#Noriko Takao

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uwgahhh

[3irons]

SAINT YOUNG MEN dir noriko takao

[meara-eldestofthemall]

Now it’s been months after the fact and likely the spoilers are out there;

Batfamily Response to Godzilla Minus One? Their favorite scenes from it? Their viewpoint on the special effects? Commentary on its setting and plot? Etc?

This is an excellent and timely question now that Godzila: Minus One has won an Oscar for special effects. Hmmmm...

It's tradition that Dick and Tim go to see any new Godzila movie on its opening night for the midnight showing. They even do cos-play (the original 1954 movie) since the crowd is usually filled with young adults and college students. Dick dresses as Ogata (the young, handsome protagonist with perfect teeth and lush, muffiny hair). Tim is Dr. Serizawa, complete with a white lab coat and an eye-patch that Tim tends switch from eye to eye. It confuses people and he finds that amusing.

After seeing the fun these two were having the viewing party has grown over time. Jason decided to come and Damian insisted that he be included. Duke was asked to join them and thought it sounded cool. Barbara, Stephanie and Cass were also invited along. Barbara simple gave Dick a look he knew all too well and he tendered her regrets to the others. Stephanie decried it as too much in the nerd zone whereas Cass doesn't like subtitled movies ("bad translations hurt my soul") but said to ask her when the dubbed version comes out.

Jason and Damian walked several paces behind Tim and Dick (pretending they didn't know them) but Duke got an old T-Rex costume and joined in on the cos-play as Godzila. Duke wasn't the only Godzila there and the management had to remind the various kaiju in the audience to remove their heads so as not to obstruct the view of the screen.

While Dick and Tim were fully expecting a remake of the 1954 classic they were not prepared for just how good it was. The acting was top notch, the music was excellent and the special effects were mind blowing.

Being Godzilla purists, Dick and Tim loved the kaiju's first destructive romp through the Ginza. They particularly loved seeing the reenactment of the classic commuter train scene, applauding loudly along with half the audience when Godzila had the passenger car in his teeth. They both cheered at the specticle of Godzilla's atomic breath and agreed that it was even better the Legendary movie version.

Duke was enthralled by the special effects. He declared the scene where the old battle cruiser Takao takes on the monster epic and seamlees. He cheered when Godzilla swallowed the mine and then regenerated (after a rather satisfying explosion). In fact both Duke and Tim were happy to enjoy the massive property damage in the movie since they could not be blamed for any of it. The two spent the ride home trying to calculate how many new kaiju were going to come out of all of the various chunks of Godzilla from the movies' ending. Their laughter as they talked about how many cities the herd of Godzillas could demolish was vaguely disturbing.

Jason was honestly surprised how good the movie was. He declaring that, unlike the 2014 Legendary movie, he actually cared about the squishy human's stories. Considering himself the family's preeminent movie critic, Jason gave the flick his top rating of five bullets.

Damian, unsurprisingly, found himself sympathizing with Godzilla. After all, the kaiju was only doing what his instincts prompted him to. Damian's opinion that it wasn't Godzilla's fault that humans were in his territory and were attacking him.

Having been schooled in the principals of Bushido, Damian also appreciated Shikishima's need to atone for his past and the guilt he felt at surviving when his comrades did not. It was what happened to Noriko and Shikishima's vow of revenge that seemed to truly speak to Damian. He and Dick had a deep conversation on the way home about how revenge is a double sided blade that hurts you when you wield it. If the suicidal pilot had followed through with his plan then he would have denied himself the very thing he craved the most - love and a family. Of all the things Dick hoped for from the movie, a life lesson for Damian was the most welcome and the most unexpected.

[ojamajodoremi-polls]

Welcome to the Favorite Classmate Tournament!

This is gonna be a big one. Due to the number of classmates and the fact i couldn't evenly distribute it in a number of pairs and sides that made sense for the brackets (maybe there's a way and I'm just bad at math), every side initially includes 3 pairs and 1 trio each, and finals will be a poll between 3 contenders and y'all will have to live with that, I did my best.

As always, pairs/trios and their order in the bracket were randomly generated.

Complete list of polls under the cut, they'll be linked as soon as they're posted. Polls will be open for a week. May your fave win!

Side A

Yuji Sagawa vs Masato Rinno

Natsumi Sato vs Jun Sato

Minto Wada vs Naomi Okuyama

Kazuya Yoshida vs Hajime Kikuchi vs Michiaki Watabe

Side B

Mutsumi Kudo vs Itoko Hamada

Manabu Takagi vs Kota Amano

Hiroko Kine vs Miho Maruyama

Ichiro Hirano vs Kenta Iizuka vs Marina Koizumi

Side C

Koji Ito vs Kotaro Okajima

Tamaki Reika vs Yuko Koyama

Yoko Manda vs Kayoko Nagato

Shino Hanada vs Nobuaki Yamauchi vs Keiko Yamamoto

Side D

Yukari Umeno vs Masayoshi Nakajima

Takeshi Hasebe vs Maki Higuchi

Noriko Kano vs Nanako Okada

Junji Manda vs Sachiko Ijuuin vs Goji Nakata

Side E

Sora Miyamae vs Masaharu Miyamoto

Masaru Yada vs Takuro Hagiwara

Yutaka Ota vs Dai Morikawa

Kotake Tetsutya vs Kanae Iida vs Ryota Hayashi

Side F

Susumu Yanagida vs Aya Matsushita

Nobuko Yokokawa vs Kenji Ogura

Shiori Nakayama vs Kaori Shimakura

Takao Kimura vs Toyokazu Sugiyama vs Shouta Taniyama

[imasallstars]

The cover art for THE IDOLM@STER SHINY COLORS “CANVAS” 04 album has been released and the album is set to be released on July 12th 2023. It will feature three new songs by the unit as well as a special drama track.

This album features the unit ALSTROEMERIA, consisting of Amana Osaki (cv. Honoka Kuroki), Tenka Osaki (cv. Ryoko Maekawa) and, Chiyuki Kuwayama (cv. Noriko Shibatani), in their Wooly Mailer outfit

The crossfade of the album is located here

Tracklist:

Tr.01　Message 　Lyrics: Shizuna Suzuki　Music&Arrange: amazuti Tr.02　Love Letter 　Lyrics: Shizuna Suzuki 　Music: Ren Ryuushou　Arrange: Takao Yanagawa Tr.03　Gradation 　Lyrics: Shizuna Suzuki 　Music: YUU for YOU, Giz’Mo (from Jam9)　 Arrange: YUU for YOU Tr.04　Drama “Summer Day Spur” Tr.05　Message (Off Vocal) Tr.06　Love Letter (Off Vocal) Tr.07　Gradation (Off Vocal)

[odioart]

アイドルマスター シンデレラガールズ a n i m e x r e a l i t y  オディオ O  D  I  O

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Jesus and Buddha on a break

Saint Young Men

dir. Noriko Takao

[orochiedit-archive]

drop the deeply relatable characters list

welp here we go lol, I looked thru MAL and Letterboxd and VNDB to refresh my memory and made the list:

* Kino (Kino's Journey) * Reki (Haibane Renmei) * Takumi Nichijou (Chaos;Head) * Rintarou Okabe (Steins;Gate) * Rikka Takanashi (Chuunibyou) * Tomoko Kuroki (WataMote) * Kiyoshirou Ushimitsu (Kamisama No Iutoori) * Haru Usami (G-Senjou No Maou) * Noriko Shimabara (Noriko's Dinner Table) * Takao Kasuga (Aku No Hana)   * Rin Tezuka (Katawa Shoujo) * Yuuichi Hasumi (Lily Chou-Chou) * Kaiji (Kaiji) * Tatsuhiro Satou (Welcome To The NHK) * Yuki Sanada (Tsuritama) * Rena Ryuugu (Higurashi) * Nagito Komaeda (Danganronpa) * Dinky Bossetti (Welcome Home, Roxy Carmichael) * Hichiman Hikigaya (OreGairu) * Mamiya Takuji (SubaHibi) * Yuki Minakami (SubaHibi) * Shinji Ikari (NGE) :^) * Lain Iwakura (Serial Experiments Lain) :^) * Tanaka (Tanaka-kun Is Listless)

[theoriginalladya]

OC Profiles - Takao Shepard

(I do not have any art of Takao yet, but his face claim is Ryohei Otani)

GENERAL-

Name: Takao Shepard

Alias(es): Taka

Gender: Male

Age: standard ages as in games

Birthdate: April 11, 2154

Place of birth: Japan

Hometown: in the countryside north and west of Kyoto

Spoken language(s): English, Japanese

Sexual preference: Demisexual, Asexual

Occupation: Spectre/Alliance Officer

APPEARANCE-

Eye color: Brown

Hair color: Black

Height: 5'11

Scars: nothing outside of the usual cuts or burns he might experience in life as a sentinel

Favorite-

Color: Burgundy

Hair color: None

Song: Traditional Japanese Taiko drums - not one specific song, but anything with them

Food: his grandmother's ramen

Drink: sake

HAVE THEY-

Passed university: no

Had sex: yes (with Kaidan)

Had sex in public: no

Gotten pregnant: no

Kissed a boy: yes

Kissed a girl: no

Gotten tattoos: no

Gotten piercings: no

Been in love: yes (Kaidan)

Stayed up for more than 24 hours: yes

ARE THEY-

A virgin: prior to Kaidan? yes

A cuddler: sometimes, only with Kaidan

A kisser: he likes to 'practice' with Kaidan ;)

Scared easily: No

Jealous easily: no

Dominant: no

Submissive: no

In love: Yes? What he feels for Kaidan is unlike anything he's ever felt for anyone else

Single: No

RANDOM QUESTIONS (TW FOR SELF HARM/SUICIDE MENTION)-

Have they harmed themselves: No

Thought of suicide: No

Attempted suicide: No

Wanted to kill someone: No

Have / had a job: sort of? he was a Taido student at his grandmother's dojo and helped her teach others.

Have any fears: only the idea of losing those he cares most about

FAMILY

Sibling(s): Cousins: Kasumi Goto, Hajime Fukuda

Parent(s): Mum: Hikaru Hashimoto, Grandmother: Noriko Hashimoto Dad: [Dominic Osoba, though he does not find out until ME1]

Children: The students he and Kaidan teache after the war

Significant other: Kaidan

Pet(s): couple of cats who move into their home after the war and who like to sit in the dojo while Taka is teaching or follow Kaidan while he and Taka teach biotics to the students Kaidan works with

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woohoooo OC-tober week 1!! i'm using the prompt list by @/SarahDandh on twitter/insta!

the 3rd and 4th photos are gifts i made for friends whose birthdays happened to fall on the prompt "friend's oc"!!

[hotarutranslations]

UpFront Group Remote Work Chorus!

Evening Its Ishida Ayumi

 Just now,

(9:00PM) an upload

 UpFront Group Remote Work Chorus

  #lovewins #thankyouessentialworkers #thankyoutoeveryonedoingtheirbest

#itsoktocry #dontgiveup #STAYHOME #timeathome

 The power of song, the power of words, the power of music, the power of dance,

 What we can send out now,

Also wanting to send out our feelings of thanks,

 It includes that power

   This video was created

All Hello! Project Members,

Horiuchi Takao-san,

Banba Hirofumi-san, Sugita Jirou-san,

Inaba Akira-san,

Makoto-san, Hayashi Maya-san,

Moritaka Chisato-san, Aida Shoko-san, Nakazawa Yuko-san, Iida Kaori-san, Yaguchi Mari-san, Tsuji Nozomi-san, Takahashi Ai-san, Tanaka Reina-san,

Suzuki Airi-san, Natsuyaki Miyabi-san, Kobayashi Hikaru-san, Nihei Yuka-san, Okada Robin Shoko-san,

Hashimoto Aina-san, Goto Yuki-san, Morozuka Kanam-san, Tasaki Asahi-san, Hasegawa Moemi-san,

Sawayaka Goro-san,

Suzuki Keita-san, Watase Maki-san, Abe Natsumi-san, Satoda Mai-san, Omata Masako-san, Shinoda Junko-san, Takayama Gen-san, KAN-san,

Matsubara Takeshi-san, Nakajima Takui-san, Taisei-san, Kato Noriko-san,

Yasuda Kei-san, Ishikawa Rika-san, Fujimoto Miki-san, Niigaki Risa-san,

Iikubo Haruna-chan ❤

Kudo Haruka-chan ❤

Shimizu Saki-san,

Sudo Maasa-san, Kumai Yurina-san, Yajima Maimi-san, Nakajima Saki-san, Miyazaki Yuka-chan, Katsuta Rina-san, Mano Erina-san, Miyazaki Rio-san, Yagi Saki-san, Miyoshi Erika-san, Tanaka Yoshitake-san, Furukawa Konatsu-san, Mori Saki-san, Saho Akari-san, Sekine Azusa-san, Arai Manami-san, Sengoku Minami-san, Kikkawa Yuu-san, Wada Ayaka-san, Michishige Sayumi-san, Ozeki Mai-san, Tokunaga Chinami-san, Kagawa Ryo-san, Yanagisawa Junko-san,

 Also, Tsunku-san

 Watching this video that connects so many people, what shooting alone in your home by yourself,

 ……(>_<)

 It felt lonely but,

 To see it become one like this!!

 Like this!!

 This!!

 Definitely watch the video,

I want you to feel it

  The power of music is really amazing

 The uneasy situation continues on now,

In that way everyone,

Because we are here,

 Let’s overcome this together

 When you’re not feeling well,

It seems like it would be fun to sing along

 During time when you want to relax, definitely

 Also again,

 Now during this situation,

There are people that are still working

 Thanks to those people,

We’re able to spend time at home now

 Thank you very much!!!

 Sending this out!

 Sending--!

  (Surely the Hello! jersey doesn’t feel out of place already……)

   (although in this selfie I’m not wearing a Hello! jersey……)

 Um, today is,

 Kudo Shinichi and Edogawa Conan-kun’s

Birthday ❤

 And so,

 Finally,

 Um, this para para!

  Since I was able to dance to it,

 Its fine to watch it on YouTube after,

Since its fine,

 Please definitely watch a lot of people doing it

 But parapara is really difficult… I couldn’t get a hold on the nuance of the 2-step… Yaguchi Mari-san appeared in,

 “Gal Circle”

 I loved it!!!

 I really remember watching it,

Certainly from when I was in elementary school,

 I want to ask Yaguchi-san about it someday lol

 Furthermore tomorrow is,

 J Fest App JAPAN JAM

On the official app “J Fest”

 In a previous festival video where Morning Musume ’20 and Angermer were to perform, it will be available for a limited time from May 5th (Tue, Holiday) from noon to midnight!

 With the hashtag “#JAPANJAMathome” lets all enjoy JAPAN JAM together online ❤

 Official Site is here

 I hope that you’ll have a wonderful day tomorrow as well

 See you ayumin ❤

 https://ameblo.jp/morningmusume-10ki/entry-12594659327.html

[k2i]

true/本当のこと (2007 - 2012) from 藤本隆行 on Vimeo.

A full-length uncut version of "true/本当のこと." A record of performance in Montreal 2011.

This performance premiered in 2007 and continued the world tour until 2012.

The main technical systems used in this performance; Myoelectric sensor >> UHF radio >> Max/MSP >> Sound sampling files >> Video >> Transducer (ButtKicker) + Scaffolding >> LED lighting + Circular truss >> Linear actuator + Electromagnet

Note: The first 6 min. 45 sec. Are almost silent. Then suddenly there is a loud noise ^_^

true/本当のこと Credit:

Direction/Lighting Design: Takayuki Fujimoto (Kinsei R&D/Dumb Type) 企画演出/照明: 藤本隆行

Choreography/Dance: Tsuyoshi Shirai (AbsT/baneto) 振付/出演: 白井 剛

Choreography/Dance/Text: Takao Kawaguchi (Dumb Type) 振付/出演/テキスト: 川口隆夫

Sound/Video/Visual Design: Takuya Minami (Softpad) 音/映像/ビジュアルデザイン: 南 琢也

Sound/Integrated Programming: Daito Manabe (Rhizomatiks) 音/統合制御プログラミング: 真鍋大度

Video/Programming/web: Satoshi Horii (Rhizomatiks) 映像/プログラミング/ウェブ: 堀井哲史

Table Design & Mechanics: Seiichi Saito・Motoi Ishibashi (Rhizomatiks) 装置: 齋藤精一・石橋 素

Myoelectric sensor & Oscillator support: Masaki Teruoka (VPP) 筋電センサー製作、振動子監修: 照岡正樹

Costume Design: Noriko Kitamura 衣装: 北村教子

Technical support: YCAM InterLab Color Kinetics Japan TamaTechLab Rhizomatiks DGN

Production management: HiWood - Koichiro Takagi, Ayako Tuchiya 制作: ハイウッド - 高樹光一郎、土屋彩子

Video editing: Takayuki Fujimoto

2007 01 Sep. World premiere Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media [YCAM], StudioB Yamaguchi/Japan

08, 09 Dec. 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Theater 21 Kanazawa/Japan

14-16 Dec. Yokohama Red Brick Warehouse No.1 Yokohama / Japan

2008 24-26 July Esplanade, Theatre Studio Singapore

13-15 Nov. Japan Society New York/USA

2009 06-09 Aug. Setagaya Public Theatre, Theatre Tram Tokyo/Japan

25, 26 Sep. Stadsschouwburg Amsterdam (SSBA) Amsterdam/Netherlands

29 Sep. Parktheater Eindhoven Eindhoven/Netherlands

03, 04 Oct. Tanzhaus NRW Dusseldorf Dusseldorf/Germany

09-10 Oct. Mousonturm Frankfurt/Germany

15-17 Oct. Maison de la culture du JAPON a Paris Paris / France

11, 12 Nov. Teatro Tom Jobim / Festival Panorama de Danca 2009 Rio de Janeiro/Brazil

18, 19 Nov. Teatro Peaulo Autran / SESC Pinheiros Sao Paulo/Brazil

2010 05 June Macao Cultural Centre, Small Auditorium Macao/China

18-20 June Hong Kong Cultural Centre, Studio Theatre Hong Kong/China (Organized by orleanlaiproject)

08, 09 Sep. EX-Alumix di Bolzano / TransART 2010 Bolzano/Italy

2011 27-29 Jan. Usine C Montreal/Canada

03-05 Feb. Cooperative Meduse/Mois-Multi Quebec/Canada

18-21 Mar. AI HALL/AI HALL Dance Collection vol.64 Hyogo/Japan

2012 08-09 Mar. LIG Art Hall Busan/Korea

Kinsei R&D: kinsei.asia/ facebook.com/KinseiRD/

[johnnymundano]

Imprint (2006)

Directed by Takashi Miike

Screenplay by Daisuke Tengan

Based on the novel Bokkee Kyotee by Shimako Iwai

Music by Kōji Endō

Country: United States, Japan(?)

Running Time: 53 minutes

CAST

Billy Drago as Christopher

Yûki Kudô as Woman

Michié as Komomo

Toshie Negishi as Madam of the House

Mame Yamada as Tout

Kumiko Imai as Mother

Hôka Kinoshita as Father

Shimako Iwai as Torturer Woman

Shihô Harumi as Labourer #1

Magy as Labourer #2

Shin'ichi Tokuhara as Labourer #3

Takao Handa as Yoshi, Labourer #4

Hiroshi Kuze as Boatman

Miyuki Konno as Dead Woman

Yutaka Matsuzaki as Gate Keeper #1

Hiroshi Fujita as Gate Keeper #2

Sachiko Matsuura as Shamisen Player

Noriko Eguchi as Whore #1

Megumu Takada as Whore #2

Yuno as Whore #3

Miho Harita as Whore #4

Tokitoshi Shiota as Elderly Woman

Risa Uehara as Girl with Blue Eyes

Miho Ninagawa as Pregnant Woman

Suzuno Nomura as Girl in Woman's Flashback

Seriyu Ichino as Buddhist Priest

Shinichi Tanaka as Pimp

Yasushi Tomobe as Woman's Customer

Katsuyuki Shimosugi as Boy #1

Haruo Fukuhara as Boy #2

Keita Murase as Boy #3

Dong Wook Min as Prison Guard #1

Takumi Matsumoto as Prison Guard #2

Takashi Miike’s bracingly unpleasant Imprint originally aired as the 13th episode of the 2006 TV series Masters of Horror. Or it did if you were in the UK, catching it on the Bravo Channel. If you were in America then Showtime shelved it because America is the Land of the Free, but only in certain circumstances. Concerns were raised, apparently, regarding the level of unpleasantness within it, but Imprint was later released on DVD; because making money means qualms get crushed. Which is apt since some of what Imprint is about (and Imprint is about a lot of things) is commodification, particularly the commodification of the human body. Which is why there are more whores in the cast list than in the last six Frank Miller comics. Imprint is also about insanity, and if you want to make connections between commodification, money as power, and the inevitable usurping of humanity by appetite climaxing in insanity, well, I won’t stand in your way. Heavy themes. Heavy stuff. It’s also entertainingly batshit in that magical and uniquely Takashi Miike fashion.

Imprint is set in 19th Century Japan, when gaijin knocking about the place were still a novelty. (Japan’s 200 year isolation had ended in 1853, when the namesake of Friends star Matthew Perry sailed 4 ships into Tokyo Bay.) Maybe we still are a novelty; we are quite funny looking. Anyway, fresh from the wild west and its enthusiastic ethnic cleansing of the native Americans, Christopher (Billy Drago), an American journalist with a penchant for histrionics, is searching for Komomo (Michié), a whore he promised to return and free. Which is mighty big of him. Along with a bunch of filthy labourers Christopher alights on an island populated by whores and whoremasters; you don’t go looking for a lovelorn Japanese whore in a Swedish furniture warehouse after all. A tiny tout with a delightfully syphilitic nostril claims Komomo never came this way, and convinces Christopher to pick a whore and stay the night. Christopher does so, selecting a distinctively faced lady of the night, The Woman(Yûki Kudô), to ply him with saki. The Woman turns out to know all about Komomo (apparently you can’t trust touts with syphilitic nostrils on an island of whores; who knew?) Through a long dark night of saki and stories, Christopher learns the fate of his procured paramour. Stories within stories, lies within lies; unfolding like the dark petals of that most poisonous flower – truth. Like life, Imprint ends badly for everyone involved.

Apparently unforgivably for a horror movie (since it was pulled from broadcast) Imprint is, really, really horrible. Horrific in fact. There’s really no ifs or buts about that. Imprint is definitely Ugh City. Mind you, I’m not sure what Masters of Horror were expecting when they let Takashi Miike sink his teeth into the horror genre. They were expecting horror, but not too much horror, I guess. Masters of a Certain Amount of Horror But Nothing Too Horrible doesn’t really have the same ring though. Also, Imprint is really, really horrible. Did I mention that? There is a danger of overselling it, resulting in the defensively adolescent approach of  “Huh! It wasn’t that bad. Pfft!”, like actually being affected by the horror in a horror movie is some kind of failing or weakness, instead of being the whole point. Personally I enjoyed the implacable ratcheting up of the horror, my reactions were kind of along the lines of  - “Oh, that’s okay.”, “This isn’t too bad.” , “Whoa, that’s harsh.” , “Hey now, hang on.”, “No. Don’t.” and ending with everyone’s favourite - “STOP IT! I WANT TO GET OFF! MAKE IT GO AWAY!” As horror goes, Imprint is the hard stuff. If Imprint doesn’t make you squirm it’s because a) you’re lying or b) you’re dead.  

Imprint is an ugly watch but it isn’t just ugliness for ugliness’s sake. Imprint has more about it than that; it’s ugly because it’s about ugliness, it’s just not shy about it. There’s a lot of physical ugliness on show from the initial syphilitic nostril to the scrunched up face of Christopher’s spooky Scheherazade; from the plethora of aborted foetuses to the extended torture of a woman more sinned against than sinning. But that’s the surface stuff, in Imprint the ugliness runs deep. The ugliness in Imprint isn’t just skin deep; the physical ugliness is merely a symptom of the psychological ugliness. Cages of women imploring filthy labourers to rut them up for money, the sadism of the brothel madame’s regime, the victimisation of the weakest among the whores, the nonchalant abortions, brother-sister incest, father-daughter incest, patricide, infanticide and…whatever you call palming your kid off on a pimp dressed like Willy Wonka; it’s all here and more besides! Ugly stuff because it’s an ugly world. Sure the ugliness is somewhat souped-up (it’s a horror movie!) but Imprint gets closer to representing the truth of the brutal world of our ancestors than most straight entertainment. Life was cheap as chips and kids were a burden, and not too long ago at that.

The most bizarre thing about Imprint (and that’s saying something; I’ve not even hinted at the pinnacle of the freakery within (hoo boy!)) is how visually gorgeous it is. Takashi Miike churns movies out, and sometimes, well, a bit more finish might have been desirable. But with Imprint there are no such reservations; it’s fantastic stuff.  Rich with cultural signifiers I am too bovine to plumb, no doubt; but even I can bask in the visual sumptuousness on display. And for all its knowing excess Imprint is subtler stuff than you might think; the chill when the meaning of the toy windmills strikes home is a showstopper. Basically, Imprint is the real deal horror wise and well worth seeking out.

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Mix: Meisei Story, Tōma sarà interpretato da Yuuki Kaji

La serie animata tratta dall’opera di Mitsuru Adachi andrà in onda da aprile.

Svelato, assieme ad una nuova immagine promozionale per l’anime (che vedete in testa all’articolo), che il ruolo di Tōma Tachibana è stato affidato a Yuuki Kaji. Il personaggio è il più giovane dei tre fratelli protagonisti di “Mix: Meisei Story”, l’adattamento animato di “Mix”, manga sportivo incentrato sul baseball, scritto e disegnato da Mitsuru Adachi, edito in Italia da Star Comics. 

La storia della serie, il cui debutto è previsto per aprile in Giappone, è ambientata molti anni dopo gli eventi di “Touch” (opera che ha anch’essa ispirato una serie animata negli anni ‘80) e vedrà Noriko Hidaka riprendere il ruolo di Minami Asakura.

Il maestro Adachi torna alla sua antica passione, il baseball, presentando una storia avvincente dal gusto nostalgico: ventisei anni dopo gli eventi narrati si torna infatti al liceo Meisei, ambientazione storica di Touch. L’istituto che aveva ospitato i fratelli Uesugi, entrati poi nella leggenda, vede oggi gironzolare tra i suoi corridoi i fratelli Tachibana, che aspirano a diventare ancora più leggendari dei loro predecessori. Riusciranno questi spavaldi liceali a raggiungere il loro scopo?

Il progetto sarà diretto da Odahiro Watanabe (Soul Buster, Tokyo Ghoul:re) presso lo studio OLM. La sceneggiatura sarà supervisionata da Atsuhiro Tomioka (Ace Attorney, Inazuma Eleven), mentre il design dei personaggi sarà a cura di Takao Maki (Basilisk: The Ouka Ninja Scrolls, Donten ni Warau). La colonna sonora sarà invece quella composta da Norihito Sumitomo (Dragon Ball Super, Dragon Ball Z Kai).

SilenziO)))

[FONTE]

[agirlinjapan]

Red Data Girl: My Longest Day of School (Week 29)

Red Data Girl: My Longest Day of School By Noriko Ogiwara A Translation

Miss the last piece? Read it here!

Check out the RDG Translation twitter!

Help me pay for my next translation project on Ko-fi.

I’m back from Japan! I had a great two weeks in the country, and I’m already making plans to go back next year. Maybe Hokkaido next time?

I, being the nerd that I am, found my way to three RDG related places on my trip. As I think I mentioned before, I went to Mt. Togakushi and Mt, Takao, but as a last minute addition to the trip, I also stopped by the Tokyo Metropolitan Government Building to see the view from its observation deck. All three places were great experiences. The two mountains were especially fun. I’d recommend them to anyone who even vaguely enjoys hiking. They weren’t difficult treks at all. (Mt. Takao has some more challenging trails available if you’re into that though.)

Along with talking about how my trip went, I also have some exciting RDG news. For the month of August, I’ll be moving back to a weekly posting schedule. That means I’ll be posting four weeks in a row starting on the 5th. As always, I’ll be posting the installations on Sunday evenings around 5:20 EST. I can also tell you that RDG 5 will come to an end in August, and we’ll be moving onto RDG 6. It’s going to be a busy month for RDG!

Red Data Girl: My Longest Day of School By Noriko Ogiwara Chapter 4: Choice Part 4 (1 of 2)

“Is that Takayanagi’s voice?” Izumiko asked, quickly recognizing the tone just as Miyuki had.

“Ah, yes,” the dog responded. “I wanted to ask your thoughts on this, Izumiko. Why do you see me as a dog?”

“Is this dog Takayanagi?”

Miyuki gazed at Izumiko standing next to him, her wide eyed. He sighed, and said, “So it was unintentional after all. I had a feeling it was.”

“Regardless, I have made it to where you are,” the dog continued. “Thus, I am reminded of the theory that a prince can be released from the magic holding him, and returned to his true form by a princess’s kiss.”

“Who’s the prince?” Izumiko asked, shocked. She quickly grew upset. “There’s no way I’m going to do anything like that. You’re really making me angry, Takayanagi. You’re the one who’s been using magic. You were using it at the horse ring to completely change the way I was thinking. Oh. I remember now. This has something to do with launching the balloon, doesn’t it?”

Her voice became sharp as her frustration continued to increase. “What was the chemistry club’s balloon for? Am I right in thinking that it was influencing people’s emotions through magic? ”

“Mmm. Of course it would be you pulling something like that,” Miyuki added slowly. “You might have come here in this form, but I knew you’d find a way to benefit from all of this. I was completely aware of everything you’d already done, and I still didn’t beat you up when I had the chance.”

The dog flattened its ears a little, but besides that, remained sure of itself.

“Is this really something to get so upset about? We’re expected to utilize the powers in our possession and fight, aren’t we? I believe it’s pointless to get worked up over this just because we all possess strong magic.”

“So what did the balloon do?” Miyuki pressed. “Keep talking until Izumiko tells you to stop,”

Takayanagi paused, but then began to speak somewhat reluctantly. “…Here in the world, there is a species that has evolved further than any other. Magic users. We diviners have been studying hybrid magic. The balloon is one of our experiments. We added a small bit of substance that would create a hallucinogenic reaction…”

“Did the balloon scatter it? You really are the one who did all this.”

“It was a tiny amount. It didn’t harm anyone. The effects will wear off in about half a day.”

Izumiko stared at Takayanagi, her eyes bright. “The school festival is falling apart because you did this. There are ghosts all around the horse ring because of you, too.”

At this point, Miyuki cleared his throat.

“Actually, I hate to say it, but you’re the bigger reason why the festival is falling apart, Izumiko. You probably don’t know this, but right now, all the electronics on campus have stopped working. No one can use their cellphones or laptops.”

“What?! That’s impossible!”

“But, Takayanagi seems to be the one who set everything in motion,” Miyuki finished.

Izumiko stared blankly out in front of her as she remembered how she had refused Takayanagi with all her might before disappearing into this dimension.

“The whole school was affected? No way… What about off campus?”

“I haven’t checked to see, but I’m guessing anywhere beyond the school probably wasn’t affected. It turns out that there are multiple barriers around the campus. The diviners weren’t the only ones who created one. The ascetic monks did too, along with other groups.”

“That must be why so many strange things were happening on campus lately. The diviners have been using magic everywhere. This thing with the balloon is practically medication abuse.”    

Takayanagi’s expression grew somewhat frustrated. “That’s not true. Since long, long ago, people have seen the efficiency of medicine and magic as two separate entities, but they’re really not. When a person slips into an altered state of consciousness, they are able to think and feel in ways that they normally wouldn’t, just like the effects magic can create.”

“If anyone’s experiencing an altered state of consciousness, it’s you,” Miyuki retorted.

This time, Takayanagi cleared his throat. The white dog placed his front paws together and sat down neatly. Then he turned his gaze to Izumiko.

“Izumiko. I now understand that your magic has been much stronger than mine this whole time. Even working with a group, I did not match up to you. I know we were the ones who ambushed you so inconveniently, but I apologize sincerely for underestimating you. I will respect you from here on out, and do what I need to make everything up to you. So please, return me to my normal form. Find an opportunity to do so soon. People will come looking for me.”

“Did you put enough complaints in that apology? Asshole,” Miyuki grumbled. “Izumiko, I’d completely support you if you decided to leave that guy the way he is right now. He’ll be much more popular with everyone that way.”

Izumiko looked at the pining dog. He was quite a pretty white, Shiba inu, and he did look very dog-like—no one would have guessed he was really a high school boy. Still, she could not imagine that the dog felt the same way.

“I don’t think I can turn you back. I want to if I can, but doing that would be completely different from healing Sagara’s wound.”

“That’s because I’m a better person than he is,” Miyuki remarked, looking rather pleased.

“That’s not true, Izumiko. I suffered greatly in order to make it here to you.”

“Sagara’s wound happened here, so I just had to imagine what I wanted to see,” Izumiko said, still at a loss at what to do. “You were turned into a dog outside of this dimension, so I can’t imagine you back to the way you were.”

Takayanagi’s voice rose in protest. “Isn’t it your doing that I’m here in this dimension with its different wavelengths? And you tell me that you can’t do anything?”

Izumiko gave a vague shake of her head. “Well, that’s not really the way I remembered it…”

“Yeah, Takayanagi. You didn’t come here and then become a dog. You looked like one back at the academy,” Miyuki pointed out. “And you were the one who was making the campus into such a strange place, weren’t you?”

“You yourself said that groups other than the diviners were putting up barriers!” Takayanagi said angrily. “You can’t accuse me of everything when everyone’s doing something. All the magic mixed together and created something like a bad chemical reaction.”

Miyuki took a breath and then called up into the sky, “Wamiya, tell us what to do. Will we be able to return to the school without settling this?”

The crow did not appear, but his voice was audible throughout the clearing.

“Izumiko is not yet conscious of her abilities. She has the power to return the dog to its original form, and fix the rift in the school, but she doesn’t know how. All she can do to access this power is have it bubble up unconsciously or dance.”

That’s right. I’ve been able to use Kagura dance before…

She recalled how it had felt when she had done the Kagura dance in front of the stone door in Togakushi.

I guess the wavelengths increased while I was dancing then...

Miyuki looked at Izumiko quickly. “You’re definitely dressed to dance. Could you? You don’t have to force yourself on Takayanagi’s account, though.”

Izumiko had momentarily forgotten how she was dressed, but now she remembered. She straightened herself. Her hem and sleeves still touched the ground, but that didn’t change the fact that she was still dressed in the beautiful, red over kimono. Her long hair flowed over the cloth’s floral brocade design, its deep black luster looking so good against the outfit that the leaves it had picked up earlier were barely noticeable.

“Sure. There isn’t anyone else to see us, so I can dance here.”

She easily pulled a fan from her kimono to dance with. Creating one was much simpler than treating Miyuki’s wound had been. She tucked it into her hand and then looked around the woods. She couldn’t help but think that the space between the trees was a little small for dancing.

“But first, I have to find a larger space where I can see the sky.”

“We saw a place like that on our way here,” Miyuki said. “It’s this way.”

The three of them began to walk.

Mayura waited uneasily, continuously torturing herself with the thoughts streaming through her head. She couldn’t stand the fact that Manatsu hadn’t let her come with him.

She had already considered running after him to the horse ring more times than she could count, but she was the princess general right now. She had responsibilities to her team. It was just as Manatsu had said.

The electronics on campus were still not working. Seeing as no one could figure out the source of the malfunction, the unrest among the students was growing. The team’s third year high school members hadn’t fallen into panic right away, but the middle school players were in an uproar. Those middle schoolers also clearly wanted to put their trust in Mayura more than anyone else. They had no plans for leaving the sports grounds any time soon.

In the student government tent, Mayura could see that Jean Honoka Kisaragi had come over from the classroom building along with the vice principal and some of the teachers. With the entire school’s PA system down, the administration had to join in on running the festival. They couldn’t leave it entirely to the students anymore.

After a hurried consultation, the schedule was changed and an afternoon break was added so that repairs could be looked into. With the break going on, there were many fewer students from the castle attack team gathered on the field than there had been before.

Just then, Mayura noticed a group of kuroko moving towards her.

“Manatsu.”

As if sensing Mayura’s worry, Manatsu broke off from the group and jogged to her side.

“Sorry for not coming sooner. The horse ring area is in complete chaos.”

“…Thank God…”

Mayura had to take several deep breaths to keep her composure. She didn’t want anyone seeing the princess general cry over her brother at the moment.

“I thought you were further away than that. What about Masumi?”

“He’s somewhere else.” Manatsu was a little out of breath. His eyes were cold. “I couldn’t go, so I told Shinko to go instead,” he said, looking at his sister.

“Sagara?”

“He went into another dimension to search for Izumiko. Izumiko and Masumi are in an alternate reality touching this one.” After taking a deep breath, Manatsu added, “I wanted to search for Izumiko, but honestly, I probably couldn’t have gotten to her. Masumi and I are too different at this point.”

“Masumi… isn’t coming back?”

“I’m not sure. I think it’ll depend on what Izumiko and Miyuki decide to do.”

After a moment of silence, Mayura said softly, “I don’t like it when you’re not with me, but I don’t like it when Masumi isn’t with me either. This is all happening too fast…”

“Mayura.”

“Masumi said he’d be with me today. I haven’t settled things with Takayanagi yet…”

Manatsu’s voice was also soft, but his tone was determined. “I’ll tell you everything later, but what you need to know right now is that Takayanagi’s disappeared. I want to say this to you. Stop your fight to become best in the school. It wasn’t right of us to use Masumi to join the competition.”

Mayura blinked. “What are you talking about? Why are you saying it wasn’t right all of a sudden?”

“Because it’s going to end in a sacrifice. It would be great if we could fix our current problems, but then something else would just take their place. Izumiko would become that sacrifice.”

Mayura shrank back as if she had been hit. She stared at her brother. “What do you mean?...”

“First, I need to lead the students to where everyone’s going to meet. Then we’ll talk more.”

Manatsu looked around and then jogged away, leaving Mayura wrestling with her emotions. A minute later though, she returned to her duties as princess general.

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