#just some random pics of kaito

[woundedheartwithin]

[cyndraws]

Kaishin secret santa 2023

This is a Kaishin roleswap au for @blueamphibians! I hope you enjoy this art + my ramblings on the au underneath. Because of course, I couldn't just leave it as one piece of art haha (ehem please buckle in for preparation)

Many thanks to @dcmkkaishinevents / Mack for hosting this event, it was super fun participating and interacting with the community <3 <3 As a side note, I would absolutely recommend it to others who are considering signing up next year. Everyone is very friendly!

(Hey Blue, I had more art planned but unfortunately many things came up. But I hope you enjoy this anyways! I might draw some more for you later ^-^ Thanks so much for this prompt <3 <3)

Edit: I have decided that now you will receive a completed arts + ramblings + some WIPs behind the scene hahahaha https://www.tumblr.com/cyndraws/737208478471487488/kaishin-secret-santa-2023-extras-basically-wips?source=share

AU ramblings under the cut (ngl it's a lot):

Random details and notes that don't really fit anywhere. Mostly about the fanart:

Kaito is 1 year older than Shin and is taller than him

This scene is set over the Haido City hotel. In the distance you can see Shiriyomi Trust Hotel (can't full recognise it behind Kaito but I assure you I drew it lol), Tokyo tower (easy to spot) and Roppongi Hills Mori Tower (Just behind Shin on the right, the one with the lights in a --u-- shape) Main reference: https://www.detectiveconanworld.com/wiki/Haido_City_Hotel

I was also screaming at the Kaishin pic in ED70 throughout this LMAO.

Kaito breaks through Shinichi's mysterious KID persona in this drawing and Shinichi shyly reveals his face behind the mask. Kaito then produces a blue flower, claiming it matches Shinichi's beautiful eyes (he's also the one who bred it)

Kaito has extra pockets sewn into his uniform to carry more tricks. This wasn't really necessary in canon, but here, Kaito has to be prepared to investigate at any moment.

Lmao help me render hair *stares at Kaito's* Cool effect but not quite right. I need to go experiment later.

Kaito/Shin getting shrunk (aka Conan situation) never happens in this au. But Haibara and the other victims are still around. Haibara still lives at the professor's.

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Background:

Yusaku was much more entangled and involved with Toichi and his fight with the Black Org. Side note but in this au, Snake is from a division of the Black Org

As a result, they both end up being killed during the fateful accident. Yes, both Shinichi and Kaito are there for it. They were going to be introduced to each other on that day, but well,,, we can see the way it ended.

It wasn't well known that the Kuroba and Kudo family were close at all. Extra vigilance was taken after the funerals to ensure their safety. Their families parted ways for the better or worse after thsi event.

Yusaku's and Toichi's friendship/rivalry included collaborating for some heists, having a second secret base in the Kudo mansion, and Yusaku donning the Night Baron costume... even if he was just hidden in a car and sending information to Toichi via an earpiece lol.

After their husbands' deaths, Yukiko and Chikage meet up occasionally and travel together in secret.

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Shinichi:

Shinichi never became a famous detective. The years after Yusaku died in the tragic accident, Yukiko and him tried their best to move on with varying success. Shinichi's dream to become a famous detective never came to fruition.

This was because for various reasons including not having Yusaku's guiding hand to develop Shin's detective skills, was only being taken to crime scenes for a year, and of course the trauma.

After avoiding detective work as much as he could (well considering that he's still a corpse magnet), Shinichi finally starts to dig through his memories. From then, he uncovered a strange inconsistency with the logic of his father's death and starts to obsess over the idea that it was a murder.

Shin painstakingly and slowly investigates in the shadows with his *ehem* admittedly rusty detective skills and chases after the very little crumbs left by the organisation. What he uncovers is that the accident wasn't one at all, but premeditated murder by an encompassing third party.

Shinichi finally finds a lead to,,, Jii Konosuke. This takes quite a few years, and Shinichi is 15 when he confronts Jii.

Jii reveals everything after Shinichi's deduction and also mistaking him for Kaito. And such Shinichi is brought into the fold. Shinichi also makes up his mind to take on the KID mantle, greatly sympathising with the fellow teen whose father was also involved.

The years after Shinichi uncovers the truth, he learns many skills such as disguise, acting and magic from Jii and Chikage. However, his magic skills will never be on par with Kaito's.

Shinichi in this au has more acting and disguise skills from living with his mother. She passed this skills onto him, and they bonded over it to recover from their grief.

When Shinichi is 17, he officially takes on the role of KID. Chikage permanently locked the KID cave in the Kuroba house, and the KID cave settled in its new home in the Kudo mansion. Inside the second base previously used by Toichi and Yusaku.

Shinichi as KID:

Well, he's just as dramatic as Kaito in canon, but it's a different kind of dramatic. Shin is more of a mysterious and cryptic phantom thief and wears a menacing Night Baron mask. He overall speaks less, and when he does, he says a lot of dramatic lines. Like in theatre almost, with plenty of double meanings.

He takes on a lot of aspects from the Phantom Lady and Jii's interpretation of KID.

And also, I was inspired by the Black Knight, Shiragami in canon, and AngelicSentinel's fantastic fic, Heart of Eternity. I guess you could describe it as more theatrely, cool and princely. He's still very athletic (laughing at Shinichi being Tarzan as Shiragami)

Unlike Kaito, Shin's notices often involve cryptic riddles. It satisfies Shinichi's puzzle loving side and adds to his mysterious reputation.

It's funny to me how Akako's 'Demon of Light' moniker is still accurate haha

Shinichi investigates a little in the shadows and is overall a touch more hot-headed than Kaito KID

He uses a lot more gadgets to cover for his lesser magic skills. He's still learning though! A lot of them are references to Conan's and KID's in canon. Between Jii and Agasa, he gets a lot of them haha. This includes:

Mask/monocle -> voice changer, mask to cover for poker face, zoom and night vision, tracker, microphone and radio, gas mask.

Transmitter/microphone -> button stickers, bugs in general, cufflinks. In some cases, a camera but it must be asked for first. Shin uses these to cover for Kaito's doves in canon.

Wristwatch -> Clock of course for his heist times, tranquilliser, emergency flashbomb (KID has one in canon too)

Shoes -> jet powered rollerskates (equivalent to skateboard). Of course, Shin still kicks things but it looks more to take down the occasional criminal, trigger emergency traps, and more. He doesn't kick often because it doesn't really suit the image of KID + it's a unique skill to have.

+ other usual KID gadgets -> smoke, flash, sleeping bombs, grapple gun, hang glider, etc.

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Kaito:

He's still an aspiring magician

Since there's a rising amount of cases in Beika, Kaito gets recommended by Nakamori because of his magic skills. The idea is that his knowledge of magic tricks will help uncover the criminals' tricks... Well this includes basically all cases lol. It works though! And the news of Meitantei Kaito starts to spread.

Kaito falls in love with the dramatics and triumphs of figuring out a criminal's trick. He starts to get called into Beika every time a case is discovered. One different to Shin is that Kai gets called to the cases instead of the cases coming to him.

His detective persona is like KID's in canon - flirty, dramatic, confident, charming, a bit of a pervert, and a classic showman's personality. Aoko is sick of it hahaha.

Kai's deduction show is very dramatic. He uses flashy magic tricks to reveal evidence and tricks, and uses his magic to take down criminals.

This includes his acrobatics, trusty card gun and traps he set beforehand. I like to headcanon that Kaito invented his cardgun first before integrating into KID. Kaito's cardgun includes the normal sharp cards (Kaito uses it to pin down criminals with their clothes, cut ropes, etc), tranquilliser laced cards, smoke and flash bombs. And also sleeping bombs but he uses it vary sparingly because even that toes the law a little too much... Megure is exasperated but the criminals are taken down quickly without much harm so he lets it slide

Kaito also follows in the spirit of dubious investigation. He changes his voice, uses his doves to spy on others, uses disguises (very very rarely), and is noisy overall.

Kaito and Hakuba:

Has a detective rivalry with Hakuba.

Hakuba still thinks, even in this au, that Kaito is KID. After all, Shin's profile is very similar to Kaito's. Kaito vehemently denies it but acts like a KID fan around Hakuba to annoy him. He isn't really though, citing KID's magic to be third rate, but he is still intrigued.

Hakuba offhandedly slips in wording and insinuations to Kaito's huge annoyance. You can imagine them bickering at a crime scene while Megure is just Too Used to this.

Much later on, when Kaito learns Shinichi's identity, Kaito tells Shinichi's about Hakuba's warnings. So Kaito is kinda a messenger between the two. Despite Hakuba being annoying, Kaito knows he can trust him.

~ Other character interactions:

Shinichi and Kaito:

Shinichi is still a corpse magnet. So he encounters a case, calls the police, and escapes as fast as he can after giving a witness statement. This is partly to avoid the awkwardness of meeting Megure and the police officers (he hasn't met them since his father died), as well as his new night job.

This results in the most frustrating yet amusing situation where Shin and Kaito miss meeting each other for quite a few years. Shinichi is busy hurrying off while Kaito is called to the scene and busy listening to the details.

Quick sketch I may/may not fully finish in the future:

Description: Set in suburban Beika. Shinichi is at the foreground, looking at his watch and worrying about meeting Jii on time. Meanwhile, next to a police car, Megure merrily discusses case details to Kaito. Kaito is glancing over to Shinichi in curiosity while keeping an ear open. He has his hands in his pockets. Behind Megure, the scene has police tape barring entrance.

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Kaito thinks KID is a third rate magician but can appreciate the dramatics and mysteriousness. He is Intrigued. This leads to a meeting later on. Kaito uses his connection to Nakamori.

Shinichi is of course startled by Kaito's namedrop.

... Sorry no more details/plan about their meeting. It's definitely a dramatic face off though.

Regarding Shinichi's identity reveal, I was playing around with the idea that Snake is there, threatening the two at gunpoint and sneering over the '"lovely family reunion between father and son". It would definitely spur Kaito to grill Shin for more details

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Shinichi and Hattori:

Hattori hears about the "Meitantei of the East" and goes off to meet him and challenge him to a deduction battle. He doesn't know how to contact him, so he goes with the strat of wandering around Beika until he runs into a case. He figured that with the high rate of cases being reported, he's eventually run into Kuroba ,,, yeah hahahaha Thats his entire plan

Luckily for Hattori, his detective luck exponentially multiplies with Shin's and a scream runs out. As Shinichi is reporting the crime and tried to head off, Hattori slings an arm around his shoulders to stop him from sneaking off.

Hattori loudly greets him as Kuroba despite Shinichi's insistence that "No, I am NOT Kuroba, please get your arm off me". Insert much scepticism from Hattori.

Even after they part ways, this isn't the last they see of each other. Hattori keeps wandering around Beika while running into Shinichi. They eventually become friends huhu.

Shinichi and the Detective Boys:

The Detective Boys admire Kaito a lot. Obviously they've watched the news reports on TV. So when they see him at the park playing soccer, they glomp him HAHAH Poor Shinichi

At this point I think people mistaking Shinichi as Kaito can be a running gag. The Detective Boys keep annoying Shinichi and even attempt breaking into the 'Edo house' to see the ghosts... Shinichi is still not happy. And also, when they visit Haibara, they're basically next doors so Shinichi's never going to get them out of his life.

Despite the annoyance, he eventually becomes fond of them and takes on the big brother sort of role.

When Kaito and Shinichi get acquainted, they take the DB on outings a lot. The DB is very fond of Kaito-nii-san and Shinichi-nii-san.

[pixaho]

NSFW Alphabet Headcannon | Kizzy

Author's Note | I love Kizzy and Kaito, despite their Sadistic and Masochistic ways. I adore them. So I'm happy that I get to write Kizzy (I rolled the wheel, originally it landed on Cobra but I already wrote Cobra) I'm so excited! I typically write Kizzy as a they/them but for this, I wrote her as a she/her because I absolutely love her. Shoulda named myself "Kizzy's Future Wife".

Warnings | Do I really need to say this? It's smut. It's in the title.

Masterlist High & Low

A - Aftercare

Kizzy is a goddess at aftercare, we're talking about a person who takes care of herself. Despite her sadistic tendacies, she takes pleasure in caring for her partner. Majority of the aftercare is Kizzy cuddling and asking if you are ok.

B - Body Part

Kizzy's favorite body part of yours is everything. She sees no flaws in you as she believes you are perfect. But if she really had to choose a body part, its your face. She loves seeing your face when she does something random.

C - Cum

For Kizzy, she doesn't really care. She likes messes, she prefers you as a mess. How much cum is around the room, isn't really what bothers her.

D - Dirty Secret

She is way too into seeing you wear short clothes. For some reason it turns her on a lot. If you're wearing short shorts, a short skirt, a short top, or even a short jacket she'll be all over you. Best believe if you had a date, not anymore.

E - Experience

She isn't as experienced with women as she is with men (Kaito obviously <3) but she does surprisingly well. She doesn't act like a pro during the times you spend together but she is kind of cocky.

F - Favorite Position

69 and face sitting. It's no lie that Kizzy loves making sure you both have the equal amount but occasionally she does want one or the other person to have more pleasure. Depends on who's day was bad.

G - Goofy

Not serious at all, she will be making you giggle like it's a middle school gossip group. But when she is serious, its a quiet session.

H - Hair

CARE FREE DOWN THERE BABY! Kizzy will sometimes shave down there, but it is rare and it doesn't necessarily bother you (or kaito ;)) as it's a natural thing and you shouldn't feel embarrassed by it.

I - Intimacy

She can be romantic when she wants to be or she can be chaotic. Majority of the time she's a hard struck romantic, wanting nothing but the best for you. Other times, she's a chaotic romantic, meaning you will be finding rose petals everywhere for at least a week because she decided to tear the flowers to shreds.

J - Jacking Off

Kizzy does this more than she'd like to admit, she does it when you aren't around because she misses your touch. She also does it when you send her pics. ;)

K - Kink

Sadism, this is a given seeing as how she enjoyed beating a guy down. Though she wouldn't ever treat you badly unless you asked. Praise and Degradation kinks. Kizzy loves receiving praises and degrades, she also loves giving them. You could be doing anything and she'd whisper how much of a good girl you are.

L - Location

Preferably a couch, bed, or bath tub / shower. But Kizzy will settle for a car too, she would have you laying across the seat, legs wide open and her hands going to work whilst her mouth in on your neck.

M - Motivation

It takes nothing to make Kizzy the way she is, you could be doing anything and she would want to bang you right there on the spot. Cooking? Bang. Eating? Bang. Getting dressed? Bang bang bang!

N - No

Non consensual stuff. As she worked in Doubt, she grew a fear of non-consensual acts during sex. It made her really uncomfortable and she never wanted to act that out to her lover(s). She's also not into somnophilia as it makes her extremely uncomfortable.

O - Oral

Absolutely gives and receives. She gives more than she receives as she loves giving pleasure to the person she loves, it's very warming. She does it more than once in a session just to see you squirm under her.

P - Pace

Kizzy is not one for slow paced acts, as being slow during sex is hard for her. She is more of a quick pace kind of gal with you. Now she can do slow, but that is usually rough. Let's just say... legs shaking.

Q - Quickies

These are not as common as you'd think. She prefers to do it with you for long hours, not minutes. If she does settle for a quickie, it's simply because she has something to do within the next few minutes or she won't be with you until late at night.

R - Risk

Reputation? Kizzy barely cares about that, all she really cares about is making sure you are safe and also making sure that Rocky doesn't think she's abusing women in any type of way. She wouldn't though. I mean it's pretty easy to hear you guys when you live right above Club Haven.

S - Stamina

Baby, you gon' last a long time. Kizzy has a lot of stamina in her, especially during sexy time. It's actually quite surprising to you on how she manages to make you lose your mind with her still being able to breathe and wanting even more of you.

T - Toy

She does use toys on you such as strap on's and vibrators, but this is just so she can see your reactions. She's quite the magician with these toys as no matter what she does, they always feel amazing.

U - Unfair

She's only really ever unfair when she's being sadistic towards you. She enjoys watching you whine while you guys are at it, her hands all over your body as you squirm, firmly keeping you in place riding her thigh.

V - Volume

She allows you to be as loud as you need to be. Why be ashamed of getting something really good? By the time you guys are finished, the whole club has already heard you guys. Even Rocky, who doesn't like intruding on his friends, looks at you guys in bewilderment.

W - Wild Card

She will try any sex position with you as long as you are comfortable with trying it. Almost all the time its her asking, but on rare occasions you also ask. If you like a certain position, she will make that a routine. If you don't, she crosses it off her list. She wants to make sure that she knows what you like and what you don't like.

X - X-Ray

Kizzy doesn't have a dick but she does have dildos ranging in all sizes. I say so.

Y - Yearning

She enjoys coming back after a long day, turning on the shower and asking you to join her. 90% of the time this turns in her fucking you relentlessly as you try to stay quiet. If it isn't in the shower, she waits for you to get back and will allow you to go down on her if you want.

Z - Zzz

Depending on who does the aftercare. If she does it, she won't fall asleep until she hears your breathing soften and the snores. It makes her feel even more safe knowing that you are okay. If it's you who does the aftercare, you both fall asleep in each others arms, knowing you are both safe.

[the-tzarina-alexandra-paracosm]

Some of my favourite art - a timeline

Part 3: 2013

Final Fantasy X/X-2 and FFVII fanart. June or July 2013. The first pic shows remnants of my previous style, while the latter is fully anime. Late 2012-early 2013 was a transitional period in this sense. I really like the concept of the first pic, which is Yuna's past and future self looking at each other. The second pic shows an attempt at perspective and composition.

First row: July. Second row: late 2013. Not only was I growing more and more into my style, but I was trying my hand at original character design. (1st pic: Cherille and the others from the dragon story. 2nd pic: Ivy from the vampire story. 3rd pic: Thea, alien princess. 4th pic: Chleo, wanted criminal).

It's funny to me how clear it is that this is the first time I learned to do a gradient, then proceeded to use it everywhere.

And now for some of my most iconic 2013 pieces:

September (can't make the date out but it's somewhere between the 6th and 9th). I still love this picture. I like the colours even though I ended up changing the character designs to something more cohesive eventually. The concept of this drawing was combining my two stories taking place in Japan, the one on the left being a samurai one, and the one on the right being a modern time one (fun fact! These are the characters from what eventually became my first novel, The Image through the Thick Glass, but the very original ideas as illustrated here was a sort of whodunit/ revenge story, wherein Kaito's brother had been killed etc. It's crazy how different it ended up being from the initial concept!). I also have very pleasant memories of the drawing process, as I was in vacation with my family and we were chilling on a bench in the salt mines and having a snack (and I took my notebook with me everywhere).

In terms of art progress, the most noticeable improvements compared to just months prior are: 1. Side profiles have actual chins 2. Attempts to draw clothing folds 3. Attempts to do shading 4. Still anime influenced but slowly growing into my own style 5. Growing into my character design style

September 2nd. think this is single-handedly my favourite picture of all 2013. This is one of the first very serious attempts to combine composition, perspective, colour and mood. What I like the most is how the wind blows thriugh Onix' hair and clothes, and how the city lights reflect into the river, and how the cars are a mash of random colours to suggest the speed they travel at. This is definitely the highest effort and highest execution drawing I did in that year. And I still love the character designs (and concepts) today.

October or November. I like this because it is very experimental, and if there's a year that has been characterised by its sheer leaps and bounds in art, it's been 2013.

I had to check because I thought this was 2014, but it's actually dated as November 28, 2013. This is also one of my favourites, and perhaps objectively the best of that year. Compared to the Xavier and Onix pic, this had the added benefit of better contrast with the background and a more readable composition. I really like the mood of the drawing, too, it's very emotional. Also re: my gradient comments above, this is one of my first successful sunsets.

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The main characteristics of this year are: 1. Trying to adopt an anime artstyle 2. Experimenting with character design, as well as scene composition, perspective, gradients, shading, poses and so on. I didn't realise just how much I've improved over the course of just one year, it really seems like every new month brought a new skill with it, and the style at the beginning of 2013 and that at the end of 2013 can almost not be recognised as being from the same year.

[bakathief]

Hmmm… Shinichi is doing a bit better but he’s still a bit under the weather, so there’s not much happening at our boy's household. While we wait for him to get better, how about some music? ... I’ve no Idea what you’re into but I’ve been listening to lots of Chillhop and LoFi and stuff while drawing/writing (cause it's the only music I manage to listen while staying focused XD)… So here’s LoFi-Shinichi for you XD... (In case you're unfamiliar... try googling pics of LoFi girl...) ... I should really draw Chillhop-Racoon-Kaito once…

Anyway, if you're interested, this is the playlist I listened to while I wrote my first fanfic... It's all Chillhop though...

I listened to it again yesterday while finishing your present ;) (Gawd I sooo wanna give it to you right now!!! ... impatient me XD)

Birocratic - Boy's Bop

FloFilz - quintal

junior state - Mighty

Mo Anando, Nighne - Light Leaks

L'indecis - Second Wind

Stan Forebee x Cloudchord - Song For The Sun

Enjoy the music (...that is, if you like the genre) ;)

The weather may be chilling right now but I hope you too find some time to chill now and then, with or without music...

(... (＠＾◡＾) I tried a joke... it's kinda bad... hides behind anonymous post and "Santa"- nickname...) Well...'til next time ;) Your Hiding Santa

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My dear santa! I‘ll honestly be missing your messages once the event is over! You‘ve successfully spoiled me, congratulations 😭🥲🎉

I LOVE your lofi Shinichi! Of course I know the original art, I‘ve listened to some of the tracks they have on YT while studying or drawing myself 🎶 i appreciate the links for your playlist, I‘ll definitely listen to them soon! ❤️ 🎶 when drawing I usually listen to … very random stuff. 😂 💦 today I got to watch two cheesy christmas movies, bake a cherry 🍒 cake and finish some Christmas cards and presents so I‘d say it was pretty chill (and wet 🌧). I‘ll give your joke a pass because I‘m weak for puns. I hope your weekend was chill ❄️ too and that you didn‘t work too much! Very excited for my final present, the anticipation is definitely there 😆 have a good start into the week! 🍀 thank you for the art and playlist! Which reminds me, I forgot to gush about the art but I love how Shinichi turned out, along with the shading and lines, just very soft ❤️ and also the details you added in the background, so lovely! My favorite is the Kid charm dangling from the lamp ❤️

[vulpiximisa]

here is a post of Why I Like Nanamaru Sanbatsu which may or may not also be a Reasons Why You Should Watch Nanamaru Sanbatsu but it’s not made with the intent of persuasion and more of me just gushing over things because this isn’t spoiler friendly

1) Niche Sport

I’m not a stranger to “Sport but it doesn’t involve Ball or Sweat”. That’s a lie, the players sweat a lot in Chihayafuru. The fact that Sasaijma (and then another character in the later chapters in the manga) refer to Karuta is a reason enough to pick up the series. Hikaru no Go was one of my earlier sports anime as well. It’s not like I was a fan of Go or Karuta either but the way the characters wholeheartedly loved what they were doing (and competitively), it made me love it as well. The same definitely goes for Quiz Bowl. While the two I listed were something I completely had no clue how the rules go, Quiz Bowl is a bit more obvious so it’s easier to get into.

(kinda hate these promo pics because there looks like so many fcking charas but really you just need to remember like 5 of them)

2) Nerdy Protag in a Sports anime

Actually coming from YowaPeda, Crunchyroll recommended this amongst other things. YowaPeda did the trope a lot better, given that you’d never associate an Otaku with Biking while a Bookworm being associated with Quiz Bowl does not seem unheard of. But the idea of a nerdy protagonist in a competitive sport was still an allure. 

And oops, I think Koshiyama is a cutie so there’s a huge bias towards that. The fact that Horie Shun who voices Enta Jinnai from Sarazanmai voices Koshiyama Shiki gave me a laugh and he actually fits his role very well. Further emphasizes his cuteness without Enta’s weird gay crush lol

3) Ishikawa Kaito

I’m not above watching anime for seiyuu reasons alone but I actually went in blind with this series and to my surprise one of my favs was in it. I’d known Kaito mostly for Kageyama Tobio first, but he’s gone through so many other roles that I enjoy (Kaki from Pokemon SM, Iida from BokuHero, Mimura Subaru from 2.43) and I’ve watched a lot of seiyuu events/radios with him so I’m just a big fan of him in general. Dunno if I should have just merged this point with the next but-

4) Mikuriya Chisato

Kaito has The Range and can do whatever role he wants (I’m most impressed by his role as Alan from BNA) but I think I have a weakness for when he’s slightly an asshole. Mikuriya gave off the generic rival trope, which he kind of is. I got some Subaru vibes from him as well. I don’t know if he’s canonically handsome, but yes I think he’s very good looking for an anime character. Plus the fact that he’s The Cool Guy but is participating in such a sport as Quiz Bowl. AND the moe gap that is his feminine sounding first name and the possibility that he might also actually be an otaku is 👌👌👌👌

My friend had tagged something with him as “Chazz Princeton with a haircut” and while Not Entirely, he is the “We are not friends, we are rivals but I interact and help you enough that we are practically friends but i will continue to deny it” and I love that trope. The way he’s so not interested in Gorls or Nonsense reminds me of Manga Manjoume, though nowhere as serious because he is not above nonsense himself.

5) Fukami Mari

The moment she was introduced, I had very low expectations for her. Of course she is the one that drags Koshiyama into the Quiz Bowl world BUT she doesn’t fall into the trope of “Female is very good at The Thing, BUT Newbie Male MC does it better than her almost immediately”. I’m so glad for that because as you go on with the series, she is very much an entire character and not just a female support cast. 

She loves Quiz Bowl but she’s not the best or even very good at it. Her childhood friend from another school (which I was 75% betting that it was going to be a male and a potential love interest) turned out to be a female friend. Instead of “cat fight”, they are still very amicable towards each other and support each other but also acknowledge each other as rivals. The fact that Yuki had only started Quiz Bowl because of Mari but liked it enough to continue on by herself, I think that’s really great. 

The anime doesn’t get to it, but she confronts her brother about why he quit Quiz Bowl and challenges him. She has her own goals and ambitions and you see her working on it. She also has her strengths and weaknesses and is a vital addition to the Buzou Quiz Team. Fukami Mari is A Good Girl and I won’t tolerate any slander towards her. The way the beginning of the series sexuallizes her via putting her and Koshiyama into generic anime situations is so uncomfortable but I’m glad they move past that later.

Also since their group isn’t technically a Club (?) Mari isn’t just Female Manager. A plus to Quiz Bowl being Co-Ed sport.

6) Quiz Questions

I like trivia. It’s a little harder to guess the questions along with the anime because you’d have to pause all the time and half the time the contestants are going to buzz in early before you hear the entire question. Unfortunately, unless you actually are a fan of random knowledge or a huge nerd, the questions might actually be hard as well. I literally only knew about 3 questions asked in the entire series and its the anime/manga related ones lol. Still, I enjoyed seeing the characters draw their conclusions and to know what each character’s strong and weak points were. (Mikuriya using Math to calculate the Day of the Week from the past was 😚👌)

7) Side Characters

The first one I’m thinking is obviously Sonohara Akira. The moment of his first appearance, I had a hunch that it wasn’t exactly as it looked. He’s a little schemer but he has his own code of ethics, so he’s not all that bad. (Also hes A Gamer, so Relatable.) The fact that he’s related to Sonohara of Asagaoka makes it all the more interesting because they're’ so different. The way everyone reacts to him is so interesting because he doesn’t take it seriously while everyone else does. My favorite interactions with him aside from the Akiba Squad are the ones with Ookura. (I actually prefer to ship them over Niina/Akira lol)

Sasajima, mysterious Quiz Master with a past related to Fukami’s brother, who used to go to the Prestigious Quiz King School. Character wise, he doesn’t seem interesting but I love his idea of what a Quiz Bowl should be. My favorite parts of a series is when they love the thing they do, and that having fun is what is the most important. Of course you have to be fairly good at the thing first to be able to enjoy yourself freely but he never brags and is a supportive senpai.

Jinko. She’s cute. That’s good enough for me lol. I guess her Electronics Thing is also pretty cool. I like seeing the Sasajimas interact.

8) Ship

Okay, well, its obvious where I fall here. I don’t remember the last time I’ve watched such a generic sport series with a one on one protag vs rival. I’m not above shipping the “obvious/main” ship, as SasuNaru and Edgewright are some of my ships. However I didn’t ship Akira/Hikaru and I don’t ship KageHina but I do ship something like Manjoume/Judai and if asked MakoHaru vs RinHaru, I’d pick the latter, so it might just be a matter of tastes and I won’t fall immediately into every “rival” ship.

So why would I ship Mikuriya/Koshiyama? Because I love it when the Cool Guy falls for the Nerd and EXTRA POINTS if the Cool Guy is also secretly a nerd too. When I mean secretly a nerd, I don’t mean Mikuriya being on quiz bowl but that he might be a closet Otaku. (ImaSaka is everything about this trope.) 

Anyway, they are the main two rivals in the series, so of course they acknowledge each other. Koshiyama took it so dramatically but in the past, nobody cared about his presence, let alone think that he’s a Threat. Mikuriya is a Hot Shot and thinks he’s better than everyone but this newb with potential beat him one time (unofficially) so he’s automatically curious. 

Even though it is Hot Blooded Competition, Mikuriya always seems to encourage and cheer Koshiyama on (in his own rival-y way of course) whenever he feels down about not being strong enough to compete with him. (When they were lining up for the Third round at Asagaoka) Even when Koshiyama lost, after Mikuriya had a huge handicap, Mikuriya tells him he’ll take him on anytime. The fact that he wants to do Quiz Bowl with (against) him, is practically Sports Anime confession. “I won’t wait for you, Git Gud” “Okay I will Git Gud so we can fight again” *Fist Bump* What are you guys doing.

It might just be the art style but there is a copious amount of blushing happening every time the two interact. Also that height difference!! Mikuriya is 172 while Koshiyama is 153, I fucking love it. 

Uhhhh that’s about it. I would like to gush more but there’s only a few chapters of the manga that’s been fan translated and it’s not even half of what’s actually out there. (I think the manga is complete by now?) There’s only one anime season of the series, and I doubt there’s going to be more so RIP me.

[anga-tag]

Just some random pics based on a Giant!Kaito X normal sized!Allison AU

What the Allison of the AU looks like

A random pic that might not have any importance to the AU

What Allisons cardigan looks like

A Chibi version of the AUs Allison

The one I like to call "(note: it's meant to be Kaito kissing her-)"

[montydollcrew]

The Experience - Getting my Luka

As I said before, I will soon be the proud owner of DD Luka - tomorrow evening is when she should reach me. Before she arrives I thought I would write about how the actual experience went down as something separate from the event reports I like to do. After all, while I initially wasn’t going to get her for a while due to recently buying a new laptop, one of the main reasons I wanted to get Luka at Dolpa was because there’s a good chance that it will be my last Dolpa I can attend for a long time, and I thought it’d be a nice memory. There have been numerous different methods of doing the limited dolls at Dolpa over the years, and recently its changed slightly again. If the process interests you, read on.

First, we arrived at Tokyo Big Sight bright and early. There are two lines - the general line and the Sumika line. The people in the general line have immediate access to the event itself and the Dealer space, but the line for the Sumika store - the store for licensed Dollfie/Dollfie Dream items - is for people who wish to try for the limited dolls - like me. The Sumika store doesn’t open for everyone else until after everyone in the Sumika line has already gone through it, so you have to decide if you want to try for (but possibly fail) the limited dolls, or try for (and possibly miss out on) dealer items of limited quantity.

The Sumika line had us standing about five or six abreast. An amazing coincidence - the person I was standing next to turned out to be one of my twitter mutuals who has a custom Kaito! She was there with her friend who was super hyped for Luka, and she let me take a pic of her itabag. 

I wasnt too far from the head of the line, but at this point, the position doesn’t actually matter as it’s not first-come first-serve.

Around 9:30am, the staff distributed numbered tickets to all of us - but vertically, rather than in the horiziontal snaking order we were queued in. (Meaning, my number was 217, the person in front of me had 216 and behind me 218, but the my twitter mutual next to me, who was technically the person in front of me in terms of the order we lined up in, had 139. So yes, the numbers were in some kind of order and not randomly distributed which is where I believe this method differs from one of the old methods I read about on the DD forums in the lottery guide, where the queue order was determined by the random number you received alone(correct me if I’m wrong on this as that info is gone now). 

After everyone had their number, some Volks staff addressed us with a megaphone and told us that there were over 900 people in the Sumika line. (I cant remember the exact number, but it was a lot). Obviously, not all these people can get Luka - not even half of them I would guess (although many people in the line were aiming for the other limited dolls - the two new SDs Lucia and Mia, and the rerelease of DDs Sheryl and Ranka). The staff member then drew three numbers from a box - ping pong balls with numbers from 0-9 on them. The person with that number would be the head of the queue. I remember it very clearly - it was ticket number 885! 

This meant that the queue order would be first 885, then all the people behind them, and then the rest of the queue from the very beginning. (885-->900andwhatever, then 1--->884. A moment of silence for the person who got 884.) At this point I wasn’t sure if that was good news for me or not, and I started looking around to see other peoples reactions. Some were pretty pokerfaced and others had started smiling. I calculated in my head that, since I would be the number 217, with 216 people in front of me and the people from 285-900andwhatever, that put my position roughly in the early 300s. I had read from SakuraSylph on the DD forum that any line position under 400 was a sure thing, but I was too anxious to believe it, and didn’t want to get my hopes up just in case.

That wasn’t the only reason I was feeling a bit nervous - it was also because i was in line to get a doll I hadn’t seen in person before, which i’ve never done for any of my other DDs. (I had been hoping thered be a display Luka in Akihabara before the event but there wasnt). Even though I knew that almost every single DD ever released looks better in person than the official photos, and I already liked Luka’s official photos, I still had a nagging feeling that I might not like her when I saw her. And then finally the line was moving into the venue through a back door near where the Sumika store was (a different point of entry to the people in the regular line), and the first thing we saw was the dolls in cases, letting us get a really good look at them as we went past, and I saw her.

And that was the moment I decided I definitely wanted her, but I still had no idea if I was even getting her today at this point. The Sumika store was still up ahead - first we approached a counter with one Volks Staff member at it.  On the counter were pictures of the limited dolls with numbers. There was no sold out sticker on any of them yet. When the guy asked me what doll I wanted, I was so nervous and so elated that I pretty much blurted MEGURINELUKA like a dumbass. When he asked for my numbered ticket, I accidentally thrust the ticket from Doll Show the previous day at him instead. I really hope I wasnt the only one that got like that, but I didn’t really care, because the next thing I knew I had this in my hand:

and then went back to stand in the queue still waiting to get into the Sumika store, and all I could do was stare at it. And then I thought ‘oh...I did get her’, and immediately messaged everybody who wanted to know. I didn’t know this at the time, but I found out later looking through tweets and time stamps exactly how close I was to missing out. According to those time stamps there were no more Lukas available not that long after I’d gotten my purchase ticket. I also found out just today that two people from the Fukuoka doll group I am in had also tried their luck and failed. So it was definitely a close call, and I feel even luckier about it.

The wait for the store was pretty long, but I didn’t care - I was holding that ticket so tightly because I was scared that I would drop it or something. I didn’t even want to put it in my pocket in case it fell out. But even though I didnt even have her yet, it felt very special. The Sumika store was even playing my favourite Luka song (Dreamin’ ChuChu by emon) so it felt extra special (and was also a relief, because although the song was only audible around the Sumika store area, the rest of the event space has the...extremely questionable playlist thats at every Dolpa, and needless to say I still have Dancing Queen stuck in my head)

Once I finally was able to go into the Sumika store I went right through it - I didnt even want to look at the other new items because I can get them from the Fukuoka store later anyway, and I’d rather save my money for the dealer stuff. At the cash register I paid for Luka, was instructed to come to the designated area to pick her up after 12, and then went off into the event hall to enjoy the event.

Some time after 12 I went to that designated area with my receipt. The staff member went out the back and came back with a huge box, and I’m thinking ‘oh shit! That’s my one!’ As I took the box another staff member took a photo, explaining that they were taking photos of ‘the moment the owner receives the new doll’. I have no idea what they do with these but he did at least tell me they dont put them online without permission. 

Just like the other vocaloids, Luka’s box is huge...honestly annoyingly so. I don’t really know how I’d get her on my flight home without either paying extra or unboxing her now/throwing the box away (or maybe folding it up). Since I wanted to unbox her at home I decide I wouldn’t open her and would mail her back to my apartment. Luckily Dollpa has a booth just for this with various boxes of all sizes (including one big enough to fit four doll boxes in...) As I was going to be busy with a few things and didnt want distractions, I made the delivery request field be the night of Thursday 10th.... tomorrow after work, now. 

It was pretty hard to resist the urge to just have a quick peek at her but quickly boxed her up and sent her off.

Many other people at the event were not so patient, and so after 12 there were quite a few Lukas around the event space. Some people had even already put her in different outfits and wigs. I might show some of those when I do a report post.

Anyway, that was my experience - I dont know if it was interesting to anyone other than me, but it was my first time experiencing getting a DD in this way. Among other things such as getting to hang out with some friends from the forum, it certainly made it a Dollpa to remember.

[toaster-hair]

random silly theory i randomly made bc im bored

long fucking post down below lol

so you might be thinking to yourself “hmm i wonder what this theory is about” 

well im gonna tell you; its about kazuichi soudas design and why his ass is so fucking fat in the first place.

first, ill need to discuss this image. as you can see on the right side of the image, kazuichi has his back facing the viewer. this backside shows us kazuichis thicc megatron ass.

now you may be thinking to yourself “toastie, what the fuck.”. ill explain further;

my hypothesis is that the person who made kazuichis original final design mistook him as a girl and ran with it until getting feedback from kodaka or someone else working on the game.

now youre most definitely thinking “toastie, what the fuck.” and i dont fault you for that. even i dont believe it. but ill go over my little evidence anyways.

this is his supposed “beta” design. obviously it is different from the final product, however it is practically the same. if i didnt know about this design and saw someone draw it, i wouldve just guessed they messed up on the design.

unlike a lot of other danganronpa characters, it appears he only has one beta design. to explain this, i bring up this idea; there was a bit of miscommunication with the design and art team, leading to kazuichi having a completely different design that mightve been controversial and releasing this beta as a cover up. this led to all of kaz’s other designs being unreleased/lost.

this is most definitely a stretch, but i do think the dr team not releasing or even losing references and designs is a possibility. how can i prove that? with his goth counterpart; gundham. fucking. tanaka.

this is his final design, and like kazuichi he only has one beta design we know of.

(i couldnt find a bigger pic sorry, the same image is up on his wiki) im sorry, but there is no way in my mind that these are even the same person. itd take more than just one beta design to go from some guy who looks like hed be a member of blood on the dancefloor to an edgy anime wizard. there were obviously a few more beta designs that didnt make it to the public.

“but toastie, how do you know if the main designer for kaz thought he was a girl?” well tumblr.com user, i dont. but somethings that help that theory is;

sdr2 has a pretty different style compared to dr1. ndrv3 also has a different style but it was released like 7 years after the first game i think? so i can excuse its style. while sdr2 was made only 2 years after the original (and couldve been in development way before 2012), so to me itd make more sense if they had new people.

kazuichi is still pretty androgynes (hell, maybe even a bit feminine), even more so than chihiro. the only characters that look similar to kaz (kaito and leon) are still pretty damn masculine when compared.

pink hair big hips and sharp teeth isnt what youd first imagine when you hear the word “mechanic”, is it?

to wrap up this post; while i dont think all of this theory is the absolute truth, i do believe that there is probably a lot of lost danganronpa media, whether it be a lost anime episode, a spin off novel everyone claims exists but has no original internet trace, or even a few beta designs. this theory will get confirmed when pigs fly.

[checkurselfb4umachuwreckurself]

It's almost christmas so lets think about how the children of zexal reacted when they first met santa when they were kids (also who played santa for them?). (Thomas cried because he thought he was going to be punished for teasing michael all the time...he got his dog instead lmao)

LADY WAS 100% A CHRISTMAS PRESENT. With the traditional red ribbon around the neck. (Chris was aware of the whole thing, and did his best to pretend to be surprised)

Michael: T-thomas? You okay?

Thomas: *sobbing into her fur* I love her

I can imagine post-canon Tron (smol forme) wearing a kid’s elf outfit and appearing in random places to scare Faker (who wouldn’t be scared tbh)

NOW THERE WAS SOME GOD TIER SHARK AND RIO WINTER COSPLAY but it’s SOMEWHERE in my likes because I forgot to queue it for around now. Rio drags Ryoga to see the mall Santa every year. In the most recent post-canon, she dragged all of the Barians there (Alito and Gilag were interested of course). So it’s 7 v 1 and Santa is terrified. Vector voice: “why do we do this. we aren’t Christian” Mizael: “I was my own religion once”

Baby Yuuma went to see him when he was like 5, and absolutely REFUSED to sit on his lap if Akari (who was like a middle schooler) wouldn’t sit on the lap too. Much to Akari’s embarrassment, they put the pic up every year, where you can see her blushing, and Yuuma hugging them both

Kaito would take Haruto to see Christmas lights walking around, and did stop to see Santa (the concept of like 15 year old Kaito sitting with 3 year old Haurto on Santa’s lap is funny to me) but Haruto wouldn’t speak to the man. Kaito would say that the only thing Haruto or him wanted for Christmas was for Haruto to get better. Santa cry.

After Kaito started Numbers Hunting, he asked Haruto if he wanted to see Santa. Haurto just said “Santa isn’t real.” Kaito asked him why he thought this and Haruto stared at the window and said “Because miracles don’t actually happen.” Kaito cry.

Then during the winter season post canon, Kaito didn’t focus on Christmas (since it didn’t work any of the other times) but Haruto ran up to him, giving him a hug saying “Can we go with Yuuma and Ryoga and Rio to see Santa?” Kaito cry again.

[yumenosakiacademy]

all the stuff i got at metroc0n!!! which is quite a bit!

bn-ha art print won in a raffle at a bn-ha panel i went to on friday! it was drawn by the uraraka who was in the panel! the username at the bottom reads @/specterscribbles!

a cosplay print of the kotori at the aki hana idol performance panel on saturday! along w the UR envelope bc i thought it was cute!! they were giving these out at the end of the panel n i just chose a random envelope

AIW puffy stickers i won at a bn-ha panel on saturday bc i got a medium-level trivia question right! i should hav chosen the superhero t-shirt tho tbh

a lil heart tin filled w yellow fake flowers n a cute lil message given to me by a hifumi i met on thursday!

a kakeru sticker given to me by a kakeru cosplayer for recognizing them n taking their picture! it was drawn by @/harushururu! they were the kakeru

a reiji ut4pri glitter keychain i got for getting a yo/i trivia question right on friday! the lil reiji floats slowly in the liquid n glitter. the box next to it is its box, not another keychain. i chose this prize bc the other prizes werent for fandoms i was in except 2 yoi straps

saburo button+sougo cube+kanzaki strap: sougo n kanzaki r in a diff. pic bc theyre on my bag!

kuroo button that i saw on the dance floor?? i thought abt picking it up but thought someone nearby dropped it n would reclaim it but some girl picked it up n asked if it was mine/i dropped it n i said i didnt kno whose it was but it was still given to me anyway. i dunno the artist sry :((

a lala postcard! i found it on the floor of the dealers room but i recognized lala bc i like pr!para n the art is super cute so!! i kept it :3

green scouting ticket given to me by a kaito n luka on friday bc they were in the aki hana panel the next day n said i should come. they were apparently giving these out to ppl. 

the buttons/reiji arent v visible so there’s closeups under the cut!

[snufthebest]

Today's art is something different! I got some Rin and Len! 😁 Look them being cute! 😍 Man, as some.of you noticed in my story, i have mayor problems with this phone.. It shuts itself down at random, resets stuff.. Has many software malfuntions.. Its just broken, and i need a new one soon! XD Lucky im getting the Motorola Vision One soon! 💜 This art goes out to @draigonis she is the best and i can't live without her! Tomorrow im going to see her again, and i can't wait! Tomorrow is also a very busy day for me, with a lot of traveling, and since my phone is broken, i can't post much of it.. 😅 My story is dead last few weeks.. 😅 ah well, im gona have fun, and no social stuff is good in a way! At least i try to do my artposts, and ofc some other pics! 😁 Well, im gona sleep now! Goodnight ya all! 😄💜 ______________________________ Tags: #hatsunemiku #miku #hatsune #mikuhatsune #hatsunemiku01 #anime #vocaloid #vocaloid01 #vocaloid02 #playstationvita #hatsunemikuprojectdivaf2nd #megurineluka #kagaminetwins #kagaminerin #snowmiku2018 #kaito #megurineluka #manga #animegirl #animegirls #mangagirl #mangagirls #snowmiku #snowmiku2017 #snowmiku2016 #snowmiku2015 #snowmiku2014 #psvita #vita #playstationvita (at Holten) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bz38-rdIH0G/?igshid=4u8b7suaclat

[potholesandrevelations]

Some highlights from AX

walking through the exhibit area and hearing "Kaito!" from a girl who was so shocked it took her a minute to ask for a picture of me

Seeing another kaito

There were at least 10 different kokichis

The suprised faces of people when they see me and immediately asking to take pics

That exciting feeling of seeing people cosplay as your fav characters

Seeing the same kaito 3 more times at random and greeting each other like "Hi Kaito" "Hi Kaito."

So many people asked to take pics of me (i was just happy to have the first one)

I saw a shuichi on an elevator and we reached out for each other and yelled "Kaito!" "Shuichi!"

There was a pop team epic couple and they were cute and fierce as hell

Honest to god I didn't know my cosplay was good enough for people to ask to take pics. I spent a lot of money but I didn't think it'll be noticed

I made friends with a Rantaro