#Toshio Nakamura

[nikkeisimmer]

JAG fanfiction vs. Simsfic...

There is a distinct difference between my Simsfics (illustrated by pics) and my JAGfic (which are not) - and the writing is more detailed because what I can do with my mind in writing is much more comprehensive than what I could accomplish in the Sims. I would love to put my "love of JAG" into Sims form - illustrating my JAG fic, but unfortunately that would require a highly skilled ability to mesh and create poses that I don't have.

Can you imagine trying to mesh this scene of eight Tomcats parked on the tarmac (make note, I'm not satisfied with just eight Tomcats, each has to be different numbers on the nose and tails of each aircraft as well as incredibly detailed markings for up close shots)? Just for a scene where two naval aviators are walking down the line-up? I just can't do it with the non-skills that I have in Blender. I don't even know how to mesh a box let alone a highly detailed aircraft. And then I'd have to learn to create poses in order to show highly detailed military courtesies, such as salutes (not in parade formation) and aircrew discussing details before mounting the aircraft or walkarounds of the aircraft. Even if I had the skills, each chapter of my Sims JAG fics would take a full year to complete.

...and I don't have that many years left in me to go all out like this. (I'm 53).

So I content myself with writing big blocks of text such as this:

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Meg was promoted to Vice-Admiral in 2017 and took over as JAG and a potential CNO slot would be opening up in 2018 as his career wound up in 2020 unless the situation in the Baltics heated up again which it looked as though it might.

And this was the year that the damned ISIS group carried out a lot of attacks.

Middle of June and it was hot; yet the damned Naval Review Board had required blues. Meg looked over at her husband of twenty one years as he commented. "We've been through a lot, haven't we?" Luckily she had a spare summer whites uniform in her office. She also kept one of her husband's service whites uniforms in there as well.

"Yeah, we have..." Meg said quietly as she glanced at her beloved. He had streaks of white in his sixty year old hair. "Maybe we should change over into our service whites because these damned blues are way too hot for this weather." Animal nodded. As they quickly changed over Meg got a call on her phone. "Crap." She swore as she picked up. "Vice-Admiral Austin-Nakamura!" She paused, her eyes widened, "Are you kidding, sir? ISIS operatives detonated a bomb. Where. Islamabad? A vacuum bomb like our MOABs? Oh, my God. 15,000 casualties? Yes, sir, we'll be there." She hung up the phone turned to Animal as they finished changing and informed him, her voice tense."They want us both back at the Pentagon. The vacuum bomb; a fuel-air mixture bomb could be just about as powerful as detonating a tactical nuclear device. They're gaining in technology and dangerousness."

Isis had taken to politics in several different countries, Arabic speaking countries such as Turkey, Syria, Yemen, UAE, Libya, Morocco and Kuwait had managed to gain political control only now ISIS was no longer calling themselves ISIS. They were calling themselves the Arab Reunification Party - ARP. Their goal was to reunite the Arab world under the fundamentalist tenets of the Quran but in order to make their policies appealing they were moderating their message and that was dangerous because if they were more appealing to the masses, more Arab countries would fall under their sway and more would be swayed to radicalism and thus would start a full-scale war with the West once they got a hold of military weapons like fighter jets, naval ships and tanks. It would play into their dreams of glorious jihad.

Plus the fact that if they had the backing of Iran and Iraq they would end up on the road to weapons of mass destruction. Lord help the rest of the world if they got their hands on missile technology and the key to nuclear weapons technology. A key player in this would be Pakistan who had already achieved nuclear weapons as they were sitting right next door to the India who also had nuclear weapons and they were Muslim. In fact. Bin Laden had been eliminated in Pakistan so Pakistan was not in good odor with the United States. They were on a good behavior watch-list and were kept on a short leash before even thinking of supplying them with Western weapons.

Animal noted that his uniform was crisply maintained, by his wife and the Medal of Honor ribbon was always a nice crisp sky blue with five white stars and it hung with his wife's spare uniforms in her office clothes closet. The ribbons on some of his other uniforms were kind of a faded sky blue and he was certain that certain runs of that ribbon fabric were varied in color. Meg however managed to track down stores and get a few of the vivid sky blue ribbons for his dress uniforms and for the uniforms that she designated for use when he had to go to the Pentagon or during public appearances. Thanks to his wife's resourcefulness, Animal always looked presentable, considering his and her busy schedule. The fact that his beloved Meg took time out of her busy schedule to make sure he was kept in good uniforms made him love her more than he could already.

1930 ZULU; PENTAGON, E-RING, OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF THE NAVY, WASHINGTON, DC

The couple hurried through the Pentagon corridors, resplendent in their white service uniform, heading towards the SECNAV's office. The SECNAV was a four year politically appointed post so Republican Senator from the great state of Texas and former RADM Mike Metcalf, USN (ret.) callsign Viper.

The former Rear Admiral (upper half) nodded to Animal. "Good afternoon, Admiral, good to see you, Animal." RADM Mike Metcalf was Animal's Battlegroup Commander on his last cruise in 1996. RDML Mike Metcalf had coordinated the overseeing flights over the Bosnian regions and kept the battlegroup in the area when the Bosnians started firing on each other. The Black Aces couldn't shoot back unless they were fired upon but of course the then-Rear Admiral (lower half) had planned a deceptive enticement. Animal would run a TARPS mission at 7,000 AGL. through the Carpathian Mountains. And the Serbs had bit the bullet, they'd fired on Animal's TARPS bird and it was all-out war. His usual back-seater hadn't been trained on TARPS so he'd had to fly with Wrench who was qualified and Wrench managed to get clear crisp shots as Animal was jinking away from the Triple-A. Then they'd hit it with GBU-86s along with targeting the sites with LANTIRN on a following mission inside of five hours. Triangulated with a satellite image of the area, they could tell if there had been movement by the Triple-A platforms and hit the new location with ease.

"It's good to see you too, sir." Animal said acknowledging Sen. Metcalf's obvious position as Secretary of the Navy; an obvious appointment as he like Sen. John Lehman was a former Naval Officer and Naval Aviator instead of being completely oblivious as most civilian appointments were.

"Admiral, as you know, we have a very tenuous situation. Islamabad was hit with a vacuum bomb." The SECNAV indicated as he showed them a map on the projector. "This section along Abeyd-Asam Street and Khalid Wali Avenue. There was an explosion as the fuel-air bomb went off. There's structures flattened three-quarters of a mile wide and the casualties at last count were thirty-five thousand people and the number is rising. The scary part of it is that it is a weapon of mass destruction that these terrorists can cook up in their own back yard labs. Set off a few in the different neighborhoods across the city and there would be casualties in the hundreds of thousands. If you can't breathe because all the air has been sucked into a flammable mixture; you're dead. If you get injured by the blast wave, you're dead. It's a terror weapon."

"It's the same as the MOABs we drop out of our planes, only they put theirs on wheels and drive it into place incognito if that's what you're telling me they did."

"That's exactly what they did, Admiral Nakamura." Animal looked up to see a gray-haired man step in to the room; aquiline nose, and hard steel-blue eyes and a sharp angular jawline complemented his features.

"Gibbs, you ever think about retiring?"

"Not really." was his curt reply.

Meg saw her husband stiffen up in the presence of the senior NCIS agent. His friend and her former JAG investigative partner, Harmon Rabb, had nearly gotten railroaded into a murder charge by this very man. They had accused him of the murder of a JAG Lieutenant by the name of Lieutenant Loren Singer. Harm's first-degree murder charge but all was certain until Gibbs had an inkling that something wasn't right about the whole pattern of evidence they'd found up to that point and told the whole crew to look it over one more time. Animal still was wary of the NCIS senior special agent and thus both the NCIS agent and Animal were pretty frosty with each other - neither was sure about the other. Two alpha males circling each other each looking for a weak point they could utilize on the other.

"All the animosity between the Russians and us may end up having to be tabled..." NCIS Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs said, "the Russians just found out that the sub that launched a nuclear torpedo against our battle-group that failed to detonate, had a couple other crew on board. The bodies recovered showed three men of middle Eastern origin who weren't supposed to be there and and several Azerbaijani crew members who had somehow enlisted in the Russian Navy incognito. The Politburo didn't sanction this attack on Second Fleet and are backpedaling."

Meg narrowed her eyes,"So what does that have to do with the Judge Advocate General command, Gibbs?"

"JAG has always been a big help in the past with this sort of investigation. Vice-Admiral. Don't know if your predecessor told you but they've been quite helpful in ensuring we have cooperation. "

"Well the lead investigator on all those situations is flying F/A-18Fs off the deck of the USS Allegiance, Gibbs, under my chain of command as the COMSECONDFLEET." Animal set his jaw in a gritted, unpleased expression. "He's the XO of the boat and technically should be chained to a chair, but you ever try to tell Rabb to do something?"

SECNAV Metcalf snorted, "I heard about his exploits from Nelson and Sheffield. I hear he's a handful; much like Captain Mitchell. Maverick was a handful when I was CO at Topgun. Set the hard deck at Angels 10. Guy technically digs a hole going after Lieutenant Commander Hetherly. Guy was a cowboy. I hear he still flies hard but has tempered his style. He should have had four stars by now but I hear he got tagged with up or out. So he's just riding a chair at NSAWC serving out his time in uniform because NSAWC doesn't want to drop an asset like him. He can teach others and be mentoring other instructors."

"That's the way it should be done. The guys who have the balls to do what needs to be done technically should be the ones leading." Animal growled, "The rules may be the rules, but sometimes, the situation goes beyond the limits of the rules. Then you need the guys willing to break the rules to get the job done."

Animal looked over at the SECNAV and at Gibbs, "The ones that will still stay within the Geneva Convention of Rules of Warfare that is. I don't want Rabb being boots on the ground..." He said with some finality, "...when the damned Russians finally figure out which fucking country sent them on this stupid expedition of insanity. He's staying where I'm telling him to stay. Go find Mackenzie and Webb! Let them go down. Conmand Master Chief Yeoman Coates will probably be able to help me in that. She generally keeps track of who she served with, so, Gibbs, whatever happened to Gunnery Sergeant Galindez. I knew he worked a few field operations with you guys?"

"Went back to the Corps, after his in-country squeeze got blown away by Kabir, to become a Master Gunnery Sergeant. Admiral. He just didn't want to be boots-on-the-ground afterwards."

SECNAV said, "Admiral, the current CNO plans to vacate and we've just gone to the UN to form an Allied Command that will bring together every one to act against the ARP in the different countries affected. With this explosion, we've seen what they intend to do. The British have already reinstated their Fleet Admiral position from WWII. I think their aim is to gain control of the Allied Command. We suggested the idea to the UN Security Commission. I'd say we take control rather than the British; the President had asked me to find someone capable enough to take over full Allied Supreme Commander position and he's going to get the Secretary of Foreign Affairs to insist that we get control since we came up with the idea. This position has never been in use since WWII and neither has the rank. You'll be the first to wear it since Chester Nimitz and you are going to be Supreme Allied Commander for the Joint Task Force that will take the war to the enemy."

At this Meg's jaw dropped open as she looked at her husband.

"I presume that the Supreme Allied Commander is responsible for the Allied push against the Arab Reunification Party?" Her husband asked as he looked over at the SECNAV who had dropped this shocking bit of news.

The out-going Chief of Naval Operations Joanne Pruette stepped into the room, "Afternoon." She looked over at Animal, "Thanks for coming,"

"Well I wasn't expecting this."

"Ordinarily the President would in his role of administering his duties as Commander in Chief, however with the outbreak of hostilities between the Russians and us, understandably he's tied up." CNO Pruette said. "I couldn't think of a better officer to fill my shoes than you, Admiral Nakamura." She then turned to Meg, "Ordinarily, I'd be hesitant to put a JAG who is married to such on the command staff of the Supreme Allied Commander as it goes against the UCMJ, but you are aware that these are strange times and as such we need the most capable officers and matrimonial status no longer matters. We are fighting against an enemy that does not care about anyone other than furthering their own twisted idea of what family and relationships should be... Admiral Toshio Nakamura;" the CNO stated, "under the authorization conveyed upon me by the President of the United States to invoke his power as Commander-in-Chief under Congressional mandate, I am here to administer the oath of office. Step forward; Front and Center." Animal snapped to attention and marched over to Admiral Pruette; stopping in front of her. When he came to attention in front of her, she said, "Attention to Orders; raise your right hand. I..."

"I, Toshio Masahiro Nakamura, do solemnly swear that I will protect and defend the Consitution of the United States from all enemies foreign and domestic; that I bear true allegiance to the same, that I will truly, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion, faithfully execute the duties of the office on which I am about to enter, so help me, God." Meg noticed that his voice was firm, proud and she knew for a fact that he was staunchly loyal as an American citizen and a loyal officer in the Navy of the United States of America.

"Congratulations, Fleet Admiral Nakamura. You are the first to wear this rank since Chester Nimitz and since the office of the Chief of Naval Operations has gone to the most senior and high ranking officer in the United States Navy, I stand ready to be relieved, sir."

"I relieve you, Ma'am." Animal said, then leaned forward and whispered in her ear, "Isn't it great? No more meetings with angry senators about budget overruns? Aren't you relieved?" He gave Admiral Pruette a wicked grin as he snapped back to attention as Admiral Pruette burst out laughing as SECNAV Metcalf looked over at the former CNO with raised inquisitive eyebrows expecting an explanation. He chuckled wryly when he got told what Animal had whispered in her ear.

Animal been handed a pair of Fleet Admiral Boards. He could order them directly from the Uniform Supplier as he was currently the only five-star fleet admiral in the US Navy. Meg and the SECNAV slipped off his Admiral's boards and put the Fleet Admiral's boards on. The five silver stars formed a pentagonal shape with the top-most point of the pentagon being the point of the fifth star. Each five-pointed star was linked to each other by one arm of another five-pointed star. The top most head of the apex five-pointed star ended up pointing towards the neck of the wearer of the shoulder-boards.

"Fleet Admiral Nakamura..." Admiral Pruette said to him when the boards were placed on his shoulders, "I believe two minutes allowed for a PDA."

Animal grinned at her then turned to Meg whose eyes were brimming with pride for him. He extended his arms and Vice-Admiral Megan Renee Austin-Nakamura, her own golden shoulder-boards with three stars, stepped into his embrace, with her lips meeting his in a tender kiss.

"Congratulations, my love." She whispered.

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Just this "large block of text" requires the use of multiple uniforms, poses and other things to illustrate it in Sims 3.

I have the uniforms set up, unfortunately, I need to get them off my hard-drive (of my old laptop)...or remake them (which is going to be a royal pain-in-the-ass). Because Adobe locked me out of my Photoshop Elements 14 which I paid for. They won't allow me to enter in my code to unlock it and customer service (all in India) are no help at all.

So frustrations aplenty.

[redsamuraiii]

My 5 Favorite Legal J-Dramas

I love them because they have perfect balance of seriousness and humour, not too dark and not too comedic. And the chemistry of the main leads are fun to watch with their constant bickering. 😂

1. Hero (2001)

Kuryu (Kimura Takuya) is an unconventional prosecutor who has a habit of investigating the criminals himself before prosecuting, which agitates his paralegal, Amamiya (Matsu Takako) has it delays the process while more cases are piling up, and often conflicts with the police who thinks he does not trust their investigation skills.

The series is so good that it has a second season with a newcomer played by Keiko Kitagawa, a special episode with Haruka Ayase and a movie with both Keiko Kitagawa and Matsu Takako. I like their chemistry, not just between the main leads but the supporting characters as well that got pulled into Kimura Takuya's shenanigans.

2. Miss Justice (2018)

A similar tale of a public prosecutor, Ririko (Yoshitaka Yuriko) whose strong sense of justice get in her daily work as she takes time to solve each cases diligently, playing the role of a "detective" to ascertain that the suspects are really guilty before she prosecutes them. However, it only delays her other cases which snowballs.

This agitates her older and experienced paralegal (Yasuda Ken) who is tasked to ensure she completes each task on time without delay. But over time, both him and the entire department who got pulled into her shenanigans finally understands her reasoning and begin to respect her as a fellow prosecutor and not as a newbie.

3. Police and Prosecutor (2023)

Gota (Kiritani Kenta) and Minami (Higa Manami) are siblings who work as a law enforcer and a paralegal respectively. She works for an ambitious public prosecutor, Shuhei (Higashide Masahiro) whose values and principles are opposite of Gota, which often puts them at odds with one another when they work together on every case.

While Minami and Shuhei know the grey world in their line of work, Gota is a brash detective who only sees thing in black and white which often puts them at odds with one another. But their opposing personalities and styles of work eventually help to solve the cases in arresting and prosecuting the right criminal.

4. Ishiko and Haneo (2022)

Ishiko (Kasumi Arimura) is an obstinate law graduate who aspired to be a lawyer but after failing the bar four times, she gives up her dreams and works as a paralegal at her father's private law firm where she met the prodigy Haneo (Nakamura Tomoya) who passed the bar on first attempt due to his photographic memory.

Ishiko is a bit insecure in having to work with a prodigy while Haneo is actually terrible at adapting that he often mask it with his "superior intellectual". Their different personalities and styles of working contradict each other as the two of them, with their own inferiority complexes, are thrown together to solve cases.

5. Binta : Love and Law (2022)

Minowa (Matsumoto Toshio) is a former delinquent who doesn't have a regular job and never really thought seriously about life until he had to look after his young step-sister left behind by his late father. He lands a job as clerk, working for a strong headed lawyer, Natsumi (Yamaguchi Sayaka) who is dumbfounded by his "stupidity".

But his strong sense of justice is a welcoming change that she needed having work in a corporate law firm surrounded by "vultures" that the two decided to start their own private firm to genuinely help people that really need help and not simply for the big money. But with each case, they realize things are not as simple as they think.

[mokkung]

（短評）映画『無頼』

（引用元）

『無頼』（2020年、日本）

終戦後の日本で貧困を生き延び、ヤクザ者たちを束ねて極道の道を歩み続けたある男の半生‼️

歴史的事件や文化の変化を丁寧に取り込んで再現した戦後昭和史を振り返るような作りで、日本裏社会版のフォレスト・ガンプと言える力作👍

超悪い人達の話なのに、とても元気をもらえる映画ですよ😌

時代背景を象徴する事件やカルチャーをうまく物語内に反映させる点がとてもうまいのですが、各時代の映画ネタがちょくちょく挟まれるのが良いんです‼️

ヤクザたちがゴッドファーザーや仁義なき戦いについて嬉しそうに語ってたり、劇中の映画の再現が見事👌

しれっとダイ・ハードも登場します😅

この映画のキモは、基本的に反社会的なことやってる人達の活躍と恐ろしい暴力事件を描いているにも関わらず、あまり陰惨さがなく、むしろアウトローの道でしか生きられなかった人達の欲望に対する実直さや、清々しい程の前向きなスタンスが強調されていること😮

見終わっていい気分なんですよ🌟

[the-monkey-ruler]

Shinzo (2000) 爆裂战士マシュランボー

Director: Tetsuo Imasa / Kenji Nakamura / Haruo Kosaka / Toshiaki Komura / Miyo Sasaki / Mitsuo Hashimoto / Tomoharu Arata Edited by: Izumi Higashido / Makoto Kanjima / Kenichi Kaneka / Hiroyuki Kawasaki / Yukito Nonaka / Kenichi Yamada / Yōmichi Shirai Starring: Minami Takayama / Yuko Minakuchi / Yasuhiko Kawazu / Naosuke Tatsuta / Atsushi Kashiwagi / Kyoko Yamada / Ai Maeda / Tsuyoshi Hisakawa / Atsushi Kashiichi / Tomoe Sato / Junko Shimakata / Michitaka Kobayashi / Hideyuki Hori / Kenji Utsumi / Takashi Nakao / Mami Koyama / Toshio Furukawa / Keiko Han / Hiroo Egawa / Takeshi Aono / Banjo Ginga / Takashi Koda / Koji Fukusaku / Kazuko Sugiyama / Takumi Yamazaki / Horinoku / Nobutake Tatsuya / Tomohisa Aso / Norio Tsukui / Ienaka Hiroshi / Chie Seguchi / Hitoshi Domon / Akira Tahara / Kazuya Ichijo / Masaya Takatsuki / Masaharu Sato / Mitsuo Iwata / Keiko Yamamoto / Kunihiko Yasui / Hikaru Midorikawa / Mami Kanazuki / Hisaya Suganuma / Chigusa Ikeda / Hiromi Konno / Daisuke Nari / Yuko Nagashima / Nobuo Satouchi / Daifumi Tanaka / Naosuki Imamura / Takayuki Inoue / Akiki Chatan / Munehiro Ehoku / Rie Aoki / Yo Murakami / Tsuyoshi Nishi / Tsuyoshi Toshita / Higashi Genre: Animation Official website: www.toei-anim.co.jp/tv/mashura/ Country/Region of Production: Japan Language: Japanese Date: 2000-02-05 (Japan) Number of epsiode: 32 Also known as: Mushrambo IMDb: tt0293741 Type: Reimanging

Summary:

In the distant past, the Guardian of the Milky Way galaxy named Lanancuras began to harbor a desire for more power. Because of his connection to the galaxy, he was able to absorb parts of planets and add them to his strength. As a result, he began invading the worlds he was assigned to protect. In the wake of his destruction, a following of creatures from across the galaxy pledged allegiance to Lanancuras and became known as the Kadrians. Taking notice of his ever-growing power and followers, the other Celestial Guardians confronted him; however, he had become too powerful, and they were defeated. Unable to subdue Lanancuras, the Celestial Guardians each gave up a part of their power and combined it into a single new Guardian, Mushra. In a final desperate attempt, they used Mushra's core by transforming it into a powerful card with which to seal Lanancuras in a prison. The prison was created from the remains of planets that had suffered under Lanancuras' tyranny. Because planets are themselves large beings, their combined strength (along with the power of the card) was able to restrain him. Thus Lanancuras was successfully sealed in a large meteorite.

The meteorite was sent off into the galaxy to be sealed forever. Meanwhile, the way Lanancuras had increased his strength had consequences on the planets of the Milky Way On Earth, around the 22nd century, it was in the shape of a virus that merged with human DNA and destroyed the humans that way. In order to eliminate the virus, scientists worked on combining human DNA with the DNA of animals and other creatures immune to the effects. They succeeded and created a sentient race known as Enterrans (a race of engineered Earthlings) which are based on humans, insects, reptiles, birds, sea creatures, wild beasts, and phantom beasts. Eventually, a cure was found and the human race survived.

However, due to Lanancuras' influence, the Enterrans fought their human creators as well as the robots that worked with the humans, driving the human race to a near extinction state. Luckily, a scientist named Dr. Daigo Tatsuro placed his 4-year-old daughter Yakumo in a sleep chamber in hopes that she would save the human race and find the human sanctuary Shinzo and bring peace back to Earth which was then renamed to Enterra. When the meteor that Lanancuras was imprisoned in struck Earth during the earlier parts of the Human-Enterran War, its fragment had struck an infant Yakumo giving her abilities that she would later discover.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shinzo

Link: https://kissanime.com.ru/Anime/Shinzo-Sub/

[demifiendrsa]

The First Slam Dunk - PV

The group The Birthday will perform the film's opening theme, and 10-FEET will perform the ending theme song "Dai Zero Kan."

The First Slam Dunk anime film is slated to hit theaters in Japan on December 3, 2022.

Cast

Shugo Nakamura as Ryota Miyagi

Jun Kasama as Hisashi Mitsui

Shin'ichirō Kamio as Kaede Rukawa

Subaru Kimura as Hanamichi Sakuragi

Kenta Miyake as Takenori Akagi

Staff

Original Creator, Director, and Screenplay: Takehiko Inoue

Unit Director: Fumihiko Suganuma, Katsuhiko Kitada, Naoki Miyahara, Toshio Ōhashi, Yasuhiro Motoda, Yū Kamatani

Character Design: Yasuyuki Ebara

Art Director: Kazuo Ogura

Animation Director: Yasuyuki Ebara

Sound Director: Koji Kasamatsu

Cgi Director: Daiki Nakazawa

Director of Photography: Shunsuke Nakamura

Producer: Toshiyuki Matsui

2D Producer: Kentarō Mōri

Animation producer: Kazuhiro Nishikawa

Animation Supervisor: Kazuki Matsui

Art Setting: Nobuhito Sue

BG Supervisor: Yuki Sato

Casting Producer: Yoshimi Sugiyama

CG Producer: Yūta Ogura

Color design: Shiori Furusho

Editing: Ryuichi Takita

Effect Supervisor: Taro Matsuura

Modeling Supervisor: Kei Yoshikuni

Music producer: Ryūta Koike

Prop Supervisor: Yuki Sato

R&D Supervisor: Hiroto Nishitani

Recording: Yasushi Nagura

Rigging Supervisor: Hiroto Nishitani

Shot Supervisor: Toshiaki Kimata

Sub-Character Design: Yukiko Ban

Animation Production: Dandelion Animation Studio, Toei Animation

[fu-miruku]

I've always thought that Toshio isn't human anymore (I prefer thinking he's now an AI made out of human body rather than sexroid for my convenience) until one of the chapters when Shindou said to his colleague that things have changed now since his emotions are coming back. So is he actually still human inside just with prosthetic body parts? I wanna know what you think as you've read the original version and the original words the author used. Thank you!

Oh, that's not an easy question to answer, anon, haha. Prepare for a long post ahead.

So your question is: Is Toshio still human inside, even with his body modified, and his brain messed with, yes?

First of all, how would you describe a human? Is it having all flesh, mind, and heart, and all the innate characteristics we've identified with, to be intact? How much of a loss or defect of any of these are acceptable before you're not "human" anymore?

In the story, we can see the different characters treat Toshio in their own way, based on their own beliefs on what makes someone 'human'. To the others, they clearly didn't see Toshio as human, and simply treated him as a tool for their own benefit.

Because they tampered with his brain for this purpose, Toshio was even unable to comprehend that he is the one being taken advantage of; to see that he's the victim, and all of these people are using him. He clearly had a lot of work done on him to keep his functions carnal and simple, and we can only imagine he was at the mercies of the people in charge of him before Shindou came in.

Although it was reluctant at first, despite the state Toshio was in, Shindou treated him like human; taught him how to act like human. And thanks to that, Toshio was able to regain and respond with emotion that he probably was unable to display before, because nobody else treated him the same way. ...Or did he really lose the ability to feel these emotions in the first place?

"If you're saying this is human, then it won't be a matter of it having emotions or not anymore."

I think this is the scene anon is referring to (Chapter 7). It clearly shows that in this facility, the people here don't think of Toshio as human. Or perhaps that's what they just say to convince themselves. This particular sentence leads me to believe that they are well aware of what they've done, and because they already know they're in too deep in it, this is the only way they can tell themselves that they're not doing anything wrong. If they call Toshio 'human', that would make them question their moral standing, and a lot more complicated things right? So to keep things easy, they hid behind the excuse of treating Toshio as nothing more than an object.

This treatment may also be out of a sense of guilt, as we can see with Nakamura (the family friend/professional Shindou often talked with). He saw that Shindou was treating Toshio as human, and he believed that if Shindou continued to do so, he would feel responsible for Toshio as well, and then blame himself as Nakamura did. Nakamura said that "It is not human anymore. I made it that way." So he knew all the modifications done to Toshio. He probably saw Toshio as a lost case, and believed that there was nothing Shindou could do for Toshio anymore. But Shindou didn't have any of that, and continued to do everything he could for Toshio.

We don't actually know to what extent Toshio's body has been modified, but regardless of whether you believe Toshio only has an AI in him, having lost the ability to feel emotions due to his mind being artificially modified and was only able to learn them thanks to Shindou - or he actually still has these emotions innately and regained them with Shindou's help - do you choose to believe that the look of happiness he has when he's with Shindou to be real, and that of a human's, or not?

I think this work is certainly one that makes you ask these questions to yourself. The manga doesn't say it outright, so neither will I, but in this story with Shindou's narrative, do you choose to believe in Shindou who thinks of Toshio as human, or not? It's up to you to decide, I think.

I'm sorry for going all philosophical anon, I probably gave you more questions than answers, and for blabbering more than I probably should. Lol. I hope I gave you some insight at least! I'm sure the sequel will give more questions and perhaps some answers??

[byneddiedingo]

Pîtâ in Funeral Parade of Roses (Toshio Matsumoto, 1969) Cast: Pîtâ, Osamu Ogasawara, Yoshio Tsuchiya, Toyosaburo Uchiyama, Don Madrid, Emiko Azuma, Yoshimi Jo, Koichi Nakamura, Flamenco Umeji, Saako Oota, Taro Manji, Mikio Shibayama, Wataru Hikonagi, Fuchisumi Gomi, Chieko Kobayashi, Yo Sato, Keiichi Takanaga. Screenplay: Toshio Matsumoto. Cinematography: Tatsuo Suzuki. Art direction: Setsu Asakura. Film editing: Toshie Iwasa. Music: Joji Yuasa. Toshio Matsumoto's Funeral Parade of Roses both participates in and parodies the late-1960s avant-garde "underground" film movement, with its reliance on eccentric cuts and random inserts. There's a scene in which the filmmakers are shooting a badly tuned television set, and keep fiddling with the set to get the kind of distorted image they want. And at one point someone quotes the avant-garde filmmaker Jonas Mekas -- and then gets his name wrong, calling him "Menas Jokas." Matsumoto's film keeps the viewer off-balance at all times, moving in and out of what we take to be "reality" to expose that it's all moviemaking. There is, for example, a scene in which the cross-dressing protagonist, Eddie ( Pîtâ), and a Black man, Tony (Don Madrid), seem to be having sex, with lots of pornographic gasping and facial contortions. But then the camera angle shifts and we see that there's a camera crew surrounding the bed where Tony is propped up by himself on the headboard while the camera is focused on the face of Eddie, simulating ecstasy. Even the main story of the film gets its distancing when we cut to the actor who plays Eddie, Pîtâ (or Peter, as the English language screen credits have it), being interviewed about the role he's playing. It's much like his own life, he says, except for the incest part. At this point in the film, we don't know about the incest part, which precipitates the crisis in Eddie's life. Suffice it to say that Matsumoto based a large part of the film on Oedipus Rex. The central story deals with the rivalry between Eddie and Leda (Osamu Ogasawara), the "Madame" of a club that caters to salarymen who want to sleep with gei boi, for the affections of Gonda (Yoshio Tsuchiya), a man who turns out to have more significance in Eddie's life than is at first apparent. There are some longueurs in Matsumoto's film, mostly having to do with the avant-garde sequences but also with a too-long drugged-out orgy scene. (Other people's orgies are invariably boring.) But there are some genuine shocks and some real emotion in the film, and the performance by Pîtâ -- best known as the androgynous Kyoami, the analogue to the Fool in Ran (1985), Akira Kurosawa's reworking of King Lear -- is outstanding.

[s0nik0]

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sawako’s 6th album “Stella Epoca” will be released from Taylor Deupree’s 12k on Nov 4th 2022. This is her first solo album since 2014’s Nu.It. The ideas of sky maps and planetary frequencies were the inspirations behind Sawako’s dreamlike sounds . . . MORE INFO is here . . .

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sawakoの6枚目のアルバム「Stella Epoca」が12kより2022年11月4日リリース。8年ぶりの新作です。

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「惑星運行」をテーマに様々な土地の記憶が織りこまれた14曲の音の旅。夢の世界に包み込まれるようなサウンドスケープ。世界中の人々が自由に旅ができない時期に、大空に想いを馳せながら、宇宙の星々に乗って旅をする気持ちでつくられました。

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星の配置は瞬間瞬間で移り変わる一期一会のもの。無数に広がる星々からの光の波は地球上の私たちに降り注いで、オリジナルな軌道を描いていきます。そして、宇宙の流れの中では、それぞれが共鳴しながら大きな一つのオーケストレーションを奏でています。

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京都での⻘木隼人による冬至の夜明けの演奏、アルゼンチンでのFederico Durandの皆既日食の瞬間のフィールドレコーディング、 満月や新月の夜に各地で録音されたsawakoの声といったサイトスペシフィックな録音に、コンピュータによる手仕事が施されて、 万華鏡のように聴くたびに新しい物語が紡がれていきます。

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haruka nakamura、荒木真、Federico Durand、gift_、早川幸子、⻘木隼人などをゲストに迎え、ささやかな日々の輝きがドビュッシーの水彩画のように織り込まれた作品です。オーガニックな質感のジャケットアートはcreative coder のkyndによるもの。新進気鋭アーティストBIWAが手掛けた儚い光あふれるMVも、フレッシュな輝きを添えています。

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時には穏やかな瞑想の世界へと誘い、時には切なさや暗闇の中の輝きを掬いとり、そっと静かに心の深い部分へおりていく、まどろみのサウンド。

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Digital/CD（歌詞カード付）：14曲入り（55分14秒）

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▷Spotify、AppleMusic、Beatport、Bandcampなどで配信中。国内流通はp*dis/inpartmaintです。

▷＊日本版初回オーダー特典：ライナーノート＆ポストカード

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・雨と休日（八王子/オンライン）. . .「穏やかな音楽を集める」CDストア。日々の暮らしが豊かになるような、ゆったりした時の流れと音楽のある風景。こちらのお店がきっかけで荒木真さんと出会いました。

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・CENTER（鹿沼）. . .2022年夏にオープン。旅や地域のZINEなどを扱っている「模索する多目的スペース+宿泊」センター長は即興演奏家の河野円さん。即興〜実験映像好きの方からお子様とのひと時にも。

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・gift_lab（清澄白河）. . .「stella epoca」にも参加しているデザインユニットgift_さんのスタジオ・ショップ・ギャラリー。新潟県十日町市ではカフェ＆ドミトリー山ノ家を運営。店内蔵書も要チェック。

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・Lykkelig（金沢/オンライン）. . .幸せな気持ちになる雑貨と音楽のお店。こけし、天球儀、星や結晶鉱石、ストームグラス、チェコの絵本、リトルプレスなど胸がときめく物ばかり。sawakoで検索するとレアコンピが。

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・ヒト族レコード（京都）. . .DJ/即興演奏家/アンチボ主催のToshio Bing Kajiwaraさんが店主のコズミックワンダーランド。オブスキュアーでヘンテコ素敵なものがぎっしりな木屋町の異次元ポケット。

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・LINUS RECORDS（オンライン）. . .エレクトロニカ、ポストロック、アンビエントなどを中心に「こんな音楽があったんだ！」という出会いとワクワクを感じるオンラインショップ。

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・more records（大宮/オンライン）. . . ジャンルを問わず良質な音楽に出会えるCDセレクトショップ。選盤お任せの「オススメパック」も。「ストリーミングでしか音楽聴かないよ」という人にこそ行ってみてほしい空間です。

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・tempo（オンライン）. . . 20年以上に渡って日本の電子音楽シーンを支えてきたp*disさんのストア。「Sold Out」になっている時はwish listでリクエストしていただけたら◎

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・sawako store（オンライン）. . . ご希望の方にはsawako手書きメッセージ付けます＆キラキラ鉱石限定販売中◎

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・Norman Records（UK/海外）

・12k Store（USA/海外） . . . レーベルのBANDCAMPページ

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・Tower Records Japan . . . オンライン、店舗取り置きサービスあり。発送まで時間がかかることがあります。

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“Eclipse Dawn” | VISUAL by BIWA

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[snatchofficial]

みなさまお待たせ致しました‼︎‼︎ 約2年半振りのSnatch" やって参りました そしてこの度よりSnatch"に bassistのAquechが加入致しました ぜひNew extra soundをご堪能ください お待ちしてます‼︎ ■10/1 (sat) 17:00 OPEN @ U.F.O CLUB ■LIVE Snatch" The Boing Joe Nakamura & EASTWOODS ■GUEST DJ USHIJIMA TOSHIO (NIGHT FOX CLUB) ■DJ Arai/Bucci/Otsuki/Sawaguchi/Shunki ■Admission fee ADV ¥2,300/DOOR ¥2,800 18時までの入場 ¥1,300 学割 ¥1,800 https://www.instagram.com/p/CiRwkpJvTD5OvR1GoRDXOExcYQtJPTSVh_umyE0/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[cinemaronin]

Demons (1971)

修羅 Demons (1971)  directed by Toshio Matsumoto cinematography by  Tatsuo Suzuki

[ozu-teapot]

Shura (Demons) | Toshio Matsumoto | 1971

Yasuko Sanjo, Katsuo Nakamura

[nikkeisimmer]

Tosh told me that it seemed as though things were on an inexorable slide to the brink of destruction; that from what he could tell; there was no escape. It was the strategist in him that told him that things were not going to go well in the Pacific...and the Russians were just waiting to jump in with both feet. They had always been our adversaries and it was only a matter of time before we and they came to blows.

It was admirable in how Tosh could split his attention between the affairs of the world stage and the goings-on of bunker management and provisioning, but he did so and that was the one of the interesting aspects of Tosh’s abilities. He does tell me in quiet times in our cozy little meetings that he relies on me to be his right hand and that overseeing reports and effectively managing the bunker wouldn’t happen if it wasn’t for my efforts.

It makes me feel appreciated that I’m doing something rather than just hanging around waiting for the blast doors to lock and the warheads to drop.

Although I look at Tosh and I wonder if there is something more than just admiration for an effective leader.

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One…two…three…Awwwwwwwwwwww…

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[scenesandscreens]

Funeral Parade of Roses (1969)

Director - Toshio Matsumoto, Cinematography - Tatsuo Suzuki

"This is my first movie and I'm interested. My circumstances are like his. That's one reason. And the gay life is portrayed beautifully."

[brody75]

Shura (1971)

[adamgcraig]

Last post of pictures from the Jeffrey Deitch Tokyo Pop Underground exhibit.

There is a lot more to see, but a lot of it is NSFW.

Go see it for yourself: http://deitch.com/los-angeles/exhibitions/tokyo-pop-underground

[demifiendrsa]

The First Slam Dunk - Hisashi Mitsui CM

Kaede Rukawa CM

Hanamichi Sakuragi CM

Ryota Miyagi CM

Takenori Akagi CM

The First Slam Dunk anime film is slated to hit theaters in Japan on December 3, 2022.

Cast

Shugo Nakamura as Ryota Miyagi

Jun Kasama as Hisashi Mitsui

Shin'ichirō Kamio as Kaede Rukawa

Subaru Kimura as Hanamichi Sakuragi

Kenta Miyake as Takenori Akagi

Staff

Original Creator, Director, and Screenplay: Takehiko Inoue

Unit Director: Fumihiko Suganuma, Katsuhiko Kitada, Naoki Miyahara, Toshio Ōhashi, Yasuhiro Motoda, Yū Kamatani

Character Design: Yasuyuki Ebara

Art Director: Kazuo Ogura

Animation Director: Yasuyuki Ebara

Sound Director: Koji Kasamatsu

Cgi Director: Daiki Nakazawa

Director of Photography: Shunsuke Nakamura

Producer: Toshiyuki Matsui

2D Producer: Kentarō Mōri

Animation producer: Kazuhiro Nishikawa

Animation Supervisor: Kazuki Matsui

Art Setting: Nobuhito Sue

BG Supervisor: Yuki Sato

Casting Producer: Yoshimi Sugiyama

CG Producer: Yūta Ogura

Color design: Shiori Furusho

Editing: Ryuichi Takita

Effect Supervisor: Taro Matsuura

Modeling Supervisor: Kei Yoshikuni

Music producer: Ryūta Koike

Prop Supervisor: Yuki Sato

R&D Supervisor: Hiroto Nishitani

Recording: Yasushi Nagura

Rigging Supervisor: Hiroto Nishitani

Shot Supervisor: Toshiaki Kimata

Sub-Character Design: Yukiko Ban

Animation Production: Dandelion Animation Studio, Toei Animation