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Noiz Drama CD Translations
Noiz’s Drama CD compilation! Tracks were proofread by harukami who is a wonder and a delight. Noiz’s CD can be purchased from CD Japan or Amiami.
Please do not repost these translations without credit and please do not repost these translations with the full CD audio tracks attached. Posting translation snippets + audio is okay, but I would prefer if these are not posted alongside the full CD audio. Thank you!
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For any Ne Zha 2 fans and especially Oubing fans, may I recommend: Shangmei Oubing
Oubing (Ne Zha x Ao Bing) is probably the biggest ship in China right now. I'm sure we can all understand why. Soulmates, red blue, enemies to lovers, friends to lovers, angst, hurt, comfort, THE WHOLE PACKAGE DEAL.
Oubing is generally a very sweet, vanilla and heartwarming ship. For those of us that like the darker stuff, though, I have something for you: 上美藕饼, or Shangmei Oubing.
What TF is a Shangmei? Shang-mei is an abbreviation for Shanghai Animation Studio, a company that made many beloved animated childhood films in the 60s-90s. They made the most iconic Ne Zha film, which is the 1979 Ne Zha Nao Hai (Ne Zha Conquers the Sea).
In the 1979 version, Ne Zha and Ao Bing are definitely not friends. Ne Zha plucks out Ao Bing's tendons and skins and kills him, and Ao Bing eats children. Ao Bing 1979 is also kind of really ugly (his dragon form is really pretty though!)
This doesn't exactly seem like ship material right? You're correct.
BUT!
Shanghai released a short promotional video to celebrate a collaboration. The promotional video featured Ne Zha and Ao Bing from the 1979 version. In the video, Ne Zha didn't kill Ao Bing. No. In this video, Ne Zha and Ao Bing have a bit of a... scary dynamic.
You can probably find the video on Douyin or XHS, but in it, Ao Bing appears in a familiar-looking red wheelchair. He looks very different from his 1979 design- he looks more human, and he's in a half-dragon half-human form. Generally much prettier than his 1979 design.
Throughout the video, he wears a slightly terrified and miserable expression on his face. His phone screen is a selfie with him and Ne Zha in which he's smiling VERY awkwardly. Ne Zha, in fact, has opened up a seafood shop for the two of them.
Probably the biggest thing is that Ne Zha in this promotional video calls Ao Bing "Bingbing". Ao Bing also calls Ne Zha "Zhazha." So cute, right? Seems normal?
Well, in Ao Bing's phone screen saver, the selfie with him and Ne Zha involves him sitting on the wheelchair, smiling a pained smile. Ne Zha is hovering over his shoulder, smiling a very THREATENING smile.
Oh, and the wheelchair? The wheelchair isn't a wheelchair. It's Ne Zha's flying red sash, the Huntianling. Remember this sash obeys Ne Zha's will.
You can interpret this two ways.
Ao Bing has had a change of heart but is a little depressed because he's disabled now. He and Ne Zha are just good friends, and Ne Zha is taking care of him while also keeping a close eye on him to make sure he's not doing anything bad.
2. The popular interpretation.
Ne Zha, out of trauma (remember his dad is a huge asshole and he had to commit suicide very, very painfully) has formed an inappropriate attachment to Ao Bing, who is terrified out of his mind of Ne Zha, but is essentially prisoner because he can't even walk and is trapped within the red sash at all times.
Ne Zha forces Ao Bing to call him by a cutesy nickname, pretend that he loves Ne Zha, and essentially is speedrunning Stockholm Syndrome.
VERY toxic and very dark. Remember that Shangmei's Ao Bing is not a good innocent baby dragon- he eats children. Ne Zha is a protagonist who believes in justice, but he's also a kid who's been through a LOT of trauma and has never had a good family, whereas Ao Bing grew up cherished and loved.
For Ne Zha, this twisted love may be all he knows. For Ao Bing, he's terrified out of his mind, but knows he "deserves" this treatment- doomed to play happy family with his enemy, the enemy that crippled him.
I am NGL, I kind of like this dynamic. Being part of a big fandom is so satisfying. Whenever I'm full on sweet happy Oubing content I can switch to dark Shangmei Oubing content.
Shangmei Oubing is now one of the most popular ships in Ne Zha fandom. It's second only to regular Oubing. People also ship Ne Zha and Ao Bing in the 2021 New Gods Reborn movie: that ship is also really yummy. Oubing in general is yummy.
The dynamic I've seen the most often is as follows, with minor alterations depending on the specific fanwork:
After beating Ao Bing's ass, Ne Zha leaves him alive, but the rest of the myth and story proceed as usual (for the actual myth, see my Ne Zha post linked here). After Ne Zha commits suicide and is reborn in a body made of lotus roots, he ascends to godhood.
Ne Zha, traumatised and brimming with hate for his "father" Li Jing, searches for any source of love and affection he can find. He settles on Ao Bing, his old enemy- the little white dragon who was once so arrogant. He doesn't know exactly why: half jealousy that someone as evil as Ao Bing can have a better family than him, and half a desire for revenge since Ao Bing's death was what led him to have to commit suicide.
He kidnaps Ao Bing and keeps him captive on the red sash wheelchair. Ao Bing's father can't help him- he's already lost to Ne Zha multiple times, so Ao Bing can only resign himself to being Ne Zha's plaything.
Ne Zha, seeking love in any way he can get it, essentially begins to play house with Ao Bing- pretending they're best friends, calling each other cute nicknames (in some versions forcing Ao Bing to share a bed with him) and generally being very affectionate.
Ao Bing, terrified of Ne Zha, goes along and essentially lives a life of misery.
Ne Zha technically treats Ao Bing very well if he doesn't misbehave. If he does, however, well then...Ne Zha sometimes tortures Ao Bing emotionally (his trauma has made him ruthless and somewhat cruel) and humiliates him by making him crawl, since Ao Bing is now crippled. When Ao Bing cries or gets upset, Ne Zha tells him it's his penance for eating children.
Mpreg is a common tag, but more commonly it's Ao Bing finding some way to either commit suicide or he goes completely insane after years of living in fear. Ne Zha panics after seeing Ao Bing break down, and realises he's come to truly care for Ao Bing.
Toxicity adds flavour, everyone. Shangmei Oubing is actually so delicious.
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Aaaaaa, ILY Cupid, she had such a pretty design😭😭😭😭 I miss her a lot 🥺❣️
On IG I asked if anyone was interested in a redraw and everyone said yes. You might notice that I took some artistic licenses and it's not 100% the same as the original (below the cut), this time I wanted to pay more attention to the artwork and not the 3D design.
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THIS IS HEARTSLABYUL'S BATHROOM!!?!?!?!?!?!?
THEY MERGED THE QUEEN OF HEART'S CASTLE AND THE TALKING GARDEN WHAT ODFIJSLDFJSKFJ THAT'S SO PRETTY
IT WON'T EVEN SMELL LIKE YOUR TYPICAL BATHROOM BECAUSE IT'S SO CLEAN I BET IT SMELLS LIKE FLOWERS ALL THE TIME 😭😭😭😭
Btw I dumped all the Bkub TWST line stickers into my Googledrive too if people want them. They're the pop team epic artist.
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I don't normally do Just Characters Swearing, but. ...this kind of wrote itself and then wouldn't leave my head. it comes from both a piece of character-writing advice that has always stuck with me, and also my conviction that Leona is 1000% funnier as a character if his dialogue has to stay G-rated. let Kalim say fuck, but don't let Leona say bastard.
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Gathering all the meta re: plants' bioacoustics and how that is visually and auditorily represented throughout Trigun Stampede (2023) into one post 👇 👇 👇
Did you know that plants speak?
Stressed plants also cry out when injured or dehydrated, "[producing] ultrasonic noises that may be audible to animals and plants as far as 16 feet away."
Sound familiar?
As fellow plants, Vash and Knives are the only ones who can hear their sisters' cries.
"Vash, you must have heard them. Their screams." [...] "Didn't you hear them? Their dying cries?!" (S1, EP 9)
In an interview, Akira Kondo—the VFX artist for Trigun Stampede—confirms that Chladni figures were intentionally incorporated into the series.
Ernst Chladni (1756-1827) is regarded by many historians as the 'father of acoustics' for his seminal experimental work on vibrations. Chladni is best known for . . . his invention of a method for visualizing the patterns of vibrations on mechanical surfaces.
Chladni figures are the geometric patterns that appear on the sand in the opening sequence of Trigun Stampede.
A static version can also be found all over the plants' bodies, glowing on Vash and Knives's face (and presumably bodies as well since in a few scenes the markings clearly extend to their necks) when communicating/connecting directly with plants, and on the bodysuits the twins wear as children—which Knives continues to wear as an adult.
From the single close-up frame we have of Knives to compare, it appears that Vash and Knives's Chladni pattern is the same, which makes sense as they are identical twins.
As @marxistmandalorianndalorian put so beautifully in a two-Tweet thread:
"...[T]hese cymatic patterns are such a fascinating addition to the meta; how [Vash and Knives] communicate and/or interact with this plane of existence- a visual representation of their voices as plants [and] the frequency with which they resonate with the universe, or one another."
Because plants operate at a frequency that the human ear cannot detect, there is indeed logic to Vash being able to hear Zazie The Beast's buzzing sound.
Vash: "That unique mosquito sound... So you're the one controlling the Worms." Zazie: "That's odd. It should be inaudible to regular humans." (S1, EP 4)
In a 2019 study, scientists discovered that Oenothera drummondii flowers "can sense natural airborne sounds."
TikTok user @/cowboylivio astutely identified that the plants have a musical motif.
In a flashback of the twins' childhood on the Project SEEDS Ship, Vash says the melody just comes to him unbidden and feels familiar.
Knives: "What's that song?" Vash: "It just comes to me. It calms me down when I'm nervous. I feel like I know it from long ago." (S1, EP 12)
In the finale of Season 1, after Knives syncs with Vash to forcibly open his gate and access the dimension where the plants' core is located, Vash starts humming the melody again. Immediately after, you can hear the melody in the background music of that scene as Meryl struggles to climb the overgrowth of vines, trying to get closer to Vash and calling his name.
This "plant motif" is also represented in the OST on the track "KNIVES's Piano" by strings which can be heard starting at 1:38.
It's interesting that only Vash knows and hums the "plant motif," further reinforcing him as the twin who is more in-tune with his sisters (no pun intended).
Vash also seems to instinctually know how to calm and soothe distressed plants. We're never shown Knives communicating with the plants, so it's unclear if he's able to the way Vash is.
I just read an excellent post by @angstynai and am now obligated to add:
The "plant motif" that Vash hums in S1, EP 12 is also the same motif that he adds to the piano duet the twins play at the beginning of S1, EP 9.
Not only is the plant motif heard as strings in "KNIVES's Piano" at 1:38, it's part of the main piano composition itself so you can hear it right at the start of the song, as well as in the beginning of "Visitation of a Calamity."
If you listen closely at 0:23 of "Memory of Piano" you can hear the plant motif again as strings. You can also hear the first part of the motif as horns/brass in "Millions Knives" at 2:21 and 3:04.
All the OST tracks associated with Knives contain the "plant motif" in some way.
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