Translations of 'Kitto Daijoubu' single done!/Kiiroi Namida preview

[noesunexito.livejournal.com]

Yep, Kitto Daijoubu, Harukaze Sneaker, and NA! NA! NA!! are all translated and done!

If you already saw the Kitto Daijoubu translations, then I recommend going again because I based those off of the SC premium performance and realized things were missing/switched around a bit. Also, if you don't have the PV yet I upped it to a personal server for easy downloading.

Also for those of you who haven't seen, this is a little news clip about their new movie:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEP9NFmO2P4

There really isn't anything that's mentioned in there that wasn't mentioned in the news article I translated a while back, except that they're emphasizing Jun's Iwate accent (lol inakaaa) and Sho's Kansai accent.
Also this:
Sho: We get to see things from the 60's like movies, magazines...
Aiba: ...prices....
Sho: PRICES?
Aiba: Like, you know, "Cigarettes, 10 yen"

Also, I think they did a pretty good job costumes and hair-wise, except factually speaking Nino looks the most authentic. If any of y'all want to know more about the post-war era in Japan, I'm all up on that business, so unfortunately no hot mod styles (although I really wish someone would have been into the whole underground hip culture, but w/e).

Comments

[insomnikat.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the youtube link!
*gawks and cries at the sight of Jun's hair* HAHAHAHAHANooooooOOOOOooOoOoo

But they all look dorky cute. Ahh, the 60's. I can probably deal with the more subdued colors than flower power. I'd just watch Kitto Daijoubu for a fix of that. :p

[noesunexito.livejournal.com]

Actually, this movie would be ridiculous if they set it in the 70s. They'd have hotter hair, but they'd also be wearing 8012 different colors in like, paisley.

[insomnikat.livejournal.com]

Bwahahaha. I dunno. Sure we'd run a high risk of going colorblind watching such a movie, but it might also induce a feeling of psychedelic euphoria. :p

*continues to cry over Jun's hair* I suppose it wouldn't rip a little part of my heart from Jun so if it didn't POOF so much in the front. I just wanna... run onto the set and smack it down. Honest, that's all. No groping. LOL.

[red-kei.livejournal.com]

love ur icon XP!

[noesunexito.livejournal.com]

It's about time for Jun to rock the frumpy chic. =P

[naniwa-elle.livejournal.com]

櫻井＋関西弁＝理想の男

[noesunexito.livejournal.com]

その通り。
Also, I enjoy his dirty non-shaven look. I'd do him.

[naniwa-elle.livejournal.com]

When is there a time where one of us WOULDN'T do Sakurai?

[noesunexito.livejournal.com]

touche! you got me there.

[(Anonymous)]

I was thinking the same thing, babe. ^____^

[yumenoko.livejournal.com]

Gya! LJ didn't log me in this time, sorry! That was me!!

[genshoku-gal.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the mini-translation about Aiba. XD He's so cute!

[winteryuki.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the trans of the lyrics! your GOD! XD

[noesunexito.livejournal.com]

rofl don't thank me, I didn't have enough time today to do a formal translation either =P

[missatralissa.livejournal.com]

oh i'm interested now in hearing about the post-war era in Japan.

[noesunexito.livejournal.com]

wait, for real?
or are you being a miss sarcastic-pants =P

[missatralissa.livejournal.com]

for real. please share. ^^

[noesunexito.livejournal.com]

oh man, i'm getting into excited history nerd mode.
Er, what part? The economic? political? cultural? fashion trends? Literature and art movements? lolz i am a Japanese history wota.

[missatralissa.livejournal.com]

hmm... i'm interested in it all, but to save you from having to explain to much how about literature and art movements for 500. er... yeah.

[noesunexito.livejournal.com]

Sweet, actually the 60's in Japan was really interesting in how rapidly it changed. Basically the year that Arashi's film is set in (1964) is generally known as the turning point between post-war depression (the 50s were generally a bleak time in Japan, what with the ruins of Tokyo after fire bombings and the atomic bombs. Also they had horrid food rationing, and some people had to live on large packets of gum and nothing else. Prostitution was really bad because the one 'safe' way of getting effective money, which was only US dollars at the time was to sleep with US soldiers.) and the 'economic miracle' that carried all they way until the early nineties.
Well, Enka was quite a nationally popular song genre and on the literary front there was this movement towards actually talking about WWII (right after the war anything about the war etc was censored) with some neo-right wing authors coming into the forefront (like Yukio Mishima. He's quite a character). In manga and art, there was a movement towards darker topics and less 'cute' art (in the 50s it was mostly Tezuka) and during this period there were various experimental films and the like. But in the popular culture front 1964 was the official date that TV won over all other mediums in Japan. It was because of the emperor's wedding and the Olympics that got everyone to rush out and buy tv sets even though they were ridiculously expensive.
Whew, that's it in a nutshell. I have pictures of covers from Myojo magazine back in the 60s which show how well Nino's short hair matches what was considered good looking for men back then.

[missatralissa.livejournal.com]

do you know when they started making mangas?

and i've always wondered about the origins of Enka.

i'd love to see those Myojo covers. ^^

i really need to do more research on the history of Japan this summer.

thanks.

[noesunexito.livejournal.com]

There's a bit of debate depending on what school of thought you're in. Like, if you're in the neo-orientalist (i'm iffy on the name because I've only read articles that are against this thought movement so they call them 'neo-orientalists' even though that's not a very nice thing to say) movement, people say that like, 12th century buddhist scrolls were the first 'manga'. But generally for modern manga Osamu Tezuka's 1947 manga "Shintakarajima" (new treasure island) is relegated as the first manga in the modern sense. Back then those books were called akabon because they were printed on cheap red paper that got popularity because they were cheap entertainment for the financially strained post-war population. Alhtough there were comics before him, what makes his work 'manga' is that he uses cinematic techniques.
I can't help you much on Enka, but I do know a lot about Jazz in Japan. I think Enka gained popularity in the 60s because that's when there was that whole neo-nationalism movement going on.
I had one scanned in for the history of JE post part II i put in [Bad username or site: @ livejournal.com], but that was 1969 so longer hair was getting in fashion. The only one I have scanned in is from 1967 when longer hair was getting into fashion but it's the basic idea:

I can recommend a lot of good books. After all it is my major =P

[missatralissa.livejournal.com]

ah cool, i had always wondered what the first manga was and what it looked like. thanks.

that cover is cute!

any book recommendations would be lovely, i will have a lot of time this where i can't do much but read. ^^

thank you again.

[noesunexito.livejournal.com]

Well if you want to know more about the history of manga, then I highly recomment Frederik L. Schodt's book "Manga! Manga! The World of Japanese Comics". I don't remember if it's out of print or something, but my crappy Orlando, FL library had it so I assume your library in Cali should have it. Other than that, I recommend any general overview of Japanese history because you can't go too wrong with that.

Np, I love talking about this stuff.

[ryoko293.livejournal.com]

does this mean that we might get a chance to hear some sweet enka songs on teh ost?? :D

[missatralissa.livejournal.com]

i need to go find some japanese history books. i also need a kanji dictionary like whoa.

thanks again.

[red-kei.livejournal.com]

I want to DOWNLAOD the neeews. . . where can I get it? may you please provide it to me?. . and if it's in a comm somewhere. . ahah, I haven't gotten to it yet..dumgigantic f-list

[noesunexito.livejournal.com]

I actually just got it, so wait a few minutes while I upload it ^^