What keeps annoying is the Shinkai western uniform colours. Because look at it
You have a whole sortable palette, whereas the the old uniforms were adding different colours to the characters, interesting shapes like Hijikatas chrysanthemum, Okitas Koi, Kazamas dandy violet, Shinpachis golden ornaments, Haradas simple black and white.
I really like Nakaokas, Mikis and Takedas clothes although I could imagine them having more patterns.
So if you like:
Dare: draw a picture only using the colours above.
(Bonus: add a bit of pink 🩷 for Chizuru)
Some ideas of how Kazues uniform may have looked in the old game (bonus Nomura) sorry for the bad quality
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So, I found out something...
So, on the day of Shion's stream, people in the comment section were talking and I suddenly found out that Chizuru is touching Sannan's shadow in this kissing scene!
Because in all the songs, Sannan refers to himself and the rasetsu as either shadows or the ones without shadows, and Chizuru is chasing after him (the shadow), it is such a nice imagery that she touches the shadow in this scene before attempting to hug him.
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What is Kaorus real name?
Of course we know he is Chizurus twin brother, so before entering the Nagumo family he was definitely going by the name Yukimura.
But what about his first name?
Here are some arguments, why I believe it's not Kaoru by birth:
1) twin names are usually given in pairs, e.g. Kin and Gin or Nanako and Hanako or such
2) all demon heir names start with the syllable 千 (Chikage, Chizuru, O-Sen)
3) 薫 means "send forth fragrance, fragant or be scented" which by no means is associated with cranes (千鶴 "Thousand cranes")
So from this I concluded after some research his name might actually be "Chifuyu" (千冬)
To case 1:
Chizuru Chifuyu -> Chi[...]u[...]u
To case 2:
It starts with Chi as Chizuru does
To case 3:
Cranes are associated with winter
What do you think about it?
Edit: an official art book revealed that Kaoru is still a demon name as it hides the 千 radical with the Kanji, yet that doesn't really contradict my theory. Because the Nagumo family is still a demon family, so if they renamed him, they surely stick to the demon naming rules.
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Shogo Suzuki Range Analysis
Hi hello guys, and welcome to "Yuuki Izawa posted a thing that got a whole discord curious". So this post was inspired by this tweet, made by Yuuki Izawa in 2019, boldly claiming Shogo as having a 26 octave range.
If that sounds wild, it is because it is. It is wild. Love him though.
Because of that, I went on a little research-assignment-rabbithole, to figure out exactly how wide Shogo's range is.
The Verdict
Based on evidence I'll present in a minute, Shogo has a proven range of Ab2-C5, roughly two and a bit octaves. His comfortable range seems more aligned with being D3-C5 though.
The Evidence
To prove this, I looked through every single show I had access to featuring the man that he sang in... so primarily Hakumyu (many thanks to the Hakumyu Livejournal for that, ilysm, sorry I'm not more active) and Morimyu, along with a couple of stray musicals I had around that supported evidence, which shall be mentioned if necessary.
Lower Limit (Ab2)
I started by looking for the lower limit, and turned first to Hakumyu for this. I searched through the first Live first, then briefly looked through Kazama-hen and Hijikata-hen. (I don't know the names of songs, as I am not fully familiar with the series yet, but please bare with me.)
My first real evidence with this was actually the Fullmetal Alchemist stage, wherein Shogo sings in the middleish. In that song, he hits a low of E3 in the chorus, giving me a start point to look for.
I then went straight to Hakumyu Live, specifically his solo medley (I believe it is?) that occurs roughly 1h13 in to the show. Aside from being possibly my favourite Hakumyu song (can you blame me), I knew that the verses went quite low off the top of my head, so I checked for them, and they presented me with an D3, still quite stable too.
Skimming through the rest of it, mostly jumping chapters and looking for Shogo, I stumbled across the Demon Tag section of Chizaru's song, beginning at 21 minutes in, which hit the lowest note I'd heard from him at Ab2. He performed spectacularly, but there is somewhat of a wavering in his voice that leads me to think that he's kind of reaching for it, hence belief that it's out of his comfortable range.
Then I went on to Hijikata-hen, and ended up finding the song at 1h05, which is of course part of the medley mentioned earlier. The same stable D5 greeted me, giving me the Official Lower Limit. (Side note, I love the song starting at 1h05 so much, but that's for another post.)
Kazama-hen supported this again, with an Eb5 in the song beginning at 1h16. (Kazama-hen also made me cry. But that's also another post.) At this point, I considered the lower pitch confirmed, and moved on to searching for the higher pitch.
EDIT: As the lovely @liliththunder pointed out to me (and many thanks for that), I missed a song at the 45 minute mark in Kazama-hen that goes lower - primarily centering on the C3 and going as far down as Bb2. Due to this, I'm amending my statement, and simply accepting Ab2 as the lower limit. That being said, I stand by the statement that he's more comfortable above C3 or D3.
Higher Limit (C5)
For the higher limit, I decided to search through Morimyu, mostly because I know exactly where all Shogo's high notes in that are.
I did have, as part of the notes I took when scouring the Fullmetal Alchemist song, the high from that, which turned out to be an Ab4. Admittedly, I didn't think that was quite high enough, but noted it down anyway.
I started by looking through the CD for the specific songs that I knew would give me a guide, and found what I was looking for almost immediately. Verdict (II) from OP1 and Beginning of the End from OP3 were my first points of call for their fairly renowned high notes. Both turned out to have a cap of C5, so I used this as my guide from thereon out.
They would turn out to be the highest I could find though. The other two I checked directly by name were Emotion (the OP1 duet with Ikkei) and In This Lonely Room (or the Couch Song from OP3). These had high notes of A4 and Bb4 respectively.
I then skipped through OP4, looking for every Shogo song and its relevant high note, which supported this idea - every high note in that show is either an A4 or a Bb4 save for one, in the finale, that is a C5.
I will note that these top notes do sound incredibly stable, and I'd be curious as to whether he is capable of going further, but no evidence for anything higher than C5 exists in anything I can get my hands on. If someone with access to Tokyo Ghoul could check, I'd be absolutely open to correction there.
But yes, that is that for now - I got my answers and a fun little research task, and you got whatever this is. I'll be doing Ikkei next, most likely soon, possibly tomorrow depending on how much time I have (and not at all because I want to watch his Tenimyu run again... heh). I thank you all for reading, and I hope you enjoyed the journey as much as I did.
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