[youtube=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-Ke7p1UW2s”] Just…these things should be completely played out by now but this one is still pretty good. Despite the inclusion of Chun-Li at the end. Excellent rendering of Anthrax though. Missing from this video – Gang Gang Dance WHY DID YOU CANCEL YOUR JAPANESE SHOWS I WAS SO EXCITED GAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
At long last the worlds of J-Pop and heart-tugging CGI movies collide – Tokyo Hive reports a song by Hiroshima techno-pop trio Perfume will appear in Pixar’s Cars 2 both in the actual film and the soundtrack. The group’s track “Polyrhythm” will apparently appear in a scene where the main characters…who, if you haven’t been…
We’re knee-deep into baseball season so sorry for the unrelated-to-anything image above of the only Japanese player on my favorite team. Who needs real news hooks! Anyway, let’s get into this, starting with probably my least favorite J-Pop group in all of Japan. Kanjani8 “マイホーム” [youtube=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8_DqDZAHrs”] About ten minutes from where I live is a…
Not to take anything away from Nanba Shiho, who boasts a light and bouncy voice that sounds completely fine in any context. Her voice is the cheddar-flavored rice cake of the J-Pop world, completely satisfying at the time but in no way a replacement for a nice dinner. She sounds just fine on new single…
Sometime over the weekend, the full-length version of Perfume’s upcoming single “Laser Beam” somehow ended up on this sorta weird web page that reminds me of Geocities for some reason. I haven’t gotten a virus yet, so I’m going to proclaim it safe to use! Thanks to commenter Minh for pointing this out. Minh also…