Who do you think has the best room of the four crews?
um hmm! it's probably workers. these mfs rich enough to own cars and nice condo units and a fucking villa. samuel literally lives in cheongdam too and that's crazy 😭
the BH129 in one of the panels (see below) is probs a parody for PH129 aka the most expensive apartment. mans livin lavish
more rich!samuel panels for the seoussy enjoyers 🤤 (i'm very normal abt him)
also yoojin's got enough bribe money for everyone, owns cars for the workers, plays tennis, is able to contact vivi & mitsuki and other rich kids... literally more chaebol behavior than crystal atp.. he's pictured at these locations too which cld be his apartment. fancy shmency
meanwhile lua lives like this. dont even know if homegirl got a mattress and where does she do the research shit jake makes her work on 😭 like nice van babylove BUT you deserve better
altho i fw jake's traditional home too! his mom jos chillin w her bonsai trees and watering succulents.
not lavish, but peaceful in the very least. it's very fitting for him (and for gapryong), traditional home for ppl who's made marks in ppl's lives, as if the kim blood is of nobility (? what the fuck am i talkin bout) (you catch the drift)
im tired of the flavor of talking but hostel is literally THAT building (although sally's room probs cute) and idk where johan lives 😭 my hc is that their rooms aint better than these !
I remember you posted some screenshot of lookisn korean ver and differences of how each character of big deal calls each other.
I'm wondering if you knew what Daniel calls gun in korean ver? especially after/during the training? is it some form of sir? hyung?
oh kinky ... but u got me researching, and here's what i got? and also i really can't understand korean (i can just read the alphabet so i can make out some of the words), so i won't be able to tell if stuff are spoken formally/informally orz (i see a lot of -yo in his speech towards gun so that's formal but u know.... pls don't trust me)
short answer: no he doesn't call him anything special im so sorry (as per my research?)
a lil longer: because the snippets of guniel training arc that we have are always in medias res... like it's gon be a lil weird to suddenly address someone when you're in the middle of convo (like that mid-shower scene)? but yeah. speech during those times are focused on the things gun tells him, and less of a convo.
gun also just says "park hyungseok" when he's calling him, but i really don't see much panels where daniel is the first one to call him. i haven't even seen panel where gun just says "hyungseok" (w/o his last name)
a cut so we don't leave empty-handed:
if anything he doesn't use -ssi w/ gun so it's less formal, but it's like... acquaintance speak i guess?
not guniel but in 4A arc, big daniel has decided to address goo informally (im literally just dropping this info for more brain worms, in case it sparks something ykno)
that's all for now! i'll let you know if i find anythign else hehe
if anyone besides kae is reading, here's the previous thinkpiece abt translations and all that: (link opens to another blog post)
What would you do if Jake crawled into your bedroom from the window and then he wakes you up but you realise it isn't Jake it's actually aan alternate imitating Jake and then you run away into a dark alley and bump into Jang Wonyoung and she tells you you make her feel like eleven and then Kazuha kicks you and you fall into Changbins arms but he's too busy focusing on Omg By newjeans
audio on to cleanse ur mind cus wtf u talkin bout.. nawt kazuha kicking me as if we haven't antititifragile together
my all-time #1 is from Great Teacher Onizuka. like i love the track and love the visuals despite it being an old anime. actually discovered the song before even finding out it was frm an anime and i was surprised tbh. happy to report that gto also became one of my fav animes so !! 🫶
the rest under the cut!
(some of them are kinda essay-ish so it's a long read, but rest assured i get tired of talking at some point)
quick sidenote that i've stopped watching anime for like a good chunk of my life zzz so i might have missed out on a lot of them/forgotten most of them? don't shoot me for having limited selection 😭 tried to make it as diverse since i just have 10 spots but tbh it's so hard cus i clearly have a certain preference for rock/math rock for anime openings so ??
↳ this track + video really just has a chokehold on me. it's the coolest thing in existence imo. i cannot stress enough that it feeds you both in visuals and in audio !! i've alrd talked abt this above so we skipping the essay for her. watch gto!
↳ plz before i get called a cheater, these two tracks kinda sound the same because it's the same vocalist (TK is him as a solo artist, LTS is the band). unravel (tokyo ghoul) beats abnormalize (psycho pass) when it comes to audio, but visual-wise i just dig the art for psycho pass's OP more. like yeah the art for tokyo ghoul opening is much more of a feast to the eyes and the animations slap, but psycho pass as an anime entirely hits different to me.
↳ visuals-wise it's normal (pls it's the type of OP that feels like a spoiler if u watch it wtf 😭 but it really doesn't spoil anything). i'm just in love with this because it works well as an opening song, but also works for fight scenes (kinda like unravel).
whoever is behind bungou stray dogs sure did a great job of inserting the opening song in the middle of the episode. like i rmr getting confused there hasn't been an opening yet few mins into the episode, and then there it is in the fight scene itself. it gets a 10/10 in versatility because it just always fits all throughout the season.
↳ never beating the cheating allegations bc here we are again with a tie. in my defense, asian kung-fu generation anime openings r really fuckinnnn good. visually it's haruka kanata (naruto) for me especially cus of the team 7 snippets, but audio-wise rewrite (fma) is something i'll never get tired of listening to. makes me feel like i'm a main character smoking after i just beat up dozens of guys. (i didn't watch fma though zz but for some reasons i know of this song)
↳ durarara!! is one of my all-time fav animes tbh and this opening just gives the proper vibes for it. drrr's storytelling is very non-linear (rashomon effect/method forgot the literary term) where you get different povs from each character before it culminates into one event, and this song feels like that? it feels like i'm in the middle of tokyo piecing together all the stories i've gotten and then getting sudden clarity.
↳ someone recommended jujutsu kaisen to me way back and ngl i'm a serial anime opening skipper but i was just physically unable to skip this one every time. like? even the visuals go hard. eventful anime opening for such an eventful anime tbh.
↳ proud to be one of the ppl who actually know abt this song from bakemonogatari itself 😭 tbh the anime's opening songs don't really go hard even if it's that kind of genre. i honestly like bakemonogatari though and it was funny to me that all the ops were cutesy despite it being a mystery show.
it's quirky yet still fits the premise of the series, like mc just bickers with some people he meets and then boom suddenly he's covered in blood. shoutout to shaft studio because they're just a master of absurd anime. like yeah there are fight scenes but ?? the way it's not even the main point of the show is fun to me.
↳ plz an iconic opening for an iconic anime (ohshc) 🌸 !! growing up this anime had a grip on me, as well as that "kiss kiss fall in love!" in the beginning. free serotonin tbh, the anime and this op.
↳ used to know this word-for-word... help. this doesn't sound like the type of ops above but it's really catchy. naruto ops slap that's that on that
↳ brooooo the vibes of this song... it makes me feel powerful. and a lot just happening in the entire song, kinda like tokyo revengers fr 😭 like the sound changes in the middle of the song and it confuses me but it's so good (again, kinda like tokyo revengers itself)
anyways, waiting for ur list! <3 thank you for ur interest in the shit i say
oki i finished, my bad if it's super long but i think you signed up for that by asking me. like i just don't ever give a simple answer ever i get too excited, and next thing i know it's too late to regret lmfaooo
wish i can include more but this was already physically hard for me to type bc i know im letting go of my other favs 😭
also didn't care about kwak jihan until I saw him clothed.. I swear now it's more of how ptj draws men too shredded in his curreny style to my liking that I'm like :( when I first saw him...
kae i was planning for a short answer but the ask box hits different so here i am typing an essay i am sorry you can scroll down to the last paragraph for the jihan-related answer IT'S REALLY FINE I JUST BE TALKING
see i'm quite conflicted because in the old art style, they're mostly drawn as kpop boys, and big daniel was just that hot body counterpart who's more of a model who's treated better because he's handsome (aka the point of lookism) than a fighter (how did we even get here?!)
but the manhwa became a fighting/martial arts manhwa so suddenly an influx of muscles 😭 big daniel's body doesn't change even if he eats a lot in that body, but illogically it can grow massive pectorals and biceps?! i feel like the entire lookism manhwa is just ptj's anatomy study sketchbook atp 💀
i feel like that's why as a reader too, the introduction of samuel & jake2.0 hits different (like finally some bara). for a long time we just had agile fighters like johan and eli and while nothing's wrong with that, the muscly guys were sort of something fresh for the readers.
i enjoy the nuances and differences in the design tho, the way some fighters are muscly and some w more athletic body types like johan, first gen dilfs built like bears, etc. (my only gripe is dg's art changing a lot, even his body type) feel like musclemen made more sense to ptj since they were on the countryside, and they were yapping about 'hard work' too much as in... physical work
jihan was just... uninteresting for me in the very beginning because he got that sleaze/playboy/teasing archetype and that's already being played by samuel. (sry im samuel lover, nobody shoot me nor even try to disagree. they jus have same vibes).
also the archetype, in my expert opinion (lol), is more effective clothed. (obvious biased, self-serving opinion bc character design is one of my fav aspects of lookism) (omg, maybe that is why this post got long)
really excited how jihan's gonna differ from samuel (or even ryuhei if ptj decides to make him a lil goofy/unserious)
🚫 non-kaes that are minors who made it up to this point stop reading
frottage. like if it's that archetype then they have to be suited for frottage, wtf will he tease with when he's in a birthday suit
i just got back from a lil hiatus cus i went on a trip!! kinda left my soul there so i’m literally confused on how to run this blog again lmfaooo i have zero thoughts at the moment 🫣 just relying on my drafts/queue
hbu hru! haven’t seen you on the dash for so longgg
