Wednesday, August 26, 2009

Sweet Bitter Beauty Song



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Sakurakou K-ON Bu


Life's a very Sweet and Bitter Beauty Song
nee kimi nara nani o utau?

Go Ahead or Back... Right or Left
shunkan shunkan sentaku no renzoku
suzushii kao shitetatte igai ni iya, kanari MASHI da shi
Life's a very Sweet and Bitter Beauty Song

inu mitai ni shippo futte kigentori shitari
zuuzuushiku ikirenai donna ni son da to iwarete mo

binkan ga yakkai Teenager kodou ga sugu DOKIDOKI
abarete komaru kedo

onaji SUTEEJI no ue ni iru jan
tte sore dake de nanka yuuki waku ne
teion datte kouon datte
tokui na koe de minna iitai koto Singing So Loud

Choose Friend or Love... Light or Deep
junjou aijou konton de monzetsu
tanoshii kao shitetatte sono ura de kizutsuitetari
Life's a very Sweet and Bitter Beauty Song

neko mitai ni tsume o tatete jibun mamoru you ni
kiyou ni arukenai nando koronde haji kaite mo

sensai ga senbai Teenager komaku ga fui ni FURUFURU
furuete sawagu kedo

onaji NANBAA de naitara ii jan
juunintoiro wa shouchi no ue de
teion datte kouon datte
yakedo shitara minna itai n da shi Shouting So Loud

onaji SUTEEJI no ue ni iru jan
tte sore dake de nanka yuuki waku ne
teion datte kouon datte
tokui na koe de minna iitai koto Singing So Loud
onaji NANBAA de waraeba ii jan
juunintoiro wa shouchi no ue de
teizoku datte kouketsu datte
hontou no kimochi dake dakishimete Shouting So Loud

Life's a very Sweet and Bitter Beauty Song
Life's a very Sweet and Bitter Beauty Song
Life's a very Sweet and Bitter Beauty Song
nee kimi nara nani o utau?

Sunday, August 23, 2009

K-On! Music is their PASSION!





K-ON! is an ongoing Japanese four-panel comic strip manga about four female teenagers who after starting high school come together to join their school’s light music or popular music club in order to save it from being abolished due to the lack of members. The four girls are Yui – an easily distracted bundle of energy who plays lead guitar, Mio – the very cute but shy lefthander who plays bass guitar, Ritsu – the club president with energy levels rivaling Yui’s who plays the Drums and Tsumugi – a dumb but filthy rich blonde that cooks very well and plays the keyboard.


K-ON! is an average series that is not worth your time if you are not interested int his type of anime or have better things to watch. I did like the animation, overall production values and the opening and closing themes but I can’t help but say this series underperformed. Hopefully things will get better in a future season, I am already imagining what will happen when the girls discover something called “boys”.





THE BAND FORMATION HAPPENS...












It's Yui Hirasawa's first year in high school, and she's eagerly searching for a club to join. At the same time, Ritsu Tainaka, a drummer, and her friend Mio Akiyama, a bass player, are desperately trying to save the school's light music club, which is about to be disbanded due to lack of members. They manage to recruit Tsumugi Kotobuki to play the keyboard, meaning they only need one more member to get the club running again. Yui joins, thinking it will be an easy experience for her to play the castanets, the only instrument she knows. However, the other members think their new addition is actually a guitar prodigy...

Saturday, August 22, 2009

Fujiko F Fujio : Doraemon's Best Friend.




Fujiko F Fujio is one half of one of the most prolific comic writing team of Fujiko Fujio whose volume of works are probably only rivaled by the famous American comic writing team of (Stan) Lee, and (Jack) Kirby. Birth name Fujimoto Hiroshi, he met his future comic drawing partner Abiko Motoo when he was in fifth grade at an elementary school in his native Toyama. He was impressed by the intelligence and thorough nature of Abiko's story writing style even at that age, and started to draw comic together (although only as a hobby at the time) which continued for over the next 40 years.

In 1952 they made their comic debut with a comic titled "Tenshi no Tamachan" and two years later they moved to Tokyo to pursue their professional career. They were mentored briefly by the late Osamu Tezuka (of Astro Boy and Kimba the White Lion fame) after coming to Tokyo like so many young comic artist of the time. Later they recalled seeing a stack of papers few feet high at Tezuka's house which were rejects of his comic pages. Tezuka's standards was so high that even under close inspection they couldn't tell what was wrong with the material. They helped Tezuka pen the last pages of Kimba the White Lion during that period.

In 1956 they formed Shin Manga-To with Fujio Akatsuka, and Ishinomori Shotaro (of Kamen Rider, Kikaida, and Cyborg 009 fame). They were a close knit group of comic writer friends back then who had similar backgrounds of leaving their birth place and coming to Tokyo to start their careers. In the late '50s and early '60s Abiko with Fujimoto mostly penned action adventure comics oriented towards pre-teen boys such as the "Big One", "Silver Cross", and "Umi no Ooji". In 1964 they co-authored "Obake no Q-taro" which later became an animated cartoon series which saw wide spread syndication all over the world including North America, and Hong Kong. They continued their prolific career in the '60s and the '70s by penning other cartoons which saw animated syndication such as Paa Man, Kaibutsu-Kun, and Doraemon. One of their works, Ninja Hattori-kun, became a TV series acted by real live actors.

Later in the '70s Fujiko started writing comics for adults, often depicting the surreal side of society as fiction which included the return of Obake no Q-Taro to the family of now grown up ex-friend Sho-chan. Q-Taro in this episode finds that reality of society robbed the youthful dreams of his ex-friends and returns to his spiritual world disappointed. They also penned a semi-autobiographical comic of their life and career at that time with Fujimoto being depicted as somewhat naive main character.

In 1987 Fujimoto dissolved the partnership with Abiko, and for the first time in over 40 years, they decided to pursue their own careers with Fujimoto taking the pen name Fujiko F Fujio, and Abiko taking the pen name Fujiko Fujio (A). Fujimoto passed away in 1996 when he succumbed to liver failure.