#Kyoko Hayashi

[nobuyukikakigi]

2024年春の仕事

ここへ来てようやく春らしい陽射しが注いでくるようになりました。それまで福岡では、気温は平年と変わらないものの、重い雲が垂れ込め、時折雨風が強くなる日が続いていて、気分も体調も落ち込むことが多かったので嬉しく思っています。学期の始まりの慌ただしさもようやくひと段落し、溜め込んだ仕事に少しずつ取り組んでいるところです。美学と哲学の講義にも、またこれらを深めるゼミにも熱心な学生がいて刺激を受けています。ゼミではエドワード・W・サイードの晩年の著作を読み始めました。彼が何を問い続けてきたのかを顧みることをつうじて、現在の厳しい状況を見通す思考の方途を探れればと思います。 3月8日に広島交響楽団の演奏会を聴くために訪れた広島にて さて、3月から4月の仕事についてご報告しておきたいと思います。まず、書評紙『週間読書人』の3月1日号に、郁文堂から昨年末に刊行されたヨアヒム・ゼング編／細見和之訳『ア…

[landofanimes]

Sailor Moon 30th Anniversary Musical Festival -Chronicle-

Shining Moon Tokyo Inner Senshi representatives Reona Samejima, Yui Hayashi, Kyoko Ninomiya, Mayuka Ida, and Yu Nakanishi join as the guests performers of the afternoon show on the third day. 

Yume Takeuchi, Karen Kobayashi, Kaede, and Rimo Hasegawa were guests at the night performance. Chise Niitsu (Chibi Moon) was Chibi Chibi back in Le Mouvement Final!

[official-rainyday]

<< @sup3r--nova >>

Mei: Hm hm hm～♪ Eh? Oh! New people!!HIIII!!! I'm Mei Takahashi!! Leader of sup3r # nova !!!

Asuka: *sigh* Don't mind them... Anyways, I'm Asuka Hayashi. We're sup3r # nova. Nice to meet you.

Miyu: Quiet down for once, Mei... You barely even know these girls...

Fumiko: Yep..! Oh, I'm Fumiko Yamada. The green haired one is Miyu. Asuka and Mei already introduced themselves.

sup3r # nova...?

Oh! Um... It's nice to meet you too! I'm Kyoko Tsukumo, leader of Rainy Day.

I've never heard of sup3r # nova before... I'm Sumiko Koyama, it's a pleasure!

Yeah! What kind of music do you all make?

Introduce yourself first, Momoi.

Whatever... I'm Aimi Momoi! And this bitch lovely person is Otoda!

I heard that, but yeah. I'm Chiharu Otoda.

[kiyubaru]

Zashikiro Editing Test

Sakichi longs for a lively place. His mother has a low income, but she feels sorry for Sakichi and takes him to an amusement park. However, at the park, everyone ridicules Sakichi and his friends, calling them "one-eyed!" The park attendant tells mother, “You’re ruining everyone’s fun, so get out of here!” The town is filled with campaign posters from the Japanese government proclaiming "Chosen-tokuju," "Japan is out of the post-war period!" and "Long live liberalism." ("Chosen-tokuju" refers to the economic boom in Japan that was the result of the Korean War.) In town, a young couple ridicules Sakichi and his son, calling them "one-eyed!" and "gross!" His mother protests, but is punched by the man. The woman supports the man. Sakichi runs to mother. His mother tells Sakichi, "Only Mommy will always be on your side, no matter what."

Drawing, photography, music, and sound effects: Hiroshi Harada (Only the laughter in the middle was recorded using a recording saved by Asanuma, the soundman for "MIDORI")

Voice: Chiyo Hayakawa, Koshu, Kazuyoshi Hayashi, Missile Star, Kyoko Inugami

[sorakazeno]

Sera Myu Music Festival 2022 Blu-Ray

Event was held at the Shinagawa Prince Hotel Stellar Ball in Tokyo from November 17th – 20th, 2022.

I missed it by less than two weeks since I wasn't in Japan until December of that year. I doubt I would have stood a chance getting tickets.

Can we also talk about how excited I am to have Japanese Blu-Rays being the same region where I live? Makes it so much easier!!!

Back cover of jacket.

Performance booklet and musical performance dice.

Disc set. The performance on Disc 1. Bonus features on Disc 2. I love how all of them are also huge fans of Sailor Moon. Soundtrack for musical on CD 1. Special performances for the different guests on CD 2.

I haven't see a Sera Myu in a while so a lot of the music was new to me even if it had been out for a few years.

 Sailor Moon: Riko Tanaka

 Sailor Chibi Moon: Chise Niitsu

Riko Tanaka has a great voice.

Sailor Mercury: Kaon Maekawa

Sailor Mars: Rei Kobayashi

I can't be the only amused that the actress' first name is Rei, right?

 Sailor Jupiter: Kisara Matsumura

Sailor Venus: Marin Makino

Sailor Uranus: Shinjyu Terada

Sailor Neptune: Ayana Kinoshita

Sailor Pluto: Chisato Minami

Sailor Saturn: Yuzu Ide

Tuxedo Mask: Riona Tatemichi

Princess Snow Kaguya: Sayaka Okamura

Luna: Yune Sakurai

Human Luna: MARISA

I was fortunate to see Riona Tatemichi perform as part of the America Tour for the Super Live in 2019. I really loved seeing the bonus section with the senshi that were also on tour.

Guest Performances varied by date and time:

November 17 Show 1: Akiko Kosaka, ANZA

November 17 Show 2: Akiko Kosaka, ANZA, Toshino Akamine, Misako Iwana, Emi Kuriyama, Akiko Miyazawa

The original Sera Myu cast performed La Solider on the first night. Loved it!

November 18 Show 1: Tomomi Kasai, Cocona, Yui Hasegawa, Takae Obana, Hoshinami

November 18 Show 2: Shu Shiotsuki, Sayaka Fujioka

November 19 Show 1: Reona Hayashi, Samejima, Yui, Kyoko Ninomiya, Mayuka Ida, Yuko Nakanishi

November 19 Show 2: Yume Takeuchi, Karen Kobayashi, Kaede, Satomomo Hasegawa

November 20 Show 1: Satomi Okubo, Hyakuyo Koyama

November 20 Show 2: Satomi Okubo, Meiku Harukawa, Saki Matsuda

Lyrics

[brandonshimoda]

THE BOOKS I READ IN 2022, in the order in which I read them (*books I read before, that I was reading again):

Alexandra Chang, Days of Distraction 

Elizabeth Miki Brina, Speak, Okinawa 

Cynthia Dewi Oka, Fire Is Not a Country 

Hanif Abdurraqib, Go Ahead in the Rain: Notes to A Tribe Called Quest 

*Cathy Park Hong, Minor Feelings 

Victoria Chang, Dear Memory 

*Etel Adnan, Of Cities & Women (Letters to Fawwaz)

Sun Yung Shin, The Wet Hex 

traci kato-kiriyama, Navigating With(out) Instruments 

Raquel Gutiérrez, Brown Neon

Solmaz Sharif, Customs 

*Etel Adnan, Journey to Mount Tamalpais 

Lucille Clifton, Generations: A Memoir 

Emerson Whitney, Heaven 

Kim Thúy, em, tr. Sheila Fischman 

Angel Dominguez, Desgraciado (the collected letters) 

Janice Lee, Separation Anxiety 

*Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Dictee

*Cathy Park Hong, Translating Mo’um 

Kyoko Hayashi, From Trinity to Trinity, tr. Eiko Otake 

Lao Yang, Pee Poems, tr. Joshua Edwards & Lynn Xu 

Yuri Herrera, A Silent Fury: The El Bordo Mine Fire, tr. Lisa Dillman (

Mai Der Vang, Yellow Rain

Chuang Hua, Crossings 

José Watanabe, Natural History, tr. Michelle Har Kim

Walter Lew, Excerpts from: ∆IKTH 딕테/딕티 DIKTE, for DICTEE (1982) 

*Bhanu Kapil, The Vertical Interrogation of Strangers 

Vasily Grossman, An Armenian Sketchbook, tr. Robert & Elizabeth Chandler

Hiromi Kawakami, Parade, tr. Allison Markin Powell 

Lynn Xu, And Those Ashen Heaps That Cantilevered Vase of Moonlight 

*Etel Adnan, Sitt Marie Rose, tr. Georgina Kleege 

Jennifer Soong, Suede Mantis/Soft Rage 

*James Baldwin, No Name in the Street 

*Hilton Als, The Women

Dot Devota, >She 

V.S. Naipaul, The Return of Eva Perón 

Yasushi Inoue, The Hunting Gun, tr. Sadamichi Yokoo and Sanford Goldstein

Molly Murakami, Tide goes out 

Adrian Tomine, Shortcomings 

Hisham Matar, A Month in Siena 

Leia Penina Wilson, Call the Necromancer 

Gabriel García Márquez, News of a Kidnapping, tr. Edith Grossman 

Amitava Kumar, Bombay-London-New York 

Elizabeth Alexander, The Trayvon Generation 

Ryan Nakano, I Am Minor 

Constance Debré, Love Me Tender, tr. Holly James 

Hilton Als, My Pin-up 

Victoria Chang, The Trees Witness Everything 

Leslie Kitashima-Gray, The Pink Dress: A Story from the Japanese American Internment 

Emmanuel Carrère, Yoga, tr. John Lambert 

Ronald Tanaka, The Shino Suite: Sansei Poetry 

Patricia Y. Ikeda, House of Wood, House of Salt

Soichi Furuta, to breathe 

Kiki Petrosino, Bright 

Sueyeun Juliette Lee, Aerial Concave Without Cloud 

Nanao Sakaki, Real Play

Esmé Weijun Wang, The Collected Schizophrenias 

Francis Naohiko Oka, Poems 

Geraldine Kudaka, Numerous Avalanches at the Point of Intersection 

Steve Fujimura, Sad Asian Music 

Augusto Higa Oshiro, The Enlightenment of Katzuo Nakamatsu, tr. Jennifer Shyue 

Julie Otsuka, The Swimmers 

Salman Rushdie, The Jaguar Smile: A Nicaraguan Journey 

Margo Jefferson, Constructing a Nervous System 

Hua Hsu, Stay True 

Barbara Browning, The Miniaturists 

Kate Zambreno, Drifts 

*Julie Otsuka, When The Emperor Was Divine 

Louise Akers, Elizabeth/The Story of Drone

Wong May, In the Same Light: 200 Poems for Our Century from the Migrants & Exiles of the Tang Dynasty 

Gabrielle Octavia Rucker, Dereliction 

Trung Le Nguyen, The Magic Fish 

Jessica Au, Cold Enough for Snow 

Tongo Eisen-Martin, Blood on the Fog 

Lucas de Lima, Tropical Sacrifice 

*Like a New Sun: New Indigenous Mexican Poetry, ed. Víctor Terán & David Shook 

Billy-Ray Belcourt, A Minor Chorus 

Kazim Ali, Silver Road 

*Sadako Kurihara, When We Say Hiroshima, tr. Richard Minear 

Simone White, or, on being the other woman

*James Baldwin, The Devil Finds Work 

Christina Sharpe, Ordinary Notes 

*Raquel Gutiérrez, Brown Neon 

Marguerite Duras, The Man Sitting in the Corridor 

Gayl Jones, Corregidora 

*Bhanu Kapil, The Vertical Interrogation of Strangers 

*Etel Adnan, Seasons 

Gwendolyn Brooks, to disembark 

Cristina Rivera Garza, The Taiga Syndrome, tr. Suzanne Jill Levine and Aviva Kana

Gwendolyn Brooks, In the Mecca 

Nona Fernández, The Twilight Zone, tr. Natasha Wimmer

Selva Almada, Dead Girls, tr. Annie McDermott

*Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Dictee

Valerie Hsiung, To Love an Artist

*Theresa Hak  Cha, Exilée and Temps Morts

Dao Strom, We Were Meant To Be a Gentle People

Randa Jarrar, Love Is An Ex-Country

*Dao Strom, Instrument

Osamu Dazai, Early Light, tr. Ralph McCarthy and Donald Keene

Osamu Dazai, The Setting Sun, tr. Donald Keene

Rachel Aviv, Strangers To Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us

Mahmoud Darwish, Journal of an Ordinary Grief, tr. Ibrahim Muhawi

[goji-pilled]

MK-S: Here’s Part 4 of “Phil’s Rage”. And a link back to part 3. Please enjoy, and be warned of blood in this chapter.

37 days. It had been 37 days since the incident, and there had been no sign of the rogue Magical Girl, nor any indication that Phil was still in Klarissa’s hat. It was…strange for Klarissa. And for everyone else too. They’d grown used to her going off to another world for several hours in a given week, sometimes spending a full day and night there. She would always come home usually with interesting stories to tell, such as a world where incubators contracted girls into witches, who would then become magical girls and spread hope to the world. Or a world without any of Oktavia’s children, where Mami and Kyoko had become witches, with Mami’s witch apparently small enough to explore between the walls of her home. (She had actually intended to check up on something Phil may have done to the interior, but those plans had gone out the window for obvious reasons.)

It wasn’t all good. She also had come back looking shaken a few times, with tales of nightmarish worlds. Of worlds where familiars were meant to torture their witch, or dimensions where monsters would hide in the streets, with people leaving for work fully aware they could be devoured by things they couldn’t see, let alone hope to stop.

But despite all that, these journeys had become a part of Klarissa’s life. And now it was like a part of her was missing.

She was walking down the street now. Only her third time allowed to patrol alone again, after her parents…well, “grounded” is what it felt like, though she knew it was closer to them putting her in “protective custody”. Klarissa didn’t blame her parents for being somewhat overzealous in their reaction. In fact, though she wouldn’t admit it to them, she actually welcomed it. Especially after Phil…went AWOL (for lack of better terms that didn’t make her feel nervous about a potential lack of return for her Eldritch best friend). It really helped to have someone else always close at hand. She’d taken a couple days to get over having almost been killed…it was surprisingly quick to get over. There was an aspect of the incident that just didn’t feel real, given how the magical girl had gone from life-ending threat, to simply gone in the span of…well, probably an actual instant.

She saw a flyer taped to a nearby wall. One amongst many, but whenever she saw that flyer she always took a moment to examine it. The same picture, the same title, the same girl:

Missing Person: Haru Hayashi

Having a name to put to the face made it harder. There was something different about this whole situation. She’d had magical girls attack her before. Heck, she’d killed the ones who wouldn’t listen to reason and refused to back down. But none had ever come so close to killing her before. And with those she had killed…

At least she was certain they were dead. Several multiverse trips had taught her that sometimes, there are things worse than death. And Phil was more than likely capable of at least three of the ones she knew of. Being a witch, the suffering of others was different to her than it would be to an ordinary human. But…there were things that, by virtue of being physically capable of empathy, no witch would ever wish on another living creature.

She thought back to that day a month ago, at the final moments before she blacked out, and Phil had allegedly carried her home. She remembered how the magical girl had felt genuine pity for her, and truly believed that she was trying to help her.

That was arguably the most terrifying part about it. Because had she been a feral Witch, too far gone to be saved, Klarissa would have wholeheartedly said that that was the correct call. And a thought kept lingering on her mind. This girl had known she was a Witch. She’d known that Klarissa’s hat was tied to her power. She’d been able to move in her time stop, and somehow able to extract her grief seed by force. It would be so easy to assume that she’d also know about witch domestication. But that was the issue:

There had been so many important things she hadn’t known, or at least didn’t seem to have known. Haru had seemed startled or distracted when their weapons hit the ground when time resumed. She’d put Klarissa’s hat on her head, despite it being the access point her cosmic friend/horror used to interact with the world. She might as well have decided to wear a bear trap. And that rush of her emotions when she’d use Klarissa’s Grief Seed to cleanse her Soul Gem. It had taken a few days to find the right words to describe one of the main emotions, and while she didn’t know if there was a single word for the feeling, she could describe it in a sentence: A sort of regret, of wishing there was another way, but doing what needed to be done.

What else hadn’t Haru known? Had she even known about the domestication process? Was she fed Incubator lies? And the one question that kept her up some nights: Could she have talked her out of it? She knew this was likely some form of survivor’s guilt, but she didn’t care. Knowing she was being too hard on herself and actually accepting that were two different things. Plus most survivors of attempted murder didn’t usually have the sort of complications and Eldritch implications that this scenario did.

Speaking of Eldritch, Klarissa’s hat sudden floated off her head. Klarissa barely had time to look up before her hat bolted through the air, into an alley. She, naturally, ran after it, delighted at what this meant.

“Phil!” She exclaimed as she entered the alleyway, a grin quickly forming on her-

Her smile evaporated when the first drops of blood fell out of her hovering headwear. Then a steady dripping, and then it was as if a sink from a horror movie had been turned on. And not a moment later, the scarlet liquid was surging forth from the hat like a fire hydrant.

The blood hit the pavement, but as it continued to pour from Klarissa’s hat, it didn’t spread across the ground. Instead it was like it was filling an invisible container, one that was rapidly being filled to a be brim. Klarissa’s mouth was agape, as in a matter of seconds, the alleyway was filled with what she could only describe as a colossal blood bubble, one at least two meters in width, three or four in height, and she couldn’t even see how far back it went; one meter, ten, she couldn’t see in either case.

A moment passed. Then another. Then the blood bubble burst. Klarissa’s arms instinctively flew up to shield her face. She needn’t have bothered. Not a drop touched her. It sprayed all around her though. The alley walls looked like they’d been given a fresh coat of red paint, or at least they did for a moment until the blood rushed down the sides.

There was a body drenched in the blood. The body of a girl, dressed in…honestly, there was so much red dripping off her, it was hard to believe that those were the same dark green garments of her magical girl uniform that Klarissa had first seen a month ago.

Klarissa heard a scream. It wasn’t from the magical girl. Was it from her? Her mouth was wide open…no, that wasn’t her voice. And she wouldn’t be screaming for someone to call an ambulance. There were several other noises that followed; people asking her what happened, the sirens of the ambulance, the blood pouring down the storm drains, etc.

But the only noise that stood out to her was when she heard the girl gasp for breath.

MK-S: Well, that was part four of “Phil’s Rage.” There should be just one more after this. This should be the last of the blood, but I do have a bit of creepy Eldritch imagery in mind for the final chapter…which is the next chapter.

Speaking of, you may be wondering “What’s with all the blood, and how is she still alive?” Well, in the Void, things (I.e. physics) get a bit more…let’s just say “abstract” or “conceptual”; you can bleed, but you can’t bleed out.

One more fun fact. If I timed this right (I didn’t; got too excited and wanted to share instead of waiting one more day), I’ve submitted this post about 37 days since the last part. I didn’t just choose to use the irl number of days, and actually had selected 37 at random before I even submitted the last part. Why 37? Eh, no real reason; it just sort of stuck out to me; nice prime number, translates into just over a month physical, psychological, and Eldritch torture. A good fit for what I needed.

Well, hope this was fun and freaky to read. Have a good day everyone.

Oh boy! That sure is situation!

[hanya0805]

Take a Train from Hiroshima to Nagasaki This Summer

As I was born in Hiroshima and my grandfather experienced the Hiroshima bombing at the age of 5 on the outskirts of the city, the Hiroshima bombing has been a crucial and relevant historical event for me. I visit the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum every chance I get, since childhood, and I offer a minute of silence on August 6 at 8:15 AM watching the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Ceremony on TV every year. So, I’ve grown up reading and hearing Hiroshima literature and relating myself to this horrendous historical event. Last winter I visited the newly-renovated peace museum when I visited my grandparents for New Year’s. But as I walked out of the museum it made me wonder: Why isn’t there any contextualization of the bombing? There is no mention of the Pacific War or anything before August 6. If you look at the webpage of The Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum, the museum’s mission says: To convey to the world the horrors and inhumane nature of nuclear weapons and spread the message of “No More Hiroshimas”  -- through A-bomb artifacts and testimonies of the atomic bomb survivors. NO wonder. Since their mission is dedicated to telling the tragedy of Hiroshima, there is no need to tell a single story about how the war led to the atomic bombing of Hiroshima.

Sheer curiosity took me to the webpage of the Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum because unfortunately I had never had a chance to pay a visit there and I wanted to know how Nagasaki does the same. But what I found was an interesting difference between the Hiroshima Peace Museum and the Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum. The Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum devotes one third of their exhibition to placing the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki not only in the context of Japanese history, but also of the history of nuclear weapons and their development. The war history exhibition, titled “The Road to the Atomic Bombing,” looks from the Manchurian Incident in 1931 to the Japan-China War, and follows up with the Pacific War to the defeat of Japan in 1945. They also have sections for the history of the atomic bomb development (especially the Manhattan Project), the nuclear arms race in the Cold War era, and the danger of testing the atomic bomb. It inlcudes the Daigo Fukuryumaru incident, where a Japanese fishing boat happened to encounter a hydrogen bomb test in Bikini Atoll in 1954, and the radiation damage to uranium miners in the US and the Soviet Union.

Reading through the websites of both museums about the atomic bombing, I came to realize that the two museums have different goals and approaches in their exhibitions. Hiroshima points out the tragedy of Hiroshima and is trying to create the discourse of “No More Hiroshimas”: Nuclear weapons are inhumane and must not be used again because they caused such atrocities in Hiroshima. Nagasaki, on the other hand, takes a comprehensive view. Nagasaki does tell what happened on August 9 as Hiroshima does: A-bomb artifacts, testimonies of Nagasaki survivors are there. But there are sections of exhibition dedicated to contextualizing the Nagasaki bombing in the context of Japanese military history or the history of nuclear power emphasize that Hiroshima and Nagasaki are a part of the nuclear tragedy for human beings as a whole. It resonates with Kyoko Hayashi’s (Nagasaki survivor) remark in From Trinity to Trinity when she visits the Trinity Site in New Mexico: “As soon as I started walking through the small passage within the fenced area led by a guide, my always-present awareness of being a victim disappeared from my mind.” When Hayashi visits the Trinity Site, she comes to feel compassion for Trinity as a survivor of the atomic bomb, beyond the differences of nations, enemy-friends, time, and distance.

I regret that I haven’t ever visited Nagasaki. I thought that the Hiroshima and Nagasaki experiences were similar, and the museums would be similar too. But I was wrong. They do carry different missions and messages, and it is important to visit both places and museums (and the Trinity Site as well) if you want to understand the atomic bombings more completely. A sad thing is that my perspective – visiting only one site (mostly Hiroshima) – is not rare for a lot of visitors, especially foreign visitors. In fact, Hiroshima attracts more visitors than Nagasaki, and the proportion of foreign visitors is bigger for the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum: Hiroshima has 1,522,453 visitors (434,838 foreign visitors) in 2018, but Nagasaki attracts 705,314 visitors (including 135,900 foreign visitors) in 2017. I understand that Hiroshima gains more attention because it was the first place that the atomic bomb was dropped on people. Nonetheless, it shouldn’t deprive Nagasaki of the opportunity to convey their message and understanding of the atomic bombings. So, I want to say, take a train from Hiroshima to Nagasaki with me! I’ve decided to visit Nagasaki this summer, as have been tempted to do since I now know what the Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum offers us. It’s a 4-hour train trip from Hiroshima to Nagasaki, and I promise that your trip to Nagasaki, combined with a visit to Hiroshima, will give you more perspectives on the history and round out your understanding of the atomic bombings.

A quote is from From Trinity to Trinity by Kyoko Hayashi and Eiko Otake (Translator)

「平和記念資料館、外国人入館者が６年連続過去最多」朝日新聞　2019.4.16

「原爆関連施設の入場者数が増加　核廃絶へ　機運高まり要因か」長崎新聞 2018.5.18

*I wrote this piece in the winter of 2020 and visited Nagasaki later.

[cephalo-bot]

Character dialogue study assignment

[myu-photos]

[anamon-book]

男はつらいよ 寅次郎春の夢 松竹株式会社事業部 1979年

[sailorzakuro]

Welp here I am bringing another Shining Moon Tokyo edit XD. I planned to do this when @kosmosinusa posted his scans but AYAKA TOOK SO LONG HE ALREADY BEAT ME TO IT XD. So I didn’t copy I’m just late XD. All scans are from him and the Kyoko, Yu and Sufa renders were made by him! I made the Shina Yui and Ayaka ones XD. Logo render is from the Shining Moon Tokyo site and the background is from Google images!

[landofanimes]

Sailor Moon 30th Anniversary Musical Festival -Chronicle-  

Backstage with the Shining Moon Tokyo team!

[myu-resource]

Shining Moon Tokyo Promotional Images - Inner Senshi

Original pictures

Some of the Super Live actresses are returning! So we finally get more photos of them :3

[kiyubaru]

Zashikiro Temporary editing

Sakichi boy, is assaulted by everyone and his only friend, a little fish, is killed. While the perpetrators of violence were smiling and living happy lives, Sakichi was living a life of despair and sadness. Sakichi’s mother sees this and takes revenge on those who assaulted her child. The police come and blame Sakichi’s mother. Mother protests to police, “These guys are the ones at fault!” Mother says to Sakichi. “No matter how bad things happen to you, I’ll always be on your side! I’ll be on your side until the day I die!” The police angrily shoot his mother as she resists.

Mother screams. “KUYASHII!”

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It seems that there is no English equivalent to "悔しい(KUYASHII)". We also looked it up on the English teacher's pages, but all the alternative translations were different. “KUYASHII'' does not simply mean unpleasant or irritating. “KUYASHII” is “When you are accused, ridiculed, or persecuted by someone stronger than you, you are weak and can never compete with someone stronger, but the feelings of anger and hatred remain.You cannot throw away those feelings. ”

It also means hating the perpetrator, but more than that, “KUYASHII'' is a word that is filled with hatred, anger, and resentment towards the absurd reality that cannot be achieved by one's weak self.That is what it means. That is what it means.

In other words, ”Everything is hateful to the weak, defeated self''. If I had to translate ”KUYASHII'' into English in a short way, wouldn't it be ”I hate everything''? This is the emotion that underlies all of Harada's works.

（voice acting:Kosyu,Chiyo Hayakawa,Missile Star,Kyoko Inugami,Kinji Nomura,Kazuyoshi Hayashi/drawing,photography,music,sound effects:Hiroshi Harada）

[crazykacey]

okay I know that everyone and their mother has posted about this I’m gonna do it too lol

Okay so Shining Moon Tokyo cast was released OMG YAZ and here are tha cast AND their social medias!!(and yes it’s a double cast but no teams or such have been announced)

Reona Samejima as Sailor Moon Twitter | Instagram

Shina Tanaka as Sailor Moon Twitter

Cocona as Sailor Mercury (also performed as Sailor Mercury in the Super Live In Team Heart and Team Paris!) Twitter | Instagram

Yui Hayashi as Sailor Mercury Twitter | Blog

Mika Taguchi as Sailor Mars Twitter

Kyoko Ninomiya as Sailor Mars (also performed as Sailor Mars in the Super Live in Team Diamond and Team Birthday) Twitter | Instagram | Blog

Mayuka Ida as Sailor Jupiter (also the understudy of Sailor Mars in NogiMyu) Twitter | Instagram

Ayaka Ozaki as Sailor Jupiter Twitter | Blog

Nanae Abe as Sailor Venus (nothing found :( )

Yuu Nakanishi as Sailor Venus (also performed as Sailor Venus in the Super Live in Team Diamond, Team America and Team Birthday) Twitter

Hikari Aoba as Tuxedo Mask Twitter | Instagram

Sufa as Tuxedo Mask Twitter

and now for the Ensemble cast and oh boy I’m gonna be here for a long time cause there is A LOT

Erina Arasawa, Yurika Uchida (Twitter), Misaki Ookita, Suzuka Oosawa (also Ensemble in Super Live Teams Heart/Music Note/Paris Twitter | Instagram), Miyuu Oohashi (also Ensemble in Super Live Teams Heart/Music Note/Paris Twitter | Instagram), Rinka Kurio (Twitter | Instagram), Kurea Saitou (Twitter | Instagram), Yukari Shiihara (also Ensemble In Le Mouvement Final Twitter | Instagram) Mana Shinohara (Twitter), Chiemi Doi (also Ensemble in Amour Eternal Twitter), Yoshimi Hidano (also Ensemble in Amour Eternal and Le Mouvement Final Twitter | Instagram) & Ayano Watanabe