#i was a big yuuya fan once upon a time

[ni-kol-koru]

I have been waiting for this since he got first introduced as a character, and now it's finally here! Yuuya Miyaji finally has official height, weight, birthday and blood type! 🌟🧡

[seigyokus]

Producer Letter #16

Hello! Long time no post, but I’m back with the last producer letter of the year. Hit the jump to read more of the usual 80-20 tl-paraphrase mix!

To everyone supporting Idolish Seven, 

This year has been a very big one for the Idolish Seven Project. As we look back on 2018, we really would not have made it without all of your support and we thank you from the bottom of our hearts for that.

Just this year, we've put out a wide variety of content, not including the app itself. We released novels, comics, the anime adaption, and held a live concert this year. IDOLiSH7 was also recruited to promote JR Tokai Tours as part of their "OFF Journey @ Aichi" campaign, as well as a collaboration with Sony for their hi-res audio CM and also for the release our 3rd anniversary Walkmans. We also released the "12 SONGS GIFT" for each idol's birthday, and also the "Hoshimeguri no Kansokusha" (tl: The Wandering Stargazers) event in partnership with AGF and Ichiban Kuji. We're sure everyone has gotten a chance to experience these releases, and we hope you liked them!

We also took our first steps overseas by expanding the app game, anime, and live viewings to a global audience, and felt all of the support from our international managers as well.

We'd be delighted beyond words if everyone enjoyed this year as much as we did!

This has been a year chock full of new starting lines for Idolish Seven, and we hope that we'll be able to draw many more new ones in 2019 and walk forward with everyone. Since we have already announced most things, we'll be mostly discussing our future directions in this letter.

【About the Project as a Whole】

◆ About Part 4

Part 4 will continue off of Part 3, and will be a story that stays true to the project thus far (t/n: lit. "befitting of Idolish Seven"). We do apologize for the long wait, but our team is working at full power to release Part 3 in 2019 so please hold on for just a bit longer!

◆ About a Special Story 

We released a special story in 2016 and 2017 at the end of the year, and this year we'll be releasing right at the start of 2019 at midnight of January 1st! Please look forward to it!

◆ About the Music 

We just released news about our plans for each idol's birthday in 2019, and we hope everyone looks forward to it! Here is a summary:

RADIO STATION "Twelve Hits!" Project Each idol will act as the radio personality for an original drama track, "RADIO STATION "Twelve Hits!" and sing their solo version of the radio's theme song, "Wonderful Octave".  The CDs will be released on the character’s birthday and follows the following format: 

RADIO STATION "Twelve Hits!" -Character ver.-  

12 SONGS GIFT birthday solo 

12 SONGS GIFT birthday solo (Off Vocal) 

Wonderful Octave -Character ver.-  

All of the "12 SONGS GIFT" solo songs are available online, but we hope you enjoy the original drama tracks and the theme song, "Wonderful Octave"! 

ŹOOĻ Member Solos Each ŹOOĻ member will be getting a solo song for their birthday, beginning with Midou Torao. The dates are as listed:      March 15th - Midou Torao (CV. Kondou Taksahi)      June 8th - Natsume Minami (CV. Nishiyama Koutarou)      November 29th - Inumaru Touma (CV. Kimura Subaru)      December 6th - Isumi Haruka (CV. Hirose Yuuya)

We’re certain some parts of the Part 4 songs will stick out out everyone, so do look forward to them! 

◆ 『Idolish Seven Vibrato』 Anime Scheduled for Release! 

We first announced a spin-off series on December 25th, 2017. That year has passed in the blink of an eye, and we're pleased to make an official announcement on its release.

The first half of 『TRIGGER – before The Radiant Glory – 』 has already been released, and the latter half of  『TRIGGER – before The Radiant Glory – 』 will be released soon as well. The following three episodes will also be available on YouTube Premium:

『巻き込まれた男』(The Entangled Man)

『PARTY TIME TOGETHER』

『NATSU☆しようぜ！』 (Let’s ☆ SUMMER!)

All of these works will be animated by TROYCA, so please look forward to them!

◆ About the Music Video Animations 

As announced previously, we have unveiled the animation studios for each of the idol groups' MVs for Part 4. We hope they surprised you! Our team looks fondly upon the days we spent running around with the references for each idol. In brief:

ŹOOĻ - ufotable TRIGGER - TRIGGER Re:vale - TROYCA

All of the music videos are currently in production and are making great progress! IDOLiSH7 is the only remaining group we've yet to announce the studio for, so sit tight and keep your eyes peeled!

◆ About the next Fan Thanksgiving Event 

It's been a while since our last fan thanksgiving event, Vol. 3 "Kimi to motto x2 Ai wo Kataranai to!", but we are happy to announce that there’s more in store for everyone! 

The next event will be "Welcome! Ai na Night!" and we'll be sending you lots of love once more!

◆ About Idolish Seven's 1st Live Concert 『Road To Infinity』 

We held our first live concert on July 7th and 8th of 2018, and the Blu-ray and DVD will be released January 23rd! From January 23-31, there will also be a special exhibition in Tokyo's Ikebukuro Sunshine City displaying the live costumes. We did our best to put all of our feelings and memories from the event into the exhibit, so we hope you can drop by!

◆ About the Comicalization and Novelization

"Idolish Seven - Re:member" is a three-part comicalization and novelization that paints the portrait of Re:vale from the dawn of the group through their indie days. Has everyone had a chance to read it?

We couldn't just leave Banri ,Yuki, and Momo's pasts blank so we've created these works to show the path they took, their feelings back then, and the emotions that tie them all together in the present. We hope you can enjoy the story in each work.

◆ About the Idolish Seven Fanbook 

Thanks to everyone’s support, the third official fanbook for Idolish Seven has been confirmed! The cover will be the visual we revealed at our third anniversary. 

The fanbook is slated for release on March 20th, 2019 so be sure to pre-order it!

【About the Game】

We're about to hit another big number in player count, so we'll be unveiling a special campaign soon! There will be a year-end event as always, so we hope you look forward to it!

【Other Updates & Additions to the Game】

◆ About the Servers 

We'd apologize again for any inconveniences caused by the whole day of maintenance on August 2nd.

Due to this incident, we are re-evaluating our servers and striving to strengthen our systems. As a result, this led to several long maintenances in a short period of time. Again, we are very sorry for any inconveniences these may have caused.

◆ New Features to be Implemented

As previously announced, we realize that training members and organizing them has become quite complex and cumbersome so we're looking into optimizing the system. 

We are also looking into making the story a little bit easier to read/access. 

We also hope to implement a system that will let players enjoy playing the lives outside of non-regularly scheduled events.

◆ Questions, Comments, or Concerns about the Game

In the case that you would like to express your opinion to the staff, please contact us through the official site.

Thank you for reading all the way to the very end! 

Although we feel quite a bit of pressure since we're finally releasing Part 4, we sincerely believe that we can take a step forward with everyone into a brand-new year. 

We thank you for your continued support, and let's i7 our way through 2019 too!

TL Notes/comments:

“wow that was LONG, idk if they could possibly make these longer” - famous last words by twitter user @shiroihime 

Thank you all again for your patience! I’ve been a horizontal human being for all of my vacation thus far but hopefully I’ll find a little time (and learn how to balance/schedule things a little better around work/hobbies/relaxation) in 2019 to fucking beat twitter user iD7Mng_Ogami to the punch wrt Part 4 

ok that sentence didn’t make sense my loose overarching goal is to finish Part 3 (TOUGH LUCK) before Part 4 but that’s banking on the prayer that (1) staff will take their sweetass time crafting the dickpunch to end us all as usual because the moral of the story is that they are all Izumi Iori with a little sprinkling of Tamaki (bc those typos, man and chaotic chaos timing) aka give me enough time to (2) magically establish a good pace/release schedule and de-rust while somehow Not Die from work+destress-from-work time

ANYWAYS tl;dr expect more part 3!!! but not fast!!! when have I ever been fast!!!!!!!! (like once maybe)  hopefully before part4 tho!!!

without further ado, I hope you all enjoy the big sleigh full of news i7 just dropped on us, and it really has been a humongous year for the project.... honestly what a whirlwind of a year!!! 

Thank you again for sticking with me and my equally long yelling in the t/n section, and here’s to an even better 2019 for us all!

-shiroi

[disneydreamlights]

For the controversial ship meme - ALL symbols for Persona, Kingdom Hearts, and Hatoful Boyfriend.

You really out here wanting me to die tonight for my opinions.

Persona:

Ship that you have as an OTP: 🌹

SHUAKE FOR LIFE. God I love Shuake. Enemies to lovers in general just gives me life but the fact that Akechi and Akira were made to be foils to each other is just good shit.

Ship that you’re indifferent to: 😑

Honestly most Phantom Thief shipping I’m pretty ambivalent to, but if I had to pick the one I’m like...truly the embodiment of “meh” about I’d probably say Ann/Akira. I don’t love it or hate it, it just kinda exists.

Ship that makes you sad: 💔

God I’ve got two: Akiham and Fool Moon. You want depression? Great, take these ships and run with it. And if you thought the fact that Shinji dying made Fool Moon depressing, how about the fact that if you romance Aki you can’t save Shinji, so he’s lost his parents, his sister, his absolute best friend in the entire world, and now you too.

...Akihiko deserved better.

Ship that you find disgusting: 💩

KEN/MINAKO CAN GO DIE IN A HOLE BYE.

Ship that you find cute but don’t ship: ✌

I don’t really ship it but of the female confidants and Akira, ShuMako is definitely the cutest.

Ship that you secretly like: 💚

I will never own up to this again but Ann/Ryuji actually lowkey is kinda cute, and while I’m not super into it I’d definitely get behind it.

Ship that you used to have as an OTP: 💙

None really? For me to dump a ship at OTP status you gotta cataclysmically fail as bad as Lotura and have a fanbase worse than some KH ships.

Ship that you find most sexy:👅

I got held up on this for like ten minutes because I’ve never actually thought of this in regards to Persona...I guess probably Shuake? All my other ships I see as sexually incompetent to some degree. 

Ship that you can never see happening: 👎

Any of the kid/adult ships. Also Futaba/Akira, the two are practically like adoptive siblings and that’s just weird.

Ship that is canon but you don’t ship: 💤

n/a. The only canon ship in Persona is Junpei/Chidori and that’s...good.

Ship that is unpopular but you still like: 💘

...Honestly Ann/Ryuji I’m pretty sure is unpopular. Also anything P3 because the fandom is too quiet.

Ship that is taboo: 💦

Shuake? I can see this ship being classified as taboo given I had to leave a server over hate for it.

Ship that pisses you off: 💣

...Ken/Minako please fuck off.

Ship you’re curious about: 👀

I would love to see more of MakoHaru, it’s got a lot of potential but not a lot of attention and that’s a real shame.

Ship that needs more love: 💖

Every one of my P3 ships. Give Akiham more love, give Fool Moon more love, give Mitsuru/Yukari more love. Give Junpei/Chidori more love.

Ship that is most misunderstood: 💢

Shuake is misunderstood even by its fans because too many of its fans white knight Akechi and erase his wrong doings when half of the interesting things from the ship come from Akechi growing from everything he did wrong and that’s the tea.

Kingdom Hearts:

Ship that you have as an OTP: 🌹

I always crossfire my OTPs but I guess if I had to pick one to top all of them it would probably be RikuShi? Hard to say.

Ship that you’re indifferent to: 😑

Tequa. I want to like Tequa, I really do. I just can’t bring myself to care about it that much, and that saddens me.

Ship that makes you sad: 💔

Hey canon SoKai absolutely broke my heart, crushed my dreams, destroyed my soul, and I want to cry.

Ship that you find disgusting: 💩

I sat here for like an hour because I genuinely wanted to avoid naming the ship and in the end I decided I’m tied between Ak*R*ku and Ak*Shi. The age gap plus the fact that Axel feels more like their dad just makes me uncomfortable, that being said if the arts good I’m still gonna reblog.

Ship that you find cute but don’t ship: ✌

There are a lot of good high crack combinations out there like Sora/Ariel, Sora/Rapunzel. I also admire R*kuShi from a distance but the fanbase kinda turned me off pretty bad given the ship wars between them and RokuNami.

Ship that you secretly like: 💚

Terra/Cinderella is a ship I will never talk about shipping but it’s actually genuinely really cute and I blame Talia for making me ship it.

Ship that you used to have as an OTP: 💙

Once upon a time back in 2018 I was a huge S*RiK*i shipper. Then KH3 came out and well...

The behavior of some people has kinda turned me off big time from a specific third of the ship and if you don’t like all three parts then what’s the point of OT3ing.

Ship that you find most sexy:👅

Vanqua. Which I feel weird saying but you know what, that would one hundred percent be it. The rest of my ships completely lack sex appeal but Vanqua has Aqua in it and she’s literally the most attractive character in KH.

Ship that you can never see happening: 👎

Well of my own ships...Vanqua, but of the other ships...

You know what, for my own safety, I’d rather not say.

Ship that is canon but you don’t ship: 💤

Well I ship the canon and implicated canon ships so...

Ship that is unpopular but you still like: 💘

GULAVA HAS THREE SHIPPERS AND YOU KNOW WHAT I WILL PROUDLY BE ALL OF THEM.

Ship that is taboo: 💦

Vanqua. Big taboo here.

Ship that pisses you off: 💣

...

...

...

Look.

I don’t want to die Perla.

You already know my answer and why.

You know how much I hate that one theory and hate the fandom’s attitude and it’s made me legitimately angry over a ship.

I think you know the answer.

Ship you’re curious about: 👀

Aquarella looks real cute. So does NamiXi but not enough content.

Ship that needs more love: 💖

RokuNami needs more love, the ship’s fallen into quietness, but also my eternally rare pairs of GulAva and RikuShi and Vanqua and XehaEra need more content and deserve to be fed.

Ship that is most misunderstood: 💢

VANQUA

JESUS FUCKING CHRIST GUYS THERE IS NOTHING WRONG WITH AN AGE GAP BETWEEN A SIXTEEN AND EIGHTEEN YEAR OLD STOP PORTRAYING IT AS GROSS THERE ARE UNDERSTANDABLE REASONS TO CALL VANQUA BAD AND A REASON I WOULD NEVER WANT IT CANON BUT THE AGE GAP DIFFERENCE IS NOT IT.

Hatoful Boyfriend:

Ship that you have as an OTP: 🌹

My oc x Yuuya because Zoe and I rped that and it’s one of my top ships period. Sakuya/Ryouta is honestly a very good ship and 10/10 would ship again.

Ship that you’re indifferent to: 😑

Honestly most ships? There’s just not a lot of birdie combinations I’m super into in general.

Ship that makes you sad: 💔

Hiyoko/Ryouta is particularly tragic, even if I’m not a shipper of it, once you take into account BBL.

Ship that you find disgusting: 💩

Yuuya/Sakuya

Fuck off with that incest.

Ship that you find cute but don’t ship: ✌

I’m not super big into Anghel/Nageki but it’s real cute anyways, just not enough canon substantiating it.

Ship that you secretly like: 💚

N/A. Don’t really had any of my Hatoful ships.

Ship that you used to have as an OTP: 💙

None? Same deal as P5 there was no fuckery in the fanbase to turn me off. It’s a nice chill fanbase over here.

Ship that you find most sexy:👅

...They’re birds.

Ship that you can never see happening: 👎

Shuu/Yuuya. I know there are people who ship it and no.

Ship that is canon but you don’t ship: 💤

N/A. No canon ships.

Ship that is unpopular but you still like: 💘

...I’m not involved in the fandom enough for this tbh.

Ship that is taboo: 💦

None I’m interested in tbh.

Ship that pisses you off: 💣

PEOPLE WHO SHIP EITHER SETS OF BROTHERS. JUST NO.

Ship you’re curious about: 👀

Anghel/Nageki. Let them interact more in the next game.

Ship that needs more love: 💖

...All of them. This fandom is tiny give the game more love before its ships.

Ship that is most misunderstood: 💢

None that I can think of?

[seigaku9th-blog]

japan week five ➜ yuuya’s DVD & zaiki’s photobook release events

july 30th shall go down history as the ultimate tezuka inception day. my friend sam & i -- two tezuka lovers/cosplayers -- met yuuya AND zaiki *_*!!

first was yuuya's event, which took place in a small jazzy lounge bar in ginza. it looked so fancy, and i think it was a good idea for them to rent a smaller venue since there weren't a lot of us and it made the event that much more cozy. there were 4 rows of seats and about 50 people there.

the event started with a viewing of a few scenes from yuuya's DVD, which i honestly dreaded, but the whole audience and yuuya himself were just laughing and making fun of it, so i felt right at home.

then came a very detailed Q&A section. if you've been following this blog for a while, you know that yuuya is a very... unique? existence. well, he just got even more interesting/weird.

first off, my suspicions about his large chest scar were confirmed. he mentioned that he had heart issues as a child and was constantly in & out of the hospital, which became his main motivation to study as a medical engineer, so he could help those going thru the same experience as him... (but now you’re tezuka kunimitsu?!)

he also mentioned that he studied abroad in china for some time. and talked about how happy he was that the venue was full since he remembered his band's shows sometimes not having any audience. i seriously don't know what kind of life this man has lived within the past 25 years.

when came time for the handshakes, i was much less nervous than usual since i had already interacted with him a few times before and he is just. such an incredibly down-to-earth normal guy. it’s really easy to talk to him lots! he had actual discussions with pretty much everyone and would tell everyone random compliments about their outfits or accessories. it was really cute, especially considering how most actors' vocabulary usually consists solely of THANK YOU!!

he yelled KAWAII!!!! at my bag (which was decked out with tezuka & hangyodon goods)... t-thanks...

i also want to mention how nice the staff at his event were. they were very friendly and patient, and didn't rush us when we were talking to yuuya. similarly, yuuya later wrote on his blog that the staff at the event told him he had really nice fans XD. 

i then ran off to shibuya for zaiki time.

zaiki's event was wild. over 600 fans came, and he shook their hands for over 5 hours... is he okay...

this was a very simple, line up, cheki, handshake, take the photobooks & leave event. but it was still a magical moment for me.

for every other event where i'd meet actors, i could look at them interact with a dozen of other fans before my turn came, so i feel like i could calm down & prepare better. but with zaiki, i dropped off my bags, turned around the corner, and bam, there he was.

gosh. he looks so much better in person. he's also definitely way taller than what his profile says... or wears insoles? i'm 180cm with the shoes i was wearing that day, yet he was still taller than me ?_?. the beauty mark on his nose is hypnotizing and he looks so warm... his expression when he saw me was so sweet and calming and friendly...

the. the pose. okay, i was already expecting the worse since my friends sam and tina had both met him at similar events before, and both got shoulder grabbed by him... but imagine my surprised when i was the one who had to grab him. help. (my first thought: OH NO NOW I CANT POST THIS ON FACEBOOK WHERE I'M PRETENDING TO BE A NORMAL PERSON)

at first i had my hand really loose around his arm out of respect... but then i was like

a) the picture might look awkward b) THIS IS A ONCE IN A LIFETIME CHANCE  c)  HE ASKED FOR THIS

so i. went tf in. it was a very nice arm. quite warm. thank you

we then had some time to talk to him. a surprising amount of time, actually, but i was happy. i told him how much his work as tezuka meant to me and how beautiful his voice is and all that stuff. i couldn't really find the words to describe how important meeting him was to me, so i just thanked him... XD

i was then escorted out and given three (3) copies of the photobook. save me

this was a really special and important meeting for me. i'm sorry for getting a little too personal in here, but the main reason why i was able to afford such a big trip to japan is because of what i inherited from my father upon his death. and the main reason why i was able to survive that difficult experience and time in my life was because i got back into tennis immediately after, when 8th were starting out, and zaiki's voice and general performance were a big comfort, and looking forward to everything 8th would do, even things as small as their next tweet, was the only thing that could keep me going on some days.

so, having the chance to meet zaiki and thank him (in an albeit very vague way) on my very last day in tokyo... it felt really meaningful.

and in general, i consider myself extremely lucky to have had the opportunity to meet two actors i’ve loved & supported from canada since their debut. i hope i can meet them again, and more importantly, i want to meet every other tezuka as well!!!!!!ww

thank you for reading this report!!