#TOKYO Grand Guignol

[eyeodyssey]

Photos from the Tokyo Grand Guignol stage play Galatia Teito Monogatari, based loosely on the Teito Monogatari serial of epic dark sci fi occult horror books. Despite sharing its basis with a greatly influential series which spawned several films (the first Teito Monogatari adaption even featuring special effects designed by H.R. Giger) and a set of animated horror films, Galatia remains the most obscure of the Tokyo Grand Guignol’s productions. Very sparse information of its contents exist online. On one specific page I found a month back, a (very poorly translated) English synopsis describes the play as being a story about a machine that destroys a major city in Japan. It’s unclear if the machine they’re referring to is in reference to a humanoid robot or a more generalized weapon. It’s said that in the play, Kyusaku Shimada appears as a mad scientist who creates the oxygen destroyer from Godzilla (1954). In a description of the ending, the finale depicts a scenario where the character Yasunori Katō (a demon that manifests itself as an imperial army First Lieutenant) welcomes one of the characters to what he refers to as the “new imperial city”. He reveals to the character a supernatural landscape where various children’s toys and dolls across the stage come to life and move around on their own, all to the sounds of marching drums and claps of thunder. All images were digitized by yours truly, with the sources being volume 28 of Yaso magazine and the Suehiro Maruo-focused magazine Only You, which features a digest version of Galatia’s screenplay. Of course, with the screenplay (or at least a condensed version of it) in my possession, I plan to translate it to English some way or another down the line. This adaption would help start off Shimada’s professional acting career, with Shimada having his first major cinematic role as Yasunori Katō in the film Tokyo: The Last Megalopolis. As mentioned though, Shimada doesn’t act as Katō in the Tokyo Grand Guignol version. That role was instead designated to Yaguruma Kennosuke, who would later appear as Raizou in the original performances of Lychee Hikari Club.

Yaguruma Kennosuke as Raizou in Lychee's December 1985 performance, apprehending the Marquis de Maruo (performed by Suehiro Maruo) when he enters the Hikari Club's hideout. Kennosuke is on the right side of Maruo, with Hiroyuki Tsunekawa (Zera) standing aside Kennosuke with his bag of lychee fruits. As a side note, you've gotta appreciate how despite then being well into a Maruo-flavored era of underground culture, there are still the occasional callbacks to Terayama's legacy, hence the clock that Katō is seen holding in the first photo.

#norimizu ameya #tokyo grand guignol #teito monogatari #lychee light club #litchi hikari club #suehiro maruo

[wonkodnko]

M.M.M SPECIAL Cassette book

Ameya Photo

#norimizu ameya #飴屋 法水 #東京グランギニョル #m.m.m skin #M.M.M #M.M.M Special #Tokyo Grand Guignol

[kenllre]

Miharu Koshi and Kyusaku Shimada as Marin and Litchi in Tokyo Grand Guignol’s Litchi Hikari Club (1985)

#tokyo grand guignol #litchi hikari club #miharu koshi #kyusaku shimada #東京グランギニョル

[exploding-head-movie]

fallen down the lhc rabbit hole someone help me PLS!!!!!

#litchi hikari club #lychee light club #tokyo grand guignol #my art #my artwork #sorry for being deranged it will happen again

[srndpt2024]

#Tokyo Grand Guignol #tokyo #grand #guignol #horror movie #japan #nippon #Youtube #zar #because #les yeux #oranges

[bluewolfcult]

Interesting indie horror anthology with Japanese actors and French directors. Very gory, very campy (especially the CGI), and very much entertaining if you're not looking too deep for story.

#Tokyo grand guignol 2015 #j horror #horror anthology

[twig-tea]

2023 BL/GL/QL Round-Up Post

I thought for posterity I'd post a reflection on everything I watched that completed in 2023. For me, that means anything that started in 2022 but the last episode was in 2023 is on this list, but anything that will still be airing after 31 December 2023 11:59 my time (EST) is not on this list, even if the bulk of the show did air in 2023.

A few stats:

110 discrete pieces of content (series/films)

clocking in at est. 600 hours of NEW BL/GL content only

from 9 different countries (Cambodia [1], Philippines [3], Hong Kong [1], Japan [18], Korea [19], Myanmar [1], Taiwan [6], Thailand [56], Vietnam [7])

~50% of the content I watched on this list is from Thailand

~85% of my content was on YouTube [40%], GaGaOoLaLa [23%] and iQIYI [21%].

[Note that this year a lot of older GMMTV shows moved off of YouTube and onto Viki so if you're looking at these stats to decide what to pay for, this won't account for that.]

This doesn't include re-watches or catching up on old shows [e.g. I re-watched Love Sick, My Ride the Series, Semantic Error, ITSAY/IPYTM, Our Dating Sim at least 3 times lol, and anything with a s2 I re-watched s1 to prep, among others, watched Fujoshi Ukkari Gei no Kokuru (2019) for the first time] or non-QL [e.g. Heartstopper s2, Our Flag Means Death s2, Taskmaster s. 15 & 16, Uncanny Counter s2, One Piece s1, etc.] but does include films as well as shows, though I don't count special episodes separately (so Wedding Plan counts once, though I watched both the show and the special).

I hope you all appreciate that with this much content, and with my general brand of being unable to make decisions, I really struggled to narrow down a top 10 list. What follows is the best I could do lol

Top 20 Shows I'd Recommend From This Year:

Moonlight Chicken

Our Dating Sim

Bed Friend

The Eighth Sense

La Pluie

Sing My Crush

Tokyo in April Is...

Wedding Plan

Laws of Attraction

I Cannot Reach You

I Feel You Linger in the Air

What Did You Eat Yesterday S2

I Became the Lead in a BL Drama

If It's With You

Love in Translation

Our Dining Table

My Personal Weatherman

My Beautiful Man: Eternal

My School President

Be My Favorite

+10 I liked but I would only recommend with caveats:

Love Class 2

The New Employee [for the Rainbow Rice Cakes]

Let's Eat Together Aki and Haru

Never Let Me Go

Kiseki: Dear to Me

Unintentional Love Story

The Day I Loved You

End of the World with You

A Breeze of Love

Jack O'Frost

Bonus: Not a BL but worth calling out:

One Room Angel

Midnight Museum

Grand Guignol

The Warp Effect

Sadly, of the GLs that aired this year, I wouldn't recommend any of them. The best one was Show Me Love, which was not actually good but had very gorgeous women and a LOT of flirting.

The other huge thing that happened this year was that I stopped lurking! Thanks specifically to @lurkingshan and @bengiyo demanding everyone start talking about La Pluie, because they got me to post my first meta post. And because I started actually talking to people, I started making actual friends, and participated in organizing things like the Be My Favorite clown checkpoint for ep 11. I also disappeared a month because of life, and am still catching up on everything I intended to write this year. But it's been really rewarding finding this corner of tumblr with likeminded people who like good shows, like to think about these shows, and who are interested in talking about them in a way that's insightful and respectful.

It's been a long time since I felt comfortable enough participating actively in a fandom, and I just want to say to everyone I've interacted with this year: Thank you!

Full list under the cut for anyone curious! [Mostly in order it aired but may be slightly off].

Love Bill

Director Who Buys Me Dinner, The

Star Always Follow You, The

Cutie Pie 2 You

Between Us the Series (Hemp Rope)

Reason Why He Fell in Love with Me Special & S2 [international release]

New Employee, The

I Will Hit You/I Will Knock You

Individual Circumstances

609 Bedtime Story

GAPYuri / GAP the series

My School President

HitBiteLove the Series

Never Let Me Go

Moonlight Chicken

History 5: Love in the Future

Oh My God (ToDo) the Series

Warp Effect, The

End of the World, With You

My Blessing the Series

Our Winter (miniseries)

All the Liquors

Once in Memory: Let Me Be Yours

Shoulder to Cry On, A

Jack O'Frost

Our Dating Sim

Midnight Museum

Me, My Husband, and My Husband's Boyfriend

My Colleague at BL Shop might be My Meant-to-Be

Unintentional Love Story

Chains of Heart

Bed Friend the series

Bad Brother the Series

Stormy Honeymoon

Eighth Sense, the

Bad Brother the Series

Future Series

Tin Tam Jai the series

Crush on You

House of Stars the Series

Happy Merry Ending

Boss and a Babe, A

Pastsenger the Series

Love Mate

Love Syndrome the Series

Promise the Series, The

Day I Loved You, The

Our Dining Table (Bokura no Shokutaku)

Our Skyy 2

My Story the Series

Starstruck

Love Tractor

Naked Dining

Luminous Solution, The

Omai Series / Is My Roommate A Foreigner

Stupid Genius

Step By Step

La Pluie the series

Tie the Not

Sing My Crush / Follow the Wind

Tokyo in April Is .../ Shigatsu no Tokyo wa

Senior Love Me?

Be My Favorite

Show Me Love

Dinosaur Love

Low Frequency

Stay Still

Stay By My Side

Jun & Jun

Wedding Plan the Series

Laws of Attraction, the

Love Class s2

Minato's Laundromat S2

Hidden Agenda

Bon Appetit

Why RU the Series [Korean adaptation]

Be Mine Superstar

Star, The Season 2

Love In Translation

My Beautiful Man: Eternal

My Personal Weatherman

Bump Up Business

Naughty Babe Series

Only Friends

Grand Guignol

Dangerous Romance

If It's With You / Kimi to Nara Koi wo Shite Mite Mo

Y Journey: Stay Like a Local

I Feel You Linger in the Air

Venus in the Sky

Kiseki: Dear to Me

I Cannot Reach You

You Are Mine

Breeze of Love / Weather Forecast of Love

Mr. Cinderella 2

Let's Eat Together Aki and Haru

One Room Angel

Marry My Dead Body

Lucky My Love the Series

Pure Vanilla: Recipe for Romance

Absolute Zero

Memories, The

My Dear Gangster Oppa

Shadow

What Did You Eat Yesterday? S2

Middleman Love

Beyond the Star

Bake Me Please

You and My Stars

I Became the Lead in a BL Drama

#2023 round-ups #bl meta #multi bl #typed so i can stop thinking it #twig talks #top lists are so hard for me this is the best I could do #if anyone wants to know anything about any of these shows feel free to ask! #best of bl 2023 #long post

[blmpff]

✨2023: A Summary✨

Post your most popular and/or favourite edit/gifset/analysis for each month (it’s okay to skip months!)

Tagged by @lurkingshan, and also @colourme-feral and @troubled-mind as I was working on it, thank you ❣️

My two main ~things~ are uploading actors' photos, and doing my own favorite X posts from shows I'm watching, and considering I've uploaded 5593 posts in 2023, in this essay I'll focus on my own.

disclaimer 1: I started posting my edits in March, so the first two months of the year will be just actors' pics to not skip them disclaimer 2: as for favorites the answer is always my favorite shots posts because each and every single one of them is my precious baby disclaimer 3: I added SHOWS to each month for my compilation posts for them

JANUARY:

- most popular: First Kanaphan from their trip to Japan I think - favorite: ArmyJoe stills from gmmtv twt

FEBRUARY:

- most popular: Fluke and Thor TWE bts - favorite: this MosBank

MARCH:

- most popular: Our Dining Table promo picture - favorite: Midnight Museum ep5, The Eighth Sense ep2, first Shared Location

APRIL:

- most popular: P'Jojo explaining the use of thai soap opera cliches in Our Skyy 2: Never Let Me Go - favorite: T8S x train ride, Jaewon calling Jihyun his boyfriend, shadow kisses, Midnight Museum moon shots 4/4, the post where I save links to all the shows/movies I make posts about - shows: Our Dating Sim, The Eighth Sense, Destiny Seeker, Midnight Museum, Blueming, Bed Friend

MAY:

- most popular: P'Jojo posting about Only Friends getting the green light - favorite: Man's hands, this Between Us scene, this ONHCT scene, OS2 x Win's Adventures - shows: OS2: The Eclipse, OS2: NLMG, Happy Merry Ending, ABAAB, Love Mate, ONHCT, Dear Ex, Please Tell Me So, A First Love Story 1, A First Love Story 2, Step For You

JUNE:

- most popular: Cooheart in a bridal dress at Bangkok Pride - favorite: Fluke's hair poll, IQ subber in House of Stars, ODT Tane - shows: Star Struck, Our Dining Table, Love Tractor

JULY:

- most popular: NeoMark Only Friends Q photo - favorite: these two Tokyo In April Is parallels, this Semantic Error scene - shows: Step by Step, La Pluie, House of Stars, My Ride

AUGUST:

- most popular: P'Jojo talking about sex scenes in Only Friends - favorite: ML Shin being Shin, this scene in SMC - shows: Tokyo In April Is, Sing My Crush, Egoist, Low Frequency, Stay Still, Sonnet 18

SEPTEMBER:

- most popular: the epic journey that was Red Peafowl cast announcement - favorite: Leehyun repeatedly calling An his boyfriend, Joohyuk x Sungmin, hyung, EarthBank - shows: Laws of Attraction, Love Class 2, Marry Go Round, Minato's Laundromat 2, Hidden Agenda, Bon Appetit

OCTOBER:

- most popular: P'Jojo roasting Boston - favorite: IFYLITA dream dancing, bloody Papang, bloody GG kiss&murder - shows: My Personal Weatherman, Only Friends, Grand Guignol, Semantic Error: The Movie

NOVEMBER:

- most popular: new YinWar show Jack&Joker pilot - favorite: this Mermaid's Jade scene, this The Devil Judge scene, these Playboyy posters - shows: I Feel You Linger In The Air, Mermaid's Jade, Kiseki: Dear To Me, Pure Vanilla, One Room Angel

DECEMBER:

- most popular: Babe causing Billy to malfunction - favorite: JellyfishBolster compilation, this AobPuen, DFF I've been impaled - shows: Sweet Home 2, Shadow, To My Star s1, Absolute Zero, Bake Me Please, Moonlight Chicken

Tagging everyone who wants to do it and haven't already, this site helps!

#did you know there was a limit as to how many links you can put in one post bc i just learned that the hard way #woah what a trip down the memory lane #thank you! #tagged post #blmpff rumbles

[eyeodyssey]

An assortment of production images from the original performances of Litchi Hikari Club, all of which were personally tracked down and digitized by yours truly. The flash photography images with the blue tint were from the original 1985 Christmas performance as it was documented in June Magazine, whilst the rest are presumed to be from the later 1986 rerun which omits certain details like Suehiro Maruo’s cameo and the original Christmas-themed ending. Some further information about the play’s history along with direct audience recollections can be read in my post regarding the Futurist parallels of Litchi Hikari Club. Please credit with any use.

#litchi hikari club #lychee light club #tokyo grand guignol #norimizu ameya #suehiro maruo

[wonkodnko]

M.M.M SPECIAL Cassette book (1988) comic LAST IRONY Takeharu Ito

Norimizu AMEYA

#norimizu ameya #飴屋 法水 #東京グランギニョル #M.M.M SKIN #M.M.M #M.M.M Norimizu Ameya #Toba TECH #Tokyo Grand Guignol

[amberdawn]

this isn't helpful or interesting in any way but whenever u say swimmers irt usami it reminds me of the tokyo grand guignol (1980s japanese undergound theater troupe) mercuro script that was roughly translated in english where a man living in the students' classroom blackboard orders them to jack off and when they all cum in unison he starts swimming in their cum pool. i know this is in no way related to what ur actually referring to but i thought id share regardless for unknowable reasons

good luck out there

oh no dont worry its interesting all right. and its not completely unrelated. cum is cum and sperm is sperm and we are sperm.

#however i do get the feeling i should retire swimmers as a team name.

[canmom]

i read litchi hikari club (lychee ☆ light club), mostly bc it seems to be a touchpoint among a certain species of guro fan like that polish girl I reblogged earlier. it was interesting - apparently it was based on a play at the Tokyo Grand Guignol theatre, a spinoff of the famous French one, and the story was as saturated in gore and sexual violence as you'd expect from 'Grand Guignol'. it is about essentially a death cult of teenage boys at a boys' school, obsessed with youth and beauty, who create a Frankenstein's Monster-like robot with the purpose of kidnapping girls, but to get it to function, they give it the belief that it's human. the leader of the group, Zera, fancies himself a chessmaster but gets increasingly paranoid about betrayal, demanding more and more members of the club be executed; the other boys execute various plots to frame each other. the girl they kidnap is called Kanon, and she forms a relationship with the robot while playing at unconsciousness when the club members are around; this eventually builds into an escape attempt but of course it all goes wrong and nearly every character ends up bleeding out in a flooded basement. a lot of these murderboys are gay, and the story of Elagabulus is invoked. Zera's design, with his star gloves, blatantly draws on the villain of Teito Monogatari (Doomed Megalopolis); he's also low key a total wehraboo and peppers his speech with German. the art style is very precise and refined, emphasising the lips, and what with all the gakuran uniforms, it is especially calling to mind classic ero-guro artists like Suehiro Maruo and Takato Yamamoto.

all in all, I'm sure I'm not catching even half of what this manga is doing - not helped by the available translation for issues 7 and 8 being very poor. but I do think it's curious how these symbols get pulled out of context as a small but recognisable international fandom grows around them - gakuran becoming... not so much something that people would wear at an old fashioned school and a symbol of the old imperial regime, but the thing that femboys wear to sexily torture each other. I think people mostly come to this through visual kei, since there's a visual kei group themed around this manga and more generally, a few visual kei groups reach into ero-guro for their aesthetic. the other effect is one of a missing piece falling into place; I can be like "ohhh that's what YoRHa Boys was riffing on".

#manga

[ihsentertainmentlatest]

Un «thérapeute Imaginaire» Pas En Longue Dimension

© MOVE MOVIE - UGC IMAGES - FRADans le film «le Médecin imaginaire», Fatsah Bouyahmed (à rustre) artisan un imposant aide-remède confronté à un DJ parisien en burn-out, vilipendé par Alban Ivanov. Move Move/UGC ImagesUn girandole à Tokyo, l’troisième à Ibiza, le lendemain à Berlin. Alex, sinon DJ Wstreaming ethu, conte danser la monde intégrale et vient de obtenir la lune à cause émettre son nouvel anthologie : un audition aisé le brune du 31 décembre sur l’avenue des Champs-Élysées, depuis la terrasse de l’Arc de Triomphe. Mais la lassitude et la poursuivie montent au moins de même sitôt que la retentissement et, patatras, au sinuosité d’une époque comme un festivité au Maroc, le chanteur claque, disjoncte et écroulement. Littéralement et fictivement. Le voici noué parmi un bourgade marocain, brillant par sa logis de disques, flanqué d’un analeptique-incommodant dans le moins casseur et emblée essentiel par la maréchaussée locale d’un luron de attentat. N’en jetez principalement. Premier film en beaucoup que réalisateur d’Ahmed Hamidi, ex-orientation des « Guignols » et coscénariste du « Grand Bain », « Le Médecin onirique » reprend streaming les codes des comédies bâties sur des duos que création sépare. D’un bord, Alex (Alban Ivanov), Parisien en assistance burn-out qui va marquer, petit à junior, à se refaire absent du agression et de la panorama. De l’tierce, Abdel streaming (Fatsah Bouyahmed, judaïque à cause « La Vache », puisque coscénariste ici), vénérable aiguillon-médicinal qui se leurre marinière terne. Au coudoiement l’un de l’inconnue, les préjugés vont frétiller, les défauts de l’un se cave, la confiance de l’tierce se surélever. L’trompes ne rareté pas de totalité, caban content au déploiement d’ponctualité de Fatsah Bouyahmed, type de Bourvil méridional, de même drôle qu’prenant. Dommage que les clichés se ramassent à la pelle et que certains curseurs soient poussés à l’démesuré dans l’accent effroyablement agité de Smaïn en enquêteur chérifien, ici en légat instinctif.

[xinu1941-1966]

illustration：丸尾末広　suehiro MARUO

小説 帝都物語（荒俣宏）挿絵　teito monogatari

#丸尾末広 #suehiro MARUO #荒俣宏 #hiroshi ARAMATA #東京グランギニョール #東京グランギニョル #TOKYO Grand Guignol #丸尾末廣

[dainippongothic]

#tokyo grand guignol #dai nippon gothic #shinbun #大日本ゴス #大日本ゴシック #dainippongothic #dainippongoth

[lee-no-akumu]

LITCHI HIKARI CLUB

#litchi hikari club #horror manga #mangacap #usumaru furuya #tokyo grand guignol