Five Figure Fanwork Exchange

I decided that in order to keep them packaged together, I'd promo both the movie and light novel in the same post. Starts with movie details and then light novel info at the bottom.

Title Yes, No, or Maybe?



Media: Movie

Approx length: 53 minutes

Where to find it: Crunchyroll

What is it, in summary?
Kuneida Kei is a man with two personas-- the hardworking, kind, and revered announcer who works at a TV station and the crude, selfish, prideful private character who spends his off-hours eating beef bowls in raggedy sports clothes and "studying" the other news stations religiously to stay on his game.

He originally meets the love interest, Tsuzuki Ushio, on assignment since Tsuzuki is an animator creating the new intro for their program, The News, using claymation. But one day, while Kei is walking home from buying his favorite beef bowl to-go, he carelessly crosses a red pedestrian path and Tsuzuki's bike crashes into him. Since Kei is in his disguise at the time, Tsuzuki doesn't recognize him, and manages to enlist in Kei's help to finish the animation since the accident injured his wrist.

Ushio and Kei are really cute together and Kei is a huge tsundere!

What do you love about it?
I love, love, LOVE the dynamic between Ushio and Kei. I love the way they miss each other and yearn for each other and complement each other. I love everything about Ushio and how real he feels to me, like a person I'd actually meet out on the street. On the other hand, something about Kei's double-sided nature and how hard he works to succeed and be liked by others makes him almost cartoony to me. I adore the dichotomy of his character and all of the complexities that come with that– how Kunieda Kei handles a situation vs the real Kei. How he's so handsome and adored then turns around and bad-mouths people! 😂 I can relate to him in some ways, which makes me happy.

What sort of things are you likely to request for it?
I'll be requesting fic of their established relationship, particularly domestic moments or "all is lost" moments where they have to do something for one another to help the other out of difficult situations. I love generally anything with them but especially something placed in canon, since half of my enjoyment of the fic absolutely comes from Kei's placement as a news announcer who is thus restricted by that role and can't act out as his "true" self whenever he feels like it.

I also have a new NSFW section of my likes list that I'm trying to get some potential use out of this year! 👉👈

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Media: Light Novel

Approx length: 3 main volumes, with 3 extra "Off Air" volumes that I could not currently find official English translations for.

Where to find it: Barnes and Noble eBooks at ~$8.99: Volume 1, Volume 2, Volume 3. I was also able to find some translations online by googling!

What do you love about it? What do you think you will request?
The movie is wonderful (and faithful to the light novel), but I adore the light novels too because they dig even deeper into Kei's character (and also Ushio's)! While I know it might be a longshot that anyone will read the light novels when there's an easily accessible movie available, I swear this series got me out of a reading slump. I was addicted to finding out what new drama Kei would find himself in and how Ushio would help him out of it. I will be requesting every little scenario I can think of, ranging from the cute, soft domestic stuff to the über-dramatic situations. (Like: Kei being one move away from accidentally blowing his cover in front of the wrong person). I live vicariously through Kei and he has certainly become a comfort character for me with the way he leads his life and has to mask at work and everything. He's such a relatable character, which is why I love reading about him so much.



(Look at them both doing bleps I CAAAANTTTT 😭 💕 🥺 😭 🙏)