#nikoyama kazuo

[hotwaterandmilk]

Magilumiere at Jump Festa time!

Koyama Rikiya as Shigemoto, now we're cooking.

Honestly I'm pretty satisfied with the casting for the rest of the key Magilumiere staff! Yamashita Daiki playing Nikoyama who looks uncannily like Deku is A+ no notes. Oosaka Ryouta I hadn't pictured as Midorikawa but I now that I think about it... that casting kind of rules.

Unfortunately only Fairouz, Hanamori and Koyama could be there in person but everyone seems pretty pumped.

Edit: Oh and here are the other newly revealed anime designs:

Kana and Hitomi only had existing designs shown so I haven't shared them. No date for the anime was revealed beyond “Fall 2024."

Edit 2: New character designs and cast comments are now available on the official anime website.

[kurayamineko]

[mxjez]

I already made a tik tok, but I'm gonna make a post.

There's this pretty cool Magical Girl manga (soon to be anime) called Magilumiere and there's a character that's similar to Midoriya and I just wanna share.

He's a magical girl tech nerd, green features, round features, and excitable/rambles with a smart brain. Obviously they're not the same character, but I think the similarities are fun!

Also, coincidentally, the Japanese voice actor is already confirmed to be Daiki Yamashita 🤣🤣

[le-amewzing]

Love Language

My brain is abuzz with a million ideas for the Magilumiere charries and I love them, halp. ;w;

Fic: "Love Language" [FFN] [AO3] [pfio]

Pairings/Characters: Sakuragi Kana, pre? one-sided?Midorikawa Kaede/Koshigaya Hitomi, Shigemoto Kouji, & Nikoyama Kazuo

Rating: K

Words: ~2,230

Additional info: friendship, fluff, romance, 3rd person POV

Summary: After another busy but successful day of completing orders, the staff of Magilumiere kick back with a little barbeque to enjoy the rest of a gorgeous evening…and Sakuragi takes special note of the things their capable Midorikawa prepped just for tonight.

      "Compression transmission!"

      Sakuragi caught her breath while her senpai held steady with their company-branded flash drive aimed at the remaining, straggling monsters crawling away from them in front of the motorcycle shop.

      "Extension: Wit!"

      She blinked and, the next thing Sakuragi knew, Koshigaya had sucked up the final Kaii. The flash drive snapped close, and the younger magical girl turned her broom around to face the blonde. "That was the final one, Koshigaya-san," Sakuragi confirmed. She wiped some sweat from her brow but spared her colleague and friend a beaming smile. "Thirty-seven Kaii in total, but we did it."

      "Not without effort—or without breaking a sweat," Koshigaya remarked, catching Sakuragi's tired expression and sharing in the latter's smile with a grin of her own. She pocketed the USB.

      "Koshigaya-san, Sakuragi-san, that's a job well done," President Shigemoto said over their open channel.

      "Thanks, Shachou-chan," Koshigaya replied. She hovered next to Sakuragi and shook some Kaii-looking goop off her boot with a grunt.

      "After the past two hours you spent chasing down the Kaii in the auto district, I don't want the pair of you to fly back in your drained state."

      Sakuragi perked up at that, and she landed on the ground alongside Koshigaya as she considered their options. "The train station's not far… Maybe a five-minute walk? Back…that way," the pig-tailed girl stated, looking up the street end that merged into a larger throughway.

      "Good. Take the train back to the office; tickets are on me." There was a pause on his end before Shigemoto added, "It'll give us time to prepare, too…" Then again, he mumbled that last bit, so Sakuragi wasn't exactly certain she'd caught his words correctly.

      The magical girl pair transformed back into their civilian forms, and Sakuragi found a comfortable position to lean her broom against her left shoulder as they began their trek towards the station. She furrowed her brow and pinched her chin. "You heard him, too, right, Koshigaya-san?"

      "Hmm?"

      "The president." Sakuragi dodged the large end of the blonde's broom, since the taller girl had it stretched across her shoulders. "He said, 'It'll give us time to prepare.' Prepare what? Did he and Midorikawa-san line up another job for us today?"

      Koshigaya hummed to herself and shrugged, making her broom heave up and down, but she made sure to avoid Sakuragi this time. "Not to my knowledge…? Plus it's getting kinda late in the day… Ahhh, I'd definitely wanna call it a day anyway! But." She raised her eyebrows at Sakuragi and shook her head, her long hair flowing freely behind her now that she was out of uniform and it was down. "Knowing the president, it could be anything, so."

      Sakuragi hummed in agreement. She'd been a part of the Magilumiere Company for…goodness, had a month snuck up on her already? Either way, she was learning the ropes quickly, some things picked up in the field alongside Koshigaya and many things memorized from the countless references Shigemoto and Midorikawa located in the office for her, though Sakuragi had the sneaking suspicion some books were newer purchases for their newbie.

      Still, she liked this work, and Sakuragi had figured out what Koshigaya had learned a long time ago, how to go with President Shigemoto's flow, no matter the surprising twists and turns.

      …although, that said, both Sakuragi and Koshigaya were confused to return nearly half an hour later and find the office empty. "Weird. Shachou-chan's basically always the last to leave himself," Koshigaya said.

      Sakuragi put away their brooms and checked every last corner. "No signs of Midorikawa-san or Nikoyama-san… Ah, wait. Koshigaya-san—" She beckoned her colleague over to Midorikawa's computer and pointed to the sticky left on the blank screen. "Isn't that—?"

      "Eh? Kaede-chan's handwriting. 'Koshigaya-san, Sakuragi-san'—and an arrow?" Koshigaya narrowed her eyes but followed the sign…and found another sticky with another arrow on her right. He'd left maybe half a dozen, in a straight line, pointing them from his desk back to the front door.

      "Oh! They want us up on the roof?" Sakuragi read as the older girl plucked the last sticky from the back of the door. Sakuragi frowned. "Couldn't they have just, well…told us that earlier? The roof's only for takeoffs, after all." She pursed her lips. Oh, no. What if this were some ploy? What if Midorikawa had been forced to write these?! What if he hadn't written these at all?! Whatever awaited them upstairs—

      Koshigaya clamped a reassuring hand on the pink-haired worrywart's shoulder. "Ah, yeah, it's a bit odd…but perhaps it's another job in the end, Kanacchi," she admitted with a sigh. Koshigaya scratched the back of her head, paused, and darted to the closet. She was back with their brooms in a few seconds. "On the off-chance it's more work," she said.

      Sakuragi nodded her thanks. She had a good tactical head in the field, but Koshigaya's coolness in their daily life really did come to their aid at times like these…!

      They headed to the staircase with Koshigaya in the lead, although the taller girl paused a few steps up, to sniff the air. She narrowed her eyes again and poured on the speed, but her excitement gave her away by the time she burst through the rooftop door.

      "Ah, good job today!" Midorikawa said from the middle of their gathering. Nikoyama waved with one hand before he returned to typing on his laptop, and Shigemoto, nearest the girls, nodded to the pair.

      "A barbeque…!" Koshigaya all but dropped her broom, her eyes bright and her mouth watering like a hungry puppy, when she saw the spread. Thankfully, Sakuragi grabbed a hold of the worn device and set it and her own by the roof door.

      "What's the occasion?" Sakuragi asked. She was used to grabbing a bite out with Koshigaya or having lunch inside the office, but this definitely felt like a rare treat. What a surprise, too, even to see their coder taking a break—although, on closer inspection, Sakuragi noted that Nikoyama was eating non-greasy foods with one hand and coding on his laptop with the other.

      "We never had a proper welcome party for you, Sakuragi-san," Midorikawa pointed out while turning some skewers on the grill. "But it's also been a lot busier since you joined us, so we wanted to celebrate our recent success."

      "In addition to celebrating hard work, it's good to take a break," Shigemoto tacked on in his soft, even tone. He manned the station beside the grill, elegantly plating the food their officer manager cooked. Considering his usual choice of outfit—his favorite pink dress with the white gloves and matching red ribbons—the president gave off an oddly refined air for their midday casual barbeque, putting Sakuragi in mind of the princess-type magical girls still popular in so many current anime.

      Yet, disrupting that air, Shigemoto cut a sharp look to Nikoyama. Without even looking up from his laptop, Nikoyama said, "I heard you before! And I can't! No breaks—not yet! I just need to get this idea outlined before I forget it!"

      "New incantation circle concept," Midorikawa mouthed to Sakuragi and Koshigaya, who both nodded in understanding. Of course Nikoyama was in the zone and wouldn't pause quite yet.

      Koshigaya rubbed her hands together eagerly and hovered by Midorikawa's shoulder. "Sooo, Kaede-chan, whaddaya got?"

      He laughed and pointed with tongs. "Mostly chicken-and-veggie skewers, but I nabbed some premium strips of marinated beef, and there's that pork belly you love so much, Koshigaya-san."

      Her shrieks were shrill and made Sakuragi wince, but the guys seemed used to it. Shigemoto all but shoved a plate into her arms so the blonde didn't knock Midorikawa over, and Midorikawa added to their newbie, "We've also got salad and lots of fresh fruit, Sakuragi-san, so feel free to dig in." He punctuated things with his trademark smile.

      Considering summer was newly upon them, Sakuragi made up her own plate, happily switching from the chicken skewers (yummy! Midorikawa really knew his way around the grill) to salad and eating her weight in watermelon and strawberries (ahhh, naturally sweet and perfect for summer—so delicious!).

      The quintet had staked out the middle of the roof, with a few folding chairs and portable tables, spaced out to give Midorikawa room for the small grill. Midorikawa stood and grilled so long as he had ingredients, and the president kept fiddling with prepping plates, mostly for himself and for Nikoyama, who had yet to come up for air.

      It was a quiet scene, but Sakuragi found that she didn't mind, though she was glad when Koshigaya pulled her chair close and sat beside her. She stifled a laugh when she saw her senpai's face. "Happy, Koshigaya-san?"

      "Mmf?" Koshigaya finished chewing and swallowed with a laugh. "Ahh, sorry. I just love this kind of thing."

      "Even though Midorikawa-san usually greets us with snack when we return to the office?"

      "Well, he's awesome at that. But this." Koshigaya looked fondly at the scene. "This is really the best way to relax after a hard day."

      Hearing those words, Sakuragi thought back on the thirty-seven Kaii this afternoon…and suddenly her muscles seemed to remember flying around, deploying magic circle after magic circle, too. She nodded. "Yeah."

      "Too bad we can't do it all the time."

      Sakuragi nodded a second time. She noted then that Midorikawa finally set down the tongs and removed his apron, able to enjoy the fruits of his labors himself. "Thank you, by the way, Midorikawa-san, for cooking. You're really great at making sure there's always the right things for everyone," she stated. With a glance, Sakuragi saw Koshigaya had left the pork belly for last and was starting in on it now with a blissful expression.

      He smiled, but Koshigaya—tamping down her excitement a bit—trilled and exhaled a happy sigh after a few bites of pork belly. "Ahhh, you really managed to score all my favorites… I love you, Kaede-chan!"

      Sakuragi started to chuckle at the older girl's reaction (typical Koshigaya behavior), but Midorikawa's smile caught her eye instead. Whereas a moment before it'd been his usual Midorikawa smile, just now—

      —just now, had he reddened and become flustered at Koshigaya's words?

      She stared at him intently, but Midorikawa quickly changed his focus to his plate of food and chowing down on cooled skewers. Still, he left her wondering….

      The pilot episode of Barley Spice and a dozen AMVs dedicated to her and other beloved magical girl anime of the previous decade later, and they'd managed to have both pulled Nikoyama from his creative solitude and finished all the food.

      "Ah!" Nikoyama yipped as he tucked his computer under his arm. "That villain in the pilot episode—that gives me an idea…!" And their coder dashed indoors ahead of them.

      Shigemoto heaved a long sigh and settled Koshigaya with a sorry look. "Sorry to tag you in…"

      She shook her head and rolled her shoulders. "No problem, Shachou-chan. You need help dragging Niko-chan from his laptop? You can count on me."

      "He needs to learn how to take a break…"

      They hustled after Nikoyama, so Sakuragi stayed behind to assist Midorikawa with the cleanup. He'd already thought to bring up a few trash bags, and he passed her an empty one so they got to work on opposite sides of their impromptu party and broke things down. They worked in comfortable silence for a few minutes, but eventually she broke it by offering her thanks again. "I don't know if it was your or the president's idea or both, but today was fun. And I got to learn something new about you. Your cooking is really great, Midorikawa-san."

      He scratched his cheek bashfully. "Ah, it was just grilling…"

      "Not at all! I always thought you had excellent taste in selecting treats for us, just knowing what we like. But making something is another skill altogether."

      Midorikawa paused. He mustered half a smile and nodded, slowing as he cleaned and shut the grill. "I appreciate your gratitude, Sakuragi-san. I admire the work you and Koshigaya-san do, you know. …plus, I know my own limits, so I knew I'd need to learn plenty of things to make myself useful and appealing in the real world." He placed his hand atop the grill's hood. "I handle a lot of our communication, but my food can say something else, I guess?" He laughed and scratched his cheek again, but he reddened again, same as earlier.

      His words reminded Sakuragi of something she'd read before, though, about food being one of many "love languages." And, if she were right on the mark about what she'd witnessed earlier, then poor Midorikawa might have a long way to go with Koshigaya…

      Then again, Koshigaya was her senpai, and her senpai was curiously sharp about certain things.

      So Sakuragi, hopefully, imparted some courage as she insisted, "I think your food is yummy and says a lot, especially to Koshigaya-san. So just keep at it, Midorikawa-san." And, taking a page out of his own book, she punctuated it with a beaming smile.

      Worse than before, Midorikawa was as red as the watermelon from today's barbeque. But he relented with a tiny smile and nod, and he even accepted Sakuragi's high-five of encouragement before they finished cleaning up the rooftop.

Done for the 5, 10, 20, 50, 70, 100 Fandoms Challenge and for the If You Dare Challenge (for prompt #998: a patient man) in the HPFC forum on FFN. I have been drawn into the awesomeness that is Magilumi and I don't wanna come out. 8D Btwn fic ideas (this is the first of many—so many ships!) and art ideas (A LOT), I just…love this series?? So much?? I CANNOT EVEN. I even made sure to get this category added to FFN just so I could have this posted and properly sorted. XD I love the charries and the found-family trope in it so, so much. As I write, I'm on ch76 rn bc I'm keeping up with the simulpub, and I'm having feels all over the place, so pls feel free to come talk to me on FFN, AO3, tumblr, or pillowfort about the manga, the charries, ships, fic, art, idc. Also I srsly dig Hitokae bc I've noticed a bunch of passing details about them that make them super cute to me and I just. *also a super huge Kaede fangirl* GAH. I LOVE MAGILUMI~ Ah, also a few notes: Still not super sure about the timeline of things, whether Kana's being there a month would deffo coincide with the start of summer so take that with a grain of salt… I will say, Kaede's line about not having a proper welcome party for Kana—there's a panel in ch4 showing the five of them grabbing drinks after she officially signs her Magilumiere contract, so that might've been a tiny celebration…but this is more like a proper, bigger one. -w- Also, worrywart!Kana thinking smthg bad might've transpired before she and Hitomi returned to the office makes sense to me, considering how analytical (and perhaps overanalyzing) Kana is. XD Lastly…regarding a few names, from Koshigaya: I went with the literal "Shachou-chan" and "Kanacchi" as based on the Jpns raws; the latter is truer to her nickname for Kana, but since "shachou" can mean more than simply "president" (plus she routinely refers to him using "-chan"), it feels more natural to me to leave it as "Shachou-chan" when she's speaking to/about him. *end author's commentary*

Thanks for reading, and feel free to leave an anon/unsigned review via the FFN link or comment via the AO3 link at the top of the post, especially if you enjoyed this!

~mew

[mahoushoujopeony]

nikoyama's scream jump scared the watch through group

[grelleswife]

Episode 8 illustration by Magilumiere mangaka Yu Aoki.

Source

[dancers-7]

Kabushiki Gaisha Magi Lumiere by Yuu Aoki and Sekka Iwata

[cravingmoremangacaps]

[vaultlink]

The more I see of Kazuo the more I realize this nerd is just me if I had actually gone to college and never started questioning my gender.

The green hair + ponytail

The huge glasses

The fucking plaid

...

The social anxiety

[enthusiastic-nimrod]

An excellent question my good sir.

[shinigami-striker]

CV: 山下 大輝 (Late Post) | Sunday, 09.08.24

Same seiyuu, different anime characters - featuring Daiki Yamashita. Happy (late) 35th birthday! 🎂

CV: 山下 大輝

2016

Yuri Himemiya - Prince of Stride: Alternative (anime; Japanese dub)

Deku (Izuku Midoriya) - Boku no Hero Academia (anime, movies, OVAs, and video games; Japanese dub) (2016-present)

2017

Sota Mizushino - Re:CREATORS (anime; Japanese dub)

2019

Akatsuki Iride - Naka no Hito Genome (anime; Japanese dub) (2019-2020)

2024

Kazuo Nikoyama - Magilumiere Co. Ltd. (anime; Japanese dub)

[hotwaterandmilk]

Magilumiere #84 aka Sakuragi Planning sends a perfect message.

[magicalgirlagency]

MagiLumiere?!?

Yep! Meet Nikoyama Kazuo:

Look me in the eye and tell me he isn't a reincarnated Midoriya Izuku, I dare you. They even share the same seiyuu (Yamashita Daiki)!

Reincarnation is real, and here's the evidence! Welcome back, Deku dearie! Finally you got to nerd out a plenty and have your disabilities recognized and respected!

[myucornerorg]

So the other day I read the first volume of a manga called Magilumiere: Magical Girls Inc., which is set in a world where, kinda like MHA with superheroes, magical girls are a common sight, and being a magical girl is treated like a normal job. Basically, they function as exterminators for these monsters called kaii, and there are multiple companies, of all sizes, that employ magical girls for this purpose.

Anyway, the manga was really cool, but we all know that magical girl transformations (especially techno-magic ones like in this series) look best animated. So naturally, I looked it up to see if there was an anime adaptation. And there is - just not yet. This manga only came out in 2022 in Japan (and it's running in Shonen Jump+, no less), under the title Magilumiere Co. Ltd (Kabushiki Gaisha Majirumie in Japanese) and it only started being released in English by Viz in March of this year. And while an anime version is planned, it's not due out till Q4 of 2024. So I have to wait.

The cast and staff seem pretty good, though. The anime is being made by J.C. Staff (the studio behind many well-known animes, like Azumanga Daioh, the A Certain Magical Index franchise, Saiki K, Food Wars, Revolutionary Girl Utena, and Shakugan no Shana), alongside Studio Moe, which seems to be a pretty new studio with not that many credits. The composer, Makoto Miyazaki, also did the music for One Punch Man and Spy x Family. The script writer Shingo Nagai has also written for Symphogear (so he's no stranger to mahou shoujo). The director, Masahiro Hiraoka, doesn't seem to have much directorial experience (most of his credits on ANN are for artist work, most of which seem to be tied to Studio Moe, which as I mentioned, doesn't have very many credits), but I can overlook that. (Interestingly, a lot of his artist work has been in CG art, including CG for both HeartCatch and Suite PreCure, which makes me think the transformations and maybe attacks will involve CG, though I guess that's expected nowadays).

The cast is interesting too. The two main girls, Kana and Hiromi, are being voiced by Fairouz Ai and Yumiri Hanamori respectively. They previously appeared together in Tropical Rouge PreCure as Cures Summer and Coral respectively (and just last year reprised those roles in the movie PreCure All Stars F), although interestingly here Coral's actress is playing the energetic Hiromi, while Summer's actress is playing the much more reserved and intelligent Kana, which if you know Tropical Rouge is a complete opposite of their Cure characters. But then they have range - Fairouz is also the voice of Jolyne from JoJo and Alisa in Pokémon Concierge, while Yumiri has also played Hayasaka from Kaguya-sama (a character with a varied personality, apparently). So I'm not worried.

The two characters above are the resident programmer at and the boss of the titular Magilumiere. (Yes, the boss is a middle-aged male cosplayer. He's just weird like that). The programmer's name is Kazuo Nikoyama, and rather hilariously given his design, he's going to be voiced by Daiki Yamashita, the same actor who voices Izuku in MHA (I guess the resemblance to Izuku may not have been a coincidence 😂). As for the boss, his name is Kouji Shigemoto, and his planned actor is Rikiya Koyama (Kogorō Mori/Richard Moore in Detective Conan/Case Closed, Jōichiro in Food Wars, and Emiya in the Fate franchise).

Rounding out the currently known cast is nice-guy office worker Midorikawa, who is going to be voiced by Ryota Ohsaka (Keiji in Haikyuu, Sadao/Satan in The Devil is a Part-Timer, and the Japanese voice of Cat Noir).

Anyway, sounds like an interesting series! Unfortunately, Volume 2 of the manga doesn't come out in English until June, so I'll have to wait for that too.

[Picture source]

[le-amewzing]

amewzing: We are MagiLumi!

[ID: Digital bust sketches of the characters of Magilumiere Co. Ltd, in assorted colors and washes. In a cool pink is President Shigemoto in his usual hair ribbon and frilly dress; in yellow is Koshigaya-san in her magical girl outfit, as is Kana-chan in a warm pink; in soft brown and hold a pen in one hand and a cellphone in the other is Midorikawa-san; and finally hidden behind his open laptop, as he clicks away, is Niko-chan, but all that can be seen of his face is part of his glasses and his hair. The magical girls and Midorikawa-san are smiling and President Shigemoto wears his usual poker face. /end ID]

https://www.pillowfort.social/posts/3382267

It's official: I'm hooked on MagiLumi and I adore everyone in this office family, from the first chap to most recent chaps. Absolutely the best twist on the magical girl genre in forever, and it's a simulpub, folks. Expect more of the growing MagiLumi fam from me bc they're so much fun in spite of the growing Kaii threat...! TTwTT ✨| Done in Clip Studio Paint.

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[pochqmqri]

As part of their announcement of new manga titles coming Spring 2024, Viz Media announced that they will be publishing "Magilumiere Magical Girls Inc.," which was already being published officially as "Magilumiere Co. Ltd." on the MANGA Plus app.

The story takes place in a world where being a magical girl is a popular profession that involves exterminating mysterious creatures called Kaii (怪異). New college graduate Kana Sakuragi, who is struggling with job hunting, is able to put her excellent memory to use and helps magical girl Koshigaya exterminate a Kaii in an emergency. Happy she has finally been useful, Sakuragi ends up becoming the second magical girl at Magilumiere, the magical girl startup company Koshigaya works at. In addition to the prodigy Koshigaya, Magilumiere is composed of its president Kouji Shigemoto, a middle-aged man who dresses as a magical girl, Kaede Midorikawa, who deals with customers, and magic engineer Kazuo Nikoyama. — Wikipedia summary.

This is great news, as Magilumiere is a modern/recent Magical Girl manga that's actually good being published in print, which seems like a rarity not only because there's been a dearth lately of new Magical Girl manga officially published in English, but for the past couple of years, a lot of them (especially by Seven Seas) have been some of the trashiest shlock, though most of those titles have already concluded by now. I look forward to picking this up next year.