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[ashitakaxsan]

Happy Anniversary, "Angel Beats!":)

On April 3, 2010 the airing of the original anime series "Angel Beats!"🎉Can we believe it's been 14 years since this emotional rollercoaster first aired?

Below:Yuzuri as he hugs Kanade

Through its blend of comedy, tragedy, and supernatural elements, Angel Beats touched on themes of life, death, friendship, and redemption in ways that still resonate with us today. Let's celebrate the unforgettable characters, thought-provoking storylines, and the powerful messages that continue to inspire us. Here's to Yuri, Otonashi, Kanade, and the rest of the SSS - thank you for the memories! 💫

Below: Our Great Yuri(with the magenta hair)and Kanade

Cheers to: The Creator Maeda Jun, Director Kishi Seiji, Producers Horikawa Kenji, Maruyama Hiro, Toba Yōsuke

[rockbellart]

[ecargmura]

Oshi No Ko Episode 17 Review - Melt's Redemption

This is the power of anime adaptations if given in the right hands. Doga Kobo really took their time and effort to creating an episode that gives both Melt a redemption arc and their studio into the limelight for that spectacular episode. I was so hooked and even shed some tears to see Melt finally getting that redemption he needed. You can say that I melted into the moment too.

Melt’s whole moment is for him to get people to see that he isn’t all looks and that he can take acting seriously! Before he got into acting, Melt was a bit of a conceited guy who knew he was hot and popular, but meeting Aqua and performing in Sweet Today gave him that reality check. It’s not just a battle within himself, but a battle against Sakuya and Yoriko, the two people who underestimated him the most. What I liked is that ever since the Sweet Today arc, Melt has been realizing that acting is serious business and that just because he’s all looks won’t get him anywhere and he won’t survive in the industry. That’s why he worked so hard. Even if he’s not as experienced as the others, he can still have his moment to shine—to have something to engrave into people’s minds. He gains Sakuya and Yoriko’s respect fully and Aqua is proud of him, giving him a genuine smile that he rarely gives others!

What I like is that he’s taking things seriously by taking in his surroundings. He’s listening to Aqua’s advice. He’s listening to his acting instructor’s words on gaining stamina. He was listening to Akane wondering about other characters and this caused him to try and understand his stage play character. He can’t take in everything and expect an instant level up, but he’s doing what he can with his capabilities and it paid off positively. Look at him now compared to his performance in Sweet Today. His line delivery became so good. He’s no longer that cringy actor from the past. Props to his voice actor Seiji Maeda for going above and beyond for this performance too! I am expecting his voice actor to get an influx of roles going forth after putting on that brilliant performance.

It’s not only Melt too, but everyone in this episode showed off their acting from what was shown in the episode and from the voice acting too! Koki Uchiyama shows off that he doesn’t always voice stoic emo boys and can do hot blooded perfectly well. Megumi Han shows off how versatile she is as a voice actress and it applies to Kana too! Yusuke Kobayashi also shows off how different he can sound when Sakuya is acting and his normal self. I feel like this episode was just a harmonious combination of well-animated scenes and well-voiced characters. This is why animation studios and voice actors are so important to elevate a manga adaptation. They’re the ones promoting this story hence why the audience has to be hooked and if things go well, those who basked in that spotlight will get lauded!

I wasn’t the only one who was crying. Mengo, who does the manga art for Oshi no Ko, revealed that they were crying as well! It was clearly a moving episode and it makes me wonder what will Doga Kobo animate for their future works. Were you moved by this episode as I was?

[aihoshiino]

Episode 3 Rewatch: "Manga Based TV Drama"

YEAH WE'RE BACK ON THESE AGAIN!!! As much fun as the liveblog format was, I found it was actually getting in the way of me *doing* the liveblog (it could take multiple hours for me to watch and queue up One Single Episode) so I've decided to return to a format a bit more like my chapter reviews just in the desperate hopes of getting these actually done before season 2 airs. In the immortal words of Brian H oobh i got plany off time. But let's get to it real quick anyway!!!

I have a really soft spot in my heart for episode 3 in particular because it was the first episode I actually anticipated watching after I got into the show - episodes 1 & 2 were already out when I fully contracted brainworms so episode 3 was the first one I had to actually wait for. A lot of the cuts from it are like carved into my brain because I watched that episode preview so many times while waiting for it to air lol…

I've said this before but the anime's take on her really is what turned me into an active Kana Enjoyer. Megumi Han's delightful performance and her character acting an animation all combine to make it really hard not to be endeared to her. Her excitement at being reunited with Aqua is really cute, too - I remember Han saying that she was specifically told not to play Kana as a girl meeting an old crush but as someone excitedly reuniting with an old friend and I think that's particularly sweet. The AQKN dynamic at its heart is kind of just two lonely kids who don't have a lot of other connections that aren't couched in transactional utility creating a space together where they can just exist without any ulterior motives.

gotanda's words being visualized as literally skewering kana is so fucking funny too. bro killed her. you really can't blame her for biting back during dinner later lol

Kana's putting on a pretty positive face about it, but knowing how deeply alone and abanoned she feels by her parents, it's hard to not feel really sad about this scene. She's chipper about it but this is the first hint towards Kana's current honestly kind of dire circumstances we'll see get expanded on all the way to the end of the anime.

Aqua's refusal to let Kana see his old acting is also really interesting to me. Intentionally or not, it feels like it's sewing the seeds for some stuff in Tokyo Blade; Aqua respects Kana's acting and Kana herself as a professional to the degree that he doesn't want to 'lose' to her in that sense. Or rather, he'd be embarrassed to have someone he respects seeing him stumble like that - a little like Ruby's freakout in episode 1 over the idea of Ai, specifically, seeing her be bad at dancing.

Aqua trying to play it cool and then immediately nerding out when Kana mentions Sweet Today is so so so so soooooooo cute. I love it when that side of his personality pokes out…

KABURAGI NAMEDROP JUMPSCARE!!!!! i made the same face, aqua... I won't go into my Kaburagi Villain Propaganda here, but it really is so deeply suspicious that Kaburashi was on her oldest, most private phone…

KANA'S LITTLE 'I KNOW WHAT YOU ARE' MOMENT………. AQUMELT REAL AFTER ALL…. (NOT CLICKBAIT)

ruby's lain brand milk vexes and haunts me

Aqua's quietly pained, guilty expression when Ruby misreads his intentions for becoming an actor is so good, as is his cold internal dismissal of Ai's wish… it's funny to see him insisting he's not doing this for Ai's sake when really, everything Aqua does comes back to his mom.

Man, though. What even is there to say about the Sweet Today bits lmao. Holy shit. Particular shout out to Melt's seiyuu, Seiji Maeda, for making his in-character acting so authentically awkward and clunky without it coming off as overwrought or like he himself was giving a bad performance. That's suuuuuch a delicate thread to weave but he does it exceptionally well.

This scene also has one of my all time favourite punch ups from the manga - in the original, Ruby just kind of gets the manga from nowhere and makes the comparisons that way but the anime makes Aqua the one to go get his copy and start silently flipping through it to compare until Ruby snatches it… it really is the perfect teeing up for him to run off and tattle to Kana even though he was pretending he didn't give a shit lol. Dork ass boy.

This talk at the karaoke bar is really good, too. The directing is pretty simply but I feel like the anime producton really shows off just how strong its expression and character acting work is here which does a lot to help along what's otherwise a very static conversation. The contrast in Aqua and Kana's energy is also very fun - Aqua's really still while Kana's very animated.

The manga hasn't really touched on this in a while but the content of the conversation here also starts a thread that I really liked in the early parts of Oshi no Ko about how hard it is to create good art in an environment like the entertainment industry. Tokyo Blade centers this more and is almost explicitly a follow up to Sweet Today's exploration of this idea but the seeds are sewn here, of the necessary compromises that need to be made just to get something out the door and how that can ultimately destroy the final product no matter how many well-meaning and passionate people are doing their absolute best to make something worth engaging with.

i'm also pretty sure this talk is the first time we see aqua smile after episode 1… cute.

The directing also really shines in that little moment at the end where Kana grabs Aqua's hand. In prior cuts, the two are visually separated in that they're both sat apart and there are multiple lines running between them in the background to section them off from each other.

But then just as Kana breeches Aqua's defenses and disarms him, she physically reaches past all these little barriers to finally get into his space. It's subtle but well done.

His wide-eyed slightly stunned face is also really sweet. We see this look on Aqua a lot when it comes to Kana and it always makes me smile a bit. She's excellent at getting under his skin whether she means to or not.

"now my body has caught up with my mental age" says aqua, confirming his mental age is that of a teenager, and mfs are still out here acting like he's a 30 year old man.

Oof, oof and oof. Kana's little speech here already makes me so soft and knowing how it's going to be utterly spat upon in just a moment by Kaburagi's callousness towards her just makes it hurt even more. We continually see reference to this supposed good relationship between Kana and Kaburagi during this episode and so knowing that he's ultimately just another shitty adult taking advantage of her clear desperation… masaya kaburagi when i see you it's on sight

This is also a really fantastic character moment for Aqua, I think. He himself says he's done everything he needed to do on set, so there's no need for him to start shit like he does. It's purely out of respect and fondness for Kana as a person and anger on her behalf as a fellow actor. For as much as Aqua likes to convince himself he's a coldhearted bastard, he really just cannot help himself when it comes to leaping in and helping people. He's a lot like Ai in that once somebody has his heart, he's theirs for good.

i also just have to fucking Scream at this cut of him. it hit me like a fucking TRUCK when this episode dropped. because it doesn't quite look like the equivalent panel of the manga, does it?

But doesn't it feel super familiar, even so? Doesn't it remind you of something? I wonder wh-

OSHI NO KO ANIME STAFF, WHEN I GET YOU!!!!!! (ENRAGED) (POSITIVE)

[plumquatrz]

"Huh this yours..? Too bad! now its mine, haha!"

Loriot Edelweiss - ロリオットエーデルワイス

Twisted from: Snow White's Prince and Magical Mirror

Other Names: Petit Mirror (Vil), Fighting Fishy (Floyd), Monsieur Escrime (Rook)

✰CV: Maeda Seiji

╔═══°∴,*⋅✲══〖Technical Info.〗══✲⋅*,∴°═══╗

Gender: Male

Birthday: 04/27

Age: 17

Star Sign: Taurus

Sexuality: Bisexual

Height: 167cm, 5'6 feet

Hair Color: Cinnamon Brown

Eye Color: Purple fading into Green

Homeland: Land of Pyroxene

╔═══°∴,*⋅✲══〖College Info.〗══✲⋅*,∴°═══╗

Year: 2nd Year

Class: 2-B

Club: Horse-Riding Club

Favourite Subject: Alchemy

╔═══°∴,*⋅✲══〖Additional Info.〗══✲⋅*,∴°═══╗

Hobby: Flower Arrangement

Likes: Planning, Daffodils, Brezel, walks in nature, animals (mainly birds)

Dislike: long social conversations, being told what to do, the smell of Cinnamon 

Favorite Food: Bratkartoffeln (alos called Germen Fries)

Hated Food: Sunflower seeds, Apples (allergic)

Specialty: Ballet

Unique Magic: “Into the Mirror”, lets the user go through a mirror, make an illusion within the mirror and copy the person's voice for a specific period of time.

Fun facts:

Loriot Comes from a Family of Nobles, yet was isolated

Neige's Childhood friend and Bodyguard (Their parents are Friends)

was taught how to fence from a young age but doesn't really like it, he likes feeling innocent and knowing how to wield a weapon is doing the opposite (Elizabeth Midford kin)

His horse is called Astor and is actually his horse from home. His parents made a few deals to allow this 

Loriot even though not part of the Film Studies Club often ends up joining their plays and films to help Vil, and because he enjoys acting

Ended up friends with Vil somehow during his first Semester

Doesn't understand trends or Pop culture

Credits: Dividers 1 ☆ Dividers 2☆ Dividers 3☆ Photo 1☆ Photo 2

[ichigoichiesworld]

Maeda Kentaro (Igarashi Ikki/Kamen Rider Revi) has been announced as one of the casts for "PJ: Koku Kyunandan, alongside Inukai Atsuhiro (Kiryu Sento/Kamen Rider Build) and Watanabe Aoto (Yanma Gast/Tombo Ohger).

This drama depicts a touching youth story centering upon a rescue education team that cultivates members for Japan Air Self-Defense Force (JASDF) Air Rescue Wing (generally called PJ (Pararescue Jumper)). As ~the last fort of human rescue~, the PJ is dispatched when "no other organization can take actions to rescue lives~. In order to pass difficult selection examinations and enter the PJ team, trainees brave training at the risk of their lives under the instruction of the senior lecturer Seiji Usami and become more mature during this process.

Kentaro plays Shirakawa Tomoki (27 years old), one of seven trainees under Usami Seiji. When Tomoki was young, his dad disappeared after failing in his work. Since then, Tomoki has grown up in an orphanage. He wants to become a rescuer to bring hope to other orphans. He has the highest score on the second attempt. He's a reliable and unyielding person who is trusted by other trainees.

[lyferifaes]

The Story Of Flowing Water characters list

Canon (marked with *) + original characters to not get lost. All names are in Japanese order: family name -> given name

Contains spoilers, obviously! (spoilers to the newest chapters / the most spoilery ones will be under the cut)

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~Daigo clan~

Tahomaru* — Lord of Ishikawa’s heir; new Lord of Ishikawa

Hyakkimaru* — Lord of Ishikawa’s heir

Daigo Kagemitsu* — previous Lord of Ishikawa, Hyakkimaru and Tahomaru’s father

Nui-no-Kata* — Kagemitsu’s wife, Tahomaru and Hyakkimaru’s mother

Daigo Iemitsu — Kagemitsu’s father, Tahomaru’s grandfather

Daigo Kageshige — Tahomaru’s great-grandfather

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Yasue Mutsu* and Hyogo* — Tahomaru’s attendants

Umeko — Tahomaru’s wet nurse

Furi — Tahomaru’s maid

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Maeda Masahiro — chief retainer of the clan; Tahomaru’s counsellor

Masashi — Masahiro’s youngest son 

Setsuna — Masahiro’s daughter

Mizuko — Masahiro’s wife

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Imagawa Yoshinori — Kagemitsu’s retainer; leader of the coup

Taizo — Yoshinori’s third son

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Saito Hajime — Commander of Cavalry

Ando Hideaki and Otani Tomoya — Saito’s adopted sons, Maeda Masahiro’s attendants

Shimura — Chief of Guard

Takagi — rearguard commander of the Daigo army

Yusuke — a random minor samurai

Yuichiro “Yusuke’s brother” — a samurai, Sen’s late husband 

Iwamoto Shinichi — a samurai, Furi’s adopted father 

Aunt Shiori — Shinichi’s sister; a cook at Daigo Castle

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~Awazu clan~

Awazu Toshitsugu / monk Shunji — former Lord of Awazu domain, Nui’s father

Awazu Toshinaga — Toshitsugu’s younger brother, next Lord of Awazu domain

Awazu Takenaga — Toshinaga’s son, Nui’s cousin. Current Lord of Awazu domain

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~Ikki~

Dororo*   — Dororo

Yahiko, Jiheita, Doushu* — Ikki leaders

Aki — a girl from Nagaimachi village; Dororo’s friend

Seki — a fisherman from Nagaimachi village

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~Others~

Jukai* — a doctor, Hyakkimaru’s adopted father

Kaname* — Jukai’s apprentice

Biwamaru* — a wandering monk biwahoshi

Yuki* — Dororo’s horse

Sen — a woman in the mountain village

Mamoru and Yukio — Sen’s sons

Inee — Sen’s housemaid

Mai — Sen’s sister

Hina — Furi’s older sister, a ninja of Kurosaki clan

Uncle Goro — a ninja of Kurosaki clan

Asura* — the twelfth demon

Yamaburo* — Daigo’s spy (nameless in canon, so the name is my invention) 

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!Chapter 12 spoilers!

Suma / Teacher / the warlock — Jukai’s brother

Seiji — a physician, Jukai’s adopted father

Aya — Seiji’s wife, Jukai’s adopted mother

Lord Shiba* — Jukai’s former lord 

Haruko — Jukai’s beloved 

[littlemousenix]

Navigation (H ― M)

H

Hakuoki (otome)

Her Love in the Force (otome)

Ayumu Shinonome

Hideki Ishigami

Hyogo Kaga

Jin Namba

Seiji Goto

Shusuke Soma

Takaomi Tsuguaru

Toru Kurosawa

I

Ikemen Genjiden (otome)

Ikemen Prince (otome)

Chevalier Michel

Clavis Lelouch

Ikemen Revolution (otome)

Ikemen Sengoku (otome)

Hideyoshi Toyotomi

Hisahida Matsunaga

Ieyasu Tokugawa

Kanetsugu Naoe

Kenji Maeda

Kennyo

Kenshin Uesugi

Kicho

Masamune Date

Mitsuhide Akechi

Mitsunari Ishida

Motonari Mouri

Nobunaga Oda

Ranmaru Mori

Sasuke Sarutobi

Shingen Takeda

Yoshimoto Imagawa

Yoshiteru Ashikaga

Yukimura Sanada

Ikemen Vampire (otome)

Arthur Conan Doyle

Charles-Henri Sanson

Comte de Saint-Germain

Isaac Newton

Jean d'Arc

Johann Georg Faust

Leonardo da Vinci

Napoleon Bonaparte

Osamu Dazai

Sebastian

Theodorus van Gogh

Victor

Vincent van Gogh

Vlad

William Shakespeare

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Ikemen Villains (otome)

Alfons Sylvatica

Elbert Greetia

Ellis Twilight

Harris Gray

Liam Evans

Roger Barel

William Rex

Irresistible Mistakes (otome)

Jun Araki

Shunichiro Tachibana

Toma Kiriya

Toshiaki Kijima

J

Coming soon!

K

Killer Chat!

Kings of Paradise (otome)

Kissed by the Baddest Bidder (otome)

Eisuke Ichinomiya

Hikaru Aihara

Luke Foster

Mamoru Kishi

Mitsunari Baba

Ota Kisaki

Rhion Hatter

Shuichi Hishikura

Soryu Oh

Koihana Bakumeiroku (otome)

L

Light and Night (otome)

Love and Deepspace (otome)

Caleb

Rafayel

Sylus

Xavier

Zayne

Lovebrush Chronicles / For All Time (otome)

M

Masquerade Kiss (otome)

Boss

Kazuomi Shido

Kei Soejima

Yuzuru Shiba

Metro PD: Close to You (otome)

Eiki Yachigusa

Hiroshi Kirisawa

Kazusa Hanai

Masashi Himuro

Ryohei Kimura

Shusuke Asano

Tadanobu Nomura

Yutaka Tennoji

Mr. Love: Queen's Choice (otome)

Gavin

Kiro

Lucien

Shaw

Victor

My Butler (otome)

My Secret Pets! (otome)

My Sweet Bodyguard (otome)

Ishigami, Goto, and Kurosawa can be found under Her Love in the Force.

Coming soon!

My Vow to My Liege (otome)

Mystic Messenger (otome)

707

Jaehee Kang

Jumin Han

Unknown

V

Yoosung Kim

Zen

[daisukeshimadaworks]

曹楊 Young [ 極光 Northern Lights ] Musicvideo

Cast｜Arisa Nakano、Takako Kiriu Director｜Daisuke Shimada Cinematographer｜RAKUDA Lighting｜Yoshitaka Shimamura Production Designer｜Yuichi Ishida Stylist｜Masayo Morikawa Hair & Make-up｜Yuko Aika Location Cordinator｜Masaki Ohishi 1st Assistant Camera｜Norihiro Kishi 2nd Assistant Camera｜LU CHIEN Data Manager｜Daisuke Odachi Data Manager  Assistnat｜Seiji Uchida Chief Lighting Assistant｜Ryo Maeda Lighting Assistants｜Koji Kubota、Shinnosuke Watanabe、Hiroshi Kondo、Toru Nakayama Production Designer Assistants｜Himawari Matsumoto Stylist Assistants｜Haruka Momoki Transport｜Junichiro、Masao Kutsukake、Kazumi Sato、Misturu Shiba、Mitsuhiko Maruko Colorist｜Haruka Ariga Colorist  Assistant｜Kento Matsuda Online Editor｜Riku Kiyozuka Online Editor  Assistant｜Shusei Fujita MA Engineer｜Yasuhito Izutsu、Takeshi Okada Production Manager｜Wakana Hashimoto、Naoki Miyazawa Producer｜Koji Takayama Production｜TETRAPOT FILMS Coordinator｜TERIO inc. 〘曹楊團隊 Young’s Team〙 化妝師Make-up Artist｜ 簡偉文 Chien Wei Wen @ 美少女工作室 prettycool 髮型師Hair Stylist｜Edmund Lin @ Zoom Hairstyling 造型Stylist｜徐于筑 Norah Hsu @xuuxuustudio 平面側拍Still Photographer｜鄭宇傑 花絮側錄製作 BTS Videographer ｜Chippy Chen

[marenhoshifonia]

I can't stop laughing after I saw this

[leenaevilin]

[Announcement] 舞台「ROAD59 -新時代任侠特区-」摩天楼ヨザクラ抗争(butai road59 -shinjidai jinkyou tokku- matenrou yozakura kousou)

the Blu-ray will be released on September 22nd, 2021☆ ☆ ☆

[kaydeedc]

07-01-21

Happy Birthday, Maeda Seiji!

He is the seiyuu of Sachertorte and Croissant (Food Fantasy).

He also voiced Yamabuki Shou (Irozuku Sekai no Ashita kara)!

Looking forward to more of his roles~

[leenaevilin-stage-market]

[Video] 舞台「ROAD59 -新時代任侠特区-」(butai road59 -shinjidai jinkyou tokku-)

the Blu-ray will be released on April 14th, 2021☆ ☆ ☆

☆ Blu-ray         ♪ Amazon ☆ Blu-ray         ♪ CD Japan

[kie-kois]

hi i love ogajin with all my heart

[galileosunshine]

「Steady Goes!」ARGONAVIS 0-1st Live Video (Maeda Seiji vocals ver.)

Watch the full version of Argonavis' first original song performed at their first live!!!

[fakerustyfeed]

Low Poly Art of Seiji Maeda from ROAD59

Image source: https://twitter.com/seiji_maeda000/status/1352964940735205383