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[relicariums]

By Hirofumi Nakamura

[easternmind]

Mercurius Pretty is a long forgotten life simulation game originally launched on the PC9801 in 94. The entirely redesigned and expanded Dreamcast edition, dubbed 'End of the Century', contained a 40 page booklet with designs from the many artists invited to reimagine it.

The game revolves around the raising of an homunculus/fairy inside a glass vat at a laboratory by a disciple of master alchemist Paracelsus. Other than the simulation elements of the original, all-new characters and adventure components were added for the Dreamcast edition.

Although the similarities with Princess Maker are readily evident, the game was actually produced by Tohiro Tsuchiya, an ex-COMPAC staff member previously involved in the creation of the genre's less celebrated precursor, the superb PC98/X6800 Production Manager from 1989.

While Mercurius Pretty and its artwork mean very little to me, I found it to be a cut above your average bishōjo. Certain that it would interest some of my followers, I took the liberty of scanning it and sharing it at the Internet Archive, with full artist credits listed per page: https://shorturl.at/eiSTU

[arcadefan]

Marion kicking back in this Gunbird poster art by Hirofumi Nakamura 中村 博文. Gunbird 2 was my go-to shooter for a good while there.

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Otoyan[音やん]

[itsfantasticac]

Gunbird illustration by Hirofumi Nakamura, for a comic compilation.

[nymphilily]

IDOLiSH7 x Transformers Seiyuu

I am mentally ill

Every single Seiyuu from the Joseimuke game IDOLiSH7 (as collected by the IDOLiSH7 Wiki), and whether or not they voice a character in the Transformers Franchise; human and crossover characters included

Any characters that are not animated as of the ending of IDOLiSH7 Third Beat are listed in the SPOILER CHARACTER section. Please tread with caution

IDOLiSH7 Toshiki Masuda (Izumi Iori) - NULL Yusuke Shirai (Nikaido Yamato) - NULL Tsubasa Yonaga (Izumi Mitsuki) NULL KENN (Yotsuba Tamaki) - NULL Atsushi Abe (Osaka Sogo) - NULL Takuya Eguchi (Rokuya Nagi) - NULL Kensho Onō (Nanase Riku) - Hot Rod (Q-Transformers)

TRIGGER Wataru Hatano (Yaotome Gaku) - Optimus Prime (Robotmasters) Sōma Saitō (Kujo Tenn) - NULL Satō Takuya (Tsunashi Ryunosuke) - Hot Rod (Cyberverse)

RE:VALE Sōichirō Hoshi (Momo) - Tracks (Q-Transformers) - Yukimura Sanada (Sengoku BASARA/Q-Transformers) Shinnosuke Tachibana (Yuki) - NULL

ŹOOĻ Yūya Hirose (Isumi Haruka) - NULL Subaru Kimura (Inumaru Touma) - NULL Kōtarō Nishiyama (Natsume Minami) - NULL Takashi Kondō (Mido Torao) - NULL

AGENCY STAFF Satomi Satō (Takanashi Tsumugi) - NULL Kazuyuki Okitsu (Oogami Banri) - Smokescreen (Prime) - S.S. (Prime) - Kenzan (Go!) - Scrapface (War for Cybertron Trilogy) Susumu Chiba (Takanashi Otoharu) - Jetfire (Armada) - Wheeljack (Armada) - Sideways (Cybertron) Katsuyuki Konishi (Yaotome Sosuke) - Optimus Prime (Superlink) - Cliffjumper (Energon) - Angry Archer (Animated) - Spike Witwicky (Animated) Yoshihisa Kawahara (Anesagi Kaoru) - Farnum (RID15) Makoto Furukawa (Okazaki Rinto) - NULL Hiroki Takahashi (Tsukumo Ryo) - Starscream/Hellscream (Beast Wars II) - Mantis (Beast Wars II) - Autolauncher (Beast Wars II) - Optimus Prime (Animated)

FAMILY MEMBERS Rina Hidaka (Kujo Aya) - NULL Fumihiko Tachiki (Chiba Shizuo) - Cyclonus (Rebirth) - Silverbolt (Rebirth) - Spasma (Rebirth) - Meltdown (Animated) - Dino (Dark of the Moon) - Megatronus (RID15) Rikiya Koyama (Osaka Soshi) - NULL Kenjirō Tsuda (Kujo Takamasa) - Thundercracker (Q-Transformers) Chiwa Saito (Sunohara Ruri) - NULL

OTHERS Wataru Takagi (Mr. Shimooka) - Cheetor (Beast Wars, Beast Wars Returns, Cyberverse) - Generation 1 Megatron (Beast Wars) - Glen Whitmann (Transformers) - Jetstorm (Animated) - Safeguard (Animated) - Jazz (RID15) Junichi Yanagita (Hyūga Akihito) - NULL Ryota Takeuchi (Douglass Rootbank) - NULL Tomokazu Seki (Sakura Haruki) - Skids (Revenge of the Fallen) Hirofumi Nojima (Thorvlad) - NULL

SPOILER CHARACTERS Takahiro Sakurai (Utsugi Shiro) - Sideways (Armada) - Blurr (Animated) - Vince (Prime) Yuichi Nakamura (Okazaki Rintaro) - Lambor (Q-Transformers) - Sunstreaker (Q-Transformers) - Steeljaw (RID15) Kaori Nazuka (Takanashi Musubi) - NULL Shin-ichiro Miki (Seto Ranvalt von Northmeir) - Inferno (Beast Wars) - Sentinel (ep18 only) (Beast Wars) Kenichi Suzumura (Bernard Kenneth) - NULL Yasuyo Tomita (Haruka’s Grandmother) - NULL Ryota Osaka (Tanigawa Mon) - NULL Kazuhiro Nakaya (Producer Matsunaga) - NULL Mai Fuchigami (Hanamaki Sumire) - NULL Shugo Nakamura (Tsunashi Sotaro) - NULL SOUNGDOK (Oda Hiroto) - NULL Shoya Ishige (Matsunaga Taro) - NULL

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I only skipped straight to the Nobunaga scenes out of curiousity, so don’t ask me about my opinion of the Dousuru Ieyasu drama yet. 

I'm surprised to find out that the teaser shots of Nobunaga with loose hair and red attire that was shown on Twitter was actually supposed to be Nobunaga in his youth. 

The red clothing does make sense, as the Shinchoukouki describes that Nobunaga and his retinue of pages and attendants were all garbed in red. My surprise comes more from how old Okada Junichi looks in this scene (he was even sporting a light moustache), even though Nobunaga should still be in his teens. His father Oda Nobuhide is not even dead yet. 

Usually dramas would hold off the facial hair until Nobunaga is supposed to be in his later years, especially if they use the same actor to act as both the young Nobunaga and his older version. If the actor is not young anymore, having even the slightest amount of facial hair makes them glaringly old. The “adult Nobunaga”, from what is presumably the Okehazama scenes, looks younger than this “teenaged Nobunaga”. 

The choice to style the hair loose like this is also a unique choice, I do not believe I’ve ever seen Nobunaga wearing his hair like this in a “serious” historical live action movies or drama. I’ve only seen it when Nakamura Hashinosuke was Nobunaga in Kiriya Kazuaki’s Goemon movie, which purposely had a more game-like/fantasy feel to it. See below:

In a standard historical Sengoku movies, loose hair were usually seen in battle, worn under a hikitate-eboshi while the samurai is in armour, like this:

Or sometimes during death/execution scenes.

I imagine I could’ve mistaken the scene for a Chinese historical or fantasy drama if I was just shown screenshots, not the entire scene in context. Especially this rather odd scrappy “fort” that Nobunaga’s little gang has: 

It has more the vibes of a Chinese bandit gang, often seen in wuxia/martial arts series. I vaguely recall of a wuxia story  featuring a “beggar’s sect” with this kind of hideout. Nobunaga and his retinue were also acting like thugs too. 

Honestly, it feels like the direction this is going is more like “a live action adaptation of a manga” kind of look and feel. The atmosphere I’m getting from this is reminiscent of this manga called Sanzoku Ou by Sawada Hirofumi. It’s a historical manga, but with a touch of fantasy and typical shounen hot-blooded energy. Hopefully it doesn’t hurt the series too much, as I’ve seen reports that Japanese viewers were so upset they ditched the series on episode two because it’s too outlandish. 

If I have time to watch more than just a couple clips I might also give some more detailed comments. 

[genkinahito]

Love’s Whirlpool 愛の渦  Director: Daisuke Miura (2014)

Love’s Whirlpool 愛の渦  Director: Daisuke Miura (2014)

Love’s Whirlpool   愛の渦   「Ai no Uzu」 Release Date: March 01st, 2014 Duration: 123 mins. Director: Daisuke Miura Writer: Daisuke Miura (Script/Stage Play/Original Novel) Starring: Mugi Kadowaki, Sosuke Ikematsu, Yoko Mitsuya, Hirofumi Arai, Kenichi Takito, Ryusuke Komakime, Tokio Emoto, Yu Nobue, Eriko Nakamura, Muck Akazawa, Tetsushi Tanaka, Yosuke Kubozuka, Website   IMDB “Birds do it, bees do…

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Rezonance 　Haptic Designerとして携わりました

- EnhanceとFlowplateauxによるSynesthesia Lab が開発したインタラクティブな共感覚インスタレーション『Rezonance（レゾナンス）』。ビデオゲーム作品「Rez」をモチーフにし、最大4人の体験者が自身が手にする球（スフィア）を空間の中で自在に動かし、脈打つビートと、ビジュアルとハプティック（触覚）を共鳴させあいながら、共同で演奏するようにシナスタジア（共感覚）体験を味わうこを可能にする。

■プロフィール Synesthesia Lab （シナスタジアラボ） アメリカ・カリフォルニア州を拠点にVR・AR・MRを始め、XR（拡張現実）の技術とともに、共感覚的な新たな体験（エクスペリエンス）を生み出していくEnhanceと、Flowplateauxが中心となって取り組むラボラトリー。 共感覚や感覚複合体験の実験、研究、アーキテクチャーを追求するために設立されたアライアンス型ラボ。企業、研究者、サイエンティスト、アーティストをはじめ、さまざまなパートナーの方々と研究プロジェクトを行う。

■「Virtual Realms: Videogames Transforme」展 本作は、イギリス・ロンドンのヨーロッパ最大複合文化施設のアート部門Barbican International Enterprisesが企画・運営する「Virtual Realms: Videogames Transformed」展（キュレーション：水口哲也）の参加作品です。ビデオゲームという体験のエッセンスを抽出し、メディアアートとして再構築する、多感覚、共感覚的な本展覧会は世界各国のミュージアムを巡回します。

展示 　2021年6月12日〜2022年1月9日　ArtScience Museum（シンガポール） 　2022年3月26日〜5月22日　WA Museum Boola Bardip（オーストラリア）_

- Credit

Synesthesia Lab (Enhance × Rhizomatiks)

CREATIVE SUPERVISOR AND PRODUCER: TETSUYA MIZUGUCHI (ENHANCE) CREATIVE DIRECTOR AND PRODUCER: AYAHIKO SATO (FLOWPLATEAUX) CREATIVE DIRECTOR: HIDETO YAMADA (ENHANCE) PRODUCER: KYOKO YAMASHITA (ENHANCE) HAPTIC DESIGNER: NOBUHISA HANAMITSU (ENHANCE) DEVICE ENGINEER AND LIGHTING DESIGNER: TATSUYA MOTOKI (RHIZOMATIKS) SOUND DESIGNER AND MUSIC COMPOSER: NOBORU MUTOH / HYDELIC (ENHANCE) VISUAL PROGRAMMERS: MINORU OGAWA, SHIGEKAZU ITO, YASUNORI HIRATA (ENHANCE) VISUAL ARTISTS: NOYURI SAEKI, RYUICHIROU SAEKI, TSUYOSHI HIROOKA (ENHANCE)

SYSTEM AND DEVICE ENGINEER: HIDEAKI TAI (RHIZOMATIKS) PRODUCT AND SPATIAL DESIGNER: TAKAHITO HOSONO (RHIZOMATIKS) SOUND DESIGNER: TAKAKO ISHIDA / HYDELIC (ENHANCE) CONCEPT ARTIST: TAKASHI ISHIHARA (ENHANCE) HAPTIC DEVICE DESIGNER: YOUICHI KAMIYAMA (CIDRE INTERACTION DESIGN)

SPECIAL THANKS: SEIICHI SAITO (PANORAMATIKS); MARK MACDONALD (ENHANCE); HIROFUMI TSUKAMOTO (FLOWPLATEAUX); YUTO NAKAMURA (MARUKAJIRI); JAMES WRAGG; TOMOYA KISHIMOTO; CLAMP; SOUND DESIGN.; PROPELLER; SPICE; FIELD CLUB; YUKA SATO. COMMISSIONED BY BARBICAN INTERNATIONAL ENTERPRISES AND MADE POSSIBLE THANKS TO THE SUPPORT OF TECHNOLOGY SUPPORTER, HEWLETT PACKARD

These pictures were tumbled from https://synesthesialab.com/rezonance/

[datuizm]

HIROFUMI Nakamura

[chishiru61]

Jan.2023

Remedy/Azure Ray ★Azure Ray/Azure Ray LOVE POP TOUR 2022/大塚愛 ★light showers/藤井隆 ★Nature of Things/Subsonic Eye Bildkadro/Hirofumi Nakamura Coe/arabesque Choche メタメメント/METAMUSE What Kind of Blue Are You?/Winter ★FLASH/FINLANDS Ampersand/Spangle Call Lilli LIne Feelin' Groovy/ROUND TABLE World's End/ROUND TABLE Valtari/Sigur Ros Med Sud i Eyrum vid Spilum Endalaust/Sigur Ros Hvarf-Heim/Sigur Ros Von brigoi/Sigur Ros Von/Sigur Ros ★Takk.../Sigur Ros ★()/Sigur Ros ★Agaetis Byrjun/Sigur Ros 映帶する煙/君島大空 Am I/The Glow 靄を漕ぐ/Sakanoshita Norimasa Kemri/Satomimagae 言葉のない夜に/優河 Black Dog in My Path/Yowler Stray Sparks/The Goodbye Party Waysides/Bedouine Not waving,But Drowning/Loyle Carner QUIET FRIENDS/えんぷてい ★xYZ/ExWHYZ REFLEX/SANDAL TELEPHONE Great Big Blue/Geowulf billboard for my feelings/Hovvdy ★曖昧なシングル3/美味しい曖昧 ★曖昧なシングル2/美味しい曖昧 曖昧なシングル1/美味しい曖昧 Jacques Tati Soundtracks Hearts Beat Loud O.S.T fifthRuler./tipToe. amputasion/situation All These Years/Phil Cook OMNIBUS/キリンジ Fine/キリンジ 47'45"/キリンジ 2 in 1/キリンジ KIRINJI 19982008 10th Anniversary Celebration/キリンジ ★from dusk to the sun(-Light years Ⅲ-THE NORTH FACE Sphere M/N)/haruka nakamura HEAT/E.scene Coral/Hannah Warm Views I Remember From My Childhood/Akira Kosemura

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@0909Ryugi - Feb 3, 2019

Musical "Touken Ranbu" ~Mihotose no Komoriuta~ Day 13! Thank you very much for coming to see us 😊!

Today Kensuke and Shin-kun came to see us!! Next is Osaka! I'll do my best!!

@ryouji0926 - Feb 3, 2019

Last day of Tokyo performances in the Galaxy Theatre, thank you very much 😊 Kensuke-kun, Shin and Yuichirou-san came to see us ♩ I remembered the Ranbu-sai hot days 🔥 With a good pose 📸

@shinta1024 - Feb 3, 2019

Musical “Touken Ranbu” ~Mihotose no Komoriuta~ I was able to go to the theatre to watch it.

The first time I watched Toumyu live from the audience was the first performance of "Mihotose no Komoriuta". So I was thinking about several things while watching it. The image of Ishikirimaru-san in the live segment is still burning in my mind.. ☺️

@WASHIDASU - Feb 3, 2019

Mihotose no Komoriuta! We finished the Tokyo performances at the Galaxy Theatre safely ⚔️ To everyone who came to see us‼️ Thank you very much❗ We will be back again! Well!! Everyone in Osaka, please wait!! Here we go❗ Hanzo is taking care of me‼ Ah~ it feels good ( ￣▽￣)

*The first photo of Ishikirimaru and Ieyasu was from Washio blog.

@WASHIDASU - Feb 3, 2019

It was an awesome launch!! Next is Osaka! Here we go ⚔️

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Hottest 100 (2017-2018) -  [jStage Actor]

I already did a Hot 100 list, but I wanted to do a stage-actor only one as well to celebrate some of these very multi-talented individuals. 

[kondou-shouri]

Hanamura Sota/ Stage「Kake Hayabusa Hito Yamato」Theme Song 『終わりある旅 (Owari Aru Tabi)』 Lyric Video

[itsfantasticac]

Sengoku Ace key art, by Hirofumi Nakamura.

Gamest Mook Vol. 113 - Psikyo Illustrations Psi (Mar. 18, '98), pg. 101

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[Pics] 舞台「駆けはやぶさ ひと大和」(butai kake hayabusa hito yamoato)

the visuals for ‘kake hayabusa hito yamoato’ under the cut^^

Cast:

Kubota Hidetoshi as Enomoto Takeaki

Yamamoto Ryousuke as Okita Souji

Sugie Taishi as Ichimura Tetsunosuke

Kento as Yokokura Jingorou

Kondou Shouri as Itou Hirobumi

Hayashida Kouhei as Shimada Kai

Nakamura Kikaku as Katsura Kogorou

Aoki Tsunenori as Saitou Hajime

Araki Hirofumi as Hijikata Toshizou

Matoba Kouji as Kondou Izami

Hanamura Souta as Nagajima Nobori

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