miamiatzo’s 30 Day Bandori Challenge!

Day 6: Your favourite keyboardist/DJ

Do I. Do I even need to say anything. Ok I will bc how could I pass up a chance to talk about her

There are so many things I love about Arisa but rn what I love most is her attentiveness. Arisa is naturally a very detail-oriented person, sometimes to her detriment bc it makes her overthink things, but she uses it to her advantage when she’s doing things for the people she cares about. She’s always thinking about how to make her bandmates happy, whether it be in Fireworks Festival, Happy Poppin’ Xmas, Hectic Happy Valentine’s, How to Spend a Special Day, you name it. Since she’s not very good at expressing her feelings in words she pours all of her love into actions and tries to plan everything out with meticulous care based on what she notices and it’s just. Bursts into tears

Um so I was inspired by this post about a potential HaroHapi angst event and drew this abomination I'm so sorry angst is my sustenance okay

(Actually the truth is I found a stock picture of someone cuddling a teddy bear and one thing led to another}

So basically Misaki/Michelle isn't around for whatever reason after the band fails to live up to their name? and Kokoro misses her so the suit people get her a big plushie and then Misaki comes back and ofc there's a happy ending

*crawls back into hole from whence I came*

miamiatzo’s 30 Day Bandori Challenge!

Day 2: Your favourite vocalist

It’s Kasumi in terms of actual vocals and Yukina as a character but of course I love Yukina’s singing too . . . Kasumi has the Emotions and Yukina has the diabolical high notes asldkfsj

This isn’t bc of anything on here but sometimes I see people talk about characters like “Oh they did this bad thing so they’re automatically a bad person and I don’t like them” and it’s like, ok that’s fine but . . . can’t relate. I just can’t imagine not getting even more attached to characters because they’re flawed y’know. And I don’t mean characters who’ve done absolutely heinous unforgivable things, I just mean like. The Bandori girls for instance. It’s so much more interesting and fun (and also painful in the best way?) to try to understand where characters are coming from when they mess up or say something mean

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Day 5: Your favourite drummer

Kanon’s vibe is like her hair you feel me . . . soft and floaty like clouds . . . She’s one of those people who likes to romanticise things and believe that magic and miracles exist in some form and I think I used to be more like that as a kid, it makes me kinda miss it. Her friendship with Chisato is so important and really shows how she sees people for who they truly are no matter what pretences they put up and she also has zero sense of direction which is painfully relatable lmao

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Day 4: Your favourite bassist

Shoutout to Chisato and Hagu and Himari but I have a soft spot for Rimi. She doesn’t need to be the most complex character ever, she’s the sweetest and even hearing her speak makes me feel like I’m being wrapped in a fluffy blanket . . . I need a Rimi in my life she’s so good at lifting people up and making the atmosphere in a room 10x nicer just by existing and she likes horror and eating meat, not just chocolate! Precious yet so powerful

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Yeah I’m doing this too I can’t help it I love gushing about things I like

Day 1: Your favourite band

I can’t possibly pick one of them . . . I know I’ve been losing my sanity over Roselia lately but I promise you I am still a PoPiPa stan! PoPiPa’s friendship gives me warm fuzzies and I gasped out loud when the Breakthrough live vid got posted so! I love PoPiPa they mean a lot to me and I’ve tried my best to T1k all their events from Fireworks Festival onwards. The only one I missed was Message For You where I was dumb and ended up at #1040 sob but I’m very proud of my Double Rainbow T100

Idk what to say about Roselia I’m just constantly crying over how far they’ve come and how much they love each other and their music which I didn’t connect to emotionally at first but look at me now. Not to mention three of my top 4 girls are in Roselia hahaha . . . I don’t really tier for them bc they already get so much love but I did make an exception for Prelude Replay bc that story is super important to me

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Day 3: Your favourite guitarist

I’m sure everyone’s already said all there is to be said about how amazing Miss Sayo Hikawa is . . . I love her development of course but I think nowadays I love her more for 1) how hard she works to organise events/outings/what have you to help the other girls out whenever she can bc she knows she’s good at it and 2) the way she doesn’t hesitate to speak up when she has a problem with someone. Sayo shines SO MUCH in Roselia’s band stories and I also loved her role in Noble Rose pt 1 even if I don’t think she was exactly in the right for saying what she did to Lisa. But it was very valid and very Sayo. If you constantly tell someone they’re valued and they don’t believe you, of course you feel betrayed. While Lisa isn’t to blame for something she couldn’t help feeling it was nice to see the other side of things as well

miamiatzo’s 30 day song challenge but I attempt to play random sections of the songs on the piano: day 6

Fav RAS song! This one is . . . the prettiest sounding to me? Kinda a weird thing to say about a RAS song but while their music is fire I’m not super into the genre, so I like that this song is on the quieter more lyrical side and also has soft CHU2 instead of yelling CHU2 which does things to my heart. The lyrics too hh

Pls ignore the fact that I accidentally added two bars in, this is a recent fav and I haven’t listened to it enough! I’m not doing it again . . . But despite the very questionable recording I may have thrown CHU2’s lines in there as well bc I felt like it . . . thank heck they’re quiet otherwise I wouldn’t have been able to record them at 2 am

Hi this is unrelated to the song challenge but it’s a post I wanted to make before I got distracted by said challenge

After trying to contain my Roselia obsession (did I actually try? no), I’ve come to the conclusion that it can’t be done. And so I present to you:

Roselia Songs That Make Me Cry Part 2

Neo-Aspect

• Melodically this song is just so beautiful and it was born out of so much guilt and getting lost before finding the way again I cannot
• The chorus is so raw and powerful and comforting at the same time and the heckin. High notes. God. It’s even better in certain live performances where AiAi does that voice crack/squeak thing coming down on the melisma
• The “Kitto” at the beginning of the second chorus is softer than the others. AiAi reproduces this, without fail, every single time she sings it live
• The vibrato on the “Oto tsubu wo” in the bridge

Sanctuary

• I didn’t pay much attention to this song at first and that was dumb of me bc the Roselia summer event is the follow-up to BS2 and that’s basically the entire reason Sanctuary hits me so hard. It’s Yukina saying, “I never want to hurt you all again and I will do everything in my power to prevent that from happening”
• DEAREST YOU ARE MY DEAREST do you know how much pain those words bring me
• It was actually a comment by Nine Subs on one of their videos that got me to look at the lyrics properly. They mentioned the “Konna ni mo kitto/Konna ni mo zutto” part where Yukina can’t even finish the line bc she can’t fully express her feelings in words and the only thing that will get them across is, well, dropping everything and yelling out that F#5. No but really it does things to me

Yakusoku

• Literally every time Lisa sings
• “Flower of life”
• The entire bridge but especially the way Yukki sings the “Shinjite ite saigo made” and Yukina and Lisa doing the “Yakusoku dayo” together. Their friendship is everything
• Yukki absolutely breaking my heart at Rausch

Ringing Bloom

• The fact that the seiyuu said this song makes them cry
• The keyboard in the intro . . . Rinko is on fire and I’m living for it, it’s like she’s pounding out her resolve
• Rinko’s singing doesn’t make me cry exactly but it’s just. So nice
• This. THIS

aaAAA

I’m saving Part 3 for a certain song and event that’s coming up so no I’m not done heh

miamiatzo’s 30 day song challenge but I attempt to play random sections of the songs on the piano: day 5

Fav HaroHapi song! Oh my god I procrastinated so hard bc I didn’t wanna deal with the jazziness . . . I ended up just throwing a bunch of dotted rhythms in the left hand lmao. I’m trying not to think too much about these, otherwise I’ll never get through all of them. This song is so good tho