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inazuma-eleven-translations · 6 years

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Hey! Hope you're well

I HOPE YOU CANCOME TO JAPAN TOKYO IS THE PROMISED LAND!!! I got carried away writing this and it’s super messy but I hope it gives you an idea of what’s available?? I’m sorry if it’s difficult to follow!! And so long… ;w;

Guide to Inazuma (andanime) merchandise in Japan

Tokyo!!

Ikebukkuro (JRYamanote Line, Marunouchi Line) – This is the HOLY GROUND for anime andyaoi/boys love goods aimed at girls.

If you’reafter anime goods, the row of shops nicknamed Otome* Road in Ikebukkuro iswhere you need to go!

*Young girl

About afifteen minute walk from Ikebukuro station (the Sunshine City exit), is theparadise that is Otome Road.

The easiestway to get there is to follow the signs for Sunshine City – and there’s a lotof great shops on the way too! Too many restaurants and cafes to count, the SanrioGate specializing in Hello Kitty and friends, and even an ikemen café!! And abunny rabbit café, and cat cafes too.

It’s about aten minute walk from Ikebukuro station to Sunshine City (a GIANT departmentstore), which will be on your right. Beside Sunshine City is Tokyu Hands (greatstationary here) and Book Off.

Book Off isa second-hand book store and you can find AMAZING deals here. In terms ofInazuma merchandise, Book Off has: all the games (in Japanese, of course), allof the game guides, a lot of manga, drama CDs and normal CDSs, a huge magazinesection (I buy ALL my articles about Inazuma here, pretty sure I bought all theGO ones, sorry!). If you’re interested in art, they have some great art bookstoo. I also found gems such as the Inazuma character art books. Finally, theyalso have all of the Inazuma DVD box-sets. Everything except the DVDs is supercheap.

Useful Vocab(If you need specific vocab, just let me know!):

アニメ anime

イラスト irasuto (art books)

Okay, let’smove on to Otome Road!

These aregood directions: http://lijaka.com/blog/2012/02/how-to-get-to-otome-road-in-ikebukuro/

It’s easy tofind.

The firstshops you’ll see are a row of anime goods shops, like Lashinbang, KBooks etc.These sell second-hand key-chains and other general merch. There’s very littleInazuma at the moment, but there’s a lot of other series.

The nextshop is ANIMATE! Animate will sell all of the Inazuma Ares no Tenbin merchstarting December 2017, so they will have a big Inazuma display! Get yourpicture taken with the cardboard cutouts of the characters, hee hee.

List ofmerchandise is available here, and can also be ordered online – I’ll post thelink when it’s up.

If you walkto the end of the street and cross the road (passing a Visual Kei shop, andanother KBooks) you’ll see a Family Mart and a staircase that leadsunderground. That staircase leads to Mandarake – doujinshi paradise.

They have alarge Inazuma doujinshi section. It can be difficult to find if you don’t readJapanese, so look for イナズマイレブン (I think it’s the yellow section).The staff don’t speak English so this phrase might help:

すみません。イナズマイレブン同人誌を探しているんですがどこにありますか。

Sumimasen.Inazuma Irebun doujinshi o sagashite irun desu ga doko ni arimasu ka?

Excuse me, I’mlooking for the Inazuma Eleven doujin section, can you tell me where it is?

The Inazumasection is divided by character, so you can memorize your favorite charactersnames in kanji or make a list and bring it with you. The 霧野 sectionis the best section by the way, hee hee.

If you’re nervousabout searching for doujin in Japanese – fear not!

NearMandarake is another KBooks – look for the KBooks selling doujinshi, and go tothe second floor. Once again, there’s a HUGE Inazuma doujin section, like awhole aisle. You’ll know it immediately because there’s a huge picture! Andeach section is marked by a picture of the character’s face, as well as theirname! So even if you don’t speak Japanese, this one is much easier to find whatyou want.

FINALLY, myfavorite store. KBooks again. The KBooks right beside Mandarake specializes insecond-hand merch – and THEY HAVE AN INAZUMA SECTION! Follow the artwork ofGenda and Sakuma. They have an amazing variety of Inazuma goods, including GO!I bought most of the Kirino stuff, hee hee. The prices depend on the character.Cheap characters are Sangoku, Kabeyama etc. Average characters are Kidou, Tenmaetc. Expensive characters are Fubuki, Kirino etc. Ridiculously expensive isKazemaru and Sakuma. There was zero Fudou or Aphrodi last time I checked.

There’s alsoa butler café near here, but you need a reservation.

NakanoBroadway – Nakano Station, Chuo Line

When I wentto Nakano Broadway two years ago, it was paradise for Inazuma goods, but I wentback this year at it was… not great. All the shops were closed down, BUT it wasa holiday so maybe that’s why.

NakanoBroadway is a much cheaper Akihabara. It specializes in retro-games and oldmanga, but you can find everything from Vocaloid to Pokemon to Inazuma! If you’reinto figures, this is the cheapest place. I found a Kirino figure here!

Look for theshops filled with ‘bishounen’ merchandise – there’s usually an Inazuma section.I found clear files, towels, postcards, keyrings, stickers, mugs, towels… A lot ofpractical merch here for Inazuma, all second hand so CHEAP!

Akihabara(Yamanote Line, Chuo Line)

Akihabara is…Very, very loud and not great. It’s aimed mostly at guys, so there’s a looootof boobs.

If you wantto see Akihabara for the experience, there are a few interesting things. There’sa chubby maid café, which was super cute, and if you’re into it there’s across-dressing boy café. Cute boys in dresses. YAY.

There’s onlyone shop that sells Inazuma stuff (though that might change when Ares isreleased). Mandarake, the fourth floor has a tiny Inazuma doujin section.

Oh God, thiswas so long. If I can make a picture guide, I will! Hopefully I’ll go back toTokyo sometime next year.

As for Tokyoto Hokkaido – you have a few options, but unfortunately it’s not cheap. I’mgoing to assume you’re aiming for the capital city, Sapporo? They have anAnimate, but it’s probably not as good as Tokyo… That said, I LOVE Hokkaido.The food is delicious, and the people are very friendly. Although… the same inTokyo…

BulletTrain/ Shinkansen: Most convenient way and most expensive.

Time: 4hours

Price: 29110yen (217 euros)

Mostexpensive, BUT if you’re planning to travel around Japan I recommend the JRPass, which means you’ll have free travel for 7 days as long as you take JRLines, including shinkansen.

Informationis here.

If you’d liketo see Tokyo, Kyoto and Hokkaido in a few days, the JR past is the mostconvenient and technically best value for money. That is, if you stay sevendays. You can also use it to get from Narita to Tokyo.

Next optionis flying. This is the fastest way. If you just want to see Hokkaido, thismight be good. Flight is about 2 hours, and costs roughly 10,000 (100 euro) to 26,000yen (200 euros). I think I flew Japan Airlines, but you can find cheaperflights if you book in advance. You can fly from Shinagawa airport (Tokyo) toChitose airport (Sapporo).

This sitehas good info.

Last optionis the cheapest and most awkward – night bus. Never mind I looked into it – don’ttake a bus, trust me. It’s too far and the same price as flying, just longerand more uncomfortable.

A bus fromTokyo to Osaka/ Kyoto is grand though.

BY THE WAY,can I also recommend hotels? Staying in Tokyo is not cheap, but if you’rewilling to try a Capsule Hotel, I 100% recommend the Centurion Cabin and Spafor ladies in Akasaka-Mitsuke. There’s one in Kyoto too. The standard capsuleis very comfy, and there’s an onsen/ hot spring bath, as well as free drinksetc… It’s about 3500 yen per night, and cheaper if you go through booking .com!

Home page ishere.

Booking ishere. You can switch the language by clicking on the Japanese flag at the top.

The area isfull of restaurants, from Indian to Korean to Chinese to Mexican to African andso on… The train lines are Ginza subway line and Marunouchi line (straight toIkebukuro).

Also, if youwant a Tokyo food guide I can also help with that lmao. And I can tell you theanime districts for Kyoto and Osaka too, but not Sapporo.

I’M SORRYTHAT THIS IS ALL OVER THE PLACE! If something is confusing, please tell me ;w;I’m so used to Tokyo I forget what makes sense and what doesn’t…

Also… if youwere interested and it was during the holidays, I could totally meet you totake you to all these places pfft

#long post #doujinshi #inazuma goods #anime merchandise #tokyo

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yourghastlycloseness · 4 years

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yeah the department meeting depressed the hell out of me and convinced me that i’m terribly unfulfilled at work, but also, that maybe all that comes from within and i will carry this sadness in me everywhere i go

because everyone else my age seems to be coping alright, even if they’re not doing excellently

they actually have dreams and strive for healthy human relationships

meanwhile, i can’t seem to reciprocate or reach out, nor do i really want to

maybe this just isn’t the job for me

my colleagues are sweet and competent people, though. honestly, bosses don’t get better than this

one of them gave me a book voucher today haha which i spent immediately on endo’s silence

‘of course it’s jap lit,’ said C

yes, of course lol. i’d actually like to research japanese literature more seriously

i’ve got women court writers from the heian period like sei shonagon and murasaki shikibu on my reading list

was watching a ballet dancer break down yuzuru hanyu’s chopin program at pyeongchang. what i didn’t notice before was how hanyu doesn’t quite breathe through his mouth at the end of a performance; he breathes through his nose instead, so he -- and other figure skaters, i assume -- ends every performance with composure and grace and not like the panting monsters most of us are

what makes hanyu so pleasing to watch? the ballet dancer explained that when you put two dancers of equal ability side-by-side, the one with the ‘better face’ will be chosen. ‘better’ could mean more physically attractive. an expressive face with more structure and definition -- something you should be able to see from afar

that reminded of the heavy make-up they used for the actors in drama club

i can’t deny that part of hanyu’s magnetic appeal is how he looks

i should admit, too, that a part of me is so envious that a person can move the way he does. why do i desire to possess everything that is beautiful?

years ago, my therapist asked me a question that still sticks with me: ‘can you look at beautiful person and not think about wanting that beauty?’

simply put, my answer is no

i see a beautiful person and i want to be them

i don’t care if they’re dirt poor or if they have tragic family backgrounds or if they’re dumb as fuck or if they’ve raped and murdered 20 people

i want beauty and i want it all à la sharpay evans

later caught a podcast on suicide by a catholic pastor -- it wasn’t my intention to catch a christian podcast. i was thinking about killing myself again and wanted to hear people talk about suicide without skirting around the subject

i am only 17 minutes in but i am comforted by what the pastor said

he makes two interesting points

i) that we don’t know where a person who commits suicide ends up, but what we do know is that he goes to jesus, and god will make the judgement -- he does away with this idea of immediate and eternal condemnation for the act of suicide

ii) that doctors and clergymen have to work together to help people out of depression and to stop people from committing suicide

but there are points i disagree with

i) the pastor says that suicide can cut short this ‘plan’ that god has for you (it is believed that god has a plan for everyone) -- OK, but what if the plan was for me to precisely end my life at the age of 25, and to make others realize that this isn’t the right thing to do. alternatively, what if i were a homicidal pedophile in the making, where such tendencies would reach its peak in my thirties? coincidentally, i happen to be struggling with depression and ended up taking my own life before i could harm anyone else. what if suicide was the plan after all? it is a possibility to consider.

ii) the pastor argues very firmly that suicide is ‘sin’ for it brings pain to the people around you -- can you honestly say the same about elderly suicides? or about people who have lost all their family? we have to accept that there are people out there who aren’t loved, whose bodies are replaceable (think foxconn, sweatshops)

we don’t have enough information to make a blanket moral judgement that all suicide is sin

i won’t call myself a non-believer; i went through a phase of superficial pantheism haha where i saw god as the universe and the universe as god, but i no longer identify too closely with that, partly because i was working hard to fill a spiritual void back then and pantheism was the closest thing i could find to an antidote

christianity, or any institutionalized religion for that matter, has never made sense to me

simply for this reason: we don’t know if god exists

when we don’t know, we can choose to:

i) maintain that we don’t know (ie. god may or may not exist)

ii) assume the positive (ie. god exists)

iii) assume the negative (ie. god doesn’t exist)

ii) and iii) never made sense to me at all. this has been the main obstacle for me. i actually tried to get into religion between 2014-2015 lol

something else i don’t believe in: judgement before god

maybe i’m not understanding the bible correctly (frankly, i wanted to fall asleep after the first page of genesis), but how can you judge my lived experience when you have never had to live as a mere mortal with no extraordinary destiny or circumstances yourself?

i refuse to be judged by something like that

i cook like a sissy

i hold the spatula at an arm’s length away and i approach the pan from a 45 degree angle so that i don’t get hot oil splattering onto my forearm

suicide ideas

a few ways i’m thinking of committing suicide right now. i think i mentioned method #1 on my old blog, but not the others. i’m filing them all here for reference. these are what worked:

1. MBS - death of wilim/willim charles

https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/man-who-fell-from-52nd-floor-of-mbs-probably-committed-suicide-coroner

https://www.asiaone.com/print/News/AsiaOne%2BNews/Crime/Story/A1Story20130516-423065.html

A tourist, whose body was badly severed in the fall from the 52nd floor of the Marina Bay Sands Hotel last June, was likely to have committed suicide, a coroner court heard on Tuesday.

The head and torso of Mr Wilim Charles were found on a 17th floor balcony while his legs were found in the fountain on the ground floor. Other parts of him were scattered about.

In his findings, State Coroner Imran Abdul Hamid noted that Mr Charles had used a deck chair to climb over the 1.1m-tall glass barricade of the balcony, stepped onto the planter's box and fallen to his death.

He was last seen alive smoking a cigar seated at a desk in the suite by the butler who came to carry Ms Lee's bags down at about 4pm. Casino records showed that although he was a Diamond Reward member, he was not a frequent gambler, having last played on April 14 last year. There was also about $43,000 in cash in the suite.

i like how he died. pretty fancy to be described as being ‘last seen alive smoking a cigar seated at a desk’ and having ‘$43,000 in cash in the suite’. i’m getting noir vibes all around haha

i’m not a fan of body parts being scattered about though. so i might want to bring this down to maybe the 30th-40th floor if i decide to attempt it like he did

2. kushiro coast -- death of wei qiu jie

https://japantoday.com/category/national/Body-found-on-Kushiro-coast-may-be-that-of-missing-Chinese-woman

https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/2108965/body-confirmed-be-chinese-tourist-missing-japan

The body of a young woman was discovered along the coastline of Kushiro City, Hokkaido, on Sunday. Police believe the body may be that of Wei Qiu Jie, 26, a Chinese woman who has been missing since July 23.

Around 6 a.m. on Sunday, a man who was kelp fishing along the beach at Katsurakoi, discovered the body that had washed ashore and immediately notified the police, Fuji TV reported. The woman had long hair and was wearing a beige skirt and white blouse, similar to the clothes Wei was wearing when she was last seen.

She had left her hotel in Sapporo on July 22 for the day, leaving some of her luggage behind, but never returned.

Police later discovered she checked into a hotel at Akan Lake, about 300km from Sapporo, the same night she left Sapporo.

Witnesses said she boarded a tour boat at the lake and was last seen on surveillance camera footage at a convenience store in the nearby coastal city of Kushiro on July 23.

i like this one because i’m seeing millais’ ophelia in the water. the painting has been my laptop lock screen wallpaper for years haha

unfortunately, i’m a pretty alright swimmer. i imagine that i’d fight really hard if i tried to drown myself. i’d probably need to weigh myself down with a lot of rocks in my pockets (like virigina woolf) and bind my arms and legs when i go into the water

3. burning coal briquettes in a hotel room -- death of kim jong-hyun

https://www.straitstimes.com/lifestyle/entertainment/jonghyun-lead-singer-for-south-korean-boyband-shinee-dies-reports

K-pop group SHINee member Kim Jong Hyun, 27, died on Monday (Dec 18) in an apparent suicide, according to local reports.

Police found him unconscious at 6.10pm Korea time in his own apartment located in Cheongdam-dong, in the upscale Gangnam district, after his sister made a report at 4.42pm saying that her brother seemed suicidal.

The YTN news channel, however, reported that Mr Kim had checked into a serviced residence for two nights.

Mr Kim was taken to a nearby hospital, but eventually died.

Reports suggested he died of cardiac arrest from suspected carbon monoxide poisoning.

He was found to have burned a coal briquette on a frying pan. Charcoal briquettes can cause carbon monoxide poisoning in closed rooms.

i would probably choose a hotel room that comes with a kitchenette in tokyo. i went to seoul alone to get a feel of the city as a resting place, but it didn’t vibe with me as much as tokyo did

4. yellowknife, ingraham trail - death of atsumi yoshikubo

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/atsumi-yoshikubo-wrote-a-suicide-note-before-leaving-japan-1.2825863

Yoshikubo, 45, was a doctor who enjoyed travelling solo. She was reported missing Oct. 27, 2014 by staff at the Explorer Hotel.

Staff at the Explorer Hotel, where she was staying by herself, found all of her luggage in her room three days after she was supposed to have checked out. They called police, who found she'd missed her flight home to Japan on Oct. 26.

At the time, police said she had been last seen walking away from the city toward Highway 4, also called the Ingraham Trail.

Because investigators found only bone fragments, they couldn't determine exactly what caused Yoshikubo's death.

They did find two notes left by Yoshikubo: one, an apparent suicide note for friends and family in Japan; the other, found by searchers with her possessions in the bush in Yellowknife.

"It included... how much she loved the North, how much she loved Yellowknife, how much she loved the aurora," Menard said. "She expressed her wishes about wanting to be buried here."

unfortunately, we don’t know how exactly yoshikubo died.

but i imagine there are many ways one could die in the woods. starvation, dehydration, hypothermia, bear attack (if i’m going to go down like leo in the revenant, i expect an afterlife oscar)

i imagine it would be nice to die in the north toohttps://www.straitstimes.com/lifestyle/entertainment/jonghyun-lead-singer-for-south-korean-boyband-shinee-dies-reports

other suicides cases i’ve read about and will KIV when considering methods:

kate spade

christine chubbuck

sulli

hara

sylvia plath

krystal aki mizoguchi

daul kim

iris chang

kevin carter

paula goodspeed

keiko fuji

yukiko okada

simone mareuil

hanging is ideal to me. but man, what if i don’t get the knot right lol

#suicide

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potathology · 7 years

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😘 Selfie when we was at sapporo beer factory... This place is nice ie the buildings and views. We haven't got a chance to try their beers as we was rushing to go to our next stop which is the highlight for our Hokkaido trip, the Shiroi Koibito's factory! 😣 (at Sapporo-shi, Hokkaido, Japan)

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italjap · 5 years

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Tokyo 2:

Back to Tokyo for 3 nights but this time in the Ginza area at Millenium Mitsui Garden. A much smaller room than we’ve been used to even if very cleverly space-designed but it’s fab location makes up for it. I’ve likened it to New York (minus the bargain shopping): wide streets and pavements, spotlessly clean but what we both love the spectacular buildings, our favourite being the Sapporo (white with an edifice like punctured waving leather) and the Bulgari! with its signature snake. It’s the kind of city that calls for looking up, skyscrapers with fantastic street window displays bearing all the labels.

Our first night and we decide upon shabu-shabu at Zakuro. Wonderful! Waited expertly and charmingly upon by elegant kimono-clad women (loved the combination of black and green, unsurprisingly). We had no idea how to go about it and the gesturing and oopsing! were indulgently smiled upon by they and the old-school maître-d. It was a fun and delicious experience and as always we particularly love all the bits and pieces that accompany: miso, pickles, sauces, noodles.

All modes of transport ✅: train, metro, subway, monorail. The Shibuya Scramble crossing at 11am was not as busy as I’d expected but after we walked around for a bit (plus again me getting waylaid in another Loft - a multi-storey-ed stationery plus store!😝) we return to the crossing and it’s crazy busy.

Destination Pigment! A little out of the way but led by my trusty guide, another train ride and 20min walk we arrive at ... heaven. A complete wall of bottles of pigment powder, arranged not only by colour but by grade of natural content. I finally decided on only three satches of the finest grade (12) primary blue, red (all natural) plus a yellow which had a trace of synthetic because a natural yellow does not exist. I’ll look forward to having a play and seeing how they behave. The brushes too were gobsmacking and I nearly weakened on a stunning peacock-feather tipped brush with a banded bamboo handle but at approx $A120 I probably would have never wanted to use it, just look and play with it (on second thoughts, what’s wrong with that?). It was on the bucket list for this trip so 😎

The weather upon arrival was overcast and cooler than we’ve had so far but we cannot complain as we feel so fortunate with mild temperatures and a sprinkling of rain (particularly given including a typhoon!). Given a drizzle that night we end up at on the top floor of Mitsukoshi building. All of the department stores have a top floor (or two) of restaurants plus B1 and 2 of food-court places. Katso (crisp pork cutlet), huge bowl of cabbage salad (finally some greens!), sauces, pickles etc plus a little bowl of roasted sesame seeds and another dish with it with a fat stick of wood. We covertly copy the chattering girls at the next table to know what to do ie grind the seeds with the stick and sprinkle over rice and cutlet. Again, the meal is never one-dimensional, with flavour bursts of all the accompaniments making meals interesting and delicious.

Game day. After a good coffee at Bongen, Glenn heads off to sleuth where the games will be watched tonight, tickets for tomorrow to Yokohama etc. I have the best time finding more art stores, fantastic stationery shops (the paper, cards etc are exquisite) plus a lovely time at agnes b with another coffee to boot. I go on and on and finally catch the last of the predicted Aust/England game at the bar with Glenn. Funnily, during the day (being Saturday), the Ginza main streets were smoke-free (and car-free, with little umbrella’d tables set down the middle of the road) but the bar was a-haze with smoking. I decide I don’t need to see the AB’s win (again) and take myself off a bowl of ramen (and it’s fantastic too!) and Glenn has a great time with some Irish fans.

Before we leave for Yokohama we decide to have breakfast at bill’s (which I’d spied yesterday). The room is fabulous (very New York) on level 5 overlooking Tiffany’s, Chanel etc, all his famed dishes are on the menu: ricotta hot cakes etc. As we’re enjoying, I spy Beauden Barrett (AB’s) walk in and another second rower was in the waiting line as we left. GT ☺️.

Loved Tokyo. Loved the Ginza. Off to Yokohama (only 30 mins on train) for our final two nights.

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makinomariasama · 6 years

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Translation: Blog Post: May 6th, 2018

Enjoy, and please don’t repost without credit!

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Good evening, everyone. This is Maria.

Engeki Joshi-bu "Tomb of Pharaoh ~Hebi Ou Sneferu~"

Today, we did rehearsals.

During the break, I did the MC from yesterday's concert in Sapporo ♪ Song shiritori ♪ is what I did! (t/n: shiritori is a word game, where one person says a word, then the next person has to say a word that starts with the last syllable of the first word. ie: Maria -> Akane -> Negai and so on. But with song titles, in this case!) It was hard... :D :D :D It was fun, and I laughed a lot :) I want to do it again *

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I hope there’s lots of fun and happiness tomorrow too <3

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dojae-huh · 5 years

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Hi, this is just an assumption but jaehyun & taeyong is very well known to be close with each other but there was a period of time they didn't take selcas nor was there as much interaction with each other(unlike now). May I know what are your thoughts on this? Personally, I feel like that was the period in which taeyong was recovering/accepting the fact that jaedo came out to them?

Please specify the time period, give me dates.

Yuta, JN, JH and Tae were trainees years before Do, Taeil, Ten and later WW joined them. They bonded back then and stay friends. However, as people grow up, their knowledge of each other becomes more intimate, their own characters and interests undergo change, the relationships transform as well. Friends from the same club are sorted into buddies, fellow men, bffs and love interests. Jungwoo was an SM Rookie, however a couple of years apart from the debuted members left a visible gap.

I came into fandom in April 2018, so I missed a few years since the debut and am not as familiar with NCT history as those fans, who have been observing them since the trainee days. However, this late coming gives me advantage of fresh eyes and lack of formed judgments and influence from the fandom.

It looks like Taeyong is currently reinforces his frienship with both Jae and Yuta. In the beginning of my journey to get to know NCT I was wondering “were is the famous friendship everybody talks about all the time?”. Tae, although very caring, has problems socialising. All members gave him the lowest scores, some zero. When he has troubles himself he shuts inside his room and needs Do and JN to come and talk to him first. So I’d imagine him not knowing what to do with the members who “suddenly change”. Tae is not a very observant person (clothes out of order on the members don’t count, he is a clean freak), he often spaces out during long programmes. Jae seldom mentions him in his speech, when Tae is not the topic, so I wouldn’t imagine him sharing his inner turmoils with the leader either. There is Ten for love advice.

To “pay” for his lack of attention, Tae overcompensates. First with Do, returning to his “glass Doyoung-ie” theme and singling out his friend’s vocals, spending more time with him (they were roommates in USA, they walk around in Japan together), saying Do’s best trait is his heart, etc.

And now it’s Jae’s turn. The fanservice abounds. Tae is so daring with intimate touches now, that Jae is spooked. In Sapporo, after the piggyback, when Tae brought his hand under Jae’s chin, Jae recoiled slightly, same as he does with Woo. Jae does guard his personal space.

But yeah, give me dates, I’ll answer more specifically.

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