tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26613006042637775072024-03-19T05:20:46.118-07:00hanabi sekaiAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04602771512654511693noreply@blogger.comBlogger20125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2661300604263777507.post-49568885656296667222013-02-17T10:57:00.000-08:002013-02-17T10:57:21.573-08:00[J-Music] the HIATUS (band introduction)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Artist: the HIATUS<br />
Formed in 2009<br />
Official website: <a href="http://thehiatus.com/">thehiatus.com</a><br />
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I found <b><i>the HIATUS</i></b> because of Miyavi's album "Samurai Sessions Vol. 1" there he sings a song called "Silent Anger" together with Takeshi Hosomi. I really like the voice of Takeshi Hosomi and looked him up - and there was <i><b>the HIATUS</b></i>.</div>
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This band was formed in spring 2009 by the singer of the band Ellegarden, Takeshi Hosomi, as his solo-project after his band announced their indefinite hiatus in 2008. All the other members came from well-known bands and are skilled in music. The members' previous popularity might be one reason for the number 1 position at Oricon charts of their first album "Trash We'd Love" released in May 2009. Afterwards they took part at many festivals. The released two other albums ("Anomaly" in June 2010 and "A World of Pandemonium" in November 2011). </div>
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I listened to their latest album "A World of Pandemonium" and I liked it very much. Especially the cooperation songs with Jamie Blake are pretty nice, but I also like the sound of the other songs - I'm in love with Takeshi Hosomi's voice. You probably would also like this band (^-^)</div>
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Takeshi Hosomi – vocals, guitar --- Ellegarden<br />
Masasucks – guitar --- Fullscratch<br />
Koji Ueno – bass --- Radio Caroline, Thee Michelle Gun Elephant<br />
Takashi Kashikura – drums --- Toe<br />
Hirohisa Horie – keyboard --- Neil & Iraiza<br />
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Masakazu Ichise – drums --- Asparagus<br />
Ichiyou Izawa – keyboard --- Tokyo Jihen<br />
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Name: Sweet Room | スウィートルーム</div>
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Released: August - October 2009</div>
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Main actors: Mukai Osamu, Kaname Jun, Narimiya Hiroki, Toyohara Kosuke, Iriyama Noriko, Shiomi Yukari and more</div>
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Other: mobile phone drama</div>
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"Sweet Room" is a keitai drama - movie to watch on your mobile phone - with 4 episodes. Every episode tells a love story which takes place in the suite room of a hotel. They all are running around 15 to 20 minutes.</div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Last Love</span></b><br />
The first episode tells the story of an unsuccesful photographer (<span style="text-align: left;"><i>Narimiya Hiroki</i>)</span> and an unsuccesful model (<i>Shiomi Yukari</i>). They meet at a photoshooting for a supermarket advertisement and the he directly fall in love with her. Some time later she invites him to the suite room to take beautiful photos of her and later tells him her secret. This episode is very sensual, but has a bittersweet ending.<br />
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The second episode is about a young couple. As birthday present for his girlfriend Riko (<i>Hasegawa Emi</i>) he (<i>Mukai Osamu</i>) wants to fulfill one of her biggest wishes - a night in a big suite. He goes to the room earlier, prepares everything and welcomes her in a nice suit. They eat birthday cake together and spend a lovely time. This episode is full of deep and true love and lets your heart melt away.</div>
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The next episode is about two guys called Takashi (<i>Kaname Jun)</i> and Mamoru <i>(Kubota Yuusuke</i>) and their female friend Risa (<i>Watanabe Naoko</i>). One day Mamoru asks Takashi what he thinks about Risa and tells him he can have her because he will die. Mamoru really died to days later and the funeral was on a rainy day. A recorded mobile phone message from the dead friend orders both to the hotel suite.</div>
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A woman, Kazuhi-san (<i>Iriyama Noriko</i>), is waiting at the suite to meet her boyfriend she is in a long distance relationship with. But he stands her up with a call. For sure she is pretty sad and tries to forget it with spending time together with the man of the room service, Takahara-san (<i>Toyohara Kosuke</i>), who takes care of her.</div>
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Except of the last episode all have a sex scene - some really passionate and with lots of deep kissing. For sure you can't see anything, but you can feel the deep emotions.</div>
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My two favorites are "Birthday" and "Last Love" which I really can recommend. "Room Service" is also nice, but maybe a little bit boring. I didn't like "Triangle" very much, because this episode is a little bit confusing.</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04602771512654511693noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2661300604263777507.post-15448915232475923102012-03-26T07:25:00.005-07:002012-03-26T07:52:13.939-07:00[J-Music] Ayumi Hamasaki - Party Queen (album)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJNCqVA_Gqwul8UZscf1csAbxnBBLtIgypD61jSosIQvKGL-iuTEfJVyetkWR63HRWW90hyn4GwN4-m42oyTbYazv6vuJYfVO2yegbTl-3kNYqJ2yDN2aW4bmGxr1cbLCVhXxDErQWJD0/s1600/jmusic.png" /></a></div><br />
Artist: Ayumi Hamasaki<br />
Album title: Party Queen<br />
Release date: 21 March 2012<br />
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The first songs made my worries real. They are up-beat songs which are really good for dancing. And I'm not really interested in such music. I did my sport workout while first listening, so it was kind of fitting music for this.<br />
Then the fifth song started and I was really surprised. In my eyes the whole style of the album changed into nice pop songs and ballad-like music. I really like this fact, even if now the title "<i>Party Queen</i>" isn't reflected anymore.<br />
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My personal highlight of the album is the song "<i>Eyes, Smoke, Magic</i>". When I first listened to it I saw a Broadway-stage in front of my eyes, with women dancing with petticoat-dresses and men in smoking. This song really gave me this kind of mood. After I now know the translation of the lyric it makes me think, because this cheerful song tells a sad story.<br />
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Another great song, in my opinion, is "<i>How Beautiful You Are</i>", which is the last song of the album. I'm especially impressed by the PV which shows people who are not looking like the average. I think it wants to tell that it doesn't matter how you look, you are always beautiful - and you are allowed to love who you want.<br />
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By now I really fall in love with Ayu's new album. I also started to like the first songs after I have listened to them more often. It's a really great album and a must-have for every fan!<br />
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(And now I'm a little bit sad that I'm not able to attend one of her concerts when I go to Japan in July this year...)<br />
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01. Party queen<br />
02. NaNaNa<br />
03. Shake It♥<br />
04. taskebab<br />
05. call<br />
06. Letter<br />
07. reminds me<br />
08. Return Road<br />
09. Tell me why<br />
10. a cup of tea<br />
11. the next LOVE<br />
12. Eyes, Smoke, Magic<br />
13. Serenade in A minor<br />
14. how beautiful you are<br />
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As always there are 3 different versions of this album. There is a "CD only" version with just the album. The "CD + DVD" version includes a DVD with PVs and making-of of 4 songs (Shake It♥", "NaNaNa", "Return Road" and "how beautiful you are"), while the other version with 2 DVDs includes another DVD with the COUNTDOWN LIVE 2011-2012 A ~HOTEL Love songs.<br />
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<span lang="EN-US">Artist: Dirty Old Men<br />
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I discovered Dirty Old Men by accident. When I tried to use Last.fm on my iPhone for the first time I listened to AJISAI radio station and the first song played was "rain show" by Dirty Old Men which I started to love directly. So I started to look for more music of this band and in the end they became one of my favorite new discoveries.</div>
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The band was formed in summer 2003 by Nobuyuki Takatsudo (Vocal&Guitar), Masamitsu Yamada (Bass) and Shinichi Notaki (Drums) in their high school days. Actually it was planed to break up after their graduation, but they received many great responses and won in a band competition and so they decided to continue. In 2006 Takumi Yamashita joined and they started to be a 4-men-band. </div>
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Artist: Yellow Fried Chickenz<br />
Single title: All My Love / Your Are The Reason<br />
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The single "All my love / You are the reason" has been released on 28 December 2011 by Yellow Fried Chickenz, shortly YFC. YFC is a project of the famous Japanese musician Gackt which he built in 2010 with some changing members. At the current YFC you find Gackt and Jon (fade) as vocals, on guitar there are Chachmaru, You and Takumi, on bass we have U:zo and on drums Luna Sea's drummer Shinya.<br />
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Both songs of this single has already been performed on YFC's European tour in summer 2011.<br />
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"All my love" is a touching ballad dedicated to the victims of the great Tohoku earthquake and tsunami which hit Japan on 11 March 2011. At live concerts the charity project "<a href="http://showyourheart.net/" target="_blank">Show Your Heart</a>" which was founded by Gackt was promoted by singing the following line with the crowd in repeat:<br />
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<i>"Close your eyes, feel your soul. All for love, show your heart!"</i><br />
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Unfortunately these lines are not included in the studio version. Actually I personally prefer the live version, maybe it's just because of the emotions I remember when I've been to the concerts.<br />
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In difference to the first song "You are the reason" is a more uptempo one, but also really great. Especially at this song the voices of both vocals mesh with each other very well, in my eyes.<br />
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There is a special versions of every song. Each have a "minus g", "minus j" and "minus g+j" version. So if you like karaoke you can sing either with Gackt or with Jon or totally alone. Instead of this I would have preferred versions sang all alone by Gackt or Jon and not with one singing only his own part and the other lines are missing...<br />
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All in all it's a really nice single and I'm glad that my dear friend Haruna-chan gave it to me ♥<br />
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0<span style="font-size: 85%;">1. ALL MY LOVE .jp</span><br />
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Because it will be Christmas tomorrow, today I want to share my Christmas playlist with you!<br />
For sure I know that not all the songs have Christmas as basic topic, but anyway they arrange a Christmas or winter like feeling. I hope you will have a wonderful Christmas time with this songs!<br />
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Merry Christmas everyone!! メリークリスマス! (^0^)~ ♥<br />
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Ayumi Hamasaki - Carols <br />
Ayumi Hamasaki - Itsuka no Merry Christmas -Live Version-<br />
Ayumi Hamasaki - Powder Snow<br />
B'z - Itsuka no Merry Christmas<br />
Dirty Old Men - Merry<br />
Dream - Everlasting Snow<br />
EXILE - Last Christmas<br />
Flumpool - Snowy Nights Serenade<br />
Gackt - 12gatsu no Love Song<br />
Gackt - December Love Song <br />
Gackt & Ayumi Hamasaki - Itsuka no Merry Christmas -Live Version-<br />
Gackt & Ayumi Hamasaki - Silent Night -Live Version-<br />
Gackt & Namie Amuro - Itsuka no Merry Christmas -Live Version-<br />
Glay - Winter Again<br />
Hikaru Utada - Can't wait 'til Christmas<br />
Koh Otani - Silent Night<br />
L'Arc~en~Ciel - Hurry X'Mas<br />
Lisa Ono - The Christmas Song<br />
Luna Sea - Happy Christmas (War is over) -Live Version- <br />
Luna Sea - White Christmas / In my dreams -Live Version-<br />
Mika Nakashima - Amazing Grace<br />
Mika Nakashima - Yuki no Hana<br />
Namie Amuro - White Light<br />
Tackey & Tsubasa - Heartful Voice<br />
Tenchi Muyo - Jingle Bells<br />
Yoko Watanabe - Last Christmas<br />
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My blog "HANABI SEKAI" now moved to BlogSpot. I think it's easier to design and leave comments here than on LiveJournal. I hope you guys will like the new design and will look here from time to time.<br />
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First thing I've got to do now: copy my reviews from LJ to my new place here (^-^)v<br />
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Hope you spent a nice 4th Sunday in Advent!<br />
Yoko-chan ♥<br />
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.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04602771512654511693noreply@blogger.com0Germany51.165691 10.45152600000005847.271573000000004 5.8637490000000581 55.059809 15.039303000000057tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2661300604263777507.post-44576658000883510362011-07-13T22:06:00.000-07:002011-12-18T10:41:24.880-08:00[J-Music] Versailles - Holy Grail (album)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJNCqVA_Gqwul8UZscf1csAbxnBBLtIgypD61jSosIQvKGL-iuTEfJVyetkWR63HRWW90hyn4GwN4-m42oyTbYazv6vuJYfVO2yegbTl-3kNYqJ2yDN2aW4bmGxr1cbLCVhXxDErQWJD0/s1600/jmusic.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJNCqVA_Gqwul8UZscf1csAbxnBBLtIgypD61jSosIQvKGL-iuTEfJVyetkWR63HRWW90hyn4GwN4-m42oyTbYazv6vuJYfVO2yegbTl-3kNYqJ2yDN2aW4bmGxr1cbLCVhXxDErQWJD0/s1600/jmusic.png" /></a></div><br />
Artist: Versailles<br />
Album title: Holy Grail<br />
Release date: 15th June 2011<br />
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Versaille's new album "Holy Grail" was released on 15th June 2011. It is starting with the string & choir intro of the song called "MASQUERADE" fading into a kind of up-beat number. More powerful songs are following. Including strong choirs, great guitar and bass playing and simply a great atmosphere.<br />
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Surprisingly for me, there are a lot of ballad-like songs at the album. For example "Remember Forever" and "Destiny -The Lovers-" (with strings and piano). But the song I most like is "Love will be born again". It's a very emotional ballad sang totally in English - and it gives you a kind of melanchoilc feeling. It's simply beautiful. And for sure another awesome song is "Faith & Decision" which has a length of over 16 minutes!! First I thought it is only an instrumental piece with awesome guitar playing, but suddenly at nearly the half of the song Kamijo begins singing. Great song!!<br />
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All in all I'm totally amazed of this album. I haven't listened to Versailles for a while and I'm really happy that I found back to them and their music!<br />
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01. MASQUERADE<br />
02. Philia<br />
03. Thanatos<br />
04. Flowery<br />
05. Remember Forever<br />
06. Destiny-The Lovers-<br />
07. DRY ICE SCREAM!! [Remove Silence]<br />
08. Threshold<br />
09. Judicial Noir<br />
10. Love will be born again<br />
11. Vampire<br />
12. Faith & Decision<br />
13. The Theme of Holy Grail<br />
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The limited edition contains a bonus DVD with a music video, and the deluxe box edition contains a bonus DVD with music videos featuring each members and music video making-of. This edition also comes with a poster and a 100-page booklet.<br />
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This time I want to introduce "<u><b>BLUE PLANET JAPAN</b></u>" to you. It is an charity project and band by Japanese Visual Kei musicians for the Great East Japan Earthquake from 11th March 2011.<br />
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The project was started by the bands “DaizyStripper”,”A” and "FEST VAINQUEUR”. Since then many members of other visual kei bands have joined to raise money and bring hope to disaster areas. All togehter they made a new song which is called "Hitotsu dake ~we are the one~" (ひとつだけ~We Are The One~). All profits of this song will be donated.<br />
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Their first performance was on 25th June 2011 at Shibuya O-West. Here is a video of the live:<br />
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DaizyStripper (whole band), A (whole band), FEST VAINQUEUR (whole band), heidi. (Yoshihiko), Versailles (Teru, Hizaki), amber gris (Temari), Dolly (Mitsu), aicle (Emiru), Kiryu (Mahiro Kurosaki), ex.Wizard (Hiro), DASEIN (Ricky), Lips (Suzuya), and more...<br />
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<span lang="EN-US">Artist: GLANZ ZEIT<br />
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<span lang="EN-US">Yesterday I discovered this band by chance because while I’m German I thought the band name is pretty interesting. So I listened to some of their songs on YouTube.com and totally fall in love with them.<br />
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GLANZ ZEIT was formed in 2009 with its members Masaki (vocal), Nori.H.Hikaru (guitar), Hiro (guitar), Nari (bass) and Zen (drums, special member) - band leader is bassist Nari. This band is mainly operating outside of Osaka and has a range of interesting and fun songs, a great stage presence and a lot of promise and hopefully a bright future.</span><br />
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While this band is still very unknown I can't find much information about them. Hopefully soon there will be more!<br />
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Here is a live from May 5th 2011 which the band uploaded on YouTube.com. I hope you like it (^-^)<br />
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Have fun everyone with this new band ♥Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04602771512654511693noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2661300604263777507.post-27562654952658618702011-04-25T12:30:00.000-07:002011-12-18T09:55:57.307-08:00[J-Music] Luna Sea - Promise (song)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJNCqVA_Gqwul8UZscf1csAbxnBBLtIgypD61jSosIQvKGL-iuTEfJVyetkWR63HRWW90hyn4GwN4-m42oyTbYazv6vuJYfVO2yegbTl-3kNYqJ2yDN2aW4bmGxr1cbLCVhXxDErQWJD0/s1600/jmusic.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJNCqVA_Gqwul8UZscf1csAbxnBBLtIgypD61jSosIQvKGL-iuTEfJVyetkWR63HRWW90hyn4GwN4-m42oyTbYazv6vuJYfVO2yegbTl-3kNYqJ2yDN2aW4bmGxr1cbLCVhXxDErQWJD0/s1600/jmusic.png" /></a></div><br />
Artist: Luna Sea<br />
Song title: Promise<br />
Release date: 9th April 2011<br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisAQyJsOwzm39_9rouCIJr4Pw6FLmqHuBzrO1-Ikmo2EeLwJWARmxv_LoUOZZLU64Hj65h253Sb3Bz-U9KdFva0CttKkqkp9Iybk35NWBO5eA3p6e_b8VO7zQrHPUD1vaKtLJVb5pT_ho/s1600/lunaseapromise.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="288" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisAQyJsOwzm39_9rouCIJr4Pw6FLmqHuBzrO1-Ikmo2EeLwJWARmxv_LoUOZZLU64Hj65h253Sb3Bz-U9KdFva0CttKkqkp9Iybk35NWBO5eA3p6e_b8VO7zQrHPUD1vaKtLJVb5pT_ho/s320/lunaseapromise.jpg" width="320" /> </a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Luna Sea published their first new song after 10 years as a digital single on 9th April 2011 (download able on Amazon). All proceeds will be donated to disaster relief efforts to help those affected by the Tohoku earthquake and tsunami from 11th March 2011. First the new song was called "Promised Night" but the title was changed to "PROMISE".</div><br />
According to the kind of sad lyric the song sounds very happy and gives you some hope. Mainly it is an amazing sound and has a very catchy tune - and I most of all like the ending of the song. It's absolutely a great new song for Luna Sea to release after such a long time!<br />
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<span style="font-size: larger;"><b>Lyric</b></span><br />
(Romaji & Translation taken from <a href="http://www.sweetestcoma.com/forum/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Sweetest Coma Forum</a> - I think the translation is good)<br />
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<tr><td>Kimi ga hanatsuyo totsuzen no senkou<br />
Yakusoku no chi wa idakareta tenkuu<br />
Hotobashiru ase no nioi ni yomigaeru kioku<br />
Kagayaki dashita nosa Tonight<br />
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Hibiki aeru ima dokomademo<br />
Kimi ni aitakute hayaku<br />
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Furidashita bakari ni suginai kono ame<br />
Mukui bakari o uketeiru you na jidai<br />
Aoide ten ni hajizu ima koso hirogeyou tsubasa<br />
Mabushi sugiru chikai Tonight<br />
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Hibiki aeru hi mo bokura nara<br />
Kimi ni aitakute hayaku<br />
Kimi ni aitakute<br />
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Yozora o terasetara<br />
Ima koso Your Life tokihanate<br />
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Yoru o kirisaite kimi o ubaitai<br />
Tonight<br />
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Hibiki aeru ima kanata made<br />
Kimi ni aitakute hayaku<br />
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Kimi ni aitakute ima mo<br />
...aitakute...kimi ni</td><td>You emitted a sudden flash<br />
In the promised land nestled in the sky<br />
Memories recalled by the scent of pouring sweat<br />
Began to shine tonight<br />
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We are now completely attuned<br />
I want to see you soon<br />
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In this rain that has only just begun to fall<br />
In this era that has only received punishment<br />
Looking up we are not ashamed in the presence of heaven<br />
The wings we shall spread right now<br />
The too-radiant promise tonight<br />
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If we are now attuned<br />
I want to see you soon<br />
I want to see you<br />
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If it will illuminate the night sky<br />
Now is the time to set your life free<br />
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Tearing through the night I want to sing of you <br />
Tonight<br />
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We are now attuned across the other side<br />
I want to see you soon<br />
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I want to see you even now<br />
I miss you</td></tr>
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Luna Sea - Teaser for Promise</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span>Name: The Great Happiness Space - Tales Of An Osaka Love Thief<br />
Released: 2006<br />
Directed & produced by: Jake Clennell (UK)</span></span><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzkf7tWdy0B44TlzCKL7ZjJrQDMqGfDA-Ahc8ieJdx2CU9_7cjE7iMSEPFzvV9RaLMioktnfaKXjuWK7NK2NANZjkTTNdTUVxReNKcReBnqO8IcZXhSXMYQ9i7lvgrg_G-qW_sfrv7xwE/s1600/happiness01.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="255" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzkf7tWdy0B44TlzCKL7ZjJrQDMqGfDA-Ahc8ieJdx2CU9_7cjE7iMSEPFzvV9RaLMioktnfaKXjuWK7NK2NANZjkTTNdTUVxReNKcReBnqO8IcZXhSXMYQ9i7lvgrg_G-qW_sfrv7xwE/s400/happiness01.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: small;"><span></span><span>This documentary is about the "Rakkyo Café" which is an host club in Osaka. It's owner is the 22 years old Issei, who is also the number 1 host in the city, and his staff of around twenty boys working in this club. All of this boys are under Issei's training to become the top escorts of Osaka's underground love scene. During their training, they learn how to dress, how to talk, how to walk, and most importantly, how to fake relationships with the girls who become their source of income. The documentary takes you on a journey through the complex and heart-wrenching world of love for sale in the Japanese underground.<br />
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I watched this documentary because I toughed it sounds very interesting - and for sure it is! After watching it I was in an odd mood, some kind of strange like if you don't really know how to feel about it. The documentary really helps you to understand this scene more through interviews with the male hosts and their female customers. You can learn why the customers are coming there and what the host thinks about some of them. There are some really sad parts in it which really made me think...<br />
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Jack Channel made a really great documentary of this mysterious underground scene, describing the backgrounds very well. Which is still in my ears is the sentence of Issei that the "hosts are selling dreams to their costumers" - a kind of good description for the slogan of his host club.<br />
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And while I don't have any preview clip here is another picture - Issei and two of his boys (^-^)</span></span><br />
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Artist: Miyavi<br />
Album title: What's my name?<br />
Release date: 13th October 2010<br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCM3OuwYa_AaELco6vAjOJ4c-kFPQ69gOqV7tVO12mXYW7hB6swDIbVWZnC_MMsWkm5FQ-loay_pp2lTkIZbdzPW3g8oaH7miXyciMirWeHGp-m3lri9ZX9cdYAfU6kSVoJc_b4yCV5nA/s1600/myvwhatsmyname.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="314" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCM3OuwYa_AaELco6vAjOJ4c-kFPQ69gOqV7tVO12mXYW7hB6swDIbVWZnC_MMsWkm5FQ-loay_pp2lTkIZbdzPW3g8oaH7miXyciMirWeHGp-m3lri9ZX9cdYAfU6kSVoJc_b4yCV5nA/s320/myvwhatsmyname.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: left;">While on Saturday it's finally time that I will see Miyavi live again on his world tour "What's my name" it's also time to write a little review of his latest album with the same title.<br />
It's hard to tell what this album is like - typically miyavi, may this is the easiest way to judge it. You can hear his unique guitar skills and his awesome way to sing. On this album there are a lot of catchy tunes, up-beat numbers but also songs with meaningful lyrics.<br />
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Let's say something to some of the songs. My favorite song is the most silent song of the album: "Sutekina mirai" which (if I remember it right) was written for his first daughter Lovelie and means "a wonderful future" - and for sure it is a really wonderful ballad. Next very touching song is "Gravity" - this song is simply amazing. It touched me very deeply especially because of the passion you can feel in Miyavi's singing. Some more party-songs are "A-ha" (which totally reminds me of the song "Boom-hah-boom-hah-hah"), "What's my name?" and "Torture", which I'm really looking forward to hear live at the concert. Two other songs I really love and which are really catchy tunes are "I love you, I love you, I love you, and I hate you" and "Super Hero". I'm singing this songs all day long in the last weeks.<br />
All in all, Miyavi's latest album is really great and a must-have for every Miyavi fan ♥<br />
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<u>Tracklist:</u><br />
01 WHAT'S MY NAME ? <br />
02 Torture <br />
03 A-ha <br />
04 Chillin' Chillin' Money Blue$ <br />
05 I love you, I love you, I love you, and I hate you. <br />
06 Moon <br />
07 Gravity <br />
08 Universe <br />
09 Unbreakable <br />
10 Shelter <br />
11 Super Hero (album ver.) <br />
12 Sutekina Mirai <br />
13 Futuristic Love <br />
14 Survive (album ver.)<br />
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Here is a radio live as sample of the album:</div><div style="text-align: left;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/-iL2Vg9qiPg" width="560"></iframe></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04602771512654511693noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2661300604263777507.post-83881139691415126772011-03-29T16:31:00.000-07:002011-12-18T09:36:46.723-08:00[J-Movie] Tengoku ha mattekureru<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0-SXh_TI-e1WKEWQZAofTXj3C97WrjOShgwdgWfClBKXRmTn_G7MPAcLmaST7UGn5j6ixqBJLdCVNS-jI99iFynUyd97y6TkkniR4s1_-Z08pq0R7YljRFJdQTAu5rwp0VB61lmkd81o/s1600/jmovie.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0-SXh_TI-e1WKEWQZAofTXj3C97WrjOShgwdgWfClBKXRmTn_G7MPAcLmaST7UGn5j6ixqBJLdCVNS-jI99iFynUyd97y6TkkniR4s1_-Z08pq0R7YljRFJdQTAu5rwp0VB61lmkd81o/s1600/jmovie.png" /></a></div>Name: Tengoku wa mattekureru | 天国はくれる<br />
English title: Heaven can wait, maybe…<br />
Released: 2007<br />
Main Actors: Yoshihiko Inohara, Aya Okamoto, Shunsuke Kiyokiba, Ayumi Ishida, Ken Ishiguro, Keizo Kanie, Erika Toda<br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhnBqVp-I4qCpI9N0G8jx4rKor0iuL4P_qrgKuhyHZ6EDeIqdOo8hB5AxIQetqkW3Ps9vassLxtIboBFykxow-xJnA8wOFDc8_tb2WERgpMh4gaqWZcJI0SRHprFyLsiGlnBKIAOXJO44/s1600/tengokuha.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhnBqVp-I4qCpI9N0G8jx4rKor0iuL4P_qrgKuhyHZ6EDeIqdOo8hB5AxIQetqkW3Ps9vassLxtIboBFykxow-xJnA8wOFDc8_tb2WERgpMh4gaqWZcJI0SRHprFyLsiGlnBKIAOXJO44/s320/tengokuha.jpg" width="224" /> </a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Hiroki (Yoshihiko Inohara), Takeshi (Shunsuke Kiyokiba) and Kauro (Aya Okamoto) have been life long friends. As children they talked about their friendship as being a sacred triangle. Now as adults they are still best friends. Hiroki works as a reporter, Kauro works in a fashionable part of the Ginza district and Takeshi works in the fish market. Although Kauro and Hiroki seem to have been in love since their early days Takeshi proposes to Kauro in front of Hiroki. Although Hiroki looks distraught, he can only give his blessings to his best friend’s wishes. Takeshi and Kauro are now set to get married until suddenly a tragedy happens.</div><br />
I enjoyed watching this movie very much because it’s filled with a lot of love and warmth. The story of a friendship that has to go through a very hard time - always supported by the love of their families. It shows in a very heart-touching way how strong a friendship can be – and it made me cry at the end (q_q)<br />
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Trailer:<br />
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English title: The Graduates<br />
Released: 2007<br />
Main Actors: Nana Eikura, Mitsuki Tanimura, Naojiro Hayashi, Tasuku Emoto, Hoshi Ishida<br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivgCrldCtVB1fUHNmps8OU6OYP-1GMIwOrmjRcBQeNckxRFjIBcF-mUBLh_v4c__0fz1Okv9ziHcA3uz6QNP0sPvm0LFgweTZ4fQQxczzuP13mGhoZBTz2_lsl0_km0M0oYX8L7odv9Hg/s1600/lemonnokoro.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivgCrldCtVB1fUHNmps8OU6OYP-1GMIwOrmjRcBQeNckxRFjIBcF-mUBLh_v4c__0fz1Okv9ziHcA3uz6QNP0sPvm0LFgweTZ4fQQxczzuP13mGhoZBTz2_lsl0_km0M0oYX8L7odv9Hg/s1600/lemonnokoro.jpg" /> </a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">This is a movie about five normal seniors at a rural high school, and their experiences and emotions in the year leading to graduation. Band conductor Kayoko (Nana Eikura) is a smart and strong-willed girl who plans to attend a Tokyo university after high school. She seems to have her life completely in order, but her changing relationships with baseball players Takumi (Hoshi Ishida) and Tomizo (Tasuku Emoto) throw things into confusion. Meanwhile, aspiring music reviewer Megumi (Mitsuki Tanimura) finds a soulmate in singer Kazuya (Naojiro Hayashi).<br />
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A very cute coming-of-age movie. It includes two different stories. First one is about the strong band conductor Kayoko falls in love with a guy but has to think about their future together, because she wants to go to university in Tokyo. I liked the second story a little bit more – it’s about the girl Megumi who wants to write music reviews for magazines, but has no self-confidence. But then she falls in love with the guitarist and singer Kazuya who asks her to write a lyric for his new song. I really liked the song which was played at the school festival at the end of the movie.<br />
All in all, I like the movie. It’s a little bit slow, but it’s also ok this way. If you like high school movies you should watch this one.<br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Name: Boys Love<br />
Released: 2006-11-24<br />
Main Actors: Yoshikazu Kotani, Takumi Saitou, Hiroya Matsumoto</span><br />
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If I remember right this was the first movie of the boys love genre I ever watched - and I was very impressed. It's a really wonderful movie, heart-touching and unfortunately very sad. I cried very much at the end. Something really great is the point that they always show quotations of famous people about love which are connected to the story. A most have seen movie for all fans of boys love genre! </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
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More about boys love movies? Look here: </span></span><br />
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Released: 2010<br />
Main Actors: Aoi Miyazaki, Kengo Kora, Kenta Kiritani, Yoichi Konto, Ayumi Ito, ...<br />
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"Solanin" is the story of the girl Meiko (Aoi Miyazaki) working as an office lady in a job she hates. Her boyfriend Naruo (Kengo Kora) has a part-time job as an animator and lives with her in the apartment. He has a rockband together with his college friends, but the band hasn't got out of the "practice" stage. <br />
One day, Meiko decides she has had enough with her office job and quits. When Naruo hears of her decision, he worries about their lack of income and how live should go on. Meiko saved enough money to live for a year without working and hopes to find herself during this time. Also she would like her boyfriend to become serious with his band and supports him. Meiko tries to find happiness, but suddenly some things happen...<br />
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I watched this movie a few days ago and while the first hour of watching I thought that it's kind of boring. But I went on watching and suddenly it became really interesting - and I even cried very badly at the end. By now I can say that it's a wonderful movie with a very touching and sad love story. A must-have-seen-movie for all Aoi Miyazaki fans!<br />
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I really like the song Meiko is singing at the end - the song also the movie is named after: Solanin.<br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Artist: AJISAI<br />
Album title: Pocket Life<br />
Release date: 12th January 2011<br />
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At the beginning of 2011 the band AJISAI released their 3rd album called "Pocket Life".<br />
While I'm a big fan of AJISAI for sure I bought the album shortly after releasing. And I have to say that this is a really wonderful CD. When you start listening to this album you are welcomed by a powerful "hallo! hallo!" and a very catchy and happy tune. The most catchy song of this album for sure is the latest single of AJISAI which has been released on 15th December 2010 - "<i>Love lala love</i>". A very touching song you can't get out of your head anymore if you once listened to it.<br />
Certainly there are also a few calm songs, just like "Shikisai", a wonderful song for day-dreaming. All in all this CD has a very possitive sound and it makes you want to sing along. It's the perfect soundtrack for sunny days. <br />
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Please listened to this wonderful band which is not well-known right now. But they are really worth to become famous!!<br />
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<u>Tracklist:</u><br />
01 Hallo<br />
02 Kokuhaku<br />
03 Love Lala Love<br />
04 Sekai wo nagure<br />
05 Tokyo<br />
06 Sakamichi Pedal<br />
07 Last Letter<br />
08 Fukanshoukougun<br />
09 Mayonaka no yuuenchi<br />
10 Sounanshingou<br />
11 Install<br />
12 Tada hitori no uta<br />
13 Shikisai </span><br />
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The limited edition of the album includes a DVD with the promotion videos of the songs "Ai Kotoba", "Sakura Namiki", "Niji", "Nagareboshi", "Senkouhanabi" and "Love Lala Love". </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">More info about AJISAI?? Watch out here:<br />
<a href="http://www.ajisaiweb.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Official Website</a> | <a href="http://www.nemuranai-sakana.de.ms/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Nemuranai Sakana (english fansite)</a> | <a href="http://www.cdjapan.co.jp/detailview.html?KEY=DLCR-11012" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Buy CD</a></span><br />
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(in Japanese: 俺たちに明日はないッス)<br />
<u>Released:</u> 2008<br />
<u>Main Actors:</u> Sakura Andou, Tokio Emoto, Yuuya Endou, Ini Kusano, Sora Aoi and more<br />
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This movie released in 2008 is about the difficult love/sex-lives of 6 high school students.<br />
The 17 year-old Hiruma is desperate to get laid and takes out his sexual urges on Anpai, a fat boy who has "boobs". Anpai suddenly gets into a relationship with the beautiful Akie which secretly is attracted by sumo wrestlers. Another girl, Chizu, who doesn't have a mother and knows nothing about the female body asks her male classmate Mine to teach her everything about sex. And while Tomono is in a serious relationship with a married teacher, suddenly also Himura gets interested in her.<br />
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I found this movie by chance while I was looking around for new movies and thought the DVD cover is interesting. So I finally watched it last night and don't really know what to say. I think this movie is kind of weird in my eyes. Don't know why, but it's not the way I like this movie very much. I mean it's very interesting to see the different stories of the teens... but somehow... don't know. But I started to like Anpai *laugh*<br />
After all I would say it's not a "most-have-seen-movie", but it's ok. And it is not for kids ;D<br />
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<u>Name:</u> Sunao ni Narenakute - Hard to say I love you<br />
<u>Aired:</u> April~June 2010 on FujiTV<br />
<u>Main actors</u>: Eita, Juri Ueno, Megumi Seki, Tetsuji Tamayama, Jaejoong Hero<br />
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This drama from 2010 is about 5 people who got to know each other with the help of Twitter. This people are: Keisuke "Nakaji" Nakajjma (Eita), a talented photographer who is aiming to become a war photographer like his father; Tsukiko "Haru" Mizuno (Juri Ueno), a young openhearted woman wants to become a high school teacher; her best friend Hikari "Peach" Nishimaru (Megumi Seki) whose boyfriend left her after she found out she is pregnant; Kaoru "Linda" Ichihara, who works at a magazine he is blackmailed into sexual favours by his chief editor; and Seonsu "Doctor" Park, an Korean working at a company that sells medical equipment to disinterested doctors, and at the same time, trying to take care of his younger sister.<br />
The five are meeting at a bar called "Emotion" and finally get close friends in real life - especially connected with love. But a lot of things will happen to each of them...<br />
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A wonderful story about love, strength in life, how to find to yourself and following your dreams. I really enjoyed watching the drama and only can recommend it to everyone of you!<br />
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I also like the two theme songs. One is "Hard to say I love you" by the band Weaver which is a really catching tune. The other one is "Sunao ni Narenakute by Sayuri Sugawara.<br />
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