I'M A MOTHERFUCKIN' CANDY.

Thanks Billy for sharing the pictures!

Released in November 2015, MY★STAR Vol. 4 features an interview with Sakuma brothers. There were also unit interviews (UNDEAD, Knights, fine, Akatsuki) about the unit CDs but I feel like it’s already way outdated…? I’m not going to translate them unless I decide to change my mind…

Q1. What do you like and hate about each other?

Rei: I have countless things I like about Ritsu: his fluffy hair that gives you a good feel when you touch it, his sluggish gaze, his eyes that look like mine—

Ritsu: I hate everything about him. His existence is a nuisance. Rather, I want him to disappear.

Rei: Oh, I am hated aren’t I…? Even though I love him more than anything in the world?

Ritsu: How many times do I have to tell you until you understand? I hate your persistence. Really, you’re such a pain…

I recently shared a sweet post from the mother of a fan who got to meet me through make-a-wish foundation. 

Make-a-wish is a wonderful charity and I’ve done a few of these before, but I never share them because I don’t want people to think I just do it for attention. 

I thought I’d share the post on my Facebook; because it was very sweet and since I didn’t write the post or took any of the pictures - I thought it would be ok. 

I’m just really fucking disappointed to see some of my fans commenting on the post; making fun of the clearly disabled fan - Drawing resemblances to a horse, etc.

It frustrates the hell out of me because it’s not my post so I cant delete these stupid, horrible, idiotic comments. 

Just want to say, I don’t approve of this for a second. I’ve blocked these people INCLUDING EVERYONE who liked their posts.

I don’t want anything to do with fans like these!

Daisy is such an amazing girl who taught me awesome things like Bro Shambo and I’m SO proud to have as a fan! I would honestly pick 1 Daisy bro, over 43 million like the ones in the post.

Please do send the family and awesome bro Daisy some love and support! AND DONT REPLY OR COMMENT ABOUT BAD PEOPLE. 

OMG I love these cgs! And the story is just too cute!

urata started laughing in his namahousou because he messed up on his poll and, instead of asking “which one?” on the top box (where the nama host usually comments) and having the poll options being “boy” or “girl”, he had “boy” on the top box and the two options to choose from was “which one?” and “girl” www

urata: Boy, which one, girl ww Why ww why is there 36.1% for “which one” www

This is exactly the kind of behavior that makes artists feel insecure and depressed over something that they normally enjoy doing, because people are using their personal works for selfish reasons like amassing notes like it’s a cheap popularity contest. 

You see, what that blog (@xenocrisi) is doing is exactly what I talked about in my post about how art theft aka reposting without permission hurts artists. Crediting is no longer enough, because crediting actually does little to nothing for the artist these days. 

1) They don’t know you posted their artwork2) They have no way of contacting you in case they need for you to delete your reprint of their work for any reason. 

Technically, when you post artwork from Pixiv on tumblr or any other site without getting permission from the artist, you’ve already violated the site policy of the website. Some blogs rationalize that if they don’t SEE something in the artist’s profile that says ‘reprint/repost prohibited’, then it’s ‘fair game’ to repost on tumblr, according to their book. 

PIXIV ARTISTS ARE NOT OBLIGATED TO PUT A WARNING IN THEIR PAGE, when Pixiv already has this rule stated in their Help section on the upper right corner of the site:

As for that blog’s obsession with notes, you see, it has developed what I’ve commonly observed as ‘art theft addiction’, which is a behavior that involves gaining a sense of ‘high’ at the expense of an artist by taking their artwork without permission, and using it merely like a tool to gain notes. 

Also, I see that one of the artist above does allow reprints if only they were asked first, but here is something I’m discovering more and more often:

Artists who have previously given permission to post their works are now withdrawing that privilege they’ve granted because blogs who never ask permission (like @xenocrisi) are taking their artwork anyway. Those art theft blogs see blogs that have asked permission to post the artist’s work, so they develop this harmful assumption that it’s ‘OK’ to post that artist’s work just because they allow So-and-so to post it.

That is wrong, and here is why:

Permissions are given on a one-to-one basis. Permissions are the only way for an artist to keep track of how much their personal work is distributed. The further the artwork is passed around the corners of internet, the less personal the artwork becomes to the artist, and the higher the chances are that people are going to try to make a profit off of them by printing them on tshirts, mugs, merchandise and sell them for profit on sites like ebay (after seeing how many notes/likes they garner on social media sites). So when more and more people repost an artwork without contacting the artist, even when the artists gave permission to another blog, they are unknowingly causing this problem of unsupervised distribution to occur, and it gets worse each time an artist comes across an unauthorized post of their artwork.

This is happening daily, and this is one of the reasons why so many artists do not allow reprints anymore, or only permit you to enjoy their work on the original site they posted it. 

Osomatsu fandom, please realize that xenocrisi is violating the Pixiv site policy by not even asking permission from the artists they steal from. Please do NOT support this sort of harmful behavior, and flag/block any blog that follows this type of behavior of posting artwork without permission. 

If you truly care in your heart about the artist and the works they produce, instead of reblogging/liking those posts, simply go to the source site, create an account (it’s fast, easy, and free), and bookmark/comment/rate the artwork from there! 

Translation collaboration with milsteegun6615 !

This is the blog post that Amatsuki wrote in celebration of his 6th anniversary as an utaite, and I would highly recommend you to read it if you’re a fan of his as it’s filled with both joyful & painful memories of his journey up until now. Amatsuki really opened his heart for this, & it really shows!

Thanks again to Mi for translating & proofreading with me!

Blog link: http://ameblo.jp/amatsuki2525/entry-12023035563.html

(P.S. I deeply apologize for the shoddy tumblr format this post has, tumblr just hates me like that)

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“The Time Called the 6th Year”

While receiving replies from my listeners just earlier, I’ve realized!!

Behold!!

(Establishment date: May 6th, 2009

Owner: Amatsuki

6th Anniversary)

It seems that it has been exactly 6 years since I established my community!

6 years!!

In that time an elementary first grader becomes a first year in middle school you know!?!? (T/N: In Japan elementary school is 6 years)

When thinking back, 6 years have passed by in a blink of an eye like a dream

I liked listening to music I liked anime & games During that time when comments couldn’t flow on videos, when there wasn’t a place called Nico Nico Douga I encountered a new genre on the Internet

Going to school wasn’t really my thing I was also not good at making friends I would turn my eyes away from the real world and submerge myself in the online world. That was my everyday

In the midst of all that Vocaloids Utaites Those kinds of things became popular

Whooa! There are things like that! Everyone’s so amazing… But someone like me can’t really do anything… And with those feelings, I only clicked on videos

But there came a day, when one could do live broadcasts on niconico

Noo, it wasn’t like I had anything interesting to say but If it’s just chatting for a bit, perhaps even I might be able to it? With such a small feeling, I tried my hand at live broadcasts

Of course, in the beginning no one would possibly come In the frame of 30 minutes Under 10 attendees The comments that were left were

“What kind of live broadcast is this?” “Wakotsu” “wwww”

It was only that.

Having always been unable to properly raise my voice or talk continuously, With the Skype mic that I bought using 1000 yen, While battling against the PC I bought with my part-time job money,

I tried doing gameplays, I tried doing karaoke broadcasts, I tried doing voice imitations, I tried singing covers by myself,

I challenged myself with a variety of things.

When I realized, around me little by little, internet friends and listeners (T/N: Referring to his fans), people like that who listened to me increased.

I also want to try challenging the Utattemita (song covers) that I adored…! Through those sort of feelings, I started out as a (small) bud.

Of course, if you look at when I just started uploading videos It wasn’t like I had been singing usually, so on my videos

“This guy’s level is sh*t” “Gross” “Go die” “Why are you uploading these videos?”

It was filled with those comments w

But in the midst of that

“I like it quite a bit” “Isn’t his voice good?”

Things like this might not be considered praise but Here and there, comments cheering me on also appeared

Ahh, video uploads They are super fun to make Like live broadcasts, having someone that recognizes and reacts to me That might be what I find fun? I have come to realize that.

As I wrote above, I didn’t do well in school and I had few friends. For me who had been bullied on top of that, I was really, really happy to be recognized

More than anything, because listening to songs and singing were both favorite things of mine.

From there, I continued uploading lots and lots of both live broadcasts & videos.

While bit by bit the people who watched increased People who disliked me also increased.

As I progressed with videos, From the friends that I thought I was close to, I have ended up being slandered in the shadows. Even though I never said that, and I didn’t do those sort of things either! Why won’t you believe me!? When I say, someone is spreading rumors, it’s really that you know? Even when I objected, everyone around me wouldn’t listen to me.

Through the internet, As a result of turning down a confession from a person of the opposite sex that liked me, “He’s devouring (T/N: Has sexual implications) his listeners, his playing around with women is terrible” There have even been times when baseless rumors were constructed against me.

Hurt by the heartless comments, It was painful, painful, there were countless times when I was wavering on quitting.

But even in the middle of that, there were people who always cheered me on and There were friends that always treated me well.

As the seasons change, I became busy and there are now friends that I have ended up contacting less. There are also friends that I have been unable to meet again after moving.

From the days of being holed up my room alone, I started live broadcasts speaking in front of 10 people, I became capable of connecting through the Internet & singing songs in front of 100 people I did one-man live in front of 1000 people 10000 people picked up my CD into their hands I have become such that over 100000 people recognize me now.

Always, always day to day I’ve felt like I’ve been in a dream

During these six years, I don’t know how many times I’ve cried from happiness and sadness. I don’t know how many times I’ve laughed from the fun and happy times.

I don’t know but

The me right now is happy

The me from the past, it’s really great that you continued the things you liked

I feel like I can say that to my former self now.

I wasn’t planning on discussing anything seriously but Somehow I remembered a variety of things! w

I’m not putting on airs, I’m not creating a character (facade) of any kind I am really thinking this way from the bottom of my heart.

That’s why I think I can form the words in my mouth immediately at any time. You’ve changed my world,

Read before listening if you want to understand the situation

At some point in this housou, Sakata suggested a random game, in which the one who laugh loses. They started and… Senra laughed right away with a picture of a man sticking out his tongue ww 

Sakata said they would start again, then he put a picture of Doraemon with human legs www and…  Senra laughed -a lot-, it sounded like he was covering his mouth to keep from laughing wwwwww

Urata was the only one who didn’t laugh the whole time…