#konno naoto

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Series: Seikimatsu no Angel

Artist: Erika Kurahashi

Publication: Ribon Magazine (08/2000)

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Undead Unluck #1 - Undead and Unluck

Screenplay: Gakuto Haishima Storyboard: Yuuki Yase Episode Director: Yuuki Yase Chief Animation Director: Hideyuki Morioka Animation Directors: Hideyuki Morioka, Shunichi Ishimoto, Yuu Fukuoka, Yumenosuke Tokuda Key Animators: Kazuhiro Miwa, Hideyuki Morioka, Shiori Tanaka, Kumiko Kawashima, Kyouko Niimura, Naoto Yoshida, Nobuo Takahashi, Hiroyuki Ookaji, Shunichi Ishimoto, Rin Ogawa, Yuuko Dangi, Mahora Muraki, Akio Kitahara, Katsuyuki Tsubouchi, Hirokazu Satou, Yuu Fukuoka, Shingo Fujisaki, Yasuto Hirohara, Rie Oomori, Yukio Okano

Yuuki Yase is possibly one of my favorite directors of all time, and I don't exactly hide this. The Kubikiri Cycle is one of my all-time favorite anime series that has continued to mesmerize and be a part of my life since its airing. Yuuki Yase's direction of that series was simply one of the best I've seen. The very concept of Zaregoto is one that is more driven by dialogue and conceptuality than even Monogatari, I would say. He was able to somehow represent the oddity in Zaregoto in visual form. Not much was happening, but the way things were framed made it uncomfortable, it felt confined even as they were in this large, spacious castle cloaked in ambiguity, the characters themselves were uncanny in a way. Let's just say I was completely charmed. So when I heard that Yuuki Yase was going to direct Undead Unluck, I was very curious, as I had never read the series before, as it never really interested me. I had a feeling I would like it since it's Yuuki Yase directing it, but I never expected it to this extent.

My jaw dropped during the cold open of the episode, all of which was helmed by Taiki Konno, who you may have seen earlier this year in the ending visual for Magical Destroyers which aired this year.

I would love to post every frame of the opener here, but of course, I can't do that. Within a very short timeframe of maybe 2 minutes, you're introduced to this fictional manga series that our main character is reading, all while relating it back to her traumatic past. It's genuinely beautiful and haunting at the same time. The buildup to the explosion of the plane was intense, and when it happened, even though you're barely beginning the episode, there's a sense of catharsis in seeing the tragedy occur. The artstyle throughout was very much Konno's usual style but it felt less constrained and more self fulfilling than any work he has done in previous anime. It felt like a great opportunity for him to showcase himself and that he completely did.

The rest of the episode took a very different turn than the intro but it was still every fun. Close up eyes shot, the use of color and desaturation much like in Fire Force or Kubikiri Cycle is prevalent here and it mixes well in creating intrigue during the introduction of Andy.

The overall production was a lot of fun, and it was superbly well animated. With the key animators' staff being completely stacked, it wasn't surprising. The actual story premise was even more enjoyable than I had anticipated, and I'm going to continue enjoying it. However, I have a feeling that Yuuki Yase is elevating this to a different level that I wouldn't experience than if I just read the manga.

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Kazetsuyo Stage Play (2009) - [ENGSUB] Original Story by: Shion MURA MAIN CAST Masaya KIKAWADA as Haiji Kiyose Masato WADA as Kakeru Kurahara Shinpei TAKAKI as Joji /Jo Jiro Manpei TAKAKI as Jota/Jo Taro Naoto KAJI as Nico-chan/Akihiro Hirata Yoshihiro KASUYA as Yuki/Yukihiko Iwakura Eiji TAKIGAWA as King/Ryohei Sakaguchi Joji SHIBUE as Shindo/Takashi Sugiyama David YANO as Musa Kamara Shinya MATSUMOTO as Ouji/Akane Kashiwazaki SUPPORTING CAST Kao OSAMU as Genichiro Tazaki Narumi KONNO as Hanako Katsuda Hirofumi ARAKI as Kousuke Sakaki Takashi ITO as Kazuma Fujioka

I will have to tl:dr thoughts about this play sometime soon but for now please enjoy and feel free to share yours! Also, I would recommend watching from youtube directly as I have bookmarked the scenes to facilitate time skip, since I get the feeling it will come in handy and besides anything worth doing is worth doing Extra™.  

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Seperti yang kita tahu bahwa tema perjalanan waktu kembali populer setelah anime berjudul Tokyo Revengers mulai tayang. Salah satu daya tarik dari tema tersebut adalah banyaknya plot cabang yang tercipta karena konskuensi dari perjalanan waktu itu sendiri.

Ada yang mengambil konsep paradoks butterfly effect, yaitu perubahan masa lalu akan mempengaruhi masa depan yang sudah ada. Ada juga yang mengambil konsep bahwa perubahan masa lalu hanya akan menciptakan cabang masa depan yang baru tanpa menghilangkan masa depan yang asli.

Penasaran bukan? Cek saja di bawah ini!

1. Doraemon

Berbagai Sumber

Demi merubah masa depan kakek buyutnya yang suram, salah satu cicit keturunan Nobita yang bernama Sewashi pun mengirim robot kucing bernama Doraemon ke masa lalu. Di sinilah, dia berperan untuk membantu Nobita merubah nasib malangnya agar kehidupan garis keturunan keluarga Nobi menjadi lebih baik.

Nah, fokus ceritanya sendiri berfokus pada keseharian Nobita menggunakan alat-alat ajaib. Alih-alih menjadi lebih baik, dia dan teman-temannya justru sering kena sial karena keserakahannya dalam memanfaatkan peralatan Doraemon.

Tapi tentu saja perjalanan ke masa lalu ini bukan hanya dari persepsi Doraemon saja. Selama cerita, Nobita pun pernah beberapa kali merasakan perjalanan ke masa lalu. Bahkan urusan masa lalu ini disorot juga di kisah seperti Stand By Me Doraemon 2.

2. Nobunaga Concerto

Dok. Fuji TV

Apa jadinya jika kamu kembali ke masa lalu untuk bertukar posisi dengan tokoh sejarah? Mungkin hal itu baru terjadi di anime satu ini. Ceritanya sendiri berpusat pada anak muda bernama Saburo yang tiba-tiba terdampar di era Sengoku dan harus menggantikan posisi Nobunaga Oda.

Dan lebih gilanya lagi, ternyata bukan dia seorang yang terdampar di zaman itu. Di situ Saburo juga bertemu dengan sejumlah tokoh sejarah yang ternyata adalah para orang Jepang modern yang juga turut terlempar ke era tersebut.

Baca Juga: Perbandingan 9 Tokoh Tokyo Revengers Versi Live Action dan Animenya

3. Toki o Kakeru Shoujo

Dok. Studio Madhouse

Apa jadinya jika kemampuan melompati waktu malah dipakai buat main-main? Hal itu bisa kalian tanyakan ke Makoto Konno. Kejadian time travel-nya sendiri dimulai saat Konno tak sengaja menekan alat mesin waktu berbentuk bel saat terkunci di dalam laboratorium kimia.

Semenjak sadar bahwa ia bisa kembali ke masa lalu, Konno pun memakainya dengan sesuka hati. Sayangnya, dia tak sadar bahwa kelakuannya justru memicu berbagai kejadian yang di luar dugaan.

4. Erased

Dok. A-1 Pictures

Satoru Fujinuma adalah orang yang sekilas terlihat normal-normal saja. Namun dia punya kemampuan Revival, yang memungkinkan dia mundur sebelum insiden berbahaya untuk mencegah insiden tersebut.

Tapi terjadi sesuatu yang unik ketika ibu Satoru dibunuh. Dia bukan hanya mundur sedikit, dia sekalian mundur ke 18 tahun yang lalu.

Erased pun menyajikan kisah misteri yang menarik di mana Satoru mencoba menangani situasi masa lalu demi mengubah masa depannya sendiri.

5. Occult Academy

Dok. Studio A-1 Pictures

Bayangkan jika akademi tempat kamu menuntut ilmu ternyata adalah biang keladi yang membuat ramalan kiamat menjadi kenyataan.

Hal inilah yang harus diungkap oleh  Fumiaki Uchida. Dia pun harus melompat ke tahun 1999, dari 2012, untuk memecahkan misteri ramalan tersebut dan menghancurkan artefak Kunci Nostradamus untuk mencegah kiamat terjadi.

Fumiaku bekerja sama dengan Maya Kumashiro, gadis yang wajahnya bisa kamu lihat pada gambar di atas.

Akan tetapi, Fumiaki dihadapkan pada dua pilihan dengan konsekuensi yang tak terduga. Apakah tindakan menghancurkan atau membiarkan artefak tersebut akan membawa kedamaian atau justru malah kehancuran yang didapat?

Hal itu mungkin bisa kalian ungkap jika menonton serial ini sampai selesai.

6. Stein Gates

Dok. Studio White Fox

Ceritanya sendiri berpusat pada ilmuwan gila bernama Rintaro Okabe yang mencoba  mengirimkan sebuah pesan mengenai kematian Makisa Kurisu melalui ponselnya ke ponsel Daru yang kebetulan terpasang di microwave ciptaan Rintarou.

Secara mengejutkan, Kurisu malah kembali hidup. Rupanya, microwave ciptaan Rintaro tersebut adalah mesin waktu yang baru bisa mengirimkan benda kecil atau sinyal berupa SMS ke masa lalu. Meskipun demikan, sinyal yang tersampaikan justru mampu mengubah jalur masa lalu dan juga masa kini.

Namun, konsekuensi hasil yang pahit juga seolah turut mengikuti kemanapun Rintaro pergi. Ia dan teman-temannya justru mulai terjebak di serangkaian konspirasi tanpa akhir. Bisakah Rintaro mendapatkan ending yang bahagia?

7. Tokyo Revengers

Dok. Warner Bro's Japan

Suka tema penjelajahan waktu dan juga berandalan Jepang? Semua bisa kamu temukan di anime satu ini. Ceritanya sendiri berkisah tentang pemuda miskin bernama Takemichi Hanagaki yang tak sengaja terlempar ke masa lalu tepat ketika dia terjatuh ke jalur rel di mana kereta akan melintas.

Di situlah, dia sadar bahwa setiap momen kecil di masa lalunya akan mempengaruhi nasib Tachibana Hinata, mantan pacarnya. Gadis itu sendiri sempat tewas karena insiden yang melibatkan Tokyo Manji, geng berandalan yang menjadi korup.

Dengan bantuan Naoto sebagai pemicu kekuatan time leap-nya, Takemichi pun bertekad melakukan hal apapun demi menyelamatkan nasib Hinata dan teman-temannya di masa depan. Bisakah dia melakukannya?

Itulah rekomendasi 7 anime bertema kembali ke masa lalu yang bisa kalian tonton sekarang juga? Apakah kalian ada rekomendasi lain yang tidak ada di daftar ini? Utarakan di kolom komentar, yah!

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ROLEPLAYING HISTORY

The rules are simple! Post ten characters you’d like to role play as, have role played as, and might bring back. Then tag ten people to do the same (if you can’t think of ten characters, just write down however many you can and tag the same amount of people). Aside from that, please repost instead of reblogging!

CURRENTLY PLAYING: (I’ll simply name the two muses here given this is the only real active blog of mine) Shirou Emiya - Fate/ Series Archer Emiya/Nameless - Fate/ Series

WANT TO/WILL BE PLAYING: Frisk and Chara - Undertale (may make a separate blog for these two) Tracer - Overwatch (on multi-muse which is still basically inactive) Naoto Shirogane, Chie Satonaka, Labrys - Persona series (same as Tracer) A RWBY OC I have

HAVE PLAYED: Kirito, Argo, Yuuki Konno - Sword Art Online Rin Hoshizora - Love Live Ruby Rose - RWBY Uzume Tennouboshi - Neptunia series

WILL/WOULD PLAY AGAIN: Honestly all of the above in the have played section (Yuuki and Ruby in particular). There’s still a bit of muse in me for all of them, just not enough to warrant having their own separate blogs. Or to consistently heck the bloody multi-muse, apparently.

TAGGED BY: @mondartmusen TAGGING: Honestly I have no idea who to tag so anyone who’d like to do this can do it.

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First Love (Aruko).

Alternative: 恋ストーリー ; Koi Story ; Love Story

Description : One day, Haruka got confessed by a guy. That guy is none other than Konno, the one who bullies her around when they were kids, and now he's telling her that he liked her since the first time they met. She thought it was unexpected but after proving that Konno was indeed serious, she decided to agree going out with him... for the purpose of cruely and mercilessly dumping him in the end. But as she spends time with him, the more she can't understand her feelings... A one-shot story from Aruko. From Baka-Updates: Haruka Mizuta is shocked when she gets confessed to by Naoto Konno a month after entering high school. He used to bully her in the second grade, but it seems he doesn't remember?! #MangaReddit.com, #ReadFreeMangaOnline Read Free Manga Online at MangaReddit.com: https://mangareddit.com/p/first-love-aruko_1584422479.html

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The following is a detailed overview of the events of Persona X Detective Naoto. If you still have questions after this and you wanna plot in this verse please let me know. 

Starting in the week before her 3rd year the novel opens on Rise and Naoto at a gravure shoot. One Rise roped Naoto into doing with her. It then introduced Touko Aoi, someone Naoto has known for some years and considers her mentor. It is Touko that asks her to take up the case of the dissapearances and Naoto accepts. Upon traveling to Yagokoro Naoto visits the police department there and there meets Sousei, unfortunately due to an experiement gone wrong he goes Berserk and attempts to strangle her. This in turn causes Naoto to awaken to her new persona Amatsu Mikaboshi, a drastic new change as he is a non combative type persona.

Because of this introduction Naoto is rather hesitant to form a partnership with Sousei. On top of their introduction he is rather loud and abrasive which earns him the monicker ‘simple minded- san’ from her. But non the less they are preasured into their partnership and so they get to work. Yagokoro for Naoto is a huge shift from Yasogami high. Pretty much all the students know her upon arrival as there is some ‘detective prince craze’ on the internet. Which opens all the students up to her questioning but it also makes them extremely curious to her.

The case takes a turn for the worse when the body of Miyuki Midorikawa is found. This in turn leads Naoto to discover that she was on of the 5 administrators of the Midnight site. With the second missing student as another likely candidate for one of the remaining four. Allarming messages are found that someone is out to murder all 5 of the administrators. And thus the chase is on to discover the identities of the administrators, who all go by codenames, before the killer can find them.

Luck was on their side as they gained access to the midnight site. One of the administrators was prepared to meet with them though he had some ridiculous demands before doing so. Most specifically that he wanted to be put into contact with the police through a young woman on Sunday at the foodcourt of the local Junes. More then that he wanted to see this young woman there the previous 3 days. It was Touko who forced Naoto to take up this under cover part. Forcing her to wear a seifku in a truly uncomfortable effort to get someone to safety. Even though they succeeded in bringing him in, and even though he eventually gave them more access to other parts of the website they were unable to keep him safe. While in police custody he to was murdered. And they were not yet closer to the identities of the 3 remaining administrators. It was by sheer luck that they found the next one.

Shirou Konno the second missing student, presumed to be one of the final administrators. He was holding a fellow student hostage on the roof. In a hostage exchange Naoto offered herself in return for Takizawa, someone she had previously met and talked though. However not soon after the exchange Shirou was shot by no other then Touko herself. It was this that set Naoto to thinking and becomging suspicious of her mentor. When she faced her Naoto explained her reasoning. Reasoning she hadn’t shared with her partner Sousei that she believed that Touko might be the murderer. Touko admitted to it freely, having forseen the future with her own persona, she knew she would escape there. Sousei reacted less then positive, feeling angry at Naoto for hiding her suspicions. In hindsight Naoto agreed that it was not the right thing to do on her part. And so Touko got away, free to pursue the last of the administrators. Sousei dissolved their partnership right then and there. And though Naoto set the rest of the police department to work, filling them in on her findings, she was shellshocked to say the least. It was only by the next day that she and Sousei set aside their differences, temporarily, and pushed forward to find Touko. Returning to the place where the first body was found she and Soesei used their personalities to disccern Touko’s motive and eventually they found her there as well. Waiting for them both with the final administrator, a middle schooler by the name of Tohru Momochi. And a time bomb. It was Touko who had given her the ‘homework’ of uncovering her motive. And Naoto had done so and explained in full what Touko already knew. Realising upon explenation that it had been Touko’s intention all along, from the start this was what she had planned. It seemed that Touko rather then being taken in by the police had other plans. She activated the time bomb. She and Sousei had ten minutes to leave the premise or risk being caught in the blast and destruction of the bomb. With Tohru as her hostage there wasn’t a way to directly clear Touko herself either as she was still armed and had used her persona to look into the future. Only seeing what her own desired outcome would be. There was one thing however that Touko hadn’t forseen. And that was the simple fact that neither she herself nor Sousei would be readily leave the scene. Talking Touko down was not an easy feat. Neither was realizing that the entire set up hadn’t just been a call for herself and Sousei to hear Touko’s last words. But also that from the start, from before Touko had even put in the call to involve her, it had been a cry for help. But with less then 5 minutes on the clock there was only so much that they could do. Sousei could carry Tohru without any problem but Touko was tied to the bomb. The only sollution was to defuse it all together. Sousei strongly dissagreed but went along with it anyway. This left her with four minutes on the clock and Touko who was trying to convince her to give up on this line of thinking and just save herself. An unacceptable sollution in Naoto’s eyes. She had a wire dilema to face, much like in the hollywood movies only cutting the wires in a specific sequence would defuse the bomb. She needed Touko’s cooperation for that, and to be frank. She placed herself in a second hostage situation to gain it. Touko did not want her to die, and then her own life was what she’d use to gain the coopration she needed.

Touko explained the bomb and how it was set up to her. Cutting ten wires in the correct order was to much to leave up to chance. This would be almost impossible if it weren’t for the combined powers of their persona’s as well as the asistance of Sousei, who had also returned to their aid after bringing Tohru into relative safety. They cut the wires in order,  a race against the clock. But it was her own deductive reason that stopped the bomb with a mere second to the timer. The police came and took Touka into custody after that. It was a bitter sweet feeling if anything. Sure more loss of life had been prevented. But the mentor she had looked up to for years now was also a murderer. Naoto promised that she would be waiting for Touko at the end of this. And that was not a promise she made lightly.