Some more Kubo tweets! Since all of these tweets are pretty much related I thought I’d post them all here in one post. Also, as a reminder, I still consider myself a beginner in Japanese. If anyone out there ever reads these and goes “heeeey! That’s not right!” please don’t be afraid to tell me. You can always contact me or just leave it as a comment. I won’t take offense and would actually be quite grateful for the corrections.
With that said, here we go!
It’s CRAaAaAaZyYyY Thursday! Have another translated Tweet also by Kubo.
Kubo Tite said: Akinatorで、自分の名前を出してみようとやってみたら、最後の質問が「Twitterをやってる？ 」だった。Akinatorこわい。
“I decided to try to find my name on Akinator. The final question was ‘Does he use Twitter?’ Akinator is scary!”
Here’s Akinator if you’d like to try. And yeah, Kubo is on there but when I tried it didn’t ask me if he used Twitter.
I feel compelled to add that for every one Kubo tweet I translate there’s probably ten more that I don’t. The man is freakin addicted to the thing. It’s a wonder he ever gets any pages of Bleach done with all the time he spends tweeting. So it’s not as surprising to me that Akinator associated him with Twitter as it did him.
Sorry about the long delay inbetween Tweet translations. I’ve been pretty busy as of late and just haven’t had a chance to sit down and do any. Well, I plan on fixing that right now. So let’s pull a random tweet from our dear Kubo Tite and see what we get..
Kubo Tite said: トッピングガールズ？？ RT @natsume00000000: @tite_kubo 11月23日にはトッピングガールズの復活ライブがあるそうですよ☆
“Topping Girls?? RT @natsume00000000: @tite_kubo November 23 will be the live revival(come-back) performance of Topping Girls.”
I’m with Kubo. Topping Girls!?
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The Leprechaun is back for his 5th film, entitled Leprechaun in the Hood. In the last film he went to SPACE! Can they top it? Let’s find out!
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Well, after some technical issues I have finally seen the classic film Casablanca. This film is considered one of, if not the most, classical films ever made. The film was released in 1942 and was directed by Michael Curtiz. It stars Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman and Paul Henreid and features Claude Rains, Conrad Veidt, Sydney Greenstreet and Peter Lorre. Is this film really as classic as everyone always says? Let’s take a glimpse at it and see.
Viva Maria! is a 1965 comedy-adventure film starring Brigitte Bardot and Jeanne Moreau as two women both named Marie (they later become referred to as “Maria”) who meet and become revolutionaries in the early twentieth century. The film is mostly in French with some Spanish, a bit of Dutch and very little English (thanks Kuro for not informing me of this :P).
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Just a quick update to announce that Shadows of Iwote Chapter 16 is now up! Sorry for the long four-month wait. Hopefully the next chapter won’t take quite that long.
And just a reminder, all of Shadows of Iwote is still in what I would consider a rough draft. If things ever go as intended I will be going back at some point and rewriting a bunch and possibly trimming it down. Anyway, enjoy!
Desperado is a bit of an old one (1995) by Robert Rodriguez starring Antonio Bandaras. I’ve seen it a good number of times but have never reviewed it before. Since I rewatched it last night I figure this is the best time to do so..
Plot
“I’m looking for a man, calls himself Bucho.”
The movie starts with a sleezy looking bar where a man named Buscemi (played by Steve Buscemi) recounts a tale of “the biggest Mexican I have ever seen” and how he basically goes on a murderous rampage, killing everyone in search of information about a man named Bucho. Buscemi then leaves, warning that the man is on his way to town.
It turns out that the man is a Mariachi who is looking for vengeance. If you’ve ever seen “El Mariachi” then you already know why as this is a direct sequel to that film. If you haven’t, basically the Mariachi gets mixed up with a killer by a drug lord and is chased all around town. Eventually he’s captured and, well, the Mariachi sums up what happens to him with this line: “They killed the woman I loved and ruined my life.” Oh and he got a huge hole in his hand. Now he’s hunting down all the drug lords and is down to his final one: Bucho.
The film is basically just him killing as many bad guys as he can as he tries to draw out and get closer to Bucho. Eventually he’s injured and is taken care of by Carolina (Selma Hayek). She gets involved and it all leads up to the final confrontation.
The Good
+ Lots of action, if you’re into that sort of thing
+ I enjoyed the music a lot in this film (“Strange Face of Love” is an awesome song to me and one of my favorites still)
+ A decent twist happens towards the end
+ There’s a cameo appearance by the guy who played El Mariachi in the first film (he plays Campa)
+ There’s quite a bit of humor in this film, mostly around Bucho and his dealings with his henchmen.
The Bad
+ The plot iiiiiiiiiiis a little thin. It literally is a bang-em-up, shoot-em-up type film.
+ The romance subplot isn’t really believable at all but I wouldn’t expect it to in this kind of film
+ This film can seem a little cartoonish at times. I mean, how many times can 20 henchmen shoot at the Mariachi and miss him when they’re using freakin machine guns?! There’s parts where he’s literally just walking and bullets are shooting everywhere around him but seem to constantly miss him.
What The?
+ What’s the point of having Quentin Tarantino in this film again?? I mean, his character. I know Tarantino and Rodriguez are BFFs and all, but the character he plays doesn’t really serve any point other than to tell a joke and to show something we already know (the bar is corrupt and does backdoor dealings).
Overall, I really like this film. If you can turn your brain off and can enjoy mindless violence, shootouts and crazy crap going on then it’s awesome. If you CAN’T do that, and you’re an overly analytical person and can’t get past some of the cartoonish aspect of it all, you’ll probably hate it. For me, I’ll give it 4 out of 5 just because it still makes me laugh with its humor, makes songs stuck in my head with its music and I just enjoy the senseless shootouts. 
Breezieana and I are back with another video! This time we got a little bored and decided to do a question and answer session not unlike my 25 questions about Iyouboushi video.
There are lots of laughs to be found within. So what are you waiting for? Go watch it and leave us some comments on it.
This is really a two-part tweet. So here we go..
Kubo Tite said: ドミノピザのサイト凄えな！！
“The Dominos pizza website is weird!!”
A short time after he posted that one he followed up with this.
Kubo Tite said: 注文したらピザの製作過程のムービーが流れて、観終わってから5分くらいでピザ届いた。すげー。
“After ordering, it shows a live stream of the production stage of the pizza after which it takes about 5 minutes to be delivered. Cool!”
I’ve used the Dominos site before. When you order it shows you what stage your pizza is in (being prepped, in the oven, etc) as well as who’s making it, who your delivery person is, etc. It’s pretty neat. It usually doesn’t take long to deliver once it goes out of the oven and into the delivery person’s hands.
I’m surprised that the website works in Japan. They don’t have a Dominos Japan website (or if they do I can’t find it). Wonder how that works.
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