Welcome to Mankai March!

A relaxed, low pressure, interview event! | 2025 run complete! Thanks for answering, everybody!

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Intro post!

Welcome to Mankai March, a relaxed event where we interview the fandom daily with some fun questions!

Contents: Mod info | Event info | Blog rules | Tag Guide

Mod Info

You can call me LC(they/she)! My main blog is @akaikami-cherryblossom!! You can also just call me mod if you want lol idm. I’m a total Sakuya oshi!<333 This event was initially some random idea I came up with at 3 am, but it proved to be popular last year, and I've gotten a few requests to see it return in 2025, so here we are!

Event Info

The premise is simple: a question will be posted here every day of March, and you get to answer!! It can be in the reblogs, tags, or in a separate post, and feel free to tag the blog! All questions will go up at 4 am PST. It’s just a fun little event to discuss the silly little actor game hehe :). All are welcome!

Blog Rules

There’s really only one: BE KIND!!! Remember that not everyone shares your opinion, and that this is a public space! Also, mod is an adult but can be uncomfy with sexual topics, so please don’t be too nsfw! Thanks!

Tag Guide

#mankai answers - The tag for reblogged answers! If you put your answer in your reblog or make a separate post and tag the blog, it’ll be shared under this tag! Don’t worry, if you put your answer in the tags or replies, it won’t be shared!

#mankai questions - Exactly what it sounds like! The tag for all the questions we ask daily!

#mankai march promo - Also exactly what it sounds like! For promotional posts for the days leading up to March!

#mankai ask tag - Self explanatory!

#mod post - Mod talking tag :3c

Thanks for reading until the end!! I hope you can enjoy this event!

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Mankai March 2025 Question 7!

This is similar to yesterday's, but more brainrot-flavored www<3 If you could see one of your favorite pieces of media(game, movie, tv show) adapted into a play performed by Mankai, which one would it be? Any casts in mind? Or maybe vice versa, with characters from the other media sucked into an A3! playverse! Or just the A3! universe? Go crazy! Tell us about it!

[homaresnumberonefan]

Lowkey I want Mankai to do the Pixar movie a Bugs Life or the Disney movie Coco. Homare would EAT TF UP AS MAMA IMELDA. TASUKU DE LA CRUZ HELL YEAH.

GUY AS HECTOR TOO. AND LITTLE SAKUYA AS MIGUEL OMG PREAKNESS ALL AROUND

also the Evelyn Evelyn album turned into a play is a fascinating concept

TasuTsumu Heather's , Sakuya Squarepants, FUCKING HAMILTON.

honorable mentions from my theater class,

Wuthering heights, A doll's house, and My fair lady.

And the little mermaid.

And Seussical. and Shrek. And Annie. And beauty and the beast. And the 25th annual putnam county spelling bee. And zombie prom.

I'm a huge theater head if you didn't already notice.

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MANKAI March we miss you 💔

I'm SORRY I just genuinely didn't have the time nor the energy to plan and run the event this year😭😭😭 I was considering looking for an extra mod for this year, but ultimately decided against it because A3! is just not my main interest anymore, and it kept sounding more and more like something I didn't want to add to my already-overflowing plate this year, so I had to drop it for my mental health.

I'm glad you take an interest, though! Hopefully we'll be back up and running next year, but for now I cannot feasibly run it with my current lifestyle😔

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Mankai March 2025 Question 21!

I'm running out of ideas, so list five things you love about your oshi ehehe....

[riddlerosehearts]

gonna try and explain why i love itaru so much without writing a mini essay!

he is so fucking funny. especially with the way they translated his dialogue in EN so that he says shit like "time to pwn these noobs" and "popcorn dot gif" out loud 😭 he has me laughing so hard i could cry sometimes. what is wrong with him.

his character songs are some of the best ones and his voice is so beautiful i could listen to him all day. real luck was my top song of 2024 on spotify btw.

he's so full of passion and he just wants to be able to share the things he loves with the people he loves... and i love that even though he's been hurt so deeply and made to feel ashamed of his interests in the past, with mankai he goes all out and doesn't hide! when he's with them, he knows he can fully be himself without fear of judgement because they love him and he can trust them!

he's genuinely so kind and can often be so much more mature and dependable than he seems on the surface?? and it really shows in his dynamics with some of the younger members of mankai like how he's given such good advice to banri and masumi, how he's helped tutor kumon, and how he literally just loves sakuya so much.

he's pretty 💖 sorry this is shallow and biased but i can't lie he is extremely pretty to me. every time liber releases yet another gorgeous new itaru card or event CG i feel like i'm being personally attacked and i don't even actually play the game.

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Mankai March 2025 Question 20!

We talked about characters more at the beginning of the month, but I guess I just wrote the dates down weird hehe. It's ok! So: Do you have a favorite nonhuman character? It could be anything from a mascot like Tonapon to just Kamekichi! What about the kitties Misumi plays with? Maybe it's one specific animal from an event!(I'm impartial to the puppies from Oh, Exquisite Gaia huhu)Tell us!

[riddlerosehearts]

my mind blanked on this for a minute until i realized that if tonapon counts so does penpen. words cannot express how utterly delighted i was when i was watching videos of the nocturnality backstage stories and was met with this image:

that was my introduction to penpen and it is just. so cute that hisoka has a pastel purple penguin plush that he cuddles up with and that yuki makes little clothes for... i also love him because i happen to have a pastel purple penguin plush of my own irl!!

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Mankai March 2025 Question 31!

Wahhh it's finally over...! Thank you all for participating, and of course, thank you for so much support over these past couple of years, it means a lot!! Let's round out the month with a bit of a sad question huhu :3c

If you had to say goodbye to your oshi forever, how would you do it?

[taruruchi]

Cry. Really really badly. And collapse falling to the floor on my knees

/j

Okay but fr I think I'd give them a meaningful gift, either something with a deep meaning for them OR, if it's like if I was in the a3 universe and had some sort of relationship to them, then something connected to that. And I'd also write a very heartfelt, very emotional letter to them about how much they mean to me

I don't know if I'd be able to say goodbye properly face to face. I'd rather put that all in the letter and push it aside when meeting in person. Like, I'd rather do something fun if we were together than cry over having to say goodbye. That can be saved for later. So yes I also don't know if I could be in a situation where I'd watch them leave or something hsjdjfk but yeah!! Dunno if that's the best goodbye but I think that's how it'd go for me

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Chat, I will not lie, I have been exhausted and completely forgot to write a thank you post for this year😔

So, thank you to all who participated in Mankai March this year!!! I’ll be honest, I was really surprised that this was something people wanted to see come back, and I’m glad it was a success this year too! It’s always a bit tiring at the end of it, but I’m glad my work was worth it<3

Thank you all for answering my silly questions, and here’s to a possible 2026 run!

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Mankai March 2025 Question 6!

Happy birthday, Madoka! To celebrate God-za's talented scriptwriter, let's do a bit of a combo question! If God-za were to perform a Mankai play, which one would you choose? Who would you cast? Or vice versa, if you have a God-za play you're a fan of!

[verida32]

Ooooh, good question!

If I have to think about it, I'd like to see a Godza version of Journey to the Colors! Maybe not the exact part of the story but considering how large Journey to the West is I'd love to see their interpretation of it! Shift as Sun Wukong please.

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Mankai March 2025 Question 18!

I feel like A3! has so many motifs or themes of the most random things sometimes, honestly. I feel like I can't see the stage, shakespeare, and even flowers the same way anymore! So, let me ask: What random thing in your daily life makes you go "oh hey nice A3! reference!"

[taruruchi]

For one, what you said in the tags, flowers JNDKFKDNF Any flower from A3, I'm like, "Wow... It's literally [Character]..."

Another, which I know is super basic, but triangles nskdkf and I even spread this to my sister, she became so obsessed with triangles and it became her fave shape 😭 I see a triangle and it's just "Misumi would love this"

And it's also acting in general! I feel like I was completely clueless about it before a3, but it taught me some stuff and when I realize that sometimes, it's like whoa :0 I actually learned something from a silly anime boy game

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Mankai March 2025 Question 18!

I feel like A3! has so many motifs or themes of the most random things sometimes, honestly. I feel like I can't see the stage, shakespeare, and even flowers the same way anymore! So, let me ask: What random thing in your daily life makes you go "oh hey nice A3! reference!"

[riddlerosehearts]

i cannot see or think about marshmallows without thinking about hisoka. which means i think of hisoka almost every day because there's always a bag of mini marshmallows in my pantry for hot chocolate! i also have a s'mores squishmallow and whenever i look at it i think that it would make a great gift for hisoka. i go to the store and see marshmallows shaped like spaghetti noodles and i think that hisoka had better not be the one who has to pick up something to cook for dinner or that's what he'll end up buying. i go to a pizza place and order a s'mores pizza for dessert? i cut it into triangles and imagine hisoka and misumi sharing it.

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Mankai March 2025 Question 16!

This is one I'm pretty curious about, and I really want to know everyone's thoughts! If you could adapt a fairy/folk tale into a play performed by Mankai, what would it be? Do you have a cast in mind?

[riddlerosehearts]

i haven't thought too much about how i'd cast it, but i think the snow queen would be interesting! the same story that frozen is based on, but i imagine mankai's adaptation would be a lot closer to the original. the original story has a demon who creates a magic mirror that distorts everything it reflects, magnifying their bad and ugly aspects, and if a fragment of the mirror gets stuck in a person's eye or heart it turns them cold and bitter. i think it'd be fun to cast chikage as the demon but instead of just showing up at the very beginning he's a recurring presence throughout the story, and he's also a more morally gray character who has a bit of a redemption arc--while the snow queen remains more of a straightforward villain. i'm kinda picturing this as a spring/winter mixed play but i'd have to think more about how to cast the other roles lol. depending on how she's written, azuma or homare might make a good snow queen--she could either be written as the mysterious, detached and distant force of nature that she is in the original story or tsuzuru could be inspired to give her some of the campy, melodramatic vibes that disney had given her in old concept art from when frozen was an entirely different story:

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Mankai March 2025 Question 22!

I have no idea what to do for commentary anymore www, but I really do love this question! Do you associate any songs with any A3! characters? Maybe you have a full playlist! Please show them off, I love when people do this!

[penguinversusmankai]

I bought an A3! mystery pin thing and got him.

[penguinversusmankai]

I just realized OP said songs instead of things HELP IM SO DYSLEXIC 😭

[penguinversusmankai]

To answer OP’s question though.

Shout Baby for Taichi and fuyunohanashi for Hisoka. Iykyk.

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Mankai March 2025 Question 31!

Wahhh it's finally over...! Thank you all for participating, and of course, thank you for so much support over these past couple of years, it means a lot!! Let's round out the month with a bit of a sad question huhu :3c

If you had to say goodbye to your oshi forever, how would you do it?

[mochiiknees]

oh man. it would definitely be tearful haha. it would have a lot of gratitude, tsuzuru has taught me a lot after all, whether its about chasing my dreams, or growing up, or creating things for myself. i keep relearning all these things in different places, but tsuzuru taught it to me pretty early on for me lolol. maybe there’d be a handshake, or some kind of hug, but it’d definitely involve me crying lolol

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Mankai March 2025 Question 31!

Wahhh it's finally over...! Thank you all for participating, and of course, thank you for so much support over these past couple of years, it means a lot!! Let's round out the month with a bit of a sad question huhu :3c

If you had to say goodbye to your oshi forever, how would you do it?

[nervouscoffeeheart]

This was my first MANKAI March, thank you for giving me the honor of being part of this. I don't really have a single oshi, i love all of them equally, but I'll be sure to write them all letters and talk about how I love them, the way they are, before leaving. (Except for Chikage, I'm still punching him even after giving him the letter).

A3! has been a huge part of my life since 2020, although I'm struggling to catch up with it, I'm still trying my best to be with them.

Happy birthday to Masumi and Sakuya (and Madoka). And Happy April birthdays to Tsuzuru, Itaru and Chikage (and to any April backstage member, if I'm forgetting...), and of course, Happy May birthday to Citron.

Thank you for MANKAI March. I've had tons of fun not only answering, but also reading everyone else's answers too. This has been an amazing experience and a wonderful journey. Thank you again, hope to see another great MANKAI March next year. Happy Spring. 🌼

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Mankai March 2025 Question 31!

Wahhh it's finally over...! Thank you all for participating, and of course, thank you for so much support over these past couple of years, it means a lot!! Let's round out the month with a bit of a sad question huhu :3c

If you had to say goodbye to your oshi forever, how would you do it?

[penguinversusmankai]

With my mouth? Just say goodbye?

I’m kidding.

I’d be sad. I mean, let’s start with HUH. Like, fym say goodbye to Izumida Azami forever? Why is he going away forever. Like, is his existence just gone now or what.

I think I’d just salute the man since I’m a grown ass woman and he’d kill me if i even tried to pat his head. Farewell, my makeup artist comrade.

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Mankai March 2025 Question 31!

Wahhh it's finally over...! Thank you all for participating, and of course, thank you for so much support over these past couple of years, it means a lot!! Let's round out the month with a bit of a sad question huhu :3c

If you had to say goodbye to your oshi forever, how would you do it?

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Mankai March 2025 Question 15!

I wanted to put this on Towa's birthday but I actually don't remember if it's in March or not, so I'm doing it now! What would you do if you saw your oshi irl? Hug them? Have lunch? Be too shy to even say hi? I'm sure they'd be happy to see you!

[riddlerosehearts]

hmm well i think realistically if i just randomly saw itaru irl i would freak out and have to really work up the courage just to say hi and tell him i love his acting. maybe i'd ask him for a picture and then i'd send it to all of my friends on discord. i'm sure i'd be too nervous to do much more because i wouldn't wanna bother him or like. make him mess up in whatever mobile game he's definitely playing 😭😭

but IDEALLY i would like to ask him if he wants to go play games together at the nearest arcade. i'm a gamer who sucks at video games but i genuinely think he wouldn't mind too much and we'd have fun doing 2-player co-op in things like pacman and the luigi's mansion arcade game. then we could add each other's switch friend codes and trade version exclusive pokemon.