current faves lineup

Yo iloveallbandorigirls I just wanna let you know that you made my day with your wholesome stickers. Thank you for accepting my bread so graciously and sorry I didn't respond after the live hhh I was taking a screenshot and rejoicing over finally conquering those hellish green bois . . . and then I got awkward about responding too late and panic quit aha

returning from the abyss to rotate yukina in her little birdcage. it is too much fun (pain)

being given very few details about the period in her life that changed her and then implications being dropped in bs3 and now yukidad band lore after 6+ years … i feel like i’m on a very intriguing quest because at first she didn’t make sense to me and that’s why i started thinking about her and. what exactly do the writers think they are doing progressively (?) revealing the past as she goes from refusing to deal with it while it has a chokehold on her to trying to sever her connection to it by force only for it to Haunt her to being forced to confront it. what are they doing!!!

anyway bs2 is maybe devastating after this. it was clear she really didn’t want to lose roselia despite what she did and i definitely thought her attempt to backpedal on the rapport they’d built had something to do with her believing band members shouldn’t be friends after what happened to her dad’s band but oh man he really got betrayed by someone he thought of as more than a friend huh. the friendship to disagreements over music/values to abandonment pipeline seared into baby yukina’s brain. “don’t you think we’ve all gotten a little too close?” stop shut up

AND THE FACT THAT SHE WAS THE TRAITOR IN BS1. girl how did you feel watching sayo’s hope crumble before her eyes. girl do you need help working through all that guilt

been thinking about anger and bs2 is so fascinating because yukina Deliberately puts on her harsh act when she “realises” (is highly mistaken about) what roselia’s problem is. one moment she is chill and the next she decides “yes i will act like my former self” except even her former self was never that mean to ako. she is doing this on purpose and yet. is her anger not real even if incredibly misdirected

the way she singles ako out is even more telling given the whole “what would an adult do” dilemma in little light in the darkness. taking out all her pent up rage on the most overtly childish member of the band whose playing is most affected by the situation? because she has to silence the child within herself? the child she is so afraid to listen to because idealism was her father’s downfall? “crying about something so insignificant” hmm who is that aimed at yukina

ako is roselia’s guide in the darkness precisely because she is childish. roselia needs her emotional honesty god knows yukisayolisa don’t have enough of their own. yukina called ako a spoiled brat and drove her out of the studio and well that brat is now standing up to the man who betrayed her father and scoffed at his naïveté, blazing with the anger yukina likely never let herself express and STILL DOESN’T I AM SO DONE WITH HER. the kid she once misdirected her anger at becomes the very vehicle for it. or something. the kid she once berated for her childishness uses that very childishness to protect her. and ako and sayo who felt the most betrayed by her in bs1 being the ones to defend her is so. of course

i think yukina does not simply Get Angry. she doesn’t direct it at the right things. she will shove that shit down and beat it with logic and let it eat her away (for years even!) until she’s miserable and it starts leaking out in scattered directions from some buried wound that can’t remember what created it

can i also say i really love how sayo sings about the brilliance of anger in kakugo no liberation while ako’s solo is about logic (hopefully it IS 怒り it makes sense. full version when agh). reversal of their emotional/logical viewpoints as if they’re acknowledging that both are valid, as the event does. that they balance each other out because they don’t hold the same view, which also goes for roselia as a whole. even if ako’s half of the line says logic is insufficient i think. because she was right in this case but yukina’s decision is ultimately a combination of both which i would say is truly incredible for her but i also do not trust her to stop tormenting herself

felt compelled to learn utopia today … i had to do it immediately i had no choice. if sakiko breaks into my house for butchering her song so be it. i’m not singing over that riff any more than i already have

while we’re at it here’s shiori from a while ago too. mygo and avemuji are intertwined. or something

An entirely unnecessary collection of Arisa's eyebrows doing the thing

scribbles feat horrendous camera skill

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

school of flowers, away in a corner

I had to do something in honour of her taking over my life didn’t I

Now!! It’s timeee

Roselia Songs That Make Me Cry Part 3

I should mention again that I didn’t read the story until a week ago but when the full version of Song I am. first came out it was like experiencing the end of the Future World Fes arc through the music/lyrics alone. What it was saying was so clear even without the story I just ugh. I’ve loved it ever since. Anyway some Thoughts:

• Noble Rose pt 3 talks about the connection between Song I am. and LOUDER and we also see that reflected musically. Both songs start in D minor, and there are other similarities like Song I am.’s guitar solo later on referencing the synth pattern from LOUDER’s intro. In their respective choruses, however, LOUDER goes into D major and Song I am. into Ab major, signalling Yukina’s departure from the path her father inspired to one she’s forged herself
• The words “I am song” make me bawl my eyes out bc for so long Yukina’s feelings about singing were tied up with what happened to her father and her own uncertainty, to the point where she wasn’t sure she even enjoyed it anymore. But now she’s not just singing—she IS song. She is song itself in its purest form, becoming one with the music. There’s no more hesitation, no more questioning. She’s exactly where she’s meant to be. She!! Loves singing!! More than anyone else!!! (That line and AiAi’s delivery were unnecessary. Why. Have I not cried enough)
• The bridge UGHHH the way it suddenly goes quiet and switches back to the original key signature like a reminiscence of childhood . . . that’s the image I get anyway. Like, it’s peaceful, Yukina’s vocalising as if she doesn’t have a care in the world just like she must’ve done at the very beginning, and she’s remembering that feeling, remembering what it is to love singing for its own sake and nothing else, and then . . . that low, quiet almost-whisper of “Song I am.” It KILLS me I tell you. She’s so HAPPY and doesn’t feel the need to shout it out, she’s perfectly content with who she is and the choices she’s made
• The way the last chorus blasts through the little pause and everyone is standing on that stage playing their hearts out and Yukina holds the last “Shout to the top” high note in utter triumph and reduces my poor heart to splinters. This time when she does the “Woah-oh-oh woah-oh-oh” it’s like the joy is bursting out of her and she can’t contain it ugly sobs
• And of course, the “Louder!!!!! Louder!!!!!” at the very end. (Yeah apparently they each have five exclamation marks. Ok Yukina we get it. It’s like how she thought it was necessary for Song I am. to have a full stop at the end as if her certainty wasn’t clear enough already. I love her.) Self-explanatory but I can think of no better way for her to say goodbye to LOUDER and I like how there’s no instrumental coda and I am not ok someone pick me up off the floor

As you can see I like this song a normal amount

I wasn’t expecting to FC it at all but it happened somehow and it’s a nice addition to the post so yeah

Can I also just say that landing in a room with just Yukinas and Akos twice in a row was a blessing bc Ako repeatedly yelling YUKINA-SAN CHOU CHOU CHOU KAKKOII is the cutest thing ever

Google Sheet of Character Appearances in Every Card Episode

I got tired of not remembering where I read something so I compiled them all! Enjoy?

(Absolutely relevant Tsugu because she is WINNING. I mean. Sorry Marina I didn’t have a drawing of you on hand)

was messing around yesterday and got carried away so i am once again subjecting you to my being significantly better at piano than singing and consequently messing up both because. it’s fun?

kiseki (sorry about the horrendous buzzing the mic just started doing that and i didn’t notice)

dear gleam

hello wink

obligatory event commentary because this game had the nerve to hand me yukirin right after arisa banner

love how sayo decided to carry her past with her into the future while making it very clear she never wants to go back to that time while yukina is like

“i’m letting louder go” (turns around and brings it back)

“what makes us roselia now is different to what it used to be” (makes herself unwell trying to write a song mimicking her style when roselia was first formed)

yes she has issues. but this isn’t her fault … leave her alone … companies just keep trying to capitalise on her misery because that stuff sells! which is why she wanted nothing to do with them in the first place! but she’s actually facing the past now and seeing it for what it was and it makes her feel awful because i don’t think she fully Let herself feel before. it was always “ok i did a bad thing fix it keep going” etc

this isn’t bs2 anymore she knows now that whatever desirable qualities her music once had it’s no use trying to recreate it. just like how sayo was only able to get so proficient at the guitar because of her all-consuming desire to be better than hina and without it she’s afraid she’ll have no reason to keep playing but she needs to move on regardless. yukina’s song cannot be more than a hollow imitation under the conditions she’s given. she is so scared the whole time while standing her ground in the meeting … she knows what happens to people who argue … and it works out this time but what if one day it doesn’t?? i do not like where this is going (that’s a lie but i’m in pain)

harumi’s seiyuu <333