watashi to tokyo

manga and film

We have a research, many manga fans are not pleased to "the news manga is made into real film". Death Note, BECK, KAIJI, etc,. basically we can read on the Internet no good reputation about those . Nodame and Hachikuro had good reivews so maybe drama story would be okay.

This year, another popular manga made into film and they will be released soon.

One is Thermae Romae, The story is Roman architect found a hidden spa which is time tunnel to modern Japanese public bath and he inspired by it and create new idea in his own spa in Roma. It"s very funny. Here is a trailer, Roman guy is Hiroshi Abe. Nothing wrong he acts like Roman. he he he.

Another one is Uchu Kyodai. it's drama who dreamed to be an astronaut. Younger brother made it but older one lost his job and lied down. But one day he got an old tape from his younger brother and he heard what they promised long time ago.

Both manga were nominated to Manga taisho a few times and Terumae Romae won once.

But biggest news would be BLEACH. It goes Hollywood and Mashi Oka will be a producer of this movie. we are not sure yet even who will direct the movie.

Orita sensei is back! This year is Chidegika!

We have news of Orita sensei in Kyoto University every year. He is a famous(poor) statue that is dressed up into strange/ funny charactor in this season every year. Here is his dressing up collection. The University put away the statue coz it had to be damaged a lot. For the past 10 years, we can see a paper Orita sensei only this exam season. Last week, we have this year's Orita sensei. He is "Chidegika"

Chidegika is the official mascot of National Association of Commercial Broadcasters in Japan (NAB), revealed on April 27, 2009 to promote transition from analogue television to digital terrestrial television (DTT) in Japan.　Funny part was the reason why the deer became the mascot was Tsuyoshi Kusanagi of Japanese boys band SMAP. He was a original campaign character of Chidegi project first, but one night, he screamed name of another member (Shingo Katori) at Hinokicho-park behind Tokyo midtown in completely NAKED! He was so drunk. So he had to resign image character of Chidegika and stopped to perform in his band for a while. I am working at Midtown and I knew Tsuyoshi Kusanagi was famous in the building those days. Coz he was living in residential area and he came down to bars in Midtown sometimes and talk to everybody when he drank. he he he

 

 

Blue LED stop suicide

Japan has a suicide rate of about 33000 a year, it's really crazy, people are so sick from stress, economic reason, etc,. Japanese government try to stop this, then they made a campaign GKB48 for March. GKB47 stands for gatekeeper basic, it means each 47 prefectures set professional section or persons who work as gatekeeper / counselor for people. But the government back down that campaign because poeple complained to it coz GKB47 is apparently named from Japanese girls group AKB48 and actually they used AKB48 as champaing charactor! Yes too, silly who can take this is serious project.

But each local government or each companies are making efforts to reduce it on each service. For example Tokyo METRO set protection door on platform of stations, JR Mito set blue LED light to each railroad crossing. They said they had 16 -21 suicide case a year before, but they didn't have it at this blue light crossing. maybe the light will have power to calm down people's heart.

 

Is Japan Cool

My PC is broke again, I can't type "u J n l" (I copy this) and I found letters I can't type are increasing now, this make me remind of the novel "Lipstick on an After-Image" of Yasutaka_Tsutsui, a letter of hiragana disappear from the world one by one and also things including the letter in it's name disappear too, great part is the letter disappear in his sentence of book! I am not sure the book is translate into another language, maybe not. It's impossible. Anyway every two years I have to buy new vaio, I think SONY Timer will be true.

ANA has campaign "Is Japan Cool?". Here is thier site.

Atsushi Wada's animation on Berlinale

International Film festival The Berlinale was held and animation movie "The great rabbit" got a silver bear award. The great rabbit is a French movie but it's directed by Japanese director Atsushi Wada. Here is the trailer, but I can't uderstand well.

Here is another his movie, but I can't understand this too, maybe I don't this type of arts.

For me this is much better and interesting, art school students's animation. It's pretty good idea.

do you have a notebook in your bag?

This is the video clip of Chinese TV show. A Chinese girl living in Japan said "Can you belive all Japanese has Notebook in their bag always." I have never thought about it, but it's true, actually I have a notebook in my bag always and also I have never thought it is strange.

I can't understanad Chinese or Korean but the show seems to be popular! Here is one, Taiwan girls recommend to eat Western food in Japan, western foods were arranged into Japanese style here in Japan and then they are called Yoshoku, it's far from original but it's very yummy. This is hamburg, cheese and egg inside the meat.

IKEA Japan in Kyoto with maiko san

IKEA Japan held the event "possibility of three tatami room". It's such small room but it can be comfortable.

IKEA MAIKO MOVIE produced by ROOMIE from mediagene on Vimeo.

New clean reasonable hotel in Kyoto "first cabin"

Kyoto is the most exotic and ancient capital in Japan, but also as tourist city, they have new type hotels. I picked before , very reasonable but clean and looks comfortable capsule hotel 9 hours in Kyoto.

This is a new one, first cabin. As it's name, their concept is airplane. they have business class room and first class room and they are bigger than capsule hotel but it's smaller than regular hotel and also divided by curtain basically. (but I am sure you can rock the curatin part).It looks very good and I am sure I will try this one when I go to Kyoto, coz hotel is just place to sleep for me, I am okay if they have good bed. What do you think?

 

snack can be good rice buddy, we love furikake

We love furikake, when I was a kids we had a few furikake in the shop. but now I don't know how many kinds we have now. Even the price of each is really cheap, we can enjoy various taste and also it can be nutrient coz any foods like sesame, nori, dry fish, vegetable, even crashed fish bone with rich calcium can be included. If you don't like white rice, you may enjoy it with furikake, I am sure.

Marumiya's Noritama has been in the past and still remains the most popular furikake in Japan. And I wonder Kinshobai is the most expensive furikake which can be gift in gorgeous pot.

We have eat at home more than before in this bad economy. So we have a lot of furikake recipe too, here is easy one in English.

Funny one is potato chips! Some said potato chips can be a really good rice buddy. Regular salt is of course delicious, but we have wasabi potato chips or kimchi or sesamioil, they should be fit to rice. Not only add as topping, you can cook rice with potato chips too. Please try, I promise, it is delicious.

Today we have news, Toy maker Takara Tomy has released "Okashi na furikake", it means snack frikake machine, you can put snacks whichever you like and crash and make frikake with machine. The machine has three types of blade and make different size frikake on the table by hand. Love it.

Cat has another face on his stomach :-)