#hachiko gang

[demon64]

Can't believe I never thought of this crossover before now: Spider-Man and The World Ends With You.

You can't tell me some of the TWEWY characters wouldn't make some pretty cool Spider-People. Imagine, Minamimoto and/or Joshua going universe hopping and running into a Spider-Person version of themselves or any of the other TWEWY characters. I imagine in plenty of the universes, that version of Minamimoto could be essentially the Venom to whoever is the Spider-Person there.

And you can't tell me that Miles wouldn't totally hang with the Hachiko Gang and the Wicked Twisters. Miles would probably get weirded out by their tales of the Reapers' Game, but considering he's got knowledge of the multiverse, it's probably nothing too crazy to him. Miles and Neku would love creating street art and graffiti together. Miles and Beat would probably love racing across Shibuya. Miles and Rhyme would probably talk tech and advanced sciences. So many different interactions Miles can have with them.

#marvel comics #spider-man #the world ends with you #neo twewy #miles morales #brooklyn spidey #hachiko gang #wicked twisters #joshua #yoshiya kiryu #neku sakuraba #beat #daisukenojo bito #rhyme #raimu bito #sho minamimoto #random thougts #crossover idea

[teleport-warning]

#TWEWY #neo twewy #the world ends with you #hachiko gang #neku sakuraba #bito daisukenojo #raimu bito #shiki misaki #joshua kiryu #why are the suggested tags for their names in a mix of Japanese and English ordering conventions?? #cannot believe that TWEWY came out 15 years ago #I’m a latecomer to the fandom but I’ve met so many lovely people through it #teleport warning draws

[bravadoting]

OG Nagi Sketches

I challenged myself to draw the NEO TWEWY cast during the time of the original game starting with Nagi 💜

#twewy #neo twewy #ntwewy #neo: the world ends with you #nagi usui #my art #bravadoting #Also I wanted to ramble about my process and the design details in the tags. #1. First and foremost I wanted a design that could stand alongside the OG cast and capture the fashion of the time period. #2. It took me a couple of iterations to really differentiate her silhouette from any of the Hachiko Gang. #3. I kept her mid-length sleeves from her canon outfit. The laces on her shoes are also a reference to her hair ribbons. #4. I love the cat beanie both because it’s very 2000s and it reflects the game’s cat motif. #That being said I am still refining this design. I want it to look a bit less sporty and more geeky to fit Nagi. #I’m also figuring out what to do with her hair cause it is a bit busy around her collar area. #But short hair makes her look too similar to RG Shiki so I’m still brainstorming. Feel free to leave suggestions if you have them!

[wayfinderrinku]

The temptation to write fic for a pairing that doesn’t have a proper fic yet or very few

#cauterizeshipping #Hachiko gang polycule #networkshipping #zel thoughts

[regallibellbright]

For Valentine’s Day, a WIP!

From the still-untitled Partner Polycule Full Of Disasters, but earlier still:

"You could always make cookies or something," Joshua says. Not that he'd really care, should he get anything. He wasn't exactly drowning in admirers even when he was alive.

"We tried those last year," Shiki says. "Rhyme still hadn't found anything she was interested in yet, so we figured all four of us would make them together, right? For fun, and then she and Eri and I would be done."

"'Sides, gender's fake an' chocolate's tasty, yo," Beat adds. Rhyme nods along. "We was thinkin' we could all trade then an' just skip White Day."

"The cookies were after we'd all screwed up the candy ones twice," Rhyme says, wincing. "We figured, cookies aren't that hard, right? We’ve all made them before? Just follow the instructions? But we needed to set a timer as soon as they were in the oven, and then we started talking." He's starting to get the picture, here.

"We got them before they really smelled like burning, at least. And Neku insisted they weren't actually all that burnt," Shiki says.

“They sure as hell looked burnt,” Beat says. "An' he was the only one who ate more'n a bite."

“They tasted like chocolate-flavored chalk and regret,” Shiki says. “He said they were the driest thing he ever ate.”

“But he still finished his?” Joshua asks.

“Neku had a second,” Shiki says, shaking her head in awe. “Apparently they were so bad he needed to have another just to believe how awful they were.” Joshua gives a low whistle at that.

“Said he’d never had anythin’ like ‘em. We stopped him ‘fore he could eat a third and make himself sick, yo,” Beat adds. “Still can’t believe he didn’t, just from those two.”

“So you know, when he gets back, you can still try and make him some,” Rhyme says, with a far-too-knowing grin. “You all just need to make them so uniquely, incomprehensibly terrible they break his brain again.”

“Nonono- “ “Hold up-!“ “I’m not-“ All three of them exclaim at once, Shiki waving her hands and Beat flinching back.

Rhyme giggles. “You’re all blushing right now, you know that?”

#writing with Regalli #wips #partner polycule #joshbeatneshiki #twewy #food mention #of the 'culinary disaster in spite of our best efforts' variety #there's going to be about two scenes maybe three of the three-year gap #establishing 'they are all becoming friends' and 'everyone is in love with Neku that's just good sense' #before Neku finally gets home and the REAL Cowards Club Chaos can begin. This is scene two #(I promise we will get to see them be competent or at least not COMPLETE disasters in fields they're good at.) #(but also I write exactly none of the Hachiko gang as neurotypical Eri included and in this case that got them all distracted)

[kwoojii]

waaaaiitttt, you're not santa claus!!!????

merry christmas hachiko x twister gang! (and to you all!)

#twewy #ntwewy #neo: twewy #the world ends with you #twewy beat #neku #neo the world ends with you #daisukenojo bito #beat bito #twewy neku #neku sakuraba #shiki #eri #sho minamimoto #yoshiya kiryu #joshua #twewy joshua #nagi usui #rindo kanade #shoka sakurane #fret furesawa #tosai furesawa #twewy eri #my art #hopefully i tagged everyone lol #'HAHAHA' its hohoho

[greysfall]

[A story only Hachiko knows] long comic strip and birthday gift for @areiml​. This is my imagination of a story set during the 3 years between OG and Neo, featuring a short meeting between Eri and Beat as they talked about how everyone was coping with Neku’s disappearance and moving on with their own lives. 

This comic referred to several comic strips I made before, sorta intertwined between canon game lore, my thoughts on the unexplored potentials of Eri’s role in the story and my friend & I’s BeatEri fever dream. I imagined it would be set at around 3-6 months after Neku’s disappearance and shortly before the gang entered high school. I never thought it was gonna be this long as it all started out as a few whimsical panels. While the comic has mentions of NeShiki and BeatEri, you can read it as general friendship if that’s your preferred interpretation (save for the bonus piece below). 

I actually have zero confidence writing Beat’s dialogues, tho I’m pleased with his design - which I put together by imagining Beat without his knitted cap, plus changing to some of his favourite WildBoar threads. My friend joked that since I’m used to draw sparkly Composers, I made Beat so handsome that even his parents won’t recognise him. Eri is canonically pretty, so I wanted to depict her as TV-star-pretty. Another trivia is that Beat generally isn’t a dessert fan, he also tends to dislike fruit-flavoured desserts and only enjoys chocolate-flavoured ones so it was a surprise that strawberry is his favourite boba flavour lmao. Now who does strawberry boba remind me of? Guess.

With this done, I’m one comic strip away from having enough materials for an anthology. The “final” strip was already drafted along with the Composers strip. If we’re lucky, I might get to draw it next year.

There is a Japanese version of this comic on Twitter in case you need it. And lastly, here is the bonus piece which is a redraw of my friend’s comic strip. Happy Birthday! (have fun being at the same age as Asa while I’m Tougou’s, teehee)

#subaseka #shinsubaseka #subarashiki kono sekai #shin subarashiki kono sekai #twewy beat #twewy eri #twewy shiki #ntwewy beat #Neo The World Ends With You #the world ends with you #DAISUKENOJO BITO #what's eri's surname omg #she deserves better #beateri #neo twewy #NEOTWEWY

[artistictiliqua]

Hdvdhsvshd self indulgent Warrior cats twewy au (first game versions of the Hachiko gang, will post the rest of the characters later lol)

#look ive got warriors brainrot all the time #and twewy brainrot as well #it was inevitable #joshua is a kittypet thats why hes still joshua #twewy #twewy au #the world ends with you #joshua kiryu #neku sakuraba #beat bito #rhyme bito #daisukenojo bito #raimu bito #shiki misaki #quinn draws #warriors #warrior cats

[lapinparka]

the wewy hot take. share one.

(barnacle boy meme) the wewy...

Okay I'm going to confess a lot of my hot takes are about NEO (and there are many of them). However I think one of my biggest ones is that the ideal sequel to OG TWEWY would've had Joshua as one of the focal characters, because he's the only playable character from the first game whose arc wasn't actually finished. The big questions at the end of the first game were basically "What will he do now? Will he go meet everyone? What happens to him in the aftermath of the Long Game?" and the Secret Ending was pretty much TWEWY's sequel bait before Solo Remix existed (not that poor Tsugumi was treated any better). NEO's new writer deciding those questions weren't that important after all and shoving him off screen for 95% of the game (ostensibly because he was too powerful and would overshadow Rindo, according to that one interview) and then them declaring that all the OG characters' stories are done despite literally nothing changing for Joshua was... certainly A Choice that makes me feel many things. All of them negative. Even KH3D realised his story was the one that needed continuing, which is why (to me, at least) it actually felt satisfying for both him and the Hachiko Gang as a whole.

But now instead we've got Neku who was forced into isolation, away from the people he cares about, after coming to appreciate the world around him and change as a person which was... exactly the same situation Joshua was in at the end of the first game, but again I guess the writer just decided Joshua's version wasn't as interesting or something. And now they're both just stuck there mid character arc, forever. Definitely not bitter.

My original answer was going to be that I feel like people's approach to UG lore has got a lot less creative ever since NEO came out and it makes me sad, but that's more about the fandom than the game.

For a probably less divisive hot take: I think Junk Garage is a good song

#asks #thank you for the ask! sorry it turned into a rant orz #i genuinely don't understand the hate i've seen for junk garage though i think it's a bop #twewy #i'm tagging this for my blog if anyone sees this please don't start fighting me please

[darksaiyangoku]

RWBY Christmas Tales

Pursuit of Death Part 1

Two cars drove out of control in the streets of downtown Kuroyuri. Both of them skidded along the road, swerving just outside of the Merchant Bank of Takara. The doors opened as a large group of thugs, all masked and armed, walked out. One of them drew a flashbang from his belt and tossed it at the guards. The guards quickly raised their guns, only to be blinded and shot at by the other thugs.

Thug 1: Hmph, too easy. Let's go. The boss is expecting a big withdrawal.

They strolled inside and the larger thug fired a warning shot, sending everyone into a panic. The leader pointed his gun at the staff.

Thug 1: Don't even think about calling security! One push of the button and you get a bullet to the head!

The bank worker hesiated and put his arms up. Several of the thugs started ambushing the customers, tying them in binds and dragging them against the wall. The leader of the gang turned his attention back to the banker, keeping a firm grip on his pistol.

Banker: W-What do you want?

Thug 1: I'm here for an early Christmas present. Me and the boys here would like a million Lien. Each. Do that, and we'll let you live. But if you try to call the cops on us, well, let's just say things will get really ugly.

The banker had no choice but to comply. He and the rest of the staff filled up ten bags with 1 million Lien and handed them over to the thugs. Outside of the building were several police cars of the Kuroyuri Police Squad, supervised by Police Sergeant Clover Ebi. Next to him was Senior Police Officer Hachiko.

Clover: What do we know about this, Hachiko?

Hachiko: It looks to be hostage situation, sir. They've demanded 10 million Lien, most likely unmarked.

Clover: *sigh* All that fuss for petty cash... and on Christmas Eve no less.

Meanwhile, atop a building just opposite the Takara Bank, leaned a figure dressed in black and purple. She was the infamous vigilante of Kuroyuri: Dark Huntress.

Dark Huntress: *places finger next to ear* Glynda, can you see any other entry points to the Takara Bank?

Glynda: There should one of two doors that lead to the roof. I'd recommend the one to your left. Good luck, Miss Belladonna.

Dark Huntress took a grapple gun from the right side of her belt and fired it at one of the railings. Activating a switch on top of the grapple, it tugged her sharply towards the building. Just before she could hit the railing, she jumped onto the roof. She retrieved her grapple gun and made her way towards the wall opposite adjacent to the door. Now was a good time to test out her new gadget; the explosive gel. She lightly sprayed over the wall and stood back. Pressing the detonator, the wall broke open and she stepped inside. Walking down the steps, Dark Huntress noticed the door barred. Beside it was a keypad, easily hackable. She took out a small, rectangular device; the cryptographic sequencer, and began to decode. Going through the various combinations, she was finally through and the door opened. Dark Huntress opened it to find the main lobby, where the thugs had the hostages cornered. The leader of the group was furious.

Thug 1: Who the hell called the cops?! Was it you?

Banker 2: No I didn't, I swear-

Thug 1: *hits banker* Don't lie to me! Oh that's it, ya dead!

The leader put his bullet on the trigger and was about to fire. However, as quick as a flash, the gun flew out of his hand. A fist landed in his face as Dark Huntresses glided down. The rest of the thugs were caught by surprise and she used that to her advantage. She grabbed her batarangs and threw all of them at six of the thugs. Dark Huntress went into action and attacked. Two of them were punched in the jaw and kicked to the side, while she hit two more with her cape as a distraction and beat them down furiously. The next two tried to attack her from behind but were elbowed in the chest and kicked down. The remaining four reached for their guns. Dark Huntress covered her mouth as she dropped a smoke bomb on the floor. In the confusion, they all started firing senselessly, terrifying the hostages even more. Dark Huntress began taking them down one by one. Punches, kicks, knees and elbows all made devastating impact and the thugs fell to the ground, bruised and disoriented. As the smoke cleared, Dark Huntress approached the hostages and asserted her claws. The hostages all closed their eyes in fear, only to realise that their binds had been cut loose.

Dark Huntress: *pants* Is everyone alright?

Civilian: Y-Yes. T-Thank you, Dark Huntress.

Dark Huntress: The cops are waiting outside. Go to them.

The civilians evacuated the building as the bankers put their money back in the safe and Dark Huntress bound the gang together. She raised her grapple gun and shot it at the railing, flying towards it. She exited the way she came in and heard a sinister laugh as soon as her foot touched the snow. She turned and looked up, her eyes shrinking with fear. It was a redhaired bull faunus with two, light blue eyes, wearing black and red armour. On his back, he carried a metal bō staff and two chokutō.

Dark Huntress: A-Adam?

Adam: I knew that would get your attention.

Dark Huntress: You planned the robbery?

Adam: That's right. I provided those fools with the bare minimum and it worked. You haven't lost your touch. Your tenacity, your fury. Just as when you first came to us. And tonight, it's just you and me.

Dark Huntress: *clenches fist*

Adam: Come on!

#rwby #rwby christmas tales #christmas #blake belladonna #adam taurus #clover ebi #rwby oc #hachiko #rwby au #rwby fanon #colours of justice #rwby colours of justice #dc comics #dc universe #batman #deathstroke #glynda goodwitch

[sho-minamimoto]

I still have beef with how the hachiko gang was implemented in the final stretch of neo twewy but despite Josh’s inclusion coming out of literally nowhere with zero buildup compared to the others that’s the one thing I wouldn’t change it’s so audaciously in character and really fucking funny

#ntwewy spoilers /

[amcdrawnon]

since you can buy threads at shadow ramen and pins at ramen don in the og, and ramen is technically a kind of soup, the hachiko gang WAS buying clothes at the soup store

Shadow Ramen sure has an odd selection

#askbox request #art tag #twewy #IDK how the coat actually looks #and the teeny tiny icon isn't helping

[denizenhardwick]

also, in the anime, joshua IS separated from neku and the rest of his partners, both by the changes to the story and the cinematography. i’ve briefly mentioned how the scenes where neku makes a pact with shiki and beat use a very similar series of shots, while that scene with joshua is entirely different, which also means neku never holds joshua’s hand like he does with his other partners. this is really important because at the end of the anime, neku drops his gun and extends his hand for joshua to take--and he doesn’t take it.

joshua is also not present during the fight against draco cantus, meaning there’s no moment where neku syncs up with all of his partners at once, and providing further distance between him and neku and the others. plus it cuts out neku’s closing monologue, so we don’t get to hear him say, “trust your partner. and i do. i can’t forgive you, but i trust you,” or, “i have friends now. we’re getting together for the first time in a week. see you there?”

i don’t think neku ever calls joshua his friend in the anime, at least not after learning that he’s the composer, whereas in the game, he does it twice: once explicitly and once implicitly.

basically, joshua is effectively written out of the hachiko gang completely in the anime. he’s not neku’s partner in the same way that shiki and beat are, he’s completely separated from the others, and he seems to be fine with it--because for some reason, they changed his frown to a smile in the secret ending of final remix and have been rolling with that characterization of him ever since. thankfully, he isn’t as separated in neo (at least until the secret ending), but it’s still weird that they’ve consistently decided to make and maintain this change.

because the point of the first game’s secret ending is that he wants to be down there. he wants to be down there with neku and his friends! but he can’t, because he gave up his shot at life and at genuine connection with other people. he’s neku’s bad ending, who realized what neku did throughout the game too late and doomed himself to an eternity of isolation. he’s ultimately a very tragic character, and having him narratively isolated from the rest of the cast and totally okay with it takes away from that.

#twewy #joshua kiryu

[altorav]

GIVE ME THE ANGSTY NESHIKI. I DEMAND IT. why do the JN fans get to eat so much good angst but NS is all soft and shit. MAN

Well people are gonna make what they wanna make I guess 😅 also having soft, fluffy stuff is good once in awhile. Plus these two are always admired for their healthy communication styles so mutual comfort fics are bound to be abundant. It doesn't mean ns has no angst potential though, they're an ENFJ x ISTP duality pair, so they're bound to have some frictions just by their natures alone.

Since you asked for some angsty post-neo stuff (I guess) here are a few:

1.) I personally think that Neku never really gets comfortable in social situations. He still remains somewhat socially awkward even post-neo, and never really quite be good at reading the room, which became a great source of insecurity for him. He particularly dislikes when Shiki invites him to one of her high-end business parties because of how much it alienates him and reminds him of how much he sucks in this type of environment. And oh, he also hates it when Shiki got to be close with other men who are more animated and socially competent than him (he despises the fact that he isn't really built like them and able to be quite as good at matching his girlfriend's social energy and emotional sensitivity)

2.) I have a headcanon that the Hachiko's gang memories of Neku actually dwindled after awhile during the course of the 3 years as a result of the world trying to erase any trace of him ever living after his passing and the three had to try their damnest best to preserve it by trying to jog their memories of him constantly. Might as well also make it the reason why Beat oddly only made a few refferrences about Neku during his time with the WTs (his memories only got fully restored once he showed up) and Shiki being reduced into a bawling mess in the end is because she had perhaps become the one among the three who had been the most obsessive when it comes to trying to maintain her memories of him. I can see it might even have badly interferred with her Gatto Nero work too, since her obsessiveness of trying to stay focused on remembering a seemingly non-existent guy made her seem somewhat crazy and delusional to others.

#i think I have some more angsty scenarios #but those are ones I feel like writing rn #asks #neshiki

[voicefromthecorner]

@twewysecretsanta

I took part in the Spring TWEWY Secret Santa 2023 event and this is the story I wrote! This gift is for @aoii-hana who asked for a story about the Hachiko crew/Wicked Twisters getting crammed into Nagi's new van. To you and anyone else who'd like to read a little post-NEO story about the gang going on a chaotic little trip, I hope you have fun!

#TWEWYSpringSecretSanta2023 #twewy #ntwewy #the world ends with you #nagi usui #rindo kanade #tosai furesawa #twewy fret #shoka sakurane #neku sakuraba #shiki misaki #beat bito #twewy beat #rhyme bito #twewy rhyme #fanfiction #fandom #short story #comedy #the van ends with you

[regallibellbright]

Girl Genius Week Day 3: Crossover

@girlgeniusevents

Agatha was, in a word, baffled.

It’s not that she wasn’t used to massive bursts of light overtaking her vision in the middle of work, but usually, that was an explosion. And explosions weren’t usually because she was tightening the rivets on a pipe. (Except for that one time, but that had been a very different kind of explosion.) And explosions had never, in all her life, ended with her suddenly in an unfamiliar sewer system.

“... Huh.” Especially not a sewer system with a glowing white figure who had to be seven feet tall and had a voice that sounded like static electricity. “That’s new.”

--

Agatha hadn’t been any less baffled when the glowing figure turned into a young man about her age, dressed in some completely strange clothes, or when he led her out of the sewers into the city proper, which wasn’t just unfamiliar but alien.

Going to a coffee shop, at least, she understood.

“Let me get this straight,” said the proprietor, a man significantly older than either of them. She wasn’t familiar with the language, but she had no trouble understanding it for whatever reason. “You and Minamimoto were fighting - before meeting up with the Wicked Twisters later -”

“It gets it out of his system,” the young man interjected.

“- When suddenly there’s a bright light, he’s replaced with Mystery Woman here, and neither of you have any idea how?” the proprietor continued.

“I didn’t do it, if that’s what you’re getting at,” he said. “It’d be so boring without someone trying to kill me every other Tuesday.”

“Composers,” the proprietor muttered, shaking his head. Which was just another confusing thing about this whole confusing experience.

“My name is Agatha, by the way. Agatha Heterodyne. Not ‘Mystery Woman’.” They both looked at her. “It seems rude not to be introduced, under the circumstances.”

“Right. Well, we can’t be rude, can we?” the one her age said brightly. “My name is Yoshiya Kiryu, and this is Sanae Hanekoma. Don’t mind him, he just gets fussy over any major mysteries in Shibuya.”

“’Shibuya’? That’s where I am?” They both nodded. “That’s not anywhere in the Baron’s territory, I don’t think. I’m not even sure it’s part of Europa.”

“... The moon of Jupiter?” Kiryu asked.

“... The continent,” Agatha replied.

“Alternate universe. Of course that’s what it is,” Hanekoma said. “I have no idea why it didn’t drag her to this universe’s Europe, but clearly we’ve got a universe swap going on.”

“If you know what it is, clearly we can fix it,” Agatha said. “Are either of you sparks?”

The two looked at each other. “Sparks?” Hanekoma asked.

“The spark of genius? Of inspiration?... Madboys?” They both shook their heads, looking completely unfamiliar. “People who use science to bend the rules of reality? Go into a... another place, when they work sometimes?” She tried to keep the ‘science’ to a minimum, since they still looked bewildered.

“There’s more than one of you?!” Kiryu asked, eyes going wide suddenly. Hanekoma next to him looked just as unnerved.

“So you do have sparks!” This would be so much easier.

“Just the one you swapped places with,” Hanekoma said.

“Oh. That might be a problem, then.” She sighed. “Well, I’ll just get started, then. I’ll need all the scrap metal you can find, and...” A universe without the spark, that did sound dire, “and a pot of coffee.”

Kiryu sighed. “I’ll buy.”

--

Agatha then proceeded to build a bunch of Dingbots and a portal between universes. She also fixed the coffee machine! (”It wasn’t broken,” Hanekoma said.

Joshua took a sip. “I beg to differ, if THIS is what it’s capable of.”)

The coffee is of course inedible to anyone except Angels and the Wicked Twisters/Hachiko gang, who are all so traumatized that absolute coffee perfection just tastes like last Tuesday.

After Minamimoto got over the initial overwhelming nature of a universe where he was by no means unique, he helped Gil and Tarvek build the other side of the portal between universes. He’ll insist he’s never going back. Deep down, he enjoyed it a little.

#girl genius event week #girl genius #agatha heterodyne #my ideas for this day outstripped my freetime and I don't have the confidence to write Sho's mathspeak #but seriously he is a spark #my fic #this one is written for me and me specifically and if anyone else enjoys it's a bonus