#shinya miyuki

[giveamadeuschohisownmovie]

Spy x Family = romance for people who fantasize about getting married and having kids

Kaguya-Sama = romance for people who deal with anxiety

Horimiya = romance for teenagers (seriously, this is the most “teenage romance” anime series I’ve encountered)

My Dress Up Darling = romance specifically for nerds and geeks (because Marin and Gojo are nerds in their own way and the show’s message is about embracing what you love)

Science Fell in Love, So I Tried to Prove It = romance for socially awkward people / people who don’t really get social cues

Grand Blue = romance for fratbros and sorority girls

DanDaDan = romance for weeeeiiiird people (affectionately)

[letsbeartists]

「頑張れ」とは何ですか?~que veut dire "bonne chance" ?~

[444lpblue]

Frieren: Beyond Journey's End #1-4 - It was... Perfect

Episode 1 - The Journey's End Screenplay: Tomohiro Suzuki Storyboard: Keiichirou Saitou Episode Director: Ayaka Tsuji Animation Director: Reiko Nagasawa Key Animators: Junko Abe, Shin Ogasawara, Ran Kamezawa, Jun Sekiguchi, Daiki Harashina, Kanata Yanagisawa, Shinichi Yoshikawa, Xujian Li, Odashi, Keisuke Kobayashi, Shinji Ootsuka, Hayato Kakita, Toshiyuki Satou, Ayaka Tsuji, Yoshiko Matsumura, Emi Yamazaki, Kanako Yoshida, Kerorira, Kou Yoshinari

Episode 2 - It Didn't Have to Be Magic... Screenplay: Tomohiro Suzuki Storyboard: Tomoya Kitagawa Episode Director: Tomoya Kitagawa Chief Animation Director: Reiko Nagasawa Animation Director: Ayaka Minoshima Key Animators: Junko Abe, Nobuhide Kariya, Toshiyuki Satou, Harumi Takagi, Daiki Tanaka, Masaho Hori, Yutaka Minowa, Kanata Yanagisawa, Xujian Li, Fuuko Abe, Kyousuke Ootori, Takahito Sakazume, Jura, Yuka Matsumura, Yukiko Watabe, Hayato Kakita, Hiroyuki Kobashi, Jun Sekiguchi, Airi Takahashi, Daiki Harashina, Ayaka Minoshima, Kouta Mori, Shinichi Yoshikawa, Aoi Ootani, Naoki Katou, Sanae Shitaya, Shinya Segawa, Zihan Liu

Episode 3 - Killing Magic Screenplay: Tomohiro Suzuki Storyboard: Daiki Harashina Episode Director: Daiki Harashina Chief Animation Director: Reiko Nagasawa Animation Director: Daiki Harashina Key Animators: Daiki Harashina, Junko Abe, Shin Ogasawara, Mai Toda, Kanata Yanagisawa, Daisuke Shibukawa, Kou Yoshinari, Fei Hung Donghua, Hanwen Ye, Tooru Iwazawa, Honami Takeuchi, Yoshiko Matsumura, Xujian Li, Yukiko Busa, Nonno

Episode 4 - The Land Where Souls Rest Screenplay: Tomohiro Suzuki Storyboard: Yoshiaki Kawajiri Episode Director: Kento Matsui Chief Animation Director: Reiko NagasawaAnimation Director: Ayaka Tsuji Key Animators: Shin Ogasawara, Hiroyuki Kobashi, Toshiyuki Satou, Harumi Takagi, Rie Arakawa, Yuka Koiso, Masahiro Yufune, Pinqiao Hui, Norifumi Kugai, Ayaka Satou, Jun Sekiguchi, Miyuki Inoue, Shuuji Maruyama, Ryuuguu-san, Yenxin Fan

Last week was utter hell, with a new class, a new schedule, and my sleep going out of whack. I'm still trying to readjust, and let me explain why I'm mentioning all of this. Almost nothing would have motivated me to get out of my zone and type this post except for Frieren. Frieren is one of my favorite manga series. If you've talked to me about anime/manga before, you would know this. So, ever since it was announced, it has been one of my most anticipated series. To add to that, Keiichirou Saitou was announced as the director. He's a great example of an upcoming new-gen director who has excelled in everything he's been a part of. From the beautiful and abstract EDs he created for The Executioner and Her Way of Life or Boogiepop, to the mesmerizing, dreamlike episodes he directed for Sonny Boy, and the expressive, now very popular Bocchi the Rock. He was a perfect choice as a director for a series like this, and let me tell you, he delivered fully.

Just from a quick glance, you can see how the show looks. Everything is eye-catching, making it almost hard to focus on one particular element because they all just look so good, and no, it's not just the chromatic aberration causing the lack of focus. The various departments responsible for compositing, the background, and the overall color design have done an outstanding job, creating a beautiful and cohesive piece of art. Seeing someone you might consider a less experienced director pulling off such a complete and harmonious experience is incredible. In terms of design, the whole show is aesthetically pleasing. It's not the experimental work you saw in Sonny Boy; it's going in a totally different direction, like a beautiful painting that should be framed on a wall.

It works very well when paired with, you know, how Frieren is as a story. The fantasy world they are in isn't an extremely unique one. You've seen it before; it's fairly typical in that sense. But that's not truly the point. The main focus is showing the day-to-day or year-to-year life of this immortal elf girl, Frieren, and how she views time, how she remembers her past. It's not an incredibly grand adventure, but with the small lens we have on these characters, it feels like a cherished moment, something that should be captured in a photo or painting. It's beautiful in a very simple way. It's not a series made for extremely large moments, I think Frieren has always been focused on a simpler view of life, much like a painting. The smaller details of such a straightforward approach are highlighted so well. The trees in the environment, the squirrels just moving around—there's so much life in each scene. It really all comes together for me like a piece of art.

The consistency lasts through all four episodes, and the staff distribution also seems fairly good, so I expect this to continue throughout the two cours. The pacing itself is perfect. I've really enjoyed how the story has been adapted to animation so far. I believe that nowadays, many anime series have fallen into the pitfalls of adapting things too quickly to capture the interest of newer viewers early on. However, the series composition for Frieren here is excellent.

This writeup might have been shorter than most people were expecting considering how amazing the anime adaptation is and how much I love the source material, but what can really be said about except just praising? I feel like even if you don't like the source material, the anime's execution is almost undeniably good. Additionally, as I said this past week has not been kind to me so my energy is a bit drained, at first I was planning to be more specific in my write up and make points more adhering to the specifics of each episode, but I didn't really have time for that. However, I will do my best to cover every Frieren episode weekly from now on. Make no mistake this is going to be my favorite series from this year.

[10dance]

10 Dance Pilgrimage Route!

As many have pointed out, some of the backgrounds in the 10 Dance manga are based on real locations in Ginza, Tokyo. Back in 2019, the exhibition catalogue contained a small map of the area listing out some famous 10 Dance spots. There have been more locations since then, and after saving those spots, I visited and took photos! I will be sharing the locations for anyone visiting to plan their route as well. All under the cut.

At a glance, these were the spots I went to. As you can see, they are all pretty close to each other and are definitely walkable, but it’s a workout... The red spots appeared in chapter 34, the purple spots appeared elsewhere in-story, and green spots are the bonuses. I didn’t go in any particular order, but I will talk about them in order of appearance in the story.

🟣 Sugiki Dance School

The first, prominently featured location in the story. Some others wrote blogposts about it before so I had a vague idea that it was on Miyuki-dori Street years ago, but it was hard to find exactly what block. Then I found the signature angular balconies! In the story it was always after hours, so I did not see the ornate gate on the first floor during the early evening, but the Brioni store is the closest match. The side with the balconies is opposite a store called Breitling if you want to catch the perfect view (barely visible in this picture!).

🟣 Sukiyabashi Park

We are all very familiar with The Park, aren’t we? The Shinyas sure do spend a lot of time there dancing, but unfortunately, Inoue draws the older version of the park before its renovation a few years ago, so the park doesn’t look like the manga anymore. But the spot is still there, and I’m hoping the Shinyas will return to it someday. As I walked around the updated version of the park, I kept envisioning the Shinyas meeting up here, sitting on a bench or dancing under the clock tower... it felt very real. This park is just a few minutes walk from Sugiki Dance School, making it the perfect after-hours practice space and very easy to reach for us.

🟢 (Bonus) - Bar Zikkai

For those who have been in the fandom for a while, you might know that the 2019 exhibition teamed up with Bar Zikkai to make character cocktails for Suzuki and Sugiki. I remembered it was in Ginza, but I didn’t expect to run into it on my way to the park! Maybe this is the bar that Sugiki really likes, who knows...

🟣 Seiko House Clock Tower

This building is not only featured in the manga (in this exact angle) a few times, it is also a tourist spot known for its clock tower that stands out from other modern buildings surrounding it. The Shinyas have been shown to dance near it on the cover page of chapter 13, and I was determined to find that spot! It’s a busy intersection, so I couldn’t get a picture that is as quiet as the artwork depicts it, but it’s still a beautiful view. The street lamps and subway entrance have both been upgraded which goes to show how long 10 Dance has been serializing. (Sorry for the blurry paper!)

🔴 Dai-ichi Life Insurance Building

This location has only been shown once in chapter 33. With its giant decorated doors, I assumed this was an entrance to a museum or a bank. Google reverse image search tells me it’s an insurance company building, haha. To find this exact view, you’ll want to be facing away from the Shin-Yukaruchō Building, but it’s very easy to find with a little walking around. After taking this picture, I went ahead and stepped on the spot the Shinyas stood in the drawing.

🔴 The Peninsula Hotel

This is another spot that was shown in He Is Beautiful. I forgot how I found it, because the text in the drawing was hard to read, but here it is! In the first picture you can almost see where the Shinyas stood. It was a little bothersome since people were frequently passing by or standing around... A detail that struck me was that even the differences in tiles were noticed by Inoue-sensei — you can see that reflected in the manga! She pays so much attention it’s crazy.

🔴 Marunouchi Ekimae Square

And there's the final spread from He Is Beautiful, with the Shinyas dancing in front of the popular tourist spot of the Tokyo train station. I insisted on coming before the sun set so I can get a similar lighting, and yes, the sun was in the opposite direction, but it cast a gorgeous glow on the building which is a nice feeling too. I went a little further back than the square to get the right frame; the street lamps and trees all match!

🟢 (Bonus) - Marunouchi Subway Line

The kiss in the subway in volume 3 is a truly unforgettable scene in the series, and I couldn’t help but get excited as I got on the Marunouchi subway car. The car layouts won’t always be the same, but I have seen others that match this chapter cover to a tee. I did not get to Kasumigaseki (the station where the Shinyas were seen by a stranger) since I had to get off at Tokyo station, but I was still overcome with emotions as I took this picture before people started coming in.

And those were all the spots I found! Going on this short trip around Ginza made me so close to crying as scenes of the Shinyas dancing in the dead of night on the same streets surfaced in my mind. Although they are fictional characters, it felt so cool to trace their steps knowing that they, and Inoue-sensei in real life, have been here before. If you have the time during your trip, definitely plan for an evening walk in this shimmering part of Tokyo!

(I will update this post with a link to the Google Map if people want it)

[retrosofa]

Let’s have a look at Mahou no Mako-chan episodes 14 to 26!

Episode 14: This episode is absolutely insane. Mako nearly gets run over by Akira, who’s currently a truck driver for the Tomida construction company. He gives her a package and asks if she could deliver it to Tomiko. Mako agrees but is a little sad because she thinks Akira might have feelings for Tomiko. However, it’s revealed the package actually contains all of the letters Tomiko wrote to Akira. He didn’t even open them! Tomiko is beside herself. (I crack up every time I watch this scene. He was so unbelievably shitty for that. I don’t know why but they made Akira such a fuckboy in this episode.)

Tomiko blames all of this on Mako, insisting Akira must be in love her. She starts rumors about Mako and Akira throughout the school which travels into the neighborhood. Urashima gets so pissed he slaps Mako and stops talking to her. Then Mako gets kicked out of school! It’s all so wild. Mako leaves for uh... days (?) looking for Akira to prove her innocence. At one point she runs into Tomiko, who tells her that Akira has committed suicide. Mako believes it at first but then remembers he would never do such a thing. Mako finally finds Akira again, who gives her a flower. The episode ends with Urashima apologizing to Mako for being a total shithead.Total insanity. Is it weird I really like this episode? The way everyone treats Mako is completely horrible but it’s a very entertaining episode.

This episode marks the last time the Tomiko-Akira-Mako love triangle is brought up, which I think is disappointing. Also, this is the last time we see Akira until like... episode 40-something.

Episode 15: Unmemorable episode. Mako meets two men who want to start their own band.

Episode 16: The principal’s daughter, Yuriko, comes back from France with a proposal to enforce expensive uniforms at Karatachi Academy. Mako and her classmates reject the idea. At one point Mako is suspended but still comes to school (as a form of protest). Tomiko snitches on her and Urashima slaps Mako for her disobedience again. God, he sucks so bad. Yuriko and the principal eventually give in after the students continue protesting.

This episode is okay. It’s nice seeing Mako and her friends organize against the school and also support their teacher (he’s put on leave at one point due his students objecting to the uniforms). Urashima continues to be the worst character in the entire series. This is the third time he has hit Mako! Old bastard. Amusingly, Shinya Takahashi handled the animation for the beginning and end of the episode but was not the actual animation director.

Episode 17: The star baseball player of Karatachi Academy, Tsudo, is in poor health and doesn’t have much longer to live. Mako finds out he’s been receiving letters from a mysterious girl named “Yukiko” who he considers his girlfriend. One night Mako claims to be Yukiko to give Tsudo some sort of peace before he dies. But Tsudo knows she’s lying, because Yukiko doesn’t exist. It turns out he’s been writing those letters to himself out of loneliness.

What a twist! I actually really love this episode but Fumio Eto’s godawful animating skills really take away from it. It’s so well written and directed but the visuals just falls flat. They really should’ve had a more talented animator handle this one. Oh well.

Episode 18: Mako meets a boy at the pool and it turns out he works for Tomiko’s family. Tomiko gets jealous and starts shit. Blah, blah, blah. The animation for this episode is really rough looking. Not much else to say.

Episode 19: Mako’s wealthy classmate Miyuki has recently stopped going to school and now hangs out with a motorcycle gang. It turns out her parents have gone bankrupt and left her behind. Mako tries to reason with Miyuki but nothing gets through to her. With nowhere else to go and no family to turn to, Miyuki takes one last motorcycle ride and commits suicide.

This episode starts out pretty light hearted with a subplot about Urashima’s pet monkey, Kiiko, sneaking off to play with Miyuki and then it turns into a serious teen drama. The ending still takes me back every time I watch it.

Episode 20: Oh boy, was this a stinker. Taro and Jiro’s aunt wants to be a flight attendant because the man she loves is a pilot. HOWEVER! She has bad eyesight and “can never be a flight attendant.” Lol What? Do you really need perfect eye-sight to be a flight attendant?

Episode 21: The school janitor's daughter is visiting from Brazil. There’s only one problem: he’s been lying to her, claiming to be the principal of Karatachi Academy. Mako and her friends convince the real principal to keep the lie going for his daughter’s visit.

This episode isn’t great. There isn’t much conflict until the very end, when Tomiko’s mother nearly outs the janitor. It’s actually a pretty boring episode. Also what kind of morals are they trying to teach here?

Episode 22: Mako receives a letter from an unknown sender that turns out to be a funeral invitation. The letter was actually from a mysterious boy wants Mako’s help with protecting a large cedar tree. A construction crew has been destroying the forest and they’re planning on taking down the cedar tree next.

The boy is later revealed to be the fairy of the forest and knew that Mako was a mermaid who had a magical pendant. They get into an interesting argument about trusting mankind and Mako ends up lending him her pendant. Unfortunately it doesn’t help and the construction crew cuts down the tree. The fairy disappears and leaves behind Mako’s pendant.

I absolutely love this episode. Visually, it’s just downright gorgeous. The backgrounds of the countryside are beautifully done and Shinya Takahashi’s character animation is top notch here. Yoshinori Kanada even did some key animation for this episode. This is also probably one of the few episodes where Taro and Jiro aren’t annoying or feel shoehorned in.

It was cool seeing Mako interact with another supernatural being, something that unfortunately doesn’t happen again until the end of the series. I also really liked that the fairy was depicted as some random bug-eyed little boy.

Episode 23: Twin hi-jinks! Mako meets a girl named Minori who looks almost exactly like her. Minori’s grandfather is arranging for her to get married but she only wants to be with a mysterious man who saved her little sister’s life sometime ago. Mako sympathizes with Minori and offers to help her out.

This episode is cute. Mako brings up Akira again, which is refreshing. Continuity! Yay! Fumio Eto handled this episode, so it looks like shitty but not as shitty as usual. That’s a good sign, right?

Episode 24: Mako’s school needs a copy of her family’s registry, but she obviously doesn’t have one. Things take a super dramatic turn when Tomiko’s mother suggests sending Mako off to a specialist so she can cure her “amnesia.” Mako’s father eventually pops in and saves the day.

I had a bit of a problem understanding this episode, but at one point Bancho and his friend attempt arson? I think they were trying to destroy some official documents to help Mako out. I’m not sure.

Also at one point Bancho mentions having an older sister. She never appears in the series but gets brought up again in a later episode. Just something I thought was worth mentioning. Personally, I wish she would’ve made a formal appearance.

Episode 25: Mako, Taro, Jiro, Kumagoro and a young boy must find a new home for a group of monkeys whose natural habitat is threatened. Not much to say about this one. It drags on and there’s not even a real conclusion. Boring.

Episode 26: Prince Hans of Escalia is smitten by Mako and insists on spending the day with her. There are a lot of funny shenanigans here, with Mako’s father and the old sea crone worrying about Mako’s lack of etiquette. This episode is a typical “Roman Holiday” type of story but it’s cute! Hans speaks German and teaches Mako some words and sayings throughout their date. One phrase he can bring himself to translate is “Ich liebe dich.”

There’s a lot of fun animation techniques used here. Definitely a must-see episode.

[tokyoliveexhibits]

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[sevynavenue]

ᰔᩚಎ — 𝐌𝐄𝐄𝐓 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐌𝐀𝐈𝐍 𝐁𝐈𝐓𝐂𝐇 𝐎𝐍 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐁𝐋𝐎𝐂𝐊

— it's sevyn like the number 🫀 (a cartoon of me + some memes that describe me ⤵

this is a little about me just in case you wondering, who is this bitch behind this filthy blog. i'm sevyn, just a broke college student trying to make a difference fr & i love love to eat idk.

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[chaotic-tired-cat]

trick or treat!!!

Happy Halloween, Anon!!!

The closest I have to a Halloween special is a series of snippets I kind of wandered into writing, but they seem pretty fitting! These are from World Walker: Aftershocks, which is really a bunch of scenes made to figure out where the characters are going to end up.

This involves no World Walker or canon bnha spoilers, and is very sparsely edited. DimensionTravel!Izuku hunts ghosts with this background character below the cut, inspired by Buzzfeed Unsolved, YUTS, and Game Changer. Interviewer OCs are named Ran, Myuki, Kaito, and Tatsuya. Cryptid's PR guy is named Dai.

Tw: ghosts and related topics.

Cryptid ducks under the doorway.

Ran visibly falters.

Cryptid's agency did all of the communication with them, supposedly because Cryptid himself is a workaholic who handles emergencies not just here, but also wherever else he disappears to. He also has a tendency to choose interviews near emergencies that unfold in a predictable future for him and a horrible surprise for everyone else, so apparently it's safer for everyone involved if he makes his own patrol schedule for the agency to work around. Dai from PR was lovely to talk to. They have no complaints.

But Dai from PR neglected to mention exactly what Cryptid is like in person. Cameras glitch out occasionally and secondhand accounts grow either poetic or lack detail, so they had no real warning about this. Tatsuya is abruptly aware that the fanart is perhaps more accurate than photos of this hero, which would be funny if he were able to breathe right now.

Cryptid looks horrifying. 

Unseen wind stirs green hair. His dark costume highlights the fact that his shadow pulls an echo of stars up from the floorboards, and the sharp teeth of his smile that forces his mouth open slightly. When he looks at them, a galaxy rests in his eyes.

He steps forward. There is something distinctly unnatural in the way those joints move. 

Ran audibly inhales through her teeth.

The next step is better, then the next. Cryptid's back straightens and his mouth closes into something more human. The stars and eerie presence are packaged away, folded up and tucked into the hero like a coat left at the door. It makes being affected by an unfelt wind and possessing odd-bright eyes feel like any other quirk.

"Hello," Cryptid says kindly, stopping a fair distance away, which is greatly appreciated. He tucks his hands behind his back, posture unthreatening. "Are you Ran?"

"Yeah," she gulps. "Um. Your agency said we should do an interactive interview with you?"

"Dai has been very accommodating," Cryptid agrees serenely. "And the void stops screaming at me when it thinks I'm busy."

"Oh?" Ran asks, voice pitched just a touch higher than normal, but she's too good an interviewer to let that leading statement go. "What do you mean?"

"There's a version of me trying to swallow the sky in another universe, and the void wants me to watch." Cryptid gestures, shoulders now hunched to communicate lack of threat. "But moving around will help convince it that I'm busy, so I really do appreciate you all changing so much of your schedule to make this work."

"It's no problem," Ran says. Ironclad control returns, one of the reasons she was chosen for this activity. "I have a list of pre-interview topics here. Anything else you want to talk about or avoid can be added to the paperwork, and we will be including your agency in the editing process whenever your quirk is discussed."

Tatsuya continues unpacking equipment as Cryptid irons out their details.

They have two guests on the game show today. Both heroes were on their list of candidates, but after hearing Cryptid's situation, an idea was pitched. Adding in Exorcism: the Ghost Hero to this was a stroke of genius. It'll make an amazing special.

Onemu Shinya waits by the car, discussing things with her own interview team of Miyuki and Kaito.

Six people, two of which are heroes. Three, gods help them, are thrill-seekers. Tatsuya was the only person in the office who saw bargaining power for what it was when the crew was short one member. They are paying him a lot to film and make snarky commentary behind the camera. Life is good.

Neither of the heroes know what the schedule holds.

Then again, they probably know it'll be odd. Burnt Honest Tea sits halfway between a game show and news organization due to hiring more actors and comedians than journalists. Everyone here has some kind of past in the entertainment district. The employee-owned business model is a wreck. They do comedy. Humor. A little gossip, when it's lighthearted and everyone involved is fine with it getting aired, but that’s a rare one. Celebrity guests are more likely to get dumped in a room full of puppies than interviewed from an armchair.

They figured out a while ago that since heroes have licenses for public quirk use, they could hire a bunch of weirdos to conduct interviews in the most extreme places possible. This is legally and logistically a nightmare. Crucially, it also sells really well because nobody else is willing to make a whole business around that model.

It takes a while for set-up to finish, and the heroes are brought to the front of the eerie brick building. It likely has been abandoned for longer than anyone here has been alive.

Probably.

Their two guests are odd enough that Tatsuya cant help but suspect otherwise. He suggested the question during one of the meetings and got shot down, though.

The two heroes wait patiently by the door as set up finishes.

Cameras and mics checked, lights on, introductions finished, and ground rules reiterated.

Filming starts.

“So what are we doing?” Exorcist asks, and Tatsuya winces preemptively. She has to suspect they’re going-

"Ghost hunting," Ran says.

Exorcism closes her eyes, and Cryptid nods thoughtfully before sticking his entire arm into a circle of blazing starlight. He pulls out a pair of gloves, and tugs off his own, revealing what looks like tattoos underneath.

Exorcism sighs, eyes still closed. "You can punch ghosts now, can't you?"

"I can punch ghosts," Cryptid agrees sagely as he puts on the new gloves, then holds up a cautious hand. "...Will it launch your soul out of your body if you touch these?"

Exorcism high-fives him.

"Guess not."

Tatsuya just knows today is going to be great.

-

"Hello," Cryptid says to the hallway, exactly as he greeted Ran earlier. It makes the underlying message clearer - don't be scared, I will not harm you, I know I am frightening and promise not to move too fast or speak too loudly. "I don't have any dominion over life and death, but we can speak if you'd like."

"You're very kind," Exorcism tells him with a pat to the back, then stomps past him into the hallway with Kaito and Miyuki on her heels. "Hey, ghosts! If you got a problem, now's the time to speak up!"

Unearthly screeching fills the building.

"Get their ass," Cryptid says, completely straight-faced. A door slams down the hall, and Kaito screams. Cryptid looks more alarmed at the scream than the haunted door.

"Hey, friend!" Exorcism yells in the same instant. "Ooh, you've got vibes. Where's that shirt from? It's cute."

"So," Cryptid says as he turns to Ran and Tatsuya, "shall we?"

"This was such a mistake," Tatsuya says. Ran shoots him a look that disagrees, and he zooms in on it just to be petty.

-

Exorcism considers the door, then turns to the empty space to her left with a raised eyebrow. She's gone a little translucent.

"Sure," she tells the patch of air. Then, "this is your local service announcement; big noise incoming."

"Go for it," Cryptid says distractedly as he pokes at a ratty, bug-infested curtain. It blocks off a corner of secrets Tatsuya has zero interest in. He is, unfortunately, the only person to feel this way. Ran gestures at him. It's a loving one. The kind that implies she will kill him in his sleep if he misses whatever bullshit their local Wikipedia-classified cryptid is about to pull.

It's fine. He's not in charge of filming Exorcism.

That hero is busy counting down her big noise out loud. It's very appreciated. Tatsuya has plenty of time to brace, so the abrupt crash of wooden planks is almost comfortable. He gives it a three-count before glancing back.

Exorcism tosses aside a piece of the door she just kicked in. She turns around to scan them all for injuries, with only a glance into the whole new room of horrors she just uncorked for their miserable little field trip. Then again, she's a hero known to get information from ghosts. This is her home turf.

Tatsuya flinches when Kaito lurches back from the broken doorway, face ashen.

Exorcism pauses.

She leans back, peering inside for a second assessment of whatever she unleashed.

"Hm," she says, fully awake for the very first time. Tatsuya's stomach flips upside-down.

"What's up?" Cryptid asks over from where he's placing a line of ginger candies under the most cursed piece of furniture to ever exist. Tatsuya isn't the faintest bit religious, superstitious, or even faintly curious about these kinds of things, but even he knows that broken chair has some seriously bad vibes. If they set an apple on it, that fruit would definitely rot in seconds. It is extremely unnerving. Ran hovers over Cryptid's shoulder as the hero happily arranges some kind of offering, torn between her own curiosity and nausea.

"This isn't mine to deal with," Exorcism says, brushing a hand over the wall. The shadows under her hand glitch out in real-time and is honestly the weirdest thing Tatsuya has seen in his life.

He holds his camera steady and exchanges a look with Kaito. Miyuki wanders over to serenely hold up what looks to be a Geiger counter. The little box ticks in a slow but uneven little pattern until she presses it to the wall.

The ticking turns slightly chime-like, then stops.

Tatsuya is fairly sure this isn't supposed to happen, but his science knowledge levels out at baking soda and vinegar. Miyuki, who has the kind of brain that saw her through engineering at Waseda until she decided it didn't spark joy, looks personally affronted.

"Ah," Cryptid says, hesitantly approaching. "Yeah, that'd be me. Thanks for catching it."

Tatsuya is very nervous about how Cryptid seems to be using Exorcism as a meat shield against the wall, until he notices that Cryptid isn't actually avoiding the wall at all.

Miyuki, with her massive brainpower, picks up on the source of his nerves as well. It's probably easier for her, since she seems to be the epicenter.

She looks at the dead silent box she is currently pressing into the wall.

The wall shivers hypnotically. 

"Don't," Cryptid murmurs. It's unclear who he's talking to. "I did not make a deal with you to punch ghosts so you could-"

Exorcist swipes the box from Miyuki and tosses it to Cryptid, who yelps, fumbles, and catches it. The freshly returned ticking halts the second he has both hands on it. Instead, there's just one, constant, note.

Like a dial tone.

Cryptid stares at it in betrayal.

"Uh, so-" Ran clears her throat. "Are you doin' alright, buddy?"

"I am feeling very grateful for those NDAs," is all Cryptid says. "Um. Anyway. This is normal?"

He doesn't sound very sure.

"Kid," Exorcism sighs.

"It's completely expected," Cryptid hisses at her desperately.

"I'm drinking buddies with Eraser," Exorcism says, and Cryptid seems to deflate.

"Okay, so it might be normal but I honestly stopped trying to track what my quirk changes about me when I was so much shorter than this." Cryptid sighs, dial-tone box now clutched to his chest. It seems to be making the screaming note almost musical in an unearthly way. The realization of how that noise is shaping into an echo of a heartbeat raises hair on the back of Tatsuya's neck.

"That's messed up," Kaito tells him gently. "Aren't heroes supposed to be really good at using their quirks?"

Cryptid snorts. "That is a very long discussion nobody here except maybe Exorcism would enjoy having. Let's just say my quirk is the ability to skydive through an Old God, but testing limits weakens the barrier between my existence and its control?"

Exorcism pats him on the shoulder, and something like understanding seems to pass between them.

Something breaks in the room behind Tatsuya.

Every single member of their unfortunate little filming party is in this room, along with both their heroes.

"Let's go meet the neighbors," Exorcism decides, and leader her two adrenaline junkies away. It leaves Tatsuya in this room with his local cryptid and bad influence. Ran, despite getting them all into this mess of an interview, jumps slightly when Exorcism yells, "hey, friend!" loud enough to be heard through the wall.

Cryptid seems more interested in the fact that his cursed little offering has disappeared from the chair. Ran huddles after him.

"You are so weird," Tatsuya tells the hero gently.

"Yeah, well." Cryptid shrugs and pats Ran's white knuckles, which are currently clenched in his costume jacket. "Unknowable things aren't bad. Humans fear them, because a problem without definition is a problem that can't be controlled."

The way he says it separates them into two groups - humans, and whatever he is - which inspires the same curiosity Tatsuya feels when looking down from a cliff or skyscraper window. He can appreciate the danger mere inches away. He also wants to toss a paper plane at it.

"That's not how any of this works," Exorcism says through a yawn as she steps back through the broken-down door. The onmyouji pauses, noticing Ran breathing through her adrenaline. "Sorry, are you okay? Yes? Okay, just let us know."

"Maybe this was a bad idea," Cryptid murmurs as he pats the interviewer's shoulder. "We can go-"

"No," Ran interrupts in a wheeze. "I am having the time of my life. Let's keep rolling."

"Adrenaline junkie," Kaito says from the doorway, despite being sheet-white and grinning like a lunatic.

Cryptid and Exorcism exchange a look.

"You'll tell us the moment any of you want out," Cryptid says to the four of them. It's not a request so much as an order. "We're not going any further until I know everyone is completely fine with this."

A chorus or agreement rises, and Exorcism yawns.

"You were saying something," Ran says, once again showing that she's the only one here actually trained to host anything. "About how Cryptid is wrong about the nature of unknown things?"

Exorcism pauses, visibly trying to recall. "I was. Yeah. Basically, we fear what we don't understand for a very good reason."

"Doesn't mean you can't make a home out of it," Cryptid says.

"Are you not human?" Tatsuya asks, because it feels like they skipped over that little comment implying he isn't.

"In the way you're asking? Yeah. I was born human, I register to call-response quirk users, and I am capable of passing DNA tests in the right circumstances. In the way that matters-" Cryptid shrugs. "No. I'm a loophole."

Delightful.

That explains nothing.

"Could you explain what a loophole means in this context?" Ran asks. Miyuki smiles at her in a way that says, I could kiss you for keeping us on topic right now.

-

Blood runs down the wall.

"Huh," Cryptid says, completely unbothered by the many people now clinging to him. "That is one way to decorate. A bit too much red for me, personally, but it would look great in a children's hospital."

"Oh my God," Kaito garbles.

Exorcism muffles a yawn and pats him on the shoulder. "You okay?"

"Yeah," Kaito creaks. Cryptid takes their elbows and leads them to a very dusty chair, where he starts talking them through a breathing exercise. It works, and Tatsuya keeps his camera on the very haunted painting everyone seems to be ignoring. 

"It's good that we brought heroes," Miyuki says serenely.

Cryptid pauses as he tries to figure out what to say to that, which gives Exorcism time to be distracted by the blood dripping down a wall from inside the picture frame. Tatsuya turns his camera just in time to catch her place both hands on the wet red wood, lean in, and lick that nasty, dust-clumped, haunted blood. She makes a face at what he guesses is the flavor, then walks right out the door.

Her team follows, hopefully to ask her what in the world she was just thinking. Ran watches them leave from the door. This is great until it leaves him with Cryptid and a bleeding painting.

"Oh, that's funny," Cryptid says under his breath. He claws open a section of thin air through the painting. Tatsuya's camera glitches at the bright-dark void, but Cryptid casually leans out to inspect something on the other side. Plastic crinkles. He tugs something out, stuffs it in his pocket, and pats something that sounds like fabric.

The air to his left starts bleeding.

Just.

The air.

Dripping red.

It falls to the ground since there's nothing for the liquid to cling to, leaving Tatsuya very freaked out by the spontaneous puddle of red on the floor.

"UH," Tatsuya says, then has to shove at Ran before she can poke it.

Cryptid laughs a little, in a quiet way that's oddly reassuring. Nobody laughs like that when they're panicked. "We're very safe. That one wasn't a ghost."

This is not helpful news. Well, it is helpful in that it's good content, but Tatsuya is beginning to wonder if he's really being paid enough to witness this.

"So, what are you doing?" Ran asks. Cryptid clicks his tongue at whatever he's seeing, then moves a bit to the side so Ran can sidle up next to him and also lean out. She turns a little green but bravely stays put.

"Spring cleaning," Cryptid says. "It's really rude to litter in the void, but sometimes this happens anyway. So I'll just-"

He moves as if wiping something outside the portal, and the patch of spontaneous blood dumps a full bucket onto this already haunted floor.

Ran reaches back blindly, and Tatsuya reluctantly takes her place. Cryptid, blessedly, does not notice Ran trying to get Tatsuya and his camera to the portal. He shuts it the second she's out. Tatsuya can't help but feel a little relieved at being spared the burden of witnessing whatever Ran saw.

He likes not knowing, sometimes.

Ran fixes this by turning to him with very wide eyes and saying, "there was, I Kid you not, a wall of fabric, and so many stars. He found blood on the fabric and shoved it in, and it was like it wanted? To go?"

"Do you need to sit down?" Cryptid asks her gently.

"I saw the void, and it had so much shit in it," Ran tells Tatsuya and his camera. Cryptid very gently takes one of the hands she's gesturing with and pats it to catch her attention.

"It is very big," Cryptid agrees serenely. Ran frantically points at the painting, which has stopped dripping.

"Big," she repeats. "Big is small compared to whatever that was."

Tatsuya nervously shifts.

"It is also an ecosystem," Cryptid continues, slow and calm. "What you saw is no different than a forest, or the ocean. It is a perfectly natural part of the way things work, just a part you weren't aware of."

"There was nothing natural about that," Ran hisses.

"Pigeons make milk," Cryptid says, which- what? The unexpected announcement has Ran startling right out of her existential crisis. "There are species of jellyfish so rare they've only been caught on camera once. There's a river in England that looks like a brook from the top, but is so narrow and deep that putting a foot in would suck you right down. Many strange things exist in the world that you have not discovered yet. This does not make them wrong, or bad. It does also not invalidate your experience with them if anyone chooses to believe what you have experienced does not exist. Okay?"

Ran stares at him.

Cryptid meets her eyes steadily. "You are right about what you saw, no matter what people may try to tell you. And you are not alone in your knowledge of it. Everything is working as it should."

Ran keeps staring at him, until Cryptid slowly opens one arm in an offer. He lets the interviewer choose how close she gets, then stands there with an arm draped over Ran's shoulders like it's the most natural thing in the world.

A spider skitters across the ceiling.

"We are going to stand here and breathe for a little bit," Cryptid says easily. He glances at Tatsuya. "How are you holding up?"

"You've seen someone go mad from this," Tatsuya realizes. His mouth puts it into words before he can stop the conclusion from lying dead as a ghost in the stifling air between them.

"Not yet," Cryptid says. He glances at Ran, then up at the dust and cobwebs.

Not yet.

There is subtext in those two words.

Tatsuya finds his heart speeding up.

The reason these interviews are safe and worth doing is that they are conducted with trained rescue specialists. The danger is chosen specifically to be something these heroes can handle in their sleep.

The danger is not supposed to come from the hero-

"Can you smell that?" Cryptid asks, cutting through Tatsuya's gasping panic.

What-

He inhales, finds he's breathing too quickly, and forces his lungs to cooperate. Two deep breaths later, he glares at Cryptid.

"Any iron?" The hero asks. "Deep breaths, long and slow. There you go, just like that. Can you smell iron?"

"You bastard," Tatsuya wheezes.

"I'm very manipulative, yes," Cryptid says serenely.

"No iron," Ran creaks.

"Fake blood," Cryptid says. He shrugs the shoulder Ran hasn't claimed at Tatsuya's disbelief and adds, "someone pranked your show. Not with whatever Onemu is doing - the void loves her too much to interfere in that. But it did allow someone to set up that painting specifically to fuck with me."

What.

"Why did I agree to this?" Tatsuya asks under his breath.

"Because you had a formative experience at thirteen where you realized surrounding yourself with extroverts and people who thrive in odd situations brings you more happiness than any desk job," Cryptid explains. Tatsuya fumbles with his very expensive equipment. "Also, I suspect you're being paid a fair amount, but really it's the same as Kaito. Y'all really should compare wages."

"We're keeping you," Ran decides from where she's pressing her hands into her face.

Cryptid grins at the ceiling, which Ran misses entirely. His smile is too wide, too sharp, and stars bleed from his shadow. "Good luck. I am not made to be contained."

Mundane cheer takes its place by the time Ran shakes her head and steps away.

Tatsuya was holding the camera, though.

-

Izuku waits on the building roof.

"When did you figure out it was me?"

Not needing to turn around to identify the speaker, Izuku just heaves a sigh. The empty bag of fake blood crinkles from his belt pouch. "Nobody else would."

Cloud makes a disgruntled noise.

"And that last thud upstairs was very good, but when you swear into the Null about hitting your elbow on a brick wall, I can hear it."

Cloud frowns.

"I thought you hated ghosts?" Izuku asks, and gets a strange look for the question. As if Cloud hasn't put string ghost traps on top of several versions of the cafe.

"There was nothing supernatural about that place. Guess they were ghosting you."

"Then who was Exorcism talking with?"

"She wasn't talking to-" Cloud loses about two shades of color and backs up a bit. "Right. Cool. I'm gonna- uh. Go cleanse myself in a temple or something-"

"Did you not know?!"

"No," Cloud hisses back, hair bristling slightly like a cat. "I don't mess with ghosts. They get hungry and-" he breaks off, gesturing. "I don't know shit about exorcism, but that is very much not something I want to mess with!"

"I've seen you pickpocket an HPSC president," Izuku says, mildly offended and not sure why.

[lendmeyourpower]

"M... Mr. Guren?" The sound of a small child's voice is barely able to be heard within the older man's room, but the small amount of light seeping through the now partially open doorway is enough to illuminate a tiny figure — none other than Fumie Miyuki, or rather Fumie Hyakuya as many now knew her as — a clear look of distraught on her features. "Can... Can..." She does her best to speak up, removing her hands from the doorknob only to begin fiddling with her own hands, "Mr. Shinya is still away on a mission and... I had a nightmare. Is it okay if... if I sleep in here until he comes back?" Reoccurring nightmares were a common thing for the seven year old girl, especially after everything she went through when being held as a livestock (not to mention she was vastly afraid of the dark, even if Shinya had given her a nightlight). { Have a seven year old Fumie when she first arrives at JIDA because I need something cute between them. @historical-painting }

-🌙 "Huh?" Guren asked at first. He had been busy looking over some files before trying to even bother to sleep. So this kid had nightmares too. It was bad enough dealing with Yu, when he woke up in the middle of the night screaming. At least Fumie was normally with Shinya. Damn him and talking him into helping take care of her, one brat was enough.

-🌙 "Yeah sure, just drop the mister. You can call Shinya whatever you want, but you don't have to call me that." Yu sure didn't. "Come on, get in here before I change my mind."

-🌙 He sound calm, and clearly was not going to kick the young girl out. He just didn't need her standing in the doorway. "I am not going to go to bed right away. So it is all yours, I will even leave the light on for you."

@historical-painting

[montysworld]

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Key PA Noel Joshua Helius Catbagan @joshuahelius Set PA Yukiko Nagata @yukiko.pdf Set PA Sofiane Boucif @teddevo PA Rosa Barbaran @rosas__are_red Runner Mario Stompford

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[New AO3 Fic!] Février 2023 : Tendresse

by HaruCarnage

Petits textes pour me remettre en jambe plein de tendresse pour ce mois.

Words: 5566, Chapters: 26/28, Language: Français

Fandoms: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game), Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling, Naruto, Pocket Monsters | Pokemon - All Media Types, Sherlock (TV), Supernatural (TV 2005), Katekyou Hitman Reborn!, Fairy Tail, Kingdom Hearts (Video Games), Kyou Kara Maou!, Heartstopper (Webcomic), InuYasha - A Feudal Fairy Tale, Psycho-Pass, Original Work, Shingeki no Kyojin | Attack on Titan, Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Nanoha | Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha, 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga), Octopath Traveler (Video Game), Promare (2019), SK8 the Infinity (Anime), Yuri!!! on Ice (Anime), Gundam SEED, Vocaloid, 東京卍リベンジャーズ | Tokyo Revengers (Manga), かぐや様は告らせたい | Kaguya-sama wa Kokurasetai | Kaguya-sama: Love Is War (Anime), Bleach (Anime & Manga)

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences

Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings

Categories: M/M, F/F, F/M

Characters: Kasumi | Misty, Takeshi | Brock

Relationships: Cyno/Tighnari (Genshin Impact), Fleur Delacour/Hermione Granger, Gaara/Uzumaki Naruto, Satoshi | Ash Ketchum/Serena, Sherlock Holmes/John Watson, Castiel/Dean Winchester, Gokudera Hayato & Yamamoto Takeshi, Natsu Dragneel & Gray Fullbuster, Axel/Roxas (Kingdom Hearts), Wolfram von Bielefeld/Shibuya Yuuri, Nicholas "Nick" Nelson/Charles "Charlie" Spring, Higurashi Kagome/InuYasha, Kougami Shinya/Tsunemori Akane, Levi Ackerman/Erwin Smith, Fate Testarossa Harlaown/Takamachi Nanoha, Midoriya Izuku/Todoroki Shouto, Cyrus Albright/Therion, Lio Fotia/Galo Thymos, Cagalli Yula Athha/Athrun Zala, Katsuki Yuuri/Victor Nikiforov, Hasegawa Langa/Kyan Reki, Hatsune Miku & Megurine Luka, Draken | Ryuuguuji Ken & Sano Emma, Shinomiya Kaguya/Shirogane Miyuki, Grimmjow Jaegerjaques/Kurosaki Ichigo

Additional Tags: prompt, Fluff, Falling In Love, Love

Read it now on AO3!

[bongaboi]

ISML 2022: That's! A! Wrap!

ISML 2022: That's! A! Wrap! An Era Of Saimoe Finally Draws To A Close

By Jo-Ryan Salazar The Bedlam On Baltic Avenue 22 February 2023

This is the final Saimoe news bulletin for the International Saimoe League on The Bedlam on Baltic Avenue. Nearly two decades of memories, great battles and countless sagas in the Saimoe movement drew to a close with the conclusion of Match Day 8 in the 2022 International Saimoe League Eliminations Period.

The first of three Female Division necklaces up for grabs went to Mashiro Shiina, who defeated Violet Evergarden 3241-1550. Elaina was third with 1222 votes, Nao Tomori was fourth with 870 votes, Miko Nakano was fifth with 781 votes, Mai Sakurajima was sixth with 66 votes, Rem was seventh with 564 votes and Yukino Yukinoshita was last with 500 votes.

The second Female Division necklace went to Yui Yuigahama, who defeated Shiro 2598-2256. Nagisa Furukawa was third with 1306 votes, Nanami Aoyama was fourth with 820 votes, Illyasviel von Einzbern was fifth with 680 votes, Konata Izumi was sixth with 434 votes, Yuri Nakamura was seventh with 378 votes and Yui-nyan was last with 237 votes.

Ai Haibara won the third Female Division necklace, prevailing over Kumiko Oumae 3420-3376, Shouko Nishimiya was third with 1100 votes, Isla was fourth with 720 votes, Hu Tao was fifth with 576 votes, Iroha Isshiki was sixth with 469 votes, Megumi was sixth with 402 votes and Eriri Spencer Sawamura was last with 345 votes.

The first Male Division pendant up for grabs went to Conan Edogawa, who delivered the Final Upset of the Round as declared by the Bedlam, a 2968-2796 scalp of Miyuki Shirogane. Accelerator was third with 1344 votes, Sakuta Azusagawa was fourth with 1100 votes, Kazuto Kirigaya was fifth with 873 votes, Taki Tachibana was sixth with 654 votes, Subaru Natsuki was seventh with 508 votes and Touma Kamijou was last with 470 votes.

Takashi Natsume took the second Male Division pendant after belting Shidou Itsuka 2321-1793. Shirou Emiya was third with 1354 votes, Saika Totsuka was fourth with 1103 votes, Saitama was fifth with 870 votes, Ryuunosuke Akasaka was sixth with 761 votes, Kazuma Satou was seventh with 617 votes and Ainz Ooal Gown was last with 560 votes.

Tanjiro Kamado earned the third Male Division pendant of Eliminations 8, a 2058-2021 victor over Sasuke Uchiha. Gilbert Bougainvillea was third with 1502 votes, Inuyasha was fourth with 1181 votes, Nasa Yuzaki was fifth with 1019 votes, Mikaela Hyakuya was sixth with 904 votes, Mochizou Ouji was seventh with 789 votes and Tomoya Aki was last with 560 votes.

Finally, a convoy of dual matches and the odd race involving more than two took place to cap off an era of Saimoe to be believed. Schwi Dola flew past Jibril 2294-1552, Mahiro Oyama defeated Hideyoshi Kinoshita 1905-1417, Hitori Gotou rocked Yui Hirasawa 2793-2192, Jinx leveled Vi 1777-1017, Pikachu shocked Ai Kizuna 2879-1639, Aqua Minato prevailed over Kokori Amamiya 1607-1555, and in a battle of hololive rivals, Gawr Gura (1336) outlasted Pekora Usada (1281) and Kanaeru Kobo (958).

Amiya sailed past Laffey 2004-1353, Mikoto Misaka finished off her service to Saimoe with victories over Gotou (3454-2344) and Kanade Tachibana (3400-2172), Takagi took down Nagisa Kubo 2142-1498, Raiha Uesugi rolled past Takebayashi 1782-1594, Wein Salema Arbalest won a 1459-1246 snoozer over Kazuya Souma, Nodoka Manabe barreled past Jun Suzuki 1850-1355, Shuu Ogata defeated Haruhiko Ichijou 1632-1438 and Tom outdid Jerry 1987-1904.

Chisato Nishikigi routed Kei Karuizawa 3316-1315, Satoshi and Pikachu eased past Sakura Kinomoto and Cerberus 2713-2142, Mio Akiyama boomed past Ryou Yamada 2694-2107, Lelouch Lamperouge stormed past Light Yagami 2694-2107, Yuki Nagato hammered Fate Testarossa 2206-959, Archer torched Loid Forger 2366-2334, Yuki prevailed over Shinya Yukimura 1493-1304, Lyrule drove past Yu-no 1402-1195, Catarina Claes clocked Aileen Lauren Dautriche 1628-1303 and Seika Ijichi pulverized Kou Yagami 2532-1166.

Nishikigi and Takina Inoue teamed up to defeat Azusa Nakano and Yui Hirasawa 2691-2498, Umaru Doma trounced 2652-1049, Erika Kurumi defeated Laura La Mer 1441-993, Kana Sukoya blew past Himiko Toga 1720-1051, Yamada bounced back with a 2616-2487 statement win over Konata Izumi, Sanae Dekomori thumped Souji Mitsuka 2281-1016, Eru Chitanda had Houtarou Oreki's number 2431-1840, Shuu Ogata outhandled Rentarou Satomi 13900.2-12321.9 and in a special group race, Saber came away victorious with a score of 23777.7.

Wrapping up an era of Saimoe that millions around the world witness in real time, Shinku defeated Yaya 1650-1406, Isuzu Sento drove past Mai Kawakamu 2013-1292, Seiya Kanie overcame Tatsuya Shiba 1689, and Rudeus Greyrat closed the Saimoe era with a 1766-1281 victory over Naofumi Iwatani.

That's. A. WRAP! The International Saimoe League has concluded for the very last time, and the Bedlam on Baltic Avenue thanks you for what has been a journey of anime greatness to remember. This blog will continue to cover other things, such as content on its YouTube sister channel (Bongaboi151) and sports recaps, but all the bulletins you see here can be viewed in their entirety on bedlamba.blogspot.com. Thank you for your support of the International Saimoe League. May your love for all things anime shine here, now…and into the future.

[saitama-division]

Papilio Melancholia

— Saitama Lakeside Cemetery —

Funny how it can go from sunny to cloudy just like that.

‘It never gets easier’, is what Sayaka thought as she walked up the cobblestone stairway, shifting Yoshiko in her arms, the four year old was uncharacteristically quiet as she held onto her mother, occasionally tightening her hold, as if to comfort her. The thought made her feel slightly better…until she remembers where they were.

What was only a couple of minutes felt like hours as the pair finally made it to their destination, stopping right in her tracks, Sayaka gently placed her daughter down who immediately grabbed onto her hand, the older woman giving a squeeze of reassurance as the two stared down at the gravestones, the difference being that one was smaller than the other.

Yoshiki Miyuki

‘A loving husband and father, greatly loved and sadly missed.’

Breath hitching, Sayaka bit her lip and mustered up the courage to look at the other gravestone, heart clenching as she read over the words.

Shinya Miyuki

‘If love could have saved you then you would have lived forever.’

But it didn’t.

No matter how much or how hard Sayaka loved, she couldn’t save him, both of them. There was no saving what had happened.

It wasn’t enough.

She wasn’t enough.

“Hi papa, hi Nya-chan.” It was Yoshiko who broke Sayaka out of her spiraling thoughts, letting go of her hand (the brunette woman despised the empty feeling it left her), the child took out some paper flowers in her pocket and placed two each on the gravestones. A symbol. That the four of them would always be together.

“Today is mommy’s birthday, she got lots of presents and we ate tons of cake! Auntie Lola and Big sister were there too! It was a lot of fun…” The little girl trailed off as she played with her fingers, expression somber, it looked unnatural for a little girl, especially one as cheerful as Yoshiko. “I wish you two were there, we could eat lots of cake together.” She looked back at her mother, a questioning look on her adorable features.

Sayaka gave her a small smile, hand going to caress her daughter’s brunette locks, she turned her focus back to the gravestones and sucked in a deep breath. “Hi Yoshiki, hi lovely.” She greeted each tomb respectively.

“Well, this is a treat, you’ve kept us waiting, my dear.”

“I know it’s been a while, a lot has happened, I don’t where to start.”

“Take your time, my love.”

“Well, I guess I can start with the obvious, it’s my birthday today, still can’t believe I’m already 31.”

“And yet, you don’t look a day over 25!”

“I’ve met so many different and amazing people, it’s sad to think that I might have to fight them sooner or later.”

“You’re so much stronger than you give yourself credit for, darling.”

“Lola and Kureha are still as lively as ever, I’m so glad I met them, I genuinely can’t imagine my life without them, especially Kureha, I wish you could have met her, you would have loved her….maybe I should bring her next time.”

“Please! You have no idea how much the anticipation is eating away at me! I wanna see this lovely girl!”

“Yoshi here, is growing up so fast, can’t you believe she’s going to be 5 in a few months?”

“That’s right! I’m gonna be a big girl, papa!”

“You really are, my sweet girl, you really are.”

“I hope you’re doing well…I hope you and Shinya are happy together.”

“We are, dear, knowing you and Yoshiko are happy together.”

“But…”

“It’s so hard, Yoshiki/You need to let go, Sayaka.”

“A-a lot is happening and I really don’t know what to do, I-I’m trying to move on, trying my very best for Yoshiko but…I don’t want to forget about you, our s-son, everything we had because if I do, will you hate me? W-will you think that I betrayed you?”

“Sayaka, you are the love of my life. All I ever wanted, all I want even now, is for you to be happy, for our daughter to be happy…even if I’m not the one providing it for you. You’re not betraying me and I won’t hate you but what I hate is seeing you like this, please darling, if you can hear me, that’s all I want.”

Sayaka sniffled as she wiped her eyes, the tears are still falling however. Now sitting in front of the gravestones, she could feel Yoshiko burying herself further into her chest and she held onto her tighter, inhaling and exhaling shaky breaths in an attempt to stabilize herself. She hadn’t realized how late it had become, the sky now darkening into a blue.

Sighing, she lifted Yoshiko into her arms and stood up, taking one last look at the gravestones. “I love you, Yoshiki, both you and Shinya, I always will, never forget that.”

Yoshiko peeked from out of the corner of her mother’s neck and waved, “Bye bye papa, bye bye Nya-chan.”

With that, the duo made their trek down the stairway, unbeknownst to them, a ghostly figure of a man holding a small bundle in his arms stood where they once were, watching as his wife and daughter made it to their car and after getting situated, drove off.

A baby’s coo caused Yoshiki to look down and smile at his son, “I know, Shin, I already miss them too. It seems like we gotta try harder, hm? Your mama’s been through a lot, she deserves all the happiness this world has to offer.”

As if on cue, the once cloudy sky slowly started to dissipated, allowing the sun to shine once more.

Butterflies started to come out from seemingly out of nowhere, flowing towards every which way, however, one in particular flew in the direction of the car in which the mother and daughter were in.

Happy Birthday Sayaka!

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broooo the stalker is creepier than my oc shinya LMAO

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