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BLCD Review: Ikigami & Donor

Title: Ikigami to Donor (イキガミとドナー)

Author/Artist: Yamanaka Hiko

Shop: CD + Manga

Release Date: 2021/12/03

Cast: 

Nakajima Yoshiki x Saitou Souma

Yamashita Seiichirou + Kawanishi Kengo

Kobayashi Chiaki

Yashiro Taku

Komada Wataru

Hayashi Miho

Shiozaki Tomohiro

Higa Ryosuke

Abe Ryouma

Torashima Takaaki

Oota Kensuke

Nakashima Takuya

Fujita Mami

Miyama Mari

Souya Kazuki

Synopsis: 

"Your blood and flesh, all of it is mine." An ikigami and a healer, together their souls support each other, blooming into love...

In the distant future, ordinary teacher Yoshino learns that he is a "donor" for the strongest species, the "ikigami." These warriors are tasked with protecting the country. "The unique ability of a donor is to use their bodily fluids to heal ikigami." Yoshino learns this fact and is shocked. Thus, Yoshino is forced to live with Kidou... At first, he is like a beast, demanding Yoshino's bodily fluids, but slowly, the underlying loneliness begins to show...

"Someday, if I met a donor, could they come to love me? That thought is the only reason I survived..."

Review Proper

I can’t believe Yamanaka Hiko’s been terrorizing me for over twelve years now. OH MY GOD I’M SO OLD. And true to the Yamanaka Hiko brand, this turned out to be another fantasy masterpiece (read His 500 Years of Suffering Romance). This was definitely the type of thing that would do great even without the BL aspect of it. Now, I did have an issue with Kidou being an asshole (he's almost killed Yoshino more than once), so I’m not excusing it. But I do get how and why he turned out to be like that and I'm aware that it's important for his character development. The world-building was great, don't get me wrong, but it's definitely dubcon 2015. I would strongly advise you not to get into it if that's a deal breaker for you.

Anyway, onto the voice work.

Souma used a tone so close to Gucci's that I kept imagining Gucci being Yoshino. Yes, I didn't read the manga while listening to the BLCD. It was like after graduating Karasuno, Gucci went on to become a teacher, then a donor lmao. His Yoshino panics more like Honda-san, however, so my final verdict is that his Yoshino is half-Gucci, half-Honda-san.

This isn't Nakajiki and Souma's first rodeo, but I'm glad to say that their performance/dynamic here is different from Mikeneko and XL Size. I expected Kidou to be a mix of Amano and Anaconbayashi-kun 'cause the former was cocky and the latter was stoic, but Kidou was only 50% of that mix and 50% brooding, suffering, I'll-protect-you top. Am I even making any sense? Again, I listened to the BLCD first, but the sound direction they gave Nakajiki was very different from what I thought he'd sound like after I read the manga. It’s almost like what happened with OnoD’s expressive Hasebe-kun in the Kotonoha BLCD vs the more stoic Hasebe-kun in the manga. 

The voice work of our two leads was 👌. This might just be my fave out of their pairings 'cause the sex isn't over-the-top like XL Size and Mikeneko. I will say that I wasn't completely sold on Yamashita Seiichirou as Shibata-san 'cause I feel like he speaks too slowly, but I'm sure it'll grow on me by the time I listen to their spin-off. KawaKen was fine. My heart broke for him every time Shibata-san rejected him, so it's safe to say he's got Taki-kun down already.

Oh. I did have a slight issue with the sfx too. Why was it so watery??? Lmao. Even r18 otome cds aren't that wet. But it's not so glaring that it'll turn you off.

The BLCD was almost perfectly accurate to the manga. I highly recommend this to those learning mid to higher levels of Japanese. Futekiya has licensed volumes 1 & 2, so please try to support the official release if you can. I'd be lying if I said that I agree with how they translated it so... literally?, but I think it's also important to see how things are translated that way if you're aiming to dip your toes into translation aside from studying the language. For example, they used "Living God" throughout the manga instead of "Ikigami." It's correctly translated, but I personally prefer retaining the original title. You know, like how Viz uses "Kaiju no. 8" instead of "Monster no. 8?"

God knows if I'll ever survive the spinoff that I wanted to work on. I avoided talking about it for a reason lmao. Anyway, if y'all liked this, then please give 500 Years (Ono Yuuki x Suzuki Tatsuhisa) and Shortcake no Ichigo Sawaranaide (Nojima Hirofumi x Takeuchi Ken). These two are android bls and Ikigami to Donor is more guide bl, but they both share a futuristic vibe.

[darknebula85]

Dude I'm so sad, in a few hours Rushia's channel will disappear completely... I'm going to miss her a lot, I started watching her at a very sad moment in my life, and she helped me a lot back then. I hope she is well and continues with her career in the future :’c 

Edit 31/3/2022. 10:43 PM (Venezuela), Officially Rushia Uruha's channel has been put private... Thank you for all memories, I really wish that you could’ ve had a chance to say a proper goodby to us, you will always have a special place in our hearts. 

Although for those who are interested you can find her on her new channel, Mikeneko (https://youtube.com/channel/UC54JqsuIbMw_d1Ieb4hjKoQ), thanks to @a-serendipitous-silence​ for the information.

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I posted 23 times in 2022

22 posts created (96%)

1 post reblogged (4%)

Blogs I reblogged the most:

@kierawaffles

I tagged 22 of my posts in 2022

Only 4% of my posts had no tags

#hololive - 9 posts

#vtubers - 8 posts

#tsukumo sana - 4 posts

#galaxillust - 3 posts

#sana tsukumo - 3 posts

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Longest Tag: 139 characters

#my original idea for this did not include pearl holding marina but when i was drawing it just kinda worked out that way and i like it bette

My Top Posts in 2022:

#5

See the full post

66 notes - Posted March 4, 2022

#4

i am trying to (hopefully) do a little series of love live pairing drawings for pride month, here's the first one: a little nozonico

83 notes - Posted June 16, 2022

#3

sana getting that hug she wanted...

85 notes - Posted July 19, 2022

#2

mikeneko's new model is so cute, i had to draw her~

109 notes - Posted April 27, 2022

My #1 post of 2022

i love off the hook's splatoon 3 designs, hope they appear in the actual game and are not just demoted to background band though...

506 notes - Posted July 5, 2022

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[am0rama]

Natsume Sōseki and his cat form

Hi everyone!

This going to be a very short and random post.

Have you seen the 3D cat on a billboard in Tokyo?

Today I learnt that kind of cat is called “calico cat” or “mikeneko”.

Calico cats are predominantly female. Two X chromosomes are needed for a cat to have the distinctive white, orange and black coat. Only 0.1 % of calicos are male.

Male calico cats are rare and unique and I think those characteristics inspired to sketch Natsume Sōseki’s character design in BSD:

Cats of this coloration are believed to bring good luck as well:

Scanlation from https://imgur.com/gallery/G7shq

And that’s why I guess Natsume is a calico while he’s in his cat form rather than other type of cat 😺

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I posted 69 times in 2022

That's 69 more posts than 2021!

30 posts created (43%)

39 posts reblogged (57%)

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@insecateur

@timethehobo

@petrichoravellichor

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I tagged 51 of my posts in 2022

Only 26% of my posts had no tags

#pokemon - 13 posts

#pokemon scarlet and violet - 10 posts

#pokemon sv - 6 posts

#ghetsis - 4 posts

#enstars - 4 posts

#pokemas - 4 posts

#get a load of this simp - 4 posts

#lol - 3 posts

#ensemble stars - 3 posts

#director clavell - 2 posts

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#after i did the heart emoji my mouth wouldnt close so instead of closing my mouth i closed the game and now its morning

My Top Posts in 2022:

#5

I downloaded twisted wonderland a few days ago and just unlocked the exams thing and I fucking choked on my fries after the fight

No joke I was stuffing my face full of fries and I heard him say good boy

This game almost killed me

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#4

Yea I'd fuck a robot

21 notes - Posted November 30, 2022

#3

I love Penny

23 notes - Posted December 1, 2022

#2

Me and the director are good pals

He's my babygirl

Also immediately after

I'm his little nuisance

63 notes - Posted December 1, 2022

My #1 post of 2022

Accidentally falls for director clavell instead of the cute girls and emo artist gym leader like I originally planned

I like you peepaw

311 notes - Posted November 21, 2022

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[warau-okami]

Cat Vocabulary 猫

猫 「ねこ」 neko: cat

にゃん  nyan: meow

野良猫 「のらねこ」noraneko: stray cat, alley cat

黒猫 「くろねこ」 kuroneko: black cat

飼い猫 「かいねこ」 kaineko: pet cat

愛猫家 「あいびょうか」 aibyouka: cat lover

三毛猫 「みけねこ」mikeneko: calico cat

招き猫 「まねきねこ」 manekineko: beckoning cat, figure of a cat with one paw raised, lucky cat

木天蓼 - matatabi: silver vine (a catnip like plant)

雄猫 「おすねこ」 osuneko: tom cat, male cat

猫の手も借りたい 「ねこのてもかりたい」 nekonotemokaritai: expression extremely busy, so busy one would even welcome the help of a cat

泥棒猫 「どろぼうねこ」 dorobouneko: thieving cat, adulterer

猫嫌い 「ねこぎらい」nekogirai: cat hater

猫砂 「ねこすな」nekosuna: kitty litter

猫缶 「ねこかん」nekokan: canned cat food, tin of cat food

猫舌 「ねこじた」 nekojita: cat’s tongue, someone who can’t drink or eat hot things

尾ける 「つける」 tsukeru: to hunt a spy, to put a tail on someone, to stalk

肉食獣 「にくしょくじゅ」 nikushokujuu: carnivore

ペット屋 「ペットや」 pettoya: pet store

自動給餌器 「じどうきゅうじき」 jidoukyuujiki: automatic pet feeder

親 「おや」 oya: pet owner

[pienhime]

ty for yet another banger 🙏🏻

[wutlaikalikes]

Mikeneko get all Hololive Fantasy members!

[cure-stardust]

>be me

>really into vtubers back in 2020-2021

>start getting into other things for various reasons

>starts getting back into vtubers for also various reasons

>2024 rolls around

>mfw some the most insane drama happens and it’s not even March yet

[bruhbrushbruh]

can another menhera do it? can Delu beat The Final Yab and save vtubing???

[comradeprozac]

[grimlocksword]

Mikeneko Responds To The Allegations

[pienhime]

mikeneko is doing a popup cafe collaboration!