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Hero Day broadcast with Daiki Yamashita (Deku VA), Nobuhiko Okamoto (Bakugou VA), Kosuke Kuwano( Aoyama VA), Composer Yuki Hayashi, and Kengo Moji from the Jump editorial department.

Fans were encouraged to send in questions in advance, including to Horikoshi. I'm excited to hear it!

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Summary by Shibuyasmash on Twitter

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BLCD Review: Ikigami & Donor

Title: Ikigami to Donor (イキガミとドナー)

Author/Artist: Yamanaka Hiko

Shop: CD + Manga

Release Date: 2021/12/03

Cast: 

Nakajima Yoshiki x Saitou Souma

Yamashita Seiichirou + Kawanishi Kengo

Kobayashi Chiaki

Yashiro Taku

Komada Wataru

Hayashi Miho

Shiozaki Tomohiro

Higa Ryosuke

Abe Ryouma

Torashima Takaaki

Oota Kensuke

Nakashima Takuya

Fujita Mami

Miyama Mari

Souya Kazuki

Synopsis: 

"Your blood and flesh, all of it is mine." An ikigami and a healer, together their souls support each other, blooming into love...

In the distant future, ordinary teacher Yoshino learns that he is a "donor" for the strongest species, the "ikigami." These warriors are tasked with protecting the country. "The unique ability of a donor is to use their bodily fluids to heal ikigami." Yoshino learns this fact and is shocked. Thus, Yoshino is forced to live with Kidou... At first, he is like a beast, demanding Yoshino's bodily fluids, but slowly, the underlying loneliness begins to show...

"Someday, if I met a donor, could they come to love me? That thought is the only reason I survived..."

Review Proper

I can’t believe Yamanaka Hiko’s been terrorizing me for over twelve years now. OH MY GOD I’M SO OLD. And true to the Yamanaka Hiko brand, this turned out to be another fantasy masterpiece (read His 500 Years of Suffering Romance). This was definitely the type of thing that would do great even without the BL aspect of it. Now, I did have an issue with Kidou being an asshole (he's almost killed Yoshino more than once), so I’m not excusing it. But I do get how and why he turned out to be like that and I'm aware that it's important for his character development. The world-building was great, don't get me wrong, but it's definitely dubcon 2015. I would strongly advise you not to get into it if that's a deal breaker for you.

Anyway, onto the voice work.

Souma used a tone so close to Gucci's that I kept imagining Gucci being Yoshino. Yes, I didn't read the manga while listening to the BLCD. It was like after graduating Karasuno, Gucci went on to become a teacher, then a donor lmao. His Yoshino panics more like Honda-san, however, so my final verdict is that his Yoshino is half-Gucci, half-Honda-san.

This isn't Nakajiki and Souma's first rodeo, but I'm glad to say that their performance/dynamic here is different from Mikeneko and XL Size. I expected Kidou to be a mix of Amano and Anaconbayashi-kun 'cause the former was cocky and the latter was stoic, but Kidou was only 50% of that mix and 50% brooding, suffering, I'll-protect-you top. Am I even making any sense? Again, I listened to the BLCD first, but the sound direction they gave Nakajiki was very different from what I thought he'd sound like after I read the manga. It’s almost like what happened with OnoD’s expressive Hasebe-kun in the Kotonoha BLCD vs the more stoic Hasebe-kun in the manga. 

The voice work of our two leads was 👌. This might just be my fave out of their pairings 'cause the sex isn't over-the-top like XL Size and Mikeneko. I will say that I wasn't completely sold on Yamashita Seiichirou as Shibata-san 'cause I feel like he speaks too slowly, but I'm sure it'll grow on me by the time I listen to their spin-off. KawaKen was fine. My heart broke for him every time Shibata-san rejected him, so it's safe to say he's got Taki-kun down already.

Oh. I did have a slight issue with the sfx too. Why was it so watery??? Lmao. Even r18 otome cds aren't that wet. But it's not so glaring that it'll turn you off.

The BLCD was almost perfectly accurate to the manga. I highly recommend this to those learning mid to higher levels of Japanese. Futekiya has licensed volumes 1 & 2, so please try to support the official release if you can. I'd be lying if I said that I agree with how they translated it so... literally?, but I think it's also important to see how things are translated that way if you're aiming to dip your toes into translation aside from studying the language. For example, they used "Living God" throughout the manga instead of "Ikigami." It's correctly translated, but I personally prefer retaining the original title. You know, like how Viz uses "Kaiju no. 8" instead of "Monster no. 8?"

God knows if I'll ever survive the spinoff that I wanted to work on. I avoided talking about it for a reason lmao. Anyway, if y'all liked this, then please give 500 Years (Ono Yuuki x Suzuki Tatsuhisa) and Shortcake no Ichigo Sawaranaide (Nojima Hirofumi x Takeuchi Ken). These two are android bls and Ikigami to Donor is more guide bl, but they both share a futuristic vibe.

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7, 8, 19?

7. What element would your OC be?

I'm thinking perhaps maybe ice or water. She's a very relaxed person so she of course is always chilled out and goes with the flow so both of those make sense for her. (Puns def intended)

Maybe plants too? Not earth, just plants. Green being her main color + her food and the flowers could be her artistry.

And of course moon if we're going full on "almost anything can be an element" haha.

8. What is your OC’s theme song?

Miracle Moon ~The Moon is a Relay Station~

Been her image song for years and years and it's still perfect for her~

19. What kind of music do they listen to? Do they have a favorite song?

Mika mostly listens to video game music, futurefunk, city pop and vaporwave and keeps bouncing between the four on certain days.

Some days you wanna listen to a bunch of night time themed VGM but other days you just wanna jam out to Tatsuro Yamashita's "For You" album you know?

As for her favorite song... it changes constantly you know. There's so much good music out there.

But for recent favorite's she's been grooving to Moon Magic by Issei Okamoto and Juggler by Kengo Kurozumi a lot~

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Friendship is so comforting, sometimes more than marriage

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THE BACKSTAGE BOYS NEED MORE LOVE!!!

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🍛~Happy Birthday, Kantoku! - From Autumn and Winter Troupes' Ensemble Cast~🍛

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Birthday wishes from Autumn and Winter Ensemble Cast - 2021

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A3! Ensemble Cast Flower Motifs because liber are a bunch of cowards and won't give them any (3/4)

Autumn Ensemble

Ichiro Makita: iris

flower meaning - wisdom, hope, trust, valor

Kengo Kitagami: snapdragon

flower meaning - grace, strength, deception

Julian Yamashita: aster

flower meaning - patience, love of variety, elegance, afterthought

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Blue Period TV Anime Adaptation Slated for October - Visual, Cast, Staff & PV Revealed

https://wp.me/p4jiOt-cEN

The official website of the TV anime adaptation of Tsubasa Yamaguchi’s Blue Period manga has revealed that the upcoming series…

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Radical parenting (2)

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Episode on Itou Junji, subtitles

Naoki Urasawa’s Manben

If you haven’t watched Naoki Urasawa’s Manben Go watch it now!..well if you are into manga or comics and want to see the process, tools and lives of famous Japanese manga creators in a documentary style program exploring all that then you’ll surely like Manben!

The series is hosted by Naoki Urasawa who is the mastermind behind a body of work that includes masterpieces like : 20th Century Boys, Monster, Pluto, Billy Bat and more. I’m a huge fan if you haven’t noticed, however, it’s not just about him..it’s got so many different flavors and inputs and I really enjoyed it and learnt (learning still) a lot from it.

I recommend that you looks it up and watch it if you like what you read.. and I’ll put links to what I found on the interwebs .so if it doesn’t work or if it violates any rights please let me know and I’ll fix it/remove it. (it’s still ongoing so there will be more in the future..like this month of September!..and I don’t want it to stop! :D)  But first..some pictures:

Second, comes the English subbed episodes that I found that I’m not sure about sharing them..let me know if there is other sources that should be here instead or where to buy them..etc Urasawa Naoki Manben S0E0 - Kawaguchi Kaiji & Yamashita Kazumi 

Urasawa Naoki  S1E1 2015 - Higashimura Akiko 

Urasawa Naoki  S1E2 2015 - Fujita Kazuhiro

Urasawa Naoki  S1E3 2015 - Asano Inio

Urasawa Naoki  S1E4 2015 - Saito Takao

Urasawa Naoki  S2E1 2016 - Hagio Moto

Urasawa Naoki  S2E2 2016 - Hanazawa Kengo

Urasawa Naoki  S2E3 2016 - Igarashi Daisuke

..I believe season 3 is on through September still..Enjoy!

(I will update this post with new episodes if I ever find them online in the future!)

[byeone]

'Shoji, you were my friend. Thank you, I really appreciate it.'

amidst the eccentricity and oddity of the relationship, there had been that spark of genuine moments, expressed in a way only he knew how. in the strangest of long days, shoji had been a companion that evaporated the invisible cloak of loneliness he'd forgotten he was wearing, and had worn for years on end. perhaps, it was truly the first time, he properly understood a semblance of a friend in shoji, albeit being a tad too late.

The Drudgery Train (2012)

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Nothing good will happen for the rest of your life.

the drudgery train | directed by nobuhiro yamashita

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Aristocrats (2021) would be screened on February 14-27, 2022 on Japanese Film Festival Online on 25 different countries along with other selected films. More details on: https://twitter.com/jffplus/status/1481592426905358342?s=20

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Animeanime.jp released a ranking of ‘The most popular male Seiyuu 2017′

Part 1 here

Original website here