#hypmic stage adjacent

★ Alan giving Akira “encouragement”

★Alan challenging Akira to the rhythm game
(even though everyone knows this is a suicide move) 

Alan: “In this Actors League battle, Alan’s ‘A’ or Akira’s ‘A’; only one of us A’s will be triumphant!” 

Also Alan (backstage talk): “I can’t watch myself since I said some big words but lost anyway.”  

Akira is known as the undefeatable champion of taiko rhythm game (he can identify the song just by the drum patterns) 

Alan who specially practiced on his own until his hands were calloused; but lost anyway (at least he won an MVP for this) 

★ Aramaki Yoshihiko outright bribing the game master for points 

This is what it means to play a rich kid from a rich school lol