“Bamboo Branch Verse” to depict local customs, cultures, and their diasporic experiences. This genre has a folksong origin, and is traditionally used by literati writers to describe local folkways and secular love in exotic places. Li Qingnian’s Nanyang zhuzhici huibian shows that no fewer ...
They inform them of the Grim Comet and leave to find Osamu Kirin. The right arm of the rouge Beast King explains his love for how humanity has evolved on their own and that he wants to ensure their survival as they will remain utterly oblivious to their sudden extinction. The Half-...
True love. But when Lia disappears, Chase’s life turns into a series of grim snapshots. Anger. Grief. Running. Pink pills in an Altoids tin. A cheating ring at school. Heartbreak and lies. A catastrophic secret. And the shocking truth that will change everything about the way Chase ...
なつこ: And they don’t give people nice feelings and へらへらthat could be a grim but also it could be a laugh and it could be used to describe a vague or meaningless grin. Peter: Umm [*]へらへら could mean the grin or a smile some people wear when they are embarrassed. なつ...
there is a flesh-and-blood person underneath. All of this may sound a bit grim, and while Amin's story contains plenty of heartbreaking moments and an ever-present reminder that there are people around the world dealing with crises like this right this very second, there are also moments ...
history and pull out some prime ’80s sleaze (9 1/2 Weeks, Body Double), international and arthouse flicks (3-D Sex and Zen, Romance), LGBTQ-focused (Blue is the Warmest Color, Stranger by the Lake), and threw in stuff that may or may not be straight-up porn (9 Songs, Love)....
the jarring, or the guitar tone is too screeching, or there’s simply too much clatter going on. Instinctively, his eyebrows raise, his pupils bug, and he widens his lips to show his clenched teeth. Picture the “grimacing” emoji come to life, only with a graying mustache in the ...
songs like Anri’s “Good Bye Boogie Dance” and Kaoru Akimoto’s “Dress Down.” At one point, a 2016 remix of “Plastic Love” by South Korean producer Night Tempo had surpassed the original on search engines; Takeuchi herself later thanked him for breathing new life into the song. Thes...
The only two major hit songs of Puffy AmiYumi to be put as an instrumental version is Yumi’s solo hit “I Want You To live A Long Time”, and the group’s “Your Love is A Drug” song. This is understandable as the lyrics of I Want You To Live A Long Time in the Japanese ve...
The show was produced by Japan’s Toei Animation, and it was a hit. Transforming robots, what’s not to love! There was also Gobots that predated it a bit, from Tonka and Hanna-Barbera, and the less said about that. To me, the highlight was 1986’s Transformers: The Movie, set ...