#see samatoki's motto is life is not fair and it means what it means

[sylhea-raemi]

"life is not fair"

"only i can change my life"

"So I join him and reform the world through rap?"

u g h .

[representshinjuku]

Shout Out to the Revolution

(Bring it back to the street style)

[All]

This means war--some real beef

[Yotsutsuji] 

The warriors assemble, the fight begins--

Someone please stop this tragic fanfare

(Shout Out to the Revolution)

[Ichiro]

Shout Out to the Revolution

It’s the eve of revolution, we can’t stop

But I’ve got the skill to pivot at the drop of a pin

That’s right, who’s No.1? Ichiro, y’know

You amateur rappers get outta my way

Rebelling against the tyrants, our passage is open

I’m ready to deliver one helluva bashing (Boasting)

Make our living stalking these streets

You trash piss me off and I’ll beat you down with a verse

[Samatoki] 

Calamity’s coming for you (Worst Side)

This’s Samatoki-sama’s rock style

You can’t run from this Level 5 rhyme bullet

Rainin’ down, rainin’ down, rainin’ down now

When I push back my hair, you better get serious

Come at me, kid, it’s time for the shootout

You diss my friends, you’re gonna get beat

“Life is not fair.” That’s my creed

[Jakurai] 

The pendulum of chaos sways erratically

A severed graft, clogged with logic

Do away with contradictory slogans

Instead polish your words, your aesthetic senses

As if deciding your course with a coin toss

Seize your chance to aim for the throne

The enemy in the mirror clears the scales from your eyes

I am--but I know not what to think

[Ramuda]

A heart’s trap, making war with pleasure

Lollipops don’t show mercy

I control this line-up,

My human toy soldiers

Hooked on the thrill, how’s this destructive show?

Leaping up from the ruins,

Ramuda goes hop skip jump!

Let’s go! C’mon ladies!

I’m the cute and cruel revolution

(Shout Out to the Revolution)

[TDD]

We’ll destroy this dystopia

Through our disses we steal our gloria

We make our stand for ourselves alone

Insults fly from this Hypnosis Mic

Sticking with our aesthetics

We rewrite this entire chronicle

Our fates are linked; only one can survive

Raise the flag of revolution

Only the winners’ll live with honor and pride

The pure and the filthy, drink ‘em down and ignite

We dirty guys bring order to the chaos

Bring it back to the street style

[Ibuki]

You bastards brandishing your “justice”--

My crimson flames will burn you to ash

My spite’ll smother you, break all

I’m a def expert, a desperado

A real slayer crushes even the bystanders

You won’t get last words, I’ll thrash your soul

It’s my turn, GREN’s arrow’s gonna burn through you

Time to atone for your sins

[Seigen]

Watch out for my gun (Bang! Bang-Bang!)

Anything goes if you win (Ha! Ha-ha!)

It’s not in my style to get beat down

I shoot with no hesitation, I’m Dominator

You’re not just ‘cuz you’re righteous,

You’re just ‘cuz you’re strong

“Heroes” make me wanna puke (Boo!)

You goody-goody guys don’t know shit

Get in my way and you’re gonna get gone

[Jyobu]

What I crave is blood and gum syrup

Let me see the terror of war resound in your eyes

Tremble and shake, run for your life

What a disappointment--”Allow me to kill you now.”

Rampage with intent to kill in this battle

In the end it was knowledge that allowed humanity to evolve

The GENERAL makes his proposal

Relying on no one, I spread my sublime ideals

[Rindo]  

Everybody’s fooled by my persona

So simple, they bore me to tears

An inferior boot, a shoddy motto

Bonds? Playing ‘friends’? (My oh my…)

With a smirk I rule, strict and clever

I’ll remind you until you scream, I’m Sweeper-A

“This whole country will be mine.”

Burning bridges is what makes a revolution

[D4]

We’ll destroy this dystopia

Through our disses we steal our gloria

We make our stand for ourselves alone

Insults fly from this Hypnosis Mic

Sticking with our aesthetics

We rewrite this entire chronicle

Our fates are linked; only one can survive

Bring it back to the street style

[Yotsutsuji] 

The glimpse of the bright blue sky was brilliant

Amidst the chaos--I’d almost forgotten

I wanted to express that, so I scribbled it down

This verse traces my memories and touches on a taboo

The men who should’ve been bound by unbreakable bonds

Tear each other to pieces, lose themselves in the fog

The intrigue starts moving; bluster meets its grave--

I saw that sort of lucid dream upon the road to revolution

[TDD]

Now is the time to change

Fight on, no gain no pain

No one’s coming outta this unhurt; one way

This means war--some real beef

[D4]

Now is the time of rage

Run wild; only lonely

We can’t turn back, it’s too late

[All]

You wanna grovel in your grave? Rise to fame?

Bring it back to the street style

Dead Mics hit the pavement and scatter

But we’ve staked our pride on this battle

Stand on your own two feet and carve out the future

Wow oh oh…

[Yotsutsuji] Someone please stop this tragic fanfare

Wow oh oh…

[All] We don’t wanna part but it’s time for the finale

Shout Out to the Revolution

We’ll destroy this dystopia

Through our disses we steal our gloria

We make our stand for ourselves alone

Insults fly from this Hypnosis Mic

Sticking with our aesthetics

We rewrite this entire chronicle

Our fates are linked; only one can survive

Raise the flag of revolution

Only the winners’ll live with honor and pride

The pure and the filthy, drink ‘em down and ignite

We dirty guys bring order to the chaos

This means war--some real beef

Bring it back to the street style

Shout Out to the Revolution

[akkivee]

aaaand with day 15, we’ve wrapped up mtc!!! it’s samatoki-sama time!!!!! 👏samatoki-sama time!!!!!! 👏samatoki-sama time!!!!!!!👏👏👏

First impressions: oh a white haired red eyed thug who calls himself ore-sama, samatoki-sama aka mr hardcore huh? *intense hetalia flashbacks*

Current impressions: i wish you all the best samatoki-sama like man, no wonder your motto is life is not fair, it sure hasn’t treated you very well!!!!!! here’s to hoping you get to have your sister back in your life!!!!!!

you know that general fandom joke that that’s like, if you’re a white haired, red eyed person in anime they’re probably destined to die?? yeah i feel like that’s not samatoki because he’s literally passed on his fate of death onto the other important people in his life and has become the a miserable man because of it. did the writers just pull up a list of traits to make a sad man and start checking them off when they made samatoki??? at least give the dude a happy ending by the end of the series please 😫

Favorite thing:

y’know, he’s just a really cool guy?? he’s yakuza, his voice is super cool, he’s just enough of an asshole that it’s not off-putting, and he’s a family man?? high class stuff right there. oooh and i like that his fast rap has kinda become his signature rap!!

Least favorite:

okay so this is really isn’t a least favorite thing, more of a ‘....damn’ moment. but during the tdd climax where samatoki and ichiro had to face each other as a drb test run, it was really really really horrible of samatoki to have beat ichiro and continued to beat him up while he was down. i do not blame ichiro for having beef with samatoki after that. ichiro tends to rap about fake adults and samatoki is definitely one in his eyes, probably for not even attempting to work together to go against chuuoku to save his brothers and nemu, but i really do wonder if ichiro would have done anything differently???? samatoki’s fatal flaw is his dedication to his sister but ichiro is the same way. i’m kinda rambling but it’s food for thought

What i want to see from this character:

connected to the above, how the heck would samatoki even go about reconnecting with ichiro. ramuda implies that now samatoki knows he was the one who hypnotised nemu into leaving him, samatoki and ichiro can reconcile. but that was cruel and unusual punishment samatoki inflicted on ichiro. what if ichiro doesn’t accept samatoki’s apology, if he gives one? what would samatoki do???

Favorite moments:

i actually have a singular favorite samatoki moment, but i have to stay on brand and give three lmao

i like that samatoki is actually pretty sweet on rio!! in the mtc drama track in the first full album, somebody gotta do it, samatoki immediately clues in on how happy rio looks cooking with the ingredients he found and put in work to make sure he could handle whatever rio concocted lmao

and then on the flip side, during the stage play (IM SORRY) samatoki managed to convince rio to give his share of rio’s food to juto. when juto gave him a look, a look that would have felled weaker men, samatoki just looked away like 😬 samatoki is an asshole 🤣

and then my all time favourite samatoki moment is the toto tower event in arb!!!!!! so even putting my shipping preferences aside ‘cause that whole event was a samajuto mall date lmao this event had the happiest samatoki i'd ever seen!!!! samatoki was like a little kid in a candy shop that whole event, and when you think about it, he probably never got to go to this tourist trap mall, even as a kid on a school trip or with his parents, because his entire life is a wreck and he grew up without a normal childhood!! so this whole event, you got to see samatoki actually acting his age, hanging and shopping out with a friend, checking out the view from the top of the tower *sniffs* and being so impressed by it he immediately says he wants to come again and this time with rio and i’m— *sobbing* and then he kept his good vibes going after the terrorist attack ‘cause he had fun shopping and taking down a couple of fools so wanted to share his good mood and take his team out for drinks and immediately invites jakurai who happened to be on scene to hang with them because he still considers jakurai a friend and— *drowning in tears* he was so cute that whole event 😭😭

Headcanon:

mmmm this is actually an observation, or a conclusion, that i’m kinda hoping kr is going to debunk for me along the line but..... i don’t think samatoki has a home like the way he did when he was living with nemu. in the tdd manga, samatoki and nemu were living in ikebukuro. so since ichiro has ‘jurisdiction’ over ikebukuro, that means samatoki had given up the home he and nemu shared. any time we see samatoki off the streets, he’s at the hq of his yakuza group. and in the know your enemy bb vs mtc drama track and in all in the same boat, when juto is paying samatoki a visit/ordered to assist in his arrest, it’s to samatoki’s office. like. i think samatoki’s living in his office. just. just. kr. please prove me wrong

Ships:

i eat drink breathe samajuto!!!!!!!! like they obviously get on each other’s last nerves but their bond runs so deep. juto has bet it all on samatoki and unwaveringly believes in samatoki’s power. and samatoki values juto’s faith and takes strength from it, like we see in all in the same boat. and again with the toto tower event in arb, we see samatoki just utterly at ease by juto’s side 😭

i also hope kr reinstates samasasa supremacy like samatoki was going to cry because he lost sarara!! he refused to fight sasara!!!! sasara fought tooth and nail against the true hypnosis mic’s effects!!!! boyfriends ripped apart by the government!!!

samatoki cares for rio too much to not love mtc poly!! samatoki and jakurai make a good pair!!!!! i’m incredibly invested in samatoki and ichiro’s relationship!!!

links to: ichiro | jiro | saburo | juto | rio | ramuda | gentaro | dice | jakurai | hifumi | doppo | kuukou | jyushi | hitoya | sasara | rosho | rei