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SO! I am now looking for (additional, in some cases) propaganda for the losers of round 1 listed under the cut. Reblogs, replies, asks, whatever you use, If you have something to encourage someone to vote for your blorbo so that they can win something, please tell me!

Due to the two ties we had, there are only 62 contestants for the loser’s bracket. I will likely run a mini-poll of additional characters that were not submitted but I have been told could’ve counted and allow two of them into this bracket.

Tatsuhisa Kamijo

Judar

Cure Kagura

Takuto

En Yufuin

Haruhito Sugiyama

Io Naruko

Gabe Travolt

Bright Illusion

Takuto Tsubashi

George Honda

Takeo Takumi

Yuki

Riku Amami

Jio

Ryouma Kirishima

Tsubasa Yuunagi

Shu Yan

Kikyou

Hideki Shibuya

Kousuke Kasuga

Blanc

Basil

Kazune Kujyo

Schlain Zagan Analeit

Ichiro Dougo

Synn Sakura

Jason

Hinomiya Kaito

Asahi Minamikawa

Camilo Madrigal

Ran

Akihito Sugiyama

Souta Kishibe

Homura Hoterase

Ryousuke Katashiro

Shining Cosmo

Bright Heart

Max Owen

Cure Top

Mei Xin

Adora Flora

Satoshi Hiwatari

Juka Mutsuoka

Minatsuki Sakuya

Magikal Nuko Len Len

Ikuto Tsukiyomi

Nagihiko Fujisaki

Takashi Dai

Eylan Hasegawa

Giyru

Xia Lou

Kevin

Prince Citron

Saki Uno

Kim Dokja

Kazama Mika

Wagner

Starchild

Itsuki

Rikumori Yuu

Mashira Shinkiro

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illus. Hideki Kazama “Unown [J]” from Wizards Black Star Promos

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Suzuki: You know what I learned from my friendship with Kimishita?

Kazama: There’s no such thing as too mean?

Satou: Never let your friends know for sure if you like them?

Haibara: Always hold a grudge?

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YES, it’s me again~ Yours truly is back with a chapter that somehow turned into a 5k giant, please don’t ask what happened X’D This time on Little Brother is Watching: The Make-The-Idiots-Realize-They’re-In-Love squad, trolling teammates... and who’s that girl who turned up at the karaoke place? It’s time to introduce someone...

Rating: Teen and Up Audiences

Chapters: 19/?

Pairings: ShibaKimi, heavily implied KazaTsuku and mentions of Mizuki/Ball

Summary: Kimishita discovers he’s not an only child, a twelve-year-old discovers the teen life, and Ooshiba discovers he may or may not have a crush. That’s not to say he’d ever act on it, but teammates and younger siblings can be persistent as hell.

Enjoy~!

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The SHSL Survivors' Society: Class 78 birthdays

I mentioned I would do this at the end of Scraps of the Past 10, so here it is. The numbers in brackets are the ages they were when they started at Hope's Peak-the ages I would have been given in the forms for each character. So, anyway, here it is:

Koutarou Ueda-20th April (17) Hibiki Kazama-6th June (17) Akira Kazama-6th June (17) Wakana Abe-21st June (17) Hokuto Nanto-7th July (17) Shiro Usami-23rd July (17) Hironori Nobunaga-28th July (18) Kimihiro Arata-3rd September (17) Erica Cain-31st October (17) Tyson De Guerre-11th November (17) Chieko Akamine-25th November (16) Hideki Inoue-19th December (17) Kanekatsu Iwafusa-21st December (17) Nobuyuki Oshiro-21st December (18) Daisuke Ueno-1st March (17) Yashiro Tsukishima-13th March (16) Noriko Edano-14th March (17) Masashi Kita-26th March (17)

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Tag game

I was tagged by @kawaiisakuraoni  to list 10 random songs from my playlist. Thank you, it was fun) So... We have various bits here. Black metal, gothic rock, medieval music, dark-electro, industrial, darkwave, some ost and good old hard rock.    

1/ IAMX - This Will Make You Love Again

2/ Burzum - Dunkelheit

3/ Wolfenmond - Quant Je Suis Mis au Retour

4/ IAMX - Oh Cruel Darkness Embrace Me

5/ Psyclon Nine - Parasitic

6/ The Sisters of Mercy - Black Planet

7/ Emilie Autumn - The Art of Suicide

8/ Mikolai Stroinski - City of Intrugies (The Witcher 3 OST)

9/ Deep Purple - You Fool No One

10/ Hideki Taniuchi - L no Kako (Death Note OST)

I tag @filliteapot, @katiwinct, @moon-faced-pear-shaped, @very-x-vice, @eliz1369, @kazama-hime. Only if you want to! I’m curious what you may listen =)

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Step-up Talk for Nizista - Komatsu Shohei (2/2)

I like karaoke, but I don’t particularly like being alone, so right now, I’d like to have friends (lol)

T/N: This is the second half of the interview Nizista did with voice actor Komatsu Shohei. The first part of this interview could be found here - both translations are posted today because May 14 is the birthday of the character he made his debut with, Idolm@ster Side M’s Kizaki Ren. お疲れ様でした！

This entire interview is crossposted onto Wordpress for my own archiving purposes, but can also be found under the cut!

Komatsu Shohei interview (last half) – “I was blessed with really good productions, I could really feel the connections with people.”

This is an interview with Komatsu Shohei, who is part of the currently-airing TV anime DAYS (as Sato Hideki) and in Idolm@ster Side M (as Kizaki Ren). This time, we’ll be talking about his feelings at the actual site [of the recording] and about his time with his senpai.

I want to show people the acting I can do because of my previous experiences with action.

As a member of HIROZ, since Komatsu-san was mainly in charge of action performances and MC, he went to Ken Productions in order to focus on his voice. And how did he actually start his work and study?

How was being a voice actor like?

Komatsu Shohei (Komatsu, for short): I had quite a lot of confidence, and I felt that I wouldn’t lose to anyone, because I used to do plays, but...’acting’ using only one’s voice is completely different, so from the beginning my confidence had been crushed completely (lol) But since I’d decided on doing it, I thought I had to focus on studying, so I went to our company’s training school. Every time I wasn’t recording, I was studying.

Your first [named] roles are from DAYS and Idolm@ster Side M. Since DAYS is a TV anime, how was it after recording?

Komatsu: Yoshinaga Takuto-san, who plays the lead character, is a rookie, but he’s [just as] awesome as the entire main cast. Every time I studied, I got to be part of dozens of workshop class lessons. I think that I really was blessed with a really good company.

Who was impressive to you, in particular?

Komatsu: I think Matsuoka Yoshitsugu-san is amazing. He plays Kazama Jin [in DAYS], a cool character, but [in real life] he’s a more passionate man than one might think, and every time he acts I feel like he’s the very embodiment of passion. And then there’s Seki Tomokazu-san, who is good at using different voices according to the scene. Anime is all about “how much of this can you imagine?” What kind of voice would you make, if you’re the one taking the place of the character on-screen? I thought it was amazing to be able to put myself in that position.

Because it really is amazing.

Komatsu: There’s also something else that makes me happy [about being a seiyuu]. Terashima Junta-san and Hamano Daiki-san are in the same unit as me as part of Idolm@ster Side M, and we’re also all part of DAYS as well. Even up to now, after recording would end, we’d all go out to eat together. In the midst of such great senpai, I’m grateful that I got to meet them.

It really seems like a good encounter.

Komatsu: The three of us are always talking to each other. It’d be nice if we all became well-known together, and meet in other productions again.

Recently, the opportunities for you to sing have increased, so how are you with singing?

Komatsu: In anime there are character songs, there are also songs within games, and there are seiyuu who go beyond their work and end up doing lives. I thought that it’d be nice if I was someone who could sing after all, so I studied voice acting and singing at the same time. And that’s also why I ended up making a band again [at the time] (lol)

What were you in charge of in the band?

Komatsu: I used to play the guitar a bit, but at that time I was solely the vocal. But since we broke up shortly before I joined Ken Productions, it felt as if I was just practicing singing normally (lol)

Aside from songs, seiyuu also have a wide range of activities such as radio shows and events.

Komatsu: I agree. Since I’d often talked and sung in front of people, I appreciate being able to make use of my past experiences. And that is also why I do not want to miss out on other skills I might have as a seiyuu. I have a few other things I’m a part of that are not just about recording, and I know I shouldn’t be content with just that.

By the way, what kinds of roles are you good at?

Komatsu: Considering how I use the experiences with what I used to be doing, I think I can characterize myself by not thinking of myself as just “a seiyuu who can do action [stunts]” but rather as someone who can figure out “what kind of voice should one do in action scenes?” For example, what kind of breathing would one make when they’re punching someone out, what kind of voice would one make when they’re on the receiving end of a blow? I’ve actually experienced these myself, so by all means I wanna get into more anime about fighting games or action stuff. Even if there’s no one else good at action [stunts] to [work off of], I can pretend to be someone punched out just fine (lol)

If [someone who was listening to Komatsu] was to close their eyes, they’d understand completely where you’d have been hit.

Komatsu: I also do work for drama CDS, and I think would like to be a seiyuu who can express when he has been beaten, what kind of movements he has been doing, even without video. In those kinds of situations, you can’t fight with anything but your own capabilities as weapons. There are lots of young seiyuu, after all.

Do you ever feel restless?

Komatsu: Because I’m someone who hates losing, I feel frustrated each and every day. If I see other people on Twitter saying “I’ll be part of this work,” I end up saying “damnit!” And whenever I see young seiyuu appearing in anime, I end up saying “GODDAMNITTTTTT!!!”

So that also becomes your motivation.

Komatsu: That’s true. In the face of that, it’s easy to say “I’m hopeless” or feel like “I have lost.” Whenever I see young seiyuu act in anime, I end up thinking stuff like “If I were in that role, I would do it this way,” “That’s good but if they did it a little bit like this, would it be better,” and I end up actually trying that voice out loud. It’s free training, yanno (lol)

When I’m just at home I usually just do stupid stuff, solo karaoke

Now knowing his past and his attitude towards work, lastly I asked Komatsu-san what kind of person he is normally, and he answered me from his heart.

You really are a person who hates losing, but can you talk about other facets of your personality?

Komatsu: I’ve also been called “too damned earnest” (lol) When I’m working there are times when I get too serious and there are times when I end up being boring, so I think I gotta study when to “let myself loose”. The way I’m thinking of going about this may be way too serious too, though (lol)

Let’s let go of work for a bit; what kind of person are you at home?

Komatsu: I keep talking about action this and action that, but on my off days I’m ridiculously the indoors type (lol) Because I didn’t wanna go outside at all, one time I bought all my food the day before, and decided “I am not gonna take even one step out of this house”, and just do stupid stuff. I watched TV and played games.

What kind of anime or games do you like?

Komatsu: I like stuff with robots in them. I’m rather good at the game “Super Robot Battle”. After I became a seiyuu, I think I’d like to do a role where I go and ride a robot.

By the way, what kinds of robots do you like?

Komatsu: The real kinds of robots, like those in Gundam. The super robots from way back are also cool, but I like those sharper kinds of robots.

Aside from that, what kind of ‘stupid stuff’ do you do?

Komatsu: Stuff so stupid that I don’t like other people knowing about it (lol)

Are you the kind of person who’s too loud in his room?

Komatsu: I’m insanely messy, and I end up looking very sloppy (lol) But since karaoke is my hobby, sometimes I’ll go out and go to the nearest karaoke place (lol) I’ll sing alone for around five to six hours.

What kind of songs do you sing?

Komatsu: Lots of kinds. I started playing guitar in high school through BUMP OF CHICKEN songs, but I also sing Visual Kei songs, songs from Johnny’s idols, female artists. I think of it as seiyuu practice, too.

Do you go out to eat with friends?

Komatsu: Fukuoka is my hometown, so I don’t have much friends living in Tokyo (lol) I didn’t go to college, and since most of the people I did the action group with are in Kagawa prefecture, I don’t have the opportunity to go out to eat with friends much. So I guess, if I get more friends through work who are as close to me as Terashima-san or Hamano-san, I’d be happy (lol)

So your wish right now is “I want friends”, isn’t it!

Komatsu: I like karaoke, but I don’t particularly like being alone, so right now, I’d like to have friends (lol) I think I’d get more friends as I get more work, though, so I’d like to have more work first! (lol)

Lastly, please tell us about your goals and what you look forward to in the future.

Komatsu: I’d realized that as I became a voice actor, my prior experience with doing action [stunts] onstage is my weapon, and I can use it to my advantage. There are also seiyuu who also take part in stage plays like Ono Kensho-san and Aoi Shouta-san, so I think it’d be nice if I were able to do that as well too, someday. But of course, first of all, I will focus on studying my voice, and as an active seiyuu, I’ll do my best to let my name be known.

My intent was just to ‘do whatever’, but it was only after my first loss that I realized I was taking it seriously...

It almost sounds like lyrics from a song, but unbelievably, these are his real words. Komatsu-san said that he is the kind of person who hates losing in any way. But, when I’d actually talked to him, the gap between the passionate heart of his that hates losing and his ever-smiling face that talks about ‘doing stupid things’ is also charming.

I think that whether it be in DAYS or Idolm@ster Side M, he had been blessed with good productions and good companions. And I look forward to his rapid growth, to him being part of series and stage performances making good use of his action [stunts], as well as roles that are far from the ones Komatsu-san are taking now; I look forward to see what kind of figure he’ll end up showing.

Article: Chiba Kenichi Photographer: Takenaka Tomoya Hair/Makeup: Nagaki Mizuho

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LOSERS BRACKET ROUND ONE

Each match will last 1 week. I don’t know when the bracket will start, but I’ll be working on it. Before it starts, I will make a post detailing everything once I flesh out the losers bracket a bit more.

Edit: Matches start Wednesday, August 30th at 12:00 CDT.

Matchups under the cut

George Honda (Star Driver) vs Wagner (Classicaloid)

Ryouma Kirishima (Cute High Earth Defense Club Happy Kiss) vs Hinomiya Kaito (Dear Magi -Mahou Shounen Gakka-)

Satoshi Hiwatari (D.N. Angel) vs Asahi Minamikawa (Mewkledreamy)

Souta Kishibe (Magical Girl Raising Project) vs Kazune Kujyo (Kamichama Karin)

Shining Cosmo (Elsword) vs Schlain Zagan Analeit (So I’m a Spider, So What?)

Cure Kagura (Dancing Star Precure) vs Gabe Travolt (Magical How)

Prince Citron (Pretty Princess Pomelo) vs Rikumori Yuu (Dear Magi -Mahou Shounen Gakka-)

Takuto Tsubashi (Star Driver) vs Judar (Magi)

Saki Uno (Magical Girl Ore) vs Itsuki (Josou Mahou Shounen Battle Flyer Itsuki)

Io Naruko (Cute High Earth Defense Club Love!) vs Jason (Kidultic Showtime)

Bright Illusion (Elsword) vs Steven Universe (Steven Universe)

Kim Dokja (Omniscient Reader’s Viewpoint) vs Bright Heart (Elsword)

Sora (Kingdom Hearts) vs Camilo Madrigal (Encanto)

Mashira Shinkiro (Isekai Mahou Shounen Momopuri - Keiji to Yakuza ga Kawaikunatta Kudan) vs Tatsuhisa Kamijo (Yu-Gi-Oh Sevens!)

Magikal Nuko Len Len (Vocaloid) vs Blanc (Kidultic Showtime)

Giyru (Warriors vs Warriors) vs Nagihiko Fujisaki (Shugo Chara)

Kikyou (Magical Boy Troubles) vs Eylan Hasegawa (This is the Magical Boy Training Center)

Ryousuke Katashiro (Star Driver) vs Mei Xin (I Don’t Want to be a Magical Girl)

Tsubasa Yuunagi (Soaring Sky Precure) vs Basil (Magical Boy Basil)

Kousuke Kasuga (Kimagure Orange Road) vs Starchild (Scooby Doo)

Adora Flora (Magical Mom) vs Haruhito Sugiyama (Mewkledreamy)

Yuki (Mahou x Shonen x Days) vs Minatsuki Sakuya (Dear Magi -Mahou Shounen Gakka-)

Juka Mutsuoka (Fairy Ranmaru ~Anata no Kokoro O-tasukeshimasu~) vs Jio (Magical Crash)

Takeo Takumi (Star Driver) vs Akihito Sugiyama (Mewkledreamy)

En Yufuin (Cute High Earth Defense Club Love!) vs Synn Sakura (Twinkle Crusaders)

Ran (Mahou x Shonen x Days) vs Xia Lou (Mahou Shounen Shuurai)

Riku Amami (World Embryo) vs Max Owen (Magical Boy)

Hideki Shibuya (Star Driver) vs Kevin (Power Up)

Takashi Dai (Star Driver) vs Ichiro Dougo (Cute High Earth Defense Club Happy Kiss)

Homura Hoterase (Fairy Ranmaru ~Anata no Kokoro O-tasukeshimasu~) vs Cure Top (Dancing Star Precure)

Takuto (Mahou x Shonen x Days) vs Kazama Mika (Dear Magi -Mahou Shounen Gakka-)

Shu Yan (Ye Luoli) vs Ikuto Tsukiyomi (Shugo Chara)

ROUND 2 BRACKETS

The winners of each bracket will face each other in one final match to discover who is the ULTIMATE magical boy.

Criteria used to decide who got in: 1) Use magic, or 2) Have a transformation sequence, or 3) Fight with the power of friendship (and sometimes that gun they found on the sidewalk over there) or any of the above combined.

Matchups under the cut. (and oh, some of these are gonna hurt!)

Schubert (Classicaloid) vs Kousuke Nitoh (Kamen Rider Wizard)

Black Pepper (Delicious Party Precure) vs Taishi Manza (Cute High Earth Defense Club Happy Kiss)

Cure Lock (Dancing Star Precure The Stage) vs Saiga Arata (Dear Magi -Mahou Shounen Gakka-)

Dark Magician (Yu-Gi-Oh) vs Mozart (Classicaloid)

Chiaki Nagoya (Kamikaze Kaitou Jeanne) vs Garnet Heart (Magical Warrior Diamond Heart)

Yue (Cardcaptor Sakura) vs Kairi Sanjo (Shugo Chara)

Viperpace - Viperion+Carapace (Miraculous Ladybug) vs Yumoto Hakone (Cute High Earth Defense Club Love!)

Merlin (The Sword and the Stone) vs Qu Le (Magical Boys)

Peter Grant (Rivers of London) vs Cure Break (Dancing Stars Precure The Stage)

Superman (My Adventures with Superman) vs Mamoru Chiba (Sailor Moon)

Rio Kuroki (KiraKira Precure A La Mode) vs Ge Jiuzhong (I Don’t Want to be a Magical Girl)

Atsushi Kinugawa (Cute High Earth Defense Club Love!) vs Shining Spiral (Elsword)

Ukiyo Ace/Kamen Rider Geats (Kamen Rider Geats) vs Vivi (Final Fantasy)

Magolor (Kirby) vs Qifrey (Witch Hat Atelier)

Takara Utashiro (Fairy Ranmaru ~Anata no Kokoro O-tasukeshimasu~) vs Visare Nightfall (Vampire Magicka)

Ayumu Aikawa (Is This a Zombie?) vs Ryuu Zaou (Cure High Earth Defense Club Love!)

Yakumo Katou (Shuriken Sentai Ninninger) vs Kirby (Kirby)

Henri Wakamiya (Hugtto Precure) vs Syaoran Li (Cardcaptor Sakura)

Mephisto (Lolirock) vs Blue Knight (Tokyo Mew Mew)

Ranmaru Ai (Fairy Ranmaru ~Anata no Kokoro O-tasukeshimasu~) vs Antonio Madrigal (Encanto)

My Cat Stormy (real life) vs Tsukasa Tenma (Project Sekai)

Harry Dresden (The Dresden Files) vs Haruto Souma (Kamen Rider Wizard)

Cure Soul (Dancing Star Precure The Stage) vs Tadase Hotori (Shugo Chara)

Hikaru (Mahou x Shonen x Days) vs Daisuke Niwa (D.N.Angel)

Shining Astro (Elsword) vs Kirio Karasuma (Kamichama Karin)

Felix (Star Warrior Cosmos Leo) vs Howl (Howl’s Moving Castle)

Daichi (Mahou x Shonen x Days) vs Uru Seiren (Fairy Ranmaru ~Anata no Kokoro O-tasukeshimasu~)

Beethoven (Classicaloid) vs Saiki Kusou (The Disasterous Life of Saiki K.)

Gandalf (Lord of the Rings) vs Chat Noir (Miraculous Ladybug)

Bright Marine (Elsword) AND Ultraman Zero (Mega Monster Battle: Ultra Galaxy Legends) vs Emerald Heart (Magical Warrior Diamond Heart)

Mugendou Niki (Dear Magi -Mahou Shounen Gakka-) vs Kukai Soma (Shugo Chara)

Kuranushi Rin (Dear Magi -Mahou Shounen Gakka-) vs Kyoutarou Shuzenji (Cute High Earth Defense Club Happy Kiss)

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