#japanese pop stars

[redsamuraiii]

Do you know the "Zatochi" technique introduced in Star Wars : Ahsoka, is inspired by a blind swordsman from a classic Japanese film called Zatoichi?

In episode 3 of Ahsoka, Ahsoka trained Sabine Wren in the "Zatochi" technique to rely on senses beyond sight, which is similar to Zatoichi who defeated his enemies with his sword even when he is blind.

The technique is used by Kanan Jarrus when he was blinded by the former Sith Lord, Maul in Star Wars Rebels, by Chirrut Îmwe in Rogue One and later by Obi Wan to teach Luke in A New Hope.

It highlights the significance in the franchise's canon and honour George Lucas original inspirations from classic Japanese Samurai films, which continues to influence the Star Wars Universe.

#star wars #ahsoka #sabine wren #zatochi #zatoichi #kanan jarrus #star wars rebels #chirrut imwe #rogue one #obi wan kenobi #luke skywalker #a new hope #george lucas #jedi #sith #samurai #japanese films #samurai films #japanese culture #pop culture

[yevai]

britney spears japanese cds. 💗

edited by me ♡

#pink #y2k #aesthetic #briteny spears #britney jean spears #britney #in the zone #cds #cd #japan #japanese #Japanese cd #hot pink #barbie #2000s #00s #2000s music #pop princess #pop icon #pop star #pop #pop music #it girl

[27-roses]

Tell my why the part timers I see never look like this. Not shaming anyone, but…you’re not Lee Felix

#Lee Felix #stray kids #skz #Super Bowl #K-pop #Super Bowl Japanese version #Five Star #Lee Yongbok #S-Class #he’s so beautiful #our chick <3

[the-cricket-chirps]

Andy Warhol, John Lennon, Print, ca. 1980s

Interview Magazine Vol. XV, No. 1, January 1985: Yoko Ono

#Andy Warhol #john lennon #yoko ono #magazines #portrait #portrait painting #pop artist #pop art #portrait art #rock star #the beatles #women artists #woman artist #japanese artist #modern art #art history #aesthetictumblr #tumblraesthetic #tumblrpic #tumblrpictures #tumblr art #aesthetic #beauty

[calvins-dad]

it's such a shame that taylor has some songs i genuinely really like but she insists on being the worst, most annoying kind of celebrity to the point i can't listen to her music anymore

#like girlie pop if you want to release annoying music like the man and karma and have your whole revenge-girl-boss-sona you need to quit #making decisions that are almost a parody of white feminsism #'biggest pop star in the world writes song about how if she was a MAN she would be even bigger' #'pop star who wrote pro-gay you need to calm down song dating guy who did japanese concentration camp survivor impression' #'girl who was born with oodles of money and is a blonde haired blue eyed conventionally attractive white woman writes song about how life #always works out for her. because of karma.' #there's plenty of ~problematic celebs or whatever and i don't think it's useful to say taylor is uniquely problematic. but imo she has #become uniquely annoying! #sorry to any swiftiemutuals but i had to get this off my chest #mine

[airconditionerkhan]

Kyoko Date

Kyoko Date: Computer-generated pop star and teen idol Kyoko Date, code named DK-96, lives only on the internet.

She is the first celebrity to exist in cyberspace. Created by the engineers and designers at HoriPro in Japan.

Made up 40 000 polygons

Main designer: Tatsuya Kosaka, Toshihiro Aramaki and Tomoya Tomadechi

#Kyoko Date #art #pop music #pop star #idol #japanese #japanese idol

[dynamoe]

If I ever cosplayed, I'd go as Mariko Mori's "Birth of a Star" (1995)

I only cosplay fine art... that references cosplay

.... but the DOLL version. A woman dressed as a doll, issued in doll form recreated on a woman. Keeping it meta meta meta fictional.

#1995 #japanese art #mariko mori #birth of a star #japanese pop culture #moma #photography #female artist #fine art #art history #superflat #postmodern art #contemporary art #anime #pop star #jpop star #jpop fashion #1990s #retrofuture

[starseekersara]

I'm sick in bed so I drew Kafka :]

~ manifesting waifu manifesting waifu manifesting waifu manifesting waifu ~

Reference image below:

#kafka #honkai star rail #star rail #stellaron hunters #please hoyo i only have 12 wishes #rip #kafka star rail #manifesting waifu #my art #digital art #japanese city pop #80s

[mars-ipan]

i gotta say i HATE IT when people try to put english language on splatoon songs. they AREN’T SPEAKING ENGLISH. they are speaking inklish or octarian or salmon….. salmonese? idk what you’d call that one POINT IS IT ISN’T ENGLISH

#these are inkfish. well except for omega-3 they r salmon #but regardless they aren’t human! they don’t speak any human language! #no english. no japanese #in fact the songs do have actual lyrics that the voice actors sing! and guess what!!! #they’re just syllables!!! no words! no english words anyways #the syllables actually change depending on the genre of the music #for example squid sisters are like a mix between traditional and j-pop so they get a lot of syllables common in japanese #but off the hook have a more hip-hop/raver style. they have more syllables common to english #it’s cool as it is!!!! don’t add arbitrary words bc #‘oh it sounds like pearl’s saying ‘you’re my show star’’ #SHUSH #only exception i have to this rule is nasty majesty. marina is 100% saying the word nasty #i’ve just decided in my head that it’s a cognate. so blehhhhh #disclaimer this is not directed at people making ‘translations’ of the songs where the english lyrics are original #those fucking rule #this is abt people listening to the music and going ‘oh they are literally saying these words listen’

[obscurespotify]

lines man by star fish

1k song plays with 140 monthly listeners

#spotify #release year: 2001 #artist: star fish #genre: pop punk #genre: garage rock #language: japanese #mod towa: actually cannot even find this band online with some cursory googles. oops.

[regentzephyr]

one of my favorite moments of Japan-Western pop cultural interaction (which is otherwise quite rare if one excludes video game stuff) is the fact that the theme song for the 2006 live-action Death Note movie was inexplicably fUCKING

DANI CALIFORNIA BY THE RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS

#death note #death note live-action (2006) #dani california #red hot chili peppers #rhcp #japanese pop culture #western pop culture #japan-western pop cultural interaction #anime #pop culture #like legit if you type デスノート 主題歌 into the youtube searchbar #the first result you’ll prolly get’s a static image video of Dani California sitting at 2.8 million views lmao #honorable mention goes to the time when PUFFY became children’s show stars in Cartoon Network (Puffy AmiYumi)

[realboysrep]

Super cute handbags in baby blue denim Jeans and white faux leather. Very much y2k inspired with a japanese kawaii fashion vibe.

The jeans handbag is available here: https://amzn.to/3NjX7Zj The white faux leather handbag here: https://amzn.to/3sYSblX

#cute aesthetic #cute fashion #kawaii fashion #kawaii style #y2k fashion #y2kcore #y2k aesthetic #japanese fashion #k pop fashion #outfit inspiration #outfit inspo #outfit of the day #ootd #ootdinspiration #ootdstyle #korean fashion #stars #pastel aesthetic #pastelcore #fashion #japanese school uniform #winter fashion #fall fashion #cowgirl #western aesthetic #newjeans #kpop #k-pop

[neil-gaiman]

I found myself having, not exactly an argument recently, but a highly opinionated conversation with someone who did not believe my assertion that once upon a time there were official Hello Kitty vibrators. With the aid of the Wayback Machine, I found this article, and thought the world at large might enjoy it too...

Here's the text of the article:

The history of the Hello Kitty vibrator

By Peter Payne October 4, 2004

Sanrio is one of the top character licensors in the world, having more or less created the business model of doing business by creating something that doesn't really exist and licensing its use to other companies. Sanrio produces nothing -- all their characters, like the Little Twin Star, Minna no Ta-bo, Bad Batz-Maru, exist as legal entities and nothing more. Their most successful character, Hello Kitty, or Kitty-chan as she's known in Japan, is now now thirty years old.

One of the many companies that license Sanrio's characters for their products was a Japanese company called Genyo Co. Ltd. Genyo made a wide variety of products, from bento boxes to children's toys to chopsticks, many with the Hello Kitty character on them. They scored big in the late 1990's with an off-the-wall hit, a series of Hello Kitty toys which featured a different Kitty figure from each of Japan's 47 prefectures, each representing something the prefecture was famous for. (The figure from Gunma Prefecture, where we live, represented a wooden kokeshi doll.)

In 1997, Genyo designed a product that would live in infamy: the Hello Kitty vibrating shoulder massager, which really is a shoulder massager (trust us -- it says so on the package). Sanrio approved this design without batting an eye, and the product enjoyed modest sales in toy shops and in family restaurants like Denny's and Coco's. It wasn't until 1999 or so that people began to catch on to the fact that the Hello Kitty massager had other potential uses, and with amazing speed, they started popping up in adult videos in Japan. The next thing anyone knew, they had changed into a cult adult item, sold in vending machines in love hotels -- after all, what self-respecting man wouldn't buy his girl a Hello Kitty vibrator when she asked him for one?

The emergence of the Hello Kitty vibrator as a cult adult item caused friction between Sanrio and Genyo, and Sanrio ordered the company to stop making the units. Genyo refused, since it had paid a lot of money to license Kitty for their products. There seemed nothing Sanrio could do, since they had approved the item for sale (see the official Sanrio sticker on the boxes). The answer came when the Japanese tax authorities raided Genyo on suspicion of tax evasion. It seems that some creative accounting was going on between the president of the company, a Mr. Nakamura, his vice president, and the owner of the factory in China where the units were made. All three were arrested, and Sanrio had the excuse needed to yank Genyo's license. They seized the molds used to make the vibrators and destroyed them.

And so, the sad, weird chapter of the Hello Kitty vibrator is at an end. The last of the Kitty vibes are gone, so now what will the world do for wacky comic -- and sexual -- relief?

#Hello Kitty #The Hello Kitty Shoulder Massager

[tanners-archetype]

starflower! (AAMIX demo)

#dance #club music #movies #60s #cinema #haute couture #mensfashion #screenplay #screenwriting #tanner wolf #pop #star flower #music #alternative music #japanese music #pop music #musician #music video #new music #indie music #electronic music #my music #indie pop #pop culture #alternative #ponderosa #kybamorales #kanye west #daft punk #nerd

[radiovoyager]

#水曜日のカンパネラ #七福神 #RABBIT STAR #WEDNESDAY CAMPANELLA #Seven Lucky Gods #Utaha #pop #dance #art #japan #japanese #j pop #Youtube

[starlite-walker]

#pop japanese style #marbles #twee #i could be a star... could be mona... #SoundCloud