#Mk Ryoko

[middlechildwhoescapedthebasement]

I again commissioned @stillfuckinbetterthanyou and they once again did an AMAZING JOB!

I wanted to show one of the trio using Hellfire, and who better than the next Grandmaster herself, Ryoko? All the better, she's in her Shirai Ryu gear💛🖤💛🖤💛 I hope you all enjoy!

@vivilovespink here's your girl!

#mk oc #what if au #Mk Ryoko #Ryoko Hasashi #Middle mutuals #Art commission

[galpalaven]

-muffled because I'm hiding my face in my hands- ...Mortal Kombat OC

#mortal kombat #fujin mortal kombat #OC: ryoko #mk OC #nobody look at me fujin is hot sobs #she was someone he met on earthrealm when he lived among the humans #when he left something happened and blahblahblah anyway #SHE became the moon god and. well. because the old one died #she didnt really know what she was doing so it was a lot of spending centuries figuring out how to do literally anything #her moveset includes gravity attacks that can slow #or throw or even crush opponents

[hauntbutch]

#rl -> riza x lust

#lrr -> lust x riza x roy

#oz -> olivier x izumi

#ar -> ayeka x ryoko

#mk -> mihoshi x kiyone

#sz -> shadowheart x lae’zel

#fc -> falin x marcille

[tenchisgirls]

Our friend Neko made a 1990s version of MK’s OAV5 Ryoko Extra on the left, compared to the original on the right.  How’d it come out? :)

Neko’s pic and Deviant Art Page

OAV5 Extras here.

#tenchi #Tenchi Muyo! Ryo-Ohki #天地無用 #ryoko #ryoko hakubi #anime art

[zaptnews]

NUMBERS MATTER 121

チハルMK 、 おたこ、　川畑優、　AGF、　日野繭子、 大西蘭子

Thursday 22 October – 9pm (UK time) | Free

IKLECTIK YouTube Channel: https://youtu.be/HXFmH46kVEQ

Why numbers matter: Japan, a country with a population of over 124.2 million, is ranked at 121 in the Gender Inequality Index (GII) published by Human Development Reports 2020.  Japanese women got the vote in 1946 – earlier than China (1949), Liechtenstein (1984) and Switzerland (1993).

In the ranking chart of the Global Gender Gap 2020, the top ten reads as follows: 1: Iceland; 2: Norway; 3: Finland; 4: Sweden; 5: Nicaragua; 6: New Zealand; 7: Ireland; 8: Spain; 9: Rwanda; 10: Germany. The UK ranked 21, following Albania at number 20. Though Japan falls some 100 places behind the UK, the latter’s ranking at 21 is nothing to be proud of either. Clearly there is plenty of work to be done in both countries. Hence, NUMBERS MATTER 121 features four special projects led by Japanese women: Chiharu MK, Otaco, Yu Kawabata (in collaboration with German poemproducer AGF) and Mayuko Hino.

Footnote: In the Press Freedom Index published in 2020, Japan and the UK don’t fare much better than in the GII. Out of 180 countries listed, the UK is ranked at 33 and Japan at 66. The countries listed from one to ten are as follows: Norway, Finland, Denmark, the Netherlands, Jamaica, Costa Rica, Switzerland, New Zealand, Portugal and Germany.

Programme:

“Paramnesia 2020” by CHIHARU MK “Tomodachi” by OTACO “Hamaderea Park ” by YU KAWABATA (sound) + AGF (visuals) “Toyosu 2020″ by MAYUKO HINO

Chiharu MK is from Sapporo. Primarily trained as a composer, she studied the acousmonium, that is, the sound diffusion system, at INA-GRM studio in Paris. Since completing her studies in 2002, she has become an internationally recognised electroacoustic sound artist, either performing or creating sound installations for festival, gallery or non-concert hall spaces in Europe, Hong Kong and Japan. For Intersect 2015, she commissioned the non-Japanese artists Francisco López, Sogar and Taylor Deupree to compose sounds for a 17.1 multi Channel Speaker System (consisting of seven speakers + ten screen speakers + one woofer) in Sapporo city centre’s underground walkway. Chiharu MK has also released three solo CDs: https://www.studio-cplus.net/

Chiharu MK’s new multimedia work Paramnesia 2020 is based on her original piece for Hong Kong Art Centre’s 40th anniversary multi-channel Sound Forms festival in 2018.

This film shows her performing the piece inside Glass Pyramid, nicknamed Hidamari – Japanese for Sunny Spot, it’s the centrepiece of Sapporo’s Moerenuma Park, designed by Japanese American sculptor Isamu Noguchi (1904–1988). Construction work on the park actually began in the year Noguchi died, and it opened in 2005. The film also shows Chiharu MK recording on Ishikari beach, just north of Sapporo.

Taking her name from tako, the Japanese word for octopus, Otaco is originally from Japan’s northernmost main island Hokkaido. An electronic musician and vocalist, Otaco is one of the most vibrant and engaging performers to emerge from the alternative music scene anywhere in Japan.

Now living in Tokyo, she operates a home studio set-up of a rhythm box with a synthesizer; she samples and syncs sounds into a computer, running them into real-time sequences to construct her outre pop-electronica songs and instrumentals. Her music can be heard at https://otacosan.bandcamp.com/music. Otaco also plays guitar when she leads Gotou, an occasional rock trio formed out of homage to early 1980s West Berlin groups Mania D and Malaria!. She appeared for the first time in the UK during Coding In GE 2018 festival for women and technology.

Antye Greie also know as AGF was born and raised in East Germany. She is a vocalist, digital songwriter, producer, performer, e-poet, calligrapher, digital media artist. In the last decade Greie has released more than 20 full length records and played over 300 live performances worldwide. AGF runs her own production company AGF Production  – http://antyegreie.com She first worked with Yu Kawabata on her 2015 album A Deep Mysterious Tone, the third in AGF’s series of settings and poetry interpretations from different countries, this one featuring Japanese poets and writers including Noe Ito, Fumiko Kaneko, Shikubu Izumi, Blue Stocking editor and writer Hiratsuka Raicho, and more.

Yu Kawabata is a techno DJ active in Japan and Russia. This is Yu and AGF’s second collaboration. On their first, AGF set to music Yu’s reading of a waka poem, written by the 12th century court lady Yūshi Naishinnō-ke no Kii, enumerated as one of the Thirty-Six Female Immortals of Poetry. On their latest, Yu has created new music for a film by AGF. https://soundcloud.com/yukawabata

Since resuming music in 2011 after a ten year break to study Chinese medicine, Mayuko Hino has reclaimed her status as queen of noise.

A prolific live performer, Hino is best known for C.C.C.C. (Cosmic Coincidence Control Center), the group she formed in 1990 with Hiroshi Hasegawa, Fumio Kosakai and Ryuichi Nagakubo. In their early phase, the band grabbed attention by combining noise music with Hino’s sadomasochism performances using bondage ropes and dripping candle wax. Hino has since been a member of Mne-Mic, DFH-M3 and her most recent group Transparentz with Akira Sakata, who split up in January 2020.

Whether solo or in her various group projects, Hino experiments with the function of noise music as a transdisciplinary medium, in the process to breaking the boundaries surrounding performance art: urban structure against man, art against non art, activity versus rest.

In 2018 Mayuko Hino performed at Iklectic’s Coding In GE Festival alongside and in collaboration with Ramleh. The same year she released her second solo album Lunisolar. In addition to self-made instruments, Hino plays noise with her six-theremin oscillators (in bright pink), a unique device specially made for her by Ryo Araishi (aka ichion)

This year Hino had planned to resume activities with C.C.C.C. to mark the US reissue of their first four albums, but unfortunately their plans had to be put on hold because of the pandemic.

“There’s a sense of momentum to be found in Hino’s noise; it’s rarely static… At the hands of Hino it seems astral travelling is as much out-of-this-world as it is an out-of-body experience… on Lunisolar she continues with the ever evolving atmospheric and psychedelic sound that energised the noise of C.C.C.C.” (Compulsion Online)

“Hino Mayuko makes no bones about her wide-ranging noisician flexibility here, nor her honored place in the contemporary Japanoise scene… Unlike a bevy of artists who just make ear-splitting sonic somersaults, Hino’s sound is more impressionistic and staggered in its delivery, incorporating a yin/yang of the industrial and environmental.” (Tone-Shift)

RANKO ONISHI (Mne-mic): voice

Performing artist Ranko Onishi was born in Hokkaido. She moved to Tokyo where she joined Shuji Terayama’s Tenjo Sajiki theatre company in 1980. She was a second year student of dancer Min Tanaka in 1982 and became a full member of Tanaka’s company in 1984. Five years later in 1989 she performed with Keiji Haino. She and Hino work together in the duo Mne-mic, featuring Hino on electronics, Theremin and synthesizer, and Onishi on voice, water and fogphone. Their album Gulf Stream was released by Alchemy Records in 1999.

Curator Keiko Yoshida’s notes for NUMBERS MATTER 121

While researching texts for AGF’s 2015 CD A Deep Mysterious Tone I developed a profound interest in women’s history in Japan. AGF and I first met and begain talking about her project while she was taking part in my hometown Sapporo’s International Arts Festival in 2014. For the album she compiled and set to music Japanese writings and poems from the ninth century to the present day, and commissioned the female electronic musicians Ryoko Akama (UK), Kyoka (Germany), Tujiko Noriko (France) and Yu Kawabata to read her selections. She had met them at European festivals, and as she got to know them she learnt these female electronic musicians are not treated very well when they’re back home in Japan.

Indeed NUMBERS MATTER 121 took seed in these discussions on women and Japan with AGF. In some ways it’s also a sequel to “Coding in GE”, the 2018 Iklectik festival offering a platform to female electronic musicians, for which we got funding from Sasakawa Foundation UK, and in which Otaco, Mayuko Hino and AGF participated.

Another question addressed in NUMBERS MATTER 121 is the subject of decentralisation.  I consciously asked musicians from outside Tokyo to participate in this project.

Currently working on a photo story book about 1980s London and Berlin.

Please support the project buying an e-ticket (#nameyourprice). ** https://buytickets.at/iklectik/439711 **

[middlechildwhoescapedthebasement]

I AM OFFICIALLY 21 TODAY!

YA KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS!?

IM DOING THE CLOSING SHIFT AT MY JOB AND ILL BE TOO TIRED TO ACTUALLY CELEBRATE LMAO

It's also the fire trio's 21st birthday today but they'll actually be able to celebrate askdfgskkl

#Middle rambles #mk ocs #Mk Ryoko #Mk Akira #Mk Masaru #Ryoko Hasashi #Akira Hasashi #Masaru Hasashi #What if au

[middlechildwhoescapedthebasement]

1, 4, 5 for Ryoko

Her best qualities are: Nurturing, loyal, strategic and quick-thinking. Her worst are: Gossipy, overprotective, stubbornness and sets impossible standards for herself. She has a hard time focusing on her good qualities so she only focuses on the bad and tries to fix that instead. (Which ties into the impossible standards she sets for herself)

4. Her underlying motive for everything is to get stronger so she can protect those around her. Shes hardworking because she has to be in order to achieve what she desires

5. Her pastel/fruit aesthetic represents her more soft and nurturing side. Plus she just loves soft colors and how they look on her. They compliment her hair/eyes

#Middle mutuals #mk oc #what if au #Mk ryoko #mk ryoko #Ryoko Hasashi #thanks for the ask!

[middlechildwhoescapedthebasement]

Please ask me about Ryoko I need to talk about her more

#mk oc #what if au #ryoko hasashi #mk ryoko

[middlechildwhoescapedthebasement]

So Varian and all of her kids have night vision

Imagine being Hanzo, a guy who doesn't have that

Like he'll go in the kitchen at like 1 am for water and all he sees is wife or kids like this in the dark

#what if au #mk oc #mk varian #varian hasashi #hanzo hasashi #mk firedance #mina hasashi #ryoko hasashi #akira hasashi #Masaru Hasashi

[middlechildwhoescapedthebasement]

Akira, holding a spork: Mention this to anyone and I'll END you, got it?

Ryoko: I'm sorry are you threatening me with a fucking spork-

#What if au #Ryoko Hasashi #Akira Hasashi #Mk oc #mortal kombat incorrect quotes

[middlechildwhoescapedthebasement]

My favorite artist @stillfuckinbetterthanyou once again did an EXCELLENT job! Seriously, if you want a commission done, GO TO THEM! So, fun fact that I haven't shared yet: The Hasashi family often go on picnics when it's nice outside. Their favorite time to go on these picnics are during the Cherry Blossom season! Which is CONVENIENTLY happening right now! LOOK AT THESE CUTIES! LOOK AT THEM! THIS FAMILY IS SO FREAKING WHOLESOME! From left to right: Hanzo, Varian, Mina, Masaru, Ryoko, Akira! ENJOY THESE CUTIES BECAUSE I SURE AM!

🔥💕🌸🪡🍓🎶

#what if au #mk ocs #varian hasashi #mk varian #hanzo hasashi #mk scorpion #mk firedance #Mk Ryoko #Ryoko Hasashi #mina hasashi #Mk Mina #Mk Akira #Akira Hasashi #Mk Masaru #Masaru Hasashi #art commisions

[middlechildwhoescapedthebasement]

Mina Hasashi facts because she's too young to make a full outline for 👶

@tobigiveskissys here she is 👀👀👀

*Her birthday is July 26th, 2014

*She has half red half black hair, star shaped pupils, fuchsia eyes, dark skin (like her father), long hair that goes to her hips and it curls at the bottom, loads of freckles, and two cheek dimples

*Just gained her "hellfire", it's very unstable and she accidentally burns a lot of things

*Her entire family dotes on her and all of them are overprotective of her

*Big adventurer. Loves the outdoors and likes to pretend that she's a wilderness explorer. Also loves bringing home bugs, much to Ryoko's dismay

*She was conceived when Varian and Hanzo reunited after 12 long years. AKA she was not planned in the slightest but welcomed nonetheless

*Being only 7 1/2, she still has childlike naivety, she understands (due to her parents) that the world isn't all sunshine and rainbows, but still doesn't grasp just how dangerous it can really get

*Mina loves having "spa days" with Akira. They do each other's nails, makeup, dip their feet in hot water, etc

*Mina bonds with Ryoko via video games and books. Ryoko shows Mina her favorite childhood games and reads with her before bed every night

*Masaru is currently teaching her how to sew, she now knows how to mend a button

*Loves dancing and singing with her mama, gets a lot of that extra energy out

*She also loves it when papa let's her do makeup on him and playing dolls with him

*Mina is actually a pretty fast learner as long as it's hands on learning

*Knows about her deceased older brothers (sanitized versions obviously)

*If she gives you a rock, that means you're important to her

*Tends to hide in very weird places to sleep. Always gives her family a heart attack when they can't find her

*Girl is octopus crazy. She'll talk about them all day if you let her

*Likes to steal papa's rope spear when he's not looking. Gets into massive trouble as a result ("I was just looking papa! I swear")

*Doesn't like getting in trouble, but it happens anyway because of how curious she is

*Likes visiting the Lin Kuei temple because she doesn't get to see that much snow in one place, causing her to get excited and plet her siblings with snowballs

*Likes doing simple gymnastics, it's fun for her

*Spoiled by Johnny, her parents hate it ("stop spoiling her!" "I'm not!" *sneaks her a cookie for just existing*)

*Feeds all the animals that come by the Shirai Ryu temple, causing an influx of them to stay

*Has enough plushies to fill a toy store (thanks to Johnny)

#mk oc #what if au #Mk Mina #Mina Hasashi #Mk FireDance #oc x canon #Mk Ryoko #Ryoko Hasashi #Mk Akira #Akira Hasashi #Mk Masaru #Masaru Hasashi #Mk Varian #varian hasashi #hanzo hasashi #mk scorpion

[middlechildwhoescapedthebasement]

Varian: All right everyone! Family meeting!

Hanzo: Please tell me that you're not dragging our kids into this dumb argument-

Varian: You need to know that you're WRONG-

Hanzo, slamming his hands onto the table: YOU'RE THE ONE THAT'S WRONG-

Masaru: What on earth is this about!?

Varian, showing a picture of a step ladder: What is this!?

Akira: Clearly a step ladder

Ryoko: Uh, no, that's just a ladder

Hanzo: Thank you Ryo

Varian: I don't know why you're thanking someone that's WRONG-

Ryoko: It's literally just a stupid ladder-

Akira: THATS A GODDAMN STEP LADDER DUMBASS

Varian: THATS WHAT IM SAYING

Hanzo: Masaru tell us what you think

Masaru:....Ladder

Varian: Two of my children just ruthlessly betrayed me

Akira: I'm here for you mom

Ryoko: Well that settles it

Hanzo: Three to two, you lose Varian

Varian: WAIT WE STILL HAVE TWO MORE PEOPLE TO ASK! Takeda-

Takeda: Ladder. I'm sorry Varian but that's clearly a ladder

Varian: MINA-

Mina: Ladder mama

Takeda: Ooo that has to sting

Varian: Akira, they've all turned on us

Akira: We're no longer safe here

#mk ocs #what if au #varian hasashi #mk varian #Mk Akira #Akira Hasashi #Mk Ryoko #Ryoko Hasashi #Mk Masaru #Masaru Hasashi #Mk Mina #mina hasashi #hanzo hasashi #mk scorpion #Mk FireDance #takeda takahashi

[middlechildwhoescapedthebasement]

@stillfuckinbetterthanyou did another commission for me and I am once again IN LOVE WITH IT! I can't stress enough how much I recommend them for commissions. They are seriously one of the sweetest people I've met on this site! They are so great to work with! This time, I requested my Fire Trio, aka Hanzo and Varian's triplets! LOOK HOW CUTE THEY ARE AAAAAAAA! From left to right: Masaru, Ryoko, Akira. 🪡🍓🎶

#mk ocs #what if au #Mk Fire trio #Mk Ryoko #Ryoko Hasashi #Mk Akira #Akira Hasashi #Mk Masaru #Masaru Hasashi #art commisions

[middlechildwhoescapedthebasement]

Takeda: Why is Mina crying?

Ryoko, holding a crying Mina in her arms: She's upset because our parents didn't invite her to their wedding

Takeda: You mean the wedding that happened before she was born?

Ryoko, rubbing Mina's back: Yep. That's the one. I tried telling her that she was in mom's belly but she's not having it

Mina, sniffling: Why didn't mama just take me out of her belly!?

Takeda: Because you weren't ready to be born yet

Mina, crossing her arms: Excuses!

#mk ocs #what if au #Mk Ryoko #Ryoko Hasashi #takeda takahashi #Mk Mina #Mina Hasashi

[middlechildwhoescapedthebasement]

OK SO I AM GENUINELY CURIOUS: What do you imagine my characters to sound like? Like, their voices and what not?

I'll tell you what I imagine yours to sound like if you want me too!

#mk ocs #Mk Varian #varian hasashi #Mk Ryoko #Ryoko Hasashi #Mk Akira #Akira Hasashi #Mk Masaru #Masaru Hasashi #Mk Terrance