once we drink up the rippling cider

Idk if you've seen this yet but THE WAY AN LOOKS AT HARUKA IN THIS LIKE SHE'S SO IN LOVE

OH MY HARUAN THANK YOU SO MUCH I WAS TRYING TO FIND WHAT THE RIGHT IMAGE WAS FOR BECAUSE I COULD ONLY FIND THIS CROPPED VERSION! THE WAY AN LOOKS AT HER LIKE I KNOW WHAT YOU ARE!!

YAYYY!! a bit late since the last hcs i made. but take my vivid bad squad hcs 2 more units to go!!!

I did Minori, An ans Tsukasa's card since these are the most talked about right now.

Disclaimer n°1 i dont have a degree in arts i just like to draw as a hobby, this is just for fun and for myself.

Disclaimer n°2 im not saying in any way my ideas are better, im always for respecting artists and this is no exception.

First, Minori! In this part she is giving advice to the npc from her experience as an idol. Since it's Minori who we are talking about I thought that it would be cool if this card was more sillier, like those card that have a backgroung unrelated to the actual enviroment (ie. Tsukasa's valentine's card). Shiho and Tsukasa do not comment in this scene, but just for the sake of putting Something i added them (it would be funny if in the story they talked though lol)

I'm not 100% convinced with this one, maybe it's the lack of color but i'm not sure!

For An I drew her sitting against the mirror in the dancing studio. In this part she is talking to one of the npcs about her own troubles with Kohane and how she used to look down on her without realizing it. The mirror, aside from looking interesting, is meant to represent past An vs present An.

And finally, Tsukasa! Actually his card isn't that bad (don't kill me), personally, I think the problem is that there is literally no one in the picture so he looks kind of insane. In this scene he is talking to a group of npcs about delivering a good performance, so i just adjusted his arm (so he doesn't look like he is punching someone) and added people.

Before this I thought that maybe it would look good if the card was him from behind talking, but then I realized we are talking about a gacha game that likes making merch lmao.

Related to this specific version, I don't necessarily think wanting to make merch of the game is bad though, but at the same time I agree (to my dismay) that lately some untrained cards have been looking a lil bit boring. Making a visually nice card and also being able to turn it into a badge can coexist!

the reason why i always draw middle school akito with this specific hoodie is because of lore reasons (this is the part where you gasp). he was wearing this exact hoodie when he met toya, so that's why he says it's for good luck. even after getting told time and time again that he needs to wear his uniform properly, he still wears it to school.

so, he is not 100% lying but also he's not 100% telling the truth. tsundere boy.

later he stops wearing it after... you know... and eventually forgets about it (also he grows out of it! what are they feeding this guy!)

some other details i want to mention since we are on the clothing topic:

toya usually wears his shirt collar and tie properly, but it kinda pisses akito off because "we are street singers, not salarymen" so, when he remembers this almost joke they have, he un-fixes it. toya has never complained about it.

akito's gakuran is missing one button, and coincidentially ken only noticed this after bad dogs was formed. to this day he keeps getting teased about giving toya the button too soon, at least in ken's words.

toya's purple jacket on his 1st unit outfit was a gift from akito when he realized their clothing styles clashed a lot and wouldn't look good on stage.

In Case You're Gonna Jump feat. IGNITE

this mix was so hard and i'm still not really satisfied _(´；ω；`」 ∠) i hate when i have to key anything more than +/-1, it's fine when overlaid with other vocals, but solo is ROUGH. anyway, cover that unfortunately i can't find anywhere anymore is by Meruyu, i've had it saved for years since i love it a lot.