Kyary Pamyu Pamyu continues to produce surreal music videos in Akihabara and kawaii overdose clothing in Harajuku, and here is the proof. This video was posted on Wednesday and is called Mottainaitoland, and as always, Kyary’s is the only face you will see. The other track is also from this week and also a bit uptempo strange, the band CAPSULE doing their track Control from their new album CAPS LOCK.
There have been museums and clubs and cans and so much more, but never before has there been an Anime/Manga Theme Park; J-World now fills that bill. Primarily sponsored by Shonen Jump, the weekly Manga with so many excellent series in it, the place has some good immersive displays to explore. The very popular Dragon Ball, One Piece, and Naruto are the core of the park, but it includes several of the other Shonen Jump favorites, like Bleach. This is not a get-on-the-ride kind of theme park, but a place a lot like the Doctor Who Experience, where they put you in the center of a 360 degree environment that makes you feel like you are there. Thanks to the folks at Otaku USA for the heads up on this one.
The remake of The Secret Life of Walter Mitty looks really good, possibly even better than the original, although I think I will have to watch them both on the same day before I come to any conclusions. It is based on the book by American humorist and illustrator James Thurber.
This is a silly app, spun off from a silly program that I like a lot. The Crazy Talk App allows you to take an Actor, record some dialog, and slave them together for lip syncing. Yes, I know, lots of apps do that. But this is the only one I know that gives you some slider bars that allow you to create and edit animated facial expressions for the resulting video. They have 2 App versions, one free and the other 99 cents. It does have a bit of a learning curve, and to take advantage of everything you will need to get the actual Crazy Talk Program, so you can do stuff like create your own Actors.
For those wondering what the count down clock is all about, it is all about the Doctor Who 50th Celebration and the episode they will air around the world that night, Day Of The Doctor.
The one film that looks like fun this week is Mickey Virus, a Bollywood comedy about a computer hacker, his tomboy sidekick, his imaginary girlfriend (which he programmed into a computer game), a whole lot of police, and the computer hackers he has to stop.