#akio abe

Yay I get talk meta 😀 And I'm just gonna talk about it in general.

What inspired you to create them?

I was watching YuYu Hakusho and Sailor Moon on Hulu in the same time frame, and the idea of a genre mashup of yankī and magical girl anime would not leave my head. It just felt like such a golden premise, a stereotypical male delinquent gang that become magical girls, I had to do something with it. For a very split second, it was an Ishimondo AU with Mondo as the protag and Kiyotaka as the magical companion (which is still reflected in Akio and Primrose's dynamic), but I realized that since there's literally only one other Crazy Diamond that has a personality that most of the main cast would be OCs anyway, so I decided fuck it and made everyone OCs. The whole wedding and flower theming was just kinda stumbled into.

Are they someone you would get along with? Would they get along with you?

I'm sorry this is stupid late, I just really wanted to think long and hard about this.

Akio Abe

What he loves: The whole bosozoku aesthetic, obviously. There's no real way I can see him existing like that if he's not a nerd about vintage stuff on some level. Motorcycles and rock n' roll, baby.

What drives him crazy: People that prey on the meek, it's a big berserk button. In fact, it's the entire reason why The Strikin' Vipers exist in the first place. Princess Primrose is also a huge nuisance to him when she first shows up, but they eventually get along.

Kosuke Aoki

What he loves: The Strikin' Vipers in general, but particularly Akio. He really cannot imagine his life without him.

What drives him crazy: His family. Dad's a big businessman that owns a lot of the shit in town. They very much do not want him to be part of a gang, not out of concern for his safety but because it makes them look bad. They can't seem to get a leash on him no matter how much they try, though.

Ichiro Kobashi

What he loves: His big sister, embroidery, attention, stabbing

What drives him crazy: Akio. They butt heads quite a bit, as he much prefers more aggressive approaches to defending their territory and the like. He's the lancer, what else do you expect from him?

Noboru Himura

What he loves: Anything action, particularly battle anime, or fantasy. He's probably the most stereotypically geeky of them in terms of interests.

What drives him crazy: Rules that make no sense and the people that try to control him with them

Daichi Sugiyama

What he loves: Ducks! There's a pond near the shrine where his family lives and there's been ducks around ever since he was small. It extends to affection towards birds in general, so he's good friends with Primrose before he's in on the whole Bride's Bouquet business.