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im moving back to my main blog i fear. i need to be proudly multifandom (i can’t interact with anything on this sideblog) @appleslic3 find me there….
every time someone brings up a physical fight irl i HAVE to reenact the akito punching scene from journey to bloom. my bad yall
boku no kamisama / city / haven / suresure <- life-changing comms. honorary mention passion at 25:00 and kashika and hug
under the haven NILFRUITS ver. MV on youtube there’s a long comment talking about how the appreciate that haven is an “ode to inferiority” and ohhhh that is so toya. he spent his life pressured to be the best, to never fall short of absolute perfection. now, he’s acknowledging that his dreams—even if others scoff at them, even if no one understands them— have inherent value. he realizes that it’s okay to be a flawed individual (“impatient and competitive, complaining over this and that”) and that doesn’t make him any less worthy of wanting. because a part of living is learning to embrace your inferiority, isn’t it?
VBS stands for Very Big Scare
i don’t have a top 5 pjsk commissions but i do have a top 4 and 3/4 of them happen to be from fifth rotation. fifth rotation peak
the vbs wl2 untrained for akito is so devastating.
he and toya are the DEFINITION of so close yet so far. same table, but as separated as they possibly could be. akito glancing out of the corner of his eye, because he can’t look toya directly in the face. toya putting a hand up while he’s talking to someone else looks casual, but every art choice is intentional— the back of his hand is facing akito as if to wall him out or keep him physically at arm’s length. even though akito has become successful in his own right, he is still in the background of his own card because TOYA is the one capturing his attention
i have complex feelings about the recent leo/need single (i don’t love either song yet i play both on loop)
My pjsk alt covers wishlist part 2
1. Hana ni Kaze - Akito or Toya or Akitoya
- they sound so good i need this alt to happen ASAP!! pretty sure that it will, since the general online sentiment seems to be that this was only a full group cover because it was released close to vbs wl2
2. Blooming in the Mud - Kanade or Mizuki
- i think they would have very different takes on it but both their voices sound so good in the original cover that i have no doubt the alts would HIT
3. Watashi wa Ame - Any n25 member
- realistically, this will be Ena and MAYBE another member 😭 i can’t believe this song doesn’t have alts other than Rin’s omg
4. D/N/A - Mizuki
- her lower voice in this song gets me EVERY TIME and im so upset that she didn’t get too many lines (partially owing to the song’s length). she needs a cover of it, then. right? right? ri
5. Eleventh - Airi
- her vocals are amazing in this song she deserves to showcase them in a cover. i think this will happen soon enough
6. Toumei Elegy - Ichika
- i need you all to leave her alone for not belting the chorus SHE SOUNDS GOOD please give her a chance. i love toumei elegy
7. Kousenka - Akito/Kohane
- let me dream. Akito’s “bad bad bad bad bad in the sky” line is one of the best in the song he sounds genuinely PERFECT. imagine the harmonies do you see my vision
8. Envy Catwalk - Shiho or Ichika
- i think if this song gets alts it’ll be some combination of these Shiho/Ichika/Saki (sorry Honami your voice doesn’t quite fit 😔) i think they’d all sound great tbh i just generally prefer Shiho and Ichika alts to Saki ones
9. All-Save Challenge - Rui or Emu or Emurui
- i think Rui has the perfect voice for this song tbh but I really desperately crave more lower register Emu because it’s so rare
10. Sympathy - Shiho
- that second verse was so phenomenal Shiho i know what you are capable of. i could see this changing my mind about the song i just need it to be real first 🙏
11 (bonus). if this happens my ears will leak smoke in disbelief but they need to REMAKE THE TRAFFIC JAM ALTS 😭 im crying those had so much potential but got totally slimed out by the mixing 😭 i remember when I was more into playing the actual game I bought the akian cover and would genuinely get mad whenever I played with it on 😭
my hot take is that i like the booo! april fools cover better than devil’s manner IM S🍅🍅🍅ORR🍅🍅Y THEY🍅🍅RE B🍅🍅🍅🍅OTH GOOD🍅🍅🍅🍅
my favourite akito hc that i see often in fics is that the sarcastic little voice in the back of his head is An. he’ll think something stupid and she will pop up in his head and tell him off 😭
recently saw someone on tiktok mention how akito is always crouching down in his cards and i don’t know how i’ve never realized. he is placing himself PHYSICALLY lower to mirror how he feels mentally lower, always catching up, not quite standing tall. i think Aki4 marked a reduction in his crouching cards, because he’s turning back at the viewer while running ahead, indicating that he’s moving past those feelings of inadequacy. instead of always being behind or below, he’s running forward for the first time.
How many crouching cards to be exact?
hi! so, preface: i did this by looking at pre-Aki4 cards (since i think Aki4 is a turning point in his story) and excluding 2- and 1- star cards because they physically cannot have crouching poses)
he has 5 crouching cards (tbh i almost counted his LUTF trained but i strictly didn’t count sitting-down cards), which is just under one-ninth of his cards pre-aki4! for comparison, Toya has had three crouching cards ever.
interestingly, his ONLY crouched-down card post-Aki4 is the trained card for his fifth event (Fuel Akito!!!) and imo this is the only crouching card in which he doesn’t look despondent but determined. in my eyes, this is a subversion of the usual crouching imagery (imagine crouching in preparation for a jump as opposed to crouching in submission) that is applied to him, which illustrates his growth as a character throughout the pjsk stories.
recently saw someone on tiktok mention how akito is always crouching down in his cards and i don’t know how i’ve never realized. he is placing himself PHYSICALLY lower to mirror how he feels mentally lower, always catching up, not quite standing tall. i think Aki4 marked a reduction in his crouching cards, because he’s turning back at the viewer while running ahead, indicating that he’s moving past those feelings of inadequacy. instead of always being behind or below, he’s running forward for the first time.
i am really bad at reading the actual pjsk stories. which is why “read light up the fire” is on my todo list nestled among 10+ items of schoolwork because how can i call myself an An fan without having read it smh. vivid bad squad full event stories reading coming soon [will do it later.] [will do it later.] [will do i
My pjsk alt covers wishlist, in no particular order:
1. Surges - Akito/Kohane or Toya/Kohane
- i just love the way their voices sounded together in that cover. but honestly i’d be happy with any pair of boy/girl duo alts
2. Call Boy - Akito
- i need it
3. Shama - Akito/An
- i know it is a wlw song im sorry. i would also love an anhane alt id also be happy. unfortunately i cannot get over the way akito sings the “sa marude inu ha, ha, ha, ha” line oml. also they need to pay eternally for traffic jam
4. Kibou no Tsuki - Ichika
- she sounded so good. she sounded so good. i’d also be ok with a honami alt for this one tbh but i wouldn’t say it’s On My Wishlist
5. Hanaobore - An/Kohane
- this could be THE anhane alt if they let it happen
6. Boku no Kamisama - Nene
- i think this alt is speculated to come out soon!! she sounds so so so so good
7. Ikiru - Kanade
- kanade (kusunoki tomori) can pull out some of the most emotional performances ever and i think an alt of ikiru would sound amazing
8. That Summer Saturates - Kanade or Mafuyu
- they sound so good i know this cover literally just came out shh
9. Eyelid - Rui or Nene or Ruinene
- a rui alt is the most plausible one for this song tbh but i can’t stop thinking about nene hypothetically singing luka’s parts
10. Dame Ningen Da! - Airi
- her voice suits this song so so much id love an alt
11 (bonus) Kosho Yashiki Satsujin Jiken - any duo alt
- this will not happen. i think the song is currently at its best with 5 singers and im not sure how it would work logistically with only 2; however, i irrationally really really really desperately want alts just to know what they would sound like
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while their dynamic is mostly defined by contrast, ena and mafuyu do have some things in common, the most apparent of these being that they're the two niigo members with Bad Parents. going a bit deeper, they both have parents who, in a way, destroyed their dreams.
beyond the morning is really interesting in how it explores both the similarities and the differences in their upbringings. ena is, as usual, struggling to understand mafuyu, currently wondering why she doesn't stand up for herself. but when len suggests that she's afraid of her mother rejecting her, ena immediately remembers what her father said to her that time. and she drops this gut punch of a line that i did not see coming:
for her to say this in the event where mafuyu is staying over because her chest felt cold at the thought of going home. ena usually acts so tough, it's easy to forget how deeply she was hurt back then, and now, it helps her understand mafuyu's feelings just a little bit.
but aside from this moment, most of the event serves to contrast the two families. even down to the background designs, the shinonome household is all warm oranges against the asahinas' cold grays. the siblings act outwardly hostile but clearly care about each other deep down, which is the inverse of how mafumom acts. even when ena's mom says something similar to mafuyu's about how her daughter's choices sometimes worry her, the vibe is so different that even mafuyu can tell there's nothing insidious going on.
one of the most interesting parts of the event is when ena asks:
it's the age old nature vs. nurture debate, and the story never really points toward a correct answer. however... pushing your ideals onto your child "for their sake"... shinei didn't NOT do that. obviously in a very different context than mafumom, but he did go off of his own beliefs about what it takes to be an artist to dictate ena's future (or lack thereof) because he decided he knew what was best for her.
honestly the biggest difference is that shinei is incompetent compared to mafumom. he could never pull off years of slow, subtle manipulation the way she did. perhaps as a result, ena never got to the point of forgetting about what she liked and wanted. the space that art fills in her life is the one thing ena has always had that mafuyu lost.
except, in beyond the morning, mafuyu is finally at a point where she does know what she wants to an extent. she wants to stay with niigo and make music, and also maybe become a nurse. so ena acts as a model for what the next step looks like. once you know what matters to you, how do you fight for that, even when people are trying to tell you no? that's exactly what mafuyu needs to do now, and it happens to be ena's specialty.