#Takeshi No PARADISE

[nakamorijuan]

上田祐司 - タケシのパラダイス Yuuji Ueda - Takeshi No PARADISE POCKET MONSTERS - 10th Ending Theme

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Happy Cinco de Mayo!

[neoneun-au]

A post for my book recommendations, to be continuously updated as I read and remember more. Because without reading, I would not be writing. 

All time favourites are marked with a ☆

All are sorted by genre and will be linked (if able) to their Goodreads pages so that you can dig deeper into whatever catches your eye.

(ps if you have a Goodreads account, you can add me here)

Anthology/Short Story Collections

Behold This Dreamer - Walter de la Mare ☆

Love Letters of Great Men - Ursula Doyle

Difficult Women - Roxane Gay

The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories - Ken Liu

The Elephant Vanishes - Haruki Murakami

Essays

Bad Feminist - Roxane Gay ☆

Bluets - Maggie Nelson ☆

On Freedom - Maggie Nelson

In Praise of Shadows - Jun'ichirō Tanizaki

Malleable Forms - Meeka Walsh ☆

Fiction (Classic)

Persuasion - Jane Austen ☆

Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen

The Awakening - Kate Chopin

North and South - Elizabeth Gaskell ☆

Siddhartha - Hermen Hesse

The Unbearable Lightness of Being - Milan Kundera ☆

Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov

Fiction (Modern)

All’s Well - Mona Awad ☆

Bunny - Mona Awad

Jonathan Livingston Seagull - Richard Bach

The Pisces - Melissa Broder

White Oleander - Janet Finch

For Today I Am A Boy - Kim Fu

The Vegetarian - Han Kang

The Historian - Elizabeth Kostova ☆

Fall on Your Knees - Ann-Marie MacDonald

A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing - Eimear McBride

No Country for Old Men - Cormac McCarthy

The Road - Cormac McCarthy ☆

Under the Hawthorne Tree - Ai Mi

The Song of Achilles - Madeleine Miller ☆

After Dark - Haruki Murakami ☆

Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage - Haruki Murakami

1Q84 - Haruki Murakami ☆

Hamnet - Maggie O'Farrell

The English Patient - Michael Ondaatje

Boy, Snow, Bird - Helen Oyeyemi

Mr. Fox - Helen Oyeyemi ☆

A Tale for the Time Being - Ruth Ozeki

The Overstory - Richard Powers ☆

The Godfather - Mario Puzo

Blindness - José Saramago

How To Be Both - Ali Smith

The Goldfinch - Donna Tartt ☆

The Secret History - Donna Tartt

Ru - Kim Thúy

Brooklyn - Colm Tóibín

Big Fish - Daniel Wallace

Kitchen - Banana Yoshimoto

Horror/Thriller

The Exorcist - William Peter Blatty

Jurassic Park - Michael Crichton

Gerald’s Game - Stephen King

The Shining - Stephen King

Audition - Ryū Murakami

I’m Thinking of Ending Things - Iain Reid

Manga/Graphic Novels

Basilisk - Futaro Yamada, Maseki Sagawa

Death Note - Tsugumi Ohba, Takeshi Obata

Eureka Seven - Jinsei Kataoka, Kazuma Kondou

Nana - Ai Yazawa ☆

Paradise Kiss - Ai Yazawa

Uzumaki - Junji Ito

xxxHolic - CLAMP

Memoirs/Journals

Everything I Know About Love - Dolly Alderton

Speak, Okinawa - Elizabeth Miki Brina

Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness - Susannah Cahalan

Smoke Gets In Your Eyes - Caitlin Doughty

I’m Glad My Mom Died - Jennette McCurdy

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

Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books - Azar Nafisi

Henry and June - Anaïs Nin ☆

The Glass Castle - Jeanette Walls ☆

Non-Fiction (General)

Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking - Susan Cain

The Red Market - Scott Carney

The Swerve: How the World Became Modern - Stephen Greenblatt

Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right - Jane Mayer

The Psychopath Test - Jon Ronson

The Elements of Style - William Strunk Jr, E.B White

Non-Fiction (Philosophy/Spiritual)

The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge - Carlos Castañeda

Silence: In the Age of Noise - Erling Kagge ☆

The Kybalion - Three Initiates ☆

The Tibetan Book of the Dead: The Great Liberation Through Hearing in the Bardo - Chögyam Trungpa

Tao Te Ching - Lao Tzu

Plays

The Importance of Being Earnest - Oscar Wilde

Poetry Collections

I Love My Love - Reyna Biddy

Let Us Compare Mythologies - Leonard Cohen

The Prophet - Khalil Gibran

The Anatomy of Being - Shinji Moon

The Beauty of the Husband - Anne Carson ☆

Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth - Warsan Shire

Night Sky with Exit Wounds - Ocean Vuong

Speculative Fiction

Dune - Frank Herbert

Station Eleven - Emily St. John Mandel ☆

Battle Royale - Koushun Takami

True Crime

Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders - Vincent Bugliosi

In Cold Blood - Truman Capote ☆

Young Adult

A Great and Terrible Beauty - Libba Bray ☆

The Diviners - Libba Bray

The Sun is Also a Star - Nicola Yoon

[retrosofa]

We're at the home stretch now! Let's take a look at Cutie Honey episode 21: "A Black Shadow Stands in the Green Field."

Screenwriter: Keisuke Fujikawa

Art Director: Iwamitsu Ito

Animation Director: Takeshi Shirato

Director: Yoichi Kominato

Miharu and Pochi have no problem recognizing Honey while she’s transformed as Hurricane Honey. This is very strange considering Junpei, Danbei and several Panther Claw subordinates couldn’t see through this specific disguise in earlier episodes. Pochi didn't even recognized Hurricane Honey back in episode 11 either.

Also, in this episode only, Pochi is voiced by Isamu Tanonaka who would go on to voice the Principal of Paradise Academy.

Twin Panther One is voiced by Sachiko Chijimatsu, who has had a role in every early Toei magical girl series dating all the way back to Sally the Witch in 1966. Twin Panther Two is voiced by Rihoko Yoshida, who previously voiced Honey’s best friend, Natsuko. Chijimatsu and Yoshida would go on to play “sisters” in Majokko Megu-chan.

Technically, this is the only episode where Honey does not appear as Honey Kisaragi. However, in episode 17, she inexplicably appeared with brown hair.

One of the key animators on this episode was Kazuhide Tomonaga, who would go on to handle the famous car chase scene in Lupin III: Castle of Cagliostro.

That's all for this week!

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japanese/korean media

alice in borderland

name: nagisa aguni ship: suguru niragi faceclaim: aimyon summary: the younger sister of aguni morizono, nagisa finds herself frequently trailing along behind her brother and his best friend. on a rare day off, she's hanging out with them in shibuya when everyone disappears in the blink of an eye. for a little over a week, they manage through strange games, playing with their lives on the line as a team. then danma gets the great idea of creating a paradise. the beach should have been a safe haven, but the fire that was founded doesn’t burn the way anyone expects and 'paradise’ quickly dissolves into violence, betrayal, and death where nobody’s hands are left unbloodied.

[ fic to be posted ]

name: ?? tottori ship: shuntaro chishiya faceclaim: nagi nemoto summary: tottori is willing to do what it takes to survive these games. she's not expecting to make attachments to anyone, but that's exactly what happens when she meets chishiya. playing the little bird, she tells him secrets she discovers, all in the hopes of both of them getting home and far away from these death games. more to be added.

[ fic to be posted ]

name: izumi hiyori ship: suguru niragi faceclaim: baku idegami summary: hiyori's life gets turned upside down when they're suddenly thrust into an near-empty japan, forced to play with their life in death games. determined to get back to the real world and their family, they do whatever it takes. when they end up at the beach, they try to stay out of the spotlight, but end up finding something of a frienship - and more - in the most unexpected person.

[ read fic here or here ]

name: kantora koma / the card solider ship: suguru niragi + daikichi karube faceclaim: yuki yamada summary: forever the second son, the spare. that was how koma had always felt. no matter what he seemed to do, he was never good enough for his father. to say it twists him is to say the least about it. he, at least, has friends he can lean on - until he doesn't. in the blink of an eye, everyone around him disappears. arming himself, he does the only thing he can: survive through these games and hope that the people he cares most about can do the same.

[ fics mixed in here ]

high&low

name: ryuka minamoto / 'ryuko' ship: yoshiki murayama faceclaim: yeule summary: the only daughter of ryukai minamoto of the kuryu group, ryuko lived a sheltered life. home-schooled and secluded from society beyond kuryu, she had few experiences to speak of. to her father, she was hardly a daughter and more of a playing chip for him to use to get ahead. when the son of kuryu's leader returns, minamoto sees it as his chance to get in with the boss and offers his daughter's hand in marriage. when ryuko can't dissuade her father from his decision, she does the only thing she can think to do: run away and hope her old childhood 'friend', norihisa hyuga, will help her.

[ fic here ]

name: hinami ship: takeshi faceclaim: yuri tsunematsu summary: hinami was abandoned at the entry of nameless city when she was barely 10. she had a newly amputated shin, no medication, and now no parents. surely, they expected she wouldn't survive the night. what her ex-parents didn't know was that there was a bunch of kids already left at nameless city who were quickly determined to save her. swept up under their wings, hinami grows up into the fastest female traceur within nameless city's walls and she's determined to steal the overall top spot from p. that's easy enough, what's difficult is trying to find the words to explain her feelings to her best friend, takeshi.

[ fic here ]

name: yui sakuragi ship: cobra faceclaim: mio imada summary: the leader of oya kou's sister school, ojou kou, yui is insistent on proving herself as more than just a pretty face. when oya starts making friends with the rest of the sword gangs, she expects to follow suit. when time passes and she sees not hide nor hair of any of the other gangs, she's pissed. meeting up with the leader of sannoh goes badly when she fumbles on her introduction, so instead, she intends to face them all together and find out why they were being excluded. what she didn't expect was that oya kou's leader, murayama, was behind their exclusion and the rest of the gangs didn't even know ojou kou existed!

name: shizuka ibaraki ship: hiroto amamiya faceclaim: ayaka miyoshi summary: shizuka has been yui's second-in-command for years now. the even stronger muscle to the shorter girl, backing her at every turn. when yui insists on confronting the sword gangs over their exclusion, shizuka is right there with her. the only solace she gets from the drama of ojou versus sword is at her bartending job, a place frequented by none other than the amamiya brothers.

squid game

name: na-eun kim ship: saebyeok kang, prev. the salesman faceclaim: go min si summary: na-eun kim was a poor poet, falling quickly into debt of her own and her family's medical debt. when offered a chance of riches beyond belief, she quickly joins this strange game back in 2017. joining the squid game company after her win, she works as a square-mask without complaints until she sees a familiar face in the 2021 games. saebyeok matters more to than the games, and saving her quickly becomes na-eun top priority.

[ fic posted here ]

name: jisoo jang ship: junho hwang faceclaim: han so hee summary: a private investigator working alongside junho hwang, she goes looking for him when he goes missing in the search for his brother. more to be added.

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no yeah as someone who did enjoy Shin Kamen Rider I will freely say Shocker as an organization was the weakest part. I've never watched the OG Kamen Rider so it didn't bother me as much but it's VERY noticeable. if I could change one thing I'd say that it'd be to have like. an actual concrete flashback to when Hongo was turned into Batta Aug. I mean I respect the decision to not have one but if there WAS a flashback it'd actually give us a glimpse how Shocker works. and then just have it be Nazis or at the very LEAST give the happiness cult part some actual weight. I mean if Takeshi's dealing with the loss of his father that seems like a prime opportunity for Shocker to swoop in and be like "hey you want to never have to think about that ever again?"

I think there is potential in Shocker being a happiness cult as long as it's still tied to the government. Feeding people a sort of twee happiness that they must abide by and not think about anything and never challenge the status quo, everything is perfect in paradise, etc. A flashback as you say would also suit that very well to show how they operate. The slightest change in things and it would have been very solid and give much more weight to why Midorikawa felt the need to turn Hongou into an Augment, and more importantly why it's interesting for us to follow.

[asknarashikari]

Daigo and Zenkaiser in mariachi outfits

...Oh Christ, you just reminded me of the Takeshi's Paradise costume again. Now I can't unsee the image of them in that get up

(I know it's a stereotype but c'mon it's funny)

[zaptap]

i was literally ready to make a post saying that it’s so funny that tracey never interacted with ash again after he left even though he works for professor oak now in ash’s hometown.... and then he showed up and they talked!

which means the only traveling companions who ash didn’t see again in pokemon 2019 + mpm are may and max. sad

anyway i’m glad i was able to rewatch all the way up through orange islands last year. recognized the significance of seeing tracey with a venomoth, and ash leaving pidgeot behind was fresh in my memory

and overall a lot of the gen i stuff in these episodes probably hit a little harder, like all of the ending themes they reused (aside from takeshi’s paradise, which is like 40 episodes into johto, and i’m still waiting for sea of serenity to finish subbing that, otherwise i would’ve seen it too)

[somena-libra-dawn]

Thoughts of pokeani main companions' songs (minus Ash because he has many)

"Watashi Makenai": talks about May's motivation overall. She even calls her pokemon as her 'partner' which is good.

"Doridori": Basically about Serena finding her dream thus thanking her pokemon for that (except Eevee/Sylveon).

"Kimi no Soba de": basically about Dawn's pokemon (probably mainly Piplup) for being by her side, hence the title.

"Puni-chan no Uta": describing Bonnie's friendship with Squishy. She is best friend of it since she knows it pretty well.

"Lapras ni Notte": Misty just sings 'anyway let's ride lapras' on a body of water.

"Minna de Arukou": the song only a few know it exists. Ash, Brock, Misty, and Tracey have a bad day but are cheered up by their pokemon.

"Takeshi no Paradise": expressing Brock's... err... not really goal but just the fact he wants love from the lady(ies). Basically his love struggle.

"Kirakira": Clemont basically expresses his admiration to Ash before their battle that makes him gay for him.

[zaruba-needslove]

Finally watched Paradise Regained.... and gotta say that I was right about not getting my hopes up too much. I mean like I know that some things are no longer possible (as in the fact that Izumi Masayuki-san had long left us) but yeah...

Interesting how I end up enjoying Core of Resurrection more than Paradise Regained.

While I can't say whether or not the movie could've been better if it had been a continuation of Paradise Lost, (it'll still boils down to writing) I still feel that they could've tried that route.

I actually already watched one half of the Murder Case SP before, so I was a bit meh at the forced addition of 913. I mean... why are YOU there? Why anyone tolerate that guy there? Tho ngl after finishing the movie I was glad that Keitaro wasn't really there (regardless of the reason why the actor can't be in it).

I kinda confused abt Rena/Muze like is she really an Orphnoch or what? Is Muze somewhat like Kaixa in that non-Orph can use it? Why she's like acting like ppl are going to stare at her stripping her clothes when she was just transforming--as if the gear works like the Takeshi oni transformation? Like I get the whole naked soul thing.... but it's not like normal people could see that!

Kinda disappointed that there wasn't any mention of the Orphenoch King as an explanation on how Smart Brain was able to maintain Takkun's body/stabilize his body's deterioration.

And considering how the cast had been sharing old 555 photos on their insta during the anniversary earlier... I thought they at least made more passing mention about Kiba, aside from that one old frame showing Izumi-san at the beginning. Like there's PLENTY of chances where they could've done that. Like the whole thing about hoping for a world where humans and Orphnochs can live together/co-exist was something Kiba used to strive for. Mari could have said that she was carrying on Kiba's wish for a better future. They can even bring back the clip where Kiba sacrificed himself so that Takumi can kill the Orphnoch King for all I care and reopen our wounds 😃 Like if not Mari... let Naoya say it, being the last surviving from the trio.

Ngl I find it a missed opportunity to have another Kiba tribute (even it's just a mention) when Mari tried to jump off a building to kill herself after learning that she's become an Orphnoch. Like what she did was exactly what Kiba used to do after finding out that he's no longer human (as well as becoming the monster that killed his ex-gf, cousin and uncle). Considering how Mari (and Takumi) used to have so many heart-to-heart talks with Kiba, either of them could've made that throwback and have another talk about what 'humanity' should mean to them now. Like now that she also had become an Orphnoch, perhaps she could better understand some of the complicated Kiba feelings in the past (but i get it... it's been 20 years, sometimes it's hard to dig back all the past issues...)

Also seriously I dun get what they tryna do with RenaTakumi being partners (since when?) and being close.

Also there's NO explanation as to how and why Kusaka was with the gang, considering that guy's always a big Orphnoch-hater and suddenly now he's so friendly with the Orph-kids (don't ANYONE find that sus?). Oh wait... I get the why, it's to infiltrate the gang etc.

There wasn't any explanation about why Keitaro was absent (but I don't mind) cos that means I can hc the reason being Keitaro not being able to tolerate seeing Kusaka every day, since Kusaka used to try to kill Yuka before and all the past history.

Gotta say that making both Kusaka and Kitazaki androids was a good explanation to why they're smh back with Kitazaki being much more mentally stable and Kusaka being ooc.

I wouldn't say that i totally hate the movie cos i like the part about Naoya taking care of the kids and Takumi going back to old school suit, but some of the stuff there was kinda.... is there a need for MariTaku pseudo porn? Takkun going 'pls fix me' and they went on a romp felt a bit... off. Like unless Mari's Orphnoch factor was tweaked with Orphnoch King's dna... I don't get why Takkun bonding with her could somehow... 'fix' him.

But don't take my word for it... since I'm still a MariKiba shipper. Also i miss the old Smart Lady..

Also yth 913 took over Smart Brain? Like rude?

[brtschmllr]

Strangeness

Takeshi's on his way out of the house and peeks through the glass of the door. Snow flakes blowing about (1). As Takeshi steps through the doorframe, he notices snow melting extraordinarily fast.

The warm wind, Kati melts the snow, grass grows, flowers prosper, his bushes spread, colors appear. A man dreams that he is in paradise, and he is given a flower as proof (2). He questions himself. Was it him? Could he do that? They shouldn't grow around this time of the year. He checks his phone, -14 Degrees. Why did the snow melt? How is that possible?

It was he who propagated that delicate flower, the Shirley poppy (3).

(1) Serres, The Five Senses

(2) Borges, Collected Fictions

(3) Saunders, The Art and Architecture of London

[ao3feed-tolkien]

There and Back Again

read it on the AO3 at https://ift.tt/ua3Em8y

by jackcloverfield97

Ash and his friends accompany Professor Oak on his final adventure to the paradise of Arceus's realm.

Words: 2163, Chapters: 1/2, Language: English

Fandoms: Pocket Monsters | Pokemon - All Media Types, Pocket Monsters | Pokemon (Anime), The Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences

Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings

Categories: F/M

Characters: Satoshi | Ash Ketchum, Kasumi | Misty, Takeshi | Brock, Satoshi no Pikachu | Ash Ketchum's Pikachu, Ookido Yukinari-hakase | Professor Samuel Oak, Mewtwo (Pokemon), Lugia (Pokemon), Houou | Ho-Oh, Mew (Pokemon)

Relationships: Kasumi | Misty/Satoshi | Ash Ketchum

Additional Tags: The Lord of the Rings References, Inspired by The Lord of the Rings, Hurt/Comfort, Angst, Past Relationship(s), Romance, Adventure, Endings, Satoshi | Ash Ketchum Needs a Hug, Bittersweet

read it on the AO3 at https://ift.tt/ua3Em8y

[gokinjoworld]

Gokinjo Monogatari

[warpyazagaku]

Punk fashion according to Ai Yazawa.

part 3

[prophecyread]

@magicandsciencemuses - (takeshi) hit a heart once upon a time for a starter so here we are!

      “Oh, no need to introduce yourself, darling,” A.N.N.A. spoke, a hand flickering up to let fingertips tease against the edges of the Envoy’s lips, tracing the lines of his mouth with a light and perfectly measured balance.   “You are quite the talk of the town these days.”  A smile, languid, and delighted, danced at the corners of her own mouth as she let her hand fall down, to catch the lapel of his trench coat and trace the lines of it down -- and down.   “What could bring someone of your .... prestige to my --”  Her smile grew, her eyes dancing up, and up some more, to meet and linger on his.  “Little piece of paradise?”

[tenipurigoods]

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