s character tried to act responsible and reasonable but Cheshire just went one step too far and he broke down and, thanks to the mushroom dust, he spent part of the play just crying like ‘Cheshire Cat is so mean to me! He makes me do stuff and I don’t want to! He forces me to do this stuff because he doesn’t like me!! I want him to like me!! I want to be his friend!!’ and Cheshire, eventually is like, ‘woah, I don’t hate you. Chill. I make you do stuff because it’s fun, because you always do as I say! I always have fun with you! I’ll stop if you want’ so Chrono got happy again because they really are friends ^_^ Bishin’s dancing was great too! He’s always had amazing dance skills and they shined through even in this stage! And he has so much energy!

Takane Masaki as Dormouse: I fell in love with this little cutie as soon as he came out on stage! His character is essentially ‘I’m always tired so I’m just going to sleep right here... while standing... in the middle of your argument’ and he does! he will literally sleep anywhere! It got so bad, that during one of the battles, they had to move him to the side of the stage so they could fight! And THEN because he wouldn’t wake up, they ended up putting him in a trolley and pushed him around the stage that way! He’s awake literally for like 10 minutes. He’s so freaking cute! His yawns and stretches are adorable too! And he uses those stretches as weapons to attack the enemy towards the end -- it’s cute and funny at the same time that the enemy got beaten by a tired mouse stretching xD I really wanted his bromides but his sold out too! Hopefully AGS will get them eventually so I can snag his and Cheshire’s ^_^

Yoshioka Yu as Frost: And now we’re at this sexy motherfucker. Just like Saki he is very type-cast in his characters and this stage was no different. He always nails the ‘stone cold and arrogant, yet sexy’ character. However, this one had a little bit of a spin when he inhaled the mushroom dust, he became really sensitive and worried and just a super sweet guy. Everyone was really shocked. For those that don’t know, Yu is a super sweetie in real life and I think that’s why he always does this tough, serious, strong characters because they’re completely different to his actual self. So cute to see that little switcheroo on stage. AND the day I went; it was his birthday! So it was really funny that the story itself was coincidentally about birthdays and every time at curtain call TakaChan was like ‘it’s Yu’s birthday! Don’t forget Ren! It’s Yu’s birthday!’ TakaChan was totally trolling Yu and kept telling Yu is was his birthday xD

Takahashi Rio as Glacier: This was another who surprised me. I didn’t expect to like him but as soon as he came on stage, I thought ‘oh he’s cute! And I like his visual and his character development in this is great!’ and THEN I learnt he’s from TokiEnta (same Ent Company as TakaChan, Aramaki Yoshihiko, Tomita Sho, Kishimoto Takuya etc)! So I was like ‘AUTO MUST LIKE!’. I telly enjoyed his character; his character starts off as very closed off and doesn’t really want to talk to anyone or make friends but soon after the mushroom dust kicks in he opens up and is like ‘I want to be like my brother (Frost)! I respect him so much and he’s so cool!’ and soon enough he opened up to Rido who was like ‘I’ll be your friend! Don’t be so closed off. I’ll accept you no matter what’ so they become friends and it’s so cute! His character really grows on me. All these characters in the stage sound very similar but that's honestly because I ain't doing any of them justice. They're all very individual and have their own unique cute parts but I'm just doing a flumsy job of describing them individually xD Honestly!! So this one was a wonderful surprise for me to ending up liking. And then when I saw him at MakiChan's event (review hopefully coming soon on that one too!) like a month alter; he's even more likable as a person! He's so nice in real life -- as expected of TokiEnta actors <3 anyway I'm getting too far ahead of myself. Here, take these pics:

Yamanaka Shouta as Schnee: Firstly, Shouta isn't my favourite twin. I much prefer Kenta even though Shouta seems to be getting more gigs. But he was fine in this! I still can't get over how naturally high their voices are but I quite likes the bratty side he had in this. It wasn't a bad bratty; it was more of a 'I love my brothers and I always want us to be together and I want to be by their sides so don't ruin it!' type of brattiness. He has a really emotional part towards the end of the stage which tugs at the heart strings a but where he explains it's always just been those three and he's scared of someone ruining it which is sweet (yep, keep taking those shots). BUT unfortunately (but fortunately?) I have to get a little pervy again BECAUSE whenever Shouta was on stage; I was just constantly looking at his crotch. The suspenders that hold up his (very nicely coloured) purple jeans are a bit too high/tight and they kind of outlined his crotch section rather... obviously? So my eyes were very much floating to that part of him more than anything else... Seriously, between his crotch and RenRen's tushie, I didn't know where to look xD I'm sorry for the perviness! My old age is kinda making me feel bad when I think this kind of way; 20 year old me would've focused only on THOSE parts but me now is like 'nah, see them for their personality! It's kinda rude to them if you're only focusing on THOSE parts' but my eyes just couldn't help it... am I forgiven?... lets see if I can find a picture to prove my point

And last we have The Ensemble!!

Ensemble teams are seriously becoming my favourite part of stages! For quite a while now (even with HakuMyu and Touken etc.), I've always been just as 'THIS person should do this play' about the ensemble cast as much as I am about the actual main cast in stages. Ensemble are so incredibly important and there's quite a few who very regularly pop up (Ikeda for example has done Sengoku Musou, TouStage and now UtaPuri etc.) and you get used to see their presence and you understand their acting and action just as much as any other actor on the main casting list so even with YumeStage I was paying just as much attention to the ensemble as I was with anyone else.

Nagome Jin: This guy was super funny! When he came on during the '10 minutes until show time' part he's like 'I got my hair permed...I daren't take my hat off! It's atrocious! Please don't look!' but I think it's actually his naturally hair! It was a funny moment. And he's like 'don't laugh at my hair! Don't even mention it!' xD

Harada Masahi: THIS is the cutie!!!!! As soon as he started walking down the stairs during the Pre-10-minutes I was in love! He is completely adorable and cute!! His profile picture does him absolutely NO justice but god damn his twitter is full of beauties! Here's some of them!

I messaged Masashi after the show ended so our little conversation is here:

I wrote to him something like “I really loved the ensemble’s higawaris and all the comedy scenes. I laughed a lot” so he replied:

Alex-san! Thank you very much!! I’m happy to hear those words from you ☆ We really thought through the daily higawaris (laugh)

Hino Toshihiko: He played the main owner/Manager for the staff and he was very professional even when the rest of them were cracking up laughing on stage. His character was strict but he did have his moments too. He's really good looking too ^_^ I liked his performance and thought he fit perfectly as the Hotel Head of Staff or whatever he was xD

Nakano Riku: I think he was the 'sumimasen/I'm sorry' guy who would just apologise for everything and would do it while doing these hilarious things. He either did a robot-like move, or he would hold the note for a very long time (it was so well done we all gave him a round of applause), or he did like a ballerina spin before he apologised; it was absolutely hilarious. It cracked the rest of the ensemble up too! Especially Masashi who was already adorable! I look forward to see what ridiculous stuff he did for the DVD filming day. Also he has a scene where he too inhales the mushroom dust and he does a complete 180. He throws his hat down and is like 'WHY SHOULD I APOLOGISE?!' and storms off while the rest of the ensemble look at him like 'we're so sorry we caused you stress!' and run after him! xD

Unfortunately I don't remember the rest of the ensemble cast *cries*

Extra Notes:

*Masashi just got cast as Ensemble for UtaPuri, so guess who’s going to try for the damn LV so I can see him (and Ikeda)?! I ain’t interested in seeing it for Someya or the main cast but for the god damn Ensemble xD Now you see why I said ensemble have become a major deal for me and my friends, and most likely other fans.

*Nagome and Hino are in the Banchou Boys stage: Amakuhanaize 2 and I was super surprised when they walked out.. I was like ‘YUME STAGE ENSEMBLE?!’ so I enjoyed seeing them in something else too << spoiler alert xD

Okay now that the cast and characters are done... now it’s time for...

Afternoon vs Night Show Differences

AFTERNOON:

The first/second scene we properly have the Jewel country together, they come in from the left side door and into the aisle area; TakaChan turned to RenRen and said 'don’t be stupid!’ RenRen: 'Okay!’ TakaChan: 'I mean it!’ RenRen: ’…okay’ Then he turned to Sai 'you too!’ Sai: 'Me?!’ So Taka and RenRen go towards the stage but Sai turned to an audiene member, 'who do you like? ….. *looks at TakaChan and RenRen* she can’t decide… who do you like? ….. she said everyone!’ XD

During the ‘we’re performing a play within a play’ scene with the Jewel Country; Takachan tried to do a manly voice and ended up pissing himself laughing and because it was still so early in the day and to be honest, most of them weren’t fully functioning yet (xD), RenRen had to look away to stop himself from laughing!

One of the jokes between the ensemble is asking the sumimasen guy how far he could see. I thought they were joking when they said: Where you looking? 12th row. What you see? Nothing.

And then I looked behind; there weren’t even 12 rows of audience for the afternoon show because it started so damn early! Which is sad because this stage is super cute!!

During this show, RenRen and Sai’s actor when past me. Masashi went past me on the left-hand side.

After the frozen leg incident, in the next scene RenRen stormed over to Yoshi and yelled 'you froze my leg! It's still cold! No wait, wrong leg! Right!'

There's one higawari where RenRen goes on his tippy toes cos he's smaller than Yoshi and Saki; in the afternoon show Saki did the same as RenRen and went up on his tippytoes.

Going back to the scene where Chrono has to do everything and anything the Cheshire Cat tells him to; in the afternoon show Chrono was pushing the trolley with Dormouse in it while Cheshire was getting a piggyback from him. When Chrono would stop, Cheshire was like ‘lets swap and I’ll pull the trolley!’ but he would push like one step and be tired, then get a piggyback again while Chrono did a few more steps and literally did that 3 or 4 times. Poor Chrono/Bishin!

During the Curtain Call: RenRen said 'I tried real hard to wake up this morning! I’m sure you all did too. Who does a show at 11:30?!’ and we were all dying of laughter and it was like a mutual agreement of ‘lets never do an 11:30 show ever again’ xD Also, as RenRen was finishing up like ‘okay so–’, Takachan was like 'WAIT! Ain’t you forgot something?’ RenRen was ignoring the fact it was Yoshi’s birthday xD

NIGHT:

MY NEXT SEAT WAS AN AISLE SEAT!!!!! I was so happy!!! And I was lucky enough that Masashi SWAPPED sides for his ‘down the stairs’ entrance so he was on my side for both shows because I also swapped sides!

The second time around was even better!! Also the audiene was a full house so this time the ensemble was like ‘I see the 26th row!’ and they replied ‘there is no 26th row!’ xD

The first thing TakaChan said when he came on stage was ‘Guys I just realised... *looks at his outfit* I’m a spring onion’ and everyone died laughing.

The tippy toe scene: this time Saki and Yoshi both put a hand on either side of RenRen’s shoulder and pushed him back down off his tippy toes xD

Also their sneezes were cuter in the night show when they got the mushroom pixie dust in their system. Guess they woke up by this time!

The group Jewel aisle scene: Takachan: Chokkai suru na! = Don’t you go meddling Sai: You too Rido And then they all proceeded to speak to some guests!! Takachan patted a girl’s head. After patting he was like 'I'm good let's go!' and RenRen replied 'I wanna talk longer!!' he wasn’t allowed to.

I missed it in the first show, BUT the first time all of Wonder Kingdom are together, there’s a bet between Chrono and Marchia! In the night show, Chrono/Bishin walked on stage with the stage’s photobook and bet it. Marchia asked to look at it first and when he did, he was like 'ooooh too sexy!' he won it in the end.

Back to the Cheshire and Chrono higawari: Cheshire was absolutely ridiculous and told him to be a rocket then change into an enemy who’s attacked by the rocket, and then be a rocket again, and then TWO enemies, and a rocket. Bishin was so tired by the end. He looked like he was going to murder Yuuta and was so out of breath.

This time instead of RenRen and Sai passing me, it was TakaChan ^_^

TakaChan cracked up at a totally normal line. During a scene where they’re trying to decide how to decide who wins the hotel room, Marchia suggests the decide via games, to which RenRen says '(Rido) he's bad at this game!' TakaChan reacts like 'eh?!??' but the audience's reaction was so perfect and well timed that it cracked him up laughing, and he had to hide behind the book he had in his hand for ages.

During the curtain call: the second time around, the director came out too and in a prince costume!!

I’m probably missing a crap ton of higawari’s and adlib.

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GOODS

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Quite a bit of time has passed since I watched this and I have to say; surprisingly I think this is my favourite stage of the summer! Even now I’m like ‘damn that was funny! Man that was fun! I want to hear that song again! I hope they do a second stage’ etc and I am telling you know: I AM getting this god damn DVD! That is how much I ended up liking this stage! – I know! I’m surprised too!

Thanks for reading this ridiculous review xD

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Detective Conan File 986 [Japanese to English Translation]

Before reading this, please remember Shinichi Kudo’s childhood case. Remembered? Well that’s even worse in terms of puns and metaphors. I did my best!

Mouri family is in extreme situation!!

Occhan's time to shine!!

[What?!]

K: You realized where they've taken Eri?!

C: Yep!

K: Wait a second! If we'll think about all the places in 1 kilometer area that can be reached by bell chiming of the church near the Detectve Agency...

K: And add that we learnt about Tohto tower from chatting with the criminal...

K: Then by the sound you just made with Soujouji, that is near the Tohto tower...

K: We can get a 1 km area with 340m radius, which crosses both Burokuchou and Suranchou, which I also realized, but...

[Conan and the others keep battling criminals, while searching for the place where Eri is...]

K: Why is she in Sutanchou?!

C: The recent message from Eri-obasan!

R: Err... 'The crab is, half-boiled but makes those two swordfishes, look tasty...This evening, it’s bright let's eat outside?

R: And how...

C: Crabs are black when they are sold, but turn red when they are boiled, right?

C: Then 'half-boiled' here means it's not really red...

C: Which means something, that's usually red, but today it's starting to get black...

C: 'It's bright' is a keyword for the full moon...

C: At full moon nights there's only one...

C: Building that puts out half of its lights...

K: T-Tohto tower!!

R: R-right, tonight half of the lights are not lit!

K: I heard about it...

K: At full moon nights they don't use half of the illumination to let people see the beautiful moon...

R: But what's that 'makes two swordfishes look tasty'?

C: Tasty means 'looks good'... And mekajiki in English is 'sword fish'!

C: Sword can be a blade or a katana, and two of them...

C: Katana, two of them, what does it make you think of?

C: There was a mighty samurai who wielded two katanas, right?

K: Nitoryuu Miyamoto Musashi?!

R: Musashi means Bell Tree Tower's height, 634 meters?

(6 - mu, 3 - sa(n), 4 - shi)

C: Yes! And because of Tohto tower not being lit it makes Bell Tree Tower look beautiful, so...

TN: I swear, it's Shinichi Kudo childhood case all again, I can't deal with those aaa

C: If she can see both the Tohto tower and the Bell Tree Tower...

C: Then Eri-obasan must be somewhere in Sutanchou!

[Oi, we're screwed!]

[The lawyer sent out a bunch of nonsense about crabs and swordfishes...]

[And judging by her daughter's answer, it looks like she's getting close!!]

C3: Even though I impersonated her and spread misinformation!!

C2: Give me that!!

[Ran: We're at Sutanchou, but which building is it?]

[Sent: No-no! Not Sutanchou!]

[Kisaki Eri: I don't know, when I escaped from the suitcase, I was already inside of the building...]

C2: A comma...

C2: She uses the western comma to let her daughter know which messages are hers!

C2: Now that we now it, use comma in messages to her too!

C2: That'll make them confused!

C3: Got it!

C2: Well, even if her daughter will come here...

C2: We'll just catch her and peel her skin...

TN: Ha. Haha. Hahaha.

K: Oi! Which building Eri is in?!

R: No way...

R: Kidnappers also...

R: Started to add commas?!

R: Reinforced concrete?

R: Wooden? Which one?!

[Kisaki Eri: From touching the walls, it feels like that's a reinforced concrete building]

[Kisaki Eri: Don't fall for it! Walls are, made of wood, so that's probably a wooden building]

E: Oh no... They caught on to the comma...

E: So... what do I do now?

[Kisaki Eri: First floor serves as a garage, and there was a yellowish warm grey shutter, I think]

[Kisaki Eri: Grey shutter is, a lie! It's a wooden door, a wooden door!!]

K: Crap! We don't know whether it's a shutter or a door!!

R: No... It's a grey shutter!

C: How do you know?

R: Mom mentioned earlier...

R: That she thinks that colors with animal names look warmer...

TN: Grey is Nezumi-iro, nezumi is mouse/rat, also a case with another cool Kogoro :3

K: Yellowish... Grey shutter...

[This abandoned building!!]

E: Hm? It's them?!

E: Ran! Darling!

E: I'm here!

K: Eri!!

[Ugh]

C2: I finally caught you, cunning lawyer!!

C2: To be honest, we only wanted to make a video where you're apologizing to us while being all naked... But now that you called for police...

C2: So I'll make you unconscious, strip you down, make ero-video...

C2: And will upload in to the internet...

C2: That's what you get!!

K: Idiot... the only one who's allowed to see Eri naked...

K: In this whole world...

K: Is only me...

K: Oosoto!!

TN: Judo move, thanks to vonikay!

K: And now...

K: Sankakujime!!! (Triangle Choke)

K: Who is this guy?

E: A husband who's in a divorce process with his wife because of the domestic violence...

E: He lost to me in court and was really angry...

E: Looks like he teamed with other husbands that lost to be and wanted to make a video where I'm apologizing...

E: By the way, what about other two?

K: Hm?

E: Slim gambling husband and fat cheating husband!

E: They should still be here...

K: Then right now Ran is...

R: Phew...

C: Well... from the point she broke down the garage shutter...

C: It was already a victory...

E: But how did you enter through the window? That's 4th floor?

K: W-well...

K: It was nothing... Don't make a fuss...

R: Yes, right! An abandoned building in Sutanchou!

R: Please hurry, Takagi-keiji!

C: Now that we've called the police, the case is closed!

R: No... There's still one question that remains unanswered!

C: Eh?

R: Conan-kun!

R: The deductive abilities that lead us here... They can't possibly belong to a first grader...

R: So, Conan-kun, it's as I thought - you're...

C: ...yes, right! Just like Ran-nee-chan thought...

R: Eh?

C: Here!

R: Eh?!

S: Anyway! I wasn't even been able to eat because I kept instructing this brat!!

S: Tell this to your mom! Even if some normal clients will come, check properly before opening the door!!

S: Bye!

R: H-hey! Shinichi?!

C: Shinichi-nii-chan was talking to me on the phone! Ran-nee-chan was too busy chatting with her mother...

R: I see... That's why Conan-kun was always holding a phone...

C: Ah? Ran-nee-chan noticed tha...

R: So Conan-kun is... Conan-kun <3

TN: I DON'T TRUST THIS SMILE SHE IS ALERTED ABANDON THE MANGA

R: I see, I see!

C: It was close...

C: Looks like she was suspecting me...

C: It was right to record Shinichi(my)'s voice beforehand...

T: Anyway, Mouri-san, please follow us for the questioning to the police office...

K: No... Let's do it tomorrow.

K: I'm going to eat...

K: And then go with my wife on date to the cinema!

K: Right?

E: Yes...

R: No way! They are holding hands like lovers!

R: What's this? A sudden success born of failure?

[No... I didn't just win a lawsuit... I, Kirie Saki, was able to see the truth...]

[Yes... The truth is always...]

Y: Can only be the one <3

K: So cute~

K: Hey, isn't it great? Her boyfriend was found innocent...

R: Right!

E: What are you talking about?

E: 'Objection!' 'Objection!' 'Objection!' felt so cheap! They also made judge look bad, what with that whole 'striking weak point' thing... And of course you can't just suddenly let a witness speak without the judge's permission...

E: They also tried to portray that bar scene in which the drunken boss was grumbling on about the details of the case as comical, but that was a violation of confidentiality, and should lead to some disciplinary measures...

E: And who would use such a pretentious tone in a courtroom...

E: Isn't using the queen's speech a bit over the top?

K: You do the same thing, don't you?! Wasn't it based on you?

R: Geez, and how did it come to this?!

C: Oh, by the way, Kirie Saki is an anagram of Kisaki Eri...

[Adult love is... difficult... Next issue, that man from HQ will make his move?!]

#detective conan #dcmk #queen eri case #dcmk spoilers #english translation #kogoro yes #RAN IS ALERT #I DO NOT TRUST THIS SMILE #save me

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courage-a-word-of-justice · 6 years ago

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SSSS.Gridman 3 - 4 | Double Decker 5 - 6 | Golden Kamuy 15 - 16 | Zombieland Saga 4 - 5 | Merc Storia 3 - 4

Gridman 3

Samurai Calibur is literally what pulled me back into the show – after all, he’s an indicator that despite this show’s serious demeanour, it is campy at heart. So it’s great to see him have a big role, even if he has to look stupid to do so.

Uh…by the way, kaiju (Anti?). What’s so cool about Wolverine blades? I mean, Wolverine himself has healing factor to back that up, but you’re just a kaiju…

That star explosion! There’s the Trigger we know and love!

“A kaiju that eats breakfast with me.”

I always love how anime deal with isolation through framing and other visual techniques. In this case, it’s Utsumi and Rikka in two mirrors of different shapes.

“…over, right?” I thought, as Utsumi said, “…disbanded.” – Close enough.

Literally everyone in this show has blue eyes. It’s striking, but it’s a bit much…? I personally like a mix of eye colours for characters, especially those eyes which seem to have flecks of different colours in them. Not that I’ve ever had an excuse to give any character I’ve created eyes like that (since it’s easier to describe single-coloured eyes), but it would be nice to have an opportunity to. Update: Apparently it’s a homage to something. A Transformers thing, actually.

This ED…hmm, it kinda looks like the Sarazanmai ads I’ve seen around lately. Just without the stylised background people and with Akane and Rikka.

Double Decker 5

“The Derick Special!” – Welp, aside from forgetting the E in “potatoes”, they got the spelling right, LOL.

I wonder if Kirill’s sister looks anything like him?

…Hmm. I noticed the license plate on that blue car has BNY. Maybe it stands for “bunny” or “Barnaby”?

*Kirill headbutts Doug* - Well…uh, that’s one way to use your head…

“My first partner died.” – Wait, but if that’s (Doug’s first partner) not Derick…then who is it??? The one before Derick? Update: Yep, I was right.

I just realised the motorbike (? car?) Max rides has her name on the license plate. At least in the ED it does.

It seems like the next episode is a breather ep…hmm.

Golden Kamuy 15

Kibushi is number 8 on this page.

“Bat man”…? Like the superhero?

I can’t believe I actually don’t mind the Blingee fire at this moment in the season…urgh. Why did I just say that? I might regret it later…

Oh my gosh…woodcock birds are adorable!

Inkarmat likes Cikapasi’s cover story? Even the bit about…boob-grabbing…?

I like the technique where it appears Nagakura and Toshizou have deaged. It really gives the scene emotional impact and emphasises the fact this episode is called “Let’s Talk About the Past”.

Zombieland Saga 4

I always imagine Lily’s voice to be extremely high pitched. So high pitched, it’s almost silly…but maybe that’s just what happens when I turn off the volume and try to imagine their voices that way.

Chatsumi means “tea picking”. As in picking tea leaves.

Bikubiku just means Junko is trembling from fear. She probably has a fear of heights…

Hey wait, I thought slapping Saganship Z on people who aren’t zombies is called “administering medicine”…

The CGI…I don’t think it’s entirely hideous, but it’s still vaguely obvious.

Marutchi/Tamatchi -> Yes, it’s another Tamagotchi joke from Saki.

Merc Storia 3

Oh my goodness…this (the queen) is the fairy I got hyped for way back when this show first had its ED showcased! She’s basically the anime version of a Shirley Barber fairy! She’s gorgeous!

Princess, didn’t the tale of Excalibur teach you not to pull swords from stones?

There are a lot of princesses in this, to the point where it makes me feel like a kid again. Then again, all good anime makes me giggly like a kid. Not to mention this actually is aimed at kids…

Who’s a healer, Merc? Jamo? (Yeah, yeah, I’m kidding, but seriously, get Merc to do a better indication of who she’s talking about.)

Oh, how did I not think of this? Yuu’s name is Yuu because he’s you, geddit? The player character?...Okay, stop booing…

Seriously, all the fairies, regardless of their gender, are gorgeous…! Except the bartender and the butler. The bartender looks like Tank from Brave Beats and the butler’s just an old guy. The background characters are only decent looking, too, but I’m talking about (most of) the main characters here. The princess is kinda cute, but not enough to awaken a moe instinct in me, y’know?

I didn’t notice this until now, but Paristos has pointy ears…hmm.

Wait, that was a dude fairy??? The black one, i.e. “one that knows the land”??? Update: Sorry. I listened to his voice and then realised…that is a dude. Sorry. He even kind of sounds like Ume…Update 2: A-hah! That’s why The One That Knows the Land (that is literally what he’s credited as) sounded familiar. It was Junichi Suwabe! Update 3: His name is in the next ep, it’s Zephrodai.

SSSS.Gridman 4

I noticed Akane has a Surume card. It’s probably a pun on Suika (Watermelon) cards. Apparently the pun is that tapping the card on and off is like water swishing (sui sui), hence the name. Update: It would be also nice to say they were a pun on Hong Kong’s Octopus cards, but the visuals on the cards are all wrong…

See? They’re (Namiko and Hass) using their phones like normal kids. So why didn’t Rikka remember to use her phone last ep?

Rumour has it Borr is a dude, which makes the fact he’s questioning why girls like older guys make a lot more sense. Then again, you could just headcanon him as a lesbian instead. I’m not going to stop you from thinking that way if you do.

Honest to stars above, this feels like Kiznaiver Round 2. I didn’t mind Kiznaiver but though it could be better. The drama felt a little too…melodramatic, y’know?

See? This episode just proves Calibur is best boi…until further notice, when they introduce that other Neon Genesis bishonen for real.

So if Borr -> Buster Borr, Max -> Tracto Max and Samurai Calibur -> Calibur, then Sky Vitter…either Sky or Vit. I already know the answer is “Vit” because I saw it on the wiki, but it makes a bit more sense now. Anyways, I was wondering…what happened to the 3 dudes from Arcadia? Max is the strongest, eh? So many questions, not enough time, y’know???

Double Decker! 6

“Good Noodles”, LOL.

The line that appears when the subs say “Let’s take this to our car” actually says something along the lines of, “For the moment, let’s take this to our car, shall we?”

Interestingly, the word “guinea pig” (as in, the “we’re being tested on” sort) translates directly – you can read the word morumotto (guinea pig) in the text.

Maybe I’m not familiar with terms aside from keiji/keibu etc. for policemen, but I’ve never seen a policeman being referred to as “omeguri-san”…

If we’re talking about noticing things…a post for this episode already spoilt for me that “Kirill now has a brother”, although I don’t know whether that comment was made in jest/deception or not. Also, that “sister” sure didn’t have any…er, secondary reproductive characteristics on the torso, to put it lightly.

Reminder, dear cowatchers: Doug is…kind of…an asshole.

*Milla’s disappearance involves getting on one of those double decker buses you see around Lisvaletta* - Welp, that puts another meaning to the name “Double Decker”, eh?

Apple Bieber (LOL) is so tsundere when people actually call him “Doctor”, haha.

Holy sisters, Batman! Milla even sounds like a man. I may be terrible at identifying voice actors from their voices alone, but heck if I can’t tell this “Milla” is a man! (The voice of “Milla” sounds familiar…who is it, though? I’ll skip forward and check. Update: Okay, it’s a name I don’t recognise, but it is a dude! The VA’s name is Yuki Fujiwara. But now that that’s established…I like Valery (sic…?) already. He’s definitely my type~.)

Soooooooooo…yeah. Kirill really does have a brother. Sorry for the spoilers.

Golden Kamuy 16

…Wait, so he’s (Shiraishi) actually getting captured this time?

I find it interesting there is a Japanese equivalent to “Kamuy” which means “residence of the gods”, to translate it somewhat loosely.

Shiraishi had such stupid faces in everyone’s heads…LOL.

I find Tsurumi wearing a proper outfit coloured like the 7th division (albeit more Chinese-looking) kinda strange. Tsurumi suits red more, methinks.

Opium, eh? I assume this talk about poppies and England has something to do with the Opium Wars.

Arisaka’s probably as bad as Brook from One Piece…at least, when it comes to skull jokes in the OP manga. Or like a group of dads having a meeting.

Nikaidou’s so petty…LOL. But it is a good idea to weaponise a fake leg – I mean, Toshizou could have the same advantage if he put a sword in his cane…but I think Toshizou thinks too highly of his Izuminokami Kanesada to do such a thing.

I laughed pretty hard when I learnt Ogata is meant to be part of the 27th. Probably because it wasn’t much of a coincidence in the first place.

Zombieland Saga 5

Wowee, what just happened to Tatsumi’s leg??? “The second you let your guard down, it can all fall apart!” – I think he was talking more about his leg rather than competitive baseball…Update: I swore the ball went through his leg. If you didn’t interpret it the same way, then…sorry.

So I heard you like KFC. Well, we’ll just grab Saga’s equivalent to KFC so you can have chicken in your anime while you eat chicken…or something like that…?

Shouldn’t that be “principles of Drive-In Tori”?

The fish eyecatch seems to involve a Karatsu-kun-chi…according to the banner in the back.

Google Translate tells me “Bonjour, Saga jeune” means something to the effect of “Hello, Saga youngster.”

They really like their live-action segments on this show, huh?

Seriously, which of these girls does Ookoba-san remember??? Is he the driver from episode 1’s Truck-kun? Update: It’s Junko, so that makes sense. If it were Policeman A recognising Junko, Ai or Sakura…we’d be in trouble.

I forgot why they were panicking, but then I remembered…they didn’t have their makeup on. Ah.

Eh? You’re kidding…the Gatalympics is legit!

Yugiri literally poledanced on that rope! Yipe, that’s stiff competition…

What is Tae eating in these in-between scenes, anyway…?

I believe I cannnnnn…*music cuts immediately* Fall…So much for the “I Believe I Can Fly” parody…

Merc Storia 4

Gah, that necklace looks like a Sims gem…

Okay, if I figured out what the next country is it won’t be so interesting. It’s the “country of the clan of few people”.

You can see Salodeah in the ED…and Fruedling (sp???)…but there are some other characters you don’t see in these fairy episodes. Now I’d like to meet the lady riding the spider and the blonde guy (you see them in the same screenshot). You can also see the dog girl from the animal in the ED (I forgot her name though, LOL). I’d also like to see the angel country…

I just realised the next ep previews are called Merc Yokoku (Next Ep Preview) Storia…hmm.

#simulcast commentary #merc storia #merc storia: the apathetic boy and the girl in a bottle #zombieland saga #Merc Storia: Mukiryoku Shonen to Bin no Naka no Shoujo #Golden Kamuy #SSSS.Gridman #double decker #Double Decker! Doug and Kirill #Chesarka watches Merc Storia #Chesarka watches ZLS #Chesarka watches GK #Chesarka watches SSSS.Gridman #Chesarka watches Double Decker!

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sunshine-overload · 3 years ago

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[BSTS] Heath Off Day 4* Card Story

who tf threw out his plant I just wanna talk

chapter 1 -in break room-

saki: Huh Heath-san, what happened? You're crouching.

heath: Oh it's you.

saki: I was worried you might not be feeling well.

heath: Sorry. I was just watering this houseplant.

saki: Oh, this nice plant was yours then?

heath: Yeah, I thought he suited this space so I brought him here.

saki: What kind of plant is it?

heath: I don't know, but I thought this guy was nice so I chose him. He's not too flashy and simple but you can still tell he's lively.

saki: The leaves are also a beautiful colour.

heath: Yeah. When I take care of plants I feel calm, so I like it.

saki: I get that, when there's plants around you feel better.

heath: ...I'm happy to hear you think so.

I've learnt a lot from this plant. Everyone else might think that he doesn't grow flowers and just stays the same each day. But he's earnestly living. Desperately struggling for life within the pot, facing the light and aiming upwards everyday. Seeing this guy showing a different face day by day, I think that I too need to change and continue moving forward.

saki: That's a lovely way of putting it. The houseplant would probably be happy that you think that way as well.

heath: I'd like that. Your way of thinking is nice too.

chapter 2

saki: (Huh? Heath-san's plant isn't here...?)

saki: Ah Heath-san, good timing! Where did you move your plant to?

heath: Aah... that. It seems someone threw it out.

saki: How could-! Even though you treasured it so much...

heath: It's something I chose to put there of my own accord, so it can't be helped that someone else chose to throw it. It may have been something important to me but to someone else it was simply unneeded. It's lonely when something that's always been there suddenly disappears, but soon enough that feeling of loneliness will also disappear.

saki: Heath-san...

heath: You don't need to make a face like that. I'm ok.

I'm sure that with enough time I'll forget that it was ever here.

saki: It got thrown away, there's no way I could forget about it! Heath-san, why don't we buy another one?

heath: Huh?

saki: A houseplant, let's go together to buy one. Buying a new one might not be a proper substitute but...

heath: If I put another plant here it might get thrown away again.

saki: Then I'll write 'Don't throw out' on it so that it's not! Forgetting about it someday... that's just too sad.

heath: ...Alright. Let's go get one. This time you can pick which plant you think is best, because I'll make sure to treasure it.

-end

#bsts heath #bsts translation

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sunshine-overload · 2 years ago

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[BSTS] Gui Onsen Staff 5* Card Story

Was initially just gonna do the first chapter, but well, here we are. Gui development crumbs love to see it 🙏 (note: Starless are working as temporary staff at the ryokan they’re staying at in exchange for their stay being free. The show that they’re performing is based on ‘Antony and Cleopatra’ a play by Shakespeare.)

chapter 1 -ryokan staff kitchen-

gui: This is the kitchen?

nekome: Oh, you were assigned to work in the kitchen too then Gui? Glad to be working with you~

gui: What should I do?

nekome: For now they want us to peel the potatoes and prep them for cooking. I can’t seem to find a peeler anywhere though, have you used a knife before Gui?

gui: Yes. Let’s get to work, lend me a knife.

-time pass-

nekome: Wow, you’re skilled with your hands.

gui: It’s easier to peel potatoes by moving the vegetable itself instead of the knife. That’s what Kongou taught me.

nekome: That so~ I’m kinda surprised.

gui: Surprised…? By me?

nekome: I mean, in the past you would just sit spaced out in the corner of the store, no matter what anyone said to you. But now, you’re someone that can cook, as well as perform on stage. What motivated you to do so?

gui: I was told to take the stage by Kei. Kei is acting as a substitute for my Master, so I must obey his orders.

nekome: Hmm, your Master’s substitute huh. So he instructed you to cook as well?

gui: No, the person that taught me how to cook is Kongou.

nekome: What I meant was, for what reason did you learn to cook?

gui: Reason… I want to expand the amount of skills I have. Yakou told me that if I learn to do different things, I’ll understand more about the world. There’s many things I do not understand, so I’m expanding the amount of things I can do.

nekome: So it’s you yourself that decided to learn how to cook.

gui: I decided… myself?

nekome: You’ve grown a lot as a person, is what I’m trying to say.

gui: Grown… is that a good thing?

nekome: Yeah? I mean you know how to do more things now right?

gui: I still can’t do enough. I haven’t learnt to make anything other than fried rice.

nekome: In that case, why don’t I teach you how to make something new? Um, let’s see… what would be good…

-time pass-

gui: What soup is this?

nekome: It’s miso soup, the comfort food of japanese people. It’s looking good, could it be thanks to my teaching methods?

gui: What dish did you make, Nekome?

nekome: This is kamameshi* Want to try making it after? The instructions are in the manual so I’m sure you’ll manage.

gui: Yeah. Miso soup and kamameshi. I have two more dishes that I’m able to make now.

*Kamameshi - Kamameshi is a Japanese rice dish made by boiling seasonal ingredients, typically including fish or chicken, with rice grains. It’s cooked in an iron pot called a kama.

—

chapter 2 -ryokan lobby area-

yoshino: Thank you for sitting in on our voice training, Saki-san.

saki: No problem, I enjoyed getting to hear both of your singing voices.

maica: I only asked you to listen for a little bit but we ended up going overtime into lunch, I’m sorry about that. You must be hungry, let’s go to the kitchen and have them whip up a meal for us.

saki: Are you sure it’s ok for me to come with you?

yoshino: Of course, alright, let’s go.

-kitchen-

maica: Nekome, sorry for the trouble, but could we have three meals?

nekome: Sure thing~ As long as it’s something simple. Were you two singers rehearsing together? You really get along well.

yoshino: We were singing together and working out the song while Saki-san listened in, before we knew it it had gotten this late.

nekome: Why don’t we rehearse together too Gui? We’re playing the same role after all.

gui: No.

nekome: Ah, shot right down.

maica: You and Gui both play the role of Enobarbus, however your portrayal of him is completely different so I don’t see the point in you two rehearsing together.

yoshino: Gui’s Enobarbus is a quiet lieutenant that would follow Antony to the ends of the earth.

nekome: He seriously has the vibe of a devoted lieutenant, there’s no way you’d see him betraying Antony.

maica: Isn't the fact your Enobarbus betrays Antony at the drop of a hat strange too?

nekome: No? I mean, isn’t my version the one that’s closer to the source material?

gui: Does that mean my Enobarbus is incorrect?

saki: No, neither one is incorrect.

maica: It’s normal for our shows to adapt the source material differently. Especially so for this show, since you’re both playing the same role, there should be differences between our shows.

gui: Nekome had always been serving Rindou (Antony), however in the end he double crosses him. Why do you betray him, Nekome?

nekome: Mm~ I mean it’s cause that’s what happens in the original story but… The way I see it is that it’s because Enobarbus had something so important to him, that not wanting to give it up outweighed his loyalty to Antony. Something like that.

gui: Something he didn’t want to give up…?

nekome: What is something that no matter what, you wouldn’t want to be taken away from you? Something that you value above all else.

gui: Right now, it’s protecting Saki.

nekome: Then, if your Master were to suddenly appear right now and order you to leave Starless and follow them, what would you do?

gui: If that it what Master’s orders are then—

nekome: Even if it meant abandoning the stage and your duty to protect Saki-chan? Even then, would you still obey?

gui: I… (troubled expression) …….?

nekome: See? There are times when multiple things you don’t want to let go of overlap, and you have no choice but to prioritise one over the other. Even knowing that you’ll come to regret it later either way, you still have no choice but to pick one.

saki: (I wonder if Nekome-san is speaking from experience…?)

gui: …….. (sad expression)

yoshino: What are you…

nekome: Well anyways, I’m just saying that it’s a way to think about it. Here you go, sorry for the wait on the food!

—

chapter 3 -ryokan staff kitchen-

ginsei: Menou, c’mon, walk on your own two legs already.

menou: I’d love to be able to, but there’s no strength in them.

nekome: What’s wrong? Are you unwell? If so then I’m sorry but this isn’t the hospital.

ginsei: Well, it is to do with his condition. It appears Menou hasn’t eaten anything since yesterday morning.

menou: I was in a loop of reading the screenplay and visiting the onsen, I completely forgot about food.

ginsei: I found him collapsed in the hallway, so I dragged him here. Could you make something for him to eat?

nekome: Mm~ I can whip up something like fried rice right away.

ginsei: Uu… your fried rice huh….

nekome: I won’t make extra crunchy fried rice like that again don’t worry.

ginsei: I know… it’s just burned into my brain. Well, I’ll leave it to you then.

menou: I’d rather be in the onsen than here eating though.

ginsei: I’m telling you, eat something first. You’ll drown in the bath otherwise. On that note, you’ve been enjoying yourself with our show and the baths, but have you properly been doing your assigned job too?

menou: Job? Oh that, well, yeah, when I feel like it.

ginsei: …I’ll have to check later.

nekome: My, you two really haven’t changed at all.

ginsei: For some reason I don’t like the way you said that.

menou: You haven’t changed either Nekome. You’re the same as when you were back at the old Starless. Your Enobarbus has a very Nekome like touch to him.

nekome: That so?

menou: Playing up to Antony to gain his trust, while also secretly making light of it. Showing him the sincere face of a devout lieutenant but also being able to betray him without wavering. You’ve really captured those characteristics of the character well with your directing, Ginsei. Amazing, amazing.

ginsei: Is that supposed to be a compliment?

menou: Yes, of course. Though Enobarbus dying in such a way that you can’t tell if it was a suicide or an accident, seemingly not regretting a thing… Not even knowing if he truly died or not in the end, it was you who came up with that conclusion wasn’t it, Nekome?

nekome: Bingo~ I’m not a fan of things that are too easy to figure out. Besides, I’m the kind of person who believes you shouldn’t look back on your past.

menou: You mean you’re doing everything you can for the sake of the future then huh. That seems like a path that’s destined for ruin.

nekome: Hm? Did you change what you were talking about halfway through there?

menou: Huh? Everything I’ve said has been about Enobarbus.

nekome: Right. You truly never change, Menou. Alright, order up, here’s your two serves of fried rice.

ginsei: What? I never said I wanted any though….

—

chapter 4 -backstage-

gui: Saki.

saki: Oh, Gui-san, is something the matter? Your show is almost about to begin.

gui: I have something to report to you.

saki: Report?

gui: If my Master were to return right now, and order me to leave Starless… I would ask them if I could wait until your safety has been guaranteed first.

saki: Isn’t that the theoretical situation that Nekome-san came up with? Don’t tell me, have you been thinking about it ever since?

gui: Yeah. Protecting you is my highest priority. So, until your safety can be confirmed, I will not leave your side. I will keep you safe, no matter what happens. That’s what I wanted to report to you.

saki: Is that so, even though it’s right before your performance… Thank you very much.

gui: ……. I don’t get it.

saki: Hm?

gui: You or Master’s orders… I couldn’t answer right away which I would choose. Master is my master. You are my… what exactly?

saki: Gui-san…

gui: No matter how much I think about it I can’t figure it out. But if you were to get hurt and be sad, I wouldn’t like it. And if you weren’t here with me, I wouldn’t like that either. Why?

-bloomed cg, gui softly smiling on stage

gui: I’m sure I’ll be able to find the answer if I continue to try new things. So I will keep doing so. One day, when I’m able to figure out what it is you are to me… I’ll come and report to you again.

saki: Yes, of course, I’ll be waiting.

gui: Yeah, please wait for me. I’ll make sure tonight’s show goes well too, so watch me closely.

—end

*ryokan - a type of traditional Japanese inn that typically features tatami-matted rooms, communal baths, and other public areas where visitors may wear yukata.

#bsts gui #bsts translation

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