Why I love Hina Hikawa. An Essay.

No, I’ll actually try to keep this short and sweet. I could wax poetic about my best girls forever but honestly that takes forever and I just wanna show some love already. So~ my best girl! My list tends to shuffle around for a variety of reasons but my first and long-standing best girl is the lovely mint chocolate chip colored sweetie: Hina Hikawa!

Hina Hina Hina, my lovely autistic child.

And no. I don’t mean that as an insult. Bare with me! When I was little, I was…strange, to say the least. I didn’t really speak or react too much. I just wanted to be alone with a book that probably should have been for kids triple my age. I couldn’t handle a lot of stimuli, couldn’t read people properly. It was a mess. Autism was (and mostly still is) uncharted territory, so when I was smacked with the label, no one around knew what to do. Life for awhile was constant classes in social etiquette, devouring so many new things, trying this whole “fitting in” thing, failing and getting back up in time to pretend to do it all again the “right” way with the kids my age.

Hina to me is that side of me that I tried to leave behind all those years ago. The me that I tried to forget about for awhile, but still is a big part of me: a person who doesn’t quite understands social cues even after “training” but finds people fascinating, the person who picks up new hobbies, accidentally turns into a savant and then becoming bored by a lot of them. I could go on but I think you get the point. When I first started reading Hina’s interactions I immediately saw myself, and I really wanted to hate her like the other players I knew about…but I immediately fell in love. It gave me a little bubble of happiness to see someone like I was (although I doubt it’ll be explicitly said), one of the many MANY forms of Autism.

Especially her interactions with Aya (who is up there as the best girl too) in the main Pastel Palettes story! It took me back to some- looking back on it- cringey conversations with “normal” or “neurotypical” people. Especially when I finally got the hang of just talking to people, but not the hang of understanding what not to say to do things like: cheer people up. Usually, characters that seem to be autistic coded (think like Sheldon from Big Bang theory, Newt Scamander from the Fantastic beast, etc.) can come across as more abrasive than they really mean to, more oddballs who just refuse to conform as opposed to people who are just hardwired differently. But Hina hits this sweet spot of having “quirks” but still being shown to have a good heart. She loves her band, and doesn’t want to see it fall apart! Hina admires Aya for her combat-ness (is that a word? I can’t think of another word for her), Chisato for her attitude, Maya for her intelligence and Eve…well I still don’t get Eve but Hina and I love her too!

I love that we share a serious sweet tooth, and hate flavorless foods! And tofu! Like I said, I know it’s not Canon, but I like that that part of autism is shown: the texture/flavor thing. Usually, people with autism are extremely sensitive to such things and I just don’t see that used in character that much. I might be reading way too much into these things but autistic girls are usually left to the wayside, and seeing even little traits like having texture issues or even the Boppity thing and such just makes my little heart sing! I know it’s a weirdly translated onomatopoeia, but I know so many autistic friends that do things like that~ I remember when I was younger I would talk just like Hina! I might do it now, but if I do, I have no flipping idea. Hehe~ I don’t even know if this is coherent anymore~ but long story short: I love this babe so much! My first 4-star, speaker of some of my favorite lines, wearer of some of my fav outfits…I think Hina will always hold a special space in my heart, even if I become a traitor and switch around my list.

EDIT: Also freaking~look at her cute face and tell me to MY face that this little blueberry isn't cute af? I want more cards of her!

-Also: She supports her sister no matter what?!?? Like, she watches all of Roselia's proformances~ in disguise! Which we all know is Hina in sunglasses and a sick hat.

ANNOUNCING ARGONAVIS

An Exciting New Chapter for BanG Dream!

Announced shortly before the beginning of the 5th Live at Makuhari Messe Hall, the project for a "Male-Centric" universe of BanG Dream! had been revealed by announcing their very first live!

The announcement tweet gained much traction after the initial retweet from us at Bandori.Party! At this time, the only information that had been given was the announcement of 3 Cast Members: Maeda Seiji, Morishima Shuuta, and Hyuuga Daisuke, and that their first live will take place in the month of July, with more cast members to be announced. See the 3 Seiyuu introduce the project in this video!

After about an hour or so of comments of fans of the franchise worried about the interaction of the male characters with the girls from a series called "Girls Band Party", Kidani, who manages the franchise and is it's creator, sent a series of tweets to calm fans:

"The Male Bandori Project is a different world than the existing Bang Dream story. The characters will not mix and it is 100% different." Original Tweet

"I also don't want to see males appear in the world of Bandori. The limit is the characters' fathers. (Though this is just a personal view)"Original Tweet

That's all for the news round up on ARGONAVIS. How do you feel about this new addition to our beloved franchise? Remember to be courteous with your discussion, whether you're for the project or not, it is happening!

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Moca/Ran event is starting and if it makes me at all sad i am going to cry uncontrollably.

Jeez I just woke up and so much is happening!

First, the Sasanqua event is so sad and sweet at the same time and i did cry. Very wholesome story, and you should watch it whenever you have the time.

Second, there's a new HHW collab starting on the 31st, so I'm gonna try to make predictions for that on. The 4s are probably Kokoro and Hagumi; Kokoro because the leaders are always part of the collabs and Hagumi because her last one was the softball one. The 3s are a little harder to guess because none of them have been featured in any gachas, though I think Misaki will be the 3*. I think that the type will be powerful because we haven't had on in a little bit (also HHW powerful when?) but every other collab in bandori has been a cool type and I don't want that trend to end yet, even though we just had a cool gacha.

OMG HAPPY BIRTHDAY IZUKI!!!!

Finally! Happy Birthday Himari!

I love how much you worry about your friends and always want to help (even if you make it gross that before), I'm sure you will become that reliable Senpai you always wanted to be!

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Happy birthday Himari! I love you and how you're so sweet, relatable, and honest! <3

Ok...the time has come, we've been preparing ourselves for a whole year for this moment fam, starting today, the Happy party train is going to go through a new station every-single-day during a whole week so brace yourselves and let's start with the first one.

We started this journey with a young lady whom maybe people who don't like her see as a crybaby that is there only to be teased, have the joke done and move along or to be shipped with Tomoe, but there is so much more than just that to see about our guest. She is a girl that really cherish her friends, old or new, with all her heart, that care about them the most and only want for them to be happy and stay safe, and although sometimes she suffers from that awfull complex that is the lack of self esteem when a problem appears she has found the way to solve it, even if it is unconsciously.

Personally, I have become more and more identified with our guest with each new event that I have seen her at since her second band history. The moment when he realizes that everything around him was moving forward while feeling as if he had been "frozen in time" up to that moment hit me very hard since at that moment I was also going through a similar situation (and let me tell you, it's not a pleasant feeling at all) luckily, she was able to come to terms with those new feelings and turn them into the source to reinforce her bond with the rest of the band, showing us again the intensity of her feelings for them. Because that is precisely her best quirk, it is not that her innocence sometimes borders on stupidity (which is what actually make her so highly teasable), is that she is a very emotional person, but instead of left her feelings run wild out in a burst of character like Tomoe, she hold them inside her and try to deal with them, to find a way to turn them into something positive that give her strength, and she tries over and over again until she feels ready to talk to her friends if nothing works.

I know I could have limited myself to mentioning her energetic aptitude and her inordinate optimism, but honestly, the way she dealt with her feelings in that instant and how its effects have been reflected from then until now seemed more worthy of mention.

And I have rambled enough for today, so without further ado let's finish this "the same as always", raising our glasses and wishing the best to our adorable pink princess, the "Rally Misfire" bassist and dependable leader of Afterglow!

Happy Birthday Hii-chan!

this edit is ANCIENT but have this for himari's bday.. which i am late to :'D woooo.... himari is so great, 3rd best girl on my list, she's such a sweetheart and immensely underrated!!

I had a picrew for rinko's birthday but I accidentally deleted it TwT but at least I have himari! I honestly am not happy with my drawing skills so I much prefer making picrews. Happy Birthday Himari!!! Here's the link if you wanna make your own: https://picrew.me/image_maker/229486

Don’t know why but I wanted to edit this card into Pareo so here’s the result. It took my just under 5 hours to do. Definitely one of my longest edits.