#(looks at rinku ibuki and kyoko)

[caramelmochacrow]

ok maybe my idea of hiiro helping shinobu w getting ready for a date w kyoko will Too Amazing. because. like.

hiiro is someone who likes being relied on, she really likes helping people even if that sometimes means putting them before her.

shinobu is someone who doesnt like asking for help because of her pride, she sees getting help as something a bit embarrassing.

shinobu going to hiiro for help for this will be both super personal and meaningful to hiiro because she knows that shinobu is very prideful also bc this is something that involves a very personal thing to shinobu (a date w kyoko)

shinobu is someone who doesnt like trying new things, if she sees nothing wrong w the present then she wont change it. (this is evident in the unit stories, especially the first one.)

hiiro is someone she can trust bc nagisa knows her and knows what kind of person she is. so she'll know what kind of things she likes and dislikes. but that doesnt mean hiiro will know everything abt shinobu so they both need to communicate in some way.

blah blah blah, very cute things happen, blah blah blah, hiiro notices some similarities between her and nagisa, blah blah blah, the fact that shinobu kind of wants to change up her style just for a date w kyoko makes hiiro go all 'awww that's so sweet' and blah blah blah u get the jist.

#crow talks #d4dj #d4dj groovy mix #shinobu inuyose #hiiro yano #im not tagging kyoshino #i get very analyse-y when im sleepy for some reason #i might start writing it later #just a draft of it and such #maybe will do it w the other fic ideas i have in the future as well #but this one and the saki shinobu and maho one is something i want to do especially. #i really want to explore relationships in d4dj romantic or not #so many interesting things that could be explored between two characters that might not have much interactions! #(looks at saki maho and shinobu) #(looks at rinku ibuki and kyoko) #something abt the fact that ibuki is a very hardworking person to the point she sometimes overworks herself having to learn how to relax #w rinku (someone who is very chill and lax) and kyoko (someone who knows when is the right time to relax and go crazy hardworking) #is making my brain go nutsy koo koo #gonna stop talking now bc i might ramble on and on forever

[dangandj-d4ronpa]

DanganDJ Executions ("Come on, go, reach for the stars, reach so high!")

As the title quote implies, I imagine DR execution music remixed with D4 music to play during everyone's execution. Saki is a blend of DR2 execution music and "4 Challenges". The rest will be listed below with descriptions of all 24 executions:

Rinku: World Tour: She wakes up onstage, expected to sing for a crowd of angry Monochios, but no matter what she sings, they boo and hiss. The execution is like Disney's "Carousel of Progress", spinning Rinku through stage after stage, but the result is always the same. The Monochios get up and walk out, and when none are left, Rinku is deemed a failure, and her concert is cancelled. The theater goes dark, then Monochio appears on a balcony above and opposite the stage. It gives her a thumbs down (claw down) and the theater doors burst open again, a lion patterned like Monochio quick to rush in and kill Rinku. (Plays with multiple Hapiara songs).

Maho: Maho's Hotpot: She is cooked alive (think the first part of Kiyo's execution). (Plays with "Direct Drive!").

Muni: Rabbit Season: She is hunted through the academy forest like a rabbit, suffering various injuries along the way. She is finally caught by a giant Monochio clone. Her rabbit ears are all that remain. (Plays with "Give Me Awesome").

Rei: Do-Re-Mi: Similar to Rinku, she has to perform increasingly complicated pieces for an increasingly irritated crowd, but what makes her execution different is that the piano is fighting her, lid banging open and shut, keys ignoring her touch, strings snapping and lashing around her... (Plays with "Brave New World/Happiest Dreams").

*Alt execution: Tea Time/the Bad Tea Party: When I gave Rei a Tea Ceremony Talent, I imagined her execution as one where she had to host a teaparty, but of course, it goes horribly awry as the guests wreak havoc of increasing severity. Rei is killed during the chaos, covered in tea and pink blood.

Kyoko: Reach for the Peak: She has to run and climb through an obstacle course to reach the peak of a mountain. There are checkpoints along the way where she has to perform a brief song against other faceless, robotic climbers. She loses every single checkpoint and it subsequently slows her down. Right as she reaches the peak, dead last, the stone beneath her hands and feet break. (Plays with "Let's Do the Big Bang").

Shinobu: Dance 4 Deadly Justice: She faces a round of four different games, Call of Duty, Mario Kart, Street Fighter, D4DJ. She plays on turntables while a Just Dance-styled avatar of Kyoko plays against her with a mic. (Plays with "Electric Chaos Countdown" or Chiaki's execution music).

*In my saga, Shinobu figures out how to hack out of her execution and does so solely for the purpose of luring Monochio into it so that she can trap it there when the timer runs out.

Yuka: Steel Nerves, Steel Cage: Yuka is thrown into a boxing ring where robots designed to look like Dalia and Ibuki battle her. She barely wins, then a muscled Monochio (looking like buff Kuma in V3) comes out and crushes her, literally and metaphorically. (Plays with "moment").

Esora: Caution, Construction Ahead: She starts on the ground with only a platform beneath her, but little construction bots swarm around her and answer her every beck and call. It's her job to instruct them well enough that they build a tower beneath her that lifts her up to freedom. Issues such as glitching workers and unstable construction material make the execution harder, and if Esora fails, the entire structure collapses. Think Jenga/Tetris. (Plays with "Peaky&Peaky").

Ibuki: Run Like the Wind: Ibuki is thrust into a maze, tasked with escaping before the monsters and traps get her, but she also has to lead frightened, robotic versions of her bandmates to freedom as well. Unable to balance keeping them calm, keeping them moving, and outrunning the dangers of the maze with everyone behind her, Ibuki meets her demise when she gets turned around and lot, unable to find her way out and unwilling to leave the bandmates she was separated from, even though they were only robots. (Plays with "Into the Storm").

Saki: D4V4 Blastoff!!!!: Just the rocket execution. She's the 4th to endure it after Jin, Junko, and Kaito (Plays with "4 Challenges" or Kaito's execution music).

Noa: All the World's a Stage: She wakes up onstage with three black-clad witches chanting over a boiling pot. They're the past, present, and future versions of Noa and they force her into the pot. It's so hot that she's shot back out, landing on a balcony far above stage. The balcony collapses and she falls right in the middle of a war between the Montagues and Capulets. She is beheaded during the fight and her body performs Hamlet's soliloquy with her severed head. All the while, she's chained up like a puppet, forced through her execution from the very first step onstage. The chains are severed at the very end of the execution and Noa collapses to the floor, head rolling away into the darkness (Plays with "Photon Melodies/Here's the Light" or Leon's execution music).

Towa: Super Towa-chan Time!!!!: She wakes up in what looks like her bedroom, except it's even bigger and grander and more decked out in all the things that she likes. At first, it seems like paradise, but escape from the room becomes difficult when merch and crepes keep appearing but Towa can't find the door anywhere. She is ultimately drowned by all of her clutter. (Plays with "Wonder Wonder Trip/What Are You?").

Rika: Floor Killer/Floor Burner: Similar to the scene in Petite Mix ep 19, Rika must make her way across a long, booby-trapped floor. She loses when she reaches a section where fire is shooting up from beneath the tiles and she eventually falls through. As the Ult. Arsonist, she survives in the fall and lives long enough to hallucinate her unit-mates in the flames before finally dying. (Plays with "Floor Killer").

Saori: Diary of Despair: She wakes up in a depressing bedroom, every inch of the walls covered in calligraphy that does nothing but insult her or talk about how much she hates herself. When she tries to escape, the posters fly off the wall and attack her. Although it occurs offscreen, after the papers swarm her and back her into a corner, the execution cuts to her being a jar of ink the same way Mondo randomly and suddenly became butter in his execution. (Plays with "NO-NO").

Marika: All that Glitters/Midas Mizushima: She's in the middle of a photoshoot and everything starts well, but she is quickly buried under more and more costumes, props, and makeup as more and more photographers demand more and more poses from her. It culminates in someone pouring solid, molten gold on her. (Plays with "round and round").

Dalia: I Will Never Die: Dalia is chased through a dojo by her fallen friends before the one that she killed drags her into a grave with them. (Plays with "I Will Never Die" or Kiyo's execution music).

Tsubaki: Similar to Ibuki, Tsubaki wakes up in a maze, although hers is made of blue roses and she has to find her way out using echolocation and song (think Marco Polo). Like Ibuki's maze, Tsubaki's contains traps, but they attack her voice (ex: the air becoming polluted so Tsubaki can't sing) and even though there are tools scattered around, Tsubaki never figures out how to work a single one and suffocates. (Plays with "Movement").

Aoi: To All My Adoring Fans: Aoi wakes up at a celebrity meet-n-greet with faceless robots even further than the eye can see lined up for her. Knowing that she's in the middle of an execution, Aoi tries to politely push them aside and promise to meet more of them later, but they chase after her and she is trampled in the ensuing chaos. (Think of a paparazzi chase, which becomes even more fitting after RONDO S:O even though I had this idea before that). (Plays with "Prayer[s]").

Hiiro: House of Cards: Hiiro wakes up in a house of playing and tarot cards, all sorts of other witchy and fortune-telling items scattered all around. She has to use the items to predict when and where the Wind of Fate will strike, and subsequently, which room of the house is safest to hide in (based on location in the house, and what talismans are in the room). The goal is to survive until the storm stops. (Plays with "ReTINA").

Nagisa: Super Sonic Speedster: Nagisa has to ride her motorcycle through a gauntlet of electric guitars playing so loudly that they can create sonic booms. Eventually, Nagisa is knocked off her motorcycle by one of these sonic attacks and the still-rising decibels eventually kill her, as escape is far slower without the motorcycle. (Plays with "Calendula").

Miyu: The Lord's Favor: Miyu consistently insists that her "Talent" is just a result of hard work and blessings from God, so her execution forces her to flee and fight an archangel. If unlucky, the angel kills Miyu. If lucky, Miyu figures out a way to evade the archangel and become an angel herself, which allows her to escape her execution entirely once she has wings. (Plays with "Happy Prince").

Haruna: After School Detention with the Chairman: Haruna wakes up reading the Bible to faceless, robotic versions of her classmates and they begin to throw things at her in response. The objects escalate in damage they can cause, and the Kurumiiko bots are finally the ones to kill Haruna by beating her to death with chairs. (Plays with "Certified Human" or Peko's execution music).

Kurumi: Shame on Me, the Joke's On You!: Kurumi wakes up in a giant warehouse filled to the brim with every type of prank or joke toy, trick, or tool one could even think of. She is tasked with using everything at her disposal to build a cunning, clever tool out of the warehouse that surprises them by helping her escape in a nonconventional and unexpected manner. Joke's on Kurumi, though, as the true way out was just to use a door in the hallway behind her (which she misses because it's slightly obscured and she's too focused on the pranking stuff) and no matter what she builds, it WILL backfire on her. (Plays with "I Shall Be a Cat").

Miiko: Happy Adventure Queen!!!'s Last Hike: As the first execution, Monochio drags her away by her throat with its tail, throwing her onto a landing strip and forcing her to outrun a plane. She escapes into the sea where she then has to flee a submarine. She is left in a forest full of cute, friendly animals, but they turn into zombies and eat her alive until nothing but bone remains. (Plays with "Adventure King" or Gundam's execution music).

Order of executions: Miiko as the first Blackened, Saki for breaking a rule in Chap 2, Haruna as the second Blackened, Noa as the third, Dalia as the fourth, Shinobu as the fifth, although only because she volunteered to be executed in Kyoko's place since Kyoko was already dead by that point.

#d4dj #danganronpa #fanganronpa #dangandj #d4ronpa #monochio #monyochio #hope's peak academy #hope's pinnacle academy #killing school transfer #crossover #dig delight direct drive dj

[luminosity09]

D4DJ First Mix Anime Review

I just review this anime last week, and I like it more than Bang Dream. Both Franchises are made from the same company, Bushiroad. I did a reaction to Bang Dream for episode one in my other post. I didn’t finish the other episodes, because it didn’t interest as me as much. I’ll tell my thoughts, and how I feel about D4DJ First Mix.

Plot

For those who don’t know what D4DJ, it is originally a rhythm tap game where you can listen to techno music. Similar like piano tiles, but a notch higher. Their theme is mostly DJ music. So, it starts with a energetic girl name Rinku Aimoto. She just came back from Africa, and is excited to come back to Japan. One day, she heard a similar song that she heard when she was young. Inside the music room, there was a girl name Maho Akashi. Rinku couldn’t help her excitement, and interrupted the song Maho put up. They talked about the song and DJs. Rinku didn’t know what are DJs, so Mahou showed a performance of a famous DJ group, Peaky P Key. After their performance, Rinku wanted to do something similar to them. Now Rinku starts to meet new people, and form Happy Around.

Characters

Rinku Aimoto

Similar to Kasumi Toyama, Rinku is energetic and happy go lucky. She rarely get sad, and loves music. When she gets hyped up, she spins around. Rinku also have a fond of food, and eats in a unique way when mad. I love how she really friendly with people and you can’t help, but love her. Sometimes when she has too much energy, she has the ability to run really fast. She is an interesting protagonist to start with. Her role in the group is dancing, and vocals.

Maho Akashi

Maho is the DJ of the group. She is responsible, and hardworking. I learned some things about how to DJ. Even though some things looks simple, it feels hard to me. Maho loves cooking also. I remember in the series she cooked beef stew with high quality meat. My mouth was watering when I saw the beef stew. She looks like the type who would be a good leader.

Muni Ohnatuto

I actually was suspicious of this character. I was thinking if she was evil or not. When Rinku recognizes her as her childhood friend, I felt relieve that she wasn’t evil. Her role is vocals and VJ. It’s similar to a DJ. They just have to make creative backgrounds that goes with the music. Muni is not your typical all cute character. She acts a little arrogant, and a little bit of tsundereness. But that makes her interesting as a characters anyway. I love this tsundere bunny.

Rei Togetsu

She is literally an angel that must be protected at all cost. She can a little naive when it comes to an average girl life, but she is really supportive. Her gentle and kind attitude is why people love her. I really love the interaction with her and Muni. Her role in the group is playing the keyboard, and vocals.

Other Characters

There were other groups like Peakek P Key and Photon Maiden. There were the only groups that was active til the end of the anime series. Of course, some other groups got only a cameo appearance. In the two groups I mentioned, some of them some character development. Saki and Ibuki were able to find their own music, while Kyoko and Shinobu were able to help guide Happy Around. It was a cute sequence. The other characters in Phonton Maiden or Peakey P Key we didn’t know much about. It was really disappointing to me that the character I like didn’t show it in the anime. Take Noa for example. She acted like a cool and friendly member of Phonton Maiden, but I found out recently that she has a fondness of cute things. She doesn’t hide it like she does in the anime. In conclusion, I love the side characters, but wish to see more of it.

Songs

Songs play a big role in a music anime. I prefer if I know the song than hear it the first time, and then forget it. The songs for me were great. My favorite out the three would be Peakey P Key. It was supported Aimi’s talented voice(Kyoko’s VA) and Melodies that wound pump you up.Happy Around was my second favorite. Their songs are what represents them. They would always change it up, and the song will show development in them. Phonton Maiden was okay by. All I remember is Here The Light and Akatsuki Fruits Mix. The background sounds amazing though. The opening and ending were great also. I recommend if you listen to the opening of you like DJ type of music.

Final Thoughts

To be honest, I thought I wouldn’t enjoy D4DJ. I tried to watch Bang Dream the first season, and immediately felt like giving up. Even though they share the same similarities, there some key elements that stood out to me. I guess the pacing, and visual designs is what made me intrigued. I did not regret watching this, and am blessed that I get to listen to new songs.

Thanks For reading! What’s your opinion on this anime? Write in the comments below.

#anime #d4dj first mix #anime review #my opinion #luminosity09

[caramelmochacrow]

this just went in my mind but...

some of the d4dj girls game preferences!

(this is so self-indulgent but i just cant get this off my mind)

saori: im a hundred percent sure saori is a tekken and street fighter player. girl knows her match ups and jargon, is amazingly good at both games, and (SUPER) good w footsies. idk who she would main in tekken but for streets she has third strike and mains remy i know it.

shinobu: (i dont play first person shooters so im just going w fighting games here lol) she looks like she would play guilty gear bc of the music and also like. ngl i think she would play happy chaos. (he has a gun and goes pew pew, also from what i hear his gameplay is kinda like a fps so yeah)

aoi: she is a visual novel and card game girl. she played zero escape, ai the somnium files, and ace attorney. she, in-universe, plays vanguard and i know damn well her first card game was pokemon, if not yugi-oh.

nagisa: she totally plays... like. turbo dismount-ish games. idk how to explain or what the genre is called but yeah. those. (she also plays guitar hero and gg w shinobu somtimes. she mains baiken btw)

dalia: she plays third strike w saori bc wow karate like like the thing she used to do and she thinks it's pretty fun, she's a super casual player, like, she doesnt mash buttons but she wouldnt try to practice combos. (she mains chun-li and ryu bc they're kinda simple, ryu especially.)

miiko: fnaf and them's fightin' herds. (idk who she would main in the pony fighting game tho, it's been forever since i played it.)

noa: she looks like she would play idol games and dating sims w girls like ddlc for the cute characters. she always, ALWAYS does a 100% playthrough of all the routes in dating sims, even the bad ending ones.

rinku: animal crossing and any games w creatures tbh. she collected all the bugs in animal crossing bc she just can.

ibuki: exercise games. yeah that's it lol sorry girlie...

rei: she has piano tiles on her phone and a couple other rhythm games bc she has preddy good rhythm from what muni said in the anime

haruna: i havent read the lyrical's story yet but haruna looks like she would play those cleaning games u know the ones that r supposed to help u relax? those.

kyoko: she just plays whatever game shinobu plays. fighting games? sure. first person shooters? that's alright. rhythm games? sure it has some cool songs. gacha games? pls stop wasting your money.

#crow talks #d4dj #d4dj groovy mix #not tagging them bc i might be annoying

[dangandj-d4ronpa]

DanganDJ Spoiler Info

In my first post, I gave Talents to the core 6 units, but I always had it in mind that some of the Talents that they started with weren't always the ones they finished with.

Kyoko is the Ult. Vocalist.

Esora is a Reserve Course. She was stripped of her Talent at the end of her first year due to a skirmish with the Togami Corporation to protect Rei and her family's honor, although the Togetsus never knew about it.

Ibuki started off as the Ult. Track and Field Runner, but during her time in Hope's Peak, she also became the Ult. Team Captain. Those parts of her memories were erased by the time she woke up in the D4 Killing Game.

And while Miiko is introduced as the Ult. Linguist, a later part of the story reveals that she is the Ult. Horror Enthusiast.

MORE SPOILERS

Another part of DR is Hope and Despair, so I wove that into D4 with the idea that during the Tragedy, Junko takes one member from every unit to be one of her Despairs.

Maho: Manipulated due to her insecurity of feeling useless compared to her unit mates, especially when looking at Talent. (Based off of plotlines in First Mix, and sort of All Mix).

Esora: Joined Junko to get revenge on Byakuya and reclaim her Talent. She worked with the Towa Conglomerate to build Monokumas and Monochios.

Saki: Traumatized after Junko separated her from her unit and made her think she witnessed Kaito’s death. Junko’s brain operation on Saki also messed with her Synesthesia and made her obsessed with finding new colors. Before Junko, she could use her Synesthesia to see the colors of people’s emotions through their singing. After Junko, any form of vocal noise would trigger her Synesthesia.

Rika: Manipulated due to her savior complex. Because she was the one that inspired this crossover, I consider her Junko’s favorite mastermind. They are both very impulsive after all.

Hiiro: Her Talent showed her that the only way to beat Junko was to join her first, so Hiiro put her love of mysteries to good use and did her best to be the perfect mastermind.

Haruna: Manipulated into thinking Kurumiiko killed Miyu, she went mad with grief and acquired an obsession for rule-following. She ordered the first execution and helped write the Killing Game rules.

Natually, Hope arises.

Rinku: (Does she need any explanation? LOL).

Yuka: Because of her connection to Mahiru, Sato, and Esora, she was also close to the Reserve Course and saw them as equal to Ultimate students.

Ibuki: She helped create the Future Foundation.

Rika: Even though she was a Despair, she acted as a Hope and was basically Rinku 2.0.

Aoi: Because everyone simps for her, in and out of universe.

Miiko: Because she wanted to be friends with everyone, and her true Talent of Horror Enthusiast gave her meta knowledge and made her genre-savvy, which was a huge threat to Junko.

After everyone is forced through the Killing Game, the Hopes change.

Rinku remains as her unit’s honorary Hope.

Shinobu becomes Peaky’s because she’s always trying to move forward, no matter who the Killing Game takes from her.

Towa becomes Photon’s because she remains supportive until the very end and is the only one able to talk Nozomi Kamakura into occasionally stepping down and allowing Noa Fukushima to take control of their shared body.

Saori, Marika, and Dalia are all deemed Ult. Hopes by Rika at the end of the game when she admits to them that she doesn’t want to be a Despair anymore because they showed her how good Hope could be.

Tsubaki becomes RONDO’s Hope as she, like Shinobu, vows to keep moving forward no matter who the Killing Game has already taken from her.

Miyu becomes Lyrilily’s as the embodiment of forgiveness balanced with justice.

OTHER SPOILERS

Rika’s REAL Talent is Arson (inspired by a running joke my friends and I have about Rika = fire) and she only hid behind the Volleyballer Talent to avoid suspicion.

She is also Masaru Damon’s big sister. Their parents divorced when Masaru was a toddler, one parent taking each child. They never saw one another again, and when Junko found out, she implied that Masaru was dead, and that was one of the things that pushed Rika to Despair (although they reunite after Junko is defeated). The other was thinking she failed Tsubaki when they were kids (storyline taken from D4).

I also made a D4 version of Izuru, which is Noa's alter ego Nozomi/Kiko (which means Hope). Her backstory is that even though Izuru was conceptualized first, Nozomi/Kiko was created first, as it was easier to operate on a student WITH a Talent than one without.

While Izuru became an emotionless, indecisive Despair,  Nozomi becomes a Hope obsessed with protecting the Cute and purging the Ugly. While Izuru’s hair and eyes were black and red respectively, Nozomi’s were white and cyan.

And the reason Haruna thought Kurumiiko killed Miyu was because Haruna was becoming increasingly isolated, trying to use her Chairman Talent to stop the Tragedy. Her unit members were trying to keep her from burnout and eventually went to Kurumi’s big brother, Kokichi Oma (the white bird and the black horse). Miyu, Miiko, and Kurumi were the three female DICE members. Kokichi tricked Miiko into helping him hijack Kurumi’s prank to make it more horrific and realistic, making them all believe that Miyu was dead. Kokichi did this both as a way to get Haruna to see where her actions were leading them, and because he perceived her as a rival for Kurumi’s allegiance.

#d4dj #danganronpa #fanganronpa #dangandj #d4ronpa #monochio #monyochio #hope's peak academy #hope's pinnacle academy #killing school transfer #crossover #dig delight direct drive dj