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sambart93 · 7 years

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2017.05.20 OEdo no Candy 2 Event and Movie Review!

I got a chance to go to another OEdo Candy event and I got to go to the showing of the new movie plus they had a butai aisatsu (stage greeting) from some of the cast after.

*PSST: if you just want to read about the stage greeting then Ctrl F and ‘Stage Greeting’. It’s at the bottom of the page/post.

First the MOVIE REVIEW

NON-SPOILER REVIEW

Overall: This is partly what I was expecting and partly not. I was expecting it to be fantastical and romancy、 BUT I wasn’t expecting it to be so fairy-like and lots of glittery special effects and weird colour tones and such. It definitely makes it all the more magical and luckily, isn’t too distracting. Also it wasn’t as BL-y as I was under the impression of. I wish this movie had been longer. I needed and wanted more character development. The visuals were amazing, it was very funny (which I also wasn’t expecting) and the characters were great. It’s definitely an Indie-styled movie. It’s not a clean cut, it’s not professional looking, the editor purposefully leaves in real actor mistakes that happened for comic relief. BUT it’s enjoyable, fascinating and I’m glad it ended with a ‘To Be Continued’. Rating: 7/10

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Now for cast and spoiler section and everything:

CAST

Kurihara Rui aka Louis Aramaki Yoshihiko aka MakiChan Someya Toshiyuki aka Someyan Fujita Tom Akazawa Tomoru aka Tomorun Kamiya Riku Shiono Akihisa Asuma Kousuke Yura Achiha Hiko Robin Komina Kouji Nakamura Kaito Tokito Kishimoto Takuya aka KishiTaku Izumi Shuuhei Moriya Koji Kazuki Haru Doi Kazumi Hashimoto Zenitsu Nakajima Ken Nihira Shougo aka Shougokun Mori Issei Dairi IG Saya Onuki Yuusuke Mayama Akihiro Takahashi Hiromu Sano Shirou Fukikoshi Mitsuru Takenaka Naoto Koizumi Kyouko

That’s a fucking long list xD anyway!

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SPOILER REVIEW

I am going to go into a lot of detail about scenes and plot so you’ve been warned. Also I still haven’t seen the first movie so I many have left stuff out or not understand some parts because of that. Okay, let’s start!

The Movie Itself

Already mentioned in the non-spoiler section but: It was more Indie than I was expecting. I knew it wouldn’t be a perfect Toho cinematic-like movie because it has stage actors in and they usually have the more raw and not quite polished movies, but the director has been on Shabekuri007 and the cast is stella, top stage actors AND some HUGE TV names are in this cast, so I was expecting some professionalism but I was so wrong! It’s so, so Indie in it’s style. The cuts and edits aren’t quite so clean, the special effects are ridiculously fake but make everything look so pretty. The colouring and tone of the movie, especially when they’re in Underworld, is very obvious and like shades of green and blue rather than natural colours. So I was a little surprised at first. It’s obvious straight away that it’s Indie style, but I like this style thankfully so it didn’t bother me for long. I like this style; it’s definitely a style I enjoy but some people won’t.

Continuing on about the use of colour and sparkle effects when they were in the Underland; they were definitely creative and entertaining. For example there’s this sparkler like movement and light that goes around the characters, and at one point, love hearts are falling down around Someya and Riku when they finally meet and they realise they’re fated to be together. Just like these pics:

At first the special effects were very jarring and distracting BUT I got used to them. Although(!) it’s going to be annoying as fuck when it comes out of DVD because we ALL want to get those pretty and good shots of our favourite actors, but because the sparkles and such that just go all over their faces and everything, they aren’t going to be the best of shots. They should bring out an unfiltered version for us! They’ll make more money that way too!! xD

This movie was a lot less gay than I was expecting. Especially because on Tsutaya’s (a Japanese rental website and store) website the first OEdo movie is labelled as ‘erotica’ but like... there’s two kiss scenes, some rope scenes, and implied whipping but that’s all! But I guess Japanese censorship is more sensitive that way? I’d just say this is a PG-12, it’s really nothing too raunchy.

This movie was FUNNY! Funny as fuck! I wasn’t expecting it to be funny at all! I laughed the entire time! Either because of the stuff happening in the movie itself was funny, or because knowing the actors and their personalities it’s funny. It’s also very purposefully funny, like the editor saw a mistake and was like ‘that’s hilarious! Keep it in!'. Especially Asuma’s scene and the Masturi/Festival scene which I’ll explain later. There’s definitely scenes that happened by mistake or weren’t part of the script, but the editor and director purposefully left them in the final cut to give the audience a laugh and embarrass the actors xD

The story is simple-ish enough to understand and it’s very fun to watch, but like I said in my non-spoiler review; I wish this movie was longer so we could’ve gotten MORE plot and MORE character development and MORE comedy,. I just want MORE. Luckily at the end it said ‘To Be Continued’ however I assume the cast will change again(?) just like it did between the first and second movie, which is a shame because I’d like as much of this cast back as possible.

The Actors and Characters and Their Scenes

Kurihara Rui:

He surprised me. I’ve seen him in person and I’ve seen him on tv as himself many times and he very much has the persona of someone who is very emo-like with life and very monotone and doesn’t like to smile and is very witty but straight faced when he jokes. Even when I saw him at the first OEdo event he was like this! But in the movie, he at least had facial expressions! At first he didn’t but then we see him freaking out in the bathroom and being concerned. For the most part he stays as himself but I was surprised he could actually give SOME sort of acting performance. He is model so of course he looks damn pretty in his white outfit, and his skin looks freaking flawless as fuck in this movie. But I am very happy and surprised from the performance he did give.

Aramaki Yoshihiko:

My boy... first I have a bone to pick with you Aramaki Yoshi-always-straight-hiko!!!! (Can you tell what it is yet?)

OF COURSE MakiChan is the ONLY (no wait Asuma is too but he’s not a main character) straight person in this movie! EVERYONE else is obviously gay but oh no MakiChan just HAS to be the straight character -__- I was hoping for him and Akazawa to have a thing going on in this, instead of him denying he’s in love with his childhood female friend the entire movie -__- oh well! Least he’s somewhat gay in Honoo no Mirage... one day I’ll get my gay movie from him! I better! All stage actors have one! Also you work with Shosan a lot and he’s done quite a few! Also Baba and TakaChan! Come on Maki! GIVE ME MY GAY MAKICHAN MOVIE! I’m okay... moving on...

MakiChan’s character was chara (how would you even translate ‘chara’ in English?! ‘Playboy’? or ‘Likes to mess around’?) as fuck though. His first scene is him opening a very posh person’s door to reveal a very posh and stuck up girl and takes her through his izakaya while winking at his mates that he’s ‘gotten in there’. Then at the end of the date she pulls him slightly into the car and kisses him on the cheek. Once she’s left, he’s like ‘yes I’ve scored!’ BUT at the same time is totally adorable because he’s over the moon by just a simple kiss and can’t take his hand off his cheek where she kissed him! He was both chara and cute at the same time! Also the next day he’s with Shiono and is holding a teddy and just being so cute and child-like that he got a kiss from the most popular girl in his university xD Just adorableness galore from MakiChan! With the teddybear = adorable. Trying his hardest to join in on the (real) matsuri/festival = adorable! When he wakes up at the end = ADORABLE!

ALSO very badass when he attacks and kills Robin in a second! Also OMG! In the beginning he sees his dad come out of the Boys Bar that’s next door to the izakaya, and he chases his dad down and is like ‘you’re not gay?!’ and his dad’s like ‘why you think your mother and I.... anyway I’m gay. You do realise I’m gay right? You might not understand but that’s how it is!’ And the next day MakiChan turns to Shiono and is like ‘my dad told me he’s gay...what the fuck?!’ xD And his dad was being played by FREAKING Takenaka Naoto! TAKENAKA NAOTO! He’s a freaking movie and TV star! He’s amazing in whatever he does and he was in this?! And with MakiChan?! AND as MakiChan’s DAD?! And being a GAY daddy?! He was fabulous and amazing (as always) in this!

Speaking of Akazawa and MakiChan. I really loved their relationship and my head thinks they were dating in it even though his character is supposed to be straight, and I think Akazawa’s character was supposed to be in love with Rui’s character in the UnderWorld. Nevertheless their relationship was great BECAUSE MakiChan’s character in the Underworld cannot speak, he’s mute, and luckily Akazawa can hear him via telepathy which was cute so Akazawa helped MakiChan out a lot.

I can confirm that for many many months even before the movie first came out, MakiChan and co were saying you can hear them say ‘facial’ instead of ‘washoi’ during the festival scene, and I can confirm that they do in fact say ‘facial’ instead of ‘washoi’ in the scene xD I was giggling quite a bit.

Little side note: In UnderWorld he is the only character who has a recollection and memories of his time in the Real World.

Finally! As disgusting as it sounds (but shouldn’t be a surprise if you know me) MakiChan’s underarm hair made a special guest appearance and it made me VERY happy <3 why am I so fucking weird...MOVING ON!

Someya Toshiyuki:

Someya is so pretty when he dresses up and has make up in a more feminine manner! He was gorgeous! I could not look away! And the kiss with Someya and Riku was perfect though! It was rather heart-racey but nothing too heart-racey (am I even getting enough oxygen to my brain right now to be able to talk about this properly?!) xD

BUT! One moment that got me giggling though is when Someya takes like 5 minutes to cut Riku’s rope from his hands -- it really doesn’t take that long! It wasn’t that thick of a rope at all and I just cracked up the longer the scene went. I get it was a long scene so they could keep talking and so the sexual tension between them built up but it was a ridiculous amount of time.

Why did he have to die though?! Riku gets killed by Tom so then Someya kills himself with a knife in front of Tom and because Tom has essentially lost the person he loves he shoots himself in the head! ... I’ve just realised how freaking Romeo and Juliet this all is... it literally is just a movie about romance and being dramatic and everyone dying and/or killing themselves for the people they love xD what the fuck... it’s still good though!

Fujita Tom:

Surprisngly Tom’s character was pretty interesting! I don’t know why I expected him not to be because I was impressed with him in Kamen Rider Amazons and I enjoyed seeing him in person last time...

I liked his character. He was like a warlord and looked very good upon his throne. I liked both his Real World and UnderWorld Character. His Real World character works in the freaking Boys Bar along with Someya. In fact the entire Boys Bar scene and location itself is ridiculous and hilarious! It’s this very loud, strip-bar which is right next to MakiChan’s brother’s (played by Riku) izakaya and that’s why they have conflict, because they can hear the Boys Bar’s music every night. Seriously the entire Boys Bar scene is amazing, I think I enjoyed it a bit too much xD Anyway, back to Tom; I liked both his character but was short lived, again leading back to the whole ‘I needed more from this movie’ complaint.

Akazawa Tomoru:

I remember that in the last event, the director commented (probably during the Making video) on how big Akazawa’s eyes are, and seriously, while watching this movie, they really are huge! It doesn’t help he has these blue eye contacts in that really light his face up (not in a stupid way! A natural way!) so they looked obviously bigger compared to everyone else too.

But damn Akazawa’s death scene was sad and upsetting =[ It was so quick and unexpected too! He was seriously struggling =‘[ he got his neck slit open and was on the floor in his pool of blood coughing and trying to save the others before they get killed, and he’s like ‘I’m so glad you weren’t here (when they came <-- they being Tom’s group who are after Rui because he’s some magical white fairy thing I think).

Kamiya Riku:

He is MakiChan’s brother in this! But also Someya’s fated lover. A majpr plot of the story is that until he meets Someya (again) in the real world, he doesn’t remember anything except his family. He’s a very quiet character but once he finds Someya the amount of love you can see in his eyes towards Someya and how his face completely softens when he sees Someya, it’s so adorable!

Shiono Akihisa:

Shiono is a freaking puppy! He’s in love with his and MakiChan’s childhood friend, but she’s in love with MakiChan and instead of confessing his love to her, -- although there is a hypothetical scene that plays out where he tells her to forget MakiChan and hugs her and confesses his love to her but! -- he lets her go and holds back so in the end, her and MakiChan can get together! He’s too precious for this world! He’s so sweet! He also does the Matsuri with MakiChan which is great too! It was a short time but you could easily see their long friendship shine through their scenes together.

Asuma Kousuke:

Asuma’s character had a lisp and it was fucking hilarious. Several times in the movie, the characters (to his character) were like ‘why do you say Sa Si Su Se So instead of Sa Shi Su Se So’ It was a funny bit every time, especially when he was like ‘I don’t speak weird!’ and they all laughed. His character also got slapped a lot by the other characters as another form of comic relief.

Also in his very first scene, he clearly (the actor, not the character) overhits the wooden overhead part and makes a huge noise, you can see slight pain in his face, and everyone in the room (I was in) pissed themselves laughing. It was obviously a ‘the actor accidentally did it but we thought it was hilarious so left it in the movie’ moment.

By the way, Asuma it TOO tall and TOO skinny! xD

Robin:

His visual and the metal arm armour he has is badass! He looks so good in his costume and seriously that arm is soooo amazing! Even the cast and staff commented on how nice it is and Robin was happy he got to wear such a cool looking thing. His character is like an assassin but is so easily killed by MakiChan in one swift and quick movement -- it was an awesome scene! But unfortunately it turns out MakiChan didn’t completely and successfully kill him because as MakiChan tries to help Someya get Riku, Robin comes from behind and stabs him and he dies. But it was a cool movement when MakiChan ninja-slashed him.

Nakamura Kaito:

This little cutie! Him and Tokito were like supposed to be waiting on Someya but spent most of their time being pretty dumb (in an adorable way) and playing games with each other. Especially when MakiChan turns on Tom (he uses a sleeping drug on him) and Robin, after slashing Robin, the two of them are hugging one another and going ‘please don’t kill us!’ and MakiChan lets them go. It was such an adorable moment from them. It was cut when they played Rock-Paper-Scissors together too.

Kishimoto Takuya:

His guests appearance was absolutely hilarious! So he plays the driver of car of the women who MakiChan takes to his izakaya. And once out of view of the izakaya, she tells KishiTaku to stop the car. Here she removes her shoes and puts her feet on the headrest infront of her (she’s in the back seat behind Kishi who’s driving) and her feet are either side of his face and he’s like ‘o_O’ and ‘=O’ but also super enjoying it. I’m pretty sure she ends up putting her feet ON his face and he’s goes into this like orgasmic state and enjoys it thoroughly. His character was so amusing.

Doi Kazumi and Nihira Shougo:

There were some great cameos from people like Doi Kazumi (who was a worker at the Boys Bar) and Kishimoto Takuya (seriously KishiTaku’s part was hilarious! I am not doing it justice above!), also freaking Takenaka Naoto (who I already fangirled over)!

Furthermore, I freaked during the All Boys Bar scene when for a SPLIT (literally a split, split second) when I saw my very own Shougo-kun!! It was a moment of ‘*double take* wait what?!’ when I saw him. I practically jumped out of my seat when I found him! I was so shocked and excited to see him in it because I was not expecting him! I immediately tweeted him after seeing the movie and was like ‘why didn’t I know?! But also I’m impressed at how quickly I spotted you xD’ which makes me seem super stalkery xD oh well! But I am so proud of my boy and when I saw his name in the credits and realised I was right about spotting him, I was a very happy girl ^_^

Hashimoto Zenitsu:

He ends up being MakiChan’s dad’s entertainment in the Boys Bar and they look so freaking hilarious with each other. Knowing Takenaka he was the one super into the role and being like ‘lets do this! lets really do this’ and making it look so lovey dovey and sickly and funny as possible and I imagine Zenitsu was just going along with it. It’s such a good but short scene with them two.

Sano Shirou and Fukikoshi Mitsuru:

These two HUGE tv stars guest starring in this movie. I’ve always liked both of them (and Takenaka) and I really liked Fukikoshi’s character! He was very funny! Especially towards the end when MakiChan(I think?) is trying to explain what happened in Underworld and Fukikoshi is asleep the entire time xD

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After the Movie, it was the CAST EVENT/STAGE GREETING:

It was: Aramakaki Yoshihiko (duh that’s why I went xD), Asuma Kousuke, Robin, Nakamura Kaito and Takahashi Zenitsu.

I was second row to the right-hand side (and the row behind me and all the seats to my right were empty, so safe to say it was obvious when he was looking at me), so as soon as MakiChan came on stage, he saw me and smiled at me ^_^ Then at another point in the talk show, Asuma was talking and I was giggling silently and very hard at him, and MakiChan saw me and had to stop himself from laughing - he made that ‘holding back the smiling/laughing’ type face. I feel guilty for making him almost crack up on stage but also special because only me and him know why.

They first had a Mini-Talk but I don’t really remember what happened or what was said but I remember laughing a lot - sorry! But I do remember them talking about Robin and his cool character, so he was like ‘okay! Everyone close your eyes! The audience will clap on which one of you they want me to kill!’ Even though they were suspicious at first, they complied and they all closed their eyes and he walked around the back of each of them and waited for us to clap. Naturally Asuma and MakiChan had the biggest claps, SO Robin decided to kill both of them with his ‘air sword’ (he didn’t have one on him). To which MakiChan was like ‘that’s not how I’d kill someone!’ and Robin was alarmed at first at how serious MakiChan sounded at killing someone (xD) but then asked, ‘well how would you do it then?!’ so MakiChan said he’d show them. But before that MakiChan did the same thing as Robin and asked the audience the clap at who they wanted killed and it landed on Asuma xD so the first time he just killed Asuma with an air sword and then the second time it was MakiChan giving Asuma a drink and saying like ‘Otsukare’ and then Asuma drinks it and collapses to the floor and MakiChan is like ‘I’d poison them!’ with a smile on his face xD which is related to his character in the movie because his character does drug Fujita Tom’s drink but doesn’t kill them.

Then we had the Senshuu-Kai which is like a lottery and they picked the audience’s seats from a box and it was to win one of five signed copies of the script. Most of the people who won were on the second floor -- there were only like 20 seats on the second floor and FOUR people from there got signed copies! We were all surprised at how lucky the top floor was.

ALSO The boys mentioned they watched the movie FROM the second floor. When the movie had ended I did see about 6 people stand up and slink backstage, so it must’ve been them! That means MakiChan was opposite me and one floor up! I wonder if he saw me the entire time! =O *dead*

Finally there was the HIGH TOUCH/FIVE on the way out!

Being technically the back row (it was set out weird. I was row N but second row on the right. Don’t ask) I was one of the first to go to the high five. The boys were lined up outside next to where the goods had been and the order was: Zenitsu, Robin, Nakamura, Asuma and finally MakiChan. I remember high-fiving Zenitsu and Nakamura completely, but I don’t remember high fiving Robin, and I barely remember Asuma, only just thinking ‘he smiles well’ and ‘DAMN HE TALL!’ xD

With MakiChan being at the end, he got a few seconds longer with everyone as they left. He gave me this huge smile, high fived me, waved at me, said thank you and good bye, and waved me off and watched me walk away to the stairs ^_^ <3 okay I’m dead *dead* he’s always so amazing with his fans. God dammit guys... he’s so amazing... such a good person *dead*

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GOODS

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Speaking of OEdo I hit for the next butai aisatsu of this movie! AND I’M FIRST ROW! LEGIT FIRST ROW! June 24th! So hopefully I’ll have a mini report about the aisatsu and maybe some extra comments about the movie ^_^

I’m getting there! About 3 more to go! *dead*

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rukakikuchi · 6 years

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(via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7SkqW3KDhQ)

This week on Maji Majo Pures! Momoka has to face a corrupted police officer all by herself! Will she be able to Purilize him?!

...Man I love this show. x3

#Maji Majo Pures #Mahou x Senshi Maji Majo Pures #Magic x Warrior Maji Majo Pures #Magic Witch Pures #Magical girl #Tokusatsu #Magical2 #Kenichi Endo #Rui Kurihara #Mariko Shinoda #Sakura Ando

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tanukigishipromo · 2 years

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oi, mods! poderiam indicar fcs japonesas/japoneses acima de 27 anos? vi que boa parte das indicações estava abaixo dessa faixa etária. obrigado!!

Bom dia, anon! Você me pegou, eu foquei mesmo em FCs mais novos por já conhecer como a demanda funciona. Aqui vai uma seleção (incluindo alguns da lista anterior) de fcs japoneses com 27 anos ou mais. Vamos lá!

Femininos

Yua (Honey Popcorn), Maria (Garnidelia), Yuki Kashiwagi (ex-AKB48), Miya (GWSN), Yuka Mannami (modelo), Rui (H.U.B.), Miyabi Natsuyaki (Berryz Kobo), Yukika Teramoto (solista), Miko (Honey Popcorn), Kurumi Nakata (modelo), Sayaka Yamamoto (ex-AKB48), Kiko Mizuhara (atriz), Airi Suzuki (ex-C-UTE), Lea (Secret Number), Yui Aragaki (atriz), Lisa Oribe (solista), Reina Tanaka (ex-Morning Musume), Haruna Kojima (ex-AKB48), Mika Nakashima (atriz), Ai Otsuka (solista), Kusumi Koharu (ex-Morning Musume), Ayumi Hamasaki (solista), Tomu Muto (ex-AKB48), Utada Hikaru (solista), Iwasa Misaki (ex-AKB48), Honami Sato (atriz), Namie Amuro (solista), Koda Kumi (solista), Minami Minegishi (ex-AKB48), Aya Asahina (atriz), Miho Miyazaki (ex-AKB48), Anna Tsuchiya (solista).

Masculinos

Atsushi Sakurai (BUCK-TICK), Terada Takuya (CrossGene), Toru (ONE OK ROCK), Alan Shirahama (ator), Takeru (sleepyhead, ex-SuG), Kenta (JBJ), Yuta (NCT), Horii Arata (D-DATE), Taka (ONE OK ROCK), Erick Fukusaki (solista), Aoi (the GazettE), Louis Kurihara (ator), Jun Matsumoto (Arashi), Gackt (solista), Goto Yutaro (ator), Hakuei (PENICILLIN), Masaki Suda (ator), Mao (Sid), Hyde (solista/L'arc en Ciel), Nijiro Murakami (ator), Kenshi Yonezu (solista), Takumi Saitoh (ator), Dori Sakurada (ator), Sota Fukushi (ator), Chisato (PENICILLIN), Taichi Saotome (ator), Ryo Yoshizawa (ator), Ruki (the GazettE), Miyavi (solista), Masataka Kubota (ator), Kazunari Ninomiya (ator), Kanata Hongo (ator), Hiro Mizushima (ator), Kento Yamazaki (ator), Ryo Nishikido (ator), Tatsuya Fujiwara (ator).

E aí, gostou da lista? Ou faltou mais alguém? Aceito as famosas asks corrigindo ou sugerindo mais, viu?

#respondidas.#mod!kanon #mwm #mwf

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kamaomo · 7 years

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「アメリカにいた頃は、普通に音楽の授業も受けることができたが、日本では、正しい音程や発生で歌うことよりも、元気に歌うということが良しとされてるようだったので、子供たちが怒鳴るように歌うことに我慢ができなくて、耳をふさいだり、教室から逃げ出したりということがあり、先生に叱られていた。親が『アメリカにいた頃は、子供たちは正しく歌っていたので、授業を受けられていた』と先生に話したところ、先生からは『楽しく歌う子供を批判するんですか』と逆ギレされ、僕は“歌を楽しむ情緒がない子供”とみなされた。

http://www.huffingtonpost.jp/2015/05/25/kurihara-rui-developmental-disability_n_7439134.html

学校で教わることが必ずしも正しくない（正しいとしても唯一の正解ではない）ことを家庭で伝える必要性を強く感じる。

#education #学校 #教育

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recentanimenews · 4 years

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Takumi Kiramura in Zentai Suit Dances in Shibuya for Tonkatsu DJ Agetaro Live-Action Film

The forthcoming live-action film adaptation of Iipyao (story) and Yujiro Koyama (arts)'s comedy manga Tonkatsu DJ Agetaro has posted a short clip titled "YouTuber Debut Edition." In the clip featuring C+C Music Factory's 1990 hit song "Gonna Make You Sweat (Everybody Dance Now)," the film's star Takumi Kitamura (the vocalist/guitarist of the five-member dance-rock band DISH//) and his friends in zentai suit with a tonkatsu head are dancing in the center of Shibuya. As they are showing off their performance, the number of views of the clip is growing rapidly.

In addition to Agetaro's friend group "Sandaime DougenZaka Brothers" (played by Ryo Kato, Kouta Asaka, Rui Kurihara, Ko Maehara), the clip also introduces popular Japanese comedian Fuwa-chan (front row center of the photo above), who makes her film debut by playing herself.

Kitamura says, "Wearing the zentai suit alone breaks my heart, but I felt the strongest because it was the same costume as everyone of Sandaime. I wasn't embarrassed about the filming in Shibuya. I felt more embarrassed when I was on the studio set surrounded by staff."

The Ken Ninomiya (Chiwawa-chan)-directed film was originally set for a release on June 19 but has been delayed to October 30 due to the COVID-19 outbreak.

"YouTuber Debut Edition" clip:

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渋谷の中心で❗️ EVERYBODY DANCE NOW????‼️ ＜＜????#北村匠海×#フワちゃん????＞＞ Youtuberデビュー！な映像解禁???????? カツてない"とんかつDJ道"に邁進中のアゲ太郎と3代目道玄坂ブラザーズ！人気YouTuberの仲間入りを果たすことはできるのか…⁉️#とんかつDJアゲ太郎 pic.twitter.com/ZeX07QvVDz

— 映画『とんかつDJアゲ太郎』公式 (@tonkatsuDJmovie) October 1, 2020

Full trailer:

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Poster visual:

Main cast:

Agetaro Katsumata: Takumi Kitamura

Sonoko Hattori: Maika Yamamoto

Kuraudo Yashiki: Kentaro Ito

Iori Oiri / DJ Oily: Yusuke Iseya

Mitsuo Muro: Ryo Kato

Kyuji Natsume: Koudai Asaka

Josuke Shirai: Rui Kurihara

Takashi Hirazumi: Ko Maehara

Agesaku Katsumata: Brother Tom

Koromo Katsunuma: Natsumi Ikema

Katsuyo Katsunuma: Reiko Kataoka

Source: "Tonkatsu Dj Agetaro" live-action film website / Twitter

(C)Iipyao, Yujiro Koyama/Shueisha, Movie "Tonkatsu Dj Agetaro" Production Committee

(C)Iipyao, Yujiro Koyama/Shueisha

By: [email protected]

#Anime #News #Latest in Anime News by Crunchyroll!

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dropintomanga · 7 years

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Complex Age and Its Fashionable Look at Ideals vs. Reality

“Love is a curse. It’s suffocating...and so...comforting.”

For many of us growing up, we have ideas on what we and/or the world should be like. We look at our surroundings, process everything around, and then decide whether to adapt or strive for something better. What we believe based on our experiences becomes a huge part of our identities. While this is a good thing for the self, the world almost always stands ready to go against what you hold to be true. Case in point - look at fandom vs. the real world. Geek culture has become so prominent that it creates ideals and ideology in people on how things should be. Alas, the nature of reality has shown that even fans are not immune to bias.

I want to take another look at Yui Sakama’s Complex Age to highlight how the main character’s ideals become broken over time and how it isn’t such a terrible thing to happen.

As I discussed in an earlier post about the series, Complex Age is about a 26-year-old worker named Nagisa Kataura who cosplays outside of work. She hides her hobby in order to not be judged. However, when she gets into cosplay mode, Nagisa turns into a harsh critic over how the perfect cosplay should be. She obsesses over details that most fans don’t think about. Nagisa will go as far as to criticize whether fans watch the series they cosplay from if they do the wrong poses or say the wrong catchphrases. However, Nagisa has some doubts due to her age as she feels insecure about anyone younger than her that can pull off the same cosplays she does with no problem.

That tension becomes escalated as Nagisa & her friend, Kimiko, meet Aya Kurihara, a new young cosplayer who wishes to learn from Nagisa out of admiration. A cosplay of Nagisa’s from a series called Magical Ururu-chan is a central part of the story. Nagisa cosplays the main character, Ururu, and pulls out all the stops to cosplay her despite her tall height and aging looks. However, Aya is considered to look just like Ururu. She was regarded to have perfect resemblance to Ururu if she cosplayed her. During a cosplay shoot with Aya, Kimiko, and another girl named Shiho where everyone cosplayed Magical Ururu-chan, Nagisa becomes insecure as she considered herself to be the perfect Ururu. Kimiko reassures her that Aya still has a way to go to be a perfect Ururu, as Aya notes that she was only copying Nagisa’s poses without thought about what goes into doing them.

Having ideals is important because it makes us into better people. People need to believe in something in order to take on life without hesitation. Chasing after important goals gives us a reason to live. Reason is what has gotten human society to progress as far as it has. Ideals are the foundation of what makes certain communities stronger than others.

Of course, chasing for ideals can mean chasing for a sense of perfection that can’t be attained. Nagisa gets challenged by her mother and a new boyfriend (later turned ex), both of whom criticized her love of cosplay. They try to tell Nagisa that her hobby isn’t worth it as she gets older. Nagisa fights them off as she proclaims how her cosplay self and her real self are the same. While dealing with how Aya seems to pull off an amazing aura in cosplay, she becomes confronted with another cosplayer, Rui-tasu, who admires her to the point that she becomes a harsh critic like her. Rui sets up Aya to be harassed online on various message boards and Nagisa had to put a stop to it, but not without thinking about how her perfectionist behavior may have hurt cosplayers who didn’t deserve it.

For a hobby like cosplay, perfection appears to be an end goal for many who do it. They want as many fans and social media “likes” as possible to get the attention they feel they deserve. Once cosplayers get the praise, it can become a drug. They want more of it. Positive comments give cosplayers the drive to keep going. For them and also us, it comes down to being treated as never good enough by critics and wanting acceptance of any kind. During high school, Nagisa dreaded the daily routine in her life and wished she could do more. It wasn’t until Kimiko insisted that she start cosplay after bonding over their shared love of otaku hobbies.

Fast forward to later events in Volume 5, where Kimiko decides to quit cosplay after doing it with Nagisa since their high school days. It’s revealed that Kimiko wanted to focus more on photography than cosplay as her main hobby. She later thinks about how she was chasing Nagisa for the longest time as the latter was the better cosplayer. Kimiko wanted the attention Nagisa got. When Kimiko knew that all her efforts were meaningless in the end after taking many cosplay photos of Nagisa over the years, she said to herself that she felt stupid for trying to get to Nagisa’s level in cosplay personification.

It kind of throws a wrench into the whole “hard work beats everything” notion, doesn’t it? Kimiko did everything that cosplayers would do to get better. But what happened? Some studies do mention that while practice at an activity does help someone get past gifted individuals, what also matters is the environment they’re in and whether their cognitive ability is excellent. Both Nagisa and Kimiko went through the same environment, but Nagisa’s ability to process and comprehend her cosplay tactics in an effective manner combined with hard work put her way above Kimiko.

And speaking of environment and genetics helping someone, thanks to the training of Nagisa, Aya became an excellent cosplayer in her own right. A mesmerizing scene happens near the end of the series when Nagisa takes a drunk Aya back home to her place. She sees Aya’s Ururu costume and a colleague puts it on Aya for fun. Nagisa’s Ururu fantasy comes crashing down after seeing Aya in full Ururu cosplay. She then goes home and cuts apart the Ururu costume she made with hesitation. Afterwards, Nagisa notes that it wasn’t as bad as she thought it was going to be.

In the end of the day, what does it take for someone to realize their limits? Complex Age poses the age-old question of how big do you let the gap between ideals and reality grow. You can’t make every dream come true. One answer the series suggests is to figure out what exactly do you love about the hobbies you enjoy. For Nagisa, she found out that the process of making costumes for herself and other people keeps her going. Nagisa starts her own costume-making business as a result. That was her answer in the end.

It perhaps comes down is how much someone values winning above all. Competition does bring out the best between people involved (as we’ve seen in so many manga), but it’s very much more about the self versus others. There’s a mentality that you have to win above everyone else in areas surrounded by those similar to you. It can be effective, but it burns someone else fast if expectations aren’t reached. A better tactic is to be genuinely likable. Nagisa’s efforts to help her friends slowly paid off over time to bring forth further evolution of her dream. This will bear repeating - genuine kindness exists and there should be more of it. Being kind to others is a win-win for everyone.

There was a scene in Volume 4 after Nagisa tells off Rui and she says while thinking about her friends.

“I’m pretty sure...I must have looked like that (Rui telling Nagisa she was worthless to her) to someone. But now...I want to think that I haven’t only ever hurt people. I’m the luckiest of us all.”

Friends will always be more important than ideals because the ones who preach those ideals aren’t exactly your friends. Anyone telling you that they’re truly right about something is trying to sell you something that should be met with some skepticism. I wish more people realized this.

That’s why I enjoyed Complex Age’s look at fandom because all it’s trying to say is to not let any kind of self-absorbing beliefs poison something that’s supposed to be fun for everyone involved. If you’re happy you’re better than a group of people, guess what? It will never get you the kind of love that really makes a positive difference in your life. And no one is truly better than the other in various areas.

Having good friends to take on the complexities of life with you, no matter what age, helps ease the harshness of reality and actually make your reality not so complex.

#Complex Age #manga #psychology of ideals #ideology #psychology #fandom #cosplay #Yui Sakama #psychology of popularity

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Edo of Candy 2 (Original title - Ooedo no kyandî 2: Rowazô du paradi (tengoku no tori) hen ) - Official Trailer 2017 - Tollywood

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[Update] 舞台「桃源郷ラビリンス」(butai tougenkyou labyrinth)

cast & visuals update under the cut^^

Cast:

Torigoe Yuuki as Kibi Momotarou (吉備桃太郎)

Takahashi Kensuke as Yamamoto Takeru (大和尊)

Sugie Taishi as Inukai Tsuyoshi (犬養津与志)

Asuma Kousuke as Sasamori Rui (楽々森類)

Yamamoto Ikkei as Tamaomi Juri (珠臣樹里)

Nagae Ryouki as Sakata Ginga (坂田銀牙)

Kento as Urashima Ukai (浦島雨海)

Kawakami Shouta as Shutendouji (酒呑童子)

Imade Mai as Ibarakidouji (茨木童子)

Shiotsuki Shuu as Watanabe no Tsuna (渡辺綱)

Ujiie Ren as Minamoto no Monjumaru (源文殊丸)

Miyamoto Hidemitsu as Urabe no Suetake (卜部季武)

Kurihara Taiga as Tachibana Sadamitsu (橘貞光)

Nakamura Yuuichi as Kibi Makibi (吉備真備)

Nakada Hiroki as Martin Baird (マーティン・ベアード)

Kaneko Noboru as Abraham D Stoker (エイブラハム・D・ストーカー)

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2018.05.13 O’Edo no Candy 2 DVD Release Event [Report]

I ran from the K Stage DVD release event (review here), over to here. I remember it started raining too. But I was super excited to go, more excited about finally getting the DVD than the actual event xD

So from left to right we had: Kurihara Rui, Akazawa Tomoru (Tomorun), Someya Toshiyuki, Kamiya Riku, Hashimoto Zenitsu and the Director Hirota Leona. And they were split 3-3 on either side of the screen so we could watch parts of the movie together.

Pre-Show

So I picked up the DVDs before the event but I was also getting DVDs for other people and the staff were so amused! They were like ‘are you getting your friends DVDs too? Thank you!’ which is a pain because now that dvd is completely available at their cinema 24/7 and it’s like ‘why use the DVD as a way to get tickets sold?!’ Grrr but anyway... I did enjoy the movie so it was nice going through the dvd and having them point things out.

A great happening was: my ticket said ‘L row’ but when I went to my seat, there was no seat! My seat was totally non-existent so I went to the staff and told them, and they checked this piece of paper they had on them, and immediately they moved me up to the second row! So I ended up second row and at the left end! How lucky am I!!

So here’s what happened, I’ll try and go in order:

☆ So first we had some greetings and a short conversation from everyone where they talked about the basic filming process (unfortunately, I do not remember what they said MONTHS later).

☆ We speed ran the movie and they paused at some scenes and some parts so they could talk about the filming process or funny stories that happened during those certain time.

☆ Reona talked about how every flower that pops up during the first meeting scene between Someya and Riku were each individually created and put into the scene.

☆ There is a certain scene that has a male voice singing in the background; turns out it’s Reona’s father who sang it.

☆ BUT THEN, when it got to Someya and Riku’s big kissing scene, Tomorun yelled ‘STOP!’ and the video perfectly stopped on the moment of them starting to kiss. The rest of the boys and the director just made it a billion times more embarrassing for them. They put this scene on normal speed so when Someya and Riku started kissing and both of them were just DYING. Riku was hiding behind his hat while Someya was just screaming ‘stop it!! Noooo! Why we watching this?!?! Plleeaassseee’. Tomorun was getting too much joy out of seeing Someya in cringey, cringey pain. Mwahahaha.

☆ They talked about MakiChan playing carelessly with all the very expensive jewelry and when he kept standing on the unaffordable white wedding dress (that Rui wears at the end of the movie) and how heavy MakiChan was (for Rui) to carry xD Tomorun was like ‘I’ll tell him everything after!’ and they also reminded Tomorun that he too was playing with very expensive jewelry and he got a little embarrassed xD

☆ We got to the End Credits scene and Reona told us all (including the boys) that it’s actually Fujita Tom singing the song in the credits!! Everyone was so surprised and so impressed!

☆ During the event, I got the feeling Someya doesn’t like watching himself, because he spent most of the movie-watching-time looking at the floor or focusing on whoever was speaking rather than watching the actual movie. Poor boy xD I totally get it! I would be embarrassed to watch my own performance too!

After Event

After the initial event, we had a high touch kai / high five event with the boys. And I was absolutely dying after it. I was DYING! Let me break it down for you!!

I remember (and according to my notes) everyone was just killing me xD Someya killed me! Riku killed me! Tomorun killed me! xD

☆ Riku so slowly shook my hand and so tightly too!!

☆ Someya was like ‘THANK YOU!!’ in English and I was so surprised (I was not expecting English from him xD) that I went ‘OH!’ In front of him.

☆ Tomorun is just toooooo smiley for this world!!! His smile is just.... perfect. His smile made me smile.

Unfortunately those three are the only ones I remember and that stood out for me! I was super excited about meeting at least Someya and Tomorun so... safe to say I was happy about and after this!

Extra

At the end, Reona mentioned that apparently the first OEdo is getting a stage next year (meaning 2019, but I haven’t seen any news or announcements about it to be honest). Let me check... yeah there is no news about the stage at all! And she also said that there’ll probably be third one in about two years. BUT (now that I’m writing it MONTHS later), the third one has already been announced, is already being filmed AND the entire (or at least most of the cast) has already been announced, so you can see the filming updates over on the twitter (here), and you can see the Third Movie news/cast (here, here, here and here).

Like I said, their DVDs (1, 2 and the Makings) are all available at their cinema (Tollywood!) so if you want it, you can find a proxy to get it ^_^

#kurihara rui #akazawa tomoru #someya toshiyuki #kamiya riku #hashimoto zenitsu #report #oedo no candy #お江戸のキャンディー #2.5D #2.5次元 #2.5 stars

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