今週のしゅうまつ私は友達とArmin Van Buurenのコンサートへ行きました。コンサートの名前は「A State of Trance 450」でした。きっぷは七十ドルでした。Roseland Ballroomであったトランスのコンサートでした。ところで、Roseland BallroomはBroadwayと52thにあります。地下鉄で行きました。七時四十五分にコロンビアを出て、八時半にRoselandにつきました。コンサートは九時にはじめました。一つめのDJはBreakfastでした。つぎのDJはLangeで、十時にはじめました。十一時にGiuseppi Ottavianiははじめました。そして、十二時から二時までArminはえんそうをしました（performed）。二時にJohn O'Callaghanははじめました。三時にコンサートをでて、マクドナルドでごはんを食べて、コロンビアへ帰りました。コンサートにいるとき、六時間いつも立っていました。コンサートを出たら、足がいたかったです。人がとても多かったで、おんがくはおとがとても高かったです。でも、おんがくはよくて、たのしかったです。そして、Arminのえんそうを見ることができました。
I always used to forget Shouko Nakagawa's name for some reason, but today I was watching a video of her and the title of the video was in Kanji. All of the sudden I realized I could read the kanji of her name, Nakagawa. Never again will I forget, hahaha. By the way, her first name, Shouko uses the kanji 翔, which means to fly (if you remember, it has the same kanji part as naraimasu that Sato Sensei metioned), and 子, which means child (we can read this one too!). In that train of thought, to fly is tobu, 翔ぶ.
ミコさんはニコニコ動画（どうが）のメンバです。ところで、ニコニコ動画は日本のビデオのサイトです。YouTubeみたい(similar to)です。ミコさんはエレクトーン(Electrone, Electric Organ)をひくことがとても上手です！エレクトーンのひくことはむずかしそう(seems difficult)です。Three sets of keys! すごいです！ミコさんはアニメとゲームのうたをひきます。
This is a video clip from the anime Azumanga Daioh. A bit confusing, but to be brief, the long haired girl is named Sakaki, and this is the end of her dream in the episode. As the subtitles say, it's a Japanese belief that on your hatsuyume, or first dream of the new year, if you dream of hawk, eggplant, Mt. Fuji, or any combination of the three, you'll have good luck for the year.
This is a PV (promotional video) for the song Bad Apple!! by Alstroemeria Records. このビデオはとてもすごいですよ!
A friend showed me this video earlier today... Well, yesterday at this point, and I really loved it. The song is pretty good, and the video animation is top notch. It's very stylish, scenes flow together very well, and actions sync with the music, too. Even the lyrics match what happens in the video! Makes me wonder how the song and video were developed; was the video made to match the music, or vice versa? Or maybe they were created concurrently to match each other. Regardless, the final product is very impressive. すばらしいです。
EDIT: date = 11/3/2009 time = 4:30AM So as it turns out, I did a little research and the song Bad Apple!! is an arrangement of Reimu's (the main character in the Touhou Series) background music in the fourth installment of the series, Lotus Land Story. Bad Apple!! is a song on the album Lovelight, released by Alstroemeria in May of 2007 at 例大祭4, Reitaisai 4 (Reitaisai is a Touhou convention in Japan). Since then, the song has become quite popular and various fan PV's have been made for it, such as this one. But then, on October 27, 2009, nico nico douga (a Japanese video sharing website similar to Youtube) user Anira uploaded his(?) PV. It was so impressive that Alstroemeria even posted it on their website. END EDIT
Here's a subtitled version of the video:
The video is depicted in Shadow Art, everything is a shown as a silhouette. The video stars characters from the popular Japanese PC game series, Touhou Project. Touhou has had many releases since it first started, like Embodiment of the Scarlet Devil and Imperishable night, and each game adds more characters to the series. After 12 released games the series has a multitude of characters, many of which are shown in the video. Touhou is a shoot 'em up game of a certain type: 弾幕 (danmaku), which translates to bullet curtain. It is aptly named since at most times the screen is filled with bullets that will one shot kill you. Here is an example of how outrageously difficult it can be:
I knew this song from a year or two ago, but I didn't know much Japanese then. Now after learning a bit, I can understand the lyrics a little more and a couple number related things stood out...
いちまんねん = 10,000 years と = and にせんねん = 2,000 years いちまんねんとにせんねん = 12,000 years
はっせんねん = 8,000 years いちおく = 100,000,000
This helped me study for the quiz the other day. ^_^
