yuukibear

Sometimes you know art needs to exist, even if you don't like the idea of making it, and now it becomes your responsibility to have it be brought into the world somehow? Well, I'm currently in that position.

I don't want to learn how to draw gore, I don't even like gore, but I need for there to be art of Douman covered in Seimei's blood and viscera. It'd be like, symbolic art or whatever. Half symbolism half literally just gore.

... It'll probably take a while, I'm better at writing than drawing (and I'm still working on those yohaji fanfictions I started back in 2024 August), but it'll happen... eventually...

Yohaji's anime is coming so so very soon, I feel at the edge of my seat waiting for news, less than a week to go is such little time! There's really not much more information left to be revealed about the show, that doesn't mean I've stopped being on the lookout for more of it, but with it being so close to the official release date of the first episode, we're at the point where interviews with the cast and production team are the most news you'll hear regarding production matters. (Which is a good thing, since working on producing the show this close to release sounds like a crunch nightmare... The animation and manga industries in Japan are quite horrible, but surely they aren't still working on the animation this late? Let's hope not and that's it's an already finished thing...)

I've yet to hear which company will be doing the subtitles, but my expectation is for it to be Crunchyroll: The Crunchyroll website's news page lists there's still seven yet to be revealed shows that they'll be doing the English subtitles for this fall season. I check the official Crunchyroll news page multiple times a day, so when it gets confirmed that the Crunchyroll company will be doing the English subtitles I'll know within just a few hours after the announcement!

The advance screening day is even closer than that, less than 72 hours away. Not that it's got anything to do with me, it's an in-person event held in Shinjuku, not the kind of thing that I could participate in so easily (even if I did have the money for the ticket, won the ticket lottery, and had the day off from studying). I hope some people will post on twitter about their experiences at the screening. I'm not sure how these types of things go, since I've never been to an advanced screening of anything, but it sounds so exciting. It was announced that the MC for the event is set to be Tanie Reo, who's the seiyuu playing Mame! There's also going to be 3 other speakers: Oosaka Ryouta (who plays Haruaki), Suzuki Ryouta (who plays Sano), and Fukuyama Jun (who plays The Principal)! It sounds like attending the advanced screening would be lots of fun. I wonder if they'll do a bit where they put on an act in character? I want to see it so badly, but that's just not the kind of thing you can see unless you go to the event yourself...

Even if I can't go to the screening, at least there's still interviews to look forward to that are available to the public to read! Yesterday while scrolling through twitter, I stumbled upon one interview released as an article. I'm going to try reading it through one of those websites that translates things for you for free, since my Japanese skills are not nearly high enough to read the whole thing without assistance, but that doesn't hamper my excitement much. I'm saving it to read later as a reward for my future self after I finish some more of my assignments. I want to read it now so badly, but hopefully that intense want will motivate me to get things done.

It's things like interviews with the cast that make the approaching release date feel so much more real. There's many things that make it feel "real", but an interview is so... so tangible to me? There's wonderful art on twitter where loyal fans have been releasing daily fan art in anticipation of the anime, and that has amped up my excitement for sure, but an interview? I guess it holds more weight in my heart, since it's got me so excited I could scream! An interview with three members of the cast! The cast members interviewed even overlap with three of the four cast members who'll be at the advanced screening! Fukuyama Jun wasn't interviewed but the other three were, and that makes up for a bit of the pain of not being able to attend the advanced screening.

Less than a week... Less than a week... It's so close!

Opening twitter when you first wake up is absolutely not the thing I recommend doing, especially when waking up with tightness in your chest because of stress, but today I had a stroke of luck and the first thing I saw was something amazing!

Tanamai-sensei posted a sample preview of Volume 17's shikishi, and it's so beautiful, seriously I love how this looks. The original post had a while border around the shikishi sample image, so I removed the white border using krita. I know it's not a perfect edit, but this is just the sample for now (I'll add the non-sample version to this journal entry once possible.) Ibara and Kai both look so good in this: Ibara is elegant but still cute with that sort of nervous look on her face, and I want to pinch Kai's cheeks, he's just too adorable all embarrassed and flustered like that. It's purely my fantasy, but I'm imagining that the red string doesn't actually directly connect them but runs to Izuna first♡.

On a related noted: I really want to finish reading the Meiji Romance arc to learn more about the two of them. I'm currently doing a reread again with the intention of catching up to the latest chapter! As of current, I've finished the first 2 volumes, my hope is to be caught up with the magazine release before the anime starts releasing in about 3 weeks!!

I have more to say about Meiji Romance arc (well, it's not completely about the plot... you'll get what I mean by this if you read the post) but I'll give That it's own post.
Edit: I decided to put the semi-related post behind my access list.

While rereading Chapter 1 of P-Haji for the umpteenth time, this instance being both for my own personal pleasure, and to gather data to input on the fan wiki, I noticed something...

Marilyn is side character both in the mainline comic, and in P-Haji, you could even consider her a background character. There's not a lot of focus on her in the story at all, so I don't usually focus much on her. I know that she's friends with Daisy, I know she's green, I know she wears a big red bow, and is one of the characters who wasn't initially apart of the story but gotta retconned into the class after the first few chapters had already been released. There's not a lot I know about her, but these are some hard facts, much like how, just like Daisy, Marilyn has only 1 leg!
... It's exactly that which left me surprised and confused while reading.

P-Haji, Chapter 1, Page 8 (well.. the 2 page spread after page 7), in the largest panel where she sits next to Daisy and behind Koizumi, you can see that Marilyn has 2 legs. 2 legs! That's 1 more leg than she usually has!

It's a tiny little detail, but now that it's caught my attention I can't help but wondering if this ever got corrected later in print, or maybe online? Maybe Tanamai-sensei made a tweet about it that I've just never seen before. Really, it's so fun noticing these little details. Even knowing it's a mistake doesn't make me any less delighted than knowing a bit of trivia like this!

Lastly, before I give anyone any time to wonder about it: yes, I added this bit of trivia to the wiki! Both to the specific chapter page, and Marilyn's character page! Of course I did! There's no better place to write about that sort of thing than on the fan wiki in the dedicated trivia section. I hope someone else finds some joy in knowing this little detail, whether they saw it themself first, or learned it from my little entry on the wiki ♡. (Or perhaps even learning it from this post on my journal? It'd be wonderful all the same!)