#ni zan

[classic-asian-art]

Landscape in the Style of Ancient Masters: after Ni Zan (1301-1374), Cao Zhibo (1272-1355) by Lan Ying (Album leaf; ink and colors on paper)

[wally-b-feed]

Anthony Fineran (B 1981), Ni Addar Zan, 2023

[whatudottu]

Combined with the mortifying realisation that loopified Odile (now named Nokosu) took me multiple hours to draw the first time, I decided to try and make one speak in Japanese :) :) :)

The Japanese sentences will be under the cut plus a more literal translation and some research notes-

自分は遺残の神である。「��す」と呼んでもいいし、「残」の字を使ってもいい。お前 の草白鳥は、すでにお前 の小烏から 「イサ 」という名前を取っている。二人の人間に同じ名前を使うのは混乱しないか？ヴォーガルド語の「サ」の発音は「ザ」に近いので、特に必要である。そうだろう？

or in Romaji

Jibun wa izan no kamidearu. 'Nokosu' to yonde mo īshi, 'zan' no ji o tsukatte mo ī. Omae no kusa hakuchō wa, sudeni omae no ko karasu kara `Isa' to iu namae o totte iru. Futari no ningen ni onaji namae o tsukau no wa konran shinai ka? Vu~ōgarudo-go no 'sa' no hatsuon wa 'za' ni chikainode, tokuni hitsuyōdearu. Sōdarou?

Literally translated Nokosu says;

I am the god of remains. You may call me “Nokosu", or you may use the [Chinese character] for “remain". Your grass swan has already taken the name “Isa” from your little crow. Isn't it confusing to use the same name for two people? It is especially necessary since the pronunciation of “sa” in Vaugarde is close to “za”. Wouldn't you agree?

And for the explanations of a monolingual English speaker with barely even surface level understanding of Japanese.

Throughout my entire journey, Jisho.org kanji dictionary has been my saving grace and backbone in my choice of Nokosu's name and what first and second person pronouns one uses. My initial goal was to find a name for survival or persistance which lead to me finding terms like; 存続 (sonzoku) meaning survival, 存 meaning exist and 続 meaning continue; 耐久 (taikyuu) meaning endurance, 耐 meaning the affix -proof (of bulletproof or soundproof), 久 meaning long time; and finally 遺残 (izan) meaning persistence, 遺 meaning bequeath, 残 meaning remainder.

To kinda help expand my knowledge of the terms I was using, I also used a combination of google translate (primarily for the pronunication of words less the actual translations) and DeepL to kinda get the sweet deets and found that izan had meant - a more common definition - remains. It. Was. Perfect.

Perfect save for one thing... Isa- Sure, Isabeau is his full name and written down Isabeau and Izan are unique enough, but technically functionally the 'sa' in French (and thus in Vaugardian) is more voiced than the 'sa' in Japanese and sounds more like the 'za' in izan, and to have Odile refer to Nokosu as Izan when "only [Siffrin] call[s] him Isa" is an in-game quote; to say I was miffed was an understatement.

But then... I turned to words that use those individual kanji and hoped to mix and match to find what I wanted.

My first direction was to turn each kanji into hiragana to find their pronunciations and piece together a word from that; 遺 in isolation is noko, 残 in isolation is zan. Finding the term no ko zan-kiri (のこざん切り) on google gave me 'chopped into pieces' which well- look at my design that's a lot of pieces! のこ残 or nokozan (turning the first character into hiragana of course) lead me to 'remnants of a servant's body' as it's main translation on DeepL, but it also provided 'backbreaking exertions' as well as 'remnants of a defeated soldier'. Plus using DeepL again izan itself full kanji gave me 'vestiges' 'bequest' 'afterlife' and the ever present 'remains'.

None of these however were getting me closer to an ample replacement for izan however, not until I returned to jisho.org to pick out words from a list using either kanji.

Turns out, both 遺 and 残 can be pronounce 'noko' so long as it is followed by the hiragana す or su. And guess what either spelling of the word translates into? The 遺す version meaning to leave (behind), to bequeath, and the 残す version meaning that same thing but more, to leave (undone), to save/to reserve, to stay (in the ring).

SO! SO! That is how Nokosu came to be named! But- what about the Japanese phrase I wrote?

Well- let's stay on the Nokosu theme now that any Japanese readers in my audience have already processed the meta-joke that can only really exist in Japanese writing (or maybe not a joke but like... a fourth wall acknowledgement). Nokosu already introduces oneself as 遺す though doesn't mention how to spell it (since it's already spelt out to the reader), then introduces the second variant of the spelling exclusively referring to the second kanji of Izan 残 as zan. Maybe it's not really a joke but it'd kinda be like the 'you use he/they, it's in your profile' equivalent.

I suppose an attempt at a joke was Odile thinking 'a very wordy Expression', but that's mostly from observing that translations through DeepL stopped run on sentences occuring from English to Japanese so... I have no idea if constant uses of commas isn't particularly Japanese, at least the joke would be that Nokosu is particularly more chatty than Odile might normally be.

And once again, people who know Japanese may have noticed the use of jibun (自分) and omae (お前) for Nokosu's pronouns. Lowkey I was thinking initially of making Nokosu's first person pronoun oira a la sans undertale 'country bumpkin' but found more interesting things with jibun and omae that I settled on those versions. jibun, a neutral formality pronoun literally meaning 'oneself', when used as a personal pronoun (like Nokosu does) it's with a sense of separation of distance to the self; I also found out in my translation hunt that jibun can be used as a second person pronoun which is very fucking fitting given who Nokosu talks to, but that's specifically from in the Kansai dialect and - well - I can't say for certain where Odile hails from especially since Japan in ISAT is Ka Bue, but she'd be well educated enough to connect the dots that Nokosu lays down. On the other hand, Nokosu's second person pronoun is omae (Fist of the North Star fans will remember it from the very iconic 'omae wa mou shindearu'), which is incredibly informal and very rude when said to elders (though in age technically Nokosu is older) as it's meant to express the speaker's higher status in non-casual relationships.

To note, though omae can be used by both genders, it and jibun are mostly used by men and in the case of omae it's more commonly used to refer to their wife or lover. This has a little extra significance to background headcanon where Nokosu calls Odile Nanafushi (七節) or literally walking stick AKA a stickbug as ones version of 'Stardust', but sometimes Nokusu would split the word in half and refer to Odile as 'Nana' which in English sounds like one is referencing a grandma but (BUT) I'm specifically using the French term which translates to 'chick' 'babe' 'girlfriend'. So when I saw that omae can also be used for that purpose, it really goes to show that at some point Nokosu had the time to perfectly craft a version of oneself that does get on Odile's nerves and has the gall to get away with it at least initially under the assumption that one is an Expression.

I've been trying to make this flow from one point to another but I don't know how to jump to Japanese nicknames, at least not the metaphorical ones that I used here (and took inspiration from the Word of God Odile nickname for Siffrin 'Little Crow'). What little I do know about Japanese nicknames is that they may take alternate readings of single kanji as a nickname or repeat a character, though that is in reference to Japanese names in the first place. I did see something about the metaphorical sort of nicknames that have connotations in the language itself but- honestly this is my most monolingual English moment yet. I will explain however what I did decide.

草白鳥 or kusa hakuchou is the character for grass 草, and the kanji combination for swan 白鳥. In DeepL however 草白鳥 translates to grasshopper and though I signifcantly lack the cultural context to know what grasshopper symbology has in Japan, I do know in English you call someone a 'grasshopper' because they're tall. But why start with grass swan at all? Well- maybe it's a stretch for whatever fantasy time-period ISAT takes place in to use an internet term but, 草 has been used in internet slang to mean lol or haha since 'w' is also a version of lol or haha, and when spammed like so - wwwwwwwwwwwww - it looks like grass. The reason for swan would be because of I guess this idea of beauty? Less due to Odile specifically considering Isabeau beauty and more so taking note of his care to his appearance - whether it be how he presents his perception of his appearance or how he makes people belief a different thing about what his views about his appearance are, white swan or black swan - and that whatever the case is, he does take pride in maintaining that appearance; a retroactive meaning to the nickname, especially when Isa starts more casually bringing up the fact he *had* Changed, would be an incidental reference to the ugly duckling, who ended up not being a duckling at all and was a swan all along. Whether the nickname actually works or not I don't really know, but what it boils down to Odile's nickname for him (and thus Nokosu's only title for him beyond fighter) would really mean 'funny (tall) beauty' which would probably fluster Odile to admit it as Isa would hearing it.

An interesting thing I found while finding kanji for little crow (specifically 小烏) was that there is actually kind of already a word for it already, Kogarasu Maru or 小烏丸, AKA "Little Crow" which is a unique tachi sword rumoured to be crafted by a legendary swordsmith like-! I don't know if that was at all intentional on Insertdisc5's part (and if I should change the pronunciaton of the romaji version of the original text to kogarasu), but beyond Siffrin's little habit to collect every little thing that shines and doesn't, what do you mean there's a unique tachi sword named 'little crow' that's like literally so Siffrin-coded I SWEAR TO GOD!

Oh, and I played ISAT in Japanese to get the correct spelling of Vaugarde and 語 (go) is just the suffix for language AKA the difference between Nihon the country and Nihongo the language okay BYE!

[xinyuehui]

Scissor Seven S5EP5 Trivia

Dai Bo made a joke about how inns in martial art films is often a place to gather information. One of the most prominent inns in martial art media is Dragon Inn.

Screenshot from Dragon Inn (1967)

Reference to a famous Chinese meme "eat shit"(?) from As Tears Go By (1988)

Seven says the exact same line "eat shit" a minute later.

No idea how they will translate 白云凤爪 officially, the direct translation is White Cloud Phoenix Claws. Which happens to be the exact same name of a famous Cantonese dim sum dish cold marinated chicken feet. (I will spare the western audience from a picture of this delicious dish 😂)

The nine-fingered demon of the qin is a reference to the Wuxia novel 六指琴魔 Six-Fingered Qin Demon written by Ni Kuang. In the novel the character is known to have six fingers on one hand.

The English behind him on the blackboard is a throwback to when Seven flexed his English in season 2 episode 7.

Miss Mei, this rose is for you!

The classes are 7 and 13!! The "Qing" and "Chun" on the back of the shirts mean "youth".

This part in the ED is a reference to a conversation Eleven had with He Dachun in season 3 episode 4.

Speculation that the Eyeless mage and Thirteen's dad know each other?

They seem to be doing fortune telling here. 申(shen) represents Yang in Yin-Yang, metal in Wuxing (five elements), one of the Earthly Branches which represents 3pm-5pm or monkey in the zodiac or southwest position in 24 cardinal directions. I do not know about fortune telling so I have no idea what any of this means, it could mean war is coming or Thirteen's dad have no son luck lol take your pick.

Here we see Ouyang Zan using a Mu Ren Zhuang, also known as a Wing Chun dummy. While the Thumbs-Up martial art is a fun pun on Zan/thumb. Throughout the series we can see the style of martial art he practices is Wing Chun. Ouyang Zan's name is a reference to the martial artist Leung Jan (Liang Zan in pingyin). Leung Jan is one of the earliest practitioners of Wing Chun, he's also known as Mr Jan of Foshan. Modern martial artists such as Ip Man and Bruce Lee was his grand-disciple and great-grand-disciple respectively.

In EP4 we see Seven use Foshan shadowless kick. A famous technique used by Wong Feihung, although Wong Feihung practices Hung Ga style martial art. This kick is also practiced in Wing Chun. These styles all fall under the category of Nanquan - southern Chinese martial arts.

[argumentl]

2024/01/20 aknot only Gorilla Hall Osaka - Report

I only applied for this date on this tour, so I feel super lucky to have gotten it, especially for such an iconic anniversary!

This was my first time at Gorilla Hall, but the entrance process was super organized and easy. I had quite a high ticket number, so was fairly far back when I first got inside, but I could see the stage, so wasn't too bothered. HOWEVER, there are no rails in Gorilla Hall other than the front rail! So as soon as the lights went down for the show to start, there was a big rush forward, and I pretty much found myself nicely mid crowd, only a few meters from the front, shimote of course! Happy!!

From the start there was so much fan service! Kaoru and Die standind together, Die and Toshiya standing together, Kaoru and Kyo standing together, everyone gathering around Shinya....even in the first few songs!

Die and Toshiya in particular looked...close. At one point Die stood behind Toshiya and rested his chin on Toshiya's shoulder, spoke in his ear, and after that even got down on his knees and played his guitar while looking up at Toshiya! 

Yes, I did see the other members a bit this time, haha. There was a spotlight behind Kaoru for quite some time, which would shine directly into my eyes and blind me whenever he stepped out of its beam, so I was forced at times to look elsewhere to save my eyesight 😂

Kyo was still bald, all white make up with black eyes. He looked really spooky. 

Toshiya was in his sparkly dress to start, and for the encore he wore a leopard print shirt, with the tiniest tight shorts ever. I only saw his shorts at the end when he stood up high on the truss, and I initialy thought he had lost his trousers somehow, haha (his shorts really just looked as small as underwear), but then i realised this was his actual outfit 😂 

Kaoru was in his black jacket/white shirt/waistcoat combo, looking like a total aristocrat. Blonde hair, combed back 😍 And for the encore he wore a White Zombie band tshirt! 

Kaoru was using his pink ganesa for Yurameki at the start, but changed to a few other guitars during the rest of the show. He also took off his black jacket few songs in. 

The set list was amazing, as follows:

mode of adam

yurameki

Schwein no isu

Zomboid

Eddie

Mouai ni shosu

Myaku

304 goushitsu

Tsumi to batsu

Obscure

Byou shin

Karma

Unknown...Despair...a Lost

zan

ΕΝ.

Akuro no oka

Followers

Filth

Child Prey

So many of these songs were songs that I was listening to when I first became a fan of Dir over 20yrs ago, so it was actually surreal hearing them all live together like this. Especially having just watched the newly released footage from 1999, hearing Schwein, Tsumi to batsu, Byou shin, Karma together...omg, it was overwhelming! 

And Akuro no oka! The audience was quiet for the whole song, and gave a respectful applause when it finished. It was really emotional. 

My fave part of the encore was actual during Filth! Something came over Kaoru, its almost like he became the song...he was roaming the front rows of the crowd with his eyes, but his facial expressions just exuded the MOST erotic filth! Its like he was thinking about dirty, dirty things, and it showed on his face! If I had been in the front few rows, I would be dead for sure! 

At one point I saw him pointing straight in my direction, with his head tilted and eyes half closed, but that wasn't during Filth, haha. 

I didn't catch anything this time, but I did get watered on by Kaoru, Toshiya, and Die, so Im happy! Kaoru's bottle flew straight over my head, and when I was on my way out I saw a big puddle of (real) blood on the floor where it had landed, so Im assuming there was either a struggle, or someone had slipped on the water that splashed out of it. But there was a venue staff member standing there to stop people walking through it on the way out. 

Kyo, Shinya, and Toshiya left the stage, and then Kaoru smiled and pointed at Die before leaving. The Die came over and tapped the mic, and said, 'Can I say something?' 

He gave a really emotional speech about how they have come this far due to the support they have from fans and people around them, and he acknowledged that Dir en grey will have to end one day, due to the members being only human. But until that time, they will continue to cherish playing lives and being with fans. Then he said like, 'so Im not gonna let you die before us, promise me' 

You heard it everyone, you gotta look after yourself, and keep living for Dir, and they will do the same for you!

[sgiandubh]

Today's apocryphal Sun Tzu quote

If some people's suitcases could talk, they would have nothing to say.

Ni Zan - Wind among the Trees on the Riverbank, 1363 AD

[yridenergyridenergy]

Setlist of 2024/01/20 PSYCHONNECT show at Gorilla Hall Osaka

mode of adam

Yurameki

Schwein no Isu

ZOMBOID

Eddie

Mouai ni Shosu

Myaku

304 goushitsu

Mitsu to tsuba

OBSCURE

Byou "" Shin

Karma

Unknown...Despair...a Lost

Zan

-Encore-

Acro no Oka

Followers

TDFF

FILTH

CHILD PREY

[zpl1nt3r3d-b0n3-zhardz]

Um any pronouns that kind of have the same vibes as dae/daem and ey/em? Thanks!

ae/aers

au/aus

aem/aems

awr/awrs

av/avs

am/ams

alum/alums

ah/ahs

beo/beos

bix/bixs

bex/bexs

ce/ces

cos/cos

cir/cirs

chei/cheis

cy/cys

cherm/cherms

chim/chims

che/ches

chir/chirs

de/des

di/dis

dem/dema

deir/deirs

dex/dexs

dea/deas

drem/drems

dev/devs

em/ems

err/errs

eir/eirs

ex/exs

eim/eims

et/ets

fe/fes

fe/fets

fi/fis

fy/fys

fym/fyms

foz/fozs

fiz/fizs

feir/feirs

fyc/fycs

gem/gems

gy/gys

gei/geis

geo/geos

gur/gurs

hy/hys

hym/hyms

hur/hurs

hiz/hiz

hir/hirs

hier/heirs

hiv/hivs

Ix/ixs

iv/ivs

iz/izs

iw/iws

ip/ips

jy/jys

jem/jems

ji/jis

jed/jeds

jhe/jhes

ky/kys

kei/keis

keim/keims

ka/kas

kye/kyes

keir/keirs

ly/lys

lym/lyms

lir/lirs

leer/leers

lem/lems

mae/maes

meir/meirs

mur/murs (meant to be completely ungendered)

mex/mexs

mo/mos

mym/myms

myr/myrs

mor/mors

mey/meres

nyx/nyxs

nir/nirs

nire/nires

naem/naems

nix/nixs

nem/nems

ner/ners

nis/nies

nym/nyms

ox/oxs

one/ones

on/ons

oym/oyms

ot/ots

oh/ohs

ow/ows

os/ose

per/pers

py/pys

phy/phys

pyx/pyxs

pyxl/pyxls

qei/qeis

q/qs

quoi/quois

qer/qers

qur/qurs

qur/qeres

rei/reis

rhem/rhems

ry/rys

rhy/rhys

rie/ries

se/ses

shi/shis

shee/shees

syh/syhs

sae/saes

sy/syhs

sie/sies

swe/swes

thou/thous

thee/thees

thy/thys

thym/thyms

thon/thons

tre/tres

tym/tyms

tye/tyes

tri/trixs

uv/uvs

um/ums

uh/uhs

uhm/uhms

ve/ves

Vin/vins

v/vs

vei/veis

veir/veirs

vo/vos

vho/vhos

ven/vens

vae/vaes

vaer/vaers

vaem/vaems

vax/vaxs

vev/vevs

vos/vos

wym/wyms

wei/weis

wix/wixs

way/wurs

xix/xixs

xei/xeis

xe/xes

Xem/xems

xie/xies

xet/xets

xer/xers

xip/xips

xt/xts

xym/xyms

xaer/xaers

xeir/xeirs

xep/xipz/xepself

xui/xuis

yro/yros

yem/yems

yo/yos

zhi/zhis

ze/zes

zeir/zeirs

zen/zens

zy/zys

zan/zans

zuf/zufs

zu/zus

zym/zyms

zyx/zyxs

zet/zets

few more little random ones

?/?s

/,/s

!/!s

×/×s

will get to other request as soon as I wake up from a nap <3

[foreverchangingfandomsao3]

gar ru’shuku ni as Ni nass (you broke me like I’m nothing) (3,947 words) by foreverchangingfandoms

Chapters: 1/1

Fandom: Star Wars - All Media Types, Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008) - All Media Types

Rating: Not Rated

Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings

Relationships: Obi-Wan Kenobi & Quinlan Vos

Characters: Obi-Wan Kenobi, Quinlan Vos, Dooku | Darth Tyranus

Additional Tags: Whumptober 2024, Obi-Wan Kenobi Whump, Obi-Wan Kenobi Needs a Hug, Well he does by the end of the fic, Loss of Trust, Sith Quinlan Vos, Kind Of, Sith Dooku (Star Wars), Torture, Past Torture, Sensory Deprivation, Whipping, Force Choking (Star Wars), Electrocution, Hurt Obi-Wan Kenobi, Obi-Wan Kenobi & Quinlan Vos Friendship, Jenna Zan Arbor mentioned, Obi-Wan Kenobi Has PTSD, Quinlan Vos is Trying his Best, POV Obi-Wan Kenobi

Series: Part 2 of Whumptober 2024

Summary:

Obi-Wan Kenobi has been sent to retrieve Quinlan Vos after there are concerns over his undercover mission. It goes wrong.

My fill for whumptober day 2 - Trust issues (amusement park | role reversal | “you got away with the crime while the knife’s in my back”)

[ayakashibackstreet]

Ensemble Stars!! MV Tournament - Round 1 statistics

Two days ago, the first round polls came to a close. Before we get to the Second Chance Round (which, spoilers, will consist of 37 polls running over the course of a week), here are some statistics I compiled in regards to the round 1 results.

Round 1 consisted of 91 polls. The polls were published over the course of 18 days.

Part 1: Voting numbers.

As expected, the number of votes started out relatively low and increased over the course of the tournament.

The average poll had about 57 votes (rounding up).

Top 5 polls with the most votes:

5. Match 34: Fight for Judge vs Crush of Judgement / Match 69: Or the Beautiful Golden Drop vs FALLIN LOVE=IT'S WONDERLAND (104 votes each) 4. Match 46: Le temps des fleurs vs Memoire Antique (105 votes) 3. Match 48: Believe 4 leaves vs Crazy Anthem (110 votes) 2. Match 25: U.S.A. vs Tell Your World (123 votes) 1. Match 71: Mystic Fragrance vs Yubisaki no Ariadne (130 votes)

Top 5 polls with the least votes:

5. Match 9: Crazy Roulette vs Kiss of Life (28 votes) 4. Match 8: Miwaku Geki vs Voice of Sword (27 votes) 3. Match 7: Be The Party Bee! vs LEMON SQUASH CHEERS! (25 votes) 2. Match 10: Rainbow Stairway vs Yukai Tsuukai That's alright! (24 votes) 1. Match 1: BRAND NEW STARS!! vs ONLY YOUR STARS! (22 votes)

Part 2: Voting results.

Obviously, some matches were more even, while in others, one MV absolutely dominated the others.

This chart presents how the votes stacked up, how even the results were - I called this proportion the sweep factor because it sounded funny. The higher the number, the more uneven the result of any given poll - with 1 being a 50/50 split.

The average poll had a sweep factor of 2,94 (rounded up). That means the average poll had a result roughly equivalent to 74,5%/25,5%.

Top 5 SWEEEEEEEEEEPS:

5. Match 27: Ruler's Truth (12,3%) vs Trap For You (87,7%) 4. Match 30: Tsujikaze ni Fukarete (9,6%) vs HELLO, NEW YEAR! (90,4%) 3. Match 51: Love×me⇄monsteR (90,9%) vs Love it Love it (9,1%) 2. Match 90: Yoru ni Kakeru (93%) vs Living on the edge (7%) 1. Match 63: Holy Angel's Carol (5,4%) vs Gaisenka (94,6%)

Top 5 head-to-head matches:

5. Match 61: Crossing x Heart (48,9%) vs Unlimited Power!!!!! (51,1%) 4. Match 69: Or the Beautiful Golden Drop (51%) vs FALLIN LOVE=IT'S WONDERLAND (49%) 3. Match 82: Meteor Scramble☆RYUSEITAI! (50,8%) vs Welcome to the Trickstar Night☆ (49,2%) 2. Match 29: Brilliant Smile (49,3%) vs EXCEED (50,7%) 1. Match 41: Hamtaro Tottokouta vs RELAX PARADISE (it was a tie! both pass to round 2)

Additionally, one can look at the votes each individual MV received.

Top 5 MVs with the most votes:

5. Eccentric Party Night!! (62 votes) 4. Believe 4 leaves (61 votes) 3. U.S.A. (73 votes) 2. Mystic Fragrance (80 votes) 1. Les temps des fleurs (93 votes)

Top 5 MVs with the least votes:

5. Zan ~Ketsui no Yaiba~ / Rainbow Stairway / Ruler's Truth (8 votes each) 4. I "Witch" You A Happy Halloween / CHERRY HAPPY STREAM / Nebula / Be The Party Bee! / Love Ra*bits Party!! (7 votes each) 3. ONLY YOUR STARS! / Play "Tag" (6 votes each) 2. DESTRUCTION ROAD / Voice of Sword / Love it Love it / Tsujikaze ni Fukarete (5 votes each) 1. Living on the edge / Holy Angel's Carol (3 votes each)

Part 3: Unit statistics

Producers of specific units may be curious as to how their favourite little guys did. Well...

These stats exclude Fusion Unit songs towards the ranking of the units (ex. Artistic Partisan does not count towards neither ALKALOID's, nor Valkyrie's song count). It also excludes ex-fine songs from fine's results.

Additionally, that chart combines the results of Adam and Eve towards Eden's results. If one were to count them seperately, the results would be as follows:

Anyways, that'd be it for now! Again, the Second Chance Round will start soon, so keep an eye out for that!

[hideyseek]

ah .... tragedy ...

subtitler heard 你算是回来了 ni suan shi hui lai le, "you've finally come back" (annoyed) as 你暂时回来了 ni zan shi hui lai le "you've temporarily returned" (incomprehensible)

[classic-asian-art]

Landschaft im Stil der alten Meister: nach Ni Zan (1301-1374) 

von Lan Ying (Undatiert, Album leaf; ink and colors on paper)

[saddest-wettest-beast-tournament]

Ensemble Stars Music Showdown Bracket

The brackets have been all set up! Round one will begin tomorrow, 5/11, around 5 PM EST and will run for 1 day

Make as much propaganda as you want and if you want me to rb it make sure to tag me in it

Going to put the brackets in text format under the cut

Bracket A

Left Side

1: Crazy Roulette (Crazy:B) vs Date Plan A to Z (√AtoZ)

2: PARANOIA STREET (Crazy:B) vs Rakuen Tsuihou -Faith Conquest- (Eden)

3: Omoi no Kakera (Switch) vs Promise Swords (Knights)

4: You’re Speculation (ALKALOID) vs RIOT WOLF (Koga)

5: Sei Shounen Yuugi (ex-Valkyrie) vs TRICK with TREAT!! (2wink)

6: Yuukyou Seishunka (Valkyrie & AKATSUKI) vs The Beast of the End (Adam)

7: Little Little Prince Star (Tori) vs Zan -Ketsui no Yaiba- (AKATSUKI)

8: NA NA NA SUMMER NIGHT BeeAT (Crazy:B) vs Kanata e no Uta (Kanata)

9: Black Ball-Room (DEADMANZ) vs d’Arc (ex-Valkyrie)

10: Daydream×Reality (Trickstar) vs VIVID ROLE-PLAYING (Sora)

11: Sleeper Mystery Train (Double Face) vs Tell Your World (2wink & Switch)

12: Sajou no Roukaku (ex-Valkyrie) vs Yoru ni Kakeru (ALKALOID & Double Face)

13: Twilight Pentagram (Altered/Five Eccentrics) vs Heart aid Cafeteria (BLEND+)

14: Voice of Sword (Knights) vs Living on the Edge (ALKALOID)

15: The Tempest Night (fine) vs Ryusei Hanabi (RYUSEITAI)

16: Honeycomb Summer (Crazy:B) vs Kiss of Life (ALKALOID)

Right Side

1: Fight for Judge (Knights) vs Melody in the Dark (UNDEAD)

2: Midnight Butlers (XXVeil) vs VERMILION (ALKALOID)

3: U.S.A. (Crazy:B & UNDEAD) vs Moonlight Disco (Getto Spectacle)

4: Have you been naughty or nice? (Flambé!) vs Uruwashi no Nightingale (Valkyrie)

5: Magic for your “Switch” (Switch) vs Matsuriyo Emaki (AKATSUKI)

6: Meikyuu Denshi Kairou (Valkyrie) vs Heart Prism・Symmetry (2wink)

7: FIST OF SOUL (Butou-kai) vs Feathers of Ark (fine)

8: BRAND NEW STARS!! (All) vs Feather Heartache (Kaoru)

9: How to move’n chess (Izumi, Arashi, Nazuna, & Kuro) vs Unstoppable Love! (Trickstar)

10: Yukai Tsuukai That's Alright! (MaM) vs Shippuu Jinrai Shinobi Michi (Shinobu)

11: Savage Love Affair (UNDEAD) vs Nekketsu☆Ryusei Ninpouchou (RYUSEITAI)

12: Or the Beautiful Golden Drop (Knights) vs Birthday of Music! (Leo)

13: Death Game Holic (DEADMANZ) vs Noir Neige (La Mort)

14: Stippling (Double Face) vs Cloth Waltz (Shu)

15: FORBIDDEN RAIN (UNDEAD) vs PERFECTLY-IMPERFECT (UNDEAD & AKATSUKI)

16: Eccentric Party Night!! (Five Eccentrics) vs Genuine Revelation (ex-fine)

Bracket B

Left Side

1: =EYE= (Double Face) vs Awakening Myth (Eden)

2: Crush of Judgement (Knights Killers) vs Knights the Phantom Thief (Knights)

3: Be the Party Bee! (Crazy:B) vs Gate of the Abyss (UNDEAD)

4: Mystic Fragrance (Knights) vs Eternal Weaving (Valkyrie)

5: Poison Strategy (Ibara) vs Psyche’s Butterfly (Eden)

6: Hysteric Humanoid (ALKALOID) vs Marine Blue Rendezvous (Kanata)

7: Akatsuki Iroha Uta (AKATSUKI) vs Niichan Cheer Squad☆ (Nazuna)

8: Endless Vide (Fraternity) vs Gekkou Kitan (AKATSUKI)

9: RAINBOW CIRCUS (fine) vs See You Again (Madara)

10: Brilliant Smile (Switch) vs Sunlit Smile (Eve)

11: Kohaku to Ruri no Rondo (Mika) vs Melty♡Kitchen (Ra*bits)

12: Tenka Muteki☆Meteorangers! (RYUSEITAI) vs Secret Gravity (Natsume)

13: Little Romance (Knights) vs Artistic Partisan (ALKALOID & Valkyrie)

14: Coruscate Breeze (Knights) vs Ironic Blue (Izumi)

15: Ghostic Treat House (fine) vs Helter-Spider (Crazy:B)

16: Mayonaka no Nocturne (Ritsu) vs Bloody Moon Vampire (Rei)

Right Side

1: Yubisaki no Ariadne (Crazy:B) vs Distorted Heart (ALKALOID)

2: Acanthe (Valkyrie) vs Noisy:Beep (Crazy:B)

3: Article of Faith (Knights) vs Raisanka (Valkyrie)

4: RISKY VENUS (Crazy:B) vs FALLIN' LOVE=IT'S WONDERLAND (Ra*bits)

5: Believe 4 leaves (ALKALOID) vs Nightless World (UNDEAD)

6: Mémoire Antique (Valkyrie) vs Saql Faith (Adonis)

7: Play “Tag” (2wink) vs JEWEL STONE (Arashi)

8: Life is so Dramatic!! (SCREEN10) vs Rainbow Stairway (Jin & Akiomi)

9: Owaranai Symphonia (fine) vs Romancing Cruise (Switch)

10: Heart Heat Beat (RYUSEITAI) vs Fantastic Days◎ (Hiyori)

11: Majestic Magic (Switch & Eden) vs IMMORAL WORLD (UNDEAD)

12: Break the Prison (UNDEAD) vs Silent Oath (Knights)

13: Honey Milk wa Okonomi de (UNDEAD) vs No name yet (Double Face)

14: Tsubasa Moratorium (ALKALOID) vs Miwaku Geki (Valkyrie)

15: Melting Rouge Soul (Adam) vs Ruby Love (Eve)

16: Valentine Eve’s Nightmare (UNDEAD) vs Trap for You (Eve)

[aroacesigma]

ok idk what en has so im just gonna give u the banger songs i love from each unit. some might not be in-game but also im bad at knowing where en is. also idk the en names of a lot of these songs so uh. you may need to look them up.

fine: hajimari no fantasia (BELOVED.), neo sanctuary, miracle dream traveler, tempest night (wataru goes off), feathers of ark (idk if en has that yet). also fucken. ghostic treat house. that is not in EN but its a banger.

Trickstar: BREAKTHROUGH, Kiseki, Finder Girl (i don't think u guys have that yet) and Daydream x Reality (also don't have that) the world.....

Ryuseitai: Tenka Muteki☆Meteorangers!, Ryusei Hanabi, Suisei HALATION, Nekketsu☆Ryusei Ninpouchou (i don't think u have that yet)

Alkaloid: Distorted Heart (do NOT play that expert beatmap unless you are confident. or do :3), Artistic Partisan, Believe 4 Leaves (u do not have that probably), and Vermilion (my beloved)

Eden: Dance in the Apocalypse (ignore the choreo its SUCH a banger), Awakening Myth, Majestic Magic, Exceed...... idk which ones you have of those Adam: Melting Rouge Soul is good... you don't have that tho. Eve: Sunlit Smile <3 Trap For You <3 Ruby Love <3

Valkyrie: MIWAKU GEKI. THE LOML. Last Lament. Memoire Antique. Tonight in this moonlit mansion. Eternal Weaving. also uruwashi no nightingale but that's not in-game at all you gotta go find that somewhere else.

2wink: Kangei☆2wink Zatsugidan, Heart Prism・Symmetry, LEMON SQUASH CHEERS!, Sugar Spice Hōteishiki !!! idk if u have the last two yet

Crazy:B: Crazy Roulette, Honeycomb Summer, Paranoia Street, Yubisaki no Ariadne, NOISY:BEEP (my beloved......), Helter-Spider (i don't think u have that yet)

Undead: Melody in the Dark, DESTRUCTION ROAD, Gate of the Abyss, Valentine Eve's Nightmare (if you don't like this song we can't be friends /j), FORBIDDEN RAIN (idk if u have that.... adonis went off tho)

Ra*bits: Nousagi March♪, Milky Starry Charm, Made in Tokimeki♪, Love it Love it, Pocket ni Uchuu (the other loml)

Akatsuki: Zan -Ketsui no Yaiba-, Kengeki no Mai, Usubeniiro no Yakusoku, Summer Bird is also very good <3

Knights: Fight for Judge, Silent Oath (if you like slower more chill songs. its very soft lyrically), Article of Faith (the in-game cut does not do it justice listen to the full version elsewhere), Grateful allegiance (listened to a tiny bit of that and almost started crying. oops), Promise Swords, Little Romance (RITCHAN THE WORLD), Mystic Fragrance (NARUNEE THE WORLD), Coruscate Breeze (TSUKIPI THE WORLD), Starlight Parade, Or the Beautiful Golden Drop (IZUMIMI THE WORLD)

Switch: Galaxy Destiny (if you don't like that song either we can't be friends /j), Emerald Planet, Magic for your "Switch", Omoi no Kakera, Majestic Magic, Romancing Cruise (natsume the woooorld)

MaM: Festive!, Yukai Tsuukai That's Alright! (mam the only unit to have bagpipes in his songs), Blooming World

Double Face (rip): Stippling, =EYE=, No name yet

ok thats like everything. lets ignore that i sent you basically 95% of the knights discography. we don't talk abt voice of sword that song doesn't exist

THANK YOU SO MUCH (melody in the dark is the one i am currently obsessed with it is such a banger)

and thats what made me remember . voice of sword is the one i cleared expert on . it was an ordeal but it was the easiest 😭

[444namesplus]

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