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L'OEIL DE SHINJUKU
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City Hunter: Shinjuku Private Eyes (2019)
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City Hunter: Shinjuku Private Eyes (2019) // dir. Kenji Kodama
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Ryo Saeba [City Hunter: Shinjuku Private Eyes] 1/8 scale from Kotobukiya will be re-released February 2024.
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17/03/2024: Gonna load up 'Angel Dust: City Hunter', back in the 80s where we had a local video store. My old man rented a few vhs tapes of 'City Hunter' (cantonese dub version). Loved it back then, and love the current new animes of it now. 
Recently finished 'City Hunter: Shinjuku Private Eyes', so definitely looking forward to 'Angel Dust', love Ryo & Kaori relationship. 
Wikipedia: City Hunter is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Tsukasa Hojo. It was serialized in Shueisha's shōnen manga magazine Weekly Shōnen Jump from 1985 to 1991, with its chapters collected in 35 tankōbon volumes. The manga was adapted into an anime television series by Sunrise Studios in 1987. 
Software: Adobe Photoshop & Illustrator CS3 Tools: wacom pen
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saeraas · 6 months
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im being so for real when i say that i need someone from jujutsu tech to recover gojo's remains asap before everyone and their dog that watched him die pull up to dismember him and sell on the internet to like they did toji
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autodiscipline · 5 months
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Shinjuku Gewalt - One Man @ Koenji High, 2018.05.26 -live report- [Eng. translation]
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This is exactly what the title says, a translation of this blog post. It's a long one so I've condensed it, though I've tried to include the heft of the dialogue & important bits, enjoy!!
Before you read: Shimichin = A cutesy & endearing way of calling Yoshiyuki
Parts formatted like \This/ are representative of the crowd response
small text is my notes
That should be all^^
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・Just a little off schedule, SE* starts, Shimichin enters the stage. Wearing!!! A gakuran!!!! Uoooo excitements are rising… boyish…!
*SE- Environmental sounds & instrumentals played to set the tone before a performance
*Gakuran- Male high school students uniform
・On top, or rather, on the side? Sides? Of his helmet, headphones are affixed, It’s completely ornamental lol From the front they look sort of like bear ears, cute
・From the first song, ‘Shinsekai’ Shimichin is dancing & hopping around with nunchucks At one point, he put them on top of his head & spun them round & round in circles like a take-copter*. lolol
*From Doraemon- small propellor that goes on your head to help you fly
・'Ima Dakara'- during the 'paan' sound after "Demo watashi," Shimichin sweeps his hands out, while Toda-san pulls his hands in & together Even though their movements were different, I was a little excited to see the two of them move together in unison
・Toda-san is swaying from side to side in an idol-esque way Which Toda-san also does during ‘Tamatsubaki’, but I especially love the way he steps in time with TA-MA-RA-NA-KU SUKI〜*
They describe quite a cute & bouncy side to side dance
*In reference to the song's lyrics, it’s something like ‘unbearable love’, or love so strong that you can’t stand it
・Also, he usually tends to say something like “tamaranakusu…k..” where the end of the sentence is a bit slurred together However, today, Toda-san's “suki” was firmly pronounced, unwaveringly!! “Suki”!! Haaa〜〜〜 (Ascending)
Shimizu: You guys came to go wild today, didn’t you? \Yeah!/ Shimizu:  We don’t really have any songs like that, but.. (laughs) Something like… War*! I was thinking of something like that. …My bad. (Yoshiyukiko’s* tone of voice: laughing) What kind of things do rockstars usually say about now? “Are you ready to go Suginamiii*?!!” Something like that? … "Are you ready Suginamii?!" isn’t really what they say, is it?! lol Then, here I go. Are you ready Suginamii! \Yeah!!/ Shimizu: Not quite right suginami!! \Yeah!!/ Shimizu: You can do better than that, can’t you Suginami?!!! \Yeah!!/ Shimizu: Give it to me… Won’t you!!!
*Honestly, could be in reference to the band War, or just a WAA sound..?
*Yet another spelling of Yoshiyuki’s name, “よしゆき子,” which is youthful & feminine
*Suginami- city they are performing in
Toda: Shimizu-san, you’ve returned for the first time in a while haven’t you. To your gender… Shimizu: That’s right. However it’s been about 2 years of that so, my insides haven’t quite caught up with my outsides. I have the heart of a woman, the body of a man… And I also look like a man.* Toda: Complicated feelings… (laughs)
*Referring to how he’s wearing men's clothing for once lolol
Toda: Today, It’s a one-man… which is to say we can do whatever we want without being scolded. Shimizu: Do you usually get scolded? Toda: Normally, there’s someone who seems irritated… during taiban*… The people we’re playing against cross their arms sort of to say “Hurry up and get off the stage”… Shimizu: Aaahhh, well well well, I guess that’s true Toda: But, we’re all on the same team today… It’s okay to do whatever. It’s okay to pee. Shimizu: Pee?! LOL Toda: Shimizu-san why don’t you do it. Just like before. Shimizu: Just now!? I didn’t!? Toda: You didn’t? (tilts head) Shimizu: I didn’t! Don’t say that like I do it all the time!! lol
*Taiban- a show with multiple bands competing for best, in show, ‘battle of the bands’
Toda: Shimizu-san is looking cool these days, isn’t he? Shimizu: What’s this all of a sudden… Toda: Shimizu-san joined… around 15 years ago. To avoid grey divorce*, it’s important to give each other praise… Shimizu-san… So cute~… Shimizu: I’m not in a sailor uniform* today, but… Hiromu-kun is also cute~… Toda: (Touching Shimichins headphones) The red is so cute~… Shimizu: The way you hold the mic all low is so cute~...* Toda: ……Shall we go to the song (laughs)
*Grey divorce- demographic trend of increasing divorce rates among older (grey-haired) couples in long-lasting marriages
*Sailor uniform- his usual skirt
*Holding the microphone low & ducking his head to speak into it, rather than raising it up all the way to his face, 'bashful'
・Around when Toda-san said “Shimizu-san, ah, no..” he immediately turned & shied away after The way in which he spoke was like they were backstage? It was so bare-faced & genuine that it made my heart flutter(◜ᴗ◝) ・During SneS he brought out a mini-synth, and it seems to have a mouth piece, eh? melodica…?? Just like that, he played a melodica solo with the keyboard facing the crowd. Ah, super skillful! Is it even possible to bust out that kind of keyboard improvisation so casually? I can't comprehend his mind at all… ・And his hands are way too beautiful So slender… and bony…I want to collect the 3D data for a sculpture… ・Throughout ’Seishun’, Shimichin was toying around with the synthesizer while holding a pick in his mouth, which I enjoyed. It's not fair.. I have a weakness for (them) putting things in their mouth. (Which is why the melodica also made me quite lightheaded) ・During the interlude, Toda-san was picking his guitar with an insane intensity, his rock star air made me feel like I died & ascended to heaven. Toda-san usually appears super nonchalant so, I feel like I’m about to have a heart attack when he suddenly starts doing something with so much passion
Shimizu: Has everyone seen the spoons? Did you already buy them? \Sold out/ Shimizu: Sold out!? I see… Ah, the pictures are amazing, aren’t they. During the tour, Hiro-chan suddenly sent me a LINE message saying “Shimizu-san, I want to take pictures of you as a princess”… Princess photos!? He said… right? Toda: (When did he sneak on stage?) Is this an introduction for the merchandise sales corner? Shimizu: It just drifted in that direction. Sorry Toda: Then… Introducing merchandise sales cor〜〜ner〜〜. Souvenir spoon! (close up photo on screen) Toda: This is Yoshiyukiko, isn’t it? Shimizu: Well, yes, Princess Yoshiyukiko… And you? Toda: Poor Russian dream, so it’s princess ‘Hi-ro-mu’.* Shimizu: Hahahaha what ideas are you having about yourself… Haha
*’Hiromu’ is spelled using kanji for ‘poorly’ ‘russia’ & ‘dream’ sort of like a pun “貧露夢” (ひろむ/Hiromu)
Toda: Originally, here (Spoon head), I was thinking of including my graduation ceremony photo, and Shimizu-san's entrance ceremony photo.  But, When I received Shimizu-san's photo, it had extremely poor resolution… I couldn’t get new photos because he was already traveling on tour… Since it was last minute- just before the submission deadline, I had no choice but to take princess photos! So…
・"When I received Shimizu-san's photo, it had extremely poor resolution" ← I understand “I couldn’t get new photos because he was already traveling on tour” ← I understand “I had no choice but to take princess photos” ←??
They also mention how one of Yoshiyuki’s baby photos is actually his twin brother, & how Hiromu just casually has Yoshiyuki’s family photos LOL
Toda: I mail ordered princess goods, to Shimizu-san's house… Shimizu: Just after I returned home from tour, Hiromu-kun told me “I’m coming to take pictures! We don’t have time! Now!” He said, “What should we do” “Make yourself up, like a girl”… Also, how should I put it, you would expect a princess to have a dress or something, right? But all we had were a wig and small accessories… Under here we are, our upper bodies were nude, you know? \Eeeehh?Hahaha/
Yoshiyuki's tweet about the photoshoot
Now that I'm looking closer, I can totally tell that they're shirtless lol
They describe a scene where Yoshiyuki leaves the stage to grab the merch to display, & Toda is left alone on stage.. which is nerve-racking since he's a shy person..
"Toda-san all alone!? I was like 'Are you okay!?' I'm glad he had an anecdote to share with the crowd to properly fill the silence. It's amazing how Shimichins presence provides a feeling of security lol"
He starts talking about their recent demo tape until Yoshiyuki returns-
Toda: I was talking about the (cassette) tape.* It’s been a while since I entered the studio, I recorded the guitar, bass, & drums alone, so I was sweating through the recording, It was a very uncomfortable experience. Shimizu: Oh, I just had a chance to listen to it… Hiromu-kun (leaning his face close, whispering) It was really good. Toda: (whispering) Really? Shimizu: (whispering) Hiromu-kun, you were really cool. Toda: (whispering) Seriously? (looks away) Please tell me backstage. Shimizu: I just told you (laughs)
*Referencing 10min vol.1 & 2
Toda: There’s silicone inside of my ears, so I can’t hear everyone's voices… because of that… My mood is slowly getting dimmer and dimmer… Shimizu: !? It’s okay, the audience is right here! Look! Waa! \Waa!!/ Shimizu: See! Hiromu cheer up! Toda: (laughs) Shimizu-san, you’re easy-going… (he pulls on Shimichins gakuran as he’s talking. his gaze dropping) Ah, you’re in junior high school, aren’t you? Shimizu: Now that I’m looking, it seems like it. Hiromu-kun is in high school, right? Toda: Which means you're a junior high school graduate*, right? Shimizu: (sunken) (gently places the mic down, removes the mic from Toda-san's hand, setting it down, grabs him from behind and drags him to the side of the stage by the cuff of his sleeve) \Eeeh?Hahaha/
*Someone who didn't finish high school
・They return together just a minute later.
Shimizu: …Really, give me a break. Haha Toda: I apologize. Please forget it. (laughs) Is it not okay? To say you’re a junior high school graduate. Shimizu: (sinking again) …No!… I went. But… It’s hard to say〜these kinds of things〜!
There's quite a long intermission scene so I'll condense it here-
OP describes, after they play 'death metal', 'sayonara tent', & 'sejou', an interlude where each respective members background music plays over a photographic slideshow along with elaborate narrative subtitles.
Shimizu's slides were photos of him as a child, as well as pictures from his earlier more 'visual' bands, along with a story about his exorcism ? His song is lo-fi, like a tape recorded karaoke session, with rare vocoder-less vocals
Toda's slides were photo's from his older visual bands as well, where he crossdressed quite a bit, overlaid was a story about a child born blue with the umbilical cord wrapped around their neck. Deemed as unlovable by their mother, they were raised as a girl, as she wanted a daughter, & grew up as such. I'm pretty sure the last photo they describe is this exact one (just with different writing lol). His song is a modified version of ‘Tamatsubaki’ with a sampling of the popular electronic song 'Popcorn'
Lastly they played a silly video of Shimizu training at a stage combat gym (which they mentioned earlier in the show><) +fighting opponents with a sword in an epic format, & eventually succumbing to a hero's demise
・After the video finishes for a second time, the SE (the song sounds different from the usual one…) fades in again Shimichin emerges first, wearing a navy blue cardigan with a ribbon, white Geba tights*, & a plaid skirt ━━━━(゚∀゚)━━━━!! ・III mean that skirt is way too short… everything’s visible… gyaru*…!? Oh, and he’s gotten bangs. Oh no.. I’m noticing a new color…*
*Shinjuku Gewalt merchandise tights, with a maximal pattern that is typical of Toda's usual works
*Slang for the english term ‘gal’, a fashion subculture popular among young women
*I haven’t localized this so it’s literal, but ‘to notice new colors’ is like, sexual awakening LOL
・Toda-san emerges next and!! Waa!! His outfit━━━━(゚∀゚)━━━━!!!!!!!! His geba tights are black, and his skirt ends around just above the knee… nice and neat…too dangerous… ・This may have been the first time I’ve seen the shape of Toda-san’s legs… They’re slender although somewhat muscular…manly… By the way, both of them are wearing indoor shoes* on their feet
*These are like the type of slippers students wear inside of schools
・On top of that, Toda-san is “Oh❤️”-ing & posing provocatively to the music, I seriously thought I was going to faint…… Hold on, besides, why are you so good at posing… Did you practice?
Shimizu: This weekend, Armageddon Idol… It’s Shinjuku Gewalt〜! \Waa!!/ Shimizu:  Well〜 It's pantyhose after all, isn't it〜 Toda: Shimizu-san, your skirt is terribly short… Shimizu: Yes well… I bought it on amazon. Can the people in the back see? \Can’t see/ Shimizu: (Puts his foot on the monitor) Toda: (Also puts his foot) Shimizu: How's this?? \Can’t see!!/ (The fans in the front crouch down) \Oooh!!/ Shimizu: !? What’s this, Peeking up a 40 something year old man’s skirt…!! (←No! We bent down so that the people behind us could see lol) (He realized after the live and made a tweet correcting his mistake)
・How should I put it, The MC with his leg up is too dangerous, Shimichin, we can REALLY see He was holding his skirt down, but, even so, I was nervous lol
Shimizu: I think it looks good on you, doesn’t it? Toda: ………kim-……… Shimizu: Did you say ‘kimoi’ just now? Toda: Ah, no, ki… kimigaii Shimizu: Kimigaii? lol*
*’Kimoi’ means creepy or gross, which Toda started to say, but played it off like he was saying something else, ‘kimigaii’, which means to take pleasure in your rivals failures? random lol. It would be like "I wasn't going to say 'gross' .. I was going to say.. 'guilty pleasure'"
・I forgot the context, but around this point, Shimichin got way too close to Toda-san, who told him “Please go away (laughs)”  If I’m not mistaken then they were nearly close enough to bump helmets What close friends… ・After, they stood face-to-face while they looked at each other, Toda-san holding his hands at his sides like all penguin-like, Shimichin with his hands clasped over his chest There was an utmost feeling of connection like, “This is it~🌸”……Perfect score…….Goodnight……(peacefully laid to rest)
Toda: Then, after this song, everyone please move about 3 times more enthusiastically than usual. Since I’m already tired…
・The first song of the encore is ‘Bankoku Kousen’ During the intro, Toda-san starts doing something like a monkey dance, Hiromu is full of energy〜! ・Even though he’s wearing a skirt, he has his legs spread, with a megaphone in one hand (languidly) & the other hand on his hip with a rebellious air.. The best
I'm imagining the typical 'sukeban' pose hahaha
・And the hand clap provocation is too beautiful Before each clap, they pirouette both hands in a wide circle & still them above their heads at an outwards angle, before counting to four on their fingers together with each hand clap Ah~~ I can’t perfectly describe it~~ Someone make an animation… Or moreover, release the video footage!!! Officially!!!!!!! ・Also, Toda’s sailor uniform was so short that when he raised his hands I could see his midriff, ah, well, actually he was wearing a black undergarment, nevertheless, Toda-san normally wears clothes that fall straight from the shoulders I was like.. His waist outline.. aahhhhh_:(´ཀ`」 ∠): If it had been bare skin, it would have gone down as the ‘Suginami mass death incident of 5/26’, so, thank god he was wearing it ・Now ‘Youjouhan ELECTRIC TECHNICA’ Sailor Toda-san playing the melodica was already an amazing mix of emotion & debauchery, but what’s this? What’s with this scene of the piano’s mouthpiece tucked between his jet black lips…??? ・Lastly, ‘Hikiniku’ During the intro, Shimichin urged the crowd to go wild, shouting “Hoi!”, and imploring us for a new ‘oi’ crowd call lol ・At first, we were singing the lyrics, but after the chorus it was more like a scream than a song ・Toda-san had an amazingly wild look in his eyes, wide open, as to say “I can’t take it anymore!!”, nothing short of entirely overwhelming, scary… incredible… ・Around the interlude, he suddenly pulls out a Ziploc with something white inside Powder? No, it’s sparkling, 'rock salt?', I thought, then, he grabbed a handful and started sprinkling it over the heads of the front row( ꒪ω꒪)! The audience was even cupping their hands in the shape of a bowl 🤲 and catching it( ꒪ω꒪)!ᵘᵘᵒ ・Ah, is that okay? It’s not sticky? I was wondering, when Toda-san tossed a handful of the white substance towards the back of the crowd---( ꒪ω꒪)!! Whoa, a purification*!? I was startled, but it seemed to soar over my head without any damage
*A ritual wherein salt is thrown to cleanse the mind and body
・The audience was lively, meanwhile Toda-san is still shouting with his eyes as wide as ever\(^o^)/ In the meantime, the song had come to an end… ・The two of them were so quick to slip off, I was left standing there wondering ‘what happened just now’ I looked at the ground and saw the white stuff from earlier…………rice??? ・It’s rice… Rice sparkles like that… Where could this knowledge be useful… And, from this point on, I don’t think I’ll ever see rice fly in such a beautiful arc again… It was like the salt throwing in sumo
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henshinwolf89 · 3 months
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🎶Get wild and tough! Get chance and luck!🎶
My City Hunter collection. City Hunter, created by Tsukasa Hojo, is my favorite anime of all time! I got introduced to this series by my mom. She's always been a huge fan of Jackie Chan and because he made a loose City Hunter adaptation in the early '90s she discovered the City Hunter anime and manga through it!
Originally, the City Hunter anime was licensed by ADV Films (A.D. Vision Holdings) but they went under back in 2009 and the City Hunter license was neglected until it was aquired by Discotek Media. I always wanted to physically own all of the City Hunter series but unfortunately I couldn't afford it back then. After it was rescued by Discotek I pounced on it as fast as I could.
The original manga was released here in English by Raijin Graphic Novels, but they only released 5 of the volumes out of a 35 volume series. There was also a weird bit of editorial commentary in between panels that they did. I only own 2 of these volumes.
I also have the first part of Cat's Eye, another series created by Tsukasa Hojo and set in the same universe as City Hunter, but I still need to get the final second half.
To this day, City Hunter has my all-time favorite soundtrack in anime, rivaled only by the stellar Bubblegum Crisis soundtrack!
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shootfighting · 10 months
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love how Shinjuku Private Eyes takes place in 2019, but Ryo still looks like he stepped fresh out of Miami Vice
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vsingers · 1 month
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people who claim americans are the worst tourists have never experienced the british or the french abroad
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theres-a-bea · 2 years
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I know the script and storyline was mf awful but Snake Eyes: G.I. Joe Origins was 100% Andrew Koji's pretty bitch era argue with the wall
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14-19, Sept. Working in Tokyo.
Shot my favorite and want to see movie.
#businesstrip #tokyo #snap #vosc #badlands #shinjuku #japanlunch #birdseyeview #日常の記録
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winglingtings · 1 year
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Ani 2020
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bens-things · 11 months
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City Hunter: Shinjuku Private Eyes (2019) dir. Kenji Kodama
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peachrote · 2 years
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thinking abt shoka and ayano tonight
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