New Site!!!

Hello all!

I have graduated from blogspot and now have a new site! It's shiny and new, and you know you want to go visit it. XD

http://yamatologic.com

Yamatologic, it's dot com!

Anyway, I'll see you there.

A Better NicoNico Douga English Guide

When I post videos, I try to find the YouTube version for our ニコニコ動画 impaired friends, but I highly encourage everyone to visit the site and attempt to watch them. It improves your Japanese and is much more fun than watching a boring non-commented YouTube video.

So, for those of you without an account, there is a pretty good guide on how to sign up and watch videos over at Asiajin:

English guide for Nico Nico Douga, part 1: How to register

English guide for Nico Nico Douga, part 2: How to use

And if you already have an account, here is your reward:

perfume

The fabulous trio known as Perfume are starting to leak across the sea...

There is this odd phenomenon where when you don't live in Japan, but are interested in it, it takes a while before something reaches critical mass and starts to leak out to other country's Japanese-speaking populations. perfume archived this a few weeks ago.

perfume (generally not capitalized) is a three girl group from Hiroshima. The members are あ～ちゃん (A~chan), かしゆか (Kashiyuka, sometimes ksyk in ローマ字), and のっち (Nocchi). They struggled for many years, apparently since elementary school, to make hit songs, but until Yasutaka Nakata, a fairly popular DJ, picked them up, they didn't really succeed.

My personal history with perfume started when I saw the IKZOLOGIC video a while back. From that video, I started to get into capsule. Yasutaka Nakata is the DJ for capsule, so when I went looking for more music by him, I ended up hearing a lot of perfume.

But I didn't think much of them. And then they took off and started showing up on TV and now I am on-board... they are a girl group... they don't make their own music, but Yasutaka-san is awesome, so at least it is good music. They are just there to look pretty and dance. All their live performances are lip-synced to allow them to dance in their very unique way.

Funny thing is most people have a favorite. They are made to all look different, mainly with wardrobe and hair styles differing. I must admit that のっち is my favorite. She's the short haired one... (-.-;)

Their blog is here. Sorry, it's in Japanese... for now...

I leave you with their music video/commercial for Pino brand bonbons. Enjoy!

First Post!

Hello all, this is Jeshii. Welcome to the new Yamatologic blog.

Here will lie random pieces of Japan that I need to share with the English speaking world.

If you are looking for the opposite, my musings in Japanese, please go visit my Ameblo.

In any case, stay tuned...