this is completely out of nowhere, but. Free! main characters and which band they'd stan. why? I love BanDori and I love Free that's it

bonus in the comments

PoPiPa

• Makoto just likes the friendship stuff PoPiPa sings about okay. he has a lot of love in his heart
• Haru started listening to PoPiPa because Makoto showed him a song. that's about it. it's good music

AGlow

• cmon, AGLow's music is MADE for Rin. rocky and loud, but still full of love for their friendship. it's perfect
• Sousuke similarly likes their louder songs most, especially when they go for a more retro rock vibe
• Ai just listened to AGlow because Rin does, but found himself surprisingly invested

PasuPare

• Kisumi just likes their aesthetic that's it. a surprisingly dedicated fan though who keeps going to lives and events. has probably befriended Hina and Eve somehow
• Gou is more of a casual fan, but PasuPare's music makes her smile, so she likes it

Roselia

• as someone who's written lyrics for more Roselia songs than anyone reasonably should, let me tell you this: half (or more?) of their songs fit Ikuya's character perfectly. like, Neo-Aspect is so accurate it's almost scary. those headphones he's always wearing? blasting Roselia

HaroHapi

• all of these three can be lumped together as people who just like having fun goshdarnit. it's that simple. they heard the music or saw them live, went "hey this makes me smile!", and decided to support them
• though, as a note, Natsuya has gone to the most lives out of sheer coincidence, they just always happen to be performing when he's in the area

RAS

• Momo strikes me as someone who likes fast and loud songs. has probably never paid any attention to the lyrics, just knows they sound cool
• Nao is definitely the type that people look at and go "wow he looks so calm and friendly, I wonder what he's listening to" and then on his headphones it's just HELL! or HELL? on full volume

Monika

• Rei likes their aesthetic, but is also really invested in their growth, as someone who's started swimming with no prior experience he sees a lot of himself in them!
• Hiyori's usually more of the type to listen to something like Roselia, but Monika won him over with their Shinkai Shoujo cover

I love my swim boys (& girls! even if Isuzu isn't here) okay I love them sO MUCH

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So basically tomorrow not only it will be Moca's birthday, but I'll have to wake up probably at 5am and get in the car at 7am for a strange errand kinda that I will keep private of course

Bruh why on everyone's birthdays something I don't like happeneds??

Don't let Moca get hungry, guys

I Basically Now Have A Spam On TikTok My Main Is abbylea4 And My Spam Is shawtylilbaddy00

AHHHH HAPPY BIRTHDAY MOCA-CHAN HHSFJSDFSJKDHBFJDSBHFJSKDHFBDJKBFDSJ I'M SO HAPPY AND EXCITED ! ! ! ! HNGGGGGGG!!!!!

I was just talking about this with a friend recently, but today they finally did it: argnv staff uploaded the audio dramas for Day 3 of Crossing on their YT channel! took them long enough now all of Crossing's story is available!! (￣∀￣)

there's also gonna be another game night (baseball board? no idea what that is but it sounds fun) on the 19th, feat Masa-kun (Ren), Jin-kun (Nayuta), Morishima-san (Rio), & Miyauchi Kousuke who I always seem to just call by his full name (Miyuki)! you can send in questions for the characters to answer in the stream like in the puzzle & board game streams here, although I doubt that's gonna be of use to anyone I can't even think of a question lol

and there's been a really LONG interview with Gyro for the upcoming Ignition live ... like, really really long. it's interesting, but takes some time to get through and isn't translated pff.

side note, they've been publishing videos of the epsiphi group chat for a while that I haven't bothered with translating ... someone else has probably done it, so it'll be fine, right ... (if not, tell me if you'd like translations!)

and that's all for today's ARGONAVIS news roundup aka the past few days have been relatively peaceful but today I woke up and immediately got punched in the face with content ... help ...

no y'know what, it's kinda annoying me that I started with Gyro and not with Argonavis for these interview translations, so the latter are suspiciously missing from my profile ...

I initially did it cause at the time there weren't any other translations around yet that I was vaguely aware of, while argnv did have them ... but in the end, I translated Ren's interview anyway cause I wanted to have it handy for quoting reasons ...

so screw it, we're doing Argonavis too. this way it's more quickly accessible for the folks here as well! (psst it's all on my profile)

I've only got Ren's done at this point, so: in the comments!

others: Ren / Yuuto / Wataru / Rio / Banri

this comic was "how many times can onomatopoeias kill Nija: a guide by ARGONAVIS". I did my best fhgkdhg,,

no T/N this time other than "howa" was by far the most annoying one, I went with "soft" in the end cause "fluffy" didn't feel quite right but THERE'S REALLY NO NATURAL-SOUNDING WAY TO TRANSLATE THIS OKAY ...

oh and I know it's supposed to be café but this font doesn't have an é and yes that probably bothers me more than you trust me

Mocaaaaa baby your cupcake is so adorable~~~