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10th Anniversary

Ayumi Hamasaki: A Classical (2013.01.08)

Aside from the predominantly house and electronic-based remixes that comprise the bulk of Ayumi Hamasaki’s remixography, there's an acoustic orchestral side, beginning with the Acoustic Orchestra albums that fell under the ayu-mi-x banner, and which eventually morphed into full orchestral re-imaginings, as in MY STORY Classical (2005), A Classical (2013), LOVE CLASSICS (2015), and Winter diary ~A7 Classical~ (2015).

A Classical was released during Ayumi's 15th anniversary celebrations, and in the third of five consecutive months of releases. Seven of the songs were chosen by her TeamAyu fan club members and rearranged by Kousuke Yamashita. I'm assuming all of the legacy tracks were chosen by fans, while the recently-released "You & Me," "Song 4 u," and "Missing" off of the LOVE EP released two months prior was selected by Ayu's actual team. Most of the songs chosen here work really well, in particular the ballads "SEASONS," "Days," and "Voyage," which were practically tailor-made for sweeping strings. The opener "M" has the best arrangement on here -- there's just something so perfect about this song that it works in almost any context that it's put into. That being said, I don't think it's as good as the arrangement on ayu-mi-x IV version Acoustic Orchestra (2002), which is still my favorite of the two. You can also compare some of these to other arrangements, like Akimitsu Honma's version of "BLUE BIRD" on ayu-mi-x 7 -version Acoustic Orchestra- (2011), and Ken Shima's arrangement of "Voyage" on the No way to say (2003) single.

Suffice to say, for some of these, like "SEASONS," for which we have other orchestral versions (on the SEASONS single and a slightly different version on ayu-mi-x III), over-kill is an understatement, while tracks like "You & Me" just sound awkward and unsuited to the gentle pace. "Love song" is interesting, too, as I'm not sure that it totally works, but I love that it's a song we've never heard with this kind of arrangement before. All that being said, it's still a serviceable collection, and the recordings sound particularly good here. Some of the earlier acoustic orchestra versions can sound a bit bare or synthetically created, while the music for this album was recorded with a live orchestra, making for a more dramatic and immersive experience (all the brass makes a really big difference). In fact, it would be great to have the bare instrumentals for these.

This album comes with an OBI, a fold-out sheet with credits listing the instrumentalists on each track, a promo sheet with details of the anniversary releases, and two separate sheets: a sheet of lyrics, and a fold-out poster of the album cover art. The cover art was drawn by Takashi Murakami, and is a pencil rendering of the cover of Ayu's LOVE EP. Personally, I am not a huge fan of this approach and think that it's both repetitive and unimaginative. It's really impressive to hand-draw something this realistic-looking, but it also comes off looking a bit like it was run through Photoshop. I feel the same way about the cover art of LOVE CLASSICS, which is another piece of fan-art based on the cover of the Zutto... single, but also looks like a Photoshop filter. You can consider these jackets like soft “remixes” of the originals, just like the musical content of the CD, so your ability to be moved by that idea is a matter of opinion.

Regardless, this album is overall solid, if perhaps unnecessary. I don't think any of these versions are any better than other orchestral arrangements that we've gotten in the past, aside from the added bonus of having an actual live orchestra, which is the definite reason to hear this. The instrumentals are quite accomplished: sweeping, romantic, and altogether lovely. The vocals of course vary depending on when they were recorded. It's easy to choose some of Ayu's most well-known ballads for these arrangements, in terms of popularity and adaptability, but I would love to hear orchestral versions of album cuts that we haven't gotten before like "Heartplace," "Over,” "Dolls," "JEWEL," or "rainy day." I guess I'll keep dreaming for now.

Catalog Number: AVCD-38689

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[andjoshiforall]

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Naachan sat on Ayumin’s lap the moment she saw her

Ayumin start calling Naachan by Nana chan

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Kayano Ai

[sailorzakuro]

Short story I found a lot of videos to add to this playlist today, I can’t link them all separately so here’s a list of videos of all the people I found stuff for:

Miyuki Kanbe Marina Kuroki Manami Wakayama Risa Honma Ayumi Murata Tamaki Dia Shirai Mao Oono Miho Yokoi Takayo Ooyama Sayaka Fujioka Mao Mita and Eriko Funakoshi

So have fun XD

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Kizuna Road 2021 Night 7 - 6/23/2021

The tour continued today, and you can see it now on NJPWWorld. Another title match main event on this show. The third match was changed, so as to highlight the challenge by the Third Generation for the NEVER Comedy titles. How far as EVIL fallen where he gets shunted off the card. He was IWGP Heavyweight Champion a year-ish ago...

- 6/23/2021, Tokyo Korakuen Hall (NJPWWorld)

Yuya Uemura Trial Series: Great O-Khan [United Empire] d. Yuya Uemura (Boston Crab, 11:30)

Yota Tsuji Trial Series: Kota Ibushi d. Yota Tsuji (High-Angle Half Crab, 13:13)

Hirooki Goto, Tomohiro Ishii, YOSHI-HASHI, Kazuchika Okada & Toru Yano [CHAOS] d. Hiroyoshi Tenzan, Satoshi Kojima, Yuji Nagata, Togi Makabe & Tomoaki Honma (Ishii > Honma, Vertical Drop Brainbuster, 13:19)

Taichi, Zack Sabre Jr., El Desperado & Yoshinobu Kanemaru [SZKG] d. Tetsuya Naito, SANADA, Shingo Takagi & BUSHI [Los Ingobernables] (Desperado > BUSHI, Pinche Loco, 12:26) 

IWGP Juniorheavyweight Tag Team Championship: Taiji Ishimori & El Phantasmo [Bullet Club] d. SHO & YOH [CHAOS] © (Phantasmo > YOH, Sudden Death, 26:43) - Roppongi 3K fail their 2nd defense - Ishimori/ELP are the 66th champions

ELP gets the win, still using the loaded boot superkick gimmick. Now we will get RPG3K on the road to regain the belts at WK16, because that’s what happens every year without fail now. It’s the circle of life for these titles. Ishimori then called out El Desperado, claiming he will be the next juniorheavyweight double champion.

During the intermission, Hiromu Takahashi came out disguised as a cameraman but took a spot on commentary, and celebrated Tetsuya Naito’s 39th birthday, which was actually yesterday. One of these days I’ll make myself a calendar with everyone’s birthdays. Today is not that day. Feliz belated cumpleanos, Naito-san.

The CHAOS NEVER champions and the Third Generation brawled post-match. The Young Lions’ trial series is over, and tho they were winless, they looked pretty good. O-Khan, only a recent returnee himself, makes the Empire’s only appearance on this tour so far.

On that note, we don’t know what the rest of the tour has in store, as the lineups aren’t released yet. The next show is on Saturday. Before then, Impact Wrestling’s TV show on AXS tomorrow night will feature Violent By Design v. Satoshi Kojima & Eddie Edwards for the Impact World Tag Team titles. That’s at 8pm EDT / 7pm CDT on AXS and Twitch. The Ignition series of NJPW Strong episodes comes to a close this Friday, as “Filthy” Tom Lawlor makes his second defense of the NJPW Strong Openweight Championship against Karl Fredericks. That’s at 10pm EDT / 9pm CDT on NJPWWorld.

I also realized today that it’s the 3rd Anniversary of one of my favorite wrestling matches of the last few years, Minoru Suzuki v. Kazuchika Okada from the Great Pirate Festival in Yokohama on 6/23/2018, celebrating the 50th birthday and 30th wrestling anniversary of Suzuki. This match is a work of art, right down to the Rainmaker entrance in a torrential downpour, and Ayumi Nakamura singing Minoru Suzuki out with “Kaze ni Nare,” and THEN ring announcing! Truly a wonderous spectacle to behold. It’s on NJPWWorld, I suggest you see it.

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[ @shoutaimu and I finally finished watching all of the Bandai Sera Myus. And since I don’t feel like sharing the document, here are our rankings for the Senshi actresses (plus Kakyuu) as well as ranking the roles of several recurring cast members. For double castings of Chibi Moon we put them in the same slot. I might come back and make another post with our explanations for the rankings but for now. Just have this list]

Senshi

Usagi Tsukino/Sailor Moon

Anza Ooyama

Marina Kuroki

Miyuki Kanbe

Fumina Hara

Mizuno Ami/Sailor Mercury

Ayako Morino

Chieko Kawabe

Minami Wakayama

Hisano Akamine

Yuikiko Miyagawa

Mariya Izawa

Rei Hino/Sailor Mars

Misako Kotani

Eri Kanda

Megumi Yoshida

Risa Honma

Aiko Kawasaki

Asuka Umemiya

Horoko Nakayama

Hiromi Sakai

Makoto Kino/Sailor Jupiter

Emi Kuriyama

Kanoko

Yuriko Hayashi

Akari Tonegawa

Emika Satou

Mai Watanabe

Ayano Sugimoto

Chiho Ooyama

Kaori Sakata

Takako Inayoshi

Marie Sada

Karina Okada

Minako Aino/Sailor Venus

Ayumi Murata

Nao Inada

Mizuki Watanabe

Nana Suzuki

Erica

Akiko Miyazawa

Momoko Shibuya

Kanatsu Nakaya

Yuki Nakamura

Miyu Otani

Chizuru Soya

Sakae Tamashita

Haruka Tenoh/Sailor Uranus

Nao Takagi

Sanae Kimura

Akiko Nakayama

Asako Uchida

Michiru Kaioh/Sailor Neptune

Yuuka Asami

Hiroko Tahara

Tomoko Inami

Sara Shimada

Takayo Ooyama

Miyuki Fuji

Kahoru Sakamoto

Chikage Tomita

Setsuna Meioh/Sailor Pluto

Rei Saito

Yuuko Hosaka

Seiko Nakazawa

Yukiko Nakae

Miho Yokoi

Teruyo Watanabe

Yuki Kamiya

Miwa Hosoki

Hotaru Tomoe/Sailor Saturn

Ruria Nakamura

Keiko Takeda

Ayami Kakiuchi

Mao Mita

Chihiro Imai

Mario Tomioka

Eriko Funakoshi

Yui Iizuka

Asami Sanpei

Chibiusa Tsukino/Sailor Chibi Moon

Ayano Gunji

Tamaki Dai Shirai/Natsumi Takenaka

Mao Kawasaki/Ai Miyakawa

Noel Miyazaki

Kasumi Takabatake

Nanami Ohta

Moe Oosaki

Mao Ohno/Mina Horita

Arisu Izawa

Aisha Yamamoto

Mamoru Chiba/Tuxedo Kamen

Yuuta Mochizuki

Hironari Amano

Hidemasa Edo

Kenji Urai

Yuu Shirota

Yuuta Enomoto

Gyo Miyamoto

Mizuki Sano

Seiya Kou/Sailor Star Fighter

Sayuri Katayama

Chinatsu Akiyama

Taiki Kou/Sailor Star Maker

Hikari Ono

Akiko Nakayama

Yaten Kou/Sailor Star Healer

Momoko Okuyama

Mikako Tabe

Sailor Galaxia

Tamami Matsumoto

Yumie Sakaguchi

Saori Sara

Takemi

Princess Kakyuu

Sakoto Yoshioka

Ai Toyama

Recurring Cast Members

Ryuuji Kasahara

Tiger's Eye

Gilles de Rai

Kyaos/Chaos

MC Fly

Death Ra

Dark Nibiru

Prof. Tomoe/Undead Berserk

Kunzite [only at the bottom because we didn’t get to see this performance]

Ado Endou

Centi/Hanako Hoshino

Selkie

Sailor Lead Crow/Manila Karasu

Calaveras

Dark Menorah

Demon Lillith

Roi Malkuth

White Crow Ado/Dark Maya

Ensemble Roles ~ Death Nightmare ~ Lemures ~ Shadow Bug ~ Sailor Theta ~ Dark Moon

Miki Kawasaki

Esmeraude

Kaolinite

Kunzite

Le Fay/Olam Tiphareth

Dark Mirror

Zilpah Sapphire

Dark Sumer

(Death) Nightmare

Yoshiya Yukimura

Damask/Shintarou Hoshino

Mandrake

Kern

Hemachirou Taitou/Hematite

Death Pe

Nobitarou Oki (Crooked Ref)

Akiko Miyazawa

Elizabeth Bathory

Queen Beryl

Bilhah Emerald

Minako Aino/Sailor Venus

Hikari Ono

Taiki Kou/Sailor Star Fighter

(Prince) Demande

Bloody Dracul Vampir

Roof Merrow

Hawk's Eye

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TV Girl!

Evening Its Ishida Ayumi

 Posting while watching Himitsu no Kenmin SHOW!

 Haga Akane-chan,

Will do her best as the representative from Nagano--!

 Akanechi—n!

  Since Nagano is where my grandpa lives, I’ve been there many times,

 But I didn’t know about Nagano’s love of salad rolls lol

 I know well of Akanechin’s love of Nagano!

There probably aren’t any girls who can talk in the same way, but not just that is on display,

 Saying, I’ll teach!

 With Google-sensei and Siri,

Its amazing what details you can teach! Lol

 Speaking of love,

 Yesterday’s Honma Dekka TV,

Matsuoka Mayu-san made an appearance and,

 She talked about the day we were on stage together!

 It flowed in the video of the live

And she talked about the resurrection of Sayashi-san the other day

(Unfortunately you couldn’t see anything of the stage…) (Ah, she wanted to go to the stage but couldn’t…)

 Talking about her love, I have feelings of ❤ Thank you very much

 I thought while watching Matsuoka-san, suddenly seeing myself on TV, I ended up saying Wa--! Lol

 Continuing with the TV talk, an announcement!

 Yomiuri TV “Hama-chan is!”

Ishida Ayumi and Makino Maria made an appearance

 It’ll be broadcast on Yomiuri TV on May 1st around midnight~

 Regarding local broadcasts, since the broadcast day or time may be different, please check on HP for it

 This was the work that I had been doing with Maria before~

 Hamada-san, Kenkoba-san, Murakami-san,

We went shopping together,

 It was like would be too nervous,

But it was really exciting

 It was really fun…!

 Wondering how the broadcast will turn out, my heart is also beating over it…!

     Tonight is,

 Dance Channel by Entame~TV “Hello! Project Dance Academy #3” Don’t miss this either!

  The movie I saw yesterday was,

 Theater version “Detective Conan: The Fist of the Blue Sapphire”

 After all! I chose it through my feelings! I like it!

 Tomorrow’s Friday Road Show is,

 Zero the Enforcer,,,

 Lets what it everyone, absolutely

 See you ayumin ❤

 https://ameblo.jp/morningmusume-10ki/entry-12456848678.html

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Love Live! Sunshine!! Ruby VA Ai Furihata Posts 1980s-ish Music Video "Purple Eyeshadow"

    Anime voice actress Ai Furihata has posted a four-minute full music video for "Purple Eyeshadow," the lead track from her upcoming second solo mini-album "Make-Up" to be released on December 23, 2020.

  Furihata is best known as the voice of Ruby Kurosawa in the Love Live! Sunshine!! franchise and a member of its nine-member voice actress unit Aqours. While performing as a member of the very successful unit, she made her solo singer debut with her first mini-album "Moonrise" in September of this year. The six-song album ranked 18th in Oricon's weekly album chart. 

  As with all the other songs in the two albums, the lyrics of the song were written by herself. Akimitsu Honma, known for his producing works for popular J-pop artists including Noriyuki Makihara, Ayumi Hamasaki, Koumi Hirose, and Porno Graffitti, serves as composer, arranger, and producer. The music video features appearances by Ayano Kudo, Shun Nishime, and Yuya Uno, and has a feeling of a trendy 80s drama about a romantic relationship between a man and a woman.

    "Purple Eyeshadow" MV:

    "Make-UP" first press limited edition CD jacket:

    Standard edition:

    Artist photo:

    Source: Ai Furihata official YouTube channel

  © BANDAI NAMCO Arts Inc. All Rights Reserved.

  By: news+feed@crunchyroll.com

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~ Actwres girl'Z ACT Osaka Show - JOSHIPRO OSAKA ASSEMBLE~, 10/13/2019 [Sun] Osaka - Azalea Taisho Hall 225 in Attendance

1. Mari vs Momo Kohgo Winner: Mari (9:18) pinned Momo Kohgo with a Campana.

2. Ayano Irie & Ayumi Hayashi vs Kyusei Ninja Ranmaru (Freelance) & Yuko Sakurai Winners: Ayumi Hayashi (9:10) with a Gannosuke Clutch on Ranmaru.

3. Miku Aono & Momo Tani vs Misa Matsui & SAKI Winners: Aono (12:20) with a Double Arm Suplex on Matsui.

4. Yumiko Hotta & Hanako Nakamori (PURE-J) vs Saori Anou & Risa Kawabata Winners: YHanako Nakamori (11:39) following a Shining High Kick on Kawabata.

5. Tae Honma & Arita Himeka vs Miyuki Takase & Kakeru Sekiguchi Winners: Tae Honma (18:07) with a Small Package on Takase.

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30 Days of Myu: Day 10

Again -> it's rather part 10 than day 10 xD

Part 10: Least Favorite Inner Senshi.

Ami/Mercury: Kawabe Chieco. I liked her a lot when I was new at Myu but the more I did research about her and the more I watched Musicals with her I feld like she really was PLAYING the role. I don't believe her innocence or cleverness. She is a really good singer but she is just too bubbly - and yeah slutty for Ami. She would have made a perfect Venus imao (she should have changed roles with Ayumi).

Rei/Mars: Honma Risa. I mentioned in the post about my favorite Senshi actresses that it is important for Mars to be mature.  Unfortunately Risa wasn't. She was a child. She could have been Mars' cute, bubbly little sister but she wasn't mature enough to be a good Rei. Her singing wasn't good too. She was more a baby to me than a passionate teenager with fire. In her case, 13 years were way too young to play a role like Mars on stage.

Makoto/Jupiter: Sugimoto Ayano. Like I said I'm no big fan of Jupiter but this girl ruined a strong character with her childish acting. Her introduction at the Fankansha Event was also like -_________- okaaay. And her singing is... - well I used to call her rubber duck..probaly she would have been a nice Venus. Probably. If she was smaller a prefect Chibimoon.

Minako/Venus: Erica. She just was ..slutty for me. Her singing wasn't that good too and for a half-american her pronunciation was pretty bad too. My former best friend called her american beach b****.  And somehow she's right. It seems like the last shows were casted with a lot of too young girls. That is a pity..

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Shun Gregory

PP: Zero Kiryu (Vampire Knight)

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Idade: 16 Espécie: Meio-vampiro Gênero: Masculino Orientação: Bissexual

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Cabelo: Branco Olhos: Roxos / Cinza Altura: 1.83 

ℱ𝒶𝓂𝒾́𝓁𝒾𝒶

Kera Gregory (Irmã)

Keitarou Gregory (Irmão)

Kira Gregory (Irmã)

Reino Gregory (Irmão)

Yuki Shun (Irmão)

Alan Gregory (Irmão)

Sanosuke Gregory (Irmão)

Ayumi Gregory (Irmã)

Takako Gregory (Irmã)

Kentaro Gregory (Irmão)

Keiichi Gregory (Irmão)

Bukiko Gregory (Irmã)

Kenshin Gregory (Irmão)

Lyuha Gregory (Irmã)

Aya Diggory (Prima)

Kiyomi Diggory (Prima)

Par Romântico: Minna Honma

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Status: Coma

Kills: xxx

Killed By: xxx

RPG: Ighnis Returns; Sachiko’s Game of Love; Sachiko’s Hysteric Birthday; MP’s (@BeaFilipa)

[andjoshiforall]

This will be fun🎇🎇

[cutterstokyo]

Aki's New Editing Work!!

Akiがエディットをしたマキアージュ「オトナのティント」篇をお届けします！いつでも女性を綺麗にする魔法をかけてくれる資生堂さんのスポットをお楽しみください！

Client: Shiseido Editor: Aki Mizutani (Cutters) Creative Director: Ayumu Takahashi/Shiseido Art Director: Ayumi Nishimoto/Shiseido Designer: Daisuke Takada/Shiseido, Ikki Kobayashi/Shiseido Copywriter: Asuka Hashiguchi/Shiseido, Aya Ueki/Shiseido Producer:Mieko Ichiba/Shiseido Director: Koichiro Tsujikawa/Glassloft Production: AOI Pro. Producer: Sota Yoshida, Daigo Honma Production Manager: Misaki Matsui DOP: Tetsuo Nagata

(via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pu9pO3QvicA)

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