This blog was formerly used to house the Hypnosis Mic manga fan translation. This translation is no longer public access. This blog is now an archive for mixed fan content. Updates are sporadic. I take translation requests! See request guidelines here. Current request queue: 1. Torima Get on the Floor (<- in progress, stuck in overthinking hell) 2. Stella (<- also stuck in overthinking hell) 3. Star Wars ARB event (無極宇宙大戦) 4. Bomb-defusing (?) ARB event (シークレット・コードの行く先は～Yellow or Blue?～) 5. Hypmic Dream Rap Battle Pre-TDD Event + Event Cards (Back To the H Zero + relevant cards) 6. Hypmic Dream Rap Battle What a Joy to Tell Stories...Including False Ones! (temp title) Card Story【語るも楽し騙るも楽し】夢野幻太郎 7. Nobanashi by T-iD
We are removing the Hypmic manga from public viewing, effective immediately.
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What will happen to the Tumblr blog?
The Tumblr blog is being restructured to archive asks, Twitter threads, and other miscellaneous Hypmic content going forward. This may take a couple of days; I have about 2000 posts to sort through and tag.
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What translation content will I produce now?
Manga summary threads will continue to be posted on Twitter. I may continue to translate miscellaneous content here and there. I will NOT translate all ARB content or other content wherein I could pose a significant financial risk to any potential English localizations.
The Twitter account may continue to post fan content. Likewise, the Tumblr account may continue to answer asks and post other fan content in a similar vein to what has been posted before. I am open to suggestions for types of content you would like to see.
Does this mean the manga/ARB/etc. is being localized in English?
That is not the reason we are removing public access. I do not have any information about a potential English localization at this time.
hi slug, i’m super sorry for my last ask, i didn’t realize i was potentially being disrespectful and thank you so much for your thoughtful words! instead could i maybe ask what your thoughts are on what you think the 18 hypmic characters’ assigned Pokémon type would be? Or if you aren’t into Pokémon, maybe what you think each character’s major would be if they went to college? thank you again!! <3
It wasn't disrespectful at all! Thank you for being understanding of my reservations. And I love Pokemon! This is a super unique idea too--I love the idea of assigning types vs individual Pokemon.
When I spoke to you briefly in DMs, it sounded like you wanted me to give each character a unique type. So I put some thought into it and came up with...a slightly unique arrangement haha. These are just my thoughts and nothing authoritative. There are lots of alternate mappings that would work too!
Ichirou: Fire type, with a focus on Fire/Fighting. I'm thinking of team dynamics here, and Ichirou is the heavy hitter and powerhouse of the team. Fire-only teams tend to do okay, and that's exactly how Ichirou would build his team--to stand on its own. But in doing so, he opens himself up to certain vulnerabilities (water, ground) that he has little effective counter for.
Jirou: Electric type. Jirou can unleash devastating firepower too, but his role in the team is compensating for what Ichirou lacks (so now he can sweep those pesky water types!) and supporting Saburou with moves like Helping Hand. His fast rapping style meshes well with the agility of Electric types.
Saburou: Poison type. In rap battles, Saburou rarely solo attacks and instead functions as a support character. He would be a status conditions fiend and step in to sack himself while his brothers are setting up for more powerful attacks.
Samatoki: Water type, potentially with a focus on Water/Dark. Counters or complements Ichirou well. He unleashes powerful special attacks and is Mad Trigger Crew's bruiser.
Juuto: Flying type. With moves like Tailwind, Juuto complements his slower teammates and stalls opponents a la his rap Ability. Juuto is also plenty powerful in his own right and can use his high agility (in a nod to the speed of his delivery in songs like Awake) to deal major damage.
Riou: Steel type. Riou is primarily a defender, and he tanks MTC's attacks so that Samatoki and Juuto can focus on fighting. However, that's not to say that he's invincible, which is why Samatoki and Juuto are prepared to counter his weaknesses (Fire and Fighting).
Ramuda: Fairy type. Ramuda is Fling Posse's main damage dealer, as counterintuitive as that may seem (in rap battles, Dice theoretically fulfills this role but is more often shown catching attacks for characterization- and story-related reasons), and uses Fairy type moves like Charm to be obnoxious as hell to fight. I admit, I was tempted to make him Psychic type to have him weak to Ghost, but I needed Psychic for...
Gentarou: him! Gentarou gets Psychic type. Gentarou makes up for Ramuda's weakness to Poison types and uses all sorts of status condition moves like Trick Room to be extra, extra obnoxious. Also good at dealing special damage.
Dice: Grass type, as Dice plays a split offense-defense role. He tanks attacks that would devastate Gentarou and Ramuda. While occasionally causing status conditions or kicking ass with moves like Solar Beam, Dice's fighting style is much more predictable than Gentarou's or Ramuda's. Ramuda's Fairy moves like Floral Healing or Floral Shield pair well with Dice's Grass Pokemon.
Jakurai: Dragon type. I was tempted to give him Normal type, but in spite of his healing abilities, Jakurai doesn't really play a primary support role in Matenrou. He's more of a juggernaut--see how often he attacks on his own vs in group raps--and as such would favor a team that can wipe the board almost by itself. This has the added benefit of making him absolutely hopeless around Ramuda, which, I mean...
Hifumi: Ice type. Good with support and attack, almost unstoppable when paired with Doppo (Rock/Ice have near-opposite weaknesses), but surprisingly brittle. I'd think he'd favor Pokemon like Froslass known for their elegance. Complements Jakurai's and Doppo's weaknesses well.
Doppo: Rock type. In much the way that Doppo is Matenrou's emotional rock, Doppo's Pokemon provide Hifumi and Jakurai's team much-needed support. That isn't to say that Doppo can't deal damage himself--put him in a bind, and he just might use Explosion to wipe the battle field.
Sasara: Normal type. I think he would gravitate toward Normal types not out of a love for Normal-type Pokemon but for the appearance of being a Normal-type trainer. He would favor physical attacks in order to deal heavy damage and could build a solid solo team, but he would have difficulty integrating his team with others. I designed most of the teams to cover each other weaknesses, but not so for Mad Comic Dialogue (which is weak to fighting, assuming Samatoki has a handful of Water/Dark types) and Dotsuitare Hompo. Sasara would have to let go of his solo tendencies in order to build a team around his teammates' strengths and weaknesses.
Roshou: Ghost type. I originally chose this because Roshou is "haunted" by his past and the expectations placed upon him; furthermore, Ghost types can be effective special attackers but truly excel in support roles, just like Roshou. Were Roshou to try and copy Sasara's physical-focused team, he would fail miserably. It's only when Roshou is true to himself and his fighting style that he excels and learns to work in tandem with Sasara. I admit, I'm also charmed at the idea of Sasara and Roshou being unable to "touch" each other via their types.
Rei: Ground type. In rap battles, all members of Dotsuhon are combination attack/support characters, and Ground-type is another type that mixes devastating attacks like Earthquake with obnoxious accuracy- and speed-lowering moves. Metaphorically, Rei provides the stable base or "ground" for Sasara and Roshou to build a productive relationship, and while he may have plenty of weaknesses, he doesn't (yet) let Roshou and Sasara see them and effectively counter them. Additionally, the Buster Bros have accounted for every weakness save one... Rei can single-handedly sweep their Fire, Electric, and Poison team.
Kuukou: Fighting type. I know Dragon is popular for Kuukou (evil monk, the dragon of Bad Ass Temple... urrrrah!) but I chose Fighting for more reasons than the obvious ass-kicking. Fighting Pokemon are generally offensive, which is the role Kuukou usually takes at the start of rap battles, but can tank physical hits to a decent degree. Kuukou tends to catch hits for his teammates and would do so in Pokemon battling as well. In Mad Comic Dialogue, he and Ichirou fulfill much the same role of being heavy hitters, and in Bad Ass Temple, he provides needed coverage on Rock and Dark types for Juushi and Hitoya.
Juushi: Bug type. Often looked down upon, Bug types can pack surprising offensive and defensive powers in a pinch, much like Juushi. He and Hitoya handle Psychic types for Kuukou, and dualtyping with Galvantula or one of the many Bug/Poison Pokemon handles the team's Flying and Fairy weaknesses. He's a central pillar of the team, even if he and society at large can't see it. (I also love the idea of him cuddling a Pokemon named Amanda who is a giant spider with six eyes/an enormous venomous millipede/etc.) Finally, Juushi with a Vivillon, Dustox, or Gigantamax Butterfree? Yes please.
Hitoya: Dark type. You can't tell me that Hitoya "Themis" Amaguni, aged 12, wouldn't choose Dark type because it sounded coolest. In all seriousness, Dark type suits Hitoya's willingness to get his hands dirty if it means achieving his goals. Dark types don't take hits well, and Hitoya's no tank in battle, but he can ensure hits won't land or kick ass with Pokemon like Tyranitar or Scrafty. Weak to K 'n J (Fighting and Bug), even if he pretends otherwise.
Hello, Slug! Thank you so much for your work, I love your analysis and everything you do for the fandom. I wanted to ask as a funny creative exercise if you're up to it: choose any character you enjoy or love from any other media. What would their rap ability be? How would their mic and speakers look like? What would be the music genre for their solo?
We should put Apollo Justice in Hypmic just to make him suffer. He doesn't even have a mic; he simply Chords of Steels his way through rap battles. The ridiculous legal system or lack thereof would give him fits. What do you mean Otome became the prime minister of Japan via a coup d'tat? What happened to the rest of the Diet? Did the Party of Words do away with elections? Moreover, why does no one seem to care? This is worse than Khura'in! His bracelet goes off left and right around 90% of the cast. He meets Rei and comes away with another set of siblings and a backstory, which in true Hypmic fashion is never explained. He's adopted into the Aohitsugi family on account of his cowlicks. He can't stand Sasara. Murder trials devolve into rap battles with absolute dogshit bars like, "This Polly wants no cracker/'cause the real killer whacked her!" and the witness on the stand has a breakdown animation caused by damage to the sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems.
Is Stairway to Heaven's name a reference to the Led Zepplin song? I also find a lot of the other background groups' names pretty funny, like "The Dirty Doubts", "God Asshole", and "The Swaggers"... do they actually translate to that in English?
Yes, it appears to be an intentional reference. I don't think we should interpret the team leader as a Led Zepplin fan--rather, like much of the references to American/British media or English text, the reference exists for rule of cool. Stairway to Heaven's leader, Mozuku, is obsessed with social climbing and sees his organization as a ladder that can propel him to unimaginable heights. In that sense, the group is a literal Stairway to Heaven.
Stairway to Heaven's name is translated from Japanese (天国ヘノ階段), but most silly team names are English to begin with. I'm afraid "The Swaggers" and "God Asshole" are not wordings of my own creation, although I wish they were, as I'd love to be that funny. In Japanese, gratuitous English sounds cool in much the way that Japanese text on T-shirts looks cool in the US. In English, these names just sound goofy. There's an argument to be made that a translator with more flexibility could change these names to something cooler to be in line with the authorial intent, but Hypmic is so silly that I wouldn't want to even then.
Do you know anyone who has translated or summarized the Today drama cd that came with the blu-ray of the movie?
I haven't seen a full translation yet.
I wrote a basic summary here, and Cyril (Twitter user @/quailsharks) wrote a more extensive summary here. Between the two of us, we should have covered just about everything.
feel free to ignore this if you don’t know the answer, but i’m curious as to why exactly the hypster magazine and the illustrations have to be so hush hush? i’m new-ish to the fandom and think i might’ve missed a memo
For context, this ask is in reference to this Tweet.
The Hypster fan magazine is an exclusive piece of paid content mailed out to subscribers of the official Hypster fan club. A significant "leak" of images from the magazine can be considered a copyright infringement or challenge to King Records' ability to do business, as someone who might have been interested in buying a Hypster subscription to see those images may change their mind if they can easily see them for free online.
That's a lot of "mights" and "maybes," and to be clear, I'm not saying that anyone at King Records will go hungry if a single photo of the magazine's cover goes up online.
However, Japanese copyright law and copyright enforcement culture are in some ways stricter than their US counterparts. Most IP holders--or, more importantly, the people who work for them--are well aware that all sorts of small-scale content sharing, piracy, and gray-area IP infringement (such as fan works depicting characters from IPs in non-family-friendly or brand-violating ways) actively occur, but so long as that's not in their face, they are happy to pretend that it isn't happening. Ruining the fan experience isn't good for business, and even beyond that, many people working for big IPs simply don't want to stifle fan enjoyment of the IP. However, if the copyright infringement ends up on the wrong person's desk--usually an executive's--there's no longer the plausible deniability of "Oops! We didn't know this was happening, so we didn't choose to enforce it." Unless an individual is hosting a full-fledged piracy site or some other large-scale action, IP owners tend to respond to small-scale piracy with community-wide restrictions. At this point, official restrictions may be placed on the sharing of images, much like the restrictions that once existed on posting ARB cards online, and the entire fandom's ability to engage with the series becomes more limited.
As an example from someone on the other side, I'm well aware that a fan community for a series I translate keeps a depository on Discord of every published English book and a smattering of raw files from the Japanese books. That's technically the intellectual property of the English and Japanese publishers, and I "should" tell the English publisher the Discord has thousands of people reading for free. But I'm no snitch. They keep it on the down low, and, officially, I don't know it exists. Now, if someone were to Tweet the Japanese author and reference that Discord depository... as someone once did... it's much more difficult for a person who works on the series (in this case, the author) to pretend they have no idea that people are pirating their work. The person who Tweeted the author was pressured into taking their Tweet down quickly enough that, to the best of my knowledge, no action was taken and the Discord still exists.
Hence the importance of the word "significant" in significant leak. There is no hard line in the sand, so what constitutes a significant leak is a matter of best judgement. Generally, anything that's private--which means it can't come up in search results--is considered fair game. Discord servers, DMs, and locked accounts are all considered private. In general, it's also not a fantastic idea to talk about private content sharing in public places, or at least not to the extent of Tweeting it directly at the author or IP holder. Posting small snippets, posting weeks/months after the content has been released, and posting to websites without an IP holder's presence are entering a gray area but are generally okay. For example, King Records surely knows I exist, but because I always posted on Tumblr weeks or months after chapters came out, they were always gracious enough to look the other way. Had I posted every single image from the JP chapter onto Twitter the day the magazines came out, I doubt I would have been afforded that same grace.
With the Twitter algorithm ignoring language barriers now more than ever, I would please caution everyone to be wary of posting images of paid content directly onto Twitter shortly after release. Tweets that receive lots of traction in the English fandom can and do show up on the feeds of the Japanese staff and executives, and it's only a matter of the wrong Tweet being seen by the wrong eyes for content-sharing restrictions to be placed on the whole fandom. Hence, I would ask for us all to please be careful with how we share paid elements of the series with each other.
hi slug, are you doing good? I'm sorry for the bother but right by the time the girls division album came out I became quite busy and wasn’t really able to keep up with the series, could you please give me a suggestion as to what order hear the drama tracks from that time foward? I know I probably should start with the one on verbal justice, but I'm not quite sure where to go after that
Anon, I feel you hard. I also fell off the map for a couple of years right around when you did. Glad to hear you're in a place where you can devote time to fun things again!
Assuming you finished the second DRB drama tracks, the order of the third DRB tracks is:
Mixed Up (no plot; assorted shenanigans)
No One Lives Forever (??? plot) <- this is the track from Verbal Justice
The Block Party (?????? plot and shenanigans)
3rd DRB first (? maybe only? Every other DRB has had two sets) of division-specific drama tracks: My Generation, Time for Heroes, Just Friend, Not for You, The Trio, Fools Gold, Stay Gold (plot and character growth; some divisions have more character growth than others)
Today (minimal plot; cozy vibes)
upcoming drama track on Trick or Repeat album (releasing in September)
hi slug!! not to get parasocial but i love your work so so much, thank you for everything you do🫶i had a bit of a quick, fun ask if you’re up for it! i was wondering if you had to assign the first DRB participants to each of the 12 main Olympian gods, who would you assign to which god and why? (I wanted to include BAT and DH but unfortunately there are only 12 main gods🥀)
Thank you for the kind words! I'd love to do a fun ask for a change, but while this may sound strange, I'm a little uncomfortable with, for lack of a better term, "fandomizing" another culture's mythos. I like ancient Greek mythology! The stories are beautiful and have made vast contributions to the English literary canon and English-speaking world's cultural norms. They aren't religious texts in the sense of the Bible or the Quran, but the figures within them were respected and worshiped for many centuries. I may not believe in the mythical figures themselves, but I believe in the weight of centuries of human care, if that makes sense. Having only a casual, non-academic background in the subject, I'd prefer to tread lightly when walking in someone else's garden, even if the gardeners have been gone for thousands of years.
Please tell me that I’m not the only one who thinks Chuoku’s outfits look boring an uncool. I know these are heavily inspired by their original outfits, but seriously? The boys are having like brand new clothes while the girls are getting a cheap upgrade of their default setting. KR nailed it with the boys and failed us by neglecting the need to give the girls the same effort and creativity as they did for their counterparts
You're referring to the 9th Anniversary Cafe designs, right?
Everyone's entitled to their own opinion, but I personally like the Chuuouku designs better than the division designs. They showcase more personality--each character is dressed in something she would (or would like to) wear in canon--whereas many of the male outfits lack that degree of individuality (see Kuukou/Jirou/Hifumi and Gentarou/Juuto/Sasara, for example). I think the Chuuouku designs look more like the canon outfits because the entire set is vaguely militaristic/uniform, suit-focused formalwear, which uses the same design language as the canon Chuuouku clothes.
I don't have strong feelings either way, though. I don't usually care much about alternate outfits, but more power to the people who do.
hello slug!!! i was wondering if the chuohku ladies had signature/character colours like the other divisions do? i know that their group colour is pink, but do they have individual ones? e.g. FP’s group colour being yellow, ramuda being pink, gentaro purple, dice green. thank you!!
I'm genuinely not sure. I searched around on Twitter and looked at merch packaging/marketing on Mercari and Google, but I didn't find much of anything. I think the answer is no, or if they do exist, they're not used much because there still isn't a lot of Chuuouku merch/marketing.
I'm currently working on an interactive Hypmic project/event to be announced later this year. Unfortunately, it will only be on Discord, so it will continue to look like I'm inactive here for a few more months. I'm also not sure what the timeline will look like, as while I'm making good headway on it, my non-fandom life is a bit tumultuous at the moment...
When this project is complete, I will return to taking requests from the queue.
I'm very excited to share the project when it is complete, and I hope it will be a lot of fun for all international Hypmic fans! Please look forward to it, and thank you for your continued support.
I announced this on Discord yesterday, but I am unfortunately discontinuing this project. I'm afraid the IRL changes I alluded to in January were more tumultuous than expected, and I am not making sufficient progress. I am currently looking into alternatives, and I apologize to anyone who knows what this project was and was looking forward to it.
I will once again be working on requests or responding to longer asks, and I look forward to posting here again soon. It will take a few weeks--I'm afraid I'm temporarily working weekends and probably won't have a day off until August--but I am eager to finally get around to the items in the request queue. Thank you for your patience with me during this period of inactivity. (I say as I kept posting nonsense all this past year.)
hello slug!! w/ the recent division all stars song basically saying to resort to piracy if there’s no official release, i wanted to know your stance considering hypmic’s limited media available to fans overseas,,, do you think king records has actually recognized this issue or is it perhaps just “propaganda” to seem more relatable 🤔
Honestly, I don't read that line as an endorsement of piracy at all...
The context, for people who are confused (me lol), is a line in the official subs of the new song Diggin', a song that's about the search for identity being a non-linear process. The chorus has this bit in it:
たとえBoot盤 掴まされたとしても
We Just Diggin'
必ず掘り当てろ オリジナル正規盤
We Just Diggin'
Which is translated as:
Even if it means resorting to piracy
We just diggin'
Gotta dig up an official release eventually
We just diggin'
I like what I see in the rest of the subs--it's clear that this is the main translation team responsible for most of the official subs and the movie's subtitles--but I think the way they chose to write this line is a little misleading.
It's saying, "Even if we find a bootleg copy [at first], we have to keep on 'digging' until we get our hands on the official, original version." The stress is on the need to find that official version, a metaphor for a person's true identity. The song acknowledges that the search for one's identity is messy and multi-faceted ("What does it mean to be legitimate? What does it mean to be kind? What does it mean to be sincere? What does it mean to be true to yourself?" etc.)
I don't read the JP line with as much stress on the action of pirating as EN "resort to piracy" has. To me, it reads like someone physically searching for a copy of something, stumbling upon a bootleg version, and not being satisfied with it. Therefore, they keep searching for the original.
My assumption is that the sub team--who are, again, very, very good at what they do--simply didn't think their line would be interpreted this way. Writing authoritative subs for songs is devilishly difficult, as there's so little space. That this team does so and manages to include a rhyme scheme (which is why I think they chose "piracy" to rhyme with "eventually") is even more impressive.
An Open Letter to Anons Sending AI-Generated Messages
I have up to this point ignored that some anonymous messages I've received are obviously generated by AI. When these asks have provided an opportunity for good discussion, I have engaged with them in good faith, and I will likely continue to do so. However, I do not wish to publish AI-generated compliments or other "one-and-done" messages. I can't dictate how other individuals choose to use the technologies available to them, but I reserve the right to not host an excess of AI-generated content on my blog. I must ask for your understanding.
A certain anonymous individual wished to pass along a complimentary message to another Tumblr user and was concerned that it might not have arrived. To this individual, thank you for your concern, and please rest assured that the message was passed along privately.
I do not wish to chastise you, but I must admit that I was saddened when I received the accompanying complimentary message for me. I would very much have liked to hear your thoughts in your own words. It is difficult to feel gratified by nice, pretty words generated by a machine designed to generate nice, pretty words. I often describe compliments as "kind words," but a machine does not move with kindness. It is impossible to view the kindness behind the screen for the machine in the way.
I wish I could have experienced your human kindness.
You may not have felt comfortable expressing yourself in your own words. Perhaps there was a language barrier or a disability, or perhaps you simply felt that your words would be too halting and incomplete to express your ideas.
I do not think that it is a sin for words to be imperfect conduits of ideas. There is a charm to imperfection that makes communication a rich, fulfilling act. Over the years, I have received many kind messages in clumsy packages, and the imperfect delivery only exacerbates the kindness. It is exceptionally sweet when someone makes the effort to write in a language they are not fluent in, work around a disability, or simply push themselves out of their comfort zone. I cherish every genuine expression of kindness that I have received in this fashion.
I am writing this to you because I enjoyed speaking to you through the filter of the machine, and I am sad that I never got to read your words. You, too, have a lovely voice, even if you do not choose to use it for reasons that are unknown to me. I hope someday to hear it.
Let’s be honest here. What would Chuoku suffer from their crimes after they were actually given a chance to pay for what they have done throughout the franchise?
I mean... I'm not sure I see the point to such a discussion.
In the interest of not writing a fix-it fic over Tumblr asks (not that there's anything wrong with fix-it fics; I just rarely have interest in making them), I want to be careful about conflating the concept of "consequences" with the concept of "punishment."
Opinions on IRL justice aside (where I take a dim view on punishment anyway), I don't see a need to hold a fictional character accountable for fictional acts unless that accountability--or lack thereof--drives some element of the narrative: plot, characterization, themes, etc. The characters are narrative devices that interact with one another to tell the story. They do not need to treat each other well, as real people should, but the way they treat each other--positively or negatively--should have positive or negative repercussions. Otherwise, the actions float in a vacuum, disconnected from anything, and might as well not exist at all.
So when I say I'm frustrated that Ichijiku sentences clones to death one minute and is labeled "basically their mom" the next, I'm not frustrated that she callously disregards their personhood--a tragedy IRL, but they're not real or representative of a real life population--but that her callous disregard of personhood does not contribute to her plot, characterization, or themes. It simply vanishes. I don't need fictional character Ichijiku to go to jail for fictional crimes, but I would have liked to see her disregard for their humanity to drive conflict.
I like how 17-y.o.-Ichirou's dedication to financially providing for his little brothers leads to him neglecting them emotionally, which has the consequence of driving Jirou and Saburou away. Ichirou must put in effort to reconnect with them and, in doing so, grow as a person in accordance w/ his main conflicts and themes (hyperindependence/the need to be the provider and the MC BB hero image). I like how Ramuda chooses not to brainwash Jakurai at the end of the 1st DRB, which has the consequence of the Party of Words abandoning him, setting in motion all the events of the Fling Posse 2nd DRB arc and Ramuda's major character arc. I don't like how Jakurai agrees to help the Party of Words after much internal angst before promptly leaving, because the decision to help the Party of Words tells us nothing new about Jakurai (we already know he cares deeply about morality but will bend his personal ethics for those he cares about) and does nothing for the plot or themes. That's the distinction I'm trying to draw between actions with consequences and actions without consequences, and many of Chuuouku's fall into the latter camp.
Finally, apart from Hypmic's general reluctance to give characters consequences, I don't think the writers wish to punish Chuuouku because that would be inconsistent with Hypmic's overall theme of forgiveness and finding ways to get along across demographic lines. If we're talking reparations, the previous government and society at large is responsible for a hell of a lot of harm to women and should be getting in on that too, but that's not likely to happen either. It would be outside of the scope of a silly music project that says very little about concrete political solutions, and so too would be putting the Party of Words on trial and holding them accountable legally.
i've been a bit confused about this because since we left off yotsutsuji is apparently awake now, but do we know how he woke up?
I assumed the True Hypnosis Mic which, having been perfected, no longer kills its user. But at the end of Not For You, Jakurai says he'd rather use medicine than the Mic to wake up Yotsutsuji, so... Maybe his super doctor powers? The Today drama track doesn't say either way, so I'm afraid I don't know for certain.
THIS IS NOT AN ORIGINAL POST. Twitter user lily_hpmy recently combed the entire series--we're talking song lyrics, drama tracks, the anime, the movie, the manga, the live shows, the Spotify radio podcasts, the stageplays, and both video games--to discover the two things Hitoya can't stand. Sorry, did I say two? Make that one hundred forty-seven.
This is that list translated into English for ease of reading. All credit for the massive amount of work involved goes to lily_hpmy, who posts quite a lot of other funny Hypmic content. Please give them a follow! Also, please do not use this post as a jumping off point to harass them or overwhelm them with complex English-language comments. I do not know if they would be comfortable with a random surge of attention from non-Japanese accounts.
The author of this list categorized the list by subject matter (food and drinks, people, places, and miscellaneous) and expression used (can't stand, dislikes, rubs the wrong way, is inexcusable). Because I can't make a table on Tumblr, I've collapsed this into four lists ordered by expression used.
Items that appear more than once are bolded. Occasionally, Hitoya uses different wording to refer to the same thing. When the meanings are functionally identical, list items may appear to be featured twice. Other duplicate items contain footnotes if a meaningful (or just amusing) distinction exists.
I'm writing everything in fairly clinical tones, but Hitoya sounds annoyed as all get-out a good 50% of the time. Determining when to mentally insert the word "fucking" is an exercise left to the reader.
The 81 things Hitoya can't stand:
Bad coffee
Watery coffee
Over-extracted coffee
Mornings without coffee
Nattou without Japanese mustard
Fruit in salads
Pineapple in sweet-and-sour pork (repeated 3 times)
Pineapple on pizza
Strawberries in shortcake
Bad osechi
Ice cubes made from tap water
Drinking cheap sake
Warm beer
People who water down champagne
People who put soy sauce on sushi rice
Pickled plums in mackerel stewed in miso paste [1]
People who don't listen [2]
Procrastinators
People who run their mouths saying nonsense
People who say good luck without meaning it
Students who don't listen to his lectures (from a school AU event)
People who look down on him
People who bother him
Dumbasses who bother him at work
People who litter
Bartenders who make a show of pouring whiskey
People who don't wear socks
Adults who squabble like kids
People who can't read the room
Audience members who don't cheer loud enough [3]
Dumbasses who fall for scams
MCs who run away
People who diss his Nagoya fam
Dumb kids who charge in headfirst without thinking
People who talk too loud at coffee shops
People who make too big of a commotion in coffee shops
People who just stand there without ordering anything in coffee shops
Openly opinionated people [4]
Monks (or a monk, presumably) who make fun of his hair style
People who don't put the TV remote back in its designated spot
People who flaunt their wealth
People who wear cheap, bad perfume or cologne
People who ignore the local rules and customs
People who swear sneakers with suits
People who can't mind their own business
People who use their pets as their phone background
Hitoya when he lacks the vocabulary to properly compliment a client on their beauty (from a host club event)
Hitoya when he is rendered helpless by a client's beauty (from a host club event)
People who do whatever the heck they want with someone else's body (from a body swap event)
People who pull faces or do pranks right as the picture is taken
People who poke their noses into every room in someone else's house
People who camp out in his office uninvited
A pair of dumbassess who barge into his office for the purpose of feeding him nonsense
A certain young, red-haired hooligan
A certain monk-in-training who insists upon calling Hitoya up and having him come over for no stated reason
A certain red-haired monk-in-training who pretends to be busy when he's actually not busy at all
Bars that play classical music
Places with way too many people packed into them
Concerts that play bad music
Lukewarm baths
Losing
Losing at the DRB
Losing
People licking each other's wounds
Being forced to do anything
Being told what to do
Other people writing a script for him [5]
When Jakurai looks down on him
When Jakurai shows him up
Women crying
Reckless behavior
Stewing over conversations that are over and done with
The kind of clothes worn by posers in rock-and-roll subculture
The smell of asphalt on rainy days
Annoying New Year's celebrations [6]
Body swapping (from a body swap event)
Not giving something his 100%
Photos where he's blinking
Staffs that look cool but have bad stats (from a video game AU event)
Monsters that get cocky (from a video game AU event)
The 58 things Hitoya dislikes:
Room temperature rum
Green bananas
Soggy, untoasted baguettes
Lemon water
Bean sprouts
Dry sashimi
People who don't listen
People who do whatever they want despite how it might affect others
A certain perceptive brat [7]
Dumb kids
Impudent kids
People who overestimate their abilities
People who bother him at work
A certain dour-looking office worker
Men who physically abuse women
Cheating, cowardly SOBs who sneak up behind someone and attack them
People who make money the easy way
People who buy band T-shirts without knowing the band
People who walk into restaurants that don't display their prices just to see how much things cost
Obnoxiously excited tourists
People who lack manners and butt into other people's conversations
Low-ability chumps who band together
Certain obnoxiously excited dumbasses
People who don't care enough about anything
Two-faced people
People with the audacity to openly take other people's stuff
Seeing a certain monk give up
A certain obnoxious monk-in-training on April Fool's Day
A certain disagreeable doctor
Drunk Jakurai
Crowded, hard-to-walk-in bars
Restaurants that don't display their prices
Romance novels
Trashy necktie pins
Trashy suits
Outstanding documents
Lack of self-reliance
Damp cigarettes
Failure to properly consider a man's resolve
Jobs that don't pay well
Trials that don't pay well
Defending a terrible person in trial
Bullying
Bullying the weak
Being looked after
Low energy concerts
When fun experiences are over
Trashy neon signage
Taking photos of people doing lame poses
Wasting time
Bullshit
Self-serving bullshit
Cosplay
Being forced to undergo ascetic training on his day off
Trains
Buses
The 4 things that rub Hitoya the wrong way:
Dumbasses who don't listen
People who ask dumb questions
People who think it's funny to ask dumb questions
People who jump to conclusions
The 4 things that are inexcusable to Hitoya:
Warm beer
Cocky chumps
Assholes who can't recognize when they've done wrong
Dumbasses who go wild and trash the beach at night
[1] A common dish. Hitoya isn't being ridiculously specific, as the length of this line in translation might suggest.
[2] A more annoyed sounding version of the "people who don't listen" in the "dislike" list. Presumably, this one is directed at Kuukou.
[3] Said at a live show.
[4] Said with zero shred of self-awareness.
[5] Said during a Spotify radio podcast. I would assume, although I've not checked, he doesn't want to read a piece of scripted content on air and would rather speak for himself.
[6] This line is light on context, but as New Year's is Japan's largest holiday and celebrated with family, I assume he's referring to the annoying aspects of large family gatherings. Think "obnoxious Thanksgiving dinner" for a US analogy.
[7] From Harmonious Cooperation when Hitoya is upset that Kuukou noticed him being out of sorts.
