I like Shadow a normal amount

Everyone giving Emi (Honoka) her moment and the other generations (plus Pile and Aya Uchida) running behind her (symbolizing how they're carrying on the legacy of the first generation) is just too perfect 🥹

It’s been a long time since I've had to make fan art for the end of TADC. I wanted to thank Gooseworx and GLITCH for making this indie animation. It’s been three years since 2023, I watched the pilot episode and now it ends in 2026. I really enjoyed the finale. I had mixed feelings about that ending, and hopefully I do have some future plans for my TADC AU. 🎪✨❤️💙

What I love especially about the dnd sessions shown here is that Caine isn't the DM and boss like I'd expected, but Gangle is.

Gangle, who always wanted to be a storyteller. Gangle, who was meek and afraid to stand up for herself, gets to be in a position of authority. Gangle, who abused her power in the Spudsy's adventure and made it hell for others and herself, is trusted to create a joyful experience for everyone. And since Caine didn't make her an evil clone, she shall play the villain in her own adventure!

And Ragatha as the barbarian! Getting to shed the Mom Friend persona and explore a different side of herself in a safe context 🥹

(the title was "Anything Goes Island" for a while, but I didn't change it to Green Hill until at least a few weeks in lol)

My island started off with me (in the superfan outfit in the bottom middle), my dad (in front of me to the left) and Tsuzuri Yugiri (in front of me to the right).

Rest of the Miis, starting with the first row behind my dad: Queenie, Butters Stotch, Hanayo Koizumi, Rin Hoshizora, Hatsune Miku, Kinger, Mel (from The Pitt),

Second row, starting at the left, behind Queenie: Eli Ayase, Zooble, Kotori Minami, my mother, Sonic, Maki Nishikino, Shadow, Jax, Honoka Kousaka, Umi Sonoda, Gangle, Nico Yazawa

Third row, starting at the left, behind Eli Ayase: Tomari Onitsuka, Kana Matsuura, Mia Taylor, You Watanabe, Riko Sakurachi, Dia Kurosawa, Ryland Grace, Pomni, Nozomi Tojo, River (Kinger and Queenie's first kid), Yoshiko Tsushima, Ragatha, Ruby Kurosawa, Hanamaru Kunikida, Chika Takami, Rina Tennoji, Mari O'Hara, Natsumi Onitsuka, Wien Margarete

Last row, starting from the left behind Kanan Matsuura: Cory (Kinger and Queenie's second child), HTHAZE, Billie Eilish, Rumi (KPDH), Mami Tomoe, Homura Akemi, Kyoko Sakura, Kosuzu Kachimachi, Megumi Fujishima, Kozue Otomune, Sayaka Murano, Sayaka Miki, Madoka Kaname, Mira (KPDH), Zoey (KPDH), Tails, Angela (HTHAZE's wife), and Nagisa Momoe

You know how Hasunosora and Ikizulive! (the group for Love Live Bluebird) weren't in my character ranking? Well, there are a couple reasons for that.

I've known about Hasunosora ever since their debut a few years back (thanks to @/llupdates on insta lol), but I was always content with just being into U's, Aqours, Nijigasaki and (later) Liella!, so I never felt the need to get into their stuff.

And then 2024 came along. There were a lot of factors behind my not-so-healthy mental state during that year, but, long story short, I was very paranoid that being into a piece of media that could be seen as "problematic" at some point would mean that I supported those aspects of said pieces of media, and I would feel guilty. What does that have to do with Love Live?

Well, thanks to Crunchyroll's (what I call) "content warning" system - rating anime shows and movies based on potentially mature content, from violence and gore to sexualization of certain groups of characters - I came to the difficult realization that some of the Love Live content from the first two generations might not have aged well (*cough* Mari and Nozomi's pervertedness *cough cough*), and so, in a dramatic-ass move that I knew wouldn't feel right later (and it did not), I stopped supporting everything related to Love Live after a little over a decade of being into it.

I didn't touch any Love Live or Love Live-related content in 2025, and, after seeing that Umi Sonada figurine at a resale shop for less than two bucks three days into 2026, I, at first, brushed it off as a nostalgic purchase, but then, the more I looked at it and thought back, I realized something... I really freaking missed Love Live.

See, I may have added at least a dozen fandoms to my roster last year (and don't get me wrong, I treasure those very deeply), but the fandom lover in me always felt like a piece was missing, and, deep down, I knew I took away that piece when I dropped Love Live.

That figurine prompted a talk with my dad about the fact that there is no such thing as a perfect piece of media, or a perfect franchise, and there will always be something that bothers me or doesn't feel right. That being said, with the fandoms that I love, the fantastic stuff dramatically outweighs the rough aspects, and those fandoms have made me happier than I can ever put into words.

So, with his encouragement, I spent the rest of that night consuming new and old Love Live content, and occasionally crying from feeling a part of my psyche stitch itself back together.

Here's where Love Live Bluebird comes in.

The next few days consist of me finding out about some pretty crazy milestones and advancements that happened for Love Live in 2025, like their fifteenth anniversary, Aqours' Final Love Live!, and the reveal (and eventual beginning of) Bluebird, the latest generation. While I have thoroughly enjoyed revisiting the first four generations for the first half of the month, I took this weekend to properly dive into what Hasunosora and Bluebird have to offer, and they're both so good!!

Everyone shut up, my boy got Found Familied 🥹🥹