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[dis-agreeable]

follow up post of the Books I Have Read This Year as well as what I would like to read before the end of the year. blows a kiss

read:

• diary of a void - emi yagi (fun fact: read this in the er on jan. 1)

• the trees grew because i bled there - eric larocca

• things have gotten worse since we last spoke and other misfortunes - eric larocca

• what moves the dead - t. kingfisher

• never have i ever - isabel yap

• the factory - hiroko oyamada

• the bees - laline paull

• days at the morisaki bookshop - satoshi yagisawa

• the housekeeper and the professor - yoko ogawa

• we have always lived in the castle - shirley jackson

• (CURRENTLY REREADING) annihilation - jeff vandermeer

• (CURRENTLY REREADING) gideon the ninth - tamsyn muir

to read:

• from the dust returned - ray bradbury (annual october read)

• the haunting of hill house - shirley jackson

• relic - preston & child (REREAD TO PREPARE FOR SEQUEL)

• reliquary - preston & child (THE SEQUEL)

• no exit - taylor adams

• harrow the ninth - tamsyn muir

• jurassic park - michael crichton

• strong female character - fern brady

• an introduction to yokai culture - komatsu kazuhiko

• yurei: the japanese ghost - zack davisson

i suppose that's it for now....

[maigeiko]

Shinbashi Geisha - from the 1997 Koryo-kai 紅緑会 program. Koryo-kai was a joint venture of various Hanamachi all around Japan, running from 1984 to 2000. Here, you can see: Aya あや, Wakaryo 若竜 Yume ゆめ, Sawako 佐和子, Hiroko 博子, Koume 小梅, Koyae 小八重 Kosen 小扇, Eriko えり子, Komatsu 小松, Komasa 小ま Aya and Yume are still active as of 2024. Hiroko retired in 2021. Koume and Komatsu retired around 2007 (present on Shinbashi Kumiai website in 2007, but not in the Azuma Odori that year) The others retired before 2007.

[japanesedoramaandanimelover91]

Today you can watch the tenth and probably the last episode of the dorama(Warau Matryoshka" ("Laughing Matryoshka") at 22.00 p.m. on japanese time and at 15.00. p.m. on european time on "TBS".

Once again, Michiue (Asami Mizukawa) meets Hiroko (Saki Takaoka) in Ainan City, Ehime Prefecture, and the latter recounts the events of her past-from being born to a Chinese mother and meeting Wadajima (Masaya Kato) to the birth of Seike (Sakurai Sho) and becoming a politician. However, he can't hear anything important, such as whether Hanussen, who is backed by Kiyoi's family, is really Hiroko, or the connection between Hiroko and the BG stock incident...

Furthermore, Hiroko claims that she wasn't the one who sent Hanussen's dissertation written by Seike, Suzuki (Tetsuji Tamayama), which creates a new mystery. So who sent this dissertation? To find answers, Michiue visits Hiroko's current husband, Komatsu (Masami Horiuchi), who turns his suspicions on a certain person.

Meanwhile, Seike begins to make unprecedented actions and pronouncements for a chief cabinet secretary, such as proposing a constitutional amendment to introduce a ‘system of public election of the prime minister...

[amamaterial]

Komatsu Hiroko, Rencontres internationales de la photographie, Arles

[ulkaralakbarova]

Time of the Apes

A female scientist and two children are accidentally transported into a future dominated by primates. Credits: TheMovieDb. Film Cast: Catherine: Reiko Tokunaga Caroline: Hiroko Saito Johnny: Masaaki Kaiji Commander: Hitoshi Ōmae Gōdo: Tetsuya Ushio …: Baku Hatakeyama Pepe: Kazue Takita …: Noboru Nakaya Film Crew: Original Story: Sakyo Komatsu Original Story: Koji Tanaka Original Story:…

[byneddiedingo]

Tokihiko Okada in The Lady and the Beard (Yasujiro Ozu, 1931)

Cast: Tokihiko Okada. Hiroko Kawasaki, Satoko Date, Choko Iida, Ichiro Tsukida, Toshiko Iizuka, Mitsuko Yoshikawa, Tatsuo Saito, Takeshi Sakamoto, Sotaro Okada, Yasuo Nanjo, Ayako Katsuragi. Screenplay: Komatsu Kitamur, Yasujiro Ozu. Cinematography: Minoru Kuribayashi, Hideo Shigehara. Film editing: Minoru Kuribayaski, Hideo Shigehara. 

The Lady and the Beard is one of Yasujiro Ozu's silent comedies that, like I Graduated, But... (1929), I Flunked, But ... (1930), and Where Now Are the Dreams of Youth? (1932), center on college students and their postgraduate life. The protagonist, Kiichi (Tokhiko Okada), affects a full beard and old-fashioned dress, which his fellow students tolerate laughingly, but which opens him to mockery when he goes home with a friend who invites him to his sister's birthday party. The young women at the party shun him. Worse, when he graduates, he discovers that the beard is an obstacle to getting a job. So he shaves it off, and suddenly finds that he's not only employable but also a magnet to marriageable young women. He rescues Hiroko (Hiroko Kawasaki) from being mugged by Furyo (Satoko Date) and her thuggish companions, and winds up attracting the attention of both women. Later, he encounters Furyo again at the hotel where he works: He thwarts her in a con job involving a piece of jewelry, but that doesn't deter her interest in him. It's a likable little comedy with an endearing performance by Okada. I occasionally had trouble following some of the narrative, whether because of cultural differences or missing footage -- the print shows signs of damage. As often with Ozu's early films, he shows his inspiration in the form of movie posters on the characters' walls: Kiichi's room has a poster of a Laurel and Hardy movie. Ozu credits himself, under his pseudonym James Maki, as the film's gag writer. 

[reijisaito]

50秒

昨年参加した「50秒」が恵比寿映像祭にて再上映されます。 東京都写真美術館1階ホールでの上映となります。会期中は毎日上映されますが、日によって上映時間が変わりますのでご注意ください。

『50秒』

参加アーティスト :青木真莉子、青木陵子、青崎伸孝、秋吉風人、麻生晋佑、荒川医、荒木悠、池崎拓也、イッタ・ヨダ、 伊藤存、江口悟、岡田理、片岡純也＋岩竹理恵、金村修、KAYA (デボ・アイラース＋ケルスティン・ブレチュ)、窪田隆之、COBRA、小松浩子、佐藤純也、 アーロン・ジェント、庄司朝美、���橋耕平、たちばなひろし、田中和人、玉山拓郎、ナヴィッド・ヌール、 花代＋斎藤玲児、甫木元空、 細倉真弓、増本泰斗、サトミ・マツザキ、間部百合、南川史門、森田浩彰

詳細：https://www.yebizo.com/jp/program/2454

＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿ The “50 seconds”  exhibition of video works by a total of 34 artists, which the Kyoto-based artist-run space “soda” around director TANAKA Kazuhito presented in November 2022, is once again repeated at the Yebisu International Festival for Art & Alternative Visions 2023.  127 years after the Lumière brothers unveiled their 50-second-long landmark film Workers Leaving the Lumière Factory in 1895, selected contemporary artists show works that are each just as long. The program at large explores new possibilities of the moving image as an art form.  Event produced by: TANAKA Kazuhito (Director, soda) Artists: AOKI Mariko, AOKI Ayako, AOZAKI Nobutaka, AKIYOSHI Futo, ASO Shinsuke, ARAKAWA Ei, ARAKI Yu, IKEZAKI Takuya, Ittah Yoda, ITO Zon, EGUCHI Satoru, OKADA Shizuka, KATAOKA Junya + IWATAKE Rie, KANEMURA Osamu, KAYA (Debo EILERS and Kerstin BRÄTSCH), KUBOTA Takayuki, COBRA, KOMATSU Hiroko, Aron GENT, SHOJI Asami, TAKAHASHI Kohei, TACHIBANA Hiroshi, TANAKA Kazuhito, TAMAYAMA Takuro, Navid NUUR, Hanayo + SAITO Reiji, HOKIMOTO Sora, HOSOKURA Mayumi, MASUMOTO Yasuto, Satomi MATSUZAKI, MANABE Yuri, MINAMIKAWA Shimon, MORITA

[snknews]

Shingeki no Kyojin Season 4: Post-Episode Illustrations (Part I || Part II)

Episode 11 (70) | Deceiver | Gabi by Sugimoto Michelle Episode 12 (71) | Guides | Mikasa, Hitch, & Armin by Ibun Shoya Episode 13 (72) | Children of the Forest | Gabi, Eren, Zeke, Mikasa, Armin & Braus family by Hone Hone Episode 14 (73) | Savagery | Eren, Armin, & Mikasa by Komatsu Hiroko Episode 15 (74) | Sole Salvation | Young Zeke & Tom Ksaver by Lu Taiwei Episode 16 (75) | Above and Below | Pieck & Gabi by Kishi Kaori

See Also: SnK Season 1 End Cards || SnK Season 2 Post-Episode Illustrations || SnK Season 3 Post-Episode Illustrations

Related News: Collections || MAPPA || Photos: Official Art || Season 4 || Staff

[trashexplorer]

BLCD Review: 25-ji, Akasaka de

Title: 25-ji, Akasaka de (25時、赤坂で)

Author/Artist: Natsuno Hiroko

Release Date: 2020/12/16

Cast: Satou Takuya x Saitou Souma *fucking finally in all meanings

Synopsis: Yuki Shirasaki finally lands a huge role in TV drama Afternoon Dreams after years of toiling in theater. With popular actor Asami Hayama as his costar, Shirasaki plays a gay character in a relationship. But, Shirasaki has zero dating experience with either men or women. Shirasaki struggles to express his character’s feelings and takes drastic measures to become a better actor.

To better embrace his new role, Shirasaki goes to a gay bar to find someone to sleep with for the experience. There, he runs into Hayama. How will Shirasaki react when Asami offers him his body? (futekiya)

Review Proper

I admittedly didn’t have a lot of expectations for this. I thought that this was going to turn out like Dakaretai Otoko Ichii at worst and Romance with Etude at best, but yo, THIS IS THE FUCKING BEST ACTORS BL I HAVE EVER READ/LISTENED TO IN MY LIFE. It was so good that I stopped typing after that last sentence and re-read/listened to the whole thing. The art was so sensual, you guys.

I MEAN-

THE SENSUALITY SENSUALISM SENSUALIZATION???

I’m not going to be talking more of the plot here because there’s actually nothing that unique about it and there aren’t any major conflicts here (which is a good thing!). It’s also pretty straightforward and is more of a when they than a will they. The execution on this tho was flawless. These dorks aren’t one dimensional at all and I’m especially glad at how they were able to portray Asami-san as more than his cool persona. 👌

ANYWAY, MOVING ON TO THE FUCKING VOICE ACTING—

I just came from listening to that devastating Ono Yuuki waterfall of sex that was Love Hole 303, so I was definitely not ready for SatoTaku’s 24/7 bedroom voice shop! Y’ALL I FEEL VIOLATED. THIS WAS MORE INTENSE THAN HIS ALKIL SEND HELP. If I’m more Okitsu and Saitou Souma trash in BLCDs, pls know that I’m mega Nakamo, SatoTaku, Makonyan, and Katou Masayuki trash in R18 Otome CDs. That being said, I have never heard this SatoTaku voice in a BLCD before. I mean, Alkil was definitely almost at this level, but to be in a bedroom voice throughout the whole CD is definitely more of an R18 Otome CD thing. HOW DARE YOU BRING THAT KIND OF WEAPON IN THE BLCD INDUSTRY WORLD, SIR. Y’ALL YOU GOTTA LISTEN TO THAT BIT WHERE HE CAME CHASING AFTER SHIRASAKI-KUN’S ASS AND SAID: IRETE KUNNAI (let me in)???

IRETE KUNNAI WHERE, SIR???

Wasn’t this the guy who voiced that clueless bloke in Koi o Suru Tsumori Nakatta??? You know who he sounds like here? Fucking Midorin. This isn’t what I signed up for. 😩 This is (sorry Alkil) the best I’ve ever heard SatoTaku as a top. And I know I say this every time I listen to a new CD of actor so and so, but istg, this will be my favorite of his for a long long time.

As for Saitou Souma—wait, I’m literally exhausted reliving the memory while typing this out gimme a few seconds. Anyway, Saitou Souma slayed yet again—no surprise there. I do gotta say that the tone he used here was so similar to Maufuyu’s that I was hearing Mafuyu so clearly in the first few minutes of the track. The plot’s also a little reminiscent of Given because here we have another rookie and a seasoned talent as leads. I’m even 100% sure that Saitou Souma was chosen for this role because of his Mafuyu. BUT THAT ISN’T EXACTLY A BAD THING! Also, like I don’t already praise SS enough, this man was so good at acting bad that I’m just

WHY DO YOU ALWAYS NEED TO BE THIS GOOD, HUH?! YOU REALLY BE OUT HERE STEALING WEAVES, HUH?! ALSO, HAPPY BELATED 30TH BIRTHDAY, YOU TALENTED BASTARD. 

Like what went down with Kurowashi 2, my time listening to this was pandemonium. I gotta stop listening to SatoTaku works in the middle of the night because I tend to drool and choke on my retainers. IT WAS THAT GOOD, FOLKS. READ/LISTEN TO THIS RIGHT NOW AND DO SOME SPLITS WITH ME. There are rearranged dialogues and adlibs here and there, but they aren’t really that major. I guess, the only issue I have with this is the fucking recycled bgm. 😂 I’ve heard these bgms specifically in Kimitte Yatsu wa and Koi o Suru Tsumori wa Nakatta, but I’m sure that they’ve been used in a lot more CDs than I can remember. I mean, they’re using the same sound staff and all, but it wouldn’t hurt to be more creative sometimes, right? Anyway, other than that, I DEFINITELY RECOMMEND THE MANGA AND BLCD. I NEED THE SEQUELS TO BE ADAPTED TOO OR I WILL LITERALLY WILT. 😭😭😭 futekiya! has licensed this, so it even has a well-deserved official English translation. I love how these past two BLCDs are low-key about the bottoms wanting the D and the top always having blue balls lmao. This makes me fear the outcome of the next BLCD tho because we can’t have all the luck in the world 

[demifiendrsa]

Attack on Titan: The Final Season episode 14 (episode 73) illustration by Hiroko Komatsu

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[ourmondobongo]

Oh!! I'm excited Chief Animation Directors include Hiroko Komatsu because he was the Animation Director of ep 78 (Two Brothers!!), and that episode was BEAUTIFUL

And Fumihide Sai was Animation Director of eps 77, 82-83

And Hiroshi Seko is working on AoT since season 01, and he has even written AoT Lost Girls novel and the OVA script!!

[recentanimenews]

Hiroko Moriguchi Sings "Mobile Suit Gundam III" Film Insert Song "Beginning" with Gospel Chorus Group

    Following the Jazz-arranged "Tobe! Gundam" (TV anime Mobile Suit Gundam OP theme), the official YouTube channel for singer Hiroko Moriguchi has posted a music video for "Beginning" (Anime film Mobile Suit Gundam III: Encounters in Space insert song) from her new album "GUNDAM SONG COVERS 3." The song was originally composed/sung by the late Daisuke Inoue, who also provided the film's iconic theme song "Meguriai."

  With the concept of "Gundam Song Cover Album for Adults", the first album "GUNDAM SONG COVERS" was released in 2019, then reached No.3 in Oricon's weekly album chart and even won the Japan Record Awards' Planning Award that year. Then the second album "GUNDAM SONG COVERS 2" followed in 2020, ranking No. 2 in the Oricon album chart. The total sales of the two albums have exceeded 200,000 copies.

  The third and final album of the Gundam cover song series, "GUNDAM SONG COVERS 3" is set to be released on March 9, 2022. The album consists of a selection of male vocal songs from many Gundam songs.

  The Voices of Japan (VOJA), a chorus group founded by gospel singer Tomoka Kamebuchi, performed with Moriguchi to create this magnificent cover version of "Beginning." The music video shows off a beautiful image of Moriguchi singing with the VOJA members in a mysterious space with images of space and the ocean floor.

    "Beginning / with VOJA" MV:

    "GUNDAM SONG COVERS 3" CD jacket:

    Song list:

   1. "Tobe! Gundam" (Mobile Suit Gundam OP)

 2. "G no Senkou / with Kotaro Oshio" (Gundam Reconguista in G ED)

 3. "BEYOND THE TIME ~Mobius no Sora wo Koete~ / with TM NETWORK" (Mobile Suit Gundam: Char's Counterattack theme song)

 4. "Ikustumo no Ai wo Kasanete / with SALT&SUGAR" (Mobile Suit Victory Gundam insert song)

 5. "Suna no Jujika" (Mobile Suit Gundam 1st compilation film theme song)

 6. "STAND UP TO THE VICTORY" / with Masayoshi Oishi" (Mobile Suit Victory Gundam insert song OP)

 7. "RIVER / with Naoko Terai" (Mobile Suit Gundam SEED ED)

 8. "Meteor" (Mobile Suit Gundam SEED insert song)

 9. "Turn A Turn / with Daisuke Kaminaga (Wagakki Band)" (Turn A Gundam OP)

 10. "Beginning / with VOJA" （Mobile Suit Gundam III: Encounters in Space insert song)

   BONUS TRACK

 11. "Mobile Suit Z Gundam Medley / with Maya Ayukawa"

    "Tobe! Gundam" MV:

    Source: Hiroko Moriguchi official YouTube channel

  © Copyright King Record.Co.,Ltd.All Rights Reserved.

  By: Mikikazu Komatsu

[jigokuyeah]

Matt Alt, co-author of Yokai Attack: the Japanese Monster Survival Guide, Japandemonium Illustrated: the Yokai Encyclopedias of Toriyama Sekien, posted this announcement on the Yokai Attack Facebook group:

Big news: there's a new yokai book available in English. "An Introduction to Yokai Culture" by Professor Kazuhiko Komatsu of the International Research Center for Japanese Studies. Hiroko and I translated, with editing by Matt Treyvaud - the same trio who brought you "Japandemonium Illustrated" (and in fact the two projects overlapped to some degree.) "An Introduction to Yokai Culture" is not a cheap book -- I hear the list price is $39 -- but it's also an important one for several reasons. For one thing, it is the first college-level text on yokai studies by a Japanese professor available in English. And for another, it goes into great detail on many yokai-related topics that haven't yet received a lot of attention abroad, such as ijin (outsiders) and tsukimono (animal-spirit possessions). It is a roadmap for how folklore studies developed in Japan, and a key work for anyone truly interested in taking their study of yokai to the next level. At the moment it seems to only be available through Kinokuniya (a friend spotted a stack at their San Francisco branch), but it should be available through other channels soon. I just wanted to post for those interested enough to call over for an early copy. http://www.jpic.or.jp/japanlibrary/en/books/001813.html

[cattype]

There’s a new English translation of a yokai book written by renowned Japanese folklorist Professor Kazuhiko Komatsu. I’ll make a proper post for @jigokuyeah with more info later if I can. Right now I’m too tired to think. For now you can just click these links to learn more.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/483612525034770/permalink/1421894481206565/

http://www.jpic.or.jp/japanlibrary/en/books/001813.html

[natsspammityspamspamham]

Basically, it’s something like that.

The timestamps are from the comments. I’m going to add their names and some comments from me in (if I feel like they’re needed) at the bottom. Keep in mind, there is usually a lot of vocal editing for talent shows, and I’m not a singer myself and can only guess about the vocal techniques and difficulty. 

Hosted by Junichi Suwabe and Kana Ueda!

1. 16:30「God knows…」平野綾 (Aya Hirano) 2. 21:10「銀河鉄道999」武内駿輔 (Shunsuke Takeuchi) 3. 33:10「昭和ブルース」大塚明夫 (Akio Ootsuka) 4. 36:30「手のひらの宇宙」岩男潤子 (Junko Iwao) 5. 52:05「愛としか呼べない」堀内賢雄 (Kenyu Horiuchi) 6. 56:08「Shooting Star」井上喜久子 (Kikuko Inoue) 7. 63:25「水中飛行論における多角的アプローチ」平川大輔 (Daisuke Hirakawa) 8. 67:50「ブルーバード」井上ほの花  (Honoka Inoue) 9. 84:25「チャンピオン」大塚明夫、黒田崇矢 (Akio Ootsuka and Takaya Kuroda) 10. 90:50「トップをねらえ!～Fly High～」日高のり子、中川翔子 (Noriko Hidaka and Shoko Nakagawa) 11. 99:03「創聖のアクエリオン」岩男潤子、平野綾 (Junko Iwao and Aya Hirano) 12. 112:00「桜」井上和彦、内田直哉、堀内賢雄 (Kazuhiko Inoue, Naoya Uchida, Kenyu Horiuchi) 13. 125:10「コンディション・グリーン～緊急発進～」笠原弘子 (Hiroko Kasahara) 14. 129:06「必ず景色は変わる」黒田崇矢 (Takaya Kuroda) 15. 136:15「ゲキテイ(檄!帝国華撃団)」横山智佐 (Chisa Yokoyama) 16. 139:46「戦闘男児～鍛えよ勝つために～」関智一、秋元羊介 (Tomokazu Seki and Yousuke Akimoto) 17. 152:58「Maybe the next waltz」小松未可子 (Mikako Komatsu) 18. 157:26「Day you laugh」豊永利行 (Toshiyuki Toyonaga) 19. 165:40「空色デイズ」中川翔子 (Shoko Nakagawa) 20. 169:55「ああ電子戦隊デンジマン」内田直哉 (Naoya Uchida) 21. 185:21「ハート ないしょ/2」日高のり子 (Noriko Hidaka) 22. 189:14「誰がために」井上和彦 (Kazuhiko Inoue) 23. 206:08「GO!!!」全員歌唱 (Everyone)

I just underlined by favourites

Aya Hirano’s still got it! After 13 years, she’s still got it!

Shunsuke Takeuchi, Akio Ootsuka, and Junko Iwao’s performances weren’t bad. Akio was kind of surprising. The same goes for Kenyu Horiuchi. Seriously, I know both for playing those really ominous characters. 

It’s a running joke amongst fans and the fandom that Kikuko Inoue is forever 17 (she’s 54 years old?!?!?!) She’s the mother of Honoka Inoue.

I didn’t enjoy Daisuke Hirakawa’s performance partially because I didn’t watch Free and partially because I have eardrums and a clear conscience (okay, that was a little overly harsh. Really, it just didn’t stack up compared other performances).

Honoka Inoue was good considering I know the original so much (and like it a lot). Her mom Kikuko Inoue even joined her on stage! Considering that this song has a lot of difficulties as well, they did a good job! (Even though it was a little rough)

Nothing stuck out so I just skipped to Mikako Komatsu because I love that song. Of course, I knew it would turn out this way. This song takes a lot of air to get to that range, and at speed with little rests, it’s hard. For that reason, I was impressed even if it was rough compared to the studio version. 

Toshiyuki Toyonaga did so well!!! One of the best that I’ve seen in this video!!! He owned the stage, performed well, and was fun to watch!

I don’t mean to be harsh, but I was expecting better out of Kakashi-- I mean Kazuhiko Inoue.

That final song was so much fun! Dude, that’s one of the most iconic theme songs for Naruto for me.