#nakano yuki

[imasallstars]

　[Battone] 　　　Halloween Nighter with the Evil Baseball Team and the world at stake! Send your home run flying through the ends of the night skies!

The featured unit of the event is an unnamed unit under the baseball team of Pumpkin Pudding up against the dastardly Shadow Devils in a baseball fight for the world! Will our heroes be able to hit the home run and beat them? Or will the Shadow Devils run bases around them?

This unit consists of Yuka Nakano, Yuki Himekawa, Haruna Kamijo, Yuko Hori, and Chiyo Shirayuki. Joining them to complete the team are Rei Shinohara, Marina Sawada, Miu Yaguchi, and Otoha Umeki

[asexual-juliet]

we are not free characters ranked on how aware they are of minnow’s homosexuality

Keiko: Keiko canonically knows Minnow is gay <3

Tommy: Tommy is both incredibly insightful and undeniably queer so yeah I think he clocks it pretty early on. I headcanon him as aroace so i can honestly see him looking at the way Minnow acts towards Twitchy and objectively thinking like “ok yeah that’s exactly how Shig used to treat Yum-yum before they started dating that must just be how the Ito boys act when they have a crush”

Frankie: tbh I headcanon Frankie’s Uncle Yas as gay (old man living alone in San Francisco whose nephew stays with him because “he needs someone to take care of him”) and i think Yas has been like. subtle about it but not overly secretive and so they don’t discuss it but Frankie has seen the old photographs and letters Yas keeps in the attic and has put the pieces together and so I feel like he also clocks Minnow relatively early on because of his previous familiarity with the concept of homosexuality

Yuki: I also headcanon Yuki as gay (both because she likes softball and because of Bette’s line about “I don’t think I’ll ever understand her—she’s fifteen! You’d think she’d recognize a handsome boy when she saw one, but her disinterest is palpable”) so I feel like she knows what’s up. 

Mas: In a very big-brother way, Mas has always known that there is something undeniably different about Minnow and he hasn’t quite been able to put a finger on what it is, but he has his suspicions. 

Shig: Very similarly to Mas, Shig is aware of Minnow’s differentness but has always chalked it up to him being shy like Tommy. I do have a WIP where Minnow comes out to Shig and Shig is like “oh fuck everything is starting to make sense” so yeah i think he does not know but if he was told it would explain a lot for him and make perfect sense. 

Mary: Has not put much thought into it but if told would be like “yeah obviously”

Stan: Has not put much thought into it but if told would not be surprised.

Yum-yum: Has not put much thought into it but if told would be kind of surprised.

Bette: I am honestly unsure if Bette is aware of homosexuality as a concept.

Aiko: I am pretty sure Aiko is not aware of homosexuality as a concept.

Twitchy: Does not know and will never find out

[idolm-ster]

Joker

Ryo Matsunaga (CV: Haruka Chisuga), Aki Yamato (CV: Tomo Muranaka), Yuka Nakano (CV: Shino Shimoji), Yuki Himekawa (CV: Mako Morino), Miku Maekawa (CV: Natsumi Takamori).

[justsurvival]

🌂 for a weather-themed headcanon ; 🌍 for a travel-themed headcanon ; 🐈 for a pet/animal-themed headcanon ; 😨 for a fear-themed headcanon / spin! the! wheel!

YUKI NAKANO  —  WEATHER  :

big fan of rain when it's still sunny out ! hates going outside in the rain though... just wants to admire it from the inside and feel #moody for a bit and then they get a little annoyed... why's it still raining...... hello... doesn't even have a reason to go outside anyway so.   idk what they're so mad about.

MAXIME D'AUREVILLE  — TRAVEL  :

the trip from his childhood home in france to where he spent his teen years / adulthood was...  not great.  it was his first time on a plane and he felt really nauseous & generally was having a bad fucking time with the aspect of moving consider the fact that he was doing it alone + he was dealing with the grief of losing his immediate family + uplifiting his entire life.  still has bad associations with planes & will opt for a roadtrip or trains if it comes to having to do long-distance domestic travel.

ASHTON HAYNES  —  PET/ANIMAL  :

his daughters,  maya & nina,  really really want a pet.  ashton always said no,  even when he was still married.  would say that it's because he doesn't like pets (false),  he just didn't want his then-wife to have her allergies flare up so he decided it would be better for him to take the blame.  he did get them each a wappy dog from ebay that they love.  would love to get a real dog but is concerned that it would be Bad Parenting to go back on what he said years ago.

GUINEVERE ALONSO  —  FEAR  :

ineve will tell people that her biggest fear is performing in front of large crowds - a blatant lie.  she loves performance and she loves the act of it and she loves the attention of it,  she just is worried about slipping up about the whole siren thing so...  a real fear,  however irrational,  is drowning.  she physically can't drown but god,  the thought of diving into the water only to realize that she's drowning?  terrifying.  that's her life,  the only thing keeping her going.

[marcovaleyeah]

20.06.24

#Mira-Marathon | Dungeon meshi

Anime Name: Dungeon meshi | Season 1 | (2024); Production studios: Trigger; Directors: Yoshihiro Miyajima, Kôdai Nakano, Yuichi Shimodaira, Yuki Kouno, Aya Ikeda; Screenwriters: Kimiko Ueno, Nanami Higuchi, Yu Sato;

Manga author: Kui Ryôko;

Starring: Kentarô Kumagai, Sayaka Senbongi, Asuna Tomari, Hiroshi Naka, Saori Hayami; Genres: Comedy, Fantasy; Running Time: One series – 26 minutes | All series – 10 hours 32 minutes;

"Dungeon Meshi" is an anime that combines fantasy, cooking and comedy. A group of dungeon explorers embark on a rescue mission in a subterranean kingdom and create a storm of taste sensations along the way. Humor and colorful animation add charm. Pros: A unique combination of genres; Original characters; Bright animation; Fun soundtrack. Cons: Can seem slow.

My rating:

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

[coimbrabertone]

The Golden Age of Japanese Talent in Western Motorsports

So, the heavy rumor at this point in F1 is that Sergio Perez's position at Red Bull has become untenable. An expensive release clause and a lack of a clear alternative has protected Perez for awhile now, but a truly dismal end to the 2024 season has meant Red Bull is willing to pay the price to get rid of him.

Not unlike McLaren with Daniel Ricciardo in 2022.

So, who is getting the nod to Red Bull?

Liam Lawson, it seems. This has pissed off a lot of fans, who feel that Yuki Tsunoda has performed well enough and has spent enough time at Alpha Tauri/VCARB to earn a chance at Red Bull.

Red Bull feels otherwise, and it seems to be because Yuki Tsunoda is at RB as a favor to engine supplier Honda, and Red Bull does not see Tsunoda continuing with them once they switch to Ford.

This got me thinking about Japanese drivers in motorsports, western motorsports in particular. I know that sounds just a bit orientalist and I apologize for that, but a variety of cultural, linguistic, and geographic factors have created a lot of barriers for Japanese drivers to come over here.

Japanese talent instead seems to focus on domestic competitions: Super Formula, Super GT, the Suzuka 8 Hour, etc, etc.

Meanwhile, Japanese talent in the west is most often associated with a Japanese manufacturer. This is what I want to talk about today.

An early prominent example of this is Satoru Nakajima, who Honda tried to put in a Williams in 1986. Frank Williams refused, reasoning that Nelson Piquet and Nigel Mansell was a much stronger lineup. Thus, Honda went to their other customer team in Lotus, and Nakajima was put into the car in 1987, partnering Ayrton Senna.

Ayrton won two races and finished third in the standings.

Satoru...did not. His best result was a fourth place.

Nevertheless, Satoru continued with Lotus in 1988, now alongside Nelson Piquet. Now, nobody was touching McLaren that year and Lotus slipped to fourth in the constructors' championship, but Nakajima was actually closer to Piquet than he was to Senna. Granted, he only scored one point, but in terms of pace and performance, he was a lot closer.

Satoru Nakajima - nor Aguri Suzuki, who also appeared in F1 around this time - didn't accomplish much, but they did pave the way for the 1990s, which would turn out to be a golden age for Japanese drivers in western motorsports.

On the Formula One side of things, we had Nakajima, Suzuki, Naoki Hattori, Ukyo Katayama, Toshio Suzuki (no relation), Hideki Noda, Taki Inoue, Shinji Nakano, and Toranosuke Takagi all made appearances.

A number of these guys, most prominently Shinji Nakano and Tora Takagi, would also make appearances in CART, where Honda and Toyota were engine suppliers.

The racing series where Japanese talent shined brightest, however, was Grand Prix Motorcycle Racing, now known as MotoGP. Here, Honda, Yamaha, and Suzuki made sure that Japanese manufacturers were well represented, and the 1997 season is probably the best example of that.

Australian Mick Doohan was dominant, yes, but behind him...the Japanese were all over the series. Teammate Tadayuki Okada won the Indonesian Grand Prix and finished second in the championship, whilst Takuma Aoki on a Repsol Honda entered NSR500V - a cheaper V2 variant of the V4 NSR500, meant for customer teams - finished fifth with three podiums.

Takuma's brother, Nobuatsu Aoki was third on another V4 Honda, taking four podiums and managing to just barely finish ahead of Repsol's Alex Crivillé, who was hampered by a midseason injury.

It wasn't limited to just Honda either, as Yamaha had the famous Norifumi Abe, who won three races himself - the 1996 Japanese GP at Suzuki, the 1999 Rio de Janeiro GP at Jacarepaguá, and then the 2000 Japanese GP, also at Suzuka - but was more known for wild and aggressive performances.

Norifumi was so famous at this point that a young Valentino Rossi used Rossifumi as his first nickname.

Before there was the Doctor, there was Rossifumi.

So yeah, in 1997, there were four Japanese riders in the top ten of the championship, and while none of them could quite match Mick Doohan, neither could anyone else back then.

So, what happened to all this?

That's the difficult question really. My first thought was that maybe it was the switch from 500cc bikes to the 990cc bikes of the MotoGP era. Perhaps the increased cost and professionalization of the grid reduced the number of Japanese riders.

The problem is that it doesn't quite hold true. Daijiro Kato in 2002 was shaping up to be the best Japanese prospect perhaps ever, before his career was cut short by a tragic death at the 2003 Japanese Grand Prix.

Did that death kill the Japanese stomach for motorcycle racing? I mean, maybe, but it sure didn't in the moment.

Abe was still around, as were Tohru Ukawa and Noriyuki Haga, while Shinya Nakano spent the mid-2000s dragging his Kawasaki into contention whenever he could, and Makoto Tamada won at Rio and Motegi in 2004 on the Camel Honda, giving us the first multi-win season for a Japanese rider.

It more just seemed to fade out over the course of the 2000s.

By the 2010s, Japanese participation in MotoGP was reduced to one satellite Honda rider and then maybe a wildcard ride or two from the Yamaha or Suzuki test teams at Motegi.

By the 2020s, that rider was Taka Nakagami, but for 2025, that seems to be changing.

The Idemitsu LCR Honda - the Honda reserved for Asian talent - will go to Thai rider Somkiat Chantra. Surprisingly though, this does not mean the end to a Japanese rider on the grid, as Ai Ogura has been signed by Trackhouse to ride an Aprilia.

A Japanese rider on an American team running an Italian bike.

This is a big deal, because it marks the first time in twenty years that a Japanese rider was picked entirely on merit, having denied a chance to go to LCR Honda to stay in Moto2 and prove himself.

And prove himself he did, because Ai Ogura won three races and the Moto2 championship in 2024. These wins were at Catalunya, Assen, and Misano too, so these are classic European venues.

He's not just a Suzuka/Motegi specialist, he might just be the real deal.

P.S:

So yeah, I've been reading up on 90s and 2000s two-stroke era Grand Prix Motorcycle Racing and I noticed how prominent and successful Japanese riders were, so I wanted to write about it. I wasn't sure where exactly I'd go with the blogpost from there, but I actually like how this one went, let me know what you think!

P.P.S:

Oh, and Offtopic Offseason...I liked writing that blogpost a lot and I think I'll do some more of those. I was thinking about alternating weekly between an Offtopic Offseason post and a regular motorsports post, but I think I'm just gonna leave it open to whichever I decide to do on a given Monday. This week I had something motorsport-y to talk about, next week I might, or I might not, we'll see.

I'm going to label and number all of the Offtopic Offseason posts, so you'll know exactly what it is once you see it post. I hope that's alright with all you guys.

[heartvisor]

five episode spin-off mini drama "SKaRD break room" (dir. taguchi kiyotaka, script by nakano takao) to be included in second ultraman blazar blu-ray box

featuring naito konomi, kajihara hayate, and itou yuki

[kanasmusings]

[Stage News] Identity V Stage Episode IV - "Phantom of the Monochrome"

Identity V Stage Episode 4 news have been announced together with the new survivor and new main game content earlier~! I'm so happy we get another installment to the stage, and that we get to see them back in action again! Here are the cast (returning and new) and details regarding the new episode~!

Please check their official Twitter for more news and updates~! I've also linked the actors' official accounts (at least, those that I could find) for those interested in giving them a follow~

CAST:

-SURVIVORS-

[Focus Cast] "PRISONER" : Luca Balsa - Anazawa Yusuke

Mechanic: Tracy Reznik - Tsuboi Miku

Seer: Eli Clark - Chiba Mizuki

Prospector: Norton Campbell - Suga Kyosuke

Mercenary: Naib Subedar - Matsufuji Takuya

Grave Keeper: Andrew Kreiss - Masaki Kohei

Postman: Victor Grantz - Suzuki Yota

Priestess: Fiona Gilman - Sakura Karen

Painter: Edgar Valden - Miyagi Kodai

Gardener: Emma Woods - Uchida Asumi

Embalmer: Aesop Carl - Hirai Yuki

-HUNTERS-

[Focus Cast] Wu Chang -> White Guard (Xie Bi'an) - Kunishima Naoki & Black Guard (Fan Wujiu) - Agata Gouki

Ripper: Jack - Narimatsu Yoshihiko

Photographer: Joseph Desaulniers - Igarashi Keisuke

Axe Boy: Robbie White - Watabe Hiroki

Geisha: Michiko - Nakano Aimi

Sculptor: Galatea Claude - Yagi Mashiro

-Ensemble Cast-

Nihira Shogo

Tachibana Ryo

For those asking where to find the first three episodes, the Blu-rays are still available for order on Movic or on CDJapan. As for the subtitles, they're all available in my WordPress masterpost here!

[otakusparkle]

Identity V Stageplay Release

Identity V Stageplay Episode 4 "Phantom Of The Monochrome" will be appear in June - July 2024

The main character for this episode is Wu Chang and Prisoner

Cast

Survivor

- Yusuke Anazawa as Prisoner (Luca Balsa)

- Mirai Tsuboi as Mechanic (Tracy Reznik)

- Chiba Mizuki as Seer (Eli Clark)

- Suga Kyosuke as Prospector (Norton Campbell)

- Takuya Matsufuji as Mercenary (Naib Subedar)

- Kohei Masaki as Gravekeeper (Andrew Kreiss)

- Youta Suzuki as Postman (Victor Grantz)

- Sena Yamashita as Priestess (Fiona Gilman)

- [New] Kodai Miyagi as Painter (Edgar Valden)

- Uchida Ayasumi as Gardener (Emma Woods)

- Hirai Yuki as Embalmer (Aesop Carl)

Hunter

- Kunishima Naoki as Wu Chang (Xie Bian)

- Agata Gouki as Wu Chang (Fan Wujiu)

- Yoshihiko Narimatsu as The Ripper (Jack)

- Keisuke Igarashi as Photographer (Joseph Desaulnier)

- Watanabe Daiki as Axeboy (Robbie White)

- Aimi Nakano as Geisha (Michiko)

- [New] Mashiro Yagi as Sculptor (Galatea Claude)

[ultra-rockart]

Another Thing Blue Eye Samurai Got Wrong

There were women who fought as fighters and samurai (or more often called as onna-bugeisha or onna-musha) for their clan. They didn't have to hide their femininity. There is a long history of female warriors in Japan that date back to an Empress named Jingū (she ruled from 201 to 269 AD). I bring you two of the greats:

Tomoe Gozen

She was skilled at archery, the sword and the use of the naginata. Tomoe is one of the most feared women because of her cleverness and offensive tactical skills. Her men trusted and respected her. During the Battle of Awazu, she killed the Musashi clan leader. Sadly, there is no more records of her after that. Tomoe is the most known and celebrated of the onna-bugeisha.

Nakano Takeko

Like many samurai of her time, she wore the typical samurai armor but instead chose to wear a red hakama. This red hakama became a symbol of not just her femininity but empowerment. She fought in the Boshin War against Imperialists who wanted the Emperor to rise to power (they eventually won during the Battle of Toba–Fushimi).

Similar to the Kiheitai (or the ad hoc army by the Imperialists), she led the Jōshitai or women's army fighting on the side of the Tokugawa Shogunate.

Nakano was wounded with a rifle shot and rather than allowing her enemies to parade her lifeless body as a trophy, she ordered her sister (also a capable warrior as with her mother. all 3 women fought alongside each other) to cut her head off and burry her head in secret so her enemies would not have a reason to disgrace her. Her head was buried under a pine tree and her beloved naginata was given to a temple.

In Aizu during the Autumn festival, girls parade around the streets wearing a red hakama and a white headband to honor Nakano and the women fighters of the Jōshitai.

Other female fighters include Yamamoto Yae aka "Bakumatsu Joan of Arc" and Hangaku Gozen or Lady Hangaku.

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There is a reason the filmakers of Lady Snowblood (a film Blue Eye Samurai heavily borrows from) didn't chose to disguise Yuki as a man when she enacted her revenge.

[putschki1969]

LisAni! LIVE 2024

Yuki Kajiura, her regular FictionJunction members and LiSA all participated in the Saturday Stage of LisAni! LIVE 2024.

Title: リスアニ ！LIVE 2024 Date: January 27 (SATURDAY STAGE) Venue: Nippon Budokan Website: https://www.lisani.jp/live/ Appearing artists: illumination STARS & CoMETIK／ASCA／Yuma Uchida／JUNNA／ FictionJunction (Vocal: KAORI, KEIKO, YURIKO KAIDA, Joelle, LiSA)／Myuk UPCOMING ARTISTS：asmi / SennaRin / UniteUp!

🎤Setlist🎤 1.蒼穹のファンファーレ 2.stone cold 3.from the edge 4.Parade

Tweet by Keiko | Tweet by LiSA | Tweet 2 by LiSA | Tweet by ASCA | Tweet by Yuriko | Instagram post 1 & 2 by Keiko | Instagram post by LiSA

Kaji Fes. 2023 Day 1 Broadcast Promo Video

「30th Anniversary Yuki Kajiura LIVE vol.#19 - Kaji Fes. 2023-」 held at Nippon Budokan on December 8th and 9th, 2023 is set to be broadcast on CS TBS Channel 1. The other day, a short promo video was posted for the Day 1 broadcast.

📺DAY1：2024/02/24 21:00~(JST) 📺DAY2：2024/03/??

※The broadcast date and time of Day 2 will be announced on the TBS channel official website as soon as it is decided. ※You can watch it on your PC or smartphone via “SKY PerfecTV! Streaming”. You can also watch the archived video for one week after the broadcast. [Note: I don’t think this service is available overseas] ◇TBS channel official website

Yuki Kajiura LIVE vol.#17～PARADE～ TV Broadcast

In other news, it was announced that the final performance of YKL Vol#17 (2022/8/12) will be broadcast on CS TBS Channel 1 on February 24, before Kaji Fes. 2023 Day 1! 『Yuki Kajiura LIVE vol.#17～PARADE～』8/1 Tokyo Nakano Sunplaza Broadcast date/time：February 24 (18:30/21:00) TV Channel：CS TBS Channel 1 Website: https://www.tbs.co.jp/tbs-ch/item/o2837/ Yuki Kajiura（Piano/Chorus） Vocal：KAORI・KEIKO・YURIKO KAIDA・Joelle [Guest Vocal] Hanae Tomaru, rito, LINO LEIA [Surprise Guest] Hikaru

Previously, this live was broadcast on the streaming platform "Streaming+" (2022/11/01) so we are not getting any new footage unfortunately. Here are my posts about the broadcast => Live Report | Sprinter Performance

[asexual-juliet]

we are not free. but we are not alone. one song for each We Are Not Free Character

playlist notes under the cut

I. Minnow Ito - Everything Stays - Adventure Time Everything stays, right where you've left it / Everything stays, but it still changes / Ever so slightly, daily and nightly / In little ways, when everything stays The fact that both of Minnow’s chapters take place in San Francisco and bookend the novel make this the perfect choice for him as he reflects on how Japantown has both changed yet stayed the same as the city of his childhood

II. Shig Ito - Little League - Conan Gray And when we were younger / We wore our hearts right on our sleeves / Why did we ever have to leave? / Little league Shig’s chapter is basically him reflecting on his childhood in Japantown as he prepares to leave it and I think this song is perfect for that! There’s also the line “Do you remember days on our old block?/ Messin' with our neighbors who called the cops” which is SO Shig&Twitchy-core… them and their shenanigans!!

III. Yum-yum Oishi - You Are Loved - Defiance, Ohio And as the story unfolds over time / Things we once knew, they do dissolve into the sky / She swears she sees a brand new constellation / Every time somebody we know dies I love the bit in Yum-yum’s chapter where Tommy and Minnow are making up constellations and I have always associated Yum-yum with astral imagery because of it! I think this song really speaks to her unsurety about the future and I love the line “the radio plays a familiar song,” because Yumyum’s chapter is also where we get the first reference to Mas’ Silvertone radio!

IV. Bette Nakano - Can’t Blame a Girl for Trying - Sabrina Carpenter 'Cause I'm young and I'm dumb / I do stupid things when it comes to love / And even if I always end up crying / No, you can't blame a girl for trying I feel like I don’t even have to explain this one like this encapsulates Bette’s vibe EXACTLY!!! She would be such a teen pop girlie <3

V. Frankie Fujita - Amy aka Spent Gladiator 1 - The Mountain Goats Play with matches if you think you need to play with matches / Seek out the hidden places where the fire burns hot and bright / Find where the heat's unbearable and stay there if you have to / Don't hurt anybody on your way up to the light Thinking about this song as a Frankie song makes me FERAL!! something about the fire in this verse as a metaphor for his anger, him knowing he needs to do whatever he can to make sure he doesn’t hurt anybody with that anger… the first line of this song is “Do every stupid thing that makes you feel alive”...yeah. i luv you frankie fujita <3

VI. Stan Katsumoto - Once More with Feeling - Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly. Don't let the people make you think / That just because you're young you're useless / You know it's not naive to think that you can change the things around / And that no man is an island This is mostly in reference to Stan wanting to go to college to be a lawyer for the ACLU which is a piece of his character that I absolutely LOVE!!

VII. Aiko Harano - Warrior Girl - Nicole Visco Warrior Girl only goes to where she wants to / Warrior Girl maybe has a heavy sword / Warrior Girl has no idea where she jumps to / But she jumps to where she wants to / And she's never ever bored This is absolutely Aiko’s song!!! She is a scrappy little warrior girl and I adore her for it!! There is also a refrain in this song about “maybe someday / there'll be some way I could get to roam free” which. yeah. I love you Aiko <3

VIII. Yuki Nakano - Crazy Dreams - Carrie Underwood Here's to you free souls, you firefly chasers / Tree climbers, porch swingers, air guitar players / Here's to you fearless dancers, shaking walls in your bedrooms / There's a lot of wonder left inside of me and you / Thank God even crazy dreams come true This just reminds me a lot of Yuki’s dream of playing in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League!! especially because there’s a part of the song that says “Never let a bad day be enough / To go and talk you into giving up” which reminds me so much of Yuki’s chapter!!

IX. Mary Katsumoto - Something About Lemons - Chumped And every day, I grow a little more resentful / Of the choices that I did or didn't make / Wanted this to feel a little more eventful / Every day that I'm awake just feels the same This is SO Mary!! especially the line about being resentful of the choices that she didn’t (get to) make… like that’s literally the plot of her chapter.

X. Kiyoshi Tani - Lion’s Teeth - The Mountain Goats And my arms get sore / And my palms start to sweat / And the tears roll down my face / Till my cheeks are hot and red and soaking wet John Darnielle called this song a “revenge fantasy” about standing up to his abusive stepfather and I think that Kiyoshi deserves that kind of catharsis.

XI. Mas Ito - human - Christina Perri But I'm only human / And I bleed when I fall down / I'm only human / And I crash and I break down Song about pretending to be strong and fake a smile and force a laugh until you literally can’t anymore and it fucking destroys you… hello Mas Ito!!

XII. Keiko Kimura - Who Knew - P!nk That last kiss, I'll cherish until we meet again / And time makes it harder, I wish I could remember / But I keep your memory, you visit me in my sleep / My darling, who knew? Fucked up behavior of me to choose this for Keiko but yeah it’s about Twitchy. Feels self-explanatory.

XIII. Twitchy Hashimoto - Brother - Kodaline We've taken different paths / And traveled different roads / I know we'll always end up on the same one when we're old / And when you're in the trenches / And you're under fire, I will cover you Very much chosen with the Twitchy&Shig dynamic in mind but also because Twitchy literally refers to the other characters as his “siblings back in Topaz”... and something about the line about “we were… the kings and queens” combined with the motif of royalty surrounding Twitchy & his relationship with Keiko (“company of kings,” Aiko’s thought about Twitchy treating Keiko like a “queen,” Keiko’s comparing Twitchy to a prince, the Cinderella motifs in Keiko’s chapter…. yeah) and ofc the reference to trench warfare… this is his fucking song.

XIV. Tommy Harano - Landslide - Fleetwood Mac Well, I've been afraid of changin' / 'Cause I've built my life around you / But time makes you bolder / Even children get older / And I'm getting older too something about Tommy finally making the decision to leave his parents behind… he’s built his life around a family that doesn’t treat him right but time has made him bolder as he’s grown up. and like. the references to snow in both the book and the song are beautiful and aplenty but i don’t have the time to unpack that.

XV. All Of Us - Disposable Youth - No-No Boy Disposable you / Disposable me / Disposable hearts / Indestructible teens Off an album named for the year the Japanese American incarceration of World War II began, this is songwriter Julian Saporiti’s “imagining of what it would have been like to be ever experience a Memorial Day bbq with people who looked like me” and has a very similar vibe to the scene at Tanforan where they celebrate of the infield after the Americans defeated the Japanese at the Battle of Midway. somethin’ bout teenagers getting to be wild and loving and free <3

[thisworld1]

By Japanese photographer Yuki Nakano

[imasallstars]

The cover art for THE IDOLM@STER CINDERELLA GIRLS STARLIGHT MASTER HEART TICKER! 03 HALLOWEEN GAME album has been released and the album is set to be released on the 14th of February 2024. Alongside the title song, it will also feature respective solo versions and a new duet by FrenchKisS (Frederica Miyamoto and Kanade Hayami)

Tracklist:

Tr.01　HALLOWEEN GAME (M@STER VERSION) 　Lyrics&Music&Arrange: TAKT (TRYTONELABO) 　Singer(s): Yuki Himekawa, Yuka Nakano, Yuko Hori, Haruna Kamijo, Chiyo Shirayuki Tr.02　Mystery Heart 　Lyrics&Music&Arrange: PandaBoY 　Singer(s): Frederica Miyamoto, Kanade Hayami Tr.03　HALLOWEEN GAME (M@STER VERSION) (off vocal) Tr.04　Mystery Heart (off vocal) BONUS TRACK Tr.05　HALLOWEEN GAME (M@STER VERSION) ~Yuki Himekawa Remix~ Tr.06　HALLOWEEN GAME (M@STER VERSION) ~Yuka Nakano Remix~ Tr.07　HALLOWEEN GAME (M@STER VERSION) ~Yuko Hori Remix~ Tr.08　HALLOWEEN GAME (M@STER VERSION) ~Haruna Kamijo Remix~ Tr.09　HALLOWEEN GAME (M@STER VERSION) ~Chiyo Shirayuki Remix~ Tr.10　HALLOWEEN GAME (GAME VERSION) 　Singer(s): Yuki Himekawa, Yuka Nakano, Yuko Hori, Haruna Kamijo, Chiyo Shirayuki

[imagineforeststudio]

Sleepy/Blueberry inspiration (or those characters that remind me of my sona lol)

Velma (Scooby Doo)

Yuki Nagato (Suzumiya Haruhi no Tsuisou)

Tomoko Kuroki (WataMote)

Anna (When Marnie Was There)

Koharu Nanakura (AIKATSU STARS!)

Miku Nakano (5-Toubun no Hanayome)

Mizuki Usami (Konobi)

Eina Tulle (DanMachi)

[tracichee]

hiii just wanted to say that i really adore your book We Are Not Free!!! we’re studying it right now for english honors and i really came to love your writing. i LOVEEE how poetic it gets. keiko’s chapter had me SO SO floored. im about to start reading twitchy’s chapter. i heard people say it was sad 😭 but anyways thank you so much for writing WANF i love that book.

—how i imagined yuki

I love this rendition of Yuki! You can tell she's got that Nakano duality of grit and sparkle.

Keiko's chapter was so much fun to write. I loved how the structure of it was an inverse of Yum-yum's chapter in Tanforan: Yum-yum is tallying up the days they're incarcerated; Keiko is counting down the hours until Twitchy leaves. (Twitchy's chapter is also a favorite of mine. But how could it not be? That boy, so in love with life.)

Thank you for sharing your art with me!