this is a lie I have no new notes

please help me ... I can't stand having a number there ...

//e: the evil is defeated thank u all, I do wonder how these things happen tho ... this only showed up after I got a huge chunk of notifs (like 53 or something) all at once hmm

my take on the whole birthday party issue: any band can play at your party if you want that. I mean, it's your birthday, of course you want your favourite. I voted HaroHapi cause their music makes me smile and what more can you want, but that's just what I like.

the issue is more that Roselia and PoPiPa are the Two Big Bands. only they have live shows, they get the most merch, the most music (tho PoPiPa still gets more). Roselia is easily the most popular band, as one has to be, I'm just a little worried that at this rate they'll win everything and leave the other three even more in the dust than they already are.

that's more so a problem with the franchise itself than the fanbase though. but I do understand why fans of other band feel pretty eeeh about this. when the expected / always the same character or group wins all the polls, it does wind up feeling pretty unfair. especially when your fave is dead last.

but that's just the nature of a popularity contest. it does always make me question if we should hold a lot of those in the first place, rather than just ... give one band the art. I think a better way to involve the community in decisions regarding art & merch would be to hold polls on what it should be like (like "where should [band] go for vacation? the beach, the mountains, or the big city?" stuff like that).

I mean, in the end it doesn't really matter what I think, I'm just ... not keen on the whole idea of popularity contests like this in the first place because it always leads to a lot of people feeling bitter. as we see right now. I don't think anyone's necessarily in the wrong (except people hating on Roselia or whatever, don't do that). meh. (´ｰ｀)

a few people, myself included, have said that Roselia songs (with the exception of Hidamari Rhodonite and Kiseki) kinda all sound the same, so I've been wondering what new things I'd like to hear from them that wouldn't break their aesthetic. here's a bunch of stuff I came up with, feel free to comment your own ideas too!

• a choral ballad. honestly how don't we have this yet? something super grand, maybe a bit like a hymn, that relies on harmonies rather than vocal power to be impactful. all five of them would sing to provide the necessary oomph. we do have ballads, but they're both pretty ordinary so something darker would be really cool
• A DUET please ... please let the others shine as singers too ... preferably a Yukisayo duet because I love Sayo's voice but like. just do whatever. I'm thinking something like Akatsuki Arrival perhaps?
• anything that lets Yukina sing with her head voice. please it's so beautiful, Kiseki criminally underused it, wHY WOULD YOU SHOUT A BALLAD LIKE THAT IT TOTALLY TAKES AWAY FROM IT—
• Six Trillion Years kinda does this but I'd like it in an original too; something that has really fast parts. Roselia's supposed to be the professional band, give them a challenge for once
• they already have a few short a capella parts but honestly? take it to the max. have an entire section be a capella before the instruments come in again. with nice harmonies too because duh. the a capella parts are always so good I'd love for them to expand on it
• Opera of the wasteland kiiinda did this but I'd like to hear something that doesn't fall into the ordinary. give us weird pitch & tempo shifts. just mix up the entire song genre like HaroHapi did with Sekai Nobbinobi Treasure. make a song that at first makes you go "wait what" and then "oooh this is neat" and then "Roselia reinvented music"
• I LOVE Rinko's keyboard solo in This Game just saying more of this please
• something more retro? they sound so good on Cruel Angel's Thesis, give em a lily white-like "almost a 90s anime opening" please

SO CLOSE !

HAPPY BIRTHDAY REI !!!!

i made a 4-koma based off of the fantasy PareChu i posted here the other day!

the 4-koma style is something i've wanted to try out since a LOONG time. it still has parts that definitely have my style influenced in them but overall working on this was fun c: there's also a liddle 1minute video of the drawing process on my twitter right here

RE:ZERO collab was amazing! I can't wait for it to get on EN server. Here's an edit I made of Yukina and puck(s)

I just want to be an adult to buy this thing

Chisato and Kaoru pop team epic when tho?

I just wanted to see if I could do it

naming your files properly is for weaklings

//e: PSA from your local friendly neighbourhood Youtaite, WARM UP YOUR VOICE BEFORE BELTING ROSELIA SONGS oh my god I just killed my voice in 1:50 minutes flat

I'm making outfits for my fanband and it's suffering but at least they have a logo now. started with Iyori because I had the most ideas for her, not sure on the colours and patterns yet tho ... definitely wanna go for something warm

I used the SIF design contest base because I really could not be bothered to draw my own one I'm sorry