Ultra high quality scans of Toshiya's pages in the ANDROGYNOS -The Final War- Day 1 pamphlet

PT: Androgynos Hamah Flag /end PT

ID: a flag with five horizontal stripes, the middle one being very thin. Their colors are, from top to bottom, blue, light blue, white, orange and dark orange. In the center is a symbol ressembling a circle with six spikes. /end ID

Androgynos Hamah: a person whose sex is described as possessing both or mix of sexed characteristics, through natural development. Androginos hamah is usually assigned to intersex variations with mixed genitalia, but can be used for other variations of the ambiguous spectrum.

Note that this is just my *personal* attempt to define androgynos hamah, this definition isn't carved in stone. Even though adam and hamah are usually only used along with saris & ay'lonit, proposal to expand the hamah/adam distinction to androgynos and tumtum has been made, thus creating distinct gendered and sexed subcategories for each gendered sex.

This term is of a physical nature: they depend upon your physicality, and serve a legal purpose in Judaism. However, anyone Jew can use these terms, regardless of their spiritual practice.

Made mixing the flags by desactivated Tumblr user bigfootrights (link), and the ones made by Tumblr user gendertreyf (link), adding on top the intersex Jewish symbol made by desactivated Tumblr user sproutflags (link).

PSD file link.

i'm trying to make a new tumtum flag since the current one doesn't seem right to me, here's my proof of concept

symbolism behind it: the blue and white stripes on the side obviously represent judaism, and reference tzitzit specifically. i chose to reference tzitzit because i wear my grandfather's, and see it as a representation of tradition and our ancestors. the broad white stripe in the middle is to make it look more like traditional jewish embroidery.

the broad grey stripes represent tumtum identity, as grey is an "ambiguous lack of colour" the same way tumtum people ambiguously lack identifiable male or female characteristics.

my idea for this would be that the grey in my tumtum flag could be substituted for other colours to represent the other classical jewish sexes/gender falling outside the current western binary (ideas: pink for saris, blue for ay'lonit, purple for androgynos?)

Toshiya has a long history with Aiji, living very close to each other as kids. 

Toshiya approached Pierrot to ask if he could be their roadie, and helped them out a lot, sometimes stayed at their hangout/Pierrot house(?) 

Toshiya remembers telling Aiji how he was apparently sleeping with Aiji's girlfriend. He actually wasn't, it was a rumour fans had made up due to the crazy fan rivalry. 

Kaoru remembers going to see Pierrot at Namba Rockets, it was a Pierrot/Lareine taiban. Aiji was suprised to hear Kaoru actually bought a ticket and went, instead of being invited. Kaoru says its just cause he was really curious to check out new bands whenever he could, to find out for himself what was up. 

Kaoru remembers meeting Aiji and not liking him at first, because he had responded indifferently when Kaoru tried to greet him.

The first Androgynos was suggested by Dynamite Tommy after he had heard that 'unnamed third parties were trying to do something similar with Pierrot'(?), but Kaoru and Aiji had talked about doing something like this hypothetically a number of times in the past.  

Toshiya was skeptical that Pierrot would want to do it when he first heard the idea. 

Toshiya remembers trying to go and say hi to Kirito on the day of the first Androgynos, but Pierrot's manager wouldn't let him see him (Kirito swears its only because he was asleep at the time)

Joe asks what songs of each others the members want to hear in October. Kirito says Zan, and Aiji says The Devil in Me. Kaoru says there is a high chance they will play new material. Toshiya says he wants to hear Dracula or Mangetsu. Kirito replies that they have recently said on twitter that they won't play Dracula anymore. The others laugh at the coldness of this response. Kaoru is adamant that he wants to hear Sepia, simply because he likes that song. Kirito is surprised that a member of Dir en grey would like such a song. 

They then talk about the sub-title 'Censors kill the word. Hypocrites spread morphine from the stage'. Kaoru says he never considers censorship when he makes anything, if it gets censored, so be it. He gives an example of how a severed head got censored from one of their cd covers once. 

Kirito thinks censorship is actually important so artists can challenge themselves more as they try to counter/get around it.