This could become a series if I really wanted to bombard you all with blather ;)

[wao_wao]

Introductory note: this is a rambling, speculative post -- mostly full of rhetorical questions. I invite people to air their own theories if they wish... but everyone is just as free to skip all of this. ;P

Comments

[ladybretagne]

In true cultist fashion I have undying optimism that the 88ths never making top is not a foregone conclusion. They remind me of Touko, Komu and Naruse circa Wonder Three (in fact an 88th Wonder Three is one of my deepest DEEPEST wishes). Now granted the 77ths were more prominent than the 88ths at the time (at least that seems to be the case), but I can definitely see the similarities. And honestly, I'm entirely okay with Dai never making top if it means she's happy and she hangs around as an awesome upperclassman, but I do still think it's too early to tell what's going to happen with them. It seems to be such a constant back and forth, and I don't know if it's accurate to say that Chii-chan is automatically ahead because she had a Bow Hall lead, when Dai-chan had two shinko leads and Mii-chan had a shinko lead and a number of other prominent roles. I think part of what muddies the waters with the three of them is that they're such different types so it really starts to just depend on what the available roles are like.

[wao_wao]

Of course the last thing I want is to shoot down other people's dreams. I encourage optimism! This is just a lot of me musing.

But I do feel like in the last year it's become more obvious to me about the 88ths, I mean...

Paradise Prince
Mii-chan = cool person on Team Ume
Chii-chan = dorky person on Team Tani
Dai-chan = dead person portraying flashbacks behind a screen :(

Bara ni Furu AmeMii-chan = two roles, one as a waiter with a couple of lines but also prominently featured in a sexy dance

[ladybretagne]

Re: ParaPuri, I think you have to take shinko leads in account there, because from all I've gathered Dai-chan tends to stress out a lot and I think she probably needed to not have a larger role in the honkoen if she was going to tackle the shinko lead. BaraAme obviously I don't know, but I think AmeUta probably comes out as a wash between Mii-chan and Dai-chan.

But yeah, honestly I don't know what they're doing and I've got absolutely no objectivity anyway so... eh. Dai-chan is such a raving, RAVING fangirl that I don't really worry that she's going to up and retire on me if she gets passed over, but I would be totally lying if I said it didn't make me sad to think of NONE of them getting the kind of attention that I think all three of them do and seriously Maakun, seriously if she ends up the big star of their class I will freaking lose it.

But YES, that Bow show, double or triple lead, the 88ths, it would be AMAZING and it would be about damn time Hankyu. You hear me?

[wao_wao]

I think you have to take shinko leads in account there...

They sure haven't been lax on Mirio in that regard. :\

Dai-chan is such a raving, RAVING fangirl that I don't really worry that she's going to up and retire on me if she gets passed over...

This, I will continue to believe. ^___________^

Bow show next year. I will voice various theories but shouldn't get my heart set on anything...

(Re: Makkun, I love her in a "guilty pleasure" kind of way for her absurdity, not her talent. ^^;;; The same could be said of Beni, another high-profile 88th?)

[ladybretagne]

They sure haven't been lax on Mirio in that regard. :\

They really haven't! But they have in some instances with other people so I kind of wonder if it might have to do with how well different people deal with the pressure of the shinko lead. Dai-chan, for all her massive dorkiness, is such a little perfectionist and she looks up to Tom and Tani both SO much that I can totally imagine her being like "omg no let me stand in the background with a pitchfork!/let me Tani's semi-visible dead father!" when it came down to it. But again, conjecture I have no way to confirm/deny.

This, I will continue to believe. ^___________^

You and me both hon, you and me BOTH. Recent history makes it harder to cling quite as hard as I used to, but hope springs eternal. And being a good cultist is about nothing more than clinging to constant hope.

Bow show next year. I will voice various theories but shouldn't get my heart set on anything...I've started to take the angle that I will refuse to expect anything to go the way I would ultimately want,

[wao_wao]

Setting all the Sora 88th theorizing aside, I'll just say:

Seshi! (I knew there were more I could have mentioned.) Now Seshi, though she may be dorky offstage... Onstage for me she's just hot, hot, HOT. Tiny little thing with a massive amount of charisma. ♥

[ladybretagne]

Seshi has a really fabulous balance of massive dork and incredibly hot and has a very fun stage presence. She's SO Yukigumi too, which is a blessing I think because it means she's probably better set to be promoted than a lot of people.

[wao_wao]

Seshi ♥ ♥ ♥ Sad that she doesn't have a bookmark though. :(

And I should have said about Beni -- well on her path of trying to become Kaname, I can't take any of her talent seriously anymore. XDDD;;;; ♥ ♥ ♥

[ladybretagne]

Oh my god that picture of Beni, so hot and yet so making me giggle!