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mythgirlimagines · 11 months

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I know Fusion decided to do Bandori (DVHS edition) a while back, so could we have a followup? PJSK: DVHS! Four-person units plus a Vocaloid for each, featuring "you shouldn't technically be here" this time. - II

...I definitely didn't spend twenty minutes looking for this post

Dawn to Dusk:

Oshiro (leader), Matsumoto, Ikeda, and Saito

They focus a lot on composition more than anything else, and a lot of their music is said to be best played at night. That’s usually when they have the most time to work on it, too. They don’t really fit in any one genre, though, dipping their toes into everything.

Rin and Len would be their Vocaloids since I think it’d be a funny contrast between them arguing and Oshiro and Saito arguing.

Worldwide:

Ishikawa (leader), Nakamura, Yoshida, and Maeda

This group would probably focus on multilingual songs of all kinds, blending together different styles. Ishikawa of course knows lots of languages, Nakamura knows a bit of other languages, Yoshida’s just fun, and Maeda knows Russian!

Luka is their Vocaloid, since she’s known for being bilingual. I also think she would contribute to their chaos nicely.

Blossoming:

Hamasaki (leader), Fujimoto, Yasu, and Sasaki

They’re kind of like a traditional band like Leo/need, though a lot of their music is more calming. Fujimoto’s great with writing meaningful lyrics, though he doesn’t actually play with the rest of them. Hamasaki plays guitar, Yasu’s on percussion, and Sasaki’s on keyboard. All three of them trade off vocals.

Meiko is their Vocaloid, I think mostly because I associate these four with being more mature/older sibling-figures, kind of like how I think about Meiko.

On Your Feet:

Ueda (leader), Rikimaru, Abe, and Aoyama

They’re slightly more pop-focused, kind of in the realm of dance music. It’s surprising that Abe and Aoyama are part of the group in that regard, but the four of them work incredibly well together (barring some small bickering here and there).

Kaito is their Vocaloid, and I think he’d cycle between being a sort of mediator and contributing to their excellent vibes, haha.

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easternmind · 2 years

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Before obtaining a book deal with Kodansha in 2004, Miyuke Miyabe’s novel adaptation of ICO, entitled ‘Kiri no Shiro’ (Castle in the Mist), was first published as a weekly serial on the Shūkan Gendai magazine between May 2002 and May 2003. For the occasion, Miyabe teamed up with preeminent illustrator and long time collaborator Shinsaku Fujita, whose artworks adorned the covers of most her every book.

Because Miyabe took certain liberties when deviating from the original story and concept, Fujita’s illustrations do reveal a host of characters and events finding no parallel with the game experience itself. Other drawings produce highly evocative reproductions of some its most emblematic moments, demonstrating not only firsthand knowledge but a veritable affinity for Fumito Ueda’s debut work. Departing from his habitual style, quite possibly due to ICO finding its own references within ancient and contemporary Italian art, the presence of the Italian renaissance masters is strongly felt in each of the seventy illustrations he created. It is fascinating how the artist restructures elements of the story to fit the period’s composition of prevalent religious icons, such as the Madonna and the Child or the Dead Christ. Together, they display an extraordinary reverence for Masaccio, Mantegna, Titian and Botticelli, to mention only a few.

Fujita earned a reputation in Japan for illustrating a variety of book editions, most notably the Japanese translations of Stephen King’s and Dean Koontz’s horror paperbacks. He also famously produced the artwork for a special edition of Edogawa Ranpo’s popular sleuth novel series ‘The Boy Detectives Club’. Japanese horror game enthusiasts will recognize his brushstroke from the original Siren game cover art, as well as that of Famitsu’s ‘Silent Hill Perfect Navigation Book’. Perhaps an even lesser known fact is that Fujita also created spellbinding cover for the 2001 Playstation edition of Yoshitaka Nishida’s RPG maker cult classic, ‘Palette: Forget me Not'.

Because these illustrations were a requirement that needed to be met for the publishing of a novel in Kodansha’s Modern Weekly magazine, as is quite customary in the case of such serializations, they were never again featured in any of the different editions of Miyabe’s book. If I am allowed a personal closing remark, I must say that I was astounded to find no mention whatsoever of these works anywhere online, even in dedicated wikis. I lived all these years assuming someone else from among the ever-inquisitive community had picked this up - apparently, that was not the case. Two decades too late, I nevertheless uploaded the complete gallery of illustrations to a Flickr album for your perusal.

#ico #fumito ueda #castle in the mist #miyuki miyabe #novel #illustration #shinsaku fujita #artwork #rennaisance art

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mewmewchann · 7 months

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I finally figured it was about time I made a lineup of the whole cast so here you go Monochan isn't here she doesn't count sjdghdskh

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ipsens-castle · 2 years

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The novelization of ICO by Miyuki Miyabe is blowing my entire face clean off - and it was translated by Ivalice's very own Alexander O. Smith too so it's indulgent even in prose, god

#Ico #Castle in the Mist #Team Ico #Fumito Ueda #Miyuki Miyabe #Ivalice #Alexander O Smith

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high-fructose-lesbianism · 1 year

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icology · 11 months

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In the sacrifice room, there are 53 standing coffins, the 54th being knocked over at the start of the game. In congruency with this fact, there are 53 shadows that you fight in this same room at the end of the game. It's a safe assumption that these are all the shadows The Queen has at her disposal and they all come from the sacrificed children.

A horrific but often overlooked fact can be paired with this observation: In the game's manual, it is stated that horned children are born once per generation. That's an indefinite space between 20-30 years, but we'll average it and say 25. Ico is the 54th child, so 54 generations have passed since the planning for The Queen's dark ritual began. 25 * 54 = 1,350 years But hold on, The Queen definitely seems to know a lot about this process, with an assuredness that hints at personal experience. It's very possible that this has been done before. Which would make it approximately 2,700 years that the tradition of sacrificing horned children has carried on. For reference, our earliest coherent historic texts date back to about 2600 BCE. Approximately 4,623 years ago. From a certain perspective, we have about 4,623 years of historical documentation. 2,700 years is over half of that. And I only know that much because I have Wikipedia, imagine living in this time period! There's a good chance, even if The Queen only attempted this ritual once, that the process of doing it has consumed most of humanity's recorded history... and 99.9% of all people do not have access to the earliest historic records. The line "Do not be angry with us, this is for the good of the village." is given a strange weight when considering this. Not only has that man probably carried out this exact same task ~25 years ago, not only has he heard about this process since he was a boy, he has also accepted that, from a limited human perspective, this has been happening since the dawn of time.

Interesting topic!

Adding to this horrific fact, we all know that in the universe of the games, Ico is considered a spiritual successor of Shadow. As far as the little lore we have allows us, we can kinda agree that Wander was the very first horned kid, but those were not the first humans to be sacrificed in that universe, like Mono for having a "cursed fate", and the chosen ones in the world of The Last Guardian, who were taken away. Much like in Ico, it seems that people are familiar with it enough that pretty much no one interferes (save for, you know, WANDER.) A thousand years is a long time for people to sit with this knowledge and to reflect on it, but they seem to not question the natural order of things and just let them happen, like you said. In a section of the special symposium that the team did for The Last Guardian, Ueda actually answers a question related to this:

Q: "When the boy was abducted by the eagle, the village leader didn’t seem that sad, he looked like he had given up to some extent. If he truthfully didn’t want the kids to be kidnapped, then it seems a bit strange that he had them sleep all gathered together."

A: "For the whole village, it might not have been thought of as something to be avoided – they thought of it as destiny. It was like being “The Chosen One”. (read the full interview here)"

So yes... when they said "this is for the good of the village," maybe they really believed it to be true, and perhaps they also feared the consequences of not doing it. There is also a scene in Castle in the Mist (Miyuki Miyabe's wonderful novelization of Ico) where the theme of the queen's guards is discussed. In the story, one of the guards who accompanies Ico to the castle seems to pity him and acts compassionate, unlike the other one, who just seems to go along and follow the orders he's been given. It is an unspoken truth, and no one questions it.

One thing I wonder about this subject: are the enemies in Ico really part of the sacrificed kids? Or are they some sort of "imitation" that the Queen creates with her magic, weird and gnarly as they look? Guess we'll never know!

(Tagging @sparkylurkdragon on this one cause I feel like this little piece of horrific trivia might come in handy for their amazing fanfiction on immortal Wander and his journey since SOTC)

#sorry for the late response but I needed time to elaborate a whole scientific article on this #today's subject: history #ico #trivia #answered

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joydoesathing · 2 years

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SERVAMP GENDERSWAP DREAM CAST 2

i had a lot of free time on my hands so i finished up a cast for the rest of the servamp characters!

part 1 is here!

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Tsurugi - Ayana Taketatsu (Nino Nakano from Quintessential Quintuplets, Azusa Nakano from K-ON)

Yumikage - Akeno Watanabe (Liz Thompson from Soul Eater)

Jun - Nana Mizuki (Hinata Hyuuga from Naruto, Komurasaki from One Piece)

Shuuhei - Kaori Nazuka (Kiyoko Shimizu from Haikyuu)

Touma - Kikuko Inoue (Lust from Fullmetal Alchemist, Lady Dimitrescu from Resident Evil 8)

Tooru - Ayako Kawasumi (Saber from the Fate Series)

Iori - Rie Tanaka (Lisa from Genshin Impact, Chizuru Aizawa from Squid Girl)

Miyako - Aoi Shouta (Monet Tsukushi from Magic-Kyun!Renaissance)

Sigurd - Mami Koyama (Green Esmeraude from Sailor Moon R)

Pisca - Saori Oonishi (Hisako Arato from Food Wars)

SUBCLASSES

Sakuya - Kana Ueda (Tohsaka Rin from Fate/Stay Night, IF from Hyperdimension Neptunia)

Belkia- Yuu Kobayashi (Ayame Sarutobi from Gintama, Sasha Blouse from Attack on Titan)

Otogiri - Kosuke Toriumi (Shu Sakamaki from Diabolik Lovers)

Shamrock - Shizuka Itou (Hildegarde from Beelzebub, Meiko from Prison School)

Higan - Miyuki Sawashiro (Baal from Genshin Impact, Kirari Momobami from Kakegurui)

Lilac - Kana Hanazawa (Chiaki Nanami from Danganronpa, Mayuri Shiina from Steins;Gate)

Yully and Marry - Ise Mariya and Megumi Han (Killua Zoldyck and Gon Freecss from Hunter x Hunter)

Guildenstern - Romi Park (Angelina Durless from Black Butler, Hange Zoe from Attack on Titan)

Gil - Sumire Uesaka (Jinx from League of Legends, Hayase Nagatoro from Don’t Toy with Me, Miss Nagatoro)

Ray - Yumiri Hanamori (Yanfei from Genshin Impact, Shizue from That Time I Got Reincarnated into a Slime)

MISCELLANEOUS CHARACTERS

Gear - Asami Seto (Nobara Kugisaki from Jujutsu Kaisen)

Youtarou - Risa Taneda (Kaori Miyazono from Your Lie in April)

Ophelia - Mamoru Miyano (Light Yagami from Death Note, Osamu Dazai from Bungou Stray Dogs)

Crantz - Saori Hayami (Shinobu Kocho from Demon Slayer)

Cappuccino - Mikako Komatsu (Maki Zenin from Jujutsu Kaisen)

Faustus - Chiaki Takahashi (Haineko from Bleach, Omiko Hakodate from Kill la Kill)

Mikado Alicein - Masako Katsuki (Tsunade from Naruto)

Dodo - Eri Kitamura (Keqing from Genshin Impact)

Mitsuki - Yuusuke Kobayashi (Natsuki Subaru from Re:Zero)

#servamp #genderbend

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otakusmart · 1 year

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Malevolent Spirits: Mononogatari unveiled trailer and release date

Malevolent Spirits: Mononogatari is one of the highly anticipated anime releases this year. And we are here to give you its release date and its summary. But before that, don't you want to know about Monogatari? I am sure this is not the first time you've heard about this anime series — although I never watched it because it's so confusing, and at the same time, the art style is something that a lot of beginner anime fans are unfamiliar with. Nevertheless, you can check out our Monogatari watch order guide to get started with the anime series.

Malevolent Spirits: Mononogatari trailer and release date

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YajwcRb4ifg The series will air in Japan on January 10th, 2023, on channels such as Tokyo MX, BS11 and other media. But other than in Japan, you can stream the series in English subtitles on the popular streaming platform name Crunchyroll. And recently, a new trailer for anime is also unveiled with lots of action and dark spirit revolving around the plot.

Malevolent Spirits: Mononogatari plot

The series revolves around the spirits crossing over and entering the human world. They possess old objects and can gain a physical form called tsukumogami. Tsukumogami are gentle, violent, or assumed to be both. But the clan of Saenome helps spirits return to their world without any conflicts. Kunato Hyouma is also a clan member but needs to work peacefully. Because he hates them, in the past, one of the tsukumogami had robbed him, which was very precious to him. Because Hyouma has a hatred for the spirit and handles them harshly, his grandfather sends him to Kyoto to avoid any catastrophes in dealing with these spirits that will lead to supernatural disasters. But he was not alone as Nagatsuki Botan was also sent to live with him as she treated Tsukumogami as its own family.

Malevolent Spirits: Mononogatari staff members

Takeo Ootsuka is a voice actor for the main protagonist Hyouma Kunato; Yuuki Takada is a voice actor for Botan Nagatsuki; Chikahiro Kobayashi is a voice actor for Nagi; Reina Ueda is a voice actor for Yuu, Aimi Tanaka is a voice actor for Kagami, Yoshiki Nakajima is a voice actor for Suzuri, and Miyuki Sawashiro is a voice actor for Haori. Other staff includes Ryuuichi Kimura is the series director, Takahiro Okawa is an assistant director, Keiichirou Oochi is a series screenwriter, Shiori Fujisawa is the leading character designer, and Yuuka Shiga is a sub-character designer for the series. Read the full article

#MalevolentSpiritsMononogatari #Mononogatari

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naya-criticas · 2 years

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Aya e a Bruxa

O último filme lançado do conhecido estúdio de animação japonesa Studio Ghibli, chamado アーヤと魔女 – Āya to Majo (Earwig and the Witch – Aya e a Bruxa), exibido no dia 30 de dezembro, na tv aberta japonesa, chegando para nós aqui no Brasil no dia 1 de setembro pela Netflix, traz uma trama simples sobre mudança de ambientes e questões sobre relações de controle, ao tratar de uma menina órfã, que até então tinha controle dos funcionários do orfanato e conseguia o que queria, mas ao ser adotada por uma família nova se vê obrigada a servir de empregada.

Dirigido pelo primogênito de Hayao Miyazaki – o maior nome do Studio Ghibli, responsável pelo roteiro e direção do filme A Viagem de Chihiro (2001), este que ganhou trinta e cinco prêmios, entre os quais incluem o Oscar de Melhor Filme de Animação em 2003 – Goro Miyazaki, o qual não supre as expectativas geradas por seu pai. O diretor gosta de brincar com os gêneros, gerando uma fluidez misteriosa para a história, com várias sugestões simbólicas, o que ele tentou apresentar em seu primeiro filme Contos de Terramar (2006).

Ao adaptar o livro da escritora britânica Diana Wynne Jones, a qual também emprestou um de seus livros para base do filme O Castelo Animado (2004) – outra adaptação de Hayao e outro sucesso – acabou por apresentar um roteiro fraco e confuso, de um modo diferente do seu primeiro filme, este que por sua vez é muito profundo, Aya e a Bruxa acaba sendo muito raso.

O filme a princípio mostra uma cena sobre o abandono de Aya pela mãe no orfanato com uma promessa de voltar, deixando a entender que a trama se voltará sobre essa promessa, o que acaba sendo esquecido durante todo o filme, gerando um desconforto quanto ao foco narrativo, este que gira em torno das situações que deveriam simular um cotidiano na nova família – mas acabam sendo monótonas – e a tentativa de Aya de conseguir o controle de volta, que acaba se desenvolvendo de uma forma superficial e corrida ao final do filme, abrindo também um gancho para a chegada da mãe verdadeira quando toda a relação milagrosamente estava muito boa depois de uma quebra de tempo.

A falta de explicações e desenvolvimentos mais profundos quanto ao passado da mãe de Aya e o foco no presente leva ao leitor a ideia de “leia o livro para entender tudo” ou “toda a história não coube em apenas um filme”, apesar de não aparentar que irá ter uma continuidade.

Um dos grandes diferenciais do filme é sua criação ser feita em 3D, já que o estúdio é conhecido por negar o uso de tal técnica e apresentar obras feitas a mão com cenários reconhecidos como lindos e únicos. Como o primeiro filme 3D se esperava uma mesma qualidade visual. Apesar dos cenários bem feitos e renderizados que buscam essa marca do estúdio – obra de Goro Miyazaki que é paisagista formado a anos e já demonstrou essa habilidade em seus outros filmes – e a tentativa de leveza de movimentos e expressões bem apresentadas dos personagens – características marcantes dos animes – a animação se apresenta travada e bem característica de filmes antigas, o que, ao tentar competir com outros estúdios de animação 3D da atualidade, se mostra quase como amador, necessitando de uma engine melhor e mais atualizada, o que pode ser percebido pela falta de movimento nos cabelos e na textura dos personagens.

Ano: 2020

País: Japão

Direção: Goro Miyazaki

Roteiro: Keiko Niwa, Emi Gunji (baseado na obra de Diana Wynne Jones)

Elenco: Kokoro Hirasawa, Gaku Hamada, Eva Kaminsky, Sherina Munaf, Miyuki Sahaku, Shinobu Terajima, Etsushi Toyokawa, Yûji Ueda

Duração: 83 min.

#Aya #bruxa #critica #movies #anime

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nanchan83 · 8 months

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Palette Parade

「New, Brand New Days!!」

Music Video

Director : Tatsuki Ueda

Cinematographer : Ryo Tanaka

Hair & Make-up : Ayumi Koide / Miyuki Namba

Hair & Make-up Assistant : Natsuki Nakai

Production Assistant : Naoya Endo

Producer : Yuki Sagahara

Production : Basedon inc.

#Youtube

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mythgirlimagines · 1 year

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If DVHS were mythical creatures, what would they be? :D Can be obscure!

Some of these are Stretches bc I couldn't really think of anything ^^' I got all these from here

Abe Fumito: Phoenix

Aoyama Nozomu: Poltergeist

Fujimoto Hidekazu: Banshee

Hamasaki Utako: Siren

Ikeda Kazuhiko: Will-o-the-wisp

Ishikawa Camila: Vampire

Kadoshima Yasu: Nymph

Maeda Hayao: Werewolf

Matsumoto Takeshi: Elf

Nakamura Ikuo: Incubus

Oshiro Amaya: Angel

Rikimaru Kirika: Medusa

Saito Kagami: Valkyrie

Sasaki Hanayo: Dryad

Ueda Miyuki: Yuki-onna

Yoshida Etsuko: Poltergeist

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easternmind · 2 years

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The picture of Fumito Ueda at his office in 2014 comes from the 'Material Book' included in the 'Hitokui no Ōwashi Trico First Limited Edition'. I've browsed this booklet a few times in the past but I failed to notice some of its interesting details. As you can see in the top left corner of his Kallax shelves, Ueda keeps an Atari Lynx, as well as what appears to be a Game Gear. On the right, there is a big box copy of Psygnosis' 1991 game 'Lemmings', which is consistent with what we know of his younger self's gaming preferences as an admitted Amiga user. And, as would be expected, he keeps his own game-related books at the bottom left, where I can discern the 'Wanda to Kyozou' artbook as well as the Kodansha's original edition of Miyuki Miyabe's novel 'Ico Castle in the Mist'. There's also a Star Wars book, of course.

#fumito ueda #gen design #Hitokui no Ōwashi Trico #first limited edition #atari lynx #lemmings

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mewmewchann · 1 year

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Hope’s Chains character themes but it’s musicals (redone)

So I suddenly remembered that I did this a while back and felt like redoing it since I felt there needed to be some updates to it. Some of them are still the same, but there have been quite a lot of changes =3 might make a video for this at some point in the future, who knows

Hope you all enjoy!

Katsumi Akira - My Grand Plan (The Lightning Thief)

Hideyoshi Tsuchiya - Waving Through a Window (Dear Evan Hansen)

Hotaru Tachibana - Charming (The Great Comet of 1812)

Daisuke Ito - Evermore (Beauty and the Beast)

Azami Chitose - Come to Your Senses (Tick, Tick...Boom!)

Kazuhiko Ueda - You Gotta Die Sometime (Falsettos)

Naoki Sato - Noel’s Lament (Ride the Cyclone)

Takeo Taigen - Your Eyes (Rent)

Hana Mari - What I Did For Love (A Chorus Line)

Itsuru Kitagawa - One Perfect Moment (Bring it On)

Eren Yoshida - Corner of the Sky (Pippin)

Keiko Kameko - What the World Needs (Ride the Cyclone)

Callas the Mighty - Put You In Your Place (The Lightning Thief)

Seira Suzuki - Anything Goes (Anything Goes)

Saki Miyuki - My New Philosophy (You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown)

Pyuko - Naughty (Matilda)

Monochan - Learn to Do it (Anastasia)

Hikaru Ayana - Popular (Wicked)

Usagi Tomoe - After All (Ever After)

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loopingpyre · 1 year

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favorite anime voice actors?

I'm not really sure.

I like being able to spot them, but then when I try to pick out my favorites, my mind collapses in on itself. I think perhaps then, some names I like. Because I can list a performance or two I really like from them at the drop of a hat. JP - Reina Ueda, Takehito Koyasu, Hiroshi Kamiya, Marina Inoeu, Arisa Kori, Miyuki and Chiharu Sawashiro, Maaya Sakamoto And some English VAs for a bonus round Eng - Robbie Daymond, Billy Kametz, Allegra Clark, Greg Chun, Kira Buckland, Erica Lindbeck, J. Michael Tatum

I hope you enjoy this nonsense non-answer

#ask tag #anon

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anytubenews · 1 year

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"Chibi Godzilla no Gyakushuu" TV Anime Announced - New Key Visual & Teaser PV

This anime is scheduled for April 1, 2023