#tagging japan for hatsune miku

[terranautica]

--fannie lou hamer, usamerican civil rights activist

ressource thread !!

[arthurianlegend144]

I blame Brazilian Miku for this

For those not in the know, Brazil has the biggest Japanese community outside of Japan (just look at the Bairro da Liberdade), so I needed to do that with my Brazil rendition and Japan. The Megaphone is a reference to my favourite feat Miku song, "Love is War" by Ryo.

[frillyfelon]

uhhhhhh hampton roads miku

[disacurveball]

im a little lost on what exactly is harmful about drawing japan in hatsune miku get up? he's canonically an otaku and would like that kind of stuff. it's a silly show and not everyone likes historical stuff

the wording on that post was kinda more in a joking manner, my point was in the tags. there’s nothing wrong persay with the hatsune miku getup in particular, I was just using it as a joking example of the kind of behaviour I don’t really like seeing.

To say hetalia is just a silly show is…not a take I agree with. The very concept of personified nations is nationalistic at best, straight up propaganda at worst. If use them in human or non-nation AUs, that’s a whole separate thing, and not what I’m talking about here. Additionally, POC fans who use the characters/nation OCs to represent their own heritage and history is also not what I’m talking about. What I am saying is to attach certain personalities and headcanons to characters who represent nations can lead to dangerous perceptions

For HWS Japan in particular, the soft boy-ification of him insome fan content is not great in two areas:

1) even outside of the nation context, there is a history in the West of the infantilization and emasculation of Asian men. Which, you know, is racist. I often see Kiku get infantilized a lot in ships with the white men of the show (AMERIPAN, but I have seen it with us too Asakiku fans so please stay alert with the content you make)

2) completely erases what Imperial Japan did

That last part actually isn’t entirely the fault of the viewer, if they are simply taking hetalia at face value (pleaseeee don’t). Because Himaruya himself, at least when he began Hetalia, was a Japanese nationalist. And one of the goals of Japanese nationalists is to cover up all the atrocities of the Japanese empire, often utilizing soft power.

Japan’s soft power image, a lot of the cultural exports like anime “otaku” type beat, was very much originally engineered to change the world’s image of the country. So it’s important to recognize that in Hima’s characterization choice to make Kiku into that.

Himaruya has had a history of nationalist and anti-Korean sentiments. Just look up how the South Korean government banned Hetalia for the depiction of their country in it. Look up MOEKAN, which was an early comic by Himaruya which features a Korean protag whose entire point is to show that Koreans are unjustified and should just get over what Imperial Japan did to them.

Hetalia is not just a silly show when Himaruya’s characterizations are directly impacted by his own political ideas. Without deconstructing the way he wrote HWS Japan is to replicate some of those nationalistic choices that he made.

TLDR: The concept of hetalia is so steeped in history and nationalistic biases that even if you “don’t like historical content” you can’t ignore it. Ignoring it when writing personified nations can lead to dangerous perceptions about history (which you know effects real people, especially the people who have directly been victimized by the actions of a lot of these countries), especially when solely relying on Himaruya’s characterizations, because he VERY much writes the characters with his own biases in mind.

[darishima]

hello it is i anon who is definitely not you. you should show everyone ur super cool manga collection and also tell me about your favorite characters in great detail . btw

why hello anon who definitely isn't me!! thank you for asking because i have been waiting for someone to ask!!!

here's the main shelf and my bulletin board!!! closeups + unnecessarily in depth rambling + other collection stuff under the cut (please please click keep reading please click it please please ple)

closeup of the top shelf, this one mostly has my hero academia and one piece stuff. also has my junji ito books, and the demon slayer funkos i couldn't fit anywhere else. the mha figures along the top are knockoff wcf figures, not the real thing </3 bought them as cake toppers actually. i don't have all the mha manga i'm missing quite a few, but i have smash 1-2, team up missions 1-3, and all of the school briefs light novels

middle shelf, this one is half midari ikishima shrine and half assorted manga and figures. plus the kyoka jiro plush that wouldnt fit on the top shelf

bottom shelf! the manga is double layered on the sides for space conservation, the ones in the back are et cetera 1-9, chronicles of the cursed sword 1, psychic academy 1-2, .hack legend of the twilight 1-3 and .hack another birth 1-3. those and the buso renkin books were all given to me by a friend

this is one of my favorite figures, himiko toga by banpresto. it was surprisingly cheap for how good it is, i think it was like $38? the kyoka jiro sticker is something my friend got for me when he visited japan, and it still has the original price tag on it which i think is cool. in this pic you can also see the shoyo hinata funko pop (held up by sticky tack lmao) and the kurogiri + twice funkos. these (and my many other tiny funkos) are actually keychains but i removed most of the keychain part and i display them as figures instead

jiro section!! i really want to get her other funko variations, the school festival version of her with her guitar and the gamestop exclusive ofher with her microphone. and i REALLY want a scale of her, the newest one that's on preorder right now is so fucking cute but i'm too broke for it rn :( someday she'll be mine, but for now i just have a counterfeit wcf lmao

YAMATO !!! goddd i love him so much. got this figure super recently actually, it was like last week. i saw him in boxlunch and couldnt resist

the one piece section! i accidentally cut off the nico robin wano figure in this one oops :( i have the two ace's story light novels, the heroines ln (in japanese), the first manga volume in japanese, and the first fullmetal alchemist volume in japanese (doesn't fit the theme here, i know, but it didnt fit on the other shelves). here, i also have a vinsmoke reiju figure, a boa hancock figure in the back, a robin figure (dont ask why she's in her underwear i dont know either. but man do i like it), a yor forger figure, matching wano zoro and luffy funko keychains, and all my demon slayer funko keychains. i'm pretty sure this is the full set of them, i might be missing a nezuko variation though

this small bakugo figure (which sits on top of mha ultra analysis) is the first figure i ever got, i think i got it like five years ago? i don't even remember where i got it from, it was probably a gashapon machine somewhere idk. i lost his original stand ages ago so now he's sticky tacked to a lego :(

here's a closeup on my beloved midari ikishima shrine!! on the side is stickers of her sticky tacked to the shelf, and to the left is a hatsune miku drink can and a small yuji itadori figure. the shrine consists of 6 acrylic stands, 3 keychains, 3 button pins, 2 enamel pins, two sets of stud earrings, 6 stickers, 1 playing card with her on it (above the stickers but its cut off in the pic) and a bottle of purple nail polish that exactly matches the shade of hers. and kakegurui volumes 1 and 3 ofc (i plan to add kakegurui midari and the other kakegurui manga volumes to this soon). i really want more officially licensed midari merch but it's so hard to find and there's barely any of it. the white stand that some of the stuff is sitting on is a funko pop box with paper attached to it lmao

moving down to the second shelf! here's a brook figure, i really love this guy. the sculpting on his hands is SO good

next to brook is a zenitsu figure, a giyuu tomioka figure i got from a gashapon machine, and two tbhk pins

meruem and komugi funko pop on top of the manga :') my god i love these two so much. i really want to get that bandai figure of them but its like $500 at the CHEAPEST and it's not even good quality :( i'd like to get the hunter fan studios figure of them but alas, its also $500 dollars. someday i will </3 there's also a yuji itadori acrylic stand and a yuji funko keychain to the left that i forgot to take a closeup of

i've also got the komugi funko because of course i do, and it's displayed in front of hxh vol 25 because of course it is. someday i'm gonna get the meruem and pitou pops and i want them soo fucking bad but they're harder to find. also a zoro figure! from the same set as brook and the robin and otama figures from the top shelf.

had to do a closeup on this adorable killua and alluka pin, and the killua funko keychain

bottom shelf closeups! here's the middle of the shelf, with the rets of my hxh funkos (netero, bisky, and kurapika), my radical ed funko (i want the other two so bad but they're expensive :( got a matching keychain though), a honey senpai funko and a kuromi one. plus a cool large miku pin, a yor forger pin, and a pochita plush. i really love the all in one death note book. also, death note volume 3 (the blue one that's slightly taller than the others) was the first manga i ever got! i got it at a thrift store like four years ago i think. the k-on omnibus is the most recent manga ive gotten

yugioh section! duelest 1-4 and millennium world 1-3 were both gifts from a friend, and i got zexal 1-2 at a thrift store. they were from a school library, hence the stickers on the bottom that say west and south. really annoying, but i mostly covered them with a yugioh gameboy cartridge (i do not own a gameboy lmao). also ohshc pins!

on top of the yugioh manga is my other mha funko keychains, cubone and pikachu figures, a gudetama keychain, and a pochita necklace (which is actually a friendship necklace with my friend @/fartfeild)

other side of the shelf! the demon slayer pins have a glare on them in the pic which sucks. also have a miku pin, a gudetama coin purse thing, a mimukyu plush and figure (there's another mimikyu figure on top of the k-on manga), and four one piece pins

btw, the way i prop up the pins is by sticky tacking them onto legos!!

that's all for the shelf!! the shelf below this one is just full of empty boxes from the scales and funkos. onto the bulletin board!!

kyojuro rengoku, denji, zero two, tamaki suoh, takashi mori, honey senpai, and katsuki bakugo enamel pins! the chainsaw man and one piece things are cardboard packaging from other things that i cut out.

i LOVE this power pin, she's so fucking cute. the nami pin is gorgeous <3

two my melody pins, a hello kitty pin, and a chainsaw man button! plus an iguro keychain i got from a gashapon machine, and midari ikishima panels i printed. cause obviously i did

sailor mercury keychain! it's from 1999 (does that count as vintage? i think it does)

anya forger, all might, and bakugo keychains! plus a really high quality boa hancock enamel pin and a kurapika pin. the pretty flower is a pin i got from a melanie martinez concert, and the pink paper is confetti from the concert

dr stone lanyard, hxh keychain, kuromi pins, more midari panels, and multiple enamel pins (2 zoros, straw hat jolly roger, decidueye pokemon, yumeko jabami, and a dragon pin i got from a local artist at a fair)

jet black keychain (got it in a blind bag and im still mad i didnt get ed. i love jet too though), an emma keychain, more manga panels (ririka momobami and himiko toga) and a joey wheeler keychain that tragically got cut off in the pic. the chopper and luffy pins are part of a set with the zoro one, and i wish i'd put them together instead of splitting them up. i'll probably rearrange this sometime and then i'll pt them all together. there's also another melanie martinez pin from a concert, and two more pokemon ones

this thing came with one piece heroines, it's basically a second dust cover that advertises other one piece books. i kept it because of this cute nami drawing and oda's signature

also, the way i hang the button pins up is by sliding the wire piece behind a thumbtack :) please ignore my awfully chipped nail polish

tumblr won't let me add more images so i'll have to do a second post for all my posters. sorry this was so fucking long i know literally nobody cares or will read it but i needed to ramble about all this somewhere :3 my animanga collection is my favorite thing ever in the world. also on the off chance that anyone who does care reads this, if anyone wants to know more about a specific thing (where i got it, how much it cost, etc) please send an ask or dm and i'd love to tell you!!!

[cripplemagics]

tag people you want to know better

favorite color: candy red, ice blue (all shades of like, glacial ice really) gold, orange, and black.

song stuck in your head: Cool With You by Newje.ans

last song you listened to: Sand Planet by Hachi feat. Hatsune Miku

3 favorite foods: dark chocolate (in most deserts or on its own tbh) salmon sashimi and uhhh. . . tater tots.

dream trip: japan with my partner (especially tokyo disneyland and tokyo disneysea)

anything I want rn: a gaming pc and a good stream setup so i can y'know, stream.

tagged by: @masteredlegacy tagging: @khenzi @tempesttragedy @arcaneprophesied @jadeslayed @savethecheerleader and you!

[atinyhellu]

Get To Know Me Meme

Thank you for tagging me @springbeemaya!

Last song: Ado - ギラギラ (Gira Gira).

Currently watching: Nothing at the moment!

Current obsession: Project SEKAI (Hatsune Miku: Colourful Stage!) - a rhythm game my sister introduced to me! It has really nice stories accompanying the songs.

Currently reading: "Hagakure - Samurain tie" by Yamamoto Tsunetomo. The Finnish part translates to "the path of a Samurai". So...uh. Having run a TTRPG system based on samurai (Legend of Five Rings) and drafting a fic that takes place in Inazuma (largely Japan-based region in Genshin Impact the video game), I wanted to do a bit of research on the culture with the limited resources my public library could provide.

This has gone through most of my mutuals so if you want to do this, consider yourself tagged!

[alsocam]

thank yous for the tag <3333

: ̗̀➛ Light green

: ̗̀➛ idk, a few months?

: ̗̀➛ Japan (because Hatsune Miku)

: ̗̀➛ Adidas, idk

: ̗̀➛ GRAAAHHHH KASANE TETO (or Fukase or Kaai Yuki)

: ̗̀➛ Pico’s School

: ̗̀➛ School Bus Graveyard

: ̗̀➛ Losing feelings for my boyfriend.

: ̗̀➛ An FNF mod creator or animator! I WANT TO BE THE NEXT AMORALTRA (in a good way) AQUHIUSHSAD-

: ̗̀➛ YouTube. I love my subscribers.

: ̗̀➛ No pets :’)

: ̗̀➛ No pets :’)

: ̗̀➛ COFFEE YAAAAAA-

: ̗̀➛ Mint chocolate :3

ALRIGHT POOKIES HERE ARE YOUR TAGS ✨💖💖✨✨✨

@rockstar-cherriesz @yan44ik @michael-shelley-fan

random questions<3

ೃ⁀➷ hiii hi here’s just a random question form ˚୨୧⋆｡˚ ⋆

: ̗̀➛ what’s ur fav color

: ̗̀➛ how long have u been on tumblr for

: ̗̀➛ wheres a place u always wanted to travel to

: ̗̀➛ what’s ur fav clothing brand(s)

: ̗̀➛ what’s ur fav singer/band(s)

: ̗̀➛ what’s ur current phone lockscreen

: ̗̀➛ most recent/current hyperfixation

: ̗̀➛ what’s ur relationship status

: ̗̀➛ what’s ur dream job

: ̗̀➛ outside of tumblr, fav social app

: ̗̀➛ do u have pets

: ̗̀➛ if u do have pets, what kind/how many

: ̗̀➛ do u prefer tea or coffee

: ̗̀➛ whats ur fav ice cream flavor

: ̗̀➛ tag at least three other tumblr accounts

my tags: @nyoclosmom @stuckysimp @cherikdogfood @xxqueenofdragonsxx @carpentrz

anyone else ofc feel free to fill out :) ˚ ༘♡ ⋆｡˚

[dixiedingo]

severely honored to have been tagged by @visceravalentines for this one. @ijustdontknowsometimes, @sunnygang

First ship: I remember when I was a kid and super into Sonic X I went gaga over Tails x Cosmo.

Three ships: Michael Myers x Jason,

Last song: Your Ex Said You Can't Dance by The Zebos

Last movie: Friday the 13th

Currently reading: Complex borderline personality disorder workbook :,))

Currently watching: I haven't seen a show start to end in over half a decade because the fear of emotional attachment .-.

Currently consuming: had some cheetoes last night and I found one :))

Currently craving: A vacation, chocolate, and some ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

Relationship status: recently single, he was being a dick bag.

Favorite color: red, pastels, and I'm a big fan of Hatsune Miku Green.

Three favorite foods: Eel sushi, Avocados, anything kinda spicy.

Song stuck in my head: I Know the End, Phoebe Bridgers

Last thing I googled: .... lenny face.

Dream trip: Japan but I speak Japanese so I can flirt with everyone.

Time: 7:16 am

Here's. Another one. Just sitting in drafts. No shame.

[mizukiprsk]

I just remembered about that time I was randomly pulling and got a Shizuku 4* and that other time I was trying to pull for Mafuyu and got another Shizuku 4*

... and now I can only think about Shizuku latching onto me every time I try to pull for someone else

[blacwaifu]

Hatsune Miku jumping at the sky... whilst listening to music, doesn't make sense but i love it ✨

The character is not from an anime but a virtual or a AI ( Robot ) singer in Japan and she is very popular 💯

[autistic-shaiapouf]

Grabbing and replying to this while it's fresh on my mind 👀 thanks for the tag! I like doing these, even when I forget about them 😭

Relationship status: single! Aro/ace who likes it this way lmao

Favorite color: pinks, purples, and blues

Song currently stuck in my head: the chainsaw man ED bc I just finished the first episode lmao

Favorite food: I've been having a lot of Indian curry lately and it's been on my mind a lot as a result

Last song I listened to: okay so I have a playlist of music to listen to (as in, songs I haven't heard yet) on youtube that's over 3000 songs long and according to that, it was Alone by Tripshots (feat. Hatsune Miku), but looking at the normal stuff I usually listen to on my phone, it was shinigami eyes by grimes lmao

Dream trip: probably harajuku in Japan, if I had to pick, though I'd like to see Australia one day as well!

Last thing I searched: guinea pig sneezing bc mine was suddenly sneezing and I got concerned lmao

@rndmpunk ok so for some reason that tag game isn't letting me ad stuff to the post (a reblog limit mabey idk) so Imma start my own thread

Rules: tag 10 or more people you want to know better

relationship status: single (and aroace spec so ya)

favourite colour: green :)

song stuck in my head: Dr who theme lol

favorite food: cheese and chutney sandwiches I think

last song listened to: other than Dr who, the mountain song by tophouse

dream trip: the highlands of Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 :)

last thing I searched: how long does Spiced apple juice take to make (it was about half an hour)

tags: @mushroomgazette @aphrodititi @dicklessswonder @spineless-lobster @jupiterfangs @edsbacktattoo

[alicepi]

[slimebee]

tagged by @nisetsundere, @isshikiirohasu, @inanna-astarte

“you can usually tell a lot about a person by the type of music they listen to. put your favourite playlist on shuffle and list the first ten songs, then tag ten people! no skipping”

i’m doing it twice because i have a spotify playlist and then a youtube playlist with stuff that isn’t on spotify in it, and it felt unfair to exclude all the songs in either one, also i was tagged 3 times so i might as well

from spotify

少女の音色に導かれ - Sokoninaru

あややこやや - QUEEN BEE

阿吽 - Polkadot Stingray

The Wolf - Siames

I’m Your Treasure Box - Houshou Marine

風の歌 - FLOW

吸血鬼 - カンザキイオリ / Kanzaki Iori

へでもねーよ - Fujii Kaze

砂の惑星feat.初音ミク - hachi

Last of Me - CircusP

from youtube

マシュマリー - MIMI covered by 明透 / Asu

ココロガール - ft.可不 - とあ/Toa

あとのまつり (selfcover) - ヤマモトガク / Peg

Lawless Weapon - inabakumori x neru

Giant Killing - ルワン / Loin

Ghost Dance - Aqu3ra feat. Hatsune Miku

幸福な死を - Kudou Chitose

Do It All The Time - I DONT KNOW HOW BUT THEY FOUND ME

Edelweiss - 亜咲花 / Asaka

不埒な喝采 feat. 可不 - ポリスピカデリー / Police Piccadilly

i think its really funny that there are two english songs out of 20

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another thing i was tagged in by @inanna-astarte

Rules: Tag 10 people you want to get to know better.

Favorite colour(s): yellow maybe? i really love all colors so this is a tough one

Favorite food: spinach-filled pasta

Song stuck in your head: Yofukashi no Uta - Creepy Nuts

Last thing you googled: Siames, the artist that showed up in the songs section of this post. i thought they were french so i looked them up but they’re not. they’re argentinian

Time: 3:44pm

Dream trip: i’m not super into travelling but i want to go to japan at some point to have the opportunity to speak japanese and finally work on my pronunciation

Last book you read: Wandering Witch: The Journey of Elaina by Jougi Shiraishi, which i haven’t finished, but if you count audiobooks, i tried listening to one called The Awakened Mage by Karen Miller. i wanted to try audiobooks and it was the only fantasy one i could find at my library. i didn’t finish this one either before returning it but it was alright. a lot of politics, not many mages being awakened. also i didn’t realize it was a sequel until i was like 5 hours in so that might be why i didnt really like it

Last book you hated reading: i cant remember, but i read a lot of books while i was in school, so probably something from back then

Favorite thing to cook/bake: i don’t really cook.. the most i do is pasta

Most niche dislike: idk what counts as niche but weird idol fans i guess. specifically the ones that get angry if an idol or vtuber interacts with people of other genders in their personal life, as if they’re cheating. i think a lot of people dislike them so its not really niche though

Opinion on the circus: i don’t think i’ve ever been to one so idk. could be fun

Do you have a sense of direction: yeah as long as i’m the one doing the moving. if i’m being driven by someone or watching someone play a game, my brain shuts off

[nymphadorathetemplar]

10 people you want to know better

tagged by : @wickfur @hiromiikunn

Relationship status:

never dated nor married

Favourite colours:

blues & oranges & black/white/grey-scale

Favourite foods:

Korean & Japanese cuisine, Asian or French style confections (i can't stand super cane sugary american sweets and high fructose corn syrup, i like light, creamy, and honey like sweets), potatoes

Song stuck in my head:

so many, i have an infinity radio playing in my head since the day i was born collecting more and more songs the longer i live. currently; a majority of the repeats are Vivid BAD SQUAD songs and/or covers

Last thing googled:

mousou dairinin

Time:

14:12

Dream trip:

no thanks. but if i had to travel somewhere i guess i like Japan, especially the classic Kyoto tourist attractions. or Edinburgh castle in the capital of Scotland.

Last thing read:

these questions. last story read; Project Sekai Colorful Stage (feat. Hatsune Miku) Scramble Fan Festival event episodes

Last book enjoyed reading:

Re-reading once again A Study in Scarlet (probably my fave Sherlock Holmes adventure) Last book enjoyed reading that wasn't a re-read; The Iskari Trilogy by Kristen Ciccarelli, read it all at once so it counts as one book for me

Favourite things to cook/bake:

idk probably pancakes, french toast, omurice

Favourite craft to do in free time:

whatever inspiration hits in the moment

Most niche dislike:

idk what's considered niche or not; having to rank my faves or pick a single "best/most favourite" i don't like having to quantify and decide precisely which makes me more happy. i only have broad categories of; 1) Fave! serotonin~ 2) Enjoyed would do/read/watch again 3) Fun but not doing/reading/watching that again 4) no thanks (for this same reason i don't rate shows/books on numerical scoring scale, such as MAL)

Opinion on circuses: never been because fuck animal cruelty i personally am creeped out by clown aesthetics and don't care to be around them (the clowns themselves are usually nice people tho) otherwise, the people who willingly perform, i think it's very impressive and cool to watch from clips of tricks i've seen online or how it's depicted in movies

Sense of direction?

almost always the designated navigator for my group when going out. like a video game map that starts out blank and fills in areas you explore, my mind makes an overview image as i move. and i mentally mark a few spots that i can return to like a homing pigeon. no matter how many turns i take i remember the compass direction of the mentally marked location.

Tagging: idk just claim i tagged you if you want to do it (seriously feel free to @ mention this blog if you do it, i like reading various answers but it's troublesome to think of others to tag and i'm lazy)

[adakechi]

tag game tuesday!! thank you @vintagelacerosette my darling :)

My name is: Tharin (Rin is fine!)

Your age in roman numerals: XXIV (thank you final fantasy)

The last song you listened to: romeo and cinderella by doriko & hatsune miku

Look to your left, what’s the first thing you see?: my microphone and a cup of coffee

You’ve just been handed a first class ticket to anywhere in the world. where are you going?: Japan

Do you collect anything?: coffee mugs with famous works of art on them

Quick! you have to paint your nails right now! What color do you choose?: I hate painting my nails :(

What’s one of your bad habits?: well i literally have diagnosed OCD so i suffer from a lot of 'bad habits' lmao

A movie you could watch over and over again: any of the Night at the Museums, or Holes

Favorite Halloween candy (or favorite candy if you don’t celebrate Halloween): hmmmmmmmm I enjoy me a good twix but the fruit tootsie rolls also go hard

And finally, give yourself a compliment: I havent had a really bad relapse in like 3 days thats basically a world record

as always im anxious and dont like tagging people so do this if you want and say i tagged you