#seiichi nakamura

[shihlun]

Yosuke Yamashita, Takeo Moriyama and Seiichi Nakamura in Ecstasy of the Angels (1972) directed by Kōji Wakamatsu.

[garadinervi]

Makoto Nakamura, 2nd Exhibition of DNP Archives of Graphic Design – The Era of Graphic Design, Photograph by Seiichi Nakamura, CCGA – Center for Contemporary Graphic Art and Tyler Graphics Archive Collection, October 20 – December 20, 2001 [Museum für Gestaltung Zürich]

[cinemaronin]

World’s End / Girl Friend (2005)

せかいのおわり World’s End / Girl Friend (2005)  directed by Shiori Kazama cinematography by Isao Ishii

[despair-to-future-arcs]

What are we doing next?

I see, so you all went out drinking except for Kazuo, Miaya, Ernesto and Seiko?

Yeah I know those 4 didn't come but there was one person that I notice that I wasn't expecting...

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*When it was evening, the other members seem to be drinking...*

Here you go sir, some sake for you.

Thank you, ah... your right - I really needed this...

Told ya, figure you need something to wind down!

Yeah seriously, seems like you needed it...

*Biju looks at the clock and notice it's about nearing 11 PM*

Oh... it's getting late, I better head off...

aww, okay Biju - see you tomorrow!

Yeah see you. *as Biju gets of as he heads back home, suddenly he hears laugher...*

???: Hahaheeehaaa...

Hm...? That voice, isn't that... *As walking over to the voice, he notice 2 people with one of them sitting on the other's lap*

Ma-Man... this is greeeat, thanks... really thanks...!

Of course, I know things must be stressful so I figure you needed to wind down...

*puts her hand on his cheek* Now how about we go back to my home then, hm?

Um... hey, what's going on here - I never took you for going for the younger type.

!!! *gets off*

Ah um... Mr. Hakoda, good evening...

Heeeeya... I-I'm having a gre-great time!

Yeeeep totally great, very great!

Indeed, I figure I offer him something to drink and he did seem the type that has a thing for old women.

I see, well looks like he seems really out of it - maybe I can help walk him home? Seeing as I don't live too far from you 2.

...I see, very well then - will go home.

'That's all I remember... before everything with the reveal of Class 77-B being Ultimate Despair.'

[xenosagaepisodeone]

Blood on the Tracks' ending feels like the kind of quietude that Oshimi Shuzou had tried to convey with the middling endings of many of his earlier works. "And life goes on" is often invoked by writers to reconstruct the world left behind by a character's previously all-consuming trauma. Suddenly, there's room for simple things, going to work doesn't feel as hard and "goodbyes" feel less bitter. Little has changed and yet, everything has. Where I found that this approach didn't quite succeed in Aku no Hana and Boku wa Mari no Naka (to a lesser extent, Shino-chan too) was in the fact that the trauma that the characters experience aren't quite excavated to the extent they should be. Nakamura has unspoken issues with her father and dislikes the monotony of rural life, the question of if she has truly adjusted to life in the end being extremely vague. We only learn at the very end of Boku no Mari no Naka that Mari is the way she is because the pressure of having to be a good daughter for her mother psychologically incapacitated her- the extent of her mother's abuse we see being when she changed her name. The lack of totality in the way that the reader experiences their lives, their perspectives, their wants and what 'closure' means to them only makes what the story doesn't resolve much more visible. I've talked about Aku no Hana's ending before, but I also remember that Mari's saccharine ending made me do a double take when I first read it nearly a decade ago- it just felt so insincere! The characters all being relegated to this happy passivity, scrubbed clean of conflict and chemistry...I thought that there was something sinister hiding beneath it- but no, this is merely what "life going on" means in Mari's universe. The unwillingness to explore the intricacies of her experiences compelled an equally simple conclusion to her story.

Being alive is largely a pretty boring thing. At the end of Blood on the Tracks, we see Seiichi doing leisurely activities, making dinner and shopping; all things previously marred by his relationship with his mother. I couldn't help but feel relief in seeing him blend in to the landscapes he had evaluated as conduits for committing suicide decades earlier. He witnessed his mother in all her bigness and smallness, she died and he found that the world looked different when not cast in her shadow. Life went on. He speaks little of the trauma he has endured, the decades he spent "dead" feeling like a far-away dream the more he embraces life. The comment he makes about his mother in the end is so, so good. He chose to live and didn't realize it. congratulations oshimi shuzou on using up all your mana to create 1 good ending.

[zef-zef]

Yosuke Yamashita Trio - Mokujiki from: Yosuke Yamashita Trio - Mokujiki (VICTOR WORLD GROUP, 1970)

山下洋輔 (Yosuke Yamashita): Piano 中村誠一 (Nakamura Seiichi): Tenor & Soprano Saxophone, Tambourine 森山威男 (Takeo Moriyama) Drums

[satoshi-mochida]

Banchou Tactics launches August 10

Gematsu Source

Turn-based strategy RPG Banchou Tactics will launch for PC via Steam on August 10, publisher Flyhigh Works, Bangkok-based developer Secret Character, and investor ITSARAAMATA have announced.

Here is an overview of the game, via its Steam page:

About

Banchou Tactics is a strategy turn-based role-playing game in a Japanese gangster high school (banchou). The game is inspired by CROWS (Japanese manga), River City Ransom, and Final Fantasy Tactics.

Story

For several years of conflicts, there were bloody struggles between three high schools around this area (somewhere in Japan). This madness played by the three schools: Sakae High School, Nakamura Technical High School, and Minato High School. They engaged in many fierce battles with the aim to show who’s the boss in this town.

When Kitagawa Seiichi, the demon king of Minato High School just graduated last year, all the balance of three power came to doubt once again.

The game is set in Minato High School The story focuses on Taiga Arashi.

Key Features

High-quality 2D pixel on 3D stage.

Turn-based strategy game.

Blood group system.

Special Attack.

Knock back system.

Combo system.

[byneddiedingo]

Keiji Sada and Yuko Mochizuki in Tragedy of Japan (Keisuke Kinoshita, 1953) Cast: Yuko Mochizuki, Yoko Katsuragi, Masami Taura, Teiji Takahasi, Keiji Sada, Ken Uehara, Sanae Takasugi, Keiko Awaji. Screenplay: Keisuke Kinoshita. Cinematography: Hiroshi Kusuda. Art direction: Kimihiko Nakamura. Music: Chuji Kinoshita.  Tragedy of Japan is the Criterion Channel's title for Keisuke Kinoshita's film, but I prefer the one used on IMDb and elsewhere: A Japanese Tragedy. Not only does that title echo Theodore Dreiser's An American Tragedy, but it also particularizes the story better. What happens to Haruko Inoue (Yuko Mochizuki) and her children is not a microcosm of recent Japanese history but a product of it -- one among millions, including those told in Kinoshita's many films. The film also demonstrates something of Kinoshita's tendency to overreach, often with distracting innovations such as the oval masks that frame scenes in You Were Like a Wild Chrysanthemum (1955) or the color washes that creep into The River Fuefuki (1960). Here it's an unwise use of extensive documentary footage of the war and its aftermath as a frame for the fictional story. The contrast between the raw actuality of news footage and the artifice of movie storytelling works to the disadvantage of the latter. Which is unfortunate because Kinoshita has a good story to tell about Haruko's attempts to survive and to provide for her children and the unforeseen consequences of her efforts, as well as the problems faced by Seiichi (Masami Taura) in his ambitious pursuit of a medical career and Utako (Yoko Katsuragi) in her disastrous involvement with her English teacher. None of Haruko's good deeds, it seems, go unpunished, as the skirting of the law that she found necessary is held against her in more peaceful and prosperous times. Despite the mistaken attempt to fold these stories into a larger historical context, this is one of Kinoshita's better films, marked by some very good acting and genuine human dilemmas.

[cdbrainrecords]

Hidehiko Matsumoto, Seiichi Nakamura, Kazuo Yashiro, Masanaga Harada, Shoji Nakayama - Let's Swing Now (LP, Album)

Vinyl(VG++) Sleeve(VG++) Insert(VG++) Obi(VG++) // with Obi 帯つき / more than VG+ conditions, in great shape / コンディション　盤 : Very Good Plus (VG+) コンディション　ジャケット : Very Good Plus (VG+) コンディションの表記について　  [ M > M- > VG+ > VG > G+ > G > F > P ] レーベル : Victor – SJV-869 フォーマット : Vinyl, LP, Album 生産国 : Japan 発売年 : 1976 ジャンル : Jazz スタイル :    収録曲 :  A1. Sleepy’s Bounce A2. My Ship A3. I Let You Get My Pillow…

[ljaesch]

Manga Up! Global Adds Three Manga to Its Service

Square Enix’s Manga UP! Global has added Satsuki Nakamura, DOJA, Deshika Ichise, and Teruko Arai’s My Return to the Imperial Harem: The Tale of Snow White Sow, Midori Endō’s Gugure! Kokkuri-san, and Seiichi Shiki’s Aizawa-san Multiplies manga in English. My Return to the Imperial Harem: The Tale of Snow White Sow is described as: Jurei, a royal concubine nicknamed “Snow White Sow,” was banished…

[tmaxtadashi]

Photo Seiichi Nakamura

Model Izumi Miya

Hair＆ AirBrush for TV&Cinema with Tadashi Takahashi

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[shihlun]

Yosuke Yamashita Trio

- Ecstasy of the Angels: M-6

1972

[cicadangel]

psychological manga recs!

DISCLAIMER !! i'll try to list all of the content warnings, but a lot of these deal with a lot of mature and triggering themes such as: sa/rape, suicide, self harm, abuse, etc. read these with caution.

ones marked with a star have unhappy/unclear endings if you want to avoid (or go straight towards) depressing media. 💫

goodnight punun, inio asano: the first psychological manga i've read. follows a punpun, who is drawn as bird, as he navigates childhood and adulthood in an incredibly unfair world, desperately in love with the same girl since elementary school. like dazai's no longer human in manga format, very well written with incredible art. CWs: sa, rape, abuse (main element in the story), suicide, domestic violence, substance abuse, sexual content, moderate gore, cults, and there may be self harm! (i forget-- but this manga has many many many triggering aspects.) 💫

a lollipop or a bullet, sakuraba kazuki/sugimoto iqura: hidden gem that i cannot recommend enough! nagisa is a lonely studious girl living in a small town. when mokuzu, the daughter of a washed-up singer, transfers to nagisa's school, an unforgettable summer ensues. mokuzu tells outlandish tales, such that she is a mermaid, and bugs nagisa to be her friend. as nagisa reluctantly spends time with her, she discovers there may be some startling truths behind mokuzu's lies. CWs: abuse (main concept), animal abuse, animal death, bruises/physical signs of abuse, some gore. 💫

the flowers of evil, shuzo oshimi: middle schooler kasuga is an incredibly average boy living in a small town in the mountains. he has no interest besides literature, especially baudelaire's the flowers of evil. but when kasuga takes home his crush's gym clothes on an impulse and is witnessed by the enigmatic nakamura, his life turns upside down. nakamura forces him into a contract: she won't tell anyone that he stole the gym clothes, and kasuga must humor her strange wishes. one of my favorite manga of all time, i cried for days after finishing it. will always have a place in my heart. CWs: suicide, sa/rape.

homunculus, yamamoto hideo: scarce on money, nakoshi agrees to get a hole drilled into his head by a strange young doctor. once the hole is drilled, nakoshi has the ability to see homunculi: manifestations of peoples' worst qualities, guilts, fears, traumas, and 'true selves.' addicting!! it's 166 chapters but i finished it in less than a week. while none of the characters are particularly good people, it's an amazing story. CWs: rape (!! rape scene), self harm, gore, body horror, body dysmorphia, transphobia/misgendering & f slur and t slur used against a characer 💫

bokurano, kitou mohiro: 15 kids on summer break take part in a video game piloting a giant robot against a swarm of alien invaders. but they soon realize that there may be a dark truth to their mission. SO GOOD!! i highly recommend, the story is absolutely amazing, very quick paced, will make you cry. CWs: rape, abuse, many forms of (sometimes brutal) deaths, terminal disease in minor character, suicide (i think but i forget), self harm. 💫

blood on the tracks, shuzo oshimi: seiichi and his mother are very close. oddly so. there is definitely something wrong with his mother. (that is the whole plot.) beautifully drawn, excruciating, and fills you with psychological dread! CWs: HEAVY psychological abuse/manipulation, mental breakdowns are depicted, self harm. (i am not completely caught up with this, it's very good but not for the light of heart. i could be missing some content warnings.)

goodbye eri, tatsuki fujimoto: a one shot about a boy named yuta who makes a movie using footage he shot when his mother was dying, and shows it a school fair. after bad reception, he attempts to kill himself but is interrupted by a strange girl who claims she loved his movie. beautiful art, amazing story, stunning and wonderful!!! CWs: suicide, terminal illness.

my broken mariko, hirako waka: after her best friend mariko's suicide, tomyo steals her ashes and sets off on one final journey. CWs: suicide, self harm, child abuse.

pietà, haruno naenae: sohoko is the one bright spot in her girlfriend rio's life. tied together by a tragic past, can the two of them find the will to live in one another? heartbreaking, hopeful, and a really nice beautiful story. CWs: suicide, self harm, neglect.

nijigahara holograph, inio asano: told in achronological order between many points of views, in both the present and the past, is the story of a girl pushed into a well by her classmates and abandoned by her teacher. very hard to understand, this manga will take at least one reread and a video essay. but once you understand it, it's great!! so beautifully written and drawn. CWs: rape/sa, suicide, bullying 💫

helter skelter fashion unfriendly, okazaki kyouko: an examination of east asia's extremely high beauty standards, and the expiration date placed on women told through the desperate supermodel liliko. CWs: body dysmorphia, eating disorder (don't remember if it's explicitly stated but lots of themes/implications) 💫

suicide circle, furuya usamaru: kyoko watches in fear as her best friend saya joins a 'suicide club' that's planning on doing a group suicide after watching another 'club.' kyoko starts on an investigation concerning the tragic history of these suicide clubs. CWs: suicide, self harm, sa, HEAVY gore. 💫 (<- ish)

a school frozen in time, arawaka naoshi: 8 students find themselves trapped inside a school where time has seemed to stop. they are then forced to relive the day their classmate committed suicide by jumping off the school's roof... but the problem is they can't seem to remember who it was, or if it was one of them. depicts the incredible amount of stress placed on the students and the guilt that comes from being helpless. CWs: suicide, self harm.

let me know if you need links to read any of these!

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blood on the tracks feels like a nuanced expansion of the second half of aku no hana. "what the hell happened to nakamura in the end? why was she so passive like that?" because she wasn't able to crest the hill of her town and come out transformed on the other side. she gave up and was consumed by the selfsame world she resented. the failed suicide attempt can be interpreted as ego death, in a sense, as it resulted in the extinction of her more rebellious personality and her sublimation into normalcy. aku no hana initially conveys that 'the other side' doesn't really exist, and that people are the same wherever you go; but the way that seiichi's mother describes 'the other side' in the recent blood on the tracks chapters seems to provide a different perspective on the matter. there was an 'other side' - a place where she could go. she found it. it was in her reach, but she was too fargone in her own submissive alienation at that point in her life to embrace the change necessary to cross over, resulting in the same resignation as nakamura. the ending of aku no hana is generally regarded as happy as it depicts nakamura's flower of evil withering before her, but is what's being snuffed out the source of her adolescent anguish, or her desire for change?

[heyhellohihowareyou]

An Assclass Masterlist I Guess

Character headcanons

Karma Akabane

Yuuma Isogai + X Y/N HCs

Taiga Okajima

Hinata Okano

Manami Okuda

Megu Kataoka + Pride HC

Kaede Kayano

Yukiko Kanzaki

Justice/Masayoshi Kimura

Hinano Kurahashi

Nagisa Shiota + Pride HCs

Sosuke Sugaya

Tomohito Sugino

Kotaro Takebayashi

Ryuunosuke Chiba

Ryoma Terasaka

Rio Nakamura

Kirara Hazama

Rinka Hayami

Sumire Hara

Yuzuki Fuwa

Hiroto Maehara , Maehara the math wiz

Koki Mimura

Takuya Muramatsu

Touka Yada

Taisei Yoshida

Ritsu

Itona Horibe

Others:

Kaho Tsuchiya , Kaho in 3-E

Asano Gakushuu

Sibling/Parent Headcanons

Haruko + Himeko Maehara

Yume + Yuki Isogai and Ayame Isogai

Hayato + Toshiro Okano

Akito Sugino

Yoroko Sugaya

Seiichi Kataoka

Yuzuru Kanzaki

Reiji Fuwa

Makoto Yada

Amai Terasaka

Tadamichi Muramatsu

Daiki + Daisuke Hara

Friendship Headcanons

The Katana Klan

Kataoka and Maehara

Okano and Isogai

Maehara and Kurahashi

Sugino and the Katana Klan

Chiba and Kanzaki

Kataoka, Okano, Isogai, and Maehara

Group 3

Terasaka’s Gang

Maehara and Nagisa

Chiba and Maehara

Ship Headcanons

Sugikano

Asakanza/Gakuyuki

Maeiso Part 2

Ritsuwa

Kurazama

Gakuren

Yadamegu

Murayoshi

Kaenami

My Writing

Decisions: Part 1 Part 2 Part 3

Killing Game Time!: Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4

Mittens (Maeiso Oneshot)

New Years Kiss (Gakuren Oneshot)

A Friendship That’ll Last Forever (MaeIso Week 2022)

Smitten (MaeIso Week 2022)

Cause You’re Really My Dearest Friend (MaeIso Week 2022)

Bittersweet (MaeIso Week 2022)

Fairytales (MaeIso Week 2022)

🎃Halloween Time🎃

Go On, Protagonist

Big Brother Maehara

Birthday Blues

I Wanna Kiss Your Lips (MaeIso Week 2023

Other Stuff I Did

Maehara’s failed flirting attempts

My AssClass favs

Reasons why Leader Time! Is such an amazing episode

The girls ranking list

If class 3-E had ultimate talents

Why Spinning Time! is comedy gold and just great in general (part 1) And Part 2

Why I think Discord Time! is a fantastic episode

My top five favorite class 3-E boys

My top five favorite class 3-E girls

Why Vision Time! Is So Great

Why Closing Time: First Semester is phenomenal

3-E’s siblings reaction to the Koro-sensei aftermath

Why Let Live Time! sure is an episode

Why Cheer Up Time! was just lovely part 1 and part 2

Reminder that I’m always up for receiving asks and suggestions ☺️