Video Subbing: KAWAMURA RYUICHI ON WARATTE IITOMO (JULY 2011)

Here's an interview of Kawamura Ryuichi from the popular band LUNA SEA on the show 'Waratte Iitomo'.

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This is Kawamura Ryuichi, the vocalist for popular band Luna Sea.

                                         Back in the day                                           Now

WARATTE IITOMO
'Waratte iitomo' (笑っていいとも), which means, 'It's okay to laugh', is a daytime TV show, hosted by comedian Tamori. It is aired (almost) live, and is on at 12:00 to 1:00 every weekday. They have a corner where they interview famous people, who then invite the guest for the next day. They also do a game where they ask a yes or no question with the aim of getting just one person from the audience answering yes. 

People also send in flowers for their friends and peers that appear on this show. Tamori points out those sent in from 'Shinya' which is the drummer for Luna Sea, the rest of the band members one's were next to that. Another one he points out is from AVEX, which is a record company. The last one was from Yoshiki of X-Japan fame. If you looked carefully there was also one from Gackt.

ARASHIGA OKA

'Arashiga Oka' (嵐が丘) is the Japanese title for 'Wuthering Heights', a novel by famous author Emily Bronte. It's considered a classical piece of English literature.

W-inds

W-inds is a three member Japanese Rnb boy group. They started when they were still around 14 (or younger maybe. Not sure) and were very popular. I think they broke up and got back together recently.

KOUHAKU SONG CONTEST

Kouhaku Song Contest is a song contest that airs on NHK every new years eve. Top music stars, old and new, appear on this show on either the Red team or the White team. One contestant from each team sing, and the winner is voted out of the two. Which ever team with the most points is the winner.

GOLD AND BLUE DRIVERS LICENCE
What the hell are gold and blue driver's licences? In Japan, if you drive safely and don't get caught breaking rules for a certain amount of time, your licence gets upgraded to a 'Gold' licence. If you have a gold one, you only have to go renew it every 5 years, as opposed to three, if you have a blue one. You also become eligible for a 'Safe Driver' card, which allows you to get discounts at various places like hotel, hot springs, car rentals among some other stuff.

BLUE has a blue strip

GOLD has a golden strip

KATAOKA AINOSUKE

Kataoka Ainosuke is a famous Kabuki actor. Kabuki is a traditional style of play, which is characteristically known as the one where actors wear a lot of make up and do exaggerated movements, and a peculiar way of talking.

KATAOKA AINOSUKE

EXAMPLE OF KABUKI

And that's it. Any questions or requests, as always, are welcome. Please just leave a comment about it.

Good bye


....Today's random picture is........

Hyper long leg kid.

FINAL FANTASY TYPE-0 REISHIKI (PSP) RELEASE DATE CONFIRMED (plus character pictures)

Many of you may know that there is another Final Fantasy game soon to be released on the Playstation Portable. The release date has been revealed on the official website, and it is slated to hit shelves on the 13th of September in Japan. It's theme song will be sung by the band 'Bump of Chicken'.

I haven't researched much about it so that I don't know everything about it before I play, so I can't really tell you much about it. It looks like a fusion between Harry Potter and Final Fantasy, and the game is supposed to be set in some sort of combat school. Even the school is a castle, so the scenery resembles, Harry Potter's Hogwart School as well.

Looks interesting enough though.

Anyway, since it's going to be out soon I've posted promotional CG's of the characters,......because I had them, and they're pretty cool. So yeah, here they are.

These are the characters that you can control. There's a couple that haven't been released yet though.

That girl with the scythe thingy looks cool.

ACE

This guy is meant to be the main character. Fairly plain looking in my opinion. Apparently he somehow uses a deck of cards to fight. Not sure how though. Maybe like Yugioh and summoning monsters, or throws them around like Gambit off X-Men.........

They kind of look like Tarot cards though....

DEUCE

That's a flute she's holding......

SICE

SEVEN

EIGHT

Pretty creative with the names huh? Just numbers in English and some other one (French?). How would you like to be called Eight?

NINE

It would be annoying if people actually did poses like this in real life while they were just sitting around.

JACK

QUEEN

KING

MACHINA KUNAGIRI

REM KUNAGIRI

HOGWARTS?

Uncontrollable Characters

      CHALIA CHIVAL IV                    ARECIA AL-RASHIA                       KURASAME

                      MOG                                                                       IZANA

                     CID AULSTYNE                                                    QATOR BASHTOR




                                          GIRUGAMESH

                              

And that't it for today. There's two or three more playable characters but haven't had their pictures released yet. You can see them in the picture above though. One is the blonde guy with the bow and arrow. The others are a girl with a mace and another with a gun (she has a shot gun in the game though)

I challenge you......to a DUEL!!

Be silent fool!
You are in the presence of the King of Games!

WHAT IF? ANIME CHARACTER'S GENDERS WERE REVERSED?

 , I've got a weird post today. 

From my mass collection of random pictures, I've found some of anime characters if they were the opposite sex. Errm that's pretty much all I need to explain about it really. Male characters are drawn as females, females are drawn as males.

*I got these from a Japanese site and Japanese males on the internet tend to be pretty perverted so most if not all of them are males to females but anyway......

LUFFY D. MONKEY (ONE PIECE)

PORTGAS D. ACE (ONE PIECE)

RORONOA ZORO  (ONE PIECE)

BROLLY (DRAGON BALL Z)

EDWARD ELRICH (FULL METAL ALCHEMIST)

YUGI BOY (YU-GI-OH!)

I've got more, but thought I might leave them for another day. 

Ice Cube says it best.

"Checketty check yo self before you wreck yourself, 

because too many pictures are bad for you health"

Well not really but who cares......Time for one last picture

RIKUM (DRAGON BALL Z)

                                    BYE!!