#karen otomo

[nuzzle]

『kansai collection 2023 autumn&winter』 by "baby, the stars shine bright" ♡

[mostlyfate]

Tadashi Koi no Hajimekata 正しい恋の始めかた 2023, dir. Horie Takahiro

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Another Okada Masaki content. I guess I'm a fan of him now.

Jdrama - Meishi Game (this show is quite underrated and deserves lots of love)

(SPOILER AHEAD)

Mysterious man X (Okada Masaki) kidnaps a corrupt producer of the popular quiz program Kanda (Tsutsumi Shinichi) and his daughter Mina (Otomo Karen) and attached the bomb coller around their neck and forces him to play Meishi Game where he has to return the business cards to their rightful owners. If he makes a mistake, his daughter will blow up.

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HYENA Ep. 8 Final (Sub. Esp)

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Movies on Youtube:

Brief Encounter (1945, David Lean)

Opening Night (1977, John Cassavetes)

Close Up (1990, Abbas Kiarostami)

Taste of Cherry (1997, Abbas Kiarostami)

The Song of Sparrows (2008,  Majid Majidi)

Russian Ark (2002, Alexander Sokurov)

Dreams (1990, Akira Kurosawa)

Dersu Uzala (1975, Akira Kurosawa)

The Idiot (1951, Akira Kurosawa)

Drunken Angel (1948, Akira Kurosawa)

Tokyo Story (1953, Yasujirō Ozu)

Early Summer (1951, Yasujirō Ozu)

Late Spring (1949, Yasujirō Ozu)

The Flavor of Green Tea over Rice (1952, Yasujirō Ozu)

Good Morning (1959, Yasujirō Ozu)

An Autumn Afternoon (1962, Yasujirō Ozu)

Sword for Hire (1952, Inagaki Hiroshi)

Rebecca (1940, Alfred Hitchcock)

Thunderbolt (1929, Josef von Sternberg)

Larceny (1948, George Sherman)

Among the Living (1941, Stuart Heisler)

Andrei Rublev (1966, Andrei Tarkovsky)

Mirror (1975, Andrei Tarkovsky)

Solaris (1972, Andrei Tarkovsky)

Ivan’s Childhood (1962, Andrei Tarkovsky)

Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972, Werner Herzog)

Fitzcarraldo (1982, Werner Herzog)

Medea (1969, Pier Paolo Pasolini)

Medea (filmed stageplay)

Is It Easy To Be Young? (1986, Juris Podnieks)

We'll Live Till Monday (1968, Stanislav Rostotsky)

Ordinary Fascism (aka Triumph Over Violence) (1965, Mikhail Romm)

Battleship Potemkin (1925, Sergei Eisenstein)

The Third Man (1949, Carol Reed)

Johnny Come Lately (1943, William K. Howard)

Mister 880 (1950, Edmund Goulding)

Beethoven’s Eroica (2003, Simon Cellan Jones)

Katyn (2007, Andrzej Wajda)

Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events (2004, Brad Silberling)

Mean Girls (2004, Mark Waters)

The Neverending Story (1984, Wolfgang Petersen)

The NeverEnding Story II: The Next Chapter (1990, George T. Miller)

The Thief and the Cobbler (Richard Williams)

Osmosis Jones (2001, myriad directors)

Megamind (2010, Tom McGrath)

Ghost in the Shell (1995, Mamoru Oshii)

Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence (2004, Mamoru Oshii)

Steamboy (2004, Katsuhiro Otomo)

Badlands (1973), Terrence Malick

Wargames (1983, John Badham)

By the White Sea (2022, Aleksandr Zachinyayev)

White Moss (2014, Vladimir Tumayev)

The Theme (1979, Gleb Panfilov)

The Duchess (2008, Saul Dibb)

Bed and Sofa (1927, Abram Room)

Fate of a Man (1959, Sergei Bondarchuk)

Ballad of a Soldier (1959, Grigory Chukhray)

Uncle Vanya (1970, Andrey Konchalovskiy)

An Unfinished Piece for Mechanical Piano (1977, Nikita Mikhalkov)

Family Relations (1981, Nikita Mikhalkov)

The Seagull (1970, Yuli Karasik)

My Tender and Affectionate Beast (1978, Emil Loteanu)

Dreams (1993, Karen Shakhnazarov & Alexander Borodyansky)

The Vanished Empire (2008, Karen Shakhnazarov)

Winter Evening in Gagra (1985, Karen Shakhnazarov)

Day of the Full Moon (1998, Karen Shakhnazarov)

Zero Town (1989, Karen Shakhnazarov)

The Girls (1961, Boris Bednyj)

The Diamond Arm (1969, Leonid Gaidai)

Operation Y and Shurik's Other Adventures (1965, Leonid Gaidai)

Ivan Vasilievich Changes Profession (1973, Leonid Gaidai)

Unbelievable Adventures of Italians in Russia (1974, Eldar Ryazanov & Franco Prosperi)

Office Romance (1977, Eldar Ryazanov)

Carnival Night (1956, Eldar Ryazanov)

Hussar Ballad (1962, Eldar Ryazanov)

Kin-dza-dza! (1986, Georgiy Daneliya)

The Most Charming and Attractive (1985, Gerald Bezhanov)

Autumn (1974, Andrei Smirnov)

War and Peace: Part 1 (1966, Sergei Bondarchuk)

War and Peace: Part 2 (1966, Sergei Bondarchuk)

War and Peace: Part 3 (1967, Sergei Bondarchuk)

War and Peace: Part 4 (1967, Sergei Bondarchuk)

The Red Tent (first half) (1969, Mikhail Kalatozov)

The Red Tent (second half) (1969, Mikhail Kalatozov)

Sherlock Holmes: The Hound of the Baskervilles (1939, Sidney Lanfield)

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1939, Alfred L. Werker)

Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror (1942, John Rawlins)

Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon (1943, Roy William Neill)

Sherlock Holmes in Washington (1943, Roy William Neill)

Sherlock Holmes Faces Death (1943, Roy William Neill)

Sherlock Holmes: The Spider Woman (1944, Roy William Neill)

Sherlock Holmes: The Scarlet Claw (1944, Roy William Neill)

Sherlock Holmes: The Pearl of Death (1944, Roy William Neill)

Sherlock Holmes: The House of Fear (1945, Roy William Neill)

Sherlock Holmes: The Woman in Green (1945, Roy William Neill)

Sherlock Holmes: Pursuit to Algiers (1945, Roy William Neill)

Sherlock Holmes: Terror by Night (1946, Roy William Neill)

Sherlock Holmes: Dressed to Kill (1946, Roy William Neill)

If any of the links don’t work, try looking up the film in this playlist: link

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Top 10 Worst Cartoon Villains

#10. The Beast (Over The Garden Wall): A series full of so much potential, Over The Garden Wall's biggest disappointment besides the world building and characters is its villain. The Beast is built up as this dark, evil spirit, when in reality he's just all bark and no bite. Whenever he's on screen, he comes off like a lesser version of the Lich from Adventure Time with lackluster abilities, a weak motivation and is defeated rather anticlimactically.

#9. Harold Smith (The Powerpuff Girls): The Powerpuff Girls has a bunch of memorable and iconic villains in their rogues gallery. Harold Smith, as well as his wife and kids, is NOT one of them. In addition to a petty motivation, he isn't at all threatening, his costume looks like it was thrown together at the last minute, and he doesn't even succeed in his plan. The only reason why the girls didn't just beat the tar out of him is because his wife wanted a perfect dinner. And no, the sequel episode that involves his family isn't much better.

#8. Hervnick Z. Snerz (Green Eggs and Ham): While Green Eggs and Ham makes for a good show for the most part, the one major critique I have is that the main villain is nothing but a pompous brat. Snerz is egotistical, whiney, lazy, and selfish, but above all that, he's just not funny or interesting. Not onces throughout the entire show does he become a villain we love to hate, but rather an annoying detour from the main plot. His backstory does nothing to make him sympathetic or interesting as it just further proves how selfish and nasty he is.

#7. Griselle Grande (Polly Pocket): This creepy old broad wants the power of Polly's locket, but what she really needs is to get a life. She's an incompetent, egotistical, and creepy woman who can't come up with the most basic of plans to get a stinking locket. Not once does Griselle's efforts get a laugh and the fact that her granddaughter, Gwen, even helps her despite being dumber than a sack of peanuts is actually pathetic.

#6. Lee, Marie, and May Kanker (Ed, Edd, n Eddy): It's no secret that the Kankers bring Ed, Edd, n Eddy down with their mere existence. In addition to ruining the Eds' scams, they also frequently make out with the Eds without consent. They're also the apotheosis to the rest of cast as they're not funny, they're not quotable, and they're not interesting. No wonder they don't have any fans.

#5. Dragon (Skunk Fu): As a big fan of dragons, I would be all giddy to watch a show where the dragon is the main villain. Unfortunately, Skunk Fu is too terribly written to make Dragon an interesting villain. In addition to having such a rushed and pathetic backstory, Dragon does nothing but sit in his cave doing nothing but bark orders at his lackies. Nothing about him screams intimidating or powerful, just pathetic.

#4. Dr. Otomo Kamikazi II (Robotboy): Some evil genius he is. Dr. Kamikazi constantly fails to capture Robotboy and what's worse is he never once thinks to make his own robot if he's so smart. He also has a weak motivation, a very exaggerated accent, and no real menace to him. He's just an embarrassing loser that's too stubborn to admit that he's not as smart as he thinks he is.

#3. Hawk Moth (Miraculous Ladybug): If this guy wants the powers of Ladybug and Cat Noir so much, why doesn't he get them himself? I'll tell you why: because he's a weak, lazy, incompetent villain! He'd rather send his Akuma butterflies to corrupt petty losers to do his dirty work and they always fail. He's just a pathetic bore of a villain that never once gets his hands dirty.

#2. Teamo Supremo's Rogues Gallery (Teamo Supremo): It's impossible to choose just one lousy villain from this stupid show, as they all have the same problem. They petty villains with lame gimmicks, 3 useless lackies, and they're not the least bit threatening. One of them is just a guy who makes fun of people and another is your typical Karen. Teamo Supremo has the worst line of villains in cartoons and it would've been Number 1 on my list, if it wasn't for...

#1. Lloyd Garmadon (Ninjago: Masters of Spinjitzu): ...THIS obnoxious little punk! Lloyd is the embodiment of all the previous entries. He's petty, he's stupid, he's lazy, he's egotistical, and he's such an embarrassment! All he does is bark orders to the snake peopke to commit childish crimes and as such he wastes the time of the heroes and the audience! He's such a bad villain that I could care less about his redemption and how he becomes a mainstay. All I want is for this kid to be shipped to Timbuktu and NEVER comeback!

Conclusion: These villains are so bad in their portrays, they make sitting through the show frustrating everytime they're on screen. Dishonerable mentions go to PAL from The Mitchells vs The Machines (just another vengeful A.I. in a sea full of them), Maximums I.Q. from Atomic Betty (a very generic villain in a very badly made cartoon), and Dio from JoJo's Bizarre Adventures (he's not even fun to talk about, that's how bad of a villain he is). Do you agree with my picks? What are some of your least favorite villains? Let me know down in the comments and I'll see you next time ;)

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Least favorite character from media you love?

Im thinking of just giving a quick Top Five list for you since there are WAY too many characters from WAY too much media that I like to keep it down to just one

So here we go!

Nagito Komaeda (SDR2) (his backstory and how fucked up he is is very interesting character wise and I like his dynamic with Hajime, but as a person/personality wise I fucking hate this lil prick and the fact he GETS AWAY WITH MOST OF IT)

Rabbit (Winnie the Pooh) (The way he acted and all the events in Springtime with Roo really have soured my view of him with how selfish and rude he was. And he has a Karen Habit he needs to kick)

Toshio Otomo (Creamy Mami, the Magic Angel) (he's just a prick who likes to tease and make fun of a literal ten year old when he's fucking around 15 years old, and the character regression Toshio went through halfway in the series does not help)

Dr. Amanda Mixter (Chucky TV Series; Season 2) (if you've seen me talk about Dr. Mixter on here before, you'll know that this lady is a literal fucking She Devil)

Dante Hicks (Clerks) (I deal with people who are like him and have the exact same attitude as him, including my own Mom, so I just fucking hate the way he acts throughout the whole first movie) (I love Clerks tho)

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What I’m Reading

BOOKS OF NOVEMBER Idlewild by Nick Sagan*  Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology edited by Shane Hawk & Theodore C. Van Alst Jr. (SS) Piranesi by Susanna Clarke* **  The Wizard Killer: Season Two by Adam Dreece  Discount Armageddon by Seanan McGuire  Dunce by Mary Ruefle (P)

Graphic Novels: My Dress-Up Darling Vol.9-10 by Shinichi Fukuda ** Akira Vol.4-6 by Katsuhiro Otomo  Sunburn by Andi Watson & Simon Gane  Brindille and the Shadow Hunters by Frédéric Brrémaud & Federico Bertolucci ** Lore Olympus Vol.1 by Rachel Smythe 

(137 books read / 145 books goal)

currently reading:  The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath edited by Karen V. Kukil (NF)  Read, Listen, Tell: Indigenous Stories From Turtle Island edited by McCall/Reder/Gaertner/Hill (NF/SS)  The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living by Ryan Holiday & Stephen Hanselman (NF) The Silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien  An Indian Among los Indígenas: A Native Travel Memoir by Ursula Pike (NF)  Other Terrors: An Inclusive Anthology edited by Vince A. Liaguno & Rena Mason (SS) Pop Song: Adventures in Art & Intimacy by Larissa Pham (NF) Prospero Lost by Jagi L. Lamplighter  Gallant by V.E. Schwab The Gargoyle by Andrew Davidson  Bestiary by Donika Kelly (P)

* - re-read // ** - 4+ star-rating (recommended) GN - graphic novel // NF - non-fiction // P - poetry SS - short story collection // AB - audiobook 

TBR: Empire of Wild by Cherie Dimaline (AB) Cat’s Eye by Margaret Atwood  Iron Widow by Xiran Jay Zhao  We’d Know By Then by Kirsten Bohling  Sorry For My Familiar Vol.7-11 by Tekka Yaguraba 

WHAT ARE YOU READING? :D

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Otomo Karen 大友花恋, Weekly SPA! 2019.10.15-22

歳/Age: 22

身長/Height: 162cm

B? - W? - H?

Twitter:?

Instagram: @karen_otomo

[aesthetics-for-harry-potter]

Moodboard of a pansexual black Ravenclaw poet in a relationship with a bisexual Japanese ballerina & architect who attended Mahoutokoro.

Face-claims: Alana Henry and Karen Otomo.

Requested by: anon.

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[mostlyfate]

had we met before? instant chemistry. why so glad you came? had we met before? laughing instantly. but it didn't feel. 

it didn't feel like thunder or lightning. but something struck me. when i was looking into your eyes. wasn't love at first sight. no fire burning bright. but now i know what it was. it was like coming home. it felt like coming home. — coming home // gamma skies

Tadashi Koi no Hajimekata 正しい恋の始めかた 2023, dir. Horie Takahiro

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Faye Huang x Megumi Fujimoto | Hua Mulan x Kaguya-hime

The Mid-Autumn Festival was finally here.

For all the grief her dual-identity gave her Faye could appreciate the Chinese traditions she still engaged in, especially since they were so few and far between. Lunar New Year, her Chinese birthday, and now this. The Moon Festival. For the first time in a long time Faye actually enjoyed going out for dim sum with her family. It just so happened Megumi was there with hers.

“I believe,” said Megumi when she saw her, “the word of the night is serendipity.”

“And I believe you’re stalking me, but sure.”

Their tables merged to form a party of seven. When they were full they excused themselves for some air, only to settle on a bench in a park across the street to admire the moon. To worship her. To reminisce and reflect.

“I wish this night would last forever,” Megumi murmured. She sighed, first throwing her legs over Faye’s lap before deciding to sit there instead, head resting on Faye’s shoulder. Eyes fluttering closed, she sighed again, this one more content. “Things are so peaceful now. I think it’s because you’re here with me. I don’t need anything else.”

Faye smiled. “Well, we always have next year.”

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HYENA Ep. 7 (Sub. Esp)

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Hey, were you two together all day yesterday? Yeah. Did you two do something special? S-Special? Special? Of course, we wouldn’t do something like that. Right, Micchan?               [We did. You can tell from how flustered Koichi got. It’s true that we did something special.]

EIEN NO KINO (2022) | EP 04

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Hotaru, you should scold him.

Itsuka, Nemuri ni Tsuku Hi (いつか、眠りにつく日) 2019, dir. Miyawaki Ryo.