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「プリンセス・プリンセス」ドラマ化って、思いがけないナァ…

Posted 2006-06-08 (木) 午前12:21 by terra

「プリンセス・プリンセス」ドラマ化！

大人気コミック「プリンセス・プリンセス」がアニメ化に続いてドラマ化！」
タイトルは「プリンセス・プリンセスD」
男子校・藤森学園には「姫」という制度があった。 それは男子校での男ばかりの生活の潤いとなるべく見目麗しい生徒を選び、 構内のイベントの度に女の子の格好をさせるという学校公認の制度。しかも衣装はロリータ！

金銭面をはじめ様々な特典があると聞き、積極的に姫を引き受けた裕史郎と亨に対し、いまだ姫から逃げ出そうとしているドラマ版の主人公・実琴。
 ３人の姫を中心に繰り広げられるちょっとオカシナ学園コメディ。

「プリンセス・プリンセスD」では豊実琴が主人公でドラマオリジナルのストー リーが展開します。
黒姫とは！？ 裏生徒会とは！？ 学園を揺るがす大事件が！
イケメン俳優が歌い、踊り、女装する！？
 「プリンセス・プリンセスD」6月28日よりテレビ朝日にて放映開始予定！

—Source: http://drama-pripri.jp/story/index.html

OMG. I’ve been following the anime and think it’s hilarious, but to make this into a jdorama, 何か気持ち悪っ O___O

プリンセス・プリンセス「プリンセス・プリンセス」アニメ

Subjects: Film, Television & Anime 映像

Mood: Discoveries & Relevations

Tags: anime, Japanese, jdorama

War of the Giant Pelicans

Posted 2005-07-02 (土) 午後6:56 by terra

Watched Spielberg’s War of the Worlds with Ling today and though I liked it a lot, it was, film-wise, one traumatic experience for me. Forget the little bits of exposition they had to furnish concerning Tom Cruise’s Ray Ferrier’s household mismanagement problems. Forget the slightly cheesy-by-modern-day-standards explanation on how the alien lifeforms landed on (or rather into) Earth. If one were expecting an alien-invasion movie similar to, say, Independence Day, one might be sorely disappointed, because there were no Earthian heroes with the talents or the technology to defeat the mighty giant armoured machines. The film was instead one grand statement about the fragility of Man and his ugly nature when the desperation to survive supersedes morality.

This is one film that was based on a late-1800s novel by H.G. Wells, with a famous radio series in the 1930s by Orson Welles that sent people who believed the invasion real into panic. It would have been a horror tale more for the imagination than a visual exercise if not for the advances of cinematic technology.

Subjects: Film, Television & Anime 映像

Mood: Raves and Rants

Tags: cinema, H.G. Wells, Minority Report, Orson Welles, pelicans, PKD, science fiction, Steven Spielberg

FFVII Advent Children Japanese DVD

Posted 2005-06-22 (水) 午前12:49 by terra

Happened to be at the Amazon website looking at Kyou Kara Maou stuff when I saw the link to the Advent Children DVD page As usual Japanese DVDs are ridiculously expensive.

Can’t wait for this movie to be out, especially with Sakurai Takahito

Thought I’d just post the specs from the Amazon site here (additional English comments in bold added by me):

内容紹介

【ストーリー】

あの戦いから2年。繁栄の極みにあった魔洸都市「ミッドガル」は廃墟と化したが、人々は再建への道を確実に歩んでいた。だが、「星痕症候群」と呼ばれる謎の病が人々を苛む。治療法もなく、冒された者を次々と死に至らしめるこの病は、希望を取り戻しつつあった人々の新たな脅威となった。デリバリーサービスを営みながら孤児と共に静かに暮らしていたクラウドは、先の戦いで大事な仲間達を失ってしまった心の傷に胸をいため、深い自戒と罪の念に心を閉ざしていた。ある日、クラウドに仕事を依頼する一本の電話が入る。依頼内容は、カダージュと呼ばれる男からの護衛を依頼するものだった。若く、凶暴なカダージュ達。やがて彼らの魔の手は、クラウドと共に住んでいた孤児たちにも伸びる。その目的は何なのか。何故クラウドを狙うのか。避けようのない戦いを前に思い悩むクラウド。「罪って許されるのか？」長き葛藤の末、戦いの決意を固めるクラウド。ついに、カダージュ達との、人知を超えた戦いが幕を開ける。

Subjects: Film, Television & Anime 映像

Mood: Raves and Rants

Tags: Amazon, Cloud クラウド, DVD, Final Fantasy, Morikawa Toshiyuki 森川智之, Sakurai Takahiro 櫻井孝宏, seiyuu 声優

Firefly

Posted 2005-05-29 (日) 午後3:52 by terra

Well, with bit of help from Vincent, I just finished watching the Josh Whedon series Firefly. It’s the best American drama series I’ve seen to date (I know I haven’t seen too many though). Starts off a bit slow but it gets fantastic once you got to know the characters a bit deeper. It’s a pity the duration of the series lived up to its firefly name…

Subjects: Film, Television & Anime 映像

Mood: Raves and Rants

Tags: Cowboy Bebop, Firefly

「私は思い出にはならないさ」

Posted 2005-05-17 (火) 午後10:43 by terra

“Watashi wa omoide ni wa naranai sa”…ends 3 of the trailers in Final Fantasy Advent Children, Squaresoft’s attempt at mythologising the iconic villain Sephiroth. カッコいい‼

Other favourite one-liners:
“I am Alpha and Ome’ga, the beginning and the end” — Revelation 21:6
“I am Legend” — Richard Matheson
“I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds” — Robert Oppenheimer (though technically the line did not originate from him)

And as recommended by 傑義, I just watched the FF7 opening remake that was created specially for the PS3 technology demo. Pretty cool, seeing how much technology has evolved over the past 8 years. Before I saw the demo, I actually saw the screenshots, thinking that they were screenshots of the movie, except they seemed a little pixellated. I thought, maybe they were production screenshots or something… Wow.

Subjects: Film, Television & Anime 映像

Mood: Learnings & Quotations, Raves and Rants

Tags: Final Fantasy, Japanese, Square-Enix, Squaresoft

I love Spiderman 2

Posted 2004-07-03 (土) 午後10:50 by terra

大好きだ‼

Spider Man II promotional still

Subjects: Film, Television & Anime 映像

Mood: Raves and Rants

Tags: Spider Man

Anticipating: 2004-05-21

Posted 2004-05-21 (金) 午後3:02 by terra

The two Chinese films currently showing at Cannes:

2046

Wong Kar Wai’s 2046 - A Writer’s DeskWong Kar Wai’s 2046 - MailboxesWong Kar Wai’s 2046

Subjects: Film, Television & Anime 映像

Tags: 2046, Cannes, cinema, Final Fantasy, Kaneshiro Takeshi 金城武, Square-Enix, Wong Kar Wai, Zhang Ziyi

Ashes of Time 《東邪西毒》

Posted 2004-03-27 (土) 午後5:13 by terra

The following is a combination of 2 transcriptions of the film that I found on the Internet. Both transcriptions were excellent and close to being word-for-word. Still there were some spelling errors that I noticed and corrected. I took the liberty of adding my descriptives to some sections I found were not explained clearly enough in the original transcriptions.

Ashes of Time 《東邪西毒》

Subjects: Film, Television & Anime 映像

Tags: cinema, Hong Kong, Leslie Cheung, transcript, Wong Kar Wai

Ashes of Time Alternate DVD Cover

Posted 2003-01-18 (土) 午前12:30 by terra

Once, when I was at a Wong Kar Wai forum, a guy posted a DVD cover that he had made for an amature design competition, as an alternative to the official Hong Kong DVD release of Ashes of Time. Seeing his work, I was also inspired to produce my take, the film being one of my all-time favourites. Around that time, I had ordered and just received a copy of the Japanese edition of the official soundtrack (gorgeous, lush soundtrack I might add).

Ashes of Time Alternate DVD Cover

The CD cover and inserts were printed on rough porous paper, which was lovely. It reminded one of the desert. Wanting to maintain a consistant look between the CD and the DVD, I decided to scan one of the images found in the the CD inserts, and digitially edited and blended it with a official still of the movie, together with a series of small photos to create a translucent rice-paper effect. I tested the print on some high DPI inkjet paper and found the result quite pleasing.

Subjects: Film, Television & Anime 映像

Tags: DVD, Hong Kong, soundtrack, Wong Kar Wai

Sleeping on one side and double-vision

Posted 2003-01-02 (木) 午前4:29 by terra

The experience one gets from sleeping on one side of the face the whole night is a disconcerting albeit temporary case of double-vision when one wakes up. This is attributed to the slight misalignment of the eye. However, the body usually recognises this problem and restores balance in a blink of an eye, literally - I apologise for the pun. A similar but worse situation is when that double vision occurs not from two eyes out-of-sync but in one eye alone, no thanks to the slight swelling of eye tissue, being a result of Grave’s Disease. Sadly to say, this condition isn’t as temporary as the first case mentioned and I can attest to this from personal experience. You know the line from the Book of Corinthians that says that as we grow up we see through a glass darkly? Well I see now not just darkly (at least that’s what I think) but doubly too (ouch that was so not funny). Thankfully, only one eye is afflicted so with both eyes I can still read and see things almost the way they should be seen.

Subjects: General, Film, Television & Anime 映像

Mood: Philosophical Musings

Tags: Corinthians, eye, Grave's Disease, Hong Kong, hyperthyroid, vision, Wong Kar Wai

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