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My first thought was Azuma! I think we'd be able to chill easily enough, maybe do something simple together and build increasingly convoluted explanations for why we're handcuffed whenever someone asks

Mankai March question 4!

This one is a bit random, but we’re sticking to character-focused questions! If you were to be handcuffed to one character for 24 hours, who would it be?

#a3! #azuma yukishiro #mankai march

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Aaaa ok ok I'm always still a little nervous about these, but here is my yume Ran Kano! (花野ラン in Japanese)

I still haven’t figured out anything big about her, but here’s some tidbits I HAVE figured out :D

Age: Same as Citron Height: 163cm Occupation: Freelance pit musician Motif Flower: Hyacinth Hobbies: Doll restoration, video games Favorite Food: Peanuts Least Favorite Food: Chocolate

Her surname, 花野 (Kano), has the same kanji as “field of flowers”! I don’t remember how I got to that but I think it fits A3!

She grew up in unnamed hAve A greAt trip! country and only recently moved to Japan. “Ran” is in katakana to sort of reflect that, similar to how Guy does have a kanji but they don’t use it.

She hops from theater to theater, doing show gigs for productions with live orchestras. Like me she plays strings

From my notes: Mankai’s theater can’t support a pit orchestra so based on the occupation her introduction would probably be that she met one of them when they appeared as a guest actor.  But that’s boring and usual I need it to be like “Tasuku tripped and spilled Mello Yello all over her shoes”

I still haven’t figured this part out yet lmao

Like I’ve mentioned before she has a crush on Kazunari but isn’t particularly inclined to do anything about it. Kazu’s feelings on the matter are still unknown

As she is me, she loves and collects merch of whatever A3verse’s version of Barbie is. Her hobby of doll restoration comes from that

I imagine she has a small apartment nearby. Maybe she lives in Haruto’s building or something

She speaks English, Japanese, and Italian fluently bc I’m living my best life through her and I say so. No more forgetting the word for shoes for 3 years (it’s scarpe it’s fucking scarpe)

As for friends and interactions with canon, I have no clue lmao I just know that I want her to get along with my oshis (Yuki and Kazu)

Gallery :D Some of these aren't new but I figured I'd include them anyway

A sketch of what the top of her sprite might look like

Shopping with Yuki! I bet they'd have a blast hitting up a bunch of stores and trying things on. And yes, I'm shorter than even Yuki ;w;

A mock unbloomed SSR! Most of the initial SSR cards showed them doing a hobby, so I thought I'd play off of that

The original concept art!

Motif flower icon

Mankai March question 3!

We learned about everyone’s favorite character yesterday, now let’s learn about any characters you might have! Do you have any OCs or yumes for A3! ? Feel free to ramble about them!!

#a3! yume tag #mankai march #aaaa it's me there I am its sort of me #fun fact in regards to doll collecting and restoring I'm very good at identifying mystery dolls! it's fun to figure out what they are #a3! #almost forgot that one lmao

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Got tired of not being able to turn my phone off when re-listening to this so here's a pure audio version of the final product of the ever blooming face off from last year :D

(LAST YEAR??? WHERE DID THE TIME GO????)

Video Version Here!!

#a3! #a3! music #ever blooming face off #damn do y'all remember this this was fun #maybe I'll do more music-related polls #was considering making y'all decide the best raps and doing a countdown #lemme know if that's something y'all'd be interested in

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YUKIYUKIYUKIYUKIYUKIYUKIYUKIYUKIYUKIYUKIYUKIYUKIYUKI

Do I remember how he became my oshi? Honestly no! I just know that he's my son, he's always been my son and he will never stop being my son. It must have been love at first sight. He's so silly

I'm gonna take this opportunity to show off my A3JP Yuki collection tho (he NEVER COMES HOME ENOUGH TO BLOOM HIM)

Mankai March question 2!

I hope everyone had fun yesterday! Today’s question is pretty simple as well: Who is your oshi? How did they become your oshi? Let’s hear some stories about how you came to love them, or maybe love at first sight!

#also this is a good time to share the tragedy.... I FORGOT TO USE MY ANNI TOKENS THIS YEAR #I WAS GONNA GET GUITAR YUKI AND SAMURAI KAZU AND I *FORGOT* #a3! #mankai march #yuki you get a tag too i love you son boy #yuki rurikawa

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This seems really fun!! I'd like to get back into doing things on this blog and this is a PERFECT opportunity :D

I found A3! through my sister! when I was away for college, during the pandemic I believe she said she just looked up "otome" and A3! popped up and she downloaded it for fun. She ended up absolutely LOVING it, and then proceeded to spam me with music and pictures and things about it in general.

I was playing Obey Me religiously at the time and wasn't sure if I could handle two gacha games at the same time. But eventually I moved back home after graduating, kind of stopped playing Obey Me, and she blasted Susume Pirates in my room almost non-stop so I was finally like... why not? I'll give it a try!

And the rest is history lol

Mankai March question 1!

Welcome to the event!!! I’m super excited to see all the answers, so let’s hear about something simple: How did you first find out about A3? Was it through the anime? A friend? Saw an ad? Tell us about it!

#a3! #mankai march #for organization but if you'd prefer I tag these some other way let me know! #also hiiiii everyone I hope you're doing well! #I'm a day late (I think? time zones are weird for me since I moved) but I'm excited to participate in this too :3

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I'm obsessed with the song title "Houkago Midnight," like "After School Midnight" yeah I sure hope it is

#a3!

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Romeo and Julius

#I love the expressions here!! #and the colors are so warm and spring-like :D #a3! #reblog

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Happy Saturday November 12th

#happy time loop day! :D #even tho it’s not Saturday this time #thanks to the person who reblogged this and reminded me #a3!

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I have been! Busy with irl stuff! But it's been a while since I've shared a music WIP so here's one that I started ages ago and have finally gotten some more steam on

"But Noodle what happened to--" yes I'm still working on that one too, I have like 5 in progress at a time that I rotate through whenever I start to feel stuck

#a3! #a3! music #dynamics are still a WIP in the WIP for this one but we're slowly getting there #vln1 sorry for making you a slide whistle

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Barbie-themed Yume Drabble (Platonic, ~2k words)

I warned you that I would not be normal about this ever

(This is incredibly self indulgent and incredibly thrown together but here we are lolol)

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“I’m telling you, just start with the live action.  I can’t see any of us actively disliking it.”

Ran stopped spinning the desk chair she was sitting in to level Yuki with a stern glare—far too stern for the sort of conversation they were having.  “And I’m telling you, it’s too standalone.  If we start with the live action they’ll never agree to see anything else.”

Yuki let his head fall back with a groan.  “We’ve been through the other options.”

It had been a solid 20 minutes since this debate had started.  The debate being: in the case that the dorm is finally worn out by Ran’s pestering and agrees to watch one (1) Barbie movie, which would be the best to show to get them to want to watch another?  The “Barbie gateway drug,” as Kazunari had put it.

Speaking of Kazunari, he was sprawled out in one arm chair with his feet in the other, playing idly with chatsnap filters.  “Maybe there’s an angle we’re missing?  Omg, this one makes me a fish.  It’s giving Mermaid Tale.”

Yuki opened his mouth, but Ran held up a hand before he could say anything.  “You wanna subject Masumi to that song?”

“Ugh.”

They had gone through several rounds of elimination already.  The beginning was easy enough.  “No sequels” was just a given (though it tragically cut Mermaidia).  Movies that starred Barbie as herself were fine, but they didn’t fit the vibe that they were trying to go for.  That didn’t rule out movies where her name just happened to be Barbie, but unfortunately Ran was adamant about eliminating Spy Squad, and Kazunari had made the reasonable argument that, while aesthetically gorgeous, Starlight Adventure was too polarizing to rely on.

“You wanna tell me what other angle there is, Friendly McExtrovert?  Wanna put your money where your mouth is?”

Kazunari pouted.  “No fair, I’m totes contributing!”  Still, he locked his phone and sat up a bit.  “Remind me why we ruled out PatP again?  Frooch’d love that shit; it’s about paying off a debt.”

“Believe it or not, the money-grubbing yakuza isn’t one of our main concerns.” In fact, Sakyo would probably be fine with any of the 42 movies they could throw his way.  An enjoyer of bad movies, he was, and while Ran took offense to the idea that the Barbie cinematic universe had bad movies (it did, but that didn’t mean she couldn’t take offense to it), it did mean he’d be willing to watch almost anything. “Didn’t we agree that it might feel a little too close to home for a certain someone?  Royal duties and all.”

“Hmm, right… not to mention idk if Tsuzuroon would find it ‘omg relatable!’ or ‘yikes, relatable.’”

Ran gave her chair another spin.  “Which sucks, because it’s one of our best bets.  They don’t even hold hands until after they’re engaged I’m pretty sure.”

Kazunari stretched his arms over his head, cracking his spine (impressive, considering he was still laying down.)  “Which reminds me, we gotta ix-nay on considering any movies with an iss-kay. Else Azamin'll bolt.”

Ran pursed her lips in thought.  “That’s what, Barbie Diaries, A Fashion Fairytale, A Fairy Secret… do they kiss in Nutcracker?”

“Doesn’t matter, those dance scenes are definitely too long for some of us.”  Yuki let out a sigh that would sound sarcastic to the untrained ear, but his companymates knew better.  “But there go my chances to watch Fashion Fairytale.  Again.”

“I keep offering to watch it with you, but you’re always busy.”

“I have entrance exams to get ready for.”

“Laaaaaame.”

Yuki ignored Ran’s whiny “owww” when he threw the stuffed hamster he was basing Kazunari’s costume off of at her.

“Come on, y’all, don’t be mean to Hamucchi!” Kazunari chided.  “Look, it’s my fault 12 Dancing Princesses is off the table; I can ignore the color palette if you think the others would like it.”

“The Hyodos would get a kick out of it for sure,” Yuki mused.  “Muku too.”

There were plenty of people who would like that one, with its focus on family and making a difference.  Plus, there were dance scenes and the music “slaps,” according to Ran. As much as Mendelssohn's Allegro Vivace from Symphony #4 Op.90 “Italian" could slap. (Again, Ran would argue that it could slap a lot. Yuki wasn't sure the rest of the dorm would agree.)

“We can probably put Princess and the Pauper back on the table too, in that case,” Ran suggested, getting up from the chair.  “Just because it’s a little relatable doesn’t mean they’d hate it.  Plus, Anneliese gets to do what she wants and Erika does pay off the debt and chase her dreams.”

The other two hummed in agreement.  Honestly, they could probably just ask Citron, since he was already in support of watching this sort of thing.

Ran clapped her hands once.  “Ok, we’ve thrown around and shot down a lot of ideas, so!”  She wheeled out a whiteboard with all the Barbie movies written out on it, which made Yuki snap his head up from his embroidery with a start.  “Let’s recap.”

“I’m sorry, what?  Where the hell did that come from?”

“It’s totally normal to have a whiteboard ready for settling debates, Yukki,” Kazunari pointed out.

“I get that, but we’re in my room?  Since when did we have that??”

Ran ignored him.  “We’re cutting out sequels, movies with kisses, and movies with Barbie as herself.”  She carefully crossed out each movie that missed the cut, with a note for why on each one.  “Thumbelina is… oh yeah, Thumbelina.  I forgot that one existed.”

“Boring,” Yuki supplied, still frowning at the whiteboard that seemingly materialized out of thin air in his dorm room.

Ran nodded and marked it off.  “True.  Not bad, but boring.  Nutcracker is similarly slow.  Mermaid Tale and—wait, fuck, they kiss in Rapunzel.  But it’s like, at the wedding.  Does that count?  Is that a problem??”

“Honestly?” Kazunari offered.  “I have no clue.”

“It’s not his thing, but I don’t think he’d be completely against watching a Barbie movie, so we can probably just ask him,” said Yuki.

“I’ll LIME him now!”

Ran continued sorting out the list in the meanwhile.  Island Princess, while a certified banger of a film, had the whole long lost parents plot point, which for some members of the company could make it their favorite or could make it too hard to watch.  They had too much self respect for Princess and the Popstar to be on the table.  And while a lot of fun, Diamond Castle had a few too many plot holes for some of the more quality-driven members like Banri and Tasuku.  (There was no real way of framing this to be for acting, they had already reluctantly conceded.)

“Ok, honestly, I think we’re being too nice.  If we’re not watching something pre-2011 we’re not doing it right.”

“You think, Yukki?”

“Yeah, just cross those out now.  Why is Princess Power still on the table?”

“Valid!  Plus it’s kinda ironic, but I’d put money on Itaroon hating Video Game Hero.”

Ran obliged by the new decision and crossed out everything remaining after Three Musketeers.  She wasn’t a big fan of the “everything after that era sucks” mindset, but she had to agree that the original, fairytale-inspired movies were for the most part the best movies.  Consider herself old-fashioned, but case in point: Yuki grew up in the modern Barbie era and he preferred the OGs too.  “That narrows it down to seven we haven’t ruled out, plus two maybes.”

“Oh, Azamin answered me!” Kazunari exclaimed.  “He said, ‘what why.’  No punctuation all lowercase.  Sounds like a good sign to me!”

“Make that six still up and three maybes.”

The three self-proclaimed (unchallenged) Barbie connoisseurs continued to discuss the movies left on the board.  There were reasons to watch each of them, but every time the answer seemed clear, something would come to mind that put a wrench in their plans.  And then, someone would provide a counter argument that managed to write off the problem and leave the movie on the board.  The very important, very academically sound debate was, once again, going nowhere.

A knock on the door startled them out of their Magic of Pegasus argument.  They turned their heads to see an unexpected face pop in.  “Hey, Izumi’s wondering if you’re planning on coming down for dinner sometime this year.”

“Oh, Itaroon!”  Kazunari flashed a greeting peace sign.  “Sorry, guess we lost track of time.  This is a majorly important topic.”

Itaru stuck his head in further to see what could possibly be so important that they were already thirty minutes late to Omi’s slow-cooked brisket.  “Operation: Get the Dorm to Watch a Barbie Movie and then Preferably More After That?  First of all, kind of a shitty operation name.  Second, you haven’t just settled for Princess and the Pauper yet?  I’m pretty sure it’s the best one.”

Yuki gave him a surprised glance.  “You’ve seen it?”

“I grew up with an older sister in the aughts.  I’ve seen most of the OGs.  Personally, I’m a Fairytopia kind of guy, but I think PatP is like the universal right answer?”

“Fairytopia’s a good one too,” Ran mumbled, glancing back at the list again.

“You're not wrong, Itaroon, but,” Kazunari frowned.  “All of these ones are good, but we wanna choose the best one, y’know?  If we ever get to this totally hypothetical situation where we carry out this plan we probably only get one chance.”

Itaru sat down on the seat previously occupied by Ran.  He laced his fingers together, studying the list intently.  “Ngl, you can probably cross out Mariposa.  Great movie, but if you don’t watch Fairytopia first, the beginning’s gonna make no sense.”

Yuki shuddered, struck by the unpleasant thought of trying to sit through a 75 minute movie with Tenma’s constant comments of “no go back who the hell is Bibble!?” ringing in his ears.

“Objectively,” Ran put a hand to her chin, “I think the best movie to convert others to the pink side is actually probably Christmas Carol.  But if it’s not around Christmas time Sakyo might see it as a personal attack.”

“I think it’s more like Azamin or Settzer might see the chance to make it a personal attack,” Kazunari corrected. "Frooch'd be chill."

“Maybe you’re thinking too much in terms of just the movie?” Itaru suggested.  “Like, maybe it’s good, but will you want to watch another one after it?”

“I’m the wrong person to answer that,” Ran noted, pushing Kazunari’s legs aside and sinking to the couch in semi-defeat.  It had been almost an hour at this point.  Why couldn’t they just pick a movie and be done with it?  Curse the Mankai Company and their “high standards” and “adult tastes.”

Kazunari patted her shoulder sympathetically, while Yuki, the most unbiased one of them when it came to this sort of thing, took the question into consideration.  “I think the only ones that fit that criteria are Princess and the Pauper, Fairytopia, and Magic of Pegasus.  Christmas Carol too, but like we said, only in the right season.”

“Well damn, Konomi loved all of those,” Itaru said in a serious tone.  “The final boss is upon us.”

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“So do you think he like died?” Banri finally asked.  “It’s been ten minutes.”

Muku let out a soft gasp.  “Or what if a portal opened up on the way to Tenma and Yuki’s room!?”

“Or he died,” Masumi repeated.

“Nothing of the sort happened,” Sakyo snapped.  “But really, how long does it take to drag some people down for dinner?”

Silence fell over the table as they listened for any sign of their four missing members, but all was quiet.

Taichi swallowed his mouthful of food. “...so anyone wanna watch Life in the Dreamhouse after dinner tonight?”

“Ooh, sure!”  “Why not?”  “Sounds good.”  “Hell yeah.”

#ran is just me and is therefore a barbie expert around these parts #i have not thought of her backstory or traits or anything of the sort but hell if i'm not gonna write a whole barbie themed drabble anyway #‘that song’ is queen of the waves Eris version btw lol #a3! yume tag #this was actually done for a few days but I was nervous about posting for some reason

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Every single time they release new a3 album art I go “this is the best one they’ve done so far idk how they’re gonna top that” and then ryofuji spawns to prove me wrong

#this is my first seeing it holy shoot holy shit I love how this set looks!!!! #I buy the albums physically just bc I like physical media but also having physical copies of these album jackets is a huge perk #god I am not going to survive the kazu tenma kumon one #….which is just vivid 2.0 I guess lolol #a3! #reblog

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Barbie request if you’re still doing them! I’d love to see Muku in a 1980s Barbie Vibe!

We're back in business! Again!! This kicked my butt after that break, but I think it came out super cute! I went with the most poppy, colorful fit from the 80s I could find in the book. Really they killed it with this design

Dance Club Barbie came with a cassette! They also released a promotional VHS where Paula Abdul teaches you how to do "The Barbie"

If you look, I changed the B on the jacket to an M! It's supposed to be under the collar, but I made it into like a pin so it could be more visible.

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Description from the book: White leather-look jacket; black cropped-top with neon rosettes; four-layered skirt edged in neon

He's covering it, but the cassette says "Muku Dance Club" lol (I did trace the cassette shape from the actual product but shhh all cassette tapes look the same)

#a3! #muku sakisaka #a3! muku #art prompt #rowdy-rowdy-boy #you can find the VHS in full on youtube btw! #they don't start teaching you the barbie until like 23 minutes in tho #anyway I love the colors on this one! it's super bright #idk if I got the pose to work the way I wanted to (he's supposed to be leaning forward) but I'm still proud of how it turned out #lots of parts of this didn't want to cooperate so when they finally did I was very excited

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hey guess what

#finally lmao #to the three people waiting on their barbie fit requests: i am no longer in the process of moving to a different country! #since the new event is super barbiecore I may 're-open' (tho they technically never closed) the requests but for now I gotta do these ones! #this fit is SUPER fun but also very hard to draw so wish me luck #hopefully it'll be done by tomorrow depending on how coloring goes

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he is out of short hair jail

#aaaaa I love the slight mutedness?? of the colors in this one!! idk if that's the right word but you get me I hope #His hair looks so soft I know it's a wig but I still want his hair care routine #thank you again a3 community for feeding me blessed art of my son #a3! #yuki rurikawa #reblog

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Hi Barbie! 💗

#sobbing my timeline is gonna be so blessed with this event #still not over how they just. made kumachan american lmao but it's a fun splash of blue!! #anyway I love thisssss #obviously I love yuki himself but also the palm trees are giving #a3! #yuki rurikawa #reblog

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『 Not your Barbie girl. I'm living in my own world. 』

#SO TRUE OP #I'm so sorry everyone I am going to be so not normal about this event #if I don't bloom him I am going to bite something #have you seen my son. now you have #a3! #yuki rurikawa #reblog

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he’s MY hamster :D

he’s a hamster