夢際のＬＡＳＴ ＢＯＹ～

[petronia]

Went to see Ping-Pong at Fantasia. SHOUNEN SPORTS~~ :D :D Seriously, I had a headache all day and this film cured it. Ran all the way home from the bus stop. You'll love it if you like shounen sports manga in general - I mean, movie, but it really obviously started off as manga - right feel, all the classic genre tropes from the Scary Bald Team to the sports-related superpowers to the dramatic injuries to the chibi childhood flashbacks to that damned elimination tournament chart (which I'm starting to realise is mass-produced by the Education Department or something and used for all varsity sports in Japan). And quite a lot of the soundtrack was Supercar, including some of the tracks I posted the other day. A WINNER IS ME XD

I'm going to read the manga~~ but I think the live-ac is prettier~~ and that's a phrase one almost never gets to type out, so in conclusion, you must all rent this film~~ :D

EDIT -- Also, I'm going to play corporate paintball out in the wilds tomorrow (sororial unit: "Like that scene out of Good Omens? >_>"). I've never played paintball before. Advice?

EDIT2 -- According to AICN, Miike is making a film about a Bakumatsu hitokiri whose BURNINATING RAGE allows him to time travel. Clearly this will be the greatest movie of all time.

Comments

[beeblebabe.livejournal.com]

That is one of my favorite movies. I have the soundtrack, and I would be very happy to put the tracks up for you in return for all of the wonderful things I have stolen from your music collection.

I saw that maybe my second or third night in Japan, and totally fell in love. Had to buy a HK bootleg copy as soon as I got back to the States. ...Is it getting a North American release?

Have giant crush on Arata. Further cemented by After Life.

[dipping_sauce]

I see tildes...

Go to sleep, woman, before you turn into a teenybopper.

Elimination tournament chart

[smurfmatic.livejournal.com]

varsity sports *and* Dragonball tournaments, says fanboy-sorta.

-Ced

[petronia.livejournal.com]

Would love to have the soundtrack! Thank you in advance. :D I have no idea if it's getting a NA release, but most good Fantasia films seem to do so within the year, so I'd keep my fingers crossed.

(OMG, he was Tsuzuki. o_o Funny, in this one he looked strikingly like Tezuka-buchou out of Prince of Tennis. Only with no competitive spirit, which is like Tsuzuki with no sweet tooth.)

[smurfmatic.livejournal.com]

Well, if Sabina doesn't want it, I would, by proxy, as her Prime mp3 Supplier. *g*

-Ced

Re: Elimination tournament chart

[petronia.livejournal.com]

Somehow I feel that much is explained by this.

[petronia.livejournal.com]

Hai hai, off now. XD

[eightfold.livejournal.com]

Re: Paintball - think Battle Royale. Sneak and snipe is your friend.

Re: Burninating rage - clearly I am NOT HATEFUL ENOUGH and must work on my scorn and contempt for humanity. Damnit. How much rage do you have to accumulate before you get time travel, anyway? Is there some kind of burninating rage pyramid scheme I'm not aware of? Is there like a rewards program? Is time travel like the equivalent of the cadillac or the two weeks in Hawaii? WHY WAS I NOT INFORMED?!!!!

[beeblebabe.livejournal.com]

Behold. (http://whitney.is-a-geek.net/mp3)

Personal favorites are Supercar's Free Your Soul and sugar plant's Rise, which would go on my personal Hikaru no Go fst if I did that sort of thing. Since, you know, not a big jump between the two.

Lemme know when you've got 'em all.

[two-if-by-sea.livejournal.com]

XD The first thing I thought was Good Omens too. Sabina please don't die~

[tsutanai.livejournal.com]

Regarding paintball, it'll sting. Well, okay, it might sting. Some pellets do. Try not to get shot in the face. I prefer non-combative positions, myself. And it's hard to snipe with a paintball rifle, so that's less fun.

Regarding the rumored Miike film, Japan is trying to kill me, or keep me from working on history and popular culture, isn't it? First Gintama, now this.

[tongari.livejournal.com]

re paintball: wear shoes that you do not want to wear ever again :D;; duck and roll surprises people the first few times, but they kind of start shooting lower when they get used to it.

re Scary Bald Team: I'm getting images of Rikkai shaving their heads after losing Kantou - or it could be that they've already made Jackal atone for all of them :D unless you can think of another Scary Bald Team in PoT?

[smurfmatic.livejournal.com]

(Got them!)

[luckykitty.livejournal.com]

EDIT2 -- According to AICN, Miike is making a film about a Bakumatsu hitokiri whose BURNINATING RAGE allows him to time travel. Clearly this will be the greatest movie of all time.

Oh man, you just so made my morning. *laughs*

Good luck/have fun with paintball. I've never played either, so can't give any help...

[canis-m.livejournal.com]

Ah, I want too! PURIIZU NOT TAKE DOWN YET.

[petronia.livejournal.com]

Well, no, not many scary bald people in PoT, but I think half of why it happens is because the mangaka gets tired of drawing three buttzillion different hairstyles. So maybe Konomi's not there yet. He seems to have scary amounts of stamina. XD

(Oh, yeah, DRAMATIC HAIR-CUTTING in this movie too.)

Damn, white shoes... oh, well, they're cheep sneekers anyhow.

[petronia.livejournal.com]

It gets better: Kitano's innit, playing the Prime Minister of Japan - which is as much to say, himself.

[petronia.livejournal.com]

Well, I have zero athletic ability or aim, so Plan B is to get killed early on and doze on the ground relaxfully. XD (Or is that not the way it works?)

[petronia.livejournal.com]

Man, I would so not survive Battle Royale. W34K, W34K AM I~~

I dunno, maybe you have to sign up for the BURNINATING RAGE tachyon miles program? I'd pay attention to that. (Man, if Musashi and Hattori Hanzo don't turn out to be in this film I will be sorely disappointed. Extra points if they're lactating or something.)

[petronia.livejournal.com]

Guess I duck a lot, then.

(Clearly Japan has it in for you. Clearly.)

Yay music!

[petronia.livejournal.com]

OK, got it! You may want to leave it for Kristin up there, though. XD

(There were... more Supercar tracks in the actual film? Maa ii.)

[corneredangel.livejournal.com]

Not a great deal to say about painball; you'll be horrified of getting hit until you *do* get hit, and then it's more or less nothing. You *will* get hit. It'll also be incredibly frustrating, as a lot tougher than, say, an arcade shooter-sim.

Any idea whether any people in the company might be sufficiently hardcore to come in with own camos and own guns?

Also, for love of cute fuzzy things, always make sure the hopper on your gun and the lids on your cans of extra paintballs are closed. Otherwise, you stumble and fall, and suddenly lose your entire ammo supply, or most of it anyways. And even though the guns are semi-auto, you can burn through a hundred paintballs in *seconds*...

Yeah.

[eightfold.livejournal.com]

Sting is a vicious understatement, in many cases.

Expect bruises if you get hit. Big, nasty, blueish, very precisely round ones. Bruise polka-dots.

... some of us like this aspect, mind you, but seriously: fuckers hurt. Although you probably won't notice at first if you're properly adrenalized.

But yeah, "sneak and snipe" is more like "sneak and then mow down".

[eightfold.livejournal.com]

Bullshit it's more or less nothing!

It doesn't hurt that badly, but as I said above: fuckers leave serious bruises if you're in anything like close range. And let's face it, everything is close range, just because the guns are just not that accurate even at near point blank range.

[luckykitty.livejournal.com]

oh man. brilliant! I love it already... *laughing*