#look amato still have no backstory

[lumidark166]

Me when i watching bbb movie 2

Amato : "Berdikari"

WTF U MEAN BERDIKARI

PLEASE TAKE CARE OF YOUR FUCKING SON THAT ALMOST DYING SEVERAL TIMES???

Seriously Boboiboy need some therapy, like do you see the angst in first movie???

Its so sad god-

What up with malay cartoons when they make the movies so angsty (except upin ipin?, They had like one movie that like old but not that angsty) like Ejen ali movie has so much angst

God i really to catch up with bbbglx season 2 but im too broke and most of the time can't understand malay unless they had a subs in it

[9misorai]

Bbb and miracubugs for the in depth ask

first of all. sorry for the very late replies

then sorry again because I’ll make this a two part answer because it’s really long. the first one is for bbb!

Send me a show/fandom and ill answer -

Top 5 favourite characters: Fang, Fang, Fang, Fang, Fang. Is that valid?

Other characters you like: Boboiboy, Retak’ka, Kaizo, Lahap, Tok Aba, Ejojo

Least favourite characters: Kokoci hehe

Otps: Fang/Happiness

Notps: Fang/Sadness. And every single ship except the canons.

Favourite friendships: THE BOBOIBOY GANG LA WHO ELSE     //SOBS

Favourite family: Tok Aba Family which include Amato. I want to say The Carrot Family but---

Favourite episodes:original series - I forgot the name of the episode but it’s when Boboiboy Api made appearance, such cuties.Galaxy - BEACH. EPISODE. SO WHOLESOME, THOUGH I’M SAD FANG ISN’T THERE, BUT FOR THE FIRST TIME WE WERE SHOWED THEIR  FRIENDSHIPNESS

Favourite season/book/movie: Season 2 of the original

Favourite quotes: “BOBOIBOY PASRAH DENGAN DIRI     SENDIRI” LOOOOL I STILL LAUGH @ THAT SCENE (the one when the gang get shot by the emotion pistol y and bbb becomes melancholic)

Best musical moment: Tim Bubadibako

Moment that made you fangirl/boy the hardest: i......dk? I guess when Fang used his Naga Bayang in the s2 finale

When it really disappointed you: a lot. haha. when Yaya and Ying was nerfed, when Gopal becomes every source of problems, when the     characterizations are inconsistent, Fang only has 1 star in the Joe Ker Tu     episode, etc

Saddest moment: I can’t spoil u about bbbm2 right? Don’t read the strikethrough if you don’t want to be spoiled after solar daun hali taufan was absorbed by Retak’ka, Kokoci forced bbb to save himself but bbb can’t leave his friends and tried to save them so  that Gopal needs to hold him I NEARLY CRIED HHHHHHHH. The non spoiler one probably     when Ochobot dies in bbbtm

Most well done character death: Ochobot

Favourite guest star: .....who?

Favourite cast member: yk ofc for the memes and he’s really friendly too but honestly Thiah’s performance when she plays bbb has always been my favorite

Character you wish was still alive: Retak’ka. It’s still unclear whether he’s alive or not but I still want to see more of him backstory spin off! Backstory spin off! Backstory spin off!

One thing you hope really happens: good characterization

Most shocking twist: Ochobot isn’t the original elemental power sphera

When did you start watching/reading?: around 2013-2014, i don’t exactly remember the date, but I remember it was when I was in     second year of senior high school.

Best animal/creature: is Ochobot a creature??? If not, alien who becomes Kassim’s bestfriend

Favourite location: Planet Junkberg

Trope you wish they would stop using: nerfing the female characters. making bbb the only heroes.

One thing this show/book/film does better than others: NO UNNECESSARY ROMANCE! NO SEXUALIZATION OF THE KIDS!

Funniest moments: Still the “Boboiboy pasrah dengan diri sendiri”

Couple you would like to see: Fang/Happiness

Actor/Actress you want to join the cast: ehhhhhhh idk anything about malaysians actors/actresses

Favourite outfit: I actually like Kaizo’s outfit in bbbm2

Favourite item: ??the power spheras??

Do you own anything related to this show/book/film?: i have the comic of bbbm2 but that’s it, I’m not really into merchandise. I bought the comic because some people said it’s kinda different from the movie and I can see it. Some things better executed in comic form and some things better executed in movie form.

What house/team/group/friendship group/family/race etc would you be in?: I’d rather not---I don’t think I want to--I don’t think I want to be in bbb universe at all

Most boring plotline: Jugglenaut’s arc? I was very excited when Kaizo comes but errr. Kinda boring for me. Nova Prix episode bored me too.

Most laughably bad moment: ……..hh. I still hate that moment when Fang turns completely useless in the Joe Ker Tu episode and only has one star.

Best flashback/flashfoward if  any: strikethrough spoilers! 100 years ago flashback about Retak’ka vs Kasa

Most layered character: Galaxy!Kaizo perhaps?? Boboiboy is pretty layered too but it’s not well-executed, sorry.

Most one dimensional character: Yaya:(

Scariest moment: there’s no scene that made me sca---OH WAIT. During the cetak rompak episode (Copy Paste?? Idk what’s the episode name in English) wait lemme show you

Grossest moment: i don’t know

Best looking male: Amato

Best looking female: Shielda

Who you’re crushing on (if any): nuh-uh

Favourite cast moment: Everytime yk comes to the server tbh

Favourite transportation: OH OH the one in the first movie when they wanted to run from Borara by Ocho’s new power BUT KIKITA SHOT THE POOR LIL SUNSHINE POWER SPHERE :(

Most beautiful scene (scenery/shot wise): the second movie has a lot of beautiful scene. My favorite one, which you also can see in the trailers, is when they’re standing in the rocks. it’s so aesthetacally pleasing. BBBM2 has a lot of beautiful scenery though

Unanswered question/continuity issue/plot error that bugs you: Oh I have a lot and I think I’ve told you some, but I tried to not take this series seriously so it will not bug me that much

Best promo: THE COMIC OF BBBM2 PROMO HAHAHA “water proof………….only when it’s still wrapped” GOT ME SO MUCH

At what point did you fall in love with this show/book: At the first time     watching it actually! I was in a bad mood back then and this show made me     laughed out loud, it’s love at first sight lmao

[zukadiary]

Beside the Foggy Elbe / Estrellas ~ Star Troupe 2019

First show of 2019! My home base in Japan is usually Kansai, but for the first time I’m in Tokyo for a lengthy stay. I saw Elbe/Estrellas twice in the theater plus the senshuuraku live view. Spoilers, because the ending of Elbe was one of my favorite things about it.

Beside the Foggy Elbe [Summary]

I caught Elbe quite late in the run, and most of the feedback I heard from talking to other non-Japanese fans beforehand was fairly negative, but I found it VERY enjoyable. Elbe is one of the most historically famous original Takarazuka works. While I haven’t seen more than clips and photos of the older productions, I was already familiar with much of the soundtrack, and I always love seeing and hearing classic Takarazuka elements live, especially as a relatively young fan coming in late in Takarazuka’s 105 year history. It’s a special kind of fun to be able to sit in the theater and sing along (even if only in my head) to a show I’ve never even seen. The story is most definitely dated, but I love the vintage-ness of it (if anything, I wish they’d pushed the aesthetics even more vintage). And because it’s an old classic, I was able to suspend my disbelief of the unlikely love story in the same way I can with old Hollywood musicals (is it believable that Dale Tremont falls in love with Jerry Travers three seconds after finding out he wasn’t actually Horace? No but I’m here for it). I also love that they don’t get together!! The first time I saw it, I looked at the clock when Margit and Florian began yelling for Karl on the docks, and went sort of wide eyed when I realized there wasn’t TIME for it to end any way other than heartbreak. I think it’s much more interesting that way.

Quick complaints out of the way first: while the show isn’t really hard to follow, I did find both Beni and Airi quite difficult to understand. Beni uses a very loud, slurred voice to play the foul-mouthed Karl, and while it’s in keeping with her character, I couldn’t untangle a lot of her words, even though they weren’t lines I’d find complicated if I read them. Airi put on a shrill voice that I also found difficult to understand. I get that her character is an ingenue to the extreme so it makes sense, but I still feel like she could have landed somewhere between that and her natural voice and been ok. Additionally, there is a parade in the beginning that I think was an UeKumi addition. I didn’t DISLIKE it, and I understand its usefulness because it’s a very top heavy show and the parade gives the secondary players a bit of fun extra spotlight, but it didn’t really fit the look or vibe of the rest of Elbe. 

I do think you need to like Beni and Airi to enjoy this show, because it is so top heavy (if you love them, I think this will be a really great show for you). I especially liked the role of Karl for Beni. Beni’s Karl was an extremely insecure person who disguised his self-doubt in brash mannerisms and generally poor behavior, which made his moments of sincerity very poignant. Since Beni is known more for her comedic roles than her serious ones, and sometimes seems to be questioned by fans re: her ability to be serious, I thought this really suited her in kind of a meta way. She leaned hard into the brashness because that’s more her strength, but for me she also nailed Karl’s vulnerable moments, and that made them sting extra because it felt like it was coming from a real place. I’m also kind of a sucker for the cross-social-class love story trope. Karl’s behavior for the most part is truly unattractive to the point where it can be hard to sympathize with him, but there are several scenes where you can feel his deep discomfort toward being amongst the wealthy, and how traumatized he is about his ex leaving him because he wasn’t rich enough, and Beni makes them hurt sooooo good (shout out to Otoha Minori who had the very small part of Karl’s ex but really helped succinctly convey that backstory in a way that impacted the whole show).

Margit is a hard sell for me because I don’t find her likable as a character, but I think Airi did a great job hitting the necessary notes. For the story to work, Margit has to be unhappy, but also sheltered, spoiled, frivolous, and naive enough to fall in love with someone she met in a bar at first sight just because he was a little nice to her and the polar opposite of the life she’s trying to escape. Airi made it plausible. She also plays the piano for real a couple of times (angrily!) and I was VERY impressed (Coto also does, but she can’t surprise me with unexpected talents anymore). I think Airi’s strength is sexier more mature characters and I hope she gets to flex that muscle in their taidan show, because in that sense Elbe left a lot to be desired.

As much as I think Karl suited Beni, Coto is the one who made me think it wouldn’t have been quite the same if they’d given Elbe to any current lineup other than Hoshigumi. The least believable part of the entire story is that Florian is too good. There are no men who are that good. Even for the not-men of our 夢の世界 it’s a stretch. But I completely believed that Coto was that good. I don’t even know what to say about her... she can do anything and it’s stupid. Muster up heartbreaking sincerity for a truly unrealistic character? Sure. Play the piano flawlessly while speaking? Why not. (And the way she brushed her coattails out of the way before seating herself at the piano bench made me feel A Way).

The newly inserted Tobias was a nice sendoff for Kai. Not quite as delightful and meaty a role as Kiroku, and not as strong of a goodbye present as Sho Fu Kan, but lovely nonetheless. Tobias was not inherently a remarkable character, but he was an excellent blank canvas on which Kai painted herself, making him cool, hot, and everyone’s big brother—all around lovable. Her costumes made NO sense (cowboy hat??) but she wore them so well I loved them all against my better judgment. Stage time dropped off pretty hard after Beni/Airi/Coto, but the scenes with the other sailors were my favorite, and Kai’s involvement in each was prominent enough (and CUTE enough) to make Tobias feel like a juicy role. She gets a lovely bridge solo toward the end, and fittingly leaves the ship crew to get married (to Mizuno Yuri/Karl’s sister), exiting separately in dramatic fashion to everyone else’s tears and well wishes. 

I found myself charmed by the supporting cast—including (especially??) the nameless lurkers of the background—more than usual. Was it the giant food props? Were they just exceptionally silly back there? I don’t know, but unfortunately the recording won’t illuminate them regardless. As for the named support, Mao Yuuki, Seo Yuria, Shidou Ryuu, and Amahana Ema made up the rest of the sailors with lines and stuff, and while there was barely anything for them to do, I (for reasons not entirely known) found Mao and Seo in particular extremely charming. Amato Kanon played a bratty screaming kid, the exact type of role I’d normally find annoying as hell, but she even managed to make HIM charming; she had a lot of very entertaining wordless interactions with some of the bigger players on the outskirts of various scenes while something else was happening in the middle. Mikkii used 5 of her 7 seconds of stage time prowling through the audience, and seeing her angry face advancing head on toward the gaijin seats was indescribably intimidating. The biggest surprise was I fell a little in love with Mizuno Yuri, who, to be fair, did not have to sing OR dance, but who did play a weird lanky adorably awkward country bumpkin with a stupid accent from Karl’s middle-of-nowhere hometown in a way that I for some reason could not stop watching. She, as Tobias’s bride, also bawled her eyes out on raku when the two of them ran off together. 

So far I still think Another World is the crown jewel of Benigumi, but I’d place Elbe second.

Estrellas

Seeing Estrellas was an odd experience because it got the New Year’s NHK broadcast, and I watched THAT before I saw it live—how often do you see a Takarazuka video BEFORE seeing the show live?? It’s my personal favorite Benigumi revue thus far. I fell in love with it pretty instantly, and interestingly I think a big part of that was the NHK cinematography, which combined with the song selection made it feel more like a concert or a FNS-style big televised music program. I found that fresh. It didn’t have QUITE that same vibe live, but still a good impact. I can see it being polarizing though; it’s very pop and not very Takarazuka at times, and I probably like it so much because I happen to personally like the song choices. 

Allowing for the fact that she was still performing very much within her own quirky style, Beni (up until Tokyo raku) seemed very on point to me, which I was glad to see; my last live Hoshigumi experience was Another World/Killer Rouge in Takarazuka toward the beginning of the run last year, and in Killer Rouge especially it seemed like she was being extremely cautious with her movements in a way that made me wonder if she was nursing or avoiding an injury. Every time I saw Estrellas though she danced full force. Airi had more than one sexy number to make up for Margit, most notably an all musumeyaku dance in the finale portion that I feel like I see pretty rarely from Hoshigumi. Beni and Airi’s duet dance was also VERY cute and very them.

Kai again got a lovely sendoff, a big long 3-song progression with perfectly chosen lyrics. The way she drank in the theater on the last day, like she was really trying to burn the image of the audience into her eyes, was SO much. 

Coto is stupid. She paints with her voice and that gets me real bad. There’s a solid handful of siennes in the top tier of vocals in Takarazuka, and while many of them are gorgeous singers, the only two I’ve heard play and emote with their voices the particular way I’m thinking of are Coto and Daimon. Her vocal control while she’s violently dancing is also astounding. She’s stupid.

Senshuuraku was an ordeal! Estrellas opened with Beni doing what I initially thought was some weird attempt at a sexy breathy thing, and then maybe thought she was trying not to cry, till it became abundantly clear that something bigger was wrong. She got hoarser and hoarser till some notes in “Tonight is What it Means to be Young” failed to come out entirely. She used her chuuzume ad lib time to apologize for her voice... sad, because that was the prime slot for cute and touching moments with the retiring actresses, but she was clearly too panicked and struggling to think of that. Then she explained during the curtain call that she broke her voice at the end of Elbe—and it must have been on the VERY last note, because the entirety of Elbe was COMPLETELY fine (I didn’t even notice a weird crack or anything at the end). I didn’t know you could break your voice that badly on one note, but I guess you can. She was very flustered and apologetic—also full on crying—though every curtain call, and while I can’t blame her for feeling remorseful I wish she’d dialed it back after the first couple of apologies and let the retiring actresses have their moment. But considering her state it was pretty remarkable that she powered through, and I hope she has a chance to recover before the next show.

I’ve lived through my share of Takarazuka retirements, including ones that turned a whole troupe’s vibe completely upside down, but somehow Kai’s feels unusually odd (I imagine Miya’s will as well). I think it’s gonna be a downer of a year. 

[hufflepuffmarlenemckinnon]

Ducking Out

An Excerpt from my Novel-Length Fanfic The Dog and the Duckling

Summary: Sirius is assigned to mentor Marlene Mckinnon when she joins The Order of the Phoenix. His perceptions of Hufflepuff house are drastically changed, and so is his life.

Rated Teen mostly for language and innuendo.

So most everyone who follows me will have gathered that I headcanon Marlene as Duck animagus for a lot of the fic I write. I decided to put some of the backstory of that up on Tumblr in case anyone was curious. I’ll keep these blurbs listed in chronological order on my Fic Masterlist.  

Ducking Out of the McKinnon Christmas Party

It was a few hours into the full swing of Christmas festivities before the first hint of thunder rang out from the clouds.

Marlene grabbed his hand and squeezed hard.

Marlene and Sirius happened to be attempting polite conversation with Gwendolyn Babidge (who Sirius thought should definitely say yes to Gawain’s proposal. She’d be hard pressed to find someone more similarly boring.)  and Mr. McKinnon when this happened.

Sirius jumped a little at the squeeze just as Marlene started mumbling out excuses.

“Uh… so.. I needed to show Sirius a thing. Um. We’ll be back later.”

She kept his firmly in hers while she turned on a heel and lead him up the stairs at a run.

Their abrupt exit did not escape notice, nor commentary. Gawain always had something to say. At least on Christmas, with a few drinks in him, his comments were in better humor. He was in a merry mood with the engagement ring burning a hole in his pocket. He didn’t have it in him to be annoyed with Marlene. Still, he had to remark upon the absurdity.

“Well that’s just excessive. Couldn’t they have waited until we finished ‘God Rest Ye, Merry Hippogriffs’?”

“Don’t give our baby sister such a hard time. She’s just 17 and newly in love. I’m sure they just went to find some mistletoe…” Elaine’s defense sounded a bit half hearted.

Marlene, for her part, didn’t stopping to take any of it in. She dragged Sirius into the family’s small library then quickly locked the door behind them. The little vial of difficult-to-brew potion shined caught the light and shined red.

“Well here we go. Good luck my little duck. Don’t get sick. We’ll have to start all over if you do. And half your family probably thinks we came up here for a quickie, so I’d prefer we were at least successful in our ducking out endeavor.”

“Ducking. Out. You’ve been enjoying these duck puns far too much.”

“If I can't make puns about your becoming a duck then there is just no point in living. Bottoms up, little duck!”

She drew her wand to her heart and said the animagus incantation one final time.

“Amato Animo Animato Animagus”

Immediately after uttering the spell, she swallowed down the potion all in one go. Admirable. It was quite disgusting. Sirius knew that well enough.

Then, without incident or injury, there was a duck, standing right where Marlene had been. Where she still was. Except now as a tiny golden-brown juvenile mallard hen.

Sirius knelt down to look at her closely.

“Aw look at you! Your little fuzz feathers are the color of your hair. You did it little duck! In fact you’ve taken to it like… a duck to water.”

He wasn’t sure if a duckling was capable of rolling its eyes. He thought might have imagined it.

“High five?”

He offered out a hand the duck tapped it with one of her little wings.

It took him a concerted effort to maintain his composure. There were several directions his gushing could go. How proud he was of Marlene. That was no small bit of magic and she pulled it off in just a few months! Or he could have just freaked out about how damned cute she was as a little duck and asked to pet her fuzzy feathered head.

But before he could say another word there was a knock at the door. A tiny quack escaped from Marlene’s bill.

Oh Merlin’s bollocks…

“Coming.”

He popped out of the room and shut the door behind him at lightning speed. At least this way the McKinnons would see that he was fully clothed, and know there was no tryst going on in the library.

“Sirius. Hi. Um. Is my sister in there? You should come back. Both of you. You’re already due for a merciless ribbing and I don’t want this to live on in infamy. I know what that’s like. Ask me about how I met Edgar’s mum another day…”

“Uh… thanks Elaine. Yeah. Errr…Marlene was just feeling a little off and we were just talking. Promise it’s nothing untoward.”

He could hear Marlene quacking from behind the door.

Bloody hell be quiet little duck!

“Uh huh. With the door locked. Save it Sirius, I was young once too. Just get back in there. ...wait what’s that noise?”

He faked a cough to cover up Marlene’s quacking.

“I think maybe we’re coming down with something. Really. Marlene was feeling off. I’ll head down but she may ask me to make her excuses. Let me see.”

“Let me talk to her. I’ve got pepper-up in my handbag. She’ll be fine.”

“Uhh… yeah..”

The quacking became frantic. Poor Marlene was probably desperately attempting to get back into human shape but getting too anxious. Sirius thought her quack sounded anxious, if quacks can convey emotion.

“Wait! Elaine. I think that’s actually a great idea. I’ll come down with you and we’ll get that pepper up from your handbag. I’m sure Marlene will be much better for it.”

“Ok… we can do that. You’re… an odd duck Sirius Black.”

He tried and failed to hold in his laugh at Elaine’s unknowing contribution to the evening of duck humor. They headed down the stairs as he tried to formulate a plan.

“Perhaps. But it means a lot that you included me. You’re all so kind. Even if Badgers are Scary.”

An earnest emotional display might distract her from how strangely Sirius was acting. If not he had other diversions he could create.

“Mrs. McKinnon! We were just going to get some pepper up. Marlene was feeling a little off. She’s in the library having a sit. Um… I was just telling Elaine how kind you all were to in-DUCKt me into your family like this.”

Marlene wasn’t even around to groan at his duck puns anymore. Sirius was doing this entirely for his own benefit. He’d made a vow take all opportunities at duck puns and tally it up at the end. Was this wise? It was not. But it was exactly what Sirius Black did.

“Are you ok Sirius? Are you getting ill as well?”

He sweating buckets in addition to acting mad as a hatter. But he felt that as long as they were focusing on him and his strange behavior, it would mean they weren’t likely to go up and find Marlene to have been replaced by a juvenile mallard hen with a propensity towards rolling her little duck eyes.

“You know, I think I am? But my first priority is Marlene. And uh… looks like Elaine found that pepper-up. ...Has anyone told you that you look just like a young Celestina Warbeck? You are stunning, Mrs. McKinnon.”

He’d already knocked over the cauldron as far as acting like a normal human being so he figured that he might as well act ridiculous in a manner that would be both memorable and flattering? Better to tell his girlfriend’s mum she’s a stunner than to tell her that he may have contributed in transfiguring her youngest child into an aquatic bird.

“Did you let Lucan make your punch? Someone should’ve warned you...Poor dear…”

By this point Elaine was back from rummaging through her belongings for the pepper-up potion, which she seemed to have found. Sirius had managed, during that time, to attract the attention of at least half of the people present.

A high pitched quack followed by a terrible clunking noise from upstairs caught his attention. He felt fairly certain that was a sign that Marlene was human shaped again. He hoped she hadn’t hurt herself in the process. Poor little duck.

“Ok then. Now that all our ducks are in a row, I’m gonna bring this up to Marlene! See ya Mrs. McKinnon!”

“I’m going with him. Marlene might’ve drunk some sort of prank of Lucan's, like you said. It can’t be worse than the incident with the poorly brewed veritaserum. She’s probably just embarrassed. I’ll fix her up.”

“Haha...yeah…that’s a clever deDUCKtion… perhaps it was something like that. Clearly it was meant for me… and I should talk to Lucan. I love a good prank. We should be friends. And I’ll need to hear about this veritaserum incident as well, it sounds like a riveting tale.”

Sirius rambled as he lead Elaine and I up the stairs. His mind was full of images of Marlene with every possible configuration of broken bones and some that probably were not possible. If she was hurt it was all his fault. He should have found a way to stay with her…

Elaine was the one to open the door. Marlene seemed to be all in one piece, sitting on the loveseat at the back of the library, with her head in her hands as if she had a slight headache.

“Oh hey. Um. Sorry. I was feeling off and I got really dizzy and I think I knocked my head a bit. But I’m uh… better now? Mostly.”

“Dammit. Lucan needs to stop testing his pranks on family members before he’s got them working properly. It’s one thing if he wants to make you croak like a frog or something, but if it just makes you ill and prone to head injury, that’s no fun for anyone. Though, Sirius has been acting all loopy and that’s been a little bit of fun, perhaps.”

Elaine appeared to really buy this excuse. Lucan would deny it (because it wasn’t actually true) but Sirius silently thanked the stars that he was gifted with a convenient scapegoat for their strange behavior that evening. In addition to the duck puns, which he thought were gift enough. It was really a very lucky Christmas.

“I’m glad someone was having fun. Are you ok Marlene? Really?”

“I’m really ok. Better than ok! I’m fantastic. Let’s go back downstairs. Have I missed God Rest Ye Merry Hippogriffs? I hope we can do it as a round!”

Elaine lead the way out, and waved an arm signaling the young couple to hurry up.

“Merry Christmas. You’re an incredible witch, Marlene. And beautiful. It’s good to see you back in your own body.”

“Am I se-DUCK-tive?”

“How long have you been waiting to use that one?”

She shrugged and smiled her sunbeam smile.

“Happy Christmas.”