Shiki review

I just finished watching another anime called Shiki.

Plot: Sotobamura is a small village with around 1300 residents; so small the village isn’t even connected to a single highway. An isolated village in which old customs, such as the burial of the dead, are still practiced. One day, the bodies of three people are found dead. Although Ozaki Toshio, the village’s lone doctor, feels uncertain, he treats the deaths as a normal occurrence. However, in the days following, the villagers start to die one after the other.

My Turn: Having 22 episodes in all, I find this anime very amusing. Remember the anime Ghost Hound I reviewed way back when? Well, this anime kind of have the same feel into it. When I first saw this anime, I was thinking of dropping it but a couple of more episodes later, it “sucked” me in. The story is very interesting and I think the creators wants it to be a mind boggling kind of anime kind of like Ghost Hound. This one is very bloody indeed and when you get around the climax of the anime, that’s where all the good stuff and all the mind boggling stuff happens. The thing I don’t like about it is the ending. Watch it and see for your self.  I will give this anime a 8/10.

Outrage movie

Here is a movie by Takeshi Kitano. It’s another Yakuza movie and it is awesome!!

Here is a synopsis of the movie :

“Takeshi Kitano (aka Beat Takeshi) returns to his roots as a star and director with this edgy gangster tale. The Chairman (Soichiro Kitamura) is the head of the Sanno-kai crime family, Japan’s most powerful underworld syndicate, with his right-hand-man Ikemoto (Jun Kunimura) handling much of the crew’s daily business. The Chairman’s greatest rival is Murase (Renji Ishibashi), whose operation has made its money in drug peddling while the Sano-kai has been striving to move its operations into more legitimate schemes. The Chairman believes that Ikemoto has become too close to Murase for comfort, and he wants the two sides to distance themselves. Ikemoto, not wanting to dirty his hands with any unpleasantness, orders one of his mechanics, Otomo (Beat Takeshi), to deliver a few reminders that the two gangs are on opposite sides. What begins as some brutal but petty recriminations by Otomo and his crew against Murase’s underlings turns into a private war, and the violence on each side escalates with each exchange. Autoreiji (aka Outrage) received its world premiere at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival.” ~ Mark Deming, Rovi

And if you guys are interested. You can download the movie via torrent here.

Happy New year!!

I just want to say that 2011 is here.. I hope you guys have a great New year!!! and have a great 2011!!!!!! From onigiri sensei

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Korea now using robots to teach their kids English

Apparently there’s a real shortage of affordable English teachers in South Korea, so they’re now testing a robot called Engkey to connect their students to cheaper teachers in the Philippines

Unlike that Japanese version , the rotund little Engkey robot doesn’t really look very human, although it will roam around the classroom talking to students, and can do a little dance. One weird feature is that instead of a face, Engkey has a black and white TV screen with a Caucasian teacher’s face.

While the robots cost about $10,000 each, the developer points out that they don’t need health care, sick leave, or vacation pay, and they aren’t likely to take off for a better paying gig in Japan. Better not let the American Federation of Teachers hear about that part.

 

32nd Filipino Music Post

Artist: 6cyclemind feat. Gloc 9

Title: Kasalanan

Wallpapers!

I just want to share some awesome looking wallpapers I found:

Gundam 00 movie is OUT!

Yes! It’s finally here. The long awaited Gundam 00 movie. I’m not sure yet if they have it subbed yet. Here is a subbed trailer tho.

Japanese Women Warriors

Just an interesting article I stumbled upon last night I want to share. It’s maybe for the girls, hehehe

The Empress Jingu (c. 169 – 269 A.D.) leads an invasion of Korea.

Long before the term “samurai” came into usage, Japanese fighters were skilled with the sword and spear. These warriors included some women, such as the legendary Empress Jingu (c. 169-269 A.D.), pictured here leading an invasion of Korea.

According to the stories, Jingu was married to the fourteenth emperor of Japan, Chuai, who reigned between 192 and 200. After his death, she ruled as a regent for her young son. To pass the time, she invaded and conquered Korea (without shedding a drop of blood, according to the legend).

“Female Samurai”

Linguistic purists point out that the term “samurai” is a masculine word; thus, there are no “female samurai.”

Nonetheless, for thousands of years, certain upper class Japanese women have learned martial skills and participated in fighting.

Between the 12th and 19th centuries, many women of the samurai class learned how to handle the sword and the naginata (a blade on a long staff) primarily to defend themselves and their homes. In the event that their castle was overrun by enemy warriors, the women were expected to fight to the end and die with honor, weapons in hand.

Some young women were such skilled fighters that they rode out to war beside the men, rather than sitting at home and waiting for war to come to them. Here are pictures of some of the most famous among them.

Tomoe Gozen, c. 1157–1247, a Genpei War-era samurai, leaning on her naginata (pole weapon).

During the Genpei War (1180-1185), a beautiful young woman named Tomoe Gozen fought alongside her daimyo (and possibly her husband), Minamoto no Yoshinaka, against the forces of his cousin Minamoto no Yoritomo.

Tomoe Gozen (gozen is a title meaning “lady”) was famous as a swordswoman, a skilled rider, and a superb archer. She was Minamoto’s first captain, and took at least one enemy head during the Battle of Awazu in 1184.

The Genpei War

The late-Heian era Genpei War was a civil conflict between two samurai clans, the Minamoto and the Taira. Both families sought to control the shogunate. In the end, the Minamoto clan prevailed and established the Kamakura shogunate in 1192.

The Minamoto did not just fight the Taira, though. As mentioned above, different Minamoto lords also fought one another. Unfortunately for Tomoe Gozen, Minamoto no Yoshinaka died at the Battle of Awazu. His cousin, Minamoto Yoritomo, became shogun.

Reports vary as to Tomoe Gozen’s fate. Some say that she stayed in the fight and died. Others say that she rode away carrying an enemy’s head, and disappeared. Still others claim that she married Wada Yoshimori, and then became a nun after his death.

You can find more of these here if you are interested.

 

Shinryaku! Ika Musume review

Time for another anime review guys.!

Plot: A squid girl named Ika Musume vows to conquer humanity as revenge for its pollution of the ocean. Her first task is to make the Lemon beach house, owned by the Aizawa sisters, her base of operations. However, when she accidentally breaks a hole in their wall, she is forced to work as a waitress to pay off the damages.

My Turn: To start, this anime is short with only having 12 episodes, you will basically ask for more. Aside from being a short anime, this anime has a list of characters. It’s quite odd for having a squid for a character tho but the animators really did a good job.  It’s based on the manga  that was issued in 2007 and still ongoing so I think they will have a 2nd season this coming year in which I really hope they do. I don’t have a lot of things to say about this anime due to the length of the series but I haven’t laughed from watching an anime in a while and this hit the spot. I will give this anime a 9/10.
Check it out, you might like it.

Update: Here is a commercial of the anime

Good News!!!

I got some good news for this New year coming up..Well make it an early New Year. We now have our very own domain. We no longer have the wordpress.com right next to Onigirisensei. you can just type in Onigirisensei.net. I tried to make it dot.com but apparently someone already have that domain name.weird.But anyways, Merry coming New Year to all.!!

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