#hypmic 2nd drb

[akihabaradivision]

Glory or Dust - (Otaku Corps Ver.)

[Keiko:]

I spit wisdom like scrolls inked in ancient lore

Learn from our blunders, rise higher than before

Mistakes are stepping stones, paving our path

Knowledge is the currency; let's do the math!

Friends by my side, like Naruto and Sasuke

Bonds unbreakable, stronger than a jutsu

Anime worlds collide, our hearts ignite

In this life's epic saga, we script our own fight!

Spit out all your emotions

You'll find every reason

Right here to lay it out in the open

Even if our bodies are ground to dust

We'll spit in the face of the heavens

No limit to our ascension

How many reasons do you have by now

To be a chicken and drop out?

Win, steal, make a get away

Let out everything built up inside

A fearsome fight against those on high

Hypnosis Mic

The spark that binds rhyme and rhyme

Is focused and refined by our minds

[Criss:]

In the shadows I roam, seeking truths untold

Paranormal whispers, secrets to unfold

Ghosts dance in moonlight, cryptids in the haze

I'll unravel dimensions, pierce through cosmic maze

EVPs echo answers, orbs flicker bright

My pen's my Ouija board, I write into the night

From Roswell's debris to Bermuda’s triangle

I’ll chase the enigma, unravel the spectral tangle!

Spit out all your emotions

You'll find every reason

Right here to lay it out in the open

Even if our bodies are ground to dust

We'll spit in the face of the heavens

No limit to our ascension

How many reasons do you have by now

To be a chicken and drop out?

Win, steal, make a get away

Let out everything built up inside

A fearsome fight against those on high

Hypnosis Mic

The spark that binds rhyme and rhyme

Is focused and refined by our minds

[Nikki:]

In this mundane realm, life's grayscale hue

Concrete jungles echo, skies a faded blue

But my mind's a playground, where pixels ignite

I level up in dreams, where fantasies take flight

From Hyrule's green fields to Rapture’s abyss

I dance with Chocobos, wield the Master Sword's kiss

Web-comics weave tales, pixelated and grand

In this virtual symphony, I find my wonderland

Spit out all your emotions

You'll find every reason

Right here to lay it out in the open

Even if our bodies are ground to dust

We'll spit in the face of the heavens

No limit to our ascension

How many reasons do you have by now

To be a chicken and drop out?

Win, steal, make a get away

Let out everything built up inside

A fearsome fight against those on high

Hypnosis Mic

The spark that binds rhyme and rhyme

Is focused and refined by our minds

Spit out all your emotions

Your resolve is already broken

How do you live with yourselves

Acting like you’re above everyone else?

We’ll spit in the face of the heavens

No limit to our ascension

However weak and fragile they may be now

They won’t stand down

A catastrophe, a rewritten story

Mightier than the pen and the sword: Hypnosis Mic

The spark that binds rhyme and rhyme

Is focused and refined by our minds

[aoyama-division]

Glory or Dust - (Jet Set Trio Ver.)

[Tomi:]

Foolish peasants!

How dare you to snap at me? In a hundred years, I'll still be above thee! Your problems aren't mine, do you understand? All I care about is the profit in my hands!

Don't even try to act proud and ruly in my midst! If you do, then soon, very soon, you will be dismissed! And I promise you now, you will not be missed! Let this be a hard lesson to all who resist!

Spit out all your emotions

You'll find every reason

Right here to lay it out in the open

Even if our bodies are ground to dust

We'll spit in the face of the heavens

No limit to our ascension

How many reasons do you have by now

To be a chicken and drop out?

Win, steal, make a get away

Let out everything built up inside

A fearsome fight against those on high

Hypnosis Mic

The spark that binds rhyme and rhyme

Is focused and refined by our minds

[Karada:]

Time for the strongest man in this land to take charge! His name is Nike, and he's livin' large! The god of victory, I'm back again! A living inspiration to all feeble men!

Calculations? That hurts my brain! Get that crap outta here fore I get a migraine! Power and strength will beat that, no question! That why I constantly reign supreme, 24/7!

Spit out all your emotions

You'll find every reason

Right here to lay it out in the open

Even if our bodies are ground to dust

We'll spit in the face of the heavens

No limit to our ascension

How many reasons do you have by now

To be a chicken and drop out?

Win, steal, make a get away

Let out everything built up inside

A fearsome fight against those on high

Hypnosis Mic

The spark that binds rhyme and rhyme

Is focused and refined by our minds

[Luis:]

Okay, Luis, try to keep calm, don't let anything dare to set you off. Remember, it's you that is in control. Your emotions are only a part of you, not the whole.

But I just can't! I won't stay calm! I swear, in the end, I'll burn it all! You'll suffer alone from the ember's glow. You should have listened when they told you not to play with fuego!

Spit out all your emotions

You'll find every reason

Right here to lay it out in the open

Even if our bodies are ground to dust

We'll spit in the face of the heavens

No limit to our ascension

How many reasons do you have by now

To be a chicken and drop out?

Win, steal, make a get away

Let out everything built up inside

A fearsome fight against those on high

Hypnosis Mic

The spark that binds rhyme and rhyme

Is focused and refined by our minds

Spit out all your emotions

Your resolve is already broken

How do you live with yourselves

Acting like you’re above everyone else?

We’ll spit in the face of the heavens

No limit to our ascension

However weak and fragile they may be now

They won’t stand down

A catastrophe, a rewritten story

Mightier than the pen and the sword: Hypnosis Mic

The spark that binds rhyme and rhyme

Is focused and refined by our minds

[akkivee]

but i mean if kr can do it, then i-

[7-7-cherry]

Rio day!!!

[crehador]

parting thoughts on rhyme anima s2

was it good? no. was it hypmic? also no. did i enjoy the hell out of it anyway? HELL YEAH for the most part

look i don't think it's controversial to say the rhyme anima characterization is eighteen flavors of fucked, but you know what? the blorbos are moving and talking and being silly and that's a fun enough time for me

yeah there are moments of mischaracterization that are egregiously bad, but i guess overall i don't. idk. fully regret watching

really bummed that the 'main' plot is actually quite compelling but just completely misplaced imo. like the whole thing with akira and satoru could have been such a good story on its own, in an original series, while here in the ridiculous clownfest that is rhyme anima it just feels so out of place

i'll never really understand why the anime refuses to just adapt the drama tracks but whatever. it just feels strange and... impractical? to have bits of the 'main' canon sprinkled in here and there with like. zero payoff lol (like what was that glimpse of the ramuda clones that was just NEVER ADDRESSED AGAIN, and are we really not going to let certain people talk to their fathers and a certain other person talk to their mother like hello)

anyway

tl;dr laughably bad but it's the blorbos so fine whatever. i guess i liked it. (i didn't. but let's pretend)

[minato-division03]

Rise From the Dead (R.I.P Märchen & Pixel Syndicate Edition)

♛ (Queen Card) ♛

Normal is an illusion

Normal for me makes you bow to me (that's right)

♛ (Black Cat, Reiaki Suzubayashi) ♛

Some days even the devil

sits back and loves my work

♛ (Hex 13, Miku Shirazuki) ♛

No one escapes life alive

Curses fuck over our lives

✦ (Rush Hour, Anika Kiyozaki) ✦

Once you start to see through the illusion,

everything will change for you

✦ (Ready or Not, Shian Meizono) ✦

The thrill of the chase I live for it draws me

Can't live in this immersion gotta run free

✦ (Screen Shot, Makina Setsukura) ✦

You're playing my game now, it is all in my hands now

Connection binds you and me, break me, I won't allow

Claw your way back up

RISE FROM DEAD

Carve open this believable plot

Along with it

YOU’LL BE FREE

All our lingering emotional strife

Is packed into our mics

We can’t just rewind

Frustrating as it is

Change takes time

This world— this new generation

We’ll build it even higher oh

We’ll get there someday

Reach for tomorrow and break the chain!

[hoodstar-en]

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[starryc]

disappearance of a phantom (sequel to "sayonara, darling")

(high res here)

[abyssalreds]

im interested in where the hypmic s2 plot is going rn but i wonder if theyre gonna adapt any of the drama tracks eventually?

[noctilu-uca]

Rei Amayado and Love.

fgghhgggghhh....

Ok so ik there are a lot of unknowns about rei and honestly im no where near qualified enough to talk about ANY of the hypmic characters in the detail im about to go. But i like to think i know a decent amount of info and lore to make a good assumption. I could be totally wrong about some things soo pllleeeaassseeee dont take me entirely seriously

But the conversation between rei and nayuta confirmed a lot of things for me. A lot of things i was speculating that i havent really seen anyone else talk about

In the drama track, rei comes to the realization that he lets himself shoulder everything despite having the support that he could turn to rely on. Even when nayuta was still awake and with him, he had the bad habit of pushing everything onto himself.

The line that really stood out to me was nayuta asking if he was going to play the villain, to which he responds with a curt "yes" and this. Right there. Is exactly what ive been thinking this entire time.

Its really nothing new that ohhh rei is the bad guy hes morally grey hes hurt people You Shouldnt Really Trust Him. And rosho denounces all of that with pushing sasara to think "who is he really?" now i know that whole portion was supposed to lead sasara into his own growth but seriously. Who is rei? They knew he was a conman, they knew he was shady, unserious, and pushed things off. But rosho says that it was just a persona he built up, and hes correct.

We all knew rei was a deeper character than they let on, it was obvious to us, but not to them. Though its still kinda funny sasaro just said "yeah we guessed" when he said he was bb's father LMAOAOAOAOA not slick at all... but anyways where am i going with this ?

Rei has quite obviously put up a persona to the people around him. He doesnt want to be suspected, he doesnt want people knowing too much about him. So he pretends. That whole comical uncle spiel was just a means of hiding from everyone, and most importantly, himself. I dont think he really wants to face his reality. Of course he takes responsibility and is *painfully* aware of it, but he doesnt seem like he wants to accept it. Now im mostly talking about nayuta here, in the dt he said he would do basically whatever it took to keep nayuta by his side when she mentioned her not being there anymore. And what is he doing now? Keeping her comatose body on publicly unknown island to protect her, and watch over her state.

What about his kids? As far as im aware theres no reason we were given for him leaving bb. Hes accepted the fact hes nolonger an important part of their lives, sure hes important to a degree, but not in a parental way. Im sure its fair to assume he left bb around the time nayuta was sent comatose. So what i think: he left for their own safety.

He left them to make sure they wouldnt get wrapped up in the politics he did. Their mother got hurt, whose to say chuuohku wouldnt target his children next? They knew what was important to him, so he forced himself to think of them as unimportant. He left them so they wouldnt meet the same fate, nayuta is gone, he cant have her children following.

But that was when they were young. Now that they are more grown, things have changed. They are drb participants, and isnt the whole point of the drbs to train potential true hypnosis mic users? Those mics? The mics that kill users? Why would he allow that? I personally think that its just a matter of "they are grown, they can make their own decisions." mixed with "they could possibly survive it and help me create nayutas ideal world."

Even before the 2nd drb, dont you think it was odd how he randomly came to jirosabu one day and revealed that he was their father? What were the motives? Ive always interpreted it as him helping them in his own odd way. He knew their bonds were strong, so maybe if he gives them a challenge, he could strengthen those bonds while simultaneously pushing himself away. Which woah !! Exactly what he did. Jiro got some really good character developmemt out of that one, and bb started resenting him even more. Keeping them together is his goal, afterall its all they have.

So he got what he wanted. He pushed those that he loved and cherished away to protect them from his issues. So... Whats up with sasara and rosho? Notoriously, he told them almost nothing about himself. But with this new dt he revealed EVERYTHING. A new level of intimacy for our current time rei. He was vulnerable with them, when he was so used to makimg other vulnerable.

I think his relationship with sasaro is very healing for him. For all of them, actually, both he and sasara have a tendency to push others away for either their protection, or his own protection. And rosho is a catalyst of "thats so stupid wtf" and is essentially helping them find themselves after he found his own self.

Of course human growth is always happening, rosho is no where near done growing. As we see in the dt he is growing right in front of us, gaining more confidence in himself. And sasara and rei are still so far from really allowing themselves to grow. In a way, they are ashamed for their lack of growth. Sasara getting antsy over the fact rosho pointed out his habit of never getting involved. And rei reflecting back on nayuta when he just got done actively pushing sasaro away. Nayuta was the only person who *actually* forced him to think of different perspectives and not rot in his own.

While nayuta is gone, sasara and rosho are good stand ins. Will he love them like he loved her ?? NO !!! That man is a wife lover through and through. But theres one thing about hypmic that i absolutely adore, and its their utilization of platonic love. Rei is slowly learning to cherish sasara and rosho just as they are him. Its obvious sasaro already cherish and love each other on some level, with sasara immediately thinking of roshos dreams when met with his own to start comedy with him again. He didnt want to enroach on roshos new found identity. And rosho, pushing sasara to find his own new identity. And so many more examples.

But with rei, he stopped himself from cherishing and loving, keeping himself in the past where the only person he has ever, truly, loved with his whole heart resided. So when met with two people who had a bond like he once did, he stayed stagnant and kept himself where he was. That was, until they forced him not to.

So who is rei? Rei amayado, Rei yamada. I think he is a man that loves, truly loves.

Everything that he does was done from a place of care. Was he perfect? No. Not at all. Ramuda exists now, but to him that was a side point in getting nayuta back, and creating their shared world. He did it for nayuta, everything for nayuta. Because he loved her. And absolutely still does. He did it for his children, because in some way he still cares. Even if he acts like he doesnt. And now he is continuing on for his strengthening bonds with sasara and rosho, because they are giving him a chance to recount himself, and find out who he wants to be in his future. He isnt done living despite his old age, he has so much more to do and figure out, things he thought he could only do with nayuta by his side. Of course he wants her back, desperately, he truly thought she would never leave him. But now she has, and even though she isnt with him, he has the opportunity to restart with sasara and rosho. And hopefully be a changed man when nayuta comes back.

Rei, no matter what name he takes, is a man who loves, and will continue loving.

[slugtranslation-hypmic]

hi slug! what's your favorite all stars song/s?

The minute this was asked, I immediately drew a blank on any besides Summit of Divisions (<- maybe the top fave) and Cross a Line. Let's uhhhh check the wiki.

Oh the 2nd DRB Non-stop Mix counts? Fuck yeah, I love that. I like a lot of the Hypmic remixes in general. The ARB song ("Are you game for more? Do you want more?") is fun too. Fight 4 Your Pride counts...? I mean, I like just about all of the main stageplay songs, so sure. Why not.

Kizuna and Next Stage are fun in their own way too. In general, I think I appreciate the all stars songs that are more boppy, since you have to hear the same tune over... and over... and over... for a good eight or so minutes as it makes its way through all the guys.

[pyonpyonpyon]

😂Funniest thing that’s ever happened to your muse? 

🔮 What do you see in your muse’s future? 

( for musuu, ramuda, & gentaro. )

Mun talks about the Muse

I haven't been writing Musuu enough that I can think of something funny that happened to her, but I do think it's cute that she and Jiro both have pickled foods as their least favorite (Jiro dislikes umeboshi, and I have Musuu disliking shibazuke).

In Musuu's future... in terms of canon things, maybe she'll finally get out of her coma and we'll finally see what Yamada Mom looks like. Granted I'm too attached to her name and appearance that I made up for her so I'm keeping this no matter what canon Yamada Mom looks like lmao. In terms of Musuu's own canon maybe she'll be able to return to her real body once it stops being in a coma lmao.

There's a discord rp I had where Ramuda got snapped out of a breakdown by the other muse admitting their love via talking about penguins. It was so absurd to Ramuda that he just stopped and stared lmao. Task success(?).

PLEAAASE please hypmic please tell us more about Ramuda's original. I'm of the opinion that he's a mix of multiple people's dna (or even modded to have an "original" appearance) bc that would totes satisfy Rei's god complex more but I want confirmation pls....

I haven't done anything funny with him yet so I'll saaaay his victory frog act after Fling Posse won the 2nd DRB.

As for Gentaro's future... pleaaase let him reveal his real name let him out of the closet pleaaaase.

[qazastra]

ive been slowly getting back into hypmic and was showing some of my friends clips from the anime and concerts, i really wanted to show them this dead pools performance in particular but couldn't find it on youtube

well it's not embedding right but THIS is CAMP they're taking it so dead seriously. the FUR... the sunglasses.. the GLOVES?? the CIGS?????? the first time i watched this live w my friend we had to pause the video multiple times during this set bc we were laughing too hard. much appreciation to everyone involved. this strange project has brought me so much joy

[akkivee]

i’m pretty sure the reason we got nagosaka’s second round of solos mimicking the og album art was bc kr was making a concerted effort to bridge the gap between the amount of music the ogs and nagosaka have lol

but those first solos for the og divisions were their beginnings as characters so maybe we can pretend round two solos for nagosaka is their true beginning lol

[crehador]

GIRL THE ANIME HASN'T EVEN HAD THE SECOND ONE YET

[lilac-melody]

Hypmic S2 ep11 spoilers

aight

gays.

why is this so padded out...

??? okay so,,, it's after the 2nd drb, but he hasn't split from them??? it's their own timeline ig...?

HJASKHJHJKHKJDAHJKKHJHKJ BABY SABURO LMFAOOOO I genuinely laughed. I actually love this.

hjkhkjfhjks not the selfies...

fellas is it gay to hallucinate your partner(s)

tragic gay people (again) how many times are we gonna watch them die tho

the rap battle was meh. subpar at best.

The ep was way too slow at the start, but then rushed the ending. The ending was honestly kinda BS...