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My very own 1920s/30s redesign of the Original/Classic Tails the Fox, along being mixed with other kinds of 90s Tails the Fox media, including Yasushi Yamaguchi Tails design, Aosth, and the Satam Tails palette along with others that are described in the photos below this text.
2024.05.01 15:20 MrColaStudios My very own 1920s/30s redesign of the Original/Classic Tails the Fox, along being mixed with other kinds of 90s Tails the Fox media, including Yasushi Yamaguchi Tails design, Aosth, and the Satam Tails palette along with others that are described in the photos below this text.
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2024.04.10 02:52 sdrong Excerpts from Radio Show TOKYO SPEAKEASY 2024.04.08 with Sashihara and Akimoto Yasushi
From the recent Radio Show TOKYO SPEAKEASY 2024.04.08 with Sashihara and Akimoto Yasushi
Tokyo Speakeasy Twitter
As usual, talks between Sashi and Akimoto Yasushi always yield a lot of inside and behind the scene news. It's an hour long radio talk with some commercials in between.
Here is a long excerpts or summary of what they talked about.
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Akimoto Yasushi: Sashihara san is becoming world’s #1 producer.
Sashi: You are making fun of me again.
A: I’m not making fun of you. I know a lot of producers, but Sashihara is quite excellent.
Sashi: Eh!? Why this [praise] suddenly?
Akimoto explained that Yoyogi Animation first consulted him about Idol group, and he recommended Sashi to Yoyogi Animation. That’s how =LOVE got started. Sashi joked that Yoyogi probably didn’t like the idea then. Akimoto replied that people didn’t thought things would picked up and get popular then. Akimoto said that he knew Sashi that when she’s a middle school kid, she was a Morning Musume fan. So she understood the perspective of the idol fans. If she wasn’t an idol fan before, she wouldn’t be able to make songs for live events. To this, Sashi agrees. She said that selecting songs are very difficult. She most frequently selects songs that can be used in live events in concerts. Akimoto said that Sashi tends to select songs that are easy for fan calls during live concerts. She’s good at that, that’s why he says Sashi is the #1 Producer. Sashi laughed and asked him to stop making fun of her.
Akimoto said that Sashi, like him, in terms of Producing work, they decided a style and direction of a song, then gather various songs, and select one out of a large group of candidate songs. Sashi commented that selecting songs are very difficult. She said that a while ago, she consulted Akimoto on which song to select as the title track among some songs. But in the end, Akimoto just said either is fine, he thought all of those songs are good. Sashi was glad on the compliment. Akimoto said that’s the hard part of the job, working hard to select a song, but sometimes fans still commented that “This is a shitty song.” Sashi said that she doesn’t go read the negative comments, as she doesn’t want the comments to influence her next songs. Akimoto said that he does read the “shitty song” comments. Then he goes on to talk about how a lot of people wonder about the “Ohitorisama tengoku” song from Nogizaka46. The title was written to be impactful.
Sashi then mentioned an episode where recently, she, Kojima Haruna, and Oya Shizuka went to see boat racing. On the way there, they started listening to some KPop songs, but in the middle they started wanting to listen to AKB songs, and was listening to some A3 theater songs. Shiichan was being wistful and remembering the old days. Kojima remarked that it has such good songs, great setlist, no wonder it got popular. Then they were at the boat race, and of course everyone lost money from the betting game of the boat race. So they were somewhat dejected from that. Although Kojima won a small amount. On the way back, to lift up their spirit, they started listen to Nogizaka’s new song “Chance wa Byoudou.” They thought it was a great song, kind of related to their boat racing betting experience.
Akimoto said that he wanted to make songs like Koisuru Fortune Cookie, Heavy Rotation, 365 Nichi for Nogizaka. In the end, he settled on the disco style. He wanted to convey the everyone has equal chance message. But there’s already the “Chance no Junban” song from AKB. After much consideration, he settled on “Chance wa Byoudou.” Akimoto asked how Sashi select songs. Sashi said that there are a lot cases where she decided on the image of the song she wanted to write first. Like the recent =LOVE’s “Norotte Norotte” song. She wanted to write a song with that phrase in. Then she selected songs with that image. She probably selected the song out of around 300 candidate songs. Akimoto remarked that like Koisuru Fortune Cookie, he decided on how he wants the song to be arranged and ordered those kinds of songs. Or like 365 Nichi, he wanted to do a folk song first, then go from there.
Sashi said that she already mentioned this story many times on many occasions. When Koisuru first came out, she didn’t like it at first. Then it got really popular, and she was really happy and grateful for it. She asked if that song comes out with Nogizaka right now, would that fit in with the group? Or would the fans accept it? Akimoto thought the fans will probably accept it. But idol songs always have a story. The Koisuru song came out when Sashi won the #1 election over Maeda, Oshima, Mayu, etc. Like the lyrics of Koisuru, “Life isn’t so bad.” Her solo lyrics part, “let’s take a fortune.” The Koisuru song is a pretty uniquely Sashihara song. Sashi replied that she’s very grateful for the song. She said like the “Silent Majority” song made her want to look up who’s the girl behind it, find out more about Techi. Akimoto said the “Silent Majority” was originally for a commercial song. He originally started to look for a upbeat, bright, visually gorgeous type of song. But then he came across this song, and decided that it has to be this one. The company president trusted his judgement and let him use the song. He decided on the song from the intro of the song. Sashi agreed, she said from the intro of the song, you already want to cheer for them. The high spirit continues to the chorus and end of the Silent Majority song. She said she paid a lot of attention to the intro of the song, sometimes wished a song has a stronger & impactful intro. Akimoto said, like Silent Majority, and Pony tail shu shu, from the intro, you can already tell the song is going to be a hit. But there are also cases where he doesn’t know what intro it should be, like Heavy Rotation, it ended up being just counting, 1, 2, 3, 4… It’s interesting how some songs came about.
Sashi said, a while ago, Akimoto suddenly contacted Sashi via LINE, asking her what is a popular contact lens color right now? She was really confused then, whether he is asking for himself or his kid about the color contact lens. So she replied is this for your kid? He replied that it’s for a song lyric. She said she got it, and said that recently hazel color is popular nowadays. Later she found out it’s for the AKB’s “color con wink” song, Yukirin’s graduation song. Akimoto asked her because he knows that her color contact lenses sold really well. Color contact lens is also a fashionable item. Speaking of Kashiwagi Yuki’s graduation song, although he hasn’t gone out to eat or talked to her as frequently, the first thing you think of her is her wink. In music program like Music Station, even for less than one second interval, she will always be able to give a wink at the right moment. She is a genius in that regard. Sashi agreed. Sashi said that Yukirin don’t do it during rehearsal, but she’ll always be able to deliver the wink during the actual performance at the right exact moment. Sashi said that Yukirin probably have it all planned out during the rehearsal. Akimoto said, now all her juniors imitate her on the winking. Sashi remarked that the song is great. She said that although it’s a little rude for her to say it, she thinks Akimoto put a lot of effort into AKB songs recently. All the recent songs from AKB are great. Akimoto said that it’s a song by Yoshimasa, it has been a while since he made a song for AKB. He made a song that has the Everyday Kachusha feel. It’s Yukirin’s graduation, and in a way, is also a restart of AKB48. So it’s a song from Yoshimasa, has some reminiscence of the AKB’s earlier period. Sashi said that when she was at Yukirin’s concert, Yoshimasa is also there. He’s the one who is most excited about everything, asking to take a picture with Sashi and everyone there.
Akimoto asked Sashi how does she deal with the =LOVE members. Is it tough for her? Are they much easier to work with because they’re all about the same generation? Sashi replied that she’s on very good relationships with the members. Just last night, a member sent a picture of a receipt with 345 on it. Saying it’s her receipt. The member typed 345 with a heart behind it on the message. That was very cute of them. She said before there is a little bit of nervousness working with them. Recent one or two years have become very good. Akimoto asked if =LOVE has senbatsu system, she replied no. Everyone is on the song, since they don’t have a large number of members. Akimoto asked so how does she select the center? Akimoto remarked Sashi herself wasn’t always the center of the group, so she understands what it’s like to not be a center. She said that she tried to get the group to be more popular, so she selects member towards that end. Akimoto said that he’s the person who try out things, regardless of whether things will turn out good or bad. He started talking about how Sashi started to get noticed during AKB days. At first, he doesn’t have much of an impression for Sashi. He just remembered her wearing a green jersey at a rehearsal in Ebisu. Although there was an audition, he didn’t remember her much. Then one day he saw her blog writing about seeing green onion fall on her way home. He thought she’s an interesting person, genius in her writing. Because of that blog, then came the 1 day 100 blog entry challenge and so on for her, and other variety show appearances.
Akimoto remarked that everyone has her chance. He remarked that if Sashi didn’t push Murashige before, she might not be as accomplished as she is now. Murashige made into the breaking TV talent ranking last year. Sashi remarked that Murashige got really popular now. She is in working today, and is working yesterday too, quite a busy person. He remembered that when he and Sashi were having dinner with Twin Planet’s President. She pitched that Murashige was trying to get signed onto an agency. Murashige wasn’t there but probably will be okay about it. Sashi said that at that time, she was trying to ask Akimoto’s help to get Murashige signed on an agency. But Akimoto just went on and said How about Twin? She said Twin’s President didn’t look happy at that time. LOL. At that time, the President just say, Murashige? OK Fine. Akimoto said at that time no body knows her. Akimoto and Sashi said it’s due to Murashige’s hard work and her agency helped too. Sashi said that recently she saw Murashige at Kimura Takuya’s YouTube, she was really surprised. Sashi said that she was glad Murashige have accomplished much. Sakura is also very popular, becoming a global star. Sashi asked if Sakura contacted him, he said she occasionally did. Sakura is really busy and all over the world. She also have a pretty tough schedule, constant practicing. Akimoto said Sashi become like the Mother for the Idol World. She said that’s because she has a lot of juniors. Sakura and Murashige probably closest, there’s also Nako Miku. Occasionally, when she watched HKT concert, she thought herself as the mother.
Akimoto said that Sashi has promised writing a theater performance for HKT, everyone was looking forward to it, but there is some difference of opinion with HKT management. He laughed, “can you say it’s due to difference in opinion?” Sashi laughed and said that there is some budgetary reasons, the things she wanted to do couldn’t be done. Akimoto teased that she is made a fraudulent promise about writing those songs. She said it’s not fraud, she did wrote the songs. She gave it to HKT and tell them to use it, but HKT management just said, “it’s okay….” Akimoto said he didn’t hear about that. Sashi said they were great songs. Sashi said that Nako’s graduation concert, her noon concert’s setlist was actually arranged by Sashi. At that time, she sticked in a song that she had for HKT theater into the setlist. But that unfortunately got taken out in the end, quite dark. She wished that the songs get used someday. Akimoto said although he’s making fun of Sashi as fraudulently writing HKT theater songs, but he hasn’t gotten AKB’s theater songs written too. Sashi asked him how that the AKB’s new theater songs has been going? It’s a promise from last year, and when is he going to get that done? Akimoto said that it’s planned for December 4th this year, AKB’s 19th anniversary. Sashi asked, “So how many songs have you written so far?” Akimoto replied, “Right now, it’s still on the selection stage.” LOL. Sashi laughed and said he’ll have a hard time making it on time. She can’t say much about him, because she knows that he has too many groups on his hand. She asked how many songs he’s planning? He said around 12 songs. She said it’s about the amount for a full-length album. He said when Sashi is preparing =LOVE’s songs, single plus coupling songs are about seven songs in total right? She said yes, if the release timing of the groups overlaps, she had to write as many songs in a month too. He said she should start making an =LOVE’s rival group. She replied no way. =LOVE hasn’t reached the top yet, and 3 groups are the upper limit for her. He asked are all groups under Sony? She said, no. They’re under Sony, King, Sony. He joked that may be her next one should be under King Records. Sashi said no way, why is there a need to make a sandwich out of it. Occasionally, while filming TV show during break when she checks her phone, there will be hundreds of LINE message. She’d freak out wondering if something happened. That’s just from 3 groups. Akimoto said he doesn’t have that problem now, since he’s away from day-to-day management of the group. He just does the creative side. So he got a lot of messages about song writing deadlines. He’s always trying to make it. She asked how many songs he is working on today. He said about 5 for an album.
Akimoto asked her when does she write? She said she write her songs at a café in Omotesando, a quiet café with no sound. She’ll bring the songs and listen in her air pod. She’ll spend the day writing, then at night might all of a sudden thinks, “That won’t do”, then start rewriting the lyrics again. Akimoto asked, “So you decided on the themes of songs before hand?” She said yes, usually about 3 songs ahead. She settled on the image of the songs. Like this song should be cool type and so on. She said there is a café she like, that prohibits photo taking on the interior, or on the merchandise and so on. The café is pretty trendy looking too. Most of the customers are foreigners. There is seat that she really likes. The café employee understands that too and will let her know if the seat is unoccupied. “Sashihara san, today that seat is unoccupied.” Once, a really famous actor was on the seat. She thought ah too bad seat was taken. But since she’s in the entertainment business, so she had to greet him. She was in a pretty casual state with no make up on. The guy just said, people can’t recognize you without make up on. She said she was shocked by what she said.
Then they talked about restaurant and food. There is a restaurant that Sashi likes in Chiba. Akimoto talked about a café that he likes in Daikanyama “Tractor.” She’s surprised that he goes to café and what does he recommend from there. He said avocado toast, scrambled eggs, soup, and they have the best ice lemonade. The ice lemonade is like a smoothie. She asked who he goes with. He replied, his wife.
Then Akimoto asked Sashi how is her love life going? She said she doesn’t have much going on her love life now, doesn’t have the wish to get married soon too. If she meets someone she’s destined with, she might marry him tomorrow. But right now, she doesn’t have someone who she plans to marry in half a year or so. Akimoto said that it seems like she isn’t doing anything to prepare getting married also. She said no, she has no such plans too. She said she wants to be dating more. The people around her like Miichan, getting married and getting pregnant, are having a lot of congratulatory events around them. She does sometimes think what am I doing here? Akimoto said that the beginning stages of dating is the most fun. Sashi said recently, her physical strength isn’t keeping up now. She can’t handle hangovers anymore. Akimoto mentioned the dinner party they had with Lily Frankie and Fukuyama in Kyoto. She said she hasn’t drink since that birthday party for Lily Frankie in Kyoto. It was in a very nice hotel in Kyoto. Then they talked about another party, where Miichan is also there. Akimoto asked if Miichan is good at drinking, Sashi said that she was, but isn’t drinking now due to being pregnant. Miichan also didn’t eat the sushi, but she was happy, just missing out on the drinking. They wonder who’s next that’s going to be in a relationship. Akimoto said that like recently Nishino Nanase got married. Sashi, “That’s right, congratulations to her.” Akimoto said that Nishino was going to announce her marriage on 16:00. And on 15:00 she messaged Akimoto via LINE and told him, I’m going to announce my marriage on 16:00. Isn’t that quite mean of her? Sashi said, “That’s very Nanase-maru like.” She asked if he knows the couple were dating, he said he didn’t know beforehand, so were surprised by the announcement. Akimoto said, “oh, I was the legal witness/guarantor for Nakai Rika’s wedding ceremony.” Sashi, “you did a lot of that?” Akimoto, “Yes, I did that a lot. I was the guarantor for Maeda, and for Takamina too. I’ll do it for Sashihara you too.” Sashi, “Thank you very much.” Akimoto said, “However, 80% of them got divorced. If I include everyone since my student days.” Sashi said, “I was a little startled when you mentioned Maeda before. That’s likely because sheer amount of couples you become the legal witness to …. Rika chan was awesome. I was surprised.” Sashi, “Nishino Miki got married too.” Akimoto said, “The next big names left are just Kojiharu and you.” Sashi, “I just went to boat race with Kojiharu.” Akimoto, “Waiting for you and Kojiharu to be in a happy relationship.”
Sashi said that she’s been spending too much money recently, can’t be like this anymore. May be that’s why she couldn’t get married. She needs to stop spending money. Akimoto said, you can take a break from both spending money and drinking. Akimoto asked if she has any new (work related) announcement. She said no new promotions, she just has regular TV shows now. Akimoto asked how many regular TV shows she has? She replied that she doesn’t know, doesn’t keep track of it. Probably 4 – 5 shows. Akimoto asked if it’s hard for her. She said no, she only goes on the regular TV shows she has now, still has time for selecting songs, writing lyrics too. She has time to watch movies too. She watches a lot of movies recently, getting the creative thinking going. Akimoto said she can get ideas for =LOVE’s concerts setting from them. Sashi said that she did get ideas about which colors to use and so on. But when she watched Godzilla recently, she just thought that was really interesting! That’s it. It was a fun and scary movie. Akimoto said that’s good too, if it’s working every day, people will get tired too. Sashi said, “Talking with Akimoto san, you mentioned that you watch a lot of Netflix shows. With all the working, song writing, when do you sleep?” He replied that he did sleep more recently. What things did he watch, Sashi asked. He said he like watching documentary recently. Akimoto asked if she’ll get into song writing, she said probably no. Although she did occasionally ask for rearrangement and so on for the songs.
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Tokyo Speakeasy Twitter
As usual, talks between Sashi and Akimoto Yasushi always yield a lot of inside and behind the scene news. It's an hour long radio talk with some commercials in between.
Here is a long excerpts or summary of what they talked about.
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Akimoto Yasushi: Sashihara san is becoming world’s #1 producer.
Sashi: You are making fun of me again.
A: I’m not making fun of you. I know a lot of producers, but Sashihara is quite excellent.
Sashi: Eh!? Why this [praise] suddenly?
Akimoto explained that Yoyogi Animation first consulted him about Idol group, and he recommended Sashi to Yoyogi Animation. That’s how =LOVE got started. Sashi joked that Yoyogi probably didn’t like the idea then. Akimoto replied that people didn’t thought things would picked up and get popular then. Akimoto said that he knew Sashi that when she’s a middle school kid, she was a Morning Musume fan. So she understood the perspective of the idol fans. If she wasn’t an idol fan before, she wouldn’t be able to make songs for live events. To this, Sashi agrees. She said that selecting songs are very difficult. She most frequently selects songs that can be used in live events in concerts. Akimoto said that Sashi tends to select songs that are easy for fan calls during live concerts. She’s good at that, that’s why he says Sashi is the #1 Producer. Sashi laughed and asked him to stop making fun of her.
Akimoto said that Sashi, like him, in terms of Producing work, they decided a style and direction of a song, then gather various songs, and select one out of a large group of candidate songs. Sashi commented that selecting songs are very difficult. She said that a while ago, she consulted Akimoto on which song to select as the title track among some songs. But in the end, Akimoto just said either is fine, he thought all of those songs are good. Sashi was glad on the compliment. Akimoto said that’s the hard part of the job, working hard to select a song, but sometimes fans still commented that “This is a shitty song.” Sashi said that she doesn’t go read the negative comments, as she doesn’t want the comments to influence her next songs. Akimoto said that he does read the “shitty song” comments. Then he goes on to talk about how a lot of people wonder about the “Ohitorisama tengoku” song from Nogizaka46. The title was written to be impactful.
Sashi then mentioned an episode where recently, she, Kojima Haruna, and Oya Shizuka went to see boat racing. On the way there, they started listening to some KPop songs, but in the middle they started wanting to listen to AKB songs, and was listening to some A3 theater songs. Shiichan was being wistful and remembering the old days. Kojima remarked that it has such good songs, great setlist, no wonder it got popular. Then they were at the boat race, and of course everyone lost money from the betting game of the boat race. So they were somewhat dejected from that. Although Kojima won a small amount. On the way back, to lift up their spirit, they started listen to Nogizaka’s new song “Chance wa Byoudou.” They thought it was a great song, kind of related to their boat racing betting experience.
Akimoto said that he wanted to make songs like Koisuru Fortune Cookie, Heavy Rotation, 365 Nichi for Nogizaka. In the end, he settled on the disco style. He wanted to convey the everyone has equal chance message. But there’s already the “Chance no Junban” song from AKB. After much consideration, he settled on “Chance wa Byoudou.” Akimoto asked how Sashi select songs. Sashi said that there are a lot cases where she decided on the image of the song she wanted to write first. Like the recent =LOVE’s “Norotte Norotte” song. She wanted to write a song with that phrase in. Then she selected songs with that image. She probably selected the song out of around 300 candidate songs. Akimoto remarked that like Koisuru Fortune Cookie, he decided on how he wants the song to be arranged and ordered those kinds of songs. Or like 365 Nichi, he wanted to do a folk song first, then go from there.
Sashi said that she already mentioned this story many times on many occasions. When Koisuru first came out, she didn’t like it at first. Then it got really popular, and she was really happy and grateful for it. She asked if that song comes out with Nogizaka right now, would that fit in with the group? Or would the fans accept it? Akimoto thought the fans will probably accept it. But idol songs always have a story. The Koisuru song came out when Sashi won the #1 election over Maeda, Oshima, Mayu, etc. Like the lyrics of Koisuru, “Life isn’t so bad.” Her solo lyrics part, “let’s take a fortune.” The Koisuru song is a pretty uniquely Sashihara song. Sashi replied that she’s very grateful for the song. She said like the “Silent Majority” song made her want to look up who’s the girl behind it, find out more about Techi. Akimoto said the “Silent Majority” was originally for a commercial song. He originally started to look for a upbeat, bright, visually gorgeous type of song. But then he came across this song, and decided that it has to be this one. The company president trusted his judgement and let him use the song. He decided on the song from the intro of the song. Sashi agreed, she said from the intro of the song, you already want to cheer for them. The high spirit continues to the chorus and end of the Silent Majority song. She said she paid a lot of attention to the intro of the song, sometimes wished a song has a stronger & impactful intro. Akimoto said, like Silent Majority, and Pony tail shu shu, from the intro, you can already tell the song is going to be a hit. But there are also cases where he doesn’t know what intro it should be, like Heavy Rotation, it ended up being just counting, 1, 2, 3, 4… It’s interesting how some songs came about.
Sashi said, a while ago, Akimoto suddenly contacted Sashi via LINE, asking her what is a popular contact lens color right now? She was really confused then, whether he is asking for himself or his kid about the color contact lens. So she replied is this for your kid? He replied that it’s for a song lyric. She said she got it, and said that recently hazel color is popular nowadays. Later she found out it’s for the AKB’s “color con wink” song, Yukirin’s graduation song. Akimoto asked her because he knows that her color contact lenses sold really well. Color contact lens is also a fashionable item. Speaking of Kashiwagi Yuki’s graduation song, although he hasn’t gone out to eat or talked to her as frequently, the first thing you think of her is her wink. In music program like Music Station, even for less than one second interval, she will always be able to give a wink at the right moment. She is a genius in that regard. Sashi agreed. Sashi said that Yukirin don’t do it during rehearsal, but she’ll always be able to deliver the wink during the actual performance at the right exact moment. Sashi said that Yukirin probably have it all planned out during the rehearsal. Akimoto said, now all her juniors imitate her on the winking. Sashi remarked that the song is great. She said that although it’s a little rude for her to say it, she thinks Akimoto put a lot of effort into AKB songs recently. All the recent songs from AKB are great. Akimoto said that it’s a song by Yoshimasa, it has been a while since he made a song for AKB. He made a song that has the Everyday Kachusha feel. It’s Yukirin’s graduation, and in a way, is also a restart of AKB48. So it’s a song from Yoshimasa, has some reminiscence of the AKB’s earlier period. Sashi said that when she was at Yukirin’s concert, Yoshimasa is also there. He’s the one who is most excited about everything, asking to take a picture with Sashi and everyone there.
Akimoto asked Sashi how does she deal with the =LOVE members. Is it tough for her? Are they much easier to work with because they’re all about the same generation? Sashi replied that she’s on very good relationships with the members. Just last night, a member sent a picture of a receipt with 345 on it. Saying it’s her receipt. The member typed 345 with a heart behind it on the message. That was very cute of them. She said before there is a little bit of nervousness working with them. Recent one or two years have become very good. Akimoto asked if =LOVE has senbatsu system, she replied no. Everyone is on the song, since they don’t have a large number of members. Akimoto asked so how does she select the center? Akimoto remarked Sashi herself wasn’t always the center of the group, so she understands what it’s like to not be a center. She said that she tried to get the group to be more popular, so she selects member towards that end. Akimoto said that he’s the person who try out things, regardless of whether things will turn out good or bad. He started talking about how Sashi started to get noticed during AKB days. At first, he doesn’t have much of an impression for Sashi. He just remembered her wearing a green jersey at a rehearsal in Ebisu. Although there was an audition, he didn’t remember her much. Then one day he saw her blog writing about seeing green onion fall on her way home. He thought she’s an interesting person, genius in her writing. Because of that blog, then came the 1 day 100 blog entry challenge and so on for her, and other variety show appearances.
Akimoto remarked that everyone has her chance. He remarked that if Sashi didn’t push Murashige before, she might not be as accomplished as she is now. Murashige made into the breaking TV talent ranking last year. Sashi remarked that Murashige got really popular now. She is in working today, and is working yesterday too, quite a busy person. He remembered that when he and Sashi were having dinner with Twin Planet’s President. She pitched that Murashige was trying to get signed onto an agency. Murashige wasn’t there but probably will be okay about it. Sashi said that at that time, she was trying to ask Akimoto’s help to get Murashige signed on an agency. But Akimoto just went on and said How about Twin? She said Twin’s President didn’t look happy at that time. LOL. At that time, the President just say, Murashige? OK Fine. Akimoto said at that time no body knows her. Akimoto and Sashi said it’s due to Murashige’s hard work and her agency helped too. Sashi said that recently she saw Murashige at Kimura Takuya’s YouTube, she was really surprised. Sashi said that she was glad Murashige have accomplished much. Sakura is also very popular, becoming a global star. Sashi asked if Sakura contacted him, he said she occasionally did. Sakura is really busy and all over the world. She also have a pretty tough schedule, constant practicing. Akimoto said Sashi become like the Mother for the Idol World. She said that’s because she has a lot of juniors. Sakura and Murashige probably closest, there’s also Nako Miku. Occasionally, when she watched HKT concert, she thought herself as the mother.
Akimoto said that Sashi has promised writing a theater performance for HKT, everyone was looking forward to it, but there is some difference of opinion with HKT management. He laughed, “can you say it’s due to difference in opinion?” Sashi laughed and said that there is some budgetary reasons, the things she wanted to do couldn’t be done. Akimoto teased that she is made a fraudulent promise about writing those songs. She said it’s not fraud, she did wrote the songs. She gave it to HKT and tell them to use it, but HKT management just said, “it’s okay….” Akimoto said he didn’t hear about that. Sashi said they were great songs. Sashi said that Nako’s graduation concert, her noon concert’s setlist was actually arranged by Sashi. At that time, she sticked in a song that she had for HKT theater into the setlist. But that unfortunately got taken out in the end, quite dark. She wished that the songs get used someday. Akimoto said although he’s making fun of Sashi as fraudulently writing HKT theater songs, but he hasn’t gotten AKB’s theater songs written too. Sashi asked him how that the AKB’s new theater songs has been going? It’s a promise from last year, and when is he going to get that done? Akimoto said that it’s planned for December 4th this year, AKB’s 19th anniversary. Sashi asked, “So how many songs have you written so far?” Akimoto replied, “Right now, it’s still on the selection stage.” LOL. Sashi laughed and said he’ll have a hard time making it on time. She can’t say much about him, because she knows that he has too many groups on his hand. She asked how many songs he’s planning? He said around 12 songs. She said it’s about the amount for a full-length album. He said when Sashi is preparing =LOVE’s songs, single plus coupling songs are about seven songs in total right? She said yes, if the release timing of the groups overlaps, she had to write as many songs in a month too. He said she should start making an =LOVE’s rival group. She replied no way. =LOVE hasn’t reached the top yet, and 3 groups are the upper limit for her. He asked are all groups under Sony? She said, no. They’re under Sony, King, Sony. He joked that may be her next one should be under King Records. Sashi said no way, why is there a need to make a sandwich out of it. Occasionally, while filming TV show during break when she checks her phone, there will be hundreds of LINE message. She’d freak out wondering if something happened. That’s just from 3 groups. Akimoto said he doesn’t have that problem now, since he’s away from day-to-day management of the group. He just does the creative side. So he got a lot of messages about song writing deadlines. He’s always trying to make it. She asked how many songs he is working on today. He said about 5 for an album.
Akimoto asked her when does she write? She said she write her songs at a café in Omotesando, a quiet café with no sound. She’ll bring the songs and listen in her air pod. She’ll spend the day writing, then at night might all of a sudden thinks, “That won’t do”, then start rewriting the lyrics again. Akimoto asked, “So you decided on the themes of songs before hand?” She said yes, usually about 3 songs ahead. She settled on the image of the songs. Like this song should be cool type and so on. She said there is a café she like, that prohibits photo taking on the interior, or on the merchandise and so on. The café is pretty trendy looking too. Most of the customers are foreigners. There is seat that she really likes. The café employee understands that too and will let her know if the seat is unoccupied. “Sashihara san, today that seat is unoccupied.” Once, a really famous actor was on the seat. She thought ah too bad seat was taken. But since she’s in the entertainment business, so she had to greet him. She was in a pretty casual state with no make up on. The guy just said, people can’t recognize you without make up on. She said she was shocked by what she said.
Then they talked about restaurant and food. There is a restaurant that Sashi likes in Chiba. Akimoto talked about a café that he likes in Daikanyama “Tractor.” She’s surprised that he goes to café and what does he recommend from there. He said avocado toast, scrambled eggs, soup, and they have the best ice lemonade. The ice lemonade is like a smoothie. She asked who he goes with. He replied, his wife.
Then Akimoto asked Sashi how is her love life going? She said she doesn’t have much going on her love life now, doesn’t have the wish to get married soon too. If she meets someone she’s destined with, she might marry him tomorrow. But right now, she doesn’t have someone who she plans to marry in half a year or so. Akimoto said that it seems like she isn’t doing anything to prepare getting married also. She said no, she has no such plans too. She said she wants to be dating more. The people around her like Miichan, getting married and getting pregnant, are having a lot of congratulatory events around them. She does sometimes think what am I doing here? Akimoto said that the beginning stages of dating is the most fun. Sashi said recently, her physical strength isn’t keeping up now. She can’t handle hangovers anymore. Akimoto mentioned the dinner party they had with Lily Frankie and Fukuyama in Kyoto. She said she hasn’t drink since that birthday party for Lily Frankie in Kyoto. It was in a very nice hotel in Kyoto. Then they talked about another party, where Miichan is also there. Akimoto asked if Miichan is good at drinking, Sashi said that she was, but isn’t drinking now due to being pregnant. Miichan also didn’t eat the sushi, but she was happy, just missing out on the drinking. They wonder who’s next that’s going to be in a relationship. Akimoto said that like recently Nishino Nanase got married. Sashi, “That’s right, congratulations to her.” Akimoto said that Nishino was going to announce her marriage on 16:00. And on 15:00 she messaged Akimoto via LINE and told him, I’m going to announce my marriage on 16:00. Isn’t that quite mean of her? Sashi said, “That’s very Nanase-maru like.” She asked if he knows the couple were dating, he said he didn’t know beforehand, so were surprised by the announcement. Akimoto said, “oh, I was the legal witness/guarantor for Nakai Rika’s wedding ceremony.” Sashi, “you did a lot of that?” Akimoto, “Yes, I did that a lot. I was the guarantor for Maeda, and for Takamina too. I’ll do it for Sashihara you too.” Sashi, “Thank you very much.” Akimoto said, “However, 80% of them got divorced. If I include everyone since my student days.” Sashi said, “I was a little startled when you mentioned Maeda before. That’s likely because sheer amount of couples you become the legal witness to …. Rika chan was awesome. I was surprised.” Sashi, “Nishino Miki got married too.” Akimoto said, “The next big names left are just Kojiharu and you.” Sashi, “I just went to boat race with Kojiharu.” Akimoto, “Waiting for you and Kojiharu to be in a happy relationship.”
Sashi said that she’s been spending too much money recently, can’t be like this anymore. May be that’s why she couldn’t get married. She needs to stop spending money. Akimoto said, you can take a break from both spending money and drinking. Akimoto asked if she has any new (work related) announcement. She said no new promotions, she just has regular TV shows now. Akimoto asked how many regular TV shows she has? She replied that she doesn’t know, doesn’t keep track of it. Probably 4 – 5 shows. Akimoto asked if it’s hard for her. She said no, she only goes on the regular TV shows she has now, still has time for selecting songs, writing lyrics too. She has time to watch movies too. She watches a lot of movies recently, getting the creative thinking going. Akimoto said she can get ideas for =LOVE’s concerts setting from them. Sashi said that she did get ideas about which colors to use and so on. But when she watched Godzilla recently, she just thought that was really interesting! That’s it. It was a fun and scary movie. Akimoto said that’s good too, if it’s working every day, people will get tired too. Sashi said, “Talking with Akimoto san, you mentioned that you watch a lot of Netflix shows. With all the working, song writing, when do you sleep?” He replied that he did sleep more recently. What things did he watch, Sashi asked. He said he like watching documentary recently. Akimoto asked if she’ll get into song writing, she said probably no. Although she did occasionally ask for rearrangement and so on for the songs.
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2024.02.18 01:35 tangentize Trip Report: 2 weeks in Tokyo, Kawaguchiko, & Nozawa Onsen (Jan 2024)
I still have Japan on the brain after my husband and I came back last month from our honeymoon, so I figured sharing a trip report could give me a place to put down my thoughts and would be useful for others planning too. I lurked a lot on here and JapanTravelTips, which were both extremely essential resources leading up to our trip.
For this trip, it was our first time to Japan. We definitely wanted to go snowboarding, but otherwise we’re both really into anime/video games, tea, food (but I guess who isn’t into food), and nature, so those influenced what the rest of our activities were. We’re not really into nightlife/bars these days, so you won’t see much of that here.
I’ll give an itinerary overview of our trip for those just looking for the basics, and then get into details for any highlights/lowlights (spoilers for lowlights: flight cancellation, getting sick)
(starred items (*) are transportation/activities that were booked ahead of time, besides the obvious of flights/accommodations)
Day 0 (Thurs, 1/18): Tokyo [Asakusa]
These days were all pretty similar, so I’m condensing them, but main callouts
Planning Process
Figured I’d share this since it comes up a lot for how to even approach coming up with an itinerary, but I’ll try not to repeat what I’ve seen typically mentioned.
For me specifically, I’ll be upfront and say that my full-time job is a researcher, and considering I’ve wanted to go to Japan for a loooong time now (and had a trip planned in fall 2020 but had to cancel it), I researched a ton for this trip. I’ll admit it was probably overplanning, but I enjoyed it, though I’d definitely tone it down the next time we go now that I’ve got most of my initial must-dos out of the way.
A lot of comments around here also say they found their favorite parts of their trip through meandering or by accident. That all sounds very romantic, but I have terrible luck and didn’t want to leave it up to chance. There were multiple things that ended up on our itinerary that were very unlikely we were going to accidentally stumble upon unless I did the research ahead of time (e.g. Winter Festival in Yoyogi Park, JJK pop-up cafe, LisAni concert).
We still had open time in our schedule, but it was more like (and especially in Tokyo) "here’s the 10-15 things we marked as interesting in the area, do we want to do/eat any of these?" I’m definitely not saying that the more free-flow plans don’t work, they just don’t work for us (I have too much FOMO/had very specific things I wanted to do in Japan, and my husband doesn’t like aimlessly meandering in a city, he’s very goal-oriented, haha).
There were also a lot of things in our schedule that needed prior knowledge of the reservation process and being on top of things. Again, I kind of get a thrill from the process of getting those almost-unobtainable things if I care enough (convention/concert tickets fall into that category for example, or some achievements in video games), so this was something I was fine doing. It mostly meant marking my calendar for dates/times to be aware of, along with keeping notes about the process that I had read about. Happy to answer any questions here for things needing reservations on our itinerary, but there’s so many guides out there already for a lot of them.
TRIP DETAILS
Day 0 (or really Day -1): We were supposed to leave Tuesday afternoon out of Seattle and arrive in Tokyo Wednesday night. That is until some drunk idiot bit a flight attendant on the flight from Tokyo to Seattle and the plane had to turn around, which meant we now had no plane. Yes, I’m still salty about this.
This basically threw out our original first day plans and left us in limbo of what was going to happen for 24h. I’ll spare the details on dealing with ANA, but this night was me basically panicking in an airport hotel, woo. (Side note: I had attempted to use the Timeshifter app that had been recommended here for reducing jetlag, but unfortunately this change erased those efforts so I can’t give a proper review there.)
The silver lining on this day was that I was able to re-book our Pokemon Cafe reservation which we were going to miss, and pushed it to the next day because there happened to be exactly one open time slot when I checked the website. (Thanks random person who actually canceled! I was also able to cancel my original reservation in the system, so hopefully someone else benefited from that.)
(new) Day 0: Seattle > Tokyo [Asakusa]
Once the ANA counter at the airport opened at noon, we finally were able to sort out everything and got ourselves on that day’s flight out to Haneda. We arrived at around 8pm Thursday night.
In hindsight, I’m thankful this was my first impression of Tokyo, as it had been a super stressful 1.5 days – just taking it slow in a space that was calm and beautiful with the mix of traditional architecture dotted with glowing electric lanterns and vending machines was perfect.
Pretty uneventful once we got to the hotel (I had emailed ahead to let them know we’d be a day late and they had no problems with that), mostly just crashed at this point.
Day 1: Tokyo [Asakusa / Ginza / Nihonbashi / Akihabara]
In hindsight, Day 1 seems crazy on paper, but we were basically running on adrenaline and at least for me, I was thinking about how I didn’t want the loss of a day to mean I’d miss out on the things I really wanted to do. Honestly though we had a pretty fun time that day, but just got drained of energy by around 8pm, hence just getting konbini food (but the tamago sando bread was surprisingly fluffy and the egg filling was tasty).
Our original Day 1 plans were actually pretty light due to the advice about taking it slow for jetlag, so previously it was really just: [eat/shop in Ginza, go to Pokemon cafe, maybe Odaiba if we felt up for it but otherwise slowly meander back to Asakusa for the night] and then Day 2 was going to be a split of Asakusa/Akihabara. So now we had all of that crammed together (removing most of the Ginza shopping, scrapping Odaiba, and having less arcade time in Akihabara – this last one I was less concerned about because we have a Round1 in Seattle and I recently bought a DDR pad for home use).
Extra Notes
Day 2 was a much slower-paced day with the key goal of just getting to Kawaguchiko and relaxing at our ryokan. At our hotel, we forwarded our wheeled luggage to Nozawa so that we only needed to take our backpacks.
We took a detour to 7-11 to pick up our concert tickets for the week after (I bought these before we got to Japan – this was the one ticket purchase option that seemed to not require a Japanese phone number or in-person payment, but was pretty straightforward). We also went back to the Pokemon Center Tokyo DX because they just started selling Pokemon Concierge merch that day, and I wanted to make sure I got a Haru aloha shirt in my size (priorities).
Extra Notes
It was raining this morning, so after enjoying our breakfast set (shoutout to the delicious fish, tamagoyaki, and chawanmushi), we reworked our plans for the day. Originally we were going to check out the Panoramic Ropeway, but with the overcast/wet weather, we scrapped that and instead decided to head to Kawaguchi Asama Shrine. With our shift in plans, this also meant we were closer to the Houtou Fudou location at the north side of town, which was a nice spot to try out Hoto noodles (good meal for a cold, rainy day).
I had wanted to visit Oshino Hakkai, so after lunch we caught a bus at a nearby stop and took the roughly hour long ride there. However, this was around the time my husband started feeling under the weather, so we headed back to our ryokan and relaxed there for the rest of the day/night. Fortunately by the time we got back to Kawaguchiko, the clouds started clearing and we eventually got a completely clear view of Mt. Fuji from our room, along with an awesome fireworks show later that night with Mt. Fuji in the distance (got some really nice photos/videos!)
Extra Notes
Nothing too exciting this day as it was mostly a lot of travel to get to Nozawa Onsen. Had another early morning where I instead used our balcony onsen while viewing the sunrise with Mt. Fuji. We took the highway bus back to Tokyo Station and then got to experience the Shinkansen, then took the Nozawa-specific bus to the village. We checked into our inn, and luckily our luggage was there waiting for us! My husband was still feeling sick, so we took it easy again this night.
Days 5-8: Nozawa Onsen
When looking for a place to snowboard, we wanted a place where it felt like we were still in Japan and where the runs were pretty easy (I stick to greens and easy blues/reds, and my partner can go up to intermediate blues/reds). Reviews were pointing me to Nozawa, and it really did have a cute village feel, along with the snow resort having a good mix of chill runs and some more challenging ones that we were comfortable with. It was snowing almost constantly while we were there, so for the most part there was soft, fresh powder every time we rode. Also it was so nice sitting down for curry or udon in the lodges, rather than your standard hamburgechicken tenders at the resorts we’re used to.
Overall the resort itself was a bit small for a 4-day snowboard trip, but that meant that we could take it easy, which was good considering my husband was still recovering from his cold and unfortunately he passed it onto me, where I started feeling crummy around our third night in Nozawa. The timing was actually pretty decent though because the next day ended up being too windy to run the gondolas at the resort, so most of the trails were closed. We just ended up taking a rest day and enjoyed the private onsen that was reservable at our inn.
Otherwise, most of our time not snowboarding was spent just checking out the village and dropping by cafes or finding delicious food being sold along the street. We learned early on that Google Maps wasn’t always reliable for a restaurant’s hours, so we also used our afternoons to scope out places we were interested in having dinner at to make sure they actually were going to be open at the time we thought.
Extra Notes
We had our backpacks and carry-on sized spinner luggage to take to Tokyo, while we had sent our snowboard gear luggage ahead to our Tokyo hotel the day prior (or at least that was the plan; it ended up being a day late since for some reason Yamato didn’t pick it up from our inn’s front desk that day, but not an actual issue. I contacted our inn when I saw the AirTag location still sitting there, and it was sorted out).
Our travel back to Tokyo was mostly uneventful, except when we were transferring at Omiya Station. We boarded a local train but accidentally stepped onto a green car where you need a ticket to even stand in it, and had to figure out how to apologize to the ticket lady that we were idiot tourists (luckily another passenger translated for me as we hopped off to go find a regular car in the train once we got to the next stop).
Since we were too early to check in to our hotel, we dropped off our luggage and found some lunch (definitely appreciated having Google Translate on hand to understand the options on the ramen shop’s ticket vending machine) before we headed over to the concert. After the concert, we were both pretty exhausted, so it was another konbini dinner and then crashing.
LisAni! LIVE Extra Notes
This day was probably the most planned out ahead of time given that we had 3 different time-reserved activities, but it ended up working out well without feeling rushed. Our main event in the morning was going to the Winter Festival in Yoyogi Park, but figured we’d stroll through Meiji Jingu on the way over (we caught part of a wedding procession while there). We got to the festival around when it opened, so it was easy to drop by a lot of booths without much wait. We also caught a live tuna carving demo, which was fun to see (and then fun to eat).
We also did a lot of walking this day since I planned all the close-proximity things together, so areas where we probably wouldn’t have gone out of our way to see were now just convenient streets to walk along to get to our actual destinations. This included areas like Omotesando, Harajuku, and Shibuya Crossing. Since it was a Sunday though, this did mean the malls were going to be pretty crowded (I was getting squished left and right in the Nintendo Store), though otherwise pretty manageable.
It was partly cloudy this day, so it wasn’t the clearest view at Shibuya Sky, but did make for some dramatic cloud colors at sunset. We spent about an hour and a half there since we got a time slot about an hour before sunset, and it was a much-needed break from the craziness in stores. Killed some time in the rest of Shibuya Scramble Square and then made our way to our reservation at the Jujutsu Kaisen Pop-up Cafe, then relaxed at our hotel for the rest of the night.
Extra Notes
Our Ghibli Museum entrance time was at their opening time of 10am, so we had to figure out what to do for breakfast (again, limited selection before 9am) but found an onigiri place at the Kichijoji Station and then walked through Inokashira Park to the museum where there was already a decent line at 9:50am. Really glad we had the first time slot because it was really easy to get around with the amount of people there in the morning. Close to noon it was getting a little crazy with kids throwing tantrums by the catbus and seeing the spiral staircase crammed with people climbing up.
We had some tea at the cafe and then headed back over to Kichijoji to do some light exploring. I had marked a few bakeries to check out, so we stopped by one and had some tasty pastries. Then walked back over closer to the station to have lunch at an udon joint – we found an open standing spot near the guy making the noodles, so it was interesting watching him flatten out the dough and then run it through the machine that cut up the noodles as we ate quickly to free up room for others taking their lunch break.
We dropped by Nakano Broadway to check out more anime merch from less recent shows, though we ended up not buying much. We then headed back to Shinjuku where we had some Final Fantasy VII themed parfaits at ARTNIA, and spent a bit of time in Kabukicho. We then went back to our hotel to dress up a little for dinner. Since our dinner reservation was close to 9pm, we headed directly back to crash at our hotel afterwards.
Extra Notes
This is definitely the day where my FOMO kicked into overdrive. But before the chaos, I started off this last morning by going to our hotel’s rooftop onsen with a view of the city (the outdoor one was again my favorite compared to indoor one). If you’re looking for a hotel in Tokyo with an onsen, it was great staying at Yuen Shinjuku (it’s a little bit of a longer walk from nearby stations, but not painfully so; we also did book one of the bigger rooms, as I read the standard ones were pretty small).
On our schedule, I left this day open for any final things we wanted to do – apparently I had a lot, and the only thing left that my husband wanted to do was check out the Gundam Base store. So we ended up doing a fast circuit around Tokyo starting from our base in Shinjuku where I finally got to get some French toast I was craving (definitely recommend Aaliya, it was both custardy and fluffy), and then made a stop in Ikebukuro at Pokemon Center Mega Tokyo to check out the Pokemon Concierge mini-exhibit they had with some of the physical sets and pieces from the show (also a photo op with Psyduck!).
After some quick running around to get a mini-taste of Ikebukuro (I definitely would want to spend more time there the next opportunity we have, as I liked the vibe more than Akihabara), we then hopped over to Ginza/Marunouchi while I was on a hunt for a kyusu (was looking for one without a metal mesh strainer inside, but was striking out most of the trip when idly looking). My one lead I had gotten from Sakurai ended up being a bust, but figured if there’d be one reliable place, it would be Ippodo Tea. I was able to find one there (along with buying more tea), and then we just hit up the closest ramen shop that Google Maps pointed us to (was trying to avoid chains that had locations in the US, but since we hadn’t been to Ippudo before anyway, it was still a new experience and reliably tasty).
To get to Odaiba from there, the quickest route Google Maps told us to take was via the Yurikamome Line, which ended up being an awesome route because it passes by the Rainbow Bridge and then does a little loop to go across the bridge itself. We were just in time to see the Unicorn Gundam transform (I had seen videos online already but still wanted to see it in person even if it was going to be underwhelming), and then also took a moment to appreciate the massive size of the thing when you’re standing at its feet. (And also had an obligatory moment where internally in my head I shouted, "IT’S A GUNDAM!"). Then we went up to the Gundam Base and stared at all the shiny Gunpla.
We needed to start heading to the airport, so we traveled back over to Shinjuku Station (I had to grab one last taiyaki though), picked up our stuff from our hotel, and then took a couple of trains to Haneda, which wasn’t too bad with all the luggage we were hauling. Did some final shopping in the airport to get rid of our remaining physical yen (I downed 2 Pocari Sweats because moving almost nonstop for a day apparently makes you thirsty), and then took our flight back home where I mostly slept the entire time.
Final Notes
I already rambled too much, but happy to talk in more detail about anything I brought up for those who are interested! Even with the things that threw a wrench into our plans, we still had a great time, and honestly after going this first time, a trip to Japan doesn’t feel as out of reach as it originally did – I’m already thinking about what we’d want to do next time!
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For this trip, it was our first time to Japan. We definitely wanted to go snowboarding, but otherwise we’re both really into anime/video games, tea, food (but I guess who isn’t into food), and nature, so those influenced what the rest of our activities were. We’re not really into nightlife/bars these days, so you won’t see much of that here.
I’ll give an itinerary overview of our trip for those just looking for the basics, and then get into details for any highlights/lowlights (spoilers for lowlights: flight cancellation, getting sick)
(starred items (*) are transportation/activities that were booked ahead of time, besides the obvious of flights/accommodations)
Day 0 (Thurs, 1/18): Tokyo [Asakusa]
- Arrive in Haneda at night
- Senso-ji (night version)
- Check into our hotel in Asakusa and crash (Asakusa Kokono Club Hotel)
- Senso-ji (day version) + surrounding Asakusa side streets
- Breakfast: toast (February Cafe)
- Snack: Mister Donut
- Knife shopping along Kappabashi
- Snack: Daigakuimo Chibaya
- Lunch: conveyor belt sushi (Hinatomaru)
- Tea: Jugetsudo Tea Shop & Cafe in Ginza
- Pokemon Cafe/Center* in Nihonbashi
- Akihabara sightseeing + shopping (Kanda shrine, Animate, Mandarake, arcades, etc.)
- Snack: Magikarp taiyaki (Kurikoan Akihabara)
- Dinner: 7-11 tamago sando
- Breakfast: Quick stop at bakery
- Pokemon Center Tokyo DX (again)
- Lunch: ekiben from stand in Tokyo Station
- Bus* from Tokyo Station to Kawaguchiko Station
- Check into ryokan (Ubuya)
- Dinner: ryokan kaiseki
- Winter fireworks + onsen
- Breakfast: ryokan provided
- Kawaguchi Asama Shrine
- Lunch: Houtou Fudou North Main Shop
- Oshino Hakkai
- Dinner: ryokan kaiseki
- Winter fireworks (again)
- Breakfast: ryokan provided
- Bus* from Kawaguchiko Station to Tokyo Station
- Lunch: onigiri and strawberry sando from Tokyo Station, Fujiyama cookies from Kawaguchiko
- Shinkansen* + bus from Tokyo Station to Nozawa Onsen
- Check into inn (Residence Yasushi)
- Dinner: oden (En)
These days were all pretty similar, so I’m condensing them, but main callouts
- Pick up rental snowboards at Nozawa Sports Thanx*
- Snowboarding at Nozawa Onsen Snow Resort (took one rest day due to sickness & bad winds closing down most of the trails)
- Exploring the cute village
- Private onsen at inn
- Friday dinner: Kamakura Village* in Iiyama (snow huts!)
- Breakfast: inn provided
- Bus + Shinkansen* + subway to Shinjuku Station
- Drop luggage off at hotel (Yuen Shinjuku)
- Lunch: ramen (Ramen Hosenka)
- Snack: strawberry custard crepe (Pearl Lady)
- LisAni!LIVE* at Nippon Budokan (anime music concert, we went primarily for Yuki Kajiura/FictionJunction + LiSA)
- Dinner: FamilyMart Famichiki
- Meiji Jingu
- Brunch: Winter Festival in Yoyogi Park
- Shopping along Omotesando
- Snack: Higuma Doughnuts
- Tea: Sakurai Japanese Tea Experience* in Aoyama
- Shopping in Shibuya Parco (Nintendo Store mainly)
- Shibuya Crossing
- Shibuya Sky at sunset*
- Snack: strawberry daifuku from a pop-up spot in Shibuya Scramble Square
- Dinner: Jujutsu Kaisen Pop-Up Cafe* at BOX cafe&space GEMS Shibuya
- Breakfast: onigiri at Kichijoji Station (Omusubi Gombei)
- Inokashira Park
- Ghibli Museum*
- Snack: pastry at Dans Dix Ans in Kichijoji
- Lunch: udon (Ibuki Udon)
- Shopping at Nakano Broadway
- ARTNIA Square Enix Cafe in Shinjuku
- Dinner: omakase sushi (Nishiazabu Taku*)
- Rooftop onsen at hotel
- Breakfast: French toast (Cafe Aaliya)
- Shopping at Sunshine City in Ikebukuro (Pokemon Center Mega Tokyo and Ghibli store mainly)
- Shopping in Marunouchi (Ippodo Tea mainly)
- Lunch: ramen (Ippudo Marunouchi)
- Gundam Base Tokyo & Unicorn Gundam Statue
- Snack: sweet potato taiyaki (Naruto Taiyaki Honpo)
- Final shopping at Haneda to get rid of physical yen and Suica balance
Planning Process
Figured I’d share this since it comes up a lot for how to even approach coming up with an itinerary, but I’ll try not to repeat what I’ve seen typically mentioned.
For me specifically, I’ll be upfront and say that my full-time job is a researcher, and considering I’ve wanted to go to Japan for a loooong time now (and had a trip planned in fall 2020 but had to cancel it), I researched a ton for this trip. I’ll admit it was probably overplanning, but I enjoyed it, though I’d definitely tone it down the next time we go now that I’ve got most of my initial must-dos out of the way.
A lot of comments around here also say they found their favorite parts of their trip through meandering or by accident. That all sounds very romantic, but I have terrible luck and didn’t want to leave it up to chance. There were multiple things that ended up on our itinerary that were very unlikely we were going to accidentally stumble upon unless I did the research ahead of time (e.g. Winter Festival in Yoyogi Park, JJK pop-up cafe, LisAni concert).
We still had open time in our schedule, but it was more like (and especially in Tokyo) "here’s the 10-15 things we marked as interesting in the area, do we want to do/eat any of these?" I’m definitely not saying that the more free-flow plans don’t work, they just don’t work for us (I have too much FOMO/had very specific things I wanted to do in Japan, and my husband doesn’t like aimlessly meandering in a city, he’s very goal-oriented, haha).
There were also a lot of things in our schedule that needed prior knowledge of the reservation process and being on top of things. Again, I kind of get a thrill from the process of getting those almost-unobtainable things if I care enough (convention/concert tickets fall into that category for example, or some achievements in video games), so this was something I was fine doing. It mostly meant marking my calendar for dates/times to be aware of, along with keeping notes about the process that I had read about. Happy to answer any questions here for things needing reservations on our itinerary, but there’s so many guides out there already for a lot of them.
TRIP DETAILS
Day 0 (or really Day -1): We were supposed to leave Tuesday afternoon out of Seattle and arrive in Tokyo Wednesday night. That is until some drunk idiot bit a flight attendant on the flight from Tokyo to Seattle and the plane had to turn around, which meant we now had no plane. Yes, I’m still salty about this.
This basically threw out our original first day plans and left us in limbo of what was going to happen for 24h. I’ll spare the details on dealing with ANA, but this night was me basically panicking in an airport hotel, woo. (Side note: I had attempted to use the Timeshifter app that had been recommended here for reducing jetlag, but unfortunately this change erased those efforts so I can’t give a proper review there.)
The silver lining on this day was that I was able to re-book our Pokemon Cafe reservation which we were going to miss, and pushed it to the next day because there happened to be exactly one open time slot when I checked the website. (Thanks random person who actually canceled! I was also able to cancel my original reservation in the system, so hopefully someone else benefited from that.)
(new) Day 0: Seattle > Tokyo [Asakusa]
Once the ANA counter at the airport opened at noon, we finally were able to sort out everything and got ourselves on that day’s flight out to Haneda. We arrived at around 8pm Thursday night.
- Customs: I will say I was really surprised at how fast going through customs was; we had a <5min stop at the airport bathroom before starting that process (also this was my first realization that bidets were going to be everywhere, and they are awesome), but basically there wasn’t a line at all, and even our luggage was just spinning on the carousel waiting for us while everyone else had already moved on. Maybe we just got there at a really dead time?
- Luggage forwarding: We used Yamato to forward our snowboarding/heavier winter gear to Nozawa, and I’d say this line had a longer wait than customs, haha. I had printed out a list of our hotels’ addresses in both English and Japanese to share with those helping us fill out the form, which streamlined the process anytime we did luggage forwarding. We then just had our two carry-on bags each (backpack and spinner)
- IC card: We had gotten cash ahead of time from my bank before leaving Seattle, so it was easy enough to drop by the Welcome Suica vending machine and pay physical yen for a card since my husband has an Android phone. I was able to use a digital Suica that I had set up ahead of the flight (this was also after the iOS Visa fix, so I could use both my Mastercard and Visa for refilling).
- Phone service: I took the easy route and just enabled roaming on my AT&T network, while my husband has Google Fi and had no issues with getting international service either the entire trip.
In hindsight, I’m thankful this was my first impression of Tokyo, as it had been a super stressful 1.5 days – just taking it slow in a space that was calm and beautiful with the mix of traditional architecture dotted with glowing electric lanterns and vending machines was perfect.
Pretty uneventful once we got to the hotel (I had emailed ahead to let them know we’d be a day late and they had no problems with that), mostly just crashed at this point.
Day 1: Tokyo [Asakusa / Ginza / Nihonbashi / Akihabara]
In hindsight, Day 1 seems crazy on paper, but we were basically running on adrenaline and at least for me, I was thinking about how I didn’t want the loss of a day to mean I’d miss out on the things I really wanted to do. Honestly though we had a pretty fun time that day, but just got drained of energy by around 8pm, hence just getting konbini food (but the tamago sando bread was surprisingly fluffy and the egg filling was tasty).
Our original Day 1 plans were actually pretty light due to the advice about taking it slow for jetlag, so previously it was really just: [eat/shop in Ginza, go to Pokemon cafe, maybe Odaiba if we felt up for it but otherwise slowly meander back to Asakusa for the night] and then Day 2 was going to be a split of Asakusa/Akihabara. So now we had all of that crammed together (removing most of the Ginza shopping, scrapping Odaiba, and having less arcade time in Akihabara – this last one I was less concerned about because we have a Round1 in Seattle and I recently bought a DDR pad for home use).
Extra Notes
- Sleep issues/onsens: Unsurprisingly, I woke up at ~5am and couldn’t go back to bed. Our hotel had some great amenities including a packet of bath salts for an onsen-like experience, so I soaked in our tub for half an hour, which was a nice way to decompress. I think this kind of pseudo-routine helped me get through the trip, as a lot of the time I was waking up early but could relax in an onsen (other than this first hotel, all of our accommodations had some kind of onsen, which was one of my priorities when choosing places to stay).
- Food: We ate a lot this day, haha. Though honestly it was just small bites here and there, and this was a good way to really sample a bunch of things. I definitely over-ate at the Pokemon Cafe though, but that’s because I needed my fix of Pikachu curry, Pikachu soda float, and while not really the weird iced chocolate drink, I did need the glass it came with and one I now use daily. Hard to pick a favorite that day, but I still think about the daigaku imo (candied sweet potatoes), as they were really well caramelized on the outside but soft on the inside and it was a new food I hadn’t tried before. Tea at Jugetsudo was also great while viewing a small but cute rooftop garden and a nice break for just relaxing.
- Asakusa: We went to Senso-ji and the Asakusa Shrine early-ish (8am) to take a look at what we missed at night, though didn’t really want to deal with the Nakamise-dori crowds, so after breakfast we wandered mainly the side streets + Kappabashi. It was getting extremely crowded by noon when we went back to the main Asakusa area for lunch, but still a fun neighborhood to get lost in.
- Knife shopping: I had a list of stores I wanted to check out while looking for a nakiri (knife primarily for vegetable cutting). We had gotten to Kappabashi around when most stores were opening, so it was easy enough to drop by a store and talk to the people there for what I was looking for – overall, a really nice shopping experience as every place was really open to walking you through the knives (one even had daikon you could cut to test out the knives), and I didn’t feel pressured to buy anywhere. Ended up getting one from Kama-Asa as the price was reasonable for what I wanted. Side note: there were a couple food sample (sampuru) stores we went into along Kappabashi, with one specifically offering sampuru making classes (Ganso Shokuhin Sample-ya). I think next time if in the area I’d book a class with them, they had the best looking/most unique stuff!
- Pokemon Cafe: It lived up to my expectations, which were set a bit low because I read all the reviews about the food being terrible, but honestly it didn’t seem as bad as people made it out to be (but maybe this is because I had a recently refreshed dish and they’ve made improvements? It obviously isn’t a culinary marvel, but the food is adorable and passable – the Pikachu float was also interesting since it had pop rocks in it, so points for good theming). Gengar was a fun guest Pokemon, though I’d be lying if I said I wouldn’t have preferred Pikachu. I enjoyed it this first time, but wouldn’t have the urge to need to go a second.
- Akihabara: Had a pretty large list of stores that were options I researched ahead of time, and we went to about half of them before we decided we were done shopping. I had also seen a mention of Magikarp taiyaki while planning, so had to go hunt that down, and then ended up going to only one arcade for the night. However, I mainly just wanted to play Taiko no Tatsujin, so decided why not go to the Bandai Namco Akihabara location since they make the game. The basement floor was full of only Gundam cabinets and it was really interesting culture-wise just seeing it filled on a Friday night with most guys wearing business suits. The Taiko floor was packed with maybe 10-ish machines which was chaos noise-wise, but once you stepped up to a machine, it was pretty impressive how well the small walls dampened the other noise. I was most excited playing recent anime songs that had come out in the past couple of seasons (primarily a couple of Yoasobi songs like Yuusha and Idol – this led to me buying the Switch version of the game)
Day 2 was a much slower-paced day with the key goal of just getting to Kawaguchiko and relaxing at our ryokan. At our hotel, we forwarded our wheeled luggage to Nozawa so that we only needed to take our backpacks.
We took a detour to 7-11 to pick up our concert tickets for the week after (I bought these before we got to Japan – this was the one ticket purchase option that seemed to not require a Japanese phone number or in-person payment, but was pretty straightforward). We also went back to the Pokemon Center Tokyo DX because they just started selling Pokemon Concierge merch that day, and I wanted to make sure I got a Haru aloha shirt in my size (priorities).
Extra Notes
- Breakfast: Pickings are limited for things open before 9am for breakfast in Asakusa, though there was an onigiri place that looked decent. But getting there even 15 min past their opening meant there was already a long line, and we didn’t want to bother. We ended up picking up some pastries at a bakery that was open on the way to the station, but I ended up having a craving for onigiri and wanted to hunt down a place at Tokyo Station once we got there (a mistake).
- Tokyo Station/Google Maps: Google Maps was reliable everywhere for us except for navigating to find stores within Tokyo Station (it was fine for finding where to board trains because the station signage also helped) – I’m not sure if it was just the onigiri place I had been recommended (Honnoriya), but the location in Google Maps was totally inaccurate and we went around in circles for half an hour before just giving up and grabbing an ekiben. During our second time in Tokyo Station on our way to Nozawa, I was determined to find this place, so I downloaded Tokyo Station’s specific app (Tokyo Station Navi), which ended up being great for navigating the station for some other errands too since it shows you exactly what staircase/escalators to take and how to navigate on each floor (while multi-floor navigation isn’t really Google Maps’ strength)
- Kawaguchiko weather: There were reports that it was supposed to snow this day (which it did, at least on the way over to Kawaguchiko), though that meant it was just going to be cloudy the entire day/night. So while the snow dusting the area was picturesque, this unfortunately meant that we didn’t see Mt. Fuji at all this first day, and also the first night of the winter fireworks were not visible other than the really low ones. This was always going to be a risk though, which was also one of the reasons we ended up splurging on a nice ryokan so that if anything, there would be great onsens to relax in and delicious kaiseki.
It was raining this morning, so after enjoying our breakfast set (shoutout to the delicious fish, tamagoyaki, and chawanmushi), we reworked our plans for the day. Originally we were going to check out the Panoramic Ropeway, but with the overcast/wet weather, we scrapped that and instead decided to head to Kawaguchi Asama Shrine. With our shift in plans, this also meant we were closer to the Houtou Fudou location at the north side of town, which was a nice spot to try out Hoto noodles (good meal for a cold, rainy day).
I had wanted to visit Oshino Hakkai, so after lunch we caught a bus at a nearby stop and took the roughly hour long ride there. However, this was around the time my husband started feeling under the weather, so we headed back to our ryokan and relaxed there for the rest of the day/night. Fortunately by the time we got back to Kawaguchiko, the clouds started clearing and we eventually got a completely clear view of Mt. Fuji from our room, along with an awesome fireworks show later that night with Mt. Fuji in the distance (got some really nice photos/videos!)
Extra Notes
- Public onsens: I ended up waking up really early again this day, but since Ubuya’s public onsens open at 5am, I figured I’d try out my first time in a public onsen while it was going to be empty. I had read up on onsen etiquette ahead of time, so felt prepared. While I was a little hesitant at first, it ended up being a pretty meditative experience to sit and bathe (rather than my typical routine of standing in a shower) and then just relax in the onsen. I ended up trying out all 4 of the ones on the women’s side, with the outdoor one being my favorite.
- Kawaguchi Asama Shrine: The tall cedar trees mixed with the rainy weather ended up being a good combo (maybe reminded me of our home back in Seattle), and this was probably my favorite shrine out of the few we visited on our trip (most were just in Tokyo). We attempted climbing up to the top of the hill, but with the rain, it made it too muddy/slippery so we had to turn back.
- Oshino Hakkai: I kind of regret bothering to go out of our way there, as it’s probably lovely on a clear day when you can see Mt. Fuji and with fewer people, but by the time we got there, it was still overcast and a bit drizzly, but also swarming with tourist groups. Other than the cute thatched-roof buildings with water wheels, there really wasn’t much else and it was also a very small area. We paid to get into the museum area, which was a lot nicer away from the crowds, but overall we could have scrapped this spot from our places to visit, at least based on the weather conditions that day.
Nothing too exciting this day as it was mostly a lot of travel to get to Nozawa Onsen. Had another early morning where I instead used our balcony onsen while viewing the sunrise with Mt. Fuji. We took the highway bus back to Tokyo Station and then got to experience the Shinkansen, then took the Nozawa-specific bus to the village. We checked into our inn, and luckily our luggage was there waiting for us! My husband was still feeling sick, so we took it easy again this night.
Days 5-8: Nozawa Onsen
When looking for a place to snowboard, we wanted a place where it felt like we were still in Japan and where the runs were pretty easy (I stick to greens and easy blues/reds, and my partner can go up to intermediate blues/reds). Reviews were pointing me to Nozawa, and it really did have a cute village feel, along with the snow resort having a good mix of chill runs and some more challenging ones that we were comfortable with. It was snowing almost constantly while we were there, so for the most part there was soft, fresh powder every time we rode. Also it was so nice sitting down for curry or udon in the lodges, rather than your standard hamburgechicken tenders at the resorts we’re used to.
Overall the resort itself was a bit small for a 4-day snowboard trip, but that meant that we could take it easy, which was good considering my husband was still recovering from his cold and unfortunately he passed it onto me, where I started feeling crummy around our third night in Nozawa. The timing was actually pretty decent though because the next day ended up being too windy to run the gondolas at the resort, so most of the trails were closed. We just ended up taking a rest day and enjoyed the private onsen that was reservable at our inn.
Otherwise, most of our time not snowboarding was spent just checking out the village and dropping by cafes or finding delicious food being sold along the street. We learned early on that Google Maps wasn’t always reliable for a restaurant’s hours, so we also used our afternoons to scope out places we were interested in having dinner at to make sure they actually were going to be open at the time we thought.
Extra Notes
- Japanese cold medicine: Rather than suffer, I ended up looking up guides for recommended cold medicine this post in particular was super helpful). Based on my symptoms, I went with S.TAC NEO EX, found a picture online, showed it to the nice lady at the village pharmacy with a "esutakku neo ekkusu wa ari masu ka?" and she grabbed it from the shelves, along with telling me instructions in some English for the dosage. I wish we had this kind of cold medicine in the US because it worked amazingly and I felt mostly normal whenever I had the stuff in me.
- Onsen temperature: At our inn, there were two private onsens, where one was closer to the actual temperature of the public onsen it was being sourced from and the other was at a cooler 40°C/104°F. We tried the hotter one first (the source is typically around 55°C/131°F), and while I saw the tips about easing in by pouring water on yourself, it was still uncomfortably hot unless I didn’t move. Originally I wanted to try out the public onsens too, but after that experience, I decided against it since I didn’t want to look like a wimp to the locals. The “cooler” one was pleasant though!
- Iiyama Kamakura Village: While researching things to do around Nozawa, I came across this seasonal event where they build snow huts in Iiyama and you can book one to eat noroshi nabe in. Leading up to our trip, I had gotten an email saying they were worried it would be too warm and they may not have enough snow to build the huts in January, but luckily it ended up not being an issue. Totally touristy, but still cute and a fun experience!
We had our backpacks and carry-on sized spinner luggage to take to Tokyo, while we had sent our snowboard gear luggage ahead to our Tokyo hotel the day prior (or at least that was the plan; it ended up being a day late since for some reason Yamato didn’t pick it up from our inn’s front desk that day, but not an actual issue. I contacted our inn when I saw the AirTag location still sitting there, and it was sorted out).
Our travel back to Tokyo was mostly uneventful, except when we were transferring at Omiya Station. We boarded a local train but accidentally stepped onto a green car where you need a ticket to even stand in it, and had to figure out how to apologize to the ticket lady that we were idiot tourists (luckily another passenger translated for me as we hopped off to go find a regular car in the train once we got to the next stop).
Since we were too early to check in to our hotel, we dropped off our luggage and found some lunch (definitely appreciated having Google Translate on hand to understand the options on the ramen shop’s ticket vending machine) before we headed over to the concert. After the concert, we were both pretty exhausted, so it was another konbini dinner and then crashing.
LisAni! LIVE Extra Notes
- This was definitely one of my favorite parts of our entire trip. I came across this concert while digging through lists of upcoming anime-related events, and luckily it fit into our schedule, though I might have moved things around anyway to make it fit (originally this afternoon/evening was just going to be exploring Shinjuku). I adore Yuki Kajiura’s OSTs, and her music elevates basically any show she’s a part of (e.g. Madoka, SAO, Vanitas, along with oldies like ./hack and Tsubasa Chronicle). Plus having LiSA as a musical guest was just the cherry on top. A lot of the other artists I wasn’t as familiar with, though going through their discography I realized I had heard and liked at least one song from most of them (other than the idol groups who I didn’t know at all).
- The crowd enthusiasm/participation at these anisong/idol concerts is intense, but in a good way! We bought our penlights at the merch booth before the concert started and had at least some sense of what to expect based on having watched some idol-adjacent shows (e.g. Zombieland Saga, Oshi no Ko) and some videos of other anisong concerts in the past. There isn’t much yelling/screaming, but all of the audience’s energy is channeled through penlights, and I had fun trying to stick to the colors/motions of the crowd. Also this is where I learned that if there’s part of a song where you get super hyped about it, it’s time to break out the ultra orange glow sticks. Near the end for JUNNA, about a quarter of the crowd was spinning their orange glow sticks, and the energy was just infectious. We definitely regretted not bringing ear plugs though.
- Also something I noticed after buying these tickets was that on Spotify, when you went to the artists’ pages, it did list this concert as an upcoming event for them – initially I had been just googling schedules for artists we’d want to see live or going directly to venues’ sites to look at their schedules, but you may have better luck just searching via Spotify if you’re interested in a concert on your trip.
This day was probably the most planned out ahead of time given that we had 3 different time-reserved activities, but it ended up working out well without feeling rushed. Our main event in the morning was going to the Winter Festival in Yoyogi Park, but figured we’d stroll through Meiji Jingu on the way over (we caught part of a wedding procession while there). We got to the festival around when it opened, so it was easy to drop by a lot of booths without much wait. We also caught a live tuna carving demo, which was fun to see (and then fun to eat).
We also did a lot of walking this day since I planned all the close-proximity things together, so areas where we probably wouldn’t have gone out of our way to see were now just convenient streets to walk along to get to our actual destinations. This included areas like Omotesando, Harajuku, and Shibuya Crossing. Since it was a Sunday though, this did mean the malls were going to be pretty crowded (I was getting squished left and right in the Nintendo Store), though otherwise pretty manageable.
It was partly cloudy this day, so it wasn’t the clearest view at Shibuya Sky, but did make for some dramatic cloud colors at sunset. We spent about an hour and a half there since we got a time slot about an hour before sunset, and it was a much-needed break from the craziness in stores. Killed some time in the rest of Shibuya Scramble Square and then made our way to our reservation at the Jujutsu Kaisen Pop-up Cafe, then relaxed at our hotel for the rest of the night.
Extra Notes
- Sakurai Tea Experience: I think I found out about this place from tea, and would also definitely recommend it to others who love tea! We’re not really into traditional matcha or matcha ceremonies (had attended some demos of them back in the Bay Area already), so I’m glad this place offered tea courses with Japanese teas we preferred (hojicha in particular). This place also freshly roasts their hojicha, which has a lovely scent.
- JJK Pop-up Cafe: I initially debated whether we should go to this or not since this meant we’d miss out on a tastier dinner, but given the timing (the Shibuya Incident arc just ended and it was a pop-up cafe in Shibuya, how can you resist?) and the likelihood of us being in Japan again during an event for a show we were really excited about, we decided to go for it. The food was nicely themed – I got a kick out of my Prison Realm dessert with a Gojo stuck inside, and the table next to us ordered the Sukuna fingers hot dog which made me giggle. We were also overhearing other tables opening up the items we got as part of the reservation (coaster, artboard) and empathizing with their stress of finding out if they got the character they were hoping for. Let me tell you that you need no translation for understanding when a Japanese Gojo fangirl gets what she wants.
Our Ghibli Museum entrance time was at their opening time of 10am, so we had to figure out what to do for breakfast (again, limited selection before 9am) but found an onigiri place at the Kichijoji Station and then walked through Inokashira Park to the museum where there was already a decent line at 9:50am. Really glad we had the first time slot because it was really easy to get around with the amount of people there in the morning. Close to noon it was getting a little crazy with kids throwing tantrums by the catbus and seeing the spiral staircase crammed with people climbing up.
We had some tea at the cafe and then headed back over to Kichijoji to do some light exploring. I had marked a few bakeries to check out, so we stopped by one and had some tasty pastries. Then walked back over closer to the station to have lunch at an udon joint – we found an open standing spot near the guy making the noodles, so it was interesting watching him flatten out the dough and then run it through the machine that cut up the noodles as we ate quickly to free up room for others taking their lunch break.
We dropped by Nakano Broadway to check out more anime merch from less recent shows, though we ended up not buying much. We then headed back to Shinjuku where we had some Final Fantasy VII themed parfaits at ARTNIA, and spent a bit of time in Kabukicho. We then went back to our hotel to dress up a little for dinner. Since our dinner reservation was close to 9pm, we headed directly back to crash at our hotel afterwards.
Extra Notes
- Crane game items in secondhand stores: While in Nakano, I ended up finding a Taiko no Tatsujin plushie I was on the lookout for after I had seen it in one of the crane machines at Namco Akihabara but didn’t want to go through the effort of trying to win it. Definitely keep an eye out in these stores for any crane game/gacha items that you might see and want while at arcades/halls, because chances are you’ll find something similar in one of these stores (I think I ended up only paying about ¥2000 for the plushie, though obviously it’ll vary depending on demand).
- Nishiazabu Taku: It was a fantastic meal, and while a Michelin star restaurant doesn’t really need extra recommendation, we really enjoyed how our chef would open up a Japanese fish guidebook for us to tell us what we were eating and describe how the fish was prepared in English. He was also only serving the two of us and one other gentleman (there was another chef handling 4 other guests), so it was really easy to just ask him more details if we wanted and turn it into a learning experience. I also appreciated his attention to detail – I noted about two dishes in that he started rotating my nigiri so it was easier for me to pick up as a lefty, and he was also doing that for the left-handed guy sitting next to me. I think it was just small gestures like these all throughout Japan that were really lovely and that I appreciated, especially since you could easily miss them if you weren’t paying attention.
This is definitely the day where my FOMO kicked into overdrive. But before the chaos, I started off this last morning by going to our hotel’s rooftop onsen with a view of the city (the outdoor one was again my favorite compared to indoor one). If you’re looking for a hotel in Tokyo with an onsen, it was great staying at Yuen Shinjuku (it’s a little bit of a longer walk from nearby stations, but not painfully so; we also did book one of the bigger rooms, as I read the standard ones were pretty small).
On our schedule, I left this day open for any final things we wanted to do – apparently I had a lot, and the only thing left that my husband wanted to do was check out the Gundam Base store. So we ended up doing a fast circuit around Tokyo starting from our base in Shinjuku where I finally got to get some French toast I was craving (definitely recommend Aaliya, it was both custardy and fluffy), and then made a stop in Ikebukuro at Pokemon Center Mega Tokyo to check out the Pokemon Concierge mini-exhibit they had with some of the physical sets and pieces from the show (also a photo op with Psyduck!).
After some quick running around to get a mini-taste of Ikebukuro (I definitely would want to spend more time there the next opportunity we have, as I liked the vibe more than Akihabara), we then hopped over to Ginza/Marunouchi while I was on a hunt for a kyusu (was looking for one without a metal mesh strainer inside, but was striking out most of the trip when idly looking). My one lead I had gotten from Sakurai ended up being a bust, but figured if there’d be one reliable place, it would be Ippodo Tea. I was able to find one there (along with buying more tea), and then we just hit up the closest ramen shop that Google Maps pointed us to (was trying to avoid chains that had locations in the US, but since we hadn’t been to Ippudo before anyway, it was still a new experience and reliably tasty).
To get to Odaiba from there, the quickest route Google Maps told us to take was via the Yurikamome Line, which ended up being an awesome route because it passes by the Rainbow Bridge and then does a little loop to go across the bridge itself. We were just in time to see the Unicorn Gundam transform (I had seen videos online already but still wanted to see it in person even if it was going to be underwhelming), and then also took a moment to appreciate the massive size of the thing when you’re standing at its feet. (And also had an obligatory moment where internally in my head I shouted, "IT’S A GUNDAM!"). Then we went up to the Gundam Base and stared at all the shiny Gunpla.
We needed to start heading to the airport, so we traveled back over to Shinjuku Station (I had to grab one last taiyaki though), picked up our stuff from our hotel, and then took a couple of trains to Haneda, which wasn’t too bad with all the luggage we were hauling. Did some final shopping in the airport to get rid of our remaining physical yen (I downed 2 Pocari Sweats because moving almost nonstop for a day apparently makes you thirsty), and then took our flight back home where I mostly slept the entire time.
Final Notes
I already rambled too much, but happy to talk in more detail about anything I brought up for those who are interested! Even with the things that threw a wrench into our plans, we still had a great time, and honestly after going this first time, a trip to Japan doesn’t feel as out of reach as it originally did – I’m already thinking about what we’d want to do next time!
2024.02.03 04:29 Adventurous_Caramel News wrapup as Shukan Bunshun brings forward another 2 women with allegations against Matsumoto
Following on from last week's report regarding former idol Rika Otsuka, Bunshun has interviewed another 2 women accusing Matsumoto of inappropriate behavior; this now increases the number of women with complaints against Matsumoto to 10.
The 9th woman 'Miss H' met Matsumoto in Okinawa on August 19th 2005 at what was formerly known as JAL Private Resort Okuma (currently Okuma Private Beach & Resort). The woman, who was a 19 year old student at the time visited with 4 of her female cousins, while Matsumoto arrived with 4 junior comedians. Everyone eventually moved to a 2-floor cottage, where Matsumoto told the women that no photos could be taken. After a period of drinking, Matsumoto suggested that everyone paired off in the style of then-popular TBS variety show 'Koisuru Hanikami'; 'H' was paired with Matsumoto. After going to a separate room, Matsumoto immediately offered his cell phone number to the woman while expressing his desire to start a sexual relationship with her but the woman refused, not being attracted to him. The woman began trying to distract him by talking about other things like Kimura Takuya (who she was a fan of at the time), but Matsumoto persisted for around 30 minutes before he got mad and threw the woman and her cousins all out of the cottage in a rage. As they left, a junior comedian told them that they had all placed bets on who would have sex with who. The woman then told her high school friend and her younger sister about this encounter; they also confirmed this when interviewed by Bunshun.
The 10th woman 'Miss I' worked at a popular massage salon in Shibuya when she first encountered Matsumoto. This article's still behind a paywall on the Bunshun website for now but this website has paid for the full story and released most of the contents early. This encounter happened back in 2014, with Matsumoto first visiting with an unnamed scriptwriter. He ended up using an alias while signing a consent form that also expressed that no sexual services would be provided in the clinic. He visited this salon for treatment to his muscles and while the first visit passed without incident, Matsumoto visited 2 more times over consecutive days and both were marked by attempts to force the therapists working with him to give him blowjobs; the 2nd visit was with a brand new therapist who continually turned down Matsumoto's requests despite his insistence; he eventually got angry and left. The therapist quit after one day, the scriptwriter's phone number (which was used to book this 2nd visit) was discontinued from the store's databank and Matsumoto was banned from the salon. Despite this, Matsumoto managed to book a 3rd visit for the following day using a different phone number and requested 'Miss I' to be his therapist. She also was subjected to the same treatment from Matsumoto; she alleges that he went as far as pressing her head against his exposed crotch and also recalls him saying that he 'came for revenge from the previous day'. In light of the recent slate of Bunshun articles against Matsumoto, she eventually reported this incident to Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department's Shibuya Police Station on January 13 this year; the detective in charge told the woman 'Due to the expiration of the statute of limitations, we regret to inform you that we are unable to accept a report of damage at this time. However, we would like to offer our assistance by accepting it in the form of a sexual assault consultation'.
Some other tidbits:
- 'Matsumoto and Nakai' variety show has been changed to 'Someone and Nakai'; former Arashi member Ninomiya Kazunari has been promoted to MC alongside Nakai Masahiro after being a guest last week.
- some senior members of the comedy industry have begun criticizing Matsumoto and Yoshimoto for their conduct; Beat Takeshi says Matsumoto was too cheap and called for him to hold a press conference; senior Yoshimoto Kogyo comedian Nishikawa Norio believed that the company's initial statement of completely denying Bunshun's report was misguided and questioned why Matsumoto would take a hiatus if he was innocent, also holding belief with Takeshi that holding a press conference would have been a much better response. Nishikawa has also criticized some of the comments from fellow comedian friends of Matsumoto, saying that they added nothing to the discussion. Former Yoshimoto Kogyo manager Kimura Masao, also known as the founding father of Yoshimoto's Tokyo division and who also managed older comedians like Nishikawa Kiyoshi and Yokoyama Yasushi, called for Matsumoto to quit showbiz entirely, believing that the current management (in particular Downtown's former managers Okamoto and Fujiwara) were not strong enough in reigning in Matsumoto, while also criticizing him for not taking his status and reputation into account.
- Watanabe Sense and Tamura Kenji, who were previously named in Bunshun reports on drinking parties issued statements that confirm the existence of these drinking parties, but deny the intention was to set up women with Matsumoto for sex.
- Hamada also has some trouble potentially brewing; last week Iwahashi Yoshimasa of comedy duo Plus-Minus used Twitter to accuse a TV production company president of power harassment, doing things such as replacing his meals with dog food and making him chew on turban shells when cameras weren't rolling. Iwahashi mentions that Hamada and former Gottsu ee Kanji co-star YOU witnessed these incidents; while YOU chastised the president for his actions, Hamada simply laughed at these incidents, implying that he condoned these events. Iwahashi eventually deleted these tweets, though he did tweet later on that he still had more stories like these. It should be noted that Iwahashi used to be pretty close with Hamada, appearing on most of his local Osaka shows and even appearing on No Laughing Youthful High School as a guest but a quick look at his social media shows very little mention of Hamada now; indeed, Iwahashi mentions that even though he still wanted to collaborate with Hamada, he eventually stopped appearing on Hamada's shows as a result of this bullying.
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The 9th woman 'Miss H' met Matsumoto in Okinawa on August 19th 2005 at what was formerly known as JAL Private Resort Okuma (currently Okuma Private Beach & Resort). The woman, who was a 19 year old student at the time visited with 4 of her female cousins, while Matsumoto arrived with 4 junior comedians. Everyone eventually moved to a 2-floor cottage, where Matsumoto told the women that no photos could be taken. After a period of drinking, Matsumoto suggested that everyone paired off in the style of then-popular TBS variety show 'Koisuru Hanikami'; 'H' was paired with Matsumoto. After going to a separate room, Matsumoto immediately offered his cell phone number to the woman while expressing his desire to start a sexual relationship with her but the woman refused, not being attracted to him. The woman began trying to distract him by talking about other things like Kimura Takuya (who she was a fan of at the time), but Matsumoto persisted for around 30 minutes before he got mad and threw the woman and her cousins all out of the cottage in a rage. As they left, a junior comedian told them that they had all placed bets on who would have sex with who. The woman then told her high school friend and her younger sister about this encounter; they also confirmed this when interviewed by Bunshun.
The 10th woman 'Miss I' worked at a popular massage salon in Shibuya when she first encountered Matsumoto. This article's still behind a paywall on the Bunshun website for now but this website has paid for the full story and released most of the contents early. This encounter happened back in 2014, with Matsumoto first visiting with an unnamed scriptwriter. He ended up using an alias while signing a consent form that also expressed that no sexual services would be provided in the clinic. He visited this salon for treatment to his muscles and while the first visit passed without incident, Matsumoto visited 2 more times over consecutive days and both were marked by attempts to force the therapists working with him to give him blowjobs; the 2nd visit was with a brand new therapist who continually turned down Matsumoto's requests despite his insistence; he eventually got angry and left. The therapist quit after one day, the scriptwriter's phone number (which was used to book this 2nd visit) was discontinued from the store's databank and Matsumoto was banned from the salon. Despite this, Matsumoto managed to book a 3rd visit for the following day using a different phone number and requested 'Miss I' to be his therapist. She also was subjected to the same treatment from Matsumoto; she alleges that he went as far as pressing her head against his exposed crotch and also recalls him saying that he 'came for revenge from the previous day'. In light of the recent slate of Bunshun articles against Matsumoto, she eventually reported this incident to Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department's Shibuya Police Station on January 13 this year; the detective in charge told the woman 'Due to the expiration of the statute of limitations, we regret to inform you that we are unable to accept a report of damage at this time. However, we would like to offer our assistance by accepting it in the form of a sexual assault consultation'.
Some other tidbits:
- 'Matsumoto and Nakai' variety show has been changed to 'Someone and Nakai'; former Arashi member Ninomiya Kazunari has been promoted to MC alongside Nakai Masahiro after being a guest last week.
- some senior members of the comedy industry have begun criticizing Matsumoto and Yoshimoto for their conduct; Beat Takeshi says Matsumoto was too cheap and called for him to hold a press conference; senior Yoshimoto Kogyo comedian Nishikawa Norio believed that the company's initial statement of completely denying Bunshun's report was misguided and questioned why Matsumoto would take a hiatus if he was innocent, also holding belief with Takeshi that holding a press conference would have been a much better response. Nishikawa has also criticized some of the comments from fellow comedian friends of Matsumoto, saying that they added nothing to the discussion. Former Yoshimoto Kogyo manager Kimura Masao, also known as the founding father of Yoshimoto's Tokyo division and who also managed older comedians like Nishikawa Kiyoshi and Yokoyama Yasushi, called for Matsumoto to quit showbiz entirely, believing that the current management (in particular Downtown's former managers Okamoto and Fujiwara) were not strong enough in reigning in Matsumoto, while also criticizing him for not taking his status and reputation into account.
- Watanabe Sense and Tamura Kenji, who were previously named in Bunshun reports on drinking parties issued statements that confirm the existence of these drinking parties, but deny the intention was to set up women with Matsumoto for sex.
- Hamada also has some trouble potentially brewing; last week Iwahashi Yoshimasa of comedy duo Plus-Minus used Twitter to accuse a TV production company president of power harassment, doing things such as replacing his meals with dog food and making him chew on turban shells when cameras weren't rolling. Iwahashi mentions that Hamada and former Gottsu ee Kanji co-star YOU witnessed these incidents; while YOU chastised the president for his actions, Hamada simply laughed at these incidents, implying that he condoned these events. Iwahashi eventually deleted these tweets, though he did tweet later on that he still had more stories like these. It should be noted that Iwahashi used to be pretty close with Hamada, appearing on most of his local Osaka shows and even appearing on No Laughing Youthful High School as a guest but a quick look at his social media shows very little mention of Hamada now; indeed, Iwahashi mentions that even though he still wanted to collaborate with Hamada, he eventually stopped appearing on Hamada's shows as a result of this bullying.
2023.03.08 13:25 Apprehensive-King308 EPI 396 Nogizaka Under Construction Eng Sub 2023.01.29 [Senpai Proxy Battle P2] MC: Bananaman [Shitara Osamu & Himura Yuki]
Link to episode:https://sonicericsg.blogspot.com/p/epi-396-nogizaka-under-construction-eng.html
Sypnosis
"Protect your seniors! Proxy game battle!". Junior members form pairs with senior members and face off in various games! A super pressure battle where only the paired seniors are punished if they lose!. Who will be the prey of "Biribiri Chair" and "Pie Smash" in 2023?.In this episode, they will compete in a instagram photo running challenge.This is part 2 of the Senpai proxy battle.
Info
Nogizaka Under Construction (乃木坂工事中) is Nogizaka46‘s current weekly variety show. It is hosted by the comedy duo, “Bananaman,” and airs every Sunday night on TV Tokyo at 24:00 JST. It was the immediate successor to their previous variety show, "Nogizakatte, Doko?" and began airing on April 19, 2015.
Created by: Akimoto Yasushi
Cast: Nogizaka46
MC: Bananaman [Shitara Osamu & Himura Yuki]
Released: 20 April 2015 - Ongoing
Air date: Every Sunday night at 24:00 JST
Network: TV Tokyo, TV Osaka, TV Aichi, TV Hokkaido, TV Setouchi, TVQ Kyushu
Official site: http://www.tv-aichi.co.jp/nogi-kou/
Offical youtube channel for raw vids:https://www.youtube.com/@nogizakahaishinchu
*I do not own any episode,please refer to Nogiarea.weebly for more episode
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Sypnosis
"Protect your seniors! Proxy game battle!". Junior members form pairs with senior members and face off in various games! A super pressure battle where only the paired seniors are punished if they lose!. Who will be the prey of "Biribiri Chair" and "Pie Smash" in 2023?.In this episode, they will compete in a instagram photo running challenge.This is part 2 of the Senpai proxy battle.
Info
Nogizaka Under Construction (乃木坂工事中) is Nogizaka46‘s current weekly variety show. It is hosted by the comedy duo, “Bananaman,” and airs every Sunday night on TV Tokyo at 24:00 JST. It was the immediate successor to their previous variety show, "Nogizakatte, Doko?" and began airing on April 19, 2015.
Created by: Akimoto Yasushi
Cast: Nogizaka46
MC: Bananaman [Shitara Osamu & Himura Yuki]
Released: 20 April 2015 - Ongoing
Air date: Every Sunday night at 24:00 JST
Network: TV Tokyo, TV Osaka, TV Aichi, TV Hokkaido, TV Setouchi, TVQ Kyushu
Official site: http://www.tv-aichi.co.jp/nogi-kou/
Offical youtube channel for raw vids:https://www.youtube.com/@nogizakahaishinchu
*I do not own any episode,please refer to Nogiarea.weebly for more episode
2023.02.23 20:23 Matichol06 Otoya Yamaguchi stabbing Inejiro Asanuma, chairman of the Japanese Socialist Party. October 12, 1962. Photo made by Yasushi Nagao. [5230x4563]
![Otoya Yamaguchi stabbing Inejiro Asanuma, chairman of the Japanese Socialist Party. October 12, 1962. Photo made by Yasushi Nagao. [5230x4563]](https://preview.redd.it/cuv311vhnzja1.jpg?width=640&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=b7c183cd691d767eca885a17be8dce1d4bb47068 "Otoya Yamaguchi stabbing Inejiro Asanuma, chairman of the Japanese Socialist Party. October 12, 1962. Photo made by Yasushi Nagao. [5230x4563]") | submitted by Matichol06 to HistoryPorn [link] [comments] |
2023.02.12 03:22 Apprehensive-King308 EPI 396 Nogizaka Under Construction Eng Sub 2023.01.29 [Senpai Proxy Battle P2](Host:Bananaman [Shitara Osamu & Himura Yuki]
Link to episode:https://sonicericsg.blogspot.com/p/epi-396-nogizaka-under-construction-eng.html
Sypnosis
"Protect your seniors! Proxy game battle!". Junior members form pairs with senior members and face off in various games! A super pressure battle where only the paired seniors are punished if they lose!. Who will be the prey of "Biribiri Chair" and "Pie Smash" in 2023?.In this episode, they will compete in a instagram photo running challenge.This is part 2 of the Senpai proxy battle.
Info
Nogizaka Under Construction (乃木坂工事中) is Nogizaka46‘s current weekly variety show. It is hosted by the comedy duo, “Bananaman,” and airs every Sunday night on TV Tokyo at 24:00 JST. It was the immediate successor to their previous variety show, "Nogizakatte, Doko?" and began airing on April 19, 2015.
Created by: Akimoto Yasushi
Cast: Nogizaka46
MC: Bananaman [Shitara Osamu & Himura Yuki]
Released: 20 April 2015 - Ongoing
Air date: Every Sunday night at 24:00 JST
Network: TV Tokyo, TV Osaka, TV Aichi, TV Hokkaido, TV Setouchi, TVQ Kyushu
Official site: http://www.tv-aichi.co.jp/nogi-kou/
Offical youtube channel for raw vids:https://www.youtube.com/@nogizakahaishinchu
*I do not own any episode,please refer to Nogiarea.weebly for more episode
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Sypnosis
"Protect your seniors! Proxy game battle!". Junior members form pairs with senior members and face off in various games! A super pressure battle where only the paired seniors are punished if they lose!. Who will be the prey of "Biribiri Chair" and "Pie Smash" in 2023?.In this episode, they will compete in a instagram photo running challenge.This is part 2 of the Senpai proxy battle.
Info
Nogizaka Under Construction (乃木坂工事中) is Nogizaka46‘s current weekly variety show. It is hosted by the comedy duo, “Bananaman,” and airs every Sunday night on TV Tokyo at 24:00 JST. It was the immediate successor to their previous variety show, "Nogizakatte, Doko?" and began airing on April 19, 2015.
Created by: Akimoto Yasushi
Cast: Nogizaka46
MC: Bananaman [Shitara Osamu & Himura Yuki]
Released: 20 April 2015 - Ongoing
Air date: Every Sunday night at 24:00 JST
Network: TV Tokyo, TV Osaka, TV Aichi, TV Hokkaido, TV Setouchi, TVQ Kyushu
Official site: http://www.tv-aichi.co.jp/nogi-kou/
Offical youtube channel for raw vids:https://www.youtube.com/@nogizakahaishinchu
*I do not own any episode,please refer to Nogiarea.weebly for more episode
2023.01.11 06:39 MacadamiaWire [FOR SALE] Grails and Sales! Bleachers, Poppy, St Vincent, Avenged Sevenfold, Yellowcard, New Found Glory, Julien Baker, VGM, Soundtracks, MORE!
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Avenged Sevenfold - Sounding the Seventh Trumpet - Purple Inside Clear Newbury Exclusive - $65 https://www.discogs.com/release/13573625-Avenged-Sevenfold-Sounding-The-Seventh-Trumpet
Avenged Sevenfold - Nightmare - Blue/Gray Split w/ Black Splatter Newbury Exclusive - $60 https://www.discogs.com/release/22211746-Avenged-Sevenfold-Nightmare
Ashnikko - Demidevil - SIGNED Clear Vinyl - $95https://www.discogs.com/release/16913346-Ashnikko-Demidevil
August Burns Red - Leveler - Moon Phase Variant - $20 https://www.discogs.com/release/19360534-August-Burns-Red-Leveler-Tenth-Anniversary-Edition
Better Oblivion Community Center - Self Titled - Yellow Magnolia Exclusive - $55 https://www.discogs.com/release/13319781-Better-Oblivion-Community-Center-Better-Oblivion-Community-Center
Billie Eilish - Don’t Smile at Me - Yellow Urban Outfitters - $25 https://www.discogs.com/release/10918077-Billie-Eilish-Dont-Smile-At-Me
Bit Brigade - Ducktales OST - Gold Nugget Vinyl - $40 https://www.discogs.com/release/23308526-Bit-Brigade-DuckTales
Biz Markie - The Diabolical Biz Markie: The Biz Never Sleeps - Original 80s Press, VG+VG+ truly in stunning condition for its age - $100 https://www.discogs.com/release/838298-The-Diabolical-Biz-Markie-The-Biz-Never-Sleeps
Bleachers - Take the Sadness Out of Saturday Night - Indie Exclusive cover - VG+/VG+ - $15 https://www.discogs.com/release/19673149-Bleachers-Take-The-Sadness-Out-Of-Saturday-Night
Bleachers & Jason Isbell - Dreamsicle/45 7” single - $25 https://www.discogs.com/release/22397518-Bleachers-Jason-Isbell-Dreamsicle-45
Bo Burnham - Inside - Target Exclusive Yellow - VG+/VG+ - $40 https://www.discogs.com/release/21385663-Bo-Burnham-Inside
Bob & Barn - Medievil OST - Zombie Green Pressing, NM/VG- small scratch on side B that produces light popping. Far from unlistenable. Includes sticker. - $30https://www.discogs.com/release/21054247-Bob-Barn-Medievil-Original-Soundtrack
Bob & Barn - Medievil OST - “Dan” Blue Smoke Swirl - NM/NM - Never played, came unsealed, includes sticker. - $70 https://www.discogs.com/release/21054283-Bob-Barn-Medievil-Original-Soundtrack
Carly Rae Jepsen - EMOTION - Hot Pink Pressing - $40https://www.discogs.com/release/16138564-Carly-Rae-Jepsen-EMOTION
Christina Aguilera & Cher - Burlesque OST - Pink Pressing - $20https://www.discogs.com/release/13943695-Christina-Aguilera-Cher-Burlesque-Original-Motion-Picture-Soundtrack
Crosses ✝️✝️✝️ - Day One/Vivien - Pink 10” Single - $50 https://www.discogs.com/release/25006444--Day-One-Vivien
Drake - Take Care - $20 https://www.discogs.com/release/21976249-Drake-Take-Care
Dua Lipa - Future Nostalgia - Yellow Vinyl Box Set/Book NO SIGNED CARD - VG/VG+ - $135 https://www.discogs.com/release/15036722-Dua-Lipa-Future-Nostalgia
Earl Sweatshirt - Doris - VG/VG - $45 https://www.discogs.com/release/7837449-Earl-Sweatshirt-Doris
Escape the Fate - Dying Is Your Latest Fashion - White Kings Road Exclusive - $40 https://www.discogs.com/release/21728824-Escape-The-Fate-Dying-Is-Your-Latest-Fashion
Father John Misty - Pure Comedy - Maroon and Black Swirl Newbury Exclusive - $50 https://www.discogs.com/release/14311030-Father-John-Misty-Pure-Comedy
Four Year Strong - Brain Pain - Blue/Bone/Yellow Stripe - $30 https://www.discogs.com/release/14845077-Four-Year-Strong-Brain-Pain
Goblin - Suspiria OST - White Indie Press - $35https://www.discogs.com/release/22300657-Goblin-Suspiria-Musiche-Dalla-Colonna-Sonora-Originale-Del-Film
Halsey - Manic - Target Exclusive Violet Press - $20 https://www.discogs.com/release/16185029-Halsey-Manic
Hannah Montana - Best of Hannah Montana - Purple - $45 https://www.discogs.com/release/13440577-Hannah-Montana-Best-Of-Hannah-Montana
Hayley Williams - Flowers for Vases/Descansos - Pink Smoke - $35 https://www.discogs.com/release/20184196-Hayley-Williams-Flowers-For-Vases-Descansos
John Murphy - The Biohazard EP - Black Variant with Screen Print - NM/NM - $20https://www.discogs.com/release/15471616-John-Murphy-28-The-Biohazard-Ep
Jonathan Dunn - Jurassic Park NES and SNES Soundtracks - Dino Egg Pinwheel Variant - $145 https://www.discogs.com/release/24976564-Jonathan-Dunn-Jurassic-Park-The-Original-SNES-and-NES-Soundtracks
Jung Jae Il – Parasite OST - Green w/ Red Marble TTL Exclusive - $40https://www.discogs.com/release/21936370-Jung-Jae-Il-Parasite
Julien Baker - Sprained Ankle - Original Black Press - VG+/VG+ - $15 https://www.discogs.com/release/13874475-Julien-Baker-Sprained-Ankle
Julien Baker - Turn Out the Lights - Clear Press - $25 https://www.discogs.com/release/11316247-Julien-Baker-Turn-Out-The-Lights
Julien Baker - Little Oblivions - Apricot Yellow Press - VG+/VG+ - $20 https://www.discogs.com/release/17621980-Julien-Baker-Little-Oblivions
Kenta Negate - Mushroom Kingdom Drift (Double Dash Soundtrack) - Blue Cloudy Swirl Variant - VG+/VG+ (conservative grade) - $70 https://www.discogs.com/release/20517457-Kenta-Nagata-Mushroom-Kingdom-Drift
Lemonheads - Hate Your Friends - Yellow RSD - $25 https://www.discogs.com/release/19115083-Lemonheads-Hate-Your-Friends
Lights - Siberia - Clear - $55 https://www.discogs.com/release/21947125-LIGHTS-Siberia-
Mayday Parade - Self Titled - Triple Button - VG+/VG+ - $70 https://www.discogs.com/release/22462441-Mayday-Parade-Mayday-Parade
Mayday Parade - What it Means to Fall Apart - CleaBlack Cloud w/ Magenta Splatter - W/ signed sleeve $55, w/o signed sleeve $40 https://www.discogs.com/release/21647749-Mayday-Parade-What-It-Means-To-Fall-Apart
Michael Andrews - Donnie Darko OST - Blue and White Marble Newbury Exclusive - $50https://www.discogs.com/release/20411401-Michael-Andrews-Donnie-Darko-Music-From-The-Original-Motion-Picture-Score
Michael Giacchino - The Batman OST - 3LP Mondo Exclusive - $80https://www.discogs.com/sell/release/24107285?ev=rb
Movements - Outgrown Things - Aqua Blue Newbury Exclusive x/1000 - $20https://www.discogs.com/release/22412722-Movements-Outgrown-Things
Mouse Rat - The Awesome Album - Catch Your Dream Tri-Color - $20https://www.discogs.com/release/19841596-Mouse-Rat-The-Awesome-Album
New Found Glory - Coming Home - Custard w/ Black and Evergreen Splatter - VG+/VG+ - $55 https://www.discogs.com/release/24483224-New-Found-Glory-Coming-Home
NOFX - Punk in Drublic - Pink Acid Wash Newbury Pressing - $60https://www.discogs.com/release/20893141-NOFX-Punk-In-Drublic
Poppy - Poppy.Computer - Milky CleaWhite Swirl TTL Vinyl - VG+/VG+ - $80 https://www.discogs.com/release/17463619-Poppy-PoppyComputer
Poppy - Flux - Blue and Aqua Swirl - $25 https://www.discogs.com/release/20947999-Poppy-Flux
The Pretty Reckless - Death By Rock and Roll - Ultra Clear FYE Exclusive x/500 - $50https://www.discogs.com/release/17541256-The-Pretty-Reckless-Death-By-Rock-And-Ro
The Pretty Reckless - 25 - 7” Red w/Black Smoke Single - $30 https://www.discogs.com/release/24680186-The-Pretty-Reckless-25
Relient K - Collapsible Lung - Red Pressing - $30 https://www.discogs.com/release/8456625-Relient-K-Collapsible-Lung
Relient K - Air For Free - White Vinyl NM/VG+ - $40https://www.discogs.com/release/8793635-Relient-K-Air-For-Free
Rihanna - Unapologetic - Fruit Punch Maroon Variant (No Rih-Issue Box or extras) - OPENED $65 https://www.discogs.com/release/22362478-Rihanna-Unapologetic
Rival Schools - United by Fate - 2LP - This release came in an unsealed sleeve but is new and unplayed - $50https://www.discogs.com/release/5101716-Rival-Schools-United-By-Fate
Saba - Few Good Things - TEST PRESSING w/ Silk Screened Cover and SIGNED Photo - $375 OBO https://www.discogs.com/release/24691874-Saba-Few-Good-Things
She and Him - Melt Away Tribute to Brian Wilson Orange w/ Screen Printed Alt Sleeve - $40 https://www.discogs.com/release/23939249-She-Him-Melt-Away-A-Tribute-to-Brian-Wilson
St Vincent - Daddy’s Home - VMP Cool White Marble, Numbered - Light seam splitting - $25 https://www.discogs.com/release/18772822-St-Vincent-Daddys-Home
Various - Smash Bros. Ultimate - Kirby Selections - Black Vinyl - $55 https://www.discogs.com/release/24682553-Various-SUPER-SMASH-BROS-ULTIMATE-KIRBY-SELECTIONS
Various - Smash Bros. Ultimate - Mega Man Selections - Black Vinyl - $55 https://www.discogs.com/release/24112919-Tomori-Kudo-Hiroyo-Yamanaka-Michiko-Naruke-Yasushi-Asada-Nobuko-Toda-Rio-Hamamoto-Noriyuki-Iwadare-S
Viper - You’ll Cowards Don’t Even Smoke Crack - Translucent Green Press x/500(?) - VG/VG+ (as good condition as can be expected iykyk) - $140 https://www.discogs.com/release/20647825-Viper-Youll-Cowards-Dont-Even-Smoke-Crack
Yellowcard - Paper Walls - VG+/VG+ - $250 https://www.discogs.com/release/3128329-Yellowcard-Paper-Walls
2022.12.02 19:34 MacadamiaWire [FOR SALE] NEW GRAILS ADDED! PRICES DROPPED! Alexisonfire, Avenged Sevenfold, Better Oblivion, Billie Eilish, Crosses, Drake, Dua Lipa, Halsey, Father John Misty, Escape the Fate, AND BEYOND! Soundtracks, VGM, OSTs as well.
Happy Holiday Season everyone! I've added some grails from the collection to the list and dropped the prices on some of the stuff that's been sitting on the list for a while. Shipping is $5 + $1 per additional record but if you spend over $125 I'll cover shipping for free. CONUS only but message me if you need an exception. PLEASE leave a comment here before DMing me. Happy digging!
Alexisonfire - Otherness - Grape w/ Gold Cherry and Black Splatter Newbury Exclusive - $60 https://www.discogs.com/release/23967023-Alexisonfire-Otherness
Alexisonfire - Self-Titled - Green Marble Furnace Fest Exclusive - $55
https://www.discogs.com/release/24650096-Alexisonfire-Alexisonfire
Alkaline Trio - From Here to Infirmary - Red w/ Black Splatter RSD - VG+ all around - $35
https://www.discogs.com/release/19114693-Alkaline-Trio-From-Here-To-Infirmary-
Avenged Sevenfold - Sounding the Seventh Trumpet - Purple Inside Clear Newbury Exclusive - $70
https://www.discogs.com/release/13573625-Avenged-Sevenfold-Sounding-The-Seventh-Trumpet
Avenged Sevenfold - Nightmare - Blue/Gray Split w/ Black Splatter Newbury Exclusive - $60
https://www.discogs.com/release/22211746-Avenged-Sevenfold-Nightmare
Ashnikko - Demidevil - SIGNED Clear Vinyl - $95 https://www.discogs.com/release/16913346-Ashnikko-Demidevil
August Burns Red - Leveler - Moon Phase Variant - $25
https://www.discogs.com/release/19360534-August-Burns-Red-Leveler-Tenth-Anniversary-Edition
Better Oblivion Community Center - Self Titled - Yellow Magnolia Exclusive - $55
https://www.discogs.com/release/13319781-Better-Oblivion-Community-Center-Better-Oblivion-Community-Center
Billie Eilish - Happier Than Ever - Golden Yellow - Opened, unplayed, seam splits at top. VG-/NM - $10
https://www.discogs.com/release/19665610-Billie-Eilish-Happier-Than-Ever
Billie Eilish - Don’t Smile at Me - Yellow Urban Outfitters - $25
https://www.discogs.com/release/10918077-Billie-Eilish-Dont-Smile-At-Me
Bit Brigade - Ducktales OST - Gold Nugget Vinyl - $40
https://www.discogs.com/release/23308526-Bit-Brigade-DuckTales
Biz Markie - The Diabolical Biz Markie: The Biz Never Sleeps - Original 80s Press, VG+VG+ truly in stunning condition for its age - $100
https://www.discogs.com/release/838298-The-Diabolical-Biz-Markie-The-Biz-Never-Sleeps
Bleachers - Take the Sadness Out of Saturday Night - Glow-in-the-dark - VG+/VG+ - $SOLD
https://www.discogs.com/release/20016766-Bleachers-Take-The-Sadness-Out-Of-Saturday-Night
Bleachers - Take the Sadness Out of Saturday Night - Indie Exclusive cover - VG+/VG+ - $15
https://www.discogs.com/release/19673149-Bleachers-Take-The-Sadness-Out-Of-Saturday-Night
Bleachers & Jason Isbell - Dreamsicle/45 7” single - $25
https://www.discogs.com/release/22397518-Bleachers-Jason-Isbell-Dreamsicle-45
Bob & Barn - Medievil OST - Zombie Green Pressing, NM/VG- small scratch on side B that produces light popping. Far from unlistenable. Includes sticker. - $35 https://www.discogs.com/release/21054247-Bob-Barn-Medievil-Original-Soundtrack
Bob & Barn - Medievil OST - “Dan” Blue Smoke Swirl - NM/NM - Never played, came unsealed, includes sticker. - $70
https://www.discogs.com/release/21054283-Bob-Barn-Medievil-Original-Soundtrack
Brockhampton - Iridescence - Clear Pressing Official - VG+/VG+ - $SOLD https://www.discogs.com/release/12872335-Brockhampton-Iridescence
Carly Rae Jepsen - EMOTION - Hot Pink Pressing - $40 https://www.discogs.com/release/16138564-Carly-Rae-Jepsen-EMOTION
Carly Rae Jepsen - Dedicated Side B - Blue Baby/Urban Outfitters Variant - $SOLD
https://www.discogs.com/release/15497912-Carly-Rae-Jepsen-Dedicated-Side-B
Chilled Cow Lofi Girl - 12AM Study Session - Blue Marble x/300 - $SOLD
https://www.discogs.com/release/24640031-Various-12-AM-Study-Session
Chilled Cow Lofi Girl - Soothing Breeze - White Numbered Variant - VG+/VG+ conservative grade - $SOLD
https://www.discogs.com/release/23225930-Various-Soothing-Breeze
Christina Aguilera & Cher - Burlesque OST - Pink Pressing - $20 https://www.discogs.com/release/13943695-Christina-Aguilera-Cher-Burlesque-Original-Motion-Picture-Soundtrack
The Contortionist - Exoplanet - Black & Magenta Newbury Variant limited to 300 - $SOLD
https://www.discogs.com/release/20633854-The-Contortionist-Exoplanet
Crosses ✝️✝️✝️ - Day One/Vivien - Pink 10” Single - $50
https://www.discogs.com/release/25006444--Day-One-Vivien
Drake - Take Care - $20
https://www.discogs.com/release/21976249-Drake-Take-Care
Dua Lipa - Future Nostalgia - Yellow Vinyl Box Set/Book NO SIGNED CARD - VG/VG+ - $140
https://www.discogs.com/release/15036722-Dua-Lipa-Future-Nostalgia
Earl Sweatshirt - Doris - VG/VG - $45
https://www.discogs.com/release/7837449-Earl-Sweatshirt-Doris
Escape the Fate - Dying Is Your Latest Fashion - White Kings Road Exclusive - $40
https://www.discogs.com/release/21728824-Escape-The-Fate-Dying-Is-Your-Latest-Fashion
Father John Misty - Pure Comedy - Maroon and Black Swirl Newbury Exclusive - $50
https://www.discogs.com/release/14311030-Father-John-Misty-Pure-Comedy
Goblin - Suspiria OST - White Indie Press - $35 https://www.discogs.com/release/22300657-Goblin-Suspiria-Musiche-Dalla-Colonna-Sonora-Originale-Del-Film
Halsey - Manic - Target Exclusive Violet Press - $20
https://www.discogs.com/release/16185029-Halsey-Manic
Hannah Montana - Best of Hannah Montana - Purple - $45
https://www.discogs.com/release/13440577-Hannah-Montana-Best-Of-Hannah-Montana
Hayley Williams - Flowers for Vases/Descansos - Pink Smoke - $35
https://www.discogs.com/release/20184196-Hayley-Williams-Flowers-For-Vases-Descansos
John Murphy - The Biohazard EP - Black Variant with Screen Print - NM/NM - $25 https://www.discogs.com/release/15471616-John-Murphy-28-The-Biohazard-Ep
Jonathan Dunn - Jurassic Park NES and SNES Soundtracks - Dino Egg Pinwheel Variant - $145
https://www.discogs.com/release/24976564-Jonathan-Dunn-Jurassic-Park-The-Original-SNES-and-NES-Soundtracks
Jung Jae Il – Parasite OST - Green w/ Red Marble TTL Exclusive - $40 https://www.discogs.com/release/21936370-Jung-Jae-Il-Parasite
Kanye West - Yeezus - Clear Bootleg NO BOUND 2 - VG/VG - $30 https://www.discogs.com/release/4783772-Kanye-West-Yeezus
Kanye West - Yeezus - Black Bootleg INCLUDES BOUND 2 - VG/VG - $35
https://www.discogs.com/release/5656402-Kanye-West-Yeezus
Kenta Negate - Mushroom Kingdom Drift (Double Dash Soundtrack) - Blue Cloudy Swirl Variant - VG+/VG+ (conservative grade) - $70
https://www.discogs.com/release/20517457-Kenta-Nagata-Mushroom-Kingdom-Drift
Lana Del Rey - Ultraviolence - Euro Deluxe 180g w/ bonus tracks - $50
https://www.discogs.com/release/5790430-Lana-Del-Rey-Ultraviolence
Lemonheads - Hate Your Friends - Yellow RSD - $25
https://www.discogs.com/release/19115083-Lemonheads-Hate-Your-Friends
Lights - Siberia - Clear - $55
https://www.discogs.com/release/21947125-LIGHTS-Siberia-
Linkin Park - The Hunting Party - $85
https://www.discogs.com/release/19807291-Linkin-Park-The-Hunting-Party
Lord Huron - Lonesome Dreams - Blue and Green Newbury Exclusive - $50
https://www.discogs.com/release/22066819-Lord-Huron-Lonesome-Dreams
Marco Beltrami - A Quiet Place Part II OST - Mondo Exclusive Forest Green, Numbered - $SOLD
https://www.discogs.com/release/21137290-Marco-Beltrami-A-Quiet-Place-Part-II-Music-From-The-Motion-Picture
The Mars Volta - The Bedlam in Goliath - VMP Blue Marble 3LP - $SOLD
https://www.discogs.com/release/22698713-The-Mars-Volta-The-Bedlam-In-Goliath
Mayday Parade - Self Titled - Triple Button - VG+/VG+ - $70
https://www.discogs.com/release/22462441-Mayday-Parade-Mayday-Parade
Mayday Parade - What it Means to Fall Apart - CleaBlack Cloud w/ Magenta Splatter - W/ signed sleeve $55, w/o signed sleeve $40
https://www.discogs.com/release/21647749-Mayday-Parade-What-It-Means-To-Fall-Apart
Michael Andrews - Donnie Darko OST - Blue and White Marble Newbury Exclusive - $50 https://www.discogs.com/release/20411401-Michael-Andrews-Donnie-Darko-Music-From-The-Original-Motion-Picture-Score
Michael Giacchino - The Batman OST - 3LP Mondo Exclusive - $80 https://www.discogs.com/sell/release/24107285?ev=rb
Movements - Outgrown Things - Aqua Blue Newbury Exclusive x/1000 - $25 https://www.discogs.com/release/22412722-Movements-Outgrown-Things
Mouse Rat - The Awesome Album - Catch Your Dream Tri-Color - $25 https://www.discogs.com/release/19841596-Mouse-Rat-The-Awesome-Album
NOFX - Punk in Drublic - Pink Acid Wash Newbury Pressing - $60 https://www.discogs.com/release/20893141-NOFX-Punk-In-Drublic
Phoebe Bridgers - Stranger in the Alps - Galaxy Swirl Anniversary Vinyl - $55
https://www.discogs.com/release/24567782-Phoebe-Bridgers-Stranger-In-The-Alps
Poppy - Poppy.Computer - Milky CleaWhite Swirl TTL Vinyl - VG+/VG+ - $80
https://www.discogs.com/release/17463619-Poppy-PoppyComputer
Poppy - Flux - Blue and Aqua Swirl - $25
https://www.discogs.com/release/20947999-Poppy-Flux
The Pretty Reckless - Death By Rock and Roll - Ultra Clear FYE Exclusive x/500 - $50 https://www.discogs.com/release/17541256-The-Pretty-Reckless-Death-By-Rock-And-Ro
Relient K - Collapsible Lung - Red Pressing - $30
https://www.discogs.com/release/8456625-Relient-K-Collapsible-Lung
Relient K - Air For Free - White Vinyl NM/VG+ - $40 https://www.discogs.com/release/8793635-Relient-K-Air-For-Free
Relient K - Mmhmm - Gold Pressing - $60 https://www.discogs.com/release/8388536-Relient-K-Mmhmm
TAKE ALL RELIENT K FOR $120
Rihanna - Unapologetic - Fruit Punch Maroon Variant (No Rih-Issue Box or extras) - OPENED $55, SEALED $65
https://www.discogs.com/release/22362478-Rihanna-Unapologetic
Rival Schools - United by Fate - 2LP - This release came in an unsealed sleeve but is new and unplayed - $55 https://www.discogs.com/release/5101716-Rival-Schools-United-By-Fate
Saba - Few Good Things - TEST PRESSING w/ Silk Screened Cover and SIGNED Photo - $400 OBO
https://www.discogs.com/release/24691874-Saba-Few-Good-Things
St Vincent - Daddy’s Home - VMP Cool White Marble, Numbered - Light seam splitting - $25
https://www.discogs.com/release/18772822-St-Vincent-Daddys-Home
Various - Smash Bros. Ultimate - Kirby Selections - Black Vinyl - $55
https://www.discogs.com/release/24682553-Various-SUPER-SMASH-BROS-ULTIMATE-KIRBY-SELECTIONS
Various - Smash Bros. Ultimate - Mega Man Selections - Black Vinyl - $55
https://www.discogs.com/release/24112919-Tomori-Kudo-Hiroyo-Yamanaka-Michiko-Naruke-Yasushi-Asada-Nobuko-Toda-Rio-Hamamoto-Noriyuki-Iwadare-S
Viper - You’ll Cowards Don’t Even Smoke Crack - Translucent Green Press x/500(?) - VG/VG+ (as good condition as can be expected iykyk) - $140
https://www.discogs.com/release/20647825-Viper-Youll-Cowards-Dont-Even-Smoke-Crack
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Alexisonfire - Otherness - Grape w/ Gold Cherry and Black Splatter Newbury Exclusive - $60 https://www.discogs.com/release/23967023-Alexisonfire-Otherness
Alexisonfire - Self-Titled - Green Marble Furnace Fest Exclusive - $55
https://www.discogs.com/release/24650096-Alexisonfire-Alexisonfire
Alkaline Trio - From Here to Infirmary - Red w/ Black Splatter RSD - VG+ all around - $35
https://www.discogs.com/release/19114693-Alkaline-Trio-From-Here-To-Infirmary-
Avenged Sevenfold - Sounding the Seventh Trumpet - Purple Inside Clear Newbury Exclusive - $70
https://www.discogs.com/release/13573625-Avenged-Sevenfold-Sounding-The-Seventh-Trumpet
Avenged Sevenfold - Nightmare - Blue/Gray Split w/ Black Splatter Newbury Exclusive - $60
https://www.discogs.com/release/22211746-Avenged-Sevenfold-Nightmare
Ashnikko - Demidevil - SIGNED Clear Vinyl - $95 https://www.discogs.com/release/16913346-Ashnikko-Demidevil
August Burns Red - Leveler - Moon Phase Variant - $25
https://www.discogs.com/release/19360534-August-Burns-Red-Leveler-Tenth-Anniversary-Edition
Better Oblivion Community Center - Self Titled - Yellow Magnolia Exclusive - $55
https://www.discogs.com/release/13319781-Better-Oblivion-Community-Center-Better-Oblivion-Community-Center
Billie Eilish - Happier Than Ever - Golden Yellow - Opened, unplayed, seam splits at top. VG-/NM - $10
https://www.discogs.com/release/19665610-Billie-Eilish-Happier-Than-Ever
Billie Eilish - Don’t Smile at Me - Yellow Urban Outfitters - $25
https://www.discogs.com/release/10918077-Billie-Eilish-Dont-Smile-At-Me
Bit Brigade - Ducktales OST - Gold Nugget Vinyl - $40
https://www.discogs.com/release/23308526-Bit-Brigade-DuckTales
Biz Markie - The Diabolical Biz Markie: The Biz Never Sleeps - Original 80s Press, VG+VG+ truly in stunning condition for its age - $100
https://www.discogs.com/release/838298-The-Diabolical-Biz-Markie-The-Biz-Never-Sleeps
Bleachers - Take the Sadness Out of Saturday Night - Glow-in-the-dark - VG+/VG+ - $SOLD
https://www.discogs.com/release/20016766-Bleachers-Take-The-Sadness-Out-Of-Saturday-Night
Bleachers - Take the Sadness Out of Saturday Night - Indie Exclusive cover - VG+/VG+ - $15
https://www.discogs.com/release/19673149-Bleachers-Take-The-Sadness-Out-Of-Saturday-Night
Bleachers & Jason Isbell - Dreamsicle/45 7” single - $25
https://www.discogs.com/release/22397518-Bleachers-Jason-Isbell-Dreamsicle-45
Bob & Barn - Medievil OST - Zombie Green Pressing, NM/VG- small scratch on side B that produces light popping. Far from unlistenable. Includes sticker. - $35 https://www.discogs.com/release/21054247-Bob-Barn-Medievil-Original-Soundtrack
Bob & Barn - Medievil OST - “Dan” Blue Smoke Swirl - NM/NM - Never played, came unsealed, includes sticker. - $70
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2022.11.14 13:17 yourlocalmagicalgirl Followup with Outfits: Nana Characters' Kibbe Types
 | I made a post yesterday with the Nana characters and what their Kibbe types are, and decided to do a follow-up with some photos and outfits :) I've included my full list but have put photos of the more prominent characters (Trapnest and Blast gang) here. submitted by yourlocalmagicalgirl to Kibbe [link] [comments] D - Osaki Nana, Shion SD - Honjo Ren FN - Serizawa Reira, Endo Shouji, Kyousuke, Takagi Yasushi SN - Fujieda Naoki DC - Saotome Junko, Uehara Misato SC - Matsumoto AsamiFG - Terushima Nobuo SG - Okazaki Shinichi, Komatsu Nana (Hachiko), Sachiko, Tsuzuki Mai TR - Shinoda Miu Nana O (Pure D, wears FG outfits) Nana O Nana O Nana and Ren (SD) Ren (SD) Reira (FN) Reira (FN) Yasu (FN with D essence) Yasu Junko (DC) Asami (SC) Nobu (FG) Nobuo (FG) and Shin (SG) Junko (DC) Nobu (FG) Shin (SG) Shin (SG) Hachi (SG) Nana (D) and Hachi (SG) in very FG and SG outfits Nana and Hachi <3 |
2022.03.26 05:32 conjyak Translated summary of “What are Nogi Songs?” ~Sugiyama Katsuhiko x Akira Sunset, A One Night Only Honest Conversation~, streamed on 2021-01-31 and excerpt of "Thank You for the 10 Years!! Sugiyama Katsuhiko vs Akira Sunset, the Last Talk, Equally", streamed on 2021-12-18
Here is a translated summary of a live stream by Sugiyama Katsuhiko and Akira Sunset: “What are Nogi Songs?” ~Sugiyama Katsuhiko x Akira Sunset, A One Night Only Honest Conversation~, that was streamed on 2021-01-31
and
a short translated excerpt summary of “Thank You for the 10 Years!! Sugiyama Katsuhiko vs Akira Sunset, the Last Talk, Equally”, streamed on 2021-12-18
2021-01-31
「乃木曲ってどう？」～杉山勝彦×Akira Sunset一夜限りの本音対談～
“What are Nogi Songs?” ~Sugiyama Katsuhiko x Akira Sunset, A One Night Only Honest Conversation~
FYI, Sugiyama Katsuhiko and Akira Sunset are two of the most prolific music composers and arrangers of Nogizaka46 songs and well-known among Nogi fans for that fact.
A video for this can be found on bilibili at: bilibili [dot] com/video/BV11b4y1Q7F9
Nogi songs that Sugiyama Katsuhiko and Akira Sunset have composed or arranged up to the date of the live stream: https://i.imgur.com/LWgikKy.png
A-side singles that the two composed (Sugiyama in blue, Akira in red): https://i.imgur.com/kBnfF16.png
A-side singles that the two composed (Sugiyama in blue, Akira in red), continued. Since the live stream date, there has also been: 27th Single: Gomenne Fingers Crossed by Sugiyama, 5th Album Lead: Saigo No Tight Hug by Sugiyama, and Ikuchan’s grad solo: Toki No Wadachi by Akira) https://i.imgur.com/hJn6VpE.png
Until 2012, the concept for the music was “French Pops.” Akira says that hearing Sugiyama’s Seifuku No Mannequin was a shock to him after the French Pops era (he had already worked on Ookami Ni Kuchibue Wo and Kairyuu No Shima Yo). The shock motivated Akira to try harder to provide songs for Nogi.
Akira considers Kimi No Na Wa Kibou to have defined and molded Nogi’s musical image. Sugiyama says that Kimi No Na Wa Kibou was inspired by trying something that wasn’t “usual” for idol songs at that time, as the “usual” at that time was energetic stuff, like “Heavy Rotation”, “Flying Get”, and Momoiro Clover.
Akira jokes how Sugiyama must be getting royalties every time Kimi No Na Wa Kibou plays at Nogizaka subway station
While laughing, Akira says that he once tweeted why he thought “Mannequin” was so great, talking about the chord progressions, but then people in the business more knowledgeable about music theory told him, “The stuff you tweeted is musically wrong. It’s embarrassing. Delete it.”
Sing Out! was created by people in Akira’s company, where he is a managing director (basically a top executive).
Sugiyama says that the 26th single went through 4 competitions among song makers until a song was chosen (which he won with Boku Wa Boku Wo Suki Ni Naru).
Before Akira became a composer, he was a performer, mainly in rap/hip hop. Before his rap/hip hop era, his inspirations were Southern All Stars, Ozaki Yutaka, TUBE.
Akira humbly says that the song 1・2・3 was only arranged by him (not composed by him). Sugiyama says, “That still makes it one more song than me” (on the list of all songs that they have created for Nogi).
Sugiyama (on the right) plays a short improv of Kimi No Na Wa Kibou:
Akira (on the left) at 0:11: Wow, stylish! How stylish!
https://twitter.com/Conjyak1/status/1506903874396954630
Each of them states their Best 3 songs created by the other person.
Akira: 3. Boku Ga Iru Basho, 2. Sayonara No Imi, 1. Seifuku No Mannequin
Sugiyama: 3. Popipappapa-, 2. Ima Hanashitai Dareka Ga Iru, 1. Kizuitara Kataomoi
Album lead songs by Sugiyama: Boku Ga Iru Basho, Kikkake, Arigachi Na Ren’ai 3 out of the 4 Nogi albums
(Including Saigo No Tight Hug and the Under album, that would be 4 out of 6 album lead songs)
Sugiyama plays around with the key changes in Kizuitara Kataomoi:
https://twitter.com/Conjyak1/status/1506906611662659584
They have a composer’s jam session and create a short song in 30 minutes. Akira composed the melody, Sugiyama did the instrumentation, and Akira did the singing and lyrics. For whatever reason, they autotuned Akira’s singing.
https://twitter.com/Conjyak1/status/1506907803117576194
Lyrics:
本音言えば君と旅したいよ
でもこの状況加味しないと
だからいつものこの場所で
精一杯に愛したいよ
Romaji:
Honne ieba kimi to tabi shitai yo
Demo kono joukyou kami shinai to
Dakara itsumo no kono basho de
Sei ippai ni ai shitai yo
Translation:
To say the truth, I want to travel with you
But we have to take into consideration these times (affected by covid)
So I want to love you all that I can
At this place, where we always do
Akira likes Naachan and Maimai’s voices. He was impressed by Misa’s work ethic during Sonna Bakana and was moved when she and Maimai eventually got to the front row.
Akira seems to follow Nogi’s group details more than Sugiyama.
Sugiyama likes Ikuchan’s voice.
Akira jokes that he doesn’t like to do arranging. APAZZI works in his company. APAZZI does a lot of arranging, including many for Nogi songs.
Sugiyama’s background is mostly as a composer, but he has also been a performer, especially in 2013-2016, during which Nogi has fewer songs by him than usual. He has a bit of classical background as well thus he likes using piano. He does anything: composition, arranging, lyrics
Viewer Question: Are you not going to provide songs to Sakurazaka/Hinatazaka?
Sugiyama: If they take our songs, I’ll write as many as they wanna take (laughs). We’re always writing songs.
Question: What do keep in your mind when you write songs?
Both: The deadline.
Sugiyama: Akira once said that what creates wonderful songs isn’t songwriters – it’s deadlines.
Songs they think have Akimoto Yasushi’s best lyrics
Sugiyama: Seifuku No Mannequin, Kimi No Na Wa Kibou, Baton Touch (for JULEPS)
Akira: Ano Hi Boku Wa Tossa Ni Uso Wo Tsuita
While Akimoto Yasushi was in his 20s writing lyrics, Akira was being a rebel doing hip hop and sticking his tongue out in his album photos.
Sugiyama jokes that Akira was more like Keyakizaka than Nogizaka back then.
Sugiyama’s oshimen is Maiyan. Akira says he’s a DD, but biased towards 1ki.
They praise Yasushi a lot for his lyrics and ability to choose songs. (However in a different interview from Nov 2020, linked here: https://bilibili.com/video/BV1Kp4y1z7xB, Sugiyama said he’s often surprised by Yasushi’s lyrics. “Oh, these are the lyrics he put for this song I composed? Huh.”)
Favorite Nogi songs
Sugiyama: Kimi No Na Wa Kibou, Sayonara No Imi, Seifuku No Mannequin, Kikkake
Akira: Hane No Kioku, Kizuitara Kataomoi, Nichijou, Ima Hanshitai Dareka Ga Iru, Dankeschon
Akira says, “I don’t know chords,” so his arranger will polish the chords in his songs.
Sugiyama jokes that his arranger changes his (Sugiyama’s) chords, if it’s good, he’s ok with it. If it isn’t, he’ll be pissed.
They both like Influencer.
They both love Mr. Children.
Nogi singles basically officially hold “competitions”, where Yasushi chooses the final songs for Nogi. Most of the time, there is a lot of competition.
In some cases, as in the case of Kimi No Na Wa Kibou, Sugiyama just personally proposed the song to Sony/Yasushi and that was the song chosen (without a competition).
Akira’s hobbies: in the past surfing. Currently, wine, sushi.
Sugiyama: watching MMA videos, Hiroyuki’s videos (founder of 2ch).
Twitter thread version of the above text: https://twitter.com/Conjyak1/status/1506892849454981120
Webpage version: https://conjyak.com/2022/03/26/translated-summary-of-what-are-nogi-songs-sugiyama-katsuhiko-x-akira-sunset-a-one-night-only-honest-conversation-streamed-on-2021-01-31/
2021-12-18
１０年間のありがとう！！ 杉山勝彦 vs Akira Sunset 最後の対等トーク
Thank You for the 10 Years!! Sugiyama Katsuhiko vs Akira Sunset, the Last Talk, Equally
You can find the Youtube video for this excerpt by googling:
乃木坂の象徴だった生田絵梨花について語る杉山勝彦とAkiraSunset or:
youtube [dot] com/watch?v=U35qDa4LPmA
Akira went to Ikuchan’s graduation concert.
Sugiyama: Although Nogi has sembatsu and under, there is no ranking like in AKB elections. Back then, with AKB’s Flying Get and Heavy Rotation, energetic songs were popular for idols.
Sugiyama felt he can’t win against people who are good at those kinds of songs. So he thought he’d just go with his own style, which was Seifuku No mannequin and Kimi No Na Wa Kibou.
The abovementioned things, plus the image and behavior of Nogi girls, was his inspiration for coming up with those songs (Seifuku No Mannequin and Kimi No Na Wa Kibou).
Seeing the image of Ikuchan playing the piano while she and the members sing Kimi No Na Wa Kibou in a school setting, without the tension of cutthroat competition – Sugiyama feels that these kinds of things are things that didn’t exist (in the image of idols) back then.
Sugiyama says, “Nogizaka isn’t a harsh medicine or drug.”
Akira says, “Maybe because Nogizaka isn’t a harsh medicine or drug, Nogizaka has lasting power.”
Akira did the arrangement for both of Nogizaka46’s appearances on First Take (with Endo Sakura, Ikuchan, Kakki-, Kubo Shiori) and did rehearsals with them for it
Sugiyama knows Kubo is good at singing
Akira praises Ikuchan’s singing technique and perfectionism regarding artistry
(When counting the times that Ikuchan has centered, they both count Nandome No Aozora Ka as the first and Saigo No Tight Hug as the second.)
Sugiyama says Ikuchan is a symbol. She has the technique and is genius-like. The type of person to become an artist.
Twitter thread version: https://twitter.com/Conjyak1/status/1507041412990308360
Webpage version: https://conjyak.com/2022/03/26/translated-summary-of-thank-you-for-the-10-years-sugiyama-katsuhiko-vs-akira-sunset-the-last-talk-equally-streamed-on-2021-12-18/
submitted by conjyak to Nogizaka46 [link] [comments]
and
a short translated excerpt summary of “Thank You for the 10 Years!! Sugiyama Katsuhiko vs Akira Sunset, the Last Talk, Equally”, streamed on 2021-12-18
「乃木曲ってどう？」～杉山勝彦×Akira Sunset一夜限りの本音対談～
“What are Nogi Songs?” ~Sugiyama Katsuhiko x Akira Sunset, A One Night Only Honest Conversation~
FYI, Sugiyama Katsuhiko and Akira Sunset are two of the most prolific music composers and arrangers of Nogizaka46 songs and well-known among Nogi fans for that fact.
A video for this can be found on bilibili at: bilibili [dot] com/video/BV11b4y1Q7F9
Nogi songs that Sugiyama Katsuhiko and Akira Sunset have composed or arranged up to the date of the live stream: https://i.imgur.com/LWgikKy.png
A-side singles that the two composed (Sugiyama in blue, Akira in red): https://i.imgur.com/kBnfF16.png
A-side singles that the two composed (Sugiyama in blue, Akira in red), continued. Since the live stream date, there has also been: 27th Single: Gomenne Fingers Crossed by Sugiyama, 5th Album Lead: Saigo No Tight Hug by Sugiyama, and Ikuchan’s grad solo: Toki No Wadachi by Akira) https://i.imgur.com/hJn6VpE.png
Until 2012, the concept for the music was “French Pops.” Akira says that hearing Sugiyama’s Seifuku No Mannequin was a shock to him after the French Pops era (he had already worked on Ookami Ni Kuchibue Wo and Kairyuu No Shima Yo). The shock motivated Akira to try harder to provide songs for Nogi.
Akira considers Kimi No Na Wa Kibou to have defined and molded Nogi’s musical image. Sugiyama says that Kimi No Na Wa Kibou was inspired by trying something that wasn’t “usual” for idol songs at that time, as the “usual” at that time was energetic stuff, like “Heavy Rotation”, “Flying Get”, and Momoiro Clover.
Akira jokes how Sugiyama must be getting royalties every time Kimi No Na Wa Kibou plays at Nogizaka subway station
While laughing, Akira says that he once tweeted why he thought “Mannequin” was so great, talking about the chord progressions, but then people in the business more knowledgeable about music theory told him, “The stuff you tweeted is musically wrong. It’s embarrassing. Delete it.”
Sing Out! was created by people in Akira’s company, where he is a managing director (basically a top executive).
Sugiyama says that the 26th single went through 4 competitions among song makers until a song was chosen (which he won with Boku Wa Boku Wo Suki Ni Naru).
Before Akira became a composer, he was a performer, mainly in rap/hip hop. Before his rap/hip hop era, his inspirations were Southern All Stars, Ozaki Yutaka, TUBE.
Akira humbly says that the song 1・2・3 was only arranged by him (not composed by him). Sugiyama says, “That still makes it one more song than me” (on the list of all songs that they have created for Nogi).
Sugiyama (on the right) plays a short improv of Kimi No Na Wa Kibou:
Akira (on the left) at 0:11: Wow, stylish! How stylish!
https://twitter.com/Conjyak1/status/1506903874396954630
Each of them states their Best 3 songs created by the other person.
Akira: 3. Boku Ga Iru Basho, 2. Sayonara No Imi, 1. Seifuku No Mannequin
Sugiyama: 3. Popipappapa-, 2. Ima Hanashitai Dareka Ga Iru, 1. Kizuitara Kataomoi
Album lead songs by Sugiyama: Boku Ga Iru Basho, Kikkake, Arigachi Na Ren’ai 3 out of the 4 Nogi albums
(Including Saigo No Tight Hug and the Under album, that would be 4 out of 6 album lead songs)
Sugiyama plays around with the key changes in Kizuitara Kataomoi:
https://twitter.com/Conjyak1/status/1506906611662659584
They have a composer’s jam session and create a short song in 30 minutes. Akira composed the melody, Sugiyama did the instrumentation, and Akira did the singing and lyrics. For whatever reason, they autotuned Akira’s singing.
https://twitter.com/Conjyak1/status/1506907803117576194
Lyrics:
本音言えば君と旅したいよ
でもこの状況加味しないと
だからいつものこの場所で
精一杯に愛したいよ
Romaji:
Honne ieba kimi to tabi shitai yo
Demo kono joukyou kami shinai to
Dakara itsumo no kono basho de
Sei ippai ni ai shitai yo
Translation:
To say the truth, I want to travel with you
But we have to take into consideration these times (affected by covid)
So I want to love you all that I can
At this place, where we always do
Akira likes Naachan and Maimai’s voices. He was impressed by Misa’s work ethic during Sonna Bakana and was moved when she and Maimai eventually got to the front row.
Akira seems to follow Nogi’s group details more than Sugiyama.
Sugiyama likes Ikuchan’s voice.
Akira jokes that he doesn’t like to do arranging. APAZZI works in his company. APAZZI does a lot of arranging, including many for Nogi songs.
Sugiyama’s background is mostly as a composer, but he has also been a performer, especially in 2013-2016, during which Nogi has fewer songs by him than usual. He has a bit of classical background as well thus he likes using piano. He does anything: composition, arranging, lyrics
Viewer Question: Are you not going to provide songs to Sakurazaka/Hinatazaka?
Sugiyama: If they take our songs, I’ll write as many as they wanna take (laughs). We’re always writing songs.
Question: What do keep in your mind when you write songs?
Both: The deadline.
Sugiyama: Akira once said that what creates wonderful songs isn’t songwriters – it’s deadlines.
Songs they think have Akimoto Yasushi’s best lyrics
Sugiyama: Seifuku No Mannequin, Kimi No Na Wa Kibou, Baton Touch (for JULEPS)
Akira: Ano Hi Boku Wa Tossa Ni Uso Wo Tsuita
While Akimoto Yasushi was in his 20s writing lyrics, Akira was being a rebel doing hip hop and sticking his tongue out in his album photos.
Sugiyama jokes that Akira was more like Keyakizaka than Nogizaka back then.
Sugiyama’s oshimen is Maiyan. Akira says he’s a DD, but biased towards 1ki.
They praise Yasushi a lot for his lyrics and ability to choose songs. (However in a different interview from Nov 2020, linked here: https://bilibili.com/video/BV1Kp4y1z7xB, Sugiyama said he’s often surprised by Yasushi’s lyrics. “Oh, these are the lyrics he put for this song I composed? Huh.”)
Favorite Nogi songs
Sugiyama: Kimi No Na Wa Kibou, Sayonara No Imi, Seifuku No Mannequin, Kikkake
Akira: Hane No Kioku, Kizuitara Kataomoi, Nichijou, Ima Hanshitai Dareka Ga Iru, Dankeschon
Akira says, “I don’t know chords,” so his arranger will polish the chords in his songs.
Sugiyama jokes that his arranger changes his (Sugiyama’s) chords, if it’s good, he’s ok with it. If it isn’t, he’ll be pissed.
They both like Influencer.
They both love Mr. Children.
Nogi singles basically officially hold “competitions”, where Yasushi chooses the final songs for Nogi. Most of the time, there is a lot of competition.
In some cases, as in the case of Kimi No Na Wa Kibou, Sugiyama just personally proposed the song to Sony/Yasushi and that was the song chosen (without a competition).
Akira’s hobbies: in the past surfing. Currently, wine, sushi.
Sugiyama: watching MMA videos, Hiroyuki’s videos (founder of 2ch).
Twitter thread version of the above text: https://twitter.com/Conjyak1/status/1506892849454981120
Webpage version: https://conjyak.com/2022/03/26/translated-summary-of-what-are-nogi-songs-sugiyama-katsuhiko-x-akira-sunset-a-one-night-only-honest-conversation-streamed-on-2021-01-31/
１０年間のありがとう！！ 杉山勝彦 vs Akira Sunset 最後の対等トーク
Thank You for the 10 Years!! Sugiyama Katsuhiko vs Akira Sunset, the Last Talk, Equally
You can find the Youtube video for this excerpt by googling:
乃木坂の象徴だった生田絵梨花について語る杉山勝彦とAkiraSunset or:
youtube [dot] com/watch?v=U35qDa4LPmA
Akira went to Ikuchan’s graduation concert.
Sugiyama: Although Nogi has sembatsu and under, there is no ranking like in AKB elections. Back then, with AKB’s Flying Get and Heavy Rotation, energetic songs were popular for idols.
Sugiyama felt he can’t win against people who are good at those kinds of songs. So he thought he’d just go with his own style, which was Seifuku No mannequin and Kimi No Na Wa Kibou.
The abovementioned things, plus the image and behavior of Nogi girls, was his inspiration for coming up with those songs (Seifuku No Mannequin and Kimi No Na Wa Kibou).
Seeing the image of Ikuchan playing the piano while she and the members sing Kimi No Na Wa Kibou in a school setting, without the tension of cutthroat competition – Sugiyama feels that these kinds of things are things that didn’t exist (in the image of idols) back then.
Sugiyama says, “Nogizaka isn’t a harsh medicine or drug.”
Akira says, “Maybe because Nogizaka isn’t a harsh medicine or drug, Nogizaka has lasting power.”
Akira did the arrangement for both of Nogizaka46’s appearances on First Take (with Endo Sakura, Ikuchan, Kakki-, Kubo Shiori) and did rehearsals with them for it
Sugiyama knows Kubo is good at singing
Akira praises Ikuchan’s singing technique and perfectionism regarding artistry
(When counting the times that Ikuchan has centered, they both count Nandome No Aozora Ka as the first and Saigo No Tight Hug as the second.)
Sugiyama says Ikuchan is a symbol. She has the technique and is genius-like. The type of person to become an artist.
Twitter thread version: https://twitter.com/Conjyak1/status/1507041412990308360
Webpage version: https://conjyak.com/2022/03/26/translated-summary-of-thank-you-for-the-10-years-sugiyama-katsuhiko-vs-akira-sunset-the-last-talk-equally-streamed-on-2021-12-18/
2021.07.21 01:44 Martel1234 The New class of Rikishi making there debuts at the Aki Basho
 | Every basho there is a new set of rikishi that make there pro sumo debuts. These rikishi come from a wide array of starting points. Some of them have experience in other sports, and are scouted out or join on there own merit, without any real sumo experience. Some are top level high school competitors and start off in Jonokuchi with experience in sumo. Some of these rikishi are legends in the amateur field, and are expected to make it up to Makushita and beyond quickly. Some of them are given the title of Amateur Yokozuna and start at Makushita 15 on the banzuke. Most of the rikishi are in between this wide field. Today I will be talking about the two newest rikishi debuting in less then two months. I want to give special praise too SumoFourm, a more active place to talk about lower division topics from my experience. A lot of what's on here comes from the data they brought over there. If you want to here about what they have to say go here: http://www.sumoforum.net/forums/topic/40900-new-recruits-for-2021-nagoya/. submitted by Martel1234 to Sumo [link] [comments] First we have thank you Sumoforum's Yubinhaad for posting this picture. Shintaro Watanabe, a 24 year old recruit who is a former Under-85k National Colligate Champion in 2017. If you couldn't tell by the picture, he has joined Miyagino-Beya after being personally asked to by Yokozuna Hakuho himself (Kintamayama). He seemingly went into work post college instead of joining sumo and his entry is allowed due too the extended age limit for those with amateur experience. The only video I found that might be him is this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7WsC_2QUfms. It matches his age and is close to his weight and height. According to his Mae-zumo and Sumo Forum, he will go by Raiho Our second rikishi is Yasuki Ito, who joins Shikoroyama-beya. taken from Maezumo youtube. There is not a lot known about the 18 year old. No videos or photos before the basho that I could find. What we know about him is that he is a bulky figure (from his Mae-Zumo, I guess similar to Mukainakano) and is a couple centimeters taller then Raiho. The only trivia I could find was that he's the brother of Mineyaiba, a Makushita prospect. So we have a bit of a mystery on our hands. He will be known as Yasushi During every Basho, the newest rikishi take part in Mae-zumo bouts, basically a way too see how good these kids are and where to rank them come Banzuke for the next. Usaully theres more then one match but with the lack of new rikishi, only was happened. Two videos came out of this. First we have the introduction ceremony. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lyGhoa1cMX4&t=62s And before that, you had there Mazumo bout, which happened on Day 3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvjtqkkzAGY Go watch that before continuing this post, as the next paragraph will talk about it. ----------- Okay good? So the first thing I noticed is "Oh wow Raiho looks a lot like some other Miyagino Rikishi." He just seemed like someone Hakuho would bring in. Yasushi is already pretty big, which will look funny against Shonanzakura and Byakuen. To continue the comparisons to Miyagino, Raiho immediately grappled with Yasushi, getting into a dominant position right away. Yasushi would try a couple of times to lift Raiho and I'm assuming go for a Yorikiri, though Raiho was able to stop any advances. Yasushi was able to get one hand on the muwashi but Raiho had both of his in. In the end, Raiho was able to basically trip the leg and use that force to topple the larger competitor, basically throwing him to the ground in a bodyslam like move. The win for Raiho means he will get a higher rank in Junokuchi compared to Yasushi. Thank you for reading and watching. I'm thinking about doing a series on the Beyas and talking about some of them during this off month but time will tell if that actually happens. |
2021.05.07 22:41 Purtle [PIL] #203 5/7/2021
Purtle's Internet Lineup for May 7th, 2021! 4:45pm
Pics:
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Pics:
- dugtrio pizookie https://twitter.com/bylilyoli/status/1390393925412610053
- kirby costumes https://twitter.com/ciaraturnerart/status/1390393129627357184
- Meet Ditto's family and their friend Cubone, in "Transforming Ditto", the 1997 Pokémon Tale by the legendary Sumiyoshi Kizuki (10 parts) https://twitter.com/HiResPokemon/status/1390389687664234498
- the beautiful art of the Wii U discs https://twitter.com/MetroidMike64/status/1390311206724984837
- the first one was really different https://twitter.com/taizou_hori/status/1390354526692118532
- kirby punch https://twitter.com/Ara_love_kirby/status/1390622385653518342
- What did the designers have in mind when they created the art? Learn what Yasushi Yamaguchi (creator of Tails) and Naoto Ohshima (creator of Sonic) have to say about it in this new translation. https://twitter.com/MegaDriveShock/status/1390466020419178498
- every conversation for next few months https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7fLvmi1hFs
- When the visual doesn't match the audio https://twitter.com/Purtle28/status/1390753059719028739
- Arcadum is making a TV show with Chandler Riggs https://clips.twitch.tv/RefinedResoluteClamWOOP-OeksGeEWQUzvn8tJ
- Lost Judgment Announcement Trailer [5min] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VDgaA9RcGLE
- The Rugby Team That Fell From the Sky [36:47] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=syJyPq7lRGc
- Only person in the world who restores photos like this [10:47] https://youtu.be/HC562Tt0vS4?list=PLaeNB3uoiBDT9uR6Qbv_AWBE-RE-E19cK
- their website http://murabayashitakao.com/
- 2,000-year-old marble head of Rome's first emperor discovered https://old.reddit.com/news/comments/n6w9p0/2000yearold_marble_head_of_romes_first_empero
2020.10.30 12:00 AutoModerator Happy Cakeday, r/IconicImages! Today you're 7
Let's look back at some memorable moments and interesting insights from last year.
Your top 10 posts:
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Your top 10 posts:
- "Artist David Wojnarowicz at a AID Awarness rally, 1988." by u/TheSouthernMyth
- "A Northern Irish student prepares to strikes at a team of B Specials with a 2X4 during the Battle of the Bogside. Derry, Northern Ireland. Photo by Don McCullin." by u/TheSouthernMyth
- "President Obama holding 3 year old Arianna Holmes in the Oval Office. Feb. 1, 2012. Photo by Lawrence Jackson." by u/TheSouthernMyth
- "Faces of the Vietnam war draft" by u/StupidSamWasTaken
- "Japanese radical socalist Inejiro Asanuma moments before his assasination by ultranationalist Otoya Yamaguchi during a televised debate in Tokyo. October 12, 1960. Photo by Yasushi Nagao (who won the Pulitzer Prize for it.)" by u/TheSouthernMyth
- "A Romanian anti-communist resistance rushing into position during The Christmas Revolution. 1989." by u/TheSouthernMyth
- "Samir, The Iraqi-American military interpreter for Operation Red Dawn poses with a recently captured Saddam Hussain in Ad-Dawr, Iraq. Decemeber 13th, 2003." by u/TheSouthernMyth
- "A couple kisses in front of the Brandenburg Gate section of the Berlin Wall during its final days as a physical border between East & West Berlin. November, 1989." by u/TheSouthernMyth
- "Air Force One flies past Mandalay Bay days after the Las Vegas massacre" by u/GlenDice
- "Iraqi police standing near a burning oil pipeline, Kerbala, 2004." by u/TheSouthernMyth
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2020.07.23 05:00 zionius_ (No Spoilers) The Japanese covers drawn by Yasushi Suzuki
The Japanese covers from ASOS to ADWD are cool, which are drawn by Yasushi Suzuki (鈴木康士).
And recently I found in fact the front cover, spine and back cover can be joined together to form an much cooler illustration. And the covers for the two parts of AFFC can be joined together too. Here they are. (Some of the original arts are not allowed to post on the web , so I only posted a low-resolution preview. You can find the origin arts both on paper and in digital form in this book)
Sadly, I can't find any images of the spines and back covers of (a) ADWD part 3 (b) Knight of the Seven Kingdoms on the web. I also want to replace the low-resolution preview of AFFC part 1 and 2/ADWD part 2 in my gallery to high quality photos of the real books, so we can share them in the name of fair use. Could somebody having the books take a few photos?
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And recently I found in fact the front cover, spine and back cover can be joined together to form an much cooler illustration. And the covers for the two parts of AFFC can be joined together too. Here they are. (Some of the original arts are not allowed to post on the web , so I only posted a low-resolution preview. You can find the origin arts both on paper and in digital form in this book)
Sadly, I can't find any images of the spines and back covers of (a) ADWD part 3 (b) Knight of the Seven Kingdoms on the web. I also want to replace the low-resolution preview of AFFC part 1 and 2/ADWD part 2 in my gallery to high quality photos of the real books, so we can share them in the name of fair use. Could somebody having the books take a few photos?
2020.05.31 07:55 TheSouthernMyth Japanese radical socalist Inejiro Asanuma moments before his assasination by ultranationalist Otoya Yamaguchi during a televised debate in Tokyo. October 12, 1960. Photo by Yasushi Nagao (who won the Pulitzer Prize for it.)
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2020.02.27 19:02 AshFuentes photo reference: 📸 Chef Yasushi Shiohara Franco.
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2019.05.12 13:20 MewMatic Dragon Gate just had their second biggest show of the year, Dead or Alive. Here is a guide to get into Dragon Gate now that a bunch of storylines just finished. Includes character profiles, clips, and an insight to their style.
This will be another attempt to get people's attention to Dragon Gate. I said this before but Dragon Gate is a hugely underrated company that was home for many wrestlers you all may know. Dragon Gate helped out so many wrestlers. This company was the home for many wrestlers like Ricochet, PAC, Jack Evans, Rich Swann, Apollo Crews, Matt Sydal, Johnny Gargano, Milano Collection A.T., Akira Tozawa, Shingo Takagi and Sami Zayn. Before they got big, Flamita and Bandido were a part of Dragon Gate trying to get a name for themselves.
You can watch Dragon Gate here: https://dragongate.live/
Get news here: http://iheartdg.com
And, just to be nice, PM me and I can explain other ways to watch Dragon Gate.
Unlike NJPW, AJPW, and BJW, Dragon Gate are mostly filled with guys under 210lbs. This leads to them having a fast-paced action that is heavily influenced by lucha-libre but still incorporates traditional Japanese fighting spirit type of wrestling. Here is an exchange between two stables, MaxiMuM and Over Generation.
Ultimately though, unlike the other aforementioned puroresu companies, Dragon Gate is much more light-hearted. There will be over the top gimmicks, comedy matches, dancing, and emphasis on fun. That is not to say that Dragon Gate won't have serious competition. When there's a championship match, it becomes as serious as you can get. But do not be surprised when sometimes they use ridiculous weapons during their matches, like giant plastic boxes, flour, really long rubber bands, and toy hammers.
What sets Dragon Gate apart from the other Japanese promotions is their stable system and how every person in the company is trained to know how to properly tag team wrestle. Since their creation, Dragon Gate has always had multiple stables going on at once. Here is the long history of Dragon Gate stables. Sometimes there will be faction warfare that has the entire stable fighting others and this could either lead into stipulations like the loser has to disband, winner steals a member, or loser has to kick someone out. Here's another highlight of what a stable vs. stable match would look like.
Also, this may be biased, but I believe Dragon Gate has the best theme songs in all of wrestling. Here's one of my favorites, Mad Blankey. This is PAC's and R.E.D.'s current theme, the guitar is amazing. And this is Natural Vibe's theme, it's just pure fun and awesome.
To summarize, there's always a tradition that there are a group of heels that just want to be complete assholes. They tend to always band together and cause havoc amongst the babyfaces. The babyfaces though, either team up or decide to make their own group. Each stable has a leader (sometimes co-leaders), a gimmick, a color, and logo. Some wrestlers choose to be unaffiliated for reasons one way or another. Currently, Dragon Gate has 6 stables, with a hinted 7th stable coming soon.
Let me break down the current storylines, explain the style and design of the titles, and then I will talk about the roster.
Dead or Alive is Dragon Gate's traditional PPV with the Dead or Alive Cage match as the main event. Usually has 5 or more wrestlers competing, with a stipulation attached to it. This year's stipulation is faction roster changes. 5 of the 6 stables were put in the cage match, with the winners of the match (those who grabbed the flag from the top of the cage) to choose to kick out a member of their faction or not. The one team that did not get the flag is forced to kick a member out.
This is what each table did:
-Natural Vibes chose to not change their roster.
-Mochizuki Dojo representative Shun Skywalker chose to kick himself out so that he can learn to create his own path.
-Tribe Vanguard chose to not change their roster.
-MaxiMuM representative Naruki Doi chose not to kick anyone out despite weeks of foreshadowing. He realized they needed each other and any bad blood their team had is now buried.
-R.E.D. representative Big R Shimizu lost, and now was forced to kick someone out. The weeks leading to the event hinted that he would remove Eita due to the two constantly arguing, but instead, he kicked out his longtime tag team partner Ben-K.
Now that the event is over, we are starting the King of Gate tournament. Think of this as Dragon Gate's G1 or Champion Carnival. There are 4 blocks, and in each block has 6 wrestlers. Round Robin rules, and the winner of each block face each other in a 4 man tournament. Winner of the whole thing becomes the next #1 contender for PAC's Dream Gate Championship.
Speaking of titles, Dragon Gate has 4 different championships:
-The Dream Gate championship, the main event title of the company. Currently being held by PAC.
-The Brave Gate championship, the mid card title that has a weight limit to it. Currently being held by Susumu Yokosuka.
-The Twin Gate championship, the tag team title, and is seen as the second most important belt in the company. Currently being held by Tribe Vanguard members YAMATO and KAI.
-The Triangle Gate championship, the 3-man title. Currently being held by R.E.D. members, Kazma Yamamoto, Takeshi Yoshida, and Yasushi Kanda.
If you have a title contention, you are awarded a key. The key represents your title contention, and if you win, you use the key to open up each title's gate and you can put your name, signifying that you are the champion. If you lose, the champion gets your key and wears it on his belt as a representation of his title defense. This is an example of how the key opens the title: https://www.voicesofwrestling.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/dream-gate-3.jpg
And this is what it looks like when the champion retains. https://www.voicesofwrestling.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/dream-gate-2.jpg
Now onto the wrestlers and stables. I'll start with the unaffiliated. I'll try to keep things short, but if you got any questions to feel free to ask.
Keisuke Okuda
Newest member of Dragon Gate. A freelancer, has an MMA background and style. Is old highschool friends with Ben-K and is hinting at starting a storyline with him.
Dragon Dia
Dragon Kid's protege. A young boy that you will see in the opening matches. Very basic wrestler, still trying to improve. He has a sick standing SSP though.
Hiroshi Yamato
Freelancer that loves to sing in the beginning of his matches. Usually used to just fill in for multi-men tag matches.
Shachiko Boy
Dragon Gate veteran that's mostly used for comedy matches and multi-men tag matches.
Stalker Ichikawa
The top comedy jobber of the company. He has no offense except doing kancho to all of his opponents. Never seen as a threat because he has absolutely no strength. A real treat to watch when you wanna have a good laugh. He just fails as doing wrestling moves.
Mondai Ryu/Problem Dragon
A heel wrestler that has since reformed and is trying to find his path in the company. Currently has no storyline, so you will usually see him in the openers.
Don Fuji
Long time Dragon Gate veteran that is still kicking ass. Think of him ass the grumpy uncle that will slap the taste out of your mouth if you piss him off. He's a former Dream Gate champion and will throw you off a balcony if he feels like it. His offense includes slaps, sumo throws, and chokeslam variations.
Gamma
The lovable but loud asshole of the company. He's a veteran that likes to cheat, spits water to piss off his opponents, and is not afraid to cheat to win. He announced he and Don will be in a stable soon but have since disappeared.
K-ness
Long time veteran that is just wrestling around in the undercard. Known to backstab people from his long history of being a heel, but has not done much of recent history. His finisher is the Hikari no Wa.
Ryo Saito
Former Dream Gate champion. A long time veteran that is currently messing around in the undercard. While comedy and silly, he has the experience to make some big wins here and there. His finisher is the SaiRyo Rocket.
Shun Skywalker
The top rookie for the past year. He defeated all of the other rookies in a tournament and has shown so much promise. He isn't afraid to be mean or seize the opportunity, like walking up to PAC and demanding a challenge for the belt despite only having a couple of years of experience. Right now wants to go solo to see what he can do outside of the shadows of his mentor, Mochizuki. Recently, he helped out former rival Ben-K from being attacked from R.E.D., so we will see where this is heading. His finisher is the Ashla
Ben-K
The big, strong heavyweight rookie of the roster. His former R.E.D. comrades betrayed him, and because of his times as a heel, he currently has no friends. But he promised he will get his revenge. He knows what he did in the past was wrong and doesn't expect fans to accept him, but he promises things are gonna change. His finisher is the Ben-K Bomb
Strong Machines
Really new so I'll put them all here. The far right is the original Super Strong Machine, and his son Strong Machine J, the one left to him, started wrestling and wanted to join Dragon Gate, where he feels like it suits his style better. He's teamed up with the two on the left. Strong Machine F and Strong Machine G. No idea who they are. Definitely not Don Fuji and Gamma.
Mochizuki Dojo
Okay. That is a really bad photo and I will not explain what is going on here because it'd be too confusing. But, this is a stable lead by former Dream Gate champion, Masaaki Mochizuki. Most of the rookies went to him to ask for help in training them, and ever since they started racking up more wins than normal. Unlike the other stables, members are free to leave and join any time and sometimes will face each other for training. Right now, their ace, Shun Skywalker left, and Mochizuki promised him that he will make a new student strong enough to defeat him. But that is honestly some tough love.
Kota Minoura
One of the newer rookies, with this being his first year of wrestling. He refuses to be disrespected and will fire back at any veterans if they do disrespect him. Right now he's the least successful person on the roster, but is still learning and getting better every day. He doesn't really have a finisher yet, but he has this creative roll up
Hyo Watanabe
HYO-KUN, has been a rookie trying to find his foot in the door for a while now. He works hard and is always trying to improve. Is was his idea to put this stable together and like his fellow teammates, dreams of becoming champion one day. His signature move is Saber
Yuki Yoshioka
Yuki is the more successful between the three rookies, now that Skywalker left. A hot head that will attack anyone that messes with his fellow stablemates. He has good fundamentals is the most polished member of the rookies. His signature move is his [Frog Splash][(https://twitter.com/DanIsAYeti/status/1065601243727441920)
Masaaki Mochizuki
Mochizuki is 3 time former Dream Gate champion. He is a stubborn old man that will stiff the hell out of you. He is badass, he sings his own theme song, he will kick you at every angle, and he is just the guy you do not want to make mad. His signature move to watch out for: Sankakugeri
Natural Vibes
Kzy left Tribe Vanguard after coming close to winning the Dream Gate belt. Realizing that he is no longer that comedy jobber people laughed at, he took a chance, left Tribe Vanguard, and wanted to make his own path. He was soon joined by veterans Genki Horiguchi, Susumu Yokosuka, comedy jobber Punchy Tominaga, and longtime friend "brother" YASSHI. They're rasta influenced dancers that like to do comedy spots more than the other stables but they can be serious when necessary. They're also something of a boy band.
"brother" YASSHI
A man who has been wrestling all over the Japanese industry. Been a heel most of his career, he even told Kzy that one day he might betray him, but until then Kzy trusts him. He is definitely the pot smoker of the team.
Punchy Tomingaga
The weakest link, comedy jobber of the group. He is a joke but can sometimes get those surprise wins for his team.
Genki Horiguchi
Known for his hair loss, Genki is a long time veteran for the company. He has multiple title reigns in the company, and has been one of the best tag team wrestler in the company. He had multiple partners before and has shown to always have a good match no matter who he is with or against. His signature moves are Beach Break and BACKSLIDE FROM HEAVEN
Susumu Yokosuka
The current Brave Gate champion and former two time Dream Gate champion. He's known for his hard-hitting lariats, top rope maneuvers, and multiple finishing moves. He's the old man of his group. He can't dance, but he is the biggest threat in his stable besides Kzy. His signature move is a tribute to Jumbo Tsuruta, Jumbo no Kachi and Yokosuka Cutter
Kzy
The leader of Natural Vibes. He was a comedy jobber for 10 years, but after almost beating Mochizuki for the Dream Gate title, he carved his own path. Now he is in the main event picture for the first time in his career. Despite being a goofball and has a dancing rapper gimmick, he can be a real threat. Known to hit with hard elbows and flash pins, Kzy is no pushover. His signature move is Impact
Tribe Vanguard
There is no updated photo that has all the members, so this will have to do for now. Anyways, the point of the group is supposed to be a bunch of wrestlers that are kind of outcasts. They have nowhere to belong but bounded together to support each other.
U-T
He's a frustrated rookie that feels like he has the most to prove amongst all of them. Everyone in his graduation class moved on to bigger and better things, but U-T has always been left behind. He joined Tribe as a way to prove himself that he can hang with the veterans and that he is better than the other rookies from MochiDojo. Known for his submission style of luchadore, his signature move is Bien Llave
KAI
One half of the Twin Gate champions. KAI joined as a freelancer that was just wrestling random single matches. He's more well known in Wrestle-1 and AJPW, but is now trying to make a name for himself in Dragon Gate. I can't find a clip of it, but his signature move is the Meteor Impact, which is a Samoan Driver.
Flamita
Flamita is one of the most exciting, internationally known luchadores today. He travels all around the world, showcasing his high flying and quick style. He barely shows up on Dragon Gate, but when he does he's here to help out his friends in Tribe Vanguard and bring a lot of excitement to any of his matches. His signature moves are his Phoenix Splash and El Retador
Yosuke Santa Maria
Maria is an exotico, meaning he is a crossdressing wrestler. Despite trying to kiss his opponents and pressing her butthole against her opponents, Maria is a former Brave Gate champion and can bring upset victories. Her signature move is Neraiuchi
KAGETORA
KAGETORA is probably the most creative wrestler in the roster. He is probably the most underrated person on the roster. He has gotten pushes in the past, but has proven many times that he can handle being in the spotlight. Still, he is one of the most exciting to watch with his hard strikes and original maneuvers. His signature move to watch out for: Gurumakakari
BxB Hulk
Known for his J-pop style looks, his never-ending hatred, and rivalry with Shingo Takagi, and his fancy kicks, BxB Hulk is a resilient, longtime member of the Dragon Gate roster. He is rumored to retire this year after his title reign because years of injury problems have starting to take a toll on him. Still, he also said he will go on for a long time so we will see. His signature move to watch out for: Final Flash
YAMATO
Arguably the current ace of the company. He is the leader of Tribe Vanguard. He has tied with Shingo Takagi and Masato Yoshino with the most title reigns as Dream Gate champion, and he has the most reigns as Twin Gate champion with 8 different reigns. Well known for his good, handsome looks and long bangs YAMATO is one of the toughest members of the Dragon Gate roster. He has a well-rounded style of being able to do anything. He can drop you on your head, pin you with his deadly unpredictable Frankensteiner of the Almighty, or put you to sleep with his sleeper holds. His signature move to watch out for: Gallaria
MaxiMuM
Recently just reconciled their difference with each other, MaxiMuM is the sorta tweener faction in the company. Lead by Dragon Gate's most famous tag team, Naruki Doi and Masato Yoshino, they wanted to make the top stable by recruiting a team of upstart guys. Initially had Kotoka, Ben-K and Big R. Shimizu, but they all left leaving MaxiMuM in shambles. But now, they recently recruited Dragon Kid, Kaito Ishida, and Jason Lee to help make them an all balanced strong team. In terms of tag team action and speed, this is the group that excels at it the most.
Jason Lee
Jason Lee on the right, you may remember him from partaking in WWE's Cruiserweight Classic. Using an array of martial arts style attacks combined with high flying action, Jason Lee is an exciting wrestler to watch especially in tag team action. Sorry, I actually am not sure what's his signature move is as I don't I seen a match where he scored the pinfall yet. So have this cool clip of him fighting R.ED. by himself.
Kaito Ishida
Is a kickboy. He likes to kick, a lot. His best friend, Takehiro Yamamura was always seen as the HBK between the two and since he left to OWE, he has been trying to show that he was just as good. He's been scoring some good pin falls against the upper mid carders, and is hoping that one day he can finally win a title in the company. His signature move to watch out for: Tiger Suplex
Dragon Kid
Dragon Kid is one of the most famous wrestlers on Dragon Gate. The former Brave Gate champion, he is smooth, quick, agile, and one of the more experienced wrestlers on the roster. Honestly, think of him as the Japanese Rey Mysterio. He is well known for his Dragonrana but his current finisher is Bible.
Naruki Doi
Naruki Doi, despite how he looks, is pretty damn strong. He has a tendency of backstabbing tag team partners, but this year proved that he is trustworthy and plans to lead MaxiMuM for a long time. He is kind of the lovable asshole of the roster. His signature move to watch out for: Doi 555 into Bakatare Sliding Kick
Masato Yoshino
The speed star, the fastest wrestler on the planet, and one of the most successful wrestlers in the company. He out speeds his opponents, puts them into difficult submission holds, and is very capable of singles competition or tag team. He has done everything there is to do in the company. His signature move is Sol Naciente
R.E.D.
The top heel faction in the company. They cheat, they outnumber opponents, they take shortcuts, and they a monstrous force to reckon with.
Daga
Whenever available, Daga will tour with Dragon Gate aligned with R.E.D. Unlike most other luchadores, he has a more puroresu style. He does a lot of stiff strikes, submissions, and a plethora of different grappling moves. One of his signature moves is his Bloody Sunday.
Kazma Sakamoto
If you remember Mr. Sakamoto from WWE, Lord Tensai's manager, that's him. He's come to Dragon Gate to aid Eita in his reign to create havoc in Dragon Gate. So far, has been picking up really important wins like capturing the Triangle Gate titles for his faction. His finisher is a One Armed Package Piledriver
*Yasushi Kanda
Kanda is a man who does not care about anyone but his own benefit. He is the man that introduced the dastardly box, a weapon that heel factions constantly use in Dragon Gate to get the upper hand. He cheats, he finds the easy way out, he will kick you in the balls, and he will scratch your eyes, shout out JOHN WOO and JOHN WOO Kick you. I can't find a clip, but his signature move is Ryu's, which is basically Christopher Daniels' Angel's Wings.
Takashi Yoshida
The big dumb brute of the faction. Arguably the strongest wrestler in the company, he excels at having exciting tag team matches. Like Kanda, he cheats a lot. His signature move is Pineapple Bomber
Big R. Shimizu
The youngest member of the group. He showed so much promise, but ever since he became a heel he started being an arrogant asshole to everyone around him. He is as sleazy as he looks. Despite that, he is very quick, strong, and durable. More than his stablemates, he probably likes to talk the most trash. His signature move is the Shot-put Slam
Eita
The leader of the group. After spending a long time as face, he got tired of being nice and respectful to others. He especially hates his former mentor, Dragon Kid. Known for his submission style, super hard chops (earning him the moniker King of Chop), and heel tactics, Eita is the number one asshole of Dragon Gate. His signature move is Numero Uno and Salamander
PAC
He needs no introduction. He is your Dream Gate champion. This bastard has been wreaking havoc in Dragon Gate, defeating anyone who gets in his way. He wanted to prove to the company that he is no longer the young boy that left to WWE, but he is now the man that is here to take over and conquer it. He takes on all challengers, is less likely to use his stable to gain an advantage, and has shown that he is the top talent in Dragon Gate. You all know his Black Arrow but he has been using the Jumping Tombstone Piledriver.
I hope this gives a good insight into Dragon Gate. If anyone has any questions, please feel free to ask me. Thank you for reading!
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Unlike NJPW, AJPW, and BJW, Dragon Gate are mostly filled with guys under 210lbs. This leads to them having a fast-paced action that is heavily influenced by lucha-libre but still incorporates traditional Japanese fighting spirit type of wrestling. Here is an exchange between two stables, MaxiMuM and Over Generation.
Ultimately though, unlike the other aforementioned puroresu companies, Dragon Gate is much more light-hearted. There will be over the top gimmicks, comedy matches, dancing, and emphasis on fun. That is not to say that Dragon Gate won't have serious competition. When there's a championship match, it becomes as serious as you can get. But do not be surprised when sometimes they use ridiculous weapons during their matches, like giant plastic boxes, flour, really long rubber bands, and toy hammers.
What sets Dragon Gate apart from the other Japanese promotions is their stable system and how every person in the company is trained to know how to properly tag team wrestle. Since their creation, Dragon Gate has always had multiple stables going on at once. Here is the long history of Dragon Gate stables. Sometimes there will be faction warfare that has the entire stable fighting others and this could either lead into stipulations like the loser has to disband, winner steals a member, or loser has to kick someone out. Here's another highlight of what a stable vs. stable match would look like.
Also, this may be biased, but I believe Dragon Gate has the best theme songs in all of wrestling. Here's one of my favorites, Mad Blankey. This is PAC's and R.E.D.'s current theme, the guitar is amazing. And this is Natural Vibe's theme, it's just pure fun and awesome.
To summarize, there's always a tradition that there are a group of heels that just want to be complete assholes. They tend to always band together and cause havoc amongst the babyfaces. The babyfaces though, either team up or decide to make their own group. Each stable has a leader (sometimes co-leaders), a gimmick, a color, and logo. Some wrestlers choose to be unaffiliated for reasons one way or another. Currently, Dragon Gate has 6 stables, with a hinted 7th stable coming soon.
Let me break down the current storylines, explain the style and design of the titles, and then I will talk about the roster.
Dead or Alive is Dragon Gate's traditional PPV with the Dead or Alive Cage match as the main event. Usually has 5 or more wrestlers competing, with a stipulation attached to it. This year's stipulation is faction roster changes. 5 of the 6 stables were put in the cage match, with the winners of the match (those who grabbed the flag from the top of the cage) to choose to kick out a member of their faction or not. The one team that did not get the flag is forced to kick a member out.
This is what each table did:
-Natural Vibes chose to not change their roster.
-Mochizuki Dojo representative Shun Skywalker chose to kick himself out so that he can learn to create his own path.
-Tribe Vanguard chose to not change their roster.
-MaxiMuM representative Naruki Doi chose not to kick anyone out despite weeks of foreshadowing. He realized they needed each other and any bad blood their team had is now buried.
-R.E.D. representative Big R Shimizu lost, and now was forced to kick someone out. The weeks leading to the event hinted that he would remove Eita due to the two constantly arguing, but instead, he kicked out his longtime tag team partner Ben-K.
Now that the event is over, we are starting the King of Gate tournament. Think of this as Dragon Gate's G1 or Champion Carnival. There are 4 blocks, and in each block has 6 wrestlers. Round Robin rules, and the winner of each block face each other in a 4 man tournament. Winner of the whole thing becomes the next #1 contender for PAC's Dream Gate Championship.
Speaking of titles, Dragon Gate has 4 different championships:
-The Dream Gate championship, the main event title of the company. Currently being held by PAC.
-The Brave Gate championship, the mid card title that has a weight limit to it. Currently being held by Susumu Yokosuka.
-The Twin Gate championship, the tag team title, and is seen as the second most important belt in the company. Currently being held by Tribe Vanguard members YAMATO and KAI.
-The Triangle Gate championship, the 3-man title. Currently being held by R.E.D. members, Kazma Yamamoto, Takeshi Yoshida, and Yasushi Kanda.
If you have a title contention, you are awarded a key. The key represents your title contention, and if you win, you use the key to open up each title's gate and you can put your name, signifying that you are the champion. If you lose, the champion gets your key and wears it on his belt as a representation of his title defense. This is an example of how the key opens the title: https://www.voicesofwrestling.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/dream-gate-3.jpg
And this is what it looks like when the champion retains. https://www.voicesofwrestling.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/dream-gate-2.jpg
Now onto the wrestlers and stables. I'll start with the unaffiliated. I'll try to keep things short, but if you got any questions to feel free to ask.
Keisuke Okuda
Newest member of Dragon Gate. A freelancer, has an MMA background and style. Is old highschool friends with Ben-K and is hinting at starting a storyline with him.
Dragon Dia
Dragon Kid's protege. A young boy that you will see in the opening matches. Very basic wrestler, still trying to improve. He has a sick standing SSP though.
Hiroshi Yamato
Freelancer that loves to sing in the beginning of his matches. Usually used to just fill in for multi-men tag matches.
Shachiko Boy
Dragon Gate veteran that's mostly used for comedy matches and multi-men tag matches.
Stalker Ichikawa
The top comedy jobber of the company. He has no offense except doing kancho to all of his opponents. Never seen as a threat because he has absolutely no strength. A real treat to watch when you wanna have a good laugh. He just fails as doing wrestling moves.
Mondai Ryu/Problem Dragon
A heel wrestler that has since reformed and is trying to find his path in the company. Currently has no storyline, so you will usually see him in the openers.
Don Fuji
Long time Dragon Gate veteran that is still kicking ass. Think of him ass the grumpy uncle that will slap the taste out of your mouth if you piss him off. He's a former Dream Gate champion and will throw you off a balcony if he feels like it. His offense includes slaps, sumo throws, and chokeslam variations.
Gamma
The lovable but loud asshole of the company. He's a veteran that likes to cheat, spits water to piss off his opponents, and is not afraid to cheat to win. He announced he and Don will be in a stable soon but have since disappeared.
K-ness
Long time veteran that is just wrestling around in the undercard. Known to backstab people from his long history of being a heel, but has not done much of recent history. His finisher is the Hikari no Wa.
Ryo Saito
Former Dream Gate champion. A long time veteran that is currently messing around in the undercard. While comedy and silly, he has the experience to make some big wins here and there. His finisher is the SaiRyo Rocket.
Shun Skywalker
The top rookie for the past year. He defeated all of the other rookies in a tournament and has shown so much promise. He isn't afraid to be mean or seize the opportunity, like walking up to PAC and demanding a challenge for the belt despite only having a couple of years of experience. Right now wants to go solo to see what he can do outside of the shadows of his mentor, Mochizuki. Recently, he helped out former rival Ben-K from being attacked from R.E.D., so we will see where this is heading. His finisher is the Ashla
Ben-K
The big, strong heavyweight rookie of the roster. His former R.E.D. comrades betrayed him, and because of his times as a heel, he currently has no friends. But he promised he will get his revenge. He knows what he did in the past was wrong and doesn't expect fans to accept him, but he promises things are gonna change. His finisher is the Ben-K Bomb
Strong Machines
Really new so I'll put them all here. The far right is the original Super Strong Machine, and his son Strong Machine J, the one left to him, started wrestling and wanted to join Dragon Gate, where he feels like it suits his style better. He's teamed up with the two on the left. Strong Machine F and Strong Machine G. No idea who they are. Definitely not Don Fuji and Gamma.
Mochizuki Dojo
Okay. That is a really bad photo and I will not explain what is going on here because it'd be too confusing. But, this is a stable lead by former Dream Gate champion, Masaaki Mochizuki. Most of the rookies went to him to ask for help in training them, and ever since they started racking up more wins than normal. Unlike the other stables, members are free to leave and join any time and sometimes will face each other for training. Right now, their ace, Shun Skywalker left, and Mochizuki promised him that he will make a new student strong enough to defeat him. But that is honestly some tough love.
Kota Minoura
One of the newer rookies, with this being his first year of wrestling. He refuses to be disrespected and will fire back at any veterans if they do disrespect him. Right now he's the least successful person on the roster, but is still learning and getting better every day. He doesn't really have a finisher yet, but he has this creative roll up
Hyo Watanabe
HYO-KUN, has been a rookie trying to find his foot in the door for a while now. He works hard and is always trying to improve. Is was his idea to put this stable together and like his fellow teammates, dreams of becoming champion one day. His signature move is Saber
Yuki Yoshioka
Yuki is the more successful between the three rookies, now that Skywalker left. A hot head that will attack anyone that messes with his fellow stablemates. He has good fundamentals is the most polished member of the rookies. His signature move is his [Frog Splash][(https://twitter.com/DanIsAYeti/status/1065601243727441920)
Masaaki Mochizuki
Mochizuki is 3 time former Dream Gate champion. He is a stubborn old man that will stiff the hell out of you. He is badass, he sings his own theme song, he will kick you at every angle, and he is just the guy you do not want to make mad. His signature move to watch out for: Sankakugeri
Natural Vibes
Kzy left Tribe Vanguard after coming close to winning the Dream Gate belt. Realizing that he is no longer that comedy jobber people laughed at, he took a chance, left Tribe Vanguard, and wanted to make his own path. He was soon joined by veterans Genki Horiguchi, Susumu Yokosuka, comedy jobber Punchy Tominaga, and longtime friend "brother" YASSHI. They're rasta influenced dancers that like to do comedy spots more than the other stables but they can be serious when necessary. They're also something of a boy band.
"brother" YASSHI
A man who has been wrestling all over the Japanese industry. Been a heel most of his career, he even told Kzy that one day he might betray him, but until then Kzy trusts him. He is definitely the pot smoker of the team.
Punchy Tomingaga
The weakest link, comedy jobber of the group. He is a joke but can sometimes get those surprise wins for his team.
Genki Horiguchi
Known for his hair loss, Genki is a long time veteran for the company. He has multiple title reigns in the company, and has been one of the best tag team wrestler in the company. He had multiple partners before and has shown to always have a good match no matter who he is with or against. His signature moves are Beach Break and BACKSLIDE FROM HEAVEN
Susumu Yokosuka
The current Brave Gate champion and former two time Dream Gate champion. He's known for his hard-hitting lariats, top rope maneuvers, and multiple finishing moves. He's the old man of his group. He can't dance, but he is the biggest threat in his stable besides Kzy. His signature move is a tribute to Jumbo Tsuruta, Jumbo no Kachi and Yokosuka Cutter
Kzy
The leader of Natural Vibes. He was a comedy jobber for 10 years, but after almost beating Mochizuki for the Dream Gate title, he carved his own path. Now he is in the main event picture for the first time in his career. Despite being a goofball and has a dancing rapper gimmick, he can be a real threat. Known to hit with hard elbows and flash pins, Kzy is no pushover. His signature move is Impact
Tribe Vanguard
There is no updated photo that has all the members, so this will have to do for now. Anyways, the point of the group is supposed to be a bunch of wrestlers that are kind of outcasts. They have nowhere to belong but bounded together to support each other.
U-T
He's a frustrated rookie that feels like he has the most to prove amongst all of them. Everyone in his graduation class moved on to bigger and better things, but U-T has always been left behind. He joined Tribe as a way to prove himself that he can hang with the veterans and that he is better than the other rookies from MochiDojo. Known for his submission style of luchadore, his signature move is Bien Llave
KAI
One half of the Twin Gate champions. KAI joined as a freelancer that was just wrestling random single matches. He's more well known in Wrestle-1 and AJPW, but is now trying to make a name for himself in Dragon Gate. I can't find a clip of it, but his signature move is the Meteor Impact, which is a Samoan Driver.
Flamita
Flamita is one of the most exciting, internationally known luchadores today. He travels all around the world, showcasing his high flying and quick style. He barely shows up on Dragon Gate, but when he does he's here to help out his friends in Tribe Vanguard and bring a lot of excitement to any of his matches. His signature moves are his Phoenix Splash and El Retador
Yosuke Santa Maria
Maria is an exotico, meaning he is a crossdressing wrestler. Despite trying to kiss his opponents and pressing her butthole against her opponents, Maria is a former Brave Gate champion and can bring upset victories. Her signature move is Neraiuchi
KAGETORA
KAGETORA is probably the most creative wrestler in the roster. He is probably the most underrated person on the roster. He has gotten pushes in the past, but has proven many times that he can handle being in the spotlight. Still, he is one of the most exciting to watch with his hard strikes and original maneuvers. His signature move to watch out for: Gurumakakari
BxB Hulk
Known for his J-pop style looks, his never-ending hatred, and rivalry with Shingo Takagi, and his fancy kicks, BxB Hulk is a resilient, longtime member of the Dragon Gate roster. He is rumored to retire this year after his title reign because years of injury problems have starting to take a toll on him. Still, he also said he will go on for a long time so we will see. His signature move to watch out for: Final Flash
YAMATO
Arguably the current ace of the company. He is the leader of Tribe Vanguard. He has tied with Shingo Takagi and Masato Yoshino with the most title reigns as Dream Gate champion, and he has the most reigns as Twin Gate champion with 8 different reigns. Well known for his good, handsome looks and long bangs YAMATO is one of the toughest members of the Dragon Gate roster. He has a well-rounded style of being able to do anything. He can drop you on your head, pin you with his deadly unpredictable Frankensteiner of the Almighty, or put you to sleep with his sleeper holds. His signature move to watch out for: Gallaria
MaxiMuM
Recently just reconciled their difference with each other, MaxiMuM is the sorta tweener faction in the company. Lead by Dragon Gate's most famous tag team, Naruki Doi and Masato Yoshino, they wanted to make the top stable by recruiting a team of upstart guys. Initially had Kotoka, Ben-K and Big R. Shimizu, but they all left leaving MaxiMuM in shambles. But now, they recently recruited Dragon Kid, Kaito Ishida, and Jason Lee to help make them an all balanced strong team. In terms of tag team action and speed, this is the group that excels at it the most.
Jason Lee
Jason Lee on the right, you may remember him from partaking in WWE's Cruiserweight Classic. Using an array of martial arts style attacks combined with high flying action, Jason Lee is an exciting wrestler to watch especially in tag team action. Sorry, I actually am not sure what's his signature move is as I don't I seen a match where he scored the pinfall yet. So have this cool clip of him fighting R.ED. by himself.
Kaito Ishida
Is a kickboy. He likes to kick, a lot. His best friend, Takehiro Yamamura was always seen as the HBK between the two and since he left to OWE, he has been trying to show that he was just as good. He's been scoring some good pin falls against the upper mid carders, and is hoping that one day he can finally win a title in the company. His signature move to watch out for: Tiger Suplex
Dragon Kid
Dragon Kid is one of the most famous wrestlers on Dragon Gate. The former Brave Gate champion, he is smooth, quick, agile, and one of the more experienced wrestlers on the roster. Honestly, think of him as the Japanese Rey Mysterio. He is well known for his Dragonrana but his current finisher is Bible.
Naruki Doi
Naruki Doi, despite how he looks, is pretty damn strong. He has a tendency of backstabbing tag team partners, but this year proved that he is trustworthy and plans to lead MaxiMuM for a long time. He is kind of the lovable asshole of the roster. His signature move to watch out for: Doi 555 into Bakatare Sliding Kick
Masato Yoshino
The speed star, the fastest wrestler on the planet, and one of the most successful wrestlers in the company. He out speeds his opponents, puts them into difficult submission holds, and is very capable of singles competition or tag team. He has done everything there is to do in the company. His signature move is Sol Naciente
R.E.D.
The top heel faction in the company. They cheat, they outnumber opponents, they take shortcuts, and they a monstrous force to reckon with.
Daga
Whenever available, Daga will tour with Dragon Gate aligned with R.E.D. Unlike most other luchadores, he has a more puroresu style. He does a lot of stiff strikes, submissions, and a plethora of different grappling moves. One of his signature moves is his Bloody Sunday.
Kazma Sakamoto
If you remember Mr. Sakamoto from WWE, Lord Tensai's manager, that's him. He's come to Dragon Gate to aid Eita in his reign to create havoc in Dragon Gate. So far, has been picking up really important wins like capturing the Triangle Gate titles for his faction. His finisher is a One Armed Package Piledriver
*Yasushi Kanda
Kanda is a man who does not care about anyone but his own benefit. He is the man that introduced the dastardly box, a weapon that heel factions constantly use in Dragon Gate to get the upper hand. He cheats, he finds the easy way out, he will kick you in the balls, and he will scratch your eyes, shout out JOHN WOO and JOHN WOO Kick you. I can't find a clip, but his signature move is Ryu's, which is basically Christopher Daniels' Angel's Wings.
Takashi Yoshida
The big dumb brute of the faction. Arguably the strongest wrestler in the company, he excels at having exciting tag team matches. Like Kanda, he cheats a lot. His signature move is Pineapple Bomber
Big R. Shimizu
The youngest member of the group. He showed so much promise, but ever since he became a heel he started being an arrogant asshole to everyone around him. He is as sleazy as he looks. Despite that, he is very quick, strong, and durable. More than his stablemates, he probably likes to talk the most trash. His signature move is the Shot-put Slam
Eita
The leader of the group. After spending a long time as face, he got tired of being nice and respectful to others. He especially hates his former mentor, Dragon Kid. Known for his submission style, super hard chops (earning him the moniker King of Chop), and heel tactics, Eita is the number one asshole of Dragon Gate. His signature move is Numero Uno and Salamander
PAC
He needs no introduction. He is your Dream Gate champion. This bastard has been wreaking havoc in Dragon Gate, defeating anyone who gets in his way. He wanted to prove to the company that he is no longer the young boy that left to WWE, but he is now the man that is here to take over and conquer it. He takes on all challengers, is less likely to use his stable to gain an advantage, and has shown that he is the top talent in Dragon Gate. You all know his Black Arrow but he has been using the Jumping Tombstone Piledriver.
I hope this gives a good insight into Dragon Gate. If anyone has any questions, please feel free to ask me. Thank you for reading!
2019.02.19 01:56 peterboykin As medical costs mount, Japan to weigh cost-effectiveness in setting drug prices
FILE PHOTO: A staff member of the National Cancer Center Hospital shows the immune system-boosting cancer drug Opdivo during a photo opportunity at the hospital in Tokyo, Japan December 26, 2018.REUTERS/Kim Kyung-HoonFebruary 18, 2019
By Takashi Umekawa
TOKYO (Reuters) – Japanese doctor Yasushi Goto remembers prescribing the cancer drug Opdivo to an octogenarian and wondering whether taxpayers might object to helping fund treatment, which at the time cost hundreds of thousands of dollars, for patients in their twilight years.
Japanese have easy access to new medicines, whose prices are decided by the government and subsidized by the country’s public health insurance system.
But that may change. Japan, confronted with the ballooning cost of caring for an aging population, is introducing a cost-effectiveness test for drugs as a means of capping prices.
There are no plans to deny care for patients of any age. But limiting the prices of innovative but costly treatments might chase new drugs out of the $86 billion Japanese market, drugmakers say.
“If you ask whether it’s worth prescribing an 85-year-old patient Opdivo, a lot of people will say no. But patients and family members are going to say yes,” said Goto, who works at the National Cancer Centre Hospital.
Patients also fear more drastic changes, such as denying access to new medicines; Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s economic council in December proposed considering cost in determining whether to approve treatments.
“For cancer patients like us, it’s not acceptable if the government applies a cost-effective analysis in determining whether to approve treatments,” said Yoshiyuki Majima, a director of patient advocacy group Rare Cancers Japan.
SUSTAINABILITY OR ACCESS
The Japanese government estimates that public medical spending could surge 75 percent to 68.5 trillion yen ($624 billion) by 2040.
“It is obvious that Japan will face difficulties in providing social security service,” said a government official involved in the discussions, declining to be named because he is not authorized to speak to media. “The cost-effectiveness analysis is a means to secure sustainability.”
The system that will be adopted in April, according to a draft published on the health ministry’s website, compares the cost to the effectiveness of new treatments using an “incremental cost-effectiveness ratio,” or ICER.
ICER, already used in countries such as Britain, considers how much it costs to give a patient one additional year of healthy life compared with existing alternatives. If that exceeds 5 million yen, for example, the government may insist on a lower price, according the policy draft.
There has been little public discussion; weekly meetings so far have involved mostly Health Ministry officials, doctors, academics and drugmaker executives.
“If I have rheumatoid arthritis and I can’t write or type, but then I get a treatment that enables me to go back to work, pay taxes, and take care of my family, that benefit is not going to be captured by the ICER,” said Kevin Haninger, a vice president of Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America, a lobbying group.
In an interview with Reuters, he insisted Japan should carefully consider an impact on the industry when introducing such analysis to reduce drug prices.
“If Japan is going to cut prices so much, I think Japan will really run a risk of losing its current position,” he said.
LUCRATIVE MARKET NO MORE?
Drugmakers have been complaining about price cuts since 2017, when the government decided to review costs more frequently.
Japan has slashed the price of Opdivo, developed by Ono Pharmaceutical Co Ltd and Bristol-Myers Squibb, by more than 75 percent in the last two years. It has also lowered Gilead Science’s hepatitis C drug Sovaldi by 32 percent since 2016.
But while drugmakers threaten to pull back from Japan, the government is prepared to call the industry’s bluff, saying Japan is too lucrative a market for companies to ignore, according to two government officials, who declined to be named because they are not authorized to speak to the media.
Unlike the United States, where insurers may deny claims, or the UK, where patients can be denied costly drugs, Japan is seen as a relatively predictable market because of its social insurance system.
For example, Novartis’ Kymriah, a type of therapy in which a patient’s T-cells are modified to attack cancer cells, is expected to be approved in Japan this year.
The price for pediatric leukemia patients, to be set by a government panel after approval, is expected to start at about $475,000, similar to U.S. prices. With an estimated 250 Japanese eligible for treatment with Kymriah, sales in Japan are a potentially lucrative addition to Novartis’ bottom line.
Novartis declined to comment on potential effects of a new pricing policy.
Goto said the government should focus on reducing prescriptions for illnesses that are not serious, rather than costly but possibly life-saving treatments for a small number of patients.
“Flu medicines, for example, can be seen to have very low cost-effectiveness because they don’t save people’s lives, except those of infants or pregnant women, compared with cancer drugs that are critical for some patients,” he said.
(Reporting by Takashi Umekawa; Editing by Ritsuko Ando and Gerry Doyle)
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By Takashi Umekawa
TOKYO (Reuters) – Japanese doctor Yasushi Goto remembers prescribing the cancer drug Opdivo to an octogenarian and wondering whether taxpayers might object to helping fund treatment, which at the time cost hundreds of thousands of dollars, for patients in their twilight years.
Japanese have easy access to new medicines, whose prices are decided by the government and subsidized by the country’s public health insurance system.
But that may change. Japan, confronted with the ballooning cost of caring for an aging population, is introducing a cost-effectiveness test for drugs as a means of capping prices.
There are no plans to deny care for patients of any age. But limiting the prices of innovative but costly treatments might chase new drugs out of the $86 billion Japanese market, drugmakers say.
“If you ask whether it’s worth prescribing an 85-year-old patient Opdivo, a lot of people will say no. But patients and family members are going to say yes,” said Goto, who works at the National Cancer Centre Hospital.
Patients also fear more drastic changes, such as denying access to new medicines; Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s economic council in December proposed considering cost in determining whether to approve treatments.
“For cancer patients like us, it’s not acceptable if the government applies a cost-effective analysis in determining whether to approve treatments,” said Yoshiyuki Majima, a director of patient advocacy group Rare Cancers Japan.
SUSTAINABILITY OR ACCESS
The Japanese government estimates that public medical spending could surge 75 percent to 68.5 trillion yen ($624 billion) by 2040.
“It is obvious that Japan will face difficulties in providing social security service,” said a government official involved in the discussions, declining to be named because he is not authorized to speak to media. “The cost-effectiveness analysis is a means to secure sustainability.”
The system that will be adopted in April, according to a draft published on the health ministry’s website, compares the cost to the effectiveness of new treatments using an “incremental cost-effectiveness ratio,” or ICER.
ICER, already used in countries such as Britain, considers how much it costs to give a patient one additional year of healthy life compared with existing alternatives. If that exceeds 5 million yen, for example, the government may insist on a lower price, according the policy draft.
There has been little public discussion; weekly meetings so far have involved mostly Health Ministry officials, doctors, academics and drugmaker executives.
“If I have rheumatoid arthritis and I can’t write or type, but then I get a treatment that enables me to go back to work, pay taxes, and take care of my family, that benefit is not going to be captured by the ICER,” said Kevin Haninger, a vice president of Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America, a lobbying group.
In an interview with Reuters, he insisted Japan should carefully consider an impact on the industry when introducing such analysis to reduce drug prices.
“If Japan is going to cut prices so much, I think Japan will really run a risk of losing its current position,” he said.
LUCRATIVE MARKET NO MORE?
Drugmakers have been complaining about price cuts since 2017, when the government decided to review costs more frequently.
Japan has slashed the price of Opdivo, developed by Ono Pharmaceutical Co Ltd and Bristol-Myers Squibb, by more than 75 percent in the last two years. It has also lowered Gilead Science’s hepatitis C drug Sovaldi by 32 percent since 2016.
But while drugmakers threaten to pull back from Japan, the government is prepared to call the industry’s bluff, saying Japan is too lucrative a market for companies to ignore, according to two government officials, who declined to be named because they are not authorized to speak to the media.
Unlike the United States, where insurers may deny claims, or the UK, where patients can be denied costly drugs, Japan is seen as a relatively predictable market because of its social insurance system.
For example, Novartis’ Kymriah, a type of therapy in which a patient’s T-cells are modified to attack cancer cells, is expected to be approved in Japan this year.
The price for pediatric leukemia patients, to be set by a government panel after approval, is expected to start at about $475,000, similar to U.S. prices. With an estimated 250 Japanese eligible for treatment with Kymriah, sales in Japan are a potentially lucrative addition to Novartis’ bottom line.
Novartis declined to comment on potential effects of a new pricing policy.
Goto said the government should focus on reducing prescriptions for illnesses that are not serious, rather than costly but possibly life-saving treatments for a small number of patients.
“Flu medicines, for example, can be seen to have very low cost-effectiveness because they don’t save people’s lives, except those of infants or pregnant women, compared with cancer drugs that are critical for some patients,” he said.
(Reporting by Takashi Umekawa; Editing by Ritsuko Ando and Gerry Doyle)
Source: OANN
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FILE PHOTO: A staff member of the National Cancer Center Hospital shows the immune system-boosting cancer drug Opdivo during a photo opportunity at the hospital in Tokyo, Japan December 26, 2018.REUTERS/Kim Kyung-HoonFebruary 18, 2019
By Takashi Umekawa
TOKYO (Reuters) – Japanese doctor Yasushi Goto remembers prescribing the cancer drug Opdivo to an octogenarian and wondering whether taxpayers might object to helping fund treatment, which at the time cost hundreds of thousands of dollars, for patients in their twilight years.
Japanese have easy access to new medicines, whose prices are decided by the government and subsidized by the country’s public health insurance system.
But that may change. Japan, confronted with the ballooning cost of caring for an aging population, is introducing a cost-effectiveness test for drugs as a means of capping prices.
There are no plans to deny care for patients of any age. But limiting the prices of innovative but costly treatments might chase new drugs out of the $86 billion Japanese market, drugmakers say.
“If you ask whether it’s worth prescribing an 85-year-old patient Opdivo, a lot of people will say no. But patients and family members are going to say yes,” said Goto, who works at the National Cancer Centre Hospital.
Patients also fear more drastic changes, such as denying access to new medicines; Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s economic council in December proposed considering cost in determining whether to approve treatments.
“For cancer patients like us, it’s not acceptable if the government applies a cost-effective analysis in determining whether to approve treatments,” said Yoshiyuki Majima, a director of patient advocacy group Rare Cancers Japan.
SUSTAINABILITY OR ACCESS
The Japanese government estimates that public medical spending could surge 75 percent to 68.5 trillion yen ($624 billion) by 2040.
“It is obvious that Japan will face difficulties in providing social security service,” said a government official involved in the discussions, declining to be named because he is not authorized to speak to media. “The cost-effectiveness analysis is a means to secure sustainability.”
The system that will be adopted in April, according to a draft published on the health ministry’s website, compares the cost to the effectiveness of new treatments using an “incremental cost-effectiveness ratio,” or ICER.
ICER, already used in countries such as Britain, considers how much it costs to give a patient one additional year of healthy life compared with existing alternatives. If that exceeds 5 million yen, for example, the government may insist on a lower price, according the policy draft.
There has been little public discussion; weekly meetings so far have involved mostly Health Ministry officials, doctors, academics and drugmaker executives.
“If I have rheumatoid arthritis and I can’t write or type, but then I get a treatment that enables me to go back to work, pay taxes, and take care of my family, that benefit is not going to be captured by the ICER,” said Kevin Haninger, a vice president of Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America, a lobbying group.
In an interview with Reuters, he insisted Japan should carefully consider an impact on the industry when introducing such analysis to reduce drug prices.
“If Japan is going to cut prices so much, I think Japan will really run a risk of losing its current position,” he said.
LUCRATIVE MARKET NO MORE?
Drugmakers have been complaining about price cuts since 2017, when the government decided to review costs more frequently.
Japan has slashed the price of Opdivo, developed by Ono Pharmaceutical Co Ltd and Bristol-Myers Squibb, by more than 75 percent in the last two years. It has also lowered Gilead Science’s hepatitis C drug Sovaldi by 32 percent since 2016.
But while drugmakers threaten to pull back from Japan, the government is prepared to call the industry’s bluff, saying Japan is too lucrative a market for companies to ignore, according to two government officials, who declined to be named because they are not authorized to speak to the media.
Unlike the United States, where insurers may deny claims, or the UK, where patients can be denied costly drugs, Japan is seen as a relatively predictable market because of its social insurance system.
For example, Novartis’ Kymriah, a type of therapy in which a patient’s T-cells are modified to attack cancer cells, is expected to be approved in Japan this year.
The price for pediatric leukemia patients, to be set by a government panel after approval, is expected to start at about $475,000, similar to U.S. prices. With an estimated 250 Japanese eligible for treatment with Kymriah, sales in Japan are a potentially lucrative addition to Novartis’ bottom line.
Novartis declined to comment on potential effects of a new pricing policy.
Goto said the government should focus on reducing prescriptions for illnesses that are not serious, rather than costly but possibly life-saving treatments for a small number of patients.
“Flu medicines, for example, can be seen to have very low cost-effectiveness because they don’t save people’s lives, except those of infants or pregnant women, compared with cancer drugs that are critical for some patients,” he said.
(Reporting by Takashi Umekawa; Editing by Ritsuko Ando and Gerry Doyle)
Source: OANN
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By Takashi Umekawa
TOKYO (Reuters) – Japanese doctor Yasushi Goto remembers prescribing the cancer drug Opdivo to an octogenarian and wondering whether taxpayers might object to helping fund treatment, which at the time cost hundreds of thousands of dollars, for patients in their twilight years.
Japanese have easy access to new medicines, whose prices are decided by the government and subsidized by the country’s public health insurance system.
But that may change. Japan, confronted with the ballooning cost of caring for an aging population, is introducing a cost-effectiveness test for drugs as a means of capping prices.
There are no plans to deny care for patients of any age. But limiting the prices of innovative but costly treatments might chase new drugs out of the $86 billion Japanese market, drugmakers say.
“If you ask whether it’s worth prescribing an 85-year-old patient Opdivo, a lot of people will say no. But patients and family members are going to say yes,” said Goto, who works at the National Cancer Centre Hospital.
Patients also fear more drastic changes, such as denying access to new medicines; Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s economic council in December proposed considering cost in determining whether to approve treatments.
“For cancer patients like us, it’s not acceptable if the government applies a cost-effective analysis in determining whether to approve treatments,” said Yoshiyuki Majima, a director of patient advocacy group Rare Cancers Japan.
SUSTAINABILITY OR ACCESS
The Japanese government estimates that public medical spending could surge 75 percent to 68.5 trillion yen ($624 billion) by 2040.
“It is obvious that Japan will face difficulties in providing social security service,” said a government official involved in the discussions, declining to be named because he is not authorized to speak to media. “The cost-effectiveness analysis is a means to secure sustainability.”
The system that will be adopted in April, according to a draft published on the health ministry’s website, compares the cost to the effectiveness of new treatments using an “incremental cost-effectiveness ratio,” or ICER.
ICER, already used in countries such as Britain, considers how much it costs to give a patient one additional year of healthy life compared with existing alternatives. If that exceeds 5 million yen, for example, the government may insist on a lower price, according the policy draft.
There has been little public discussion; weekly meetings so far have involved mostly Health Ministry officials, doctors, academics and drugmaker executives.
“If I have rheumatoid arthritis and I can’t write or type, but then I get a treatment that enables me to go back to work, pay taxes, and take care of my family, that benefit is not going to be captured by the ICER,” said Kevin Haninger, a vice president of Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America, a lobbying group.
In an interview with Reuters, he insisted Japan should carefully consider an impact on the industry when introducing such analysis to reduce drug prices.
“If Japan is going to cut prices so much, I think Japan will really run a risk of losing its current position,” he said.
LUCRATIVE MARKET NO MORE?
Drugmakers have been complaining about price cuts since 2017, when the government decided to review costs more frequently.
Japan has slashed the price of Opdivo, developed by Ono Pharmaceutical Co Ltd and Bristol-Myers Squibb, by more than 75 percent in the last two years. It has also lowered Gilead Science’s hepatitis C drug Sovaldi by 32 percent since 2016.
But while drugmakers threaten to pull back from Japan, the government is prepared to call the industry’s bluff, saying Japan is too lucrative a market for companies to ignore, according to two government officials, who declined to be named because they are not authorized to speak to the media.
Unlike the United States, where insurers may deny claims, or the UK, where patients can be denied costly drugs, Japan is seen as a relatively predictable market because of its social insurance system.
For example, Novartis’ Kymriah, a type of therapy in which a patient’s T-cells are modified to attack cancer cells, is expected to be approved in Japan this year.
The price for pediatric leukemia patients, to be set by a government panel after approval, is expected to start at about $475,000, similar to U.S. prices. With an estimated 250 Japanese eligible for treatment with Kymriah, sales in Japan are a potentially lucrative addition to Novartis’ bottom line.
Novartis declined to comment on potential effects of a new pricing policy.
Goto said the government should focus on reducing prescriptions for illnesses that are not serious, rather than costly but possibly life-saving treatments for a small number of patients.
“Flu medicines, for example, can be seen to have very low cost-effectiveness because they don’t save people’s lives, except those of infants or pregnant women, compared with cancer drugs that are critical for some patients,” he said.
(Reporting by Takashi Umekawa; Editing by Ritsuko Ando and Gerry Doyle)
Source: OANN
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