Cosmic Princess Kaguya! (超かぐや姫! aka Chou Kaguya-hime!) released on Netflix January 22nd, 2026. This day marked the first day in history that a feature length original story yuri animated movie was brought into the world.Official Youtube channel:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCNrdR2m8fxDBNbxJDBFPFNQ>Prologue MV "Remember":https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UE1y01q6wzQ >Epilogue MV "ray" (post-movie content. Must watch!):https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=356MRZ6P5h0 >Official MV for Ex-Otogibanashi & Replyhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owEBHHZg38s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QiSE1n_X4qU Paste with links to the>Light Novel adaptation>Manga Adaptation>Official Guidebook: Beyond the Happy Ending>Various music videos>Trivia and analyses collected by fans>Fanfic recommendationshttps://rentry.org/9izs3ag5Previous thread:>>4547711
The box office has cleared the 2.5 billion mark in Japan's cinemas now.The blue-ray release was announced.... and the pre-orders were immediately sold out. They promised to make more.The blue-ray will have a bunch of features, like a voice drama post timeskip by IroKaguYachi, a duet version of Reply with Kaguya and Iroha and more concept art. Apparently it will also include some cut movie scene involving Iroha, making the movie even longer.Kaguya's voice actress was on a VTuber radio show with Hoshimachi Suisei, doing in character interviews and conversation. It's post time-skip Kaguya and she receives a letter from Iroha where they are lovey-dovey with each other. When asked what Kaguya loves about Iroha her answer was an infatuated "Everything".https://files.catbox.moe/fqy8uk.m4aIroha's birthday was revealed to be May 11th and she got a bunch of birthday art, including official illustrations by the studio.The Virtual World Tsukuyomi fundraiser reached 4000%, then was reopened for a bit because lots of orders didnt get through and now its at 5000%.The Ray MV now plays after the movie on Netflix too.Kaguya and Yachiyo's VAs appeared on The First Take together.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laOwIwY_dWgNatsuyoshi and Hayami sing World is Mine live.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5DXqEa-7-WgNatsuyoshi and Hayami sing Ray live.
Movie... trivia.... uhhhh.........Right.So there are lots of parallels going on in the movie and the Ray MV too. Like this jumping animation is clearly intentionally mirrored.
This wrist hold being reversed as the movie goes on is pretty emotional.
In the Ray MV you can see Roka approach the depressed Iroha, which might be the first time these two interacted. And later there is a shot of someone handing Iroha a snack in the classroom, which I assume is Mami.It's nice how they subtly flash back to how their friendships started.
So here is an excerpt of chapter 2 of the novel:---No matter how I think about it, I probably have to report this to the police.For the first time in my life, I dialed 110 on my smartphone and pressed the call icon.While listening to the ringing tone, I rehearsed what to say.I have to be extremely careful.If I say even one thing wrong, they might think I kidnapped her. Let’s practice. “There’s been an incident…”…No good.“A baby appeared… from a seven-colored glowing utility pole…”That sounds ridiculous.“There was a baby crying so I brought her home…”…Yeah I’d definitely get arrested. I’m completely lost. How am I supposed to explain something I don’t even understand myself?“This is Tachikawa Police Station. Is it an incident or an accident?” “Ah! It’s okay! Everything is… fine now! Sorry! Thank you very much!” In the end, I called the police just to tell them “everything is fine” and hung up.The most suspicious phone call ever.…I’m sorry, officer.---The movie didnt really convey this, but the whole part where Iroha madly rambles about finding a baby was just her practicing. The only thing she said to the cops is that everything is fine. Which explains why they didnt come to check it out.
>>4559215I added a new section to the paste with Promotional and Miscalenneous material which includes stuff like the radio show, the First Take MVs and the cast pre-screening introduction.
>>4559221Fuck off noveltard. The novel adds stuff but this is a case of you speaking from your ass to overrate it and bitch about the movieThe movie conveyed it fine. I never questioned why the police didn't come or even think Iroha actually told them any of the explanations she was thinking. I knew it was her going through ideas and realizing how bad it sounds from the cops' perspective, realizing no way she could explain the sudden appearance of Kaguya that the cops would believe and not make Iroha look suspicious
>>4559213Wow, Natsuyoshi really is a natural at this. She could easily be a real Vtuber and make it big.
>>4559229Sure buddy. Your perfect little mind made a good guess and now you feel very smart. Good for you.Now when we return to reality, this was just a fun fact, because normal people would not jump to that conclusion, because the movie gave no indication that the call was still connecting or when it actually connected.
>>4559216Honestly impressive how this much stuff is still happening 4 months after the movie debut. It's just not slowing down.
Gorgeous
>>4559255I think Suisei just likes the musical aspect of the movie.
Does anyone know if dvds are going to have a English sub? And what is best place to buy thanks.
>>4559269>DVDsThey only announced Blue-rays.>EnglishNot on the Japanese release. Wait for an international release.>best place to buyAmazon... eventually.
>>4559274I'm surprised they did not sub themselves like ryza games.
>>4559283There would be no point. They sell out even in just Japan as is. Usually the english tracks get added during the East Asia release at the earliest.
>>4559216>5000%Might as well go for 8000% at this point.
>>4559266Why do people keep label this as vtuber film it has similarities but its a vr world just cause they use a digital identity does make it a vtuber.
English(and many other langs) sub sucks at many aspect so i want them to fix it if they are gonna put sub.
>>4559544Because half the cast are people who do shortform videos using their digital avatars.
>>4559550That does not make it vtuber though.
>>4559544>>4559553Are you stupid? Stop gettung hung up ob the damn term. Vtubers are also often called Liver, so especially in Nijisanji and outside Youtube. The movie also uses the term Liver. They are steamers who use L2D or 3D avatars. They are fucking Vtubers, it's the same thing.
>>4559546No. The English sub on Netflix is actually just extemely good. You probably picked the English subtitles for the English dub. The dub and sub are conpletely different.
>>4559559Your fucking stupid its not so that would mean sao also vtuber kys
>>4559570This must be braindead bait or something. Probably didn't even watch the movie. It's so obvious you have no idea they are streamers.
>>4559572How are people so fucking retarded yes for streamers no for vtubers as everyone on vr has a avatar just cause you use a digital identity does not make you a vtuber.
>>4559573VR on that level doesn't exist IRL. So the closest equivalent to the streaming with live 2D avatars Kaguya and Yachiyo are seen doing sometimes is indeed Vtubers. Not my problem if you hate Vtubers and hate the fact your favorite movie is assoicated with them. Cope and seethe
>>4559574Still retarded anon whatever helps sleep at night I guess.
>>4559573They literally do L2D streams all the time in the movie. They also use 3D models for some streams like Vtubers do. Kaguya also is a hybrid streamer who does live cam stuff sometimes. You are so focused on the VR aspect, when that isnt even the majority of their content. They are literally called Livers which is a Japanese term for Vtubers. It's not the same term as just a general streamer.Tsukuyomi is a platform, like Youtube. You can literally see the streaming/video platform several time in the movie. There is a reason why everyone from the staff, to the voice actresses, to the Japanese fans calls it a Vtuber influenced movie.
>>4559577Not op A lot of people label anything with anime avatars and virtual performances as “VTuber,” so both of you gtfo
>>4559578i'm not any of those anons and i can't stand vtubers like any sane person, but you chose a pretty weird hill to die oneven if by some technicality the characters were to not be labeled as 'vtubers', they still do exatly the same kind of shit when streaming, it makes no differenceit's a good movie with a bad minor theme in it, big deal, vtuber-adjacent stuff is just being shoe-horned everywhere for easy money nowadays, it's the new idolshit fad
>>4559630There is literally nothing wrong with Vtubers. They are just streamers with anime models. Get over yourselves autists...
>>4559634>There is literally nothing wrong with Vtubers. They are just streamersbut that is what's wrong with them, buncha randos rambling about retarded shit at an even more retarded audience while begging for monetization support, i tried to sit through that shit several times but there's just no value whatsoever, it's not interesting, not funny, not cute, nothing but a waste of time
>>4559637Hating the very concept of streaming as a job is pathetic.
>>4559639>Hating the very concepti'm hating that it makes me feel like gauging my fucking eyes and ears out the whole time, anoni don't even have high standards or anything, but holy shit i don't know how they could conjure up something so cringe-inducing i'd rather watch idols instead, at least some of them have talent despite being glorified fetish material
>>4559640Case in point.
>>4559641i rest my case
Manipulating the game avatar to suit her kink. Truly devilish administrator!
The second KnM reference art I've seen already.
Not all reactions on movie commentary will be the same...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HoaMMaeTpowAnother clip from the radio show.I can't believe I have to point this out in an official promotion, but Natsuyoshi got it wrong.>Because this was the first song Iroha wrote for me it's specialExcept... it isn't. Iroha didn't write that song for Kaguya. It was one of her old songs she composed as a kid. Like all the songs Kaguya sings until Reply. I guess she might have cleaned and touched some parts of these old songs, but she most definitely did not write it for Kaguya. And as Natsuyoshi says herself, Kaguya wrote the lyrics, so it wasn't that either.I suppose you can't expect her to remember all the details. But that means I know the movie better than Kaguya's own actress at this point. What am I doing with my life?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLMcomIU7swOh the final part just came out.>"That's love right?">What is Iroha to you? "Everything"Really not beating around the bush on this one.
>>4559841I love that Kaguya is still so direct even when completely embarrassed. I hope there will be occasions to see her 10 (+8000) years later self get embarrassed in the presence of Iroha's herself as well.
I wonder was there any kind of background hint about an asteroid coming close to Earth in the next 80 years or something? It feels like the kind of foreshadowing they would absolutely put into the movie, but I haven't found anything about it yet.
>>4559909It's in the novel but not in the movie. With a ticklish laugh, the tablet's screen switched from one thing to the next. News reporting the possibility of a giant meteor approaching, a movie about a life-risking romance, a sold-out Yachiyo concert, anime, sports broadcasts, a silly video I took with my friends.
>>4559662Just subtitle fucked up. Kaguya said "the first song IroP wrote to me", not "the first song IroP wrote for me".
>>4559958Uhm.... those things mean the same thing. And both would be wrong.
>>4559951>a giant meteor approaching[Angry astronomy noises in the distance]
>>4560088That's why I asked about asteroid news. Truly shameful.
Mirror mirror what's behind you...
That damn smile
>>4560190That artstyle is really darn familiar. Is this a yuri manga artist?
Super Tsukuyomi Festival. the all exclusive CPK! doujin event is absolutely flooding us with yuri.
More school AU stuff
>>4560471
>>4560473
>>4559215https://x.com/oricon_ranking/status/2056819931774439497So aside from its constant wins in the cinema, the song album for CPK! has been in the TOP 10 most downloaded for 17 week straight and the last two weeks it has been number 1 again.
Someone actually remembers the unhinged ball yandere.
>>4560638
>>4560639
>>4560641Honestly, did not expect the hard cut to a kiss
>>4560926Iroha was a Stand user all along!
Seems the movie is finally going to end its cinema runs soonish.
>>4560928it needs to run for 168 days.
>>4560941That would still take a while. I honestly don't know how their deal with Netflix even works, so maybe they just have a natural time limit.
>>4561032168 days would be around 5 and a half months
>>4561041Yes, I can count. The movie has been in cinemas for like 2 1/2 months though.
They absolutely do this, right?
>>4559215Someone did some really nice art for prototype Yachiyo's design.
>>4561052Goddamn...
Today was Kiss Day in Japan.So you can imagine the absolute flood of CPK! smooching going on everywhere.Madokami save us when the June Bride season begins...
Roka gets smooches too
>>4561149This is the IroRoka AU artist of course.
Chaste kisses
>>4561151Flirtatious impending kisses
Adult kisses
Silly joke kisses
>>4561156Or a little bit of tongue
Festival kisses
Selfcest kisses...
What's that?
>>4561161It's a kiss
One more
I really gotta share this one lol----Yachiyo: "Everyone~ So do you have any oshis other than Yaccho~?"Chat: (a bunch of people posting Mikado or other streamers)(One guy posts "IroP")Yachiyo: "...Yeah yeah, seems like everyone's got some. I see lots of Mikado-sama...and..."Yachiyo: "Ha?"Chat:(Gotta be MikadoOnly Yachiyo!Kaguya because she looks like a JK>>IroPROKA kicks assmamimami!)
>>4561186Yachiyo: "Eh? IroP? Ha? Did you say IroP? Did I misread? Huh? Why? Hey?"Chat:(Idiot, why did you say IroP...AhOh?Oh no...Huh)Yachiyo: "Ha? Ha? Ha? Ha? Nononono haha~ Iroha can't really be your oshi. You know she doesn't want to stand out or anything, so I think that will be a bit of a problem~?" Chat:(Huh? I can't?Aaah...Damn she talks fast now lolIt's not that you can't, but think of who you are dealing withGo To HeavenThen I will stop staning IroP...Scaary)
>>4561187Yachiyo: "Huh? Why don't you want to stan her?"Chat: (What do you want him to do?What a pain lolWhich is it?Double Standards Admin)
Another one!
>Thank you, Cosmic Princess Kaguya!>Cosmic Princess Kaguya?>Because, um... you're a princess from the cosmos.>Oh yeah.
>>4561371Some artists already did that joke months ago actually
>>4559215FUCKIs this worse than 8000 years worth of a suffering?
>>4561535A morality condundrum ensues. Do you let her win, or do you flatten her?
>>4561646
Kaguya befriending the great concubines and courtesans of Japanese history so she could groom li'l Iroha better was a good bit.
>>4561537The only way to let her win is to surrender, which is not a valid move in Uno.
>>4561659It certainly taught her some emotional and mental maturity and fastitiude.Very good for a counseling app in which you help people... or groom a girl with a bad family situation.
>>4561651Muzzle that bitch. I knew she would put those fangs to use
>>4561054That is actually from the artbook of the artist in charge of Tsukuyomi character designs.
>>4559216Final(ish) box office: 2.56 billion yen. That's around 16 million dollars or 14 million euros. For a domestic box office of a movie that only ran in a very limited amount of cinemas and was also cheaply available on streaming platforms the entire time, this is an outstanding successs story.
>>4560423I spy loli Yachiyo. Need that book yesterday!
>>4560423That's not the same Hiro that does Akebi's Sailor Uniform, is it?
Kaguya's smelly, unwashed clothing.
>>4561956It doesn't really look like his artstyle to me.
Play smart, not hard.
>>4562097
>>4559215I noticed something on my like 10th rewatch of the movie. Really never "clicked" with me, but there was always an off feeling.They go out of their way to make a sound that reveals the door to Yachiyo's appartment was unlocked from the inside.... But how?There is nobody who could have done it. Fushi is just an AR image and the real one is a mindless slug now. Yachiyo doesnt have a body. I thought maybe the door was electronically locked and can be remotely opened, but... no? It's a basic mechnical lock and hinge. No sign of any tech.Really weird.
>>4562105I guess it's an electronic lock made to look like a mechanical one. Kaguya definitely wants one she can control, but it might look suspicious.
>>4562106Someone certainly needs to maintain or supply her server network, so I assume she has confidants outside. I thought they would have spare keys, because there is usually no reason for Yachiyo to ever unlock the door herself.But yeah, with this situation it must be a really well disguised electrical door.
>>4562109>Someone certainly needs to maintain or supply her server networkOr maybe the pinecone powers itself and it can really host all of Tsukuyomi without further external supply or servers.
>>4562113...then what are all the hundreds of hard drives and server infrastructure around it for?My point was that if some of these get fried or a cable breaks, someone has to replace them.
>>4562115Plus, someone needs to regularly clean and restock slug-Fushi's tank. Even in 2030 aquarium tech is probably not self-reliant forever.
>>4562115>>4562116Well, Yachiyo did have 8000 years to find someone who will plug wires into the pinecone and not ask too many questions.
>>4562117Some assume that Yachiyo was working with the CIA, due to her connection with the wine guy. I doubt it though, because it seems like he intentionally let her get away. The CIA 100% would want Lunarian tech for themselves.The novel makes it really vague on purpose too, where Iroha says there are rumors the CIA back Tsukuyomi or Yachiyo is a digital ghost or there have been several "Yachiyo"s who just pass on the mental from administrative to administrative.The only thing that is obvious is that this cannot be a solo operation. Yachiyo needed help to set it all up and to keep it going. Black Onyx has sponsors, so clearly money comes in that way. And they have a video platform like Youtube, so that probably has lots of investors too. And on top of that they got a service similar to Paypal, except you can pay real life with online currency... to set up that kind of system you need insane reach and deals.
>>4562121>And they have a video platform like YoutubeAnd it is called fucking BambooTube...I honestly wonder if Yachiyo used her future knowledge to set up a video platform that replaces Youtube in the timeline and financed herself that way. Like it's a carbon copy.
>>4562121>CIATell me about this baby. Why does she wear the diaper?
>>4562122She even erased the dislike button, just like our corporate overlords did with youtube
>>4562122It's a stable time loop. There's no Youtube to replace.
>>4562121>The CIA 100% would want Lunarian tech for themselves.Which is odd, as IRL it's the DOD handling alien (extraterrestrial) things, not the CIA.As for Yachiyo, she has had 8000 years of networking. Not only she knows who's who, she most likely MADE who's who. She's older than every conspiracy.She most likely has every tech bro in her pocket.
>>4562132>She most likely has every tech bro in her pocket.Wonder if she's in the Epstein files.
>>4562132Alien tech isnt real, so nobody is actually handling it. But if they find tech in some other country they'd certainly ransack it and bring it to the US.Also I doubt she has that kind of network. She spent hundreds of years inside the Imperial treasury, because the people treated her spaceship as a sacred national treasure, same as that mirror, magatama etc. CIA guy found it after Japan's surrender in WW2 and freed Yachiyo. That's the only reason she is not rotting away in some vault. Doesn't seem like she did an awful lot of networking before that or she wouldnt have ended up that way.The period betwen the 40s and 90s is a bit nebulous.
I never noticed this, but this is the one shot that actually shows a child in Tsukuyomi. I assume she is here with her mom as they are both wearing Yachiyo fan outfits.I really didn't expect children to have access to it. The more you look at it the more ubiqutous the smart contacts are in this society. But making some for children would mean making them especially small. Anyway, I guess that means the tech has only become available recently, because child Iroha would have gone to Tsukuyomi literally all the time otherwise. If her mother let her get smartcons that is.
>>4562234>I'm always hungry because Mom spends all our money on Yachiyo merch, but she says things will get better when she marries Yachiyo and we can live in Tsukuyomi permanently. She's also been buying a lot of sleeping pills lately and trying to get me to take them, and they help me sleep through the hunger pangs.
>>4562239You need help.
>>4562234It could also just be someone roleplaying a little girl.
>>4562288moot
>>4559215https://x.com/pianorock_y/status/2059573678103474537This is the nerdiest and simultaneously most soulful shit I have seen yet.They made a programming tutorial book based on CPK! that teaches you how to program InuDOGE and make your own web app and start as a streamer. This is 100% legit by the way, not a joke.All for under 10 bucks btw. This is teaching material that would actually work for modern nerds.
>>4562365Learning with yuri!
I love, I love myself (seriously)
This fandom is just always a fountain of amazing art 24/7
Cutting nails in preparation
>>4562421I can't believe there isn't art of Iroha in a cuck chair watching Kaguya and Yachiyo have sex.
>>4562422What is it with Roka and the cunnilingus gesture? Every other piece of artwork featuring her has her doing that gesture.
>>4562475It's her way of dropping hints, but Iroha was at first too dense and later too Kaguyasexual to pick up on them. Also, I love ultra-feminine lesbians and it still hurts me that Roka never got the fat girl on the rebound.
>>4562475This is called the "lesbian handsign" in some circles. Though there are plenty of het artists who didn't get the message and use it haphazardly on their hetsluts.Maybe this artist actually understood its meaning.
>>4562606Are you serious? >>4562421Open your damn eyes. That's literally just 6 posts above.
>KaguYachiyoLesbian, or masturbation? The mystery continues.
>>4562488Your fucking retard.
https://cho-kaguyahime-officialstore.bookstores.jp/The preorders for the limited edition of the blu-ray are open again. There are two choises aviable. One will ship in september and the other october to give them time to produce enough copies.
>>4562626>cannot be shipped to my location>no more preorders at other storesWell fuck you too Japan.
Return of the college AU!
>>4562762
>>4562626Got one. A bit pricey, but eh, I love this movie.
>>4562626For those in Burger country, what proxies are some you using? Haven't used one in ages.Considering FromJapan/Blackship, but I'm hoping the official shop restocks on certain items
>>4562626Still hope GKids or Shout Factory picks up physical distribution
>netflix stops making discs>now netflix is making discs againWhat a strange worldline this is.
>>4562805Calm down. There will be a worldwide release down the line. >>4562816Netflix isnt making them tho.
>>4562852>Calm down?? Anyways, I snagged a copy>>4562812Hope so, got a ticket for the Utena movie re-release next month
Since people are looking at the official shop for the BDs. They also put up for preorder these acrylic stands of the early desings that have Yachiyo with the collarbone piercings. There are also acrylic stands of rare characters like Iroha's mom and Otakou.
https://x.com/prinscarce/status/2060278920541548846
https://www.pixiv.net/en/artworks/145322952
Hayami turned 35. Only 7965 years to go.
They should have made Kaguya's black T shirt longer, but also made it ambiguous if she's wearing anything under it.
https://xcancel.com/xp0p0p0x/status/2060492878036734133> 아침과 밤의 온도차가 큰 야치요> Yachiyo, with a large temperature difference between morning and night
>>4563327
So remember this scene where Yachiyo casually tells Iroha that Kaguya was working for a black side of the moon company for 80 years and missed her expiration date? It's clearly shown that on top of finishing her backlog of work she made a Kaguyabot like copy that would continue doing her job perpetually.The wind mechansim clearly implies this is a artificial thing that isn't exactly like Kaguya, but...Many JP fans now wonder if this is the earliest iteration of Kaguya's ability to clone herself that she displays as Yachiyo. As Yachiyo she perfected the process, but this Kaguya clone on the moon could well be an actual copy of Kaguya that just stays in the brainwashed state the Lunarians put Kaguya in with the feather robe. Or it is a low functioning version without her memories or emotions so she wont suffer, but still. It's actually an insane plot point. Almost as crazy as considering that for the entire life of Iroha and Kaguyabot, the original Kaguya will be working on the moon... and only go back in time after their whole story is over. Imagine if she looked down even once in that time.
SOME artists went as far as to imagine that copy of Kaguya on the moon to look back in time to Earth and see the original have a happy ending and feeling justifiably fucked over and used... and vowing revenge.
Others have a more benevolent interpretation of the copy watching over them during her work.
>>4563524And actually being happy for them.
>>4563522>this is the earliest iteration of Kaguya's ability to clone herselfI doubt that's what's going on her. Seems more like she made a program, like InuDOGE and then made it look sorta like herself?
https://x.com/Cho_KaguyaHime/status/2060919199338316075
>>4563740They really are doing in-character commentary while watching the movie... what level of meta have we reached here?
She really is I-3-P. The threesome master.
So many layers
>>4563741Just 30 minutes by the way, it won't be the full movie. If it's just Iroha, Kaguya and Yachiyo they'll probably focus on the main scenes with them.
>>4563745Uh... I hope the scenes automatically play then, because it will be a bitch to jump around the movie manually to catch up with the commentary.
>>4563747It's an extra on the second disc so yeah, it will be a compilation separate from the movie.Someone noted that this scene from the Ray music video is probably supposed to be the trio doing the commentary.
>>4563748That... doesnt make sense. Because the commentary is clearly for post timeskip versions of the trio. This scene clearly takes place before Kaguya leaves for the moon (moon hairpin, Iroha's super short hair).
>>4563753They still use their regular Tsukuyomi avatars outside of the summer concert.
>>4563756Except you don't know when that photo was taken. Kaguya wears the sun hairpin even IRL during the Ray MV. It's clearly replaced her moon hairpin. Goes right along with Tsukuyomi changing to Amaterasu. The fact that it's night in that photo even implies it was before the big changes after Kaguyabot got completed.
>>4563741The Nanoha movies also had in-character commentary
>>4563876Would have been a perfect opportunity for the voice actresses to adlib about NanoFate being married.
>>4563758That's a good question actually. DOES Tsukuyomi permanently change to Amaterasu? Aka, the whole world is always in sunlight now? Or was that just for the event? Or maybe it now has a proper day/night cycle?Irl I could definitely see people being upset about losing the night setting completely. But I also assume that it was always night sort of bothered some people too.The fact that the entrance gate plaquette changed completely makes it seem like it was a total rebranding though.
>>4564033>Or maybe it now has a proper day/night cycle?Maybe it always did, and Iroha never visited it during the day because she was always too busy.
>>4564035She literally plays until morning all the time, because she pulls allnighters. She also logged in to talk with Roka and Mami in the middle of the day and it was night inside Tsukuyomi.
>>4564102Love seing CPK on magazine covers
voiding the warranty
Damn good run. Pretty historic if you ask me:https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2026-06-01/cosmic-princess-kaguya-film-ends-theatrical-run-in-japan-on-june-18/.238019
>>4564399>earned US$15.88 millionHoly shit.
>>4564405The more exact number >>4561953
>>4564399
>>4564507It didn't release on January 1st.
>>4564508It didn't, but I'm sure this is not a mere coincidence and they decided that 168 days into 2026 (it is a 2026 anime after all) is an acceptable compromise to running in theatres for 168 days.
Jelly Kaguya is always good
They did reference the movie in CPK
It went both ways lol
I really love the interpretation that Yachiyo helped with Iroha's research every step of the way. It shouldn't be forgotten that Kaguya is a tech genius.
>>4564823Yeah, Yachiyo is probably one of the best programmers alive and Iroha is almost without question the best roboticist. And that's completely setting aside that Yachiyo at first and then probably both of them are crazy rich too.
>>4564824I doubt Yachiyo is rich. They wouldnt have to beg bro for an investment if they had money to spare.
>>4564825I mean, if that was the first time she got anyone else to invest, that means all of the technological development and the YC body were all funded by either research grants or Yachiyo, since Iroha was at most just a postdoc at that point. That's a ridiculous amount of money. Yes she needed a little more, but only to get her over the line to get to the second body.
>>4564837I very much assume her research was funded by investors who gave grants to the lab she works at. My assumption is that her particular strain of hyperfixation just wasn't what the investors cared about, so she needed her brother to bridge the money gap to the perfected android wife.
>>4564539Yandere Kaguya has awoken something new within me.
>>4564858Much rarer than yandere Yachiyo. Makes it all the more enticing.
>>4564861>>4564862The greatest crime of the movie is that Mami's yuri potential was wasted.
>>4564855>"It's not going to lick itself. Back to work."
>>4564838Investors usually don't fund massive jumps in technology, they fund incremental progress, because it's lower risk then betting that this particular postdoc is going to advance the field of robotics by decades to build her wife a full scale robotic body. Non-governmental investors in particular would rather hire the researcher into their company than bankroll them externally. I still don't see how she pulls off the early days without Yachiyo bankrolling her.Also, just on general principles, why wouldn't you expect Yachiyo to be rich? She created this universe's version of youtube and a nearly full immersion VR combination of Second Life and a MOBA, and that's just what we see in the restrained scope of the movie. People seem to be getting full on brand deals. There's no say she's not making bank.
>>4564921For various reasons, needing funding for the robot body being one of the biggest giveaways. It also follows that as the sole owner kf Tsukuyomi, she carries the financial burden of the entire thing. Sponsors are for the KASSEN aspect only. E-sports. Tsukuyomi is free with no subscription model. They support Fuju Pay, which is a system that somehow turns in-game currency into real money. These philantropic endeavors are costly. And we dont know if BambooTube is actually Yachiyo's property.
>>4564944Roblox is the nearest real world analogy to Tsukuyomi, including being a free to play game and even having a conversion from in-game currency into real money, and the Roblox Corporation is on the Russel 1000, with 3.6 billion in revenue and 7.18 billion in assets. And Tsukuyomi unquestionably blows Roblox out of the water.The only way Yachiyo isn't loaded is if she specifically goes out of her way not to be. And do you really think Yachiyo of all people wouldn't want to be able to provide for Iroha, when she hated seeing her struggle in poverty?
How are we presuming that Yachiyo has access to a bank account if she doesn't have an ID card or human registration document of any kind due to being what people believe is just an AI program? Or did she just use her hacking skills?
>>4564952CIA helped her with all that
>>4564837read the last chapter of the LN - she rose to lead researcher in some company so there are definitely other investors.
>>4564956Unless you're thinking of somewhere different, it says she's a director at a white-sector research institute, not that she works for a company. Which brings it back to research grants, which would be much more narrowly targeted, not something like "I want to build an entire prosthetic robot body".
>>4564950Roblox makes money by scamming kids with overpriced content bundles and getting money off of their users creative works. This is literally nothing like Tsukuyomi, which appears to be entirely focused on enabling creative expression without looking at profit.Let's look at what little monetisation methods we see in the movie:-Superchats/donationsThis is something we know from Youtube and Twitch and the platforms actively profit from this by taking a part of the donations as a service fee. However, as I mentioned before, we don't have any proof Yachiyo owns BambooTube. Yachiyo herself is the number one streamer in Tsukuyomi, so you may assume she should be rich from simps and fans donating to her, however, there is not a single Donation pop up in ANY stream she appears in during the movie. It seems she disabled this feature entirely for her streams.-ConcertsThe concerts are clearly aired on the video platform mentioned before, but many VR visitors also aquire tickets. So you could assume that ad revenue and ticket sales would factor in. However, Yachiyo's concert tickets did not imply a purchase, but rather were treated like a rare item. Iroha has never been to a Yachiyo concert directly before as the novel confirms, she always watched outside the venue. Iroha is willing to spend money to get Yachiyo merch and smartcons.... I dont think she would be able to stop herself from buying tickets if they were actually for sale.Ad revenue is a different matter, but Yachiyo treats her streams like a service and as mentioned before disables donations, so I assume she also disables ads.-MerchThe only real life Yachiyo merch we see looks handmade, so it could just be something Iroha herself created. Virtual Yachiyo merch is probably bought with in-game currency.I will say though, this is probably the most likely source of pure personal revenue for Yachiyo, unless she allowed third parties to profit on her image, which would be very dumb.
>>4565045(continued)-SponsorsThey seem to be mostly there for the gamers themselves, but it is common courtesy for sponsors to pay the platform too. At best this would probably offset the cost of maintaining the servers, developing the game and doing all the promotions to begin with.-InvestorsI think this is just how Tsukuyomi actually runs. Shadowy investors who want the service available for their own reasons. As Yachiyo does not seem to run this thing for profit though and seems to be the sole owner, no shareholders or profit racketeering would make much sense. Who invests into something that they cant squeeze for money back?-Counseling appI do not believe for a second its monetized.-CosmeticsUltimately I cant prove there arent stores for cosmetics. But with Yachiyo's goal being to support even poor people's creative spirit and remove them from the hardships of reality, it would seem counterproductive.The issue overall is that Yachiyo doesnt care about personal enrichment and is too consientious to go full capitalist exploiter on her playerbase. Under that light, running Tsukuyomi itself would suck up all non-reprehensible forms of funding.
>>4559215https://x.com/yabuki_side/status/2062118674362986575/Yabuki Kentaro of all people has also been jumping on the CPK train. Not a yuri mangaka by any stretch, but still pretty famous for Black Cat and To Love Ru. If nothing else he always loved having bisexual girls and cool action in his stories. So it doesn't surprise me that CPK tickled his fancy.
Iroha no!
https://x.com/nendoroid_pr/status/2062486590207709215
>>4565070Did you forget?!
>>4565072Kaguyabot weighs 200KG!
>>4565073RIP
>>4565046Maybe she went with 'making the number go up' like she suggested to Iroha once upon a time.But realistically it's probably the superchat and membership cuts since it appears she has no competition and her tech is out of this world and is the go-to for any form of entertainment.
The scene where Iroha seeks funding from her brother is a little silly and just there to show Iroha has a good relationship with her bro + show the boyband IRL. Kaguya made enough money as a streamer in a few months to set Iroha up in an expensive apartment for the foreseeable future, so Yachiyo, the owner of that platform, should be able to easily finance Iroha's research.
>>4565095I think you severely underestimate the kind of funding this kind of resarch would take... we are talking about achieving total sensory fabrication, a perfect neurological link and creating what is essentially a working bio-mechanical human (considering Iroha made her "human" enough to have all bodily functions and a limited life span).This is stuff that indidivually would have to be funded for decades, something you could pour millions of dollars into just to get a proof of concept going. Even if Iroha is a super genius, the equipment, hired research staff and testing would balloon into incredible expenses that no kind of streamer could cover.Black Onyx are clearly pretty well off, but their money injection is seemingly just for the final step. Most of the major funding must have come from elsewhere for those 10 years.
>>4565068>1.9 million views 300+ replies
How did Iroha pitch the "indistinguishable from humans" androids to potential investors? I'm going to assume what the above conversations stated and say that Yachiyo and Black Onyx only partially funded Iroha's research, and she needed a third party to get the $. Maybe there's some interest in the robotics, cybernetics and medicine that could be derived from Iroha's research, but there's simply not that much market for a Bicentennial Man.
>>4565332Should have shown Kaguya's ring too.
>>4565215If Mikado's boyfriend is right about mind uploading into robot bodies being possible, the applications would be incredible and probably dystopian.
>>4565357>probably dystopianThat's Isaac Asimov's problem, not Iroha's.
https://x.com/Wonderful_Works/status/2063063330063802489
>>4559215As constant for a massive new art wave hitting the scene: There is a CPK collab with WEGO and they made this promotional art of the cast.Notably the Tsukuyomi versions of the characters in casual/stylish clothes and without the kemonomimi parts.
>>4565620I dont know why they did that to Iroha's hair, but damn Kaguya can really pull that outfit off. I've never seen the seethrough dress + pants combo before
>>4565097Implying that she didn't reverse engineered bamboo shoot because it does not make sense for her to make a android in 10 years. Also why do people think kaguya will live a human lifespan
>>4565713>Also why do people think kaguya will live a human lifespanBecause the Ray MV showed that Iroha's intention in creating the body for Kaguya was to make her fully human. Also the metaphor of burying the spaceship is that Kaguya gives up on her immortality (of having her soul stuck in there), just like the elixir of immortality was burned by the emperor in the original Bamboo Cutter tale.
>>4565068Oh wow, he did a follow up picture with Kaguya. His reason being "Iroha on her own felt wrong, too lonely". Even though he is apparently swamped in work.
>>4566026Why is it fucking cropped? Is it because this is futashit?
>>4566027It's a fanbox reward. Pay and find out for yourself.
https://x.com/Cho_KaguyaHime/status/2063184119761121530Excerpt of the KaguIro duet version of Reply. I did not expect them to be singing at the same time. I kinda thought it would be first half Kaguya, second half Iroha...
>>4566101They actually changed it just enough to be even more hard hitting somehow.During the part where Kaguya sings "Can I be selfish?" the playback is Iroha and she replies with "You can", affirming her wishes. I assume that there will be more changes to make this even more of a "response" song. A duet that can only happen 10 years later after they already found their happy ending.What is wrong with you kz? Why is it your declared goal to make me sob to this song over and over again?
>>4566562Same pose as her goodbye in the novel...
>>4566564
More Roka wins doujins
>>4566566
I fuckinglovethis artist'sstyle!
