tokyo babylon, not in 2021
Mar. 28th, 2021 08:24 pmthe tokyo babylon 2021 saga continues: after discovering more plagiarism, they’ve stopped all production and are planning to start anew.
“modernizing” tokyo babylon was a mistake. the original costume designs were iconic, if they’d just gone with those they would have never gotten into this problem in the first place. the story itself was woven around the peak of the bubble economy and how it influenced the mainstream: the independent fashionable teen, the failure of the social net, the occult anxiety. the revival of city pop and popularity of orientalist retro-futurism means it is the perfect anime to become a new cross-cultural cult hit.
anyway, i hope they’ll keep shouta aoi on the cast as subaru, if only for the possible photoshoots.
Fandom Alphabet: A, B, C, O, R — Ships
Dec. 6th, 2020 03:20 pmDecided I might as well do this! I’m posting these in sets organized by theme, since I don’t think anyone wants me to post 26 times in a row. Grabbed from ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
naye.
Full list, if you want to do this yourself:
( A, B, C, O, R )
naye.Full list, if you want to do this yourself:
( A, B, C, O, R )
in defence of bl
Aug. 22nd, 2020 09:07 pmsomeone ripped off the manga seven days and westernized it, and when they were called out claimed it was because they were making it “realistic” to “lgbt culture”. (the book is date me, bryson keller and there are more details in this twitter thread.)
i hate this assumption that manga can’t be realistic to the lgbt+ experience; i hate this stereotype that bl manga creators are all cishet women when it’s plainly not true; i hate this idea that stories of japanese lgbt+ experiences cannot be valid because they must conform to western ones. there have been so many creators who have worked to push the boundaries of this genre their stories were sidelined to, to include and focus on lgbt+ stories in japanese mainstream media.
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make it up, emotion for salvation
Jul. 20th, 2019 08:53 pmI checked out yahyel last year because “TAO” popped up on my feed, but since its music video is psychological horror with very unsettling implications I noped the hell out. Because of this I didn’t check the rest of their discography out until this month and they’re not on my 2018 albums list, but Human is incredible. I’m obsessed with “Pale” and “Hypnosis”.
Another album I missed last year was cali≠gari’s 14, but it’s disappointing for a cali≠gari album. However, 2017’s 13 is cali≠gari in top form, up there with Dai 6 and Dai 7 in jazz rock and post-punk messiness along with the regular eroguro dissonance. I also missed a XA-VAT EP last year (közi of Malice Mizer fame & cali≠gari’s Shuuji being fashion), but it was limited release so good luck I’ll ever hear any of that.
As for this year, my top albums are shaping up to be CHAI, Sakanaction, and Tempalay. EPs currently only Gozensanji to Taikutsu. Also, because this is Japan and several CDs are unavailable unless I buy a physical CD possibly at a physical concert, I’m trying to get my hands on: mol-74, mol-74; Gomess, Teru; cali≠gari, 0; and Hector, Heisei Kyounen EP (Metronome’s Sharaku and cali≠gari’s Ao are involved; it’s a reboot of Cuckoo).
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I am back on the Ben Whishaw wagon like I never left summer 2012. It’s a good chance for me to watch all those TV shows I meant to watch seven years ago; I still haven’t finished The Hour. I think the last English TV show I watched prior to this bout of frenzy was either The Thick of It, In The Flesh s1, or possibly No Heroics. Maybe Grandma’s House or the first episode of London Spy? Anyway, Whishaw and Peter Capaldi will reunited in Armando Iannucci’s David Copperfield, starring Dev Patel and out later this year. That’s something to look forward to that won’t be a complete shitshow like Bond 25—even Phoebe Waller-Bridge can’t save that.
(Speaking of reunifications, I’d missed that Ben did another cameo in another Years & Years video, mostly because Palo Santo bored me as a concept and an album. Also Hugh Grant really seems to like working with Ben these days.)
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RIP KyoAni staff. Hearing that some of them were in their twenties and had just started working in April….
Another album I missed last year was cali≠gari’s 14, but it’s disappointing for a cali≠gari album. However, 2017’s 13 is cali≠gari in top form, up there with Dai 6 and Dai 7 in jazz rock and post-punk messiness along with the regular eroguro dissonance. I also missed a XA-VAT EP last year (közi of Malice Mizer fame & cali≠gari’s Shuuji being fashion), but it was limited release so good luck I’ll ever hear any of that.
As for this year, my top albums are shaping up to be CHAI, Sakanaction, and Tempalay. EPs currently only Gozensanji to Taikutsu. Also, because this is Japan and several CDs are unavailable unless I buy a physical CD possibly at a physical concert, I’m trying to get my hands on: mol-74, mol-74; Gomess, Teru; cali≠gari, 0; and Hector, Heisei Kyounen EP (Metronome’s Sharaku and cali≠gari’s Ao are involved; it’s a reboot of Cuckoo).
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I am back on the Ben Whishaw wagon like I never left summer 2012. It’s a good chance for me to watch all those TV shows I meant to watch seven years ago; I still haven’t finished The Hour. I think the last English TV show I watched prior to this bout of frenzy was either The Thick of It, In The Flesh s1, or possibly No Heroics. Maybe Grandma’s House or the first episode of London Spy? Anyway, Whishaw and Peter Capaldi will reunited in Armando Iannucci’s David Copperfield, starring Dev Patel and out later this year. That’s something to look forward to that won’t be a complete shitshow like Bond 25—even Phoebe Waller-Bridge can’t save that.
(Speaking of reunifications, I’d missed that Ben did another cameo in another Years & Years video, mostly because Palo Santo bored me as a concept and an album. Also Hugh Grant really seems to like working with Ben these days.)
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RIP KyoAni staff. Hearing that some of them were in their twenties and had just started working in April….
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Oct. 7th, 2017 10:27 pmStole this questionnaire off chagrined.
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Recently I was listening to Stars’ album Set Yourself On Fire and I remembered: oh, this is why I fell in love with music, listening to the strings and brass of “Your Ex-Lover Is Dead” resonate sadness and jubilance. It’s not about living it up at shows, it’s not about finding new bands; it’s about how one song can make you feel like you’re dying and reborn again.
on the eve of the yuri on ice finale
Dec. 21st, 2016 02:35 amBefore the last episode airs I just want to do some retrospection. Back in March when the first Yuri on Ice trailer aired and we knew nothing but the names of Yuuri, Victor, and Yuri, I was already over the moon. I finally had a figure skating anime, one with good animation and beautiful choreography. I was still worried of course, that they would make amateur mistakes about the figure skating world or the points system (I was fully prepared to write essays about GOE). But I was hopeful.
The first episode finally aired after months of waiting. I thought Victuuri was too over the top at first, but willing to forgive that for the good writing and relatable characters. Onsen on Ice seemed silly but it’s an anime, right? The choreography was good, the music was good, the animation was decent. All of my expectations were already met and I was delighted.
Then we started to see more of the skating world—the little things like skating club friendships, the small circle of competitive figure skating where everyone knows each other from being in the same events and banquets and hotels. The highs and lows that happen when you’re on the ice for long minutes by yourself with all of the stress in the world on you. The slowly development of Victor and Yuuri’s relationship from comic relief to something deeper and timeless. The involvement of world-renown skaters, from Evgenia Medvedeva’s cosplaying to Nobunari Oda and Stéphane Lambiel’s cameos. Watching Yuri on Ice making fans discover, or rediscover, a love of skating. In a few short months, it’s become something much larger than just a simple anime about figure skating.
Whatever comes after this, it’s been an amazing journey with Kubo-sensei, the Yuri on Ice team, and everyone else.
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The first episode finally aired after months of waiting. I thought Victuuri was too over the top at first, but willing to forgive that for the good writing and relatable characters. Onsen on Ice seemed silly but it’s an anime, right? The choreography was good, the music was good, the animation was decent. All of my expectations were already met and I was delighted.
Then we started to see more of the skating world—the little things like skating club friendships, the small circle of competitive figure skating where everyone knows each other from being in the same events and banquets and hotels. The highs and lows that happen when you’re on the ice for long minutes by yourself with all of the stress in the world on you. The slowly development of Victor and Yuuri’s relationship from comic relief to something deeper and timeless. The involvement of world-renown skaters, from Evgenia Medvedeva’s cosplaying to Nobunari Oda and Stéphane Lambiel’s cameos. Watching Yuri on Ice making fans discover, or rediscover, a love of skating. In a few short months, it’s become something much larger than just a simple anime about figure skating.
Whatever comes after this, it’s been an amazing journey with Kubo-sensei, the Yuri on Ice team, and everyone else.
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Dec. 19th, 2016 10:44 pmFirst Oda Nobunari and now Stephane Lambiel lending their voices to Yuri on Ice! This makes me intensely happy. I hope they throw a shout-out in to Evgenia Medvedeva at some point too, because she’s more or less responsible for the entire skating community watching YoI.
Anyway, I made a post on Tumblr a few weeks after the show started airing about Femininity, Men’s Skating, and Yuri on Ice (edit 2018/12/12: now crossposted to Dreamwidth), if you’re interested inmy thoughts on yoi the history of toxic masculinity and veiled homophobia in figure skating and why Yuri on Ice’s promotion of femininity in men’s skating should be applauded.
Also, ICYMI, Johnny Weir gave an in-depth interview with The Geekiary about how he felt watching Yuri on Ice.
Anyway, I made a post on Tumblr a few weeks after the show started airing about Femininity, Men’s Skating, and Yuri on Ice (edit 2018/12/12: now crossposted to Dreamwidth), if you’re interested in
Also, ICYMI, Johnny Weir gave an in-depth interview with The Geekiary about how he felt watching Yuri on Ice.
Yuri on Ice Episode 4
Oct. 26th, 2016 12:00 amThe Grand Prix competitions in Yuri on Ice are in the same locations as they are for the real 2016–2017 season, but they’re in the wrong order! Rostelecom Cup and Trophée de France happen 3rd and 4th respectively, and Cup of China and NHK Trophy follow afterwards.¹
Some quick thoughts about Yuuri’s free program:²
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Some quick thoughts about Yuuri’s free program:²
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Yuri on Ice acknowledging the “feminine” element of men’s figure skating means so much. For decades there have been loud voices in the skating community who insist that men’s skaters had to be masculine and macho, but Yuri on Ice embraced the feminine men’s skater as the style of a winner.
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(This was a reply to a thread on Tumblr on how ridiculous Victor’s free program from “last season” was.)
The only skater who bothers jumping 4 quads in his free skate is Jin Boyang, and he is ridiculously young and springy. Also who the heck does 4T as their last jump pass, never mind 4T–3T! Your last jump pass is for the easy jumps! The only reason anyone even bothers putting quads in the latter half of the program is because of the 10% bonus, as you’re going to be tired to death by then.
Also no choreographer worth their salt would have a program go directly from dicey quad combo into a spin combo at the very end of the program, because they would add a time delay in case the skater fell. Not completing your spin combo, or not completing your program on time, are both disastrous.
At least Victor didn’t have a 4Lo in his program or that would be the height of impossibility—reigning Olympic champion Yuzuru Hanyu only landed the first one ever in competition this month. Of course, the only person who does the 4Lz rather than 4S–3T or 4T–3T (or *-2T) is Adam Rippon because he loves lutzes that much.*
(*By regulation, you are only allowed to jump one of each type of jump per program, but you can get around this by doing combos. So skaters fit three quads in one program by comboing one of them.)
The only skater who bothers jumping 4 quads in his free skate is Jin Boyang, and he is ridiculously young and springy. Also who the heck does 4T as their last jump pass, never mind 4T–3T! Your last jump pass is for the easy jumps! The only reason anyone even bothers putting quads in the latter half of the program is because of the 10% bonus, as you’re going to be tired to death by then.
Also no choreographer worth their salt would have a program go directly from dicey quad combo into a spin combo at the very end of the program, because they would add a time delay in case the skater fell. Not completing your spin combo, or not completing your program on time, are both disastrous.
At least Victor didn’t have a 4Lo in his program or that would be the height of impossibility—reigning Olympic champion Yuzuru Hanyu only landed the first one ever in competition this month. Of course, the only person who does the 4Lz rather than 4S–3T or 4T–3T (or *-2T) is Adam Rippon because he loves lutzes that much.*
(*By regulation, you are only allowed to jump one of each type of jump per program, but you can get around this by doing combos. So skaters fit three quads in one program by comboing one of them.)
Yuri on Ice Episode 1
Oct. 5th, 2016 12:00 amJust watched the first episode of Yuri on Ice and oh my god it’s gay. It’s so gay. Victor straight up seducing Yuri K in his own home this is more than I could have ever imagined. I was expecting to write some kind of angsty Cup of China fic and instead I was delivered this right into my hands oh my god.
(I’m eagerly awaiting the scene where Victor finds Yuri K’s shrine to him 😏)
Okay, more serious thoughts:
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(I’m eagerly awaiting the scene where Victor finds Yuri K’s shrine to him 😏)
Okay, more serious thoughts:
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Mar. 27th, 2016 08:08 pmThere’s a crystalline beauty in stumbling across a fic which you like, and then you look up the writer’s œuvre and realize you’d read a fic by them ages ago on a different site in a completely different fandom and era. Like wandering among uni grounds in the beginning of the year and running into an old friend.
I’m having one of those weeks (months) where I can’t really breathe or move very much, and have compensated for it by diving much too deep into a fandom. So I’ve been reading a lot of KHR fic, and only just remembered that KHR was during LJ era so I actually have to look for rec lists and can’t just wade through AO3 and FFN. Both of which I already did, if you want to know how dire my straits are.
Anyway, Yuri on Ice! I’m incredibly excited for this anime. For one, it looks like they’re actually going to be semi-accurate to RL figure skating. I’ve read enough figure skating manga over the years to despair about this, multiple times. Secondly, the artistry shown in the 1st teaser alone—Viktor’s melancholy look up, hair flowing, hand moving in despair—wow. The sound of the ice scratching as a skater comes to a stop took me straight to the rink-side watching someone skate. Also Suwabe Junichi is voicing the artistic brooding Russian skater Viktor and ToyoToshi is voicing the go-getter main character Yuuri, so I’d probably have watched this regardless of the fact it’s all of my anime dreams come true at once.
(Fingers extremely crossed they don’t screw up the figure skating details because I have been known to rant about GOE for days on end. I recently confirmed how deeply I am in this hole as I was at a figure skating event among hardcore fans, and was somehow the person providing scoring commentary. Aiyah.)
I’m having one of those weeks (months) where I can’t really breathe or move very much, and have compensated for it by diving much too deep into a fandom. So I’ve been reading a lot of KHR fic, and only just remembered that KHR was during LJ era so I actually have to look for rec lists and can’t just wade through AO3 and FFN. Both of which I already did, if you want to know how dire my straits are.
Anyway, Yuri on Ice! I’m incredibly excited for this anime. For one, it looks like they’re actually going to be semi-accurate to RL figure skating. I’ve read enough figure skating manga over the years to despair about this, multiple times. Secondly, the artistry shown in the 1st teaser alone—Viktor’s melancholy look up, hair flowing, hand moving in despair—wow. The sound of the ice scratching as a skater comes to a stop took me straight to the rink-side watching someone skate. Also Suwabe Junichi is voicing the artistic brooding Russian skater Viktor and ToyoToshi is voicing the go-getter main character Yuuri, so I’d probably have watched this regardless of the fact it’s all of my anime dreams come true at once.
(Fingers extremely crossed they don’t screw up the figure skating details because I have been known to rant about GOE for days on end. I recently confirmed how deeply I am in this hole as I was at a figure skating event among hardcore fans, and was somehow the person providing scoring commentary. Aiyah.)
