This event just never fails to kick me into this ship’s abyssal pit. They’re just so precious! Event chapter 4 was just so heart-warming, both insecure characters just throwing honest compliments at each other because that’s simply what they see in each other. And so much respect!
I’ve never seen Sayo’s icy wall thaw so fast. No prickly rebuttals or snappy remarks. Just respect. While Tsugu... precious Tsugu just can’t see anything but the best in this girl she had only interacted with for a few hours. And that’s just what Sayo needs, right? Acknowledgement and respect of her good points, no comparison with another person, no competition... just simple feel-good, confidence building time.
And before someone messages me later that Sayo also gets similar treatment in Roselia, I understand that. That’s her band after all, and no one else knows her better or spends time with her more. But let us all take a moment to appreciate prickly, sensitive, and usually defensive Sayo becoming completely at ease with someone else other than her band and her sister and enjoying it so much she went out with Tsugu at a later date. I’m just so happy to see Sayo’s character development okay!
And don’t even get me started on how happy Tsugu was upon realizing that someone as awesome as Sayo acknowledging her in return when she thinks so small of herself. These babies!!! ;A;
In three more days, I am returning to the US. I’m so excited! My work time here in the Philippines is done and it is time to go home!
Hopefully to be more active again once I do. Trying best not to think about all the stuff that needs to be done when I get back. x.x butbut! Good ol’ USA! I missed you! DX And your internet!
We shall see if accessibility would wake my writing muse from its two-year-old grave. If so, I will just stick with one-shots lmao! Commitment Issues -looks far away-
No, not the musical genre. I haven’t even played guitar in about....4 years. Anyway, I just wanted to ramble in the aftermath of losing all of my writing. Just a few days ago, the usb flash drives where I have kept everything I have ever written in the past six or so years died. And those were the back-up of the back-ups. So, here I am, suddenly feeling like the past six years never happened yet I find myself wallowing in some of the most interesting anime series I’ve found in the past two years (is that how long I’ve been deprived of anime? Holy--).
First is a series about ballroom dancing. Yes, ballroom dancing; waltz, foxtrot, tango, and all that. And it’s shounen, I think. Ballroom e Youkoso was amazing. It has a certain art style during the performances that people might not really like, but the plot makes up for anything visually off-putting. It’s still on-going too and I can’t wait for the next episode. Because, c’mon, the series already got the black-haired bishoujo, the adorable blonde loli, and the preview has a feisty redhead. I WANT ME A FIESTY REDHEAD!
And before you get the idea, no, it is not a harem series. Thank Madokami. Next is an anime about centaurs, satyrs, cat people, angels, demons and mermaids. Centaur no Namiya, at first, looked like a random crack series. I knew it was Slice of Life, high school setting, but what I didn’t expect is the relevance of its themes. This series about supernatural beings talks about racial and cultural tolerance, the horrors of war, art, sexuality, single-parenthood, interracial families, things that all of us can relate to. And what’s amazing about it, is that this series ain’t tongue-in-cheek. It tackles those themes head-on, sometimes uncomfortably so, but in a way that it should be talked about. It has its humorous moments of course (it’s bound to happen when the main character is a centaur…) but I haven’t encountered such a meaningful series in a very, very long time.
Anyway, I guessing this ramble just because an anime recommendation post. Haha! I suppose I also want to post something personal here instead of my endless reblogs. Without proper internet (still), reblogging is the only thing I can do sometimes. Oh well, I hope you guys would try those two series out. I can’t let them be underrated. C’mon, ballroom dancing!!!
Uta no Prince-sama - And I was holding my mouth for the first three episodes to stop myself from giggling. I’m just not used to seeing Bishies singing and dancing. XD! Butbut! It wasn’t so bad and I got used to seeing these pretty boys be pretty boys. It’s just so apparently shoujo that the plot moves at the pace of shoujo... like a snail.The main character takes some getting endeared to though. But maa... I’m just 10 episodes in the first season so who knows???
BanG Dream - So @athyrabunlord made me watch this supposed competitor to LLS (?). At first I’m like... noooo, no more idols because I’ve had my share of em but then she told me it has instruments. (Waifu knows my weakness, damn her) So I tried it out. It was... okay. It could be much better though. The ESP galore was great (I love that brand) and Saya (I apparently have a weakness to drummers) made me gay instantly caught my eyes. But... sigh... the series felt like swiss cheese at times, full of plot holes and wtfs. The character arcs could have been great too. (Why did Otae join again?) if given more TLC. What disappointed me the most, however, is the lack of actual instrument use. What was that, lack of budget? But I thought the series was big already ?_?. Anyway, like I said, could have been better. Hearing Mimorin and Soramaru (Umi and Nico from LL) randomly was a great experience too. It was like a game of “I know your....who are you dammit!” and then checking the VA list and feeling your eyebrow twitch at the realization.
‘Twas a good experience though and I enjoyed both series. If you have nothing else ot watch, check out... no matter how embarrassing watching a muscular bish rolling his hips at your in the OP sequence. I must say though, I might turn fujoshi at this rate. XD!
Note: Don’t take this seriously. This is just a product of my work-exhausted mind and the weird dreams I get because of my job. I apologize in advance because... I really cannot Aqours but this just fits a certain chuuni so much that I have... no choice???
Anyway, this is just a headcanon.
Yohane is a newly hired office lady in this large conglomerate so big that she had missed the whole mission of the company along the hiring process.
· She likes her job despite it being way too normal and boring and dull. Sometimes the only thing that kept her awake was the paper cuts she often gets whenever she nods off.
· She ends up liking her coworkers well enough. They were polite and helpful, though she often wonders why some of them give her an eerie feeling that makes the hairs on her arms stand on ends.
· She quickly befriends the stockroom supervisor, You, after being dragged unceremoniously from her lunch and into this hidden secret pantry where You and her friends dine. One of these said friends was this irritably normal printer girl Chika and well… Riko, who seemed odd in her own right. But that’s possibly only because of a suspiciously lavender not-notebook sticking out of her purse. Yohane swears that she saw R-18 encircled by a bold red mark at the edge.
· Anyway, she was finally getting settled in her work when she met a small young woman from three floors up named Hanamaru. She introduced herself as the secretary of the site’s Vice President and that she only came down because of some befuddling technical issues that caused the computers and printers to fail upstairs.
o Funnily enough, despite the hi-tech company, Maru seems to be very much impressed by the typically normal technology of the internet and wireless printing.
· Yohane’s gaze was caught by the other woman’s ID and lanyard. Maru must be a very old employee to have such an ID. It looks like it was the company’s version of the ID from a few years back. Even You and her friends don’t have such IDs even though they’ve been working in the company for a long time.
· Maru was so thankful of her help that from then on, she descends to the lower levels more frequently. Often, she reports some sort of anomaly but there are times when she would just sit with Yohane work wonders with the company advertisements.
· One day, Yohane brings Maru up to You, who doesn’t seem to know her. But then You claims that the upper offices rarely come down in person.
· Yohane and Maru grow close in a span of a month, forming a fun friendship. One day, Yohane invites her out during their days off. It wasn’t a date, she stressed, just an outing… with a movie and maybe dinner also.
o Maru shows up with still wearing her old ID and lanyard despite it being her rest day and not even being anywhere near the company building.
I know I said I’d swear off LL and thinking about anything remotely associated with it, but lo and behold, I’m here sitting at a net cafe talking about random headcanons with @athyrabunlord. -flips table!
There’s just something that tickles me about a Genderbent AU in which:
1. Ayase Ellis is a university professor, who is also a single father to a seven year old Mari. He is tasked to teach in Japan after his year-long sabbatical to mourn his late wife. Though stern and less happy than before, he absolutely adores his crazy little daughter, who... has him wrapped around her tiny pinkie. He tries very hard to be both mom and dad to the little girl, but she always--always-- outsmarts him somehow. He is perpetually worried that Mari is masking her own grief of losing her mom by pretending to be happy-go-lucky all the time. In reality, Mari is just worried about her papa so she tries very hard to be his little beam of sunshine everyday.
2. Nishikino Sonoda Umi is a college dean also readjusting her life. A mom of two and recently divorced, she is still reeling from her failed relationship with her ex-husband and trying her darn hardest to cope with the fact that she only has custody of one of her daughters. Always tired and stressed, she finds comfort in re-establishing her relationship with her oldest friends, Honou and Kotori, who she had inadvertently neglected during the last few years due to her strained marriage. Slowly, she is recovering, but she hopes that her firstborn, Kanan, is faring better as well. The little girl always looks forward to seeing her little sister, the six-year-old Riko, twice a month when the younger girl is allowed to stay with them for a weekend.
3. Yazawa Nico and Nozomi are the university favorites. They are always on the top profs list because of their shenanigans. These two have known Umi for a long time, almost as long as the latter’s career in the university, and have supported her in trying to patch things up with Macky, to no avail. Now, when they’re not teaching nonsense and shit during their classes, they look after Kanan and Riko whenever Umi needs babysitters. The two Nishikino girls adore playing with the Yazawa’s five-year-old, Yoshiko Yohane.
4. Nishikino Macky is Umi’s ex-husband. He has always been a person of conflicts. He has been forced to make very difficult decisions in his life, such as choosing between his passion for music and his family’s expectations, as well as his sexual orientation. Macky is gay, but he had tried his best to fit in a heterosexual world, marrying Umi out of genuine affections and respect. However, it affected him so profoundly inside that even with two beautiful children, he decided to dissolve the marriage. He cares for Riko the best he could, but being the head surgeon in his family’s hospital, he has very little time for his youngest daughter. He still strives to be a present father for both girls though, as much as he could.
5. Uh... KotoHono is married of course, with a tiny Yosoro You running around. Nothing about RinPana has been decided yet.
Two episodes in and I don’t know whether to cringe at the unnecessary lives of the race winners or cry like a proud momma cuz my bby Special Week is so adorable.
