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hotokeiki · 7 years

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Week 127: J-pop (St. Patrick’s Day special – IRISH~ish)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qj-6P-jMT_g

Happy St. Paddy’s Day!

I’m not gonna throw in the minna this time. That was weird…. yes it was.

Anyway, it’s now been over a month since my last post. Cuz that was Valentine’s Day, and White Day was Tuesday. Mou~ Kurisu no BAKA!!

I don’t feel like I’m obligated to explain, but I want to, so I’m gonna. Basically, I’ve been super stressed lately, and feeling overwhelmed by all the things I have “to do”.

My mind set hasn’t been great, and I’ve just felt like I don’t have time to do anything, which isn’t true. I’ve had a lot of time, but I tried to take my mind off my stress by watching Youtube videos, and then I ended up binge-watching. I wasn’t watching much anime, because those are longer than most of the videos I was watching. The problem is that when you binge-watch Youtube, it takes more time than watching a couple episodes of an anime.

I probably shouldn’t have gone on that road trip for Spring Break. My thinking for Spring Break was that I needed to catch up on school work and sleep. Josh has kept me on campus later more times than I care to count. We left campus when they were closing the buildings at 11:30 pm! So, I thought a change of scenery would be good, and I’d be able to catch up on sleep and school. Yeah, I didn’t know what I was getting into.

I’m in the process of making an update that will explain the whole trip in detail (look out for that), so I will summarize here.

I thought that we were going to drive down to Kansas City, and stay there for the duration of the trip. A couple of days with some intermittent activity, and time for me to catch up on sleep and do some homework. The details were a little fuzzy for the whole thing, and he said that we would play it by ear to a certain extent, which we did.

It was by no means a bad trip. I had a good time. It was kind of hectic at times, but a refreshing change of scenery.

We spent one night in each hotel, and spent a lot of time driving. And in some cases, we ended up at the hotel fairly late, so I slept in as much as I could. We also didn’t spend much time in any of the hotels, so I didn’t really have time to do any homework. We left on Saturday and got back on Thursday night.

When I got back, I ended up doing what I had done previously, and didn’t get anything done over the remainder of the break.

Anyway, long story short (Linda: Oh, we’re WAY past that point ;p)

.. shut up, Linda XD

I haven’t been very productive, but I’m doing better now. I feel like I actually have time to do this post, and get my homework done. Plus, this blog is important to me, and I think it helps me resolve things. It’s just good to get my thoughts out.

Anyway, it’s St. Paddy’s Day. Oh boi George, it’s that toym again.

As Oi’ve mentioned before, Oi’m a wee bit’Irish. O’Costelle on me mother’s mother’s soyd.

(I just watched this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwf08LmchUY&feature=share)

So, I kept the Irish and the Japanese separate this time. XD

Or did I?

Linda: Oh no..

So, let’s get to the post, let us.

Clover♣Kakumation by Triple♣Feeling is the first opening to Sansha Sanyou.

I haven’t watched the show, so here’s a summary from the Wikipedia article:

The story revolves around the everyday life of three high-school girls who all have a kanji "葉" (literally "leaf") in their names, and have different features - hence the translation of the title, "three leaves, three colors".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Leaves,_Three_Colors

(Not much to go by, but I’ll definitely watch it at some point.)

So, just like my first post this year (Week 126: PUNCH☆MIND☆HAPPINESS), I found this song on that really long list video of kawaii anime openings.

Here’s the link again: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tAFwFJ9gJnk (It’s number 26)

Seeing that little bit from the video was really exciting, because I’ve never heard anything like that before. It had quite an impact, so I found the full version, cuz that’s what I do.

And after listening to the full version, I said I am going to post this for St. Patrick’s Day!

I was actually plannin’ to post this next week, since I missed the Monday-to-Wednesday window, but I can post on a Friday if I want. Especially if it’s St. Paddy’s Day, by jaysus!

The beginning of the song and the verse have a quicker feel, and some of the singing has a fast rhythm. The chorus also has the same feel. Parts of it remind me of river stomp. And the instrumentation also has bit o’v an Irish feel to it, ya know? It just sounds like Irish J-pop to me, and I love it.

While keeping the Irish feel, this song also switches feels. The verse has a completely different feel to the lead up to the chorus, which both have a different feel than the chorus. And the bridge sounds completely different, and sounds the least bit Irish, but it works so well (fusawashii~) and is so refreshing (sugasugashii~). The voices also blend very well with each other while being quite different.

The transitions are flawless, and my main complaint is that it’s too short! It’s just a really fun song that’ll keep your attention with its great instrumentation, good harmonies, and rhythmic melody.

Have I mentioned that I really like this song?

Linda: Yes.

(*sigh* that was supposed to be rhetorical, Linda.)

Now, as the Wikipedia article mentioned, the three girls have the kanji "葉" in their names.

“Sansha Sanyou” in the original kanji is 三者三葉

breaking it down:

三 - Onyomi: “san” (three)

者 - Onyomi: “sha” (person)

葉 - Kunyomi: “ha”, Onyomi: “you” (leaf)

(I don’t see anything about 者 meaning color. So it could be very seldom used, or it’s another case of English titles making no sense. I hope it’s the former.)

The (sansha) “three people” (and the members of Triple♣Feeling) are:

1. Futaba Odagiri (小田切双葉) -> Odagiri Futa(ba): 小田切双(葉)

- Onyomi: “ba”, which is how you pronounce “ha” when preceded by a vowel.

2. Teru Hayama (葉山照) -> (Ha)yama Teru: (葉)山照

- Onyomi: “ha”

3. Youko Nishikawa (西川葉子) -> Nishikawa (You)ko: 西川 (葉)子

- Kunyomi: “you”

(Switched to family name followed by given name to relate to the kanji.)

I think it’s cool that they all have the same kanji in their names, but it’s pronounced differently in each!

And also, incorporating that into the title. Well done, Arai Cherry! Up ya boyo! XD

I’m definitely gonna check this out at some point.

Oh, right. Here’s the full version:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evEV3IzWJfA

You thought I forgot? Nah, I’ve been listening to it on and off for the last hour or so. That’s usually how these posts go. It’s really fun! XD

I also think it’s really cool that they worked every aspect of the full song into the opening, including the bridge. It perfectly captures the song!

Also, if you want lyrics, THAT ARE WRONG, here you go:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRsh_vbaVvY (WRONG LYRICS)

Did I mention THESE AREN’T THE ACTUAL LYRICS? I can’t stress enough that THESE LYRICS ARE WRONG!!

After watching it through and racking my head, because I knew, with the little Japanese I know, that the lyrics were wrong.

I was so confused that I looked up the lyrics. There isn’t really an English translation of the lyrics that I was able to find. Let me know if you find any, but I was surprised to see that the word SATAN is in the lyrics.

… Maybe, I shouldn’t’ve posted this on SAINT Patrick’s Day. XD

And Kissanime doesn’t appear to have subs on the opening, so we’re doomed. XD

And here’s a really cool orchestral version that I found.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewt7ldiufhc

This guy does some really cool stuff, and I found out that two of the songs that had been reposted on SoundCloud were from his channel! Both songs were arrangements of songs from Madoka Magica.

It’s been a really interesting day. XD

Album: TV Anime “Sansha Sanyou” Opening Theme Clover♣Kakumation Track: 01 Lyricist: Ogura Asuka Composer: Ogura Asuka Arranger: manzo Artist: Triple♣Feeling

- Futaba Odagiri (CV: Mai Kanazawa)

- Teru Hayama (CV: Ayaka Imamura)

- Youko Nishikawa (CV: Yuu Wakui)

(I just wrote the kanji for Lyrics, Composition, and Arrangement in Google Translate, because the words were embedded in the page. The things I do for J-pop.)

Well, I thought this was going to be a short post.

Haha XD, I’m naïve

Well, it feels good to get back in the swing of things. And I will make an asserted effort to post on the regular schedule, as well as just make better use of my time and stress out less.

It’s been a while, but you know the drill. If you have any questions or requests, please let me know.

You have oodles of ways to find me… and kill me.

Never mind, this isn’t Taken. XD

Alright, I’ll catch ya next week.

Ja!

(Note: It is now after midnight, so this is not goin’ up on St. Paddy’s Day. XD)

(By jaysus, did I make a right hayms o’ this post? XD)

- Chris ——————————————————————————- Minna, gokitai kudasai!!

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celticnoise · 6 years

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If you’re not yet sick of reading about Morelos – and let’s face it, although this has been entertaining it really has started to grate a little – stick with me through another article on the matter, and this one has to be written because it offers a sterling example of the way journalism in this country works.

This is about Chris Jack and his piece in the paper the other day.

No-one will be surprised to learn that it was a pro-Sevco puff piece of the worst sort. But the assertions in it were so ludicrous that I feel the need to dissect it bit by bit so that you might understand just how bad it really is.

So the article itself, I will put in italics. My own comments will be below them. You can judge for yourself just how bad his article was, and gauge the quality of “journalism” that continues to “flourish” under the “leadership” of Neil Cameron.

Here we go then.

Thanks for sticking with me.

“If (Sevco) had decided to cash in on Alfredo Morelos, there would have been eight million reasons why they could have justified the decision. There was only a single argument to keep him. That was the most important one, though.”

Okay … that article surmises that the story was true and not a lot of clap-trap invented by a Sevco PR rep. Did you notice that he went with the highest possible figure there, the £8 million number which is so obviously fraudulent that even Del Boy Trotter wouldn’t touch it?

“It was football rather than finance, points rather than pounds, that drove the thinking at Ibrox and now only the Colombian can prove that (Sevco) made the right call.”

Even if you accept the premise of the story – that the club had this offer and turned it down – that argument makes sense at only one club in Europe, and it’s the one playing out of Ibrox. A club which is bleeding money from every orifice cannot afford to reject that kind of cash.

Finance rules football, or at least it does everywhere else. It’s called sanity, and you just know that if we don’t qualify for the Champions League groups next year we will get the whole orchestra playing the “Celtic need to sell key players” song, every verse and the choruses too.

“If the choice had been taken out of Graeme Murty’s hands completely, the Light Blues boss could have had no complaints. His perspective on the field was just as important as Dave King’s off it, however.”

This is the opener for what you just know will be an article in praise of the genius of the glib and shameless liar. Jack is a frequent, and vocal, cheerleader for the South African tax crook, and might be one of the few people in Scotland who takes him literally, at his every word.

For those who dispute that “there’s a fool born every minute” I give you Exhibit A.

“Having £8million in the bank and no striker to lead the line would have made no sense for (Sevco) and severely jeopardised their chances of finishing second in the Premiership and winning the Scottish Cup this term.”

I’ll let you in on a little secret, Jack; they have no chance of doing that anyway. But this assertion that there would have been “no striker to lead the line” is plainly bollocks; Sevco has no fewer than five strikers on their books right now. Five. But that inconvenient fact might cast some doubt on the story and the spin he’s trying to put on it.

“Indeed, it could have proven to be the beginning of the end for Murty’s chances of being boss beyond the summer.”

Murty has no chance of that anyway.

His appointment has “part time” and “failure” stamped all over it.

He’s already dropped 17 points since taking charge.

“The arrival of Jason Cummings and return to fitness of Kenny Miller could have compensated slightly for the loss of Morelos. But the on-loan Nottingham Forest forward remains unproven in the Premiership and the Ibrox veteran has just four goals from 18 appearances to his credit this season. The football case, therefore, didn’t stack up.”

Amazing paragraph. Amazing. Because the same writer wrote this about Cummings a little over a week ago; “The forward has netted just four times in 17 outings for Forest but has a proven track record in Scottish football and will add to the attacking threat in Murty’s side.” The paragraph fails to mention Dodoo or Herrera at all, although one remains amongst Scottish football’s highest paid players. Oh yes. No joke that, as I’ll discuss in an article later tonight.

“As far as King was concerned, that was the key consideration and Murty was put under no pressure to sacrifice his star striker. That is not to say that Morelos won’t be sold in the future. At the end of the day, every player has a price and a right moment to make a move but this wasn’t the bid or the time for (Sevco).”

Ha! There we go. King is the hero of the hour. He put the team before the financial wellbeing of the club, therefore he is to be applauded. And this is the start too of the hype machine going into overdrive about this player so they can punt him in the summer. Quite how they will explain why he’s eventually sold for less I do not know … blame the player himself, probably, and how “unsettled” he’s been since these stories broke.

“There are two scenarios at play between now and the end of the campaign and it is at that stage that events over the last week will come to the fore once again.”

And now we get to the real crux of it, and you’re going to love it.

“If Morelos continues his current form and can get near 25 goals for the season, his value will undoubtedly increase and the offers on the table will surely come from more established and appealing divisions than the Chinese Super League.”

First, it will take a minor miracle for Morelos to reach that goal tally, and even if he does reach it, I’m afraid 25 SPL goals isn’t going to be viewed as anything particularly spectacular south of the border or anywhere else.

When a player is being judged only by that criteria there is no guarantee that he will end up anywhere special.

Who was the top scorer in the league last season, and where is he now?

I’ll tell you; it was Liam Boyce, with 23 goals.

He’s at Burton Albion and he didn’t cost anywhere near £8 million.

And besides, this nonsense about the “appeal” of the Chinese league – or lack thereof – is just stupid when you consider that Morelos was desperate to go … because of the money, which made it attractive enough to entice players from the EPL not that long ago.

“It is only a few weeks since the 21-year-old revealed in an interview back in his homeland that he has ambitions of playing in the Premier League, La Liga or Serie A in the future. If he wants to realise those dreams, he must perform for Rangers.”

He can forget about La Liga, but if Morelos really had attracted a bid of £8 million from China he would be easily good enough to merit a contract with a lower-case EPL team, and then, if he has the talent, he can go wherever he likes.

This idea that he “must perform” for Sevco is a not-so-coded warning, but it bears no relationship to reality. If he’s good enough to command that fee clubs know he has potential, and they will understand a dip in form with all the stuff swirling around him.

They will also consider the shabby organisation at Ibrox and factor that into their thinking.

“The best way for Morelos to get the move that he wants is to continue doing what brought him to the attention of Beijing Renhe in the first place and that is score goals. If his attitude is right and the performances follow, both he and Rangers will be able to name their price come the summer.”

And now we come to the point; this is a message to the player that he should now forget about being denied his dream and knuckle down … so he can get the move he’s not been given this time. An argument without logic. And this idea that club can “name its price” in the summer reeks of the lunatic ward. They will be lucky to get half of the phantom £8 million, whether he hits those 25 goals or not. The simple truth is, he’s just not worth the money.

“The Gers will make a healthy profit on the £1million they paid HJK Helsinki for his services and Morelos will earn the kind of sums he desires.”

The paradox escapes Jack completely; if Sevco pay him crazy money in his “contract renegotiation” then no club anywhere will want to touch him; that means his chances of getting a move to a better club are less likely than they are right now.

This is the bind Sevco has locked itself into with their crazy talk about £8 million fees and ��60,000 a week wages.

“The other side of the argument does Morelos no favours at all. If he reacts in a negative way, which Murty is confident he won’t, then he will find himself out of the team and making headlines for all the wrong reasons.”

Ha! Wishful thinking to a fare-thee-well.

First up, Morelos wants a new deal. Sevco will either give him that or they won’t.

But whether they do or not, they cannot afford to have the guy sitting on the side-lines where his value will depreciate week on week. If Murty thinks for one second those above him at the club will allow that – and if Jack believes it – they are both crazy.

“In that event, and if the bids don’t come in the summer, both Morelos and Rangers could be left thinking ‘what if?’, but the striker could regret it more than the Ibrox board.”

Nonsense of the most obvious sort.

Morelos and his agent hold all the cards here; there is no way the club will not increase his wages significantly in the next few weeks, to keep him sweet, and when the bids don’t materialise in the summer he will be, nevertheless, be perfectly content to sit on his vastly inflated salary and there’ll be nothing the club can do.

“The model of buying low and selling high is one that Rangers must master in the coming years if they are to close the financial and football gaps to Celtic. It is about knowing when to cash in and knowing when to keep. Only time will tell if Rangers have passed their first transfer test.”

And this, of course, is the fantasy that got us here, the idea that Sevco can replicate our success by doing what we do.

Except that they only half understand what it is that we do and have done, believing it’s all about slick presentation, public relations, hype and “holding out” for the price we want. The idea that this takes effort, that extensive scouting is necessary, that difficult choices are required, that this whole thing costs money and time and isn’t based in any way on luck isn’t what they want to hear, so of course they don’t hear it.

Jack doesn’t hear it either. Instead he hears the sweet soothing voice of Dodgy Dave King. It’s never dawned on him to wonder if what he’s hearing is fact or fiction; this guy is a True Believer, and following the leader is all the guy knows how to do.

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