Yuuyake Koyake
Go home safely with this beautiful song !
Kita kaze, fyurururururururulalalaladoudidou
For your pleasure, the following song, still from my Japanese class. So delightfully old-fashioned.
Le Japon, fushigi !
I had the most interesting Japanese class ever at the end of last year. We listened to various songs, watched commercials, drama, a funny guy telling the story of Urashma Tarô… Some of it being available on YouTube, it’s sharing time.
First things first, the amazing Shirato family !!
Gotta love that dog’s – dad’s – accent.
FINALLY !!!
Rhaaa bordel c’est juste trop bon, JB GRANGE IS THE NEW WORLD CHAMPION !!!!!! Slalom rules !!!!! Yep I’m still addicted to ski events and I’m still a fan of Valloire athletes.
A few videos :
Grange’s 1st run
Grange’s 2nd run
Interview
I think it’s about helicopters
Braaaaains…
*Cough*
Oh hello my dear friends, or more accurately the ghosts that haunt decaying Internet blogs. Tonight I bring you the last episode of Hanasakeu Seishounen. Don’t ask, don’t tell. Click if you dare.
Summer Wars in theatres partout
Once again, I benefited from a theatre experience for a non-Ghibli Japanese animation movie. Once again, it was well deserved.
Yes, we finally got around to having Summer Wars on French screens. Given that I didn’t quite follow the news in anime recently, I had just vaguely heard about this movie, always in good terms, so I figured it would be a good way to pretend to work for my Japanese test.
What’s it about ? There’s a boy, a girl, an online community, an evil hacker, frantic typing, a huge mansion in the Japanese mountains, a old woman’s 90th birthday, and baseball matches on TV. Yes, all in the same movie, no, it’s not a botched copy/paste. Here’s my try at a relatively spoiler-free introduction.
Prince of Persia in 30 seconds
I used to play this :
yeah back when Macintosh were in black and white and before they were fashionable
So I wasn’t looking for a faithful adaptation when I went to see this :
And hey, guess what ? He runs around and grabs things and walks on the walls and stuff. Spikes notwithstanding, that’s pretty much all I remember from the game, so I’m good. You may have guessed by now my gaming years are long gone 
Don’t get me wrong, the movie is not a masterpiece at all, it’s average. But it’s huge fun when you study to be a ninja (the third step is the hardest !), and has loads of eye-candy (I’m totally talking about Ben Kingsley here, y’know, like, yeah, totally, *whistles*).
Looking out my back door
I still can’t believe I didn’t recognize Jeff Bridges in the first Iron Man. And I had seen it before. Unforgiveable ! Maybe it was the hair (or lack thereof).
Well, I should go and listen to my Creedence tapes to forget. And pay my tribute. Let’s hope the Dude still abides.
Is this turning into a movies blog ? Who knows ?
I want one
“Sir, I’m gonna have to ask you to exit the donut.”
How can you possibly resist this ???
Well of course I didn’t ! So I rushed to the nearest theatre as soon as I could (meaning one day after it got released). I thought I would enjoy it, despite Scarlett Johansson , but not love it the way I did. Hey, sometimes life has its good surprises !
Wait what ?
12 episodes ? I should really start paying attention again, I was all suprised Ryuusei no Gemini would end so soon ! Small price to pay for a good ending though. Yes, I liked it, more on that later. Well, I guess I’ll have to wrap up my thoughts before I get back to work ! A wonderful snapshot of my darling Misaki in the meantime.
