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Hosoda Kanata 「 Three Minute Question Challenge 」

Hosoda Kanata 「 Three Minute Question Challenge 」

Rules: There are 50 questions and you need to answer all of it within 3 minutes. The answered questions are written down below and also, I have included the youtube video at the end of this post.

Hosoda Kanata 「 Three Minute Question Challenge 」 START!

Q1. Please tell us your name

Nice to meet you! I'm Hosoda Kanata (細田佳央太／ほそだ　かなた)

Q2. Do you want to be popular?

Uhm. I'm alright

Q3. Sensitive to cold? Sensitive to heat?

I am sensitive to cold (because) I sweat a lot

Q4. If you're an animal, what would you be?

A shark

Q5. Which one do you prefer Marunouchi Line or Ginza Line?

Which do you prefer!? Ehh, Uhm.. It's Marunouchi Line

Q6. A profession that I admired as a kid

A racer

Q7. What moment do you enjoy being with your friends?

Whenever we're chatting or eating

Q8. For breakfast, do you a (prefer) rice ? or bread?

A bread

Q9. Do you have a morning routine?

I don't have!

Q10. Do you have a memory from your graduation ceremony?

I have controlled myself from too much yawning and on the contrary, tears came out

Q11. If you've become invisible, what would you do?

When I board on a crowded train, I'd like to go on the luggage rack.

Q12. Your favorite subject in school?

Uhm... It's history, social studies

Q13. If you lost your smart phone, what would you do?

I'd call my mother using a payphone

Q14. You are a fan of?

Mrs. GREEN APPLE

Q15. What image do you think of when you've heard of nabe (hot pot)?

Winter!

Q16. If you were to compare yourself to a color, what color would you be?

It's color blue

Q17. What would you like to be if you were born again?

Ehhh... Ehhh... Japanese!

Q18. What would you do if you suddenly took a day off today?

Ehhh... (I'd) Sleep!

Q19. If you were to link, would it be with your right hand? Or your left hand?

(My) Right hand

Q20. Do you have anything that you want to (take on as a) challenge?

I have!

Q21. Which is more often consulted?

Uhm... Lots of them do it!

Q22. Who do you respect?

There is!

Q23. What would you do on the last day of the Earth?

Uhm.... (I'd) Sleep!

Q24. A recent news that's on your mind?

Uhm... There is! Why did I just said that? Hmm.. Wait, hmm.. It's a current events, but if I think about it, mostly it's the news about Russia and Ukraine... Uhn...

Q25. Which is better, a mansion or a detached house?

Detached house is better!

Q26. What impressed you recently?

Uhm... Ehh... Uhm... Hmmm... Ah! Ehh... I haven't read Slam Dunk (so, when it) ended at the shooting location, I have received Slam Dunk's full volume set from the staff

Q27. If you could take one thing to a deserted island, what would it be?

Lighter

Q28. What's your favorite nabe (hot pot)?

What's your favorite nabe!? Ehh... It's curry nabe!

Q29. The only thing you can't forgive?

People without manners

Q30. Something you're into?

My boom... I don't have!

Q31. What are you doing on 11:30 at March 31, 2025?

I'm probably eating!

Q32. What do you think of the name BUGYOZ?

It's cute!

Q33. Your impression upon becoming a BUGYOZ member?

I'll do my best!

Q34. Are you a boke (funny man)? Or tsukkomi (straight man)?

(I'm a) Tsukkomi

Q35. Morning type? Daytime type? Night type?

Night type

Q36. What do you like about being human?

You can reason out!

Q37. Your favorite movie?

Kitsutsuki to Ame (The Woodsman and the Rain)

Q38. What kind of person they say you are?

They say I'm solid!

Q39. What did you see in your dream recently?

I didn't see anything!

Q40. Did you feel hazy recently?

Hmmm... I didn't!

Q41. What made you happy?

Ahh!! There's none!

--- Watch full video here:

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[dailykawa]

[windstormwielding]

How did you come up with Kotaro's zanpakuto? (i really love the bird theme of his attacks!) did you go through a lot of changes when coming up with names, abilities, and the general concept?

{ ooc } bUCKLE UP KIDDOS ‘CAUSE IT’S TIME FOR SOME LONG OVERDUE GODDAMNED KŌTA META-

Kōta’s zanpakutō was essentially conceived out of my own love for great big storms and heavy winds – and yes, I have a story to go with that! On one occasion many years ago, I hopped on a bus to visit a friend in town, but I was ill-prepared in that it was about to rain heavily and I had jack shit but a jacket. No raincoat and not even an umbrella. I thought I would make it there on time, buuuuut evidently, I did not. It already started raining and thundering hard by the time I walked out of the bus and had to walk a few blocks by myself.

And honestly, Plouton, looking back? I would not have changed a single little detail that day. Those several minutes I spent outside at the mercy of a live thunderstorm left such a huge impression on me! The incessant rain keeping me tethered to the ground, the sheer volume of deafening thunder cracking so hard and so loudly that the air around me quaked... pair that with times I’ve enjoyed feeling myself at the mercy of heavy winds, or even the smell of the outside after rain falls...

...pretty much all of that served as the biggest source of inspiration behind the wind and storm-oriented zanpakutō, and I wanted Kōta to embody that himself.

Besides, aside from Senna herself in Memories of Nobody, the Gotei 13 lacked a dedicated air-manipulating shinigami barring Kensei’s unique take on the topic with Tachikaze, and we’ve only seen antagonists use this power (Dordoni of the Arrancar within the main story, Kariya if you want to go filler with the Bounts... whom I’ve honestly forgotten about prior to creating Kōta WHOOPS) in the traditional sense. Not to mention, air as an element is SUPER malleable and there’s so much you can do with it if you get creative?? So, given we’ve got some real powerful element-leaning shinigami already with water (lbr Kaien would’ve been a beast had he not been nixed), fire (Yama), snow (Tosh), and electricity (Sasakibe), why not keep adding to the idea?

With that, we’ve got the main concept locked down. Powers and general theme? Check. Bird-like zanpakutō spirit? Check. Defined attacks? ...noooooot quite there yet—in fact, those were a fairly late addition well after the blog reboot. As for what led to it, this never took off since the other mun blipped on an indefinite hiatus, but our thread would have likely turned into a fight thread between our muses and uh...

...yeah, I realized named techniques are kind of an important thing to have, especially when writing within the context of an action-oriented series like Bleach. It wasn’t just about the cool factor, but having a readily available kit for reference (for myself, my writing partners, and folks reading in) was a must, not to mention it helped better define just what his main friggin’ weapon is capable of like those of most of the existing cast. In case a fight thread does come around in the future, it’d be an ideal thing to have ready to go and bring him further up to par with other fighters!

Just like that, I subjected myself to extra homework. Coming up with the moves themselves came to me simply enough, in seeing how air was played with in other media I was familiar with (key ones being Sonic the Hedgehog, The Legend of Zelda, and Avatar: The Last Airbender) and fashioning some of my own spins on top of some original ideas. I knew I wanted to lean hard on the bird motif since his zan spirit is a tengu, and given the wide variety of things the element of air/wind can do, I thought to make full connections between the two by theming each special move after certain species of bird! Creating those moves and naming them were the easy parts.

Naming them, that is, in English. Naming them all in Japanese was, by far, the hardest part. Why? Parce que je ne suis pas japonais, et aussi parce que je ne parle pas la langue, you see. On top of language barriers, the Japanese tongue operates on a whole other set of rules, compared to the Latin/Germanic-based ones I’ve grown used to with English, French, and (at one point) German. I did take some Japanese classes as an elective back in university, but that was only in first year – my own understanding, as a result, was threadbare and surface level at best, so that was not going to get me anywhere. I did not want to half-ass it with romaji and I love Bleach too much to not want to do these ideas justice.

I am a stickler when it comes to detail and canon-compliance, so getting the naming right by abiding to the proper conventions as best as I possibly could became my topmost priority. Google Translate was not going to fly because lord knows it’s no good without proper context between wholly different languages in English and Japanese, and it only gets wilder once you throw Chinese into the mix, given I’m supposed to use kanji. Thus, the name of the game here turned out to be “reverse engineering,” and I had to go in accepting I probably wasn’t going to get it 100% right the first time.

“What rules do zanpakutō names and special attack names follow?” “How do I apply on- or kun-reading in spelling out a group of certain kanji?” “Where are the common denominators in those rules that I can identify?” “Which language conventions have I already picked up from watching god knows how much anime over the years that I can replicate?” “Which set of words best conveys this particular English word that has no direct Japanese translation?” “How does [x] roll off the tongue? Does it sound right and fluid enough, or does it still feel super stilted and weird?” It was a loooooooot of this until I was finally satisfied with each individual end result!

Tl;dr: Jisho.org and Wikipedia were godsends during this whole process. I also want to thank @tigrextoque who gave me some helpful pointers after the fact!

ALSO... the ones on the Battle Info page aren’t even all of the ones I’ve thought about. Because I’m a glutton for punishment apparently, I purposely went and submitted a request for a certain ask meme on an ask meme source blog, JUST so I could play around with more ideas that came or would come to mind. This time, however, it was through the form of COMBINATION ATTACKS (which, by virtue alone, are honestly peak awesomeness). Those that implicated other shinigami got new bird motifs to meld the aesthetics of both muses, while I did get a couple of Quincy ones (with their referenced attacks actually using romaji as a base! Whoo-hoo for saving me the effort!) as a bonus to mix things up!

I’ll link them all right here (and later on the Battle Info page) for your convenience:

Noboru no mai, Shiro Fukurō (騰の舞・白梟, Rising Dance, Snowy Owl), with Rukia Kuchiki

Ahōdori Kyōka: Flying Battery (群烏強化: フライング バッテリー, Albatross Strengthening: Flying Battery) with Bambietta Basterbine

Muragarasu Kyōka: Galvano Volley (群烏強化: ガルヴァノ ボレー, Flock of Crows Strengthening: Galvano Volley), plus upgraded variant Muragarasu Kyōka: Galvano Storm (群烏強化: ガルヴァノ ストーム, Flock of Crows Strengthening: Galvano Storm), with Candice Catnipp

Hagetaka Rinbu (禿鷹輪舞, Vulture Round Dance) with Rangiku Matsumoto

Senkō-fū: Kitsutsuki (穿孔風: 啄木鳥, Drilling Wind: Woodpecker) with Nemu Kurotsuchi

Gyaku-fū Fūsa: Benizuru (逆風封鎖: 紅鶴, Headwind Blockade: Flamingo) with Byakuya Kuchiki

Hikuidori Hinshō (火食鳥 頻傷, Cassowary Frequent Cuts) with Ueno Chie​

Yes, “Flying Battery” was a deliberately written Sonic the Hedgehog reference. No, I will never apologize for that.

...might I reblog that meme again in the future though...?

...probably not right away.

So, uh... Plou, I should probably apologize for giving you a lot more than you likely bargained for, but hey, I just didn’t want to leave any stone unturned! Thank you so much for sending me your three questions, I enjoyed writing these little deep dives into my Bleach OC, and thanks for taking interest in Kōta! I hope all of my responses have been both enlightening and to your satisfaction.

[mrsheo]

May you tell what are you watching in the spring anime season 2020? (I can guess that it was hard to keep up with because of all the distance education and cancellations, but maybe few shows got their chance) btw I am hoping you will pass your exams and I am wishing everything good:)

Of course, I'll gladly answer! c: And thank you very much! ❤️

Here we go:

1. Kakushigoto

Absolutely wholesome, cute, funny and has likeable characters and art style!

2. BNA

I think, I'm a furry now. The designs give me huge nostalgia for Little Witch Academia (studio Trigger, I know) and I love it! Animation, plot, characters, music 10/10.

3. My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom!

At first, I didn't even have faith in this anime. But, oh man, I was wrong. I'm enjoying it very much. (ﾉ´ヮ`)ﾉ*: ･ﾟMC doesn't even bother me with the fact that she can't see that everyone has a crush on her. She just has a more important issue to deal with... not to die!

4. Yesterday wo Utatte

It's so melancholic. It's relaxing but also gives anxiety of how all their relationships will end up. Also, Rou Hayakawa feels relatable (as an artist).

5. Kitsutsuki Tanteidokoro

It has some charm, but I can't say that I'm enjoying it as mush as other shows. Hope I'm not the only one who ships Ishikawa with Kindachi. ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

New seasons:

6. Kaguya-sama: Love Is War (season 2)

I'm watching it with my sister and we end up laughing so hard. Love this show and the animation is stunning. o(>ω<)o

7. Ascendance of a Bookworm (season 2)

I was sold on this anime after Mother's Basement made a video about it. It's interesting to watch an anime about bookmaking (they did woodcut, will we see etching?:))).

8. Fruits Basket (season 2)

I didn't watch the old anime, so I don't have nostalgia for it. As a new viewer, I can say this show is interesting and has more chill atmosphere (even though there is drama, I'm feeling relaxed :')).

Cancelled:

9. Appare Ranman!

I started watching it because of the music in the trailer.

10. Fugou Keiji Balance: Unlimited

You know, that hot millionaire moron of whom you saw fan art everywhere.

[zypherinth]

I am just watching Kitsutsuki Tanteidokoro because Shintaro Asanuma’s voice as Ishikawa is so cute and soothing to listen too, NGL-- HOW IN HEAVENS NAME is this guy the voice for Samatoki of Hypmic as well LOOOL--

[yaoisex]

Spring Anime 2020

My list is very short this season: 

Fugou Keiji: Balance:Unlimited - I’m really excited for this one! It looks great, it has Mamo and I love the characters’ design *__* (I still think what I thought back then, regarding the new seiyuu, but I’ll be rooting for him anyway. Would have still loved it if he was voiced by Hosoyan tho, am I contradicting myself here or .............^_^;)

Kitsutsuki Tanteidokoro - another detective anime! I have many reasons to enjoy this one hehehe. I CAN’T FREAKING WAIT!!! *____* 

Bungou to Alchemist: Shinpan no Haguruma - this cast is a killer, who can say no that THAT?? Also, have you watched the PV? 8 seconds total of seeing 2 of the main characters, and I’m sold. They’re gorgeous!!! 

Argonavis - tbh I’m not following them. I mean, I know who they are and see their stuff all over twitter (I’m only following Morishii out of all of them) but I’m not like, a fan. Yet. I didn’t listen to any of their music or as I said, followed anything they did. Apart from seeing seiyuu photos, I know nothing about them. So I’m waiting for the anime to know more and see if I’m interested I guess...

Given - the movie. O B V I O U S L Y. (I count it as a spring anime movie, because it does comes out then, but it’s not like I’ll be watching it during spring ;_; Just like I wrote Saezuru and Sekaiichi on my Winter list but it’s gonna take time until the movies are available for everyone who is not in Japan to see.)

BNA - the first 3 eps are already out. I wasn’t sure I’d like it but so far I do. The animation/colors remind me a lot of Promare (understandable, since both are by Trigger). I really like Hosoyan’s character. I think I even like him more as a wolf than as a human oops ^^; he’s hot as both versions tho. The girl is annoying at times, but atm I’ll continue watching. 

I might check out - 

Komatta Jiisan - I know, I know, I bet you’re staring at this in shock thinking: “she’s gonna watch THAT??”. Well. I’ll try the first ep. Only because Hino is the main character and I wanna hear him pulling this off. I love his voice SFM. So, I’ll try. Can’t promise I’ll stick with this one tho lol

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雨でも… きっと晴れるさ。

キツツキと雨

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落ち着きはたっぷり、完璧な対称が持ってる映画。やっぱり最初から好きになった。

[zashikionna]

[ogurilove]

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