#yukiko kitano

[incorrectbrquotes]

Yumiko: Wow, Kiriyama really hates us, Yukiko.

Yukiko: Maybe he's homophobic.

Yumiko: But we're not gay, Yukiko.

Yukiko: We're not?

[dullahanart]

Battle Royale: Shiroiwa Junior High, Class 3-B

Male Student #06: Kazuo Kiriyama [ 桐山 和雄 ] Female Student #06: Yukiko Kitano [ 北野 雪子 ]

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Tatsumichi’s decisions are altered by a gunshot alone. From there, he’s forced to rely on his adrenaline.

[keitaiijima]

HAPPY PRIDE BR FANDOM 🌈🌈🌈

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[shadowwingtronix]

"Yesterday's" Comic> Spider-Man: The Manga #30

BW's "Yesterday's" Comic> Spider-Man: The Manga #30

Given that the Clone Saga was going around the same time as this cover I suspect whomever wasn’t reading the series got the wrong impression. Spider-Man: The Manga #30 Marvel Comics (June, 1999) WRITER/ARTIST: Ryoichi Ikegami TRANSLATION: Mutsumi Masuda RETOUCH/PRODUCTION: Dano Ink Studios COVER COLORIST: Frank A. Kadar EDITOR: Dan Nakrosis (more…)

[kazuosquaredofficial]

first of all: thank you so much for making this!!! i'm a fairly new fan and one of my primary concerns when getting into a new fandom is if it's lgbt-friendly, so it's incredibly heartwarming to see active, positive representation. as for headcanons: yumiko and yukiko are both trans girls! yumiko came out when she was younger and later helped yukiko feel comfortable and safe enough to start transitioning. i hope all the best for this blog, you're wonderful!!! ❤️💝💛💚💙💜

We’re glad to make a new fan feel happy in this fandom! I can definitely understand how it can be a little hard, especially when it comes to how people are going to respond to LGBT headcanons, but luckily you’ve come to the right place!

Trans girls Yumiko and Yukiko is beautiful. They’re already such good friends and it makes perfect sense for Yumiko to help Yukiko and to be supportive of her. Thank you for making our first submitted headcanon such a lovely and inspiring one, Anon!

-- Mod Shinji

[norihisahyuga-archived]

Battle Royale Character Aesthetics

Girl #6: Yukiko Kitano

[ayuvogue]

With Tetsuya Komuro’s retirement this year, Avex is releasing two massive collections of the J-pop maestro’s most famous songs. Four songs featuring Ayu will appear among the two collections, according to Natalie.mu. 

TETSUYA KOMURO ARCHIVES T will include the a-nation theme “THX A LOT” on which Ayu is featured, as well as her song “You & Me” and KEIKO collaboration “a song is born.”

TETSUYA KOMURO ARCHIVES K will include the song “crossroad.”

In addition to the two collections, a box set containing both collections is available through Sony and will have an exclusive ninth disc.

All three versions are scheduled for release June 27th, with Sony warning of delayed delivery for the exclusive boxset depending on demand.

Pre-order TETSUYA KOMURO ARCHIVES “T”

Pre-order TETSUYA KOMURO ARCHIVES “K”

Tetsuya Komuro announced his retirement in January after news broke of an alleged affair. He is currently married to globe singer and Ayu collaborator KEIKO, who has stayed mostly out of the limelight since suffering a stroke in 2011.  

While we don’t have a complete tracklisting for either collection, a list of all the songs we know of so far from Natalie.mu is after the jump.

UPDATE June 17th: we now have a complete tracklistings via CDJapan and his official website.

T Version

Disc 1

愛しのリナ / Miss Orange・Shock

OH! MISTAKE / スピードウェイ

Sweet Planet / Yukiko Okada

My Revolution / Misato Watanabe

Teenage Walk / Misato Watanabe

JINGI・愛してもらいます / Miho Nakayama

愛を今信じていたい / Chiemi Hori

Get Wild / TM NETWORK

Kimono Beat / Seiko Matsuda

50/50 フィフティー・フィフティー / Miho Nakayama

悲しいね / Misato Watanabe

BEYOND THE TIME(メビウスの宇宙(そら)を越えて) / TM NETWORK

Good Morning-Call / Kyoko Koizumi

Disc 2 

Body Feels EXIT / Namie Amuro

VOLTEX OF LOVE / Ryuichi Sakamoto × Tetsuya Komuro

DEPARTURES (RADIO EDIT) / globe

I'm Proud (Radio Edit) / Tomomi Kahara

Don't wanna cry / Namie Amuro

Baby baby baby / dos

FRIENDSHIP / H jungle with t

In the future / hitomi

LOVE BRACE / Tomomi Kahara

by myself (STRAIGHT RUN) / hitomi

Close to the night / Yaya Ooga

Can't Stop Fallin' in Love (STRAIGHT RUN) / globe

Mystery of Sound (Original Mix) / Yuuko Tsuburaya

Disc 3

YOU ARE THE ONE / TK PRESENTS Konetto

CAN YOU CELEBRATE? / Namie Amuro

deep GRIND (STRAIGHT RUN) / taeco

SPEED TK RE-MIX / Tetsuya Komuro

love the island / Ami Suzuki

ふわふわ ふるる / tohko

海とあなたの物語 / Reika Miku

Girls, be ambitious! (Straight Run) / TRUE KiSS DESTiNATiON

笑顔が見える場所 ～I WANNA GO～ / AN-J

BE TOGETHER (ORIGINAL MIX) / Ami Suzuki

GET INTO YOU SUDDENLY / BALANCe

a song is born / Ayumi Hamasaki & KEIKO

Disc 4

THX A LOT (Album Version) / a-nation's party

Charge & Go! / AAA

I am / TM NETWORK

You & Me / Ayumi Hamasaki

Celebration ～Music Ribbon ver.～ / SUPER☆GiRLS

The Generation feat. Zeebra, DABO, SIMON / Tetsuya Komuro

22世紀への架け橋 / Tetsuya Komuro vs Hyadain

EDM TOKYO 2014 feat. KOJI TAMAKI / Tetsuya Komuro

DISCOVERY / DiVA

Throw your laptop on the fire feat. Tetsuya Komuro/ tofubeats

#RUN / Tetsuya Komuro feat. Sayaka Kanda (TRUSTRICK) & tofubeats

futuristic / Dream5

K Version

Disc 1

SEVEN DAYS WAR / TM NETWORK 

ドリーム ラッシュ / Rie Miyazawa

RUNNING TO HORIZON / Tetsuya Komuro 

夢みてTRY / Minako Tanaka

空を飛べる子供たち～Never end of the earth～/ Hiromi Go

永遠と名づけてデイドリーム / Tetsuya Komuro

TOO SHY SHY BOY! / Alisa Mizuki

EZ DO DANCE (7" MIX) / TRF

国境に近い愛の歌 / Riho Makise

愛撫 / Akina Nakamori

survival dAnce 〜no no cry more〜 (original single chart mix) / TRF

BOY MEETS GIRL (RADIO ON AIR MIX) / TRF

 恋しさと せつなさと 心強さと / Ryoko Shinohara with t.komuro

Disc 2 

もっと　もっと… /  Ryoko Shinohara with t.komuro 

Overnight Sensation 〜時代はあなたに委ねてる〜 (Original Mix) / TRF

 WOW WAR TONIGHT 〜時には起こせよムーヴメント "2 Million Mix" / H Jungle With t

CANDY GIRL (ORIGINAL MIX) / hitomi

Only You (Original Mix) / Yuki Uchida

炎のミーティング / GEISHA GIRLS

恋をするたびに傷つきやすく・・・ / Cui-ling

GOING GOING HOME “Original Mix” / H Jungle With t 

GO TO THE TOP (ORIGINAL MIX) / hitomi 

Lady Generation (Original Mix) / Ryoko Shinohara

Feel Like dance (ORIGINAL MIX) / globe

Prime High / H.A.N.D. 

I BELIEVE (RADIO EDIT) / Tomomi Kahara

Disc 3

the meaning of peace / Kumi Koda & BoA

again / Tomiko Van

in case of me / Kaori Mochida

DO OVER AGAIN / HΛLNA 

Many Classic Moments (Original Mix) / globe

幸せの表現 ～featuring Joanne」/ GABALL

逢いたい理由 / AAA

眠らないラブソング / Shinichi Mori

Evidence of Luv / Supernova

花束 / Kie Kitano

crossroad / Ayumi Hamasaki

 Vienna feat.Miu Sakamoto & KREVA / Tetsuya Komuro

Disc 4

約束の丘 / X21 

Have Dreams! / Tetsuya Komuro × Tsunku♂ feat. May J. 

earth / BiSH

Lovely Day / Def Will

POSITIVE STRESS / Seiko Ohmori

WOW WAR TONIGHT〜時には起こせよムーヴメント girls ver. / AOA

YouTubeテーマソング-Tetsuya Komuro Rearrange- / HIKAKIN＆SEIKIN

DAYBREAK INTERLUDE / TRIGGER 

Be The One / PANDORA feat. Beverly 

風よ吹け！ / LaLuce

MY HISTORY / Ayaka Umeda  ☆New Song

Guardian / TETSUYA KOMURO feat. Beverly ☆New Song

[incorrectbrquotes]

Yukiko: Why does everyone assume we're a couple?

Yumiko [sitting on her lap, playing with her hair]: Beats me.

[hyaenagallery]

Yukiko Okada (1967 – 1986) was a Japanese idol. She was born the second daughter of the Satō family, who later moved to Nagoya. In elementary school, Okada loved to read, especially comic books, and she was a talented artist. In junior high school, Okada wanted to become a singer and applied for every possible audition, anything from major productions to the smallest talent recruitment, hoping to become a star. She was rejected every time until she was finally accepted to a TV talent program, Star Tanjō! on Nippon Television – similar to Star Search - which she won in March 1983. On April 21, 1984, Okada released her first single, "First Date." She was known as "Yukko," which is a common abbreviation for the name "Yukiko" in the Japanese language. That year, Okada won Rookie of the Year, and was awarded the 26th Japan Record Awards Grand Prix Best New Artist Award for her third single, "-Dreaming Girl- Koi, Hajimemashite." Okada played the leading role in her first television drama Kinjirareta Mariko (The Forbidden Mariko), in 1985. Her 1986 single "Kuchibiru Network," written by Seiko Matsuda and composed by Ryuichi Sakamoto, reached number one on the Oricon weekly singles chart dated February 10, 1986. In just two years she had made eight singles and six albums and was well on her way to becoming one of the most popular idols ever.  On April 8, 1986, Okada was found with a slashed wrist in her gas-filled Tokyo apartment, crouching in a closet and crying. She was discovered by a rescue team called in by the apartments manager after other residents noticed the smell of gas. Okada's manager eventually arrived and took her to the nearby Kitano Aoyama Hospital, where her injuries were treated and was brought to the Sun Music Building. While Fudaka, the manager of the building and the staff were discussing how to avoid a media scandal, Okada ran up to the stairs, took off her shoes and jumped from the seven story building, resulting in instant death. #destroytheday https://www.instagram.com/p/Bu_kq2XBTBD/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1wqkbtengdnjl

[anime-herald]

Earlier today, Sega hosted their second live streaming event for Project Sakura Wars. During the event, details on the game’s battle system, a new trailer and a pair of cast members were revealed, along with details on the game’s Japanese release. We break the details down below.

Gameplay

Project Sakura Wars will use an action battle system, a departure from the tactical combat found in previous entries in the series. The Spiricle Armors will be capable of jumping, wall-running, and aerial combat among other maneuvers. Players will be able to swap between their units on the fly.

Special moves are triggered during combat. At points in the battle, a button prompt will appear over the enemy’s head. Hitting Triangle at this point will initiate a finishing move.

Trailer

The 81-second promo focuses on the game’s combat, as well as the new characters that were introduced today.

Cast

Two new cast members were confirmed, both of whom are part of the Shanghai Combat Revue:

Yang Shaolong: Yuuichirou Umehara

Yui Huang: Sumire Uesaka

The characters for the Shanghai Combat Revue were designed by Yukiko Horiguchi (K-On!, Lucky Star). Visuals for both characters were revealed, which you can check out below.

Yang Shaolong

Yui Huang

Yang Shaolong & Yui Huang in Battle Gear

The Shanghai Combat Revue will pilot Spiricle Armors known as Wanglong.

Character Visuals

A visual featuring Sakura and Seijuro in their combat gear was revealed, which you can check out below.

Character Themes

Each character will have their own theme song, which will be presented in both vocal and instrumental versions. Sakura Amamiya’s will be titled Shojo Nandesu Yo, and will be performed by Ayane Sakura.

Release Information

Project Sakura Wars will hit Japanese retailers on December 12. A standard and Limited Edition are both planned for the project. The Limited Edition will include a soundtrack CD and an artbook. The CD will feature more than sixty songs from the franchise’s history, while the artbook will clock in at contain seventy-two pages of art from the series.

Early adopters will also receive a PS4 theme, though details on this have yet to be announced.

The project will be released worldwide in Spring 2020.

Left to Right: Claris, Hatsuho Shinonome, Seijuro Kamiyama, Sakura Amamiya, Azami Mochizuki, Anastasia Palma

The confirmed voice cast includes:

Clarice: Saori Hayami

Hatsuho Shinonome: Maaya Uchida

Seijūrō Kamiyama : Yōhei Azakami

Sakura Amamiya: Ayane Sakura

Azami Mochizuki: Hibiku Yamamura

Anastasia Palma: Ayaka Fukuhara

Sumire Kanzaki: Michie Tomizawa

Reiji Shiba: Tomikazu Sugita

Kaoru Rindou: Yui Ishikawa

Komachi Ooba: Ryoko Shiraishi

Bleach creator Tite Kubo is providing the original character designs, while Jiro Ishii (Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors, Under the Dog) is in charge of the story structure. Series composer Kohei Tanaka (Sakura Wars franchise, One Piece, Mobile Fighter G Gundam) is scoring the game’s soundtrack. Other staff members include:

Script: Takaaki Suzuki (Girls und Panzer, Strike Witches)

Setting and Scenario Summary: Takanobu Terada

Development Director: Tetsuya Ootsubo

Producer: Tetsu Kitano

Character Visual Setting: Masashi Kudou

Main Mechanical Designer: Mika Akitaka

Executive Producer: Haruki Satomi

Original Concept: Ohji Hiroi

Project Sakura Wars will be set twelve years after the events of Sakura Wars 5: So Long, My Love. In this new entry, the Combat Revues, which previously protected nations from evil while working incognito, are well known to all.

Indeed, the Great Combat Reveue World War is more of a global sporting event, in which the Combat Revues from across the globe gather in Japan’s Imperial Capital to compete in a tournament. These disparate groups then compete to determine which country’s kouma-crushing corps reigns supreme. By the time Project Sakura Wars begins, two such events have already taken place, and the nations are gathering in the Imperial capital for the third. What should be a peaceful event, though, suddenly takes a turn for the serious.

Sega’s email communication describes the story as:

The stage is set in a romanticized version of 1940s Imperial Tokyo. 10 years ago, a cataclysm resulted in the devastating loss of the Imperial Combat Revue of Tokyo, the capital’s global defense force operating out of the Imperial Theater. The theater has since fallen on hard times and risks closure. As captain of the new Tokyo revue, it’s up to you to mend the hearts of your troops and restore the Imperial Theater back to its former glory!

Project Sakura Wars was first revealed on April 14, 2018 at Sega Fes, and was originally tentatively slated to launch prior to March 31, 2019. On April 19, 2019, Sega Holdings President and CEO Haruki Satomi confirmed that the project will be “more than a game.”

A western release was not confirmed until March 29, though Japanese Asian releases were confirmed to be in the works.

On March 27, all-female theater troupe OSK Revue announced that they will host a new Sakura Wars musical in Kyoto. The production which will be an operatic adaptation of 2001’s Sakura Wars Kayou Show story The Sea God’s Villa.

Sakura Wars is an original project by Sega CS2 R&D (later Overworks) and Red Entertainment. Ohji Hiroi (Moeyo Ken, Far East of Eden), Satoru Akahori (Saber Marionette J, Martian Successor Nadesico), and Kosuke Fujishima (Ah! My Goddess, You’re Under Arrest!) are listed as the original creators of the franchise.

The first title appeared on the Sega Saturn in 1996. The initial entry, while released only in Japan at the time, was estimated to have a 200,000 lifetime sales goal. The title sold 205,270 units in its opening week, which was roughly 57% of the launch shipment. At the time, the title was seen as having the largest debut for a Sega title to date. It would go on to move 359,485 copies throughout the Saturn’s lifespan.

Since then, the title has gone on to spawn:

Five main-line titles

Fifteen spin-off games

An anime TV series by Madhouse

Five anime OVA series

Seven manga and light novel adaptations

Sixteen high-profile live stage shows

The final main-line title in the series, Sakura Wars V: So Long, My Love was released in North America by NIS America. The title is available on Sony’s PlayStation 2, as well as Nintendo Wii console.

Sources:

YouTube (Sega), Twitter (Pocky469)

Project Sakura Wars Gets New Trailer, 2 Cast Members, Release Date Earlier today, Sega hosted their second live streaming event for Project Sakura Wars. During the event, details on the game's battle system, a new trailer and a pair of cast members were revealed, along with details on the game's Japanese release.

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[shadowwingtronix]

"Yesterday's" Comic> Spider-Man: The Manga #29

BW's "Yesterday's" Comic> Spider-Man: The Manga #29

It’s bad enough that Yu looks more like Peter, but to just use the last issue’s cover over and zoom in? That’s lazy…and terrible art. Spider-Man: The Manga #29 Marvel Comics (March, 1999) WRITER/ARTIST: Ryochi Ikegami TRANSLATION: Mutsumi Masuda COVER ART: Joe Madureira & Tom McWeeny COVER COLORIST: Jeromy Cox EDITOR: Dan Nakrosis (more…)

[norihisahyuga-archived]

On the Way Home.

Kusaka Yumiko/Kitano Yukiko Battle Royale 1000~ words. Sfw.

Yumiko muses on the way home from a study trip.

The field trip had been an exciting one. Yumiko would be lying if she said she hadn’t enjoyed spending so much time outside, exploring nature and just in general being in the warm sunlight and the cool spring breeze, looking overhead at the blue sky peeking through the rich green leaves on the trees. She felt like she was in her element and would gladly have spent another weekend out there if the school ever decided to do something like it again. And now, late Sunday evening on the ride back to the school, almost everyone is passed out on the bus.

She can see a few couples from her vantage point near the back of the bus combined with her height. She can see Kawada asleep on Mimura’s shoulder (he’d had a weird reaction to being on the bus, had seemed jumpy for reasons Yumiko doesn’t know). She can see Nanahara and Kuninobu leaning against each other, something that might have made her jealous a few months ago but now means little to nothing. She can see Megumi attempting to stay awake, her head falling forward every now and then, her arm tight around Noriko’s shoulders. She can see Kiriyama curled against Numai’s side, perhaps the only time he’s ever looked even slightly soft.

Of course, it isn’t like she’s exempt from being part of this. Yukiko is asleep across her lap.

Not that the position looks even moderately comfortable, Yukiko half-curled into a ball in order to remain on the seat, slumped into Yumiko’s lap, using her own arms as pillows. Yumiko had expressed concern when she first settled into that position, worried she might hurt herself, but Yukiko assured her she was comfortable just the way she was and soon dropped off to sleep. Yumiko has an arm folded around her, helping her stay where she is when the bus jostles every now and then. Always the more athletic of the two of them, Yumiko is tired, but she isn’t the same level of exhausted that Yukiko was by the sheer amount of hiking they had to do.

“Yumi.” Yukiko yawns from her lap. “I can hear you thinking, y’know. Makes it hard to sleep.”

Yumiko chuckles soft, smoothes Yukiko’s hair away from her face. “Sorry about that.”

Slowly, Yukiko uncurls herself and sits up, patting her hair as back into place as she can considering the way she’s been sleeping for the past few hours. They still won’t be back at the school for another hour or two, this Yumiko knows from keeping track of how long the ride took in the first place, so she could probably catch a solid nap if she wanted to.

“That was fun, you know,” Yukiko says after a few minutes, lifting her legs to rest her knees against the back of the seat in front of her. “I really liked it, even if it tired me out. You loved it.”

Yumiko grins and ducks her head, tucking a short, loose strand of hair back behind her ear as she does. “Yeah, I did,” she admits, smoothing her uniform’s skirt before turning her eyes toward the window, the sunset sky with its bursts of color and the sun halfway sunk beneath the horizon. “I like being outdoors and I had a really fun time getting to explore. I’d love to do it again sometime.”

There’s quiet for a little while, during which a few people shift around in their sleep and a few more drop off to sleep. Megumi finally loses her battle against slumber and after yawning and stretching extravagantly, Mitsuko Souma drops off to sleep, her head resting on Hirono Shimizu’s shoulder. Yukie and Haruka fell asleep at some point when Yumiko wasn’t paying attention, but it’s cute to see their heads leaning against each other’s like this.

“Maybe we could do that sometime, then. Go out and explore on our own,” Yukiko says.

For her to make the offer at all has Yumiko turning her head, her eyes widening at the thought. Though some people had flat-out hated their little exploration weekend, Yukiko had been miserable through a good period of it, not a fan of the heat or the insects that snuck onto her clothes and occasionally into her hair when she wasn’t looking. Yumiko had tried to make it fun for her and had succeeded a few times, finding unique plants and minerals to show her.

“You didn’t seem like you enjoyed that enough to want to do it again,” she muses.

“If it was up to me, we wouldn’t do anything as intense as that was, but we can go at our own pace and find a way to make it great for both of us.” Yukiko reaches for her hand and takes it, giving it a firm squeeze as she leans against her and looks up at her. Her smile is sleepy; she probably won’t be able to stay awake much longer. “But I really loved seeing you that happy.”

The words make Yumiko blush and duck her head. “Thanks. I really did have a fun time.”

“Then we should do it together, just the two of us.” Yukiko kisses her swiftly on the cheek, giggling when Yumiko ducks her head even more. “And we’ll have a great time. I know it.”

She yawns, and Yumiko shakes her head at her. “You should try to sleep a little bit more, I think.”

“I think you’re right. This time, I’ll try it sitting up.” Yukiko takes Yumiko’s arm and wraps it securely around her shoulders, snuggling right up against her. “Don’t let me fall over, okay?”

“When have I ever?” Yumiko asks, and Yukiko’s answering smile is all the response she needs.

It only takes a few minutes for Yukiko to drop back off to sleep, and Yumiko keeps her close to her side as they continue on toward their destination. Do something like this together? Yeah, she can see that. There are plenty of places for them to explore together, and she knows she would be able to adapt a schedule to something that would suit Yukiko more and tire her out less. She doesn’t want to stress her girlfriend out if she can avoid it.

Smiling at the thought, Yumiko lays her head against Yukiko’s and closes her eyes, settling in for a short nap. After all, she thinks she’s earned it.