TikTok Wipe It Down Challenge #Japan #Korea

Featuring some of the best compilations of TikTok's #WipeItDown challenge from Japan and Korea! Check it out!

Jpop VS. Kpop videos

 What do you all think about Jpop versus Kpop? Should we focus more on Kpop on our blog?

For everyone who is curious, check out the videos below for some Jpop vs. Kpop action. 

Can you tell the differences between Jpop and Kpop?

2021

2020

🇯🇵 日本のシティポップ ～𝗝𝗔𝗣𝗔𝗡𝗘𝗦𝗘 "𝗡𝗘𝗪 𝗬𝗘𝗔𝗥" 𝗖𝗜𝗧𝗬 𝗣𝗢𝗣 𝗖𝗢𝗠𝗣𝗜𝗟𝗔𝗧𝗜𝗢𝗡～

🔊 Tracklist: 『00:00』: DIMENSION // Nudistic 『04:38』: 福村博 ft. 渡辺貞夫 // Hunt Up Wing 『10:34』: Char // Shinin’ You, Shinin’ Day 『16:19』: 角松敏生 // ILE AIYE～WAになっておどろう 『25:14』: 山下達郎 // ラスト・ステップ 『29:11』: 大橋純子 // Dancin’ 『33:09』: 山下達郎 // メリー・ゴー・ラウンド 『44:13』: カルロス・トシキ&オメガトライブ // Reiko 『48:22』: Char // Let It Blow 『54:02』: 堀井勝美プロジェクト // Summers’ 『58:56』: 山下達郎 // Hot Shot 『01:04:43』: イエローマジックオーケストラ // Rydeen

#citypop #シティーポップ #citypopcompilation

Voice Actress Nozomi Kasuga & Yukari Anzai Say "Happy New Year" in 30 Languages

 

"Do Yu No the Radio," 

voice actress Nozomi Kasuga (the voice of the virtual YouTuber Kizuna AI)

and 

Yukari Anzai (Tiara in Lapis Re:Lights) 

Otaku Reviewers: RPGhero Rants

Hi all! RPGHero here!

What if tomorrow was your last day on Earth? Does that seem scary? It truly is scary, and it makes me truly fear leaving everything behind. I'd never see another anime, hug another human being, or go on a trip anywhere (let alone to an anime convention or concert).

The things we do make us who we are! If I was never into Japanese anime or Japanese music, I don't think I would be a good person. There are some days where it's harder for me to be good because I feel like nobody else agrees with the way of life I love. There's nothing wrong with them, they just never had the chance to give Japanese anime or music a serious chance, they're the ones who miss out in the end! Japanese culture is very good to me, even though other people think it's corny, I love it even though I'm African-American.

Thank you Japan for your great culture, great music, and great anime! :D

PokemonGO hits NYC My-Sweet-Home!

PokemonGO is the summer's new emerging fad among kids and older kids/twenty-somethings. They're all walking around town trying to catch the Pikachu of their dreams. If it were that simple, we would have had something like PokemonGO for everything we do, right? Like food and google maps!

Leaving all of that aside, and how you met your teacher on the bus. There's much more about PokemonGO that fans and otaku think are pretty cool. With the game, the app installed on your smart phone, you can go anywhere your phone goes and catch some of your favorite pokemon 150 or 350. Places have been geo-cached for the app and their stats such as climate, people traffic, leisure electronics, accounts of the players are all merged for the game's interface. That means that if your phone is good enough you can interact with all of those things in the Pokemon Universe. However, be careful because if you're walking the excitement can add to the stress of traveling down the street, whatever that is for you.

The game has Pokemon battle functions there also so some willing trainers may want to fight. If you both agree to a duel, you match your Pokemon with theirs to grow their stats, if you win. The battles can happen anywhere the two players are so they're added to the game's interface capability. Even if you don't battle just playing adds to the PokemonGO system.

It kind of makes us wonder, will Pokemon come out with a DS game with better and more things to do. It would already have been geocached to myriads of millions of places and tech. So play as much PokemonGO as you want and you'll become a Pokemon master before Christmas!

Taste Test : Ramen bombs and Ramen PIzza

I’m sure some of you have seen the little recipe video floating around Facebook for Ramen Bombs by TabiEats, right? I decided to try them out since I was feeling a bit brave...and hungry.

Alright, I wasn’t that brave. I skipped out on the Takoyaki sauce, mayo and bonito flakes since I don’t like 2 of the 3 and didn’t really have a way to get the other. They looked really good and tasted better than I thought.

The only thing I suggest is to refrigerate the ramen balls for an hour or longer. Also don’t forget to add the seasoning packet! It really makes a difference in the taste.

After watching the recipe, YouTube autoplayed another recipe for Ramen Pizza, also by TabiEats. It looked good, so I tried it out about a week or two later. It’s pretty easy if you follow the directions. ^^;

I suggest seasoning the ramen a bit  for added flavor, though you don’t have to. Also make sure you’re not using frozen cheese like I did. It made my pizza a bit watery and makes it hard to eat. Aside from that, it was pretty good!

Want to try these yourself? Here’s the full recipes by Tabi Eats~ Follow and subscribe for more awesome recipes! I’ll be trying more in the future~ ^_^

NHK World TV - News and more from Japan

I think it’s safe to say that most of us want to go to Japan someday.  Anime and manga is a big thing for us, but the history and culture of the amazing country that gave us our obsessions is something we should learn before our trip. My recommendation would be NHK World TV. There’s shows about pretty much everything from Kabuki to robotics. What makes this app really cool is that it’s free AND there’s no ads. You can also watch from your home computer or laptop, so so smartphone or tablet is needed. ^,^

NHK Newsline is the main program. It broadcasts every half hour on Mondays-Fridays  which covers news from around the world as well as Japan.

Japanology Plus covers things that are uniquely Japanese or foreigners that have made Japan their home.

Core Kyoto talks about things and people that originated in Kyoto.

Journeys in Japan talks about the different cities and towns of Japan and what makes them special.

Tokyo Eye 2020 talks about the preparations for the upcoming 2020 Summer Olympics. .

For music, J-Melo is definitely the go-to program for j-pop and j-rock. It's also my favorite show~

Kawaii International is for anything and everything Kawaii.

JPOP Oricon Charts week of 5/9

Props go to Youtube chan: Manzo a.k.a

Random Cool Otaku Things That Make Being an Otaku More Special

Hi everyone, here are a few cool Otaku things I found browsing the internet. I hope everyone has fun looking at all these new Japan Otaku culture memes that are just beginning to take the world by storm. Keep watching anime and keep reading manga, keep the Otaku dream alive no matter what! 

Otaku Forever!

Move Over Belgian Waffles, the Real Keyboard Waffles Is Here (forevergeek.com)

Anime Expo 2015 in Pictures – Shenron DBZ (forevergeek.com)

10 Useful Skills You Can Learn from Video Games (forevergeek.com)

Monopoly for Japanophiles: Monopoly Japanese Traditional Arts and Crafts Edition (forevergeek.com)

JNTO Embraces Otaku Tourism (forevergeek.com)

Anime Expo 2015 Super Mario and Super Luigi Girls!

Anime Expo 2015 Super Mario Star (Forevergeek.com)

Anime House Project vol. 1 (Forevergeek.com)

Microsoft Other OS-tans (Forevergeek.com)

Gifts for the Anime Fan (Forevergeek.com)

Combining Anime and Rap (Forevergeek.com)

2nd Prime Time: D2D

D2D: Dream 2 Dream 

This begins the newest O.Rev. series, 2nd Prime Time. This is meant to highlight various otaku and pop culture memes that have "it", referring to the essence of being hip, fresh, and cool as passionate followers of our nerdy niche of pop culture, i.e. anime, manga, video games, and other pop culture otherwise created and conceived in Japan, that small yet way advanced Asian country. There is no format, the information is intended solely for the readers.

Style + Fashion- ~~~ Colors~~~
To gain a real style that sets you apart in the world of popular culture, one way to achieve this without actually discovering new articles of clothing and accessories is to change your colors. They can be changed to match your unique ideals. Use the link right over this text to find some color meanings for your own new style. Choose any clothes, the ones you like only only on color for a while and you'll notice a change. If it doesn't work, it'll buy you enough time to get more clothes and colors!

Ego + Power ~~~RPG~~~
In RPG and shounen anime, all characters have a class and a power. We know that, we here at O.Rev. have taken that journey for what seems to be years. We've seen conventions and we've been near other anime fans in their unique late adolescence or adulthood... We're convinced in the blaring controversy of the emerging current events, that normal, regular people are endowed with special traits. This is to save new anime manga video gamers the stress of wondering why not. Don't. There is a wikihow for everything, try learning Yusuke's spirit blast or Goku's Kamehameha before bed. You will get those powers in your dreams, trust me it works. It beats not having good dreams...


Accessories~~~ Journal/Smartphone notes
Use your smartphone for notes. If you take down enough notes, you'll have a log of notes from various dates that you can check. Once you have a long list, it helps. Just don't lose your phone or you'll lose your long range track of thoughts. And your phone.


Nakama factor:
"Travel the ocean, no one is born without nakama!" Jaguar Saul
One Piece

Jpop Oricon Weekly Chart Top 25 Week 13 [ 2016/03/28 ]

Chan: Manzo a.k.a

Yokai Spotting: Kasa-Obake

In Japanese folklore, ghosts, light angels, and nether-creatures are called "yokai". Yokai are the spirit forms that inhabit the world of spirits in Shinto religion. Folklore of Japan has countless types of yokai, making it one of the richest cultural examples of creative spirituality on the planet Earth. This differs from Western culture and it's black versus white, good versus bad, and darkness versus light duality which so many people are tired of comparing themselves to.

Anyway, this edition of the blog focuses on different yokai creatures: Yokai-Spotting!

Kasa-Obake

(Umbrella Ghost)

The Kasa-Obake is that Umbrella creature you might have seen in an anime...

Type: Tsukumogami 

Meaning "Kami of the tool" or any object that reaches its 100th birthday and becomes self-aware. 

Maybe "Kasa-Obake" (Umbrella Ghost) is a discarded umbrella that fell by a wayside, finding a quiet spot under a bridge where it gained the expanse of time and experiences with animals that it needed to take on a life of its own. That or a grudge that it retained from its previous owner. 

Generally, they're not too harmful (as yokai) and Japanese schoolchildren like to doodle them in their notes or creatively.

"Kasa-obake" is one of the Kirby series baddies that made frequent cameos in the older gameboy, SNES, and even the newer installments.

This baddie gives Kirby the ability to wield an umbrella against his foes.

Always mind your umbrella so it doesn't bear your eternal grudge...

 

Delicious Ca-ke pt. 3

This series is dedicated to "Delicious Ca-ke", because in Japan ca-ke is COOL and ROMANTIC! For females and males alike, the Japanese celebrate various offshoots of culture that are dedicated to the good life and a well mannered set of ways to have fun and be humane or human. One of these, is for their people as a ethnicity, to enjoy and place value on cake.

Though they would rather use the derivative loanword which sounds and is pronounced like. 

Ca-Ke!

S t r a w b e r r y   L a y e r   C a-k e

V e r y   D e l i c i o u s   &   Y u m m y

T h e   C a-k e   o f   M o e !!!

T o d a y ' s   s p e c i a l   "C a-K e"

Strawberry Layer Cake!

Delicious Ca-ke pt. 2

This series is dedicated to "Delicious Ca-ke", because in Japan ca-ke is COOL! For females and males alike, the Japanese celebrate various offshoots of culture that are dedicated to the good life and a well mannered set of ways to have fun and be humane or human. One of these, is for their people as a ethnicity, to enjoy and place value on cake.

Though they would rather use the derivative loanword which sounds and is pronounced like. 

Ca-Ke!

R e d   V e l v e t   C a k e

R e d   V e l v e t   W a f f l e   vvv

T o d a y ' s   s p e c i a l   "C a-K e"

Red Velvet Cake! 

JPOP Oricon Charts Week of February 1st!

Youtube chan:
Manzo a.k.a

Jpop Video of the Day!!!

Heart Station

Utada Hikaru

Side-tickling Types of Humor and the Anime World

Humor, the ability to laugh and make someone else laugh, is one of the best ways to be the best person in the room.

All over the world, with its movies, tv shows, and cartoons, laughter is in high demand because we all just want to feel good while watching TV.

Does milk really come out of your nose when you laugh???

Types of Humor by 
Character and Anime

Urahara Kisuke from the anime Bleach

English dub has some funny yet violent Urahara jokes...

Japanese dub shows Urahara as overly positive, like people who are good at Zingers!

Urahara is the only anime character I could find who executes Zingers almost as well as an American comic. Since the "zinger" is more purely American humor than actually from Japan or anime.

Zinger - A joke that follows a serious tone or awkward situation that serves to lighten the mood and make the listeners lighter and happier. These jokes can keep the flow of positive energy on the speaker and their speech.

Shinpachi Shimura from "Gintama"

Shinpachi is always using "straight-man routine" because his character is a "straight-arrow" good guy.

Straight-man routine - The blunt and forward reaction to either a solemn or outlandish topic or situation that makes the speaker assume the role of a "straight arrow" person. People relate and might laugh because of the situation's unusual weight on the speaker.

Gif version!!! (See of you can get the joke from the animation)

Monkey D. Luffy, One Piece anime

Luffy, the class-clown kind of guy who will be the Pirate King one day!

Class-clown / Star-of-the-Show - These jokes always come from a speaker who is the most popular character and they're either witty in general or are so outlandish in their critique of something else that the whole room is uplifted to the same popularity that the speaker enjoys and employs. :D

Goku from the DB, DBZ, DBGT, etc... series...

Goku from DBZ exemplifies "Class-clown / Star-of-the-Show" humor because of his outlandish reactions in the Dragon Ball world that show his easy-going optimistic personality.


Okabe of Steins ; Gate

Okabe frequently finds himself in situations where the other characters are trying to intimidate him... And he tries to be intimidating to be funny but it doesn't always work. It does make him look funny and like a good person.

Intimidator - These aren't always jokes but they are somewhat threatening in nature so that the person that they're directed to is laughed at because of their inferiority to the speaker.

Mio the main character of MM!

Mio from MM! is pretty intimidating and she's got the ability to be funny because she makes the viewers feel her rage!


Awakawa Under the Bridge

This is a great example of "Intimidator" humor that makes the viewer laugh but they're not really intimidating her. (They are tough guys in "tough clothes" lol)


Sakata Gintoki
Anime:  Gintama

Gintoki's cutting and witty remarks kind of make him a "pure host" because all of the other characters in Gintama look to him for moral support. Whenever everyone else looks to you for moral support, you've got the ability to use "Host" or "Hostess" humor in the real world!

Host / Hostess - The speaker controls the room or the other characters by happily patronizing as many of them as possible at once, usually with a combination of other humor and some kind of innate, natural based charm.

Suzumiya Haruhi from "The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya"

Haruhi has the "Host" or "Hostess" kind of personality that makes everyone around her either laugh out loud or really comfortable, maybe even uncomfortable!


Saito from "Welcome to the NHK"



Saito is very sarcastic and very sardonic so its really hard to tell which one he is more. That's what makes "Welcome to the NHK" popular, funny, and well-watched all over the place.

Sarcasm / Sardonism - Use of either a very forward tone in a difficult or laughable situation or the disparate comparing of two very different ideas while shedding a pretentious positive or negative light on the conversation topic to the audience. Always downplays the situation or the topic at hand.

Natsume Yuu-jincho

Nyanko-sensei, the calico cat pictured, is a sarcastic talking cat that accompanies Natsume as his familiar, kindred spirit, or even as a guardian angel (but the Japanese people would rather say "familiar" for animal or "kindred spirit" for angels).

Neko-sensei and Natsume react sarcastically to something that someone says to them. They're a great team even when Nyanko has to sock it to Natsume.



Chi's Sweet Home

Chi always has cute reactions that make me laugh!

Cute / Moe Humor - Almost forgot one, this kind of humor is about lighthearted and warmhearted laughter after seeing a cute scene, cute character flustered, or a cute person in a funny situation!

Toradora

When moe characters fight it's almost seen as funny, right??

"There you have it..."

"Shall we review the evidence?"

:D

Does anyone get the Gintama reference here? Comment or Like  if you get the reference above...