Video of a Korean crossdresser playing bass to Fuwa Fuwa Time, an OST from Japanese anime K-On! It’s so weird that it’s actually funny…
According to his Youtube profile… he’s a South Korean bassist whose name is Hyunmo Kim who “hopes to be the world’s greatest stupid idiot bass player.”
Good luck Mr Kim, thanks for the lulz.
If you think some of the Korean artists are too young for entertainment world, you should check this out… Japanese female pop group Berryz Koubou are celebrating their sixth anniversary today, and their average age is just over seventeen.
The girls released their first single I Can’t Live Without You in 2004 (MV below). They held their first solo concert in 2007 at Saitama Super Arena with a full house crowd of around 20,000. [Video via Leeaceno1@Youtube]…
Berryz Koubou are not the only super-young-teenage-idols in Japan; it’s a norm for Japanese idols to debut at very young age since early 90s. Koreans are merely following the path in this sense… good or bad, it’s becoming a trend these days.
On side note, today is Hina Matsuri, Japanese girls’ day. Not sure at all, but the girls might have debuted purposely on this day six years ago.
Japanese pop group AKB48’s latest single Sakura no Shiori has topped the recent Oricon sales chart, with over 300,000 copies sold in its first week of release, a record best in seven years for Japanese female artists. Fan-made MV below…
It’s a nice choir-like song; perfect for graduation season. It’s not the type you would expect to top the pop charts, but it’s Japan… you never know.
Neutrals often ridiculed them for the large number of members (ahemm… what do you think the 48 means?), but seems like they are having the last laugh.
[Video via Riodepon@Youtube]
Remember the bizarre cosplay of Kirsten Dunst on Tokyo streets? Well, the music video is out (or leaked?), with Kirsten singing and dancing to The Vapors’ 1980 hit Turning Japanese. Slightly unsafe for work/kids with explicit anime images.
Titled as Akihabara Majokko Princess, the video is produced by Japanese artist Takashi Murakami and directed by McG (of Charlie’s Angels movie etc.) for an exhibition at London’s Tate Modern museum.
The video won’t last long, watch it while you can… And yeah, I’m loving it.
[Update] As expected the video is removed from Youtube. I’ve embedded with new vids for a few times, but I guess that’s it for now.
Korean pop group KARA made their first official performance in Japan on Feb 7…
Movie trailer for Robogeisha [Jp], a 2009 Japanese cult film by Noboru Iguchi. An awesome piece of sh!t with plenty of WTF moment from beginning till the end. A bit unsafe for work; not for kids…
Japanese weirdness to the max [video via Doctorexploitation@Youtube].
Beckii Cruel, a 14-year-old British who rose to internet fame in Japan dancing to J-pop and anime songs in her videos, is forming a girls group Beckii Cruel feat. Cruel Angels and set to release their debut Japanese CD in February.
Japanese town of Washimiya estimates that the Lucky Star anime has brought over one billion yen (~ US$11 million) into the local economy after the town’s main shrine, the Washinomiya Shrine, was featured in the popular anime in 2007.
The full economic impact of Lucky Star cannot be determined for certain; but the sales of related goods alone have been pegged at 70 million yen.
Visitors during the New Year’s holidays (Japanese would traditionally visit a shrine) increased from 90,000 in 2007 to 450,000 in 2010; that’s plenty of tourism money for a small town with less than 40,000 of population. LUCKY star indeed.
[via Animenewsnetwork][image by Hideki][Jp]
