#kagepro: wannyanpuu

[ayara-resara]

Wannyanpuu & her OCs: 2024 vs 2014

kagerou daze, babylon, ame to kusari

[stepswowdsen]

【KagePro】 KuroEne Christmas Anthology Comics Illustration 🖤💙⛄❄️

I was looking through my old files and found this Christmas/Winter-themed art of Azami, Ene, and Kuroha 🎄 🔔

OMFG ENE IS SO CUTE AHHHHHHHH OMFG MY WIFE!!! 💙 🥺 🫶 ✨ HER EXPRESSION IS SO ADORABLE GOSH ADHSHDDHSHDSH I LOVE THE COLOURS TOO

Snow bunny Santa (Cutest Santa) and evil snake bf~~ 🐍 🐇

I can't find the source unfortunately but I'm assuming it's from one of the KagePro anthologies or KagePro fanbooks considering it seems like it's from a booklet with the page photo/scan and also cuz it names the illustrator in the bottom right as Osora

I CAN'T BELIEVE THAT KUROENE HAVE "OFFICIAL" ILLUSTRATIONS??? SCREAMING THEY'RE SO CUTEEEEEEE Or at least ones in fanbooks that are approved by the official creators??? (I'm just assuming anyways)

KUROENE MY KAGEPRO OTP!!! 🖤 💙

ENE'S CUTE CHRISTMAS HAT AND MUFFLERS I'M ASCENDING!!! THE CUTEST!!!

Ok I managed to confirm that this KuroEne + Azami Christmas/Winter themed illustration comes from one of the Kagerou Daze Official Anthology Comics. The KagePro anthology comics are mainly drawn by KagePro fan-artists, but official KagePro artists, Sidu, Wannyanpuu, Mahiro Satou, and Sayuki, have also drawn stuff for the anthologies. So, these are licensed and approved by the official creators.

I need my hands on the "official" KuroEne illust so bad 🥺 🖤 💙 🫶

I managed to confirm it cuz the font that denotes the artist is the same throughout the Anthology comics.

Now the big question lies in WHICH anthology this comes from… Some of the illusts are posted on the KagePro fan-wiki, but not all of them.

Like I'll have to see if the E-books for these were ever released online, but if not, then I'll try to get my hands on physical secondhand resellings

ON GOD??? "OFFICIAL" KUROENE ILLUSTRATION??? FOR ME??? THEY'RE SO CUTE WAHHHHHH

Just did a quick search and frick I don't think the e-books are available online 😔

I think I tracked it down tho. I tried looking for anthologies that おそら (Osora) drew for, so I think it could be SUMMER, WINTER, BITTER

Tho I'm not too sure, cuz not all of the anthology comics' product descriptions put the Artist list.

Trying to hunt down where the KuroEne illustration comes from so I'll just buy all KagePro anthology comics through used copies (secondhand resellings). It's go time

Since I'm not sure which one it's in, I'll get all 11 of them for cheap 🙏 Plus I also wanna scan the comics + illusts in them.

Feila just confirmed for me it comes from the Winter anthology, which makes sense considering the Christmas themed clothes. Tysm! 🙏

Feila, I hope you don't mind me posting your edit 🤭

They noticed that in the KagePro: Anthology Comic KuroEne illust by Osora, Kuroha's holding a snowman with blue colours (coincidentally, the same colours that Ene's hair and eyes tend to be drawn as - turquoise and her image colour blue), so the snowman is Ene /lh

Ene is carrying a giant red presents bag with a cat sitting on it so, honestly, thinking of a KuroEne idea where Ene is the Santa who goes around giving gifts is soooo cute.

Ene: It's Christmas!!! Which means it's time for presents!!!

Kuroha: Where's my present, hm?

Ene: Put the gun away, tough guy, it's CHRISTMAS!!!

Kuroha: Oh? This one is just a toy gun, though. (<- Is he lying or telling the truth? Who knows!!!)

Ene: Bad naughty guys like you just get COAL!!! BLEH!!! NO PRESENTS FOR YOU!!! (//>~<//) (:P)

Kuroha knows how to appeal to Ene's need for praise and attention so he just "butters her up" - showers her with praise and compliments and flattery, and Ene responds like, "Yeah, yeah, yeah!!! Call me cute!!! Say I'm the cutest Santa in the whole world~ And MAYBE I'll think about giving you your present~" And pouts and crosses her arms at him in Ene's classic embarrassed tsundere fashion.

It would be cute if he kisses her (like on the cheek or the lips), and then says, "Thank you for your hard work this year, Santa~" And Ene just explodes (//O//O//) /lh

[mekatrio]

But even then that would be such a weird way of putting it because if you think Sidu's old art was bad okay (bad take but you are entitled to your wrong opinion (yes it is less good than Sidu's later art. I still like it tho)) but they're still... just one person? "Before Jin started working with better artists" it's the same person, though? I know Wannyanpuu didn't come in the project until later but artists is plural and implies both of them. Also Mizuta's still image for Jinzou Enemy is Fine especially for the era. Why not just say "some of the earlier songs didn't have animated music videos so I'll be including fan made ones"..... where did you even find that post..... people are so bad at understanding this series

it was in the #kagepro main tag and also ditto to everything u said cuz likeee the MVs are fine.. 😭 maybe its just a difference in standards cuz these days some voca mvs are masterpieces but also like i think theres something charming abt older mvs you know!

[fuckyeahkagepro]

Kagepro's Jin + his team / coworkers / friends

Interviewer: Say one thing to Sidu-san*! [*Sidu = current animator of Kagepro pvs/music videos]

Jin: Please try your best!

Interviewer: Say one thing to Wannyanpuu-san*! [*Wannyanpuu = a former animator of Kagepro pvs along with Sidu, though she follows them on Twitter as well]

Jin: Please give me a call……!

Interviewer: Say one thing to (Satou) Mahiro-san*! [*Kagepro manga's artist (NOT writer, that is Jin)]

Jin: I’ll send you this and that soon……

- 50 Questions with Jin / Shizen no Teki-P Interview from mid-2013 [Kagerou Project's creator]

[ceejaykayess]

""If I look you in the eyes, you'll turn to stone," I said, but they just smiled. "I've been living afraid as well, afraid I'd turn to stone. But wouldn't the world be so much better without that fear?""

[mawce-ness-lonchster]

i present, an EXTREMELY shitty seto amv for frog boi’s birthday! 

Plant Life- Owl City

Kagepro- Jin

[maurices]

anyway kagepro means more to me than anything on this earth it got me through some of the worst years of my life! when lost time memory came out i was 12 nearly 13 and i cried so hard, because i just felt like maybe one day i’ll be okay! so well done to that 12 year old me who wanted so badly to give up and who saw no hope in his future for carrying on. (and we won’t even speak of summertime record rn)

also thank u jin for the sick beats and for enabling me to literally pretend i was akane and shintaro and going by headphone actor literally everywhere including my first instagram account. the cringe is strong, but i kinda don’t regret it for a single moment.

and when i wasnt even in the uk i was on a school trip and i was watching mekakucity actors as it aired! the excitement of getting an anime, and jubyphonics covers, she was like 16 when i first subscribed to her channel. as much as i feel like everythings been awful, being able to forget and love these characters is something, that though is due to horrible circumstances, that i can look upon fondly and admittedly im still a little bit obsessed.

[ahiijny]

Remember that time Momo convinced Hibiya to try on a maid outfit in Otsukimi Recital

[polandspringz]

The anime adaptation sucked for a number of reasons but the music? Mwah

Oh yeah, I did not like the anime for Kagepro at all, tbh. Right after the show concluded, I made a long post about how I thought the show could have been adapted into a longer, 2 cour season which explored the multiple routes, because I was very disappointed. As a long time Kagepro fan, I was infuriated by how things like Otsukimi Recital (one of my favorite songs) seemed to be crammed into the show at the last minute and to this day I still don’t quite  understand exactly what happened with Momo and Kido combining their powers in that episode, but after talking with a few people in a (now deleted) Kagepro discord server and watching Bread Box on Youtube talk about the series as a whole across multiple video essays, I’ve become more at peace with it.

Read more just for me rambling with no cohesiveness about the series:

Kagerou Project, since the beginning, was a complicated way of story telling. I have never had the patience to sit down and read the light novels completely, but I know what happens in them from people discussing them a lot. But, the songs, as a starter, are honestly the best medium for telling Kagepro’s story, because they cover all the routes. Lost Time Memory? We learn about route 1 and route xx. Outer Science and Summertime Record? Part of what made their plot points some impactful was not only were they the two different endings to the story, the way the MVs were released allowed us to be tricked into thinking Outer Science was the final MV we would get and then only 3-4 days later we got to see all our kids grown up and happy and thriving, and the fandom cried. 

I’ve always been fascinated with series that derive from Vocaloid works, because from a meta narrative standpoint, it’s amazing to see how the creators and the method of storytelling evolved. I’m sort of all over the place right now with my points, but I love Kagepro as a song series because it used its music videos and music to tell a story with crazy things like parallel universe and reseting time and good and bad endings in a way I would normally see in a video game. Jin and Sidu and Wannyanpuu, you can see how not only does the music and the story its telling improve (from the vagueness of Jinzou Enemy with Ene being a Miku rip-off, because we had already gotten several songs from the Vocaloid community about the persona of the artificial voice watching its creator) move on to more diversely animated videos with unique character designs that tell us about how a character sacrifices herself for her family, how two different selves of one person die and survive in different timelines, and how one route has to happen for the good route to exist. 

I agree with you that the anime did well because of the music. But that’s because for those of us who was connected to the music series already, those little easter eggs were the only thing really drawing us in. We were hoping to see our favorite song animated completely, animated and fit into a part of the plot we weren’t exactly sure it aligned with. Right now, I feel like Kagepro the series is a mess with the manga having almost a neutral ending, the novels ending but Jin writing more, the anime being the good end but poorly explained. Like I said, I’d being lying if I found it to not be perhaps the worst and most rushed and chaotic adaption of the series, but like I said, part of Kagepro is the journey, and so for me, just hearing Jin finally leave behind the Vocaloid voice and sing the happy ending for his own project for the first time, of course I’m going to get emotional because I saw my kids happy, it was messy and it was rushed and the studio prioritized another anime project in the studio than MCA, but I still cried because everything at the end was happy. I actually agree with a few people but Shaft is the best studio to do Mekakucity Reload, because Shaft is the best at crazy time stories and does the flat coloring and monochromatic style of Sidu the best. (You wouldn’t want Kagepro to go to A-1 or KyoAni, who gloss up their series with sparkles or in A-1′s case, can have a quality dip later on in the show). I think if Shaft is the studio for Reload, in order to make it successful, they need to be working on only that at the time. They aren’t like Bones who have several studios inside them that are dedicated to a few animes that come out consistently. Shaft needs to completely rethink the pacing of Reload, focus less on the jokes of the show and more on the plot, maybe even rearrange how the story is presented to us (maybe introduce us to the bad end first? Have the terrorist attack happen midway into episode 1 or even then end of it? Show at least one route where Kuroha kills everyone, so Summertime Record is angsty and happy-sad because we understand the timeloops) 

TLDR cause I’m already drained from this: Most anime are made to promote manga sales. Shaft put less care into MCA and was banking on people watching for the songs. We don’t need the songs in the anime. We don’t need music videos. We need the plot, like the manga or the light novels deliver. The song series was a way to convey the plot. Reload needs to convey the plot as an anime, and the studio needs to care and give it a bigger budget. I can live with a crazy broken neck head tilt every five seconds if it means we get all of that in exchange.

[x0401x]

Mekakushi-dan Chibis by Wannyanpuu

[starspatter]

If “My Funny Weekend” gets a PV, I kinda hope it’s animated by Wannyanpuu.

[ayara-resara]

Fun fact from Wannyanpuu’s deleted pixiv fanbox (2017/01/24): her fanmade Kagerou Daze MV was partly inspired by 2nd OP of Mawaru Penguindrum. In particular, she tried to imitate its hair animation.

[yuseirra]

shidu’s videos were so good...

wish there are more videos like that with lovely transitions and powerful emotions

[mekatrio]

love the way wannyanpuu draws kano LOL aww i wish she did most visual work for kagepro

[fuckyeahkagepro]

When I asked Jin-san about the truth [of the 'Kagerou Daze' song] (spoilers?) his answer was completely different from what I thought

Wannyanpuu (brief interview at end of anthology comic)

(INTERVIEWER): “What is your favorite song from Kagerou Project?”

(WANNYANPUU): “Kagerou Daze”!

As for why I like it, something about it just gives me a particularly special feeling inside. This song alone made me take into consideration a bunch of different things. I haven't had that sort of connection with any other song.

When I asked Jin-san ABOUT THE TRUTH (spoilers?) 

his answer was completely different from what I thought. 

I got double the enjoyment for the price of [one] song (lol). (*bolding / italics / caps mine for emphasis!)

... WANNYANPUU

KNEW / KNOWS THE TRUTH

OF THE “KAGEROU DAZE” SONG.

[panvani]

what kagepro could have been if jin had consulted even a single woman....

Ok no it’s hilarious because for a long time every single non-Jin person working on Kagepro (Sidu + wannyanpuu) was a woman and the only man to be visibly part of the team (Satou Mahiro) doesn’t seem to have any involvement aside from illustrating the manga. Then Asahimachi (open fujoshi) joined later on. Regarding people who aren’t Part Of The Team but still had influence, Jin has talked about how his little sister gave her input on the story.

It’s not from talking to women it’s just. The specific women he was talking to were also all Like That