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Nagasawa Masami Wins Clarino Beautiful Legs Award

yonasu — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 20:23:48 +0000

Clarino Beautiful Legs is an annual award that rewards four women in three different age groups (and a group for athletes for some reason). This year Nagasawa Masami (22) happened to be the youngest winner together with Yumiko Shaku (31), Tsubasa Makoto (44) and Satoko Urata (28, sports category). I barely know the older women but I’m a big fan of Masami, she’s a great actress! I’ve seen Yumiko in three or four dramas before but she’s not really anything special to me.

But if you do like Masami’s legs, her recommendations is stretching everyday and doing Pilates. And that’s probably the only time I’m ever going to mention something like Pilates on my blog, uh… Well, just enjoy the following pictures of Nagasawa Masami, and perhaps throw in a comment about her legs!

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Boys Will Be Boys

yonasu — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 13:32:55 +0000

Doing stuff that hurts and pisses off other people is generally something we guys find amusing, right? Well the boys (or men) in Gaki no Tsukai are no different when they’re trying on ball medicine, 15 or so guys in a small room trying on ball medicine can’t go wrong.

Hamada’s reaction is priceless xD Just search for “bengay” on YouTube and you’ll find more!

Stand Up!!

Introducing Galleries

yonasu — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 00:07:12 +0000

Lately I’ve been asking people what they are missing here on yonasu.com, and many of those who I have asked have said that they want galleries, more specifically, idol galleries. I’ve been thinking about this for quite some time, but I was never sure on how to do it. Basically I had three options in mind:

A standalone gallery page, much like Zenphoto.
An image board like Danbooru, as seen on Safebooru.
Galleries inside of posts (basically just full-width images within a post).

After messing around with these options in my head I came to the conclusion that any kind of third-party gallery or image board wasn’t what I was looking for. So I was left with galleries inside of posts. If you know of my other blog Amai Sekai, a place where I just dump stuff I want to save, you’ve probably seen huge posts such as 185 Ueto Aya Magazine Scans. There I’m using full-width pictures together with a plugin called Lazy Load that loads pictures as you’re scrolling down the page. Rather than using that for galleries on yonasu.com, I decided to show one big picture and thumbnails for the rest. Now of course that’s not really a good way to browse a gallery, so for browsing you’ll click on any picture in the post and it will open in a lightbox. There are three ways to use this lightbox:

Click on “Start Slideshow” at the top right of the picture (pictures will show for 2.5 seconds).
Use your keyboard’s arrow keys to manually browse through all images in a post (my favorite).
Use your mouse (previous and next buttons will show once you hover your mouse over the picture).

From now on this plugin works for all posts, so not just for the galleries.

Galleries will be found everywhere just like normal posts, you’ll also be able to use a drop down menu in the main navigation at the top of the page. Any questions, suggestions or requests are very much welcome.

The first gallery to be published is a gallery of the 21-year-old actress Yoshitaka Yuriko, an actress who’s been growing on me a lot lately. If you haven’t seen her act, I recommend the movie Hebi ni Piasu (Snakes and Piercings)!

Yoshitaka Yuriko Gallery

yonasu — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 00:03:50 +0000

Name: 吉高由里子 (よしたかゆりこ)
Name (romaji): Yoshitaka Yuriko
Profession: Actress
Birthdate: 1988-Jul-22
Birthplace: Tokyo, Japan
Height: 157cm
Star sign: Cancer
Blood type: O
Talent agency: Amuse

I recommend watching: Hebi ni Piasu (movie), Shiroi Haru (drama), Juryoku Pierrot (movie), Love Shuffle (drama).

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HANGRY & ANGRY

yonasu — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 14:32:04 +0000

HANGRY & ANGRY is a Japanese pop-rock group consisting of ex-Morning Musume members Hitomi Yoshizawa (Hangry) and Rika Ishikawa (Angry). They have a gothic/punk style, and were created in 2008 to promote the fashion brand HANGRY & ANGRY.

When I first heard about HANGRY & ANGRY I had pretty high expectations of them as they both go well with the image. Hitomi has always been very tomboyish and Rika just has the face for it, but in my humble opinion that just isn’t enough.

When it comes to the actual singing I’m quite disappointed. I don’t think their songs live up to their images, especially with Hitomi’s look I expected them to be more like Tsuchiya Anna, it’s just too weak. That being said, they have two songs that I somewhat like, Angelia and Romantic ni Violence.

Even though I don’t fully enjoy their music (yet), I do enjoy their wild outfits, they are to quote Buono!’s Rock no Kamisama “crazy cool!”.

Well, I hope they release something really good soon! I’d be happy to hear what you think about HANGRY & ANGRY, but if you don’t have an opinion, just enjoy the following pictures.

What is °C-ute Playing?

yonasu — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 15:31:54 +0000

This has been bugging me since I saved these pictures to my hard drive, so I hope some of you are more well-informed than me. My question is, what the flipping flaps are they playing? I’ve never seen these basket racket things before!

As a thank you for letting me know I’m including two pictures of °C-ute in memory of Steve Irwin, the crocodile hunter. Oh and by the way, it’s pretty disappointing that they never take pics like the above on their way down, don’t you think?^^;

Very Orange Update

yonasu — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 19:12:29 +0000

As some of you might know, this blog is running on the Thesis theme. The Thesis theme was recently updated so I was forced (by my own will) to upgrade mine to the latest version. Because I had to mess with my previous customizations a bit I decided to give the site design an upgrade as well.

yonasu.com on Thesis 1.5

The previous design was nice but there was too much white and lacked a sense of uniqueness. I’m continuing to roll with orange as my main color as you can see, dropped some blue and gray, added some black and lighter shades of orange.

The biggest change is the background color and the shadow on the sides, that makes a huge difference. The header navigation is also new and liked by @Jamaipanese^^ The multimedia box seen at the top of the sidebar has been removed until further notice.

Finally I also removed a couple of images from the header rotation, new ones are on the way.

I hope you’ll be able to enjoy this version of yonasu.com as much as me! Suggestions and requests are very much welcome but if orange isn’t your favorite color I can’t really help you right now^^

Edit: I also added a retweet button in posts on the right side of the post title. (Not visible on the front page)

Edit 2: Changed the font from Lucida to Helvetica.

Amai Sekai Blog

yonasu — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 14:14:18 +0000

Edit: Sorry, next time I’ll make sure to include a hyperlink xD amaisekai.com

Finally I get to have a good cup of coffee and some peace, renovating the apartment is a drag but we’re almost done. So the latest news is that I’ve launched a new blog, and no, nothing’s going to change here because of that. I call it Amai Sekai (Sweet World) and originally it was intended to be a private blog just for me. Amai Sekai is kind of a Tumblr-like blog, you could also call it an archive blog or simply “the dump”. Basically I’ll post everything I want to save there, such as the girls in the thumbnail below :P

Now I wouldn’t be surprised if someone said that I could just use a bookmarking service like Delicious instead, but too many times have I bookmarked something that has been removed when I need it again. And when I just download stuff to my downloads folder, things get really messy and it’s hard to find stuff since I sure don’t go through the trouble and rename everything so the search engine can find it.

So I decided to launch a blog to solve this issue, and since I do believe that I save a lot of stuff that others might be interested in as well, I decided to make it public. There will be a lot of idol stuff on it but as it’s my own kind of bookmarking-service-tumblr-blog-backup-archive-dump, you’ll find other stuff as well (and not only Japanese things).

This blog is likely to update on a daily basis, sometimes even a few times a day probably. I’m not expecting a large amount of readers/viewers but if you like things I like you might want to give it a gander every once in a while!

Sosushi in Turin

yonasu — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 17:35:06 +0000

Well designed sushi bars, and stores in general are pretty rare in my neck of the woods. I only know of one sushi bar here that has a more modern look, all the other ones seem to be aiming for the traditional looking but westernized design. Of course that’s not necessarily a bad thing, but I love me some good modern design.

This is one of the Italian based Sosushi sushi bars. Sosushi has around 20 or so bars spread all over Italy and they all have very cool modern designs (I might feature some of the other ones in the future). This one in particular can be found in Turin (Torino), it’s a new project (2009) made possible by the also Italian based architectural office UAU.

Magenta isn’t really my favorite color but it does go very well with white and the plexwood they’re using. We’re painting the living room at the moment and going for white, purple and oak parquet floors, but it will not look anything like this :P

Of course with this design you’d expect the sushi to be quite expensive, seeing as there’s only about 10 seats available, and yes, that is the case. It’s not extremely expensive, but more than I usually pay, see for yourself in the menu below.

What do the sushi bars in your neck of the woods look like?

Presence of a soul

yonasu — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 13:37:37 +0000

Stumbled upon this band a couple of days ago called Presence of a soul. It’s a Japanese post-rock/shoegaze band lead by the famous female singer and composer YUKI, who also handles the guitar, keyboard and Mellotron. Together with YUKI are three guys, Yoshi on guitar, Masamune on bass and Mitsugu on drums.

Being a fan of post-rock, shoegaze and YUKI, I find it a bit weird that only found this band a couple of days ago. They’ve been active since 2005 and their latest release is their second full-length album Blinds, which is pretty amazing. I love how they start off very slow with sad atmospheric sounds and vocals that gradually evolves into really powerful shoegaze. They’re like a mix of miaou, This is Your Captain Speaking and Alcest.

sink low from Blinds

Well, I’ve only listened to Blinds so far so I have a lot to catch up on. You can listen to more of their songs on their MySpace.

Oh and if you have any recommendations of good Japanese post-rock/shoegaze bands please let me know!