#shoutai

[taichissu]

she got obsessed with the vampire song again who? the girl reading this

[a3songtournament]

ROUND 2, SIDE A, MATCH 3

Shoutai vs Usotsuki wa Mahou no Hajimari

[kibu-me]

Let me in.

Fuyushipweek2024 Day 5 - Azuma (Sunrise/Sunset)

[goneatlas]

FELLAS IS IT GAY TO find a vampire collapsed in the streets so you bring him home with you and the next morning he's cooked you breakfast and you ask him to stay if he has no place to go and he stays with you and cooks and cleans for you but everybody else is suspicious of him and you find yourself having nightmares every night and your friends say you look paler these days and one night your nightmare features him standing bloodied over you and when you tell him about it he gets sad (he's been drinking your blood at night without telling you) and tells you he's moving out (he feels guilty about the feeding and he thinks he's endangering you by being there) but when he's about to leave your neighbour drops by and stabs him (your neighbour is a vampire hunter. or something) but he survives and comes back to tell you everything and that he's leaving fr this time so in desperation to not be parted you tell him to take you with him. as a companion. you would even let him make you a vampire. and he's touched by it but he bites you to make you fall unconcious and when you wake up he's gone and your coworker is there worried about you and when he asks whether your suspicious housemate is finally gone you say that yeah, he left you behind

[keroradio]

I was saving this song for a special occasion, and the timing was perfect for this one; the first episode of the original Keroro anime aired 20 years ago today, on April 3rd 2004

This is the version that was used as the opening for the 6th season instead of the first (in part because I already posted the original in January), but I think having the version sung by all of the characters is a good fit for the occasion, there's just something special about the tracks sung by the characters that makes it feel like a true celebration of the series

(-^.^-) It was just lucky timing, but this feels like it was the perfect year to finally do this project, I found out recently that the manga also premiered in the April 1999 issue of Shounen Ace magazine, and now the new series being announced just a few days ago

Happy 20th Anniversary to the Keroro Gunsou Anime! And Happy 25th anniversary to the manga! Thank you for all of the wonderful memories and friendships you've given us and all of the ones we might find in the future \(-^.^-)/

[fuyuu-suru-uzuki]

優しいです、夜が。 gentle is the night.

[patchoulism]

[nakamorijuan]

米倉千尋 - 嵐の中で輝いて Chihiro Yonekura - Arashi No Naka De Kagayaite Kidou Senshi GUNDAM Dai 08 MS Shoutai - Opening Theme

[doodlc]

idk why i hadn’t posted here this edit i made when s3 started airing ⁉️

[icharchivist]

I don't know Azuma but he looks both dangerous and highly kissable

oh you have no idea.

he's one of the most guys of all time.

He's voiced by Tetsuya Kakihara, who also voices Elmott in gbf.

He's part of one of my favorite song of the game, where he has a gay duet about vampire yearning with Tasuku (voiced by Takuya Sato, of Lu Woh's fame on here). And who wouldn't want a gay vampire duet with those two.

For the "fun" fact about him, Azuma is a cuddle therapist. It means that he sleeps with people to listen to their woes. He says the job is fully innocent, while he's also treated like a pariah for being into a shady branch of jobs. This job also gives him a lot of connection and we're basically sure he has at least some clients who dip into illegal stuff because he can pull some strings to have a false ID made for example. Despite his job being "wholesome" he also talks a lot about having sex with people and trying all sort of things so there's that too.

But the reality of Azuma is that he's actually extremely closed off. His family died when he was really young and none of his relative wanted to take him in, so he basically wrote himself down as fully alone and unable to connect with people. Still, he craves for human connections, and it's why he picked his job. He can't personally be vulnerable about himself, but he's here to listen to anyone and help them going through their problems. He also have night terrors when he sleeps alone, which is another reason he picked up this job.

he dropped everything to become an actor in our company after seeing two members of the Autumn Troupe fight for each other, and realize he was kinda jealous of them, of being able to connect with others, to trust others while vulnerable.

He joined the Winter troupe afterward, troupe famous for struggling to connect with one another because they all have raised their walls super high. Azuma himself struggles to fit in, as everytime he feels like he's getting too close he worries of what he might lose and he ends up shutting himself down, ghosting people, thinking about leaving.

But he's fine. This is fine. The Winter Troupe has his back.

Anyway the whole "therapist so he can read you like an open book, giving the illusion of intimacy to others because he's damn touch starved, will be the type to throw sex and flirty jokes at you to distract you from seeing him as vulnerable, while also in mourning" means that in my perfect gbf x a3 collab event that will happen one day i want him and Belial to meet. They'll drive psych warfare on each other and/or have sex and i need to see it for reasons.

As for dangerous part this is my favorite bit about it. Sakyo in this scene is a Yakuza btw and they're playing a Yakuza themed boardgame:

He's one of the most guy of all time. Thank you for your time.

[russenoire]

7, 12

from this MP100 ask game!

7: what’s the most hilarious moment to you?

[note: i'm terrible at picking 'one favorite thing' as a general rule, and have too many Most Hilarious Moments to count (anime and manga). so i'm just gonna list random ones that kill me if more ppl ask me this question.]

anime: when reigen spritzes shibata with the cursed cologne he stole from sakurai in s2e10, and it just drops this huge roided-out hulk of a man to the floor... funny enough on its own, but then ekubo quips: 'seriously, what's with this ridiculous luck of yours? you're definitely gonna die a horrible death.'

honorable mention for the moment when shibata wakes up behind reigen (and shigeo on his back!) and the phony psychic hits him again with the curse spray. this time it doesn't work. but it does cut short what would have been the man's long-winded explanation of how his Psycho-Steroids function... my dearly beloathed, those 'explaining your power to the enemy' moments in shōnen fighting series. so much.

manga: this one comes close to being my absolute favorite funniest ever mop cycle moment, and it didn't make it into the anime. (the relevant manga page has been my phone's lock screen for two years now.) a policeman is listening to a brief on the damage our little zombified protagonist has caused... as the culprit crosses his path. and said cop still tries to detain shigeo for questioning. ???%!shigeo meets him with this unholy glowing-eyed, slack-jawed stare that bores into my soul, y'all. it never fails to make me howl.

12: would you visit spirits and such consultation office (if you didn’t know any better)?

yes, i would. i have enjoyed such places since childhood. i wouldn't describe myself as a superstitious person, but these places and this field of inquiry scratch a real human itch that scientism can't reach. botanicas? wiccan/metaphysical supply shops? palm/tarot card readers? herbal medicine? can i get a witness? this stuff is fascinating from an anthropological perspective too.

plus reigen is pretty good at offering a space for people who just want to be listened to and taken seriously. and he has an actual psychic on staff. i wouldn't turn down his godly masseur skills, either.

[sankazu]

Hey, don't cry, aishita koto koukai dake wa shinai sa, okay?

[a3songtournament]

QUARTERFINALS, MATCH 2

Shoutai vs UNMASK

[lunamikk69]

SCANDAL - Ai no Shoutai LIVE from the SCANDAL TOUR 2024 LUMINOUS at Zepp Haneda.

[hellohimawarihana]

It's somewhat funny when you combine Takeru Homura (left) and Shoichi Kusanagi (right) and we had this character.

Not to mention that he is voiced by same seiyuu who voiced Reiji Akaba in ARC-V too.

[keroradio]

I remember finding a copy of this CD at a convention shortly after starting to watch the series, so I heard this song a good while before seeing the episode it aired in. The episode was a play on a classic children's story, but with the Keroro platoon having to sumo wrestle a group of alien mice who capture Natsumi & Koyuki after thinking the latter's oddly made rice ball was a weapon (This show was wild, wasn't it?)

The song's lyrics don't tie into the episode the way "Senjou Cake" & "Mendokusei March", and is more the characters dabbling in sumo and getting distracted, but it still has the fun feeling of the songs sung by the characters (^.^)