Monthly Archives: April, 2009
Learning Japanese has an Immediate Return on Investment (ROI)
As a college student I spend a lot of time learning things that don’t seem to apply to the real world or has no immediate benifit, but with some work I can see a future return on learning the subject at hand. I must say only learning things which have a future return is kind [...]
Butt Attack Punisher Girl Gotaman
Plot
Mari Amachi is a new student at the Perfect Religion Academy. When her roommate Saori Minami is kidnapped by the Black Buddha gang, Buddha himself appears before Mari. He offers her the opportunity to become Gōtaman in order to save her friend. Mari accepts the proposal and becomes Gōtaman, a sumo-belt-clad hero who fights to [...]
Gal Circle
Cast
Fujiki Naohito as Kitajima Shinnosuke
Toda Erika as Saki
Suzuki Emi as Remi
Aragaki Yui as Nagisa
Iwasa Mayuko as Rika
Yaguchi Mari as Yurika
Satsukawa Aimi as Shizuka
Natsuko as Sumire
Furuta Arata as Geronimo
Yamauchi Nana as Momo
Kamiwaki Yu as Yayoi
Miura Rieko as Akiko
Sato Ryuta as Ichinose-kun (Police Officer)
Takase Yukina as Youko
Plot
Kitajima Shinnosuke, a cowboy from the USA who goes to Shibuya [...]
5 Centimeters Per Second – First Anime I Didn’t Like
For the most part I pretty much have liked most Anime I have watched, except school days ending. So it really hurts that I have found an Anime I don’t like. At this point I have watched 95 days worth of Anime so that is a lot to get through and to like [...]
Mop Girl Review
Cast
Kitagawa Keiko as Hasegawa Momoko
Miyama Karen as young Hasegawa Momoko
Tanihara Shosuke as Ohtomo Shotaro
Asami Reina as Ookouchi Hina
Takaoka Sousuke as Wakayama Akira
Sato Jiro as Higashi Shigeo
Magii as Yokouchi Atsushi
Watanabe Natsuna as Nakamura Tamaki
Ikezu Shoko as Kataoka Miki
Hori Mayumi as Ryoko (Shotaro’s ex-lover)
Honda Hirotaro as Hasegawa Ryuji
Plot
Kitagawa plays the part of the slow but hardworking Momoko, [...]
Sapparo TV Tower
History
The TV Tower was built in 1957 and cost 170 Million Yen. (Approximately 1,700,000 USD) It is used as a repeater which is an antenna that receives a signal boosts it and pushes it back out to another area. It isn’t a main broadcast tower.
The signature digital clocks on all 4 sides were introduced [...]
Links Around Town – 3
Here are some more interesting links around the English/Japanese bloggosphere. Most of the links I try to get are to help better understand the culture in Japan as understanding the culture is a good way to understand the language. I only make these posts when I find 20 links I think are more interesting than [...]
My Boss My Hero Review
Cast
Nagase Tomoya as Sakaki Makio
Tegoshi Yuya as Sakurakoji Jun
Tanaka Koki as Manabe Kazuya
Aragaki Yui as Umemura Hikari
Murakawa Eri as Hagiwara Saki
Kikawada Masaya as Sakaki Mikio
Osugi Ren as Kuroi Teruyuki
Ichimura Masachika as Sakaki Kiichi
Plot
Sakaki Makio, also known as “Tornado” is a tough 27-year-old high school drop-out. By academic standards, he’s pretty dumb. His father decides to [...]
Densha Otoko Review
Cast
Ito Misaki as Aoyama Saori
Ito Atsushi as Yamada Tsuyoshi
Shiraishi Miho as Jinkama Kisuzu
Sato Eriko as Sawazaki Kaho
Sudo Risa as Mizuki Yuuko
Hayami Mokomichi as Aoyama Keisuke
Sato Jiro as Kuroki Fumito
Maekawa Yasuyuki as Oikawa Naoto
Horikita Maki as Yamada Aoi
Koide Saori as Takeda Karin
Gekidan Hitori as Matsunaga Yuusaku
Toyohara Kosuke as Sakurai Kazuya
Akiyoshi Kumiko as Aoyama Yuki
Kishibe Shiroo as [...]
