Category: Posters/Artwork

  • Gonta-kun and Gorori for Brutus for NHK’s 100th Anniversary

    Celebrating 100 years of broadcast, NHK has decided to dust off some of its educational mascots for this nostalgic photoshoot for the September edition of Brutus magazine. Featuring Latin America and Peru’s favorite Gonta-kun (of Dekirukana fame) alongside GORORI from Tsukutte Asobo (つくってあそぼ).

    Gonta-kun hasn’t aged one bit, I must admit. And Ei Takami’s passing back in May 2023 was felt throughout millennial Peruvian twitter who mourned Noppo-san, a key character in our formative years. RIP, Noppo-san.

    Also, you guys- one of the most popular posts on the site is the Okaasan to Issho (おかあさんといっしょ) post I did so long ago, I thought I would update you all that NHK (and Japan in general) has decided to finally enter the digital era, and have set up a bunch of NHK content channel, though I have to be honest, I tried looking up all the content I watched during the special events for the 65th anniversary of Okaasan to Issho and couldn’t find the same clips. I’m pretty sure there was a Poyoyon (ぼよよん) special clip with all the available hosts of the show’s history, and I’m sure I saw a good quality clip of the Power Up song.

    Now a general search only gives you a non-official clip of Kinra Kira Pon (きんらきらぽん) on TikTok, which feeds you into this version of the SUPURAPPI (スプラッピ スプラッパ) song for the anniversary. Archive accordingly.

  • Maria Callas Triple Feature

    A while back I was able to catch a viewing of Tom Volf’s Maria by Callas documentary, which I adored. Some time last year (near my birthday?), I got to catch a special screening of Callas – Paris, 1958, which we got to see alongside a very very very tiny group of people ^^’

    And, of course, I made sure to watch Pablo Larrain’s Maria before the year was over, because why not.

    It’s the perfect Maria Callas triple feature-

    • The divine diva of Callas – Paris, 1958
    • Maria seen through the eyes of Callas in Maria by Callas
    • The human being in Maria.

    My absolute favorite sequence in Larrain’s depiction is probably the whole segment at JFK’s birthday party. Though Maria’s scene with her sister is devastating.

  • The Clown Who’s Not Watching TV

    That’s me. People will ask me if I’m watching which and what show, and I would usually say that I really don’t have time to watch much television. However, the past week I’ve been catching up with my “to watch” list and inundated.

    I watched one single episode of Prime India’s Jubilee, which I’m looking forward to finishing. And I just binged through Apple’s Pachinko. I’m usually hit or miss with Kogonada (After Yang was excellent), but my only complaint about Pachinko is that I really wish American series would do their just one off series and not make me wait for two or three seasons.

    I’ve also just started Nicole Kidman’s Nine Perfect Strangers (after going through Hulu’s Tiny Beautiful Things with Kathryn Hahn). Going though Showtime’s The Good Lord Bird, and have been catching Demon Slayer episodes, as well as rewatching shows like Cowboy Bebop and Orange Days (went through Tiger & Dragon, as well as Quartet a while back). Picking up old school Trigun, and planning to finally go through Emily Blunt’s The English and FINALLY trying to get through McQueen’s Small Axe.

    Not even counting that I really wanted to watch that Prime The Underground Railroad series.

  • Joan Crawford: The Ultimate Star Book Cover

    I was looking for a decent quality image of Alexander Walker’s Joan Crawford: The Ultimate Star book cover, but I couldn’t find any :/ so I decided to scan my own. Take it as a service to the online community. I was going to watermark it, but decided not to. A link back or a shout out would be nice, tho :)

  • Chen Weilun’s Think Miss Sorrow Ode to Li Qingzhao

    I started listening to Chen Weilun (陈伟伦)’s album, Think Miss Sorrow (念思愁), which just came out last week. While adding it to my iTunes library, it struck me how difficult it was to translate the song names. xD

    For those who don’t know because you’ve just stumble upon this post, I usually keep a very organized library of foreign music, which includes ‘Original Name (romanization) – English Name/Translation’; so I was looking if there were official English titles for the songs on Chen Weilun’s album available on Xiami, KKBox or iNDIEVOX. There were not. On my search, already on title #3, I realized they were all titles (or most are, I haven’t gone through all of them yet xDDDDD) for Li Qingzhao (李清照), who is known as the greatest Chinese female poet of the Song Dynasty, mostly for her ci (词)/lyrics form of poetry [1][2].

    So this is going to be a (hopefully brief) project to translate just the song names xDDDDDDDD

    1. 一剪梅·红藕香残玉簟秋
      A Twig of Plum Blossoms: The Jade-like Mat Feels Autumn’s Cold [1][2]
    2. 念奴娇·春情
      The Charm of Nien-nu: Spring Feelings [1][2]
    3. 如梦令·常记溪亭日暮
      Like a Dream: I Will Always Recall that Day at Dusk, the Pavilion by the Creek [1][2]
    4. 相见欢·无言独上西楼
      Happy Meeting: Wordless, A Lone Ascend Up the West Tower [1][2]
    5. 浪淘沙令·帘外雨潺潺
      Waves Against Sand: As the Rain Patters Outside the Drapes [1][2][3]
    6. 声声慢·寻寻觅觅
      The Sounds of Adagio: Searching and Searching [1]
    7. 渔家傲·秋思
      Fisherman’s Pride: Autumn Thoughts [1][2]
    8. 行香子·述怀
      Incense Burning: Describing my Emotions [1][2]

    I only got three so far. xD

    — September 22nd 2017 —

    There~

  • KINMOKUSEI’s Hito to KOUMORI + other Yu Aoi CD Covers

    I ran into the cover for the Hito to KOUMORI (人とコウモリ) single by KINMOKUSEI (キンモクセイ) with Yu-chan on it. I don’t know how I didn’t know about this before, because the single is over a decade old already. Nearly 15 years old, really.

    Yes, it should -on principle- be upside down.

    So I thought I would create a post to collect the ones I find at other times in the future. since it’s been ages since I updated Yu’s Wiki [1][2] and my 9th Fandom Anniversary is coming up. Can you believe it? I’ve been following Yu-chan for a third of my life xD That’s endearing… but almost sad. LOL

    Anyway, the other single cover I could think of was Moumoon’s Sunshine Girl.

  • Look! You’ll Never Miss This I Am Not Madame Bovary Poster

    … from 10 miles from the movie theater xD

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    It’s like bright highlighter marker color xD I love it. There’s been a couple of other Chinese posters [the series for Song of the Phoenix (百鸟朝凤), and Big Fish & Begonia (大鱼海棠)].

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  • Park Chan-Wook’s The Handmaiden Cannes Poster~

    This is love~

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    The international cut of the trailer also looks so good~

  • My Life in Music

    Will keep this list updated here.

    1. The Bangles – Different Light [YT Playlist]
    2. Arena Hash [Soundcloud]
    3. NKoTB – Hangin’ Tough [YT Playlist]
    4. El Show de July No. 2 [YT]
    5. Nubeluz [YT Playlist]
    6. Los Nosequien y los Nosecuantos – Con el Respeto que se Merecen [YT Playlist]
    7. Michael Jackson – Dangerous [YT Playlist]
    8. Sister Act 2 Soundtrack [YT Playlist]
    9. Beck – Mellow Gold [YT Playlist]
    10. Michael Jackson – HIStory: Past, Present and Future [YT Playlist]
    11. Salserin – Con Mucho Swing [YT Playlist]
    12. Torbellino – Corazón en la Ciudad [YT Playlist]
    13. Lauryn Hill – The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill [YT Playlist]
    14. 1999
    15. La Ley – Uno [YT Playlist]
    16. Alejandro Sanz – MTV Unplugged [YT Playlist]
    17. Dixie Chicks – Home [YT Playlist]
    18. Pink – Try This [YT Playlist]
    19. Bjork – Medulla [Bandcamp]
    20. Andrea Echeverri [YT Playlist]
    21. Marit Larsen – Under te Surface [YT Playlist]
    22. Bibi Zhou Bichang
    23. Mayday – Poetry of the Day After [YT Playlist]
    24. Chang Shilei – Niu China [YT Playlist]
    25. Jonsi – Go [Bandcamp]
    26. Hebe Tien – My Love [YT Playlist]
    27. Galaxy United – The Absinthe [YT Playlist]
    28. Kishi Bashi – 151a [Bandcamp]
    29. Calle 13 – MultiViral [YT Playlist]
    30. Su Yunying – Ming Ming [YT Playlist]
    31. ANOHNI – Hopelessness [YT Playlist]
    32. Chen Weilun – Think Miss Sorrow [YT Playlist]
    33. Chen Li – Playlist [YT Playlist]
    34. ZenKwun – Existing like God [YT Playlist]
    35. Yuguo – Angry Horse [YT Playlist]
    36. Shortparis – Apple Orchard [YT Playlist]
    37. The Dada – Hello! [YT Playlist]

  • Now Playing: Henry Huo Zun’s Butterfly

    I’m currently basking myself in the beauty that is Henry Huo’s (霍尊) first full-length album Heavenly Song or Tianyun (天韵). He was the winner of the first season of Sing my Song (中国好歌曲) when he cause a ruckus with his song Rolled-up Pearl Curtain (卷珠帘) [1], which he ended up performing at the 2014 CCTV Spring Festival Gala.

    henry-huo-zun-tianyu-heavenly-song-album

    You can listen to the album over at Xiami or Migu Music (for US locked).

    Lyrics, English/Español translations and song embed below the break~

    Once again, all Chinese translations by me to be taken with a pinch of salt. xD

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