CROSSROADS ANIMATION i feel like it was done rather sloppily in all honesty. they conveyed a lot of the scenes well and i can commend that and i cried listening to the new deadmanz song + new akatsuki song but there was a lot of canon deviation ..? they removed some of the more important aspects and also abridged some of the eichi-related plot, and just overall didn't present keito's feelings well enough?

it sounds really picky and probably is but i really do wish they hadn't abridged anything at minimum? i could tell there was a desperation to keep chiaki overly relavant despite him not being all that prominent in the actual story, so it just wasn't as good as it could have been. the actual animation quality itself was good and i really liked the scene where keito throws the mic stand it made me giggle (and feel things but we dont talk about that) but honestly i find myself being more critical towards the animation rather than liking it. i will however go and rewatch it sometime soon because i love crossroads as a whole despite my criticisms towards its animation♡

GAME VER MV i really hate the game ver mv. ill say it. it's stupid but i really hate it despite the song being the same all the way through. i love rock roar with my whole heart its soo good and i love death game holic the same its just that i really feel like they butchered the mv for rock roar so much. ill dive into my opinion on the death game holic mv some other time but with rock roar i feel like they just removed so much of the dramatics? because rock roar took place on a small live stage in a small live house it makes sense for the animation mv to cover that well, hence why a lot of the moves (despite looking cringey) work quite well. for some of the moves their feet are on the amps on the front of the stage, so they don't look awkward when they do that thing were they like shake their body?? its so weird to look at but like its a rock thing i guess. but they moved the stage in the game mv so now it just looks so bad and out of place that it just annoys me more than it should

on top of that, keito doesn't throw the mic stand off the stage which i know is a small detail to care about but it removes a lot of the drama of the scene. same with the whole thing where rei n keito make eye contact; it just doesnt feel the same
plus the fact that koga had his guitar just snatched from him really ruined the vibe? idk it just felt wrong i prefer the original but i am reeallyy picky so take my opinion with a grain of salt.

KIN'IRO SENYORU YUMEBUTAI oh my god the new mv. they kept in the keito blowing a kiss scene for ME and ME ONLY hes soo cute oh my god also i almost threw up this morning when the climax preview came out it made me feel sooo sick but oh my god keito ♡ he looks so unhinged i actually kind of love it

i really love the new mv besides the keito blowing a kiss scene they did it so much more justice than rock roar plus i love like the staffs and the masks and the stage its all done so well and they look so pretty i love kin'iro senyoru yumebutai so much i will just kms.

also the outfits are beautiful i have to say again i just think theyre soo pretty and the whole scene really reminds me of akatsuki iroha uta?? so thats nice as a reference plus the cards are so funny to me why do kurokei look married what is actually going on
all i could infer from the mv and card cgs is the fact

i think they're at a shrine of some kind..? like a shinto shrine with the tori 門 gates which is something. considering keito is buddhist but maybe soumas part the reason theyre there?? bc hes samurai-raised and traditionalists tend to lean towards shintoist values since its the technical indigenous religion of japan and stuff like that

i will probably be looking at the translations when they come out so augh im looking forward to it ,.. my mum is probably gonna get me the trip album too bc the preorders close next month or so and i am very happy about it but yeah i am really happy with like the trip event overall :3

CLIMAX GRINDING UPDATE okay so. climax. um. i main basic but basically i decided to go for keito having never gone for a 5* before and i tallied like 185 dia to get one copy .? 479 spent total but i gained like 200 dia so it kinda evened itself out bur yeah i got him on 1/12/23 and im so happy :3

i was not okay. i spent school time like lunchtimes grinding but now im broke of dia so im just gonna do casual grinding in order to just generally get the feel of it? i'll try to add the table in either as an image or as a table table sometime but yeahh im happy i got one copy. props to the keitoPs on twt who are max copying or 3 copying because yeah thats insane but thats my personal journey ! also i will probably be a little ia on here since i have family around for a month + i need to figure out a bunch of stuff for this specific site spec