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wotakugo · 7 months

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The 100 Girlfriends Who Really, Really, Really, Really, Really Love You anime revealed a visual for the tsundere Karane Inda, voiced by Miyu Tomita, following today’s premiere. Bibury Animation Studios is animating the adaptation which was announced in March of this year.Karane IndaHikaru Sato is directing the anime with Takashi Aoshima on the series composition. Akane Yano is doing character designs. Besides Miyu Tomita, the cast includes:Wataru Kato as Rentaro AijoKaede Hondo as Hakari HanazonoMaria Naganawa as Shizuka YoshimotoAsami Seto as Nano EiaiAyaka Asai as Kusuri YakuzenShigeru Chiba as God of LoveThe 100 Girlfriends Who Really, Really, Really, Really, Really Love You is based on a manga written by Rikito Nakamura and illustrated by Yukiko Nozawa. The manga began serialization in 2019 in Weekly Young Jump Magazine. Seven Seas Entertainment licensed it in English and describes the plot as:Aijo Rentaro has asked a hundred girls out and struck out every time. In desperation, he prays for guidance, only to be told by a god that his rejections were due to a cosmic mishap! Now this god will set things right by making sure Aijo gets one hundred dates. Except, as things often go with gods, there’s a catch: each of his one hundred dates is Aijo’s destined soulmate! Worse, if he doesn’t return their feelings, they’ll all die in horrible—and hilarious—accidents!The anime revealed a new trailer two weeks ago and in addition to the visual today, the ending sequence:[wpcc-iframe data-lazyloaded="1" data-ezsrc="about:blank" title="TVアニメ『君のことが大大大大大好きな100人の彼女』ノンクレジットエンディング｜エンディングテーマ：岬なこ「スイートサイン」" width="1170" height="658" data-src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/g4PQGus6wkc?feature=oembed" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen class="ezlazyload"][wpcc-iframe title="TVアニメ『君のことが大大大大大好きな100人の彼女』ノンクレジットエンディング｜エンディングテーマ：岬なこ「スイートサイン」" width="1170" height="658" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/g4PQGus6wkc?feature=oembed" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen]Source: Official Website©Rikito Nakamura, Yukiko Nozawa/Shueisha, The 100 Girlfriends Who Really, Really, Really, Really, Really Love You Production CommitteeUpdated to add the ending sequence.After AnimeCorner

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hotwaterandmilk · 3 years

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Series: Princess Nine Artist: Kawamura Akio Publication: Dengeki B-Magazine (07/1998) Source: Scanned from personal collection

#princess nine #princess nine kisaragi joshikou yakyuubu #himuro izumi #hayakawa ryou #tokashiki youko #morimura seira #mouri nene #yoshimoto hikaru #daidouji mao #azuma yuki #hotta koharu #kawamura akio #akio kawamura #scan: hotwaterandmilk #dengeki b magazine #dengeki b-magazine #90s anime #sports anime #classic anime

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tartsplace · 7 years

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Busts of some of the characters in princess nine

#princess nine #ryo hayakawa #hikaru yoshimoto #mao daidoji #seira morimura #yoko tokashiki #koharu hotta #sketches

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chernobog13 · 2 years

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Rena Yanase (Takami Yoshimoto) from Ultraman Tiga.

I remember being blown away when I learned that she is the daughter of actor Susumu Kurobe, who portrayed Shin Hayata in Ultraman. I thought that was great of Tsuburaya to keep the role of Rena “in the family.”

Another great turn was when real-life father and daughter played father and daughter in the film Superior 8 Ultraman Brothers (arguably the BEST Ultraman film).

Yoshimoto-san returned again to the franchise with a role in the film Ultraman X: Here Comes Our Ultraman!

It has been established that Rena Yanase and Daigo Madoka (Ultraman Tina’s human host) married and had a son and daughter. The son, Tsubasa, briefly became Ultraman Tiga in Ultraman Tiga Gaiden: Revival of the Ancient Giant.

In commemoration of Ultraman Tina’s 25th anniversary, Tsuburaya should have brought Tsubasa Madoka back and have him become Ultraman Trigger, son of Tiga. Or maybe his older sister, Hikaru, could’ve become the Ultra. That would have been a true New Generation Ultra. Plus, we would have a new Ultra whose parents had experience fighting kaiju, with unique insight into the Ultra’s powers and responsibilities.

It would also give us a chance to see Yoshimoto-san and actor Hiroshi Nagano again (so he wouldn’t be relegated to just doing commercials for Ultraman Tiga action figures), as well as some of their co-stars from the original series.

At least it would have been better than the lackluster Ultraman Trigger series we got.

#Ultraman #Ultraman Tiga #Rena Yanase #Takami Yoshimoto #tokusatsu #Tsuburaya Productions #Japanese superheroes

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dark-frosted-heart · 3 years

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Oshi list

Uta no Prince-sama, Idolish7, B-Project, Tsukiuta, VAZZROCK, Ensemble Stars, Blackstar Theater Starless, ARGONAVIS, HanaDoll*, Paradox Live, Hypnosis Mic, A3!, Twisted Wonderland, Touken Ranbu

Ayakashi Romance Reborn, Ikemen Sengoku, Ikemen Revolution, Ikemen Vampire, Ikemen Prince, Mr. Love: Queen’s Choice, Tears of Themis, Obey Me!, Stand My Heroes, Dream Meister and the Recollected Black Fairy

- Utapri: Kira, Ranmaru, Reiji, Natsuki, Masato, Ren, Eiichi, Van

- I7: Ryuu, Gaku, Nagi, Torao, Yamato

- B-Pro: Kento, Tomo, Hikaru, Mika

- Tsukiuta: Kai, Shun, Hajime, Haru, Arata, Yoru

- Vazzrock: Takaaki, Reiji, Issa, Haruto, Gaku

- Enstars: Rei, Keito, Ibara, Undead, Akatsuki, Eden, Crazy:B

- Blackstar: Takami, Akira, Sin, (all of team W really), Zakuro, Sotetsu, Nekome, Rindou, Heath, Kongou, Kasumi, Hari

- AAside: Daimon, Tomoru, Rio, Kenta, Reiji, Ryo

- HanaDoll*: Ryoga

- ParaLive: Iori, Zen, Yuto, Shion, Naoakira, Hokusai, Itsuki

- Hypmic: Jyuto, Sasara, Hifumi, Doppo, Hitoya, Samatoki, Jakurai, Riou

- A3!: Sakyo, Omi, Azuma, Tasuku, Chikage, Misumi, Itaru, Guy, Citron

- Twst: Malleus, Trey, Leona, Vil, Azul, Lilia, Jade, Jamil,

- Tourabu: Shokudaikiri Mitsutada, Kogitsunemaru, Akashi Kuniyuki, Mikazuki Munechika, Nikkari Aoe, Kikkou Sadamune, Nikkou Ichimonji, Sanchoumou, Osafune, Heshikiri Hasebe

- Ayakoi: Toichiro, Shizuki, Oji, Yakumo, Tatsuomi, Akiyasu, Yura

- Ikesen: Mitsuhide, Hideyoshi, Yoshimoto, Kanetsugu, Masamune, Shingen, Kichou, Motonari, Kennyo

- Ikerev: Harr, Zero, Sirius, Edgar, Kyle, Dalim

- Ikevamp: Faust, Comte, Leonardo, Arthur, Dazai

- Ikepri: Clavis, Sariel, Keith, Silvio, Nokto, Jin, Chevalier

- Ikevil: Roger, Jude, Harrison, Victor, Alfons

- MLQC: Lucien, Victor

- ToT: Vyn, Artem

- OM: Diavolo, Lucifer, Solomon, Barbatos, Simeon, Satan, Mammon, Levi

- Sutamai: Tsukasa Asagiri, Shun Imaoji, Soma Kujo, Sosei Arakida, Satoru Watabe, Makoto Tsuduki, Go Miyase, You Hattori

- Yumekuro: Ymir, Grandflair, Kuchen, Lagoon, Adel, Riche, Walter, Oscar, Cuit, Victor, Alma, Lykos, Cyrus, Volks, Sheila

#oshi #personal

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professor-tammi · 3 years

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Revealed Samurai Warriors 5 characters so far:

Nobunaga (CV: Shimazaki Nobunaga) / Mitsuhide (CV: Midorikawa Hikaru)

Nouhime (CV: Fujii Yukiyo) / Katsuie (CV: Takemoto Eiji)

Ieyasu (CV: Ryouta Oosaka) / Hideyoshi (CV: Uemura Yuuto) / Toshimitsu (CV: Sakata Shogo) / Mitsuki (CV: Kouno Marika)

Yoshimoto (CV: Nomura Kenji)

The game will have 27 characters total.

#samurai warriors #its cool you made almost everyone hot koei but.#let me know if ran is still in I need to know if I can live or not. please #pls i am dying

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gobureis · 3 years

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I watched the special programme for SW5 and ajghskjadaksjfks

I’m so excited for Shimazaki Nobunaga to voice Oda Nobunaga!!! I’m going to miss Kosugi Juurouta (and Nakata Jouji) terribly, but... in a way I’m actually quite glad that they’re doing a complete overhaul (it’d be better if they changed Midorikawa Hikaru too because I’m going to compare him to the previous version, even though he’s gonna be a different character, but I’m also happy that he stayed, I guess. It’s complicated lol) and 27 characters is enough.

KATSUIE ajadkadkadkj I’m going to miss SW4′s Katsuie terribly, but yay for Takemoto Eiji staying.

I’m also happy they’re doing a better characterization for Imagawa Yoshimoto (even though I love the old version)

Anyway, give me a character with a fan. Which is what the silhouette between Ieyasu (why is Ieyasu looking like that ahahahaha) and No seems to hold, so fingers crossed

I guess the two in the back are Kenshin and Shingen...

Anyway, I hope that Nobunaga and Mitsuhide’s relationship won’t be too rival-ish... I’m going to miss the lord/vassal thing (the way it was done in sw2 and sw4), but if they make them more equal-ish, at least for a part of the story, I guess I can accept that. We’ll see. I have time to accept the fact that their relationship will be different and not to expect anything.

#samurai warriors

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leenaevilin-birthday-calendar · 5 years

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[August] J-Actors Birthday Calendar

♪ August 1st

◎ Matsuoka Takuya 松岡卓弥 1989

◎ Oono Mizuki 大野瑞生 1994

♪ August 2nd

◎ Saitou Kyouhei 齊藤教兵 1992

◎ Tomita Kentarou 富田健太郎 1995

♪ August 3rd

◎ Fukazawa Yuuto 深澤悠斗 1999

◎ Makishima Hikaru 牧島輝 1995

◎ Shiraishi Shunya 白石隼也 1990

♪ August 4th

◎ Oosaki Natsuki 大崎捺希 1995

◎ Takahashi Shunichi 高橋駿一 1988

♪ August 5th

◎ Sugiyama Mahiro 杉山真宏 1998

◎ Takada Akihiro 高田晃宏

♪ August 6th

◎ Andou Shuutarou 安東秀大郎

◎ Kubota Masataka 窪田正孝 1988

◎ Suzuki Shoon 鈴木翔音

◎ Urai Kenji 浦井健治 1981

♪ August 7th

◎ Igarashi Shunji 五十嵐隼士 1986

◎ Naya Takeru 納谷健 1995

♪ August 8th

◎ Mashima Shuuto 眞嶋秀斗 1995

◎ Ooyabu Taka 大薮丘 1995

♪ August 9th

◎ Matsuoka Koudai 松岡広大 1997

◎ Ono Kento 小野健斗 1989

◎ Onuma Shouta 小沼将太 1989

♪ August 10th

◎ Hayami Mokomichi 速水もこみち 1984

◎ Itou Koutarou 伊藤孝太郎 1988

♪ August 11th

◎ Aoi Shouta 蒼��翔太 1987

◎ Doi Yuuto 土井裕斗 1993

♪ August 12th

◎ Ishii Yutaka 石井由多加 1985

◎ Kaminaga Keisuke 神永圭佑 1994

◎ Ozawa Ren 小澤廉 1991

◎ Sakaguchi Shinnosuke 坂口慎之介

◎ Watanabe Kouji 渡辺コウジ 1979

♪ August 13th

◎ Haba Ryousuke 羽場涼介 1991

♪ August 14th

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♪ August 15th

◎ Hayashi Tsuyoshi 林剛史 1982

◎ Nomiyama Kenta 野見山拳太 1995

◎ Okada Masaki 岡田将生 1989

♪ August 16th

◎ Asakura Yuuta 浅倉祐太 1987

◎ Iijima Hiroki 飯島寛騎 1996

◎ Nakada Shouji 仲田祥司 1992

♪ August 17th

◎ Ooyama Masashi 大山真志 1989

◎ Yoshimoto Kouki 吉本恒生 1993

♪ August 18th

◎ Ichise Yuu 一瀬悠 1990

◎ Murata Mitsu 村田充 1977

♪ August 19th

◎ Kobayashi Tatsuya 小林辰也

◎ Roppongi Yasuhiro 六本木康弘 1984

♪ August 20th

◎ Asegawa Kenta 阿瀬川健太 1990

◎ Shiokawa Wataru 塩川渉 1987

♪ August 21st

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♪ August 22nd

◎ Matsui Haruki 松井遥己 1995

◎ Nishina Yuuji 仁科祐二

◎ Nitta Kenta 新田健太 1985

◎ Saitou Takumi 斎藤工 1981

♪ August 23rd

◎ Kohatsu Aren 小波津亜廉 1991

◎ Nakagauchi Masataka 中河内雅貴 1985

◎ Sakimoto Hiromi 崎本大海 1986

♪ August 24th

◎ Kawasaki Yuusaku 川﨑優作 1994

◎ Sueno Takuma 末野卓磨 1984

♪ August 25th

◎ Araki Kentarou 荒木健太朗 1982

◎ Wada Masato 和田正人 1979

♪ August 26th

◎ Nagae Ryouki 長江崚行 1998

◎ Ookawa Genki 大河元気 1987

♪ August 27th

◎ Matsumoto Hinata 松本ひなた 1991

◎ Nagata Takato 永田崇人 1993

◎ Ookubo Shoutarou 大久保祥太郎 1995

◎ Yamakawa Souichirou 山川宗一郎 1990

♪ August 28th

◎ Yamaguchi Yuusuke 山口侑佑 1991

♪ August 29th

◎ Satou Yuugo 佐藤祐吾 1994

♪ August 30th

◎ Harukawa Kyousuke 春川恭亮 1988

◎ Matsumoto Jun 松本潤 1983

♪ August 31st

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otakunews01 · 7 years

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'D5 Five Detectives' Franchise Launches With Live-Action Film

"Team D5" and Erumu Rento revealed a new "D5 5-nin no Tantei" (D5 - Five Detectives) project on October 31. Rento is credited for the original work, and will also direct the project and pen the scripts. Artist Yasutake Kawahito is the project's illustrator. The first work for the project will be a live-action film.

The project features the following voice cast members, although it isn't yet clear if these voice cast members will also appear in the planned live-action film:

Hikaru Midorikawa as Mikio Kanai Daisuke Kishio as Kiyoka Yoshimoto Katsuyuki Konishi as Kōhei Yamasaki Daisuke Namikawa as Jōshi Yahagi Showtaro Morikubo as Keisuke Negiya

#D5 Five Detectives #D5 5-nin no Tantei #vídeojuegos #LiveAction #películas

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recentanimenews · 5 years

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TV Anime Arifureta: From Commonplace to World's Strongest New Key Visual Posted for July 2019 Premiere

The official website for the forthcoming TV anime adaptation of Ryo Shirakome's Arifureta Shokugyo de Sekai Saikyo/Arifureta: From Commonplace to World's Strongest fantasy light novel series is updatedtoday with a new key visual featuring its four main characters: Hajime Nagumo (CV: Toshinari Fukamachi), Yue (Yuuki kuwahara), Shea Haulia (Minami Takahashi), and Tio (TBA).

It is also announced that the anime is finally set to premiere in Japan in July 2019. It was originally slated for April 2018, but has been postponed due to "various circumstances", and some of its main staff were changed, including the original director Jun Kamiya (Hikaru no Go, Kingdom) who was replaced by Kinji Yoshimoto (Queen's Blade, Seven Mortal Sins).

New key visual

＼新規キービジュアル公開／ TVアニメ「ありふれた職業で世界最強」 2019年7月放送開始予定！ハジメ、ユエに加え、シアとティオも描かれている新規キービジュアルも到着！みなさん、放送をお楽しみに#ありふれた #ARIFURETA pic.twitter.com/9YYkwPNrO9

— ありふれた職業で世界最強 (@ARIFURETA_info) 2018年12月21日

Main staff:

Director: Kinji Yoshimoto (Queen's Blade, Seven Mortal Sins)

Series composition/screenplay: Shoichi Sato (Corpus Party Tortured Souls), Kinji Yoshimoto

Character designer/Chief animation director: Chika Kojima (Big Order)

Anime Production: WHITE FOX (Is The order s Rabbit?), Asread (Future Diary)

The novel was first published on the user-submitted content site Shosetsuka ni Narou, then its print

edition has been released from OVERLAP's light novel imprint Overlap Bunko since June 2015. Eight

volumes have been released in Japan and its total print run has 1,2 million copies. In the US, its English

edition is licensed by J-Novel Club and print edition is released by Seven Seas Entertainment.

The former introduces the novel's story as below:

Seventeen year old Hajime Nagumo is your average, everyday otaku. However, his simple life of pulling

all-nighters and sleeping in school is suddenly turned upside down when he, along with the rest of his

class, is summoned to a fantasy world! They're treated like heroes and tasked with the duty of saving

the human race from utter extinction. But what should have been any otaku's wet dream quickly turns

into Hajime's nightmare. While the rest of his class are blessed with godlike powers, Hajime's job,

Synergist, only has a single transmutation skill. Ridiculed and bullied by his classmates for being weak,

he soon finds himself in despair. Will he be able to survive in this dangerous world of monsters and

demons with only a glorified blacksmith's level of strength?

Novel 1st and 8th volume covers

Source: TV anime "Arifureta: From Commonplace to World's Strongest" official website / Twitter

By: [email protected]

#Anime #News #Latest in Anime News by Crunchyroll!

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jazzworldquest-blog · 6 years

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JAPAN/CANADA : Pianist/composer Satoko Fujii debuts new trio This Is It! with recording and Canadian tour

Pianist/composer Satoko Fujii debuts new trio This Is It!

with recording and Canadian tour

September 15 – October 8, 2018

Appearances in Guelph, Montreal, Kingston, Ottawa, Vancouver

1538, the trio’s debut CD, earning wide acclaim

4.5 stars “A rambunctious stew of explosive group dynamics and interludes of gorgeous piano ruminations beside prickly percussive keyboard moments. There are also fleeting, bright splashes of notes, odd noises from extended techniques…and driving rhythms in a wide array of time signatures.”—Dan McClenaghan All About Jazz

“The music is of the utmost simplicity, yet the works produce an effect of extraordinary voluptousness, as simple tonal chords drift in and out of focus, while the soloists describe a slow and wayward ascent, climbing higher by infinitesimal degrees.”—Raul da Gama, Jazzdagama

Acclaimed pianist/composer Satoko Fujii, celebrates her new trio This Is It! (Fujii, trumpeter Natsuki Tamura, and percussionist Takashi Itani) with a Canadian tour from Saturday, September 15 – Monday, October 8, 2018. The band’s debut CD, 1538, is part of Fujii’s 60th birthday celebration for which she is releasing a new CD every month during 2018. The group will also tour to six US cities including Philadephia, PA; Cambridge, MA; Portland, ME; Brooklyn, NY; Mission Viejo and Los Angeles, CA.

Canadian performances include:

• Sat, Sept. 15, 2 p.m. – Guelph Jazz Festival, Cooperators Hall, River Run Centre, 35 Woolwich St. Guelph, Ontario.

Tickets $20-$25. GJF: Groven/Lumley/Sadhouders will also perform. For information visit http://riverrun.ca/whats-on/gjf-groven-lumley-stadhouders-satoko-fujis-this-is-it/ or www.guelphjazzfestival.com.

• Tues, Sept. 18, 8 p.m. – La Sala Rossa, 4848 St. Laurent, Montreal, Quebec.

The Craig Pedersen Quartet will also perform. Presented by Suoni Per Il Popolo and CKUT. Tickets $12. For information visit https://www.lfttckt.com/tickets/lfttkt-casa-1511276966-20703 or https://casadelpopolo.com/en/la-sala-rossa/.

• Wed, Sept. 19, 7 p.m. – St. Marks Church, 263 Victoria Street, Kingston, Ontario.

Presented by Kingston Jazz Society. Tickets $15 at the door. https://kingstonjazz.ca/2018/08/20/sep-19-satoko-fujii-trio-st-marks-church/

• Fri, Sept. 21, 7 p.m. – Natsuki Tamura Solo, Improvising Musicians of Ottawa Fest, General Assembly, Ottawa.

http://www.improvisedmoo.com/

• Sat, Sept. 22, 3 p.m. – Natsuki Tamura, trumpet; Satoko Fujii, piano; Jesse Stewart, drums, Glebe St. James United Church, 60 Lyon St. S., Ottawa.

https://www.glebestjames.ca/

• Sat, Sept. 22, 10 p.m. – Improvising Musicians of Ottawa Fest, Gigspace, 953 Gladstone Ave., Ottawa.

Tickets $75 festival pass, $40 Saturday only. For information visit http://www.improvisedmoo.com/imoofest-2018/this-is-it/. In addition to the concert by This Is It!, Tamura will perform solo on Friday, September 21, 7 p.m. at General Assembly; Fujii will also perform solo on Sunday, September 23.

• Sun, Sept. 23, 6 p.m. – Satoko Fujii Solo – Improvising Musicians of Ottawa Fest, Gigspace, 953 Gladstone Ave., Ottawa.

http://www.improvisedmoo.com/imoofest-2018/satoko-fujii//

• Sun, Sept. 23, 9 p.m. – Satoko Fujii directs IMOO Orchestra with tenor saxophonist Bernard Stepien, alto and/or baritone saxophonist Linsey Wellman, trumpeter Natsuki Tamura, trombonist Rory Magill, guitarist David Jackson, cellist Mark Molnar, drummer Takashi Itani, Scott Warren on sound inspiration – Improvising Musicians of Ottawa Fest, Gigspace, 953 Gladsone Ave., Ottawa.

http://www.improvisedmoo.com/imoofest-2018/imoo-orchestra/

• Fri, Oct. 5, 8 p.m. – NOW Society Creative Music Series #5 at 8EAST, 8 E Pender St., Vancouver, BC

By donation $10-$20. Also performing are two duos: Nikki Carter and Kenton Loewen; Meredith Bates and Elsa Thorn. https://www.nowsociety.org/event/now-society-creative-music-series-5-october-3-5

• Mon, Oct. 8, 4-6 & 6:30-8:30 p.m. Improvisation Workshops – Western Front, 303 E. 8th Ave., Vancouver, BC. Suggested donation $5-$20.

Satoko Fujii leads improvisation workshops. https://www.nowsociety.org/2018-fall-workshops

Pianist-composer Fujii is always searching for new colleagues to help her in her quest “to make music that no one has heard before.” She found what she was looking for on 1538 featuring her latest trio with trumpeter Natsuki Tamura and drummer Takashi Itani. She calls the band This Is It!, and it’s little wonder why. After a long search, she’s found one of her most free-spirited ensembles, capable of playing her compositions with a natural élan as well as soloing with emotional intensity. The album was released June 22, 2018 via Libra Records.

This Is It! evolved slowly over several years from Fujii’s New Trio with bassist Todd Nicholson and drummer Itani. After their 2013 debut CD, Spring Storm, Tamura joined them in concert to form Quartet Tobira, which recorded Yamiyo ni Karasu in 2014. With the departure of Nicholson, the remaining band members played as Tobira – 1 (Tobira Minus One), but as they continued to play, a distinctive trio identity emerged and Fujii rechristened them with an original name. “I always like to have smaller units that can play my compositions,” Fujii says. “I have led small groups like Satoko Fujii Quartet, Satoko Fujii Trio, ma-do, and others since the beginning of my career. Right now, this trio is the one I really like to work with, so I just named it This Is It!.”

Fujii wrote some material especially for the group, but most of the compositions come from what she calls her diary. “When I sit at the piano, I always compose for 15 minutes before I begin to practice. After doing this for more than 10 years, I have 12 books of written compositions. The short pieces in these books can help me to make long pieces. I often turn to my diary books when I start to compose something.”

As Tamura attests in his CD liner notes, these pieces are often fiendishly difficult to learn but they always have structure and flow that sound unforced and that open up new possibilities for improvisers. The trio fully inhabits Fujii’s pieces, taking different approaches to each one. The trust and confidence among them create deeply layered performances that blend melody, sound, and rhythm in endlessly inventive ways. For instance, they each twist and bend the melody of “Prime Number” as they solo, creating variations that build a unified performance. They take the high-intensity title track (1538 is the melting point of iron in degrees Celsius) in multiple directions as they improvise. Tamura shrieks and brays with tormented abstractions while Fujii alternates between high energy thundering and a melancholy lyricism, and Itani’s unmoored rhythms ebb and flow.

Some of the most otherworldly sounds to issue from a Satoko Fujii band are heard on this album (and that’s saying something). It’s often hard to tell who is making what sound. The opening of “Yozora” (which means “night sky” in Japanese) and the dreamy abstractions of “Riding on the Clouds” are bravura examples of the trio’s ability to manipulate pure sound and tone color into emotionally satisfying music. A highlight of “Swoop,” a feature for Itani, is the drummer’s virtuoso command of timbre and his sure sense of construction.

“I just let the band play in their own way,” Fujii says. “I just love to hear how Natsuki and Takashi play my pieces. In music, I like to feel 120 percent free and I think we can do whatever we like. This is the advantage of the music!”

Drummer Takashi Itani plays everything from jazz (Max Roach was an early inspiration) to folk music, to rock. He’s been a sideman with a truly bewildering range of musicians, including singer-songwriter Yoshio Hayakawa; new wave rock guitarist Masahide Sakuma; singer-actor Hiroshi Mikami; Michiro Endo, front man of the influential punk band The Stalin; West coast jazz saxophonist Ted Brown; and best-selling Japanese American pop star Hikaru Utada. In addition he has performed with some of Japan’s most prominent poets, including Mizuki Misumi, Shuntaro Tanikawa, Gozo Yoshimasu, and the late Takaaki Yoshimoto.

Japanese trumpeter and composer Natsuki Tamura is internationally recognized for his unique musical vocabulary blending extended techniques with jazz lyricism. This unpredictable virtuoso “has some of the stark, melancholy lyricism of Miles, the bristling rage of late ’60s Freddie Hubbard and a dollop of the extended techniques of Wadada Leo Smith and Lester Bowie,” observes Mark Keresman of JazzReview.com. Throughout his career, Tamura has led bands with radically different approaches. On one hand, there are avant rock jazz fusion bands like his quartet. In contrast, Tamura has focused on the intersection of folk music and sound abstraction with Gato Libre since 2003. The band’s poetic, quietly surreal performances have been praised for their “surprisingly soft and lyrical beauty that at times borders on flat-out impressionism,” by Rick Anderson in CD Hotlist. In addition, Tamura and pianist (and wife) Satoko Fujii have maintained an ongoing duo since 1997. Tamura also collaborates on many of Fujii’s projects, from quartets and trios to big bands. As an unaccompanied soloist, he’s released three CDs, including Dragon Nat (2014). He and Fujii are also members of Kaze, a collaborative quartet with French musicians, trumpeter Christian Pruvost and drummer Peter Orins. “As unconventional as he may be,” notes Marc Chenard in Coda magazine, “Natsuki Tamura is unquestionably one of the most adventurous trumpet players on the scene today.”

Critics and fans alike hail pianist and composer Satoko Fujii as one of the most original voices in jazz today. She’s “a virtuoso piano improviser, an original composer and a bandleader who gets the best collaborators to deliver," says John Fordham in The Guardian. In concert and on more than 80 albums as a leader or co-leader, she synthesizes jazz, contemporary classical, avant-rock, and Japanese folk music into an innovative music instantly recognizable as hers alone. Over the years, Fujii has led some of the most consistently creative ensembles in modern improvised music, including her trio with bassist Mark Dresser and drummer Jim Black, the Min-Yoh Ensemble, and an electrifying avant-rock quartet featuring drummer Tatsuya Yoshida of The Ruins. Her ongoing duet project with husband Natsuki Tamura released their sixth recording, Kisaragi, in 2017. “The duo's commitment to producing new sounds based on fresh ideas is second only to their musicianship,” says Karl Ackermann in All About Jazz. Aspiration, a CD by an ad hoc band featuring Wadada Leo Smith, Tamura, and Ikue Mori, was released in 2017 to wide acclaim. “Four musicians who regularly aspire for greater heights with each venture reach the summit together on Aspiration,” writes S. Victor Aaron inSomething Else. She records infrequently as an unaccompanied soloist, but Solo (Libra), the first of her 12 birthday-year albums, led Dan McClenaghan to enthuse in All About Jazz, that the album “more so than her other solo affairs—or any of her numerous ensembles for that matter—deals in beauty, delicacy of touch, graceful melodicism.” As the leader of no less than five orchestras in the U.S., Germany, and Japan, Fujii has also established herself as one of the world’s leading composers for large jazz ensembles, leading Cadence magazine to call her, “the Ellington of free jazz.”

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#princess nine #hikaru yoshimoto #mao daidoji

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Live-Action D5 5-nin no Tantei Tung Trailer Mới Giới Thiệu Nhân Vật

Trang web chính thức của dự án D5 5-nin no Tantei mới đây đã đăng tải trailer mới dành cho tựa phim live-action. https://youtu.be/Nq7aHxLWRaQ Trước đó trang web cũng đã đăng tải một teaser video vào ngày 10 tháng 04. https://youtu.be/Js8tPlKwrtk Phim sẽ có sự tham gia của các diễn viên: Midorikawa Hikaru trong vai Kanai Mikio, cựu chuyên viên phân tích thông tin của FBI Kishio Daisuke trong vai Yoshimoto Kiyoka, một tin tạc làm việc trong bóng tối Konishi Katsuyuki trong vai Y

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Link: https://otb.news/other/film/d5-5-nin-no-tantei-tung-trailer.html

#D5 5-nin no Tantei #Live-Action #FILM

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SW5 stream is happening now so I’ll write down some things they mention (since it’s all in Japanese)

most important things: game only goes up to Honnoji and only characters who suit that era will appear. also, following characters revealed / confirmed: Nobunaga, Mitsuhide, Nouhime, Katsuie, Ieyasu, Hideyoshi, Toshimitsu, Mitsuki, Yoshimoto. 27 characters total. release June 24th.

this is basically a brand new series; they’re remaking the characters, story, and visuals

the game goes up to Honnoji

characters who do not fit the era will supposedly not appear (!!!); the focus is on “Nobunaga’s era” specifically (I’d expect big cuts)

presenter: “will there be new characters who haven’t appeared in the series before?” Koinuma: “next slide please” (he just dodges the question lol)

it’s a good entry point for new fans of the series (goes without saying, but still :D)

Nobunaga’s CV: Shimazaki Nobunaga (the chat was full of people asking about the old VA ahaha...)

Mitushide is still Midorikawa, as everyone noticed

... the first thing he points out is that “now the names for the voice actors match the characters” (Nobunaga is now voiced by a Nobunaga and Hikaru and Mitsuhide both share the kanji for light). I’m noting this bc I also think it’s cute :’)

Nobunaga and Mitsuhide have more of a rivalry kind of relationship in this game (quite different from in previous SW games)

Midorikawa mentions that playing a different Mitsuhide was difficult at points

Nouhime’s CV: Fujii Yukiyo. she has a bit of a heroine role

Shibata Katsuie is revealed! they talk about how, while Mitsuhide’s design has changed a lot, it still shares some aspects with old Mitsuhide’s looks, whereas Katsuie has basically a wholly new design. “he’s more cool now,” says Koinuma

Ieyasu and Hideyoshi are officially confirmed (they’re the characters we saw in the screenshot / trailer, respectively)

Nobunaga calls Hideyoshi “ikezaru”, basically “prettyboy monkey” haha

NEW CHARACTERS: Saitou Toshimitsu and Mitsuki. Mitsuki is the ninja we saw in the trailer -- it’s not Nene!

when asked about the relationship between Mitsuhide and Toshimitsu, Midorikawa felt it reminded him somewhat of the old relationship between Mitsuhide and Ranmaru

Yoshimoto is revealed; they are actually going with a more serious, imposing approach for him this time! no more comic relief Yoshimoto.

the game will have 27 characters.

new trailer -- and you can very briefly see an unrevealed character hidden behind Nouhime in a shot...

release date is June 24th!

#samurai warriors #text post #text: sw #i think tumblr is broken and not showing my posts in the tags. pls work for once #e: i fixed it now I can YELL INTO THE VOID

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