#karen otomo

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

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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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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 

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fausto reviews things: triple threat!

Today I’ve got not one, not two, but three movie reviews for y’all! They’re all movies i stopped watching before the ten minute mark because they fucking suck. they are listed in the order i watched them, but it’s also in descending order of enjoyability.

First up we have Lifeforce the 1985 sci fi version of “don’t go in there!”. Everyone makes terrible decisions the like of which boggles the mind. First off, when we get our ship close to Haley’s comet, the radio goes out. now if you were in this situation would you:

A) fuck off and leave well enough alone B) back up your space ship until the radio comes back on to tell ground base what’s going on or C) keep going as if nothing is wrong

and if you picked C, i’m judging you severely. and of course that’s just what the movie does. and there’s this sort of… british masculinity? that is the driving force behind all of this. like the reason they keep going really is just so they get to be the first people to do the thing, but instead of the giddy american masculinity that comes with being the first to do something there’s this reserved britishness to everything and i just hate it so much. it reeks of colonialism and i’d have to rewatch the ten minutes of movie to more accurately explain why it’s just so unbearably british, but i’m not going to do that because it’s unpleasant. And then part of the crew goes into the giant phalic space ship that’s  jamming their radio and it jams the crew to ship radio but by god we’re going to keep going! and after ignoring several more signs of danger they end up with three crystalized/suspended animation naked humans (the girl is the most beautiful thing the captain’s ever seen) and a desiccated alien space bat on board and go back to earth, but when the ship gets back to earth they still can’t communicate with the ground crew so earth blasts off another space ship, docks with the other one, and they find out everyone is dead! dun dun dun! except the three naked crystal people are fine and still in there.

at this point i turned it off but apparently those three crystal people are vampires, hence the alien space bats in the penis ship from the comet.

and unlike most of my reviews, let’s focus on the positives for a change: the special effects are so freaking 80s the fact that the script and premise is terrible i didn’t really care. but the one two punch of bad writting plus it being british pushed this movie over the edge out of cult classic fun into just plain boring. this is the kind of movie i’d only attempt a rewatch if it was dubbed into another language, preferable one i don’t speak.

And coming in at number two we have Steamboy, the 2004 steampunk childhood movie directed by Katsuhiro Otomo, the guy who directed Akira. I don’t know how to describe this movie other than it’s like watching Laputa dubbed into british english. i could tell where this movie was going and i knew i wasn’t going to enjoy it from the vaguely studio ghibli esque vibes but mostly from the britishness of it. and it’s not the kind of britishness you can ignore if you watch it in the original japanese so no second chance for this movie.

And crashing in at number three we have Jumanji: the next level. as this is the *checks notes* fourth jumanji movie but i haven’t seen 2 and 3 i figured i’d be missing something. what was missing was a writer. i can’t believe someone would have enough money to hire Danny Devito, Danny Glover, Jack Black, the Rock, Kevin Hart, and Karen Gillan but not have enough in the budget for a writer.

actually i take all that back, there must have been a writer because i don’t believe for a second that Danny Devito and Danny Glover could have a casual conversation sitting at a table and have it be boring if they were ab libbing it. someone was purposefully making them be not funny.

Then we have the four college aged characters: a rich blonde girl with a heart of gold, a black guy who plays sports, the girl friend who may or may not have broken up with the main character, and the main character with depression. and mr depression decides to do the “i’m going to disappear and wait for my friends to come find me because that will prove they love me” thing but into the jumanji game. so basically he’s forcing his friends to risk their lives to save him. that is such a dick move. i mean the non risk your life version is a dick move but holy mother of god, forcing your friends to risk their lives to save yours for a little serotonin? like what the fuck? i hate the main character so much it’s unreal. i want to hunt down the guy who wrote this character and punch him in the face. *checks notes* Jake Kasdan, Jeff Pinkner, and Scott Rosenberg. I want to punch all three of them in the face, no scratch that, i want to line them up and do a dramatic slap that gets all three of them three stooges style then come back and get them again with a back hand.

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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

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When One Day I Will Sleep (2019)

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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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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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HYENA Ep. 7 (Sub. Esp)

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