#OH AND MAD HEAD LOVE BY KENSHI YONEZU

[haus-mom]

now if you let me, i'm about to make it worse

KISMESIS KISMESIS KISMESIS KISMESIS

Idk what this is but. Akikasa so ture.

Akikasa day 26. KISMESIS kissers

Apparently this is a homestuck reference. How dare you? /j

[the-moon-and-sea]

Trying something new bc im bored. Please imagine all the parenthesis are footnotes.

I have decided I'm going to watch the new Ghibli movie when it comes out. I saw ads for it in Japan (just posters on the movie theater wall at the mall, they intentionally didn't advertise the movie At All before releasing it there) and it was more intriguing than some of the other movies coming out (looking at you, ghibli look-alike about a chair??? who okayed that premise) but the timing wasn't right, plus I'd have to watch it all in actual Japanese and while I could do that for something simple like Way of the Househusband (great movie btw but I didn't know enough lore apparently) I figured I'd want to follow this one a bit better. Plus, my boy Yonezu Kenshi contributed to the soundtrack, so I have to watch it to support.

This movie is the first in a while (I'm not googling to see if this is correct) with the old duo of Hayao Miyazaki and Joe Hisaishi, and while there have been....other movies in the last 10 or so years....miss little witch etc was never very compelling for me. But based on the barely-over-a-minute trailer...I'm ready. We've got the creepy soundtrack, the same solid style, but somehow a level up in the animation?! some random old ladies, cute spirits, it's got it all. What it also has, very importantly, is a war reference. We all know Miyazaki remains heavily influenced by his nostalgia of wartime Japan (and aren't all of us (Please Read/Watch In This Corner Of The World)) so it's not surprising to see some bombings here. Some fire there. I'll bet you $5 there will be a plane in there somewhere. Mans loves his planes.

Anyway add onto that the ~mystical elements~ weebs like to love about Japan (please read Orientalism by Edward Said also) and I'm sure this will sell well. And I'm also sure, I'm probably gonna love it lmao

I was reading the official description on GKids which I guess is the site of the producer and distributer in America, and they mention Yonezu, my boy, right under Miyazaki. Joe isn't there. Poor guy. Anyway they say about Yonezu: "After posting a series of Vocaloid tracks under the moniker Hachi, Kenshi Yonezu distinguished himself from the crowd with remarkable results." This is. a severe understatement. I think I might end up writing my thesis on Vocaloid and the impact it STILL has on children today in America and Japan (my kids always played popular songs during lunch/cleaning and during sports, basically anytime the broadcast club had control; some of the kids in the art club literally only drew Ms Miku fanart) and amongst that Huge Library of Music (I won't call it a genre bc thats not what it is), Hachi was like. Top 10 if not Top 5 if not Top 3 most popular. If you listened to vocaloid at all before 2016 you know Matryoshka. That's Hachi. He was a wonder to all of us middle schoolers. More recently, he came out with Sand Planet, about the way time has changed Vocaloid and the people who enjoy and produce it. It was also really cool.

I learned about his Real Name career a bit after it had happened. I stumbled on Mad Head Love one day on my youtube rabbit holes, and it slapped, and I was like oh it's that guy. But then I lost track, forgot his name, and generally wished him well from afar. And then ! I refound him! And have loved him ever since (not really some of his recent stuff is weird but - actually hang on lemme actually write this)

Recently, and I mean in the last oh 3 or so years, he's done what a lot of popular Japanese artists do - make anime music. Some of it's okay, some of it is Absolutely His Thing, and some of it is like every other anime op ever and not very impressive. Spinning Globe (the song in this movie) is Pretty Good I think. I listened to it while crying on the plane on the way back to America. The lyrics are simple and easy to understand, it's got his plodding beat and an easy background. I could probably transcribe the piano part in 15 minutes. "The day I heard a voice patting me on the back, telling me to go ahead" is like. well it was really relevant to my personal time in Japan and a lot of the issues I've been facing so maybe I'm biased!

Yonezu is so popular that he literally wrote a song for the Tokyo Olympics. He represents Japan. He has been a top singer in Japan for 10 years. This started with his landslide take over of Vocaloid music. Even my students who didn't know literally any celebrity knew him. And I know this is the English website so they probably don't expect anyone to know who he is, and don't care about the understatement, but listen. Yonezu if you're out there and you want anyone to write you PR in English. I've got u.

The Japanese title is 君たちはどう生きるか. It's based on a book of the same name from 2016. I'd literally translate that title as "How do you live" with the 'you' being plural, like 'you all'. I don't know anything about it. It's apparently semi-autobiographical. But they've chosen to translate the title as "The Boy and the Heron," the choice of which could be a thesis in itself. But I wish it had come out just a little sooner, because one of my favorite games to play with my kids was getting them to guess titles to ghibli movies in English and they would've lost their minds over this one.

[kazewhara]

while organizing my playlists i came across mad head love by kenshi yonezu and i re-red the lyrics and was like wait a damn minute this screams mean kazuha. i'm not a japanese speaker so i just rely on vgperson's translation but.. it's him everyone :0

anyways, good morning zuzu! hope you have a nice day

-seek and hide 🤸‍♀️

i googled the lyrics and holy FUCK YOU'RE SO FUCKING RIGHT?? IT REALLY DOES SCREAM LOVING MEAN!KAZUHA

oh oh, and good morning!! i'll try to have a good day :D i hope your day is going/goes great !!! ♡

[cootcutebatkat]

Music Playlist of the Stan Bros

(a mix of songs I'd think they'd like and ones that just remind me of them)

Stanford Pines

When He Died - Lemon Demon

Eighth Wonder - Lemon Demon

1925 - TPOCKET (Hatsune Miku)

Dream Sweet in Sea Major - Miracle Musical

Soldier, Poet, King - Oh Hellos

Istanbul, not Constantinople - TMBG

Imitosis - Andrew Bird

Simple X - Andrew Bird

First Cry - Kikuo (Hatsune Miku)

MAD HEAD LOVE - Kenshi Yonezu

dreamcore - yandere

I don't want to get out of the futon - (that name is too long)

What's Inside - Pinocchio-P (Hatsune Miku)

Turn the Lights Off - Tally Hall

Hot Math - Andrew Bird

Delicious Soul - Kikuo (Hatsune Miku)

Ghost - Machine Girl

I've Got Some Falling to Do - Lemon Demon

Stanley Pines

Comet - Rebecca Sugar (Tom Schlarping)

Reptilia - The Strokes

Last Nite - The Strokes

Self Esteem - The Offspring

Better - SAINT PEPSI

Float On - Modest Mouse

Kaleidogorgan - Pogo

Bastard Wants to Hit Me - TMBG

Beach Walk - Whitewoods

Honey - ID Chief

Modus Operandi - 18 Carat Affair

Island in the Sun - Weezer

letting go - postu

Sliver - Nirvana

Buttercup - Jack Stauber

Wild! - Dee Dee Sharp

Estrelar - Marcos Valle

Cool Patrol - Ninja Sex Party

You're a Useless Kid - Kikuo (Hatsune Miku)

Both Ford and Stan

Inchman - Jack Stauber

Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger - Daft Punk

Love Like You - Rebecca Sugar

Fighter - Jack Stauber

Oh No! - Marina and the Diamonds

Cure for Pain - Morphine

I'd Rather Sleep - Kero Kero Bonito

Electric Love - BØRNS

Don't Look Back - Treat Her Right

KONNICHIWA - LOVESPREAD

[sunlight-avenue]

Answer 20 questions, Tag 20 people

Tagged by: @cinnbar-bun (I have 100% never done these before... I think, so thanks for tagging me!) 

Nickname: Lala (use it everywhere lol) 

Zodiac: Aries

Height: 5′0″

Last Movie I Saw: Fate/stay night: Heaven's Feel II! it was.... wild

Last Thing I Googled: yuel girlfriend (please don’t ask)

Favorite Musician: Kenshi Yonezu!!!!

Song Stuck in my Head: C....Caro’s song.... (my love goes out to him, always) 

Other Blogs: None that I use lol

Followers: 1,571..... y’all... 

Following: 2,552

Amount of Sleep: Sometimes.... 10 hours??? give or take i have horrid sleeping habits 

Lucky Numbers: 5! and 9!

Dream Job: That’s hard to say.... I wanna show off my stories somehow so either game developer or a writer! 

What am I wearing: Black pants and a Hetalia shirt 

Favourite Food: I love pizza! but I also love roast beef! 

Language: English only for me! but I’d love to learn German and Japanese 

Can I play an Instrument?: I used to play the violin, I wanna pick it back up soon! 

Favorite Song: MAD HEAD LOVE!! it’s so good 

Random Fact: I love collecting keychains and rubber straps, all those kind of things! my favourites are the Witch’s Heart set I bought and my Touken Ranbu ones! oh and CANNOT forget all my Fate ones too! (All the Robin Hood ones are my fav lol) 

Describe yourself in aesthetic things: Sun shining brightly as I paint in a big open meadow listening to folk music, with a soft wind blowing through 

(does that count at all?) 

Tagging (mostly randomly tagged, ignore if you would like): Said randomly but I legit got no idea who to tag... let alone 20! so if you wanna do this yourself than... I tag ya magically through the screen lol 

[chuuyas--wine-bottle]

10 Songs Recently on Repeat

Thank you @aja154ever for the tag!!!! <3333

Love Philosophia (96neko, Miku, Meiko+miku, ANFLA all the vers tbh) 

Refrain - Luck Life 

Deadly Drive - GRANRODEO

Chicken Hero - GRANRODEO 

Kaze Ga Fuku Machi - Luck Life

Blood Sweat and Tears (Jp ver)  - BTS 

OUTRO: Wings -BTS 

Hashtag Cookie Jar - Red Velvet 

MAD HEAD LOVE - Kenshi Yonezu (THIS IS A SOUKOKU SONG JUST SAYING) 

Shape of You - Ed Sheeren (Ok no stop it, its a Soukoku song again) 

Tagging: @geekyyoyo @oh-tetrabiblos @iiinuuu @soukokucchi @mizurinskk @no-longer-tainted @daughterofsinsloth @hypermoyashi @jaydendoodles (If you have done it already then skip it!!!) 

[hannycho12]

OH! I got tagged by @emeneska-chan​

About Me – Tag Game

Rules: Tag people you want to know better or just because you feel like it.

Name: Just call me Hanny. or honey lol. they have similar pronouncation

It’s my name but... just half of them. The rest shall remain a secret lol

Sign: Cancer

Height: around 5′2″ (maybe? not sure)

Time: you mean now? It’s 1:10 am

Birthday: July 12nd

Average Hours of Sleep: My sleeping schedule is actually pretty weird and messed up. Sometimes I sleep for 6-7 hour, sometimes less than 4 hours. 

Lucky Number : 2~

Relationship Status: Single!!! And I’m happy with it (though I hope I have a cat)

Favorite Color: Dark and pastel color <3 But I like dark color the most (especially gray and dark blue)

Lipstick or Chapstick: uuumm... no? I think I used Lipcream

Song Stuck In My Head: For now it’s Kenshi Yonezu - Mad head love

What Did I Last Google: Booking a ticket to Jakarta

Last Thing I Ate: Fried Chicken

Last Movie I Watched: Black Panther ( I wanna watch it again)

Last Show I Watched: uumm... Hitam Putih (you know... they’re some kind of talk show. My favorite)

Top 3 TV Shows: Probably Hitam Putih and.... I don’t know. I rarely watch TV. Can anime count?

Last Books I Read: Can a book about drawing perspective count?

Hogwarts House: My friends said I lean more onto ravenclaw. I’m not really into Harry Potter.

What Do I Post: You know... just some shitty stuff. Very random too, but mostly my art and anything related to my favorite pair

When Did I Create This Blog: I don’t remember it that much. Around 2 or 3 years maybe?

Other Blogs: Just @chocohoneyy . My original art blog for portfolio and personal project. though I haven’t update and edit it.

Do I Get Asks: Rarely. But sometimes they got busted if I open a request lol

Following: 187. most of them are art and food-related stuff

Followers: I still can’t believe it but it’s 702 now. WOW

I’m tagging: I don’t know who should I tag. Maybe @paox, @esttian, and @marvel-is-lyfe. You don’t have to do it though if you don’t wanna.

[greed-the-dorkalicious]

Oh yeah, I had this dream that Kenshi Yonezu’s YouTube channel was a. actually run by him, and b. like... reset? Like he deleted everything and started changing the look of the channel and gradually reuploading songs, and I was going to leave a comment and I started thinking hard to come up with a well-thought-out Japanese comment so in the unlikely possibility that he would read it, he’d understand it, but then it turned out there were only like 8 comments on the entire channel and all of them were in English and he responded to all of them, super casually, in English. welp

But I definitely remember some of the songs had different PVs, and I mentioned that I was sad because I loved his hand-drawn PVs, so I hoped he’d reupload those as well, and like I kept waiting for all the songs to be uploaded because like Matryoshka and Mad Head Love and some stuff were on there but I just kept being like “WHERE’S VIVI. WHERE’S VIVI. WHERE’S VIVI. LET ME SEE VIVI”

[im-reed-ing]

tagged by: @heroiiic u are a cool person and I am a chicken nugget thats too scared of bothering u on discord, but if my phone wasn't physically broken id share u a screenshot every time soren came to say hi to me in FEH

rules: answer 30 questions and tag 10 blogs you would like to get to know better.

((alright but when have I ever followed the rules...... just sayin))

1. nicknames: reed... uh..... sometimes ppl call me weed to mock me but then i just punch them and its good (just kdding im weak as shit)

2. gender: hey so i find that if you don't identify yourself, people you talk to online are less likely to preemptively subconsciously stereotype you and therefore judge you before really getting to know you. So let's keep it that way. Unlock lvl 3 friendship before I reveal who I truly am to you LMFAO

3. Star sign: aries grr!

4. Height: 5'5", maybe 5'6" ??? idk man all i know is my little sister is taller than me and it makes me mad bc I personally am not that short!!!!

5. time: 2:16 am

6. bday: March 22

7. favorite bands: well shit uh, Sakanaction, Bump of Chicken, Dogcatcher, The Oh Hellos, FOB, Unison Square Garden.... im sure im missing something but... o well.

8. Favorite Solo Artist: I can't choose so u get all of em. Hachi (Yonezu Kenshi), Aimer, Sasakure.UK, Harito, Keichi Okabe, EMI EVANS god ,,, As well as a collection of, indie people,... and anyone that did the drakengard/nier osts / gravity rush 1 & 2 Osts, wow. seriuosly. Amazing.

9. Song stuck in my head right now: Douse shinundakara, (its a lie that its not stuck right now but its been for the past few days!) because I found the jp translation and made english lyrics and have been practicing hittin those high notes in the car on the way to school LMFAO.... same with hoshii no kieta by Aimer.;..... its like car karaoke hawhaw

10. Last movie I saw was. Uh. UHHH. In theaters, it was Hitmans Bodyguard, which by the way was campy and ridiculous and pretty funny if seen with the right people.

11. Last show I watched: was Rick and Morty, earlier today, in my school lounge on my computer. s3 ep 7 is really, really good. Like really good. It's also pretty fucked up.

12. when I created this blog: its been. A very. long time. this blog has only really ever been for reblogs... if u wanna chat w me find a discord server im part of and bother me there... or pm me, because i prefer one on one conversations even if im shit at keeping them going.

13. what I post: oh shit i answered this one already by accident OOPS UHHHH i reblog good art, shitty memes, and PSA's that I think are important. Im here to haev a good time. I have a seperate art blog that's in my about tab so there's that.

14. last thing I googled: the definition of the word galvanized. I am now slightly more verbose.

15. do I have any other blogs: like, two. artblog, old blog where I uploaded covers when I was in middle school, and a personal vent blog.... i accidently reblogged something to there though so I deleted it oops lmfao. But its ok, it was meant to be ephemeral and writing my thoughts down is therapeutic so I'll make another one once again.

16. do I get asks: literally never. Not even bots, LMFAO.

17. why did i choose my url: I've stuck with the name Reed for a really long time now but its also a pretty generic name, so i came up with this shitty pun and it stuck. it's probably my steam username too but like shifted around a little. any time i can't get 'reed' as a username i default to im.reed.ing or something like that.

18. followers: whoa, 175, really???? I get the impression that quite a few of them are inactive though, or i post so irregularly and infrequently that no one ever sees my posts LOL.

19. following: 380 and still counting. I turn on notifs for artblogs I really like!!! >;3

20. favorite snack for movie/tv: Honestly I used to not chow much while watching or itd be something generic like chips, but recently I started marathoning naruto of all things w a friend and we go to the asian supermarket beforehand and we get like a bunch of popped rice chips or sweets and various foods and some iteration of hi-chews and THAT is my favorite marathon snack tbh.

21. average hours of sleep: NEVER ENOUGH. It goes from like 2-3 hours on days when i have no self ocntrol... to like 12-16 on days when i... have no... self control.... lays down slowlyl.....

22. wHAT THE HECK THERES NO NUMVER 22 TRIKEY skdjhfksu cMON MANG

23. lucky number: my rng is shit but my favorite number is 4 because someone dear to me likes that number... but also because 4 is unlucky in some places, which I identify with.... but also bc 4 is the # of sides in a square/diamond, and squares are perfect and good shit and  aesthetic. My boyfriend is a squa-- //kicked jk jk  ramiel is a octohedron, i take it bac k ....

24. instrument: i can play the piano (barely) but I used to also do violin trumpet and a teeny bit of flute.... learned the ocarina too bc im a zelda nerd, and I dont mean that silly little 4-hole one. But I also sing and stuff and have been actively practicing, one day ill make a decent cover and learn to mix and be one of dem cool youtaites..... lays down slowly. this is fine.

25. what I am wearing right now: a lot of things,,, a watch, a hyper light drifter sweater. headphones, underwear, pants, a tshirt, socks, existential dread... u name it lol.

26. first celeb crush: since i honestly never cared much for real life celebrities, i'll just give you my anime/video game crushes instead and like...... wow i can't honestly remember my first ones???? oh shit wait OK it was probably both ashitaka and san, my first ghibli movie was mononokehime...  they are just so freaking coo l... ok thtas a lie i lowkey wanted to BE them. Both of them.

.... idk man u cant ask an aroace person what their crushes were bc idk what those are!!! I assume u just really really really like something/someone and thats that, I GUESS??? I wanted to be link too once upon a time. And nausicaa. and a good chunk of the soul calibur 2 cast, and starfire from oldtimey teen titans. i was a simple child ok???

27. dream job: listen thats complicated idk about what my dreams are for a job, but I do want to be an animator and a storyboarder and a game developer and a game tester and a movie critic and a cinematographer and a director and a story lead and an illustrator at some point, and gotta try it before I can knock it ya know?

28. Dream trip: anywhere, so long as its with the people I really love. One day, I'll pack a few things into my car and run away for a little while. I'll come back some day! But for those long hours on the road with another person or two, marvelling quietly at the world around them as it passes and listening to music in the car... that sounds like a nice temporary reprieve.

29. favorite food: i fucken love poki bowl. SPICY SEAFOOD + RICE YAAAaaas

30. nationality: was born in murica, but both my parents are immigrants from now-ukraine. So we all speak russian at home lul.

tagging people: ha, tags are for nerds. @one-becomes-two @trash-knights @nhiners @awishwee @deerwood @montejeska @queenchro @chicken-mcnobody DONT HAVE ANY MORE BLOGS I CAN REMEMBER this will have to do.