Fandom: CANAAN

Relationship: Canaan/Osawa Maria

Words: 463

A/N: I seem incapable of writing long stuff. Written for @yearoftheotpevent (prompt: First kiss).

Summary:

Years later, the inevitable.

Round 1, Match 5

And they say* these two aren't ROMANTICALLY IN LOVE.

*no one has said this

INTERDIMENSION FESTIVAL: IDOLM@STER★♥LOVE LIVE! UTA GASSEN

Information regarding the first IJIGEN FES 2023 live has been revealed! The live will occur in the TOKYO DOME on the 9th and 10th of December 2023. This first fes will feature three branches of IDOLM@STER performing with four branches of Love Live!

The voice providers participating in this stop are as follows:

DAY 1 ONLY

IDOLM@STER CINDERELLA GIRLS 　Kotomi Aihara (Shiki Ichinose), Hiromi Igarashi (Anzu Futaba), Asami Takano (Frederica Miyamoto), Yuki Nakashima (Yuuki Otokura), Yuko Iida (Kanade Hayami), Honoka Inoue (Nanami Asari), Sumire Uesaka (Anastasia), Aya Suzaki (Minami Nitta), Miyu Tomita (Akira Sunazuka), Ru Thing (Syuko Shiomi), Teru Ikuta (Natalia), Hina Tachibana (Nagi Hisakawa), Nanami Yamashita (Yui Ohtsuki) IDOLM@STER MILLION LIVE 　Haruka Yamazaki (Mirai Kasuga), Azusa Tadokoro (Shizuka Mogami), Machico (Tsubasa Ibuki), Momo Asakura (Serika Hakozaki), Kotori Koiwai (Tomoka Tenkubashi), Atsuki Nakamura (Roco Handa), Emi Hirayama (Reika Kitakami), Yui Watanabe (Nao Yokoyama) IDOLM@STER SHINY COLORS 　Karin Isobe (Kogane Tsukioka), Chisa Suginuma (Mamimi Tanaka), Anna Yamaki (Sakuya Shirase), Shio Watanabe (Yuika Mitsumine), Yuina Mizuki (Kiriko Yukoku), Honoka Kuroki (Amana Osaki), Ryoko Maekawa (Tenka Osaki), Noriko Shibasaki (Chiyuki Kuwayama), Yuu Wakui (Toru Asakura), Rio Tsuchiya (Madoka Higuchi), Saran Tajima (Koito Fukumaru), Miho Okasaki (Hinana Ichikawa), Azusa Shizuki (Nichika Nanakusa), Aya Yamane (Mikoto Aketa)

DAY 2 ONLY

IDOLM@STER CINDERELLA GIRLS 　Ayaka Ohashi (Uzuki Shimamura), Ayaka Fukuhara (Rin Shibuya), Sayuri Hara (Mio Honda), Amina Sato (Arisu Tachibana), Tomoyo Kurosawa (Miria Akagi), Hana Tamegai (Risa Matoba), Makoto Koichi (Haru Yuuki), Asaka Imai (Chie Sasaki), Natsumi Haruse (Kaoru Ryuzaki), Misaki Kuno (Nina Ichihara), Yuri Komori (Koharu Koga), Mina Nakazawa (Yukimi Sajo), Maki Hanatani (Kozue Yusa) IDOLM@STER MILLION LIVE 　Aimi (Julia), Miku Itou (Yuriko Nanao), Ibuki Kido (Kana Yabuki), Arisa Kori (Kaori Sakuramori), Yuri Komagata (Sayoko Takayama), Rie Suegara (Fuka Toyokawa), Saki Minami (Tsumugi Shiraishi), Rikako Yamaguchi (Rio Momose) IDOLM@STER SHINY COLORS 　Hitomi Sekine (Mano Sakuragi), Reina Kondo (Hiori Kazano), Mayu Mineda (Meguru Hachimiya), Hiyori Konno (Kaho Komiya), Haruka Shiraishi (Chiyoko Sonoda), Mariko Nagai (Juri Saijo), Wakana Maruoka (Rinze Morino), Akiho Suzumoto (Natsuha Arisugawa), Yuki Tanaka (Asahi Serizawa), Eri Yukimura (Fuyuko Mayuzumi), Sayaka Kitahara (Mei Izumi), Rina Kawaguchi (Luca Ikaruga), Haruna Mikawa (Hana Suzuki), Rena Ozawa (Haruki Iketa)

DAY 1&2

AQOURS (LOVE LIVE! SUNSHINE!!) 　Anju Inami (Chika Takami), Rikako Aida (Riko Sakurauchi), Nanaka Suwa (Kana Matsuura), Arisa Komiya (Dia Kurosawa), Shukai Saito (You Watanabe), Aika Kobayashi (Yoshiko Tsushima), Kanako Takatsuki (Hanamaru Kunikida), Aina Suzuki (Mari Ohara), Ai Furihata (Ruby Kurosawa) NIJIGASAKU SCHOOL IDOL CLUB 　Aguri Ohnishi (Ayumu Uehara), Mayu Sagara (Kasumi Nakasu), Kaori Maede (Shizuku Osaka), Miyu Kubota (Karin Asaka), Natsumi Murakami (Ai Miyashia), Akari Kito (Kanata Konoe), Coco Hayashi (Setsuna Imura), Maria Sashide (Emma Verde), Chiemi Tanaka (Rina Tennoji), Moeka Koizumi (Shioriko Mifune), Shu Uchida (Mia Taylor), Akina Homoto (Zhong Lanzhu). 　Support Member: Hinaki Yano (Yu Takasaki) Liella! (LOVE LIVE! SUPERSTAR!!) 　Sayuri Date (Kanon Shibuya), Liyuu (Keke Tang), Nako Misaki (Chisato Arashi), Naomi Payton (Sumire Heanna), Nagisa Aoyama (Ren Hazuki), Nozomi Suzuhara (Kinako Sakurakoji), Akana Yabushima (Mei Yoneme), Wakana Okuma (Shiki Wakana), Aya Emori (Natsumi Onitsuka), Yuina (Wien Margarete), Sakura Sakakura (Tomari Onitsuka) HASUNOSORA SCHOOL IDOL CLUB 　Nirei Nozomi (Kaho Hinoshita), Kokona Nonaka (Sayaka Murano), Nina Hanamiya (Kozue Otomune), Kotoka Sasaki (Tsuzuri Yugiri), Kanna Kan (Rurino Osawa), Kona Tsukine (Megumi Fujishima)

MT Roster Changes

Artists who left the ballet troupe (over two dozen):

Premieres: Igor Kolb and Xander Parish.

Soloists: Anastasia Matvienko, May Nagahisa, Ekaterina Chebykina, Victor Caxieta, and Vasily Tkachenko.

Coryphee: Mikhail Barkidzhija, Ilya Zhivoy, and Vsevolod Mayevsky.

Corps de ballet: Lizi Avsajanishvilli, Jasmine Henry, Anastasia Demidova, Veronika Selivanov, Anastasia Smirnova, Anna Tolmacheva (Lavrinenko), Alexei Boyarinov, Oleg Demchenko, Ervin Zagidullin, Maxim Zenin, Oleg Ligay, Sergey Osminkin, Pavel Ostapenko, Jorge Palasirov and Konstantin Khachirov.

The ballet troupe of the Mariinsky Theater hired 13 graduates of the Academy of Russian Ballet named for A. Y. Vaganova:

Maria Vetchaninova, Polina Goltyaeva, Anastasia Zinchenko, Apollinaria Murzho, Aigul Nugaeva, Anastasia Sukhami, Sofia Khoreva, Elina Chernykh, Maria Shevela, Miroslav Arbatov, Georgy Klopstov, Georgy Khrebtov and Marco Maisto.

And 5 graduates of the Boris Eifman Dance Academy:

Valeria Kalinina, Nikita Adushev, Evgeny Alimpiev, Arseniy Kulikov and Egor Khazdov.

Some observations:

Marko Juusela is not listed as a departed artist, despite him now appearing on the official roster of the Polish National Ballet here.

Aaron Osawa-Horowitz's name is also absent, seems he really is staying?

8 boys were hired, notably, half of them are from Eifman and not VBA

*Information translated from MT's VK Channel

I figure I'll put my videogame thoughts here on Tumblr, so I can establish a pattern.

Anyways, I'm a couple hours into 428: Shibuya Scramble trying to grasp the larger context it provides for the short anime series called Canaan.

Much of the setup in this game is prior to Canaan's storyline. For the longest time the most salient connection to Canaan seemed to be the reporter Minorikawa. And despite the transition from anime to live action it's really him, and his mannerisms bring it across quite well that he's the same guy. In the anime he was working with his photographer Maria Osawa, but he doesn't mention her, so I get the feeling they haven't met yet.

Next closest connection to the Canaan anime is Maria Osawa... who's been a hostage offscreen in the starting scenario. She's been quite literally not in the game other than as a plot device. Maria is friends with Canaan... so far there's been no sign of Canaan... Gee, what's Canaan up to these days?

Instead we've been following Achi, a dude who's helping Hitomi Osawa; Maria's sister. They've been running in circles evading capture by the syndicate. Hitomi was told where to go find Maria and so far... the Syndicate has been trying to add her to the hostage situation; That's no good.

Meanwhile Mr. Osawa, the Bio researcher studying the Ua virus (AHA! a major backstory connection) is nervous at home because his daughter Maria is a hostage, and his other daughter Hitomi was taking the ransom money and now no one knows if Hitomi's okay (except Achi), and the bad guys have the ransom money. Mr. Osawa is a nervous wreck, but he likes to calm himself with this cool singers music...

I remember there was a taxi driver in Canaan who had this cool singer whose music he liked to jam with while driving high tension style off the ends of unfinished bridges... (He's not been in the game but it's a crazy fun and ridiculous anime partially due to his scenes. Anyways, I don't think it's the same singer, but the concept is close in terms of delivery.)

Then there's the syndicate, the closest I've seen the situation get to Alphard (Canaan's archnemesis from the Canaan anime) is a dark encounter with a shadowy figure who stabbed one of the protagonists- (Kano) during a bad end (You can try to change the story in this game... sometimes you get to keep going, sometimes you kill the protagonist) I think it's her, but I don't know so yet.

Right, I haven't brought up that guy, the protagonist shadowing members of the syndicate is Kano, the detective on the case to rescue Maria from the Hostage situation... his father in law to be is looking for every excuse to not be his father in law and just might find it because Kano keeps hanging up on his calls... which Kano is very sad about, because he does want to marry his girlfriend. It's never the right time to take a call from some father in law when Maria Osawa's life is on the line

And that brings me to Tama the mascot cat. Tama just wants to buy a necklace, so Tama got a shady part time job working for a guy trying to scam people so he can afford to pay off the very large bill for some scam merchandise he bought. Tama's storyline seems only vaguely adjacent to Canaan in that Tama has a mascot head on that seems like the headgear the unblooms were wearing in the anime. Tama has held a secret, who is Tama? Why is this storyline in the 428 game, what connection does Burning Hammer diet drink have to do with Canaan? Why can't Tama take the costume head off? Is Tama an unbloom?

I got to the part where Tama gets to buy the necklace, and... I just found out who Tama is.

Keep Out! (a cheeky reference to the games use of caution tape when a threshold of the storyline has been crossed and certain conditions haven't been met yet.)

I'm enjoying this game, the connections to Canaan the anime are still cloaked in mystery, but little by little the pieces are falling into place. It's not immediately apparent, but I'm slowly getting how Kinoko Nasu might have pulled his Canaan anime storyline out of 428: Shibuya Scramble.

Fandom: CANAAN

Relationship: Canaan/Osawa Maria (implied)

A/N: This is me attempting 100 words and then never again. This is also me admitting to having 2nd POV syndrome. A late May entry for @yearoftheotpevent (prompt: Pet/child acquisition).

Summary:

Canaan observes the passage of time.

everything will be alright 🎶 (happy 4/28!)

A little sketch of Canaan and Maria 

So I just finished watching the Canaan anime and honestly it was really fucking good but GODDAMMIT CANAAN AND MARIA SHOULD HAVE ENDED UP TOGETHER

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God this line is so fucking raw