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sambart93 · 6 years

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Messiah: Genya no Koku [Movie Review]

Another quick review I wanted to do. So I got to see this twice and I got to theorise with one of my friends after both reviewings and we were both going crazy with fanfic ideas after this.

In true Messiah style, I watched this and fell right back into the hell pit that is Messiah. I love this series. I don’t think I’ll ever leave it. But that’s what DV does to you xD

Official Site here Press/Pics/Videos 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10

The Story

The story is set just after Tsukuyomi where Itsuki agrees to trading himself in so they could get Ariga back. During the transfer, Ariga makes it back to HQ safely but Itsuki, along with Saryut, goes missing. They have been captured by the real Nightmare and he makes them do a little treasure hunt before they can escape his clutches. Meanwhile the rest of the boys, including Suku, try to track them down, and save them. But past actions make a reappearance.

We also have a side story of Sakura having to protect a Prince with the help of his shady bodyguard. And they also end up being connected to the main plot.

Entering SPOILER TERRITORY!

*This is a huge series so I don’t recommend you jump into this one without scene the previous work from it*

Spoiler Story

So Itsuki and Saryut wake up in Nightmare’s Lair and they are trapped inside with a bunch of people who, one way or another, want to take revenge on either Itsuki or Saryut. So they attempt to kill them but obviously our boys are more than capable and handle the entire situation on their own. But they keep one of them alive. However, Nightmare kills the man’s daughter for failing to kill Itsuki and Saryut and for siding with our boys. Itsuki and Saryut stop the man from committing suicide and persuade him that ‘you should take revenge on Nightmare because he’s the one that killed your daughter, not us.’ So Nightmare lets them move from room to room, but in each room is a hint or a scene that reminds Itsuki/Saryut of something terrible they’ve done in the past. And they cannot move onto the next room without facing what happened and explaining that terrible scene/situation.

While they are trying to get out of there, Sakura (on one side), and Suku & Doctor X (on the other side) are trying to find their boys. Eventually they find the same trail and the same hints, end up meeting up, and they momentarily join forces so they can get their boys back.

We also have this Prince who Hinamori and Kogura are in charge of protecting a prince, but after being caught transporting the Prince to safety, shots are fired and the Prince runs away, even leaving his bodyguard behind. Turns out the Prince is also wanting revenge of Itsuki (for killing/assassinating his father) and that Nightmare had invited him to watch their stream (of them going through the rooms), and he eventually makes his way to the location of the boys.

In a horrible twist though, when Saryut and Itsuki make it to the last room, they’re both knocked out. Saryut knocks of Itsuki after making a deal with Nightmare behind Itsuki’s back. And Saryut is then knocked out by Nightmare. When the Prince makes it to the location, he revenge shoots Itsuki (who has a bag over his head), but turns out it was his bodyguard who Nightmare had wrapped in Itsuki’s clothing and put a bag over. Nightmare enjoys that fact that he tricked the Prince to kill his only true friend and is reveling in the fact that the Prince has now actually fall into a Real Nightmare (the entire theme of the movie is that death is not the nightmare, living is the real nightmare).

Itsuki wakes up after being knocked out and Nightmare reveals himself. He was actually the guy they decided not to kill right at the very beginning! He just pretended to be someone else. Itsuki wants to know why. Nightmare reveals that he is actually the Prince’s older brother, and that when Itsuki killed their father, their father actually had all his child heirs and child relatives locked up; with his dying breath their father had hit a switch that gassed and killed all the children. Nightmare’s daughter was one of them. So he wanted revenge on Itsuki.

Although Itsuki does blame himself for all those children dying (and still has PTSD/nightmares/flashbacks from it), it’s actually revealed that the father/King was using the children for his own sick experiments --> he wanted to create people who couldn’t feel any pain (turns out Saryut’s group was helping to conduct those experiments). And when Itsuki found the King, he actually decided not to shoot because the King was threatening to turn the switch on (to gas the children) if Itsuki did shoot. But the guards in the palace came bombarding in and one of those gun shots hits the King. So as a last ‘I will not go down alone’ sick selfish way, he pressed the switched and killed them all.

However, it is very important to note that only the audience knows the truth. Itsuki never reveals to Nightmare, to Saryut, nor to anyone what really happened. He just purely and honestly feels it was his fault all those children died.

So now that Nightmare has Itsuki alone, and Nightmare himself was one of the past experiments (and successful) who can feel no pain, he asks Itsuki to fight him til one of them dies. Unfortunately, Nightmare gets the upper hand because of his lack of feeling, and just before he shoots Itsuki flat in the face, Ariga walks in!

Ariga literally woke up, quickly found out what happened, and got his ass over to save Itsuki! Together they kill Nightmare and walk away, with 2 or 3 bullets in them each xD but thank god they survived!

Suku also finds Saryut in the very first room Itsuki/Saryut woke up in and helps him out. Saryut asks why someone like Suku wanted to help save him, claiming that Suku usually doesn’t care for anyone else. Suku replies ‘because it would be so boring without you,’ and they leave.

That’s all the main points!!

Comments

☆ I absolutely loved the plot of this story! I loved all the twists! I absolutely loved this trapped building/room theme! I absolutely LOVED the twist with the Nightmare reveal, switching Itsuki for his bodyguard, the Prince shooting his bodyguard, Ariga running in at the last final minute. Every single reveal was amazing and I was just like ‘OMG!!!’

☆ I absolutely loved how Hinamori and Kogure’s friendship and trust grew! There were so many scenes and moments in this movie that they kept hidden from Ichijima! They were both like ‘lets not tell Ichijima,’ many times. Their friendship is getting so good!

☆ I absolutely loved seeing this vulnerable side of Suku. He’s trying not to care for Saryut but it’s so obvious that he does care! Even Doctor X says ‘it’s unlike you to care about/trying to find someone,’ and he always claims ‘I’d be bored if he wasn’t around’ or something like that but YOU CARE! YOU CARE!!!

☆ There’s a scene where Hina and Kogure are in a dark piping room, and I just saw the sexual tension go everywhere!! There’s one moment

☆ Unfortunately, I figured out straight away who Nightmare was. But this was from pure luck and pure random thoughts. Because you don’t hire Namioka Kazuki for a simple role! He never has a simple role! He is such a popular and well known actor! As soon as he popped up as this ‘poor guy wanting revenge’, my brain instantly went ‘Namioka never plays small roles. He always has a main role. He always plays a bad guy too,’ so when it’s revealed that he’s Nightmare, I was like ‘I KNEW IT!!’

☆ I adored the opening scene where we had a badass female murdering some mad scientist. It did give many fangirls hope that we were going to have a badass female (finally) in Messiah. But alas she ends up committing suicide in the end, and Hina and Kogure find her body.

☆ I love, love, love that they kept the bathroom for this movie too! We still have HQ at the bathhouse! And we still had some bathhouse scenes! There is a hilarious bathhouse scene with Kuroko, Ichijima and the bodyguard, Kuromatsu, just after they catch Kuromatsu betraying his prince somewhat. And Ichijima is not impressed and has this ‘-___-’ expression on his face while Kuromatsu is trying to defend himself. Also Kuroko splashes water in this scene and Ichi doesn’t flinch at all! I was giggling so hard at this scene! Also, while I don’t particularly like Ichi, I have to admit that the actor has kept his body in amazing shape! His chest and torso looked so damn good in that scene!!!! I was dying xD

☆ Apparently the Prince and the Bodyguard are going to stay in the series. But so far, I think they’ve had a lukewarm welcome. The Prince is a totally dick to his bodyguard, but all of a sudden cares for him at the end, and the bodyguard was very cold towards the Prince; for most of the film, he said ‘it’s just business’ but then he tries to save the Prince? So right now what we know about them is not much, and it’s also very all over the place. So we’ll see...

☆ I absolutely adored some of the action scenes in this! I think the first fighting scene (Saryut and Itsuki VS the revengers), and the final scene with Itsuki/Ariga and Nightmare were very well shot!!

☆ I also, as I always do, loved the opening theme song and sequence!! I absolutely adored the colours and effects that they used this time around!

☆ There are many moments in this movie where Itsuki and Saryut have to face what they and what their group have done to people. And I absolutely loved how both of them felt justified in their actions but where then condemning the other’s actions. There’s a beautiful moment/line from Saryut (to Itsuki) where he says ‘just because you were told to (do it), you think you’re in the right (for your actions)’ and it was a really powerful line and moment.

☆ I thought this one was such a good, high quality production. The colouring was great, the cinematography was great, the effects were great, the fighting scenes were great, some of the dialogue was gold. I thought this was probably the best produced Messiah movie we’ve had! Everything aesthetically pleased me!

☆ Speaking of effects!! Fucking Hinamori is BADASS. His very first scene is him and Kogure trying to meet the Prince and get him to safety but obviously terrorists turn up, and there’s also a sniper of a far off building. But Hinamori can find/see where the sniper is, so every time the snipe took a shot, Hinamori moved ever so slightly and DODGED the bullet! EVERY TIME he so easily and so smoothly DODGED the bullets! I absolutely LOVED this moment! I also loved his posture and body language as he dodged the bullets. Hina looked so fucking kool!!

☆ There’s another comedy gold scene, where Ichijima suggests something (not so nice), and Kuroko immediately got his green plastic slipper out and smacked Ichi over the head! Ichi’s hair spiked up but Ichi kept him ‘-_____-’ face and continued his lines. I was dying of laughter.

☆ Another adorable scene was right at the very end as Itsuki and Ariga walk/limp out, after killing Nightmare, and Itsuki had a very emotional moment towards the end and was in tears. So as they walked out, Ariga was like ‘by the way.... why are you crying?’ and Itsuki’s like ‘I ain’t crying!’ and it was such an adorable moment that I couldn’t help but giggle in happiness and amusement xD

☆ As I hadn’t seen the previous stage, it was so weird for me to see Kuroko as the leader and in Ichijima’s leader coat!

☆ Upon my first viewing, I had no idea Ruka (the Prince) was MALE until he took his turban off! He has very girly features that I thought for the first 30 minutes or so that he was actually a girl!! I was so surprise, I was like ‘a-WAH?!’ xD

☆ Ichi is still keeping secrets in this movie. Throughout there is a card with an ‘S’ on it, but even when Kuroko asks, Ichi just says ‘now isn’t the right time for people to know.’ UGHHHH fuck you Ichi!!!

☆ Towards the beginning of the movie, Itsuki has a dream where Ariga betrays him and points a gun to him and pulls the trigger. I was losing my shit in my seat the first time around!!

FanFic Ideas!

Me and my friend had so many dang fanfic ideas going around while watching this!! But the main two I had:

☆ There is a scene where Hina and Kogure are in a dark, pipping area, and Kogure lightly comments ‘I hope Itsuki is okay...’, and I was immediately thinking ‘Hina get angry! Ask ‘Itsuki? What about me?’ and kiss him!!!’. They were SUPER close during that scene too. Also this scene is split into two parts in the movie; the first part, it’s still day time, but when we come back to this scene, it’s night, and my brain was like ‘I bet I can guess how they passed the time there mwahahaha’ xD

☆ Another scene is when Suku first finds out Saryut has been taken and is trying to find out where he is. Doctor X comments ‘it’s not like you to care about someone else’ and my brain was like ‘ARGHHHH THEY LOVE EACH OTHER!!!’. AND at the end when Saryut is like ‘why did you come and save me?’ and Suku replies ‘it’d be boring without you’, I was DYING in my seat!! ARGH!!!!

And that’s all! I’m super excited for the dvd and I hope many of you get a chance to watch this movie! It was great!

#izawa yuuki #sugie taishi #yamamoto ikkei #hashimoto shinichi #yamada james takeshi #yamada james #miyagi koudai #miyagi kodai #namioka kazuki #messiah #messiah series #2.5D #2.5次元 #メサイア #review #movie review

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crazyasianlove · 6 years

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Ochanomizu Rock Eps. 7 & 8 Final (Sub. Esp)

DESCARGAR AQUÍ

Gracias a rz-jocelyn & pamsurowka (Tumblr) por dejarme sus softsubs y a leenaevilin (Tumblr) por las fantásticas raws ^^

Ahora sólo falta el musical. Próximamente...

#ochanomizu rock #ocharoku #jdrama #sato ryuji #someya toshiyuki #sakiyama tsubasa #maeyama takahisa #matsumoto gaku #miyagi kodai #sunahara kensuke #chiyu #tarumi keisuke #tanimizu riki #drama #dorama #proyectos terminados #sub. español

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save-the-data · 7 years

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Ochanomizu Rokku | 御茶ノ水ロック | Ochanomizu Rock

Episode 7

#jDrama #Ochanomizu Rock #Sato Ryuji #佐藤流司 #Someya Toshiyuki #染谷俊之 #Sakiyama Tsubasa #崎山つばさ #Suzuki Shogo #鈴木勝吾 #Tanimizu Riki #谷水力 #Matsumoto Gaku #松本岳 #Miyagi Kodai #宮城紘大 #jDrama_2018 #D-Boys

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boomratata · 3 years

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HYPNOSISMIC STAGE PLAY TRACK. 4

Fling Posse vs Matenrou

Ryo Sekoguchi as Ramuda Amemura (newest news that he graduated until Track. 4 and was replaced to Kentaro Yasui from 7ORDER).

Takahisa Maeyama as Gentaro Yumeno (newest news that due to his scandal with his girfriend's suicide case, he will hiatus for long time and probably left the stage. Ryuichi Sakata is announced to be the next role of Gentaro Yumeno).

Ryo Takizawa as Dice Arisugawa

Taiyou Ayukawa as Jakurai Jinguji

Hirofumi Aramaki as Hifumi Izanami

Kodai Miyagi as Doppo Kannonzaka

#hypnosis mic #hypmic #hypnosis microphone #fling posse #matenrou #ramuda amemura #gentaro yumeno #dice arisugawa #jakurai jinguji #hifumi izanami #doppo kannonzaka #stage play

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mimisaurora · 4 years

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GS has updated with new visuals, cast, dates and venues for the final installment of the Gekidan Shining project!

the cast consists of:

Hiroki Nakada as Masaferry

Gaku Takamoto as Warren

Yusuke Akiba as Ailess

OC cast includes:

Masakazu Nemoto as Homer

Takuya Kishimoto as Jonathan

Kodai Miyagi as Theodor

Ryota Hirono as Reinhardt

a full synopsis is yet to be released, but it is said that it will be about the story following the faithful encounter which lead masaferry, warren and ailess to travel together forever.

the stage will take place from 11/5 to 11/8 at THEATRE1010 in tokyo

and from 11/19 to 11/23 at the COOL JAPAN PARK OSAKA WW Hall in osaka

the 11/9 show will host a talk with hiroki, gaku, takuya and ryota after the performance

the 11/20 show will host a talk with yusuke, masakazu and kodai after the performance

all tickets will come with a bromide set of the main cast (not inclusive of advanced seating privileges)

video: https://youtu.be/UAk77MrINvg

youtube

website: https://gs-bloodyshadows.com/

#utapri #please support gekidan shining #takamoto gaku #nakada hiroki #akiba yusuke #bloody shadows #Youtube

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otakusparkle · 12 days

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Identity V Stageplay Episode 5 Cast

Survivor part 2

Part 1

- Mercenary (Naib Subedar) By Takuya Matsufuji

- Seer (Eli Clark) By Chiba Mizuki

- Gravekeeper (Andrew Kreiss) By Kohei Masaki

- Painter (Edgar Valden) By Kodai Miyagi

New Character!

- Entomologist (Melly Plinius) By Ayaka Manabe

#idv #identity v #idv stageplay #idv mercenary #naib subedar #idv seer #eli clark #idv grave keeper #andrew kreiss #idv painter #edgar valden #idv entomologist #melly plinius

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amer-ainu · 6 years

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Emishi Q&A

Some questions submitted by @bielzabussy, answered by Sasakawa san, an Emishi man from Iwate prefecture.

“Thank you very much for your questions about the modern Emishi people. To these questions about "modern Emishi," I have to explain who Emishi are, the outline of the "Emishi living in the present period." It will be very complicated right now, so I will tell you about them next time.

A lot of people, including historians out of Japan, seem to consider that Emishi are just an extinct ethnic group, or ancestors of Ainu, or that the descendants are just ethnic Japanese because they have been assimilated to Japan, or some people may think Emishi is just the ethnic Japanese living in the remote region. So they may consider those who are insisting they “the modern Emishi” as insane people.

But if you carefully look them at, you can see the truth that there are quite a few of those who can be identified as modern Emishi, however they have the diversified ways of recognizing Emishi linkages.

In his book ("Minzoku no Soshutsu"(Iwanami Shoten, Publishers, 2014), Sociologist Dr. Masataka Okamoto also reports not only the existence of modern Emishi, but also other hidden ethnic groups currently considered "Japanese people," such as Kumaso/Hayato people living in Kyushu island, Izumo people living in eastern Shimane prefecture, western Honshu island and Ikema people living on Ikema, Irabu and northeastern Miyakojima islands. He is also a member of the Izumo people.

The following answers are based on my individual recognition, study and knowledge. I also identify as one of the modern Emishi people, but I acknowledge that there are still a lot of unknown things about Emishi people.”

Q: How do [Emishi people] view the term Emishi?

A: They have used this term as their actual antonym, however they are not sure if the term is the original antonym or not. Dr. Kyosuke Kintaichi had insisted that the origin of "Emishi" was "Enciw" in Ainu language like the antonym of Sakhalin Ainu people, some modern Emishi may consider this the original term. Some people say that Emishi is derived from the Ainu word, emushi (sword).

Dr. Kyoko Kojima denies the Emishi antonym, saying Emishi is just an Old Japanese (上代日本語) word, and originally referred to the indigenous people in the Kanto region, or in Yamato province (Nara prefecture), not the indigenous people in northern Honshu. Myself and other Emishi agree with this.

Reference: Kyoko Kojima "Emishi,Ezo kara Ainu e" (Yoshikawa-Kobunkan 2009)

The antonym must be written with Katakana, Hiragana, Latin alphabet or any other phonograms, they do not use the term with the Chinese characters such as "蝦夷," meaning literally, “The shrimpy, hairy barbarians.”

Some Emishi have incorrectly used "蝦夷" as their antonym, because they have uncritically accepted the official historical terms used by the dominant perspective of the Japanese history academic circle, and to hide their own ethnic ancestry from Wajin people.

Reference: Author: Kyosuke Kindaichi, Editor: Masaki Kudo"Kodai-Emishi to Ainu" Heibonsha 2004

Q: Do they view it as derogatory?

A: Until the 20th century, The descendants had avoided identifying themselves as Emishi because they were ashamed of their ancestry. Emishi were considered barbarians, inferior and backward, and were discriminated by Japanese people out of the Tohoku region as unsophisticated and narrow-minded people.

Q: Do they keep their identity secret?

A: I have heard and seen cases of some remote communities living in mountain, coastal, or the other districts, but I haven't heard if they've been keeping their ethnicity hidden from outsiders or not. I have heard that some descendants of the forced Emishi migration may have been keeping their ancestry secret.

Q: How do they view Tohoku-jin?

A: Almost all people living in, or are from, northern Honshu consider themselves as Tohoku-jin. Personally, I feel weird when Emishi think themselves as Tohoku-jin because

1. Tohoku-jin are usually considered the descendants of Emishi, but Tohoku-jin also includes a lot of non-Emishi immigrants.

2. The word Tohoku comes from the Chinese characters that mean "The Deep Remote Region in the Northeast." Many modern Emishi people do not realize the original meaning of these terms. The meaning of Tohoku is not from the perspective of the native people, but from the immigrants and outsiders from the southwest regions.

Q: Do they still speak their own language?

A: Emishi language is extinct, though Ainuic languages place names identify areas where they were spoken. And there are many discussions about what qualifies a language as Emishi.

There are a variety of Ainuic Emishi languages previously spoken in northern Honshu, except Tsugaru (Western Aomori prefecture), and Shimokita (Northeast of Aomori prefecture), where Ainu was spoken.

The linguist, Dr. Harutsugu Yamaura, who is Emishi, has revitalized the variety of Japonic languages spoken in Kesen region, located southeast of Iwate prefecture, and northeast of Miyagi prefecture. He identifies the Kesen language as a unique language, not a variety of Japonic, or Japanese dialect. He created working scripts of the Kesen language based on the Latin Alphabet, though Kesen Kana scripts are not official ones.

Q: When did their language die?

A: The exact time is unknown, but I think the extinction occurred during the medieval, or early modern period, during the 1190-1200 Emishi rebellions in the Tohoku region. Mr. Junya Mega, curator of Iwate Prefectural Museum, commented that some of the isolated Emishi people living in the mountain region and the coastal regions might have spoken the Ainuic language until latter periods.

Q: Are there any Japanese language resources that could be helpful or informative?

A: The following scholars and their studies are very useful.

Mr. Shintaro Ishiwatari

Mr. Sansai Kikuchi for the descendants of forced migrated Emishi people

Mr. Junya Mega

Dr. Isao Kikuchi

Dr. Masataka Okamoto.

#Emishi #Ainu #Indigenous Japan

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sambart93 · 6 years

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2019.01.14 GARO Stage Vol 3: Kami no Kiba - JINGA - Reincarnation [Review]

Official Website here Official Twitter here Press Coverage 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 Videos 1

CAST and CHARACTERS

Inoue Masahiro as Jinga Yamamoto Ikkei as Sasha Inami Anju* and Oda Erina as Tomoha Masaki Kaoru as Ruka Matsunoi Miyabi as Amelie Fukuen Misato* and Nazuka Kaori as Shera Shimizu Saki as Ontake and Yuzuki Miyagi Koudai as Ushio Sengoku Minami and Isohara Kyouka* as Saeka Yumoto Misaki as Kerusu doNcHY as Tomino Sato Daisuke as Ramedo and Pakutora Sato Kazuma as Kaise Namiki Shusuke as Ikari Noda Hiroshi as Kido Iwata Arihiro as Lumido and Midouji Nakamura Seijiro as Fugi Horrors: Ega, Ryo, Hiro-C, Taka-ki, Kraus, Shimoo Hiroaki, Kudo Shoma, Katakabe Hiromasa, Sakai Hayato, Noda Ryunosuke, Yoshiba Yuki, Tezuka Sae, Ito Reina, Taguchi Fumiya

*There were some double casts so the * signifies the ones I saw.

NON-SPOILER REVIEW Overall: This was very good. This was a solid stage. I thoroughly enjoyed the action, I enjoyed so many of the new actors, seeing the horrors IN PERSON and so up close was amazing! The use of the projection mappings and how they used the front screen for the effects was really cool! The combination of heavy rock and action scenes was a perfect combination and I absolutely adored the two - three big action scenes that used heavy rock music to their advantage to intensify the action. One of the fighting scenes actually really impressed me with HOW they did it! Also the fact that we had a LIVE band performing is awesome! The adlibbing was gold. I can see a lot of potential in some of the characters and their future storylines. I hope we get more development and more appearances from certain characters in the future! I thoroughly enjoyed myself at this stage, even with the earthquake about 30 minutes into it which FREAKED me off. However, I had a few technical issues. This play could’ve been amazing with about 2 - 3 more days rehearsing. Let me clarify; the actors are not the issue at all! But, the sound staff and the scene transitions were very questionable at times. Sometimes the sound effects for punches and such were either played too early or too late, and it was glaringly, obviously off beat. There were a lot of moments where the orchestra would go from one song to the next as a scene ended and started, but there’d be like 10 seconds during that transition where none of the actors could more or say their lines, and it felt very unnatural and roboticly timed. If they had had just a few more days of rehearsals I really think they could’ve fixed and perfected the sound and music timing. The other issue I had was the story. The main story and the main points of the story were absolutely fine, but I felt like one character and their story line (which is attached to the main plot) was totally unnecessary. At first I thought maybe only I have these issues, but upon talking to other friends, our negatives about the play matched completely. They also had problems with the timeline in the story too, they said it was confusing to figure out when all these events are supposed to take place. But luckily, I was able to understand the timeline without any problems. But besides me, my friends found that a problem. Rating: 6/10 - I enjoyed myself, but with a few more days of rehearsing and script revising, this stage could have been amazing.

SPOILER REVIEW

PreShow

I was very confused when I got to the cinema and got in line for the goods. My goodness Goods was confusing!! You had to pick up your goods from the tables first THEN line up to pay?! No wonder the line was going so fast!! XD It took me a minute or two to figure out what the hell was going on. I kind of wish all shows did this. Would be so much faster in the goods line!! Rather than waiting for Miss-Take-A-Lot who is always in front of me buying about 40 sets of different bromides when all I want is a pamphlet but I have to stand behind her for 10 fucking minutes, also because the effing staff are taking their god damn time too trying to get everything and counting everything out for then about three times. <<< A common occurrence I experience unfortunately.

But anyway....

Then I got into the theatre and right away the very front screen is down and the projection mapping for the Garo opening sequence/advertisement on the screen looks so damn cool! And the GARO music to go along with it!! It was very Messiah-esque in that it had random patterns and shapes floating about but you knew they signified something or someone. Just like in Messiah’s movie openings. It was so cool to watching while counting down to show time.

I was to the right of the stage fourth row, but just not far enough to have any of the stage cut off - PHEW!!

Finally, about 20 minutes in, I ‪FINALLY experienced an earthquake during a show! It was bound to happen soon xD‬ although it went on for much longer than I was comfortable with so I momentarily didn’t focus on the play, so I have no idea what happened during those few minutes.

The Story

I want to talk about the story first:

So the story actually jumps around; it occurs before, during and after the Jinga tv show. Some people (as mentioned above) found it really difficult to figure out when it was set but I took little hints to figure out when it was. The first 40 minutes or so are set before Jinga is reborn as a human; he’s still hanging around Amelie and the Horror are bowing down before him. Then the middle section is set during the Jinga tv show; we see where he went those few episodes where he came back bloody or he doesn’t remember what happened. And the final part is setting during after the events of Jinga when he gets his Horror posse to turn and such.

The main running thread throughout all this is a girl called Tomoha. Tomoha is a Makai Priest in training, and she has a group who she trains with, she has a sister, and has some normal friends. One of her normal friends unfortunately succumbs and becomes a horror, but Jinga gets involved and reverts her back to a human being. Tomoha learns that the person who saved her friend is called Jinga and that he can turn horrors back to humans. After this she decides to find him, but when she does Jinga doesn’t recognise nor remember her. She realises there are two Jingas. Later she wants to introduce him to her training clan but while there Jinga’s Horror henchmen, and a group wanting to destroy Jinga turn up and the entire clan is doomed.

That the basicness of the entire story. Now to get into details.

The Show

Maybe I’ll just get the negatives out first and then I can flail to the end.

☆ As mentioned above I had some technical issues with the play. First was the timing between action/movements and the sound effects. The timing of some action hits were either too fast or too slow. And the off beat of the sounds were glaringly obvious unfortunately. Also, the transitions between songs, the actors would stay frozen until the right note in the music and then the scene or line would start, which made it look and feel very robotic.

☆ I really do think just a little more (a few days of) rehearsing would’ve really perfected this stage! There were technically things like timing that could’ve been spot on if they had had just a little more time. I heard from a friend that: they didn’t have a GenePro for the press because it wasn't good enough yet, and that they kept pushing things back until eventually just cancelled the GenePro and only gave interviews instead. So clearly, I’m right in thinking (even at Senshuuraku) that they needed a few more days. During the curtain call, Masahiro even commented that he only had one day to rehearse. But I’m not even calling out on the acting! I thought everyone did well. I only had issue with technically stuff.

☆ Call me bias but the first 30 mins or so were so unnecessary and were pretty boring. They use Tomoha as the central character for the plot but in all honesty, Tomoha’s entire storyline and participation was unneeded and unnecessary. I liked the main storyline for Jinga, and the storyline of Jinga being tracked down by the Ikkei crew, but Tomoha was completely pointless. We didn’t need her in order to know about a training group of priests and knights, we didn’t need to know she had a sister, we didn’t need one of her friends to turn horror, we didn’t need her begging for Jinga to save her. This all could’ve been just a random human or a random training crew and nothing in the main storyline would have changed. Jinga could’ve just found and gotten to that training crew on his own, Jinga could’ve ‘saved’ this human-turn-horror without introduction. We didn’t need to know about her or her sister or any one specifically at all. You could’ve switched ANYONE in where she was and it wouldn’t have made any difference to the story at all. Having her as the ‘main character’ just made the first half full of unnecessary introductions, absolutely pointless, and SO BORING.

☆ And because the story was somewhat lacking, they really missed a great opportunity to have Jinga get really evil. We have Tomoha who has clearly fallen for Jinga and completely trusts him, and you’re telling me Jinga didn’t even TRY to manipulate and use her?! I really wanted Jinga to USE her! Manipulate her! USE HER!!! That’s what the real Jinga would do! He’d be like ‘oh this idiot LIKES me. Well I’ll trick her into falling in love with me and then she’ll do anything for me mwahaha’ but nooooooooooo the story makes a romantic bullshit subplot out of it where it’s hinted that Jinga also likes her. Oh FUCK OFF! The real Jinga would have used and abused her, and he would have laughed in her face the moment her world came crashing down! That’s the Jinga we know! But alas the story did not go there. Seriously, a few more days of script writing and rehearsing would’ve made this amazing!!

☆ Another thing I wish that changed in the script was during a few battle scenes, the entire cast are dancing to the battle music rather than actually fighting... wtf?Again, another missed opportunity! Even as the music and the dancing started, I immediately thought: TARANTINO! I really wish they had done a Tarantino-style thing: Jinga orchestrating and dancing to music while everyone else is actually fighting and screaming. That would’ve been much better. I was completely fine with Jinga being all orchestry and dancing but I think going Tarantino style would’ve been better: only he can hear the music and is dancing, while everyone else is actually screaming and fighting. Instead of this bullshit of everyone, including Horrors, dancing to the entire song.

☆ Lastly, I didn’t have a problem, but a lot of people were confused as what the the timeline of this story was. I’ve already explained above, but I can see how others might been confused. It wasn’t exactly stated so you just had to pick up on what people were saying and who was where in order to understand what point in the timeline we were in.

Now to the fangirling!!

☆ Sticking to the fighting and music topic: The actual fighting scenes with the very heavy rock music were AMAZING! You could feel the music through the floor and the fighting was very well choreographed! It was so god damn fun!!

☆ I’m jumping ahead but the best fight scene was definitely the climax fight between Jinga and Sasha. It was absolutely amazing how they did it!!! Ikkei (Sasha) had a body double so it looked like Sasha could move super fast from one end of the stage to the other! It was so fast paced, and so well executed, that even from the 4th row, I couldn’t tell where the real Ikkei was during the fight! Also the use of the lighting during this scene, and having their weapons light up. We had some points that were in complete darkness and all you could see were Jinga’s sword and Sasha’s weapons that were lit up and fighing. It was SUCH A GOOD SCENE. It was best scene in the entire play. Absolute kudos to the choreographer and to Masahiro, Ikkei, his body double and everyone involved in that scene because holy hell it was amazing!

☆ We had a LIVE orchestra the entire time which was absolutely amazing! The music itself is just a masterpiece! It’s so good! I guess that’s why they called it Garo the ‘Live Entertainment’.

☆ There was a higawari/daily change guest every day and the show I went to had Kashiwagi Yusuke as the guest. If you don’t know, I love Kashiwagi so I was super excited for this! And he did not disappoint. He was GOLD.

Yuusuke did fucking Osomatsu!!! Everyone was DYING of laughter! Even Amelie and the other cast couldn’t keep it together! SO MANY OSOMATSU JOKES!! So his story is that Amelie and co. can’t eat him because he already made a promise with Jinga that Jinga would devour him. So he explains that he wanted to save his brothers (and that there are six of them), but they accidentally got mixed up in his scheme of trying to rob a bank, and they all ended up getting shot at. In exchange for stopping those bullets from hitting his brother, he agrees to make a deal with Jinga. During his storytelling four of the ensemble came on stage in the other Oso-coloured jumpsuits and Yusuke’s like ‘WHERE’S PURPLE?!?! You couldn’t even get me five people?!’ He was absolutely amazing! So many round of applauses during his higawari. And he did some backflips too. At the Amilie ran after him with her knife like ‘KKAAARRAAAMMAATTSUU!!!’.

During the curtain call, he said he wants to come back as a Horror if they ever let him come back. He also apologised to the vast colour difference between everyone’s outfit and his; he was ain a bright blue jumpsuit with a kimono styles scarf over his shoulders xD Absolutely GOLD.

☆ I absolutely loved being able to see Jinga’s costume so up close! I absolutely adore his grey coat from the TV show and being able to see the detail of that coat so close in person was amazing!

☆ Also the full body Horror and Makai Knight suits that we got to see on stage were phenomenal! They looked AMAZING! They were pretty terrifying as they went past me in the theatre! xD And huge kudos to the people wearing those suits. They must be absolutely dying in sweat in those suits!!

☆ There is a scene where we get to see the switch between Human Jinga and Horror Jinga. Seeing that transition right in front of my eyes was amazing! I love how different his body language and posture is between the two Jingas. I also adore how different his fighting style is too between the two versions of him.

☆ Ikkei/Sasha was so good too! I absolutely adored his look. I love how he always called himself ‘Sasha’ and referred to himself in the third person, and I love how over the top he can be. And I already said but that final fighting scene with him was phenomenal!

☆ Nakamura/Fugi’s fighting style and weapon is so cool! I really loved how much control he had with his weapon. He had some moves where the weapon could’ve easily fallen out of his hand and gone flying but he had such control and so flawlessly used it. I was so impressed.

☆ Koudai as Ushio was GREAT! He was playing a young, cheerful, sorted stupid Knight in training and he just lit up the stage with his happiness and silly moments xD I wanted so much for him to survive and get all revenge-y on Jinga’s ass! I was so sad when he died. I wanted so much more from him!

☆ A quick note on the Sasha/Fugi/Ruka/Ontake group: They are neither Makai nor Horror. From what I understood, they’re from their own world and Ontake is actually like....a god? or at least an overseeyer of the human world. Because she has a forest of candles, and the candles are everyone’s life/souls. Some candles have black flames which shows who’s become a horror, and the rest are normal flames. So essentially they’re from another... dimension/world? And they hear about Jinga’s plan to steal their goddess/spirit called Tomino so they want to kill him before he can get to Tomino.

☆ There is a twist at the end where Tomoha is possessed by Tomino (we assume she’s a goddess/spirit from the world that Ikkei is from) which means ‘Tomoha’ might have a bigger role in the future.

☆ A comment from curtain called that I enjoyed: Nakamura mentioned that he’d like a spin off dorama just about his character Fugi, and then Ruka’s actor was like “I hope Ruka gets a spin off dorama too!”. Inoue immediately after said ‘not like Sasha’s gonna get one cos he’s dead’ and Ikkei was absolutely distraught looking, it was hilarious. He was like ‘hey!!!!!!!!! I can come back! I can just pop out of nowhere!’

☆ After the show: Miyabi/Amilie was at the dvd corner and Inoue/Jinga was at the buppan corner!

And that’s all! I hope you enjoyed this short review!

#garo #jinga #kami no kiba #inoue masahiro #miyagi koudai #miyagi kodai #review #stage #stage play #2.5D #2.5次元 #yamamoto ikkei #nakamura seijiro #inami anju #masaki kaoru #miyavi matsunoi

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crazyasianlove · 6 years

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Ochanomizu Rock Eps. 1~4 (Sub. Español)

DESCARGAR AQUÍ

Agradecimiento especial a leenaevilin por las raws y a rz-jocelyn & pamsurowka por los subs en inglés.

#ochanomizu rock #ocharoku #jdrama #sato ryuki #someta toshiyuki #sakiyama tsubasa #matsumoto gaku #miyagi kodai #sunahara kensuke #chiyu #tarumi keisuke #tanimizu riki #proyectos activos #sub. español

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save-the-data · 7 years

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Ochanomizu Rokku | 御茶ノ水ロック | Ochanomizu Rock

Episode 5

#jDrama #Ochanomizu Rock #Sato Ryuji #Maeyama Takahisa #Someya Toshiyuki #Sakiyama Tsubasa #Matsumoto Gaku #Miyagi Kodai #jDrama_2018 #佐藤流司 #前山剛久 #染谷俊之 #崎山つばさ #松本岳 #宮城紘大 #D-Boys

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neruran · 7 years

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My Hero Academia Birthplace Map

So I did a thing instead of writing tonight :’D I’ve been kinda meaning to put this together since I heard that Kirishima and Ashido were from the same high school and I got to wondering what other parts of Japan everyone’s from, then I needed a better perspective on just where all the prefectures were in relation to each other so I figured other people might benefit from this. I would’ve preferred a less simplistic map, but the more detailed ones were far too busy so I decided to go with one that’s easier to understand though less accurate.

I got all the character info from the BNHA wiki, so I’m not entirely sure it’s all accurate since the birthplace listings aren’t cited and scans of the character book have been limited. There’s also no mention of what cities or regions of those prefectures each person is originally from, so while two characters may be from the same prefecture, they may come from different cities/wards unless canon proves otherwise. I’ve also been considering making a map of notable places in the series, but considering Horikoshi’s penchant for making up wards and cities and the fact I’m hardly an expert on Japanese geography, determining the exact location for most of the places is difficult.

Please reblog if you find this useful!

Notes: * Musutafu is the fictional city where U.A. is, said to be near Tokyo, however on the character pages for Midoriya, Bakugou, Todoroki, and Endeavour it’s said to be near Shizuoka Prefecture. Since I have no way of confirming this information, I didn’t really know where to place it so I made it a side note to Shizuoka. * The BNHA Wiki has Aoyama’s birthplace written as “France (according to himself)”, so that’s what I also wrote. I wouldn’t think much of it, as I believe the implication is that he’s like a weeaboo for French culture, lol. * I find it kinda interesting that the two foreign-born students are both in Class 1-B. I hope that we get to eventually learn more of the class besides Monoma, Kendou, Tetsutetsu, and Shouda. * There’s many other characters besides Bondo that haven’t had their birthplaces added, but I decided to stick with the students and what pro heroes were listed, as otherwise there’d be a lot more people under the “Unknown” section.

Full list under cut

1. Hokkaido - Mt. Lady 2. Aomori - Blood King 3. Iwate - Kouda Kouji 4. Miyagi - Mandalay 5. Akita - Shishida Juurouta 6. Yamagata - Cementoss 7. Fukushima - Kuroiro Shihai, Backdraft 10. Gunma - Komori Kinoko 11. Saitama - Kaminari Denki, Tetsutetsu Tetsutetsu, Tokage Setsuna, Shinsou Hitoshi, Midnight 12. Chiba - Kirishima Eijirou, Ashido Mina, Kendou Itsuka 13. Tokyo - Iida Tenya, Ojiro Mashirao, Sero Hanta, Hakagure Tooru, Kaibara Sen, Shouda Nirengeki, Nezu, Recovery Girl, All Might, Eraserhead, Present Mic, Ragdoll 14. Kanagawa - Mineta Minoru, Shiozaki Ibara, Honenuki Juuzou, Monoma Neito, Snipe 15. Niigata - Awase Yosetsu, Lunch-Rush 16. Toyama - Manual 19. Yamanashi - Gran Torino 22. Shizuoka - Jirou Kyouka, Tokoyami Fumikage 23. Aichi - Asui Tsuyu, Yaoyorozu Momo, Yanagi Reiko 24. Mie - Uraraka Ochako 26. Kyoto - Hatsume Mei 27. Osaka - Power Loader 29. Nara - Desutegoro 30. Wakayama - Fukidashi Manga 31. Tottori - Satou Rikidou 32. Shimane - Kodai Yui, Uwabami 33. Okayama - Best Jeanist 34. Hiroshima - Fourth Kind 37. Kagawa - Tsuburaba Kousei 38. Ehime - Gunhead, Pixie-bob, Tiger 40. Fukuoka - Shouji Mezou 42. Nagasaki - Kamakiri Togaru 46. Kagoshima - Thirteen 47. Okinawa - Ectoplasm

Other: Musutafu - Midoriya Izuku, Bakugou Katsuki, Todoroki Shouto, Endeavour France (according to himself) - Aoyama Yuuga USA - Tsunotori Pony China - Rin Hiryu Unknown - Bondo Kojirou

#my hero academia #boku no hero academia #midoriya izuku #katsuki bakugou #todoroki shouto #all might #kirishima eijirou #class 1 a #class 1 b #too many characters to tag ugh #mha info

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