#maybe im exaggerating but these guys are so freakin cool

[sugarfortia]

Listening to The Megas' megaman albums and just. Not only did these guys come up with lyrics that fit the game's music. Not only did they tap into the larger storyline, expand upon the personalities of the characters, and sound great while doing it. They also wrote some of the most killer quote/lyrics I've ever heard from a video-game inspired song.

[pekorosu]

got my hands on the old radio drama for banana fish (thanks so much @vashak!! 😭) so im gonna do some mindless liveblogging bc i miss doing that shit

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- their voices are KILLING ME

- okay you could say it's partly bc i'm used to their anime voices but i'm actually fine with eiji's voice! IT’S THE REST OF THEM THAT SOUND REALLY FUNNY

- especially marvin and arthur omg. i could not stop laughing when they showed up. i remember thinking anime!arthur sounded way too cool, but this version just went in the complete opposite direction

- ash's voice is a little deeper (?) than i expected. i don’t think that’s the right word for it but yeah... uchida yuuma's voice is closer to how i imagined it in terms of "youthfulness" but his is also a tad bit too "clean"...

- MEANWHILE MAX SOUNDS SO GRUFF AND MANLY LOL. now anime!max just sounds dopey in comparison

- i think the only person who doesn't make me feel like doubling over with laughter so far is dr. meredith, jenkins and eiji...

- skip sounds way too cute. son... 🥺

- the bgm when eiji and ibe first meet ash ADJHJDJSKFHKD 

- IT’S JUST HILARIOUS IN CONTRAST WITH THE EARLIER BG ROCK MUSIC

- omg now it sounds a bit like pokemon music

- eiji: CAN I TOUCH UR GUN ash: SURE *pokemon music*

- HAHA EIJI'S STUPID GIGGLE

- eiji: HEY CAN I ASK U SOMETHING ash: SURE eiji: HAVE U KILLED ANYONE BEFORE ash: YUP *cheerful pokemon music continues*

- SHORTAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

- i like shorter’s voice! 👌 it actually sounds similar to his anime voice, just less nasally, i think

- this version of ash sounds more uhh... forceful? emotional? idk how to describe it lol but i feel like his VA tends to 1) overdo it, or 2) get it tonally wrong for the situation...

- nooooooooooooo they removed my favourite eiji line before he jumps over the wall i was WAITING FOR IT

- hmmm the scenes just don’t have that oomph... i think it’s bc they're pushing through the scenes very quickly... then again, the anime had the same issue but their VAs still did a better job compared to this...

- i guess ash and eiji will always have sad gay piano music whatever version they're in :')

- ash's voice is starting to grow on me even though i still think he sounds off at certain parts that demand more subtlety. max on the other hand, is like, REALLY BAD................... imo

- "and then he kissed me" HAHAHAHA IT WAS NARRATED yeah well duh what was i expecting this isn’t a BL drama cd

- gOD arthur's voice dsfkajskghjfsdlg

- shorter's so cool tho im love 🤩

- love all the 90s gunshot sfx. PEEUNG PEEUNG PEEUNNNGGSSHHHH

- lol eiji and ibe actually sound more like friends than Concerned Dad and Reckless Son

- ash's reaction to griff's death is played so cool... no outbursts just :/ and then the scene straight away jumps to them drinking lol

- ash's crying is so manly...

- WHY IS THE CAR SCENE SO FUNNY

- ok im a lil mad bc that was the ONE scene where eiji got to rebel but this version is just 😂😂😂

- literally:

ash: anyway, imma borrow this car for a bit. eiji: *hops in* i’m coming along!!! >:DDD ash: wtf get out ibe: *knocking frantically on the window* oi eiji!!! eiji: *very cutely* c’mon if u don’t hurry up u'll get caught again :))))) ash: tch -_- *brrm brrms away*

and then they eloped

- oh my god........ is that lee dude's VA trying to do a “chinese” accent in japanese............................

- !!!! this part! i liked the way ash sounded when he was amused by eiji's naive comment about the lees. i think i prefer this take over the anime where ash was more stoic. and i like that you can hear him switching to his DEEP VOICE OF SERIOUSNESS lol.

- i also liked the next bit where shorter warns eiji to keep his head down and eiji's like WHY ARE U TRYNA PROTECT ME I CAN TAKE CARE OF MYSELF >:T hehe iirc that wasn't in the anime

- ...i'll just put it here bc it's a rare moment that i rly enjoyed so far

- aaaand we're back to cheesy gunshot sounds

- hearing jennifer's voice feels so soothing after almost an hour of deep voices

- who sounds scarier when picking a fight? radio drama!max = 1, anime!max = -5

- ash's dad: who the hell are u guys and why are you hanging around ash. max: i’m max. i'm a friend of griffin's, we were in the same squad in vietnam. shorter: name's shorter. eiji: my name is eiji. i'm japanese.

sdfsfsdghkfhk how is that relevant to the question EIJI PLS 

- that said, they actually toned down quite a lot of eiji's doofiness huh

- i truly feel like eiji's a lot less "damsel in distress" and more "chill but curious bystander", while ash is closer to the typical shounen manga protag here 

- damn jessica doesn't sound as awesome as i’d hoped. the anime rly spoiled me haha

- OMG yut-lung's voice. it's so... cute... 🥺🥺

- this ENTIRE freakin scene where shorter threatens to kill eiji just lost its gravity thanks to:

1) arthur's voice sounding like a disney villain’s henchman 2) lee dude’s AWFUL accent 3) EVERYONE TALKING SO QUICKLY 4) THE OVERDRAMATIC BG VIOLINS AND DRUMS

- hmm, i think i might actually like eiji’s voice in this version more than the anime now! sorry nojima

- abraham actually sounds kinda intimidating here

- LMAO SING'S VOICEEEEE. too nasally for me XD

- oh wow, i think i prefer this version of shorter going nuts... not that the anime is worse, just that it chose to emphasize more on the tragedy of the situation while this one focuses more on the terror and urgency. probably bc of the bg music lol. also shorter’s abs were very distracting in the anime

- weapon room scene: ash sounds TOO out of breath and panicky here, but i guess it fits the context of the radio drama... it's inaccurate compared to the manga tho

- another issue i have... ibe's VA sucks. sorry but he always sounds so flat or inappropriate for the situation ><

- god this rescue scene still sounds ridic on 2nd listen... it's so over the top I CAN'T

- i gotta say, even if i were to disregard how i personally imagined ash’s voice, uchida yuuma still does it better acting-wise. i know voice acting has to involve some level of exaggeration but sometimes less is more, y’know?

- it sure feels like this radio drama is intent on cutting out as much gay as they can more interested in spotlighting the plot and action scenes, bc a lot of the convo scenes seem to have been cut...

- also the "pls come back" scene was like... so bro. no more “i’ll wait for you always”. NO HOMO. booooooooooo. but strangely enough i found the acting in it better than in the previous scenes.

- altho from what i remember, ash and eiji's VAs sounded like they had p good chemistry... but maybe it's a bit too early to say, i'll have to hear more of their casual banter to decide

- ash finding shorter's corpse scene: sorry but the anime wins, hands down 

- so eiji's VA is... inoue kazuhiko? wasn't that the guy who played kakashi from naruto or something? lol i don't even go there

- gotta say, the ED song is the part that i enjoyed the most XD seriously tho, it's a nice song! and the lyrics makes up for all the lost gay haha

- okay that’s it for the first CD. nothing much of interest here, and BF starts off slow in terms of ash/eiji content anyway, so hopefully there’s more to comment on in the next CD 🤔

[sopewriters]

Superhero!Hyunwoo

I’ve been wanting to do this forever. Because fun :)

Ok, before I start, can we pls appreciate what an amazeballs superhero Hyunwoo would be?

Like mhm, I’d totally tap that what no I said nothing

Anyway, so you and Shownu have never met

You’ve seen him on the news a couple of times

He usually looks uncomfortable when the interviewers ask him questions

Like, he’ll be biting his lip all the time and awkwardly shuffling his feet

And you usually think ‘and this guy is a superhero???’

But you’ve seen footage of his work

Usually huddled under the covers of your bed pretending some city out there in the world isn’t getting ripped to shreds, but that’s not the point

He’s really, really powerful, and you know that enhanced strength is just the tip of the iceberg

But that boi has got them abs, not that you were staring creepily at them or anything

with hands pressed to your flaming cheeks at 2am in the morning

screaming your lungs out into your poor pillow

course not

the pillow deserved better #savepillows2k17

you sort of high-key wish you could meet him one day because damn

but at the same time, you remember your track record with talking to guys

ha…ha…ha…

okay so apparently, we have to talk about that part of your backstory that you’d rather repress for ever

like ugh, you actually still get cringe attacks because of those experiences but fear not, it’ll be quick

the first time you had a crush on someone, it was in the 7th grade

like, he was really cute (from what you remember anyway, you were like a 2-year-old then ok??) and he played soccer like all the cool kids, and he danced really well and I’m talking about god-level

and you and he never really talked ‘cuz you were terrified

like what if you said the wrong thing and he hated you forever????

besides, he was always hanging around 6 other really cool, really popular dudes

well, they were hanging around him, but details, psh

and one day you finally mustered up the courage to actually talk to him

you knew that he’d go to the basketball courts by himself to practice after school, all the time

so you decided to hijack  intrude visit him half an hour in

coincidentally, he was walking over to the side of the court then, reaching around to get to his water bottle

and you sort of froze then, all of your previous determination gone, dissolved like the salt in his sweat

which is a weird comparison but whatever, you get the idea

and you still can’t move when he turns around, surprised brown eyes meeting yours

“do you…need something?”

and of course your dumb brain had to malfunction then

and you knew instinctively that it’d make you blurt out something stupid

something like:

“oh, I just came to shoot a couple of hoops.”

which would totally have been cool if you could actually….y’know, play

which you didn’t, if that wasn’t obvious enough

so you rushed to do some damage control

“but, you’re obviously occupied so I’ll just come back another time haha!”

yeah, you actually added the ‘haha’ in

he just looked at you all confused like as he was prone to do

being like “uh, no, you can use the other half of the court.”

And you were like ‘nah, bro, you don’t have to.’

trying to not embarrass yourself any further

but he just shook his head, picking up his ball

“you know what,” he said, determination lacing through his words, “let’s play together.”

you were a bit busy then admiring how cute he looked like that, before you realized what the actual fuck he just said!!!

“no!” you blurted out in panic

“but you don’t have a ball?”

Well shit, he was right and you hated yourself so much

dumb. freakin'. brain.

“i…’ you stuttered, ‘gotta go bye!’

and you actually ran away, i kid you not

that year was a good year of avoidance

by which I mean you avoided the crap out of Hyunwoo and his friends

and once the school year ended, you were lucky to never see him again

yay!

anyway, coming back to the main story at hand

you’ve never really met Shownu and you really don’t want to embarrass yourself in front of him

you’re actually an intern at this popular news agency, but you never see the light of the day during work hours

before we start, no this is not a Lois Lane-Clark Kent romance I promise

because that’s lame, and Shownu totally doesn’t wear his underwear on top of his pants

omg what if he doesn’t wear them at all with that skin-tight leather

so the one day your boss decides to let you do some field work, you jump at the chance

of course, you’re not actually one of the writers on the main page, where all the action’s at

in fact, you’re going to be at a sports event, mainly because the actual reporter who’s supposed to cover it is sick

so chance!

and you go all determined like

yas, I got this and no im not terrified wut you talking about

it’s a racing game or something, basically a bunch of cars going really really fast

and you find it kind of boring tbh but take down notes like a good reporter because you don’t want to get fired

that’s when everything goes wrong obvs

because this is your life here hello

knocking on your door and being like lol did you think I forgot about you

so when you’re in the process of clambering down the stands to grab some actual action (not that kind, kids)

there’s a large squealing sound and oh shit, two cars have crashed

you know it’s like a given in the sport, but it’s still horrifying to watch tbh so you kind of call the 911 equivalent of your country

being like heLP IT’S AN EMERGENCY WE NEED SOMEONE

and lo and behold, Shownu comes to the rescue

since he can actually fly, holy shit, he manages to pull out the unconscious drivers from the wreckage all heroic like and fly them all the way to the hospital and get back

and by then the remaining brain cells you’ve got have withered away so

like an idiot

you scream out to him, being like

SHOWNU I LOVE YOU ❤

oK so maybe I’m exaggerating a bit

but you do the equivalent of a confession

in public

to a superhero

said superhero actually hears you

and flIES OVER TO YOU HOLY SHIT

his mouth quirks to the side all confused like

bad person you’re not supposed to stare at his lips

but you swear it looks familiar

only theres no time for your crazy detection skills to come to light

because heY HIS HAND IS AROUND YOUR WAIST

ALERT ALERT ALERT

HEART MALFUNCTIONING BRAIN MALFUNCTIONING WHAT IS A LUNG

and he literally sweeps you off your feet, landing on some building at the edge of the city

and your heart cant take this

he’s totally going to kill you isn’t he

but then he takes off his mask

and you balk

“I remember you” Hyunwoo says

“unfortunately” your mind supplies

but you only manage to get out half-garbled words

akjhfjhbkajns

he just stares at you like a lost puppy and wow he hasn’t changed

“you always were cute”

And you die

Happily and forever

ok, that’s a lie

Shownu gives you a lil’ peck on the cheek

and then you die, of happiness :)

Written By: Midnight