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[atarathegreat]

They Come Home Late Tokyo Revengers

ft: Shinichiro Sano, Kazushi Yamagishi, Takuya Yamamoto,

No one likes to work late, unless you're Shinichiro, but canonically he don't get bitches soooo

Call it a nuisance all you want, Shinichiro would argue that it was just another day at the shop. That man would spend hours upon hours in his shop, or rather, the garage attached to it. You never really understood why it was all important to Shin, you just knew it was. He loved fixing what was broken and what was better for a biker mechanic to fix than a bike? Nothing, if you asked the eldest Sano boy. He was bound and determined to make any and everything work the right way the first time. Yet, like a curse, any Sano could never have something they loved without a catch, a cruel take from the universe for the give Shinichiro received. Sometimes he spent so much time in his shop, or garage, or on his own bike that he rarely got to see you conscious. He always arrived home well after you'd gone to bed, and that's the thought that plagued him as he ate his cold dinner. It had no doubt been warm when you'd placed it in the oven, but now it was cold, and Shinichiro couldn't bring himself to risk the beeping microwave waking you. You worked just as hard as he did, if not more, and he didn't want to be a factor to your fatigue. He stayed against the counter for only a moment longer, finishing his cigarette butt before tossing it in a cup of water. You'd scold him for the mess and he'd clean it with a smile, as was routine. Shinichiro tried to manage staying at your place and at his grandfather's with his siblings, but he hated it when he didn't get to see you. Something about the decor in your home made him feel better after a long day, the muted, yet somehow bright, colors hanging over your windows and the old, shaggy, puke green carpet in your living room was always something soft for him to nap on. As tempting as the living room floor was, Shinichiro made a b-line for your bedroom. He cursed quietly as the door creaked open, letting his eyes adjust to the pitch black that swallowed everything past the doorway. He stumbled forward, hands outstretched to touch your dresser or the hope chest at the foot of your bed that he always managed to find with his abused pinky toe. A low bang echoed through your room, Shin doubling over into the stupid wooden box as his toes once again made sure he wouldn't slam his knees into it. "Hello?" Groggy was the best sound on you, if only he wasn't sucking in deep, pain filled breaths. "Jus' me, hon. Fuck, I kicked the damn oversized shoebox again." Thumps followed his words as he crawled over the chest and into your bed. Your tired giggles almost made him question why he chose to spend so much time with the bikes. Almost. You rolled onto your back as Shinichiro crawled over you, twisting the blanket around and forcing you to shuffle until you were comfortable underneath him. "How's the shop doin'?" A heavy yawn pried your jaw apart. The last thing he wanted to talk about with you was the shop, the last thing he cared about at the moment was the shop. So he didn't answer you, and kept you from asking anything else by kissing you. Muscles shivered as your fingertips grazed Shinichiro's skin, coming to rest behind his ears and over the hinge of his jaw. "M'sorry I been absent." Shinichiro panted softly as he pushed himself up again, flopping on the bed next to you, "I've got a day off comin' up, if ya' wanna spend it with me, Mikey, and Emma."

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It never seemed to be enough. No matter how much work he did, how dirty his hands got, Yamagishi wasn't ever given the break he deserved. Takemichi was even being a prick, more often than not screaming about how Yamagishi and the others couldn't do their jobs right in any capacity. He'd taken more than enough abuse from his best friend turned boss, even Takuya was getting tired of the act. There wasn't anything the group could do right anymore, and they knew it. Yamagishi growled and slammed the radio volume to zero, more pissed than anything that his childhood friends were suffering and there wasn't a damn thing he could do about it. It made him even more angry to think harder on it: he didn't get his ass handed to him time after time, right next to Takemichi, for Michi to be the one hurting them all now. A part of Yamagishi always knew that gangs were never fun and games, but now that he was a higher ranking thug, he truly understood it. There always seemed to be a scowl transfixed on the man's face, but it became a deep, deep grimace as he pulled into the driveway of his too big house that he'd bought when he was drunk and now couldn't get rid of. You enjoyed it, it seemed. When you first moved in you had been more than excited to explore every damn room. Yamagishi's lip quirked upward, not quite a smile, at the memory as he failed to notice you watching him from the window. As he opened the door he couldn't help but think that you looked like a dog. Sitting on the couch with such hopeful eyes, waiting for him to give the signal that you could bombard him with affections as your hands did giddy little dances in your lap. Yeah, a dog. "Sorry, babe, not right now." Yamagishi sighed, walking past you and toward the kitchen. It was routine, after a few aggravated nights of him storming out because you failed to notice that he couldn't take much more emotion in the day. Of course, the second he was calmed from his day, Yamagishi would leave a lingering kiss on your hand, almost as an unspoken incantation that hauled you into his form with smiles, kisses, hugs, and multiple questions of his day. So instead you nodded and followed behind him into the kitchen. You weren't a golden retriever, that much was evident. Yamagishi pushed his glasses up so he could see you from the corner of his eye, "Are you in just one of my shirts?" He watched as your little hands grabbed the hem and pulled it down with a faint "yeah." A sigh tumbled from his lips and to the floor, thick enough you could probably kick it back up to his face, "C'mere." He liked your slow steps, unsure of if he was giving you permission to touch him, or if it was just a him moment. "Up ya' go." Yamagishi grunted, plopping you onto the counter, "Thought I told you not to wait up for me?" You complied easily as he pulled his shirt off you, revealing your naked body and underwear, "You did..." He sighed again, a more agitated sound, "Then why are you down here and not upstairs in bed?" No words so much as dared enter your throat, and Yamagishi didn't break eye contact as he dropped his coat next to you on the counter, his shirt following but looping over your head. It smelled of sweat, his cologne, and the coffee from the café he visited every morning with Makato and Takuya, it was hard to resist the deep breath you took. "Answer me." He helped your arms through the fabric, his fingers staying at your elbows. "Couldn't sleep. It felt wrong to pass out without seeing you first." And it was the truth. You had a routine down pat, and smothering Yamagishi with all the love he could emotionally handle was part of it. Yamagishi would say you were a smaller breed of dog, something clingy, like a Chihuahua and Dotson mix. His hair fell over his shoulder as he nodded and leaned forward to grab the whiskey from the shelf behind you, "Sorry 'bout it. But I can't change it." Whiskey poured swiftly into a glass, the amber liquid swishing as Yamagishi raised it to his lips, "M'really, really sorry. I wish I could change it." He placed a a chaste kiss to your cheek.

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Takuya was tired and sore from weeks of sleeping in safehouses, empty warehouses, and Makato's couch. He took a moment to examine the new look, making triple sure that this was the apartment he shared with you. The curtains were new, not sunbleached like the old ones you loved so much, and the rug under the coffee table was a completely different texture, the only indication that it was still his home was the pictures you'd hung up of him and you, and the couple of you and your friends. Takuya silently set his duffel bag down, an order you'd given him so that you could make sure his dirty clothes were clean and he had fresh clothes to take with him, and pulled his jacket off to drop on top of it. Waking you at such a late hour would kill him, he thought you needed your beauty rest, even if he missed you like crazy. For the last month he'd been at either Makato's penthouse (such a vain man with money), or at Yamagishi's (who opted to have a simple home with room for him and him alone). As much as Takuya loved his buddies, one didn't have enough room, and the other had small throw blankets with a questionable substance dried onto it that Takuya shuddered just thinking about. He'd be thrilled once he got under the comforter with you, the two of you sharing body heat and curling closely together. Shit. He needed to hurry and get back to you. Clunking echoed down the hall, Takuya cementing that he'd just make it up to you if he woke you up. Though it wasn't something he had to worry about once he saw you sleeping peacefully, laying on your tummy with one leg pulled up, your knee poking free from the blanket. He ghosted his fingers over your exposed skin, not wanting to scare you awake if he just climbed into bed. "My darling, open your eyes for me." His voice was soft, a smile tugging at the corners of his mouth as your eyelids fluttered open and you had to squint to see, "There you are. Sleeping well without me?" If you hadn't known better, you'd think he was truly upset that you could sleep without his presence. But that's just your Yuya, chuckling as he crawls over you to his side of the new mattress. It's nice, he likes it as he doesn't sink into the plush fabric, "You got a new bed." For a second you falsely think it's a question, but he's only observing. "Mhm, the old one was dirty." No it wasn't, you lying brat, you just didn't want to tell him that you bought it so he'd sleep comfortably. He can sense your lie, but doesn't care too much to debunk it, and he rolls you into him, "Missed you something awful, m'glad to be home." He's got rough hands, a callous built on his thumb from his weapon and a strong grip as he kneads your flesh in his palm. Takuya can't help but notice that you no longer shiver when he glides his finger across your sternum, your body no longer relaxing into his. "What's the problem?" Yuya asks, "Do you still love me?" Such a stupid question, in your mind it should be obvious that you love him. Yeah, the both of you never saw each other in the day time, you always get his bag packed before he wakes up, and save a quick peck on your cheek, you don't even get to tell him goodbye. "Why wouldn't I love you?" You ask, the question sitting wrong in your soul. "You aren't reacting to me..." He mumbled as his fingers dragged up your side again. It felt nice to feel him touch you after so long apart, to look into his eyes and smile as you held his face. It was peaceful. "Not physically." The way you chuckled sent his heart to work, and having you scoot closer was just as thrilling.

[randomnation]

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  -”things to do” Recommendations-

-TOKYO-

MariCAR Akihabara #1

Senso-ji Shrine

Meiji Shrine

Walk down Harajuku

Memory Lane - Shinjuku

-KYOTO-

Nishiki Market

Kiyomizu-dera Temple

Sannen-zaka & Ninnen-zaka district

Fushimi-Inari

-NARA-

Todai-ji Temple

Nara-koen Park

 -Food Guide-

-TOKYO-

Shinjuku

Isetan Shinjuku (Luxury Food Court)*

Shinjuku Kappo Nakajima (Michelin Star/Affordable)*

Tsunahachi (Tempura)

Tenkuni (Tempura)

Shin Udon

Tokyo Mentsudan Udon

Menya Musashi (Ramen)*

Menya Kaijin (Ramen)

Fu-unji (Ramen)

Ichiran Ramen*

Tatsuya (Gyu Don)*

DEN (Modern)

Echigoya (Yakitori)*

Sarabeth (American Breakfast)

Shousuke (Yakitori)*

Sushi Tokyo Ten

Mister Donuts

Sushi-Zanmai Higashi*

Shibuya

Seirinkan (Pizza)

Maisen Aoyama Honten (Tonkatsu)*

Gion Tokuya (dessert)

-Akihabara-

Tonkatsu Marugo*

Maruka (Ramen)

Ginza

Birdland (Yakitori)*

Aoki (Sushi)

-Roppongi-

Naniwaya (Teriyaki)

Savoy (Pizza)

Tsukiji

Edogin (Sushi)

Sushisei (Sushi)

Sushi Iwa (sushi)

Sushi Dai

Meguro

Masakichi (Yakitori)

Tonkatsu Tonki

-Sugamo-

Tsuta Japanese Soba Noodles (Ramen)*

Duck ramen

-KYOTO-

Yamamoto (Udon)

Iroha Kitamise (Sukiyaki)

Ramen Sen No Kaze (Ramen)

Gion Tokuya (dessert)

Sushisei (Sushi)

Den Shichi (Sushi) 

Ganko Sushi

Ippudo (Ramen)*

Ramen Muraji

Inoichi (Ramen)

No Name Ramen*

Warai (Okonomiyaki)

Torito (Yakitori)

Owariya (Soba)

Omen Ginkaku-ji (Udon)

Ootoya

Asuka

Inoda Coffee

Arashiyama Yoshimura*

OSAKA

Minami

Chibo (Okonomiyaki)

Ajinoya (Okonomiyaki)*

Takoyaki Wanaka Sennichimae (Takoyaki)

Yakiniku M Hozenjiyokocho (Steak)*

Ryukishinraizu (Ramen)

Tsukemen Nidaime Misawa (Ramen)

Gekiryuu (Ramen)

Teuchisobaakari (Soba)

Nishiya (Soba)

Kamatakeudon (Udon)

Tsuki no Odori (Yakitori)

Shinsaibashi Madras 5 (Curry)*

Tennoji Area

Yamachan (Takoyaki)

Kita

Kiji (Okonomiyaki)

Bon (Kushikatsu)

Gunjou (Ramen)

-NARA-

Mellow Cafe (Italian/Pizza)

Wakasa (Curry)

Yoshinohonkuzu Tengyokudo Narahonten

*Highly Recommend

[nikifoorov]

“Yuri!!! on ICE” Comments on Music by Music Production Team!

TV anime “Yuri!!! on ICE” is enhancing its wonderfulness with many pieces of music. We have interviewed music producer Keisuke Tominaga (PIANO), compositor Taro Umebayashi and Taku Matsushiba to hear about their music’s attractiveness and secret stories of producing them. We are now introducing some comments which could not be on PASH! for January on PASH! PLUS! Let’s start the first half! 

Keisuke Tominaga Born in 1978, place of birth is Yokohama. Music producer. Graduated from photography course, Nihon University College of art. After retiring music production GRANDFUNK, established PIANO inc. in 2012. Representative director. Interested in sea fishing. Principal products are TV anime series “Terror in Resonance”, “Space☆Dandy” and “Kids on the Slope”.

Taro Umebayashi Born in 1980, place of birth is Tokyo. Songwriter and music compositor. Graduated from Faculty of Music, Tokyo University of the Arts and studied songwriting and orchestral music. Released 1st album “greeting for the sleeping seeds” from Rallye Lable as an artist [milk].

Taku Matsushiba Born in 1991, place of birth is Osaka. Songwriter and musician. After graduating from The Music High School Attached to the Faculty of Music, Tokyo University of the Arts, studied at Faculty of Music, Tokyo University of the Arts and completed master’s course of songwriting. Mainly analyzing and performing contemporary music, but widely committing to such as orchestration and commercial music by using his conduction skill.

･Victor Nikiforov FS “Aria <Hanarezu ni Soba ni Ite>” (3:41) Conducted by Taku Matsushiba, Ensemble FOVE (Tenor: Kazuma Kudo)

Q.What is ‘Ensemble FOVE’, which is precipitating in many pieces of music?

Ensemble FOVE is an up-and-coming ensemble by one of the most outstanding musicians of classics and contemporary music. We have asked them to perform some pieces of music which even are not credited in “Yuri!!! on Ice” (for example, orchestra part of “History Maker” is one of them). I think the most impressive parts of “Aria <Hanarezu ni Soba ni Ite>” are solo part of cor anglais by Kanami Araki and performance of harp by Rino Kageyama. Adding to that, upsurge of tutti in the middle part of the music might be one of the most attractive parts in this ensemble. (Matsushiba)

The wonderfulness of group composition in Ensemble FOVE can be seen in credits of soundtrack “Oh! Suketora!!!”. This classical song we made was recorded in big studio with conduction of Mr. Matsushiba with full orchestra to make it sound like real concert. We had to take a risk of not being able to retake the individual parts, but we could record the resonance and ambience of instruments, so I think the music became rich in sound. This music became such a good product by the work of Mr. Hiroaki Sato, who was the recording engineer for all the pieces of music. We have talked to make this piece of music ‘as if you are listening at special seats in concert hall’, so we used wide dynamic ranges of sounds.

Yuri Katsuki SP “Ai ni Tsuite ~Eros~” (2:16) Taku Matsushiba featuring Jin Oki

Q.Tell us the episode about making 2 different arranged pieces of music, “Ai ni Tsuite ~Eros~” and “Ai ni Tsuite ~Agape~”.

I first finished demo tape for “Ai ni Tsuite ~Agape~”, which was the part Mr. Umebayashi in charge of, and I listened to its melody part to make the arrangement version of “Ai ni Tsuite ~Eros~” with Mr. Matsushiba.

In “Ai ni Tsuite ~Eros~”, we featured interplay and descarga (*plays in ad lib). To make this happen, I thought putting musicians together and recording at same time will make a hot and powerful music. Since I decided this at primary stage, the recording was in form. However, we couldn’t get agreement from producer Yamamoto. I think the reason was ‘the music was too powerful’ or something. First, I was worried to rearrange the music, but by listening to it again made me to feel that the tempo was too thrilling and it was ‘passive’ rather than ‘erotic’. So I slowed down the tempo and showed the music to Mr. Yamamoto, this time he has agreed to the arrangement. By re-recording the music with slower tempo, I could feel the plays between the sounds and palma of flamenco. This made the music really erotic. But even slowing it down will make the eroticism to be old age (laugh), so we stopped slowing down just before that to be able to feel the youngness and passion of Yuri.

Yuri Katsuki FS “Yuri on ICE” (3:42) Taro Umebayashi

From the characteristic of Yuri made by producer Yamamoto and Ms. Kubo Mitsurō, and examining the meaning of a line ‘I will call this feeling love’, I talked with Mr. Umebayashi to adjust the image of Yuri that “so many memories of ‘love’ came and went through in his life”. The sounds of piano circles around to develop the emotion of going through in his memory, the rhythm carries the atmosphere, and suddenly it breaks (*the music stops) in the middle part. The climax gains the groove and the hot emotion melts and flows towards finale.

The melody and phrases which Mr. Umebayashi came up with were great. When I was working on pre-pro (*some work to be done before recording) with an image of Yuri sliding on the ice with its rhythm, there were some moments that I strangely, but naturally, felt like I made this song. By the way, in episode4, there is a scene when Yuri was listening to demo music which his friend made, but actually the music played at that scene is the 1stdemo we made. You can see that the code progression and rhythm were fairly completed at that time.

Yuri Plisetsky SP “Ai ni Tsuite ~Agape~” (2:20) Taro Umebayashi

After I finished making the melody part, I wrote the lyric in Japanese and sent it to Mr. Tokuya Miyagi (professor in Waseda University) to translate it into Latin. However, this work was extremely difficult. I was ignorant about Latin so I asked help to Mr. Matsushiba and visited Waseda University for several times, but it turned out that Latin was a language which we had to stick to its accent, which meant to us that we had to change the melody part of the music to make it sense. Then, the music team asked us that they have to consult the score division and the way of putting the word correctly to someone who has great knowledge of Latin. So, we visited Mr. Hidehiko Hinohara, who is a former teacher of Mr. Matsushiba and a songwriter with great knowledge of Italian. We asked him to correct the lines in both accent and musical ways, and went back to Waseda University to get re-checked with its lyric. We had to do this for several times to finish the work. Mr. Matsushiba helped me a lot during the progress, but when we were eating lunch at Waseda University after the meeting, he started to regret himself that ‘I can’t call myself a songwriter without knowing Latin!’ so I calmed him down by saying ‘I-I think you were doing great’ (laugh).

Yuri Plisetsky FS “”Piano concerto in B minor: Allegro Appassionato” (3:47) Conducted by Taku Matsushiba, Ensemble FOVE (Piano: Kaoru Jitsukawa)

The performances of Mr. Matsushiba’s conduction, Mr. Kaoru’s elegant piano, Ensemble FOVE’s strings, brass, wooden pipe and percussion were soulful and wonderful. I could tell that the members of Ensemble FOVE are really in high level, which they were playing Mr. Matsushiba’s difficult scores very easily. I personally recorded this type of classical music with live performance for the first time. And its newly written score… this isn’t a normal thing to happen. I was really excited when I was editing this music to the scene of Yurio’s skating (episode 9 & 12).

Kenjirō Minami FS “Minami’s Boogie” (3:32) Taro Umebayashi

The songwrite and electric guitar is by Mr. Umebayashi himself. Brass-arrange was done by Yoichi Murata, who is well known with ‘SOLID BRASS’ and a representative trombonist in Japan. The music became really entertaining but powerful and explicit with perfect brass-arrange.

I was glad to see the high-spirited choreography with a performance of air guitar by choreographer Kenji Miyamoto.

I went to watch the “Christmas on Ice” to study figure skating, but it was my first time of watching an ice show, so I tried hard to get tickets. I logged in to the ticket page really fast, but tickets were sold out immediately. I was surprised by the popularity of figure skate, and when I was about to giving up, producer Yamamoto told me ‘I got a ticket from my friend’ and he gave me the ticket. I thought Mr. Yamamoto was a great person at that moment.

Phichit Chulanont SP “’Shall We Skate?’ from a movie Osama to Skater (The King and the Skater)” (2:15) Taku Matsushiba featuring The Soulmatics

The main vocal and chorus were done by a gospel group The Soulmatics. They well knew the sound images of Broadway, Disney, “glee” and more, so they grasp the point of what we were wanting. Also, some of the members were trained at New York, which made the recording to be done without hesitation. When we were recoding the background chatter, they casted themselves as the King, vassals, gatekeeper, town girl, drunker and more to make the atmosphere of the session, which was really fun.

The sounds hear like a live performance, but most of the sounds were made by sampling and step recording. This is done by Plus-tech Squeeze Box, alias Tomonori Hayashibe, who has nicknamed ‘the magician of sampling’. He is a genius of making any sounds with computer programs, and Disney-ish, musical-ish, cartoon-ish music are his fields of expertise. He exhibited his full power to this piece of music. Some other music, even non-programed music are arranged by Mr. Hayashibe in “Yuri!!! on ICE”. This is about an another anime, but the 17thepisode in “Space☆Dandy”(Produced by Shinichiro Watanabe) is all about musical and all the music are made by Mr. Umebayashi and Mr. Hayashibe. This episode is well-made and really laughable, so if you are interested, please watch it.

Phichit Chulanont FS “’Terra Incognita’ from a movie Osama to Skater 2 (The King and the Skater 2)” (3:41) Taku Matsushiba featuring U-zhaan

This is a hybrid world music which is a mixture of BBflute, bansuri, tabla and sitar in live performance, bagpipes, electric guitar, synthesizer, step recording and Bulgarian-ish chorus. I personally love this music because the balance of groove went perfect, without being chaotic atmosphere. ‘Bansuri’ is an Indian instrument which has a similar sound to Shakuhachi (Japanese banboo flute) and it was performed by Junichiro Taku who performed flute sound in the music of “Yuri!!! on ICE”. He has the power to express the scene with his performance, so recording with him was really fun. I cooperated with Mr. Taku in some other animations such as “Terror in Resonance” which I made the background music with Yoko Kanno (further comments about this are below). ‘Tabla’ was performed by U-Zhaan and ‘sitar’ was performed by Daikichi Yoshida. They are both top players in Japan. Some other pieces of music, such as music used in trailers are made with cooperation of U-zhaan with his great performance.

Q.What are the meaning and language used in this music as lyrics?

I imaged an archaism of which used in an imperial ruled country in ancient Asia, but to be honest, it means nothing. I first finished with melody and chose some words which enhance the melody. This way of choosing words were like vocalizing (* way of singing with vowels but without lyrics). I chose these words with Mr. Matsushiba while vocalist Tomoko Koda was recording. These techniques are influenced by Yoko Kanno when we were working together. Way of breathing, directing, producing, strength and weakness and all the other things needed for making music are taught by her.

Guang-Hong Ji SP “La Parfum de Fleurs” (2:05) Conducted by Taku Matsushiba, Ensemble FOVE

Ami Ito (Ensemble FOVE) is performing the solo part with violin, but the way of performing is like a Chinese fiddle, to be concentrated on vibrato. The first impression of this music might be an easy-listening and beautiful, but in reality, this is a curious music but has romantic atmosphere. I really love this. (Matsushiba)

Guang-Hong Ji FS “’The Inferno’ from a movie Shanghai Blade” (3:43) Taku Matsushiba

The orchestra part of this music was done by Ensemble FOVE and other beat arrangement and SE/ME works were done by beat arranger Nozomu Yoneda. First half of the part is in six-eight time and it changes to quadruple time after the car chasing. It was especially hard to make the atmosphere of speeding with six-eight time, but it succeeded with a help of Mr. Yoneda. The wonderful performance of sax was done by Kohei Ueno with a scene of “abduction and confinement”. Actually, it’s hard to discover, but the sound effect of running car is used in the music (laugh).

The order was to make the music sound like ‘Chinese mafia’, so I was peering the poster of a movie “Infernal Affairs” and fantasized its sound tracks while making the music (but actually, I haven’t watched it yet). The sound of sax by Mr. Ueno is rude and erotic. I think I was keep saying ‘more erotic!’ for all the time while I was making music.

+ FIRST HALF +