#Shoot Ogawa

[scottwellsmagic]

918: FISM 2025 in Turin, Italy- Day Six Report

Saturday 19 July, 2025

Time Stamps: These will be posted after I have gotten some sleep.

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[racequeenparadise]

Kiki Mizukami, Aoi Sana, Ina Aoneko, Kako Ogawa, Rin Matsuoka, Tamaki, Yuna Ashizawa, Saki Fuji, Misa Igarashi and Azusa Matsumoto, Shoot Boxing Round Girl

[hopkei]

omg for junon july we are getting taikifumi and itsunatsu what is this the bestie edition????

[notmorbid]

mina's matchbox.

dialogue prompts from mina's matchbox: a novel by yōko ogawa.

hold on tight. don't let go.

is this really your house?

this is where mom hides to drink.

how did i get so lucky?

you have to be brave, if we're gonna be friends.

is that any way to say hello to ____?

order whatever you like.

go back to bed. it'll be alright.

you never showed me this place.

your voice always brings me back.

you can't choose your father. he's just there when you're born.

first impressions matter. don't be intimidated.

was _____ a friend of yours?

i'm sorry i always seem to leave you with unpleasant memories.

it's windy. put your jacket on.

you look just the same.

i don't like it when you leave me.

the important thing is the message, not the form it takes.

i've never seen you take a single day off.

it's not that i don't like babies. they just frighten me.

did you know shooting stars are made when stars die?

the night's a lot longer than i thought it was.

try to stay calm.

where are we going? is it far?

i'm sorry for how much trouble i've been.

even when you die, you don't disappear. matter doesn't vanish, it transforms.

time slips away much more quickly than we can imagine when we're young.

the past is still alive. still watching over us.

you're as much a dandy as ever.

____ talks most about you.

i was afraid there might be nothing left of it.

nothing can spoil your memories.

[bubblingbeebles]

twinstar cyclone runaway volume 1 impressions. spoilers.

the prologue does a lot of heavy lifting for the worldbuilding, by contrast with the present setting. the Insidious is a repurposed battleship now used for fishing and the bridge crew are making it up as they go, using their only reserve of titanium (explicitly called out as such, なけなし) as their hook, which terras nichrome panini press calls back to later. the prologue is completely missing from the manga, meaning we don't get any of the dramatic tension until diode brings it up in the library scene, and even then the reader only knows what she knows.

the scene where diode identifies terras internalized comphet and talks it out of her is absolutely delicious. the two do hide things from each other but when they actually get around to talking about their feelings they're very efficient about it. ogawa-sensei doesn't drag out misunderstandings for drama's sake like you see in serialized manga that are incentivized to do so to keep publishing forever and i find that really refreshing. knowing the series wraps up in 4 volumes, it inspires a lot of reader trust and makes me really motivated to finish it.

in the scene where they meet rock-san (diode's mom) on the Tsunami Search, just prior to the chase and fall, diodes foul mouth that we previously saw in the courtroom scene shows up again, except this time it's used in affection instead of righteous outrage. comparing it to how she's polite and standoffish to terra (let alone how she is in the final scene), this woman is absolutely dripping with gap moe

rock-san calls herself オレ which is like the biggest hint-I'm-a-lesbian first person pronoun ever, also if that wasn't enough says "you managed to bring a girlfriend home, that's my daughter alright"

the entire Tsunami Search scene is omitted in the manga which, apart from just eliding all that really important characterization, just drops the reader right in the middle of the chase/fall scene which, imo, destroys the carefully crafted vibe that these two are unsafe wherever they go

its not entirely clear to me that terra is as nice as diode thinks -- in the apartment scene, she shoots the invaders in the face on purpose, leaving a lot of blood, and then seems surprised and disappointed they got away after that, and in the chase scene diode basically forces the "rescue them" idea upon her

in the fall scene, terra and diode mutually claw away at each other's emotional walls (diode: Admit you want to be rescued!) (terra: I could tell you were into me since we met, I'm not that dumb) before they agree to diode's plan. in the manga, diode comes out with that second parenthetical of her own volition and it completely robs the scene of its intimacy and emotional weight, not to mention robbing terra of her agency in the relationship

i can only describe the manga's choices to change key details like that as "irresponsible". (the otherside picnic manga, while also being not as good as the LN, is at least faithful to the vibe.)

eda doesn't know what happened to magiri!!! she thinks magiri set up the fishing industry(*) and summoned the 大巡鳥 herself and lived out her days up there! she states that she only caught other decompers who fell in the past! omfgggggggg

(*about her eventually "leaving" once all the mass gets fished up, she says マギリもそのつもりで漁を発展させてくれたんだと思うな which is fanlated as "it's not like that's the reason Magiri developed the fishing industry" but i think that's wrong it's actually magiri DID develop fishing with that intention. extra tragic)

alright.

yeah so i read spots of the book here and there in japanese but chiefly used the neocities translation to absorb it quickly, consulting my jp version whenever i saw something linguistically or emotionally interesting. i guess i will be on my own for volumes 2-4 though. if the anonymous translator is reading this, id like to help you!! but either way, thank you.

[dear-indies]

hi cat & mouse!!!! i'm looking for a female faceclaim that could work for mid-20's or even early-30's, my only requirements is that she's japanese and on the muscular/athletic side. bonus points if she gives off edgy vibes or has tattoos, but this isn't a must at all! thanks so much <3

Devon Aoki (1982) Japanese / White - in her younger years especially her vibe in DOA when she was 24/25.

Kimiko Glenn (1989) Japanese / White.

Kiki Sukezane (1989) Japanese - is queer.

Rina Sawayama (1990) Japanese - is pansexual and bisexual.

Anna Sawai (1992) Japanese.

Shioli Kutsuna (1992) Japanese.

Kelia Moniz (1993) Hawaiian, Japanese, Chinese, Irish - is a surfer!

Eri Tachibana (1993) Japanese.

Midori Francis (1994) Japanese / White - is queer - wears a Letterman type jacket in The Sex Lives of College Girls.

Lyrica Okano (1994) Japanese - vibes in The Runaways.

Ana Hikari (1994) Unspecified Brazilian Indigenous, Japanese, European, African, and Jewish - is bisexual - her vibes in Five.

Tao Tsuchiya (1995) Japanese - vibes in Alice in Borderlands.

Naomi J. Ogawa (1996) Japanese - vibes in Wednesday.

Nana Komatsu (1996) Japanese.

Ayaka Miyoshi (1996) Japanese.

Reina Hardesty (1996) Japanese / White.

Kaylee Kaneshiro (1997) Japanese / White - is queer - played sports in Legacies.

Yuri Tsunematsu (1998) Japanese - vibes in Alice in Borderlands.

Minami Gessel (1999) Japanese / Ashkenazi Jewish - has done sportswear shoots - has spoken up for Palestine!

Not a woman but would be an amazing suggestion:

Erika Ishii (1987) Japanese - is genderfluid (she/they/any) - has spoken up for Palestine!

I hope this helps you out, anon!

[bentuckett1997]

Patti Yasutake has passed away.

09-06

Remembering Patti Yasutake, born September 6, 1953 and passed away August 5, 2024.

She appeared 16 times as Nurse Ogawa during the run of Star Trek: The Next Generation, as well as in Generations and First Contact.

In 1993, she also played Alyssa Ogawa in a Hallmark television commercial in North America where she is seen questioning the shipboard computer about the features of the USS Enterprise-D "Keepsake" ornament.

She started her acting career in the 1980's and was featured in episodes of T.J. Hooker (1985) and Scarecrow and Mrs. King (1985 and 1986).

In 1986 she was cast as Umeki Kazihiro in Ron Howard's drama Gung Ho.

She also played this part along with Scott Bakula, Stephen Lee, and Clint Howard in the following short lived television series Gung Ho (1986-1987).

Further television work includes episodes of Duet (1988), CBS Summer Playhouse (1988), Mr. Belvedere (1987 and 1989), Tales from the Crypt (1989), Sons and Daughters (1991), Murphy Brown (1991), Picket Fences (1992), Rhythm & Blues (1992), Murder One (1996), Living Single (1996), Dangerous Minds (1996), and Crisis Center (1997).

Throughout the 1990's, she was many times cast for television movies, often playing doctors or a nurse. Her credits include the drama Without Warning: The James Brady Story (1991), the crime drama Fatal Friendship (1991), the drama Blind Spot (1993), the action film Donato & Daughter (1993), the drama Lush Life (1993), the drama Abandoned and Deceived (1995), the drama The Road to Galveston (1996), the drama A Face to Kill for (1999), and the movie Incognito (1999).

Following her Trek connection, she had guest parts in episodes of Judging Amy (2000), HBO First Look (2000), ER (2003), She Spies (2004), Crossing Jordan (2004), Grey's Anatomy (2005), Bones (2005), Boston Legal (2006), Just Legal (2005 and 2006), The Unit (2007), Cold Case (2007), and FlashForward (2009).

More recently she played Mrs. Hong in the television drama Dad's Home (2010, with Beau Billingslea) and Judge Wilkerson in an episode of The Young and the Restless (2011).

She also reprised her part of Cathy Tao in the 2011 The Closer episode "Under Control" following her two previous guest parts in episodes in 2008 and 2009.

She made her film debut in Lesli Linka Glatter's Academy Award nomination short film Tales of Meeting and Parting in 1985.

For her next film, the 1988 drama The Wash, she received an Independent Spirit Award nomination in the category Best Supporting Female in 1989.

Further film credits include the action comedy Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot (1992), the drama Dangerous Intentions (1995), the comedy Clockwatchers (1997), the comedy Drop Dead Gorgeous (1999), the comedy The L.A. Riot Spectacular (2005), and the crime drama The Coverup (2008).

She passed away after a long battle with cancer.

. #TodayInNerdHistory #September6 #pattieyasutake #alyssaogawa #startrek #TJHooker #ScarecrowAndMrsKing #GungHo #TalesFromTheCrypt #startrekthenextgeneration #StarTrekfirstcontact #StarTrekGenerations #Hallmark #Birthday #Cancer #News #OTD #FYP #Nerd .

[mousegard]

oops, i forgot to post the new aria chapter here!

Symphogear SfZ: Aria of the Black Eagle, Season 2

Episode 5: Operation Lost Ark, Part 1

Ogawa encounters Those Who Slither in the Dark. Elsa and Millaarc meet Cagliostro. Suttungr seeks revenge against Lysithea.

Cagliostro was here.

Elsa caught a glimpse of her through the window at the same time, she reckoned, Chris did—and while she’d never met any of the Illuminati top brass in person, she recognized her from Professor Byleth’s description.

Suddenly, she couldn’t breathe.

Suddenly, her heart felt as though it were about to shoot itself from her chest.

Suddenly, her teeth felt as sharp as fangs, her nails as sharp as claws.

Her rational mind would have told her to calm down, but when she saw Cagliostro, all she felt was the sort of hate only an animal could feel.

All of the pain Vanessa had endured, the humanity she and Millaarc had lost—everything the Illuminati scientists had done to them, reducing them to lab rats and slaves, all fell at her feet.

Elsa found herself staring into the eyes of the architect of their suffering, and all she wanted to do was gouge them out.

Her brain was quite evolved for a beast. The scientists had called it the equivalent of four human brains by neural density and complexity.

But human brains were as irrational as they were rational.

So she rationalized what she was about to do four times faster than any human would.

[scottwellsmagic]

865: Michael Rangel - Queen Mary Medium at Large...Ship

In the middle of this “Month of Boo,” we are getting much more serious about “things that go bump in the night” as we feature a Magic Castle member who regularly performs seances aboard the Queen Mary. This grand old ship sailed for 31 years before being permanently docked in Long Beach, California, operating as a passenger liner from 1936 to 1967. Michael’s seance is called “57 Ghosts” which runs sporadically throughout the year, but five nights a week now through November 3, 2024. For more information, Click Here.

We begin our chat discussing the loss of a mutual friend, Greg Arce, then go on to talk about other seance venues and how Michael got involved with and focusing on the Queen Mary. He shares several stories from the Queen that are, no doubt, also told with much more detail during the seance.

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[racequeenparadise]

Kako Ogawa, Shoot Boxing Round Girl

[bambuseaetake]

今年の春、竹畑を紹介してくれたおばあちゃんに筍のプレゼント！　　　　　　　　　　本当は竹畑に竹をチップにして撒かなければならないけど今回は間に合わなかったので来年の１月に実行！　　　　　　　　　　　　5月になり筍が成長して小さい竹になった頃刈り取って国産メンマを作ることに！　　　日本で食べられている約90%は輸入。。。。頑張って50%にはしたい！　　　　　　　　メンマの作り方は竹の節を除いて包丁が通る硬さで切り短冊切りにして茹でる、空気に触れないように塩水で浸して１ヶ���以上発酵させてしっかり乾燥させる。水で戻して味付けをしたらメンマの完成！　　　　　　　　　日本は梅雨があるので8月になったら天日干ししてからの調理になるので9月には国産メンマ『武蔵メンマ』が完成できる！　　　　　小川町に恩返しできるよう頑張ります✨

This spring, a bamboo shoot present for my grandmother who introduced me to the bamboo field! Actually, I have to chip and scatter bamboo in the bamboo field, but I couldn't make it in time this time, so I'll do it in January next year! In May, when the bamboo shoots grew and became a small bamboo, I decided to harvest and make domestic bamboo shoots! About 90% of the food eaten in Japan is imported. . . . I want to do my best and make it 50%! The way to make bamboo shoots is to cut it with the hardness of the knife except for the bamboo knots, cut it into strips and boil it, soak it in salt water so as not to touch the air, ferment it for more than a month, and let it dry it well. If you put it back with water and season it, the bamboo shoots are complete! In Japan, there is a rainy season, so it will be cooked after drying in the sun in August, so you can complete the domestic bamboo shoots "Musashi Menma" in September! I will do my best to return the favor to Ogawa Town✨

[samuell2]

Sweet Bean

I thought this film was... lame. It did engage with leprosy, a social issue I have never heard of or engaged with before. But ultimately for me it was overly sentimental and just not that interesting.

I found myself kind of bored at the general progression of the plot. Tokue's arrival at Sentaro's restaurant, her sage-like knowledge of doriyaki and bean paste, her conversations with beans; all of it was just super predictable and stereotypical to me. The corny anime aesthetic is everywhere in this movie, from the cherry blossoms to the sailor suits, and even the plot progression. Things felt predictable enough that I didn't even feel that sad about Tokue's death.

Again, it was interesting to think about leprosy, and the discrimination people with infectious diseases can face. But I would rather see a film set entirely in that time period, when people were being shoved in sanitoriums. The idea of appreciating nature and the sensory world as the path to joy is also quite nice on its face, but again feels so much less interesting because of stereotypes around Japan and Japanese media.

When it comes to films and media, I guess I just like explorations of more serious topics. I don't need a movie to be super edgy or violent with everyone shooting each other all the time-- that extreme seriousness bothers me too, and is why I didn't like Hanabi. But I just cant get behind this sickly sweet, sentimental type of movie. It reminds me a lot of two Japanese novels: Yoko Ogawa's "The Housekeeper and the Professor" and Hiromi Kawakami's "Strange Weather in Tokyo". Like this film, both of these novels involve older main characters, talk a lot about the value of food, and find joy in the small moments. And like this film, I found them both super boring.

I will say the camera-work and cinematography was nice, but that's about it. :/

[narbarecker]

That's a pretty good guess!

Chris was begged by Lydian students to participate in their film, as recommended by Yumi. 😆 Then they said there's a perfect role for Tsubasa too, so she confirmed with Ogawa that it's ok as long as the film won't be for commercial purposes.

Tsubasa gives her all and immediately gets into character, even taking delight in destroying cities as a giant monster. Meanwhile, Chris has to be urged by Tsubasa and the students to do her role, and she finally gives in and delivers her squeaky monster sound.

At the end of shooting, they ask if the monsters even have names, and the students say they'll think about it. (Which implies that they made Godzilla and Mothra by accident????)

I used a machine translation so take this summary with a grain of salt 🫠

Seeing this artwork makes me headcanon that this was a live show for kids Tsubasa was invited for. She brought Chris with her so they could spend some quality time together. Something happened to the suit actors so they can't perform and Tsubasa decides Chris and her will do the show instead. Chris is embarrassed the whole time. Tsubasa gives her all in the role. Maria and Ogawa are very happy they're having fun, but are containing their snickering.

Also, since the way people ship Godzilla and Mothra, I can see the two of them improvising very heartfelt lines where they pour their hearts to each other, that make no sense for two non-verbal kaiju, but because the audience are a bunch of kids they roll with it and everyone cheers in the end.

[eattherichplease]

Never-ending list of things I want from Wednesday S2

Sun-blocking contact lenses invented! Now Yoko can walk around without her sunglasses! This is exclusively because I want to be able to see Naomi J. Ogawa's beautiful face all the time on screen and she deserves to be seen goddammit! Also Yokovina canon.

Divina gets a surname and a backstory. Confirmed non-binary and in-lesbians with Yoko. Good relationship with her brother, who is an idiot but in a good way.

Yokovina are a very stable couple. They know each other's parents, etc. Healthy relationship. Good representation, please, thanks. Needed.

Kent supreme himbo confirmed. No thoughts head empty.

Ajax does something useful this time challenge. Also good friends with Enid because they are both sweethearts.

Time-traveling shenanigans allow young-Weems to become part of the gang. Young!Larissa is a 6′5'' shapeshifter played by a non-binary actor. You don't throw a character away like that. Bring them back!!!

No need for new characters. I want to know more about the ones we already have and love, I want to know them deeply, connect with them, empathize, know their stories.

Cousin Itt new teacher at Nevermore. Not entirely clear of what though.

Also: we get to know the staff. Who are the other teachers??

Enid fluffy CGI quadruped wolf – NOT ugly cheap biped CGI thing.

"Xavier Thorpe found dead in Miami". No further inquiries.

Or maybe Vincent Thorpe had a vision about it but did nothing to stop his son's dead? Wednesday surely would be intrigued by that.

Monsters and ghosts and whatever all around, cool, but never forget who the real villain of this story is: Esther Sinclair.

Wednesday finally realizes she likes to be bossed around by Enid. She doesn't know what to do with this information.

Bianca realizes she cares a lot for Wednesday and can't stop thinking about her. She doesn't know what to do with this information either.

Enid realizes lots of things.

Jenna Ortega enters the writing room yelling: 'Wenclair or you find a way to shoot Wednesday without Wednesday, motherfunkers'. Tim Burton nods sagely and says: 'It was wenclair all along, my child'. He's wearing a yokovina t-shirt. An intern cries.

Lukas gets a redemption arc (because he deserves it) and Bianca helps along.

Tyler does not get a redemption arc (because he doesn't deserve it) and Enid bests him in combat. No CGI combat juts fencing or something. I want to see Emma Myers fighting not a CGI wolf!

Bianca is trans but they forgot to make it explicit last time. No Terfs allowed at Nevermore. This is not Hogwarts.

Goody haunting Wednesday but it's basically trolling for a whole episode.

Like any of this? Hate it? Reblog and add stuff and discuss! Let Wednesday writing team watch it! They monitor social media closely so keep the conversation going! We have to queer-up the show!

[hashirun]

Kaye's Book Recommendations

Whenever people find out that I like reading I inevitably get asked for book recommendations, so for easy reference I decided to make a list divided into genres / categories. The original list is saved in my phone's Notes app, but it occurred to me that I'd also like to share it here.

I tweaked the list to exclude some of the more tedious titles (maybe I'll share them next time), since ultimately my goal when recommending a book is for the other person to develop a love for reading.

A lot of these books already have movie adaptations, but if you haven't watched the movies yet then please consider reading the books first :>

For the Budding Reader

The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery

The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon

For the Casual Athlete

What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami

For the Art Connoiseur

Girl With A Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier

The Birth of Venus by Sarah Dunant

Thriller

Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn

I Am Thinking of Ending Things by Iain Reid

Legal Thriller

The Rainmaker is a good place to start, or yeah, anything by John Grisham - guy pretty much owns the legal thriller genre

Romance

The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger ("I love. I have loved. I will love.")

Love Story by Erich Segal ("Love means never having to say you're sorry.")

Sci Fi for Beginners

Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes

Super-powered Characters

Vicious by VE Schwab

Dystopian

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

Hunger Games trilogy by Suzanne Collins

The Giver by Lois Lowry

Children's Book

The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane by Kate DiCamillo

Matilda by Roald Dahl

Children's Fantasy / Adventure

The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman

Coraline by Neil Gaiman

The Mysterious Benedict Society by Trenton Lee Stewart

A Series of Unfortunate Events by Daniel Handler

Fantasy for Beginners

Harry Potter by JK Rowling

Eragon / The Inheritance Cycle by Christopher Paolini

The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien

Fantasy (others)

The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern

The Magicians Trilogy by Lev Grossman

Piranesi by Susanna Clarke

Neil Gaiman for Beginners

Ocean at the End of the Lane

Neverwhere

YA - you've probably already read (or watched):

The Fault in Our Stars by John Green

The Perks of Being A Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky

Every Day by David Levithan

But how about:

Turtles All The Way Down by John Green ?

Why We Broke Up by Daniel Handler

Haruki Murakami for Beginners

Norwegian Wood

Kafka on the Shore

Detective Stories

Literally anything by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Agatha Christie

Gothic Mystery

The Cemetery of Forgotten Books series by Carlos Ruiz Zafon, or if I have to pick just one book from the series, it would be Shadow of the Wind

For the Budding Philosopher

Sophie's World by Jostein Gaarder

Obsessed with Numbers

Uncle Petros and Goldbach's Conjecture by Apostolos Doxiadis

The Solitude of Prime Numbers by Paolo Giordano

The Housekeeper and the Professor by Yoko Ogawa

Heartwarming / Tearjerker

A Walk to Remember by Nicholas Sparks

Tuesdays With Morrie by Mitch Albom

The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein

American Literature

To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Books by Filipino Authors

To Catch A Shooting Star by Cristina Pantoja-Hidalgo

Smaller and Smaller Circles by FH Batacan

Ben Singkol by F. Sionil Jose

Ang mga Kaibigan ni Mama Susan by Bob Ong

"Be awesome! Be a book nut!" - Dr. Seuss

"We read to know that we are not alone." - CS Lewis

"If you don't like to read, you haven't found the right book." - JK Rowling

🤍🤍🤍

[yungcrybby-anonymousbosch666]

I remember Stephen Chow had beef with Naoya Ogawa (yes, really) and some other Hong Kong comedy director. Can't remember who but whoever it was, I generally considered them to be better than Chow at the time. It's been decades since I've thought about it, that gif set reminded me.

If you liked Kung Fu Hustle, you'll probably like the 1993 version of Eagle Shooting Heroes with Jacky Cheung, Tony Leung (little), Joey Wong, Tony Leung (big) and Maggie Cheung. It's hilarious.