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Thursday, 18 August 2011

Video Subbing: (REQUEST) ARASHI NI SHIYAGARE! with HOTEI TOMOYASU [21.05.2011]

Hey there people! Here's another video subbing of an Arashi ni Shiyagare! episode featuring legendary guitarist Hotei Tomoyasu (Hotei Profile).


(Thank you to Danisha for the request (o^∇^o)ノ )


Comparatively to other videos they spent more time not talking (playing with dogs and guitars) or squabbling stuff that wasn't worth translating (like wow! and cool!) so it didn't take as long as I expected!


Which was good.


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TRANSLATION NOTES


MIZUKI ICHIROU
Mizuki Ichirou is a famous singer of anime themes of the 70's and 80's. The most famous of these is the theme song for Mazinger Z. At the end of this song he shouts out "Z!!" while thrusting out his finger to point to the front. This was made even more famous by shows like Downtown's 'Gaki no Tsukai' where he occasionally features. He is often used in the "Don't laugh game" as well. I remember one where he pretends to be working at a petrol station and keeps repeating "Z!" while filling up their car with petrol and cleaning it's windows and stuff.....
(Japanese petrol stations aren't self serve, they get some assistant dude to do it for you)




Mizuki Ichirou -Mazinger Z Theme-


In this one he says "Z!!!" near the start. so you can see what it's supposed to look and sound like.


MIKI-SAN



Imai Miki is Hotei Tomoyasu's wife. She is a famous singer and actress. This is the song 'PRIDE' that was mentioned in the video, and is also her most famous song.




YAKINIKU
Yakiniku (焼肉) means 'Cooked Meat', and well it's just that, cooked meat. In the West you'd call this a barbecue. Instead of big steaks and sausages etc though, Japanese (and Korean) barbecues mostly use bite sized, thinly sliced meats. There are many different types of meats, and parts that usually won't be eaten (or used as barbecues in the West) are used, like some of the animals organs and even tongue. You might cringe at this if you're not used to it, but if you're not told what it is, you definitely won't be able to tell the difference (for most) and would just think that it's another normal part of the body and eat it up deliciously :). The part they eat in the video is Karubi (カルビ). This refers to meat from the rib area of the animal.


It is usually cooked on metal nets as said in the video. Since the meat is soft when put on it and get's hard as it cooks, it's prone to stick on and be hard to pull off (or it might just rip (-_-) ).




WOOLONG TEA
Woolong tea is a traditionally Chinese tea made from Camelia leaves. It is also very popular in Japan and pronounced 'u~ lon cha' (cha means tea). It is mostly drunk cold and is popular as refreshment during meals. Although their are a few variations in colour and taste, the most popular (in Japan at least) is a dark brown and slightly bitter tasting one.



CHA~SHU~ MEN
Chashu Men is a type of flavour of ramen (noodle). It has a pork flavoured soup, with Chashu pork, which is a Chinese styled flavoured barbecue pork. In China they do this by skewering lumps of meat covered in honey and soy sauce with a red colouring and cooking it whole in an oven. In Japan however don't use red food colouring and they roll up meat into a log and then braise it at a low temperature. This makes the meat a lot softer than the Chinese version.

 CHINESE

JAPANESE

CHASHU RAMEN

MABO DOFU
This is another Chinese food. It's tofu with a spicy chilli sauce. 


LITTLE TSU
A little 'tsu' is something that changes the intonation of pronouncing word in Japanese. You do not read this as 'tsu', as it is a symbol that represents a short break between the two letters it's positioned next to. 

A normal 'tsu' is this つ    example  つうろ =Tsuuro  (read normally as tsu)
A small 'tsu' is this  っッ  example インターネト= Intaanetto  (not read 'tsu')

When writing it in Romaji (English alphabet), these breaks would be shown by writing two of the same letter where it is present. (eg, Seppun, Sakka). 
*If it's a double vowel however, it means that the sound is extended though.

I think Italians have a similar thing, and write it the same way, like Pizza and Bendetti etc (?) I'm not sure though. Maybe someone that knows Italian reading this can tell me...

CASTANET
These are musical instruments that make a clicky clacky noise. It's basically just two palm sized pieces of wood or plastic connected to each other on one side with elastic or string. It's popular in Mediterranean countries. You probably would've heard them in latin flamenco music at some point, or played with them in kindergarten or something.... 


FOOTBALL HOUR
Football Hour are a manzai (type of Japanese comedy) duo. It consists Gotou Terumoto (the guy that appeared in the video) and Iwao Nozomu. Here's an post about them on Japanese comedy blog Owarai Hive.

You might recognise Iwao Nozomu ont this famous advertisement featuring Kimura Takuya a Gatsby male face wash product.


SUBETTA
The last thing on that "What's Hotei's guitar Saying?" game was "Football Hour no Gotou ga subetta". In English the literal meaning would be "Football Hour's Gotou slipped". Slipped (Subetta) in Japanese comedy terms means when a joke doesn't get any (many laughs). 

That might make sense to why Gotou said he'd be crying if he was home alone at that time.

 DARUMA SAN GA KORONDA
だるまさんがころんだ is game that kids often play. It means "The Daruma-san fell over". Although (as far as I know) it's not that popular in the West, I know that I played it at school in Australia a few times so it must exist and have some sort of name, but I can't remember what it is. 

To play the game, gather a group of friends. Choose one of them to be 'it'. That person turns their back to the others who stand by some distance away. The aim of the game is for one these other people to touch the person that is turned away as quickly as possible. However, they can only move while the 'it' person's back is turned. While the back is turned, the 'it' person has to say "Daruma-san ga koronda!". At 'da!', the 'it' person turns around, and if he/she catches any of the others moving, they are out of the game. Whoever touches the 'it' person switches positions with that person. You can delay the 'da!' and alter speeds of the phrase "daruma-san ga koronda" to try and trick people, or just simply make the game harder for them.

This is a DARUMA



Friday, 12 August 2011

Video Subbing: KIKKAWA KOJI on ARASHI NI SHIYAGARE (17.7.2010)

Hello!
I finally finished my latest video subbing project at last!
It's another episode of Arashi ni Shiyagare, this time featuring rock super star Kikkawa Koji. He was supremely popular in the 1980's and early to mid 90's, so he's not really well known among more recent generations. Never the less he was still e number one sweet heart of his generation, much like Kimura Takuya was for the last decade. (I wonder who it is nowadays? Maybe there isn't one just yet?)

This one took me forever for some reason! Well actually it's because it goes for a long time but I'm pretty sure it didn't take me this long with the Gackt episode. Maybe because GACKT talks really slowly.

Anyway enjoy しやがれ!

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Haha I just realised I spelled slurp as slirp. Daamn, that's what happens when there's no spell check.

I only found out about this person after subbing the 'Sakurai from Buck-Tick on Waratte iitomo video', and really only started to take interest after finding this arashini shiyagare! episode. I looked him up on youtubus and watched this music video of him with Hotei Tomoyasu (as the group, 'COMPLEX'), for the song 'Be My Baby).


I usually don't like music form the 80's but I found this one catchy plus their strange dancing made me watch it twice...and now I find myself suddenly humming the chorus and riff at times. I actually quite like it now. Apparently the two have joined up again to reform COMPLEX recently, which is interesting news.

EXPLANATION SECTION

Wow...I was anticipating to have to do a lot for this video but not this much....
Well here we go:

ANIKI
Aniki= Big Bro. I left it as aniki in most places in the video...If you found it confusing I'm sorry!

KITAGAWA THE WHISKEY MAN
At the start one of them were talking about how he learnt how to drink whiskey from a man called Kitagawa.
Kitagawa Kenzo is the man they were referring to. He's a successful novelist, mainly historical ones and ones with macho type manly man as main characters.....lol sorry about the weird explanation.


MARRIED MAN, SATOH KOUICHI
Kikkawa and Matsumoto apparently met at the marriage party of Satoh Kouichi, who is a Japanese actor. that's been in many movies such as Tarantino assisted 'Western Sukiyaki Jango', the horror film Spiral (aka Rasen), as well as many dramas. Although not a huge star, he is quite recognisable if you've seen lots of Japanese films.

ROMANCE OF THE THREE KINGDOMS
'The Romance Of The Three Kingdoms' are a series of Chinese novels based on the historical text of 'The Record of The Three Kingdoms'. I'm not that knowledgeable about any specific stories about this, but it's about actual wars and happenings of the highly unstable 'Six Dynasties' era in China, with...well three fighting kingdoms. You might know the John Woo movie, Red Cliff, featuring a host of Chinese stars and Takeshi Kaneshiro. This was based off events just prior to the Three Kingdoms era, and has many of same characters in it. The video game series 'Dynasty Warriors' is also based off this story. I've made the spelling for the characters in the video in the Chinese pronunciation, as they are pronounced differently in Japanese.


SOCCER PLAYER TAKEDA
This is Takeda Nobuhiro one of the legends of Japanese soccer. He played as striker during his playing career and was very prolific in front of goal for his team of 11 years, Verdy Kawasaki. After retiring he became a TV personality, and is well known for being an air head, and having really lame style and sense in most things. That's the reason why Arashi members made a lot of noise when they compared him to Kikkawa.

IDIOT

DROP KICK
This isn't specific to Japanese culture but I thought I might mention it as people that aren't interested in sport, especially those like rugby may not know what it is. A drop kick is when you time your kick to hit the ball when you drop it and it bounces on the ground slightly. This makes the ball go flying high up into the air. So if Kikkawa starts making kids that's what's going to happen to the birthrate in Japan. Shoot upwards.

TV SHOWS AND MOVIES
They mention a lot of movies and dramas.....here's a brief intro to them

HARU-CHAN: A drama adapted from manga about a widow who owns a hot spring, follows her struggles to keeping it running and other stuff widows have to deal with.

....featuring Shimamaru Setsuko島丸せつこ as 'Nakai-san'

                                                                                            Young times: mmmmm.......

KOGARASHI MONJIRO (木枯し紋次郎): Drama about a one-armed, lone swordsman travelling aimlessly around Japan. He bumps into trouble and slashes up bad guys, but stays cool about it and claims that "It's none of his business" before moving onto the next set of weak and troubled people. His costume style is pretty famous and popularly used.


ZATOICHI: Similar story as Kogarashi Monjiro, except this guy is blind. He's also a lot more famous, with many movies being made in the 70's and 80's with main character 'Ichi' being played by Shintaro Katsu. A more recent one was made by Takeshi "Beat" Kitano in 2003, which many of you may have seen as it got quite a bit of attention in the West.

                                        Takeshi                                                            Shintaro Katsu

TORA-SAN: Tora-san was the main character for movie series of 'Okoto wa Tsuraiyo' (Being a Man is Tough), which has spanned 48 titles over 30 years or so. It's about an unlucky and irresponsible, but friendly and likable man and his unsuccessful attempts with finding love and finally settling down. The movies usually follow the same plot, starting with him travelling somewhere in Japan and finding an interesting woman that seems to like him. He always ends up helping her be with another man, or doesn't realise that she's not interested in him, which is generally causes him to run off to some other part of Japan again. It's not just that though, as the story always has him return to his home town where his younger sister, uncle, auntie and various other friends live. There he deals with the embarrassment of being rejected by females all the time and various other things like family issues etc etc. What makes these films so popular however are how it is woven in with a lot of humour. It's good to watch one of these once in a while.


BEAT TAKESHI
Beat Takeshi, or more commonly known in the west as Takeshi Kitano, is one of the biggest stars of Japanese television. He started off as a manzai style comedian in the 70's and gained huge popularity for his rude content and vulgar language. He went on to host and star in many shows, write many books, and direct movies which have been very well received by the world. He has quite peculiar mannerisms, such as a twitch that makes him full up one side of his face and shoulder (after being in a motorcycle accident), and also identifiable for the way he walks; a crouched back and shuffled steps.

DEBUT SONG MONICA
Kikkawa's debut song, Monica. Ariyoshi actually kind of had the movements right. Plus I noticed that Kikkawa in the Arashi video twitches his face sometimes similarly to Beat Takeshi.



HOPPY
Hoppy is a beer flavoured non alcoholic drink (well it does have alcohol but very little) that was popular after the second world war, when beer was expensive and unobtainable for many. This used to be mixed with 'Shochu', a strong alcoholic beverage usually made form barley, sweet potatoes or rice. Although beer is much cheaper nowadays, Hoppy still exists and many people drink it.



KOFUN AND PIT HOUSE
A Kofun is an ancient grave/tomb in Japan that housed the remains of important people in history. Although they vary in size some can be huge, and they are often (although not necessarily) in a keyhole type of shape.



A Pit-house (at least the one they're referring to) is a primitive home. It it is basically a pit dug in the ground with a roof over the top. In Japanese it's called 'Tate-ana Shiki Juukyo' 竪穴式住居 which means 'vertical pit style housing'.


TACHIGUI SHOPS
Tachigui (立ち食い) means 'Eating while standing'. In Japan, businessmen often have very limited time to eat, so shops where food is served extremely fast, and eaten quickly by customers standing were produced, so that they can come and go in the shortest time possible. Like 5 minutes or something.


SOBA
Soba are thin brown noodles made out of buckwheat. There are many different 'types' although the only difference is what it is served with. I'll just explain the ones that came out on the show.

KITSUNE SOBA: The main difference of this soba is that it is served with abura-age (deep fried tofu). The abura-age loses it's original tofu like texture, and becomes like a sort of wet sponge. When it's put in soba or udon, it is nicknamed 'Kitsune' which means fox, as according to folklore, that is supposed to be their favourite food.


MORI SOBA: Is a simple soba, eaten with just the 'tsuyu' (flavouring soup) and maybe some other little toppings like spring onion, wasabi and 'nori' (seaweed). The noodles are served on a plate or a 'zaru', a flat bamboo....rollable thing (You'll see what I'm talking about in the picture. You pick up some from your plate, dip it into your bowl of 'tsuyu' and slurp it up as you go.
That wooden thing the soba is sitting on is the zaru
HIYASHI TORORO OKRA SOBA: This is a chilled soba with Tororo, a puree of yamaimo (means 'mountain potato', and called a yam in English). This becomes a flavourless white slimy substance, which I hate, as it's what I imagine a mouthful of slightly foamy snot would be like. This dish would be even slimier since it's go okra in it too.... 


OTHER FOOD
OHITASHI: Is chilled boiled vegetables (most commonly spinach) flavoured in soy sauce based sauce, and often served with 'Katsuobushi' (Dried Bonito shavings) or sesame seeds on top. 


INARI: Is what you get if you put a ball of vinegar flavoured rice in an abura-age. 'Inari' is also the Shinto God of foxes, and if you were reading the explanation of Kitsune soba properly, fried tofu is their favorite food. Hence the name 'Inari' for this food.



THE BOSS WROTE SONGS FOR ITSUKI HIROSHI
Itsuki Hiroshi (五木ひろし) was an extremely popular 'Enka' (traditional Japanese style music) singer, who had many hits in the 70's ~80's.

Left: They allowed horrible photos to be released back in the day...

Aaannnnd there were probably more but I couldn't find them while I quickly looked.
If you've got any questions, queries, requests, inquiries, problems, confusions, complaints, or just something to say, lol

please leave comment. I'll be waiting.


THANKS! seeyounexttime


Wednesday, 20 July 2011

Video Subbing: GACKT on ARASHI NI SHIYAGARE

チョリーッス!

Just reposting with the video's uploaded only on this as it got blocked on youtube. Sorry if you wanted to watch and couldn't.

I bring to you another video of Gackt that I subbed. This one is quite long and broken into three parts, each going for approx 14minutes.......so it took me ages to do....

But as long as you enjoy it, I'm satisfied.

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ARASHI
Arashi (means storm) is a super popular Japanese boy band, and almost definitely the successor to SMAP as most popular group, if they haven't already. I don't really know much about them as I'm not a fan of boy bands, but compared to the other groups I actually don't mind them much. They don't seem to be posers as much and seem more natural and good natured with their personalities. I suppose that's why they're so popular, as they can make enemies into at least neutrals.

Members from left to right in the picture is (in Japanese style- Last name first-):
Ninomiya Kazunari
Aiba Masaki
Matsumoto Jun
Sakurai Sho
Ohno Satoshi -leader, but doesn't act like it)


BIG BRO
Gackt appears on this show as an 'Aniki' 兄貴 (Big Bro) type character, and teaches the younger members of Arashi, the ways of a Gackt styled 'Perfect Life'.

'Aniki' is also often used in gangs when referring to members that are senior to you, and I think thats another reason they used this word, as Gackt has a bit of a badass aura.

They said at the start he must be busy going to the regional areas. I'm pretty sure they mean him helping out in the tsunami and earthquake hit areas, which were generally the countryside.

INAGAWA JUNJI
Inagawa Junji is a peculiar TV personality famous for telling scary supernatural stories. They said he's busy in the summer, as traditionally, summer is the season for telling scary stories and going to 'Kimodameshi' 肝試し (test of wits). This is basically going someplace scary, generally at night, and often rumored to be haunted to test your courage ........and get excited...I suppose. It's very common to see a scene of this in anime, usually as a ploy to get a girl close to male character (or vice versa).




CHOPSTICK CASE
Probably doesn't need explaining but here it is...


DIE WHILE STANDING
Gackt reveals his image of his own death. He says that before, he used imagine himself "Dying while standing, like Raoh". Raoh is the main bad guy off popular 80's manga/anime, Fist of the North Star. Raoh's death is a very famous scene, as he dies standing after screaming "I have not one regret!!".

Raoh dies in this position.


RIDING THE RED COMET
Gackt (and people around him apparently) call his red car, 'The Red Comet' (Akai suisei 赤い彗星). This is in reference to the Mobile Suit of Char Aznable from the anime, 'Mobile Suit Gundam'. Char's Mobile Suit is extremely fast, and leaves behind a red trail when he flies around, resembling a comet, and so is nicknamed 'Char the Red Comet' (Akai suiseui no Char 赤い彗星のシャー). It's well known that Gackt is an avid fan of Gundam, and this character.


I think video 3 didn't really have anything to explain since they were just playing around on the exercise machines for the most part.

If you have any questions or requests on videos to subtitle please contact me via commenting

じゃあ、またね!