#kazumi 404

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Celebi and Smoochum dancing in an alternate timeline

She didn’t become Jynx in this timeline T3T

[shinurushi]

Elmissera the eldritch commission

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February arc cover!

New arc, new characters!

Chloe, Sanni and Edmond together!

I want to change the cover every arch

[READ THE WEATHER CHILD HERE]

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In the last episode, both Ibuki and Shima had the same nightmare. But it's interesting if you think what makes it a "nightmare" to them is completely different. Ibuki's nightmare is seeing Shima died while Shima's nightmare is seeing Ibuki killed someone.

[beanieman]

which characters do you think the yttd cast would kin?

Sara Chidouin - Clementine (TWDG Season 4 and 2 in particular.)

Joe Tazuna - Noel (Witches Heart)

Gin Ibushi - Tara (Baldurs Gate 3)

Keiji Shinogi - Bojack Horseman (Bojack Horseman)

Alice Yabusame - Mirabel (Encanto)

Reko Yabusame - Vi (Arcane)

Nao Egokoro - Max Caulfield (Life Is Strange)

Kazumi Mishima - That One Professor In Most Horror Movies That Somehow Knows Very Plot Relevant Information About A Murder That Took Place In 1898 (Most Horror Movies)

Q-taro Burgerberg - Ronald McDonald (Mcdonlads)

Kai Satou - Mama (Cooking Mama)

Kanna Kizuchi - Prim Everdeen (The Hunger Games)

Shin Tsukimi - Sou Hiyori (YTTD)

Dolls

Ranmaru Kageyama - Jason Dean (Heathers)

Naomichi Kurumada - Alice Yabusame (YTTD)

Anzu Kinashi - Todd (Bojack Horseman)

Mai Tsurugi - I Couldn't Choose A Specific One But She Has "Ace Attorney Witness" Character Vibes (Ace Attorney)

Shunsuke Hayasaka - Just Some Guy (He's the embodiment of Ohio so I don't know what part of his characterization to draw off of here.)

Hinako Mishuku - The Real Hinako (YTTD)

[dilebe06]

My Top Male Characters of 2023

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A Fascinated Police Buddy Drama : "MIU404"

MIU404 is one of my favorite TV dramas.

First of all, unfortunately I probably can't describe less than half of fascinating of MIU404. But you read my recommendation and if you feel MIU404 only a little bit interesting, you should watch the drama.

MIU is short for Mobile Investigation Unit, 404 is a call sign of protagonists IBUKI Ai(performed by AYANO Go) and SHIMA Kazumi(performed by HOSHINO Gen).

IBUKI and SHIMA are police officers. They solve each cases in each episodes.

MIU404 surprises me, shock me, makes me tears, makes me laugh/smile and satisfies me every time I watch. If you want to be excited, I recommend you Episode 1. Watching episode 2, you can't help crying with all your energy. When you watch episode 3-5, you will deeply think about your life. Episode 6 and 8 make you mixed feeling. Episode 9-11 may be a little complicated, but you will be definitely satisfied when you finish watching them. However, I'm confident that all of episodes have all aspects of every feeling.

Especially l'm impressed with episode 6(2020/7/31 broadcasted). SHIMA Kazumi's former buddy KOSAKA has been passed before the beginning of this drama. SHIMA and his former coworkers think that reason why KOSAKA was killed is SHIMA. That's why SHIMA is rumored "Aibo Goroshi(buddy killer)". IBUKI investigates truth of case of KOSAKA.

Because of IBUKI's investigation, finally SHIMA understood KOSAKA's true belief. In our (audience's) view, SHIMA who had felt guilty seems to be healed by IBUKI.

However, ending of the episode, he sited on a place KOSAKA's body was found and said 「お前の相棒が伊吹みたいなやつだったらな(If your buddy was a person like IBUKI, you would not be passed away.)」 So I listened this line and recognized that SHIMA was never healed.

Just after episode 6 broadcasted, I searched "#MIU404" on Twitter and I found NOGI Akiko (MIU404 screenwriter) 's tweet.

Before episode 6 broadcasted on TV, NOGI Akiko had posted following comment on Twitter.

Before episode 6 broadcasted, MIU404 official Twitter account posted "Mr.IBUKI, we hope that you heal Mr.SHIMA!" On 2020/07/29, Ms.Nogi did quote tweet the post and posted "Human can't so much easily heal someone and aren't healed."

In my view, MIU404 shows that human always make mistakes, choose wrong choices and worry whether their choice is right, but they get back on their feet as many times even if their choice is not correct.

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MIU 404 Whump List

These dorks <3 I love them with all my heart

Synopsis: The Mobile Investigative Unit (or "MIU") of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department attempts to solve cases within 24 hours.

Detective Shima Kazumi is selected as a new member of MIU. He is intelligent, with excellent observation and communication skills. He is unable to find a partner in MIU and is ordered to partner with Ibuki Ai, who works at a police substation. Ibuki applied for MIU, but he failed. He is in excellent physical condition, but he lacks knowledge and experience as a detective.

Genre: Cop/Crime, Mystery, Bromance

Whumpees: Ibuki Ai (left) played by Ayano Go and Shima Kazumi (right) played by Hoshino Gen

!!Spoilers Below!!

Warning!! Drug use is a big thing in this series. They are shown and people are shown taking them on screen (idk if it can be triggering but I'm telling you just in case). Also in ep. 3 there are mentions of sexual assault, and shown a prevented attempt of one.

Ibuki Ai

Ep. 01: in a car crash, hit by a car, wrench thrown at him(missed), fought, pretends he's about to shoot someone, punched in the face, spat at

Ep. 02: teary-eyed, grabbed, crying, teary-eyed

Ep. 03: sleeping, shima stood up for him when someone badmouthed him, handcuffed to a writing board(comical), got tripped and fell, tasered, fell into water

Ep. 04: shot at

Ep. 05: none

Ep. 06: slipped and nearly fell over the rails, hurt his hand a lil bit

Ep. 07: fought

Ep. 08: slightly protective of shima, angry, emotional, teary-eyed, crying

Ep. 09: concern for him, scared, angry, held back

Ep. 10: none

Ep. 11: overheard shima talking bad about him(didn't hear the whole truth), felt betrayed, locked up in a room full of drug fumes, passed out, concern for him, threatened to be suffocated while unconscious, is told it's his fault he lost shima, finds shima nearly dead, shima dies in his arms, crying, taunted, shot and killed someone (but never mind all that, it was all a drug-induced nightmare, apparently), unconscious, tied up with tape, headbutted in the face, jumped into the sea

Shima Kazumi

Ep. 01: in a car crash, believes ibuki is about to execute someone, punched him, bandaged arm

Ep. 02: none

Ep. 03: tasered, fell into water

Ep. 04: at gunpoint, covers the barrel of the gun with his hand, presses the gun into his forehead and dares the guy to shoot

Ep. 05: flashbacks

Ep. 06: his past is discussed, death of his previous partner is investigated, waking up from a nightmare, emotional, feeling guilty, emotional, crying

Ep. 07: fought

Ep. 08: grabbed by the front of the shirt

Ep. 09: hurt his arm from being near an explosion

Ep. 10: bandaged arm

Ep. 11: punched in the face by ibuki, grabbed by the front of the shirt, locked up in a room full of drug fumes, passed out, struggling to move, aiming gun at someone, at gunpoint, shot(?), locked in a closet, ibuki finds him bloody and barely conscious, begs ibuki not to kill, dies (but never mind all that, it was all a drug-induced nightmare, apparently), tied up with tape, headbutted in the face, jumped into the sea

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KaiShin and IbSm

I dont know if i have a type when it comes to OTPs but sometimes I get blindsided by myself when i realise that there's always some sort of similarities between some of them

Like, Kaito's wild, friendly yet dangerous personality is remarkably similar to Ibuki. While both Shinichi and Shima are quite blunt with a similar deadpanned snark to them, more so whenever they try to reign in their crazier counterparts

It's just so much fun watching them. Now i want nothing more than to see KaiShin working together even more than they do now. Like having a real partnership alongside their rivalry

I feel like if anyone ever wants to see what KaiShin could be like teaming up as partners, solving crimes with ongoing snark, then I hope you'd give MIU404 a chance because it's just so much fun 🤣

[movielosophy]

me too, Ibuki

[kazumi404]

Caine listening Simple Plan

Original pic from macalda's reye

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12# Chococat

[Sanrio Ito collection] • [Sanrio Ito Tiktok]

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[Day 35] Saturday, February 4, 2012

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I never thought It's possible to see an anime(?) face on a real person

Until i saw him.

[beanieman]

Do you think that the characters in the couch scene (pixel art) have a big significance where they're sitting/standing? I was thinking of that those who were more far away from Sara (Shin and Alice) were the ones who distrusted Sara the most, and the ones who are the nearest are the ones who trust her more, but idk... Thoughts?

I agree with you that the people closest with Sara are the ones nearest to her!

Sara is sitting closest to Joe, Reko, and Gin. I would argue that these three are her most caring allies and have pretty clear intentions about caring for her wellbeing.

The next people she's closest to is Nao, Mishima, Kanna, and Q-Taro. These seem like allies she's close with, but with a certain distance.

Nao is absolutely Sara's ally, but you could argue that Nao has a certain independence from her. She's able to do the Mishima AI plot without Sara, and she's also able to make it far with the sacrifice card.

Mishima is an ally as well, but he died so quickly it's hard to fully count him as one.

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Q-Taro cares about Sara, but his selfishness makes him hold a certain distance from most of the cast until 3A-3B. So he's an ally but it took him a bit to be a fully reliable one.

The same could go for Kanna. She cares about Sara so much, but she has screwed her over a few times while she was working with Shin. So they're close but with some distance.

Kai and Keiji are the a little further then the others. They care about Sara a lot, but they're both secretive people who seem to be wary of fully trusting others. So while they do care deeply about her wellbeing, an argument could be made that there isn't a lot of trust between Sara and Keiji and Sara and Kai. At least not until later in their arcs.

Alice and Shin are farthest from the group. This makes sense as they're loners. Yet they also hold Sara more at arms length then anyone else in the cast. They try to kill her during the second main game and don't trust her for a long time. Shin never learns to fully trust her if you play the logic route.

So I think you could be onto something about the placements! The couch sprites are something I'm really excited to look back on after the final chapter is released because I feel like it's possible that this pixel art has more foreshadowing then we can be aware of right now.

[dilebe06]

MIU 404

L'Unità investigativa mobile (nota come "MIU") del Dipartimento di Polizia Metropolitana di Tokyo tenta di risolvere i casi entro 24 ore. Il detective Shima Kazumi viene selezionato come nuovo membro della MIU. È intelligente, con eccellenti capacità di osservazione e comunicazione. Tuttavia, non si fida delle altre persone. Non riesce a trovare un partner nella MIU e gli viene ordinato di collaborare con l'agente di polizia Ibuki Ai, che lavora in una sottostazione di polizia. Ibuki ha fatto domanda per la MIU, ma ha fallito. È in ottime condizioni fisiche, ma gli manca la conoscenza e l'esperienza come detective. Shima viene a sapere del passato di Ibuki e diventa più nervoso. Alla fine, Shima ha il suo primo incontro con Ibuki. (Fonte: AsianWiki)

MIU 404 si è rivelato essere uno dei migliori drama a sfondo investigativo episodico visto ultimamente.

Ok, di drama investigativi è pieno il mondo. Ed io li adoro: storie che mi permettono di farmi pippe mentali mentre si cerca di entrare nella mente di criminali o si mettono insieme i pezzi di qualche crimine, hanno su di me un fascino morboso.

Discorso che diventa più labile con le serie investigative di tipo episodico. Quelle per capirci, dove c'è una trama orizzontale che pervade l'intera serie e che deve essere risolta mentre ogni episodio presenta vari casi di varia natura tutti risolti alla fine della puntata stessa.

Ho dei problemi con questo genere di serie perché di solito presentano la trama principale nelle prime puntate e poi se ne dimenticano per il resto della serie, salvo ritirarla fuori quando mancano due episodi al finale.

Fortunatamente MIU 404 non è così. E voglio dargliene atto. Il tema principale viene sì presentato all'inizio della serie ma durante lo svolgimento delle puntate viene spesso portato in scena, permettendo allo spettatore di non perdersi tra i vari casi, la trama principale.

E questo è già un punto a favore della serie.

In secondo luogo ho apprezzato che i classici sermoni morali - di cui le serie giapponesi sono spesso piene - siano sì presenti ma non in forma massiccia. Ci sono, ma sono ben calibrati nelle puntate e non danno troppo fastidio.

Ovviamente la serie è piena zeppa di tematiche: dalla fiducia al sessismo, dalla tossicità di internet al tema del perdono fino ad arrivare alle conseguenze della mancata responsabilità. Essendo episodico, MIU404 utilizza le sue puntate per buttare nel calderone tutte queste questioni, in un modo però naturale e sensato.

Altro punto a favore sono i personaggi e le loro recitazioni. Senza andare troppo nello specifico, ho amato tutti i personaggi principali, pieni di luci ed ombre, punti di forza e debolezze. Come i giapponesi sanno ben fare, MIU 404 delinea le psicologie ed i caratteri dei suoi personaggi - secondari compresi - in modo ottimale permettendo di empatizzare per loro, comprenderli e spesso amarli.

Sì Shima, ti amo.

La serie poi presenta dei momenti di comicità pura, tipicamente giapponese - e chi ha visto i drama di Nagase più comici mi capirà - che spesso fanno sorridere ed alleggerire la tensione. Shima e Ibuki sono una coppia meravigliosa ed i loro battibecchi valgono l'intera serie.

Ma anche Jinba e Kokonoe sono stati carini dove al primo non puoi non volergli bene e volerlo abbracciare mentre il secondo, finirai per guardarlo con lo sguardo pieno di orgoglio ed a pretendere grandi cose da lui.

Devo ammettere che la bromance tra questi quattro tizi è quello che più mi è piaciuto: coraggiosi, fedeli, si danno supporto e si guardano allo spalle, si preoccupano uno dell'altro e le loro scene tutti assieme ti faceva venire voglia di passare tutta la serata a guardali anche solo cazzeggiare.

Venendo poi ai cattivi. Se la scoperta di Kozumi come vero villain è stato un bel colpo di scena, la sua storia, cattura, il suo finale, mi ha lasciato più freddina. Naturalmente comprendo perché ha agito così e il suo carattere ma avendolo presentato veramente solo nel finale, si sono giocati la carta dell'approfondimento.

Per esempio, in Strong Girl Namsoon tu sai sin dall'inizio chi è il cattivo. Lo vedi, lo conosci e piano piano cominci a capire sia perché si comporta così, sia come reagirà a certe cose. Perché ormai lo conosci.

Kozumi invece è stato un mistero fino alla fine.

Ma va bene, glielo perdono perché alla fine,per me, i pregi di questa serie superano i difetti.

Nota a margine per le OST che ho trovato bellissime.

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