AMA Aisaka AMA

[Setsuna]

No clue what to open this thread with, just jumping on the trend. I'm Aisaka, some people here know me and some don't, so ask me whatever and get to know me better.~

 

[Fleurdelis]

why do you keep stealing my wins

 

[Starlight]

If you could live in any fictional world you like, where would it be, and why?

 

[Setsuna]

why do you keep stealing my wins

Cause you won't let me keep mine! </3

Serious answer, though? Last One to Post is honestly like, my favourite thread right now so I wanted to be in there a bunch. I think I became active there after we started talking and I realized you were active around the time I got on (just after I woke up, back then) so I'd usually just post in there and I thought it was funny it kept happening, and I wanted to make it a thing between us.~

 

[Setsuna]

If you could live in any fictional world you like, where would it be, and why?

Somehow I missed this, whoops... There are a lot of great slice of life anime I've seen that just feel so comfy to watch, but have interesting ideas that would make daily life still kinda interesting. A great example is Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid, since it includes episodes with shopping for groceries or going to a convention and cosplaying, but the dragon characters have these incredible powers while still living life like humans in the normal world. That idea of just having the normal world with just a little bit of weird otherworldly influence sounds like so much fun.

 

[Zeostar]

Have you watched any godzilla films? (asking as a big fan of them).

 

[Palamon]

Who are your favorite Love Live girls?

 

[Setsuna]

Have you watched any godzilla films? (asking as a big fan of them).

Unfortunately I wouldn't know the first thing about them, movies in general aren't something I often watch, and the most I know about kaiju films are just that some of them inspire some Pokemon designs. I haven't really seen anything like that.

 

[Setsuna]

Who are your favorite Love Live girls?

Oh god they're all so good, where to even begin? By group, probably. I'll go by group.

My favourite μ's girl was Maki up until recently (I've been rewatching School Idol Project) where it's changed to Nico! I'll put my reasons in a spoiler tag because I think people who haven't watched School Idol Project shouldn't be spoiled on Nico. But to put it shortly without spoilers, she's hilarious, makes me laugh all the time, and I love both her attitude and how she's shown to be a genuinely sweet character.

Spoiler:

I love the "gremlin" characters, man. Nico's introduced in such a different way than the other girls and honestly comes off as more antagonistic than Eli at first, it's really neat how she's introduced as this asshole idol supremacist but all she wants is just to be able to realize her dream. Her backstory of wanting to be an idol but pushing the others to quit was really interesting.
The fact she starts off as this salty loner and ends up becoming a key part of the group and how she's familiar with other idols like A-Rise is something that just makes her really cool. Even then, there are so many moments the group makes fun of her or she's the end of a joke so she never feels like less of that different "gremlin" idol. She warms up but never loses her snark.
It was so sweet how she passed the Idol Study Club to Hanayo at the end of the year and how she wants to continue as idols with the first years at the end of Season 1. All the third years are great but Nico just constantly has the most interesting backstory and charming moments out of them all.

Nico, Maki, and Nozomi easily make up my top 3 in μ's.

For Aqours, god it's so tough to pick. I love Hanamaru, Riko, Yoshiko Yohane, and Mari a ton, but my favourite has to be You. I feel basic saying it but "Yousoro" is so cute, her dynamic with Chika is adorable and relatable, and she's both dorky and cool in a way that makes her really appealing to me. There are a few moments no one really talks about where she's just a big tease and it's really cute to me. Special mention has to go to Mari as well though, if you asked me who I think the best written character in the series is, it'd have to be her.

With Nijigasaki, everyone probably expects me to say Setsuna. Her passion is inspiring, super cool, and her double lifr as the student council president is such an interesting idea. It's super cute and super relatable how she'll go off about the things she loves if you let her, I'm glad Love Live has those "weeb" characters and Setsu is definitely one of them. But really? Ayumu is my favourite LL girl of all time. She's absolutely adorable, the whole Ayu-pyon thing melts my heart, her love and mutual support with Yuu is adorable, her personality is relatable and I've had people tell me I'm very similar to her, and her struggles as a character and her growth are both super relatable and super inspiring. My love for Ayumu has actually inspired me to improve myself and I wouldn't have done a lot of things I'm proud of in the past few months if it weren't for her. But for the rest of Niji, I love Karin, Kasumi, and Shioriko as well, and while they aren't part of the club, I'm a big SIFAS player and I'm super interested in Lanzhu and Mia. I want more of them.

As for Liella, yeah I can't really pick a favourite. We need more content of them.
God this response was WAY bigger than I expected it to be.

 

[Setsuna]

I feel like I could easily write an essay about any of those characters just for fun honestly. I've kinda been wanting to do one for Mia once we get more content of her.

 

[Fairy]

Happy day 100!! :)

Of any fictional character out there, who do you relate to most and why?

 

[Setsuna]

Happy day 100!! :)

Thanks! It's cool to have been around here for so long, I've said it a bunch but it's felt super inviting here and that's what's made me wanna come back.

Of any fictional character out there, who do you relate to most and why?

A big factor of how much I like a character is how relatable they are to me and I honestly gotta go with my girl Setsuna Yuki. It probably becomes apparent super quickly how much I love talking about the things I like and just how carried away I can get. It's pretty big to the point where both how much I talk about it all and my interests themselves are things I introduce myself with right away. Since these are both major characteristics about Setsuna someone might notice right away, I feel like I relate to her incredibly strongly, and it was enough for me to kinda attempt to have an account theme. That's such a tough but fun question, a lot of characters I like are ones I can relate to.

 

[Squirtlenator]

Have you ever considered becoming a writer or journalist as a profession? You're quite eloquent and ask very deep meaningful questions.

 

[Setsuna]

Have you ever considered becoming a writer or journalist as a profession? You're quite eloquent and ask very deep meaningful questions.

First of all, wow. Thank you, haha. I feel like I have this tendency to try and seem "cool" or knowledgeable when meeting someone, and I've been trying to loosen up in PC more and make jokes and everything.
I do actually write as sort of a passion project, it's all just for fun and an excuse to talk about things I like. I'll just write an article about something I enjoy and why I enjoy it. I've been really inspired by a lot of the "video essay" format people write for things like YouTube videos. Here's a great example. https://youtu.be/7kHsG5booCQ
As a profession though, I can't say I've ever considered it. I don't feel confident in the idea that I could comfortably make a living off of it or the feeling that it's an unrecognized job. I've heard that writing and art are two things where making a living could be inconsistent or difficult. I just don't think that's something I feel comfortable enough to take the plunge on. That makes me really happy to hear though, thank you.

 

[Squirtlenator]

If you could have dinner with any 3 people, alive or dead, who would you pick and why?

 

[Roni]

congrats on 100 days and being able to get Shun to pair with you! xD

if you could restart your life all over, still having knowledge of this one, is there anything you'd do differently?

 

[Setsuna]

If you could have dinner with any 3 people, alive or dead, who would you pick and why?

Prefacing this answer by saying, I'm guessing you mean real people, and all eating at the same time at the same table.
I'm really not a fancy eater, I went to a bar yesterday and it was a little bit awkward for me. I'm the kind of person who just enjoys bringing fast food home and eating it there. I wouldn't want anything uptight or formal or fancy. Anyone I can comfortably embarrass myself in front of, and genuinely hold a good interesting conversation at a table with would be great. At some point in time I plan to move in with my boyfriend and a friend of ours he introduced me to about a year ago. For the past few weekends we've just been spending the nights in voice calls with a fourth person, a mutual friend of ours, and just playing games or talking for hours. It's the most comfortable I've felt with friends in a long while (since I won't lie, with a lot of other friends I see in person or speak to in calls I can't help but get uncomfortable sometimes) and I think if I was with them, it'd be enjoyable, super casual, and I'd have nothing to worry about if I spilled my entire drink over the table or something. It'd be a good time.

Love the question, and yeah if anyone's seeing this send as many questions as you'd like if you have them, I'm starved for content in a thread like this.~

 

[Setsuna]

congrats on 100 days and being able to get Shun to pair with you! xD

Thanks! It's cool to know I've been around here for that long, and honestly, that I've known you for that long. It's been really sweet.
With Shun, I saw he was accepting bribes, and thought I could steal not only his win but his partnership too. Okay for real I was nervous and had been thinking about if I wanted to for a while, you and Ash kinda made me realize, yeah, go for it.

if you could restart your life all over, still having knowledge of this one, is there anything you'd do differently?

I have two answers for this but since one is really personal, I'll share the second. I'd push myself to gain the confidence about things I enjoy YEARS ago. Oh my god I cannot stress that enough.
I've spent almost my entire life being so worried about people thinking I'm weird or annoying that I couldn't believe in myself, express myself, or have fun living. I'd be embarrassed about everything I enjoyed or guilted myself over liking it, thinking I was weird or bad for being really into what I enjoy. I'd have times where I'd consciously tell friends that I didn't like how I get interested in things, or tell them I couldn't be public because people would look down on me. The most "cringe" thing you can do is make fun of people for being "cringy", I think, and if I adopted this way of thinking earlier, I'd not only be more comfortable with myself as a person but I'd have a lot more opportunities like the ones I've taken recently which have made me a lot happier a lot sooner. A dark road was driven through but my passion for things and finally being open about it is what made everything so much brighter. I feel like I'm me now.
As for other things? Seek out the people I know and appreciate from this life and try to connect with them again, I like them too much to let them go, it'd be weird having those memories but not those people anymore. I'm friends with people to the point where if I told them "Hey, I've been this person in your life before it restarted, I want to be that with you", they'd believe me and we could hit it off.
And I'd avoid the people I've had bad experiences with. There have been a handful of people I can think of I've had awful experiences with (one person stalked me and one person I occasionally have nightmares of) and it'd be great to relive my life without having to go through all of that again.

That was a wall of text, but hey, I enjoy talking.~

 

[Squirtlenator]

Have you ever had something happen to you that you thought was bad but it turned out to be for the best?

 

[Setsuna]

Have you ever had something happen to you that you thought was bad but it turned out to be for the best?

Oh for sure, who hasn't? My "big story" about how I ended up where I am is basically just that.

A few years ago I was in a relationship that wasn't very great, the other person required a different kind of support than I could give them and I was stressed knowing things weren't working out and they weren't accepting anyone's help but mine. It took me a while to come to terms with it and bite the bullet that I just wasn't the best for them and I had to end things with them and push them to get the support they needed. I spent a while after feeling awful about myself (I tend to blame myself very often whenever something bad happens) and I needed something to focus on. It ended up being YouTube videos, but I'd be getting these ads for this one idol game pretty often. As someone who'd never played an idol or gacha game before but loved rhythm games, I decided it was worth a shot, and ended up really enjoying it and getting into the characters. I found out some people had links to their social media accounts on their profiles in-game, so I decided to look on social media for some people and ended up meeting a bunch of great friends I still have today, along with meeting my current boyfriend and the things he introduced me to (Love Live being one of them) and lots of experiences that have really helped me loosen up, get outside my comfort zone, and be happier. I still remember how awful I feel back then and it's motivating because of how much better I feel now that I've gone through it and I can see how good it was for me.

So the tl;dr is basically: My relationship sucked, felt awful ending it, it led me to idol games, those led me to new friends and a new relationship, and I'm much happier.