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i was gonna put something in the blank space but. didn’t

edit: uhh the other images were only showing up on my phone?? hopefully good now

hello fellow bandoripartians!

it’s been a while since i’ve posted here, sorry! i’ve just been very busy as of late— i recently graduated high school! yay for me!

but i wanted to stop in and make a pride post to celebrate— my apologies, this is actually more of a text post than a graphic edit, but, alas.

i just wanna talk about rimi i guess, specifically about why trans girl rimi is so special to me. when i first started playing bandori, OVER 2 years ago, i liked popipa from the very beginning, and i still do.

i immediately gravitated most to rimi, and after getting more caught up on the lore, my little brain decided “yep. trans her” so i did, and i’ve just been pondering it since.

in my little head, i’ve decided that from the beginning of the bandori story (which i believe is their first year of high school?) rimi was very new in her transition, but she fell in easily with the rest of popipa (& the other bands later) because of how open minded they all were.

none of popipa was rude or cruel to her despite her trans ness being rather foreign to them. they just included her without a word about it. this helped to boost her confidence, and continues to do so over the course of the bandori story— my only real “evidence” for this lil HC of mine is that a lot of rimi’s older casual-outfit cards have some … interesting fashion choices, which is very common with people who are new to dressing as the correct gender— they arent sure what will look good on them, or what will look good together.

and as the bandori story goes on, rimi just gets more into the feel of being herself. in my head, it’s just a little b plot to the overarching story, but its honestly one of my favourite things to ponder.

happy pride my silly gooses!!!! i hope u enjoyed trans rimi rambles :3

hi i just quickly wanna dump my thoughts ab Pareo bc i keep thinking ab her again and again

Pareo's such a very kind and delicate character...

ever since she was in elementary, she's been keeping up a persona that wasn't her true self. Upholding to the expectations of everyone around herself: parents, peers, teachers. She's an amazing student and even good at sports (kicking butt in basketball!), she even has an affinity for those things and it's not like she dislikes that part. But to her, it also was a role to maintain, deep down, she's the girl we came to know her as in S2.

She didn't think she was able to be true to her feelings, that she needed to keep that image of a perfect student up (to the point that she lied and said she wanted to be a doctor when she was still small.). But then RAS came along, and like Pareo said in S2, Chu2 pulled her out of the darkness.

We don't know how exactly they've met yet, but Chu2 probably found her online through the Pasupare piano cover videos she posted (where she purposefully didn't show her face), and something in their scouting confrontation just...sparked. Something that Chu2 said/did probably made her reconsider, to be open about herself and her interests. So it's no surprise she's so attached to Chu2, she brought in a turning point in her life of facades.

Chu2 generally seems to have a great insight on others desires when listening to someone's music once she's intrigued with them, as already shown with Rei and Masuki before the Pareo chapter.

I think a lot of people, especially ones dealing with depression, can relate to this sort of thing. I know I can relate to the maintaining a different persona thing. To smile and act things are okay, when they aren't. The want to be someone else, whilst crumbling from the inside. For Pareo to have lived like that since she was just a young child, and now she's in middle school; it makes my heart ache. Pareo cried when she first saw Pasupare on TV, because they supported each other, and had the support of their fans too. Pareo meanwhile had none of that.

Some other things I think are worth mentioning but lie more in the theory side of things:

One of Pareo's dislikes is listed as "Lies", this might stem from the fact that she's basically been living a lie she built up herself.

There is one fan-letter in the Maya event "My Ideal" that says something along the lines of having an admiration for Maya because she can openly show what she likes, whilst the writer is afraid of what other people would think. It lines up perfectly with Pareo's story so far and might be implied to have been written by her.

Pareo is/was(?) called by Nyubara-san by her classmates, and she didn't speak in third person in her backstory. However, in Bandori S2 she refers to herself as Pareo in third person, implying she wants to be called by something cuter than Nyubara-san. (For anyone who doesn't know: her full name is Reona Nyubara, Nyubara being her last name)

someone dug up my old d4dj x bandori color edits so guess what i'll just post 'em myself for everyones cursed enjoyment

https://twitter.com/mocarenas/status/1229942229420191744

(this was before morfonica was a thing btw, so i didn't make rinku-nanami or haruna-mashiro)

i'm big time celebrating everything new revealed for RAS. words cant even describe how overly excited i am abt everything AAAAAAAA

and ERA reached no1 on the daily album oricon chart!!!!! i'm so happy for RAS

i got a little too overly excited and decided i'd need to start rearranging my merch. my tiny chu2 shrine was getting too crowded so i thought i'd move part of it over to a new little parechu shrine. i have no idea how i'm gonna rearrange everything else not pictured

cause i recently started preordering not just chu2 but pareo too. it's stuff planned for a future itabag but i can put em nicely on display atm until then! (except the lighting is bad rn lmao)

haha totally original post

Some might call me a heretic for this (justified) but I often wonder what Pastel Palettes would look like with Kanon as their drummer instead of Maya, since Kanon has the hair to truly make it a pastel rainbow.

I returned! yuppie

A while ago I sorted all the girls by haircolour in Love Live so I'll do the same for Bandori.

i’m in artblock so be nice please 😭😭

NEW FAVORITE CARD SET

Anyone else getting Rettou Joutou vibes from Chu2’s card? Also feeling Runa from Kakegurui. She looks so sick! Also the MasuRokka is just so cute let it be canon plzzzz

ajdjfkslala RAISE A SUILEN is so perfect even the 3☆s are like so incredible