illustration by Shimamura Hidekazu

i think we need to talk about this unit thematically

i know it's "haha april fool's day, they're stuck in a futuristic city and rui wants to study the silly sekai aliens" but like... hear me out

im pretty sure these 4 were picked because they all have one major thing in common— the fact that they were failed by society.

kaito v1 was a commercial failure on release, to the point where other vocal synth companies looked at his low sales and consequently made less male vocal synths— leading to the large gender gap in vocal synths that we still have today (although its less than what it was ~5 yrs ago imo). i think clpl actually considered this when picking kaito for this unit solely because it's vbs kaito— the kaito that most strongly resembles old fanon kaito in how he can easily be described as a carefree dumbass that loves icecream.

rui was ostracized his whole life for being "dangerous" with his shows by his classmates, as well as being isolated because of how he was "different" from the other kids (implied neurodivergent). this lead to rui struggling with depression as well as a myriad of other issues (such as his abandonment issues) later on.

akito was ALSO ostracized for being too serious about his passions and having a "bad attitude", which lead to him developing an inferiority complex as well as leading to him essentially being overly polite to strangers because of his past trauma where he was publicly humiliated, had his reputation ruined, and brought disgrace to a place he loved just for accidentally spilling water on someone 💀 (find a way out is so real) ((also i choose to see akito as neurodivergent mainly because of how his behavior is framed idk i feel like him being overly polite is him masking, esp. when u compare his behavior between different people.. recent example: how he acts around rui vs how he acts around mafuyu for example)) (((also, he's rui's narrative foil, so it just makes a lot of sense???)))

and then there's haruka, who was so close to being the "perfect" idol but couldn't because of her trauma from hurting mai— she was unable to meet the expectations of being an idol under the pressure of probably not only her managers but also the large fanbase she always wanted to give hope to

🌻🥀 you weren't supposed to be here

it all comes tumbling down tumbling down tumbling dooooooooooowwwwwnnnnnnnnnnnnn

Tohru and Kyo really invented romance and true love 🩷🧡

one billion kisses for anchan because she is the most special girl in the world and everyone loves her

more prsk scribbles before bed. they need to interact

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And there were no words for the way that he felt, so he opened his mouth, and started to sing

assorted traditional doodles (mostly akty)

hes showing u his aibous

Short fantasy au comic, I love making my aus silly

Sillies

gaslighting myself into thinking they’ll cover this and have a cool 2DMV like the original with it

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I really dig the new designs, so orng blorbos + (rui)kasa doing whatever that is (just them bc motivation ran out to do more)

Unblurred Kasa + og screenshot utc