#takumi kayano

[animemakeblog]

“Isekai Yururi Kikou” The First Promo for Summer 2024

The television anime Isekai Yururi Kikou: Kosodateshinagara Boukensha Shimasu (A Journey Through Another World: Raising Kids While Adventuring) unveiled the first promotional video on its official website. The anime is slated to debut on TV Tokyo, BS TV Tokyo, and additional stations in July 2024.

#isekai yururi kikou kosodateshinagara boukensha shimasu #a journey through another world raising kids while adventuring #isekai yururi kikou #kosodateshinagara boukensha shimasu #a journey through another world #raising kids while adventuring #allen #elena #takumi kayano #anime #anime news #Youtube

[bakus-ramen-shop]

Takumi Sakaguchi General Sheet

ɢᴇɴᴇʀᴀʟ ᴅᴇꜱᴄʀɪᴘᴛɪᴏɴ:

Name: Takumi Sakaguchi

Age: 28 years old

Birthday: October 14th

Gender: Cis male, he/him

Height: 196 cm ( 6 ft, 5.2 in )

Species: Human

Voice Actor: Mamoru Miyano

     Takumi has a masculine but elegant appearance. He is tall and slender but fit. His hair is a dark, dull red and his eyes are sharp and peach in color, with slit pupils. His eyebrows are naturally tilted inwards, giving him a constant resting bitch face. Adding to that, Takumi rarely shows any kind of emotions  – he never smiles or express what he feels under any form of body language. He has a very calm and composed personality; facing problems logically and with tact. In spite of his intimidating personality, he is very social and at ease with speaking to people, and shows to be a very kind and empathetic individual.

ᴘʀᴏꜰᴇꜱꜱɪᴏɴ/ʀᴏʟᴇ:

     After years of modeling in his teenagehood, Takumi failed to choose between his many passions and straight up decided to pursue all of them professionally. This makes him an extremely busy person, but it was worth it in his opinion.

     Today, he works as the owner of a small modeling agency, a professional MUA ( make-up artist), and hair stylist. Those are his main fields, but he technically has a diploma for any kind of bodycare. He is also great on anything fashion related.      As a famous icon in his area of expertise, Takumi gets to work with celebrities and is quite wealthy. He can afford to take a lot of vacation, but his work is his passion and he practices as much as he can.

ʟɪᴋᴇꜱ/ᴅɪꜱʟɪᴋᴇꜱ:

     Again, in spite of his appearance, Takumi can be quite gap-moe. He likes cute things, has a tendency to stash “shiny” things he gets everywhere. Most of the time, nail stickers, jewelry, pens. He is kind of a downer because he’s always trying to eat healthy and gently scolds people when they eat too sugary or oily, but it doesn’t mean he doesn’t like sweet things, as he loves japanese sweets, cakes, ice cream and sugary drinks.

     Takumi is also surprisingly a big sleeper. He sleeps like a rock and doesn’t wake up for a while in the mornings where he’s off work.

ꜰᴀᴍɪʟʏ/ꜰʀɪᴇɴᴅꜱ

Sister: Kayano Sakaguchi Nephew: Kader Sasaki ( BNHA AU )

Best friend: Nevin SinClaire Apprentice: Rumi

“ꜰᴜɴ ꜰᴀᴄᴛꜱ:”

Takumi never smiles and never laughs. The most he’ll do is say “ Ah, that was funny. “ with a straight face after any kind of joke.

Takumi likes cute things and cuddle with pillows when he sleeps. He really appreciates his best friend, Nevin, as he has a very adorable physique and personality.

Takumi uses the “ watashi “ japanese pronoun to refer to himself, and has a very motherly/feminine speech mannerism.

Takumi wears a lot of moon themed jewelry, whereas his best friend Nevin wears a lot of sun themed ones.

Takumi owns a fluffy white female cat named Mist.

#oc #original character #oc art #oc blog #twst oc #bnha oc #picrew #Original Character writing #bsd oc #art #fanart #illustration #sketch #doodle #rendered artwork #anime #manga #writing #writing blog #character design #CHARADESIGN

[ljaesch]

Crunchyroll Announces Future Simulcasts

Crunchyroll announced some future simulcasts during its industry panel at the La Mole convention in Mexico, A Journey Through Another World: Raising Kids While Adventuring Release Date: July 2024 Territories: North America, Central America, South America, Europe, Africa, Oceania, the Middle East and CIS Synopsis: Kayano Takumi is accidentally killed by a god and reincarnated. Granted a variety of…

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#A Journey Through Another World ~Raising Kids While Adventuring~ #anime #Crunchyroll #Date A Live #Sound! Euphonium #Unnamed Memory #Wistoria: Wand and Sword

[recentanimenews]

Cure Finale, A New PreCure Girl to Join Delicious Party Pretty Cure This Summer

    Toei Animation's official website for the ongoing 19th Precure TV series, Delicious Party Pretty Cure, unveiled a visual of Cure Finale, a new PreCure who will join the story this summer, for the first time.

  At this time, it has not been announced who will transform into this new PreCure or who will voice her, but for those who have watched recent episodes of the anime, it is not so hard to guess. Stay tuned for her appearance!

    ＼????大ニュース????／ この夏登場する新たなプリキュア、✨ #キュアフィナーレ ✨のビジュアルを公開！ プリキュア誕生の瞬間をぜひおたのしみに????#precure #デパプリ https://t.co/IhhMR81Ytm pic.twitter.com/Yh14N9i33G

— デリシャスパーティ♡プリキュア公式 (@TVanime_precure) May 29, 2022

      It was also announced that the anime's second ending theme song, "Kokoro Delicious," will be sung by voice actress/singer Rico Sasaki.

  Sasaki has been active as a stage actress since 2009 when she was 11, and made her solo singer debut as Rico in 2014. She recently performed the theme/insert songs for Dropkick on My Devil! (2018), BOFURI: I Don't Want to Get Hurt, so I'll Max Out My Defense. (2020), and Duel Masters King (2020). As an anime voice actress, she is best known as Daia / Daia Nijinosaki in Kiratto Pri☆chan and Poporon in Dropkick on My Devil!.

  This is the first time that she has sing a song for the PreCure franchise. She says, "I am filled with a happy feeling to be involved in this long-running and beloved PreCure series. I sang this song with the joy of sharing the same moment and the hope that everyone's circle of happiness will expand while saying 'Thank you' over and over again! I hope you will savor and enjoy this song filled with the source of smiles and energy! Please taste every bit of it!"

  The CD single of "Kokoro Delicious" is set to be released in Japan on August 24, 2022. The coupling song of the single, "NO PRIDE, NO LIFE!" will be sung by Rie Kitagawa (Go! Princess PreCure, Mahou Girls PreCure, Star Twinkle PreCure, Healin' Good♥Precure, Tropical-Rouge! Precure), along with Mayumi Gojo (Futari wa PreCure, Futari wa PreCure Max Heart) and Machico (Healin' Good♥Precure, Tropical-Rouge! Precure, Delicious Party Pretty Cure) as chorus singers.

    Rico Sasaki:

        Also, the anime's first character song album "Vocal Album ~Welcome to Delicious Party~" is set to be released in Japan on July 20, 2022. In addition to newly-recorded songs by the current three PreCure girls - Yui Nagomi / Cure Precious (CV: Hana Hishikawa), Kokone Fuwa / Cure Spicy (Risa Shimizu), and Ran Hanamichi / Cure Yum-Yum (Yuka Iguchi), the album is confirmed to include songs by Takumi Shinada (Yuma Uchida), Rosemary (Tomoaki Maeno), and Amane Kasai (Ai Kayano).

  CM:

    CD jacket:

  Song list:

   1. "Cheers! Delicious Party♡Pretty Cure" (LIVE Edit Ver.) Machico

 2. "Welcome to Delicious Party" Rico Sasaki, Machico, Chihaya Yoshitake

 3. "Smile Menue◎" Yui Nagomi (Hana Hishikawa)

 4. "Anata to Tea Party" Kokone Fuwa (Risa Shimizu)

 5. "Delicious Sear~ch!" Ran Hanamichi (Yuka Iguchi)

 6. "My true self" Amane Kasai (Ai Kayano)

 7. "Kizuna♡Specialty" Cure Precious, Cure Spicy, Cure Yum-Yum, Cure Finale

 8. "Ore ni Dekiru Koto" Takumi Shinada (Yuma Uchida)

 9. "Ari no Mama GLORIOUS" Rosemary (Tomoaki Maeno)

 10. "Share-shite! PreCure" Chihaya Yoshitake Ver.

 11. "Save your smile" Machico

 12. "DELICIOUS HAPPY DAYS♪" (LIVE Edit Ver.) Chihaya Yoshitake

   Bonus Track

 13. "Welcome to Delicious ~Remix for Rico Sasaki~"

 14. "Welcome to Delicious ~Remix for Machico~"

 15. "Welcome to Delicious ~Remix for Chihaya Yoshitake~"

      The 19th Precure TV anime series Delicious Party Pretty Cure premiered in Japan on February 6, 2022, and has also been simulcast on Crunchyroll to its members in North America, Latin America including the Caribbean, South America, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa. 

    TV anime "Delicious Party Pretty Cure" trailer:

    Key visual:

  RELATED: Delicious Party Pretty Cure Feature Film Opens Its Teaser Site with Teaser Trailer

     Sources: "Delicious Party Pretty Cure official website / Twitter, Marvelous press release

  ©ABC-A, Toei Animation

  By: Mikikazu Komatsu

#Anime #News #Latest in Anime News by Crunchyroll!

[novelvip]

ISEKAI YURURI KIKOU ~RAISING CHILDREN WHILE BEING AN ADVENTURER~

https://novelvip.net/isekai-yururi-kikou-raising-children-while-being-an-adventurer

『I’m terribly sorry…』 A god was suddenly prostrating in front of Kayano Takumi. He was apparently killed by mistake. Moreover, he can’t be reborn again. However, he is able to live in a different world? Then, let’s do that, please. The god made a mistake again and transferred me into a dangerous forest. Seriously, what’s going on? Besides, there are children here. I can’t leave them here, I will take care of them.

ISEKAI YURURI KIKOU ~RAISING CHILDREN WHILE BEING AN ADVENTURER~ Chapter 1

“I am terribly sorry!”

Who are you?

An unknown silver-haired youth is suddenly prostrating in front of me on the floor.

Around 20 years old...... I think he’s younger than me.

Because he’s facing the floor without flinching, I can’t see his face.

I don’t understand...... why? I think that he surely has a well-featured face.

The reason why he’s prostrating in front of me is unknown.

Because I have woken up in this unknown place just several minutes ago.

[hellohimawarihana]

The info about Delicious Party Pretty Cure (I'll shorten it to DeliPa) is finally here and for some reason the staff decided to leak it today instead of late December. Anyway! The usual pink-blue-yellow trio is back, with their partners!

Characters and Casts:

Yui Nagomi / Cure Precious (pink): Hana Hishikawa

Kokone Fuwa / Cure Spicy (blue): Risa Shimizu

Ran Hanamichi / Cure YumYum (yellow): Yuka Iguchi

KomeKome: Natsumi Takamori

PamuPamu: Natsumi Hioka

MenMen: Tomoe Hanba

Rosemary (male): Tomoaki Maeno

Takumi Shinada: Yuuma Uchida

Gentle (female villain): Ai Kayano

#yui nagomi #kokone fuwa #ran hanamichi #cure precious #cure spicy #cure yumyum #delicious party pretty cure #precure

[lilliganart]

I need someone to tell me what to do thanks, you can just list six characters if you want and I’ll do my best 👌

Karma, Kirishima, En, Shou (MP100), Hairou, Reki

Edit for me: Hide, Kenma, Tobikichi, Hyouta, Denki, Ryuji Suguro

2nd Edit: Katai Makoto, Shadow, Reiner, Alex Louis Armstrong, All Might, Shin

3rd: Madoka, Roromiya (Inu x Boku), Remi (Horimiya), Aina, Nana, Perona

4th: Haida, Legoshi, Shirou (BNA), Ookami (Wolf Children), Inuyasha, Wolfrun (Smile Pretty Cure)

5th: Rui (KNY), Mihai, Alice (Food Wars), Clare (Claymore), Rico (AOT), Neferpitou

6th: Ryou (Food Wars), L, Choso, Tenga Onigawara, Aizawa, Itona Horibe

7th: Akira, Hawks, Kyoutani, Killua, Miruko. Senku

8th: six motherfuckers from TPN

9th: six motherfuckers from OPM

10th: six motherfuckers from Beastars

11th: six motherfuckers from DR Stone

12th: six motherfuckers from Studio Ghibli

13th: six motherfuckers from Dorohedoro

14th: six motherfuckers from Demon Slayer

15th: six motherfuckers from MHA

16th: six motherfuckers from MKDM

17th: six motherfuckers from Saiki K

18th: six motherfuckers from YOI

19th: six motherfuckers from Violet Evergarden

20th: six motherfuckers from Food Wars

21st: six motherfuckers from TSDS

22nd: six motherfuckers from Talentless Nana

23rd: six motherfuckers from Kakegerui

24th: six motherfuckers from Danganronpa

25th: Falco, Senjuro, Daida, Ritsu, Kou Minamoto, Sai (Dr Stone)

27th: Envy, Tsukasa, Kars, Geto, Sesshomaru, Illumi

28th: Ray, Kuroo, Yu Ishigami, Hyakkimaru, Junpei, Fafnir

29th: Mob, Bojji, Gon, Hinata, Koutaro Lives Alone, Kabane Kusaka (Kemono Jihen)

30th: Sanji, Zenitsu, Brock, Tamaki, Christophe Giacometti (YOI), Takumi (maid sama)

31st: Teru, Bakugo, Naruto, Shiki (Kemono Jihen), Genos, Shuu Inuzuka

32nd: Aki, Speed-o-Sound Sonic, Nobunaga (HXH), Ling, Tomioka, Jin

33rd: Asa Mitaka, Hitori Gotoh, Kobeni, Midori Asakusa, Nene Yashiro, Anya Forger

34th: Nami, Hinata, Emma, Asuka, Hiroto Maehara, Ponyo

35th: Kaede Kayano, Tornado of Terror, Ibara (MHA), Aiura (Saiki K), Sakura (TBHK), Sakura (Horimiya)

36th: Ai Hayasaka, Hanada Nikki (Dr Stone), Kanamori Sayaka, Winry Rockbell, Yachi, Sophie (Howl’s Moving Castle)

37th: Yuji, Gilthunder, Mitsuba (TBHK), Coby (One Piece), Kaoru Sakurayashiki, Alice Asmodeus

38th: Taiju, Joseph Joestar, Mondo, Rikido Sato, Basho (HXH), Takeo Gouda

39th: Hanako, Shinji, Denji, Yuta Okkutsu, Edward Elric, Guts

40th: Totoko, Tsubomi, Teruhashi, Aoi, Kiyoko, Osaragi

41st: Inutade, Hakubo, Lum, Arataki Itto, Yamato, ‼️

42nd: Shoto, Akira (Kemono Jihen), Uraume, Sypha, Himuro (The Ice Guy), Kaeya (Genshin), Seiya Kori

43rd: Violet Evergarden, Shoko (ASV), Anna Sasaki, Hana (Wolf Children), Princess Kaguya, Ai Ohto

44th: Riko (Made in Abyss), Sakura Hibiki, Mary Saotome, Hinata Kaho, Kon (Kemono Jihen), Conny (TPN), Rifuta Imu (Saiki)

45th: Akaza, Saiki, Gowther, Leroute (HXH), Miyuki Hoshizora, Jessie

46th: Tenya Iida, Kyoya Ootori, Jin Tachibana, Saki Arima (YLIA), Izumi Miyamura, Leorio

47th: six motherfuckers from Carole & Tuesday

48th: Olivier, Noi, Maki, Kanronji, Sakura (Danganronpa), Bisky (HXH)

49th: Ai Ohto, Nene Yashiro, Canary (HXH),

50th: Hirofumi Yoshida, Kabru, Pariston (HXH), Acca and Ura-Acca, Minamoto Teru, Louis (Beastars)

51st: Carole and Tuesday, Nobara, Marcille, Ryuuji Ayukawa, Kita (BTR), Yachi

52nd: Mob, Laius, Midori, Takahashi Yotasuke, Tome Kurata, Ushijima

53rd: Acca and UraAcca ‼️

54th: Neiru (WEP), Hibana (FF), Nagatoro, Paninya (FMAB), Casca (Berserk), Iris (Violet Evergarden)

55th: Kyoka Jirou, Misato, Rize, Aren (Saiki K), Tooru (Horimiya), Ebisu (Dorohedoro)

56th: Kurapika, Armin, Ryusui, Saiki Kusuke, Yuri (YOI), Mello

57th: Gen, Tsuchigomori, Yushiro, Bokuto, Kita Shinsuke, Death the Kid

58th: Urokodaki, Bang (OPM), Netero, Commander guy from AOT, Watari, Kaseki

59th: Panda, Gouhin, Shao May, Tony Tony Chopper, Principal Nezu, Monokuma

60th: Serizawa, Daichi, Gojo (Dress Up Darling), ‼️

61st: Kabru, Hakubo, Phichit (YOI)

62nd: Shima (skip and loafer), Yatora, Denji ‼️

63rd: Sanji, Reigen, Spike, Jigen, Shoko Ieiri, ‼️

64th: Yoshida, Shimazaki, Greeling, Nagumo (Sakamoto Days), Toji Fushiguro, !!

65th: Sesshomaru, Geto Suguru, Douma !!

#six fanarts #art challenge

[newsintheshell]

Seconda stagione per Tawawa on Monday, il primo episodio è già online

La serie di corti ispirata alle tavole di Kiseki Himura torna con alle spalle un nuovo staff.

Annunciata una seconda stagione di “Getsuyoubi no Tawawa” (Tawawa on Monday), con il lancio a sorpresa del primo nuovo episodio della serie di corti, già disponibile online da questa mattina, sulla piattaforma di streaming giapponese AbemaTV. 

Lo staff al lavoro sull’anime, presso lo studio YOKOHAMA ANIMATION LAB (Lapis Re:LiGHTs, Miru Tights, Magatsu Wahrheit: Zuerst), è completamente diverso da quella della stagione precedente. Questa volta la regia è affidata a Yuuki Ogawa (Miru Tights, Interspecies Reviewers), della sceneggiatura si occupa Hajime Kamoshida (Just Because!) e il character design è adattato da Tenshou Satou (Gamers!).

Il box Blu-ray con tutti i 12 episodi uscirà in Giappone il 13 dicembre e includerà un 13° episodio inedito.

Il cast è invece sempre lo stesso, con alcune aggiunte inedite:

Ai-chan: Sayaka Harada 

Kouhai-chan: Ai Kayano 

Maegami-chan: Rie Takahashi

Volleyball-bu-chan: Shizuka Ishigami 

Imouto-chan: Yuka Iguchi 

Okaa-san: Kikuko Inoue 

Onii-san: Junji Majima 

Senpai: Yasuaki Takumi 

Sensei: Junichi Yanagita 

La prima stagione di 12 episodi della serie, prodotta in quel caso da PINE JAM (Just Because!, Gleipnir, Kageki Shoujo!!), è stata trasmessa nel 2016. Con l’edizione home video sono poi state incluse due puntate bonus.

L’anime si ispira all’omonima serie di illustrazioni ad opera di Kiseki Himura (Sword art Online: Progressive, Fantasia of Panzerjagd, Just Because!), dalla quale ha poi tratto un manga vero e proprio, serializzato sulle pagine della rivista Weekly Young Magazine. Kodansha ne ha pubblicato il secondo volumetto lo scorso agosto.

* NON VUOI PERDERTI NEANCHE UN POST? ENTRA NEL CANALE TELEGRAM! *

Autore: SilenziO)))

[FONTE]

#getsuyoubi no tawawa #tawawa on monday #anime #ona #mana #kiseki himura #webserie #newsintheshell #cartoni animati #news in the shell #animazione #giappone

[imasallstars]

EVENT UPDATE

The Bandai Namco Ent. Festival 2nd Live artists have been announced! The event will occur on the 6th and 7th of February 2021! All the idolm@ster brances will be appearing on both days (so the full cast list will be posted for posterity)

FEBRUARY 6TH STAGE

IDOLM@STER Cinderella Girls 　LOVE LAIKA: Aya Suzaki (Minami Nitta), Sumire Uesaka (Anastasia) 　ENJIN: Yuko Hara (Takumi Mukai), Mayumi Kaneko (Rina Fujimoto), Haruka Chisuga (Ryo Matsunaga), Tomo Muranaka (Aki Yamato), Kiyono Yasuno (Natsuki Kimura) 　Dimension-3: Kotomi Aihara (Shiki Ichinose), Shiki Aoki (Asuka Ninomiya)

IDOLM@STER Million Live 　Haruka Yamazaki (Mirai Kasuga), Azusa Tadakoro (Shizuka Mogami), Machico (Tsubasa Ibuki), Yukiyo Fujii (Megumi Tokoro), Kotori Koiwai (Tomoka Tenkubashi), Yuu Kahara (Emily Stewart), Megumi Toda (Ayumu Maihara), Rika Abe (Mizuki Makabe), Saki Minami (Tsumugi Shiraishi)

DEEN, misono, BACK-ON

Aikatsu! 　Aikatsu!/Aikatsu Stars!: Waka Kirishima, Ruka Endo, Sena Horikoshi, Risuko Sasakama, Rie Fujishiro 　Aikatsu Friends!: Akane Matsunaga (Aine Yuki), Ibuki Kido (Mio Minato) 　Aikatsu Parade!: Rin Aira (Raki Kiseki) 　Aikatsu Planet!: Kaya Date (Mao Otoha/Hana), Rio Ogura (Ruli Tamaki/Ruli), Mizuki (Ayumi Tsukishiro/Q-PIT), Shizune Nagao (Kyoko Umekoji/Beat),  Rion Watanabe (Shiori Motoya/Shiori), Amy (Ann Kurimu/Ann), Narumi Uno (Meisa Hinata/Rose), Rurika Uno (Sala Itoi/Sala)

FEBRUARY 7TH STAGE

IDOLM@STER 765PRO ALL STARS 　 Eriko Nakamura (Haruka Amami), Asami Imai (Chihaya Kisaragi), Mayako Nigo (Yayoi Takatsuki), Naomi Wakabayashi (Ritsuko Akizuki), Chiaki Takahashi (Azusa Miura), Rie Kugimiya (Iori Minase), Hiromi Hirata (Makoto Kikuchi), Akiko Hasegawa (Miki Hoshii)

IDOLM@STER SideM 　Café Parade: Sho Karino (Yukihiro Kamiya), Takuya Kodama (Makio Uzuki), Daiki Kobayashi (Saki Mizushima) 　S.E.M: Yoshiki Nakajima (Jiro Yamashita) 　THE Kogado: Junta Terashima (Takeru Taiga), Daiki Hamano (Michiru Enjoji)   　Legenders: Jun Kasama (Amehiko Kuzunoha),  Fumiyoshi Shioya (Sora Kitamura), Wataru Komada (Chris Koron)

IDOLM@STER Shiny Colors 　Illumination Stars: Hitomi Sekine (Mano Sakuragi), Reina Kondo (Hiori Kazano), Mayu Mineda (Meguru Hachimiya) 　L’Antica: Karin Isobe (Kogane Tsukioka), Chisa Suganuma (Mamimi Tanaka), Anna Yamaki (Sakuya Shirase), Runa Narumi (Yuika Mitsumine), Mizuki Yuina (Kiriko Yukoku) 　Houkago Climax Girls: Mariko Nagai (Juri Saijo), Wakana Maruoka (Rinze Morino), Akiho Suzumoto (Natsuha Arisugawa) 　Alstoremeria: Honoka Kuroki (Amana Osaki), Ryoko Maekawa (Tenka Osaki), Noriko Shibasaki (Chiyuki Kuwayama) 　Straylight: Yuki Tanaka (Asahi Serizawa), Eri Yukimura (Fuyuko Mayuzumi), Sayaka Kitahara (Mei Izumi) 　Noctchill: Yuu Wakui (Toru Asakura), Rio Tsuchiya (Madoka Higuchi), Saran Tajima (Koito Fukumaru), Miho Okasaki (Hinana Ichikawa) 

DENON-BU 　Sotokanda Literature: Yuuka Shidomi (Reina Hidaka LIVE set), Miho Amane (Kazyne Shinonome LIVE set), Sena Horikoshi (Futaba Kayano LIVE set) 　Jungumae Sandou: Yurie Kozakai (Mimito Sakurano LIVE set), Nichika Omori (Hina Minakami LIVE set), Rena Hasegawa (Shina Inubosaki LIVE set)

TAKANORI NISHIKAWA

LOVE LIVE! SCHOOL IDOL PROJECT 　AZALEA: Nanaka Suwa (Kanan Matsuura), Arisa Komiya (Dia Kurosawa), Kanako Takatsuki (Hanamaru Kunikida) 　Riko Sakurauchi&You Watanabe: Rikako Aida (Riko Sakurauchi), Shuka Saito (You Watanabe) 　Hanamaru Kunikida&Ruby Kurosawa: Kanako Takatsuki (Hanamaru Kunikida), Ai Furihata (Ruby Kurosawa) 　SAINT SNOW: Asami Tano (Sarah Kazuno), Hinata Sato (Leah Kazuno)

LOVE LIVE! NIJIGASAKI SCHOOL IDOL CLUB 　 Aguri Onishi (Ayumu Uehara), Mayu Sagara (Kasumi Nakasu), Kaori Maeda (Shizuku Osaka), Miyu Kubota (Karin Asaka), Natsumi Murakami (Ai Miyashita), Tomori Kusunoki (Setsuna Yuki), Maria Sashide (Emma Verde), Chiemi Tanaka (Rina Tennoji), Moeka Koizumi (Shioriko Mifune)

#event rundown

[saiyef]

Raising Children in a Fantasy Setting

I don’t know why but I really come to like this specific niche, where, in either in an Isekai/Native Isekai, the Main Character just finds a child, adopts that child and spends the series raising the child. Series that are part of that niche are:

Isekai Yururi Kikou: Raising Children While Being An Adventurer

Summary: After the god, Sylphyleel, accidentally killed him, Takumi Kayano is transported to another world by Syphyleel in a younger body and with OP abilities in order to make amends. While grinding in the woods, Takumi finds twin children who he names Allen and Elena. Allen and Elena are also OP and Takumi decides to raise them also becoming an adventurer with them as his party.

Thoughts: This series is just fluff. It’s just Takumi being a nice dad while twins are cute and happy, with some standard Isekai adventuring and fighting sprinkled in that has no tension due to Takumi and the twins being so OP. There’s really no emotional depth or tension beyond that. It’s just cute happy fluff.

Boukensha ni Naritai to Miyako ni Deteitta Musume ga S Rank ni Natteta

Summary: Belgrieve is a middle-aged man who was once an adventurer but quit after losing his leg not long after he started his career. He retired to his hometown in the countryside where he more or less lived a quiet life, occasionally helping his neighbours with farm work, collecting herbs or patrolling for monsters. One fateful, he finds a baby in the woods and adopts her. Naming her Angeline, he raises her and trains her in swordsmanship until one day she decides to become an adventurer herself and leaves for the capital. Now, Belgrieve is in his 40s still living a quiet life in the village while Angie has become as S-rank adventurer but is desperate for time off so she can go home and visit her dad.

Thoughts: This is a pleasant series. It follows two plot threads, of Belgrieve living in the countryside helping his neighbours and reminiscing on his days raising Angie and of Angie working as an adventurer in the capital with her party. Belgrieve is just really nice man who just wants to help his neighbours but is somewhat self-deprecating due to his failed career as an adeventurer. Angie completely idolises and adores her father and is desperate to visit him but is constantly obstructed from doing so by the adventurers guild being short-handed and needing Angie to deal with crisis after crisis, but still doing so anyway due being raised by her father to be just as generous and selfless as he is. There seems to be a bigger plot ahead with a Demon King, but right now it’s just slice-of-life of Belgrieve and Angie living their lives.

I'm a Middle-Aged Man Who Got My Adventurer License Revoked

Summary: Douglas Ford was once legendary adventurer to the point of being called the World’s Strongest Magician and a member of the Hero’s party. Now, as a 37 year old man, he is suffering from deteriorating health that comes with his age but his most distressing ailment is a mysterious disease that slowly, but permanently, lowers his Max HP every time he uses a magic skill. The Hero's party forces him out and the adventurer's guild revokes his license after he fails a few quests. A few months later, while Douglas wanders aimless and alone doing whatever menial job he can find, he encounters a demon...only to discover it’s a human transformed by a curse. He attempts to cure the person with a magic skill, despite the fact that such an act would kill him...except the spell was deflected and hit him instead, curing him of his “disease” which turned out to be curse. He then cures the demon, who turns out to be a young girl called Ravi. Douglas decides to take Ravi to find her a home and also find out the reason he got cursed in the first place.

Thoughts: I love this story and Douglas in particular. Douglas is a guy who wants to live for the sake of helping people and became an adventurer for that purpose. When he loses his job, he desperately tries to convince the guild to give back his license only to get rebuffed with cold indifference by the guild and laughed at by the other adventurers. When he leaves, he’s pretty much just biding his time until the day he dies and is completely and utterly alone, with no family or friends. When he starts travelling with Ravi, he struggles a lot with his decisions regarding Ravi (such as whether or not he should keep his distance with her) and makes plenty of mistakes but he always acknowledges what he did wrong and decides to become a better parent with what he learned from that mistake. He started out as someone who’s life more or less ended and struggled to decide what to do with his life afterward, finding joy in becoming a parent and living for someone else’s sake.

Maid kara Haha ni Narimashita

Summary: When a high school girl dies in an accident, she’s reincarnated as “Lily Ruzsa,” a girl that became the friend then maid to a noble’s daughter. That same daughter married the crown prince, and thus Lily became the “Royal Maid” that helped with issues around the palace. One day, she’s unexpectedly asked to work for the powerful magician, Leonard Mariel, who has taken in Jill, a young girl with lots of magical potential, and he wants Lily to move into his household to be her mother, because unlike the other women he’s asked she doesn’t try to seduce him or marry him so he trusts Lily to focus on raising Jill over forcefully forming a romance with him like said other women. Lily agrees, moves into Leonard’s household to raise Jill alongside Leonard and his 3 contract Spirits forming close-knit family.

Thoughts: This series is heartwarming, sad and very funny. Lily is very strict and outspoken around but is also very loving. She quickly loves Jill and devotes everything to raising Jill, maintaining the household, cooking meals for everyone and so on. She’s also pained by her memories of her previous life (in particular her loved ones she left behind) filling her with sadness and regret and also resulting in her having an intense aversion to romance and getting married like her mother nags her to do, conflicting with her growing feelings toward Leonard. Leonard is a man who, while a talented mage, struggles to communicate and socially interact with other people due to his troubled upbringing, in particular constantly causing misunderstandings with others with blunt way of speaking or not speaking at all. Despite this, he is a caring man as he found out that Jill had a similar troubled upbringing and wanted to make sure she grew up happy with Lily’s help, all the while becoming more expressive and feeling thanks to Lily and Jill’s influence.

#manga recommendation #manga recommendations #Isekai Yururi Kikou: Raising Children While Being An Adventurer #Isekai Yururi Kikou: Kosodateshinagara Boukensha Shimasu #isekai yururi kikou #Boukensha ni Naritai to Miyako ni Deteitta Musume ga S Rank ni Natteta #My Daughter Left the Nest and Returned an S-Rank Adventurer #My Daughter Grew Up to Rank S Adventurer #Boukensha License o Hakudatsu Sareta Ossan Dakedo Manamusume ga Dekita no de Nonbiri Jinsei #I'm a Middle-Aged Man Who Got My Adventurer License Revoked #Maid kara Haha ni Narimashita #From Maid to Mother #my thoughts

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Nevin SinClaire General Sheet

ɢᴇɴᴇʀᴀʟ ᴅᴇꜱᴄʀɪᴘᴛɪᴏɴ:

Name: Nevin SinClaire

Age: 26

Birthday: September 6th

Gender: Cis male, he/him

Height: 153 cm (5 feet)

Voice actor: Shougo Yano

Species: Human

     Nevin is very colorful character, both in appearance and personality. This makes him greatly contrast with his best friend, Takumi.

     Nevin is petite, with a below average build for both male and females. He’s got a delicate bodybuild, which makes him look around 14 years old. Though he’s got plump thighs and cheeks. His clothing style is highly feminine, and he’s often seen wearing cutesy or androgynous outfits such as shorts, skirts, berets, thigh high socks, high heels, jewellery, and a lot of makeup. 

     His appearance reflects his personality in many ways: he’s energetic, enthusiastic, childish, and has a penchant for describing himself as adorable and lovely. He has proven himself to be very sympathetic towards other people’s problems and  is very social in general. In reality, he’s very chill and soft spoken once you get to know him better. Beware though, he can be hot blooded at times and you don’t want to mess with him.

ᴘʀᴏꜰᴇꜱꜱɪᴏɴ/ʀᴏʟᴇ:

In spite of his playful outward appearances and lively character traits, Nevin is a perfectly capable adult. He works as a medic, nurse, and health education teacher in college, earning him the nickname “ Doc “ from his students. Nevin accepted this affectionate nickname, as he finds it more comfortable than students calling him “ Sir “ or “ Mister “

ʟɪᴋᴇꜱ/ᴅɪꜱʟɪᴋᴇꜱ:

    Nevin likes to dress up, he really enjoys anything fashion related and going shopping. He likes to act childish even though he isn't really. He is obsessed with boba tea and pastries. He cherishes his students the most.

Nevin doesn’t like close minded and unreasonable people, and is quick to snap at them. He doesn’t like having an empty fridge, and although he knows he looks very young, he doesn’t like being belittled after he clarified he is an adult.

ꜰᴀᴍɪʟʏ/ꜰʀɪᴇɴᴅꜱ

Best friend: Takumi Sakaguchi

Nevin doesn’t speak to his biological family. 

He considers Takumi’s parent’s as his own, and Takumi’s sibling, Kayano, as his own sister.

“ꜰᴜɴ ꜰᴀᴄᴛꜱ:”

-Nevin’s birthday is unironically on 6/9

-He likes to stay warm as his health is fragile, he usually doesn’t show much skin except in summer.

-Nevin sees Takumi’s family as his own family.

#oc #original character #oc art #character design #charadesign #oc blog #original content #art #fanart #illustration #writing #writing blog #oc writing #sketch #doodle #digital art #manga #anime

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Delicious Party Precure Reveals Its Character Visuals, Voice Cast, OP/ED Song Performers

    Toei Animation updated the official website for Delicious Party Precure, the forthcoming 19th TV series in the long-running Precure magical girl franchise, revealing its character visuals, three main voice cast members, and OP/ED theme song performers.

  Soon after the broadcast of the latest 43rd episode of the ongoing 18th series Tropical-Rouge! Precure in Japan this morning, the new series' first trailer narrated by Hana Nishikawa (Yui Nagomi / Cure Precious) was also aired, then posted on the Precure franchise's official YouTube channel. 

        Key visual:

      ✨本日!!✨「デリシャスパーティ♡プリキュア」の情報が解禁されたよ！ #デパプリ #precurehttps://t.co/QLi2rq6FQN

— トロピカル～ジュ！プリキュア公式 (@TVanime_precure) January 9, 2022

      Delicious Party Precure is set to premiere in Japan on February 6, 2022. Its motif is "Gohan" (meals), and its  themes are "Thank you feeling" and "Joy of sharing," and the keyword is "Gohan wa Smile" (A meal is smile). Its story is set in Oishiina Town, a wonderful town where delicious food from all over the world gathers, and depicts the new Precure girls' activities to protect everyone's "delicious smile."

  Toshinori Fukasawa (ONE PIECE series director in 2014-2019) serves as series director, alongside series composition writer Sawako Hirabayashi (Wolf Girl and Black Prince) and character designer Kyoko Yufu (Seirei Gensouki: Spirit Chronicles).

    Main voice cast:

  Yui Nagomi / Cure Precious: Hana Hishikawa

Kokone Fuwa / Cure Spicy: Risa Shimizu (Arlette Almage in Mobile Suit Gundam: Twilight AXIS)

Ran Hanamichi / Cure Yamyam: Yuka Iguchi (Aoi Yukimura in Encouragement of Climb)

Komekome: Natsumi Takamori (Miku Maekawa in The Idolm@ster Cinderella Girls)

Pampam: Natsumi Hioka (Shii Eniwa in Super Cub)

Menmen: Tomoe Hanba (Gracia Hughes in Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood)

Rosemary: Tomoaki Maeno (Reiji Kizaki in World Trigger)

Takumi Shinada: Yuma Uchida (Megumi Fushiguro in JUJUTSU KAISEN)

Gentoluu: Ai Kayano (Meiko "Menma" Honma in Anohana: The Flower We Saw That Day)

    Following on the ongoing Tropical-Rouge! Precure, Machico will sing the OP theme song "Cheers! Delicious Party Precure," and Chihaya Yoshitake will sing the ED theme song "DELICIOUS HAPPY DAYS♪" The CD single including both songs will be released on March 30, 2022. 

    "Cheers! Delicious Party Precure" preview:

    Machico:

  Chihaya Yoshitake:

     Source: "Delicious Party Precure official website, Marvelous press release

  ©ABC-A, Toei Animation

  By: Mikikazu Komatsu

#Anime #News #Latest in Anime News by Crunchyroll!

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I was tagged by @geekycalligrapher

DA RULES

Rules: Choose any three fandoms (in any order), answer the questions and tag people you want to get to know better

Choose any three fandoms

Danganronpa

Fire Emblem IF/Fates

Assassination Classroom

The first charcter you loved

Tie between Sakura and Asahina

Jakob

Karma

The character you never expected to love so much

Tie between Ibuki Mioda and Juzo Sakakura

Shura

Itona

Character you can relate the most

Asahina

Silas

Kayano

Character you would slap

Monica Towa and Korekiyo

Iago

Shiro

Three favourite characters

NAGITO KOMAEDA

Xander

Karma

A character you liked at first but don’t anymore:

Literally no one from the fandoms I picked.

A character you did not like at first but do now

Kokichi Oma

Charlotte

Gakuho Asano

Three favourite OTPs

Nagito Komaeda/Hinata Hajime, Sakura/Asahina, Toko Fukawa/Komaru Naegi, Kokichi Oma/Shuichi Saihara, Shuichi/Kaito/Maki

Xander/Laslow, Leo/Odin/Niles, Leo/Takumi, Odin/Selena/Laslow

Karma/Nagisa

I tag @a-little-harmed-shinra @distant-glory @xzadionomega and anyone else who wishes to do this.

#personal #wow i added some v3 stuff

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Isekai Yururi Kikou: Raising Children While Being an Adventurer

Read manga - Manga – kisekimanga.com URL manga: https://ift.tt/32LPtzz

Isekai Yururi Kikou: Raising Children While Being an Adventurer summary: "I'm terribly sorry!" A god was suddenly prostrating in front of Kayano Takumi. He was apparently killed by mistake. Moreover, he can’t be reborn again. However, he is able to live in a different world? Then, let’s do that, please. The god made a mistake again and transferred me into a dangerous forest. Seriously, what’s going on? Besides, there are children here. I can’t leave them here, I will take care of them.

from manga: https://kisekimanga.com

#kisekimanga manga anime

[ultraericthered]

Anime Update 55

NOTE: Sorry this came late. Next one should come out sooner.

Dragon Ball - Didn’t watch any new DB this week. I was mostly looking over the key points of this tournament arc to recap it all before the decisive final match between Goku and Tienshinhan... 

Love, Chunibyo, and Other Delusions - It seems like only two episodes ago that Rikka got her little Circle up and running, and here it’s in danger of being shut down if she doesn’t score higher on her exams! We also got her and her club friends doing the whole pool cleaning shtick like in Nisekoi, except no cleaning actually gets done because of another frenzied Chunibyo fight between Dekomori and Nibutani. Speaking of, after three episode of her antics, Dekomori is easily my favorite on this show. Part of it might be some Britanny Karbowski bias, but the character just owns every scene she has a big part in and leaves me with a smile on my face every time. The chemistry in her dynamics with both Rikka and Nibutani are such a fucking delight. Yuta and Rikka are also delightful in their continued bonding, with Yuta catching onto how self-concious about loneliness Rikka really is, promising her a special e-mail for exchanges if she studies hard and doesn’t fail her test, and giving it to her via his old Dark Flame Master shtick was pretty touching in a crazy sort of way.

My-Otome - Continuing with the girls’ shared birthday plot, this was actually a lot better and more interesting than what we got last time. My prediction about Akira standing in for Takumi, the true prince, was right on the money, but I did not predict all the identity swapping that’d be going on. Akira is “Takumi”, Takumi is “Akira”, Mashiro is “Nina”, Nina is “Arika”, and Arika is “Queen Mashiro”! It was total lunacy, the type that always makes anime like this more fun to engage with. The moments shared between Mashiro and Takumi were great and very insightful for Mashiro about the status of things in her own kingdom and other perspectives that she might not have otherwise known about, which will help with her personal growth. But the biggest curveball came at the end - the reveal that Mai Tokiha does (or did?) in fact exist in this world and that she was a legendary Meister Otome. Whatever befell her has colored Takumi’s opinion on Otomes and the systems that use them, so he’s not interested in forging any strong alliances with this kingdom. Understandable. 

Assassination Classroom S2 - Got another “two in one” deal with this one, the first act being all about Kaede Kayano concocting a totally out there scheme to kill Korosensei - using an enormous supply of discarded eggs to make a gigantic flan that hides a death trap in it, which would go off as Korosensei ate into all the pudding. While mostly just a crazy, goofy and light-hearted affair, it did make me love and appreciate Kayano that much more and I think might have included some foreshadowing about just how unpredictable and dangerous an assasin she truly is. The girl’s clearly concealing a lot and I can’t wait to get into that. The second act was a pretty drastic contrast. It started just as light and funny, with Karasuma and Korosensei running their own brand of a Cops & Robbers game with E Class, but then veered straight into the territory of....Korosensei, a guardian and educator to a bunch of children, being quite possibly a Peeping Tom guilty of sexual harassments, to the point of perving on his own female students with secret photos and everything. YIKES. It’s played out in a typical wacky Seiji Kishi manner, but the situation and subject matter is legit unsettling and worrisome. In fact, that might be the brilliance of it - the tone obscures just how disgustingly awful this clear frame-up of Korosensei is. The octopus is more than a bit perverted, but we know his moral character well enough to know he’d never sink this low. And I was honestly totally blindsided by how at the end, instead of exposing the impostor and wrapping it all up, the impostor is revealed to be a random pawn from the Defense Ministry and then WHAM, Korosensei gets caught in one of Shiro’s deadly traps, and he’s ready to sic his “little brother” Itona on him for another fight! Of fucking course someone as cruel and malicious as Shiro would be behind this, but I did not see it coming and was left floored by the cliffhanger they left me on. Korosensei must be saved!

Vinland Saga - This episode was the big battle of London Bridge, where we meet the giant warrior Thorkell, voiced by Akio Ohtsuka with all the best bombast you’d expect from him, who’s defected to the side of the English because he feels Denmark has the advantage and it’s no fun fighting for the team that’s already winning. Thorkell is...well, to put it simply, off his fucking rocker. He revels in fighting and shedding blood for its own sake, throwing around direct threats to lives like it means nothing at all and is all in good sport for him. It says something that even Floki and his men are terrified of this maniac! But at the same time there’s a doofiness and amiability about him that makes him difficult to really hate - he reminded me a lot of Recoome from Dragon Ball. The battle Thorfinn had with him ended up being just as brutal for Thorkell as it was for Thorfinn, with the former losing some fingers to the latter’s blade in a particularly graphic moment. But Thorfinn ultimately loses the fight and is tossed downstream again, but Thorkell loses his good time when the Danish retreat and the underdog army he sided with actually claims victory! Only someone like Thorkell could react with panic and complaints over his side winning and the battle ceasing. Oh and of course, Askeladd was fully ready to assume Thorfinn had died and still go on his merry way before finding his golden boy was still alive. Asshole!

Magic Knight Rayearth - Hmmm, not exactly what I’d anticipated for the Magic Knights getting the legendary Ore they were seeking. First off, did we really have to do the deadly mirage thing at the start? Secondly, how did Alcyone survive that last encounter? Third, why did no one think to mention to the girls that the Eterna spring would test them with their fears and hang-ups about loved ones? And lastly, while Hikaru having to face a rabid monster version of a family pet we didn’t know she had ‘til now and Umi having to face her parents were pretty strange, Fuu’s test had me cracking up at how totally narcissistic it ended up making her look. The person she loves and cares about most...is herself. And she denounces that the Fuu mirror image isn’t real because she loves herself to much to ever hurt herself! It was the strangest thing to do with her character - I don’t know what the intention was, but it’s so strange that I kinda love it. Was also good to see Princess Emeraude finally make direct contact with the Magic Knights to help them pass their challenges and obtain Escudo, which gives them an upgrade that negates Alcyone’s poison and allows them to best her again. And then Zagato goes and pulls the “You Have Failed Me For The Last Time” trope on Alcyone, disposing of her so now it’s on the Izzy-sounding lad to do the job!

March Comes In Like A Lion - Got to the climactic point of the first season - Rei accompanies Shimada to Kyoto to help him in his practices for three deciding Shogi matches against Touji, the “Child of God” himself. And we finally get to hear Touji speak, in Todd Haberkorn’s voice no less, though he’s originally voiced by Akira Ishida. ...Holy smokes, he’s literally Aru Akise! But as I could kind of predict, Shimada gets destroyed in all three of his matches. What came as a real surprise was his final loss: he didn’t lose because he played poorly, he lost because he internalized the belief that he was fighting a hopeless losing battle and that he didn’t have a prayer for attaining victory to the point where he could not see a game winning move he could make even when it was right in front of him thanks to how he’d played and positioned the game to that point. But Rei was able to see it and drew everyone’s attention to the way in which Shimada could’ve won well after it was too late to save Shimada. As Touji put it, he’d put too much faith in his opponent and not enough in himself. It was honestly soul-crushing for me to watch, especially since Shimada seemed so quiet and depressed afterwards, yet that Rei was able to see the path to victory in that match at all raises hopes that if he were to one day try his hand at playing against the Grandmaster, he might just be the one to finally defeat him someday.

Angel Beats! - Here we are at the series’ climax, which the narrative has been sprinting and stumbling to reach for the past couple of episodes. Does it deliver? Oh boy, does it fucking ever! Doing two episodes at once here - Episode 11, “Change The World”, and Episode 12, “Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door.” Operation.....START!

This climax for this series’ narrative is perfectly fit for it in so many ways, the biggest of which being how it answers the question “What, other than themselves, is the final hurdle for our characters to overcome?” Battlefront is still around and still technically a rebel group, but they’ve done their time for their crimes and have cleaned up their act considerably, Naoi isn’t a violent, power-hungry maniac anymore, the malicious Angel clones are gone, and Kanade is only faking being Battlefront’s enemy so that she and Otonashi can help them. So then emerges the true antagonist of this series - a bug within the system of the characters’ reality, a mandate imposed upon the setting itself designed to put constraints on how things flow and what people can and cannot do, a system of programs working in tandem against the soul inhabitants of Purgatory put in place by, as Yurippe puts it, “someone who decided to get on his high horse and play God.” Everything that Class SSS has been through has been leading to this, so naturally, Maeda puts out all the fucking stops.

- Hinata and Naoi both waste no time in competing for Otonashi’s attention as they ask to be allowed in on he and Kanade’s little operation. With Yui gone and leaving a void, Hinata needs someone else to routinely bicker with and share love/hate chemistry with, and Naoi turns out to be exactly that person. I really enjoy the two of them and their interactions at this point, and Naoi’s hypnosis on Hinata to make him flush himself down to the ground like toilet paper was a lot funnier than the similar clothespins gag from Episode 7. 

- The Shadows’ appearance was an effective last-minute cliffhanger in the previous episode, but they feel kind of forced in here in a very abrupt way only mere minutes into this one. When you have to introduce something like literal monsters into a series that, while taking place in the afterlife and featuring high schoolers with weapons or superpower abilities, was fairly grounded up to this point, you really can’t just put them into the plot with the snap of your fingers. That there’s a reasonable explanation for the Shadows that’s built into the DNA of concepts that this series had since day one helps to justify their presence, but their entrance still needed to be handled with more delicacy. Also, when Naoi’s shadow comes alive and tries to consume him, his shrieks of terror just made me think of Sunohara, so that was a mood killer that wasn’t there on first watch.

- Another sign that we missed out on a lot that was planned for this point in the narrative’s time and something I totally missed the first time around - after atoning for the crimes against Kanade she committed during testing period, Yurippe somehow worked her way into the Student Council and currently holds the Vice President position. Meaning that she, while still maintaining her leadership of Battlefront, is now working very closely with the re-instated president, Kanade, who’s viewed as Battlefront’s enemy. To the rest of them. this would appear as a “keep your friends close and your enemies closer” move expected from a strategic leader like Yurippe, but knowing what we know about how Yurippe was not at all fooled by the “Angel is our enemy again” narrative that Otonashi concocted to cover for his own agenda gives a completely different context for what her motives for wanting to work with Angel and closely observe her would be. This is revealed to us by the fact that Kanade is called to the Student Council room by Yurippe and that’s where Yurippe is presiding over, and Naoi directly addresses her as “current Vice Student Council President”, as he no longer holds that position.

- Naoi is just too much here. First he uses his access to the Student Council despite no longer being its Vice President as reasoning for why he’s here and has chosen to let Otonashi and Hinata in with him, then he claims to be the one who gave the idea to Kanade to use her Angel Player software to program real angel wings “for decorative purposes”, and then he even lies about his own injuries by claiming he takes physical abuse from Kanade regularly and doesn’t mind it! Each time giving Otonashi a “secret thumbs up” after! What a dweeb!

- Takeyama’s catchphrase gets shut down again when Yurippe hangs up on him as he gets the first couple of words out of his mouth. Of course, he then just has to say it in full later when he’s actually present ‘cause that’s his whole character shtick! Y’know, if he’d gotten written out after getting flung off in Episode 7, I’d be OK with it.

- While the sudden, frantic action against the mass spawning Shadows kind of jolts the episode’s pacing, it makes up for that with some really good parts in a really good action scene. Angel sprouting out her wings as she descends to do battle, Yurippe one upping that by rushing and descending into battle without any wings, Shiina showing off her always impressive ninja skills, TK going “Dancin’ in the shadows!” as his guns are blazing, and Noda rebounding from his previous fear while also accidentally nearly attacking Hinata and expressing some self awareness about his own nature. Great stuff!

- The true nature of the Shadows reveals much about the true nature of the MCPs that populate this middle-of-road world. We see MCPs get devoured by their own shadows which turn into the Shadow monsters and then those Shadows in turn devour people with real living souls, which turns those people into soulless MCPs. The MCPs creation came first, then they eventually become Shadows, the Shadows create new MCPs and those MCPs ultimately create new Shadows. It’s an endless cycle. The questions are: why does it happen, who designed it to happen, and why is it happening now?

- After Takamatsu is consumed by a Shadow only to reappear in class as an empty MPC the next day, the series and its narrative comes to its final turning point. It was great when I first watch it, but upon rewatch it, along with other factors, actually made this episode in its entirety even better than I’d remembered it. It’s just so good.

- During my first watch I was feeling really let down that the timeframe of these last few episodes’ events felt so rushed that we probably weren’t going to get any real Yurippe VS Otonashi friction once she found out how he was undermining her authority and group mission in secret, which I’d been really hoping to see. But then in this episode, when Yurippe reveals that she figured out what Otonashi and Kanade were up to possibly since the very start...it made too much sense and I could not imagine why I’d thought anything otherwise would be the case. Of course she knew all along - she’s the sharpest tool in this whole big shed full of morons. Her dig at Kanade’s terrible acting later put into context why she joined the Student Council and even further sold the idea that nothing got by Yurippe, that she was stringing Otonashi and Kanade along this whole time and always had to power to intervene and quell this secret sabotage of her own initial agenda but chose not to. She kept it to herself partially for practicality and adherence to her character growth, and I think partially for her own amusement. Otonashi, Kanade, Hinata, and even Naoi had all been squirming and going through such troubles in order to maintain a cover that was blown from the start, so Yurippe had to have been internally laughing her butt off the whole time she was watching them stumble over themselves just to hide the truth that she’s already well aware of but hasn’t told them that ‘cause it’s just fun to watch them suffer this. What an absolute little shit and God, I love her so fucking much.

- Yurippe addressing the fork in the road that Battlefront has arrived at as of the current Shadow crisis and then allowing Otonashi to explain his position before the crowd of students, the ideology to which he’d tried to change the course of Battlefront’s very existence, because allowing yourself to pass on from this world is now a valid escape path to freedom from the Shadows’ menace...what a great moment. Shows not only how smart Yurippe is, but how fair and rational she can be, having led this group for what seems like ages.

- I was and still am seriously bewildered that even after learning that “Angel” had a human name, likes spicy mapo tofu, and had human friends in the past, Otonashi was still under the assumption that Kanade was a literal angel. Even after, as she even brings up, she told him she’s not an angel during their very first meeting in the first few minutes of Episode 1! And not only had Otonashi not figured out the truth, but neither had Hinata or Naoi! Yurippe figured this out in Episode 5 yet neglected to tell anyone! Again, what a little SHIT!

- OK, Otonashi patting Kanade on the head like that... it’s adorable.

- Yurippe’s confidence in how she may be able to get to the heart of this matter and fix things all on her own is admirable and befitting of a strong leader, as is her self awareness about how just doing whatever she felt like doing was always her strong suit, but her insistence on distancing herself from her friend and comrades show that for all her growth, she’s yet to shake off her most crippling flaws. Hinata tries to make her openly acknowledge the value of having her friends following her and fighting by her side, even mentioning that it was he and her who started Battlefront together so they ought to finish it together too. At being called “Yurippe”, Yurippe smiles, scoffs and says “That’s such a bad nickname” (with voice acting delivery from Brittany Karbowski that just makes me melt) and takes off.

- The montage that follows is beautiful, with an amazing instrumental version of “Brave Song” accompanying it. We see all members of Battlefront thinking over the options and figuring out how to spend what they all sort of know will be their final night in this world. Noda is looking intently at a photo of Yurippe and within seconds his expression changes to one of worry, sadness, and vulnerability (What I think he’s processing is that for all his blind, fanatical loyalty to Yurippe, he’s never followed by example and done anything the Yurippe way - he’s always done things HIS way. In a crisis like this where there’s much at stake and Yurippe is really depending on everyone, it’s not enough to fight harder; he needs to fight smarter too), Fujimaki is practicing kendo moves with his stick, TK is slow dancing, Sheena is surronded by wind-up stuffed puppies in her shed, the GlDemoGirls put Iwasawa and Yui’s guitars to rest side by side, and even Takeyama finds a good place to end his personal documentation of events on his computer. It says little yet so much.

- As Yurippe investigates into the matter regarding the NPCs becoming Shadows, she determines that someone is “hacking the NPCs” using a software similar to the one Kanade uses to design and program her data-made abilities and weapons. So that person has to be using a computer or a whole system of computers to do so. I won’t lie, when I first watched this and came to this part, I found myself really wishing that Takeyama would turn out to be the culprit. His character was never likable and he really had the makings of a decent villain when he appeared in Episode 3, so this would give him an actual purpose for being here beyond a one joke dispensing machine. Like all along he was some Valak-esque Antichrist wannabe demon who infiltrated Battlefront in an effort to control this world himself, using them as distractions while he stole computers from the school computer lab on the side. Like the “Battlefront are the true NPCs” idea, it’s not the case, and while what Maeda actually went with is great, the road untaken appealed to me all the same.

- Why did the dubbing stuio give every single adult male role in this series to Chris Hutchison? His voice is very easy to notice.

- Episode 11 ends with Yurippe realizing that the path to wherever the culprit behind the Shadows has taken all his stolen computers is through the Guild, fulfilling the inevitable Rule of Three for dangerous Guild runs. The next episode preview ends on a line from Yurippe’s famous “one shot at life” monologue, which we’ll be getting to.

- Episode 12 is almost perfect, starting with the perfect opening scene to what’s going to be our main characters’ final battle. Dawn has broken, more Shadows are emerging, and Kanade descends upon them with her angel wings.Then it cuts to Otonashi, Hinata, and Naoi making their own preparations, featuring some comical banter between the latter two. Exemplifies the show’s tonal balance nicely.

- The scene with GlDeMo and the other no-name Battlefront mooks making it known that they chose to pass on and then passing on is one of the episode’s drawbacks. It goes on longer than it was required to and puts way too much emphasis on three characters who, in this one cours anime broadcast, meant absolutely nothing to the story and the audence. Hisako going “maybe we’ll play in a band together in the next life” really made it clear that this moment was mainly for selling GlDeMo to the viewers, to get them to buy the albums and products of the band that actually exist. Which is dumb.

- I do love the way the scene of Battlefront coming together to make their final stand against the Shadows was done. Noda is the first to arrive and the level of control and tranquility in his fury shows he’s really grown and improved himself, not to mention the fact that he saves Otonashi, the guy he’d hated and distrusted so much at the start. Even then, though, his mind is kept focus on serving Yurippe. Matsushida the Fifth also returns from his wilderness retreat as a thinner, stronger, more enlightened person, Fujimaki and Ooyama pay off whatever little character they had, Shiina makes an epic save of her own, and TK delivers the titular Bob Dylan line “Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door!” as a one liner. It’s all just so perfectly conveyed.

- But then we get the second drawback - Chaa’s departure down in the Guild. Y’know, Chaa? The bearded high schooler from Episode 2 who’s literally never been seen again since then? At least GlDeMo was a constant presence and what bits of character from the three non-vocalist girls we did get made them characters we could like. We know NOTHING about this dude, he displayed ZERO personality. So why does the show care about him to the point of giving him an on-screen send-off and expect us to care the same? Actually, the script even seems to lampshade his minimal involvement by having Yurippe tell him “You were always there for us. We never could’ve done all this without you”, to which he responds “I was nothing special”. And then he’s gone. This whole part is just a headscratcher.

- Chaa aside, Yurippe’s trek through the Guild on her own is great. It feels like a literal descent down into the depths of Hell, where all the fighting Yurippe’s been doing both now and for so long is starting to take a toll on her, and she’s hounded by Shadows the whole time. When she reaches the “new old Guild” site, she realizes she must’ve passed right by the way to where the Shadow’s mastermind is but is so worn out that she needs to stop and take a breather. Her thoughts go to Kanade and how she wished she had more time to be friends with her, to be a cool big sister type to her and pick out new outfits for her and everything, which is just the sweetest thing. Her time for quite refection gets interrupted by more Shadows, leading to her blazing her gun at them and screaming “Die! Die! DIE! DIE! DIE!” with increased intensity, she’s had as much as she can take from these things. And then...one of them gets her. Kanade can feel it.

- The second act offers little to no actual comedy, as it starts with an unsettling look into the NPC-ificiation process that happens when a soul is ensnared by a Shadow. Yurippe is pulled into an illusion of an idealized school life, one where she’s got friends, has romantic aspirations, and is a normal student in a proper uniform, with no need for the existence of Battlefront. If she forgets all about the truth of how and what she’d been living and fully embraces the lie she seems to be living now, she will become an NPC who can do nothing but go through all the motions and follow all the procedures of an ideal school life. It’s like a repeat of the Naoi hypnosis in Episode 6 except done very differently. The show suddenly transforms into a high school slice-of-life romcom anime, and it’s the most unsettling thing given what we know of the character, show, and story we’d actually been watching. Yurippe finally gets up during class and states she finds this life wonderful…but it isn’t her life. The only thing truly pertaining to her life in that classroom is her herself, as herself, with all the faults and personal baggage that comes with being herself. So she makes her famed speech about why she can’t accept any better life and has to keep fighting, going into her rage against the Heavens as it goes on and she speaks of feeling forced to accept the one shot at God-given life she has regardless of how cruel and unfair she thinks that life was, and why this too is something she can’t accept. As she does so, she asks “Don’t you understand, sir?”, but she’s not addressing the illusionary teacher at this point, as he’s no longer there. The “Sir” she’s really speaking out to is God. And when it reaches this point, we see the illusion has come down and are shown Yurippe’s actual life as she perceives it- an empty classroom with no friends and no signs of happiness in sight. And it’s all tinted with the color red, as to symbolize all the evil and rage that this girl has been carrying with her in her heart. Red like the blood of her little siblings that she feels is on her and she hasn’t washed away. Red like Hell. Red like the Devil. It’s just such a brilliant scene.

- After Yurippe’s rejected her NPC brainwashing through sheer willpower and has then been saved by Otonashi, Kanade, Hinata and Naoi, we get the last drawback of the episode, a scene that isn’t here. Kanade apparently got Otonashi, Hinata and Naoi to follow her down to the Guild when she sensed Yurippe in danger, so the Battlefront members who were left fighting the Shadows on the outside? We don’t see them again. They get no real sendoff moment of fighting to their last breath. That’s right, the morons we’ve spent a lot of time with are left to pass on off-screen, yet we were given on-screen sendoffs for three band members and an underground unit leader who we barely got to know and give much shits about! Maybe the end credits was meant to be the last bow moment, but that just isn’t the same given that’s something we’ve seen in most episodes.

- But whatever the drawbacks, the episode more than makes up for them with the climax it reaches - the whole sequence inside Computer Lab No. 2. For the most part, it’s a one-on-one talk between two characters just facing each other in a dimly lit computer room with lots of info dumping, something that would kill most stories if attempted by lesser talents. Yet somehow, Maeda and Kishi turned this into one of the most captivating and riveting sequences I’ve ever seen in an anime ever. Basically once inside the room, Yurippe is met with a mysterious unnamed male NPC in a chair who runs a system on all the stolen computers, currently running the program that spawns the Shadows. The NPC exposits many details that shed light onto why NPCs are here in this world, who developed the Angel Player software, and what has been restricting souls from living freely from this world due to the school life order that the mysterious Programmer from long ago had tampered with. The Programmer was an amnesiac soul like Otonashi who, after succumbing to heartbreak and madness over a girl he’d fallen in love with passing on due to the happiness she’d found from how much she loved him and leaving him all alone and waiting, had essentially rewritten the rules of this world from how God had first intended but refused to actually stick around to play God and reign over the life he’d created, instead developing a program that turned him into the first ever NPC. Then he used that same thing on all the souls in the underworld at the time to make them NPCs too so that they would not feel love such as the kind that split the Programmer and his lover apart and instead could only “graduate” from this world after living a fulfilling school life. The Shadows are the result of a clean-up program that’s launched whenever the amount of love in the underworld exceeds a certain amount, for if too much love takes root and is allowed to blossom into pure spirit energy, the purgatorial underworld would become an eternal Eden, and the Programmer, for whatever reason, did not want that allowed. All of this information that is A LOT to take in is thrown at us in this talk between Yurippe and the NPC, and it shouldn’t work yet it really, really does, and the soundtrack really plays a part in that. The ominous sounding music is playing when Yurippe first enters and confronts the guy, it goes silent and the somber, melancholic music that played during Naoi’s big scene in Episode 6 starts to play after the hearts appear on the computer screens and the subject of love comes up, it goes silent again and goes to the scariest sounding track in the show for Yurippe’s moment of temptation, and finally we get more silence followed by the SSS theme when all the hearts go red and Yurippe takes her aim.

- The Programmer’s NPC is voiced by Akira Ishida in the original version and Mark X Laskowski in the dub, and I have my own theories about what his deal is. In any event, his complete and utter lack of emotion is the creepiest thing. He only has two expressions - a mild smile and a mile frown - and every word out of his mouth is delivered in the same blase tone, no change or inflextions at all. 

- There’s a gaffe in the dub script when Yurippe calls her group of actual souls that rebelled against God the “Battleground” rather than Battlefront. I even caught that on first viewing, how’d they miss it?

 - The moment of truth comes when the NPC states that Yurippe could seize the chance to choose the path that the Programmer didn’t choose - run the system herself, harness all the power of love for herself, and essentially become God of this world. A demented grin spreads across Yurippe’s face and she goes laughing mad as the temptation rushes over her and entices her darker side with the idea that she’s finally won, that she could take God’s place, defeat Angel, and become invincible with this system at her disposal (the use of “Angel” instead of “Kanade” is a clue-in that this is Yurippe’s repressed villainous nature speaking rather than the actual Yurippe in a right state of mind). The temptation passes her by as quickly as it had come and she states there’s no way she could ever make that choice, and that the reason she fought her way here was to protect all the friends she’s made in this world, all the people she’s come to love as though they were family. While the “love bug” appeared due to amnesiac Otonashi’s appearance in this world, the actual source of all the blossoming love that caused the Shadows to need to be deployed for clean-up was in fact Yurippe and the love she’d come to have for all her friends, even Kanade. And this calls to mind that when “love” is spoken of in this context, it’s in reference to the purest feelings of love rather than just romantic love, as Yurippe has no romantic affection to any of the people she loves that we know of. This is why I believe a declaration of “I love you” from one character to another in the next and last episode being read through the lens of romance is a misreading of what actually meant to be conveyed.

- Something the dub changed that disappoints me is when the Programmer NPC asks Yurippe if she’s certain of the course she’s chosen since she does have an eternity’s worth of time to wait and decide, Yurippe responds with “Look buddy, I’m gonna let you in on something - us humans? We’re not real good at waiting. If you ask me, we’ve been waiting long enough!” In the original, what Yurippe says is “Human don’t even have the patience to wait 10 whole minutes for something!”, which is an allusion to the "every 10 minutes you don’t find something, one of your siblings dies!” part of her backstory. A flash of the blood smeared wall with the big clock in her childhood home from that backstory is still there even when Yurippe’s line doesn’t align with it at all in the dub. But in any case, it’s still followed with one of the show’s most absolutely epic moments: Yurippe’s two pistols start blazing as she shoots up all the computers and breaks the whole room apart, finishing by shooting two bullets into both the final computer and the NPC who sits in front of it, ending the threat of the Shadows, restoring souls to all NPCs, and liberating the underworld school for the sake of all her friends.

- When it’s all over, Yurippe then sinks to the floor, thinking to herself that though she’s succeeded at what she was aiming to do and more or less finished her mission, she considers this a personal failure on her part because she came to care about all her friends as much as she cared about her dead siblings, to the point where she’d forfeit any chance at revenge on God for what happened back then in favor of saving everyone who matters to her now. As her anthem, “Brave Song”, has begun playing in the background, Yurippe starts feeling all the bad feelings inside her, everything that was keeping her fighting in this world, starting to fade, being replaced by feelings far stronger and more positive. And then she’s given a vision of her siblings from Heaven, telling her that it’s okay to stop fighting now, that’s she’s done enough and that they love and appreciate her anyway for how hard she’s worked in spite of her failings. At this, Yurippe finds she can’t hold her emotions in any more: she finally allows herself to break down and bawl. The credits began playing out as they normally do but then, out of nowhere, Yui is there. And so is Iwasawa, and the GlDeMo members who’d passed on at the start. And everyone in Battlefront that we find out in the next episode ended up passing on after their fight with the Shadows. Yurippe becomes surrounded.by everyone, all the friends she fought for and who fought for her. Whom she loves and who love her. And at some point the song seems to loop back to its first verse, but then goes quiet...and then the music swells as the song’s final chorus plays, with new lyrics and background instrumentals that set a whole new mood and gives off a different feeling from before ; a joyful, heroic, triumphant feeling. A feeling that says “Mission accomplished. We made it. We did it. It’s done.” The final lyrics state Yurippe can finally let go of the type of “strength” that had been driving her forward, can finally freely show all the tears and vulnerabilities of a normal girl. This actually did not make me cry when I first watched it. It was only upon thinking about what I’d just seen happen there and the underlying meaning behind it that suddenly got the tears flowing. Yurippe from the first half of the story absolutely would have taken the offer to play God over purgatory, would have gone full-on Satan to fulfill her Lucifer arc. But the Yurippe who was presented with such an offer at the end of the show is a very different Yurippe from who she’d been at the start. She, who’d started down her path on a mission born of hatred, had come to a point where she felt so much love for everyone around her, and that love was the driving force behind her actions in the continued fight for Purgatory. And ultimately she chose that love over fulfilling her hateful crusade against God, the laws of the universe, and the unfairness of her life. She threw away any hope of accomplishing the fool’s errand mission she’d wanted to accomplish, and instead she accomplished the mission she needed to accomplish. As a result, she finally arrives at a point of accepting her life and herself as is, just as her siblings and friends accept her and love her in spite of all the failings she’d long sought to make amends for. In the moment where this person so easily could have made herself a true villain, she became a true hero. Our hero.

- There’s a post-credits scene of Yurippe waking up in the infirmary and seeing Otonashi, Kanade, Hinata and Naoi standing there at her bedside. This exact event happens at the start of the next episode, so the only reason I can think they put it here too was to prevent another confusion about whether or not Yurippe passed on like what happened with Naoi in Episode 6, since this was for all intents and purposes the end of Yurippe’s arc and felt like a sendoff for her. 

- Next episode preview...is the end of Otonashi’s graduation speech. With the first keys of “My Greatest Treasure” playing instead of the usual music. Oh fuck me, we’ve reached that point at last...

Episodes 11 and 12 seriously rival Episodes 5 and 6 as my favorites in the show, as it ends up sticking the perfect landing for the show’s main conflict and Yurippe’s arc as a character. It was mesmerizing. 

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