Tag: japan

  • Kanon Wakeshima – Lolitawork Libretto ～Storytelling by solita～

    I’m gonna be honest with you. Kanon Wakeshima is not my type of music, her voice annoys me. However, I do find her video kind of pretty to look at… Lolita style is so visual. xD

    And I do like when she plays the cello for like 2 seconds hahaha

    https://youtu.be/rXK-VwuyH0M

  • Kara – Mister – Japan Version

    I hate Kara as much as I hate SNSD — but that doesn’t keep me from singing along to Gee, okay? But I just found it funny that the video is of a Korean girl group doing a Japanese version of their song and their dance is all about shaking their money-makers. That somehow sounds all sorts of wrong.

    By the way, you might have noticed that I’m actually posting more music videos, even if I don’t think much about them. Do you agree, or should I just post what I like? I think posting what I don’t like, and pointing out why I don’t like it would be a nice change for music discussion.

  • Just Discovered! Oreskaband!

    Thank you, J-Melo – The Oreskaband performance was pretty awesome.

    I was zapping, when their sound caught my ear, so I went back to NHK. They sounded like Gwen Stefani had gotten together with the guys of Reel Big Fish, had some extra fun with Swing Girls, and ended up with a lovechild in Oreskaband.

    And I’m always game for some Ska. And, OMG PAPAYA! I totally kept hearing “Papa Para Papaya” which in Spanish means “Dad for Papaya” LOL but I think the lyrics go “Papaya ga suki da Papaya” LOL and in their “Shake it up, baby” I keep hearing “Shaking a baby” which is even funnier.

    https://youtu.be/4X-AzxiRgM8

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  • Yu Aoi on Unubore Deka Ep002

    Unubore Deka aired its 2nd episode on Friday. ;P

    The show tells the story of a detective whose ex-girlfriend is now married to his newest co-worker. Now, for reasons unknown, he always ends up obsessed-in-love with women who turn out to have committed crimes. In the end, he always ends up asking them to choose between marriage to him, or being arrested… without much success for him in his love life.

    Well, that’s the best thing I can do without subs.

    But no worries!

    Unubore Deka is getting subbed by TOMAlicious Fansubs in hardsubs English, Suu no Command in hardsubs Spanish, Haniko’s Fansubs in Hungarian, and Asia Powa Fansubs in French~

    In this week’s episode, Yu plays Konuma Setsuko, who appears to be your everyday masseuse. One day Unubore ends up in the massage parlor she works in, and falls in love just by her touch.

    A lot of kinky stuff going on.

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  • Asami Mizukawa’s BeeTV Onna-tachi wa Nido Asobu

    Turns out BeeTV has a YouTube Channel.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfRHK4SEoLU

    And they have the first episode (lasting nearly 5min.), but it was uploaded in March – possibly right after mobile broadcast – but other episodes haven’t been uploaded since then.
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  • Monkey Majik – Forever

    I am considering purchasing the newest release by Monkey Majik for their 10th anniversary. There’s the Japan Normal edition at $32 USD, and the Japanese First Press Edition which comes with a DVD for $43 USD.

    Of course, if you don’t know – Monkey Majik has just gotten their Guiness World Record for longest On Air commercial, for the CM they did for this Best of Album… which lasts 30min — the commercial, not the album. But trust me, it’s so worth watching it, when you get the time. They’re pretty awesome, even with their funny Japanese.

    Anyway, this Best Of album contains 3 new songs, titled Forever, Fast Forward, and Daijoubu. Forever is such a great song, the video totally plays to the little heart. I think it even works better than Canada’s attempt to help Haiti with Waivin’ Flag (though that was a pretty good song by K’naan, it got overplayed for this and the World Cup), and it totally beats the remake of We Are the World.

    So here we go, Goran kudasai! Douzo~

  • Salyu – Glide – Merkmal Live @ Nippon Budonkan 2009

    Unlike Bjork, I feel Salyu is approachable, or it must be that politeness that plagues Japanese language as a whole… anyway, Salyu seems nicer than she appears with those crazy eyes. You know? When she’s singing in this performance of Glide, which by the way is one of those songs that don’t get performed enough for being part of the Lily Chou Chou repertoire, instead of Salyu’s. Because Salyu IS Lily.

    Listening to her is one of those experiences, imagine it LIVE~ O.o

    https://youtu.be/7majgyyW6Pc

    You just get to watch it as a YouTube stream, while I enjoy it on my 5.1 Surround sound dvd – and Bill… well, he gets to see Salyu live. I’ll stick to Bjork… unless Salyu decides to come here. Wink wink nudge nudge.

    If this clip doesn’t get you to listen to other Salyu songs, I dunno what will.

  • Remembering AI – Story

    This one’s for Bill~ thanks for the AI recommendation ;P

    I have finally fallen in love with the song. It took a while~ Now, that Hitori janai kara/watashi ga kimi o mamoru kara kills me. The song is just so… uplifting. I think it might go great together with Christina Aguilera’s Beautiful. Once you hear it, you have to stand up and sing it out loud.

    https://youtu.be/LCKCRv1d_-s

    Here’s the okay-ish English lyrics.

    I really like her FEAT AI album!
    and her PASSION song kills me when she sings “Mira, mira / Watashi o mite”

    I am beautiful… in every single way. Yeah, words won’t… bring me down~~~

  • Yu Aoi NHK’s Ryomaden Dates

    I’m not sure on how many episodes she’s supposed to show up — considering only ONE EPISODE seems like such a waste — so my money is on a 3 or 4-episode character arc… Hopefully longer. If you missed the photos of how Yu’s character looks like — well, don’t miss them here.

    Ryomaden on NHK World Premium
    Sunday, July 18th @ 8pm (JST) – or 6am (-5 GMT)
    Repeat on Monday, July 19th @ 3am (JST)
    Repeat on Saturday, July 24th @ 1.05pm (JST)

    Check your local time here.

  • If iPad couldn’t get any geekier…

    now you have iPad + Magic LOL

    Pretty simple magic of appearing and switching,
    but still nice to catch xD

    [iframe width=”480″ height=”390″ src=”https://www.youtube.com/embed/ATpSPNIuj3M?rel=0″]

    wanna see some real magic? Check Lu Chen~