#kotos photos

[voteforkoto]

A few pages from my zine Lunchmeat !

I am beyond elated to see my zine all stapled and binded together. I loved making this, it was so fun to put this together. Having people buy it is honestly the last goal that I have besides being able to make something and show it, despite how random and unserious it may be named or even look. Learning about all facets of self expression, even the awkward moments or moments of uncertainty. Cheers to anyone who bought one/has looked at this and to the life this zine has beyond its creation.

[postcard-from-the-past]

Malays from Koto Gadang, Sumatra, Indonesia

Dutch vintage postcard

[zangyo]

this is the stuff koto makes kento to take to work for lunch but she puts him in a little kento suit

     SOMETIMES THE FOOD KOTO prepared for him made him not want to eat it. Not due to it being unpleasant or her cooking lacking, but because of how much of her time she put in the presentation. That, and of course, because he loved this particular Sanrio character – had since he had been a teen – quietly, secretly, but they were adored all the same. ❝Koto, you make it hard to…want to eat my lunch when you go through all this effort.❞ But he had to. It would be rude to not do so.

[fashionbooksmilano]

Chic Clicks

Exhibition curator Ulrich Lehmann

Hatje Cantz Publ. , Berlin 2002, 150+140 pages, 23,5x30cm, ISBN 3-7757-1135-X

euro 90,00

email if you want to buy booksinprogressmilano@yahoo.it

Catalogue reads from both directions, with texts in the center of the book, with hundreds of full color photographs by a range of artists including Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Anders Edstrom, Takashi Himma, Richard Prince, Collier Schorr, Cindy Sherman, Larry Sultan, Erwin Wurm, and many others. Published on the occasion of the exhibition held first in Boston from January 23-May 5, 2002, and subsequently at Fotomuseum Winterthur from June 15-August 18, 2002. 

Chic Clicks est la première publication traitant du conflit entre la revendication artistique et la réalité commerciale dans la photographie de mode. 40 photographes de renom présentent des travaux libres et inédits ainsi que des commandes publiées dans des magazines de mode ; cinq essais traitent de la photographie de mode dans sa signification culturelle et sociale.

Chic Clicks présente à la fois des clichés privés et expérimentaux de photographes qui se sont fait un nom avec des photos de mode, et des photos de mode de photographes qui se sont d'abord fait connaître par leur travail artistique et qui, par conséquent, ont reçu des commandes de magazines de mode et d'entreprises.

Les artistes : Fred Aufray, Laetitia Benat, Anuschka Blommers & Niels Schumm, Koto Bolofo, Mark Borthwick, Jean-François Carly, Alex Cayley, Banu Cennetoglu, Donald Christie, Philippe Cometti, Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Corinne Day, Horst Diekgerdes, Anders Edström, Alexei Hay, Takashi Homma, Mikael Jansson, Marcelo Krasilcic, Christophe Kutner, Tom Lingnau et Frank Schumacher, Glen Luchford, Richard Prince, Dmon Prunner, Blaise Reuterswärd, Terry Richardson, Satoshi Saikusa, Jimo Salako, Luis Sanchis, Collier Schorr, Cindy Sherman, David Sims, Antonio Spinoza, Larry Sultan, Iké Udé, Javier Vallhonrat, Jonathan de Villiers, Matthias Vriens, Erwin Wurm

10/06/24

[moongothic]

I was Once Again thinking about that one SBS question and more specifically about how it had been translated, when I accidentally came across this lowres photo of it (on KnowYourMeme of all places lmao)

(It's Vol 90, Page 174)

So the reason I had been wondering about the actual translation of what Oda said here, is because while Viz translated the first sentence of Oda's reply as "I wonder if any of them have been married.", fantranslations have ranged from "The marriage experience, huh." to "I wonder if any of them have been to a wedding."

Needless to say, those are all very different things.

But now that I got access to the original text, I get to read it for myself and check what Oda actually said! So here goes (assuming I'm parsing the lowres jpg correctly)

結婚経験あるんですかねー。子供がいるのかいない��か知りませんが、とりあえず僕の想像でお楽しみください。 Kekkon keiken arun desu ka nee. Kodomo ga iru no ka inai no ka shirimasen ga, toriaezu boku no souzou de otanoshimi kudasai.

Arguably, the most literal (and thus clunky) translation would go something like "I wonder if they do have experience in marriage. I don't know if they have kids or not, but for now please enjoy what I imagined up". So I would say Viz's official translation is indeed the best/most accurate one-- like for the "been to a wedding" version to be an accurate translation then Oda would've had to say something along the lines of 結婚式に行ったことあるのかな (Kekkonshiki ni itta koto aruno ka na), and the "marriage experience, eh" version excludes Oda wondering if any of the three actually have any.

And, yeah, now I know. Fan vs official translations can have very interesting differences to begin with for a variety of reasons (not even getting to when mistranslations happen, which can and does happen to both), but with a series like this with a lot of "Oda said this" and "Oda said that" going around, it is really nice if you can doublecheck things yourself. Now this translation ghost will no longer haunt me!

And I can focus all my neurons on the missing ring instead!

[ravenmoon903]

Bebe hcs for all the pjsk cast

girl this took so long i need practice

l/n

ichika - miku themed nursery

saki - lullabies by tsukasa always <3

honami - hated apple pie until like middle school even when bebe

shiho - annoyed the hell out of shizuku by tapping their mom's koto (the wiki says its a japanese drum so we are going off of that)

mmj!

minori - died from her bad luck and reincarnated into the minori we all know today

haruka - penguin themed toys

airi - ate makeup always

shizuku - the only differences between her and her bebe form is that she looks older, acts a bit more maturely and has friends

vbs

kohane - her parents keep showing everyone she knows her bebe photos

an - is gonna be called taiga's lil girl even when she's thirty

akito - pancake nursery

toya - what childhood

wxs

tsukasa & emu - star themed nurseries

nene - was born with gray streaks in her hair but they faded as she got older

rui - took his mom's clock and dissected it then put it back together at like 2yo

n25

kanade - was born with darker hair and eyes but they got lighter as she got older

mafuyu - ate spicy from the beginning

ena - always said "bye bye baby" to akito when he was a bebe (i did this to my own sibling)

mizuki - sis and mom would make her cute bows

bonus!!

keisuke & shosuke - never smiled.

[hannahleah]

Lily Cole in classic black and white for Vogue Germany, September 2006. Photo by Koto Bolofo

[dangans-ur-ronpas]

Chapter 21.5

im still on hiatus but this was for funsies...a break away from byakuya's pov for a moment hehe

SEE HERE FOR GENERAL WARNINGS AND FIC SUMMARY

Some pre-chapter notes:

this is just like wizard of oz if the wizard was junko enoshima. pay no attention to the girl behind the monitors....

featuring a special surprise guest!! :) (:

@digitaldollsworld (^^)//

Content warning tags: passing mention of surgery and blood

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“I am done.”

The voice behind her is dull and gravelly with lethargy, belonging to someone both young and aged. Junko Enoshima hadn’t heard the door open, but she’s hardly startled - she’d been expecting him, after all - and with a flourish, she leans back from the grid of monitors before her and shoves off the desk to spin her chair, knees tucked up to her chest. One, two, three clockwise spins later - a new record, nice - and she slows to a stop, angled perfectly to face the man before her.

And she smiles, as she notes the blue latex gloves still on his hands, the blood splattered up his arms to the rolled-up sleeves of his white dress shirt. “Aw, thanks Zuzu! You’re a treat,” She winks and blows an exaggerated kiss, to no reaction. Not even a half-raised hand to try and catch it. “Was it hard?”

Izuru Kamakura doesn’t respond at first. He’s wiping off the blood - still shiny and slightly wet - off of his pale arms with a stained handkerchief, his hair swaying like a dark curtain around him. “...Not particularly.” He replies in his usual monotone, as if the whole ordeal had been terribly boring to him. ‘Not particularly’ he said, as if the whole process hadn’t taken several weeks, with multiple surgeries - including one where he had left the operating table with his scrubs still on to find a better donor, because the one she had on hand just happened to not be a very good match. “If that is all, I will leave now.”

“Noo, come on! You just got here,” She complains, childishly, needling, despite knowing full well that he’d been here far longer than he originally intended already. Well, it wasn’t like he had anywhere else to be, and all the action was here anyways.  “Don’t you wanna see how your precious juniors are doing?”

He doesn’t reply, but she knows he does. Otherwise he wouldn’t have bothered turning up in the first place, whether she requested his help or not; they’re just like each other, in that way. Reaching behind her, she grabs a remote, and points it at one of the monitors, and immediately its previous image of the empty second-floor hallway fizzes out, replaced with a replay of the day’s highlights, edited and cut by hers truly.

It opens with a theme song. A lovely little leitmotif that she composed, one for each of her dear classmates, this one full of violin and koto. A quick intro montage of photos they had taken throughout their high school careers, and then-

“No need.” He deadpans, interrupting the opening credits she’d bullied Ryota Mitarai into making. “I know what happened already.”

“Geez, but I made this special for you!” She whines, though there’s no real bite to it. She expected this outcome, so it wasn’t like she made her edits particularly interesting either. “Wish you’d play along a little. Come on.”

Instead of replying, he snaps off his gloves and flicks them and the towel into a nearby trash can without looking. He spins her chair to grab his jacket, pinned between her back and the seat, and tugs it so sharply it actually lifts her up a bit.

“Hey, that’s no way to treat a lady,” She sulks, tucking her skirt back down. “I was keeping it warm for you.”

Her only response is an impassioned glance, as he shakes the garment out with a sharp snap.

She watches him prepare to leave, rolling down his sleeves and smoothing out his shirt, pulling the jacket on with a practiced, mechanical grace. “Is it really that much better, being out there?” She grumbles. Outside was a wasteland, shattered remains, rot and destruction. The few people still alive were either on the edge of death, or insane with despair - either way, they’d fallen into a dull, predictable pattern. Starving, stealing, killing, dying, wailing. So much wailing. How strange it was that even these things became uninteresting after so long.

“They all behaved exactly how I expected.” He says, in an approximation for an explanation. He adjusts his cufflinks, thumb swiping over the polished brass. They’d been shaped like Hope’s Peak’s logo, but countless passing touches had nearly buffed out the enamel inlay - they were little more than tiny mirrors now, if she leaned forward and squinted she could almost see herself in them, check for stuff stuck in her teeth-

“Why did you not confront them after they discovered the AI?”

The question interrupts her train of thought, and she blinks, then grins, utterly delighted. “Why? Did I surprise you?”

He levels her with a look, a dark stare from those bloody, bloodshot eyes. “There are several reasons to possibly explain why you behaved this way.” He continues. “The most simple reason, you were distracted-”

“Nope. Glued to the cameras the whole time.”

“The most predictable reason, you wanted them to think they had a chance.”

“Hmm...mayy-be?” She pulls her legs up to sit criss-crossed in her chair, and rocks side to side, hands resting on her ankles as she thinks. “I mean, there are ten of them left. Would be a shame if they gave up already, right?”

“...And, based on your current interests. You thought it would make for a more interesting development. Especially in regards to Togami.”

She smiles, teeth splitting her face. “Congratulations, a hun-dred points to dear Mister Kamakura,”  She sings in an exaggerated falsetto, and claps her hands in mock applause. “I was thinking about it, but then he and Kyoko went and had that absolutely lovely little heart-to-heart in the hallway…how could I possibly interrupt my dearest friends?”

He doesn’t say anything, but his eyes narrow slightly, the corners of his lips pulling into a thin line. A look that screams - or maybe just mutters, in his case - ‘what the hell are you talking about.’ “He smashed her hand in a door. She belittled him for his blindness.”

“Yeah, and? Don’t you know what foreplay is?” He doesn’t scoff, but the just-audible exhale he lets out is pretty close. “Oh, shush. Like you would know anything,” She sniffs. “But anyways, I definitely wasn’t expecting them to reach this stage already. I thought it’d take a few more years at least!” She lets loose a laugh, a sharp, bright sound that gets swallowed up by the dense, packed-foam soundproofing around them. “Letting them get away with Alter Ego was totally worth the show!”

He doesn’t look like he agrees, but then again, those old Hope’s Peak scientists hadn’t included ‘Ultimate Clear Emotion Conveying’ among his repertoire of talents, so maybe he was jumping for joy on the inside right now. “Togami’s blindness was an unexpected development,” He agrees. “But that is all. He hasn’t demonstrated any behavior that couldn’t be predicted.”

“You were pretty intrigued by him before though, weren’t you?” She’d had her suspicions from the start, when Byakuya’s first day after waking up was spent squinting and fidgeting with his glasses, but he couldn’t be called an Ultimate for nothing. If she didn’t know him as well as she did, she might’ve even been halfway fooled. 

And the best developments were the ones that hadn’t been planned beforehand. Watching him walk away from the A/V room without even playing his motive disc was such a fun twist that had her raising her brows, even as Mukuro had gotten all pissy, after all the work that she had put into capturing that old butler alive. Even better than that was his breakdowns, when Junko watched him fall into a sinking spiral in his room, muttering to himself and pacing before finally passing out. The difference between his usual hoity-toity self and his total helplessness made for an absolutely delectable kind of gap moe.

“I have no interest in him. Rather, the source of his blindness is what intrigues me.” Izuru corrects her bluntly. “It is unclear what might have caused it. He never displayed symptoms of it prior to the game’s beginning.”

And if she had to be really honest, she wasn’t sure either. “Who knows?” She shrugs. “Spontaneous genetic condition? Maybe he’ll wake up tomorrow morning and be totally bald?”

“The Togami family is obsessed with genetics. Sudden cataract development, or anything of that nature, would have weeded out long ago.” He rebuts. His eyes, a deep, ugly, unnatural red that could make Celeste jealous, fix on her for a moment, and then travel up to look at the monitors, pupils shrinking like a cat’s as they dart from screen to shining screen. “Could it have something to do with the memory wipe?”

“No way!” She snaps back to him immediately, almost affronted. “My process is totally perfect. Do you know how many people I tested it on?” Sure, she’d had plenty of lab rats get seizures, comas, go crazy or just straight-up die, but none of them went blind. “If you don’t believe me, you wanna try it yourself?”

Now that was an idea. Maybe if she could induce an artificial amnesia in Izuru, and completely make him forget how he became this way - gosh, but that could be interesting. An Ultimate Hope who didn’t know what his purpose was? Or, better yet, a Hajime Hinata who didn’t know what he really was?

She could almost drool over the idea of it. Seeing the man, the boy in front of her, twisted, despairing, and utterly ruined - how thrilling would that be?

“Do it to yourself.” Izuru replies sullenly, shattering her daydream in an instant, and she pouts. Spoilsport.

They fall into a comfortable sort of quiet for a moment, as Junko turns back to the screens. Without her sister around, she had to take the role of surveillance onto herself, and that was a 24/7 ordeal. But at least it was something to do, she supposed.

Byakuya was making his way to his room from the cafeteria, apparently completely oblivious to how Toko was stalking him from a few meters behind. Hina and Sakura were working off their post-trial grief through vigorous physical activity - swimming, because of course it would be - Celeste was being comforted by Hifumi, and Hiro was chasing after Mondo, who apparently had given up on trying to eat anything and was now meandering aimlessly through the halls, the dead look on his face evident even through some of the grainier footage. Makoto was wandering, probably trying to repair his broken heart by distracting himself with some good old-fashioned adventuring, or maybe Kyoko.

Waaaait a minute. She frowns suddenly, leaning in closer to scan each of the monitors in quick succession, starting from the camera feeds of the third floor, and working down. Wait a damn minute. There was a suspicious lack of pale, skulking figures in her peripherals - just where was her darling detective?

She feels a little thrill of a delicious dread run up her spine. She went through all this trouble to give Kyoko a full wipe - to clean out every last memory that might give the detective a clue to her own identity - and yet here she was, managing to crawl under Junko’s skin like a centipede, a stubborn parasite. There were only so many unsupervised places that Miss Headmaster’s Daughter could be hiding, and Junko couldn’t help the grin spreading across her face; she could always count on Kyoko to make things interesting.

“Hey, Zuzu. You wanna make a bet?” She hums to Izuru. No Kyoko, but Makoto’s pointed cowlick was coming into view on one of the stairway cameras leading into the second floor, soon accompanied by the rest of him. 

“On what?”

“Oh, anything. Which one of them will die next. If one of them will snap and start trying to kill the rest of them…” She rewinds through the camera recordings of the last hour, speeding through the frames until they’re all mere blurs of color and light. Her eyes dart, and spy the pale, round shape of Kyoko’s head, as she walks into the dark entryway of the second-floor boy’s bathroom, not even half-an-hour ago. “If they manage to figure out the details of Togami’s blindness.”

Another bet. Another meaningless wager on top of the hundreds, thousands, millions of other ones that she’s made and won, but this one might actually surprise her for once. She hopes it will.

“How pointless.” He sighs. But despite that, he hasn’t turned to leave yet. And actually, the fact that he responded at all meant that he was, even just a little bit, curious. “What would we wager? We have nothing of value, and nothing we value enough.” “Hmm, true…and it’s not like we care about either of our lives either.” She fast-forwards the cameras, and watches as Makoto looks left and right, nervous eyes casting up and down the hallway, before he enters the second floor boy’s bathroom. She needs to get moving now, if she was going to make sure her darling detective didn’t go and ruin the game too early, and she shoves aside some empty snack wrappers, the pieces of an unfinished puzzle, a book so dog-eared and worn it was on the brink of disintegrating, and Monokuma’s controller to grab the authentic luchador mask that was hanging off the edge of the table. “We got all the time we need to figure that out, after all. So in the meantime, how about you stick around and see how it goes?"

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[yridenergyridenergy]

Tour22-23 PHALARIS BluRay/DVD release on 2024/08/21

The compilation will include the one show in Tour23 Phalaris Vol.II where Kyo had the skull makeup!!

"The 『TOUR22-23 PHALARIS』 is a live footage compilation of the three tours held under the title of the 11th ALBUM 『PHALARIS』. It will include the full uncut version of the following concerts: the July 16th Namba Hatch show from “TOUR22 PHALARIS -Vol.I-” for DISC 1, the May 23rd Zepp Haneda show from “TOUR23 PHALARIS -Vol.II-” for DISC 2 and the December 5th show at Omiya Sonic City・Large Hall from “TOUR23 PHALARIS FINAL -The scent of a peaceful death-” for DISC3. Each of the discs of the First Press Limited Version comes in a digipack with a sleeve case, all in a special package that allows you to store the 3 discs in an one-open-side case.

A 「a knot」 Members Limited Bundle will also be on sale for 『TOUR22-23 PHALARIS』. As exclusive gifts limited to the bundle, it will include the 『TOUR22-23 PHALARIS』 LIVE photo book, an exclusive acrylic stand and a special clear case where you can store the following 5 items: the 3 discs of the First Press Limited Version, the bundle-exclusive live photo book and the 『TOUR23 PHALARIS -Vol.II- 「a knot」 LIMITED 25TH ANNIVERSARY LIVE』, which was released as 「a knot」 limited product in October 2023. The reservation period starts on May 14th (Tue.) at 19:00 JST and will end on June 18th (Tue.) at 23:59 JST.

First Press Limited Version (sleeved digipack in a one-open-side storage case)

3 discs (3 Blu-ray) SFXD-0028～30 ￥17,600 (tax in)

3 discs (3 DVD) SFBD-0080～82 ￥16,500 (tax in)

 

Regular Version

3 discs (Blu-ray) SFXD-0031～33 ￥15,400 (tax in)

 

Track list

DISC1

TOUR22 PHALARIS -Vol.I-

2022.7.16 Namba Hatch

01. Schadenfreude

02. 朧 (Oboro)

03. Phenomenon

04. Unraveling

05. 落ちた事のある空 (Ochita Koto no Aru Sora)

06. The Perfume of Sins

07. mazohyst of decadence

08. 響 (Hibiki)

09. Behind a vacant image

10. Celebrate Empty Howls

11. Values of Madness

12. T.D.F.F.

13. 詩踏み (Utafumi)

14. 愛しさは腐敗につき (ITOSHISA HA FUHAI NITSUKI)

15. 逆上堪能ケロイドミルク (Gyakujou Tannou Keloid Milk)

16. STUCK MAN

17. CLEVER SLEAZOID

18. 人間を被る (Ningen wo Kaburu)

 

DISC2

TOUR23 PHALARIS -Vol.II-

2023.5.23 Zepp Haneda

01. Schadenfreude

02. 13

03. 現、忘我を喰らう (Utsutsu, Bouga wo Kurau)

04. 人間を被る (Ningen wo Kaburu)

05. Devote My Life

06. 盲愛に処す (Mouai ni Shosu)

07. 響 (Hibiki)

08. 鱗 (Uroko)

09. Eddie

10. GRIEF

11. 凱歌、沈黙が眠る頃 (GAIKA, CHINMOKU GA NEMURU KORO)

12. 御伽 (Otogi)

13. The Perfume of Sins

14. DOZING GREEN (Acoustic Ver.)

15. Un deux

16. T.D.F.F.

17. 詩踏み (Utafumi)

18. Revelation of mankind

 

DISC3

TOUR23 PHALARIS FINAL -The scent of a peaceful death-

2023.12.5 Omiya Sonic City・Large Hall

01. 御伽 (Otogi)

02. 咀嚼 (Soshaku)

03. 落ちた事のある空 (Ochita Koto no Aru Sora)

04. 響 (Hibiki)

05. The Perfume of Sins

06. Schadenfreude

07. 朧 (Oboro)

08. The World of Mercy

09. 輪郭 (RINKAKU)

10. 13

11. 盲愛に処す (Mouai ni Shosu)

12. Downfall

13. Eddie

14. REPETITION OF HATRED

15. Rubbish Heap

16. T.D.F.F.

17. カムイ (Kamuy)"

[voteforkoto]

Quick lil zine video ◡̈

Shoutouts to the homie kevin for the beat and my close friend Madison for filming me traipsing around Chinatown on a Friday night.

[l-crimson-l]

I'd love to get into girlpla, I'm just a bit too broke to afford any kits; however, if you'd like to talk about it as a whole, I'd be more than happy to hear.

So…let me try this again. I had a whole nice post written up and I swapped off for a moment to check something and I completely lost the post.

Mecha Musume has a pretty long history that I’m not going to go into but here’s a little video if you’re interested.

Now when most people think of Mecha Musume there’s basically one standout line above them all: Frame Arms Girl.

This line is a bit old now but its popularity has set the aesthetic style for the market as it stands now. The build of these are…ok. Kotobukiya was definitely learning with these kits but they’re still solid at the end of it.

Now if you’re like me you’re not too much a fan of the pantsu out look, and other kits in the line don’t exactly do anything to mitigate that feeling (looking at you Durga I).

The next line Koto would release would be better at this tho. The Megami Device line features all original designs as well as collabs from new and old mecha musume brands alike.

First thing off the bat this is that they’re pricey. At an average cost of $70 you’re basically buying a Bandai MG gunpla. That said, they all typically come with a bunch of option parts. These are usually in the form of unarmored limbs, different chest pieces, face plates (with water slides to make your own) and extra connectors to help with kitbashing. Koto also has released option body segments to let you swap any part of the body you might want to if the right option isn’t available in the box (~$12). It should be noted the newest kits in this line have brought the price down to $50 as well as reengineered the build to add a lot more articulation and pose-ability.

Also in this lines favor is the articulation and build quality. You’re going to get a nice range of motion with or without armor and some of the smaller details also sometimes come pre painted.

That said Kotobukiya is a company that favors more complex character design over an Out Of Box experience so there’s some smaller details that are etched into the kit but unless your paints them won’t be color correct. I would say this is pretty common across most Koto lines.

Both the FAgirls and Megami Device are scaled at 1/12 so Little Armory guns and the whole market of 3rd party accessories will work with these kits.

Next up is Koto’s Sousai Shoujo Teien which is simple girls as plastic models

A little cheaper and at 1/10 scale instead of 1/12. I’ve not built any but I do know they can bash with Megami Device and Hexa Gear lines just fine. If you take a peek at the JP girpla community there’s actually a niche but healthy group dedicated to taking nice photos of their kits dressed up in everyday scenarios.

Finally the newest line of Koto girl kits is the Arcanadea line.

Purely in a fantasy take these are Incredible kits. I’ve only built one (Lumitea) but it was far and away a much better build experience than the FAgirl kits. These are actually designed by a vtuber artist iirc which is why the designs are so different than other Koto kit lines. If you have the cash and want to try something different I would highly recommend.

Now finally we get to Bandai. After learning from their failures with the Hg Build Fighters girls they went back and designed something solid and what got me into mecha musume: 30 Minute Sisters

Right off the bat with an average price of around $30 the barrier to entry is much easier. While not as refined as the Megami Device line, these simple kits cram in a lot for the price. You’ll get an armored and unarmored form, as well as face plates. However the biggest selling point is How Damn Easy they are to bash. Being apart of the 30M line means they’re completely compatible with the 30MM line of mechs. Which also means all of those extra weapon and armor sets transfer over for the most part. And that’s not even talking about the dedicated 30MS option sets like hair parts, body parts, etc.

This is a Very beginner friendly line of kits and the place I would suggest most people starting if they’re looking to get into mecha musume.

This example I think uses about 5 different kits to build and I don’t believe any serious modifications were needed.

Another Bandai line to mention is the Standard Figurise line which you’ll be familiar with if you’ve picked up the Sulletta, Miorine or ChuChu kits. Typically pretty solid kits (uma musume excluded, only get the 30ms version of that one) they usually include characters from a variety of different shows. These are still of course bash-able but not without modification.

With the explosion of popularity with these kits means we have even more companies now joining in the race. ATK and MS General have a bunch of kits to offer and we see new companies pop up some really sick looking kits (see tgat Galahad)

We even have Plamax giving us the really cool looking GODZ ORDER kits and soon character kits from Blue Archive, Konosuba and others.

For these smaller/third party companies I would suggest doing plenty of research before buying one. The ATK kit that I made was Especially frustrating and required a lot of extra work to make parts fit right or to clean them up so they fit at all. Not to mention the extra detail work required to really make them look like the box example. Just do your homework.

I hope this helps!! It’s a growing market so there’s always more kits being announced. This should have covered the majority of kits out there but IMPORTANT! Check sites like AmiAmi for sales or resales on kits. You can sometimes find an unbuilt kit that retails at $70 going for $30.

USAGS will regularly get Koto kits in and new releases but by no means believe them when they say a kit is USAGS exclusive. Remember to check HLJ as well. Let me know if you have any other questions and I’ll do my best to answer them!!

[nothoughtsonlytrance]

Hey everyone! Here is my submission for the Dan and Phil Phasquerade Tumblr Event! First off, as a surprise, I made not one, but TWO songs for the event!

The first one is the main theme song for the event as requested by @wdapteo! 生き甲斐 (Ikigai)! It’s not fully orchestral but I put a bit of strings and horns in there, so I guess it counts lol! I decided to go with a theme that was mainly based around guitars and synths. I also put in a few Asian instruments such as the koto to represent their trips to Japan. The title “Ikigai” is a Japanese concept that refers to one’s sense of purpose or reason to live and is a combination of the words “iki”(to live) and “gai” (reason). This concept can include people such as friends, families, and partners, as well as activities such as one’s hobby or pastime. It basically means that one can find joy in their life by being aligned with their purpose. I thought this concept would be perfect for the phasquerade because Dan and Phil’s ikigai or reason to live is each other. 🥰

As for the background image, I found a picture on Adobe Stock Photos of two masquerade masks that looked PERFECT for Dan and Phil. (The black one is Dan’s and the white one is Phil’s, obviously, lol 😂) Phanartists, feel free to use those masks in ur art! 👌🏻

The second song I made is an orchestral ballroom version of JVKE’s Golden Hour! It took me around two days to do, along with constant listening to the song to get the chords right and then add my own bits on top of it 😂 I’m really proud of this version because lemme tell ya, making orchestral music on Garageband IOS is harder than it looks 😭😅 I still can’t believe how far I’ve gone with making music on this app bc I started using it in 2018 and back then, I had a hard time navigating everything but I slowly worked my way up to where I am now, and tbh I still have far more to go! The background image I used for this is another stock image I found on Pexels that fit the vibe of the song! (Also the two men in the picture looked like Dan and Phil haha 😂)

Anyways, here's a little introduction of me: I’m Kristy, aka @nothoughtsonlytrance. My pronouns are she/they and I am pansexual! (Fun fact, I found out I was pan around the same time that Dan and Phil came out in 2019 lol) I’ve been watching Dan and Phil since around 2012/2013 (so when I was around 12 or 13 years old) because that was the time when I really started watching YouTube and eventually found their channels. I vividly remember watching the Photobooth Challenge video and crying with laughter because it was so hilarious. I continued to look forward to seeing their videos after school and finally got to see them on stage in 2018 for their Interactive Introverts tour when they came to Richmond, VA. (didn’t get VIP tickets for the meet and greet tho so I still have yet to meet them in person 😭🤞) It continues to be one of my favorite memories of them and I remember crying when seeing them on stage. Their videos mean so much to me and I even made my quote for my college graduation cap “Embrace the void and have the courage to exist” because their videos got me through the last two semesters of college!😎👌🏻(Which got noticed by Dan and Phil in their Phan Twitter Memes 2 video!) Words cannot express how proud I am of them, especially after their coming out videos and how they feel more free to be themselves! And I can’t wait to see what the future has in store for them! (And also us haha)

I think the song that will be playing when I take the stage is “Once Upon a December” from the musical Anastasia! It is one of my favorite musicals and I even got to see it in NYC with my family a few years back! Also, as someone who was adopted from Russia, this song really speaks to me personally. I don’t speak Russian fluently, only a few basic words and phrases that my parents taught me that they learned when they were adopting me, (I only speak English) but I’ve been trying to learn the lyrics to the Russian version of the song so I can sing along with it too. (Pronouncing Russian isn’t easy haha)

Anyways, here’s my post for the phasquerade! Hope you all enjoy the music! I had so much fun being a part of this and thank you so much to @serendipnpipity for planning and organizing this!

[fashionbooksmilano]

Vanités

Photographies de mode des XIXe et XXe siècle

coll.Photo Copies

Textes Philippe Dayan, Robert Delpire, Diana Edkins, Mariella Righini et Jean Sagne

CNP, Paris 1993, 148 pages, 28x26cm, photos en n.b et en couleurs, ISBN 2-86 754-085-2

euro 50,00

email if you want to buy booksinprogressmilano@yahoo.it

Publié à l’occasion de l’exposition du 21 octobre 1993 au 7 février 1994 à l’Hôtel Salomon de Rotschild à Paris.

Cet album présente le travail de grands photographes qui ont ont retranscrit les grandes tendances vestimentaires de leur époque à travers leurs photographies : Félix et Paul Nadar, Reutlinger, Edward Steichen, Adolf Gayne de Meyer, George Hoyningen-Huene, Erwin Blumenfeld, Irving Penn, Paolo Roversi, Javier Valhonrat, Nick Knight, Lillian Bassman, Helmut Newton, Sarah Moon, Seeberger Frères, Jacques-Henri Lartigue, Toni Frissell, Louise Dahl-Wolfe, Norman Parkinson, Frank Horvat, Guy Bourdin, Peter Lindbergh, Deborah Turbeville, Koto Bolofo et William Klein ; textes de Philippe Dayan, Robert Delpire, Diana Edkins, Mariella Righini et Jean Sagne, notices de Martine d’Astier, Gabriel Bauret, Christian Caujolle, Robert Delpire, Diana Edkins, Michel Frizot, Philippe Garner et Martin Harrison.

26/10/24

[squidbeans]

@somesecretpie Konnichiwa from the Land of the Rising Soup!

(the photo I took is from an art installation at TeamLab Planets in Koto City, Tokyo, Japan)

Soup is defined as a liquid with solid ingredients, right? I think a pool full of people is basically counts

[konjaku]

荻[Ogi] Miscanthus sacchariflorus

In Akutagawa Ryūnosuke's novel 芋粥[Imogayu](Yam Gruel), there is the following passage. This is the scene where a fox captured by a general 藤原利仁[Fujiwara-no Toshihito] was ordered to deliver a message. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/217513605 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fujiwara_no_Toshihito

抛り出された狐は、なぞへの斜面を、轉げるやうにして、駈け下りると、水の無��河床の石の間を、器用に、ぴよいぴよい、飛び越えて、今度は、向うの斜面へ、勢よく、すぢかひに駈け上つた。駈け上りながら、ふりかへつて見ると、自分を手捕りにした侍の一行は、まだ遠󠄁い傾斜の上に馬を並べて立つてゐる。それが皆、指を揃へた程に、小さく見えた。殊に入日を浴びた、月毛と蘆毛とが、霜を含んだ空󠄁氣の中に、描いたよりもくつきりと、浮󠄁き上つてゐる。 狐は、頭をめぐらすと、又枯薄󠄁の中を、風のやうに走り出した。

[Hōridasareta kitsune wa, nazoe no shamen wo, korogeru yō ni shite, kakeoriruto, mizu no nai kawadoko no ishi no aida wo, kiyō ni, pyoi-pyoi, tobikoete, kondo wa, mukō no shamen e, ikioi yoku, sujikai ni kakeagatta. Kakeagari nagara, furikaette miruto, jibun wo tedori ni shita samurai no ikkō wa, mada tooi keisha no ue ni uma wo narabete tatte iru. Sorega mina, yubi wo soroeta hodo ni, chiisaku mieta. Koto ni irihi wo abita, tsukige to ashige toga, shimo wo fukunda kūki no naka ni, egaita yorimo kukkiri to, ukiagatte iru.]

[Kitsune wa, kashira wo megurasuto, mata karesusuki no naka wo, kaze no yō ni hashiri dashita.]

The fox that was thrown out ran down the diagonally sloped surface as if tumbling, dexterously leaped between the stones at the bottom of a river without water, and this time, ran up the opposite slope diagonally with great force. As running up, it looked back and saw that the group of samurai who had captured it were still standing with their horses lined up on the far slope. All of them appeared to be small about the size of fingers lined up. In particular, the palomino and the gray (horse), bathed in the setting sun, standing out more clearly in the frosty air than depicted.

The fox turned its head and ran like the wind through the withered silver grass again. Source: https://dl.ndl.go.jp/pid/1214737/1/80

Actually, 利根川[Tone-gawa](The Tone River) flows beyond this colony of Ogi in the photo. In the story it says 枯薄󠄁[Karesusuki](Withered silver grass, Susuki), but when I read this, always imagine the scene with Ogi spread out. Ogi is more appropriate for wide open plains and riverbeds than Susuki(M. sinensis). The two are so similar that it is difficult to distinguish, though. And, Akutagawa would not have made such a fine distinction either.

荻の穂や 頭をつかむ 羅生門

[Ogi no ho ya kashira wo tsukamu rashōmon] As I was passing near Rashōmon, the ears of Ogi grabbed my head. By Matsuo Bashō https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rashōmon_no_oni

[beezonia]

Wip again!

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“Wahts thaat?” Ann speaks, muffled from the crepe she was eating but Makoto can still hear her curiosity.

She’s talking about the small wine red diary in her hands. It’s worn out but it had been a good listener when she had used it.

God she can easily remember giggling like a school girl at her flowery language whenever she had something fun to write about.

“My old dairy, from my last year at university.” Is her swift reply.

Her blonde companion lets out a laugh, nearly choking on her crepe, Makoto joins in.

The two of them had been clearing out her old apartment, moving into a new one soon had caused a wave of nostalgia to come over her.

Which had led up to this point and after digging through some of her old photo albums and diaries, Makoto had found the one that meant the most to her.

“Can I look? Or is it too personal and how come you kept a diary?”

The brunette smiles at Ann’s enthusiasm and follows it up with a head shake, it’s her way of saying “go crazy.”

“Ehh, I got bored of studying and decided to write more stuff I guess.”

So she waits, Makoto continues to clean and sort all of her belongings out. Hearing the blonde at the table oh and ahh at certain bits of her 22 year old self’s writing.

“Jeez koto, you really had a lot of fun!” A pause, her friend isn’t making an effort to communicate anymore. “OH MY GOD YOU DATED RYUJI?!” Annnd there it is.

Makoto’s tongue darts out of her mouth, she’s turning around to face Ann with butterflies in her stomach.

“Oh. I forgot it was that year, we’d met up over summer and decided to just keep each other company.”

God how is her voice so calm.

“KEEP EACH OTHER COMPANY?! You never told meeee! I feel betrayed koto.”

Oh god.

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I love you makoann friendship (I love you wingwoman ann)