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talinexa · 5 years

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Prompt from Here! (There are actually two prompts from that list in this piece ;-P Happy hunting.) I need some softness right now. Also I have an actual design for Stardrop if anyone ever wants to see

I sat in the bay window of one of the several playhouses on the play island, one leg dangling toward the floor, the other up so I could rest my elbow on my knee. The sun was setting, casting its beautiful colors and subdued light over the Destiny Islands. I’d cast off my elbow-length jacket and left it in a heap on the floor, but kept my fingerless gloves on. It had been a while since I’d been back home.

The wood creaked somewhere behind me.

I turned.

“Thought I’d find you up here,” Riku said. “This was always your favorite spot.”

I smiled. “Well, people don’t change much. The sunset is beautiful tonight.”

“Mm. Yeah,” Riku remarked, not looking away from me to see the sunset.

“Here. Let me move so you can sit and watch with me.” I moved to adjust my seat, but Riku raised a hand to stop me.

“Wait, let me get a picture of you there.”

“What?”

He pulled out his Gummiphone. “Look back out the window and sit how you were.”

I put my elbow back on my knee and gazed out the window. I heard Riku’s camera shutter snap. Then the creaking of the floorboard again and another shutter. I turned. “Happy now?” I asked.

“Of course. The lighting was really nice and you looked so photogenic in that position.” He crossed the room and sat next to me in the bay window, giving me a moment to make room for him. “Been a while since we watched a sunset together from here,” he commented casually.

A while translated to a couple years, at this point. “Yeah,” I agreed. “I’ve missed it. Remember when we used to hide from Sora and Kairi in here, waiting for them to finally admit they liked each other?”

Riku started laughing. “Oh yeah,” he said.

We went quiet for a moment. “I miss those days,” I muttered. “Before all the crazy and the Keyblades happened.”

“Me too. Life seemed so simple then. We just wanted to explore the worlds.”

“Yeah... but with that raft... we would have been dead within a week.”

“I never said we were smart kids.”

I started laughing. “Fair enough.”

The sun made its last dip to the horizon and vanished. Beams of scarlet shot through the deep blue sky that was slowly turning black.

“C’mon,” Riku said, getting up and offering me a hand. “Let’s get down to the boats before it gets too much darker. If you want, I’ll tie yours to mine and row you back.”

I chuckled and let him help me up. “Always the gentleman,” I teased.

He scooped up my jacket and threw it at me.

We strolled down the hill of the play island to the docks. Riku helped me into my boat before hopping into his. He ran a hand through his short, spiked hair and took up his oars. I grabbed mine too and we worked our way away from the dock toward the main island. Once we made it past the strongest waves of low tide, Riku threw a little rope to my boat. “I can row myself back,” I protested.

“Just tie it to the spike on your bow,” Riku said with a smile. I rolled my eyes and tied the rope.

“Let me---” I began.

“No, no. Let me. I like doing this. It’s honestly not much harder. Water is really good for reducing overall weight of something and momentum makes it so I can barely feel that I’m rowing with more.”

“Nerd,” I teased.

“Just take some time to relax, okay?”

“Okay. For now.”

I let Riku row me across the water between the play island and the main island, sitting so I was facing him. He smiled at me.

“Y’know,” I said after several moments of conversational silence, “I like your hair short.”

He grinned. “Thanks,” he replied. “Takes some, uh... takes some getting used to. I had it longer for so... well, long, that the short feels bizarre. Like, light, I mean. There’s not as much weight on my neck.”

I shook my hair---longer than his ever got---off my shoulder. “I know exactly what you mean,” I said. “Back when we were ten and I cut my hair short, I felt so weird until it started getting longer and heavier again. Like my head would detach from my neck and float away.”

“Yes! That’s exactly how it felt.” Riku beamed at me.

When we were younger, before everything adventurous, Riku’s smiles had always been full of mischief. Genuine ones were rare. It was like seeing a meteor shower---beautiful but uncommon.

I glanced up at the sky. The last rays of sunlight had faded. The moon was rising, reflecting off the surface of the waves in a huge patch of glistening white. The stars were out, glittering on the blanket of blackness that was the night sky. I smiled. “The stars are beautiful tonight. Really bright.”

“The stars wish they were as bright as you.”

“Huh?”

“Nothing. Sorry. Talking to myself,” Riku said.

We were quiet for most of the rest of the way to the main island. When we got near enough to ride the waves to the beach, Riku pulled in his oars. Once his boat slid into the sand, he jumped out and pulled it out of the way to help me. As the waves pushed my boat up the sand, he grabbed it---ignoring the fact that I was still in it---and pulled it out of reach of the tides. Once it was safe, he helped me out of it.

“Let me walk you home. It’s dark,” he said.

“Thanks,” I replied. “While we’re walking, show me that picture you took of me back at the playhouse.”

Riku just smiled. It was the smile full of mischief from our younger days. “Later, I promise,” he said. “Don’t wanna get distracted when it’s dark. Darkness is dangerous.”

I scoffed. “There’s, like, no crime on the islands and we could handle any stray Heartless that happen to manifest,” I remarked.

“Still. Better not to get taken by surprise.”

“Fine. That’s a good point.”

We moved to head up the hill toward the town. The hill wasn’t terribly steep, but it was always an irritating hike. I wondered if it was old habit or chivalry that had Riku putting his hand on the small of my back and pushing me up the hill. He’d done it many times before when we were younger and Sora and I would complain about the hike.

Back then he wasn’t as gentle though. It used to be a more playful shove up the hill.

When we got to my house, the porch light was off. I glanced up at the moon and back to Riku. “Thanks for walking me back,” I said. “And thanks for the push up the hill.” I giggled.

Riku smiled. “Well, it’s my job as the strong one of the group to push you guys when you feel like you can’t keep going.”

“Oh come on---we all know the strong one is Kairi.”

That made Riku snort. “True,” he conceded playfully. “Goodnight. I’ll see you tomorrow.”

He waved. I waved back as he headed off. “Night!” I called quietly.

***

I barely stepped out of the shower, hair bound up in a towel, when I got a notification on my phone that Riku had tagged me in a post.

Upon opening it, I saw that it was the picture he’d taken of me in the playhouse. Looking out over the island and the ocean, dark orange rays of sunset bathing my face and bringing out the tiniest sheen of orange in my hair. The subdued light washed out most of the harsh lines shadow left on my face, giving me a soft look. It was, in fact, an incredibly photogenic picture.

Destiny Islands’ sunsets are beautiful, but even those pale in comparison to her. #LifelongFriend #Aesthetic #Beautiful #DestinyIslands #Sunset #MyBestGirl

I felt my ears grow warm and texted him.

Me: Charmer.

Riku: ???

Me: The post?

Riku: Oh. Well. I meant every word. G’night.

Me: Night. Sleep well. Talk tomorrow.

Riku: Definitely.

Smiling, I put my Gummiphone on my bedside table and snuggled down for the night.

If I dreamt, I don’t remember anything from it. Sometimes, after all the adventures, I woke up in a cold sweat after nightmares in the middle of the night. Usually I was okay, but occasionally I saw Riku getting possessed by Ansem in the Hollow Bastion Keyhole room. Other times I saw Kairi getting slashed across the back by Xehanort. And yet other times, I saw Sora getting killed hundreds of times over by all the enemies we faced on a day-to-day basis.

But that night, my sleep was dreamless. Hours upon hours of empty void.

I woke up the next morning to a text from Kairi.

Kairi: SINCE WHEN ARE YOU AND RIKU A THING?

Me: ??? We’re not???

Kairi: I SAW HIS POST!

Me: Kairi, he’s just being silly. A bit dramatic for the sake of entertaining.

Kairi: -_- That’s not true. I bet he likes you.

Me: 50 munny says you’re wrong.

Kairi: I’m training with him later today on the beach of the play island. I’ll ask him then. You’re so on. I’m going to be 50 munny richer by sunset.

Me: Haha. We’ll see.

Kairi: See you later to pick up my winnings.

Me: Bye Kairi.

I put my Gummiphone down on my bedside table again and got out of bed. Quickly, I changed out of my pajamas and into some normal clothes. I was still a bit tired but there was stuff that I needed to do. After several years of adventuring, business at home was crazy. Sora, Riku, and I all had nearly two years of school to catch up on. Kairi had missed less than one and had caught up fairly quickly.

Once I was ready, with my hair brushed and clothes on, I had a quick breakfast, brushed my teeth, and went running out the door, slinging my backpack on. “Bye Mom! Love you!” I shouted as I yanked the front door open.

“Bye sweetheart!” Mom called. “Have fun at school!”

“I will!” I shut the door behind me and whirled to go jogging down my street.

And ran right into someone. “Oof! Morning.”

“Riku! Morning!” I exclaimed. “What are you doing here?”

“Just thought we could walk to school together.”

“Oh. That’s a great idea,” I said with a smile. Riku offered me his arm. I looped my arm through his and we headed off for school. I fidgeted with my tie with my free hand. I’d never been particularly good at tying them, even after years of practice, and my two-year break to go save the worlds hadn’t helped my fingers’ inability to tie a tie.

We were quiet as we walked down my street. Riku’s family didn’t live far, and neither did Sora’s. We were all pretty close.

“It’s weird to be back at school,” Riku said. “It feels so...”

“Boring? Unimportant?” I suggested.

“I guess. Kinda. We’ve had the safety of the worlds riding on us for so long now that sitting in a classroom just feels almost too easy. Too relaxing. Like, I’m constantly on-edge just waiting for a massive Heartless to tear the door down and attack the classroom.”

“I feel the same. I’ve already broken two pencils from clenching them as hard as I do my Keyblade’s hilt. I keep waiting for my pencil to transform into my Keyblade because there’s a threat in the hallway.”

Riku nodded in agreement. “That’s why you and I sit so close to the door, huh? To protect everyone else,” he said.

“Yeah,” I replied. “Because if something happened, we’d be the only ones who could in our class.”

Riku nodded. We rounded the corner closer to the school building. I half-expected Riku to let me go. We weren’t an item and being seen walking together arm-in-arm would start rumors that we were.

But he didn’t. We just kept walking. Other kids---there weren’t that many on the island---were making their way to the school too.

Riku didn’t let me go until we sat down---next to the door---in our first class of the day. We sat next to each other and didn’t really talk to anyone. These were kids, in the class with us, who’d been two grades below us growing up. But since we’d missed so much, we were catching up with them. We didn’t know the others particularly well and so we kept to ourselves in the back of the room.

Riku and I shared a look of understanding and settled in for class.

I twirled my pencil between my fingers. Riku bounced his leg. We were both nervous and restless. Had been for a few months while we waited. Neither of us were even sure what we were waiting for. The next crisis, I supposed.

When I caught a glare from a classmate, I set my pencil down and started drumming my fingers on my leg to keep it quieter. I’d spent two years or so wired and ready to jump into battle at any moment that sitting in a classroom was getting monotonous and, frankly, somewhat terrifying.

Because the longer nothing happened, the bigger the something that would eventually happen.

Riku reached under our desks and grabbed my hand to stop my drumming. “It’s okay,” he whispered, so quietly he was basically mouthing it.

“I know,” I replied. “Just waiting for it all to go wrong.”

“Me too.” He gave my hand a reassuring squeeze and a nod. I nodded back, taut and terse.

***

Riku peeked at her out of the corner of his eye. She had gone back to paying attention to the teacher’s lesson. Since she’d been glared at for twirling her pencil and he’d taken her hand to calm her drumming, he could see her toe tapping in her shoe.

Part of him didn’t want to look away. She looked the same now as she had bathed in the light of the sunset. Absolutely stunning, even if her expression was tense and worried.

She glanced over. Before she could turn to face him, he went back to looking at the teacher.

She let go of his hand under the desk in order to take up her pencil and take notes. She bumped her knee to his to reassure him she was still there and scratched away in her notebook.

***

I sunk my Keyblade into the sand, leaned on it, and looked out to the horizon where the water met the sky. A few stray hairs were stuck to my face from sweat, but that was what happened when I ran drills in the late afternoon on a tropical island. I’d grown up on the islands and, let me just say, visiting Arendelle was torture for me if I didn’t have at least two coats on.

“Well, we survived another day of school,” Riku remarked. I jumped and whirled to see him approaching. Braveheart, his new Keyblade, was nowhere to be seen. He wasn’t planning to spar with me just yet, then.

“Yeah,” I grunted, looking back to the sea and leaning even more heavily on my Keyblade. It sunk further into the soft, dry sand.

I heard Riku’s camera shutter go off again. I peeked at him to see his Gummiphone turned toward me. When he realized I caught him, he gave me a somewhat smug smile and put the Gummiphone back in his pocket. He shrugged. “Can’t help it. You look so nice today.”

I snorted. “Sweaty and nervous. Got it. My best look.”

“C’mon,” he enticed, mildly irritated. “You know that’s not what I meant.”

I met his eyes. “Maybe not; but you certainly have odd timing for taking pictures.”

He shrugged, a small smirk playing on his face. “Candid pictures always look the best. It’s just... natural, I guess,” he said. He patted the Gummiphone in his jacket pocket and slid it off. With a flick of his elbow, the jacket got thrown to the side, draping itself over a ramshackle fence that kids long before us had built at the back of the beach. Leaving Riku in just the white, sleeveless V-neck shirt he usually wore after school. Revealing exactly how muscular he was.

With a bright flare of light, Braveheart appeared in Riku’s hand and he bent into his fighting stance.

I twitched, remembering Vanitas dropping into an extremely similar pose.

Shaking my head to clear it, I pulled my Keyblade from the sand and struck my stance.

Riku smirked. “Gonna fight me?” he teased.

“Gonna beat you,” I retorted with a grin.

That made both of us laugh. We both knew Riku was stronger than I was---and a much more skilled Keyblade wielder. I wasn’t going to beat him. Not in this lifetime anyway. No matter how hard I worked, he always beat me.

But... there was a reason he was a Keyblade Master and I wasn’t yet.

“Show me what you got,” Riku prodded. I smiled.

Feinting right, I attacked left. Managing to give Riku a good whack in the back.

The visceral reaction that caused made me desummon my weapon. He cried out and fell to his knees in the sand, Braveheart disappearing in a flash of light.

I desummoned my Keyblade and dropped to my knees next to him. “Riku? Are you okay? What was that about?” I demanded, grabbing his upper arm gently to keep him from faceplanting. The hot sand burned at the exposed skin on my legs, but I ignored it.

He shook his head, pushing his hand through his hair. “It’s fine. It’s just---” He cut himself off and reached back.

With a few tugs, he untucked the white shirt from his blue trousers, revealing a long scar over his lower back---almost exactly where I hit him, but angled slightly off.

I gasped. “Riku... I’m sorry---I didn’t know---”

“It’s fine,” he said through gritted teeth.

“Is that...?”

“Xemnas hit me with one of his ethereal blades. In the nothingness. It was just me and Sora. Sora was down and I---well. You know me. I would gladly give my life for Sora’s a hundred times over if it meant he could save everyone and everything.”

I reached out but stopped short of touching Riku’s skin. “I’m so sorry, Riku. I wouldn’t have---”

“I know. You didn’t mean to. It just gave me a... a flashback I guess,” Riku said.

“Let’s not spar today,” I said. “Let’s just go sit on the paopu tree and watch the tides and not think on what’s happened to us for the last two years. How about that?”

Riku clenched his jaw. Braveheart reappeared. He drove it into the sand and used it to stand up. “No. If I can’t work through it in training, there’s no way I’ll be able to work through it in actual combat. Just try not to hit me there again, okay?”

“I’ll try, really hard,” I said.

Riku nodded. “’Kay.”

I stepped back a few steps and summoned my Keyblade. Stardrop was a beautiful weapon. A star-shaped hilt and blue-fire as the “teeth” of the key. The keychain was a shooting star. I loved my Keyblade. It fit me perfectly.

Riku nodded. “Let’s do this,” he said.

We sparred, laughing at each other and ourselves as we did so. We liked to tease and goad each other. It was mutually consensual.

After a few minutes, Riku knocked me to the sand, landing on top of me and leveling Braveheart at my throat. “Noble effort, but not quite there yet,” he said. Panting, I nodded and shoved him off.

“I know. I’m working on it,” I said.

Riku laughed and offered me his hand. I took it and let him help me stand up. “You are doing better.”

“Thanks.” I shook my head. “Gonna be washing sand out of my hair for the next week,” I muttered.

Riku grimaced. “Sorry.”

“Don’t worry about it. Occupational hazard.”

We made our way to the paopu tree and climbed up to sit on it. Riku generally tended to lean against the bend in the trunk, but this time he climbed up next to me.

We watched the waves for a while. The sea breeze was pleasant and the afternoon cooled off to evening.

Riku set his hand on my knee. “Thank you for understanding.”

“Well... we all have bad feelings relating to what’s happened in the past.”

“Yeah... I appreciate it though,” Riku said. “I... it means a lot to me that you’re always here for me.”

“Thanks, Riku,” I said. I set my hand on top of his on my knee. “I appreciate you always keeping an eye on me and making sure I’m safe.” I glanced over at him. His eyes were turquoise in the deepening light.

I pulled out my Gummiphone and took a picture of him looking out to the sunset.

He glanced over at me, raising his eyebrows.

“What? I had to take a picture of you there,” I said playfully.

Riku just chuckled and shook his head. “Fair enough. Just don’t post it.”

Biting my lip, I slid my Gummiphone into my pocket. I leaned over to him, kissed his cheek, said, “No promises,” jumped off the tree, and ran for the docks.

I heard Riku shouting my name, but I surprised him and had a head-start.

#Picture #Riku #Riku Imagine #Riku FanFiction #Kingdom Hearts #KH #Tal writes #KH Imagine #KH FanFiction #Kingdom Hearts Imagine #Kingdom Hearts FanFiction #might do a part 2 where a Heartless attacks class

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Girls’ Last Tour 1 - 2 | Juuni Taisen 4 - 5 | Ancient Magus’ Bride 2 - 3 | Idolish7 1 - 2

The only one I’ve properly kept up with out of my 5 shows this season is Juuni Taisen, so I’m going to roll out the tag for that show first. Also, the Idolish7 first two episodes became free recently so I cover them here too.

Girls’ Last Tour 1

Pipes…grunge…hey, doesn’t this look familiar? *glares at Princess Principal*

I’ve only seen one episode of Made in Abyss but I get a bad feeling about these character designs…

I’m worried about this falling into the Yuri Divide. Sure,the fandom can do what it wants, but please don’t ship the lolis.

Oh right. Wind, meaning there’s an opening somewhere.

That dramatic eye opening made the outside world seem like an anticlimax. C’mon, show. You can do better than that.

I feel like Chito says “shut up” a lot, even though she’s only said it twice. I get how she’s kind of relatable, but this show’s not on the level of MMO Junkie or even Juuni Taisen. It’s just kinda…average.

Did Tangled ever teach you how to use a pan, Yuu?

Everything’s kinda WWI-esque. It’s kinda unsettling for a person who’s never properly seen war.

Even in this snowy world, you could still learn to hunt and cook, right?

If you kill your friend in a post-apocalyptic world, you’ll be lonely by war. Don’t kill each other, kiddos. Lives are precious.

This is serious, kiddos! C’mon!

Eating snow is meant to quench your thirst, but it’s not any good for hunger. Apparently.

Well, I’m quite lukewarm on this. I’ve already found my seasonal hits and I study globalisation, so it’s no surprise I find this stuff a lot like my weekly content. Nonetheless, whoever decided to put Classicaloid behind a paywall’s gonna have to pay (pun not intended)!

Girls’ Last Tour 2

I half expect a “hey you!” joke but they don’t work in Japanese…

What are the wiggly things on the ground next to Chi and Yuu in the OP??? Leeches???

Oh geez. Now they even draw cleavage on the lolis. Meaning these guys are just drawn young. That’s both a good and a bad thing.

Those letters seem to be…no language in particular.

Book burning. What a thing to throw in.

Oh. The blocky writing is actually hiragana or katakana. You just need to look at it closely.

I think that was meant to be comedy…but it was so cruel. Poor book.

I think what they’re saying is “don’t burn history”, but I think we learnt that a long time ago when the Chinese burnt books.

Maybe if these gals had Bear Grylls they’d survive a bit longer…?

Lemme guess: either Yuu burnt them all, destroyed them all or read them all.

The original joke was gomen wa, where ne is similar to wa. At least, I think it’s a wa. It could be a re.

The red circle said Yuu wrote the me wrong, so it’s actually probably gonun ne.

Well, someone funded a sakuga ending. Like the one from ACCA with dancing Lotta.

Juuni Taisen 4

I find it heavily symbolic that Nezumi likes eating eggs. Eggs represents chickens…and conundrums…

Ooh…bam. Nisio Isin’s going the Middle Eastern proxy route.

Hmm. Interesting, it’s basically Bystander Effect: the War.

The anime’s currently ahead of the manga, so I got slightly startled by Boar’s appearance. However, I’ve read some spoilers elsewhere, so I knew she was going to be in Monkey’s story somewhere else. I just didn’t think it was this soon.

Recycled footage…bad show! Bad!

LOL, CGI tank. Sorry for ruining the mood, but that stood out a bit too much for my liking.

“…participation is mandatory…” – Huh. I never saw that detail coming.

“Ow. I thought you were against violence.” – (LOL.) Yeah, but apathy isn’t good when something’s coming to get you in the sewers, so I’m with Monkey on this.

Wa-wait! Y’mean, Rabbit can use Chicken to use Eye of the Cormorant…so Monkey will die this ep??? [Monkey dying]’s exactly what I’ve been fearing for the duration of this episode. Update: If you want the spoiler version from the end of the ep…she didn’t die.

Notice Monkey uses moves that use the strength of her opponent against her. It’s a very pacifist touch, so to speak.

There are a series of images that flash by before the casual clothes part of the ED. If you observe them closely, you’ll see a lot of them involve the number 12. (Example: the cubes have lines on them that read “12”.)

LOL, I think I only just now spotted the bodyguard behind Boar. He’s hard to spot behind all the splatter.

Home boy and his T-bars make me laugh every time. Then of course, there’s Mr Floofy Jacket.

Oh, it’s Duodecuple who’s doing these next ep previews. I couldn’t figure out who it was last time I tried.

Juuni Taisen 5

Genius, with a capital letter? They keep calling him the Genius of Slaughter in his backstory, so I guess that’s where it’s from.

A Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing is the same in Japanese as it is English, so at least the pun is there.

LOL, this episode is pretty much all “stuff goes kaboom!”, and that’s pretty much the way of the Sheep. Haha.

Of mice and men, eh??? (I read enough spoilers to know who the victor is…but I don’t know how they win.)

Whoa, yeah, baby! Bring that action! (That happens to be exactly the way I imagine my own action stories – from the front seat, so to speak.)

The snake’s winking! So cute! I want me some plushies like those!

Old-Timer. Haha, great pun on so many, many levels.

Ancient Magus’ Bride 2

I started doing a productivity blog and got caught up in it so much, I neglected anime! Imagine that – me, neglecting anime!

Oh, there’s a little “open” sign near the door.

It’s anime Hogwarts! Only the train is more colorful…LOL. (Actually, Little Witch Academia is anime Hogwarts, so scratch that.)

Ooh, Elias has a good taste in faces. Not that I’m complaining or anything. (Looks like En-chan, to boot.)

Elias is like the NEET genius of the magic world here. It’s kinda funny.

What’s a Gem’s Bee? (No spoilers, I’m not a manga reader!)

Angelica’s like her (Chise’s) mother, LOL. Seeing Elias properly emote is hilarious, hilarious! (Why I procrastinated on this show? Because it’s a slow mover that should be appreciated in its own time, but I’m not good with binging so…that’s why I’m only watching it now.)

Oh! No wonder Angelica seems like a mother. She is a mother.

Ooh! Ice flowers. Pretty. I’ve already gotten way too many screenshots for my own good out of this show…As a writer, I feel like I could never make a story like this.This is a story best fostered under someone else’s hand.

Poppies, eh? To me, poppies symbolise war and sticking out, but that’s just a product of where I was born. In the case of war, poppies represent the blood of the fallen and those who rise above that.

Speaking of stories I couldn’t write, I’m currently bringing Next to Me to a close. I feel like that’s my best match to AMB, which is why my thoughts dwell on stories so much right now. Next to Me is one of those stories where the world matters just as much as the character building, if not more, which is why the understated majesty of AMB is a good match.

Seeing a blonde Englishman use –kun like a Japanese is a bit disorienting.

Simon really treats Chise like a child, eh?

The “open” sign now says “close”. What is this house, an apothecary?

The CGI door was a bit weird…

Whoa! That was a bit of a fast approach into the dragon scene, but apparently the dragon part of AMB was really hyped…

Ancient Magus’ Bride 3

How does skelly-man see like that?

The dragons look like…Pokémon! (That was my first thought, LOL.)

This blonde is Lindel from the promo material I’ve read. He looks like zaShunina (Kado), so it’s best to be wary of him.

Ooh, now there’s an application of shadows I’d never be able to think of!

Holy flame spirits, Batman! Elias has a tongue! (I got spoilered on that by ANN, but it’s crazy seeing it in context.)

Ancient mages shouldn’t be hot like zaShunina! Where are the real old fogeys like Kiku(hiko, SGRS)?

Uncle Nevin! I found it extremely charming this uil has a name beyond “Uil”.

Can these dragons read minds? Or is it just the power of Dragon Knowledge (TM)?

When they say “Anime saved my life”, I guess they never meant it this literally…or at least, Chise never meant it this literally.

That dragon has way too many eyes!!! Yipes.

Huh. I haven’t felt this feeling since SGRS. The feeling of a masterpiece on my eyeballs.

羽鳥チセ <- That’s how you write Chise’s name, so they did another “Western creature uses Japanese knowledge” thing…

D’aww. That was beautiful! No wonder people like it, now I like it too. Nothing short of majestic, guys, nothing short of majestic.

Hey, the guy who voiced Nevin is called Ryuuzaburo. Ryuu means dragon in this case. (Meta pun!)

Idolish 7 1

Crunchyroll really tried to hype this thing up! Wow. So, here I am at what could pretty much be called a premiere event of the simulcast commentary. Enjoy, friends.

By the way, I’ve tried a bit of the Idolish 7 game (but since it was on BlueStacks, I couldn’t do the “rhythm” part of the rhythm game very well and subsequently couldn’t get too far) and of course, there’s a vested interest through Shirai, Masuda and Nishiyama. Update: There’s no Nishiyama in sight. Sorry, guys.

Oh wow. This is exactly as I remember it in the game, right down to the word!

Yay! I was looking forward to seeing the basketball scene adapted, since it’s possibly the only scene I got to experience in the game in its (Japanese) entirety. Bring the dang game to the Western world, Bandai!

Riku is such a pure cinnamon bun when he gets the basketball back.

LOL, Nagi is such a flirt, kyaa~ (semi-sarcastic).

I don’t remember them dropping Trigger’s name so early…geesh, my memory must be sketchier than I thought it was.

Just as a reference, Iori (black) is 17 while Riku (red) is 18.

Ooh, I just spotted a Trigger ad on one building during that cut.

Ooh, good sense of drama these guys have got going.

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Expressiveness for a grump like Yamato, LOL.

LOL, there’s a shark in the back…

Iori has a cat shirt, hahaha.

Cool and sharp…stationery? Like a compass?

Iori’s so sarcastic, I can’t tell f he’s ever being serious or not.

I don’t know who’s my favourite so far out of these i7 boys. Probably the one similar to my husbando, Tamaki.

Ahh, gotta love me a good, honest hardworking anime gal. You don’t see them very often, y’know. It’s refreshing.

That was a great Iori impression Mitsuki did, even visually (note: I didn’t listen to Mitsuki do the impression, I only read the subs…hence my comment). Troyca really captured the style of the game, to boot, which is another cherry on the cake.

Notice Iori stands in front of the D.C. (da capo) and leaves to reveal it.

I researched who Riku’s brother is while I was watching ep 1 and…(spoilers for the uninitiated!) the brother is Tenn of Trigger!

There was a soba ad in the back in one lingering shot…

Hey, I get the feeling there’s CGI involved in this dance segment, but it’s…hardly detectable! Amazing! These guys seem to have gone a long way since the horribly animated Monster Generation MV.

Notice they (Troyca) only use CGI in (mostly) shots which don’t involve closeups.

Of course Nagi winks in the middle of his performance…

Whoo, yeah. That was a bold move by Crunchyroll, and of course that would grab me more than just leaking the first ep. I wonder if any critics covered this on their blogs…? Or would it not matter, since critics wouldn’t cover this “uncritical slop” anyway? Nonetheless, I covered it, and that’s what matters! (Update: Yeah, all the critics – Frog-kun, Lauren in Space, Mage in a Barrel etc. - passed on it. As expected of those critics…)

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