#kazama chitose

[queengurako]

Toki no Kizuna (2012), Hakuouki's prequel.

[chipchopclipclop]

it twas only a matter of time before i broke on my own fantasy au design nonsense. my dnd bones.

[hamhamki]

My Favorite Otome Husbands

I saw someone post this but I didn't like it so credit to the person who started this but I've been playing otome games since I was in middle school PHEW so here's a list of my ults (??lmao I only speak in kpop) from the years!

There's A TON MORE but I was mostly a voltage gitlie because I was tired of reading otomes that didn't have English translations because back then it was hard to read otomes in English at least on my side of things 💔💔 BUT this is what I've grown up with and thought it would be cool to share because it's always pretty neat to see what everyone's go to chara is!

This is from the top of my head so like yeah... I've been through a lot lmaooo 😭💔

Also a good way to see if I have a sort of type 😳🤧

[shineeflight]

D-frag manga chapter 150 funny

[animehouse-moe]

D-Frag! : Near Limitless Fun

Yes, this is an old series. Yes, it can be hard to find physically because of that. And yes, it is fun as all hell. I recently managed to get my hands on all but 3 volumes of the series so I've done a re-read from scratch on it, and it really is just incredibly hilarious. It can be a little formulaic with the whole straight man routine, but it gets both incredibly meta and off the rails with it. I mean, the sheer amount of jokes that they break out in relation to it always keeps it fresh. Getting tired of Kazama making comebacks? There's probably a joke or a remix on the horizon for it. And personally speaking it always gets me, whether it's one volume in or 16 volumes in.

Anyways, let me backtrack a little. What is D-Frag! ? Well. Well.... It's a high school comedy taken the max of what can be weird, with lots of other little bits mixed in. Kazama is a young delinquent who comes to Fujou high believing he'll be able to take it over and make a name for himself. Too bad he gets suckered in by the curious ongoings of a video game club and gets tortured into joining them. From there, his high school career of insanity and infamy as the king of comebacks (and second fiddle to the most fearsome people around) begins as they galivant and explore and in general cause mayhem and headaches.

Oh yeah, and there's 17 volumes and it's still not been a full year in real time in D-Frag! Yeah, that's right, this thing is stretched out, but you don't even think about it. One could only imagine how experiencing all of these moments one after the next would affect a young high schooler. Moving on, some art to break up my monotonous explanations of what D-Frag! is!

I don't think words could really explain what's so appealing to this manga. It's got such a classic feel to it and is so incredibly true to itself. No matter what trope it brings up, it'll subvert expectations and find a way to turn it silly and diffuse any and all tension. It builds things up and up and up, and just as it's about to place the final piece on top to complete it, Tomoya Haruno (the author) comes swooping in to topple it in the most satisfying way possible.

Not to mention, it's running jokes are absolutely top notch. There's definitely some that are rather cliched, but also more than a few that are fresh and enjoyable within the overall approach of the series. Like the constant jokes about the envy and fear that Takao's (one of the characters) chest instills in fellow women and girls.

It's really hard to talk about how D-Frag! is so much fun and such a great read without spoiling because I could talk on end about how refreshing, unique, and interesting redacted was. Or how the entire redacted arc was a wild card that was incredibly fun. Maybe this. Parents exist in D-Frag!, they really do. We see both Kazama's mother and father, we see Roka's mother, Takao's mother, Chitose's older sister, and a handful of others. Oh yeah, and just for effect, Sean Connery is a teacher at Fujou High.

And who totally could would forget the unique side characters of D-Frag! ? There's , and there there's , and of course you can't forget about . Jokes aside, the side characters have a real thing for being bald and weird in general and I'm all for it. It's so out of left field and random that it feels like two series collided to form this single one.

I swear, at least one chapter every volume has these ridiculous battle shounen introductions and interactions, and no matter what they get me every time. And they're so detailed? Haruno sensei absolutely put a good amount of effort into designing them and adding random throwaway details just to make them seem more absurd.

I don't know, I fully admit that D-Frag! isn't some foundational, groundbreaking series that has incredibly well timed or apt and effective humor, nor is it something super relatable or anything that really stands out by critical metrics. But to me, it's just plain dumb fun. One stupid thing after the next, one ridiculous escapade followed by another, guided by Haruno sensei's incredibly odd sense of interest and direction. It's something I don't know I'll ever grow tired of because Haruno sensei has stumbled upon a golden formula for D-Frag!. We're going to hit 15 years of publication this year, so here's to many more. (Also, check out the anime, it's loads of fun for what it adapts from the manga).

[collarofguns]

infinite wealth chapter 7 directly post-kiryu stuff talk

yeah none of the haruka stuff really. hits for me. at all. maybe it would have two games ago but the way they wrote (and fridged) her in six and then proceeded to completely ignore her until now, even in gaiden (other than the looming We’re Gonna Blow Up Da Orphanage threat) where they totally had a chance to acknowledge all that stuff……. rgg’s failure to write women hits again!! it’s so fucking funny she’s not even in the Baka Mitai 2 “I Lament That I Can’t Tell My Loved Ones I Love Them” Slideshow. because that spot is reserved for all the men in kiryu’s life and also the dog. haruka ceased being a character and simply became a driving force for kiryu and now i don’t care anymore 😔

i appreciate that they’re allowing kiryu to have character development even now; i was disappointed in gaiden’s refusal to allow kiryu to acknowledge kazama as like, Sucking. A Lot. but i can at least accept and respect that they let him realize he can rely on others for once

also so mad that they gave us nanba for two seconds and then took him away from us again

EDIT: also also it’s soooo so so funny to me that kiryus like Tch… asking for help from people younger than me. What have I become……. when said people are like majority middle aged men. and chitose

[theotakufiles]

D-Frag! Manga

D-Frag! is a hilarious and action-packed anime series that follows the misadventures of Kazama Kenji, a delinquent high school student who is roped into joining a bizarre game development club called "Game Creation Club" by its eccentric members. As Kazama reluctantly becomes involved with these quirky individuals, including the playful Roka Shibasaki, the violent Chitose Karasuyama, the genius manipulator Sakura Mizukami, and the self-proclaimed godlike at games Minami Osawa, he finds his life turned upside down as chaos ensues around him. From wacky power struggles to outrageous competitions and never-ending pranks, D-Frag! takes viewers on a wild ride filled with slapstick humor, unexpected friendships, and absurd situations that will leave them laughing uncontrollably. Will Kazama ever regain control over his life or will he embrace the madness that comes with being part of this unconventional club? Find out in this laugh-out-loud comedy series packed with surprising twists and unforgettable characters!

Support the talented manga author of 'D-Frag! Manga' by purchasing their amazing work at gekimanga.com. Immerse yourself in this captivating story filled with humor, action, and unforgettable characters. Show your love for manga by directly supporting the artist's creativity and talent. Don't miss out on this incredible series - get your hands on 'D-Frag! Manga' now!

[sayain-princess-vegenta]

I'm not a big Yakuza fan (yet) I literally only played LaD and IW. So I'm new to all of this. In Lad I loved Saeko I felt she came out of nowhere and was thrown into the group but she became part of the family. She's that no nonsense big sister to everyone. (And honestly I thought she had more romantic chemistry with Namba) So when IW stated and said Ichiban had a thing for her I was suuuuuper confused but I'm like ok technically she the first girl he's been close with since he got out of prison clearly the crush will go away...BUT IT GOT WORSE??? like I love Ichi he's my boy but I could not STAND anything to do with Saeko I couldn't. It felt like her only plot line was to See The Light and finally see she loves Ichiban and I'm like noooo???

That's his sister this is so wrong I hate it. And to see EVERYONE PUSH IT from Namba to Joongi to Kazama. I would legit forget it's a plot point until it smacked me in the face. (I swear I'm one of the people who think chitose had more chemistry than Saeko) honestly I think Ichiban should be single. is it funny and cute that he has no romantic experience 100% would I be down for something in the future maybe, but as of now I don't think it does anything but ruin the characters and unfortunately Saeko was the one that got hit hard the most with this.

Her speaking against Ebina about Ichiban just felt sooooo forced. I really hope they drop it in future ones or at least make it feel natural cause right now I feels like I'm watching the developers push their heads together and say "now kiss"

Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth Rant

Warning. This article contains spoilers. Alas, this post is an enormous wall of text and consists purely from me complaining. Get the children away from the screen.

Okay, I’ll probably regret this later, but I’ll post this anyway. Years ago I used to be pretty vocal about my opinion, but these days I prefer to keep most of the negative opinions to myself. But I believe if I’d keep everything bottled up on this one particular matter I’ll simply explode.

I’m currently enthusiastically playing Like a Dragon/Yakuza series, which is now one of my favorite game series. Back at high school used to play first two games on PS2, and later there was Kurohyo on PSP, but didn’t get too far in any of them, decided save it for later, and this “later” has finally happened several months ago after listening to one pretty entertaining podcast about JPRGs. One of the hosts has totally sold me Yakuza: Like a Dragon (I’ve literally ran and bought it after listening the podcast). I’ve played it, loved it and almost cried my eyes out on the ending (seriously, if someone asks me how my ideal JRPG should look like, I’d say that’s the one).

After that I’ve beaten Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth. I’ve really enjoyed this game in general, but comparing to its predecessor, while most of the gameplay issues were fixed, some story issues did arise. Story itself is far more simple and lacks memorable antagonists (Ebina was okay and Bryce was outright lame). Still, there were a plenty of interesting moments to keep me going, and I really liked the ending, which was extremely moving, the part before the ending credits I mean. And then this stupid love confession scene happened and completely ruined the mood for me. Seriously, it wasn’t funny, it was tasteless like in the worst romcoms.

And, well, here lies the main issue with Infinite Wealth for me - this poorly-written romance subplot between Ichi and Saeko, and how Saeko character is handled in this game in general. So, if you are the fan of her I suggest you to stop reading right here, right now.

First, I would like to point that, when Saeko was just an optional romantic interest in LaD it was perfectly fine, but in IW, where she became the designated love interest, the whole romance plotline became very forced and uncalled-for. In LaD they were simply on friendly terms with no indication of evident romantic interest, and in IW the whole “Ichi falling for Saeko” thing looks extremely out of nowhere. All interactions between them look artificial without real chemistry between characters. Seriously, every time Ichi says, that he loves her or have feelings for her, it sounds hardly believable, like he is trying to convince himself and the players. At moments like this I could almost imagine something like this:

RGG Studio staff: *gives Ichi the script* Start reading.

Ichi: But that’s a bunch of bullshit!

RGG Studio staff: *points a gun on Ichi* Start reading. Now.

To be honest, I’m not the fan of romance genre at all and I mostly view romance sublots in various media as a nuisance. Still I won’t deny that there are some romantic storylines I genuinely enjoyed and was rooting for the characters till the very end (like Alphen and Shionne from Tales of Arise or Oswald and Gwendolyn from Odin Sphere for example), but there are still very few of the quality romantic stories to my liking comparing to those, which are either okay or boring at the best, and unbelievably stupid or outright unhealthy (and stupid) at the worst.

Worst of all, that RGG Studio actually can write a decent romance subplot. And I believe that Yakuza 0  is a good example of this. There we have Goro Majima (who is my second most favorite character in the series, after Ichi) and Makoto Makimura (who belongs to one of my least favorite character archetypes-“damsel-in-distress”, but considering her condition and the fact that everyone is after her, she really does need help and protection). In their story there wouldn’t be a single “I love you” or “I have feelings for you” or any other needless words, they just go through many shit together and slowly develop feeling for each other, which is shown very subtly through finely directed cutscenes. They don’t get together in the end (which is pretty logical, considering everything, that’s happened), but this plotline gets pretty heartwarming conclusion in Kiwami 2. But if they actually did get together I wouldn’t mind at all, even though Makoto isn’t one of my favorites, simply because their story is well-written and makes sense.

Alright, back to Ichi and Saeko. Let’s start with the infamous “proposal-on-the-first-date” scene, I won’t deny that it was awkward as hell (I was like: “Ichi, please, just shut up.”), but Saeko’s reaction wasn’t one of the mature woman either. I would’ve understood her reaction if they’d barely knew each other, in that case it would’ve been perfectly natural. But they know each other pretty well by this point (three years, no less) and she knows that he tends to speak his mind and has zero experience with women. I believe, she could’ve always say something like:”Hold on, let’s not rush things.”, I’m sure he would’ve understand. But no, she just runs away and leaves him hanging. And when, thanks to Adachi and Nanba, Ichi realizes, what he did wrong, he goes and apologizes. Saeko seemingly accepts the apology, says that they are still friends, and that as a friend she will support him no matter what. And what Saeko does next? She ignores Ichi for a whole year. And when he loses his job and becomes pariah thanks to Tatara Channel, only Adachi and Nanba go and check up on him. When she finds out, she doesn’t even bother to send something like: “Are you okay?” or whatever. And that’s after all the crap they’ve went through in LaD. A “true friend”, nuff said.

Oh, and you know what’s rich? In her Drink Link (I did it only for the achievement and to see whether she actually expresses any remorse at all, spoiler-no) it is revealed that, the whole year she was ghosting Ichi, she was dating some obvious bastard, who was manipulating her into marrying him to get her money and business. Funny, how she didn’t see that until he went and said it himself. Another fun fact, that in some random dialogues she actually asks Kiryu and Nanba how Ichi is doing, only to add something like: “Not that I care.”. Seriously, her whole attitude towards Ichi is so fucked up and can easily be described as emotional abuse. If I were him I would’ve dismissed her after that year of ghosting and just forgot about her. And the last, but not the least, everyone either criticizes or mocks Ichi because of this stupid proposal, but no one criticizes Saeko for her craptastic treatment of him.

Also putting romance aside, I believe Saeko has nothing to offer as a character. In LaD she was an okay character, albeit with the little to zero relevance to the main plot. I believe RGG Studio has added her only for the sake of adding at least one playable girl in the party full of dudes to expand the audience, since Eri is an optional character and you can beat the game without even getting her in the team. Speaking of Eri, while she is totally unimportant to the main storyline, she is still much more likeable and fleshed out character than Saeko, and more useful in battles too.

In IW Saeko became much worse. As I see it, her portrayal is something of a strong and independent woman. And it does not withstand any criticism. Even in LaD there were some optional dialogues, were she is mocking other party members in a form of a joke. In IW she is even more immature. For example, remember how in LaD she refused to go with you in cabaret club ( I mean, where you can order a hostesses)? In IW Seonhee tags along with the guys in the same club (because, why not?), and Saeko decides that she is going too, even though she is not interested in the stuff. And there is more instances (all optional dialogues though), where someone does something, she clearly disapproves, but everyone else in party does, and she decides to do it too. I believe, that being strong and independent actually means having an opinion of your own and not caring about what others would think about you. While both Seonhee and Chitose really can be described as strong women, Saeko only seems like one, but in reality she is just pathetic. When it comes to main story in IW-she can be easily removed from all cutscenes, because most of the time she either all bark no bite (strong and independent woman, uh-huh) or just stands there. Looks like RGG Studio simply didn’t know what to do with her after LaD and wrote all this pseudo-romantic crap simply to justify her presence in IW. For me it sure didn’t work, I felt utterly disgusted with her the whole game. I wish they would just wrote her out entirely from the story. While in LaD she was only one non-optional girl in the party, in IW we have two more well-developed female characters, who, unlike Saeko, are actually important to the plot.

I’ve read somewhere that RGG Studio is currently working on the next installment in the series. I have no idea, what it’ll be about, but I really wish that they’d just drop the idea of getting Ichi and Saeko together for the sake of it. It seriously looks like the cupid on drugs is garroting the poor guy with the red string. To be honest, I’m not exactly excited about new installment at all. Saeko stuff aside, for me IW is the fitting conclusion to the series. I seriously don’t see what else could be added to the main story, since all the major storylines got a closure by that point. I only wish for Kiryu to heal his cancer and for Ichi to get his job back (and the same goes for Majima, Saejima and Dojima, since I don’t remember anything said about it in the ending), and for both of them to live in peace for the rest of the days. They’ve had enough shit in their lives already.

[nollatooru]

Toki no Kizuna ancestors meeting their Hakuouki descendants.

[queengurako]

Kazama Chitose and Suzumori Yukina From Hakuouki's prequel : Toki no Kizuna.

[crazychiyomiwa]

D-Frag! Chapter 142

Is it finally happening?!?!? Kenji x Chitose?!?!?! Awesome!!!

[animemakeblog]

Game Creation Club's central plot incorporates comedy, parody, school, and seinen. The primary characters are Chitose Karasuyama, Kenji Kazama, Sakura Mizukami, Roka Shibasaki, and Takao. Anime is one of the most popular genres this winter.

[anime-end-cards]

D-Frag

Episode 7 end card by Hikagi Tatsuhiko

[shenanigumi]

I keep reading Chitose as “Cheetos” so now I’m just going to call him Cheeto. Kazama Cheeto.

[mhk-87]

“Say aah.”

“...”

“Aah, i said!” (^_^)

[impracticaldemon]

Not my review for Kazutake’s route, but a Kazama Chitose preview... [Note: MINOR spoilers--this takes place early in all routes.] [Note: Abbreviated view in captions if you want to skip my comments below!]

So in Yukina’s first meeting with Chitose (Kazama/Heisuke??) he proves to her that she’s not as strong as she thinks (i.e., he’s a lot better--which he is, although she’s not too bad) and he mocks her.  For which he and his silent quasi-partner, Kasuya (Saitou), get whacked by Kazutake (because (a) it’s not helpful and (b) she’s a girl--thank you, Harada-er-Kazutake).

This scene (above) takes place shortly after.  Chitose is disgusted that Yukina totally lacks femininity, so one of the Elders insists that she prove her “feminine” skills to Chitose by mending his frayed sleeve.  Both he and she are dubious, but the Elder insists that she can do it, so she tries.

Yukina has never learned to sew.  The Princess has always done all her sewing.  She doesn’t even know how to thread a needle. (Really??)  But golly gosh darn it she tries anyway!!  She eventually manages to thread the needle, pokes the unfortunate (but in my view deserving) Chitose a couple of times, and MENDS THAT SLEEVE.  Woo-hoo!

Yukina and Chitose both stare at the not-surprisingly terrible sewing (darning?) job.  Yukina immediately wants to try again.  Chitose says no; his first comment is very funny (IMO). Anyway, he starts out well by saying that whatever else it may be, he can tell that she genuinely tried her best.  Then he slides back into traditional samurai / Kazama mode in the last few panels.

Hope you enjoy!

~ ImpracticalOni