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Dirty Old Men <3 Never forget. 1. Kuro - Dead Heat 10000V 2. 或る感覚 (Aru Kankaku) - city style alternative blues 3. 二千花 (Nichika) - Garage 4. Drop's - 木曜日の雨のブルース 5. ミドリ (Midori) - 鉄塔の上の2人 6. BUCK-TICK - CHECK UP 7. ばちかぶり (Bachikaburi) - 日之丸 8. 바스코 (Vasco) - Underground King (Inst.) 9. aquarifa - Switch 10. Sólstafir - Rismál This was an easy choice until the Sólstafir song came up, then it was a little harder to choose, but I had to go with 二千花 after all. Everybody should listen to them!

I kind of want to make a Japanese hip-hop mixtape but I don't know where to post it then, should I just use the old Revenge of Mixtape thread or something...?

Sweet! I'm still waiting for the holy trinity of LITE, té and toe to release a 3-way split, though. ; )

Italian screamo band Shizune, they have some songs in Japanese. (it's not really singing but yeah)

I felt a sudden urge to play strategy games so I bought Total War: Shogun 2, I tried playing it last night at 3AM and thought it was confusing, tried again today and I ended up playing for 8 hours... This is too addicting.

I don't have a soft spot for Enon's haircut so I voted for TK.

this beat is soooooo good.

Cautiously looking forward to this.

updated my list a bit ^__^

Do these bands like lynch or the GazettE use some sort of song title generator that gives random english one-word titles in all caps?

Colored Rice Men is pretty cool... They have some self-irony.

Nine times out of ten the problem with any of these live-action adaptations is that they lack heart. Dragonball Evolution was a piece of shit and the screenwriter himself admitted he was just after some easy money. But there's no point blaming western studios for doing bad jobs with adaptations since japanese can't do much better either. I actually prefer big American studios doing adaptations for e.g. Ghost in the Shell or Death Note. The settings of those movies work way better outside Japan and at least they have the budget to make it look good, CGI-wise. I can't say that I know any Japanese live-action adaptations that don't have bad CGI. (Attack on Titan, Rurouni Kenshin etc.) I actually liked the Rurouni Kenshin movies but the CGI was terrible. Of course there's always the fear that the special effects will suck anyway or they have some hack screenwriter who lacks passion and will ruin everything. But I'm still looking forward to GiTS and if it was some japanese studio doing that movie, I most likely wouldn't be looking forward to it. Japan should just focus on doing low-budget high school rom-com movies á la Ao Haru Ride or Orange. I'm pretty sure that SAO TV series will suck. I want that live-action Cowboy Bebop, though. Just saying.

feeling like

Tbh I'm only somewhat familiar with Hiatus Kaiyote and Aureole, the rest don't ring a bell but I'm bad with japanese names anyway 01. 地盤沈下 - 世も末だ 02. Annabyss Coast - 鳥籠 03. ミドリ - 愛って悲しいね 04. ギルガメッシュ - イシュタル 05. 黒夢 - CANDY 06. Envy - Farewell to Words 07. LÄ-PPISCH - 美代ちゃんの××× 08. Rosso - サキソフォン・ベイビー 09. バックドロップシンデレラ - ペットショップボーイ 10. Dead End - Embryo Burning Not feeling most of these songs. I'm gonna pick 地盤沈下 because they're fucking crazy.

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There's a Japanese movie called Summer Time Machine Blues. You could try that. Also Safety Not Guaranteed. I don't remember if they actually travel in time in that movie but they're building a time machine or something?

There you go~ I kind of cheated a bit... There are couple EPs, maybe two compilations, and two albums from same band (I wanted to put like 4 albums tbh) but I'm quite satisfied with the chart.

one more club to add to the club of clubs... pelican fanclub awesome city club and summer club helsinki lambda club litchi hikari club marquee beach club

+1 <3

gotta love the fact that they have only finnish song titles on their s/t EP, lmao.

These car reviews should be a weekly/monthly thing!

oh god nakao kentaro is a bass god

Yesss! I love the rawer/punchier production on the S/T. And it's also the most garage rock-ish album of theirs. Those drums, mmmh!

Cool, much appreciated! It's also my favorite album by them.