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Talk about bringing a gun to a knife fight!

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Having already sobered from the high that is the sheer fact that we have the Kagoshimai facing off as the captains of Red and White teams in AKB48’s 6th Kouhaku Utagassen, I finally got the mind to sit down and look through the line-up and man…Talk about unequal ground! Things get even worse when you see the whole listing of the full members! Like, are you even serious Bruh?!

From talent to star-power Red Team has White beat in all regards. Dancers, singers, Kamis, Aces…Jesus Red team, what even?! There is no way that White team is going to win this without some strings being pulled!

Starting from the top, look at those captains!! Red has two of the most experienced ‘organisers’ in the group, one with her own solo tours (Yukirin) and the other with a whole group (Sasshi) and both a super nerds when it comes to Idols so like…I don’t even…. And let’s not forget the instrumentalists in Nao, who is backed-up by Sayanee, Rion and Aoi. Meanwhile don’t get me started on the vocals (Miyu, Erina, Sayanee, Yukirin) and dancing skills (Yokoyama Yui, Tano, Yuria, Jurina, etc, etc…!

Oh man, this is going to be some brutal experience!

Thank the Lord that I am mostly going into this for the Kagoshima combi. Yeah yeah, I know they are supposed to be competing but hey, at least finally AKS is recognising their duel value so this is a cause for flipping out in happiness!!!

What are the odds that instead of singing different songs like the captains that have come before, they instead both sing the same song and battle it out dance floor style? I mean Sakura VS Yukirin in a music performance battle is pure madness but if they were to perform the same song while doing the thing, al else is forgotten!

Alright, that is it. If you want the full listing, go to Stage48. They got you covered…


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fellow fellow – A Kiss on the Lips MV

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จูบปาก / Joop Bpahk / A Kiss on the Lips

Alright Thailand, you go get ‘em! PV of the year perhaps? Between this one and SISTAR’s One More Day, the choice isn’t easy. Both have the positives, the f-star elements (kissing) but they also have the negatives which are, to put this bluntly, shitting on the guys!

Okay, the way they treat guys in both PVs is different because while in SISTAR’s MV both the plot and the characters were mean to the male character in that he was written as a dick and the girls really went sparta on him, here the characters almost got away without giving the guy crap but of course the writers had to put that thing in where (during the rooftop scene) the girls seem to be rubbing their love in the male character’s face. On the other hand the male character almost escaped the plot of being a douche but once again, they just had to put that one scene in where he hit our main girl (glasses) with a racket ball so hard she bruised.

Now we got some sensual first-aid a la Lily Fever but still. That was not what really rubbed me the wrong way this time in regards to male characters. It seemed to me like this MV was actually making out our girls and their love to be a bad thing, some what, in that the song almost seemed written for the guy and they kept showing him being hurt by the betrayal and lies his girl-friend/fiancee?(she had a ring, that she took off, most definitely from him), but they don’t show why they were even drifting apart. And the way the showed the escalating distance was also kinda mean. Like, she couldn’t even let him hold her while in bed, like…If you are still together to the point of sharing a bed isn’t that kind of real cold?

It almost seemed like the guy’s life became nothing (with the gradual disappearance of his form, though that might be in regards to our main girl’s life but even so, having loved someone once you can’t simply erase them from your memory. I mean you were at the level of accepting a ring!! You can’t just forget all that time you shared! So if it is not that, then it is from the guy’s POV and it feels like his life in turning to nothingness with the loss of his girlfriend.

And I don’t even know why I am defending Hetero love on THIS blog! What is going on?!

But with that all said and done, I pick this PV over SISTAR’s because Thailand just knows how to do ‘cute’! The scenes between our couple in this were real cute and while usually those go overboard and into tooth-ache levels of sweet territory (spoilers for why I have not blogged about, and essentially finished watching any of the ‘Yes or No’ movies yet) it was the right dose this time around.

There are also intelligent scenes like the one where Girl B (no glasses) is staring across the court to the couple and she is smiling despite the situation. She does this thing with the rackets net and you know that while the guy has no clue Girl A (glasses girl) is thinking of that moment when they were threading fingers through the court net while they made googly eyes at each other.

Then there is the glasses-off scene that I have found I have a fetish for. I don’t know what it is about girls taking off other girls’ glasses but I find it completely hot! It’s almost as if they are bearing themselves (hanyan~). And it also reminds of Ikoma-kun and Minami-chan in SHAKISM of course. Also the director focused on the guy’s closed fist at around that scene which made me think that he was jealous in that he did not even ever get to see his no-longer-girl without glasses, or he did but wasn’t ever the one to take them of and is now just realising how hot and personal the gesture is. Wait, I was on his side, what happened? Oh yeah, yuri happened!

Anyway, There are more cute scenes, like Girl A always leaning on Girl B with such a serene smile on her face, or the foot sexing scene, or the bubbles scene and let’s not forget the fingers through the net scene. So hot, so sensual!

Alright, PV of the year here, Ladies and Gentlemen. Even though the song won’t be making it on my Note 4, in that it sounds like a typical drama OP or something of the sort, the PV more than makes up for it, not to mention we have had a limited list this year in PVs too.

Anyway, jump over for caps and the video…

PS: A shout out to Honey for the heads-up. Love ya and thanks again! ^^

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Dear Santa Y U Always Early?

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Please don’t change!

I only wish I could get ‘Lost in the Supermarket’ before Christmas as well but hey, beggars can’t be choosers, am I right!

It has surely been too long since I got anything in the mail. But things are looking up and with Ahgassi starting to hit shelves around the world, Late Winter/Spring are going to be some great months!

First up I got Yukirin’s First tour Blu-ray, Tokyo Girls’ Style 21st Single CD that comes with a kinda PB, a movie that promises some interesting yuri in the form of those unique Japanese movies I have been missing lately and finally we got Aoyama-sensei’s fourth entry into the SCHOOL GIRL COMPLEX series. And of course it is all kinds of gay! TGS’s kinda PB is also kinda gey, everything is gey, except of course ma Goddess. Kind of hard to be gey by thy self you know! Sigh, how I wish the Majisuka Play was on here…

Another time then.

So be on the look out. When I get time I am scanning things and all that.


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[TGS] HitoMiyu Mayuking in Mille-Feuille

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HitoMiyu – Tokyo Girls’ Style’s Arai Hitomi and Yamabe Miyu, are the only other ship I know of that has not changed in any way since their debut. The first one is of course Mayuki. Actually HitoMiyu is purer than Mayuki, in the sense that there were no wars like the SaeYuki or HaaYuki or NakaYuki. There was a time, believe it or not, where I too actually shipped some of those more than Mayuki because in the beginning they were not that public about their closeness and there was a lot of grey areas.

Meanwhile HitoMiyu, the only rival they have had was in the AyaMiyu and the strange MeiMiyu. Strange because in PVs sometimes we got that pairing, like in LIAR, where they even kissed (kinda) and even in this very PV for their 21st Single Mille-Feuille, MeiMiyu has been hinted at. But all fans know that Mei belongs to Yuri and the management know it too. They proved that when they finally showed them off in their gayest PV ever TSUIOKU. We have yet to see AyaMiyu being supported in media and with Ayano no longer with the group currently, well, chances are very slim.

As for MeiMiyu, I have a feeling we will be seeing more of them in PVs because for some reason someone up there just loves their pairing. And with Mei now the Leader (taking over for Miyu), chances have gone up for sure. Not that I mind this one bit, in fact I ship those two as well. There is just something about them that pulls me in, perhaps it’s the sin of it all?

Anyway HitoMiyu, you think Mayuki’s relationship complex? I find HitoMiyu more confusing. Hitomi is the youngest of the group (currently not so young at 18 going 19 – Oh how they grow up!) and at first glance if might come off as a Big/Little Sister kinda relationship but it is not that simple! Even going way back when Hii-chan was a kindergartener, even back then she seemed to take the Big Sister role towards Miyu.

Even today Miyu is still referred to as the Baby-chara which is really weird when you look at her younger sister who is a member of team B now (yes, that Ayu is Miyu’s Imouto). She really comes off as mature, does she not? I guess she had to be, with a sister like Miyu. Now not to say that Miyu is that childish. She was the leader and though it was because she was the eldest at the time, when it came to doing the job she was on the role. She kills the MCs and while not as funny as Yuri, she is just so good at it! When she goes into serious mode, it’s SRS business!

Outside work though, Hitomi is the mature of the two. Hell, she is the top for sure, if we are speaking in those terms but then when you see them on their shows or live streams it is Miyu who pampers Hitomi all the time! A second wasted opening a paper bag? Miyu to the rescue. Whenever she is talking about something to do with Hitomi, Miyu will always touch her arm and look to her.

Meanwhile Hitomi always watches Miyu whenever she is speaking and it’s like…God! You would think that they would have outgrown those little things especially now that Hii-chan is almost an adult but noope! Heir LINE videos still has them acting that way, Miyu treating Hii-chan like she was her precious baby and Hitomi letting her and looking at her like she was her sun or something.

Okay, I need to make a yuri MV of TGS, like, yesterday! I have been doing dance vids mostly of them but I think between all those lovely PVs and a whole movie, a yuri movie about this very ship!!! A yuri FMV is in order, nay?

Yeh!

See ya round…

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[Ahgassi] I’m Counting on You Japan!

Yas!

Japan has finally come out with their support for The Handmaiden! They had me worried there for a minute, but then I remembered that it took them a whole year to get ‘A Girl At My Door’ and my worries were buried!

And of course you know what this means! There is sure to be a Blu-ray for Ojou-san (The Japanese title for Ahgassi)! Yes, I know there is a a Blu-ray from Hong Kong but there is no way I am going to be satisfied with that kind of product! No additional material except a trailer, putting a movie as beautiful as this, a movie that relies on the visual cues in the story telling almost more than any other aspect, to take that kind of movie and squeeze it onto a BD25!!?! Get out of here! And that is not all! The FPS are all screwed up speeding up the movie to a mere 140min instead of the official 144! I know this is a thing but I have never come across it and I have bought versions of the same movie from different regions so this is not cool!

I am getting the Blu-ray though.

Yes, my mission of buying all versions of this movie on Blu-ray still stands! Even ‘Murica which is disappointing us by not giving us a Blu-ray (Seriously Sony?!!! You better be planning on that 4K version or so God of Yuri help me I’ll…)

Eh, thank God Japan is here to save the day! I am also pretty sure that Plain Archives is gonna deliver the greatest thing to ever grace the blue disc! I signed up to that company just to get that notification of Ahgassi’s Ultimate Collectors Edition! Put in 6 discs and sell it for a grand I will still get it dammit!

But back to Japan, I am not even kidding when I say that I had a dream that the version they released was the 3hrs3m Director’s Cut version! I even remember that the opening scene was actually the sex scene (the teach me how to have sex scene) and I know that is improbable to start a movie like that but hey, Fingersmith is one story that can be told in different ways, which has actually happened already in both adaptations taking a different approach.

Anyway, Japan just released a trailer for Ojou-san and dear Readers is it intense!! You thought the French Trailer was hard-core? Wait till you get a hold of this one! Of course it might be that it is because most have already seen it and so they are not afraid of spoiling but it might also be because Japan is marketing what the movie actually is! All other countries, bar France, have left out the intensity of the intimacy which put some people off who went in not expecting those out of this world sex scenes!

Japan and France on the other hand are telling it as it is! Hell, japan even is going so far as to put the R-18 in front and centre. This is an extreme movie! I remember being super taken by surprise when I read Fingersmith the first time and that first sex scene happened! You can imagine too that if I was shocked by something like that, a totally watered down view on sex only picked up by those able to link the words and everything, imagine what this movie could have done to those who had not even read the book, or did but the intensity of the sex scenes in the book totally went over their heads.

Actually, one of the things the movie is superior to the book for me is the depiction of the sex scenes. Watching the movie and reading the book you wonder what was going on with Madam Waters. Was she trying to hide the intensity within the words and trippy descriptions, was it supposed to be less intense? Did she just not know how to describe a sex scene?

Now, to be fare the visuals helped the movie greatly and the BBC version was somewhat better thus father proving the point but even then those were nowhere close to the movie scenes level of intensity! And since the BBC was essentially the closest to the book we will ever get, well then, Mr Park sure did a terrific job on that.

Anddddd where was I again? There I go getting distracted from the topic at hand.

Anyway, jump over for more caps from the trailer and the trailer itself on YT. Sadly we have to wait until maybe fall for this Blu-ray or maybe late summer 2017 since the movie is hitting Japanese theatres in March but I know it will have been worth it. I so love the Blu-ray for ‘Watashi no Shoujo’ AKA ‘A Girl At My Door’. Japan is the only country that gave it a Blu-ray, which baffles my mind seeing as it is one of the winners at the 2014 Cannes but alas!

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