also took the opportunity to show lauda to my sister and tell her "yeah that's who they cast for shu suikoden π₯²"
oh gosh but I do miss ichinose's acting she doesn't even have an opportunity to act with eris
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a concept design of a pouch bearing viktor's and flik's chibi anime designs, with suikoden: the anime written underneath them
oh SHIT just when I thought none of these aj2026 suikoden goods are appealing to me...!!! but I find it difficult to say no when it's them...!!! and on a functional merch no less...!!! #suikoliv
but so that's it!! I'm finally done with my suikoden 2 second playthrough!! I'll have to get back to ghost of tsushima after this lmfao and relearn my moves but I think I'm saving that for next weekend π #suikoliv
annnnd I just killed jowy. that's all four endings gotten now I think! I'm letting the character endings scroll by now but it's interesting that even in this bad ending, they framed it as a kindness towards jowy (and in fact both countries) if riou ever chose to kill him! #suikoliv
OH FUCK I forgot all about this guy!!! πππ
anyway I'll kill him tomorrow lmfao. FUNNY that an ending I delayed for two months, I finished in like 3h! I was admittedly sort of dreading l'renouille lmao bc I hated that dungeon so much but it wasn't so bad this time around!! #suikoliv
and this one just now!! if you don't collect all five squirrels you won't get to see ayda and kinnison's ickle forest scene together!! :ooooo inchrestinggg #suikoliv
i DID finally trigger two unite spells tho!! but frankly I don't really see their point aside from ooh pretty π
also found out that flik will only hound you outside the great hall and in the lobby lmao he can't stop you if you leave through the barracks #suikoliv
LMFAO two months later I finally picked suikoden 2 back up and am now finishing my 2nd playthrough at last! finishing bc I'm gonna try and hit all the endings. this one I just did is where riou accepted the desk job lmfao so I'm waiting for the credits to get to the trio's endings #suikoliv
if I pirate this thing then I'm gonna honor the struggles of child me again, who experienced all 108 stars of both suikoden 1 and 2 destinies bc of piracy π #suikoliv
a screencap of tsai in the anime with his beard lightened up
tsai's profile picture in the suikoden ii hd remaster
like even if you minimize his beard to make him look more like his former self...
like I'm still gonna watch/pirate this thing, its suikoden after all and I understand why they'd make changes. I'm still excited but I have to admit, some of the choices have been a bit... π #suikoliv
also the way I pointed to my phone asking my sister HELLO THIS IS TSAI AND HIS DAUGHTER???? and she had to squint πππ where did tsai put his damn cheeks man did he leave them in his forest hut too hey #suikoliv
bolgan got nerfed bc gengen said gengen want more shoulders (also toto who looks much closer now to legal age that the anime won't be penalized for child labor) #suikoliv
omg not me thinking they put up an exhibit for santa claus for xmas (i think this is camus) fxtwitter.com/30thGensoMus... #suikoden #suikoden2 #suikoliv
considering how I made it Known here that gremio's SHINPAI DE SHINPAI DE βΌοΈβΌοΈβΌοΈ is so important to me, I figure I should share this here too (this scene alone made my ticket worth it lmao I'm so fulfilled he said that line) #suikoden #suikoden1 #suikoliv
in japanese, the screenshot explains that bonus digital bromide/s for purchasing the livestreaming ticket will be sent to the account gift box on late January 2026. participating characters for this livestreaming ticket are flik, viktor, pahn, cleo
noooo not me realizing that this likely means I'm getting a bromide of flik OR viktor OR pahn OR cleo... but not all π₯²
I mean it's digital so even if it's like pahn it's no waste of space but awwwww
maybe I still have to consider getting bromides of flik and viktor...?
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two other things I just remembered about this: how the stage emphasized that everyone dying cast the burden of their final requests on tir/rean and how abandoning ickle ted really affected him like for silent protagonist reasons, this is the kind of trauma we don't rly see in the game #suikoliv
I'LL JUST BE ON TIME TO GRAB SOME MERCH FROM SHIBUYA TSUTAYA πππππ #suikoliv
also loved how most of the cast took on double-triple roles like it was fun figuring out where you saw them first and then hearing all the roles they played at the final greeting π that's such a hallmark of theater, they really made everything work between themselves and I love it so much #suikoliv
oh one more thing I thought was funny at first but ended up appreciating: rean reciting the names of all 108 stars of destiny π₯Ή that was a good way to make you feel like yeah everyone made this possible and they're all there in spirit. rean did it in such a way that it didn't drag #suikoliv
kinda wish someone would rip and sub this lmao bc I couldn't catch everything. also kinda wish I could watch the last kyoto show, I bet that would have a different energy πππ
but in the meantime I'm gonna look at the merch again and see if I can acquire it outside of um mercari ahahahaha #suikoliv
also love the parts where the other major characters were shown to be involved in major battles (the part where viktor threw kasumi around was amazing) that in the game only involved tir, like I rly liked how it rly made them look and act like rean's generals who WILL fight for his glory #suikoliv
but like the show had a lot of in-between scenes that were really interesting like windy disapproving of teo going after rean, barbarossa suspecting windy's work with the dragons, I thought they really did a good job sort of filling up the story in terms of continuity and insights #suikoliv
he was just bawling his eyes out over sanchez's betrayal really played well together. tho I have to admit that his theatrical exhaustion during the fall of gregminster was a bit too much lmao (mathiu stumbling out of bed too). also odessa was so intense she was perfect as sonya πππ #suikoliv
but the stage actually highlighted the fact that he was so young and inexperienced! which I rlyrlyrly liked. like I think the part where he tried to console futch after he lost black (in the absence of humphrey lol) by offering to teach him his sword tricks and then the part where + #suikoliv
also really loved his murder scene, the whole stab and freeze thing and the fact that everything happened right behind flik and the effect that had on him??? this was actually such a good interpretation on his character bc like in the game we just see him as being angry and devastated + #suikoliv
I actually finished suikoden the stage!!!! and now I want merch ahahaha but that was a really good show!! it was kind of funny that mathiu ended up opening his eyes during the final meeting before the battle of shasarazade but that was a p cool creative route the theater took #suikoliv
ted and odessa are a bit too intense for me tho. odessa sort of lost her charming side and ted just feels idk too old??? I think they're playing him as rean's older brother but ted is more tirs same-age friend yknow
anyway they stopped at an intermission so in the meantime I'll sleep π #suikoliv
you could really see the growth from bocchan to leader-dono in rean and flik nailed being brash and emotional and he moves so good??? his battle choreography is spot-on which like perfect for someone with flik's speed and dexterity #suikoliv
omg the suikoden stage is like 4h long wtf like gremio just died and I still have 2h to go πππ
BUT regardless it's a fun show!! super impressed with the casting for rean, gremio, windy, viktor and flik, tho particularly for rean and flik. #suikoliv
oooh I take back what I said about viktor~ he's still too skinny to be a bear but he's on pointtttt (gotta appreciate a viktor who knows how to be scared of flik π) #suikoliv
