REVIEW: "no one lives forever" (drama track) - hypnosis mic

REVIEW #13: "No One Lives Forever"

Content Type: drama track (audio)

Media/Franchise: Hypnosis Mic

• YAYYY CHUO-CENTRIC DRAMA TRACK!! I love my girls sm 💞
• Otome, Ichijiku, and Nemu having a tea party together... 😭💖 they're so cute I love how they spend girl time together just as themselves and not as politicians like OUUU THEY'RE SO CUTE 
• I love how Ichijiku's voice is a lot softer when she talks to Otome and especially Nemu, it's so refreshing and lovely to hear her so much more relaxed (and super cute to hear her all flustered!! 🥺 you can tell that Ichijiku isn't used to receiving many compliments but she honestly deserves all of them) 
• ICHIJIKU AND NEMU BAKING COOKIES 😩💗 I can imagine them being so silly baking side-by-side and helping each other decorate the cookies WAAHH also Ichijiku making rabbit and panda cookies is such an adorable mental image like. I'm exploding with so much love rn 
• ICHIJIKU AND NEMU SHOPPING TOGETHER OUUU 😔💖 THAT'S SO CUTE I love the thought of Ichijiku fussing over Nemu's clothing choices and making sure she gets all of the nice chic outfits 🥹 also Ichijiku remarking that Nemu often chooses plain and dull clothes is so funny because Nemu definitely inherited that fashion sense from her older brother 💀 edgy siblings fr 
• Otome was so silly for throwing Ichijiku under the bus like that but OHH MY HEART 😭💗 my heart aches for Ichijiku who believed that her being "too tall" made her not "look good" in cute girly clothes so she makes sure Nemu wears such instead like AHHH NO ICHIJIKU YOU'D LOOK SO PRETTY IN THOSE CLOTHES TOO 🥺💔 you're cute tall girl representation, Ichijiku 😔
• THEN OTOME AND NEMU SAYING THAT THEY'LL HELP ICHIJIKU SHOP FOR PRETTY CLOTHES 😭😭💖💖 oh I absolutely LOVE their dynamic as a trio they're so sweet to each other... it's also incredible to see the Chuo girls just relaxing and having fun and just being. girls. without having to think about their political affairs 🥺 I hope they'll get their shopping spree together!! 
• it's literally just been the first five minutes of the drama track and they already gave us so much wholesome Chuo girls content like 😭😔
• I feel like there's so much subtext/additional plot I'm missing with the Otome-Rei conflict because all of their interactions here just seems like some scene out of Death Note 💀
• Otome's low-key silly for passively-aggressively commanding "open the door, please 🥰" 
• ALSO I'm gonna be fr but I did not expect this show of emotional vulnerability from Rei 👀 him saying "a man who disregards the woman he loves is not a man at all" is actually FIRE?! OKAY POP OFF KING ✋ it was refreshing to witness this from him because he's been such a (dangerously) happy-go-lucky guy for most of the plot and he's not shown to be someone easily deterred by emotions (he also sillied his way into coming out to his sons 💀) so hearing him all protective of his wife is so so sweet ngl 😭
• if I also stepped into a room full of Ramuda clones I would just cry. why are there so many gremlins congregated like that
• OK I WAS SO SURPRISED WHEN OTOME JUST ANNOUNCED HER PLAN LIKE THAT 😭 it's also so interesting because Otome works very mysteriously and does not even mention her plans to Ichijiku and Nemu - and she's someone who sticks so fiercely to her values to the point where she thinks any measure used to attain her goals is "right" 🤔 I found the juxtaposition between her "desire for peace" and her method of "using the True Hypnosis Mic" (to quell Anti-Party of Words factions) so interesting too, like does "peace" really exist when people are being forced into it? uhm miss ma'am I don't think this is the right route 💔
• I do admire how Nemu sniffed this out IMMEDIATELY. like Otome she's also someone who sticks to her values and goals very loyally (and she also most likely wants world peace!!) but unlike Otome, Nemu knows what's "right" and "wrong" in everything one chooses to do - and she's not afraid to speak up if she knows that something is wrong. anyway AAHH NEMU I LOVE YOU 😚
• it's also interesting how this aspect of Nemu's personality was contrasted to Ichijiku's, who blindly follows Otome's ideals (even though Ichijiku was hinted to show hesitancy). I know this comes from a deeper place where Ichijiku feels like she owes Otome so much hence why she chooses to follow Otome no matter what, but also Ichijiku ma'am it's okay to not be too whipped for your wife sometimes /j 
• THE PLOT TWIST WITH REI CONTROLLING THE RAMUDA CLONES ALL ALONG HOLYYY 😱 at the end of the day Rei really is the one who truly knows how the Hypnosis Mics work since he's been majorly puppeteering most of Chuo's operations from the outside... I'm scared of Rei y'all he just casually cancelled the 3rd DRB like that 😨
• I love how this was just. a 15-minute drama track but it was SO LOADED (this is exactly why I love Chuo-centric parts of the Hypmic plot). I hope my girls are going to be okay btw!! 🥺