| 10:09pm | 116. Don't Take Love for Granted (Special) | | | | Tony after he got punched, Skins Season 1Love is sometimes a piece of random crap on the ground, and you never know when people are going to step on it. Okay, that was a terrible analogy. Here's a new blurb on what I've seen in the media interpretation of love.In the recent weeks prior to my current... | | |
| 1:30am | 115. Kamui Gaiden (New Movie Review) | | | | Hello, fellow Japanese movie fans. I have recently watched the new Kamui Gaiden film at the Toronto International Film Festival, and here are my thoughts on the film. As many movie-info websites can tell you, this was a big, $18million USD budget ninja fiction film based on a 1960s manga called Kamui.... | | |
| 9:54pm | 114. Yamato Nadeshiko (Retro Drama Review) | | | | Nanako Matsushima 松嶋菜々子Today I watched a few romantic comedies from Korea and China. They made me think about the only J-drama series I watched over the summer (although if I had the time I would have watched Mr. Brain) --- Yamato Nadeshiko (lit. Japan Perfect Woman). If you've never watched... | | |
| 4:33am | 113. Deeply Felt Things... (Special + Movie) | | | | Zooey Deschanel on the cover of NYLON magazine.I am not a huge fan of the movie, (500) Days of Summer. However, I am a big fan of Zooey Deschanel. Ever since I saw her in Yes Man alongside Jim Carrey, I started to pay attention to the film works of this girl with the crystal blue eyes and smiles with... | | |
| 10:11pm | Summer Update: Crap! Someone Beat Me 2 It!! (News) | | | | Photo from akibanana.comThe last time I updated this blog was in June? NO! It was in April! I skipped a whole 4 months? Must be because I've been losing hope in my future in the anime industry. =_=;; Here's the truth: For about 3 years I've been planning my life so that I can get a job as a professional... | | |
| 3:40am | 112. The Girl Who Leapt Through Time (Movie) | | | | Info: Movie Title: The Girl Who Leapt Through Time (toki wo kakeru shoujou 時をかける少女)Year: 2006Runtime: 98 MinutesAnimation Team: MADHOUSEReview: The Girl Who Leapt Through Time won the Japanese Academy Award for Best Animation in 2006, the year of such great animations as Blood+, Suzumiya... | | |
| 3:34pm | 111. My Sketchbook (Special) | | | | Because I am taking visual arts for fun in university, and because it earns me no money whatsoever, here are some Japan-related things from my sketchbook. The references are up to you.I will update this in the future for more interesting thingies I find on the web.--------All images copyright 2009 by... | | |
| 9:07pm | 110. Muninshima ~Uninhabited Island~ Short Short (Animation) | | | | Animation - Uninhabited Island Short. (Art-Animation)Today I'm taking a break, and taking the easy-way-out in getting inspiration for a blog entry. I browsed through Youtube's "promoted videos" links and saw this adorably strange animation clip called "Muninshima" (or, Uninhabited Island). This video... |
| 3:41am | 109. Postmodernism and Aya-chan pt.2 (Special) | | | | Is he breakdancing or did he just fall down???Am I special? I ask myself this question now and then. Like many people, when I happen to feel confident at that very moment, I can easily locate the strengths I seem to have. However, in our post-modern society, simply being "good" isn't enough, because... | | |
| 8:33pm | 108. Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind (Retro Movie) | | | | Nausicaa poster render. Google Image search. Hayao Miyazaki, no infringement intended. *Note there are major movie spoilers here*Hayao Miyazaki (宮崎駿) is possibly the most widely known and influential Japanese director today. His film, Spirited Away (千と千尋の神隠し sen to chihiro no kamikakushi)... | | |
| 12:30am | 107. Postmodernism and Aya-chan pt.1 (Special) | | | | Nothing is what it seems. This is fundamental principle of postmodernism. According to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary Online clause b, it is "of, relating to, or being a theory that involves a radical reappraisal of modern assumptions about culture, identity, history, or language". Well, great, we have... | | |
| 9:00pm | Doubt (American Film Review) | | | | Doubt plays many things well. The first of which is the many symbolism used in the film. The wind blowing fallen leaves against the windowsill and against the characters symbolize the forces of judgement/misjudgement at work. When it blows against Sister James' window, it probably symbolizes her fear... |
| 12:20am | 106. flumpool (Preview) | | | | Not to be a hater or anything, but I just found out about the band flumpool about 20 minutes ago, and after listening to all their songs once, I've already gotten bored. This isn't to say, that this band does not have potential to make it in Japan. Let's take a look at where they come from. The band... |
| 4:27am | 105. KissXsis (Manga + Anime Predictions) | | | | Raw image taken from official KissXsis website, Kodansha, no infringement intended. The main explanation for the lack of Casshern Sins anime updates is that I've been busy with school work (and that I cannot race the pace of other bloggers always or make my post interesting enough for people not to wait... | | |
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