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naul-lidge · 1 year
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incredible sequence tbh
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fallensnowfan · 7 months
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OP Academy chapter 39 is up! And the title is Keikaku wa Kuruwanai. "A plan that won't go amiss."
tn* keikaku means plan.
Forget the title though, check out this rockin' cover page!
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Fairly simple chapter, begins with introducing Kaya and Kuro, their characterization is largely the same as the main manga and is mixed with typical Academy silliness. Kaya, who typically studies from home because she is sickly, is visiting the school building today and enjoys spending time with class 1A.
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Lucci, remember Cipher Pol are the student council in OPA, is in disguise as "Hyouta-kun," and seems to be onto Kuro's plan.
tn* Hyou means leopard.
This chapter: https://shonenjumpplus.com/episode/14079602755426459878
Next update with be a week from today on the 16th/17th.
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taperwolf · 5 months
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What are the Nijigaku's favorite animals?
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Information: Nijigasaki High School Idol Club, often abbreviated as Nijigaku, is the collective name of school idols from Nijigasaki High School
Ah, rounding out this series of asks!
Rina loves cats. Very obvious — she basically adopted Hanpen at school, and since she can't keep one at home, she built her own (her robot cat, Alan).
Shizuku, of course, loves her dog Ophelia (a golden retriever), and will tell you endlessly how cute and smart she is.
Kasumi loves anything little and cute, like hamsters, though she's never gotten one herself, partially because she feels like it would upstage her. She'd normally be a little wary of dogs, but she's gotten to know Ophelia well.
Ayumu also likes a lot of different kinds of animals, though I think she likes bunnies less than Yu does. She definitely does like reptiles, though — her pet snake Sasuke is real in my heart, if nowhere else. (I like to imagine that the IjigenFes between Love Live and Idolmaster included her getting to meet Koga Koharu's pet iguana Hyou-kun, and Koharu getting to meet Sasuke.)
Setsuna likes all kinds of animals, but if you asked her what she wanted as a pet, she's likely to respond that she really wants a pet phoenix or a dragon. Oh! Or there's this one series with tiny telepathic dragons called fire lizards! She will go into great detail if you let her.
Ai also really likes cats, and specifically Hanpen, though she can't keep pets since her house is a restaurant. That said, if you ask her what her favorite animal is, she'll go on a punning tear, starting with "That's irr-elephant!"
Emma grew up on a working farm around all kinds of animals, but her favorite are probably goats, like her Neve.
Karin tries to act too cool to have a favorite animal, but she absolutely loves pandas. She's got plushies of them, books of panda photos, lots and lots of panda accessories, and she'll spend hours watching them at the zoo.
Kanata is very much associated with sheep, and she does really like them, though she very much likes to look at any kind of fluffy animal, especially when they're sleeping. All cuddled up and cozy. Zzzzz....
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imasallstars · 1 year
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CINDERELLA GIRLS U149 ANIME
 Episode 07 “What doesn’t have a voice but can still speak?”
Koharu, the girl always dreaming about becoming a princess, is looking up at the starry skies today as well. While wishing “I hope we can smile lots with everyone~ ♪ “ she finds herself getting idol work with her trusty iguana friend, Hyou-kun! At her first ever job, she’s feeling pretty frivolous.
Though, it seems she’s gone too fuwa fuwa...
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Script: Maoki Murayama
Storyboard: Hiroyuki Takashima
Direction: Akari Ranzaki
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simkjrs · 2 years
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so im finally reading gekkan shoujo nozaki kun. chapter 100 hori.... HYou need to do it. You can be a girl if you want to. You can be trans
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crazyasianlove · 1 year
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Kingdom 2: Harukanaru Daichi e (Sub. Esp)
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DESCARGAR O VER ONLINE AQUÍ
Título: Kingdom 2: Harukanaru Daichi e (Kingdom 2: Hacia la Tierra Lejana) País: Japón Duración: 134 min. Género: acción, historia, guerra Fecha de estreno: 15 de julio, 2022 Dirección: Sato Shinsuke Guion: Kuroiwa Tsutomu SINOPSIS Después de reprimir la rebelión de su hermano menor, el rey del estado de Qin, Eisei, que había tomado el trono y aspira a unificar China, es amenazado por asesinos que entraron en el palacio real por la noche. Gracias a Shin y Ka Ryou TEn, quienes se apresuraron a la escena, los asesinos fueron repelidos con éxito, pero estaba claro que había alguien dentro del palacio que planeaba asesinar a Eisei. Si bien todavía había cierta incertidumbre, el enemigo vecino, el estado de Wei, comenzó a invadir a través de la frontera, y Shin finalmente se unirá a su primera batalla como soldado de a pie. Los soldados de a pie formaron un equipo "GO" de cinco hombres, y Shin se unió al campo de batalla junto con sus viejos amigos Bi Hei y Bi Tou, que vienen de la misma ciudad natal, el experimentado líder del escuadrón Taku Kei, que no es fiable pero nunca había matado a nadie, y el misterioso Kyou Kai, cuyo rostro está cubierto casi por completo con una máscara. Go Kei, el gran general de Wei, es un genio con una excelente estrategia militar, y también hace pleno uso de la poderosa fuerza de carros de Wei para invadir a los soldados de a pie de Qin en la línea del frente. Cuando el gran general de Qin, el duque Hyou, recibe noticias de la amarga batalla, simplemente sonríe irónicamente y ordena a sus tropas que se mantentan alerta. Contra probabilidades abrumadoras, Shin pelea una batalla solitaria con su habilidad perfeccionada con la espada, mientras que sus camaradas y otros lograron sobrevivir con su propio ingenio. Baku Koshin, un general de mil hombres de Qin, ve el éxito de Shin y sus hombres y corrió a las colinas para unirse a ellos en un asalto aún más imprudente. Con Shin y sus hombres del Cuarto Ejército mostrando un ligero tambaleo por la abrumadora desventaja de Qin del día anterior, el duque Kyou encuentra la "chispa" de la batalla y finalmente hace su movimiento. Mientras la batalla vanza a lo grande y un gran fuego comienza a rodar, esa persona inesperada también aparece en el campo de batalla... CAST Yamazaki Kento como Shin Yoshizawa Ryo como Eisei/Hyou Hashimoto Kanna como Ka Ryou Ten Seino Nana como Kyou Kai Mitsushima Shinnosuke como Heki Okayama Amane como Bi Hei Miura Takahiro como Bi Tou Hamatsu Takayuki como Taku Kei Makabe Togi como Hairou Yamamoto Chihiro como Kyou Sho Toyokawa Etsushi como Hyou Kou Takashima Masahiro como Shobunkun Kaname Jun como To Kato Masaya como Shishi Takahashi Tsutomu como Kyugen Shibukawa Kiyohiko como Baku Koshin Hirayama Yusuke como Mou Bu Ozawa Yukiyoshi como Gou Kei Tamaki Hiroshi como Shou Hei Kun Sato Koichi como Ryo Fui Osawa Takao como Ou Ki
TRÁILER: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYJR1YKFq_8
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anianimals-moe · 10 months
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Hyou-kun from THE IDOLM@STER CINDERELLA GIRLS U149
Today's AniAnimal is Hyou-kun the iguana from "THE IDOLM@STER CINDERELLA GIRLS U149". 今日のアニアニマルは『アイドルマスター シンデレラガールズ U149』のイグアナのヒョウくんです。
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cospinol · 2 years
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aghhhhhhhhh, sei and hyou in today’s episode..
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This is just a couple of seconds at the end of the episode, but it’s the most significant part of sei’s speech to me because I’m still to this day irreparably torn up abt literally the inciting incident from the first chapter of the series (shou bun kun still hasn’t adequately apologized or atoned in my eyes lol). Shin thinks about hyou relatively often (usually in fist of the north star style power of love victory scenes aka my favourite thing about this series), but a scene like this where sei independently remembers and recognizes his sacrifice is much rarer and very special to me… 。゚・ (╯﹏╰) ・゚。
Another part of the reason I like this bit so much is that its role in the story sei is telling us is 1) as an acknowledgement by sei that hyou is the most important person to shin, while then 2) leading directly into sei’s thoughts of shin, which is the core and end-point of his reflections on the love and kindness of other people - to me this sequence is really essentially sei acknowledging that shin is the most important person to him lol. There are other factors at play, of course, but during duke juuteki’s scene earlier in the episode I was thinking about how shin’s refutation to opponents who have been truly, seriously wronged by qin is always ‘the cycle is going to break because sei can break it’; sei here, against his own ultimate rhetorical opponent, ultimately relies on ‘I know the cycle can break, because I saw shin break it’………………… ahh. Ahh
I’ve always really loved ryo fui’s response being Being Overwhelmed By Sei’s Brilliance, not in a the sense that he’s actually overcome or convinced but instead just kind of shakes his head and has to acknowledge that they are talking so completely past each other that his arguments will never come close to harming the radiance of sei’s dream, the way even though he’s so obviously lost it’s in a condescending way (sei’s ideal is so pure it still seems childish to him, even though it’s its purity that makes it so strong); for all that ryo fui’s been litigating the nature of the world below heaven & dissecting human nature, all of his paths lead back to maximizing tangible prosperity, while sei’s anecdotes and personal appeals are entirely for the sake of the dream for the dream’s sake. He’s aiming somewhere so much higher than anyone else…… it’s also interesting to watch ryo fui back down at the point he does while contemplating sei’s recent embarrassing loss to kan ki, a king of a warring state who’s willing to rule thru martial might huh
Also, with that fundamental divide in their positions in mind — ryo fui pushing sei the way he does is extremely funny, love the fact that he sets up sei’s finishing-move point by just going ‘okay, tell me about kantan if you think people are so good’. But it’s fitting that he’s the one challenger who’s made sei start seeing the ghosts of chou hei again, the one obstacle so apparently insurmountable that he nearly shakes sei’s faith in human nature again, and requires the kind of spiritual intervention he gets…
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I will say, before today’s episode I actually wasn’t sure that it *was* shi ka speaking to sei through the purple light, but I’m glad the anime cleared it up by bringing in sayaka ohara for those lines :) and wonderful to hear her in the shi ka flashback again!
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I’m glad we got some full sequences of her story here, too (in the manga we get an even more truncated version with no dialogue), because my impression of it in the anime is mostly of its very random placement between ri boku’s court visit and the start of sanyou, where it mostly felt like a distraction (obviously displaced from its more fitting location earlier in the manga), which was a shame because I love shi ka herself as a character so much. But we got to see lots of scenes of her in the current art style here so that’s a win :)
And last but not least. Rui was even prettier than usual today 🥰🥰🥰💘💘💘
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fficaway · 5 months
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Acceptable things for chigiri to call kunigami
Kunigami
Rensuke
Ren
Hero
Acceptable things for kunigami to call chigiri
Chigiri
Hyouma
Hyou
Princess
And just as a general psa, if the characters don't call each other with honorifics in canon (-san, -chan, -kun, etc) and you don't understand how they're used, feel free to not use them in fanfic.
While I admire the thought and effort some of yall put into concocting nicknames, some of them are so off and so distracting. It's okay to just,,,, not do that lol
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kermitgotlost · 1 year
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Koharu episode was so good, we got to see how she met Hyou-kun, she got to meet some of her senpai. we got to hear her sing for the first time, she became a princess and her ending song is a cover of 'onegai cinderella'
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hinakonotediary · 7 years
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demifiendrsa · 4 years
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Kingdom season 3 teaser PV. Season 3 will premiere in April 2020.
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Masakazu Morita as Shin (Xin)
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Jun Fukuyama as Ei Sei (Yin Zheng)
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Rie Kugimiya as Karyō Ten (He Liao Diao)
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Shirō Saitō as Hyou Ko (Biao Gong)
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Taiten Kusunoki as Mōbu (Meng Wu)
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Akio Kato as Tō (Teng)
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Kentarō Itō as Kanki (Huan Yi)
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Kenyuu Horiuchi as Ōsen (Wang Jian)
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Yoshimasa Hosoya as Ōhon (Wang Ben)
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Hirofumi Nojima as Mōten (Meng Tian)
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Toshiyuki Morikawa as Ri Boku (Li Mu)
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Yūya Uchida as Shun Shin Kun (Lord Chunshen)
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Atsuko Tanaka as Ka Rin (Wa Lin)
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Miō Tanaka as Kan Mei (Han Ming)
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Daisuke Namikawa as Go Hou Mei (Wu Feng Ming)
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Tatsuhisa Suzuki as Kou Yoku (Xiang Yi)
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Yūto Uemura as Haku Rei (Bai Li)
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Director: Kenichi Imaizumi
Series Composition: Noboru Takagi
Character Design: Hisashi Abe
Animation Production: Studio Signpost
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tokumusume · 4 years
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tokumusume’s list of best and worst movies and dramas watched in 2019:
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There’s a new category this year. Inspired by kpopalypse, welcome the Honorable Mentions! Movies that weren’t exactly bad but also weren’t good. Movies and dramas are qualified to enter if I watched them for the first time this year, not that they were released this year. Click on ‘keep reading’~~
Best Movies:
1.      Parasite
Another masterpiece from the director of Snowpiercer (let’s pretend Okja never existed). A poor family con their way to a rich household. Choi Woo-Shik from The Witch (see below) is the eldest son and mastermind, fabulous as always. Definitely the best movie of this year. For me, movie of the decade.
2.      The Witch Part 1 The Subversion
This movie is amazing, hard to describe without spoilers. A perfect mix of Stranger Things and Hanna. Choi Woo-Shik can come to my house and kick my ass anytime. I can’t wait for part two.
3.      Death Trance
Visually stunning, kinda like Amemiya Keita’s style in early Garo or Mad Max. I wish the movie was longer and the characters were better fleshed out, Ryuen the monk and the little girl had so much potential... The most interesting thing about this movie is how sexualized the main male character is compared to the female ones, and apparently, the swords were designed to look like veiny penises (can’t find a source for this info), and yes, they do look like veiny penises. The final showdown is heavy with sexual energy. Have I already said that Ryuen deserved better? #RyuenRights
4.      Gintama 2: Rules are made to be broken
The barber shop scene is a fucking cinematic masterpiece. I never laughed so much like I did with this movie. The way it doesn’t take itself seriously, the meta jokes, everything is perfect. Even better than the first one.
5.      Kingdom
While I think that some fight scenes were way too long (like the bamboo forest one), the dynamics between Shin and Hyou/Eisei were highly entertaining, at least in my shipper eyes. I like that (SPOILER) the King of the Mountain People is a woman and not once they try to call her Queen. She is a King. Hashimoto Kanna is adorable as a Ten, Kanata Hongo does a great job as Eisei’s psycho brother, Sakaguchi Tak waves his sword around, the usual stuff but with added layers of dirt and sweat.
6.      Bravestorm
A movie I lovingly call “Japanese Pacific Rim”. Full of Kamen Rider stars (Hino Eiji! Misuzawa Haruka! That girl from Heisei Generations, the one with a sword! She has a sword in this as well!) and giant robots (god, I love giant robots!), I waited so much for this movie and it exceeded my expectations. I just wish I could’ve watched in theaters, it had a limited showing in my country.
7.      Twelve Suicidal Children
What begins as a murder mystery ends with a twist you won’t see coming. All of the actors are amazing, but special mention to Sugisaki Hana and that guy from that one boy group I forgot the name but can’t be bothered to Google.
8.      Gakkou Gurashi
Four girls and their teacher try to survive the zombie apocalypse trapped inside the school. This one destroyed me for days.
9.      Forest of Love
I’ve watched some Sono Sion movies but nothing prepared me for this. Be aware of extremely gory sequences and sensitive topics. Hinami Kyoko is so amazing as blue-haired, punk girl crush Taeko that I totally didn’t notice she was AkibaBlue in Akibaranger.
10.  The Host
After watching Parasite I decided to go on a Bong Joon Ho binge and watched this horror movie. Not as good as Snowpiercer and Parasite in my opinion but heart-wrenching nevertheless. The little girl is the star of the movie.
11.  The Hungry Lion
A story about the dangers of social media and slut-shaming. I want to punch Mizuishi Atom in the face.
12.  Cromartie High
A little absurd comedy about yakuza-style high school boys (played by middle-aged men lol) forming a club to battle aliens summoned by themselves just because. It made me laugh like a child. A hidden gem.
Honorable Mentions:
1.      River’s Edge
Depressing as fuck. Warning: the cats die. It’s not graphic but it’s traumatizing. Yoshizawa Ryo is a gay boy who sleeps with old men for money. There’s a graphic sex scene (not Yoshizawa, sadly) where my only thought was “That thing is gonna get stuck in there! Use a condom!” Can’t remember much from it except for these three scenes.
2.      The Disastrous Life of Saiki K
Yamazaki Kento has the acting chops of a dead fish but it comes handy for playing a teen with psychic abilities and zero social skills. Hashimoto Kanna is one of the prettiest girls in Japan. Yoshizawa Ryo with white and blueish hair looks more like Sakata Gintoki than Oguri Shun in the Gintama live action. The end is a huge let down but the fun ride is worth it.
3.      Ano ko no, Toriko
Congratulations to Yoshizawa Ryo, he has FIVE movies in my list of favorite movies this year! This is to make up for crowning GIVER as the biggest waste of time of 2018, this list is totally not biased, lol. “Ano ko” could be just another romance movie but the (very) little insight into how the entertainment industry works and not focusing on school life made me love it. Poor Sugino Yosuke being left behind again, when will this boy get the main girl?
4.      Monstrum
It doesn’t reinvent the wheel but it’s pleasant enough to fill a rainy afternoon with a lot of blood and spilled guts. Hyeri of Girl’s Day is the heroine and Choi Woo Shik is the commander she falls in love with.
5.      Weirdo Go
I confess I watched this one just to see Ji Li (aka my snake son Nie Huaisang) dressed as a woman but it was enjoyable and not that problematic.
6.      Real - Kanzen Naru Kubinagaryu no Hi
Directed by the same guy that did “Creepy” and “Before we vanish”, there are lots of twists you won’t see coming. And a dinosaur. A fucking dinosaur.
7.      Tomodachi Game: The Final
The movie loses its focus halfway through then picks up again minutes before ending. Yoshizawa Ryo delivers again as the sadistic Yuuichi, much like his role in Gintama. The plot twists are the star of the movie.
8.     The Living Dead
Sorry Wen Ning. I saw the plot twist coming in the first 30 minutes of the movie, not very smart of the writer. His personality did a 180° turn for worse and I’ll demote the movie to an honorable mention for it. Gao Han is cute though, I would like to see him as a better character.
9.      Backstreet Girls
Some recycled scenes from the drama to situate the viewers, a completely new story for the movie, it is certainly funny and enjoyable, if you can get past the forced gender reassignment surgery background and transphobic jokes (you shouldn’t get past it btw). I like the soundtrack.
Best Dramas:
1.      The Untamed
Do I need to say more?
2.      The Tale of Nokdu
This Korean romance had everything to be a mess but it wasn’t!!! *claps* I don’t hate the main female character and the whole palace politics actually kept me interested until the end. The complete shift of atmosphere mid-season was strange at first but ultimately very welcomed.
3.      The Naked Director
Netflix original Japanese content is amazing. This one is a look at the life of a legendary porn director in the late 80s, I learned a lot about the history of Japanese porn and censorship (yay pixels!) and went looking for his, erm, works. Very graphic, 69/10 don’t recommend watching with people in the house.
4.      Channel wa Sonomama!
I don’t remember it well but it’s about a news station and what is like to be a journalist and it was very interesting and funny.
5.      SCAMS
Forgettable. Sugino Yosuke with black hair cons old people via phone calls.
Worst Movies and Dramas:
1.      The cat in their arms
The cats spend 90% of the movie in human forms, and halfway through it they simply abandon the cats’ plot to show a fucking long montage of a weird guy painting a picture of a nude girl. It’s also super creepy to see a grown-up man acting like a cat, getting belly rubs and eating cat food from a bowl. Yoshizawa needs to choose his roles more wisely.
2.      Tonari no Kaibutsu-kun
A waste of Suda Masaki’s talent. Can Japan stop casting Tsuchiya Tao already?
3.      Samurai Marathon
Almost two hours of dirty men running through a forest. Maybe Japanese History experts will enjoy it, because I certainly didn’t.
4.      Lady Vengeance
While there are legit great moments, I didn’t find this “classic” to be anything special. The animal cruelty was too much for me.
5.      Hot Gimmick
This movie makes Bohemian Rhapsody’s editing look like a work of art. There are more flashing cuts than a T-ARA music video. I have no idea who likes who, who’s banging who, what even are they saying. Too much poetic shit for my like. I wanted to see Shimizu Hiroya naked. I was bamboozled.
6.      The Divine Fury
While some parts were interesting, at the end I still don’t know if the protagonist is possessed by a demon (if yes, then why would he help a priest destroy his friends?) or if he was blessed by God when his father died and talked to him (the glowing hand thing, why and how??). The exorcism parts are really, really scary, or maybe I’m just a chicken, but I had to avert my eyes. The best (only) part is that the protagonists are hot. Hello Woo Do-Hwan, you can sacrifice me to Satan any time…
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imasallstars · 4 years
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FURNITURE UPDATE
From the 6th Volume of the IDOLM@STER CINDERELLA GIRLS U149 Webmanga, the「Hyou-kun Carrying Set」room item can now be purchased and placed in your room!
From the 4th Volume of the IDOLM@STER CINDERELLA GIRLS After20 Webmanga, the「Cinderella Partition」and「Cinderella Menu」room items can now be purchased and placed in your room!
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recentanimenews · 3 years
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Swords 'n Puppets Clash in Thunderbolt Fantasy Season 3 on April 3
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  Following a delay due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, Thunderbolt Fantasy Season 3 was rescheduled for April back in November of last year. Now we have a concrete date, so fans of martial arts puppetry will want to mark their calendars with bold, epic brushstrokes for April 3. 
  The official website is now live, as is a new promo:
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    New characters in the mix (listed with Japanese pronunciations) include: 
  Ban Gun Ha
VA: Akio Ohtsuka (All for One in My Hero Academia)
Character designer: Satori Minamoto 
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    I Hyou Byou
VA: Natsuki Hanae (Tanjiro in Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba)
Character designer: Nekokan Masshigura (Nitroplus)
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    Shou Kun Rin
Character designer: Namaniku ATK (Nitroplus)
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    TVシリーズ3期『Thunderbolt Fantasy 東離劍遊紀3』、4/3(土)より放送・配信決定‼ 公式webサイトを公開しました????✨ 詳細????https://t.co/bkHqP4HBCY#サンファン #東離劍遊紀3 pic.twitter.com/WPv0ls2fDM
— サンダーボル��ファンタジープロジェクト (@TBF_PR) February 4, 2021
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Joseph Luster is the Games and Web editor at Otaku USA Magazine. You can read his brand new comic, MONSTER FLIGHT, at subhumanzoids. Follow him on Twitter @Moldilox.
By: Joseph Luster
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taperwolf · 4 years
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The big draw of Idolm@ster: Cinderella Girls, as a game and as a broader franchise, has always been the huge number and range of idols involved. There are 185 idols unique to the game, with occasional content featuring the 13 idols from the original series and the three from Dearly Stars; the four trainers, the secretary, Senkawa Chihiro, and the three orphaned idols exclusive to the now-shut-down Korean version are usually lumped in to the "over 200 idols" figure. They range in age from 9 to 31, with a pretty wide array of quirks and styles.
But most content focuses on the subset of 82 who have voice actors. They're the most popular almost tautologically — the way most got cast were as a result of the annual "General Election" popularity contest, that crowns each year's Cinderella Girl and usually creates songs for the top-voted idols. So these girls who are most popular get more content in the games, more appearances in the various anime, and are almost always the ones selected for merchandise and cross-promotional tie-ins.
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Which makes this promotional campaign a bit odd, but then it's an odd promotion. Kikoman's soy milk division is doing a "Summer Soymilk General Election" asking the Japanese public to vote on the best way to celebrate summer with soy milk, as ice cream or as pudding. They recently added two idols from Cinderella Girls to the promotion — the unvoiced idols Matsumoto Sarina and Ohnuma Kurumi, to represent each side.
Sarina is a flirty 22-year-old with a big-sisterly streak; Kurumi is an overdeveloped 13-year-old perpetually on the verge of bursting into tears. They're both sort of memetically associated with soy milk. Sarina once remarked that she wanted soy milk in vending machines, for its alleged benefits for beauty, and Kurumi — well, apparently in something involving her, the phrase "to buy soy milk" got somehow converted to "to the soy milk world", and so some fans use "soy milk world" to refer to her.
(I suspect that the fact that one of the supposed beauty effects of soy milk consumption is increased breast size only added to the aptness of Kurumi being the soy milk world.)
Anyway, I welcome advertising tie-ins for minimally popular Cinderellas. Maybe some sort of burger joint with a particularly traditional Japanese menu offering could enlist Cathy Graham, the American idol who was raised in Asakusa and can't speak English? A women-in-STEM promotion featuring robot builder Ikebukuro Akiha? Iguana awareness with Koga Koharu (ft. Hyou-kun)? Oh, the possibilities.
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