#taichi sashimori

[splatbastards]

what if sea critters were GAY and AUTISTIC or some shit...

[art-of-dragonheadskilax]

Pepper is a fan of Taichi

[qtjaz]

Yumeship of me and Taichi Sawaberu from Sashimori

Fun fact my sona is actually a type of Nudibranch but comes off as an Urchin

[molabuddy]

i dropped my sashimori on the ground help-

[leixo-demo]

Taichi hates dealing with kids

[bloomblanche]

Ok ok here are my thoughts on these new designs

Karla

They made her 10x more cunty and 10x more creature. Absolutely elegant. She is SLAYING right now, and I love her for it. Karla is actually one of my favourites btw, so I'm happy about this!

Ryu Chang

He looks like a hipster, but in a GOOD way. I love his little glasses with his polka dot shoes. I also like how most of his clothes are mostly desaturated except for his neon green shorts.

Paul

He looks EXACTLY like the fanmade designs... I'm in awe. I thought I would be alienated by his new design, but no! It's like he was always like this. ALSOO HIS GLASSES HIS GLASSES LOOK SO CUTE AWWWWWW

Taichi

I like his tie, it kinda reminds me of a fish for some reason? Dude traded the white shirt for a black one, and I think it actually fits him pretty well! I love how he has a permanent ⊙<⊙ face.

[beanbeanbee]

Survived exams yet again (barely). Taichi's an old fart and no one can tell me otherwise. (Humanization jumpscare)

[gnarlyeddy]

Did you know: in the ocean the fish are getting gay married to eachother. It's true.

[mossible]

summary;

It’s the evening of October the 2nd, and a certain dynamically dysfunctional duo is on their way to a party. Not just any party, though! The customary, SquidForce-organized-and-run, pre-collab artist celebration party! They were one out of two lucky bands chosen to play in the soundtrack of the Kensa-collab launch, and had been invited out to celebrate their success! However, fate seems to have other plans for these two. And, whether the realization of such comes in the form of a familiar face or simply the current place, tonight will soon become one that neither of them will forget. For better, or for worse.

OR; i was physically possessed to write about the s2 4.0.0 guys if i didnt i think i would have esploded...

[hooked-on-hightide]

Secret santa for zy from the splatbands server :0!!

Oo and TBH the reason why he's looking up @ the sky is bc I was inspired by how irl largehead hairtails swim (aka looking up!! Uhhh usually I think correct me if I'm wrong)

[sweetfloatapartment]

sooo..... what IS your favorite piece of splatoon lore? 👀

OK LIKE . IN HINDSIGHT I REALISE THIS QUESTION IS TOO BROAD TO GET ME GOING CUZ I LIKE A LOT OF LORE (more specific questions are easier for me to ramble about) but i think. my favorite lore to TELL people about is sashimori's origin story cuz its so FUNNY to me.

its HEAVILY implied they're pearls former band, cuz pearl used to be in a metal band (also bring back pearls piercings forreal. shes so cute with them!!!!). and sashimori kicked out their lead singer cuz they were an asshole... and they just did instrumental stuff for a while but then the leader of the band, taichi sawaberu, Who Is A Renowned Guitarist Despite Being An Eel(?) With No Fingers, was like okay we need vocals actually. so they made a post on social media looking for vocals and there was this one response of this guy. and theyre like hell no this is a literal 10 year old kid. and then they listened and it was this like amazing like this lil guy basically vocaloid producer ytpmv style remixes HUMAN vocals from old records he finds. and like. they were so impressed they were like ok guess dj baby is gonna be our vocals!!!! and they were a hit!! and this baby is named Paul. hes so small hes still all gloopy. also as of splat 3 he should be 15 and like...that means he looks more like the player characters which is WEIRD to think about. theres also art of him beating fuka bottom who is (presumably) a fully grown shark at chess....theres more but like. Yeagh. so funny to me

heres an image of the band to illustrate

[splatbastards]

obsessed with Paul and Taichi's kid, Katana

[hewkii]

Demystifying Splatband Signatures

Recently I've seen people talking about Acht and Paul's signatures apparently being right next to each other on a Grandfest banner. I really want to believe it bc that's adorable, but after spending entirely too long digging for a source, making spreadsheets, and attempting to identify each signature for myself I've concluded that it's most likely not true :(

full ramble below. get ready for an autism blast

So to start. It's probably decently well known at this point that the signatures outside Hotlantis correspond to every artist that had battle music in Splatoon 1 and 2. However, if you tally up the number of band members (36) vs the apparent number of signatures (37), we wind up with one mystery signature.

After skimming the artbooks and Inkipedia I didn't find anything officially matching any signature to any specific characters (besides the idols), but online I found two fanmade charts attempting to do it themselves. One by @/inaRNP on Twitter in August 2022 (which is missing one signature, and assigns the mystery sig to Karen), and another that circulated on Discord before being reposted to Tumblr in November 2022. This second one seems to be where the idea that the mystery signature belongs to Dedf1sh comes from. It definitely seems more likely than it being Bob Dub or something.

HOWEVER. Acht's lore in Side Order heavily contradicts this theory. In all likelihood they were autopiloting around the Deepsea Metro from the end of OE right up until they got pulled into the Memverse, never coming anywhere close to Hotlantis. It is possible that it was intended to be theirs but plans changed, as technically SO's plot wasn't nailed down at Splatoon 3's launch, but to that I point to Haikara Walker. If they were intended to have escaped the Metro after OE, then they likely wouldn't have opened at the Low Water Party. (page 261 if you don't know what that is)

But with the signature's reappearance on the Grandfest banners, I think I've worked out exactly what happened here.

According to the charts, these are the signatures of Paul and Taichi. Both were noticeably redrawn for their appearance on the Team Past banner, and I think that's the key to solving this whole mystery. Redesigning Paul's makes sense; he was a kid when he did the first one and he's a teen now. Of course his handwriting would change. But why redesign Taichi's?

Or, what if what we thought was Taichi's signature was actually just part of Paul's the whole time?

That would bring the amount of Hotlantis signatures down to 36, meaning there was never an extra signature to begin with, and the mystery signature simply belongs to a member of Sashimori.

Of course, that still doesn't explain why it's so far away from the other Sashimori members. But then again, Paul's is also pretty far away. Maybe there just wasn't enough room to group them together like everyone else ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Plus, it's next to everyone else's on the Grandfest banner. Speaking of which...

Here's my guesses as to whose signatures are whose on the banners, including the new ones. forgive the microsoft paint

Things to note:

I can't actually tell how many new signatures are on the Team Present banner. I just circled all of them and called it Yoko & the Gold Bazookas, but there are only four Y&tGB members that aren't also in Ink Theory and there definitely seem to be more than four signatures there. we might have an actual mystery signature on our hands this time

Front Roe's sigs are different than the ones on Hotlantis, but I'm confident it's them because they all have 00X (as in 003Soss) worked into them.

dot--png pointed out in the comments that one of the signatures I guessed was Riot Act seems to have a doodle of a squid, so that might actually be Beika's

Team Past doesn't have any Splatoon 3 characters on it, which makes sense now that I think about it

i made a whole ass spreadsheet to help me figure this out and i feel like it would be a waste not to link it here

[qtjaz]

Humanised Paul and Sawaberu + Headcanons

I'll do Karla and Ryu Chang later

[getta-guy]

I thought of a fun little thing I want to do every Splatfest announcement and that is "What would Splatband Characters pick in Splatfests?"

SQUID SQUAD

Everyone besides Ikkan would pick money (Ikkan would pick love)

To defend my point on Ikkan being on Team Love, bro is passionate about music If he wanted more money he would've stuck with Squid Squad and made more money

Ikkan isn't that much of a Team Love person, he just thinks the other option(s) are lame

But they would've probably been on Fame if it was an option

Namida/Murasaki were kind of forced to go along with Ichiya

HIGHTIDE ERA

If we're talking about previous Splatfests, Taka and Nishada would be on Team Money and Kuze would be on Team Love

Taka picks Team Money cause he's Taka

Nishada picks Team Money since he has a lot of brothers and thinks that money can help out his family

Kuze picks Team Love to play Splatfest with his Rainmaker Friends

He'd never replace his old drums he loves them

When Money VS Fame VS Love was announced, Taka immediately joined Team Fame

CHIRPY CHIPS

Everyone unanimously picks Team Love

Harmony is the least loud about it

Noiji is the ultimate Team Love hype man

In Mirror Matches, Noiji would try to start a Squid Party

when Team Love won the previous Splatfests he cheered so loudly he lost his voice

Shitaku enjoyed the next few days after the results

WET FLOOR

Mizole is Team Money for the previous Splatfests, he's now Team Fame

Mizole takes Splatfests very seriously

Ryan is Team Love, he is not safe from Mizole

She gets targeted and squidbagged by Mizole, but he does that back to him

Kagi picked Money to make Mizole shut up, but hardly plays in the Splatfest.

Kazami got Tsumabushi to endorse Team Love just to see Mizole and Ryan fight again

Tsumabushi then got everyone to shut up after all of the commotion going on, and asked everyone to stay silent whoever becomes the winner

Kagi doesn't want to bother playing for the 3rd Splatfest

BOTTOM FEEDERS

Almost everyone is team money

they switch to fame after the 3rd Splatfest reveal

Tangle and Fin are the most loud about Splatfest, but they'd still be aggressive towards each other if they were to go against each other (I don't think they can fight in Splatfests if I remember correctly)

Fuka and Murutā would just be chilling with each other

Blow is on Team love with Kuze

INK THEORY

Karen picks Team Love immediately

Bibi chose Team Money

Karen looks at her in shock, but Bibi is unapologetically on Team Money

Yoko struggles to decide, and her hair turns yellow/pink/green while deciding

Yoko then decides to go Team Love to rival Bottom Feeders

Achin is on Team Love, she's still trying to find love despite inexperience (poor thang)

Mayaya picks Team love for the aesthetic

Kitamura turned her entire blog into lovecore when the Splatfest was announced

DISS-PAIR (MORE LIKE WARABI GETS HIS OWN SECTION)

Warabi picks Team Love due to him already being from famous and rich parents

Ikkan is a backline, Warabi is frontline

SASHIMORI

Karla doesn't say anything about Splatfests

Ryū Chang is on Team Love with Blow and Kuze

Taichi would be on Team Money, then go on Team Fame for the 3rd Splatfest

Paul would be on Team Love if he was older, Paul is waiting on his revenge on Taichi

C-SIDE

They're all on Team Fame

Kikura would arrive late to the Splatfest

Uotora takes the Shrimps outside to see the Concert, but they got scared from the fireworks and he took them back inside

FRONT ROE

They would absolutely not pick team fame their whole Gimmick is that they don't do Live Shows

Ichiya and Namida would wear anything that covers their face so they're not identified

Murasaki just doesn't care and just shows up to see the Splatfest Concert

004Clm is Murasaki's drive back home

[leixo-demo]

which weapons do you think your splatbands faves would main? ^-^

I'll go around all existing bands (this is long af):

SquidSquad

- Ichiya: Modified Eliter, this one was fabricated to pierce through salmonid shields, is enough powerful to create a hole in a wall. He doesn't use it anymore since he moved out to Haikara City

-Ikkan: Modified Dynamo, he got to learn how to modify weapons but they tend to be dangerous, he made ichiya's Eliter

-Namida: Blaster, she has an inner craziness that is limited throught out her terrible fear to deal with people

-Murasaki: Trislosher, wasa present given by Namida, even though he doesn't play them much he uses it

ABXY

-Paruko: Can't play turf wars and doesn't enjoy them anyways

-Noiji: Clash blaster, 1) It's noisy 2) It's chaotic, enjoys to play only league with Raian

-Raian: Shooters, Brellas, He isn't big of a player but enjoys collecting old vintage weapons

-Shikaku: Can't play??? but watches the matches of Noiji and his best friend Raian

Hightide Era

-Taka: Nzap, he's terrible at playing but feels he looks cool posing with the weapon, however he's number 1 Kuze's fan (he's like a father to him)

-Nishida: He's too of a busy man to even show sny interest on it, he is also really supportive with Kuze

-Kuze: Slayer, Midliner, He's versatile with his weapons, he usually plays with .52 Gal or Nozzlenose. Despite his Drummer career, he won important matches and ended with his team on the top 100 leaderboard of the entire Country

Wet Floor

-Mizole: Wet Floor branded new inkbrush, yeah it's like a mop but acts the same as a normal inkbrush, his ink color is actually cyan

-Kagi: Bloblober, his skin tone doesn't allow him to enter in many matches tho

-Rayan: Wet Floor branded splat dualies, yes they have an entire set of wet floor weapons themed in cleaning products

-Tsumabushi, I think his species can swim in ink but,,, can't give him a weapon, he seems to like other stuff

-Kazami, Crabs can't play turf wars but find the new splatana wiper really cute

Sashimori

-Ryū-chang, Octobrush,his long lineage led him to use this one, as he says he loves his "big slappy". He also performs tradicional calligraphy with it

-Paul, Splattershot Jr, he now reached an age to play turf, he's actually learning how to play rainmaker

-Karla, Nobody expect Ryuu has seen her playing turf wars, that only time she was carrying a Hydra

-Taichi, Doesn't like to play at all, he thinks he looks all stupid with a tiny weapon on his fins

Diss-pair

-Ikkan: Alredy mentioned him, he stopped playing any turf once he moved along with Ichiya to Haikara City. He feels and looks unconfortabled to play or watch it

-Warabi: Dapple Dualies, can't play and doesn't want to, he hates the fact his tentacles are malformed and makes it hard to swim straight (it's like joycon drift) besides he's too of a business man to even have the time to play silly games

Bottom Feeders

-Tangle: Can't play and seems to dislike it

-Fuka: He doesn't enjoy it neither

-Finn: Tetras Dualies, doesn't play neither but that's the only weapon they would use

-Blow: Splatlings, all types, he's the backliner of the group and the most violent one of the 3, he dedicates every victory to his wife and daughter

-Muruta: Can't play??

Ink Theory

-Mayaya: Can't play but im sure she wishes to decorate one

-Āchin: Can play but it's scared of it, she's gothic but terrible at handling turf weapons

-Yōko: Splosh-o-matic, we all know why, it looks like s trumpet

-Karen: Can't but admires Yōko playing

-Bibi: She would play if more weapons were gilded, Splash-o-matic and Golden Dynamo (rip)

-Kitamura: She has a dream to hold the heaviest weapons, she has the determination too

C-side

-Beika: little hater, rapid blaster and Carbon Rolelr

-Kikira: Doesn't play, but I'm sure she would be a Slayer

-Uotora: Ehem ehem, Tri-Stinger, Jet-Squelcher, Dualies Squelcher and Chargers, SHE IS BIG NERDY OF BANKARA TURF WARS AND GOES INSANE EVERY TIME THEY DROP A NEW KIT

Extras

-Dedf1sh: On her childhood Turf wars wasn't even a thing and once she became a Dj (at her 20ish) she was first introduced to it but never tried, she tried to play it with her bestie at the time but they couldn't swim straight...

-Clam 004, I don't think they can't fully swim cus of their shell like muruta ((But urchins can,,teheheh))

-Omega3: I don't even believe they would turn stuff like war like a game when they take it really religiously, they just do music dedicated to complete their food cycle culture