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Ip Man 3
 
I don't watch a lot of movies, and I haven't even seen the first 2 movies in this series. This is a Hong Kong series based loosely on the life of Ip Man, who was Bruce Lee's master. I figured it would be a light kung fu action movie, but nooo it spent considerable time on a very sad moment in Ip Man's life and my tears came out. Other than that, there were a lot of cool fights, and guest star Mike Tyson (yes, the boxer) was hilarious when he tried to speak Cantonese. (I suppose that's only hilarious to people who know what Cantonese is supposed to sound like)

The Sailor Moon SNES RPG "Another Story" deserves a mention. Some of the boss battles are a pain, and it's a fairly straightforward RPG story and gameplay-wise, but it's Sailor Moon, so if you don't choose the jewellery you equip really carefully, you die. And the special attacks have glorious voice acting.
 
Plus at one point you go to Canada, and it's one of the most hilarious interpretations of my country I've ever seen.

...I put a lot of thought into this and it was really freaking hard to get my list down to 9.
I've tried to pull from a wider variety of times and genres.. but this still skews heavily towards Japanese & rock.
 
Click the spoiler for a short description and sample song!
 
In chronological order....
 
1. Matthew Good Band - Beautiful Midnight [1999]
 
2. fra-foa - 宙の淵 (Chuu no fuchi) [2001]
 
3. 周杰倫 (Jay Chou) - 范特西 (Fantasy) [2001]
 
4. 椎名林檎 (Shiina Ringo) - 加爾基 精液 栗ノ花 (Karuki, zaamen, kuri no hana) [2003]
 
5. D'espairsRay - MIRROR [2007]
 
6. 安室奈美恵 (Amuro Namie) - PAST < FUTURE [2009]
 
7. R指定 (R-Shitei) - 人間失格 (Ningen shikkaku) [2010]
 
8. Dolly - CAPSULE [2010]
 
9. Crimson Shiva - PANDORA [2014]
 
 
 
 
WOW I PUT WAY TOO MUCH EFFORT INTO THIS. but it was an interesting mental exercise.

If Yakuza 5 & 0 sell well enough, I'd say it's a given that they'll bring over 6. Will be interesting to see if they bring over Kiwami.
 
I feel guilty not buying 5 because I imported/played the Japanese version 2 years ago.. but I think I will wait for the English version of 0.
 
It's a shame they are skipping Ishin. That one might actually be my favourite, I really loved the sword combat and the setting. Omg the vegetable garden and the cooking minigame and the pet cats/dogs.. gnsdonsdiogoidsfhgaijginep so good. That game could've done decent sales if it came out in early 2014, since there weren't so many PS4 exclusive games at the time.

It greatly amuses me to see men have to dress up and put on tons of makeup, in the way that normally only female performers have to...
(even if they have to be super photoshopped to look decent)
 
But most of all, I like how the music can be so different from typical western pop music you'd hear on the radio. I'm sooooo sooooo sick of neutered mass-market easy-on-the-ears songs with pitch perfect singers. I like flawed vocals, painful screams, dissonance.. the contrast between growls & pretty melodies that some bands do very well. I also love the.. aesthetics of the Japanese language when sung, and it's always a special treat when it's contrasted with the occasional bad Engrish line.

Oh man this shit looks so good! For Fuck's sake bring this shit over here Sega please! This is one of your only IP's that still has weight and popularity, don't wait forever to localize it.
 
 

It greatly amuses me to see men have to dress up and put on tons of makeup, in the way that normally only female performers have to...
(even if they have to be super photoshopped to look decent)
 
But most of all, I like how the music can be so different from typical western pop music you'd hear on the radio. I'm sooooo sooooo sick of neutered mass-market easy-on-the-ears songs with pitch perfect singers. I like flawed vocals, painful screams, dissonance.. the contrast between growls & pretty melodies that some bands do very well. I also love the.. aesthetics of the Japanese language when sung, and it's always a special treat when it's contrasted with the occasional bad Engrish line.

It greatly amuses me to see men have to dress up and put on tons of makeup, in the way that normally only female performers have to...
(even if they have to be super photoshopped to look decent)
 
But most of all, I like how the music can be so different from typical western pop music you'd hear on the radio. I'm sooooo sooooo sick of neutered mass-market easy-on-the-ears songs with pitch perfect singers. I like flawed vocals, painful screams, dissonance.. the contrast between growls & pretty melodies that some bands do very well. I also love the.. aesthetics of the Japanese language when sung, and it's always a special treat when it's contrasted with the occasional bad Engrish line.

http://www.gamespot.com/articles/2016-is-a-year-of-preparations-for-final-fantasy-v/1100-6433477/
 
Kitase said 2016 is a "year of preparations", which would imply that nothing will get released in 2016. It seems reasonable to assume that the first chunk will release next year.

http://www.gamespot.com/articles/2016-is-a-year-of-preparations-for-final-fantasy-v/1100-6433477/
 
Kitase said 2016 is a "year of preparations", which would imply that nothing will get released in 2016. It seems reasonable to assume that the first chunk will release next year.

I personally found most of their material to be mediocre, especially the more recent stuff. I see this disbandment as a positive thing. Ryoga is a good vocalist and I will be interested in seeing what he does next.

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I'm not too sure what I'd vote for in the poll even now. If I had to complain about one thing when it comes to VK, it definitely would be able the lack of woman within the genre. I love everything from the music to the style, but the majority of the bands consisting of only males can get disappointing.

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I love RPGs, but honestly, I wish I had more time to really enjoy them. 60 hour plus games just sound so daunting to me now, knowing that if I am going to play one, I am going to need to commit for months just to get anywhere. There are so many classics I would love to pick up, but I know they would just sit on my shelf

Oh my god, my biggest problem with Dragon Age Inquisition was the crappy animation of my character. I played as a very slender female elf, yet she was walking around with her arms and legs out at 45 degree angles (mostly noticed this in cutscenes). Also, every scene where she was sitting on the throne, she'd sit like a man with giant balls. It was like they made animations for a big beefcake dude and didn't bother to make different ones for a female.
 
And holy crap, why didn't they let us change the outfit inside the castle. I'm practically the goddamn queen, why am I always wearing an ugly skintight brown shirt and ugly skintight brown pants?? (oh wait, just googled this and apparently they patched it to let you choose from some other colours/outfits now... which are all kind of ugly. It would be an improvement to just let us wear our armor.. not that the armor sets in this game were particularly good looking)
 
And holy crap, for the "Formal attire", why didn't they design a formal dress for female characters? It felt really weird to be wearing something resembling a king/prince's military attire.
 
Gah, the more I think about it, the less I like that game.

For me, "Oni to kage" was god-tier, "Shuuen" was meh-tier, and mostly everything they released after "Shuuen" was good-tier. High hopes for this new album, but it's gonna be damn hard to surpass the first one.

My main issue with the visual kei scene isn't really represented in the options here, and it's something you generally get more in touch with once you get to Japan and get to experience the scene.
Firstly, the fact that a large majority of visual kei musicians more or less openly admits they don't have any artistic or personal integrity, they don't care what they produce and they don't care that their sound is exactly like every other band out there, because they know that as long as the members are pretty enough there WILL be fans, and they WILL pay you money for "company" and "favors" so that you can survive comfortably and keep rehashing the same song for a couple of years until you feel like calling it quits and do something more worthwhile with your life, or more likely, go into full time hosting business now that you have a decent circle of clients already.
 
This sort of leads me into my second issue and it's the bangya culture. It's generally really vile, and the way the girls not only talk about the musicians but also each other is quite disgusting. If the bangyas decide that a member has done something they do not approve of, that doesn't live up to their perfect ideals that they hold them all to (because god knows the fangirls don't live up to any of them) they can easily start enough shit to cause a band to break up or force a member out of the band. The issues doesn't end there though, because the few foreign bangya that exists generally adapt to this mentality and lifestyle too. They openly shun other foreigners who dare attend the lives of "their" band and ruin their "specialness", they participate in this completely daft saizen system where a designated person basically decides who gets what spot at a concert so everyone can enjoy playing ten year olds doing the "you're not allowed to play with us"-games... And the obviousness of what really drives people to be fans of these bands become so apparent when they get to this level, and it's certainly not the music.
 
To be honest, in a lot of ways I never realized how bad this was until I got there and could see it all for myself, and that's despite a 13 year stint in the scene by now.

Nice look!
I suppose I will pick this up. I'm very new to this band.. only heard (and bought) GIGA BEST and Itadaking, I generally like what they do.

Nice look!
I suppose I will pick this up. I'm very new to this band.. only heard (and bought) GIGA BEST and Itadaking, I generally like what they do.

For me, "Oni to kage" was god-tier, "Shuuen" was meh-tier, and mostly everything they released after "Shuuen" was good-tier. High hopes for this new album, but it's gonna be damn hard to surpass the first one.

Oh, I already finished the lyrics. http://hiphopvomit.blogspot.com/2016/01/gossip-baka-aho-manuke-banzai.html
 
In the second line you wrote, you have お父さん, but I'm pretty sure he says お母さん . 

I just finished ..........
 
Life Is Strange
 
Really deeply moving story. Gave me a lot to think about. Actually made me cry... TWICE. 
I hate things that make me cry.
Still giving it a GOTY nomination.

For me, "Oni to kage" was god-tier, "Shuuen" was meh-tier, and mostly everything they released after "Shuuen" was good-tier. High hopes for this new album, but it's gonna be damn hard to surpass the first one.

That stuff looks cool, I wish I had it !
 
I'm going to type out those lyrics. it is very easy to see ... except the censored part.. which I'll have to guess at
thank you for the pics!