Strider's Sci-Fi

After watching yesterday’s video I explored a bit more, and somebody is actually compiling the best, or at least strangest, commercials from Japan each week or 3. These include some serious genre references and products along side the merely wacked out, and I enjoyed them too much to keep them to myself. I particularly enjoyed [...]

I love the amazing array of genre coming out of Japan, but some of their output is strange. I THINK this may be a recruiting video for McDonald’s street theater staff in Tokyo (why don’t we have that here?), but it could also be a girl with Hypno Toad genes creating her own cadre of [...]

The band CN Blue from Korea has a bit of rock to their style, unlike many of their contemporaries who seem to worship at the Pop Alter… watch the videos and let me know what you think.

Crunchyroll was the first streaming video service of any kind that impressed me enough that I got a paid subscription. In part, that was because I didn’t have to hand them money to watch any of the shows or join the online community, which made me feel welcome and included. In part it was because [...]

It doesn’t sound any different than you would expect to hear here… and that is the point, isn’t it? Some things become a universal language, just by the nature of the device. This particular collection is from Japan, but it could have been from Ireland or Siberia or San Francisco for all the human ear [...]

This week seems to be all about the music, so here is Kyary Pamyu Pamyu with her new song Ninja Ri Bang Bang. It is just as kawaii as you would expect, although this time her dancers without faces (why does nobody but Kyary ever have a face in one of her videos?) are animated [...]

Глюк’oZa has made some excellent animations to go with their high quality music, and I just thought I would share a few more of them with you today. I appreciate the Machinema 3D modeling they do for a bunch of them, while on others they use western animation styles, and still others are done Anime [...]

OK, this one is just downright silly, but has the same cunning as Bernstein’s Peter And The Wolf. Tricking children into becoming music lovers by explaining to them what is going on, or by making sure they get to attend a presentation by a live orchestra. I don’t care which method is used, I enjoy [...]

Truly amazing live music; David Byrne (Talking Heads) and Annie Clark (St. Vincent) did this concert just a few months ago at Strathmore Hall in Rockville, Md, and NPR was there to capture it. Most of this show was from their 2012 album Love This Giant, but they each did a track or two from [...]

Глюк’oZa is a band that knows how to blend excellent animation with quality music, and they have built a sci-fi storyline much as Gorillaz have. The name of the band is also the stage name of the lead singer/songwriter/dancer/actress, Gluk’oza’s real name being Natalia Ilinichna Ionova. The stage name means Glucose, or Sugar in Russian, [...]