#seiyuu

I apologize for the delay! >___< I just had too many events going on within 3 weeks (3 events!) and I wasn’t able to recover since I had work as well. I’m pretty sure I forgot a lot of things already.. but I’ll just tell you what I remember! I’ll just give you a brief description (this is why I should not procrastinate on fanreports). I believe Emi ( @emii-suterii​ ) and Rizu ( @fugacissomnii​ ) wrote a fanreport for day 2 of KiraFes 2016 so you can check out Emi’s report HERE and Rizu’s report HERE for reference! Basically the same things happened but with differences of course! Sorry for any grammatical mistakes and such! And of course, you all know, I’m biased so…. XD

I actually couldn’t sleep well the night before (most likely because of excitement). So I woke up around 5:30 or so and got ready. The place I was staying at was only a few stops away from Saitamashintoshin, the closest stop to Saitama Super Arena. I planned to meet up with Zoey ( @xpeppermin​ ) and Sam ( @bakedcrackers​ ). They were already queue-ing for goods and apparently it was already a crazy queue. Zoey told me that it would most likely be difficult to get in line with them.

When I got there, the venue wasn’t that difficult to find. Follow the fangirls and signs!

But I could see how it would be difficult to get in line… The line zigzagged like crazy.

Luckily, we managed to find each other. Actually, they spotted me standing there awkwardly. I wanted to join them in line but there was this line guide rope in the way and some staff members standing around. I thought it would be better to ask so I asked a staff member if I could join them but he said that wouldn’t really be fair to the others. Actually, I regretted asking in the first place… because I saw other girls just going under the rope anyways. Eventually I was able to join them suspiciously. XDDD Emi came later but it was hard to describe where we were at that time… so we couldn’t meet up in line.

So we waited in line, talking to each other. The staff passed out the goods paper as well. And I learned from last year to always bring a pen so I did… xP

Finally, we managed to get the goods within an hour or so. Nothing was sold out. I only got the pamphlet; I was surprised to see it was completely black and very thick, much thicker than last year’s and Ryohei’s can badge and charm set.

(My wallet was already crying since I went to the Starmyu event the week before and two weeks later, I would go to the Prince of Stride event… I swear I will write that fanreport soon, too!).

After that, we finally met up with Emi. It was so great to meet her even for a short time! We talked for a bit! Then she had to go.

Then Zoey, Sam, and I went to Omiya, one stop away, and ate something at a café. I got a savory salmon salad crepe. It was a bit weird but interesting. After eating, we decided to look at the KiraFes pamphlet. Instead of flipping it normally, we decided to take turns opening the pamphlet to a random page and awe over it. xD I kept on flipping to NamiDai…. But they all looked very good! <333 Ryoheeeei!

Eventually, we went back to the venue with Sam’s friend joining as well. We could enter at 14:00.

When we entered the venue, we saw flower stands and present boxes.

I took pictures of some of the flower stands. (I’ll just post Trignal’s)

Aww… Tsuda Kenjiro sent them flowers as well! :3

I was really surprised to see Nobugnal (Nobu + Trignal).

After that, we headed to our seats. We had to part with Sam and her friend.

Zoey was with me. I got the stands, level 200.

When we got there, I was surprised that it wasn’t as big as I thought it was going to be. Apparently Saitama Super Arena has more seats than Yokohama Arena but it wasn’t too bad. Actually, I thought Saitama Super Arena was a better venue overall. (I remember poles were blocking parts of the screen when I was in Yokohama Arena). The stage setup was interesting as well. It kind of reminded me of Tokyo Dome set up in a way. Also, our seats were pretty nice in my opinion!

While we were waiting, they showed advertisements of the Kiramune artists and also of anime that starred some Kiramune members as well! I remember many fans kept screaming when Nobu’s upcoming single, “Kimi no Egao, Boku no Egao” advertisement was shown. He looked very cute there. XD

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Finally, KiraFes 2016 started at 15:30!

I believe it started off with the screen showing the chibi version of the Kiramune members one by one, explaining the rules (no smoking, no high heels, etc..).  

Last year, KiraFes 2015 started off with NamiDai so I wondered who would start this year.

And it actually started off with Kamiya! Cue the purple penlights. He sung songs from his Haregou album.

• -Zeitaku na Jikan (Extravagant Time)
• -HARE? GO!
• -VIVA LA FESTA!!

Next up was Nobu!Cue the white lights. He sung from his Questory album.

• -Star Fanfare
• -Want You - When I first heard this song, I thought it was such an adorable song. I was very happy to hear it sung live! It was seriously adorable. Especially when he said, “Want You!” in this cute voice.

Followed by Yocchin! Cute the hot pink lights! And he sung songs from CYCLE.

• -Hajimari no Uta
• -Wasshoi – Very fun song!! There were fanchants as well!

ThenKakki’s time! Green lights!

• -Saichaina – I actually grew to like this song and have liked it since I saw it sung live in KiraFes last year. Some people used hot pink for this song to represent the sakura. It’s just a very pretty song~ The animation was just amazing as well. Very high tech.
• -Lesson A to B – Man… when I first heard this song, I just thought this is one of the most random songs I have ever heard. It’s crazy! I do like one part of it but… anyway… to see it live… it was just damn amazing and full of win. Like seriously. Why??? Oh god, where do I even start? XD Basically the most awesome part was that they played a video behind on the screen as he was singing. Basically a PV. And it was a video with Kakki… cosplaying!!! Lots of cosplay outfits! God, I’m sure he had tons of fun with this song. So he was in different oufits including an old man and best of all… crossdressing. CROSSDRESSING. And he looked good!!! Very pretty! He crossdressed as a schoolgirl with straight, long hair, holding a… gun. Yes, he started shooting random stuff too. Did I mention it was super random? For some reason, I could’ve sworn I saw him cosplaying as a nurse as well. And then there was another crossdressing outfit he had on. And guess who he cosplayed? XD He cosplayed Marilyn Monroe… with that white dress and short blonde wig… and he even did that one famous scene where wind is blowing the dress. XDDD At one point, he took out the breast paddings from his chest and threw them somewhere. LOL Just so many things happened in that pv but it was fun overall. The crossdressing got to me the most. xD  

After that came Miyu! Yay for the red lights!

• -Jewelry Day – AHHHH I didn’t think he would sing an old song but <333. It’s from the JUMP single.
  

I remembered he did an introduction after singing this song. He also asked the audience if it was anyone’s birthday. (It’s a birthday song). Then he said, coincidentally, it was his father’s birthday. Dawww <3

• -I am I – It’s a pretty mellow song~ :3 So prettyyyy

He’s my second bias after Trignal. He has such a wonderful singing voice. >////< I seriously love his voice.

Then it was NamiDai’s turn. He sung songs from ELEVATION.

• ELEVATION
• Awaked
• LIGHT RAY

I just remember that NamiDai was very cool, singing all these songs, which was a bit strange because I don’t associate him with cool that often.

Lastly,Trignal finally came out!! I was anticipating them for a while. XD And little did I know that they would start off with….

• ESCOLTA - AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH I remember Zoey was telling me that she hoped that they would sing this song for KiraFes and they actually did it!!! ASDLFJLAKWEF; IT’S SERIOUSLY SUCH A CUUUTE SONG. LOOOOVE IT!! <3333333333 All three of them were basically wearing all white with random lines of their colors within Trignal (so Ryohei = red, Egu = yellow, Wing = blue). Ryohei wore a hat as always! RYOHEI LOOKED SO GOOD!!! AND THEIR HIP SHAKING PART DAWWWW WING IS SO CUUUUUTE (though I’m not sure if I approved of his hair since it was a bit long) and Egu… was Egu. XDDDD The dance was as cute as I remembered!
  

They did an introduction after the song. And then said that their song would be a summer song…. Which means…

• PANORAMA SODA – an upbeat song!! It kinda reminds me of Summer Magic. XD I think Wing messed up at one point here. XD

Time for the MC Talk corner! :3

• So Kamiya led the MC!
• I remember he asked the members something but I forgot what it was.
• NamiDai got told to wipe off his sweat. You know how NamiDai is famous for sweating a lot? (Egu too). He was given a towel by Ryohei but before Ryohei gave it to him, Ryohei starting wiping off his sweat with the towel. <333
• Also, at one point, they talk about Kakki. And Ryohei proceeded to touch Kakki’s abs and sorta hug him? XD Man, Ryohei is too good at this fanservice. XD AHHHHHHH
• I also remember Miyu teasing…. bullying Egu. XDDDD Oh Miyu…
• Oh and someone called Kakihara, “Tetsuya”! XD That was pretty interesting. XD
• I only remember two topics in particular!
• One topic was aboutfood. People who have gotten better at cooking goes to the right side and people who haven’t goes to the left. Most of the members went to the right side. On the left side, there were only Egu, Miyu and Kakki.
• Apparently Kakki doesn’t cook at all. O__O; I think the members were surprised Nobu was on the right side and Nobu tried explaining how he has cooked. I don’t really remember the contents but it was a weird explanation that didn’t count. So the members told Nobu to go on the left side. XDDD But then at one point, all the people on the left side tried to join the right side and leave Egu by himself. But he chased Miyu down. XDDD Miyu tried to run away from Egu. And Egu kept following Miyu!! XD Eventually Miyu got caught by Egu and got hugged by him XDDDD Fans were going crazy. XD
• Unfortunately, Nobu had to leave early to prepare for his next song.
• The final topic wasalcohol. People who have gotten “stronger” with drinking (or basically can drink more) goes to the right and those who haven’t goes to the left. On the left, there was Ryohei, NamiDai, Wing, and one more. NamiDai explained that he has gotten “weaker” and how once you hit a certain age (over 30), you just can’t drink as much. People were surprised Ryohei was at the left side as well because he’s known for his love for drinking. When Ryohei was asked to explain, he said he agreed with NamiDai.
• On the right side, Yocchin said he has gotten a bit stronger thanks to NamiDai. Apparently NamiDai invites him to go out to drink a lot (well, with Uncle Bomb and Kiramune Company XD). Yocchin said he likes drinking some kinda “hai” and recommended it to Kamiya.
• Kamiya was on the right side and said he hated the taste of beer (I CAN TOTALLY RELATE). But recently, he is now able to drink two glasses of beer. But he gets red and tipsy easily. XDDD Ryohei proceeded to show us how Kamiya acted when he’s tipsy/drunk. Ryohei went to the middle of the stage and just sat down, legs sprawled and looking really out of it (I can totally imagine this).
• When it was Wing’s turn to explain, he told Ryohei to show the audience how he (Wing) acted when he’s tipsy/drunk. Again, Ryohei went to the middle of the stage and sat in a very cute seiza (imagine how girls sit while doing tea ceremony) and looked very tired with his head sort of tilted and looking feminine with his hand position, too. Then suddenly, he became alert because he noticed someone’s glass was empty and asked what they wanted and ordered for them. (If you watched Kiramune Company’s episode with Ryohei… it’s basically that). XD Then it got to a conversation where Kamiya praised Wing for being really considerate when they go out to drink. Then they looked at Egu with a face. Egu suddenly got defensive and said he was considerate, too! And Wing went, “Uhh… when?” LOOOL God, I really want to see what they’re like when they’re tipsy/drunk. XD And that was the end of the MC talk portion!

Next up was Nobu’s second round of songs! All were from his Questory album.

• -Shinjiru Kokoro
• -HOLY HOLY - I’m pretty sure for this song…This song… so Nobu looked really cool in his outfit. There were “enemies” with weapons on the stage, closing in on him and on the screen, there was this really awesome animation of a dragon flying around. Eventually Nobu got a weapon and he FLEW. (I totally flashed on Johnny’s groups right away). What I mean by flew is that a rope and string(?) were attached around his waist and he flew. AHHHHHH. He even did backflips and beat the enemies. And before the song ended, he slayed the dragon!!! It was seriously really cool!!!
• -Lost Universe

Then it was Kakki’s turn.

• -Oresa
• -Orange
• -Call My Name

Followed by Uncle Bomb!! Apparently they sang from INFINITE.

• -LOCUS
• -Party Star

I remember the songs were super cool! The dance was really cool, too!

And then Miyu!

• -Peppy Hopper!! – Another old song from his album, vivid. <333 AND I BELIEVE HE FLEW HERE LIKE WHAT NOBU DID. HE FLEW SO ELEGANTLY. OMG. ASJKLKFSD
  

And after the song, he said he had an announcement… he announced a new album coming up!!!! The title hasn’t been decided yet but it would come out this winter.  AND he said he would sing two songs from it.

• -Ryusei no Kimi e
• -Melody

Oh god… I really love his voice. >////< I remember one of them was a bit slow-ish? But I really liked it! I think I really liked “melody”… I could just close my eyes and feel so content listening to Miyu.

After that, Trignal came out!

• Kiss Plus – AHHHHHHHH FINALLY. SERIOUSLY LOVE THIS PARTY SONG. I had been waiting for them to sing this song!! <3333 They were jumping as if they were at a party with music blasting. They also did hand motions… doing the peace sign when they sung “Futari (literally meaning two people)” I just thought it was really cool!! It makes me all hyped up too!!!
• GREAT ESCAPE PARTY – I think Egu forgot his lines here. Because at one point there was silence when Egu should’ve been singing. XD Heehee but it was cute.
• MISSION – Very cool as always!!

I think Ryohei didn’t wear a hat for these songs. <3333 AHHHH

ThenKamiya came out!!!

And there was so much awesomeness here!!!

• -Danger Heaven? – First it started off with him on the stage. There was a desk with some papers on it. He was dressed up like a typical sort of scholar… well just think of his PV. As he was singing, he started writing and eventually threw papers in the back and in the front. Then he walked toward the middle, where you see this super HUGE book. He opened the book and then smoke came out of it. Suddenly, a ninja-like person with a big weapon appeared. Then Kamiya went to the book and there was smoke once again. And he came out with a cape (basically that other outfit from his PV. Kind of reminded me of Attack of the Titans for some reason). He got a sword somewhere and started fighting with that ninja-guy. And he won! The ninja-guy was on the ground for a while and eventually started dancing with Kamiya. XDD Man, it was seriously awesome. XD

After that, NamiDaicame out in this extremely…. Gaudy outfit? XD I remember that I didn’t approve of his outfit much.

• -UTAO – This is seriously such a cute and hyper song!!! I really love it and the fanchant as well!
• -For Dear Light

Then it was Nobu’s turn again!

• -Shunkan Beat – I really love this song… it’s just really cute and adorable. It makes you hyper! XD

And I believe Nobu announced he would sing from his new single releasing in July! And it’s called “Kimi no Egao, Boku no Egao (Your Smile, My Smile)”

• -Kimi no Egao, Boku no Egao – I remember Nobu sung this song and smiled a LOT. He’s just so adorable.

Followed by Miyu!

• -Uso to Mirai to – No words to describe this incredibly beautiful song. It gave me goosebumps. AHHHHH MIYUUUU <333

ThenKakkicame out!

• -Monogram
• -Susumasero! - This song is really cool!!! XD Do it!!! XD And I believe for this song, he got on this podium thing that rises so I couldn’t exactly see the front of him. I suddenly heard screaming and I thought, wait, what happened? And when I looked at the screen, he had LIFTED UP HIS SHIRT AND FLASHED HIS BODY. He definitely has been working out that body… OMGGGG XDDD I NEVER THOUGHT THAT SORTA THING WAS ALLOWED. I DUNNO WHY I THINK THAT. XDDD But WOW. Great fanservice…. XD Sexy. xP

AndTrignalcame out!

• -Hoshizora Sentiment
• -RAINBOW

God… of all the songs they had to do… they had to choose the two songs that were ballads and gave me too many feels. >___< They were both very beautiful songs… and during Rainbow, there was an animation of a rainbow forming in the background. AHHHH… It’s like how I remembered it was… for Trignal’s live last year.

After that, Kamiya!

• -Neverland Glitter
• -Harenochi Hajimari no Hi – So actually, I don’t keep up with Kamiya’s songs but I do have this single!!! And I really like this song, too!! I was so happy to hear him sing it!!!

And finally, Yocchin finished it off. I was thinking that I didn’t see him as often compared to the other members! And he gave this emotional speech about how they do KiraFes every year as if it was their last time doing it (?) and his gratitude to the fans…. My feels… >______<

• -Anthem
• -Goodbye
• -The End

Like seriously… ;w; ahhhh

We started to chant “Encore!” for a while.

And finally Trignal came out!!! They would start the encore!! (And I believe all the members wore the KiraFes 2016 T-shirts for the encore.) And I was really surprised to hear them singing…

• -DARLING – IT’S SUCH A CUTE SONG. AND A SPECIAL APPEARANCE FROM NOBU! Nobugnal!!!! It was just full of fanservice!
• Nobu appeared sitting in a chair. And the Trignal members were singing to him. Wing pushed Nobu towards Egu when he did his solo part. Then he pushed Nobu towards Ryohei when it was his solo part who proceeded to HUG him (and thus not singing his lines because he was hugging him with two arms. Wing tried putting his mic towards Ryohei). AHHHHHH. AJSDF;AKWELF Then when it was Wing’s part, Wing hugged Nobu from behind. AHHHHH SO CUUUTE ASLDKFJALWE. Towards the end, one by one, they sung, “My Darling” while kneeling in front of Nobu while offering a hand. Nobu looked very flattered and was looking at all 3 of them, trying to decide. And he looked like he was gonna take Egu’s hand but chose Wing in the end. LOOOL Poor Egu. Then Nobu grabbed onto Wing’s arm and they skipped happily.

After the song, they talked a bit and talked about how they wanted to do Nobungal one day and they finally did! I think they said for when Nobu chooses one of them, it’s really just up to him. And Nobu said, “Maybe I’ll choose Wing again next time.” And Ryohei started acting like a little spoiled kid who can’t get what he wants. XDDD By sorta stomping his feet. XDD You know how Ryohei loves Nobu. XD

And of course, Nobu was the next one to sing! :3

• -ONE

I’m pretty sure Miyu must have joined him for this song though I don’t know why I don’t remember what happened here… XD

It was Miyu’s turn of course!

• ZIP ROCK! – AAAAAAAHHHHHH I was so happy to hear this song sung live!!! <3333 It’s one of my favorite songs by Miyu so AS;FJKAWLE And towards the end, Kamiya joined him and they danced together!!!! A’SD;FJLKAWE

I had been hoping for KAmiYU to sing a song together throughout KiraFes and they finally did!!! YAAAAAY!!! XD

• -my Proud my Play! - But what threw me off was the fact that I had never heard of the song they sung… I thought I had all of their songs because I really love KAmiYU… (Later, I found out it is from some tokuten… got to go find it…).

And of course, Kamiyawas next!

• -YELL – For this song, NamiDai joined him. Kamiya was running all around throughout the entire song (Wow, he has more stamina than me!) and NamiDai did the same but on the other side… But NamiDai looked like he was gonna DIE. He tried! XD Whenever they met in the middle, they high fived each other and when they met for the last time, Kamiya hugged NamiDai. Daawwwww I don’t think I see much skinship from Kamiya. XD

Then it was NamiDai’s turn!

• -Gekiatsu Chouzetsu Saturday Night!! – And yes, it was indeed Saturday night. XD They attached this bungee jump kinda thing… And he was AMAZING. FLIPPING CONSECUTIVELY AND FAST. WHILE SINGING. I’M SO AMAZED WITH HIM. XD Yocchin came out and asked the audience if anyone had seen NamiDai. And I was surprised to hear Yocchin call NamiDai, “Daisuke”! While NamiDai was flipping, Yocchin had this WTF face like… what the hell are you doing? He was just shaking his head and when NamiDai finally stopped and his song ended, Yocchin still had that face on and NamiDai looked like a little kid who looked like he did something wrong. XD It was seriously priceless.

Of course, Yocchin was next!

• Dream Flag – I believe this time, 3 Kiramune members joined him, carrying these big flags. They were waving them, too. I think there was Kakki, Miyu, and Wing(?). I thought that Miyu was very strong for being able to wave the flag constantly. XD

And finally Kakki!

• -Hikouki Kumo – I remember this song was very nice to listen to~

And all the members came out, wearing the T-shirts. Yay for Kiramune All Stars!

I think it was here when they all said their concluding thoughts about KiraFes 2016 and promoted their recent singles, DVDs, live tours, etc..

I remember quite a few members almost forgot to promote. XDDD Unfortunately, I forgot most of this part…. I know I yelled out Ryohei when it was his turn to talk. Oh! and I do remember…

• Nobu mentioned how it was great that he could do Nobugnal with Trignal. Cue Ryohei being unhappy. XD He also said how it would be cool if he and Kamiya could have a faceoff. XD And Kamiya looked at him with a serious face and basically went, “I accept your challenge.” XDDD
• Kamiya was the last one and he said he had a big announcement. He was gonna have his second live! And it would be held in Makuhari Messe, same as last year! XD He asked us not to post the setlist and what happened during KiraFes 2016… basically spoilers on twitter or any social media. XD One of them commented that NamiDai always immediately posts things on his blog and he said he would not do that. XDDD

And of course for the finale… they all sung!

• -EVER DREAM – AAAAAHHHHHH Lots of fanservice of course!!!
• -Bokura no Egaku Mirai –Of course they would sing this song! <3 They started off on this circle… so they were in a circle and that circle rose and moved around slowly.

And during the encore with all the members, suddenly a purple ball was thrown in front of the girl a row in front of me…. but it bounced off the seat in front of her so a girl two rows in front of me got it and she looked like the happiest girl in the world. I believe she was a Kamiya fan, too. But OH MY GOD… I have NEVER seen a ball thrown that close to me before. XD It was nice of Kamiya to throw it in our direction too because we weren’t so close to the stage either. XD

They all said thank you and left the stage. >____<

It felt like it was all a dream…. >___< I wish I could’ve gone on the second day, too, but I had work on Monday and last year, I was so exhausted from KiraFes what with it being  a very loooong live.

But wow, it was an amazing 5.5 hours of my life!!! I was a bit more familiar with the songs this year compared to last year so that was nice. And I love the songs that they sang this year! I was a bit sad I didn’t get to hear Get Together!! (I heard that they sung that on day 2 instead of Ever Dream) and more KAmiYU songs. But overall, I loved it. I love the stage setup for Saitama Super Arena because the stage setup extends from one end to the other and the members all sang from different positions each time, in consideration of all the fans! And they did so many cool things this year such as flying and doing skit-like stuff!  I was glad to get the seats that I got. I got a good view of all the members in general! I didn’t have to look at the screen that much!

• Kamiya - I really enjoyed Danger Heaven? And loved the fact he sung my favorite song by him!!!
• Yocchin – So cool as usual!!! <3
• NamiDai – I was surprised to see his cool side!!! XD
• Kakki – Too much awesomeness from him especially Lesson AtoB! And what’s with the sexiness!? XD
• Nobu – How can he be so cute and cool? XD
• Miyu – I could listen to him all day…. I love his voice and songs… >///< I look forward to his new album!
• Trignal – Egu – Oh god… such a dork as usual. XD
• Wing is just SO ADORABLE AS ALWAYS. He was waving to the fans a lot!
• Ryohei – ASJDF;AJKWEL AHHHHHH <333 My bias XD

Thanks Zoey and Sam!!! <3 I had fun seeing you guys again! And it was nice to meet you, Emi! And Rizu, unfortunately we didn’t get to meet but next time!!! I had tons of fun! I’m definitely going to KiraFes next year and I look forward to the DVD!

I’m gonna attend both days of Trignal’s live: Secret Garage in Yokohama in August. I actually won the tickets a while back. I will be going with Zoey, my Trignal buddy. XD And the last day is also my birthday so I’m really excited for that!!! AS;DJFLKAEW It’ll be the best birthday present. <3

Next up, Prince of Stride event fanreport! Since Emi has already done the afternoon session of that, I will do the night session! That will come up soon! (I should be free this weekend and I don’t have much to do at work on Monday so…look forward to that!


Thanks for reading this long post if you got to the end of this! <3

I attended both the afternoon and night session of the event on 6/19! So fanreport later!

1. The event is set to be on DVD!!!
2. There will be character songs!!!
3. Stage play in autumn in Osaka and Tokyo.
4. Drama CDs for Saisei characters!
5. Drama CD for the epilogue of the Yagami brothers!!!

I think there was one more thing but I forgot…

But omggg I can’t wait for the event DVD to come out and to hear the character songs!!!

2 days left~

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4 days left~

Head over to the ErroR Salvation site and click on the button that says “Count Down Voice”!! You’ll get some new audio from the guys! This time, it’s Adolph c.v. Yashiro Taku! Dont forget to check back everyday for a new voice clip. Only 6 more days until it’s released~

They’re so cute

Let’s take a look at some of the guys after recording Diabolik Lovers More, More Blood

All very normal…

Then we have Kishio Daisuke

And Suzuki Tatsuhisa….

Just why?! Lmao!

Hirarin featured on Fujita Maiko’s new album, 『忘れられない人』, which will release on Oct 27th! If you don’t know, Fujita Maiko is the singer, writer and composer of Nee, the opening theme for season one of Hiiro no Kakera (also know as the best anime opening of all time)! She actually sang a lot of the songs for Hiiro no Kakera but Nee is a masterpiece!!

(Also, imagine how short she must be! Hirarin’s like 5'4" XD)

Thisinterview was really interesting! They talk about Loki and the MCU. And while that was great, watching Hirarin get embarrassed because of their compliments while in that boyfriend shirt ™ almost did me in! He even told them “Please don’t be nervous about me! I’m just an average uncle!” I was like, “How are you average?! Where?!?”

This is why I have been MIA; and I feel like you all deserve an explanation, you all supported my blog so generouly. I will return, but since the beginning of the year; I have been suffering depression over the state of human rights, health issues, and financial set backs. I lost my computer, which makes it extremely difficult to blog.

Share my belated birthday gift with me (that’s what I’m calling this->)

Unboxing Given Live Stage Production Items while discussing women’s rights:

We can’t change things if we don’t speak out loud and ask questions. (Im not great with political terminology so please anyone correct me if I use an incorrect term) We have a majority bipartisan Government of Democrat or Republican. On a scale of far left, to far right; our Democratic party rn falls significantly right from center. Our Republican party falls almost full far right; flirting with fascist ideals. Left = non capitalistic/ Right = Capitalism. Its so much more than capitalism though, because of seperation of Church and State. Because Capitalist values have been so over shot to the far right of the scale, and we are unbalanced by authorities with biased and conservative religious views, our highest court; The US Supreme Court is now biased and unbalanced. We are supposed to first and foremost have separation of Church and state. This goes directly back to the foundation of our separation from England. Certain human rights laws are supposed to be “settled” law, essentially meaning, they have been “tested” over and over and found to be laws in good standing, wether or not they independently appear in our Constitution. Laws like the right to an abortion, the right to decline to participate in religious ceremonies or adhere to regions views, in state sponsored environments, the right to equal medical care regardless of race sex gender class or creed.

Common sense things like an intersex or male bodied person has equal right to an abortion, as would a female bodied person. The right to birth control or personally initiated sterilization. An unwed or poor mother has an equal right to reproductive health care (pre or post). Queerness but particularly homosexuality (due to the wording of the legal definition) is infact a legal human right to the pursuit of happiness, regardless of gender expression or biological/ physiology or marriage rights. POC have equal access to reproductive health care and autonomy, without coeersion or state sponsored interference (ie disproportionate encouraging of sterilization) Yes this was a problem up until the 60s, and in some states into the 70s. Stimulus were given to wed white mothers, while ethnic mothers were disproportionately encouraged to undergo sterilization in order to receive benefits like Healthcare, childcare, educational support, and food stability from the government. Or the one that ties it all together; you cannot use or express religious views as a means to exert authority over another person, in a state sponsored environment. Ie you can’t make little Johnny say a prayer with the coach, or fear getting kicked off the football team.

Our Supreme Court had a draft, called an “opinion” leaked, a few days ago showing that they are set to overturn abortion rights, next month. The thing about “opinion drafts” is that they are informally written; almost like reading a transcript of the whole conversation between the judges. The draft clearly shows not only religious bias, but that the judges are now just creating and stripping laws; based on simply how they personally feel concerning a law. You can imagine; basically the highest court in the land is making decisions off whatever the hell they personally think. On top of that; many of these judges were recommended by Trump during his stay, and these people share eugenic ideological views that are racist and misogynistic; going back to AIFR propaganda. Ie the standards ingrained so deeply in our country, through colonial mindsets that ‘only “fit” persons should procreate, and that this is how American ECONOMIC values thrive.’ Which of course is insane and affects every citizen, yet is how this is so prevalent in far right capitalistic values. Even our Democratic party is now right leaning. This is also why age of consent laws are so important and are now at risk, and their undoing disproproportionaly benefitting heterosexual men concerning women’s rights/marriage. Which hypocritically undermines Seperation of Church and State through far right Christian majority, family planning fundamentals.

It’s not a matter of if one personally or religiously supports making abortions illegal; it’s that it’s directly tied to religious doctrine, meaning they’re supporting it as falling under the scope of Constitutional rights, but its blatantly coming from personal religious views. This is a gross abuse of twisting the Constitution. The judges in the opinion draft are recorded as stating that the Constitution itself never addressed abortion, so one can’t create laws concerning supporting abortion. (Then in the same breath, duscussing taking steps to create restrictions, AGAINST this right, which is obvious hypocracy)That’s why the laws are settled laws! The Constitution was written in a completely different American society than modern day. The judges know this, but they are twisting the purposeful function of our Constitution and Bill of Rights, to learn and grow with the people, to suit their personal opinions. The majority of US citizens do not support what they are planning on doing; I think at last count it was almost 70% but they are moving forward anyways, which is an outright breech of the Judges’ function as servants in a democracy.

Its so intertwined with women’s rights; it’s not just abortion legalities that would almost instantly unravel. Upfront; women would no longer be able to aquire reproductive health care unless it favored pregnancy potential. This then affects even persons who could potentially have future pregnancies, who say want to have hysterectomies, or be on birth control. And further brings into play, if the State has the right to deem if it is medically necessary, which circles back to religious and personal views, and seperating Church and State. Yet our Healthcare system is privatized…..so again the hypocracy. Theres an abundance of conflict of interest as many of these law markers have stock in pharmaceutical and medical companies. Controlling women’s rights, particularly the institutions of marriage and pregnancy, creates revenues for them. This obviously affects restrictions on what does or does not constitute legal birth control. Which affects male bodied and intersex person’s autonomy; if they do or do not wish to retain the ability to become pregnant. It expressly affects what constitutes rape. Specifically between a married man and woman. Whatever they now declare IS a man or woman. People forget, it was legal in the states, up until a little over a generation ago; for a man to commit non consensual acts against his legal wife. This immediately not only affects female bodied citizens, but the laws tied to these settled laws, are also tied to laws that make homosexuality legal. Specifically addressing by legal term; the act of sodomy, same sex marriage, and even cohabitation. It by default impacts queer people in general, mostly intersex non binary and trans persons. If the court strips these settled laws; it throws us into legal regression immediately concerning what determines sex and gender.

So just being outside of a binary legal definition of sex or gender, technically would make it illegal to express yourself or even live in your own home as a person outside of that legal definition. Even teaching your children sex, gender, and body positivity, has already been stripped in several states since the beginning of the year. One woman on state level was already charged with murder, for obtaining an abortion, but fortunately on the federal level; it was over ruled. What is happening right now, means it would not have been over ruled and she would be sitting in prison on a felony. Several parents across the country have already had their children removed from their care, and are facing felony charges for seeking gender affirming medical care for their children. If these settled laws are over turned next month; their charges would be valid. They are currently in court and the State in at least one case; appears to be stalling, as if hoping to see these human rights regress, so they can move forward with the charges. Other cases have been dismissed; as the laws still currently protect the defendants.

Right now, people are focused on oh my god; they can’t just overturn abortion rights. They’re only just beginning to get a glimpse of everything else it over turns or places such tight restrictions on, it might aswell be over turned. These laws aswell are also connected to separation of church and state. It has already begun to strip transgender health care, our freedom of speech to use words that are indicative of sexuality and gender out side of a designated binary, within a state sponsored environment such as a government institution or a school. The human right to just exist as a trans (umbrella) person in such an environment. Infact last week a Republican Representative openly questioned on the floor, wether or not a fellow representative who is known to be transgender, even had the right to use the bathroom at all within the government building, because that is indirectly expression of gendered terminology. Ie it says male or female on the bathroom doors. They were alluding to questioning the technical legality of wether or not this person could exist as transgender within the building. Ie can transgender persons legally function as government officials. It’s overgeneralization is focused on the hot take of bathroom laws, which is blatant misogyny, affecting almost always feminine males and trans women; but it immediately affects so much more. Right now another case is in the court, concerning a football coach and his right to lead students in prayer, at school (ie state) sponsored games. The laws that are being returned and likely to be overturned, include wording allowing for coercion. Meaning an authority figure such as a teacher in a State sponsored school could soon have the legal right to require or at least coerce their students to participate in religious acts, and be subjected to their own religious personal views. This then affects views on gender, genderoles, sexuality, and marriage.

Recognizing how dangerous a turning point this is, is not an attack on religion. It’s not an attack on one’s personal beliefs. It’s that these laws are in place, or are “settled” through “test” to create inclusion and equality through seperating Church from State/capitalism from personal views against the acutal majority vote. The bias comes from people in positions of authority clearly using their collective religious or personal views (obviously monetarily driven through far right capitalism) to hypocritically NOT do their jobs. If the law was functioning correctly, these authorities would be evaluated as to wether or not they are even fit to perform their duties, due to what is now absolutely (per the leak) clear conflict of interest and abuse of power. Yet because they are judges in the Supreme Court; no one really has the power to stop them. Stripping women’s rights, then strips everyones human rights by default, and restricts/regresses LGBTQIA+ rights, and again by default unhinges the Seperation of Church and State. It would very quickly make marital rape potentially legal, gay panic defense indisputable, intersex existence LEGALLY unacknowledged, same sex or gender non conforming marriage up for debate based on a legal definition of gender, male homosexual sex illegal, forced pregnancy legal, denial of equal rights to reproductive health care, and all of that is a round about way of making cis women and AFABs second class citizens. It’s not even a wonder why these people are so concerned about transgender women being able to use public women’s restrooms but not transgender men, or keeping legal authority over female bodied persons being able to become pregnant.

This is 100% Given related. If you consume BL or enjoy stories like Given that are not tropes but realistically depict our narratives as men outside of the made up cis/het binary; *looking right at Haruki* you must remember the irl population it involves. Protecting women’s autonomy is all human rights, and violations of those rights, entirely impact the irl people these stories portray. What’s happening in the US is that our highest officials are knowingly PURPOSELY committing unconstitutional crimes against women and female bodied persons and everyone inbetween to push their views on family planning, to exalt their status as cis het men and control the economy for their own personal gain. It’s not even a woke thot after this leak. The biggest test of proof is property value and ownership rn in the US. They are absolutely trying to put us all back into the 50s and white/straight wash the Cival Rights movement. These men were highschool and college students in the 50s; they’re seeking to force the future they were promised by the racist and sexist government of their youths. Another point that hasn’t really hit most people yet; is that these settled laws being in place, are not only to protect against sexism and classism, but indirectly ALSO affect xenophobia, racism, red redlining, the right for all religious expression, discrimination and hate crimes. Soooo the guys in Given could irl be criminals, institutionalized and lobodimized, in the near American future these judges seek. Ristuka’s sister, Haruki’s sister would immediately be questioned for their association, as “fit women”. This is not at all far fetched. This is why abortion laws have been soooo precious to us all; they affect EVERYTHING if they come undone. It’s not actually about abortion; that’s just the main law they’re using to restrict all of the above, as LGBTQIA+ and marriage equality *for cis het women too* is directly tied together through seperation of Church and State, and Healthcare.

I’m an extremely genderfluid and usually more feminine presenting gay male. What the hell am I supposed to do? By this summer; I could quite possibly be told I can’t legally exist or marry or have a family. I should not get a privilege pass just because I can’t make a baby. That’s why my pov is women are the true authority and should be fought for by everyone, including gay men. Gay men should be the first to have their backs on this, and not for selfish reasons; but because their autonomy defines our rights as human beings, regardless of sexuality or gender.

IRL Ritsuka took a candid pic of IRL Haruki asleep on IRL Akihiko’s shoulder. Just the look on that man’s face! Just suspend reality for a second; Akihiko at the moment he opens his eyes, and realizes someone’s taking pics of him and Haruki…but then realizes it’s Ritsuka

Kawakami is suuuuch an Aries! But if you’ve ever seen the guy speak for more than 3mins, you know he has a soft, gentle charm about him, and charisma for days!

Sunaga is just a beaming, giggling ray of sunshine, poppin from one snarky prompt to the next; the boy knows how to sell you! While his not so subtle, almost cringeworthy but it’s too sincere, crushing over Miyauchi Iori has been a thing of wonder, throughout pre and post production; his IRL admiration and friendship with Kawakami has been a source of sheer joy for Given fans.

While Funaki and Miyauchi hammed it up pretty damn good, during production; Kawakami and Sunaga have continued to feed the gvntwt moe in really sweet spoonfuls. Often posting twinning pics or call and response banter. Stuff like this; just kinda in the know for the fans. Sunaga plugs the live production and its merch like a personal mission He’s all in! And I love that so much, as a Given fan, and as an Arts Science major. The IDEA of falling asleep on Akihiko’s shoulder, and it was Ritsuka who caught the pic. But idt it was staged, like usual. It’s just magic!

Also. Just read the thread back and forth between Shibuki and Sunaga ah hahahaha!! But what I love the most about their off stage comeraderie, is not the allusions to the characters they played, so much as just the comeraderie itself. Guys being accommodating and sweet to eachother, because that should be an aspiration damn it, and esspecially when they’re two very different and very dominant personalities. They still make space for one another.

Muh god, Sunaga Futa is so my kin !!

Sunaga Futa aka Haruki

Masataka Kimura aka Takechan

~Kizu Natsuki’s Given Live Stage

Ah haha Can we make Sunaga the official Given spokesperson at this point!!? This is such Haruki vibes!

If you need some more Yano Shogo gorgeousness to celebrate his birthday

I got you covered

In the upcoming Fanfare For Adolescence anime; Yano will voice Yu Arimura, in a story about two boys attending an Equestrian school

The character just honestly LOOKS like an anime avatar of Yano Shogo !!

Happy Birthday Yano Shogo; one of the sweetest voices we’ve ever heard ❤ and a fellow Pisces ♓

What!? Even in his post, he’s straight up like…What am I doing!!?? Why that face!? Ah haha!! Still…he has a tail! Omigosh it’s too dorbs!!

Side M ->

I’m not certain who the other seiyu are, but this is the full cast of the live iDOLMASTER Side M

Let’s start the day off right!! ❤

It’s Yano Shogo’s Birthday

The incredible voice of Mafuyu in Kizu Natsuki’s Given anime and films; including the vocalist and rhythm guitar for Centimillimental’s Given soundtrack but you already knew that !!

Given anime/film cast pictured below:

Yano Shogo (voice of Satou Mafuyu)

Uchida Yuma (voice of Uenoyama Ritsuka)

Nakazawa Masatomo

(voice of Nakayama Haruki)

Eguchi Takuya (voice of Kaji Akihiko)

Asanuma Shintaro (voice of Murata Ugetsu)

*note these are not the same seiyu, as in the ongoing Given audio dramas, but they are the best known outside of Japan’s audience*

Taito Ban threw him an on-air birthday bash

(Taito Ban/Yano Shogo/and I believe that’s an unrelated seiyu; Ichikawa Aoi, on the right??)

Taito Ban is none other than Shizusumi’s seiyu in the Given anime/film ->

A Given Birthday for Given’s best boy hosted by Given’s ultimate tsundere

Birthday boy who fell asleep on the bus….

Erbody say awww ❤ That’s some Mafuyu vibes!

Right now; Yano is performing in the live stage for iDOLMASTER Side M and voicing characters in the upcoming animes; VAZZROCK and Fanfare For Adolescence