Part of the Star Trek Into Darkness global domination tour involves having local artists in six countries sing their own Star Trek theme songs. Nothing interesting there, until you realize the Japanese artist will be Kyary Pamyu Pamyu. If you don’t know who Kyary Pamyu Pamyu is, then you ain’t seen anything! She is literally the embodiment of crazy JPop costumes, her videos are some of the most entertaining things that ever evered. So we eagerly await the video to the Star Trek song, knowing it might just be the best thing that was ever connected to Star Trek. Plus, any time I can talk about Kyary Pamyu Pamyu is a good time!
As part of the continuing adventures of TarsTarkas.NET, I attended a free concert in Union Square in San Francisco that was part of the J-POP Summit Festival 2013. The Festival is also sponsoring the first ever Japan Film Festival of San Francisco, which I am also attending screenings to (and…
The brand new Japan Film Festival of San Francisco will come to the city Saturday July 27th through Sunday August 4th at the New People Cinema in J-town. The JFFSF is also part of the 2013 J-POP Summit Festival, which is July 27th and 28th in Japantown, a street fair…
Library Wars aka 図書館戦争 aka Toshokan Senso 2013 Written by Akiko Nogi Based on the novel by Hiro Arikawa Directed by Shinsuke Sato In a near-future, the battle between censorship and free speech has become a literal war, with bullets flying and blood being shed. As a news stories montage…
