This show is shockingly perverse. Granted, the series is upfront about it, since the OP chooses to display the six actresses with the shots below:
And of course the fact that the show airs at 1:30 in the morning should tell us something. 3 of the girls being 18-19 years old I guess it’s not as bad as it looks at first sight, but I am sure that the show would have been canceled in America after the first three minutes of episode 1.
Persona 4
Was it alcohol that the kids drank that night? Yes, it was.
Continue reading ‘Persona 4 15 / Mouretsu Pirates 3: The Truth’
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO LEIJI MATSUMOTO
[A new Space Pirate Captain Harlock fansite is online today. The French site is [here] and it’s the product of a collaboration between various Francophone Leijiverse superfans. In addition, it features content by starblazers.com‘s Tim Eldred and a review of a Harlock video game by myself. Since the review on the site is in French, I’m posting below the original English version for those interested. Do check out the site. It’s gorgeous!!]
“…Tochiro finally broke through to where Emeraldas and Harlock were already fighting Commander Nurem. They knew that the Mazone leader would not surrender and that this would be a fight to the death. As it turned out, Tochiro didn’t have to do anything. He just watched as Emeraldas fired one well-placed gravity beam and the Mazone burst into flames, howling as she went. The invasion had been thwarted for the moment, but Miime and Yuki lay dead, never to return…”
No, this is not my feeble attempt at fan fiction. It isn’t a dream I had either (in my dream it’s Daiba that dies). This is actually what I did the other day, playing the game Space Pirate Captain Harlock (SPCH) and beating Stage One in 7 turns, but at a terrible cost!
The SOPA bill is still very much an issue because clearly the thing isn’t dead, it’s just asleep.
GOOD SOPA.
It’s tempting to think this way: “let me check out which of the politicians that I like happens to be against SOPA and I’ll support that one”. That sounds clever, but the politicians are way too clever for you and once you start researching you’ll realize that right now practically all the presidential candidates (both Democrat and Republican, with the possible exception of Santorum, although even his statements are not very assertive) are against the bill.
The second episode picks up things exactly where the first one left off: with Aya-sensei explaining to the girls how to be a successful young idol by explicitly pandering to men’s desires.
Continue reading ‘Konna No Idol Janain?! 02: Things get Hairy’
Mouretsu Pirates
The episode does everything right. The story is getting set up very carefully and yet in an entertaining way, and I don’t have any bones to pick with the way things are going.. but I do want to beat up two of the characters, not because they’re being done badly, but just because of my particular tastes: Ririka and Kurihara.
Let me bring Leibniz into the discussion:
“It follows from the supreme perfection of God that he has chosen the best possible plan in producing the universe, a plan which combines the greatest variety together with the greatest order; with situation, place, and time arranged in the best way possible; with the greatest effect produced by the simplest means; with the most power, the most knowledge, the greatest happiness and goodness in created things which the universe could allow” (section 10 of Principles of Nature and of Grace, Based on Reason, tr. by Leroy E. Loemker).
Kinda of a creepy snapshot right there. How do we know they have proper faces??
The new Japanese sitcom with Aya Hirano started and of course being a fan I had to give it a look. An accurate translation of the title would be: “This is isn’t the way idols are, is it?!” The translation fails because the original has a pun with the number 9, and this is relevant because the series is essentially promotion for a teen idol group called 9nine.
I don’t know anything about them, nothing at all. I’m just watching it for Aya, and I have to say I set my bar pretty low. And then when I realized the episode was only 15 minutes long (and that’s including commercials and stuff) the bar practically fell to the floor. So there was very little chance that I would not watch the show.
And this one is out in March! HERE. It looks like this will be the first of several projects coming from the master in 2012 and 2013.
I commented elsewhere that since Leiji Matsumoto is very much into ancient astronaut theories as well as into the Mayan civilization, all of his activity recently might be linked to the year 2012. That’s a joke, maybe..
Chapter 10 of Ganso Dai Yojohan Dai Monogatari is titled 4½ Tatami Revolution, and the plot involves protagonist Futoshi Adachi finally getting what he had been waiting for so long: money from his dad back in Kyushu. It’s a whopping 10,000 yen, but when you live in Tokyo any amount of cash is bound to disappear very quickly!
tokyo beckons
Adachi’s new hostelmate, Masami, invites Adachi to a “party” at a snack bar called Capricorn. This Masami is a remarkable fellow. He speaks and acts in a stereotypically effeminate way while hanging out and sleeping with knock-out babes. Adachi is lured by the promise of women and pays the cover charge, then gets told to undress.
