Ashita wa Akiba no Kaze ga Fuku - Akagi Nobuo (Wada Masato)
Hikounin Sentai Akibaranger Season Tsuu Final Live Tour
The goods are right in front of me, I'm cutting myself off
I've pulled the same character five times now, pretending to smile
Maybe my misfortune could bring a smile to someone else's face
It's embarrassing, but that's alright! Someday the world will be but a dream
It's okay, that's alright! Things are going smoothly inside my dreams
Tomorrow a wind will blow through Akihabara
Most of my salary is gone, I used it on figures
And the place I display them is bigger than my bedroom
The happiness it gives me is worth more than three meals
I'm tearing up, that's alright! Expecting food remains a dream
It's okay, that's alright! Things are going smoothly, I'll keep dreaming
Tomorrow a wind will blow through Akihabara
For tie-in items, it's only natural that they'd be “official”
Starting to collect the “unofficial” ones means it's serious
Sometimes finding a serious bargain that you'll adore
It may be controversial, but that's alright! Because these are the dreams of our era
It's okay, that's alright! Things are going smoothly because it's a dream
It's okay, that's alright! Things are going smoothly inside my dreams
Tomorrow a wind will blow through Akihabara
"Super Sentai ☆ Unofficial Cheering Song", ED of Hikonin Sentai Akibaranger Season Tsuu. Performed by Akiba Red/Akagi Nobuo (Wada Masato), Yamagata Yukio, and MoJo.
Tamashii Nation 2012 5th Anniversary Tamashii Radio CD featuring talks between cast members of Tiger & Bunny and Unofficial Sentai Akibaranger given out to attendees at this event.
Tiger & Bunny:
Hiroaki Hirata (Kotetsu T. Kaburagi)
Masakazu Morita (Barnaby Brooks Jr.)
Go Inoue (Keith Goodman)
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
Jinpachi Nezu and Mieko Harada in Ran (Akira Kurosawa, 1985)
Cast: Tatsuya Nakadai, Akira Terao, Jinpachi Nezu, Daisuke Ryo, Mieko Harada, Yoshiko Miyazaki, Hisashi Igawa, Pîtâ, Masayuki Yui. Screenplay: Akira Kurosawa, Hideo Oguni, Masato Ide, based on a play by William Shakespeare. Cinematography: Asakazu Nakai, Takao Saito, Shoji Ueda. Production design: Shinobu Muraki, Yoshiro Muraki. Film editing: Akira Kurosawa. Music: Toru Takemitsu. Costume design: Emi Wada.
Lavish in color and pattern, Ran may be Akira Kurosawa's most pictorial film, to the point that the images and costumes and sets sometimes threaten to overwhelm the human drama at its core. This is Kurosawa's second effort at translating a Shakespeare play into medieval Japanese terms, and I prefer his adaptation of Macbeth, the 1957 Throne of Blood, to this reworking of King Lear. It seems to me that in Ran, Kurosawa stumbles over the analogous figures from Shakespeare in ways that he doesn't in his earlier film. Turning Lear's daughters into Hidetora's sons robs much of the delicacy and painful sadness of the Shakespeare play, especially in the final reunion of Lear and Cordelia. And King Lear is a more complex play than Macbeth, with its intricate subplot involving Gloucester and his sons, and the multiple intrigues of the households of Goneril and Regan. Kurosawa has pared down and fused some of these secondary stories, but he still loses sight at times of his central figure, the Lear analog, Lord Hidetora. Tatsuya Nakadai is unquestionably one of the world's great film actors, but he's too sturdy a figure for the enfeebled Hidetora, and the stylized old-age makeup often hides his features -- except for the great, glaring eyes. There are grand things, however, in the film, including a wonderfully villainous performance by Mieko Harada as the Lady Kaede, and a curiously effective Fool, performed by the androgynous actor-dancer known as Pîtâ.
Comparable to: Bring it On Ghost (kdrama); Being Human (Uk)
For me I had a struggle to get into this one and I’m not really sure why. The fantasy side was cute to a point I guess , I don’t know, maybe I suppose if the characters were fleshed out more I would of liked it better. It’s only six episodes long so…….🤷♀️ I guess it just was me.
One of my guily pleasures is watching actors I know from various 2.5D stages in stages that are not 2.5D. They don’t have to be performances with big stages, lots of props and amazing sound and light effect to give me goosbumps.
Thanks to my friend @deprofundisad I managed to watch the stage “Hikari yori mae ni ~ Yoake no sousha tachi~“ starring Miyazaki Shuto, Kimura Ryo, Nakamura Makoto, Takahashi Mitsuomi and Wada Masato.
The story revolves around the athlete Tsuburaya Kokichi who competed at the 1964 Summer Olympics held in Tokyo and how his life completely changed because of the medical problems he had, making him commit suicide in the end.
This stage really made me think about how people’s expectations from us can influence our lives...but not always in a good way.