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BLCD Review: Saezuru 7
Title: Saezuru Tori wa Habatakanai 7 (囀る鳥は羽ばたかない 7)
Author/Artist: Yoneda Kou
Shop: CD + Manga
Release Date: 2021/07/28
Cast:
Hatano Wataru + Shingaki Tarusuke
Okitsu Kazuyuki
Masuda Toshiki
Ookawa Tooru
Ueda Yuuji
Satou Takuya
Miyake Kenta
Ito Kentarou
Nara Tooru
Synopsis: Adaptation of the 7th volume of the series.
Review Proper
I'm not sure what's gonna end first: the series or my fucking life.
As much as I love Saezuru, it's gone on for so long that it's starting to get old literally and figuratively. You know, I wouldn't even be mad if Yoneda Kou ended the series by killing Yashiro off in 6. 7 is still well-written to a point and the BLCD did deserve to rank second AGAIN in chil-chil 2022, but I'm not sure about the future of this series (it wasn't nominated in 2023 tho which is one of the few good things about 2023's).
I say a lot of things, but I'm still invested in vol. 7 & 8.
I don't know who I'm jealous of, BUT THAT SHOULD BE ME! This scene is in vol 8, not 7, but I wanted to include it anyway.
I do agree that Saezuru portrayal of the whole yakuza deal is the realest 'cause happy endings over there are quite rare, but this isn't a novel that comes out in one go. Doesn't help that June is ass. I've heard from several friends who've read the latest releases that it feels like it's lost its way and that just makes me sad. I'm still hopeful tho.🤧
As I've already stated, this placed second in 2022's awards. I mean, it's Saezuru. Frontier doesn't spare a penny for it lmao. All the major characters are voiced, and they managed to bring the A-listers back again. Sometimes, I forget that Saezuru is actually based on a manga whenever I listen to the BLCDs 'cause the production is just that good.
Shingaki slayed as usual. I've said this many times before, but no matter how bad or how well he does in another role, he will always be Yashiro. I just came from Tsunaida and we're in the middle of a Rei event in Nu:carnival, so I would expect myself to adjust to Yashiro, but I didn't need any of that lmao. Yashiro is truly Shingaki's magnum opus. I'm not at all surprised that he placed 3rd best seiyuu for Yashiro. Deserved.
Speaking of Nu:carnival, I will forever be obsessed with Yashiro's relationship with the other characters aside from Doumeki. Nanahara's voiced by my one true love, Okitsu, but like Yashiro, I love him for his character and not his voice. It is nice having the other veterans in here with him, too. The slut trio is complete with Daddy Complex SatoTaku, Boss Ass Chaser Okitsu, and Damel in Distress Shingaki. #BLESS I want Kamiya to end up with Nanahara.
I haven't heard Wacchan in years HAHAHAHAHA. His Doumeki is still amazing as always. My issues with the story aside, I'm really looking forward to his "break" in vol. 8. EEEEEEE
Special mention to my Ryuuzaki and Miyake Kenta who made their comebacks here too. I missed him so much! LMAO
The BLCD is pretty accurate to the... magazine at least, but June does sell the translated tanko (fortunately). Like the previous installments, reading the manga while listening to the BLCD was so smooth because it was so accurate. Now 7 does end in a cliffhanger, so I don't really advise listening to it if you still don't have 8. But if cliffhangers aren't an issue for you, then break a leg!
#blcd review#blcd 2021 reviews#saezuru tori wa habatakanai#yoneda kou#frontier works#hatano wataru#shingaki tarusuke#okitsu kazuyuki#masuda toshiki#ookawa tooru#ueda yuuji#satou takuya#miyake kenta#itou kentarou#nara tooru
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Frontier Works Inc. has released more information about the upcoming Rozen Maiden Complete BD Box, including a newly drawn illustration by Peach-Pit. It will cost 44,000 yen (tax included) and will be released on June 26th, 2024. Each store will have a different special benefit available.
You can buy the box set from the following places:
Akiba Sofmap
Amazon Japan
Animate
Gamers
Rakuten Books
Yodobashi
Source: Frontier Works Inc.'s website, X
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Aiobahn - Needy Girl Overdose Soundtrack | Retorno | 2022 | Purple Translucent
#aiobahn#needy girl overdose#needy streamer overload#retorno#frontier works#vinyl#colored vinyl#lp#music#records#record collection#soundtrack#xemono#nennai
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in memoriam
(print, speedpaint video)
#sonic the hedgehog#sth#sonic#sonic frontiers#supreme (sonic)#my art#still utterly haunted & working through my backlog of drawing ideas from this game
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the blade of frontiers 🗡️
wyll is such a sweetheart!! he gives me disney prince vibes 🥰✨
#i'm so heartbroken about the way some ppl treat this wonderful character and theo (which is insane!!!!!!!) aka his voice actor#and that one whitewashed mod is absolutely crazy 💀💀💀#can't wait to make some full artworks of wyll#cuz he deserves so much love!#my work#wyll#wyll ravengard#the blade of frontiers#the blade of avernus#warlock#baldur's gate iii#baldur's gate 3#baldur's gate 3 wyll#baldur's gate 3 fanart#baldur's gate 3 art#bg3#bg3 wyll#bg3 fanart#bg3 art#fanart#art#sketch#sketches#digital#digital art#digital sketch#digital sketches#digital sketchbook#dnd#dungeons and dragons
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Pride of the Gate
Available to purchase on my Inprnt💙
#ignore that i have been working on this since august please gsbp:hdhksdgJKREGJKHRG#laura arts#wyll ravengard#bg3#id in alt text#baldur's gate#baldurs gate#baldurs gate 3#bgiii#blade of frontiers#wyll bg3
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same teacher, different lessons
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#sonic the hedgehog#dr. ivo eggman robotnik#miles tails prower#sonic frontiers#SPOILERS. THERE ARE SPOILERS IN THIS COMIC BY THE WAY.#SONIC FRONTIERS SPOILERS#smiles gently I can not believe I let sonic the fuckign hedgehog ruin my life#(I can I totally can)#hi <3 if you follow me because I drew this sonic comic. don't!#don't do it! follow me bc I'm funny and hot and devastatingly smart don't follow me bc I draw sonic stuff. bc it won;t happen again#I mean it. not bc I dont like or want to do sonic stuff. but bc I am literally in the middle of a job rn#one that I want to invest 100% of my time and brain in#this comic is actually an effort to win my brain back so I can do my job lol#because I finished miss penny snapcube's streams of this game and it force fed me emotions#I just! I just thought sonic would come tell eggman abt sage!! idk seems like something he'd do!!!#and also the whole thing abt letting the characters move on and have a future and change and develop#vs Killing My Baby Little Guy Daughter For Like Ten Minutes#thematically interesting! also for some reasons I had. a pretty easy time drawing this#I was mouthbreathing galloping like a horse to finishing this. Because I Need To Work#I didnt expect to have a good time with these designs tho idk why. probably bc I most suck shit at drawing animals#but to be fair yet again sonic and tails are little guys. theyre animal but theyre also like dudes. also sonic's design is kinda perfect#as far as character design goes he's really pretty goo- wait I made a continuity error hol on#okay. okay I fixed it. no problem. no matter 's all good now#okay. I go sleep now. today has been very noisy. but this actually got me through it okay#thank you sonic the hedgehog. that was pretty cool of u#have a good night guys! absolute freedom is probably really really sad#long post
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The unofficial official Robotnik family tree!
#what a perfectly normal family#sonic#sonic the hedgehog#I'm only tagging the most significant characters#gerald robotnik#shadow the hedgehog#maria robotnik#doctor eggman#metal sonic#sage#frontiers spoilers#I did this instead of working on my fic#my shit <3
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All that is to say, I actually freaking love this DLC so far oh my gosh. Can’t believe the AMOUNT of bonus content and story we are getting! We are being well fed, even if we’re simultaneously being murdered haha
The text in the last panel says:
LORD WHY HAVE YOU FORSAKEN ME?! IS IT BECAUSE OF ALL MY KISSY-HEDGEHOG DRAWINGS?! KNUCKLES, FORGIVE ME! I HAD NOT YET KNOWN TRUE HELL WHEN I CURSED YOUR NAME! WHEN WILL THESE TRIALS END?!
#I’m still working on the fourth trial tower right now#I can DO IT!#forgot to draw my tats but oh well#sonic frontiers#sonic frontiers the final horizon#the final horizon#dlc#Sonic dlc#my doodles#sonic trash#sth#Sonic the hedgehog
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BLCD Review: Sei no Gekiyaku
Title: Sei no Gekiyaku (性の劇薬)
Author/Artist: Mizuta Yuki
Shop: CD + Manga
Release Date: 2021/10/27
Cast: Morikawa Toshiyuki x Nojima Hirofumi
Synopsis:
“I’ll find all of your most sensitive spots.”
Makoto Katsuragi, a man working for an advertising agency, has so far led a perfect private and work life. However, that all comes crashing down in an instant when he loses everything he holds dear. In the midst of his despair, he drunkenly climbs onto the ledge of a tall building and is about to jump, when… “If you’re going to throw away your life…let me have it.” He is saved by these words offered by the sudden appearance of Ryuji Yoden, and decides to do exactly as Ryuji says. From the moment Makoto awakens in Ryuji’s room, his daily life of retraining begins, giving away not only his body but his heart…
Review Proper
Uhh.
Hmm.
???????
If y'all know me and or have read my older posts, you'll know I hate this type of plot. However, I had to listen to this 'cause the last I heard of Morikawa Toshiyuki was in 2021, and Nojima Hirofumi in... 2019?! *goes into existential panic*. It doesn't help that these two were Shigure-san and Haru in Nights Before Night. I wanted my happy ending with them to happen even though it was nearly impossible since these two are already inactive in the BL industry. Having the two of them come back and co-star in a BLCD again is just too good to be true... and I was right. I didn't expect them to come in for one of the sketchiest things in the market. I really don't know what Frontier is smoking, having all the budget for veterans like these only to put them in weird projects.
Biases and triggers aside, I think that Sei no Gekiyaku failed to deliver what it was set to convey. It tried so hard to be deep and psychological in the beginning, but it's like sensei just threw that out the window in chapter 3. It reminds me a lot of Lala no Kekkon and Derail. What was all that build-up for, then? I'm gonna say it. If you wanna use Stockholm Syndrome, then commit. This is also true with the discarded BDSM. I don't like these themes, but damn, do I feel bad for them 'cause they all felt pointless in the end.
Anyway, onto the topic of the BLCD itself...
You'll miss a lot of things if you haven't read the manga beforehand. There was a lot of added and dropped content that was understandable since no other characters apart from the two leads were in the BLCD. But that also led to Ryuji's older brother's presence being missing in the BLCD. Although Ryuji mentions him in the BLCD often enough, the manga just shows Ryuji's trauma better since we get to see him constantly haunting Ryuji. I'm not sure if they've changed censorship laws on BLCDs because the same thing happened in Kuroe to Mesu, but the BLCD was less graphic than the manga. Take that part where Ryuji rapes Makoto in the bathtub. You can hear Makoto take a toy in, but you'll never know it was a dildo mount whatchamacallit if you didn't read the manga.
There's also that part when Ryuji loses it when Makoto smiles when they were fucking. Nojinii does chuckle then, but you wouldn't pick that up if you didn't know what happened in the manga. It might've been better if Ryuji loudly thought: "Oh crap, he smiled."
The original plot was already badly paced, but the BLCD was even worse lmao. The tracks don't even start the same way the manga chapters do. I really don't recommend listening to this if you haven't heard the story and are a beginner to Japanese. Speaking of reading, idk what happened to futekiya, but the translation progressively got worse towards the end of the manga. I also read the scanned version of this when it was still unlicensed, but it was also a bit off.
Now for the light in the tunnel: the voice work.
I tried to fight it. I really did.
But I'm always going to be Moririn trash.
Don't get me wrong, Morimori did spectacular here (duh). But I really hated Ryuji that I initially had no thoughts other than respect towards his voice acting here... until he whispered in Track 4, that is. At some point, I just wanted to throw Nojinii out of the picture 'cause THAT SHOULD BE ME???!!! I'LL SLURP THIS SPAGHETTI OFF THE FLOOR ON ALL FOURS FOR YOU, MORIKAWA TOSHIYUKI!
My god. Frontier sure has taste in VAs but not in stories.
He was just-ugh. I wonder how he does that. Like in Tadaima, he makes you feel like he's talking to you rather than his co-star wtf. I was gasping for air goddammit. This man is a danger to society.
As for Nojinii, I actually thought that his voice was too high for Makoto in the beginning. It was almost in the same range as his Haru, and I imagined Makoto's voice to be lower. It did grow on me, though. I missed my bottom Nojinii. Of course, he did excellent as well. His fear was really believable in the first tracks that I just feel so bad for him 'cause he needed to throw that all away. 🙄
Man, I can't help but think that Morimori and Nojinii were wasted on this work. Again, it's already a miracle to have them back, so this might be the last time they ever pair up again. And for fucking Sei no Gekiyaku? Part of the reason why I stopped listening to BLCDs was 'cause I wouldn't know how to cope if I saw more of my favorite older VAs leaving the industry. That's also why I stopped doing releases lists. Hype around BLCDs has steadily been on the decline and if you haven't noticed, there's been considerably fewer releases too. The manga scene isn't doing well either. I'm just so afraid it'll all run out someday. *crisis*
Going back on topic, I do not recommend this BLCD. If you're into psychological and BDSM, I would look into Harada or Kabukichou Bad Trip instead. If you're a fan of Morimori and Nojinii, I still wouldn't recommend it if the theme isn't your thing. Let's just re-listen to Nights Before Night and suffer instead. 👍
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To celebrate the Rozen Maiden anime’s 20th anniversary, a Blu-ray Box Set will be released featuring all four Rozen Maiden anime: Rozen Maiden (12 episodes), Rozen Maiden: Träumend (12 episodes), Rozen Maiden: Ouvertüre (2 episodes), and Rozen Maiden (2013) (13 episodes). Peach-Pit will be drawing a new illustration for the box set. It will cost 44,000 yen (tax included) and will be released on June 26th, 2024. Each store will have a different special benefit available.
You can buy the box set from the following places:
Akiba Sofmap
Amazon Japan
Animate
Gamers
Rakuten Books
Yodobashi
Source: Frontier Works Inc.'s website, X
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just some guys being dudes. happy holidays
#digimon frontier#digimon#abril can draw sometimes#takuya kanbara#kouji minamoto#shitpost#its great becase you can in interpret this in a douchebag way or in a digimon-are-more-flexible-with-gender way and they both work#its both#everyone i celebrated christmas with has to watch me fucking draw this all day
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shaking her around
#sonic#sonic frontiers spoilers#sonic frontiers#sonic frontiers sage#art tag#i Just got out of the hospital I’m gonna be taking a break for a few days! Just wantedto post this first#ty all for waiting on commissions I’ll try and get back to work soon!#So so excited about more human characters in sonic btw
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Hey! Are you still in there? I can still hear you, you know! Come on, say something, we're all waiting for you! Tell us your name!
#sonic the hedgehog#sonic frontiers#purp art#soma#i may have learned databending for this#anyway. im looking forward to the day i can actually organize my vague frontiers related thoughts into something i can work with#bc i know i could cook something with this game. and this hybrid especially. i just don't know what that is atm
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i notice, i notice, many many things that are alike.
#sonic the hedgehog#shadow the hedgehog#maria robotnik#metal sonic#sage the ai#sage robotnik#sonic frontiers#only one of these characters is in frontiers#but i can't stop thinking about parallels sage seems to have with shadow and maria. could be stretching#not to mention that one egg memo. and metal's there because he's her brother and it works for finding a caption 👍#no ship tags by the way#sonic frontiers spoilers#frontiers spoilers
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an incredibly rough comic. i think star fragments would taste like a scintillating phantasmagoria of light, a severe electric shock, a newfound gambling addiction, and a hint of the nastiest artificial grape flavour you’ve ever tasted. sonic is imbued with the power of slot machines now
#i don’t know how comics work in the slightest i’m just fucking winging it lmao#genuinely i’m still figuring out how this shit works so if you have any feedback id love to hear it#i think the first page would be p good with some work. the second is kind of a clusterfuck but could be salvaged#the third is just funny (i hope lol)#my art#sonic#sonic the hedgehog#sth#my comics#frontiers#sonic frontiers#doodles#all that spawned this is that star fragments look like konpeito and i fucking love konpeito but i don’t have konpeito#can’t play any games these days without thinking of her (konpeito. because theres so many star items that look like konpeito)#very unlikely this gets past this stage cause i suck at finishing normal drawings let alone comics i’ve never finished a comic before#but i do kinda wanna finish this
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