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[English Subtitles] BanG Dream! Special☆LIVE Girls Band Party! 2020→2022

Full subs for Bandori's biggest event ever! Over 4 hours long, including 38 songs, featuring 29 performers, and produced by 9 translators. Happy 7th anniversary Girls Band Party!

#bang dream #bandori #subtitles

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Forgot I said I'd put the results on tumblr so here y'all digglers go

#d4dj #d4dj groovy mix #survey results #community survey

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For those who are curious, here's links to results from previous years of the survey: April 2021: https://imgur.com/a/7Gsvo5Z January 2022: https://imgur.com/a/Sjg1gNl January 2023: https://imgur.com/a/1NNqGms

I'll post the link to the results for this year's once they're compiled! Also saw in a reblog tag asking about Nonchan and Amita's absence from the poll - this was a decision from the mod team as they are no longer active seiyuu in the project. Last year was the "transition" year where we included both them along with Maichan and Nanaki.

Yearly D4DJ fandom community survey, go take it, give me data, send it to your friends to take too → https://forms.gle/tSekj29FGuxUTmhr9

#d4dj #d4dj groovy mix #survey #community survey #link #now with past years results! #and some explaining

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Yearly D4DJ fandom community survey, go take it, give me data, send it to your friends to take too → https://forms.gle/tSekj29FGuxUTmhr9

#d4dj #d4dj groovy mix #survey #community survey #link

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EVIL BROS ATTACK

commission for @/jarrogue

#reblog

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frieren doodle to recalibrate my tablet drivers after an unexpected system drive death.

#frieren #reblog

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Trip report of the five lives I went to on my last trip to Japan--wait this is starting the same as the last post...ah well. This trip was only a weekender btw!

BanG Dream! 12th☆LIVE DAY 1 : Poppin'Party 「Welcome to Poppin'Land」 (11/3, Tokyo Garden Theater) Arrived late missing two songs thanks to an extra long flight due to volcanic ash (never did figure out exactly which volcano was going off). First time seeing all of Popipa perform as only 3 at most came to CharaExpo back in the day. It was...fine? It was very much a Popipa live. The framing device of the theme park and each song being matched to an attraction was cute, but it sort of made the setlist feel scattered. Three of their newest songs were performed, and the rest of the setlist generally skewed older with many that hadn't been performed in two years like 1000-kai Urunda Sora and CiRCLING. At least there was Time Lapse, but no Teardrops. The Yumenokessho POPY (the AI singing program based on the Kasumi voice) section fit the last and seemed generally disliked. Glad to mark the group off of my list, but it also showed why they're not a live priority for me. A joint live between them and MyGO!!!!! was announced, which I'd had a gut feeling was going to happen soon.

tipToe. 「homeroom mini-Halloween Special-」 (11/4, Shibuya Chelsea Hotel) A short and sweet mini live from the one chika idol group I actively follow. Was very happy to be able to fit this in to attend one more live before the group's graduation and final live next June. Small setlist, only recognized one song but that's just due to only really listening to one album. My oshi Rinchan remembered me from my Twitter replies :)

BanG Dream! 12th☆LIVE DAY 2 : MyGO!!!!! 「ちいさな一瞬」 (11/4, Tokyo Garden Theater) The franchise's second newest group and the one getting the most push, hot off the heels of their sleeper hit anime. I believe this was the first of the three lives to sell out its seats. My first time seeing this group as I wholly ignored their first year of existence due to the seiyuu being unknown, and didn't go to their 5th oneman live. The first part of the live, they were behind a projection screen that had the lyrics and MVs playing on it, a throwback to their "hidden" days I believe? I was very glad Noroshi was their opener as that is my second or third least favorite song in all of Bandori, so they got the pain (literally, the song hurts my head) out of the way quickly. Silhouette Dance is a whole banger and a half and I was full body swaying at the chorus. There was an intermission with these repetitive walking sounds that also annoyed me, but it led into a reenactment of the middle-end part of the anime with Ningen ni Naritai Uta, the full leadup to and including Utakotoba, and Melody. Shiori was appropriately done as the only acoustic song. No Haruhikage, which one other audience member riffed on after lights came back on by yelling "なんで春日影やったないの!?" (Why didn't you play Haruhikage!?). They had a Zepp tour leading up to the Popipa joint live announced, looking forward(?) to seeing if ticket sales stay strong for them.

Shoujo☆Kageki Revue Starlight Band Live "Starry Session" revival (11/5, Makuhari Messe Event Hall) First Starlight live I've attended, this was a live that was supposed to take place in 2020 but was canceled/delayed until now. The theme along with having a live backing band was a selection of the songs performed were chosen and sorted by a draft meeting stream, also done three years ago. The draft songs were split by day and holy hell I'm glad that day 2 was the one I was able to attend because all of my favorites from the list (which honestly I didn't even know going into it) were performed. The entire draft section going from Otte Owarete Sirius, GANG STAR, then Onikurenai Nin Emaki, and ending on Gyoshite Gyoshaza was amazing (the songs not listed were also good, just not my favorites). And of course all the surrounding songs that were repeated between the days were surprisingly majority songs I knew as I've only watched the anime. At a couple points the cast walked up the aisles and the start of the encore had them on mini stages in the middle cross aisle. so I got a good view of some of the seiyuu. A very recommended live to watch if you want quality Kukugumi.

BanG Dream! 12th☆LIVE DAY 3 : RAISE A SUILEN 「REVEAL」 (11/5, Tokyo Garden Theater) As expected, the majority of the setlist was dedicated to the new REVELATION mini-album, with all five songs being performed in full and in album order with other things in between. Other than -N-E-M-E-S-I-S- (released earlier this year), the setlist skewed to older songs - literally their first eight releases, then the middle-era (ha) SOUL SOLDER and JUST THE WAY I AM. The album order is roughly how I'd rank the songs from favorite to least favorite as well, though STRAY CERBERUS is at the bottom for me. Two other notable things were the costume switch at the second intermission to their original character outfits, and Raychell once again doing "men! women! others! everyone!" for the crowd responses - major props that it wasn't a one off from last live. Overall not as good of a live as EXCLAMATION HIGHLAND or Heaven and Earth setlist wise but...BUT... The most important part was I was front row center. So I had a perfect view of everyone and everything And Tsumutsumu came all the way down front stage for JUST THE WAY I AM and perched on a stool right in front of me. So this live was god tier just based on that. A two-day oneman live in June was announced after the end, which I was iffy on attending (trying to get to a Roselia live next year) but then they announced that 10 songs would be fan chosen by survey so there's a chance for some underperformed stuff and now I'm committed to fit it in.

And that was my stupid YOLO weekender. Next Japan trip is...well, definitely end of May for D4DJ XROSS BEAT. Maybe before then for Roselia?

#bandori #bang dream #RAS #raise a suilen #poppin'party #popipa #mygo!!!!! #tiptoe. #revue starlight #starlight kukugumi

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a small selection of pics from my weekender to japan for bandori 12th/starry session/tipToe. halloween

#tipToe. #bang dream #bandori #revue starlight #raise a suilen #ras #mygo!!!!!

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fifth "week" of OC-tober

day 29: treat - Lydia day 30: magic - Chrysanta day 31: costume - Raissa, Emilia, Pashal, and Aurora

#bweirdoctober #oc_tober #oc tober #kariart #art #drawing #illustration #original characters #morriverse

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fourth week of OC-tober

day 22: friend week 2 - Noctis and Sabia day 23: friend week 3 - Nara Ingensdotter and Amika day 24: friend week 4 - Audrey, Kikiyo, and Emilia day 25: friend week 5 - Tsubaki and Ember day 26: fear - Tessa day 27: monster - Irisnohria day 28: trick - Kanna

#bweirdoctober #oc_tober #oc tober #kariart #art #drawing #illustration #original characters #morriverse

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god i wish i wouldn't have to explain the intricacies of the neopets economy to you guys to give the full context for this but. the new neopets team that took over from jumpstart pledged that they were going to curb the inflation of rare items, which is great because a lot of rare items are worth literally hundreds of millions of neopoints, they are unbuyable unless you've been playing actively for 20 years. they did this earlier with a site festival that included random loot boxes, some of which had Unbelievably Fucking Rare And Precious items worth 200 million neopoints apiece.

well.

today they have gone a step further. by releasing this year's trick-or-treat bags. and having the trick-or-treat bags be stuffed to the brim with unbelievably fucking rare stamps, weapons, paint brushes, defense magic, and other unbuyables. (all prohibitively expensive and in-high-demand types of items.)

jellyneo, the premier neopets website, has recorded prices of some items plummeting from 2,000,000 neopoints to 4,000 neopoints IN THE LAST THREE HOURS. this is when most people haven't even heard about the event or OPENED THEIR BAGS YET.

and of course. cherry on top. 20-year-old account holders are crytyping on the site events neoboard about how mean and cruel it is to make rare stamps part of the prize pool, because their entire identity hinges on being part of the neopian bourgeoisie, and they are having MELTDOWNS over their assets being devalued until they're part of the lowly proletariat.

this is a children's game for children btw.

none of the money is real.

i'm having such a good time.

#reblog #neopets #will this go down next to gaia online as another grand internet game economy story? #i hope so

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third week of OC-tober

day 15: meme - Pashal day 16: food - Aurora day 17: eyes-closed - Aislin day 18: swap - Ria day 19: inspiration - Aislin and Ria day 20: inventory - Pashal day 21: friend week 1 - Sildar Hallwinter and Raissa

#bweirdoctober #oc_tober #oc tober #kariart #art #drawing #illustration #original characters #morriverse

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second week of OC-tober

day 8: past - Collette and Clara day 9: future - Emilia day 10: palette week 1 - Blitz day 11: palette week 2 - Raissa day 12: palette week 3 - Irisnohria day 13: palette week 4 - Lysanne day 14: palette week 5 - Sabia

#bweirdoctober #oc_tober #oc tober #kariart #art #drawing #illustration #original characters #morriverse

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first week of OC-tober + the prompts list

day 1: fav OC - Ria day 2: new OC - Sia day 3: old OC - Arutia day 4: redesign - Blitz day 5: relationship - Mia and Collette day 6: symbol - Aurora day 7: personality - Raissa

#bweirdoctober #oc_tober #oc tober #kariart #art #drawing #illustration #original characters #morriverse

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i know this post is like three years old now but as someone who hates misinformation (and tries to combat it my own fandoms) reblogging cause i appreciate when people do the research

“How old are Jessie and James?”

alright i’m making a masterpost because i’m so tired. these never get notes. please give this one notes. i’m going to run through every single parroted argument. i’m going to run through every thought anyone engaged in this discourse has ever had. please give me notes. not because i want clout, i’m just so tired. so many of my posts get notes. i would trade them all for this post to get notes.

How old are Team Rocket?

25. They’re 25. 

But I thought they were teenagers? Lots of people have told me they’re 15/16.

so i’ve heard! i’m pleased to tell you exactly where that comes from.

1. this post, for some reason:

i have been on tumblr for 10 years now, and i never saw anyone debating their ages before this post started circulating. as you can tell by the low res memebase screencap, it was screenshotted and reposted all across social media until it became legend.

the ages you see in this bulbapedia screencap were edited. bulbapedia has either omitted their ages entirely, or put them at 25 for reasons we’ll discuss at the end of this post. 

because i’m a petty bitch, i googled the tumblr username of the person who added that bulbapedia screencap, found what their current URL was, and searched team rocket’s names on their blog. here’s what i discovered.

OP claims it wasn’t them who edited the ages–that they just found it like this. NOT sure i buy that, because I looked into it, and right around the time this post was made (January 8th, 2014) there was a random, unprecedented edit that erroneously put their ages at 15.

this resulted in mods locking the page, because this person was relentless. they would go on team rocket’s pages every day and try to edit the ages back down. again, i can’t prove this is the same person, but these edits happened within 24 hours of them adding to that post. this is, in my professional opinion, the biggest shift i ever saw in people talking about team rocket’s ages. but there are other things people bring up…

2. “Jessie said she was a teenager!”

she does this sometimes. here are the times she does this.

- In episode 218 of the original series, Plant It Now… Diglett Later, the following exchange happens:

This would make Jessie 12. This is a joke. A running gag in the show is younger characters calling Jessie variations on ‘old lady/old bat/old hag,’ and James gets this treatment to a lesser extent. Jessie, however, is incredibly vain and obsessed with youth/beauty, so she often lies to great extent about her age. When Jessie says something like “Oh, I’m 13 years old ;3c” it is meant to carry the same feeling as “Aren’t I the most gorgeous creature walking this very Earth?” To Jessie, calling her old = calling her ugly. Calling herself young = calling herself beautiful. This trope is common with her particular anime archetype–it is more of a Japanese thing, so while I understand it being lost on american audiences, it is NOT proof of her age. 

Right after this, Meowth calls her out on it, asking her where she learned that math, and Jessie angrily threatens him. It’s a joke.

- In episode 56 of the original series, The Ultimate Test, Jessie is in disguise at a Pokemon League qualification exam. When Ash starts giving her the ‘she looks vaguely familiar’ side-eye, she panics and starts muttering information about herself aloud. I will be using the original Japanese line for this one:

This is quoted constantly as proof that Jessie is a teenager–but she is blatantly stating false information about herself here because she’s in disguise and Ash is onto her. This is a false identity she’s crafted, marked even further by “I work as an idol.” That’s an actual profession she’s talking about, one she doesn’t work. Since Japanese Idols weren’t widely unknown to westerners at the time of this dub, her dub line is simply “Age: 17. Profession: Diva.” which makes it a little harder to read that she’s lying about who she is, but she is. The information she’s stating here is that of an alias. It is not her actual age or profession.

3. You literally just posted a screencap of James saying he should get a driver’s license. 

Okay, smart guy, that’s also jokes. The joke isn’t that he’s too young to drive–the joke is that he was a runaway at five years old and had his childhood & all his milestones taken from him because he defected from his abusive family in kindergarten. Also, he’s in the mafia and he just drives his damn balloon everywhere. The joke is that he’s a criminal driving without a license. The joke is breaking the law because he’s James. Its the same as when Jessie will casually say things like “Oh, that’s a good book! I’ve been meaning to shoplift one!” (EP157)

Also, it’s a dub-only line.

“Okay, I guess I see where you’re coming from. But why are you so sure they’re 25?”

Glad you asked!

You might notice the Bulbapedia article up there says “as of M02.″ M02 is the fandom shorthand for the second pokemon movie: Pokemon the Movie: 2000. It’s referring to one scene in particular, one that had its dialogue massively changed in the dub. Here, Jessie and James are addressing Ash & co.:

The subber condensed the point of what James/Kojirou actually says here–his sentence when translated literally is more like:

Jessie: You’re ten years too early.

James: And us, your elders, are five years too late.

this is… a very Japanese expression, but because Ash & co. are 10 years old, Jessie’s basically saying “You really don’t need to be thinking this deeply about romance until you’re 20.” and James is saying “And we’re past our prime at the tender age of 25…”

Some other times this expression has been used, regrettably, is when older men are perving on the female kids in this show–they’ll say things like “I’ll look forward to you in ten years.” Gross, I know, but the point is it’s a thing people say. 20 is considered the age you’re supposed to settle down and marry. 25, especially for women, is considered the age when you’re “off the market”–you missed your window and now no one wants you.

That ties back into Jessie’s thing about youth and beauty and how other characters call her an old lady. What they’re calling her originally is usually some variation on ‘oba-san.’ This term is so widely used in anime that there’s a TVTropes page on it. An english equivalent would be rolling your eyes and sarcastically uttering ‘whatever, grandma’ or, if you really want me to one-shot kill you, ‘ok boomer.’

Another derogatory term you hear in Japan for this age is ‘Christmas Cake.’ Simply put: Delicious to a point, but no one wants it after the 25th.

Yeah.

“That line is still super vague. Their ages could still be ambiguous.”

I regret to inform you that I am very autistic and I have prepared timelines and flowcharts for you.

Allow me to introduce you to The Birth of Mewtwo, an audio drama that released alongside the first movie and was never given an english localization. TBOM (the book of mormon) was about Mewtwo’s Origins that weren’t expanded upon in the movie. But, in order to get to the bottom of Mewtwo, the story had to get to the bottom of how Team Rocket got their hands on Mew’s DNA–and that all started with a Class-A Rocket Agent known simply as ‘Miyamoto.’

if you didn’t know, she’s Jessie’s mom.

TBOM is fully translated and available to listen to in multiple parts on youtube. It opens with Giovanni placing it in the timeline:

Twenty years prior to Pokemon: The First Movie, when this radio drama is said to take place. It then goes into a flashback, where we get to see Jessie’s mom in her pursuit of Mew.

Jessie’s already been born by the time of this flashback, meaning, with 100% certainty, that Jessie is at least 20 years old.

As time passes, Miyamoto stays on her quest to find Mew. Lost in the Andes mountains, she never stops sending reports back to Rocket HQ. Every few years, they trickle back in, detailing her progress. She keeps a picture of Jessie with her, often meandering aloud about what she anticipates Jessie is doing–the milestones Jessie is hitting, the life Jessie might have that her mom was never able to see. The last report she gives says “The daughter I left behind’s an old hag by now…” the word she uses here is, again, ‘oba’–25 years old and unmarried. Again, this is Jessie’s mom. She might be stranded in the mountains with little concept of time, but it’s clear Jessie is the one thing she never truly loses sight of.

“Okay. That sure is a lot of convincing evidence about Jessie. But Team Rocket has another human person in it you’re ignoring.”

Yeah nah I was prepared for that. I actually could’ve just whipped this out at the beginning but I am feeling incredibly spicy so I wanted to lay the law down and not deal with easy arguments about my special interest tonight. Here ya go!

- In episode 87 of the Sun & Moon anime, Filling the Light With Darkness!, Necrozma places an aura across the Alola Region. This blight makes Alolans lethargic, depressed, and unmotivated. This aura also ONLY affects the adults in Alola–leaving the burden on the kids & pokemon to figure out what’s going on. Ash & everyone in his class–including some who can be argued as teenagers–are entirely unaffected. 

Of the afflicted?

“Alright, one last question…why should I care?”

Because ever since that tumblr post started circulating, it’s been Stressful as all hell to be a Rocketblogger. I know that we all had a lot of fun watching the pokemon anime when we were kids, and we probably all have a lot of shared and fond memories of it. But, weirdly enough, because of that shared joy… Pokeani is the only fandom where people who don’t even watch the show anymore will try to explain to members of the fandom what our own lore is. And a lot of the time, they won’t listen to us when we correct them on their misinformation.

The reason this matters is because Rocketbloggers still to this day get called pedophiles & perverts for drawing/writing smutty art of our funny bad people. And when we try to shut them down pulling all this evidence out, people who have seen a handful of episodes of the show but understandably don’t have the time to watch 1100 episodes will pull the doth protest too much card. It’s annoying but more than anything, it’s exhausting.

So this is a masterpost I made with my autistic superpowers. I hope that, in the future, this one gets spread around more than the one claiming them to be kids. And I hope that maybe, if you’re a rocketblogger, when someone comes in your inbox trying to explain your favourite anime to you… you can quietly link them to this post and no longer have to rehash all the arguments we’ve been rehashing for years.

Thank you for reading. Reblog to save a tired Rocketblogger’s life.

#reblog #pokemon

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"and as we know from one of the Tomori/Taki bridge convos her grades were bad enough..."

actually that's crunchyroll translation weirdness. compare the crunchyroll version of this line that makes it sound like there was some issue:

to the muse asia (left) and bandori EN (right) channel versions:

it sounds more from the latter two versions that Taki pulled a Toyama Asuka and just switched schools for some other reason, not because she was failing out of Haneoka or something

of course if it does turn out that she was forced to switch then that'd be a neat story!

waitwait hold on why does Taki attend Hanasakigawa when her sister goes to Tsukinomori. Do even their parents force such a fierce comparison and competition between the two of them

#bandori #mygo #bang dream #reblog-reply #shiina taki

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often now since mygo anime ended, i think about morfonica's introduction to and place in the franchise and how differently they land with the fandom (mainly from EN view but they didn't really resonate with JP as much either)

coming out of almost nowhere with very little buildup put into garupa immediately before RAS, a band that had existed IRL for over a year their first song wasn't super interesting and to some, outright bad sounding their story writing has generally been on the mid to poor side with character development feeling backtracked or nonexistent

and i think what could've been done differently that isn't "give them a wholeass anime as intro" because that doesn't really fix three of those points? imagine a different timeline where morfonica had a dedicated season for band story 1 presumably directly after S3 ended, still got added into the game (which would've been pushed back to 3.5th or 4th anniversary) before RAS, still had initial songs that didn't hit well, and still had poor game writing after the anime...

so not sure what could've really worked. more lead up to their introduction via the main story other than just Mashiro appearing a few times? pushing them back to 3.5th anniversary anyway so RAS could've gotten in first at 3rd or shortly after when S3 finished? better writing post-addition so that they don't feel just kind of there?

thoughts appreciated if anyone has any

#bang dream #bandori #morfonica #ras #raise a suilen #mygo #this isn't hate on morfonica i think they're fine #but they just kind of exist #mashiro and touko especially have poor development...