#kouno jun

[aoki553]

GUYS ASOU DREW AN ILLUSTRATION FOR HIS FRIEND'S WEDDING AND IM JUST GOING INSANE OVER MY GAYS BEING IN THE BACKGROUND AAAAAAAAA

SAIJUN FANS (2 people) WE ARE WINNING

[lu-kario]

cute date idea !! burn down that pizzeria.

[chiisanahoshi]

"Dokuro Ninja Konoha (ドクロニンジャコノハ)" by Kouno Sakura (CV: Kondou Reina) & Yanagi Akane (CV: Fukuyama Jun)

[sai-birthdays]

The Official Certified Ψ Birthdays List™

If there's anything I missed or a character you'd like me to add, let me know!

January:

1.01 - Mineo Nobunaki (Saiki Kusuo No Ψ Nan) 6.01 - Kouno Jun (Our Hero Studies) 8.01 - Tadatsugu Takayuki (Mikami Case Files) 25.01 - Satou Hiroshi (Saiki Kusuo No Ψ Nan)

February:

14.02 - Rifuta Imu* (Saiki Kusuo No Ψ Nan) 22.02 - Saitou Marietta (Kanata Seven Change) 25.02 - Kouno Fukue (Our Hero Studies) 28.02 - Arisu Makino (Saiki Kusuo No Ψ Nan)

*Imu has two different birthdays in the manga and a later released guidebook, so she celebrates twice! The February ones comes from the guidebook, the April Date comes from the manga (likely outdated).

March:

2.03 - Hinoki Nozomi (Our Hero Studies) 3.03 - Kurusu Yayumi (Our Hero Studies) 3.03 - Daigo Domon (Kanata Seven Change) 4.03 - Teruhashi Makoto (Saiki Kusuo No Ψ Nan) 7.03 -Jaga Yokota (Saiki Kusuo No Ψ Nan) 3.10 - Kimura (Our Hero Studies) 24.03 - Saiki Kumi (Saiki Kusuo No Ψ Nan) 25.03 - Saiki Kumagoro (Saiki Kusuo No Ψ Nan)

April:

10.04 - Shinoda Takeru (Saiki Kusuo No Ψ Nan) 12.04 - Takahashi (Saiki Kusuo No Ψ Nan) 12.04 - Koriki No.2 (Saiki Kusuo No Ψ Nan) 13.04 - Imu Rifuta (Saiki Kusuo No Ψ Nan) 15.04 - Mera Chisato (Saiki Kusuo No Ψ Nan) 24.04 - Mikami Aiko (Saiki Kusuo No Ψ Nan)

May:

5.05 - Ikari Keinosuke (Kanata Seven Change) 9.05 - Nendou Riki (Saiki Kusuo No Ψ Nan) 13.05 - Saiki Kuniharu (Saiki Kusuo No Ψ Nan) 14.05 - Saiki Kurumi (Saiki Kusuo No Ψ Nan) 19.05 - Kongou Tsuyoshi (Saiki Kusuo No Ψ Nan) 24.05 - Yoshida (Our Hero Studies)

June:

6.06 - Iridatsu Yuuta (Saiki Kusuo No Ψ Nan) 8.06 - Oono Ishio (Our Hero Studies) 10.06 - Haganeno Ken (Our Hero Studies) 10.06 - Yarizaki Hideo (Our Hero Studies) 11.06 - Yumehara Chiyo (Saiki Kusuo No Ψ Nan) 14.06 - Kouki Sawakita (Saiki Kusuo No Ψ Nan) 16.06 - Saiki Kuusuke (Saiki Kusuo No Ψ Nan) 18.06 - Hairo Kineshi (Saiki Kusuo No Ψ Nan) 19.06 - Zolbe (Saiki Kusuo No Ψ Nan) 27.06 - Nakanishi Kouta / Chouno Uryoku (Saiki Kusuo No Ψ Nan)

July:

7.07 - Kanata Aoki (Kanata Seven Change) 7.07 - Ruchi Shizuru (Kanata Seven Change) 7.07 - Holy Lance Academy Headmaster (Our Hero Studies) 12.07 - Cafe Mami Manager (Saiki Kusuo No Ψ Nan) 29.07 - Nakanishi Shinya (Saiki Kusuo No Ψ Nan)

August:

6.08 - Teruhashi Kokomi (Saiki Kusuo No Ψ Nan) 16.08 - Saiki Kusuo (Saiki Kusuo No Ψ Nan) 24.08 - Shuuji Murata (Saiki Kusuo No Ψ Nan) 28.08 - Suzumiya Hii (Saiki Kusuo No Ψ Nan)

September:

2.09 - Kuboyasu Aren (Saiki Kusuo No Ψ Nan) 5.09 - Akechi Touma (Saiki Kusuo No Ψ Nan) 5.09 - Takeuchi Riki (Saiki Kusuo No Ψ Nan) 7.09 - Aiura Mikoto (Saiki Kusuo No Ψ Nan) 8.09 - Saiko Metori (Saiki Kusuo No Ψ Nan) 10.09 - Toritsuka Reita (Saiki Kusuo No Ψ Nan) 21.09 - Matsuzaki (Saiki Kusuo No Ψ Nan) 23.09 - Soul Shout (Saiki Kusuo No Ψ Nan) 26.09 - Kazuya Ikemi (Saiki Kusuo No Ψ Nan) 29.09 - Kase Hinako (Kanata Seven Change)

October:

3.10 - Kaidou Shun (Saiki Kusuo No Ψ Nan) 10.10 - Tanaka Akio (Kanata Seven Change) 14.10 - Mrs Kaidou (Saiki Kusuo No Ψ Nan) 24.10 - Madouichi Jou (Our Hero Studies) 24.10 - Nendou Midori 25.10 - Mikami Mei (Mikami Case Files)

November:

13.11 - Hitori Shuu (Our Hero Studies) 29.11 - Anpu (Saiki Kusuo No Ψ Nan)

December:

3.12 - Itano Yoriko (Saiki Kusuo No Ψ Nan) 4.12 - Watsuki Madoka (Our Hero Studies) 8.12 - Ibaraki Muchiko (Our Hero Studies) 26.12 - Asou Shuuichi-sensei

[aoki553]

THANK YOU FOR THE PDF!!

a little disclaimer though!! - the guidebook has errors. Asou-sensei wasn't able to write it all himself, so he asked his editors to do some of the work... sadly, that resulted in many characters having their names messed up.

For example: Kouno Jun, the main character of Our Hero Studies, has a different name and birthday in the guidebook, he's mislabeled as just a mob-character called Yoneda Kouji.

I don't know how many errors in total there might be, but please don't take ALL the information from the book as a fact. Take it with a grain of salt :)

Saiki Kusuo no Psi-nan: Character Guide Book THE FULL PDF ------------------------------

To view online: https://online.fliphtml5.com/mbugx/mnpd/

To download: https://fliphtml5.com/api/download/download-file?bookId=58377260&type=1 Transliterations of all of the names from the character profiles are at this link: https://textdoc.co/Byd6PsanXmrf8txK (I tried pasting the list here under a read more, but Tumblr wasn't letting me publish it that way)

This book has character profiles for 254 characters, including birthdays and blood types.

(note: the book is in the usual Japanese right-to-left direction, but I couldn't get the FlipHTML5 PDF viewer linked above to stop splitting the pages if I made it that way. So it's on there left-to-right like a typical western book. It shouldn't affect much; just pretend it was printed that way to begin with) ----------------------------------------

Just a heads up: they weasel out of giving a handful of characters full names. Mrs. Kaidou, Matsuzaki, and others will sadly have to continue to be mysterious...

The book was published August 4th, 2015, before Chapter 159 was released. Notable characters missing: Satō Hiroshi, Suzumiya Hii, Akechi Tōma, Aiura Mikoto

(I tried to stick to ONE romanization system despite the fandom often using different systems at once [for example: Nendo vs Nendou vs Nendō], so if the spellings are "off", that might be why. Or I could have screwed up in some unrelated way. I don't know Japanese very well lmao)

[spirithotline]

so uh whens part 2 releasing 🥲

[hachi-gatsuu]

[kurayamineko]

[aoki553]

Toritsuka Reita, Saiko Metori and Teruhashi Makoto

I also love Shizuru Ruchi, Yumehara Chiyo and Kouno Jun a lot 💞

I simply can't pick one.

Who's your favourite saiki k character?

[nhkamira]

22/7 - Review

Normally Idol animes aren’t that great, but 22/7 is just beautiful, it went beyond my expectations.

22/7 is a japanese idol group multimedia project, the intention of this is to have real idol girls to bring life to the virtual idols, the voice actress for the anime are the one who represent them in real life.

The story begins with the formation of the group, with 8 members. At first you think it would be an average idol drama, with one member not wanting to stay. But later you see things are a little twisted, the company that choose them is managed by “The Wall”, literally a wall that throws metal pieces with the things they have to do. We can see the development of the group during the tasks that the wall gives.

What impacted me the most is how well done this was, like they made it in a way that you get to know each one of them. Each episode is dedicated to show a members past and their reason to join the group. It’s impossible not to like them when you get to see their true feelings and personal thoughts.

Each member is unique, everyone was simply lovely, I will do a small post showing everyone with Miu description of them during the las episode. The story really touched me I just like them so much I started supporting the real project ^^

The animation is beautiful, the style is amazing. I loved everything, the dances during the concerts are by cgi but they won’t bothered you. The music is so so so good! Everything is, of course, their original music, and each episode end with a different song!

My final score is: 9.5/10

[aoki553]

GRGRGRGRG FINALLY AN OPPORTUNITY TO INFODUMP ABT HIM!!! tysm @makifishcake and prepare for a long ramble abt best boy ever (to me) and why saijun is real... let's start with an introduction to a canon crossover character only The Loser (me) cares about! this is gonna get messy in writing near the end cuz its like 3 am for me rn.

Kouno Jun is one of the two protagonists of Asou-sensei's older work, Our Hero Studies and is one of Haganeno Ken's students at Holy Lance Academy (a private school that either exists the same town as Saiki or some neighboring one)

The only translated OHS chapters so far show us who Jun and Haganeno are as characters. Kouno Jun's a generic tsukkomi high school student with normal teenage boy interests and crushes... he's baby and a total boyfail.

Jun likes video games (Kaisou Monogatari, an in-universe franchise), ramen, melon soda and Yayumi - the class rep. Pretty normal dude that's just being constantly bothered by his classmates and the teacher he hates...

...and then there's Haganeno Ken - THE delusional cosplayer hero wannabe teacher with huge interest in roleplaying and RPG video games, who immediately takes a liking to Jun, mainly for his name (his name means shield, while Haganeno's mean sword. you see where i'm going?)

most of the ohs panels will be machine translated cuz i have no strength or motivation to continue my actual translation work ngnhnh one day maybe... 😔

He may look like a generic high school shonen manga protagonist, but it's actually really charming to me how adorable he can be despite the boring presentation lolol HIS CRUSH ON YAYUMI IS SO CUTE UGHNHNH

And yeah of course he shows up in Saiki bc WHY WOULDNT HE???

Asou-sensei put him there twice. In the Christmas chapter where he's walking with a girl (MOST LIKELY YAYUMI), sees Kusuo sitting alone and being like "haha that's so sad to be lonely on christmas lmao"... EXCEPT ITS HILARIOUS CUZ HE DOES THE SAME THING IN HIS OWN MANGA'S CHRISTMAS CHAPTER.

and in the Hero Studies crossover chapter, right at the end as an unused character. (wouldn't make sense to have two tsukkomis there tbh so i get it lolol)

Same thing happens in the anime except Jun in the Christmas episode wasn't animated like he's an actual pre-existing character, except just a background character so he looks different but has the same jacket with his initials so its definitely him.

so here's all his screentime:

his terrible sense of style was referenced by Takeru at one point as well. yes, Jun dresses terrible and he has outfits much worse than this. hes a loser and i love him

okay but what's with the saijun thing? orz

basically its a silly ship me and my lovely sweetest gf (@lu-kario ) came up with and it kinda stuck around. "omg haha what if the two protagonists from different manga dated" but yeah it became an actual thing with thought out scenarios between us.

Me saying it'd be like satousai but Kusuo finds someone "normal" with actual personality would be not giving this ship enough justice. I can't tell much rn cuz I forget 90% of the stuff i make up unless i write it down BUT all i'll say is that

I like to imagine Jun and Kusuo having a calm and nice relationship, lots of quality time spent playing video games or going out to get some ramen together. Kusuo gets to have someone more usual by his side and Jun isn't likely to be bothered by Ken when Kusuo is around (:3).

and yeah, they do get another scene together in volume zero! how lovely! the christmas episode is also one of the reasons i find the ship cool but even despite the sillies having canon scenes and illustrations together i like it simply for fun.

canon crossover ships are cool and epic

my final words: go read ohs its fully in japanese online and 5 chapters are in english so far.

seriously go read it the fandom doesn't exist its really lonely.

and if you care abt our hero studies u can motivate me in the ask box, gimme a kick on the butt so i go and translate this work again after like a year or more of hiatus

[lu-kario]

O_O them....

[animegadaisukiidesu]

[medea10]

My Review of 22/7

How did I get into this anime? Fuck it! I picked a random anime to watch for the winter line-up. Let’s hit it!

22/7 is an idol group for real in Japan with one hell of a fanbase. LET’S GIVE THEM THEIR OWN ANIME!

Okay!

So, eight total strangers are picked by random to become part of an idol group. That’s essentially it! Eight girls who don’t know each other are told to meet some gorilla producer at a zoo and told to drop everything in their lives to become idols. What the literal and actual fuck?!

First of all, the concept of having all of these young girls being eyed and taken to some underground penthouse has Jeffery Epstein AND R. Kelly vibes ALL OVER THIS MESS! Although, I will give this anime some credit that these girls are at least high school age or older (but not by much)!

We’ve got a shy, introvert named Miu. Then there’s the blonde, cutie from America, Sakura. Nicole, the only one with an interest of becoming an idol. Junko, the spunky girl with butt-loads of energy. The no-nonsense and let’s get down to business, Akane. Miyako, the girl with sisterly love. The practical one, Reika. And Ayaka...she’s also in the group! These eight girls make up the group, 22/7 (a group name to this day I’m not sure why it’s called that).

They are then told to obey a wall…

OH FOR FUCK’S SAKE! A wall? Seriously?! A God-damned wall?! These girls and the people promoting 22/7 are to obey plates that are shit out by a wall! I know idol animes are notorious for fucked up storylines, but…I can’t even here! Becoming idols because it’s been your life-long dream like in Idolm@ster, that is fine! Becoming idols in order to save your school from being shut down like in Love Live, that is fine! Becoming idols because an eccentric necromancer brings you back from the dead like in Zombieland Saga, fucking awesome! A wall that must be obeyed when giving decisions on an idol group…what the literal and actual fuck!

Here’s what most episodes are set up like.

1. The Wall gives out an order. 2. One of the girls doesn’t want to do *insert activity here*. 3. Flashbacks play off and on for girl of the day. 4. You must do what The Wall says. 5. I don’t want to. 6. BITCH, DON’T GO AGAINST THE WALL. THE WALL IS GOD!!! 7. Pout, contemplate, and more flashbacks play. 8. Fine, I’ll do it. 9. Play the ending theme!

BETWEEN THE SUB AND THE DUB: This anime is licensed by the good folks at Aniplex (and possibly FUNimation). Crunchyroll added this one month after the initial release. If you’re all wondering why that’s happening to a lot of Crunchyroll-picked animes, yeah keep wondering. Sony has control over Aniplex and FUNimation and as a result Crunchyroll has a delay on several animes (including this one). It’s an inconvenience and just raises the rates of people downloading the episodes illegally. Once again, thanks for nothing, Sony! Give Crunchyroll some credit as they do give people in other countries streaming benefits. FUNimation is primarily U.S.

With that rant off my chest, on with the cast! Now this might just be first episode jitters and all, but a lot of the voices here seemed very bland. And you know it’s gotta be that bad if even I am riffing on the voices…FROM JAPAN! Well, much like many other idol shows like Idolm@ster and Love Live, the voices for the girls are only going to be known for their Idol group work. With the exception of two girls, this is everyone’s first official anime role. Here’s everyone!

*Miu is played by Nagomi Saijou

*Sakura is played by Sally Amaki (known for Betsy on Kaguya-sama)

*Jun is played by Ruri Umino

*Reika is played by Chiharu Hokaze (known for Silvia on Fate/Grand Order)

*Akane is played by Kanae Shirosawa

*Ayaka is played by Reina Miyase

*Miyako is played by Mizuha Kuraoka

*Nicole is played by Mei Hanakawa

FAVORITE CHARACTER: Miu.

Prior to episode 11, it was more of a me connecting with this particular character due to having many introvert connections. But after Nicole’s flashback where Miu beats the crap out of a bully, Miu is best girl.

IDOL TROPES: So let’s see if 22/7 has the usual tropes normally seen in many other idol animes.

* A shy, introvert character (right from second one) * A bitch who thinks she knows all about the idol world (not as bad as Dia, but heavy on the bitch part, yes) * Shotty CGI for the dance scenes (right in the fucking opening) * Bikini episode (check) * One of the girls has a fuck-ton of siblings and is one of the most eccentric of the bunch (oh yeah) *A robotic character or IS A ROBOT (Akane is not a robot, but she’s monotone for like 96% of the series excluding flashbacks)

ENDING: It’s been close to one year since all eight of these girls were chosen for this “project” We’ve already seen back-stories/flashbacks of almost all of the girls (except for Nicole and Miu) and now 22/7 is about to prepare for their one year anniversary as a group. But then the wall gave out an order! And the plate simply read, “Disband”.

Could you be any more cliché?

Maybe it wasn’t obvious for you, but for me I knew that was coming. And no, this wasn’t a joke! There wasn’t smudge on the wall’s platelet. These girls are to disband, lie their way through a press conference explaining the disbandment, all the people a part of this experiment are out of a job, and the girls are to go back to their regular lives before any of this happened.

Can they though?

These girls just spent a whole year being thrust into a position they never expected to be in and leaving their families and future plans behind. These girls are late-teens; they’re trying to prepare for work or college! A lot of them even had to work through a lot of baggage weighing them down (particularly Jun, Akane, and Reika)! Then all of a sudden, the wall shits out an order and says to disband. There was nothing wrong with the higher-ups or the group. Everyone was now enthusiastic about doing everything possible to make 22/7 a household name. But because a fucking wall gave the command to disband, everyone’s gotta drop their shit, lose their income (which some people like Reika, Ayaka, and Miyako could use), and just pull-out of already planned events.

THEN, you make the girls lie their way through a press conference by giving vague answers to the media about the disbandment! In my opinion, the girls could have lied and said there was fall-out at the top and it was out of their hands. I know the girls can’t simply say, “the magical wall told us to disband and we can’t go against the almighty wall”.

Well, we’re about two episodes away from the finale and it’s about time to see the backstories of Miu and Nicole. Believe it or not, these two have a history that goes back a ways (though it seems like Miu doesn’t remember Nicole). Would you believe that Nicole was once a shy introvert with a stuttering complex? Yeah, it’s true. The character who was seen as a bitch from episode one was once a shy, introvert.

It wasn’t until Nicole was pushed to do something against her will and a little help from Miu that she was able to come out of her shell. But enough of the flashback!

It’s now one month since the girls were told to disband. And for one reason or another, all eight of the girls made their way to the old production building. I guess they were all feeling nostalgic for the one year they spent as idols. They have a good cry. And all of a sudden…

The wall spoke?!

The wall pretty much said that this was merely an experiment and when the girls asked to reunite, the wall denied them. So then Miu goes savage on the wall…

Okay, Miu is best girl of this series!

The other girls follow suit and break the wall, making an opening.

Once inside, the girls stumbled upon something quite disturbing. These girls have been tracked, not only throughout their idol careers, but before then too! There were shots of the girls when they were children! What kind of freakshow, One Hour Photo, Truman Show, fucked up shit is this?! This is all sorts of WRONG! How is this fucker not in jail? WHO IS THIS FUCKER?! No, I will not be quiet about this! Everything about this is so fucka wrong I can’t even! Who follows little girls secretly for most of their lives taking pictures of them? Let’s think about that…

*Perverts *Fucking perverts *R. Kelly *Oingo Boingo levels of perversion *State of Florida levels of perversion *Jefferey Epstein

New theory that goes along with old theory! Jefferey Epstein was killed in prison when his neck was snapped because AG Bill Barr sat on it. And before the devil sentences him to a lifetime of misery and woe, he gives him one last chance to atone for his actions. Instead, he stalks little girls in Japan. HOLY SHIT, THIS IS STARTING TO MAKE SENSE!

Medea…the review?!

Oh right!

The girls leave the disturbing room (never to be seen or talked about again) and I guess we’re never gonna get a clue on the identity of our pervert that hides behind a wall. They walk away and end up on a stage. And in the audience, were all their loyal and devoted fans. You see, they happened to gather on what was supposed to be their one year anniversary and their fans held out hope that they would still perform on their anniversary like they promised before the disbandment notice hit.

They performed. I guess 22/7 is back together. I guess we can disobey the wall just this once.

The wall shits out a new platelet saying add 3 more members.

We end seeing those three new girls that we may or may not see again. It depends on whether 22/7 was good enough to warrant a season two.

If the Jeffery Epstein rants weren’t an indicator, I was not fond of this series. Maybe I was just turned off at the concept of eight total strangers being told all of a sudden they’re idols because a fucking wall commanded it. I’m pretty sure it’s because of the storyline involving a wall and having to obey it. The songs were just okay, whenever we got to hear them. Unlike a lot of other idol animes, we really didn’t see a lot of performances from 22/7 outside of the opening and ending themes.

The one thing I was really invested in were surprisingly the flashbacks from all of the girls. A lot of these stories do lay on the drama really thick. But you really wish that everything’s gonna work out in the end. Like you really wish Miyako could see her biological father again or want a happy ending for Akane and her family. But then you get a back-story like Jun’s. Oof, that one was a gut-punch! I’m no fan of this show, but episode 7 is the go-to episode.

Now, I’ll watch 22/7 if it gets a season two. I try not to give up on an anime, no matter how much it annoys me. I like to see things through to the bitter end. But as for recommendations, there are far better idol shows to choose from.

Yes, I see that it’s a stretch to say there are GOOD idol shows. I know the stigma and hate that they get. But I am not one of those people. I thought Idolm@ster was okay. I liked Love Live just fine. UtaPri amuses me (and yes I count it as an idol show). Zombieland Saga, fuck yeah! This, not so much!

But if you want to watch, FUNimation has all 12 episodes available for streaming. And Crunchyroll has…a few as of this date and time. Again I point out that Crunchyroll couldn’t even get streaming rights to this until a full month after it began airing. Thanks again, Sony!

[anoxilium]

22/7 I Can’t Do Anything For You(?)   何もしてあげられない Icons (3/6)

[pkjd]

A 2nd promotion video for the TV anime "Araburu Kisetsu no Otome-domo yo" is now currently streaming. Its broadcast will debut July 5th.

-Synopsis-

“Five girls in the literature club learn to navigate puberty.“

-Staff-

Director: Masahiro Andou, Takuro Tsukada

Screenplay: Mari Okada

Character Design: Kaori Ishii

OP: CHiCO with HoneyWorks

ED: Momo Asakura

Studio: Lay-duce

-Cast-

Kazusa Onodera (CV: Hiyori Kouno)

Niina Sugawara (CV: Chika Anzai)

Momoko Sudou (CV: Momo Asakura)

Hitoha Hongou (CV: Tomoyo Kurosawa)

Rika Sonezaki (CV: Sumire Uesaka)

Izumi (CV: Shimba Tsuchiya)

Jun Fukuyama

Yuuya Hirose

Shunsuke Sakuya

Haruka Tomatsu

Natsuki Hanae

via: araoto-anime.com/