Listen. Can Western BNHA fans stop acting as if Western customs are inherently applicable to BNHA. Can Western, Teenage / Barely Adult BNHA fans stop acting like they can write a Japanese Manga better than a whole ass Japanese man. Can White BNHA fans for the love of god please stop being so fucking performative with their allyship by reblogging dark skinned edits of BNHA characters under the guise of “representation uwu!!” while turning around and dismissing the cultural differences that come into play in fandom discourse by calling it “racist” to even bring up the possibility of Japan and America Not Being The Same™.
And most of all! Stop trying to speak over Asian fans who grew up in an Asian household (whether it be in South, East, Southeast Asia) and understand the blatant difference between Eastern and Western cultures far more than you could ever hope to!!!
I really try to like… not bring in the big R word when it comes to discourse because it’s literally just anime, but I can’t be the only one that notices the connection between those bitches that always got something to say and the fact that so little of them have actually been raised in an Asian household .
For the record, songs from Guilty Gear Xrd Sign and Revelator were a collaboration between Daisuke Ishiwatari, Naoki Hashimoto (of OutRage), and Starjam Corp. As far as Birthday Train goes, it’s classic Rock’n’Roll out of the 1960s and 70s, and in case you didn’t know Daisuke draws a ton of inspiration from older bands like Queen and Rainbow. British Rock, Country Music, Bluegrass, Jazz, etc are all fair game.
Hey thanks! This is actually really cool info. I knew Daisuke is a huge Queen fan and takes inspiration from older music, didn’t know GG Xrd music was a collaboration though, I was under the impression that the dude did all that mostly by himself.
Also about Birthday Train, it being from the 60’s and 70s just makes a bunch of Beatles songs come to mind, not so much Queen (though I guess that’s just me xD)
And honestly Daisuke always uses a bunch of different genres of music in his work…he just tends to add a sick guitar riff into most of them.
Seriously, not just in Guilty Gear, but in Blazblue too. He’s used old Japanese instruments (with ROKUMON and Susanooh),
Choir music (Awe of she, awakening the chaos and a bit in Queen of Rose), jazz like you said (Like in Jack a Dandy), even some newer music like straight up death metal (MUST DIE for one), and some pretty pseudo pop (Catus Carnival…At least kinda, how do you classify a song like that?)
That still doesn’t make Birthday Train look any less out there when you put it next to a song like Ride The Fire, a song that starts with a metal scream to end all metal screams Xp
…Which makes it weird that it’s actually one of my favorites from the Ost…
🌷 a flower for all my followers. you’re doing so good, i’m so proud of you
i dont get offended at white people jokes even though im white because:
- i can recognize white people as a whole have systemically oppressed POC in america, which is where i live
- most people when they make white people jokes only mean the shitty white people and i am not a shitty white person
- im not a pissbaby
my white friends that have reblogged this give me life
4. Sometimes I am a shitty white person and the jokes remind me to FUCKIN STOP
If ur white and like this post I fux with u
^absolutely
5. It’s hard to be offended when white people jokes involve bland food/tourist dads in socks and sandals/white girls in yoga pants obsessed with pumpkin spice/suburban PTA moms and other harmless and mostly true stereotypes while jokes about POC involve them being called thugs/criminals/slurs/uneducated/illegal immigrants.
i fucks with u heavy if ur white and you reblog this
6. They’re usually really fucking funny and don’t perpetuate stereotypes that will ever affect me economically, politically, or cause me any true harm, let alone create risks that “justify” my murder and/or death
Waits for my white mutuals to reblog😌
yesyesyesyes
7. I still don’t know how to season chicken
8. the dancing thing is right i can’t dance for shit
9. We’re just…weird sometimes tbh we all know that
The more I listen to “Birthday Train” the more it hits how fucking ridiculous it is.
Not that the song itself is all that out there, it’s kinda of a sad/hopeful song about love and longing and missing someone you haven’t seen in years but want to find again, it’s a really sweet song.
The problem with it is that it’s from Guilty Gear. A game series made by a guy who loves rock and roll more than pigs love rolling in shit. Forget the music, which is almost exclusively headbanging heavy metal of the high degree, the whole aesthetic of the series is out of a Metallica or Def Leppard album, all leather straps and bright angry colors and wings and demons and skull and cross bones (and just plain crosses) and explosions, it pretty nutty.
And then you have “Birthday Train”, which is a song so 80′s sitcom its actually a little absurd.
I wanna know what Daisuke was thinking when he wrote this song, it must have been hysterical.
Guilty Gear Sitcom AU inspired by the song “Birthday Train” (an actual song on the GG Rev ost it’s crazy)
@gear-project you might like this
Also, where are some of the other characters in this AU, Like Johnny, May, Axl, Slayer, Venom and Chipp?
– Johnny and May are the only half way normal people in the whole neighborhood. At least at first. They’re the first to welcome Sol when he moves in and even invite him to their house for dinner. It’s actually pretty nice, at first. Though the house is full of other people (the pirate crew natch) it’s actually pretty cozy and Sol finds himself relaxing. Until May goes over to the fridge to fetch a beer for Sol, only to have it drop from her grip and roll under the fridge. Before he can tell her that she doesn’t need to bother and that he can go without, she just. Fucking. Lifts the fridge to get to the beer. With one hand. The whole damn thing. She doesn’t even strain. He’s frozen stiff for the rest of dinner. (Johnny takes it in stride and does a few coin tricks. Says Dizzy got a real kick out of them. Sol silently mourns for the death of common sense that he caused by coming here. At least the beer’s good.)
– Axl is possibly the unluckiest son of a bitch Sol has ever met, himself included. Every week he sees him in the middle of some new disaster or misfortune, ranging from crashing his convertible into a tree with a hornets nest in it (that landed right into his passenger seat), somehow getting his long hair stuck in the rear door of a moving mail truck (the driver being a teenager with headphones stuck in his ears so he didn’t notice Axl for a mile or five), and somehow finding himself flying through Baiken’s bathroom window while she was on the toilet (nobody knows how he got out of that with only 5 months in the hospital to show for it.) Sol tends to see him in the local bar most days, and usually buys him a round or two in sympathy. (Ironically, Axl is actually the only normal person Sol has met since he moved in, which makes all the nonsense he goes through even weirder.)
– Slayer is as obscenely rich as he is in cannon and lives in a mansion (because of course he does), but drives over 20 miles just to shop at the local convenience store because it’s the only place where he can find his favorite brand of wine at a cheap price along with his wife’s beauty products. He knows all the residents of the neighborhood by name and treats them like old friends, even I-no. (Baiken finds him creepy though). He’s also, apparently, an old boxing champ from England who may or may not be able to kill everyone with his bare hands if he wished, and Sol might have found that boast intimidating if slayer didn’t say it while drunk out of his mind. Sol has also seen him walking around town with an umbrella, and when he asked Slayer why that was one day he shrugged noncommittally, “What kind of vampire would I be if I walked in broad daylight without some kind of protection?” (He then proceeded to spout off a bunch of nonsense hiaku, but Sol was too busy face palming to hear him.)
– Venom is in a cold war of epic proportions with Millia and Zato. They constantly try to one up each other in all sorts of things, like decoration in holidays (Venom won Christmas with a snooker themed lights all over his house, while the two won Halloween with a demonic theme, even dressing Eddie up as a shadow dog), and hosting huge parties at the same time and inviting the same people (Johnny, May, Faust and the Badguy family go to Millia’s parties, while Slayer, Potemkin and Baiken tend to go to Venom’s, mostly for food preferences). As a general rule though most people find him kinda creepy and weird. (Sol is glad that for once he and his crazy neighbors agree on something.)
– Chipp is a retired extreme sports star. He insists he’s just “on break” though. He jogs around the neighborhood every morning and evening, and tends to carpool to the gym with Potemkin. The two of them kinda have the complete opposite views on fitness, Chipp focusing on stamina and shape while Potemkin on bulking up, but overall they get along just fine. (He convinced Sol to go on a jog with him once. He came back home vomiting his breakfast and swearing to never go anywhere near the american ninja wannabe ever again.)
(by all means request more characters, worst case I’ll wiki them for five minutes and bull shit a paragraph of nonsense :V)
Hmm, maybe Chipp is running for mayor as well. And maybe during his sports days he had a drug problem (referencing his wish to become president and his drug dealer history in canon).
as for other characters:
Anji, guy with fans who is Baiken’s sort of info broker, has a dance like fighting style, and sticks his nose where it doesn’t belong.
Bedman, a guy so smart he needs o stay asleep or his brain overloads, wants his sister back.
Ramlethal and Elphelt Valentine. Rammy is silent and logical, while El is all about finding the perfect HUSBANDO (seriously, just look at her win quotes against any male).
That Man and Raven, two antagonists. One was Sol’s partner, one is an immortal masochist. Maybe That Man can be the guy who invited Sol to the party where Dizzy was conceived, so Sol is a biiiiiiit upset with him.
Answer, Chipp’s assistant. Memorizes everything, and is way smarter than Chipp, but still respects him.
Leo Whitefang, Alex Armstrong’s lion-themed relative.
Those are the best I can come up with now.
to expand on(some) of this(nswer @zeta-phoenix ) here’s some more nonsense (also maybe spoilers for Rev 2 story…kinda. If you care about that):
– The Valentine sisters (oldest to youngest), Ramlethal (Rammy is fine), Elphelt (Or just El), and Jackie (she prefers Jack-O), live together in a relatively small but well cared for house payed for by their mom and dad. They live there because it’s closer to their collage (and Jack-O’s high school) and generally make a nuisance of themselves whenever school’s out. Rammy is the least of it, being quiet and tending to stay out of the crazier side of the neighborhood, but any conversation with her always ends up in some pretty fucked up places. El is a little “love crazy”, putting it mildly, is always going on about finding the perfect husband (or wife, she has her preferences but she ain’t picky) and her perfect wedding, she has asked every male of age in the neighborhood to marry her at least once (including Sol, but excluding Ky and Slayer, who are married), she hasn’t stopped yet. Jack-O though, she’s the worst. Constantly pulling pranks and making a mess of things where ever she goes. She’s even worse in Halloween. (Sol can see the resemblance. Can see it clear as day. They act like they never heard of him before, not even when he referred to himself as “Fredrick”, but he can see it. He has no intention of saying a word, he has enough on his head.)
– Anji is Baiken’s old friend/occasional house mate whenever he can convince her to let him stay for a few days. He’s a self proclaimed “connection maker”, seemingly in touch with a dozen politicians at any given moment, and apparently has dirt on everyone in the neighborhood, which he is all too willing to tangle the heads of anyone he wishes to get something out of. Except for Baiken, with Baiken he always stops at asking nicely, because they’re friends (and because she would cut his head off.) He has pissed off everyone in town at least once, and other neighboring towns as well, considering how often he’s seen escaping under Baiken’s roof and (metaphorically…maybe) skirt. (Sol grabbed him by the throat at the bar one day and warned him to keep his mouth shut. Strangely enough Anji relented quite easily. They don’t speak to each other.)
– Answer is Chipp’s personal assistant, the only person from his sports days who didn’t walk out on him when the drug problem went public. Is constantly on the phone with someone or another, either to prepare for Chipp’s run for office, or simply smoothing something over after his boss did something stupid. Is a master at multitasking, having once cooked rice, baked a pie, and gave Chipp a back massage after a long day, all at once while also on the phone with a judge who shares Chipp’s political views and would be a valuable ally. Has a love/hate relationship with Angie since while the man is good for info, him being a professional shit disturber grates on the nerves. (Was the one who drove Sol home after that disastrous jog, and gave him a wet towel to wash his mouth after he was done puking his guts out. Gave him a pre-campaign button, “Run With Chipp!”, and drove off. Still on the phone, naturally.)
– Bedman is a (naturally) bed ridden teenager who had to be home schooled because of his condition, that being that his brain works with such intense speed that even seeing or reading to much for too long would overheat it and put him in a coma or worse. Despite this he’s actually probably the smartest guy in town next to Faust, having passed his high school exams at home through the computer, Bedman is actually his online handle, really big on MMOs and RTSs like Starcraft. The only person that visits him regularly is Faust to check on his mental state and play chess (the score is 655-656 to Faust, Bedman is determined to beat the doctor twice in a row), and other then that very few bother, since, putting nicely, he’s a bit of a know it all jerk who talks like he’s a hundred years old. (While Sol was job hunting one day he wound up having to work from home for a few weeks and learned how to use a computer the hard way, it mostly involved spell checking and revising a lot of data he could only half read. When Faust recognized the handle of his employer he had a brief crises when he found out that the person writing his paycheck was half his age.)
– Leo is the loudest person in the neighborhood. Or maybe the whole town, or shit maybe the whole country. Sol isn’t sure his ears are still ringing. Apparently he and Ky go way back to from their middle school days, despite Leo looking at least twice as old as Ky. He frequently visits the Badguy home by crashing the door open, without knocking, just as the family is sitting down for breakfast and sitting himself down without preamble. Dizzy always has a spare dish for him. He drives Ky to work since he doesn’t have a car, and he’s constantly trying to get Ky to run for mayor, citing that someone of his demeanor would better suit the position then some washed out jock. Ky always declines, partly because he honestly doesn’t have much interest in it…but mostly because Sol threatened to shave him bald in his sleep if he dragged his daughter into any political bullshit. (Leo is a proud man, loud and boisterous and determined to do what he thinks is right and just while ignoring any dissenters. Sol could respect that. What he can’t respect is this lion headed maniac screaming at 3 AM for a fight because Sol insulted his hairstyle once. This place is going to drive him crazy.)
– Bridget is…well, Bridget is a bit hard to explain. When Sol first met them, he saw them in a nun outfit and thought they were…well…a nun. And they are…kinda. A really young and nice nun. They were selling cookies in front of the church and gave Sol one for free because he was “looking lost and sad.” Sol was actually pissed off because some bozo gave him a fender bender an hour before but who was he to deny a free cookie? Then a few days later he saw them again, walking out of the high school…in a boys uniform. They recognized them and walked over with a grin, with Sol being very confused.
“Sorry but…ain’t you a nun?”
“Yup!”
“But…that’s a boys uniform ain’t it?”
“Yeah!”
“…but…sorry..ain’t you gotta be a girl to be a nun?”
“Yup! So I am!”
“…but you’re wearing a boy’s uniform.”
“Because I’m a boy…and like the pants, super comfy!”
“…so…you’re…both?”
Bridget smiled brightly and Sol just nodded his head dumbly. World is changing fast, it seemed.The Valentine sisters always drag the poor kid into their nonsense, Bridget being too nice to say no. (He buys a bunch of cookies the next time they’re selling, partly to apologize for assuming…but mostly because they were damn good cookies.)
– What about Zappa? Good fucking question what about Zappa? (seriously though I got nothing, someone better informed write a thing for the guy I dunno.)
– Asuka and Sol have known each other since pre-school. They got into all sorts of trouble together, barely escaping by the skin of their teeth each time. Some how Asuka always convinced Sol to join in on every hair brained scheme he cooked up, despite Sol’s better judgement. This included starting a band. And that party. Every few days Sol gets a call from Asuka, which he never answers. The bullshit had gone on long enough and he had better things to do then indulge someone who refused to grow the fuck up. (That man knows where Sol is, knows why he left, even helped him for the first few days after he found Dizzy on his door step while figured out what the hell to do. Asuka suggested giving the kid to an orphanage, Sol broke his nose and bugged off. They haven’t spoken since, Asuka knows they probably never will.)
– Raven is a creepy dude in a black suit that Sol sees sometimes hanging around his house. He’s a government worker, ostensibly, who’s moved into the neighborhood to see if a few complaints sent to city hall have any merit, but mostly all he does is walk around parks and outside houses being a creep. Sol and him had a few clipped chats at the bar, and Raven seems to know way too much for Sol’s liking. He keeps an eye on him. (He knows him, from somewhere. Some forgotten conversation or a chance meeting ages back. He sees him entering and leaving the Valentine home far too often. This will end badly, Fredrick just fucking knows it.)
– Aria and Fredrick met in middle school. In many ways they were the perfect match. In far too many others they were the absolute worst for each other. Aria was a mild misanthrope who hid her disdain for just about everyone around her with a paper thin smile and could only be honest about it with Fredrick, a tired cynic who never had anything to really make him smile and relax before Aria. Fredrick indulged her hatred for how the people around them acted, too selfish, too hasty, too fucking stupid. Aria…Aria made him give a shit, made him care for something, made him feel like he had something to say and that he could make people listen. Fredrick never gave Aria a reason to like people, never made her feel like she could be wrong. Aria never gave Fredrick a reason to think that anything could be better, that he could actually change anything.
They were a goddamned disaster.
They were in love.
When Asuka managed to drag Fredrick along with his band idea she came along and she heckled and insulted them the whole way, even as she sold tickets to every show and clapped the loudest when the finished. She was determined to be that one asshole who asked them to play “Free Bird” every concert.
The middle finger Fredrick gave her each time was as good as a dopey, lovesick grin.
But she wanted more. She wanted to continue going to school, go to collage, major in biology, and spend the rest of her life getting to a position where she could kick the world in the pants until it got with the program and acted like she wanted it to.
She told him all this while drunk off her ass and kissing him like she didn’t need to breath. She dragged him away from the noise and music into a spare room and pushed him onto a couch and kissed him crazy as she told him that she was going to leave, and never come back if he didn’t come along.
He grabbed her waist (she hissed and smiled, God he loved that vicious smile) and kissed her again, he didn’t care enough. If he stayed he’d be an ungrateful prick, if he left with her he would be a liar. Aria hated lying, always said that truth should be like Justice, blind and uncompromising. He could live with that, could live with being ungrateful.
Fredrick Bulsara could never change the world. Aria knew that. She never denied that. Never grabbed him by the shirt and told him the world was his fucking oyster and he could become something great.
Because it wasn’t, and he can’t.
He kissed her. And kissed her. Until he could no longer move and alcohol robbed him of his energy and his sight he kissed her.
She was gone before morning. It’s been over 25 years since. He hasn’t heard from her since.
Sol hoped she changed the world, at least changed it enough were he could live his life without bothering anyone.
(Aria sits in a train, looking out the window as it leaves the station. She’s off to visit her daughters. It’s his birthday, she wonders how he plans to celebrate.)
(WHEEEEERE CAAAN III FIIIIND YOOOOOU! THE TRAIN IS ALREADYYY GOOONE-)
@shockcakes would you still watch this sitcom or did i make it to dramatic…again

Happy Birthday, Curiosity Rover
huh, my mom shares a birthday with the rover. Interesting.



