New Anime Winter 2009
I am going to list all the shows scheduled for January 2009 in chronological order as documented by Anime News Network, and then I’ll give you brief synopsis with my thoughts and notes about each anime (grouped by day of the week) with trailers and links to first impressions and screenshots for some of the shows. Read the rest of this entry ?
Kōhaku Uta Gassen (紅白歌合戦, Kōhaku Uta Gassen), more commonly known as simply Kōhaku, is an annual music show on the New Year’s Eve. Literally “Red and White Song Battle,” the program divides the most popular music artists of the year into competing teams of red and white. The “red” team or akagumi (赤組, 紅組, akagumi?) is composed of all female artists (or groups with female vocals), while the “white” team or shirogumi (白組, shirogumi?) is all male (or groups with male vocals). Read the rest of this entry ?
Goze (瞽女) is a Japanese historic term referring to visually impaired Japanese women, of whom most worked as musicians. A part of recording “Kuzunoha’s Child Separation” was used in Sara’s performance in Samurai Champloo. It is sung by Tsukioka Yukiko, who studied the recordings of the “last of the Goze’”, Haru Kobayashi and Shizu Sugimoto, and even walked a pilgrimage of all 88 temples of Shikoku island to understand the harsh life of these traveling performers. Read the rest of this entry ?
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