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rusty

Quote from: DeCarlo Rules on November 04, 2018, 09:44:20 AM
At some point it seems like the Doctor should be a little kid, too.


It could happen.




DeCarlo Rules

NUIGULUMAR Z
Gothic Lolita Battle Bear



Quote"Gothic lolita fashion enthusiast Yumeko Ayukawa, nicknamed Dameko, possesses the ability to merge with her talking pink teddy bear Buusuke to form Nuigulumar, a sexy leather-clad superheroine. Using her furry nunchucks, she must battle evil villain Takeshi, his psychic subordinate Kill Billy and a horde of 109 zombies, the highest number of the undead ever seen in a Japanese film.

https://www.youtube.com/embed/4xe_PkEiVO4

Not yet available in an English-subtitled version, but desperately to be hoped for. The film stars Rina Takeda, a Japanese actress, singer and black belt in Ryukyu Shōrin-ryū Karate. Wow, were ever so many popular Japanese tropes crammed into a single film? Magical girl. Goth/loli. Martial arts. Tokusatsu hero. Zombies. And something for the furry fans.

rusty

Hearts Beat Loud (2018) - Frank Fisher owns a record store that is about to close.  His daughter Sam is about to leave New York to attend college at UCLA.  Frank has been raising his daughter alone since the death of her mother in a cycling accident years earlier.  The two start collaborating on a few songs and Frank wants them to form a band, even though she is leaving soon.  This is a very nice comedy/drama with plenty of good father/daughter moments

BettyReggie

I was watching Dismissed. 💝 Dylan Sprouse is in it.

DeCarlo Rules

#724
URUSEI YATSURA ("Those Obnoxious Aliens") - I've known of the existence of the manga (published by Viz) since it started in the U.S. in 1989, but never really followed it. There was a long gap between the first 8 floppy comic-sized issues of LUM Urusei Yatsura and The Return of Lum (which became the new title) in 1994, at which point the series continued on, collected in 9 TPBs (from 1994-2000). Those TPBs condensed material from only the first 11 (of 34 total) Japanese volumes, skipping some stories. Viz is about to start re-publishing the manga in a newer, more complete English translation beginning in February 2019, which is what prompted me to do a little internet research on this series.

Unknown to me, the entire anime series adapted from the manga (195 episodes plus 6 movies and 12 TV specials and OVAs, originally released from 1981 through 1991 in Japan) had been released earlier on DVD in North America by AnimEgo (a company now since defunct). 150 of those TV episodes, movies or OVAs (in Japanese with English subtitles, exactly as released on DVD by AnimEgo) have been uploaded by someone to YouTube >> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T82cfApNUDk&index=1&list=PLft-ctSdHsae8iJGm0pJDXNRpVQwTu2Ja

It's a fun series. It concerns a lecherous high school student named Ataru Moroboshi who is randomly selected as Earth's champion by the invading aliens known as Oni (which means a demon or devil in Japanese). Ataru isn't interested in being anyone's champion, but changes his mind when he sees that his opponent is the attractive alien princess Lum -- a horned, green-haired teenage cutie wearing a yellow-and-black-striped bikini and boots. (All the Oni seem to wear some sort of yellow-and-black-striped clothes.) To win for Earth, all Ataru needs to do is succeed in a kind of game of tag, by grabbing Lum's horns within the 10 days of the contest. She can fly though, and immediately and easily eludes him for almost the entire 10-day period. Ataru finally cheats by firing a rubber suction-cup arrow at Lum's bikini top, yanking it away. When she reacts in shock by covering her top with her arms, Ataru pounces upon her and grabs her by her horns. Ataru is relieved because now that Earth is spared from the alien Oni invasion, he'll be a hero and can marry his high school sweetheart Shinobu. Blurting out his happiness, "Now I can get married!", he's heard by Lum and she takes it to be a proposal of marriage to her, and immediately falls in love with Ataru. Now she won't be dissuaded from her pursuit of her "Darling", as she calls him, while Ataru is now in hot water with Shinobu whenever Lum is around (which is always, as she eventually comes to live with him, and enrolls as a student in his school, as well). She also has with her an annoying, mischievous toddler cousin named Ten, and a jealous ex-boyfriend named Rei in hot pursuit -- a guy so handsome that all the girls that see him (including Ataru's mom!) immediately fall for him, even though his manners are atrocious and he turns into some sort of giant tiger-like monster whenever he gets mad.

The series seems to feature a never-ending stream of delightfully-weird happenings to keep things lively. It's Archie-like in the sense that Ataru is kind of a hapless shlub with a roving eye for the ladies (but otherwise not a bad guy), caught in the middle of two girls fighting over him (or getting mad AT him), so it's romantic triangle time.

BettyReggie

Last night I was watching Banana Fish Season #1 on Amazon Prime. Ash is hot

BettyReggie


BettyReggie


BettyReggie

I have been watching Banana Fish. It's awesome.

DeCarlo Rules

Orange Caramel (K-pop group) videos on YouTube.

rusty

I finished watching the latest season of Doctor Who.  I like Jodie Whittaker as The Doctor and think this was a pretty good season, though the last episode was probably my least favorite of the season.

BettyReggie


BettyReggie

Tonight I will watch Honey & Clover & Banana Fish

DeCarlo Rules

#733


DeCarlo Rules

#734
More K-pop:
Gugudan
KARA
Crayon Pop
TINY-G
Girls' Generation
OH MY GIRL BANHANA
Brown-Eyed Girls
T-ara
Wonder Girls
AOA
(Ace of Angels)

and some J-Pop too:
Aya Matsuura (also DEF.DIVA and GAM, two groups Aya was part of)
Mana Ashida
Star Flower
Shugo Chara Egg!
Tempura Kidz
Takoyaki Rainbow
SUPER☆GIRLS
(Korea has Wonder Girls; Japan has Super☆Girls!)
Momoiro Clover Z
TWICE
℃-ute
Kyary Pamyu Pamyu
i☆Ris
Tommy february6
Dream5
S/mileage
Lil Puri
Kusumi Koharu
(also Milky Way, a group Kusumi was part of)

And of course...
BABYMETAL (not sure if this even still qualifies as J-Pop, it's more like :Kawaii-Metal:  :o)

Do vocaloids like Mika Mika or anime MVs like NonSugar count? Probably not then.

The point is that Orange Caramel (whom I stumbled across by way of their cover of Lum's Love Song [theme song from URUSEI YATSURA]) turned out to be my 'gateway drug' to the world of Asian pop music videos.

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