#tokyo reveners series

[justforbooks]

The musician Ryuichi Sakamoto, who has died aged 71 of cancer, spent his life as a restless traveller, both personally and musically. “I was born in Japan but I don’t think I’m Japanese,” he said in 1988, two years before he moved to New York. “To be a stranger – I like that attitude. I don’t like nationalities and borders.”

A founder member of Tokyo’s pioneering computer-pop trio Yellow Magic Orchestra, whose work between 1978 and 1984 has proved a lasting influence on hip-hop and electronica, Sakamoto was able to combine his skills as an academically trained musician with an aptitude for electronic music and an ear for countless musical styles. He sustained a lengthy partnership with the British musician David Sylvian after first working with his band Japan on the track Taking Islands in Africa from the album Gentlemen Take Polaroids (1980), following which the duo collaborated on the double A-side Bamboo Houses/Bamboo Music (1982).

In 1983, Sakamoto achieved a peak of commercial visibility by not only writing the soundtrack for Nagisa Oshima’s film Merry Christmas, Mr Lawrence, but also co-starring in it (as Captain Yonoi) with David Bowie. The soundtrack, which won him a Bafta for best film music, contained the Sakamoto/Sylvian composition Forbidden Colours, a vocal version of the film’s main theme, which was a Top 20 hit in Britain.

Soundtrack work became one of the main planks of Sakamoto’s career. He won an Academy Award (along with his fellow composers David Byrne and Cong Su) for his soundtrack to Bernardo Bertolucci’s The Last Emperor (1987), in which he also had an acting role, and worked with the director again on The Sheltering Sky (1990) and Little Buddha (1993).

Sakamoto scored the 1990 film version of The Handmaid’s Tale, Pedro Almodóvar’s Tacones Lejanos (High Heels, 1991), and Brian De Palma’s Snake Eyes (1998) and Femme Fatale (2002). Oliver Stone hired him for the soundtrack to his TV series Wild Palms (1993). Alejandro González Iñárritu used some existing Sakamoto recordings in his 2006 film Babel, then recruited him to write the score for his multiple Oscar-winner The Revenant (2015). For the opening of the 1992 Barcelona Olympics he provided El Mar Mediterrani.

Sakamoto released solo albums regularly between 1978 and 2017, many of them reaching the Top 30 in Japan but not registering on charts elsewhere, as well as six live albums and a string of compilations. However, Sakamoto’s subtle, exploratory music earned him a charismatic reputation that drew international guest stars to his projects.

On B-2 Unit (1980), he collaborated closely with Andy Partridge from XTC, and the electrofunk track Riot in Lagos proved inspirational for the likes of Mantronix and Afrikaa Bambaataa. Thomas Dolby featured on the pulsating Field Work from Illustrated Musical Encyclopedia (1986), the track accompanied by an ingeniously conceived video, while for Neo Geo (1987) Sakamoto enlisted Iggy Pop, Bill Laswell, Bootsy Collins and Sly Dunbar.

Brian Wilson and Robbie Robertson appeared on Beauty (1989), an album that spanned rock, technopop, flamenco and classical Japanese music. Heartbeat (1991), on which Sakamoto tried rap, funk and jazz, and lyrics in French, Japanese and Russian, numbered Youssou N’Dour, Arto Lindsay, Bill Frisell, Sylvian and John Cage among its contributors. In 1993, Sakamoto co-produced Aztec Camera’s album Dreamland.

Born in Tokyo, Ryuichi was the only child of Keiko (nee Shimomura), a hat designer, and Kazuki Sakomoto, a literary editor. While attending the same progressive primary school that once taught Yoko Ono, he was already writing music for the piano with their encouragement.

The American presence in postwar Japan introduced new western influences to the country, and Sakamoto was enraptured by the Beatles and the Rolling Stones. He attended Tokyo’s University of the Arts to study music composition, and felt a strong affinity for the compositions of Claude Debussy, in which he discerned an Asian influence. However, in addition he soaked up the work of contemporary composers such as Cage, Pierre Boulez, Györgi Ligeti and Stockhausen, as well as jazz musicians including John Coltrane and Ornette Coleman.

His early compositions were in an avant-garde vein, while he also performed with free jazz bands and played keyboards with the folk singer Masato Tomobe. He graduated with BA and MA degrees, having studied classical and assorted world and ethnic music, and taken his first steps in electronic music by working with Moog and ARP synthesizers.

He formed Yellow Magic Orchestra in 1978 with Haruomi “Harry” Hosono and Yukihiro Takahashi, whom he had met when they worked together as session musicians. Combining electropop with stylish graphics and costume design, the trio brought wit and warmth to the use of electronics, which contrasted with the studied alienation of European counterparts such as Kraftwerk or Gary Numan.

YMO released eight studio albums during their original lifespan, all of them climbing high in the Japanese charts, and three of them reaching No 1. The group inspired Beatlemania-like hysteria in their homeland. “We were very big, that’s why I hated it,” Sakamoto said. “We were always followed by paparazzi.”

YMO’s albums made little chart impact outside Japan, but their influence was nonetheless widely felt, not least in their innovative use of electronic sequencers, drum machines and sampling. Firecracker, from their 1978 debut album, was itself sampled in Afrika Bambaataa’s Death Mix. In 1980 they had a Top 20 hit in the UK with Computer Game (Theme from the Invaders), which chimed with the craze for the Space Invaders game. Behind the Mask, first conceived for a Seiko wristwatch commercial and then included on their album Solid State Survivor (1979), became a Top 20 UK hit for Eric Clapton; a version by Michael Jackson appeared on the posthumous album Michael (2010).

YMO paused their activities in 1984, though the trio continued to collaborate on each other’s solo work, and they reformed to make the album Technodon (1993). They subsequently reunited several times for recording and live performances, their last shows being for the No Nukes 2012 festival in Chiba, Japan, and the 2012 World Happiness festival in Tokyo.

In his teens in the late 1960s, Sakamoto had been a hippy with leftwing political beliefs – “not 100% Marxist, but kind of” – but he gradually became disillusioned with the failure of political movements to effect significant change. He decided that his music was not the place for social or political messages, observing that “I’ve changed from an avant-garde person to a pop person,” though he would subsequently support causes he felt strongly about.

He campaigned for changes to music copyright law, which he considered outmoded in the internet era, and founded Commmons, a collaborative platform to assist aspiring musicians. He formed a group of musicians called NML (No More Landmines), which featured Brian Eno, Sylvian, Kraftwerk and the other members of YMO, and in 2001 they released the single Zero Landmine.

In 2006 he launched the Stop Rokkasho movement by releasing the track Rokkasho (by a group of musicians dubbed Team 6), in protest at the building of Japan’s Rokkasho nuclear fuel reprocessing plant, and he campaigned to have the Hamaoka nuclear plant shut down to avoid a repeat of the 2011 tsunami disaster at the Fukushima facility. He and Byrne teamed up to record the single Psychedelic Afternoon to aid tsunami survivors.

His solo work continued to explore a huge variety of styles. In 1982 he had ventured into medieval and Renaissance music on the album The End of Asia, a collaboration with the Japanese early music group Danceries. Smoochy (1995) was a detour into easy listening, while Discord (1998) comprised an hour-long orchestral composition.

The album 1996 was a selection of Sakamoto pieces arranged for piano trio featuring the Brazilian cellist Jaques Morelenbaum, and Sakomoto reunited with him and his wife, Paula, a singer, for two albums in celebration of the bossa nova composer Antônio Carlos Jobim, Casa (2001) and A Day in New York (2003). In 1999, his multimedia opera, Life, was performed in Tokyo and Osaka.

Meanwhile, he struck up a fruitful collaboration with Alva Noto (a pseudonym of Carston Nicolai), which resulted in a string of electronica albums including Vrioon (2002) and Insen (2005), culminating in Glass (2018). With the Austrian guitarist and composer Christian Fennesz he recorded Sala Santa Cecilia (2005), Cendre (2007) and Flumina (2011).

In 2014 he was diagnosed with throat cancer, but by the following year was feeling “much much better”. His recovery from illness inspired the creation of his last solo album, Async, hailed as one of 2017’s finest forays into experimental electronica. Its making was documented by Stephen Nomura Schible in the film Coda (2018).

His final album, 12, was recorded during hospital stays in 2021 and 2022, and released in January. In December, he livestreamed a solo piano concert from Tokyo.

Sakamoto was first married to Natsuko, then to the musician Akiko Yano; both marriages ended in divorce. He is survived by his third wife and manager, Norika Sora, and their two children; and a daughter from his first marriage and another daughter from his second.

🔔 Ryuichi Sakamoto, composer, musician and producer, born 17 January 1952; died 28 March 2023

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[nerendus]

Okay, under the button since it's like almost two hundred movies, but I want to start making some progress on watching these films, but despite it being two hundred, my brain says that it is still a small list, so I am once again looking for more movie recs. 🙇

1. Requiem for a Dream

2. Pacific Rim

3. War Games

4. Sharp Objects (2018) dir. Jean-Marc Vallée

5. Les soeurs Brontë (1979)  

6. Crimes of the Future

7. Videodrome

8. Jackass

9. Novitiate (2017)

10. The Sons of Katie Elder

11. El Dorado

12. Raw Deal

13. The Running Man (arnold)

14. The Mist

15. Black Mountain Side

16. In The Mouth of Madness

17. The Fifth Element

18. The Many Saints of Newark (will watch show first)

19. James Bond series

20. Resident Evil (seven thousandth watch)

21. The Boy and the Heron

22. Moulin Rouge

23. Bill and Ted (second watch)

24. The Day The Earth Stood Still

25. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 

26. Jurassic Park (second watch)

27. Robocop

28. The Perks of Being a Wallflower

29. The Boondock Saints

30. Legally Blonde (second watch)

31. The Fog (second watch)

32. Llamageddon 

33. Hellraiser

34. Candyman

35. Shaun of The Dead (second watch)

36. Scarface

37. The Shawshank Redemption

38. Ghost in The Shell

39. No Country for Old Men

40. Kill Bill series

41. The Wolf of Wall Street

42. Watchmen

43. Lone Wolf and Cub series

44. Last Night in Soho

45. Throne of Blood

46. Fargo

47. Hereditary

48. David Lynch:: The Art Life

49. Wayne's World series

50. I Am Legend (second watch)

51. Grease 

52. Good Will Hunting

53. The VVitch

54. Leatherface

55. Fantastic Planet

56. Blue Velvet

57. Pulp Fiction (second watch)

58. Twister (second watch)

59. Donnie Darko (second watch)

60. Tales from Earthsea

61. The Secret World of Arrietty

62. Late Spring (1949)

63. From Up on Poppy Hill

64. Rashomon

65. Intermezzo

66. Casablanca

67. When Marnie Was There

68. The Wind Rises

69. The Tale of Princess Kaguya

70. I Married a Witch

71. David Bowie: The Last Five Years

72. Vampyr

73. Kill Boksoon

74. Glass Onion series

75. The Wonder (2022)

76. Hook (1991) (second watch)

77. Time Trap

78. The Yin Yang Master

79. Hold The Dark

80. All Quiet on the Western Front

81. The Cloverfield Paradox

82. Reservoir Dogs

83. Spider-man (2002)

84. The Karate Kid series

85. Unknown Cosmic Time Machine

86. The Good Nurse (2022)

87. What Did Jack Do?

88. Banyuki

89. Amina (2021)

90. The Colony (2021)

91. Cities of Last Things

92. The Metamorphosis of Birds

93. The Mirror (andrei)

94. Andrei Rublev

95. Nostalgia (andrei)

96. The Sacrifice (andrei)

97. Ivan's Childhood (andrei)

98. The Steamroller and Violin (andrei)

99. Sunset Blvd (1950)

100. Ikiru (1952)

101. Seven Samurai (1954)

102. Citizen Kane

103. Dr. Strangelove

104. La La Land (2016)

105. Noriko's Dinner Table

106. The Godfather

107. Once Upon a Time in Hollywood

108. The Good The Bad The Ugly

109. Mad Max Fury Road

110. Goodfellas

111. Indiana Jones series

112. Fight Club

113. Galaxy Quest

114. Dunkirk

115. Groundhog Day

116. Star Trek movies

117. Full Metal Jacket

118. Pink Floyd: The Wall

119. Naked Lunch

120. The Iron Giant

121. Chinatown (1974)

122. Minority Report

123. Velvet Goldmine

124. Dogma

125. To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newma

126. The Prestige

127. Annie Hall

128. Taxi Driver

129. Dead Poets Society

130. The Matrix

131. The Green Mile

132. Django Unchained

133. Your Name

134. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

135. Inland Empire

136. The Elephant Man

137. Lost Highway

138. Woman in the Dunes

139. Meshes of an Afternoon

140. Tokyo  Decadence 

141. Limbo (1999)

142. Maps to the Stars

143. The Machinist

144. Under the Silver Lake

145. The Northman

146. Kingdom of Heaven

147. The Grand Budapest Hotel

148. The Revenant (alejandro)

149. A Clockwork Orange

150. Incendies

151. Apocalypse Now

152. Knight of Cups

153. Once Upon a Time in America

154. Valhalla Rising

155. Inception

156. Interview with a Vampire

157. But I'm a Cheerleader

158. Angels in America

159. Pan's Labyrinth 

160. Clue

161. Asteroid City

162. Anastasia

163. Jo jo rabbit

164. Fantastic Mr. Fox

165. Rambo

166. Mission Impossible 

167. Suspiria

168. Jarhead

169. Macbeth

170. Mishima: A Life In Four Chapters 

171. Visions of Ecstasy

172. The Handmaiden (2016)

173. The Fly (cronenberg)

174. Dead Ringers

175. Tenet

176. Sicario

177. Vanishing on 7th Street

178. Invasion of the Body Snatchers

179. Gladiator

180. Once Upon a Time in the West

181. Children of the Corn

182. The Revenant 2016

183. Transformers series

184. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance

185. Gaslight (1944)

186. The Road

187. Vesper

188. The Hills Have Eyes

189. Tentacles

190. Die Hard series 

191. Freddy Got Fingered

192. The Day After Tomorrow 

193. The Song of the Scarlet Flower (Teuvo Tulio, 1938)

194. Jane Eyre

195. Northanger Abbey (2007) 

196. Lady Chatterley`s Lover (2015)

197. LA COLLECTIONNEUSE (1967) dir. Éric Rohmer

198. The Lion In Winter

[kellshaw]

Thoughts on writing a puzzle mystery novel

I love puzzle mystery stories. Some examples: Agatha Christie's 'And Then There Were None' (the original SAW movie!), and a lot of Japanese mystery fiction such as The Tokyo Zodiac Murders by Soji Shimada, The Decagon House Murders by Yukito Ayatsuji. And a lot of visual novels like Dangan Ronpa, Zero Escape and Somnium Files.

(Let me know if you have any good recs.)

Anyway, my second novel is out for beta reading. It's like waiting for a friend to recover from their coma.

Rather than twiddling my thumbs, I'm working on my third book, and while the first two I'd call urban fantasy thrillers, the third is going to be a puzzle mystery. My approach to this after the cut:

My first two books were written by writing something, revising it, revising it again until I gradually moulded in the story into a shape like clay. I didn't plan or outline to start with. I had a vague idea of the themes, an understanding of the characters and a bunch of stuff about the world. It was like a textual Pinterest board of stuff.

My goal for book three is to dig into Lukie and Tamlyn's friendship. Once high school friends; now there's a twenty-year age gap between them since Lukie returned from the dead as an undead, soul-eating revenant. Tamlyn's been forced into the role of Lukie's guardian—she can only feed at his command. And Tamlyn's got lots of personal issues to deal with that haven't surfaced yet in the previous two books. His best friends were murdered in high school, and during his police career, he's repressed a lot of his emotions and personal stuff. So it's about applying pressure on the pair and see how their friendship endures and survives (or will it? Books can change dramatically through the writing process).

And this will be done through the backdrop of a complex mystery, with the pair staying at a haunted hotel. So the theme of friendship, ex-friendships and how much can a friendship bear will be featured heavily.

How do I plan to do this?

Everyone at the hotel is in a pair. Friends or married couples, of different ages and orientations. These relationships are pressured in someway when the plot event starts.

I will separate Lukie and Tamlyn. There's a time facture at the hotel. Tamlyn's stuck at one end, and Lukie's in the other. The two timelines are connected like in Looper—a change in the past end will influence the future end. Tamlyn's solving a murder mystery in the past, while Lukie is dealing with a ghost haunting the hotel in the future and the two time lines are connected.

How will I organise these not one, but two interconnected mysteries?

I realised early on (after writing 30k words) that I will need to, gasp, write an outline.

I'm currently working on Tamlyn's end of the story. He's stuck in the past, and stuck with five couples in the hotel, which they can't leave. There's a murderer on the loose. Each couple has a series of secrets.

This is where years of running mystery tabletop roleplaying games helps. Following on from the Alexandrian's articles on 'Revelation Lists', I've worked out a series of secrets for each couple. Then I made a list of steps for how the detective character will uncover the clue.

Overly dramatic example for a demonstration: (not actually from the book!)

Robert and Martha Smith, a mysterious married couple.

Dramatic Secrets: Robert and Martha pretend outwardly to be a happily married couple. The truth is more sinister. The couple have murdered the real Martha, and the 'new Martha' is Robert's girlfriend, and is using Martha's identity. ['new Martha' needs to use old Martha's identity papers as she's a foreign spy on the run, in trouble.]

The Detective notices at breakfast in the hotel that Martha doesn't know a simple fact about the jam Robert likes, which implies their relationship is new (and yet their paperwork/documentation says they've been married for twenty years).

Martha also is missing some cultural information that her persona should know. (I read somewhere about Russian infiltrators into the US in the 1960s may have had perfect English, but didn't know pop culture stuff like Mickey Mouse.) Perhaps another guest at the hotel is obsessed by a TV show that someone of Martha's age should know about, and yet she's a bit vague when pressed. The other guest is puzzled that she doesn't know these pop culture facts.

Some shocking event causes Martha to act like an intelligence professional (perhaps the sound of a gunshot makes her duck and roll?) rather than a scared businesswoman.

The Detective pulls on the circumstantial information about Martha together and realizes she's the foreign spy that another character spoke about.

The details will get fleshed out with further outlining/writing. Anyway, once I get a list of five revelation lists for each core clue in the book, then I order them like so

Chapter 3

Couple A, Revelation 1, Clue 1

Couple B, Revelation 2, Clue 2

Then I structure the chapters around that, adding pacing and characterisation as we go through. One problem I have with large-cast mystery novels is I often lose track of the characters if they're not distinct enough, so I'm trying to each character a name that sounds different and a quirk so the reader won't go "Quinn? Who's Quinn again?"

And that's my current approach for writing a mystery. I will let you know how it progresses.

Let me know if you have any good tips.

[brookston]

Holidays 1.6

Holidays

Apple Tree Day

Armed Forces Day (Iraq)

Blessing of the Waters (Greece, Turkey)

Carnival season begins (until Shrove Tuesday)

Children’s Day (Uruguay)

Cuddle Up Day

Daruma Ichi (Takasaki City, Japan)

Dezome-shiki (Tokyo, Japan)

Flying V Day

Four Freedoms Day

Full Moon [1st of the Year] (a.k.a. ... 

Buck Moon (Southern Hemisphere)

Cold Moon (Cherokee)

Cooking Moon (Choctaw)

Duruthu Full Moon Poya Day (Sri Lanka)

Frost Exploding Moon (Traditional)

Hay Moon (Southern Hemisphere)

Holiday Moon (Chinese)

Ice Moon (Neo-Pagan)

Mead Moon (Southern Hemisphere)

Old Moon (North American)

Quiet Moon (Celtic)

Severe Moon (Traditional)

Thunder Moon (South African)

Winter Moon (Colonial American)

Wolf Moon (English, Native American, Traditional, Wiccan)

Greek Cross Day

Haxey Hood (Traditional Old English race, pushing a leather tub to a local pub)

Hornschlittenrennen (Horn Runners Race; Germany)

I Am A Mentor Day

International Jewish and Proud Day

Insurrection USA Day

Kayin New Year (Myanmar)

Maroon Festival (Jamaica)

Missionary Childhood Day

National Samantha Day

National Smith Day

National Standard Poodle Day

National Take Down the Christmas Tree Day

National Technology Day

Parents and Parents-in-Law Day (India)

Pathet Lao Day (Laos)

Phi Day

Schoolhouse Rock Day

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell Day (Abeldane Empire)

Sherlock Holmes Day [also 5.22]

Shorinzan Daruma-Ichi (Shorinzan, Japan)

Surb Tsnund (Armenian Christmas)

Swap Day

Take a Poet to Lunch Day

Wassailing the Apple Trees (UK)

Wheel of Fortune Day

World Day for War Orphans

Food & Drink Celebrations

Bean Day (New Orleans)

Dry Bean Day

King Cake Day

King of the Bean (a.k.a. Bean Day)

National Shortbread Day

1st Friday in January

Gals Night Out [1st Friday]

Thermopolis Day (Wyoming) [1st Friday]

Independence Days

New Mexico Statehood Day (#47; 1912)

Feast Days

André Bessette (Roman Catholic Church)

British Comedy Quotes Day (Pastafarian)

Christmas (Original Date) (a.k.a. ...

Christmas (Armenian Apostolic Church, Amish)

Coptic Christmas (Egypt)

Little Christmas (Ireland)

Old Christmas

Sure Tsnund (Armenia)

Christmas Eve (Bosnia and Herzegovina, North Macedonia, Russia, Ukraine)

Epiphany (a.k.a. ...

Befana Day (Italy)

Epiphic (The Season of Bad Noise, Devoted to the Indefinable; Church of the SubGenius)

Little Christmas

Nollaig na mBan (Ireland)

Þrettándinn (Iceland)

Race of the Three Kings (San Pablo, Peru)

Theophany (Eastern Christian Church)

Three King's Day (Florida, US Virgin Islands)

Three Wise Men Day

Trettondagen (Sweden)

Tursi (Slavic pagan fertility rite of Jar-tur, the bull) 

Twelfth Day (a.k.a. Twelfthtide)

Twelve Holy Days #12 (Pisces, the feet; Esoteric Christianity)

Extra Cuddles Day (Pastafarian)

Haley Hood (England)

Pinky (Muppetism)

Romulus (Positivist; Saint)

Taos Pueblo Deer or Buffalo Dance (Native American)

William McGonagall Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Tomobiki (友引 Japan) [Good luck all day, except at noon.]

Tycho Brahe Unlucky Day (Scandinavia) [4 of 37]

Uncyclopedia Bad to Be Born Day (because Christmas decorations come down this day. It's a sad day for all.)

Unfortunate Day (Pagan) [3 of 57]

Unglückstage (Unlucky Day; Pennsylvania Dutch) [5 of 30]

Premieres

The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad (Animated Disney Film; 1950)

Agent Carter (TV Series; 2015)

Come Fly with Me, by Frank Sinatra (Album; 1958)

Don Quixote de la Mancha (Novel; 1605)

Frampton Comes Alive!, by Peter Frampton (Live Album; 1976)

Inspector Morse (UK TV Series; 1987)

Little Earthquakes, by Tori Amos (Album; 1992)

Pluto’s Heart Throb (Disney Cartoon; 1950)

The Revenant (Film; 2015)

Schoolhouse Rock (Animated TV Series; 1973)

Shape of You, by Ed Sheehan (Song; 2017)

Wheel of Fortune (TV Game Show; 1975)

Today’s Name Days

Erminold (Austria)

Bogdan, Bogdana, Bogomil, Bogomila, Iordan, Iordanka, Teodosii, Yordan, Yordanka (Bulgaria)

Baltazar, Gašpar, Melkior (Croatia)

Tri králové (Czech Republic)

Aabel, Aabi, Aabo, Aap, Aapo (Estonia)

Harri (Finland)

Balthazar, Gaspard, Mélaine, Melchior, Tiffany (France)

Raimund (Germany)

Fani, Fotika, Fotine, Fotini, Fotis, Jordan, Ourania, Peristera, Photini, Photis, Theofania, Theofanis, Theopoula (Greece)

Boldizsár (Hungary)

Baldassarre Gaspare, Melchiorre Raffaello, Rafaelo (Italy)

Arnita, Spulga (Latvia)

Arūnas, Arūnė, Baltazaras, Kasparas, Merkelis (Lithuania)

Åslaug, Aslaug (Norway)

Andrzej, Balcer, Baltazar, Bolemir, Epifania, Kacper, Kasper, Melchior (Poland)

Evgenia, Klavdia (Russia)

Antónia (Slovakia)

Baltasar, Epifanía, Gaspar, Melchor (Spain)

Baltsar, Kasper, Melker (Sweden)

Cheyanne, Cheyenne, Howell, Hoyle, Kahlil, Khalil, Melchior, Rowan, Talullah, Tiffani, Tiffanie, Tiffany (USA)

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 6 of 2023; 359 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 5 of week 52 of 2023

Celtic Tree Calendar: Beth (Birch) [Day 13 of 28]

Chinese: Month 12 (Dōngyuè), Day 15 (Jia-Zi)

Chinese Year of the: Tiger (until January 22, 2023)

Hebrew: 13 Teveth 5783

Islamic: 13 Jumada II 1444

J Cal: 6 Aer; Sixday [6 of 30]

Julian: 24 December 2022

Moon: 100%: Full Moon

Positivist: 6 Moses (1st Month) [Romulus]

Runic Half Month: Eihwaz (Yew) [Day 13 of 15]

Season: Winter (Day 17 of 90)

Zodiac: Capricorn (Day 16 of 30)

[brookstonalmanac]

Holidays 1.6

Holidays

Apple Tree Day

Armed Forces Day (Iraq)

Blessing of the Waters (Greece, Turkey)

Carnival season begins (until Shrove Tuesday)

Children’s Day (Uruguay)

Cuddle Up Day

Daruma Ichi (Takasaki City, Japan)

Dezome-shiki (Tokyo, Japan)

Flying V Day

Four Freedoms Day

Full Moon [1st of the Year] (a.k.a. ... 

Buck Moon (Southern Hemisphere)

Cold Moon (Cherokee)

Cooking Moon (Choctaw)

Duruthu Full Moon Poya Day (Sri Lanka)

Frost Exploding Moon (Traditional)

Hay Moon (Southern Hemisphere)

Holiday Moon (Chinese)

Ice Moon (Neo-Pagan)

Mead Moon (Southern Hemisphere)

Old Moon (North American)

Quiet Moon (Celtic)

Severe Moon (Traditional)

Thunder Moon (South African)

Winter Moon (Colonial American)

Wolf Moon (English, Native American, Traditional, Wiccan)

Greek Cross Day

Haxey Hood (Traditional Old English race, pushing a leather tub to a local pub)

Hornschlittenrennen (Horn Runners Race; Germany)

I Am A Mentor Day

International Jewish and Proud Day

Insurrection USA Day

Kayin New Year (Myanmar)

Maroon Festival (Jamaica)

Missionary Childhood Day

National Samantha Day

National Smith Day

National Standard Poodle Day

National Take Down the Christmas Tree Day

National Technology Day

Parents and Parents-in-Law Day (India)

Pathet Lao Day (Laos)

Phi Day

Schoolhouse Rock Day

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell Day (Abeldane Empire)

Sherlock Holmes Day [also 5.22]

Shorinzan Daruma-Ichi (Shorinzan, Japan)

Surb Tsnund (Armenian Christmas)

Swap Day

Take a Poet to Lunch Day

Wassailing the Apple Trees (UK)

Wheel of Fortune Day

World Day for War Orphans

Food & Drink Celebrations

Bean Day (New Orleans)

Dry Bean Day

King Cake Day

King of the Bean (a.k.a. Bean Day)

National Shortbread Day

1st Friday in January

Gals Night Out [1st Friday]

Thermopolis Day (Wyoming) [1st Friday]

Independence Days

New Mexico Statehood Day (#47; 1912)

Feast Days

André Bessette (Roman Catholic Church)

British Comedy Quotes Day (Pastafarian)

Christmas (Original Date) (a.k.a. ...

Christmas (Armenian Apostolic Church, Amish)

Coptic Christmas (Egypt)

Little Christmas (Ireland)

Old Christmas

Sure Tsnund (Armenia)

Christmas Eve (Bosnia and Herzegovina, North Macedonia, Russia, Ukraine)

Epiphany (a.k.a. ...

Befana Day (Italy)

Epiphic (The Season of Bad Noise, Devoted to the Indefinable; Church of the SubGenius)

Little Christmas

Nollaig na mBan (Ireland)

Þrettándinn (Iceland)

Race of the Three Kings (San Pablo, Peru)

Theophany (Eastern Christian Church)

Three King's Day (Florida, US Virgin Islands)

Three Wise Men Day

Trettondagen (Sweden)

Tursi (Slavic pagan fertility rite of Jar-tur, the bull) 

Twelfth Day (a.k.a. Twelfthtide)

Twelve Holy Days #12 (Pisces, the feet; Esoteric Christianity)

Extra Cuddles Day (Pastafarian)

Haley Hood (England)

Pinky (Muppetism)

Romulus (Positivist; Saint)

Taos Pueblo Deer or Buffalo Dance (Native American)

William McGonagall Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Tomobiki (友引 Japan) [Good luck all day, except at noon.]

Tycho Brahe Unlucky Day (Scandinavia) [4 of 37]

Uncyclopedia Bad to Be Born Day (because Christmas decorations come down this day. It's a sad day for all.)

Unfortunate Day (Pagan) [3 of 57]

Unglückstage (Unlucky Day; Pennsylvania Dutch) [5 of 30]

Premieres

The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad (Animated Disney Film; 1950)

Agent Carter (TV Series; 2015)

Come Fly with Me, by Frank Sinatra (Album; 1958)

Don Quixote de la Mancha (Novel; 1605)

Frampton Comes Alive!, by Peter Frampton (Live Album; 1976)

Inspector Morse (UK TV Series; 1987)

Little Earthquakes, by Tori Amos (Album; 1992)

Pluto’s Heart Throb (Disney Cartoon; 1950)

The Revenant (Film; 2015)

Schoolhouse Rock (Animated TV Series; 1973)

Shape of You, by Ed Sheehan (Song; 2017)

Wheel of Fortune (TV Game Show; 1975)

Today’s Name Days

Erminold (Austria)

Bogdan, Bogdana, Bogomil, Bogomila, Iordan, Iordanka, Teodosii, Yordan, Yordanka (Bulgaria)

Baltazar, Gašpar, Melkior (Croatia)

Tri králové (Czech Republic)

Aabel, Aabi, Aabo, Aap, Aapo (Estonia)

Harri (Finland)

Balthazar, Gaspard, Mélaine, Melchior, Tiffany (France)

Raimund (Germany)

Fani, Fotika, Fotine, Fotini, Fotis, Jordan, Ourania, Peristera, Photini, Photis, Theofania, Theofanis, Theopoula (Greece)

Boldizsár (Hungary)

Baldassarre Gaspare, Melchiorre Raffaello, Rafaelo (Italy)

Arnita, Spulga (Latvia)

Arūnas, Arūnė, Baltazaras, Kasparas, Merkelis (Lithuania)

Åslaug, Aslaug (Norway)

Andrzej, Balcer, Baltazar, Bolemir, Epifania, Kacper, Kasper, Melchior (Poland)

Evgenia, Klavdia (Russia)

Antónia (Slovakia)

Baltasar, Epifanía, Gaspar, Melchor (Spain)

Baltsar, Kasper, Melker (Sweden)

Cheyanne, Cheyenne, Howell, Hoyle, Kahlil, Khalil, Melchior, Rowan, Talullah, Tiffani, Tiffanie, Tiffany (USA)

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 6 of 2023; 359 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 5 of week 52 of 2023

Celtic Tree Calendar: Beth (Birch) [Day 13 of 28]

Chinese: Month 12 (Dōngyuè), Day 15 (Jia-Zi)

Chinese Year of the: Tiger (until January 22, 2023)

Hebrew: 13 Teveth 5783

Islamic: 13 Jumada II 1444

J Cal: 6 Aer; Sixday [6 of 30]

Julian: 24 December 2022

Moon: 100%: Full Moon

Positivist: 6 Moses (1st Month) [Romulus]

Runic Half Month: Eihwaz (Yew) [Day 13 of 15]

Season: Winter (Day 17 of 90)

Zodiac: Capricorn (Day 16 of 30)

[moved2usagiiboo]

Chapter 35

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Finally, Saturday. A dreadful day for you but an exciting one for the rest of those around you. Your brother spent all day in the bathroom, grooming himself to protection for his date. You unfortunately agreed to walking to his college to pick him up, considering it’s not that far away from your college— possibly a 15 minute walk.

Sanzu cheered, arms whipping in the air as he finally finished the last of his work. “Fucking finally! Now I can get wasted!” His cheer could be heard throughout the headquarters.

“Took him long enough.” Kokonoi smirked as he adjusted his sleeves.

“Surprised he actually got it done.” Kakucho grabs his car keys before tossing them to Rin, who catches them with an open hand on the side.

“Where’s Ran?” Kokonoi asks as he watched Rin glance down checking his phone for the time.

“Said he’d meet us there— Come on pothead! Let’s go!” Answering Kokonoi’s question before yelling at Sanzu who was still in his office.

“Hold on! I’m changing!” Sanzu yelled back while flipping him off— As if anyone would be able to see.

“You sure you don’t wanna come boss?” Kakucho cocked his eyebrow at the smaller male who was eating some snack Takeomi had brought. A muffled “no” was enough as he continued to munch away.

“Me and Mikey have a business meeting to attend, some well-off cocksucker wants a piece of Bonten. Offering a pretty penny too.” Takeomi elaborates on his boss’s decline.

“Run his pockets dry.” With a devious smirk Kokonoi’s eyes flicker at the sound of money.

“Of course.” The same smirk is returned by Takeomi. Rin and Kakucho can only shake their heads— Poor kid doesn’t even know what’s coming to him.

“Alrigjt let’s go!” Sanzu says as he made his way down to the main lobby. Dressed in an white button up shirt with crisp slacks and a gold belt as accent. Three of his buttons are loose, revealing just a sneak peak of his toned body. Three chains are around his neck and his ears are covered in piercings.

“Took your ass long enough.” A grumble from Rin before giving Sanzu a light side kick to his leg, only for it to be returned by a pinch to the side of his stomach.

“You guys are worse then children, let’s go!” Kokonoi snatched the keys from Rin, leaving the door before he could complain— he really wanted to drive.

“See ya later boss!” Sanzu waves with a closed eye smile, “Don’t die old man!” He said to his brother only to get flipped off— with love.

The rest of the men showed their respect by bowing to Takeomi and Mikey before leaving to their destination. The car ride was, chaotic to say the least— Rin and Sanzu fought for the front seat, which resulted in Rindou yanking Sanzu by his collar. Pulling him away from the front door before hopping in himself.

Like the petty man Sanzu is, he sat directly behind Rin— he was going to make his life a living hell. Kakucho was whining with a childish pout because Kokonoi refused to turn up the radio. While those two were going back and forth, Sanzu was yanking Rindou's hair, pulling his seat belt, and the final straw— Blew on his neck.

“I swear to fucking god Sanzu, I will shoot you!” Whipping his head back to glare at the childish man behind him.

“Eat shit chicken little.” Sticking his tongue out all smugly only ticked Rindou off. Quickly unbuckling his seat belt, he reached over the side of his seat— Arms extended wide as he aimed for Sanzu’s neck. A strain appeared on both of their foreheads, Sanzu leaning back on Kakucho— An innocent bystander, trying to dodge Rin’s attack. Legs flaring in the air as he cursed him with insults.

“GET THE FUCK OFF OF ME!”Kakucho yelled trying to push Sanzu off which only resulted in Sanzu leaning back more, if he went up then he’d surely find demise by Rin’s hands. Which were still trying to attack him.

“TELL MR. “THE SKY IS FALLING” TO FUCK OFF FIRST!” A quote directly from Chicken Little.

“FUCKING—” Rin couldn’t even get his insult out before Kokonoi harshly stomped on the breaks, the car stopping adrupyly. The sudden jerk of the car had Kakucho pushed against the car door with Sanzu laying on his stomach with his legs in the air. Rin didn’t fare any better as he was whipped back into his seat, his head hit against the door.

“Sit your asses down and shut up or I swear to whatever God you idiots believe in— I will turn this bitch around.” A stern voice reminiscent to a mother caused the boys to sit in their seat, backs straight, seatbelts on, and quiet.

“Fucking imbeciles.” He grumbled as he began to drive again. He couldn’t wait for this drive to be over.

“Okay! Y/n, I’m leaving now! I’ll call you later, alright?” Your brother yelled from downstairs.

“Alright! Don’t die loser!” You yelled back from the safety of your room, you heard the door slam close— He was extremely excited. He scored a date with his highschool crush, you were proud of him. Which, was weird to say, you both never had the best of relationships but you made it work. One thing you can thank Ran, ever since that terrible heartbreak you and your brother have been closer than ever. Almost like best friends— Speaking of best friends, you were pissed at Haru.

He has a life, yes, you knew that, but he promised. You really needed him and he was a no show, but you knew he had no control over life. You stared at your T.V. as you watched the News cover the recent explosion at the dock— It seemed so random yet planned out, obviously the senator had some enemies.

Well, now you were bored and Haru isn’t an option, your mother is getting waxed— Unfortunately, you know exactly why. Disgusting parents. And you no longer talk to Ran, so like any logical person would do when their bored. You went to sleep.

By the time Rin and the crew made it, Ran was waiting outside the frat house looking at his watch, dressed in a long black wool trench coat that rested on his shoulders, the shirt underneath was a lilac button up shirt that only had the bottom buttons done, with white loose pants— His hair wasn’t in his normal braids, for this occasion he wore his hair in a ponytail. He looked as if he belonged in a model magazine.

The me finally pulled up in their car, Kokonoi wearing a face of annoyance while the others bicker behind him— When their eyes and Ran’s locked, the men froze. Slightly worried about what might come their way, after all he did know about them and Y/n. With each step Ran took towards them they slightly stepped back.

“Stop running, I’m not gonna hurt you.” He sighs placing one hand on Kokonoi’s shoulder and the other on Kakucho’s, a tight squeeze that has them wince in pain. “Unless you deserved to be hurt?” his eyes dart over to Sanzu who just smiled. The men shook their head and Rin sighed at his brother’s action. After releasing their shoulders he made his way to Sanzu, they both smiled at each ither— Fake. With a quick pull back Ran’s fist met Sanzu’s stomach. Hands wrapping around the injured spot he glared at the man who caused his pain.

“You bastard..” A strain in his voice.

“Pay back, not only for talking to my beloved but also for that stupid stunt at the dock.” His hand wrapped around Sanzu’s shoulder. “We’re good now~” Teasing voice as he smiled at his injured state, Kokonoi and Kakucho are grateful it wasn’t them. Ran’s punches hurt.

With that, they all made their way into the frat house. Ready to drink the night away and sleep with whoever puts it out, except Ran wasn’t all that drunk and he wasn’t interested in sex. He didn’t even want to be here but he went because Rin wanted him to, well, at least he can drive them back home because the men are wasted. Laughing and joking with the frat boys and sorority girls as they play beer pong or chug whatever disgusting concoction they were given as a dare— Ran will not miss the college life once he graduates. Slowly sipping on his Gin tonic he scans the party, looking for anything interesting and trying to ignore the sounds of Kakucho vomiting.

“You don’t look like you’re enjoying the party bro!” A harsh slap on his back as him scowling at the man behind him— Gin.

“Not my usual nor preferred setting.” Ran sighed.

“Well, we have a bunch of drinks and girls… Or guys if you’re into that.” Ran chuckled at Gin trying to be all inclusive, “But try and socialize! Nobody likes a brooder, you’re not batman!” He laughs, loudly as he raises his finger, signaling for someone to get him a beer. As Ran looks at him, his features seem somewhat, familiar. As if he’s seen him before, he just can’t quite place it.

As Gin opens his mouth to speak to Ran his attention goes elsewhere, to one of his drunk friends.

“NO! Bad Arnold! We don’t eat the house plants!” And with that he’s running off to his friend who he yells at as if he’s a dog. A shake of Ran’s head with a soft smile, it’s not bad here.

An hour has passed and the party is still going strong, people are still coming and the night is young. But the ones who’ve been here since the party began are wasted, Gin is all over some girl as he giggles in her ear. Sanzu and Rindou are drawing on Kakucho’s face while Kokonoi is trying to teach some poor girl about proper financing— He’s definitely not getting laid tonight, and Ran is only on his third drink. He doesn’t feel not even a buzz.

You would hate it here he thought to himself.

And he was right, you hated every second trying to find your idiotic brother who called you talking about how horses are just un-evolved unicorns. You decided it was time for him to go home, so you walked here— and it was freezing. When you finally find your brother, you’re kicking his ass. You weave your way through the crowd, bumping into many people, being pushed around on accident by dancing students. God you hate it here.

Maybe it was by divine fate that Ran spotted you through the crowd, or maybe it was work of the devil, but you were here. At the same time he was— he doesn’t believe in meant to be, but he will definitely be thanking Rindou for dragging him out here.

“Y/n, funny seeing you here.” You hate your life. Ran stands tall in front of you, eyes peering down. He’s trying his hardest not to seem desperate and you want to run away, last time you saw him you were being chased by a bunch of nobodies— This isn’t this you planned for your night to go

“Yeah..” You walk around him, trying to avoid any more conversation. You just wanna go home.

“What are you doing here?” His hand wrapped around your waist hesitantly when he saw your body get pushed by some guy dancing. You tried to push his hand off but the grip got tighter, just for a little bit he thought. Just wants to touch you a little bit longer.

“Im looking for my brother.” You spoke, awfully aware of the hand on your waist. Unfortunately, he couldn’t hear you. Not with his mind racing, heart thumping, and music blaring. He guides you up the stairs, watching your steps more then his.

“Get out.” He glares at the couple who were kissing in the room— your hands cover your eyes as the couple were practically naked, obviously about to engage in something more than kissing. Scrambling to put their clothes on they hurried as Ran's glare got colder by the second.

“You can’t just-!” His body engulfed yours, head buried in your neck as he wrapped his arms around your body the moment they left. Stunned you stood there for a moment, embracing him until you realized— “What are you doing? Get off of me!” You tried to push him off, but you couldn’t. His grip was too strong.

“You’re so mean.” His voice was a whisper, you wouldn’t be able to hear it if he wasn’t so close. His leg kicked the door closed before pushing you against it, now you’re closed off.

“You didn’t even let me explain, you just blocked me. You’re so cruel Y/n.” Maybe he was a little tipsy, his voice sounded so broken. So fragile, you couldn’t help but feel bad. Your throat ran dry as he whined in your ear. “I missed you, I’ve missed you so much.”

“You don’t miss me, you miss your plaything.” Your voice was as hushed as his— The music faded out, the only thing you could focus on was him, as if you were the only people in the world.

“I miss that too—” He chuckles before looking you in your eyes, “But I really miss your smile and your laugh, I miss when you would insult me and spend time with me.” He continues.

“You mean before you ruined it.” A soft glare at him, you’re still upset. “You did this to yourself, Ran. Fuck— You really hurt me.”

“I know, I know, but I can explain. Please, just give me the chance to explain…” Desperate and vulnerable, the great Ran Haitani is desperate for you. You agreed, maybe it’s because you want to forgive him or the rush of power you feel at the fact that he’s so weak for you— you didn’t realize it before.

“I love you, Y/n. Before you say anything, I know we haven’t known each other long and we started off wrong— so wrong.” His head finds it way back to your neck, “But I do, you mean everything to me. You creeped your way into my heart and before I knew it, I was in love with you. What I said was wrong, I was jealous.” He turned his head to look at you and your face was flushed. He blew against your neck to catch your attention and it worked.

“I don’t want anyone else around you but me.” A small laugh left his mouth in disappointment, “Selfish right? But it’s true, I want to be the only one around you. Forever and always. I want to try again, the right way— Take you out on a date, spoil you rotten, wanna feel nervous when we first hold hands n’ I wanna kiss you, n’ do other things, but I wanna do it right.” He placed a tender kiss on your neck, not sexual or with any hidden intent. Just a kiss, he’s showing you how much he wants to do better.

“Please.” He muttered through the kiss and it takes you a while to answer— It’s hard to believe that the one and only Ran is in love with you. Someone who has no social power, average looks (in your eyes), and no life. Why would he want you? You think it’s a joke, that small flicker of insecurity but the look on Ran’s face tells you it’s genuine. He’s in love with you.

Tears fall from your eyes and soft sniffles leave your mouth, “Its not a joke right?” You sniffle again as your tears become apparent to Ran.

“Y/n…” He’s shut up by you speaking again.

“You really love me? You really mean it?” Now you sound desperate as your tears drip onto Ran, he can’t help by feel his lip quiver and his eyes burn.

“Every word, dove. Every fucking word.” He whispers as his forehead touches yours, “I fucking adore you.” Fuck— Now he’s crying. He hasn’t cried since his mother passed, you really are something else. Two years slip from his eyes, wetting his cheeks as he pulls you closer. Kissing your forehead with soft circles on the smalls of your back.

“I love you too Ran.” There it is—

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Happy ending right?

NAH

SIKE

We not done

Lol

[cineclub-chaplin]

CATÁLOGO DE PELÍCULAS

ROY ANDERSSON 

• Songs from the Second Floor (2000) 

MICHELANGELO ANTONIONI 

• The Incomunication Trilogy: 

o L’avventura (1960)  o La Notte (1961) o L’eclisse (1962) 

• Il Deserto Rosso (1964) 

• Blow-Up (1966) 

• Professione, Reporter (1975)

DARIO ARGENTO 

• Profondo Rosso (1975) 

• Suspiria (1977) 

RALPH BAKSHI 

• Fritz The Cat (1972) 

• Heavy Traffic (1973) 

• Coonskin (1975) 

• The Lord Of The Rings (1978) 

• Wizards (1977) 

INGMAR BERGMAN 

• Wild Strawberries (1957) 

• God’s Silence Trilogy: 

o Through a Glass Darkly (1961)  o The Silence (1963)  o Winter Light (1963) 

• All These Women (1964) 

• Persona (1966) 

• Hour Of The Wolf (1968) 

• Shame (1968) 

• En Passion (1969) 

• Cries And Whispers (1972) 

• Scenes From a Marriage [serie, todos los capítulos] (1973) 

• Autumn Sonata (1978) 

• Fanny And Alexander (1982) 

• Saraband (2003) 

BERTRAND BLIER 

• Too Beautiful For You (1989) 

ROBERT BRESSON 

• Au Hasard Balthazar (1966) 

• Mouchette (1967) 

• L’Argent (1983) 

LUIS BUÑUEL 

• Viridiana (1961) 

• El Ángel Exterminador (1962) 

• The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972) 

LEÓS CARAX 

• Holy Motors (2012) 

ALEX DE LA IGLESIA 

• El Día de la Bestia (1995) 

CARL THEODOR DREYER 

• Ordet (1955) 

• Gertrud (1964) 

ROBERT EGGERS 

• The Lighthouse (2019) 

VÍCTOR ERICE 

• El Espíritu de la Colmena (1973) 

• El Sur (1983) 

• El Sol del Membrilo (1992) 

FEDERICO FELLINI 

• La Strada (1954) 

• La Dolce Vita (1960) 

• 8 ½ (1963) 

• Satyricon (1969) 

• Roma (1972) 

TODD FIELD 

• Little Children (2006) 

TERRY GILLIAM 

• Brazil (1985) 

• Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998) 

JEAN-LUC GODARD 

• About the Suffle (1960) 

• Une Femme Est Une Femme (1961) 

• Vivire Sa Vie (1962) 

LUCA GUADAGNINO 

• Call Me By Your Name (2017) 

• Suspiria (2018) 

WERNER HERZOG 

• Aguirre: La Ira de Dios (1972) 

ALFRED HITCHCOCK 

• Notorious (1946) 

ALEJANDRO GONZÁLEZ IÑÁRRITU 

• The Revenant (2015) 

ALAIN JESSUA 

• La Vie a L'envers (1964) 

JEAN-PIERRE JEUNET 

• Delicatessen (1991) 

ALEJANDRO JODOROWSKY 

• The Holy Mountain (1973) 

• El Topo (1991) 

• La Danza de la Realidad (2013) 

• Endless Poetry (2016) 

BONG JOON-HO 

• Parasite (2019) 

WONG KAR-WAI 

• Days Of Being Wild (1990) 

• Chungking Express (1994) 

• Fallen Angels (1995) 

• In The Mood Of Love (2000) 

• 2046 – Los Secretos del Amor (2004) 

KENJI MIZOGUCHI 

• Sansho Dayu (1954) 

• The Life of Oharu (1952)

KRZYSZTOF KIEŚLOWSKI 

• No End (1985) 

• Blind Chance (1987) 

• A Short Film About Killing (1988) 

• A Short Film About Love (1988) 

• Dekalog [serie de películas, completa] (1989) 

• The Double Life of Véronique (1991) 

• Three Colours Trilogy: 

o Blue (1993)  o Red (1994)  o White (1994) 

ELEM KLÍMOV 

• Come and See (1985) 

STANLEY KUBRICK 

• Barry Lyndon (1975) 

• Full Metal Jacket (1987) 

AKIRA KUROSAWA 

• Dreams (1990) 

EMIR KUSTURICA 

• Time of the Gypsies (1988) 

• Underground (1995) 

JOHN LANDIS 

• The Blues Brothers (1980) 

CLAUDE LELOUCH 

• Un Homme et Une Femme (1966) 

DAVID LYNCH 

• Eraserhead (1977) 

• Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me (1992) 

• Lost Highway (1997) 

• Mulholland Drive (2001) 

TERRENCE MALICK 

• The New World (2005) 

GASPAR NOÉ 

• Enter The Void (2009) 

NOBUHIKO OBAYASHI 

• Hausu (1977) 

PIER PAOLO PASOLINI 

• Teorema (1968) 

PAWEŁ PAWLIKOWSKI 

• Ida (2013) 

• Cold War (2018) 

ELIO PETRI 

• The Assassination of a Citizen Above Suspicion (1970) 

• The Working Class Goes to Heaven (1971) 

CHRISTIAN PETZOLD 

• Barbara (2012) 

• Transit (2018) 

ROMAN POLANSKI 

• Repulsion (1965) 

ROB REINER 

• Stand By Me (1986) 

NICOLAS ROEG 

• The Man Who Fell to Earth (1976) 

JULIAN SCHNABEL 

• The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2007) 

• At Eternity´s Gate (2018) 

LARISA SHEPITKO 

• The Ascent (1977) 

WHIT STILLMAN 

• Metropolitan (1990) 

ANDRÉI TARKOVSKY 

• Ivan's Childhood (1962) 

• Andrei Rublev (1966)

• The mirror (1975) 

• Stalker (1979) 

• Nostalghia (1983) 

• The sacrifice (1986) 

BELA TARR 

• Almanac of Fall (1984) 

• Damnation (1987) 

• Sátántangó (1994) 

• Werckmeister Harmóniák (2000) 

• The Man from London (2007) 

• The Turin Horse (2011) 

JACQUES TATI 

• Playtime (1967) 

LUCHINO VISCONTI 

• La Tierra Tiembla (1948) 

• Noches Blancas (1957) 

• Rocco y sus Hermanos (1960) 

• Il Gatopardo (1963) 

• La Caída de los Dioses (1969) 

• Muerte en Venecia (1971) 

• Ludwig II (1973) 

ORSON WELLES 

• Citizen Kane (1941)

YASUJIRO OZU 

• Tokyo Story (1953) 

• Early Spring (1956)

ANDREY ZVYAGINTSEV 

• The Return (2003) 

• The Banishment (2007) 

• Elena (2011) 

• Leviathan (2014)  

 • Loveless (2017)

[encena]

2020

Alguns temas para tratar.

Primeiro, um update que compreende de 2019 a este peculiar momento de 2020. Tudo se faz diferente, mais devagar. Há mais espaço para que a mente divague e para que o espirito se expanda. Particularmente propício à sétima arte no âmbito do consumo, que efetivamente encerra o ciclo de produção. Em tempos de Netflix, (…)

(longa pausa).

Comecei o paragrafo acima nalgum momento inicial da pandemia. Não recordo para onde me dirigia com a sentença incompleta. A mantenho por honra ao eu de ontem. Havia alguma euforia naquele momento. Uma sensação de que o mundo se fechando traria em contrapartida ares de mudança e evoluçaão, além do que Nada mal uns dias de folga coletivos né. Depois, ali no meio, a coisa se complicou, o clima pesou. Não há no mundo quem não tenha sentido o chacoalhão — o Encontro consigo mesmo, dentro da casca. Sábios os que fizeram deste um momento de mudança.

O Mundo Novo é chegado.

Abaixo, segue a lista do que esteve representado nas telas desta casa, dando suporte e abraços amigos, choques de realidade, beleza, violência, vida. Com três estrelas algumas recomendações, tag Importante. Com cinco, os must see’s, favoritos da casa.

Um abraço a todos. Que seja um revigorante e poderoso 2021.

searching la la land isle of dogs too late ***** dumplin house of cards s06 roma *** wildlife *** o processo io

stcomedy = russel + tucker + roegan + carr the favourite the ballad of buster scruggs earth: one amazing day blackkklansman we need to talk about kevin the mule (2014) finding vivian mayer *** o lobo atras da porta rgb ***

fyre russian doll love, death and robots *** after life eight grade true detective 3 call me by your name shoplifters ***** o mecanismo tokyo godfathers democracia em vertigem ***

burning *** jindabyne chernobyl *** dominion *** spiderman spiderverse first man *** boi embrace of the serpent ***** bacurau *** got ***

free solo the room us euphoria *** spy (uf) once upon a time in hollywood girl midsommar parasite *** abstract (uf)

la casa de papel s03 *** revenant #rewatch between two ferns the movie loving vincent joker *** the mule *** the dark knight #rewatch after earth i lost my body *** the end of the fucking world s02

too old to die young *** the farewell *** rick and morty s04 mandalorian easy uncut gems *** bojack s04 s05 knives out *** ad astra honey land ***

jojo rabbit sex education s01 s02 green book *** rainy day in ny tracks the man who killed don quixote loi loi la casa de papel s04 *** the red turtle ***** years and years ***

contagion mid90s ****** stronger the lion king (2019) the gentleman ma vie de courgette la fetee westworld (all) ***** arabia ***** ozark s01 s02 alpha amar

jasper mall palm springs in the mood for love chunking express (rewatch) legends of the fall I dont feel at home in this world anymore the souvenir *** the square equus *** third person

the social dilemma cobra kai s01 s02 i may destroy you the putin interviews *** the exterminating angel hubby halloween the taste of tea ***** devs *** une homme et une femme dont read this on a plane the fountain my octopus teacher ***

dolor y gloria borat the subsequent moviefilm dave no intenso agora *** breeders david attenborough: a life on our planet *** operasjon arktis watchmen (series) *** tenet we are who we are mandalorian s02

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[satoshi-mochida]

Some games on the NA(and possibly EU) PSN’s “Big in Japan” sale(full list/prices):

PS4

428: Shibuya Scramble

Aegis of Earth

AI: The Somnium Files

Akiba’s Beat

Alternate Jake Hunter

Atelier Arland Series Deluxe Pack(each game is also on sale separately)

Atelier Ryza

Berserk and the Band of the Hawk

Birthdays the Beginning

Black Clover: Quartet Knights

BlazBlue: Cross Tag Battle Special Edition

BlazBlue: Central Fiction

BlazBlue: Cross Tag Battle

Chaos;Child

Chocobo’s Mystery Dungeon: Every Buddy!

Cladun Returns: This is Sengoku!

Code Vein

Code: Realize ~Bouquet of Rainbows~

Code: Realize ~Wintertide Miracles~

Crystar

Damascus Gear: Operation Osaka HD Edition

Danganronpa 1•2 Reload

Danganronpa Another Episode: Ultra Despair Girls

Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony

Dark Rose Valkyrie

Dark Souls III

Date A Live: Rio Reincarnation

Dead Rising 2: Off the Record

Dead Rising 4: Frank’s Big Package

Death end re;Quest

Death Mark

Demon Gaze II

Devil May Cry HD Collection

Digimon Story: Cyber Sleuth – Hacker’s Memory

Disgaea 1 Complete

Disgaea 4 Complete+

Disgaea 5 Complete Bundle

Disgaea 5: Alliance of Vengeance

Dissidia Final Fantasy NT

Dragon Ball Xenoverse 2

Dragon Ball Xenoverse Super Bundle

Dragon Quest Builders

Dragon Quest Builders

Dragon Quest Builders 2

Dragon Quest Heroes: The World Tree’s Woe and the Blight Below

Dragon Quest Heroes: Digital Slime Edition

Dragon Quest Heroes II: Explorer’s Edition

Dragon Quest XI – Digital Edition of Light

Dynasty Warriors 9 Complete Edition

Earth Defense Force 4.1: Wingdiver the Shooter

Earth Defense Force 4.1: The Shadow of New Despair

Earth Defense Force 5

Earth Defense Force 5 Deluxe Edition

Earth Defense Force: Iron Rain

Earth Defense Force: Iron Rain Ultimate Edition

Exist Archive: The Other Side of the Sky

Fairy Fencer F: Advent Dark Force

Final Fantasy IX Digital Edition

Final Fantasy Type-0 HD

Final Fantasy VII

Final Fantasy VIII Remastered

Final Fantasy X | X-2 HD Remaster

Final Fantasy XII: The Zodiac Age

Final Fantasy XV Multiplayer: Comrades

Final Fantasy XV Pocket Edition HD

Final Fantasy XV Royal Edition

Final Fantasy XV Royal Pack

Final Fantasy XV Season Pass

Final Fantasy XV: Episode Ardyn

Final Fantasy XV: Episode Ignis

Final Fantasy XV: Episode Prompto

Fire Pro Wrestling World

Fist of the North Star: Lost Paradise

Ghost Parade

God Eater 2: Rage Burst

God Eater 3

God Wars: Future Past

Grand Kingdom

Guilty Gear Xrd -Revelator-

Guilty Gear Xrd: Rev 2

Gundam Versus

I Am Setsuna

Illusion of L’Phalcia

JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: Eyes of Heaven Bundle

Judgment

Kingdom Hearts All-in-One Package

Kingdom Hearts III

Labyrinth of Refrain: Coven of Dusk

Life is Strange 2 – Episode 1

Life is Strange 2 – Episodes 2 to 5

Life is Strange 2 Complete Season

Little Dragons Cafe

Little Witch Academia: Chamber of Time

Lost Sphear

Megadimension Neptunia VII

Megadimension Neptunia VIIR

Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes

Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain

Metal Max Xeno

Monochrome Order

My Hero: One’s Justice

Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm 4 Road To Boruto (and many other Naruto games)

Natural Doctrine

New Gundam Breaker

Ni No Kuni II: Revenant Kingdom

Ni No Kuni II: Revenant Kingdom – Deluxe Edition

NieR: Automata

Nights of Azure

Nights of Azure 2: Bride of the New Moon

Nioh

Nobunaga’s Ambition: Sphere of Influence

Nobunaga’s Ambition: Sphere of Influence – Ascension

Okami HD

Omega Quintet

One Piece: Burning Blood

One Piece: World Seeker

One Piece: Pirate Warriors 3

Oninaki

Our World is Ended.

Persona Dancing: Endless Night Collection

Psycho-Pass: Mandatory Happiness

Many Resident Evil games.

River City Melee Mach!!

Romancing SaGa 2

Romancing SaGa 3

Root Letter

SaGa Scarlet Grace: Ambitions

Saint Seiya: Soldiers’ Soul

Samurai Warriors 4-II

Secret of Mana

Shenmue III

Sleeping Dogs

Spirit Hunter: Death Mark

Spirit Hunter: NG

Star Ocean: First Departure R

Stay Cool Kobayashi-san!: A River City Ransom Story

Steins;Gate 0

Steins;Gate Elite

Steins;Gate: My Darling’s Embrace

Super Neptunia RPG

Tales of Berseria

Team Sonic Racing and Super Monkey Ball: Banana Blitz HD Bundle

The 25th Ward: The Silver Case

The Alliance Alive HD Remastered

The Caligula Effect: Overdose

The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel

The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel II

The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel III Digital Deluxe Edition

The Liar Princess and the Blind Prince

The Lost Child

The Missing: J.J. Macfield and the Island of Memories

The Silver Case

The Ultimate Sonic Bundle

The Witch and the Hundred Knight: Revival Edition

The Witch and the Hundred Knight 2

The Witch and the Hundred Knight Wicked Bundle

Tokyo Twilight Ghost Hunters Daybreak: Special Gigs

Tokyo Xanadu EX+

Touhou Double Focus

Touhou Genso Rondo: Bullet Ballet

Touhou Genso Wanderer

Touhou Genso Wanderer Reloaded

Touhou Kobuto V: Burst Battle

Toukiden: Kiwami

Toukiden 2

Utawarerumono: Mask of Deception

Utawarerumono: Mask of Truth

Utawarerumono: Mask of Deception and Truth Bundle

Utawarerumono Zan

Valkyria Chronicles 4 Complete Edition

Valkyria Chronicles Remastered + Valkyria Chronicles 4 Bundle

Valkyria Revolution

Valthirian Arc: Hero School Story

White Day: A Labyrinth Named School

Wonder Boy: The Dragon’s Trap

World of Final Fantasy

World of Final Fantasy Maxima Upgrade DLC

World End Syndrome

Yakuza Kiwami 2: Clan Creator Bundle

Yomawari: Midnight Shadows

Ys Origin

Ys VIII: Lacrimosa of Dana

Yu-Gi-Oh! Legacy of the Duelist

YU-NO: A Girl Who Chants Love At the Bound of This World.

Zanki Zero: Last Beginning

Zero Escape: Zero Time Dilemma

Zero Escape: The Nonary Games

Vita

7’scarlet

Adventures Of Mana

Bad Apple Wars

Code: Realize ~Future Blessings~

Code: Realize ~Guardian of Rebirth~

Code: Realize ~Wintertide Miracles~

Collar X Malice

Exist Archive: The Other Side of the Sky

Final Fantasy X | X-2 HD Remaster

Illusion of L’Phalcia

Mind Zero

Muramasa Rebirth Complete Collection

Muramasa Rebirth Genroku Legends Collection

Norn9: Var Commons

Period Cube: Shackles of Amadeus

Psychedelica of the Ashen Hawk

Psychedelica of the Black Butterfly

Romancing SaGa 2

Romancing SaGa 3

Secret of Mana

Shiren the Wanderer: The Tower of Fortune and the Dice of Fate

Sorcery Saga: Curse of the Great Curry God

Tokyo Twilight Ghost Hunters Daybreak: Special Gigs

Tokyo Xanadu

World of Final Fantasy

Zero Escape: The Nonary Games

Zero Escape: Zero Time Dilemma

PS3

Aegis of Earth: Protonovus Assault

Darkstalkers Resurrection

Final Fantasy X | X-2 HD Remaster

Final Fantasy XIII-2

Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII

Lost Planet 3

Mega Man 9 and 10 Combo Pack

Megaman 9

Megaman 10

Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance

Metal Gear Solid HD Collection

Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes

Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain

PSP

Dissidia 012 Prologus Final Fantasy

Dissidia 012 [Duodecim] Final Fantasy

Dissidia Final Fantasy

Final Fantasy III

Final Fantasy IV: The Complete Collection

Final Fantasy Tactics: The War of the Lions

Tactics Ogre: Let Us Cling Together

PSOne Classics

Castlevania Chronicles 

Castlevania: Symphony of the Night 

Chrono Cross 

Chrono Trigger

Darkstalkers 3 

Final Fantasy IX 

Final Fantasy Origins 

Final Fantasy Tactics

Final Fantasy V

Final Fantasy VI

Final Fantasy VII 

Final Fantasy VIII 

Legend of Mana 

Silent Hill 

Suikoden 

Suikoden II

PS2 Classics

Castlevania: Lament of Innocence

God Hand

Suikoden 3

Suikoden IV

The sale run from  February 21st to March 3rd.

[melodiaemfrp]

Hello, Attuned! Thank you for participating in Melodiae's first Activity Check! Listed here are characters that did not pass the check ( Seven (7) days of activity in-server ) for the period from June 22nd to August 22nd.

If your muse(s) are listed here by mistake or because you were unable to fill out our Activity Check form, you may reach out to the Masterlist and send us a link to proof of your muse(s)'s activity until September 5th ( 9/5 ). All characters that do not have activity accounted for by 9/5 by 11:59 PM EST will be removed from the server by the next inbox run ( 9/8 ).

If you did not pass the check, you also have until September 5th ( 9/5 ) to reapp your muse(s) by sending an ask to the Masterlist indicating your intent to reapp the character. You DO NOT have to resubmit the whole application; simply provide your name, the character's name & series, your OOC contact, and the date in an ask.

Muses that are not reapped by 11:59pm EST on 9/5 will be removed from the server by our inbox run on 9/8.

Thank you for bearing with us through our opening months, and we hope you're excited for what we have planned for the future!

- The Melodiae Moderation Team

ACE ATTORNEY

Trucy Wright

THE GREAT ACE ATTORNEY

Sherlock Holmes

ALCHEMY STARS

Faust

ARKNIGHTS

Doctor (Frey)

Elysium

APEX LEGENDS

Caustic

Revenant

BLOOD BLOCKADE BATTLEFRONT

Leonardo Watch

BORDERLANDS

Lilith Cashlin

Maya the Siren

CASTLEVANIA

Yoko Belnades

COUNTDOWN TO COUNTDOWN

Iris Black

CRITICAL ROLE

CAMPAIGN 2

Mollymauk Tealeaf

DC COMICS

BATMAN

Dick Grayson

JUSTICE LEAGUE

Roy Harper

TEEN TITANS

Beast Boy

DEATH NOTE

Light Yagami

DESTINY

Orion Zihl ( The Guardian )

The Crow

FATE/

FATE/GRAND ORDER

Anastasia Nikolaevna Romanov (Caster)

Arthur Pendragon (Saber)

Fujimaru Ritsuka

FINAL FANTASY

XIV

G’raha Tia

XV

Ignis Scientia

Lunafreya Nox Fleuret

FIRE EMBLEM

PATH OF RADIANCE/RADIANT DAWN

Sephiran

AWAKENING

Panne

Tiki

HEROES

Mirabilis

THREE HOUSES

Mercedes von Martritz

FULL METAL ALCHEMIST

BROTHERHOOD

Edward Elric

GENSHIN IMPACT

Childe (Tartaglia)

Diluc Ragnvindr

Xiao

Zhongli

GRANBLUE FANTASY

Lucifer

GUILD WARS 2

Trahearne

GUILTY GEAR

Zato-ONE

HADES

Thanatos

Zagreus

HYPNOSIS MIC

Hitoya Amaguni

Kuko Harai

Ramuda Amemura

IDENTITY V

Aesop Carl

Edgar Valden

Helena Adams

Norton Campbell

JOJO’S BIZARRE ADVENTURE

VENTO AUREO

Bruno Buccellati

Giorno Giovanna

JUJUTSU KAISEN

Itadori Yuji

MABINOGI

Fawaris (OC)

MARVEL COMICS

MARVEL CINEMATIC UNIVERSE

James Buchanan “Bucky” Barnes

MY HERO ACADEMIA

Izuku Midoriya

MY WORLD, MY WAY

Elise

NARUTO

Deidara

NIER

AUTOMATA

Adam

Eve

ORIGINAL CHARACTERS

Alexandra Barreau

Alleged Protégé

Alma Veilleux

Alpheus Holbrook

Amelia Rose Evans/The Autumn Queen

Daniel Dee

Daniel Harris

Dawa

Delathi Vassegre

Fira

Isaac Reuben

King Toklo

Kenta Fujita

Maxedon

Nessarosa Blackwood (The Witch Princess)

Puck Peeters

Saint Celestial III Naiad

Serena Smith / Starlight

Serian

Wilder

PERSONA

3

Aigis

Minato Arisato

5

Haru Okumura

POKEMON

N (Natural Harmonia Gropius)

PROFESSOR LAYTON

Claire Foley

PROJECT MOON WORKS

LIBRARY OF RUINA

Hod

Malkuth

Zena

PROMISE OF WIZARD

Mithra

Rutile

RESIDENT EVIL

Claire Redfield

RWBY

Blake Belladonna

Weiss Schnee

Winter Schnee

SALLY FACE

Sal Fisher

SILENT HILL

3

Cheryl Heather Mason

TALES OF SERIES

VESPERIA

Yeager

BERSERIA

Eizen

TEKKEN

Kazumi Mishima

TOKYO GHOUL

Eto Yoshimura

TOUKEN RANBU

Izuminokami Kanesada

Kashuu Kiyomitsu

Yamatonokami Yasusada

TRANSFORMERS

MORE THAN MEETS THE EYE

Nautica

VANITAS NO CARTE

Jeanne

Noe Archiviste

Vanitas

[justforbooks]

Ryuichi Sakamoto, the Japanese musician whose remarkably eclectic career straddled pop, experimentalism and Oscar-winning film composition, has died aged 71.

As a member of Yellow Magic Orchestra alongside Haruomi Hosono and Yukihiro Takahashi, Sakamoto created joyous and progressive electronic pop in the late 1970s and early 1980s, alongside solo releases. He acted alongside David Bowie in the 1983 film Merry Christmas, Mr Lawrence and composed its celebrated theme, the first in a series of film scores including Oscar-winning work in 1987 with David Byrne and Cong Su for Bernardo Bertolucci’s The Last Emperor.

Sakamoto had twice been diagnosed with cancer. In 2014, he took a year off from music as he recovered from throat cancer, describing the illness as “the most harsh, physically painful time in my life”.

In January 2021, he announced he had been diagnosed with bowel cancer, saying: “From now on, I will be living alongside cancer. But, I am hoping to make music for a little while longer.”

He was born in Tokyo in 1952, and began taking piano lessons aged six, later attending Tokyo University of the Arts to study music. He trained on early synthesizers, and enthused by everything from Debussy to Kraftwerk, began working on various musical projects, including with Hosono and Takahashi. After Sakamoto released his 1978 solo debut, Thousand Knives – playing melodies that harked back to traditional Japanese music on electronic equipment – the trio realised their vision for a Japanese disco-pop group, Yellow Magic Orchestra (YMO).

The group became a huge success in Japan – in 1980, two of their albums stayed at No 1 and No 2 in the charts for seven weeks, and they had seven Top 5 albums during their career. “Accidentally the three of us became very popular,” he remembered in 2018. “Walking the street in Tokyo, people pointed at me. I hated it.”

Their English-language lyrics helped them cross over into the US, where they appeared on the TV show Soul Train, and their electronic production influenced early hip-hop and electro scenes. Michael Jackson covered their song Behind the Mask and intended to include it on Thriller, but a royalties disagreement prevented it.

Their track Computer Game was also a Top 20 hit in the UK. YMO went on hiatus in 1984, though occasionally reunited for releases and reunion concerts.

Alongside YMO, Sakamoto continued releasing solo albums including 1980’s B-2 Unit, another influence on the robotically funky sound of electro that also foreshadowed other dance music styles. After focusing purely on solo work, he forged further connections in the west, collaborating with musicians including Iggy Pop, Robert Wyatt, Laurie Anderson, David Sylvian and more. Sylvian contributed Forbidden Colours, a vocal version of one of Sakamoto’s most famous works, the theme to second world war drama Merry Christmas, Mr Lawrence. Sakamoto also starred in the film as a prisoner of war camp commander.

Following The Last Emperor (in which he also had an acting role), he collaborated with Bernardo Bertolucci again for The Last Buddha, and with Merry Christmas, Mr Lawrence director Nagisa Oshima for Gohatto. He also scored two films by Brian De Palma (Snake Eyes and Femme Fatale), plus Wild Palms for Oliver Stone, High Heels for Pedro Almodóvar, the 1990 film adaptation of The Handmaid’s Tale, and more. His 2015 score for Alejandro González Iñárritu’s film The Revenant was nominated for Golden Globe, Bafta and Grammy awards. In 2019, he composed the music for an episode of dystopian TV drama series Black Mirror. He took no further acting roles, aside from appearing as a film director in Rain, a music video for Madonna.

Sakamoto released a steady schedule of solo releases throughout the 1990s and onwards, and wrote a piece for the opening ceremony of the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona. In 1999 he debuted the multimedia opera project Life, in collaboration with artist Shiro Takatani with contributions from Bertolucci, Pina Bausch and more. He and Takatani extended the concept into installation work from 2007 onwards.

Also in 2007, he began the ambitious Schola project, curating 17 compilations of global music ranging from composers such as Ravel and Beethoven to Japanese pop. It was released via his record label Commmons, set up in 2006, which has also released work by artists including Boredoms and OOIOO.

In 2002, he began a fruitful partnership with German musician Carsten Nicolai, who used his Alva Noto alias for four collaborative albums of minimalist electronica.

Sakamoto was also an environmental campaigner, opposing the use of nuclear power, and creating the forestry project More Trees to enable carbon offsetting.

In 1982, Sakamoto married Japanese pop musician Akiko Yano, a touring member of YMO and a successful solo artist in her own right. They split in 1992, and eventually filed for divorce in 2006. They had a daughter, pop singer Miu Sakamoto.

Since the early 1990s, Sakamoto has been in a relationship with Norika Sora. Their son Neo Sora contributed to a documentary, Ryuichi Sakamoto: Coda, directed by Stephen Nomura Schible in 2018.

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[recentanimenews]

Anime Awards 2021: Meet the Judges & Categories Revealed!

As the insanity that has been 2020 comes to a close, we begin to look towards the future, and to the awards show that captures the best of the year in the world of anime: the Anime Awards! Today, we’ll be formally introducing you to our incredible class of judges from around the world who helped curate and craft the nominees we’ll soon be revealing. But first — we would like to introduce you to the categories for this year’s event!

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  If these categories look familiar, that’s for good reason; they’re the same ones we used last year. After carefully considering voting behavior, audience feedback, social media engagement, and insights from industry leaders, we were happy to find a collection of categories that satisfied the most needs for the most people, and allowed the greatest number of anime to be celebrated with the world. The nominees themselves are one of the most exciting parts of the Anime Awards, and in just one short month, the six nominees per category will be shared with the world on the Anime Awards Website. Please keep an eye out for more details, and fun ways to share your votes and predictions with your fellow fans.

    Last year, we added more judges than ever before — that is, until now! As both the audience of Crunchyroll and the Anime Awards becomes increasingly international, so too has the panel of judges. With more than fifty judges representing dozens of unique countries and cultures around the world from all walks of life, I can safely say that this year’s class of judges is the best the Anime Awards has ever had.

  The judges for the Anime Awards play a critical role, determining the nominees for every category in an independent capacity, based entirely on their own critical perspectives and opinions of the anime released in the last year. Judges were hand-selected by Crunchyroll’s community team based on their reputation, regard, and credibility, and represent large swaths of the huge diversity that can be found in the anime fandom at large.

  Just as with last year, the judge nomination process will also go towards the final winners of each Anime Award, weighed 70:30 with fan votes. Based on the last four years of Anime Awards, we found that this ratio achieved the most meaningful results: the fan vote was impactful and flipped several categories, but the awards were not simply a popularity contest and many underrated titles were still able to take home awards. We saw more positivity than ever before with last year’s changes, and so we're happy to keep this same ratio for this year's event.

  As a note the bios you’ll see below were written by the judges in their language of choice and have been adopted for your pleasure in whichever language you’re reading right now. Beyond translation, they have only been altered by the Crunchyroll team for clarity. Without further delay, please meet our judges for the 2021 Anime Awards!

  Meet the Judges!

  Ajay Stewart     Ajay, better known online as “AnimeAjay”, is a British anime fan, specialising in all things related to animation. His YouTube and Twitter presence are focused on the behind-the-scenes at Toei Animation, and has become the go-to source for fans looking to know the ins and outs of animation, and who was responsible for their favourite scenes.

Alfonso "Fonzy" Ortiz     Alfonso "Fonzy" Ortiz is the Senior Manager for qdopp Inc. and Editor-in-Chief for Honey's Anime. Originally from Texas, he was a cook for 13 years, lived in LA and Tokyo where he found his dream job working in the anime and gaming industry, and has just under a decade of experience as well. Honey’s Anime is his passion and loves helping to bring as much great content to readers about the anime, manga, and gaming industry. It’s the best place for anime enthusiasts as we are all fans!

Andrew McDanell     After consuming anime for over 25 years, Andrew started up the Otaku Spirit Animecast podcast with his brother, Chris.  Connecting with fans from many countries across the world, their goal has always been to break from the mold and serve a community with a positive and entertaining view of the fandom they love so much.  With over 1300 anime titles under his belt and passing 900 anime reviews recorded, Andrew has enjoyed giving every show a chance and never falls onto the 3 episode rule.

Antonio Escudero     Antionio Escudero has been a fan of anime, manga, and video games for over 30 years and considers it his lifestyle. He's currently part of the editorial team of Misión Tokyo, where he writes to promote both his passion for and the legal consumption of Japanese culture.

Bruno De La Cruz     Journalist for AnimeLand magazine and the French anime/manga press since 2014.

Burak Dogan     Burak Dogan is an editor and press contact at the German anime news website Anime2You. Besides covering News and reviewing countless anime and manga releases on the German market, he can also be met at various conventions. Since 2011, he has watched over 1,000 individual shows.

bxakid (Julien)     Julien, or bxakid is a french content creator and journalist for Webedia. Anime enthusiast forever, one waifu at a time. Caitlin Enger    Caitlin Moore has been an anime fan since it cost $30 for a two-episode VHS tape. She has been writing about anime every chance she’s gotten since high school, and now is a staff writer for Anime Feminist and contributes regularly to Anime News Network as well as running panels at conventions and podcasting every chance she gets. She analyzes anime through a progressive, intersectional lens and has a deep love of shojo and josei manga and anime.

Caroline Segarra     Working as an animator, journalist, streamer, and voice-over artist, Caroline's specialties include Japan, anime, manga, and Japanese music. Caroline is also founder of the audiovisual production company Fantastic Raccoon, is currently on LeStream, and has worked at Nolife, Japan FM, Japan LifeStyle.

Clarissa Graffeo     Clarissa Graffeo is one-third of the Anime World Order podcast and occasional contributing writer for Otaku USA magazine. As a fan of anime and manga for over 20 years that makes her practically ancient by anime fan and Hollywood standards, and she should probably have more to show for it. Clarissa has run numerous panels at East coast conventions both alone and with her fellow AWO hosts, on a variety of topics such as BL, Black Jack, Jojo's Bizarre Adventure, anime openings, and building plastic model kits. In both the podcast and convention panels, she attempts to balance detailed discussions of individual works and the industry with accessibility to new viewers, and is hopefully successful at least some of the time.

Daryl Surat     Having just turned 40, Daryl Surat is a revenant otaku bound in human flesh and er, NOT inked in blood. Having spent the majority of over 25 years as an anime fan existing in near isolation, trapped in the MMO that is social media, the 2020 quarantine hasn’t really been noticeable! As a contributor to Otaku USA Magazine (https://ift.tt/187UJdS) as well as the Anime World Order podcast (www.animeworldorder.com), Daryl is A HUNDRED PERCENT SURE all of the deserving nominations were proposed by him.

Михаил Судаков     Creator of the KG-Portal.ru website, anime lover with 20 years of experience, admirer of Makoto Shinkai, Hayao Miyazaki and P.A. Works. Big fan and collector of retro games, retro computers and retro consoles. Dawn H    Dawn (aka "Usamimi") is the producer/host of The Anime Nostalgia Podcast, a mix of waxing nostalgic with fellow older fans while introducing younger fans to older titles! The podcast also serves as an oral history from before things like streaming & social media were commonplace, and how anime & manga fandom has always been diverse. She's used her knowledge to write for outlets like Anime News Network and Crunchyroll, & has helped on multiple anime releases from AnimEigo & Discotek Media.

Dennis Vsesvyatskyi     CEO of 2x2 tv-channel, home of adult animation in Russia. 2x2 is broadcasting international animation and anime-hits since 2007 and has it's own animation studio. Brand 2x2 has a significant cultural status among russian viewers and fans of animation and is expanding it's influence every year with new shows, art-statements and collaborations. Our motto is: "Don't grow up, it's a trap!".

Diego Lima     IGN Brazil reporter, writing about the entertainment industry since 2014. Started career as a host for Gazeta Games, on Radio Gazeta, and then as the host of a gaming radio show at Band FM, discussing classic titles. Joined IGN Brazil in 2017, as a gaming and anime specialist. When Diego is not writing about horror games and fighting games, he's writing about Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba, Naruto, BORUTO: NARUTO NEXT GENERATIONS, Attack on Titan, Yashahime and many other series.

Eunice Ibama     Eunice Ibama started @blackgirlsanime as a simple meme page in 2017 as an escape during one of the hardest times of her life—without many hopes attached to it. As an outlet for her own struggles, she began to grow a community. Then, as BGA grew, the hope to create a safe space for black women that love anime and its culture blossomed. Cue the adding on the fearsome foursome of Shanequa, Bri, Kim, and Chels and it was like the stars aligned for the brand. Emboldened by their unshakeable bond with each other and the passion that brought them together in the first place, the team buckled down and got to work making Black Girls Anime, LLC the best brand that it could be. Now equipped with an editorial website, ongoing partnerships with brands like Netflix and VIZ Media, and much more in the works the page has rapidly grown into a network that influences and advocates for not only black women, but people of color of all ages and backgrounds that feel underrepresented in the anime and nerd-centric communities.

Evgeniya "Jenya" Davidyuk     Jenya Davidyuk was born and raised in Novosibirsk, Russia, where she also graduated State University. Since 2005 she has been living and working in Tokyo, Japan as a seiyuu (voice actor), hosting radio and TV programs, and consulting on Russian language in anime and film production. As a part of her seiyuu career, she sings with Anime & Game Symphony project under Japanese conductor Kenichi Shimura, performing live concerts in Japan and Russia. Jenya has an N1 level certificate on the Japanese language proficiency test.

Geoff Thew     "Geoff Thew is a veteran video essayist who's spent the last 5 years talking about anime on his youtube channel, Mother's Basement. When he's not obsessively analyzing the little details in anime, from easter eggs in openings to fight scene choreography, he likes to help those who can't watch anime full time find better shows to fill the time they do have. Geoff and his partner Yazy live in beautiful BC, Canada, under the tyrannical rule of their three cats, Kuro, Junkrat, and Spaghetti.

Gerald Rathkolb     With a history of anime going back over 30 years, Gerald has has a connection to anime longer than most have been alive. Having started as part of the Robotech generation Gerald quickly outgrew that and is currently part of the Anime World Order podcast, the longest running anime-only podcast out there. A frequent writer for Otaku USA and contributor for Anime News Network, Gerald will continue to butt in where he's not welcome for the foreseeable future.

Hannah Collins     Based in the UK, Hannah is the Anime/Manga Feature Lead for CBR. As well as CBR, she has written about anime and manga for sites including The Mary Sue, Anime Feminist, Ranker, and WatchMojo, after getting her start in the blogging world with angry feminist rants and silly listicles about The Twilight Saga. A child of the ‘90s, Neon Genesis Evangelion and Cardcaptor Sakura are her all-time anime and manga faves; more recently, she’s become obsessed with Spy x Family, Chainsaw Man, and Dr. Stone.

Jacob Parker Dalton     Jacob Parker-Dalton is an otaku journalist and writer for OTAQUEST. He has been watching anime and reading manga for the better part of 10 years, stemming from a childhood infatuation with Studio Ghibli. All he wants is for someone to adapt the rest of Medaka Box, the greatest manga of all time. His style icons are both Naoki Urasawa and Bob Dylan in equal measure. James Perkins    James Perkins is the Lead Anime Writer for the UK-based publication STARBURST MAGAZINE. A fan of this breathtaking art form for almost 25 years, he lives and breathes all things Anime. This is his first time as a judge for The Anime Awards and can't wait to celebrate this year's contenders.

Jazmine Moore     Jazmine Moore—known on TikTok as kiri.jaz—describes herself as a young Black woman who enjoys watching anime and creating anime/cosplay related content. She's also an artist who hopes to inspire others to believe that no matter who you are, you can love anime and enjoy the world that we created as a family.

Julio Velez     Julio Velez is a journalist and critic who has specialized in anime, manga, and Japanese pop culture for more than 15 years. He is also a promoter and enthusiast of Japanese culture and dubbing in Latin America and works as Editor-in-Chief at Otaku-Shi in Mexico's Cine PREMIERE magazine.

Kaho Shibuya     Kaho Shibuya is a Japanese talent, author, cosplayer and anison DJ in Tokyo. She has been passionate about manga and anime for her entire life as a 90s girl, who also started streaming as a Twitch partner in May 2020. Kambole Campbell    Kambole Campbell is a freelance critic based in London in the UK, writing and speaking on animation as well as other film and TV for the likes of Empire, Thrillist, Polygon, All The Anime, Sight & Sound, Little White Lies, the BBC, and others.

Kate Sanchez     Kate Sánchez is the co-founder and EIC of But Why Tho? A Geek Community, a website dedicated to uplifting marginalized voices in pop culture. She is also a Rotten Tomatoes Certified Critic and member of the Austin Film Critics Association. In addition to writing, Kate is also a host on But Why Tho? the podcast, where she and her co-hosts discuss pop culture, and a host on Did You Have To?, a podcast dedicated uplifting brown and Black women in anime.

  Miki Koch Miki is the host and editor at Sumikai's Rolling Sushi podcast. She love calm and wholesome anime and like to consume anime-centric YouTube videos.   

Krystal Shanelle     Krystal is a 25-year-old content creator pushing the One Piece agenda. An anime fan since elementary school—with both the first and favorite series being Naruto—Krystal is most proud of cosplaying as Sakura from Naruto and Raven from Teen Titans. Krystal is currently studying animation and visual effects in Los Angeles with the dream of working on live-action anime, and is excited to be a judge for the Crunchyroll Awards!

Kwok-Wai Hanson     Kwok-Wai Hanson is a Writer/Host/Consultant within the anime industry. Since 2013, he has been creating content focused on data aggregation and community polls amongst seasonal anime series. Through his content creation, he has worked closely with various publishers from Japan and abroad within the industry. Currently, Kwok is the head of social at Mangamo, a manga subscription platform. He is also a host seen at Anime Expo and Crunchyroll Expo, including this year's Virtual Crunchyroll Expo.

Lauren Orsini     Lauren is a blogger and writer for outlets like Anime News Network and Forbes. She lives, works, and builds Gunpla in the Washington, DC suburbs.

Łukasz Kaczmarek     You don't know him, but you know his work. Łukasz Kaczmarek, also known as lukeatlook, is the person responsible for the Internet's most viral anime recommendation charts of the last decade, put together based on years of experience introducing his friends, students, and family to the world of anime. Sysadmin by trade, he's a vocal member of the anime community both on the Internet and the local Polish fandom, where he manages the English program at the biggest fan convention in Europe, Pyrkon, attended annually by over 40 000 unique guests from Poland and all of Europe.

Lynzee Loveridge     As executive editor of Anime News Network, Lynzee has the unique position of knowing what's tracking with the critics and with viewers in the anime fandom. She not only writes her own reviews every season but also reads everything from ANN's editorial staff! Outside of work, She's just a magical girl living in a Junji Ito world.

Maria Luiza Barros Maria Luiza, also known as Moo, is an actress, cosplayer and creates online content about anime and manga in Brazil since 2016. She's half of the duo behind Bunka Pop, a widely known anime and Japanese culture video series that were one of the most popular shows on the cable channel PlayTV. Now, Moo also works as a host on Bentô, an anime talk show created by Omelete, the biggest pop culture portal of the entire Brazilian internet.

Matheus Chami     A filmmaker who is passionate and bold when it comes to pop culture. Have a problem to solve? Call Chami!

Matt Schley     Matt Schley writes about anime for The Japan Times, Otaku USA Magazine, and elsewhere. He lives in Tokyo.

Megan Peters     Megan Peters is the editorial lead for anime coverage at ComicBook.com. As an entertainment journalist, she enjoys series such as Fullmetal Alchemist and Princess Jellyfish. Rumor has it she also likes K-pop and and comics as well!

  Michael Sudakov (Михаил Судаков) Creator of the KG-Portal.ru website, anime lover with 20 years of experience, admirer of Makoto Shinkai, Hayao Miyazaki and P.A. Works. Big fan and collector of retro games, retro computers and retro consoles.

Mohammed Naami     Mohammed Naami is the founder of Ai Show group, the biggest community for anime and manga in the Arabic speaking world, and was the Middle East representative in Anime Japan 2019, Saudi Arabia - Riyadh entertainment season Ambassador of 2019, and a host in Saudi Arabia Anime Expo 2019, the biggest Anime festival in the region.

Nino Kerl     Nino Kerl is the founder and producer of NinotakuTV and NinotakuDE. Since his early childhood, this Munich-based journalist has been an avid fan of both anime and Japan as a whole. Thus, his YouTube channel and news website are also heavily centered around Japanese pop culture.

Orophin Ancalimon / Денис Боровский     Orophin Ancalimon has been an active member of the Russian anime community for over ten years.  A person who has watched more than 1,500 anime of different genres, a blogger and creator of the Betrayed Expectations YouTube channel, where he analyzes various trends in anime, and also shares his impressions of interesting TV shows and films.  Recently write a column for Crunchyroll Russia.  His special interest is meha and maho-shojo anime, but at the same time he tries not to miss a single high-profile novelty.

  Priscila Souza Ganiko     A Brazilian entertainment journalist with a burning passion for anime, K-pop, and game related content, some of Priscila's favorite things are stories with good character development, bowls of ramen, emotional and inspiring OSTs, meaningful action sequences, and a great redemption arc, especially since "evil" characters end up being so irresistible.

Rafael Brito     Nicknamed 'Jiback', for over 7 years Rafael Brito has been editor-in-chief at JBox, one of the oldest Brazilian websites devoted to anime, manga, tokusatsu and all the japanese pop culture information.

Ricardo Santiago     Ricardo Santiago, better known as Rik, works as a content creator since 2008, producing a number of different, irreverent and creative segments on his YouTube channel and his livestreams. One of his most popular segments, Vamos Falar De... (Let's Talk About...), went on to become a succesful standalone channel.

Ryo Koarai     Ryo Koarai is an anime watcher and columnist at Kawadon-entertainment in Japanese talent agency, Miki-production. She watches over 100 anime titles aired and distributed in Japan every week since 2012, thus watches anime more than anyone else in Japan today. She writes anime-related columns on Yahoo! News Japan and is often invited to national TV news programs as a guest commentator. Additionally, she studies anime from an academic perspective as a Ph.D. candidate at Hokkaido University.

Semyon Kostin     Semyon is a staff journalist for online media DTF and regularly writes about anime, games, and movies. He has been watching anime since the mid-90s and still continues.

Sloan Lester     Known as Sloan The Female Otaku on YouTube, TikTok, Instagram and Twitter, Sloan is back to help judge the awards for a third time. Otaku isn't just for show, as she's seen over 300 anime and continues to educate others on anime across all platforms.

Sydney Sures     Anime content creator on Tiktok with the handle @morallygreyismyfavcolor. Long time anime fan, wildly over active imagination, and too much time on her hands. Wants to be a ninja, but knows she bruises way too easily; settles for reading fanfiction instead. Overshares her anime-centered daydreams on social media for others who share her same brand of crazy.

Theo Ellis     Theo J Ellis is the Founder of Anime Motivation, the largest anime site in the UK. And the biggest site dedicated to anime quotes and life lessons.

Tristan Gallant     Tristan "Arkada" Gallant is a Canadian YouTuber known for reviewing Japanese animation with his series Glass Reflection since early 2009, gaining a following of over 500K subscribers. With a variety of red outfits and overly enthusiastic expressions, he has displayed his passion for anime since his start, covering everything from shows like Mob Psycho 100 and Shirobako to related topics such as anime legality and industry support.

Valentin Paquot     Between the 80s and 90s France had what they call the "Generation Club Dorothée," a generation blessed with hours of anime on National TV. Nursed with high quality classic like Touch, Kimagure Orange Road, Saint Seiya, Dragon Ball, and many more, Valentin got hooked. Now, thanks to simulcast services, the availability of anime has never been so great. Valentin genuinely likes all kinds of anime, but has a particular sweet tooth for slice of life stories and worships Akemi Takada.

Quoc Viet Nguyen     Viet Nguyen is a video games journalist and host at Rocket Beans TV (YouTube & Twitch). He discusses anime and manga in his monthly podcast "Nani?! - Der Anime-Talk" and streams various games on his own Twitch channel. On Twitter, Instagram and Twitch, you can find him @Pixelviet.

Nezu aka "Madara's Daughter" Madara's Daughter is a content creator who dwells in the Anime Kingdom 24/7, cosplays, and would at least like to think she's funny!

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Memasuki bulan Maret 2018, tentunya akan ada banyak game yang akan dirilis pada bulan ini. Dari kesekian banyak game yang akan dirilis, mimin akan memberikan informasi tentang game-game apa saja yang wajib kamu antisipasi kehadirannya dibulan ini. Diantaranya ada: Final Fantasy, Attack on Titan 2, Far Cry 5, dan masih banyak lagi.

Final Fantasy: Windows Edition & Royale Edition (PC, Xbox One, PlayStation 4 - 7 Maret)

Final Fantasy XV Royale Edition dan Final Fantasy XV Windows Edition sendiri rencananya akan dirili secara bersamaan pada tanggal 7 Maret 2018. Keduanya akan dirilis pada waktu yang bersamaan dan akan menawarkan tambahan konten berupa 20 add-ons hingga DLC terbaru yang tidak perlu kamu beli lagi.

Sekedar informasi, untuk Final Fantasy: Windows Edition akan mencakup tekstur berkualitas tinggi yang ditingkatkan dimana semua assetnya beresolusi 4K, Dolby Atmos, realistic grass simulation, advanced hair simulation, fire dan smoke simulation, advanced shadow algorithms, dan ambien occlusion berkualitas tinggi serta mendukung screenshoots berteknologi Ansel milik NVIDIA.

Attack on Titan 2 (PlayStation 4, Xbox One. PC - 20 Maret)

Pertama kali diumumkan pada ajang Tokyo Game Show 2017 lalu, Attack on Titan 2 telah mendapatkan respon yang positif dengan harapan yang begitu besar dengan adanya perbaikan diberbagai sisi, dimana seri sebelumnya banyak sekali bug yang menjengkelkan.

Selain itu, Attack on Titan 2 akan menghadirkan 30 karakter lainnya. Setiap karakternya juga didesain sesuai kemampuan dan gaya bertarung mereka di medan pertempuran. Selain itu, fungsi dari 3D Manuever Gear juga mendapatkan peningkatan dan kontrol yang lebih responsif dibandingkan seri sebelumnya. Sekilas, game ini memang layak untuk diantisipasi.

Ni no Kuni II: Revenant Kingdom (PlayStation 4, Xbox One, PC - 23 Maret)

Ni no Kuni II: Revenant Kingdom mungkin menjadi daftar game yang kamu diantisipasi di tahun 2018 ini. Setelah berbagai penundaan yang dilakukan. Akhirnya Bandai Namco memutuskan untuk merilis game tersebut pada 23 Maret 2018.

Ni no Kuni II: Revenant Kingdom ini akan menghadirkan beberapa fitur baru, seperti storyline yang emosional, karakter baru, dan juga gameplay yang inovatif. Kamu juga akan disuguhkan dunia yang luas dengan efek animasi pertarungan yang fantastis.

A Way Out (PlayStation 4, Xbox One, PC - 23 Maret)

Pertama kali diumumkan pada ajang E3 2017, A Way Out hadir dengan respon yang cukup positif karena menawarkan mekanisme gameplay yang cukup unik. Game ini akan menyuguhkanmu petualangan koperatif yang menuntut kamu untuk kabur dari penjara bersama temanmu. meskipun terdapat fitur online co-op, sang developer mengungkapkan bahwa game ini sangat seru dimainkan berdua bersama teman melalui fitur local co-op.

Game ini menceritakan dua orang sahabat, yaitu Vincent dan Leo yang ingin segera keluar dari penjara untuk bertemu dengan keluarga mereka. Kalian berdua dituntut untuk merencanakan aksi kabur dari penjara dari mulai mencari jalan keluar terbaik hingga melawan petugas. Kerja sama kalian berdua akan dituntut

Far Cry 5 (PlayStation 4, Xbox One, PC - 27 Maret)

Far Cry memang salah satu franchise andalan Ubisoft yang selalu dinanti kehadiran seri terbarunya. Resmi diumumkan pada bulan Mei 2017 lalu, tentunya para gamer yang melihatnya terkagum-kagum terhadap perubahan yang signifikan dalam franchise open world FPS tersebut.

Kamu akan berada di sebuah kota di Amerika yang dinamai dengan Hope County di daerah Montana. Far Cry 5 akan menyuguhkan dunia open-world yang sesungguhnya dengan era modern dimana kamu akan bebas menjelajahi seluruh peta. Kamu bisa mengeksplorasi seluruh wilayah dengan berbagai macam kendaraan serta berbagai macam senjata khas Amerika untuk bertahan hidup.

Nah gamezoners, game yang mimin sebutkan diatas adalah game yang direkomendasikan dan tentu wajib kamu coba. Adapun jadwal rilis game lainnya di bulan Maret 2018, kamu bisa lihat dibawah ini:

Devil May Cry HD Collection (PlayStation 4, Xbox One, PC) - 13 Maret

Kirby Star Allies (Switch) - 16 Maret

Burnout Paradise Remastered (PlayStation 4, Xbox One, PC) - 16 Maret

Assassin's Creed Rogue: Remastered (PlayStation 4, Xbox One, PC) - 20 Maret

Sea of Thieves (Xbox One, PC) - 20 Maret

Detective Pikachu (3DS) - 23 Maret

Atelier Lydie & Suelle: The Alchemists and the Mysterious Paintings (PlayStation 4, Switch, PC) - 27 Maret

Agony (PlayStation 4, Xbox One, PC) - 30 Maret

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2015 MOVIE TRIBUTE from Max Shishkin on Vimeo.

Music: Hans Zimmer – The Outside Is Temporary (OST Chappie) Tom Holkenborg aka Junkie XL – Brothers In Arms (OST Mad Max: Fury Road)

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Movie list: 1. A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence Bone Tomahawk 2. Absolutely Anything 3. American Hero 4. American Horror Story: Hotel 5. American Ultra 6. Ant-Man 7. Ash vs Evil Dead 8. Avengers: Age of Ultron 9. Bai ri yan huo 10. Beasts of No Nation 11. Big Game 12. Black Mass 13. Bloodsucking Bastards 14. Bone Tomahawk 15. Boulevard 16. Bridge of Spies 17. By the Sea 18. Carol 19. Chappie 20. Concussion 21. Creed 22. Crimson Peak 23. Daredevil 24. Demolition 25. Dope 26. Entourage 27. Everest 28. Everly 29. Ex Machina 30. Fantastic Four 31. Fifty Shades of Grey 32. Focus 33. Freeheld 34. From Dusk Till Dawn: The Series 35. Furious Seven 36. Goosebumps 37. Hannibal 38. Heroes Reborn 39. Hidden 40. Hitman: Agent 47 41. Ich seh, ich seh 42. Il racconto dei racconti 43. In the Heart of the Sea 44. Insurgent 45. Irrational Man 46. It Follows 47. Jessica Jones 48. Joy 49. Jupiter Ascending 50. Jurassic World 51. Kill Your Friends 52. Kingsman: The Secret Service 53. Knock Knock 54. Last Knights 55. Life 56. Love 57. Ma ma 58. Macbeth 59. Mad Max: Fury Road 60. Maggie 61. Magic Mike XXL 62. Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials 63. Me and Earl and the Dying Girl 64. Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation 65. Mississippi Grind 66. Mr. Holmes 67. Mr. Robot 68. Narcos 69. Nie yin niang 70. No Escape 71. Pan 72. Paulo Coelho's Best Story 73. Pawn Sacrifice 74. Pixels 75. Point Break 76. Prince 77. Return to Sender 78. Run All Night 79. San Andreas 80. Saul fia 81. Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse 82. Self/less 83. Shingeki no kyojin 84. Sicario 85. Sinister 2 86. Slow West 87. Southpaw 88. Spectre 89. Spotlight 90. Spy 91. Standoff 92. Star Wars: The Force Awakens 93. Steve Jobs 94. Straight Outta Compton 95. Sunset Song 96. Terminator Genisys 97. The 33 98. The Age of Adaline 99. The Big Short 100. The Danish Girl 101. The Dressmaker 102. The Face of an Angel 103. The Final Girls 104. The Forbidden Room 105. The Forger 106. The Gift 107. The Gunman 108. The Hateful Eight 109. The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2 110. The Lady in the Car with Glasses and a Gun 111. The Last Witch Hunter 112. The Legend 113. The Lobster 114. The Man from U.N.C.L.E. 115. The Martian 116. The Night Before 117. The Program 118. The Revenant 119. The Stanford Prison Experiment 120. The Transporter Refueled 121. The Walk 122. Tokyo Tribe 123. Tomorrowland 124. Trainwreck 125. True Detective 126. Trumbo 127. Turbo Kid 128. Two Men in Town 129. Victor Frankenstein 130. We Are Your Friends 131. Winter 132. Youth 133. Z for Zachariah

[thenukarmer-blog]

PS4 Release Dates

January

Spheroids (PS4) - January 11th

The Flame in the Flood: Complete Edition (PS4) - January 17th

2064: Read Only Memories (PS4) - January 17th

Fate/Extella: The Umbral Star (PS4) - January 17th (US)

Siegecraft Commander (PS4) - January 17th

Xenoraid (PS4) - January 17th

Gravity Rush 2 (PS4) - January 18th (UK/EU)

Valkyria Revolution (PS4) - January 19th (Japan)

Gravity Rush 2 (PS4) - January 20th (US)

Fate/Extella: The Umbral Star (PS4) - January 20th (UK/EU)

Resident Evil 7: Biohazard (PS4) - January 24th

Yakuza 0 (PS4) - January 24th

Tales of Berseria (PS4) - January 24th (US)

Earthlock: Festival of Magic (PS4) - January 24th

Digimon World: Next Order (PS4) - January 27th (UK/EU)

Tales of Berseria (PS4) - January 27th (UK/EU)

Dynasty Warriors: Godseekers (PS4) - January 29th (US)

Double Dragon 4 (PS4) - January 30th (Japan)

Hitman: The Complete First Season (PS4) - January 31st

Double Dragon 4 (PS4) - January 31st

Resident Evil 7: Biohazard - Banned Footage Vol. 1 (PS4) - January 31st

Knee Deep (PS4) - January 31st

Digimon World: Next Order (PS4) - January 31st (US)

February

Dexed (PS4) - February 1st

Dynasty Warriors: Godseekers (PS4) - February 1st (UK/EU)

Naruto Storm 4: Road to Boruto (PS4) - February 3rd

Nioh (PS4) - February 7th

VR Ping Pong (PS4) - February 7th

Kitty Powers' Matchmaker (PS4) - February 7th

Nioh (PS4) - February 8th (UK/EU)

For Honor (PS4) - February 14th

Sniper Elite 4 (PS4) - February 14th

Resident Evil 7: Biohazard - Banned Footage Vol. 2 (PS4) - February 14th

VR Tennis Online (PS4) - February 16th (Japan)

Berserk and the Band of the Hawk (PS4) - February 21st (US)

Night in the Woods (PS4) - February 21st

Psychonauts in the Rhombus of Ruin (PS4) - February 21st

Ys Origin (PS4) - February 21st (US)

Typoman: Revised (PS4) - February 21st

Forma.8 (PS4) - February 22nd

NieR: Automata (PS4) - February 23rd (Japan)

Berserk and the Band of the Hawk (PS4) - February 24th (UK/EU)

Horizon: Zero Dawn (PS4) - February 28th (US)

Ghost Blade HD (PS4) - February 28th

February (Tentative)

Summon Night 6: Lost Borders (PS4) - February 2017

March

Horizon: Zero Dawn (PS4) - March 1st (UK/EU)

LEGO Worlds (PS4) - March 3rd (UK/EU)

NieR: Automata (PS4) - March 7th (US)

Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Wildlands (PS4) - March 7th

LEGO Worlds (PS4) - March 7th (US)

NieR: Automata (PS4) - March 10th (UK/EU)

Senran Kagura: Peach Beach Splash (PS4) - March 16th (Japan)

Danganronpa 1&2 Reload (PS4) - March 17th (UK/EU)

Mass Effect: Andromeda (PS4) - March 21st (US)

Toukiden 2 (PS4) - March 21st (US)

Mass Effect: Andromeda (PS4) - March 23rd (UK/EU)

Zero Escape: The Nonary Games (PS4) - March 24th

Toukiden 2 (PS4) - March 24th (UK/EU)

Vikings - Wolves of Midgard (PS4) - March 28th

Snake Pass (PS4) - March 28th (US)

Snake Pass (PS4) - March 29th (UK/EU)

Danganronpa 1&2 Reload (PS4) - March 31st (US)

March (Tentative)

Styx: Shards of Darkness (PS4) - March 2017

Has-Been Heroes (PS4) - March 2017 (US)

April

Persona 5 (PS4) - April 4th

Drawn to Death (PS4) - April 4th

LEGO City Undercover (PS4) - April 4th (US)

Bulletstorm: Full Clip Edition (PS4) - April 7th (US)

LEGO City Undercover (PS4) - April 7th (UK/EU)

Yooka-Laylee (PS4) - April 11th

Starblood Arena (PS4) - April 11th

Micro Machines: World Series (PS4) - April 21st (UK/EU)

Dragon Quest Heroes II (PS4) - April 25th (US)

Puyo Puyo Tetris (PS4) - April 25th (US)

Little Nightmares (PS4) - April 28th

Portal Knights (PS4) - April 28th (UK/EU)

Akiba's Beat (PS4) - April 28th (UK/EU)

Dragon Quest Heroes II (PS4) - April 28th (UK/EU)

Puyo Puyo Tetris (PS4) - April 28th (UK/EU)

April (Tentative)

Micro Machines: World Series (PS4) - April 2017 (US)

Bulletstorm: Full Clip Edition (PS4) - April 2017 (UK/EU)

May

Akiba's Beat (PS4) - May 2nd (US)

Portal Knights (PS4) - May 2nd (US)

PREY (PS4) - May 5th

FarPoint (PS4) - May 16th

Injustice 2 (PS4) - May 16th

Samurai Warriors: Spirit of Sanada (PS4) - May 23rd (US)

Samurai Warriors: Spirit of Sanada (PS4) - May 26th (UK/EU)

Star Trek: Bridge Crew (PS4) - May 30th

May (Tentative)

RiME (PS4) - May 2017

Battalion 1944 (PS4) - May 2017

The Surge (PS4) - May 2017

June

Tekken 7 (PS4) - June 2nd

The Elder Scrolls Online: Morrowind (PS4) - June 6th

Danganronpa Another Episode: Ultra Despair Girls (PS4) - June 23rd (UK/EU)

Danganronpa Another Episode: Ultra Despair Girls (PS4) - June 27th (US)

Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy (PS4) - June 30th

June (Tentative)

DiRT 4 (PS4) - June 2017

July

Final Fantasy XII: The Zodiac Age (PS4) - July 11th

August

Middle-earth: Shadow of War (PS4) - August 25th

Q3 2017

Yakuza: Kiwami (PS4) - Q3 2017 (US)

WipEout: Omega Collection (PS4) - Q3 2017

December (Tentative)

Shenmue III (PS4) - December 2017

2017 (Tentative)

SUPERHOT (PS4) - 2017 (US)

Get Even (PS4) - 2017

Detroit: Become Human (PS4) - 2017

Vampyr (PS4) - 2017

Gran Turismo Sport (PS4) - 2017

Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night (PS4) - 2017

God of War (PS4) - 2017

Uncharted: The Lost Legacy (PS4) - 2017

Outlast 2 (PS4) - 2017

Sonic Mania (PS4) - 2017

Absolver (PS4) - 2017

Assassin's Creed Empires (PS4) - 2017

Star Wars Battlefront 2 (PS4) - 2017

Metal Gear Survive (PS4) - 2017

Ni no Kuni II: Revenant Kingdom (PS4) - 2017

Red Dead Redemption 2 (PS4) - 2017

Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown (PS4) - 2017

South Park: The Fractured But Whole (PS4) - 2017

Pyre (PS4) - 2017

Destiny 2 (PS4) - 2017

Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony (PS4) - 2017

Sudden Strike 4 (PS4) - 2017

Insurgency: Sandstorm (PS4) - 2017

Death's Gambit (PS4) - 2017

Elite Dangerous (PS4) - 2017

Knack 2 (PS4) - 2017

Project Sonic 2017 (Tentative Title) (PS4) - 2017

PaRappa The Rapper (PS4) - 2017

Skyforge (PS4) - 2017

LocoRoco (PS4) - 2017

Nex Machina (PS4) - 2017 (US)

Tokyo Xanadu EX+ (PS4) - 2017

Marvel vs Capcom: Infinite (PS4) - 2017

Brawlout (PS4) - 2017

Patapon (PS4) - 2017

Shiness: The Lightning Kingdom (PS4) - 2017

Dead by Daylight (PS4) - 2017

Perception (PS4) - 2017

ARK Park (PS4) - 2017

Yonder: The Cloud Catcher Chronicles (PS4) - 2017

Ruiner (PS4) - 2017

MLB 17: The Show (PS4) - 2017 (US)

Dreadnought (PS4) - 2017 (US)

Vane (PS4) - 2017 (US)

Malicious Fallen (PS4) - 2017

Star Wars Battlefront 2 (PS4) - 2017

Super Mega Baseball 2 (PS4) - 2017

New Hot Shots Golf (PS4) - 2017 (Japan)

Dragon Quest XI (PS4) - 2017 (Japan)

Musou Stars (PS4) - 2017 (Japan)

Earth Defense Force 5 (PS4) - 2017 (Japan)

Q1 2018

Yakuza 6 (PS4) - Q1 2018 (US)

2018 (Tentative)

The Last of Us: Part II (PS4) - 2018

Lost Soul Aside (PS4) - 2018

GreedFall (PS4) - 2018

The Banner Saga 3 (PS4) - 2018