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ansbobcar · 6 months ago
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Guys his cad got beefier
It went from this
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avellanas-nutty-empire · 1 year ago
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aight guess im doing one of these
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and then a bonus good guy, the one ALL my friends make fun of me for:
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nishicchikouchi · 2 years ago
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It is only today that I discovered that I can listen to old voicelines that happened in archon quest. I have every version of the voice in genshin, and in my Main, I always use chinese ver because it futs the aesthetic. Which means I've always heard Xiao in chinese. Oh gosh please bless his CVA. He just sounds so AAAUUGHHH <3. So today, I go through the archive, with JP Ver. AND OH MY HOSH DID HE SOUND SO FAMILIAR IN JP. I was like, Sora? Ichijou Masaki? Kirito? Literally the first people that I thought of. I hope I'm not wrong XD. Imma search his JPVA in a sec.
Edit: I CHECKED IT. I WAS NOT WRONG MUAHAHAHAH. The JPVA for Xiao really is the same person that voiced Kirito.
ALSO, KAEYA? SAME VA AS KIBA? LOL NOW THAT IM INFORMED I WILL KEEP SEEING KIBA WHEN HE SPEAK HAHAH.
DILUC?!?!?! MY MAN HAS THE SAME VA AS MIKAELA OMGOMGOMG. AAAAAAAH
I already know that Venti is voiced by Ayumu because of that one song Ayumu sang I downloaded with Venti in the cover. Goodness, Ayumu's voice acting really is so amazing.
BUT KLEE! I am very shocked with her VA. She's the one who voice Hawk-chan SHXBSUSGSJSBAJB noooooo. Now whenever I see Klee I'll get reminded of Hawk lol.
I've never had Chongyun but always wanted him and now, PLEASE COME HOME. PLEASE THE WAY I SCREAMED when I found out that he has same jp va as William. Im dead. My voice is dead.
Zhongli is Hak. Actually, I think I prefer his Eng and CN ver better. He sound like an adolescent with his JP ngl.
Ayaya, already knew. Saori Hayami. Her voice is unique I just recognize her voice in characters she plays that I encounter. Like first meeting with her, oh this girl sound like Sapri Hayami. I love a lot of characters voiced by her.
Kazuha. Soma Yuki. ... Im dead. This only streghtened my resolve to save primos and fates for his rerun now. I am gettin you no matter what.
Ayato...I really like him and his character. Even his story quest which may seem like boring to others, I loved. (Man I love scheming characters too much—) His va also voiced Zeref! Ah, yes, Zeref.
Cyno, Sugawara and Yuuichirou. I definitely didn't recognize his voice. Goodness how are these JPVA so talented.
Natsu and Wanderer. Omy,,, NOW I SEE NATSU BEING A FLIRT AND WANDERER BEING A MUSCLE HEAD LOL HAHAHAHA
Alhaitham... President Horikita... .... .... .... ... this is why he's so hot.
Guys... Kaveh... Kyo... Megumi... I—
Wait, Teppei and Heizou has the same JPVA?
Il Dottore...Muzan...
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ljaesch · 8 months ago
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English Cast Announced for the Third Season of The Irregular at Magic High School Anime
The English cast has been announced for the third season of The Irregular at Magic High School anime: Alejandro Saab is Tatsuya Shiba Anairis Quiñones is Miyuki Shiba Emi Lo is Minami Sakurai Maureen Price is Mayumi Saegusa Erika Mendez is Erika Chiba Suzie Yeung is Angelina Kudou Shields Ryan Bartley is Shuzuku Kitayama Kimberly Woods is Honoka Mitsui Stephen Fu is Masaki Ichijou Xanthe Huynh…
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sekainofantasy90 · 3 years ago
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達也 • 将輝 - Tatsuya/Masaki リーナ • 深雪 - Lina/Miyuki
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zettabita · 4 years ago
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RIVALS: Spark I
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hi guys! ok so this is becoming more action than romance lmao I promise next time ill make it...fluffier...? 
I need to get this story out of my head HAHAHAH so I’ll just keep writing. :D In this chapter, you might be a lil OP but thats ok bc you’re amazing irl <3 
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a masaki ichijou x fem reader fic
Genre: action, romance Warnings: mild swearing Word count: 2.2k+
Previous: Thunder
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You really didn’t see what was coming when Saegusa-senpai pulled you into a discussion room the night before your first Ice Pillar Break match. You were meandering about the hotel, you see, trying to get rid of your pre-event jitters. You were inspecting the vending machine (Why doesn’t this have milk tea?) at the end of the corridor when Saegusa-senpai suddenly popped out from nowhere and urged you to follow her into a room full of very intimidating Third year students and an expectant Tatsuya. 
The first thing that crossed your mind when Juumonji-senpai told you in that room that you were chosen to substitute for Monolith Code was the horrible image of you tripping over a rock in the middle of a battlefield. The second thing was how you were so unlucky that the first year they allowed girls to compete in Monolith Code and increased the number of members on a team was your year (but hey, hooray for gender equality.) 
Not wanting to embarrass your school, you tried to put up a good fight. But what about Miyuki, you said. They said that she had two events already and Tatsuya scrunched his face a little bit at the idea. But I don’t have combat experience, you said. They said that Monolith Code, a glorified, no-contact capture-the-flag-with-magic contest, isn’t really live combat and your skills were needed in the team Tatsuya was forming. Not wanting to further bother the scary Third years who looked like they were getting more impatient by the second, you grimly added “not get stomped on at Monolith Code” to your Nine Magic Schools Competition to-do list (At the top of your list was “melt a lot of ice”, which you would later tick off in your Ice Pillar Break match with Mutsuba-san the next day.)
And that’s how you found yourself standing in front of a black pillar in the middle of an open field with Tatsuya Shiba, Leonhard Saijou, and Mikihito Yoshida at the Monolith Code finals, trying in vain to gulp down your nervousness. 
At the far end of the field, you see four figures in dark red armor. They had one girl fidgeting more nervously than you were (It was somehow comforting.) You eye the tallest one, the one with the brownish-red hair tucked underneath the helmet before closing your eyes.
“We need you to counter Ichijou Masaki.” Tatsuya says, almost apologetically. 
You almost spat out your drink from the hotel minibar. “You need me to do what?!” (You panic now, but years later, you thank Tatsuya for his decision. Masaki thanks him too.) You were hanging out in your room with your teammates and a few First-year friends, discussing combat styles and strategies for the coming matches in a few days.
Tatsuya sighs as Leo and Mikihito stare at him incredulously. “It will be difficult, but I need to shut down Futatsugi Kei. I can’t do that while also facing off against Ichijou Masaki. At the very least, you have to buy me some time.” You pause to think. Futatsugi Kei was another Third High School ace from a Master Clan. It was absolutely criminal for him, the Crimson Prince, and Cardinal George to be on the same Monolith Code team. 
But then again, Ichijou Masaki was also in a weight class of his own. Or so they say. “But why me?”
“It’s actually one of the reasons why I chose you. The Ichijou clan specializes in medium to long range bombardment. That would make it difficult for Leo and Mikihito,” Tatsuya gestured to the two, “to take him on from a distance with their specialities. But you can.”
Before you could even reply, Erika chimes in from the other side of the room. “And you’re a girl!” 
The four of us gaze at her curiously. You ask, “What does that have to do with anything?”
Erika flashes me a wide grin. “You’re a girl, so he’ll hesitate going all-out. Right?” She looks to the boys for confirmation. 
“I don’t know if I should be happy about that…” you say as Leo lights up in realization. “Oh, yeah! Old-fashioned types like Master Clans people will probably underestimate you, ” Leo blushes slightly and pauses, realizing the implications of his words, “uh, which is, you know, really unfair, but maybe you could use that to your advantage?” 
Tatsuya and Mikihito nod in agreement. “Yes. It’s possible for us to construct a strategy around that,” Tatsuya adds.
You press your fingers to your temple in a gesture of defeat. “Okay. I’ll think of something. But I don’t think my defense will hold…”
Tatsuya reaches into his inner coat pocket. “And there’s another reason why I chose you.” His lips curl into a rare smile and hands me a silver gun-shaped CAD. “Come on. I’m going to teach you Gram Demolition.”
“(L/N)-san.” Tatsuya calls. You open your eyes without looking at him. “Are you ready?” He asks in a low voice. He was obviously most concerned about your state, given that you were the unlucky one to throw down with one of the best first-year magicians around. 
You feel for the CADs in your holsters and pull up your glove, your magic talisman, on your left hand. “Ready as I’ll ever be.” You think back to your first Monolith Code match with Eighth this morning. You did well, taking to the battlefield easily and readily, but you haven’t shown the world your new spell that was learned in a few late-night crash courses with Tatsuya. Gram Demolition, a potent close-range Counter Magic spell, wasn’t a complicated technique, you learned. You only had to have a crazy high Psion count to cast it. It just so happens you had a lot more than most. 
You sigh and go over your magic repertoire in your head for the last time. You do your best to ignore your heart beating annoyingly fast in your chest, sharpen your focus, and lock your eyes on that self-assured red-haired magician standing directly across from you on the field. Masaki Ichijou—your rival for the day.
And with a screech of a faraway siren, the match begins. 
Tatsuya sprints, two CAD pistols in his hand, legs pumping quickly underneath him as he aims at Futatsugi. The air shifts as the other two spread out behind you. Masaki, on the other, strides confidently forward and begins to cast a spell aimed at Tatsuya.
Not him, me, you think to yourself in a split-second. You send a barrage of lightning bolts in Masaki’s direction, the intensity of your thought coloring the strength of your magic, and he deflects it just in time. He turns to you and you see a small smile plastered on his…admittedly handsome face. Smug bastard. You take a quick glance to your left and see Tatsuya engage in a shootout with that Futatsugi character.
Your eyes dash back to your opponent. Masaki raises his two pistols and a few Activation Sequences form around you quickly. Air Bullet: a round of compressed air and Masaki’s go-to spell in this competition (You’ve watched a few replays of his matches. Never can be too careful with a guy who’s killed a bunch of Russians when he was 13.) Strong, but easy to dismantle. Show time. You blast them away cleanly one by one with your newly-learned Gram Demolition technique and counter with your powered-up version of Thunder Child. Masaki’s smile fades and his eyes widen as he puts out a defensive spell, averting the paralyzing effect of your offense. At the edge of your vision, you notice the other Third opponents shoot you a shocked glance.
Masaki regains his composure in an instant. The two of you walk towards each other, pistols raised in a magic gunfight. Lightning and Activation Sequences form and disintegrate around the both of you within seconds, drawing you in, encircling the both of you in a beautiful but deadly light show. (It lit up his face the same way it would the first time he took you to see fireworks at the pier in Kanazawa.) You manage to slip in a few lightning bolts in between shots of Gram Demolition, making him sidestep occasionally, but you were basically locked in a stalemate. 
Now or never. You break your solid stance and run towards him, catching him off-guard. For a second, he pauses, and you press the attack, nearly hitting him with a low-voltage lightning bolt. 
The Crimson Prince must’ve felt the heat quite literally. He flinched at the heat and the close sound of air expanding rapidly like miniature thunder, and, with a flick of his wrist, a dozen Activation Sequences suddenly surrounded you, threatening to let loose. Oh my God, this jerk’s trying to kill me. You catch the horrified expression on his face (his move was a violation of the rules, after all) before you blast away one, four, then seven in a moment, going beyond what you thought you could, and then you take out a few more. You feel the hotness from a nearby explosion. You internally scream at your body to catch up and obliterate the remaining Sequences.
And then, when you’d just were a couple of paces from him, just within range of a lightning bolt, one air bullet hits the ground next to you. The world to your left erupts in a hot flash and the ground simply bursts, soil surging up into the air. You let out a yelp of pain and dive away from the blast.
“And that’s the plan. Do you think the illusion will hold?” You focus on your outstretched hand, gathering Psions and then destroying Tatsuya’s attempt at a spell, the glow from the attempt lighting up his figure in the darkened training field not far from the hotel. Your Gram Demolition was still imperfect, but it was getting there: you had proceeded from mildly inconveniencing Activation Sequences last night to outright blowing them away this evening. 
Tatsuya furrows his eyebrows in mild disapproval as he prepares to cast another one. “At your level, it should.” Another Activation Sequence forms before you and you blast it away easily. “Still...a lot of things could go wrong with that. Are you sure, using yourself as bait?”
You shrug. “You would be too busy to help me. And… to be honest, I don’t think I have a chance at fighting him head-on for too long. So I’m doing what you guys suggested. Using a little psychology.” You grin as you take down a couple of Sequences from Tatsuya near-perfectly. “After all, who wouldn’t panic if they thought they hurt a cute girl?”
You just didn’t expect him to try to kill said cute girl, even if it was an accident. You lie face down in the dirt. Your ears were ringing and your head throbbed irritatingly. Thank goodness your helmet had tough glass or you’d be eating mud by now. A thick mist that looks like dust and steam emanates from the palm of your glove-covered hand and envelops the surrounding area, hiding you from view. You raise your head slightly to look around at it. Your smoke version of Magical Mist, a spell that creates a thick fog, looked a bit unnatural, but it should do. A destroyed CAD, an attempt at a defense spell, a weird natural phenomenon: what created the mist shouldn’t matter, because the opponent should be panicking either way. You take another second to lie on the grass, CADs clutched in your hands, hurting all over from the dive, and then you waited.
You knew that Masaki was just at the edge of the smoke, probably freaking out at the prospect that he killed a girl and a foreign exchange student at First High (Later on, you learn he already had been practicing how to apologize to your country’s government for your death. The nervous wreck.) You knew he would be too busy reviewing his previous steps to see if the excessive force he used would be enough to kill you and definitely too busy to notice that his opponent was very much still alive and kicking. You listen for a rustle of grass or a shuffle of armor. 
After a quiet moment of passing wind and the faraway sounds of magic from your teammates’ own battles, you hear it: a step back, the ground crunching underneath a foot. You raise yourself from the ground quickly and throw your CAD in the direction of the sound. It was a good throw: high and far, the gun spinning away from view in a clean trajectory. More importantly, it was a good distraction at a magic-only battle. At almost the same time, you sprint and emerge from the smoke and into the light. 
You swear the world moved in slow motion in that instant. Masaki Ichijou stood there a few feet from you, pistols lowered, his head turned in the direction of the CAD you threw. He feels the air shift when you emerge and he turns to you slowly, his emerald eyes glinting in the light, his mouth gaped open in surprise. He raises an arm instinctively, probably activating his defenses, but you already cast the final blow: Spark. A seemingly simple spell that creates a small electric discharge but is enough to paralyze an opponent.
As you did, you couldn’t help but flash the Crimson Prince a shameless smile from ear to ear. I win, you wanted to say. He looked on—you couldn’t understand the expression on his face—as he fell to his knees, electricity crackling around him. Far away, the crowd erupts in loud cheers. 
Months later, Masaki tells you that that smile was what made him fall desperately in love with you.
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hope the way you beat him wasn’t too far-fetched lmao. thanks for reading! <3
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bebopping-samurai · 5 years ago
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Masaki: You gotta learn to love yourself.
George: Don't you fucking hate yourself?
Masaki: Yeah, but this is about you. Stay focused.
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ovrwhlm · 8 years ago
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*whispers* is this yaoi
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lockscreen-all-blog · 8 years ago
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♡Mahouka Koukou No Rettousei ♡  
if you downloaded RB or Like ^^ Si descargaste dale RB o Like
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x-anime-love-x · 6 years ago
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I kind of forgot I watched this, but it just came into my head and now I am remembering how much I liked it and want to watch it again!
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ruieeheiou · 4 years ago
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THE IRREGULAR AT MAGIC HIGH SCHOOL
crimson couple (ichijou masaki)
crystal eyes (mikihiko yushida)
misunderstanding (tatsuya shiba)
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leenaevilin · 6 years ago
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[Announcement] HiGH&LOW THE WORST EPISODE.O
to promote the upcoming movie (HiGH&LOW THE WORST ~ roadshow October 4th, 2019)  日本テレビ will air the ‘spin off’ drama (July 17, 2019)
Cast:
Yamada Yuuki as Murayama Yoshiki (村山良樹) Suzuki Takayuki as Furuya Hideto (古屋英人) Ichinose Wataru as Seki Kotarou (関虎太郎)
Kiyohara Shou as Nakabayashi (中林) Aoki Ken as Nakakuki (中茎) Jinnai Shou as Nakazono (中園)
Kawamura Kazuma as Hanaoka Shuu (花岡楓士雄)
Yoshino Hokuto as Takagi Tsukasa (高城司) Fukuyama Kouhei as Jam Boy (ジャム男) Rokusha Hayato as Shinoda (信田) Takashina Yuuki as Kitamura (北村)
Maeda Gouki as Todoroki Yousuke (轟洋介) Suzuki Hakahide as Tsuji (辻) Ryuu as Shibaman (芝マン)
Satou Ryuuji as Taishi (泰志) Uekiya Satoshi as Seishi (清史) Kusakawa Naoya as Shimoda (下田) Fukui Tomoya as Abe (阿部)
Kamio Fuuju as Nakagoshi (中越) Nakajima Ken as Nakaoka (中岡) Abe Shuuhei as Matsuda (益田) Ichijou Kyousuke as Hazama (羽佐間) Kubo Masaki as Ishihara (石原) Ishibashi Hiroki as Sawa (澤) Shimoda Sora as Tenji (天寺)
Izumiya Shigeru as Tetsuji (哲二) Fujita Tomoko as Miki (ミキ)
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sole015 · 8 years ago
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zettabita · 4 years ago
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RIVALS: Thunder
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a masaki ichijou x fem reader fic
Genre: action, romance Warnings: none! Word count: 2.6k+
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“Shiba-san, I think I’m going to throw up.” 
You clutch the shoulder of Tatsuya Shiba, First High’s best technician and the one currently servicing your CAD. With a mildly concerned look, he steadies you and walks you to the stage riser. 
Around you, students hustle to and fro, working on computers, tinkering with CADs, and typing hastily on tablets—other technicians for First High. You see, it was the 2095 Nine Schools Magic Competition, and you, a bright-eyed magician hailing from a distant country, was chosen by your First High teachers and upperclassmen to represent the school for Ice Pillar Break. Not much surprise there—even amongst the Blooms students, you were considered one of the best: you learned ridiculously fast, your casting speed rivals that of Miyuki Shiba’s, and, although it wasn’t known to many, your Psion count was very, very high, making for a good starting set of talents for the flashy event. To top it off, you worked hard to keep your place in the prestigious school (one time, you had to explain to your Japanese classmates how and why you, a foreigner, topped the exam for Modern Japanese class). Unfortunately, though, your technical skills weren’t anything to write home about; you could barely calibrate a CAD to save your life. Well, that’s why you had Tatsuya with you.
“You’ll be fine. (L/N)-san. You just need to take your time.” Tatsuya reassures in his usual monotone voice. He pauses, as if thinking what to say, before adding, “Just don’t draw attention to your casting.”
Welp. Aside from the fact that it was your first match of the tournament, you were also horribly unlucky in that your opponent, Suzuki Mutsuba of Third High School, is the current shoo-in to champion Ice Pillar Break for the Newcomer’s Division. Her casting speed and aggressive tactics made her an extremely difficult opponent as she would be able to destroy the ice pillars quickly before you could even cast an offensive spell.
To overcome this, you and Tatsuya had agreed on using your speciality in Ancient Magic which would give you great burst damage and some stealth. It would, however, take a lot of time to cast, and so you had to constantly run a modern counter magic sequence to prevent getting slaughtered in the first couple of seconds while preparing for your Ancient Magic spell. The thought made you want to hurl your breakfast on Tatsuya’s shiny black shoes. 
“Thanks.” You smile weakly at him. “Well, if I lose today, at least I look cute.” Tatsuya, who, as expected, barely reacted, giving you a small smile. Well, it was true. Saegusa-senpai had insisted that the Ice Pillar Break event had also become a mini-fashion show in recent years, so she and some of the other female upperclassmen took a lot of pleasure in dressing you up. You wore a modernized version of your country’s traditional garb (“I absolutely insist! You’ll be a standout,” Saegusa-senpai exclaimed one time after a meeting, imploring you to send for traditional clothes), your face in light makeup, and your hair in a bun. You knew that with your outfit, you’d surely be a standout amongst the sea of competitors in kimono and hakama. 
To prevent yourself from throwing up, you had let go of Tatsuya and preoccupied yourself with fiddling with the stitching on your top, when a disembodied voice booms over the speakers in the holding room. “Mutsuba Suzuki, Third High School, versus (L/N) (F/N), First High School!”
You take a deep breath. You look back to your weeks of training: the tingle of electricity prickling your skin, the feeling of power dancing at the ends of your fingertips, the mental exhaustion from practicing deadly magic for hours on end. You remember the day you first boarded the plane for Japan at the behest of your government, scared that you wouldn’t make it in the suffocatingly competitive atmosphere of First High. You breathe in this moment now: you, who has made it this far and who will make it even further. Suddenly, you don’t feel like throwing up anymore.
“Go on and show them.” Tatsuya hands you your device, slender and silver, and your talisman, a pair of black gloves with a red inscription on the palm. You look into his blue eyes and see absolute certainty. In you, perhaps? There was no time to contemplate, so you take the device and put on the gloves, shooting him an eager grin as the platform begins to rise. “Yes, yes.”
You emerge into the light, your chin held high.
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“Oi, Masaki, it’s the foreigner girl!”
“Mm.” Masaki Ichijou, scion of the Ichijou clan and freshman ace of Third High School, looks up from his device to George and then to you at the center of the stadium. You were something of a spectacle at this year’s Nine Magic High Schools Competition, because foreigners were so rare at magic high schools, much less at a contest of Japan’s best up-and-coming magicians.
You emerge from the riser, your stance self-assured. Judging from the large screen flashing yours and Mutsuba-san’s faces, Masaki thought you were pretty, yes, but not in that demure Japanese way. Your wide eyes were intense and serious but a little restless and some strands of your (H/C) hair loose from your bun were fluttering in the wind. You were wearing some sort of unique outfit; probably from your home country, Masaki notes, and a pair of gloves. He eyes the CAD in your hand. General-type. General-type CADs can hold a lot of Activation Sequences, but it’s taxing for the caster. You using one meant you have some skill. 
“Ooh. General-type CAD. Still, she doesn’t look particularly tough.” George pulls out his phone and starts typing furiously. “Do you think I should still have the others take stats?”
Masaki was certain you weren’t a lightweight: after all, your home country sent you to First for a reason, and First sent you to this competition. First High is not a school to be taken lightly. He nodded. “Yes. Just to be sure.”
Still, as good as you may be, Mutsuba-san was probably better, Masaki thought. “But I don’t think she can win against Mutsuba-san,” He adds. “She tied with me in practice once or twice, you know.” 
George nods slightly. “Yes. Her control and cast speed are above average. And her specialty really is suited for this—“
The siren sounds, cutting off George and shushing the crowd. It’s time. After two counts, a screeching noise fills the air, and the match between First High and Third High begins. 
On the far right, Mutsuba-san, dressed in a pink kimono, outstretches a gun-shaped CAD and begins her offense. Masaki knows what it is from his practice matches with her: Phonon Maser, an A-rank spell. A bright beam bursts forth from the barrel of her CAD and vaporizes one of your pillars. Masaki’s eyes dash to the left of the field. You wince a little, your left hand gripping your CAD tighter and your right hand tucked behind your back, but you quickly resume your steady gaze and continue casting. A sequence forms over your pillars and a dull light begins to pulse over your own ice field. Soon, Mutsuba-san’s Phonon Maser only makes dents. 
“Data Fortification.” George makes a yawning motion. “Effective, but boring.” 
“Hey! I use Data Fortification.” Masaki says indignantly. “And her defense is decent.”
Third’s best engineer regards his friend dryly. “Mm. But it’s not your only spell. Miss First here isn’t even attempting an offense.” He gestures to the field. He was right. You were holding your CAD high over the ice field, as if commanding them to stay frozen—and they did for the most part, receiving Mutsuba-san’s onslaught of lasers relatively well. Still, Masaki thought, you weren’t making any moves to destroy Mutsuba-san’s pillars. 
“Yeah. As good as she is at defending herself, it’s useless if she doesn’t attack.” George nods in reply. 
A few more seconds of the standoff between you and your opponent pass. The young Ichijou takes a quick glance around. George looked like he was getting more bored with each passing second, and he wasn’t the only one losing interest. Many other Third students in the stand who waited eagerly for you a couple of seconds ago now whisper impatiently amongst themselves, bored and unimpressed by the seemingly one-sided battle. To Masaki’s right field of view, the First High students in their stand shift uncomfortably in their seats, visibly worried about the outcome of the match. It seemed that even they didn’t know what was going on. 
Masaki fixes his attention back on you who still kept up with your ironclad defense. Why did First High even bother to send someone who won’t attack, Masaki wonders. He tries searching your face, your figure, your magic for any indication of anxiety, uncertainty, or whatever one was supposed to feel whenever they were about to lose a match. With your steady gaze, (E/C) eyes fixed on the field before you, your defense magic constant in its impenetrability, you seemed too calm for someone about to lose, Masaki observes. And then it hit him. 
“It’s not calmness.” He murmurs.
“What?” George gazes at Masaki quizzically. With all their years of friendship, George has pretty much gotten used to his best friend’s mutterings, especially during training—he’s heard I have to get this perfectly or I need to adjust the hydrostatic pressure far too many times in simulations—and even learned to take some of them seriously. He’s written them off as telltale marks of a genius (because he himself does the same things when he’s zoning out in his lab).  
“She’s waiting for something.” It’s not calmness, Masaki thought. It was something more predatory. Staring at your face on the megascreen, he realizes that you, in all your non-aggression, were fighting back a smile. 
Prompted by Masaki’s fixation, George studies your figure with the I-discovered-a-new-Cardinal-Code look on his face, the look he uses when scrutinizing a research article or examining Akane’s new outfit (It’s a well-known fact that they like each other. Masaki long ago conceded to the fact that his live-in best friend and his younger sister Akane are practically dating.) As George looks over you, his eyes widen. “Look at her right hand.” 
“Huh.” Masaki studies your right arm tucked away behind your back, away from everyone’s attention. Your hand, covered by your glove with the red seal on the palm, was making some sort of small, rapid fingering motion, like you were weaving a thread or plucking multiple strings on an instrument. It was so slight and so seemingly random that even the announcers and Mutsuba-san did not even recognize. 
Masaki raises an eyebrow. “That’s Ancient Magic, isn’t it?” 
“Yeah. Her glove is the talisman.” George leans back in his seat and crosses his arms, as if waiting for something to unfold. As he did, he glances up at the sky. He then grips Masaki’s shoulder tightly.
The young Ichijou tries to slap his best friend’s hand off. “Hey, you’re going to ruin my uniform.” 
George didn’t seem to hear him. His gaze, now bewildered, was fixated on the sky. “By Kami-sama...” He whispers. 
Masaki glances up with him. The sky was dark, much darker than it was minutes ago. Clouds seemed to form quickly, almost too quickly, overhead. George‘s grip on Masaki’s shoulder tightened. “Masaki, don’t watch the field, she’s casting a—“
Before he could finish his sentence, you whip out your right hand and snap your finger. A streak of pure white floods everyone’s vision and a deafening clap thunders overhead. The stadium erupts in surprised yelps from the audience. The light soon disappears, revealing you standing there on your podium, gloved right hand outstretched and a wide grin spread over your face. 
Masaki hastily surveys the field, rubbing his eyes from the sudden flash of lightning. Half of Mutsuba-san’s pillars had exploded, boiling hot water sizzling on the grass around the ice field. The other half were melted to varying degrees. The ground underneath what used to be the center pillar, where the light struck, was scorched. 
“Well, well.” He clicks his tongue in amazement. “Thunder Cloud.” 
George’s red eyes widened. “That’s…that’s the A-class Ancient Magic that copies the natural lightning generation process...” 
“Yes.” Masaki let out a sigh. He’s seen the spell before when his father worked with foreign magicians from the tropical southern regions of the Asian Union, but he’s never seen them do the little motions you did. “Father used to know a few who could cast it. They literally create cumulonimbus clouds and separate the electrons in such a way to make the lightning strike an exact point. It takes a lot of Psions but it’s highly lethal. To cast it while casting a modern spell...”
George started typing on his phone furiously. “That’s next-level. Gotta have the team take note of this.” Masaki could only nod in reply. “Now that’s why First sent her.”
Mutsuba-san looked shocked that she only had half her pillars left within a fraction of a second and scrambled to cast a defensive spell, to no avail. You had already snapped your finger again, causing a large Sequence to form in the sky, and lightning strikes the pillars, this time stronger, brighter, and hotter than the last. 
The pair manage to just avert their eyes in time. There were deafeaning cheers on the right side of the stadium—probably First audience—and then they were drowned out by a crack of thunder like a whip. When the light cleared, there was nothing left of Mutsuba-san’s pillars, just the scorched ground upon which they once stood and steam rising from her side of the field. All ice and water had been vaporized.
The siren screeched loudly. “The match goes to (L/N) (F/N) of First High School!” 
The stadium erupts in cheers, except for the pair’s stand, which consisted of Third students. Third High sat in stunned silence. No one had expected that you would defeat Mutsuba Suzuki, a member of the Ten Master Clans and a favorite to win the Newcomers’ Division for Ice Pillar Break in a complete wipeout. And in such a rapid and unexpected way, too.
George clicks his tongue in amazement. “Now, that’s one way to get everyone’s attention.”
“And the Clans’ attention, too.” Masaki says in a soft voice.
George glances at him and raises an eyebrow, a playful smile on his face. “Could it be that the great and super-single Ichijou Masaki is expressing his interest?”
Masaki glares at him incredulously and rolls his eyes. “Yes, George, I am extremely interested in this girl whom I’ve never met and whose background I have no idea about. What I’m saying is that defeating a member of the Master Clans is—“
The star engineer lets out a small chuckle. “Yes, yes, I know what you mean. Still…you never know, right?” 
Masaki exhales loudly through his nose. “I know a lot of things, George.” He takes a quick glance back at the megascreen, which shows you practically beaming as you wave at the First High crowd, as if you didn’t just cast very taxing and very deadly magic seconds ago. ‘(L/N) (F/N)’, it says on the screen. He thinks of you, you in the moment, smiling with the thunder. He tries to speak your name in his head, pronouncing the individual syllables the way he’s heard people speak names of your descent, seeing how each sound would fit in his mouth. At the back of his mind, he thinks it fits well, but he keeps this information to himself.
George didn’t seem to notice his best friend’s thoughts wandering. “Uh-huh. Well, I should go check on Mutsuba-san’s hardware. Catch you later.” He moves towards the exit with the leaving crowd but pauses at a notification from his phone. He scans it, eyes widening for what seemed like the hundredth time in the past couple of minutes. 
”What is it?” Masaki asks, just barely having snapped out of his reverie of you.
George turns to him, a wicked grin on his face. “Just got word from the team. She’s going to sub for Monolith Code.”
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Nuova locandina per l’anime di “Golden Kamuy”
Serie TV anime, 8 ottobre 2018
Episodi: 12
Seconda parte della serie basata sul manga “Golden Kamui” di Satoru Noda, vincitore del premio Taisho 2016 ed edito in Italia da J-POP.  I primi 12 episodi dell’anime sono stati trasmesso in simulcast in primavera, sottotitolati in italiano, su Crunchyroll.  
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-STAFF-
Regia: Hitoshi Nanba
Character design: Kenichi Oonuki
Sceneggiatura: Noboru Takagi  
Armi da fuoco: Kouji Watanabe
Prop design: Shinya Asanuma
Animal design: Ryou Sumiyoshi
Direttore artistico: Atsushi Morikawa
Colorazioni: Takahiro Mogi
Direttore della fotografia: Yuuichirou Tozawa
Direttore CG: Yuuko Okumura, Kouhei Hamada
Montaggio: Takeshi Sadamatsu
Direttore del suono: Jin Aketagawa
Produzione sonoro: Magical Capsule
Musiche: Kenichiro Suehiro  
Studio di animazione: Geno Studio
Sigla di apertura: Sayuri e MY FIRST STORY "Reimei" 
-CAST-
Saichi Sugimoto: Chihahiro Kobayashi
Ashiripa: Haruka Shiraishi
Yutake Shiraishi: Kentaro Ito
Tenente Tsurumi: Houchou Ootsuka
Hyakunosuke Ogata: Kenjirou Tsuda
Genjirou Tanigaki: Yoshimasa Hosoya
Toshizou Hijikata: Jouji Nakata
Tatsuuma Ushiyama: Kenji Nomura
Shinpachi Nagakura: Takayuki Sugou
Kano Ienaga: Sayaka Ohara
Kiroranke: Masaki Terasoma
Inkarmat: Mamiko Noto
Youhei Nikaido: Tomokazu Sugita
Tsukishima: Eiji Takemoto
Tetsuzou Nihei: Akio Ohtsuka
Kazuo Henmi: Toshihiko Seki
Huci: Miyuki Ichijou
Yasuku Edogai: Yuuma Uchida 
Secondo tenente Koito: Katsuyuki Konishi
La storia si ambienta nell'Hokkaido, durante la turbolenta epoca Meiji. "L'immortale Sugimoto", un soldato sopravvissuto alla guerra tra Giappone e Russia, ha bisogno di un'ingente somma di denaro per realizzare un obiettivo in particolare... Seguendo una mappa tatuata sul corpo di alcuni detenuti nella prigione di Ashiri, Sugimoto si lancia in una incredibile caccia al tesoro, nella speranza di fare il colpaccio e guadagnare un mucchio di soldi in una volta sola. Cosa lo aspetterà? La magnifica natura di Hokkaido, feroci prigionieri e l'incontro con una ragazza Ainu, Ashiripa!! L'incredibile battaglia per il tesoro sta per iniziare!
Serializzato sulle pagine della rivista Young Jump dal 2014, il manga conta attualmente 11 volumi.
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