Kelsey Ellison POM POM Live!!

Hello everyone! Welcome to Liv N' Luv Japan! I have some latest news from Kelsey Ellison! She had posted a video on her YouTube channel 17 hours ago of her singing her hit song POM POM live! I remember I have done a video of her before a couple of months ago and her YouTube channel at the time was called, "KimonoTime". Now, her YouTube channel is just her name, "Kelsey Ellison".

I am really proud of her and she is one of my role models! She's beautiful, she is a really great dancer, and I see that from watching her in the past year or two, she has become a very successful person and every day I know for a fact that she is working to her hardest to reach her goal in life.

Now, here is her live performance of POM POM!

JPOP: Juice=Juice - "Black Butterfly"

Here is a J-POP music video for you guys today from Juice=Juice!

First, Sword Art Online...Now, Gun Gale Online?!

Hello everyone! Welcome to Liv N' Luv Japan! Today, I want to talk a little about season 2 of a certain anime called, "Sword Art Online" and usually abbreviated as "SAO". I have seen and completed season 1 of Sword Art Online. It had become one of my favorite animes and I never got bored watching it. I had wrote an article on my blog about Sword Art Online itself and what it is mainly about and stuff.

 So, to basically put it in a simple way, Sword Art Online is about this MMORPG virtual reality game and the players can log in and play and interact with other players and it is like the virtual game became reality. Soon, they start to realize that they cannot log out. The only way they can log out is if they win and beat all 100 levels. If in any circumstances you die in the game, if someone in the real world take off your head gear, etc. then you will die in real life. The main characters of the game are Kirito and Asuna.

For those of you who have never seen Sword Art Online or is wanting to see it but is still deciding, here is a video of the Sword Art Online trailer:

Now, for Gun Gale Online! I have never seen Gun Gale Online and I really don't know much about it either. But, I am planning to watch it as soon as I can because I am really interested in seeing since I really enjoyed watching SAO. At first, I didn't know that Gun Gale Online would be season 2 of SAO because you would think that they would keep the name SAO and just call it "SAO 2" or "Sword Art Online" and just say that it is season 2. So, I really didn't get it but, then I thought about it and it started to make sense to me that they just changed it to make it set the theme of the type of game genre it is. "Sword Art Online" had to do with fighting and battling with swords. And now, Gun Gale Online have to do with shooting.

Now, I really cannot say much about this anime because I have never seen it or read any of the light novels so, for you guys who would like more details about this anime, I suggest that you visit the Gun Gale Online wikia (CLICK HERE).

I've been trying to find a cool and decent trailer of Gun Gale Online for you guys so, here is the best one I can find on YouTube:

I hope you guys will enjoy Gun Gale Online!

JapanesePod101

Hello everyone! Welcome to Liv N' Luv Japan! Today, I want to continue doing more for the Japanese language and helping you guys find more reliable resources to help motivate you to continue your studies of Japanese.

JapanesePod101 usually teaches mostly vocabulary, grammar, and how to write hiragana, katakana, and kanji. They have a YouTube channel with many videos to teach you but, their website has way more features. It is free to sign up but, I don't know if all the features on the site is free if I remember clearly. I am also a user of JapanesePod101 myself. Here is a sample video of how they teach the vocabulary on YouTube:

I recommend this if you are trying to increase your vocabulary.

And here is one of their latest videos on YouTube and it last around 14 minutes and it's more of a lesson than simple vocabulary:

I wouldn't really highly recommend it but, on a scale I see it as average. But, that is just my opinion! ^_^ But, I recommend it for light learning! ^_^

I will try to find more resources for studying and learning Japanese!!! GANBATTE KUDASAI!!!

Young Japanese Girl Dancer "Ririri Rururu"!

Hello everyone! Welcome to Liv N' Luv Japan! I have been on YouTube watching J-POP and Vocaloid dances from other people and what really shocked me was this very young little girl who can dance very well and if you just saw her you would agree with me. I don't know her real name but on YouTube she goes by "ririri rururu".

Here is picture of her I found but it is kinda blurry though. This is also her picture she uses on her YouTube channel.

Now, time for some videos!!! I usually just show one video on my blog just so you guys can get a taste but, I am so impressed by this young little girl that I am going to show a few. For all you J-POP and Vocaloid fans, you guys will maybe recognize these songs she is dancing to!! By the way, the third video I recommend watching first!! Also it's my favorite!! ^_^

JPOP: Juice=Juice--"Blown By The Wind"

Hello everyone! Welcome to Liv N' Luv Japan! Here is a new music video from one of my favorite Japanese J-POP girl groups, "Juice=Juice"!

My favorite member of this group is Miyamoto Karin! (The girl in the center)

Here is their MV, "Blown By The Wind" (Promotional Edit) :

JapanSocietyNYC

Hello everyone! Welcome to Liv N' Luv Japan! Yesterday, I wasn't able to post anything because it was a Sunday and the library was closed but, I had plenty of time to think about what I wanted to post more of on my blog. I see my blog as 80% of pop culture and entertainment such as celebrities, music, anime, gaming, etc. and I never really put much work into posting more of traditional culture and the Japanese language. So, today I thought I should post about the Japanese language!

There is this YouTube channel I am subscribed to that teach you lots about the Japanese language and culture and it is entertaining and really fun to watch for me that I sit for hours just learning Japanese. The channel can be for people who is just starting to learn Japanese and for those that are on the intermediate level and is more advanced as well. I see myself as an intermediate when it comes to Japanese because I can understand Japanese very well but I would understand it way better if I had the ability to read kanji and to learn more advance grammar techniques.

There videos are really simple and really easy to understand and the videos are not long or time consuming, the videos usually last around 2-3 minutes. So, that you can get a experiment of what the language videos is about, here is a very basic and simple video of how they teach you the plain basics. This is also the first video of one of the language videos and the playlist is called, "Waku Waku Japanese".:

I say that I highly recommend this YouTube channel if you are learning Japanese and you are just starting to learn and just a beginner. (^_^)

I'm also going to try my best to find more resources and ways to help you guys learn Japanese. From videos, websites, books, etc!

Thank you guys for reading!! And for you Japanese language learners, GANBATTE KUDASAI NE!

ANIME:進撃の巨人 (Attack On Titan)

Hello everyone and welcome to Liv N' Luv Japan! Today, I really feel like talking about my most favorite and maybe might be my #1 anime...Attack On Titan!!

I really never enjoyed many anime like this like, ton of violence and fighting type anime as much unless it was Naruto but this anime really surprised me. I never heard of Attack On Titan until I saw it on the cover of Otaku USA magazine and read the article on it. And it looked interesting and I was planning to see if I could watch it on Crunchyroll or YouTube but I never gotten the chance to search it up. But, I usually watch most of my anime on Toonami and turns out Attack On Titan was premiered!

At first, I was going to not watch it but then I was like, "Hey, why not just give it a chance?". So I did, and it was the best anime I have ever watched in a looooooooooong time!!! I was able to watch 2 episodes of it one night. (It only comes on Sunday mornings around 12AM.) I was scared to fall asleep feeling stupid to actually think that I will start to hallucinate and start seeing and hearing things thinking it would probably be the titans. XD

THIS IS ME WHEN I AM TERRIFIED TO GO TO SLEEP AFTER WATCHING THE MOST CREEPIEST, WIERDEST, DISGUSTING, AND DISTRUBING ANIME OF ATTACK ON TITAN.........

But yeah, Attack On Titan is an amazing anime and in my opinion, I highly recommend it. It is also a manga and I have actually seen them in book stores such as Books-A-Million and Barnes & Nobles. I don't own any of the manga or have read one so I can't rate it but, I am pretty sure that it is amazing as well since it is based on the anime. It is also a video game for Nintendo 3DS which I want to try since I own a 3DS! ^_^

And one of my favorite things about any anime, is the opening and ending themes...Attack on Titan opening is one of the best in my opinion so, for those who have and/or haven't heard it here is the opening of Attack On Titan:

                                                     ATTACK ON TITAN OPENING

CELEBRITIES:安部 春香 (Haruka Abe)

Hello everyone and welcome to Liv N' Luv Japan! Today, I want to talk about this celebrity that is kinda popular but, we have all seen her before in this popular new music video called, "Rather Be" by Clean Bandit. She is not part of the Clean Bandit band but was filmed in the music video because she was a fan of theirs and it was also filmed in Tokyo, Japan so they decided to let her in the video.

She is a Japanese actress in London, UK. She was born in Tokyo, Japan and as a child she had lived and moved around New York, London and Tokyo. She was born on January 8, 1985 (currently 29 years old.).

She had been filmed in the TV shows:

• Ideal
• Slingers
• Wire In The Blood
• Casualty
• My Phone Genie
• Doctors
• Edge Of Heaven

She had been in the films:

• The Knife That Killed Me
• 47 Ronin

Here is a couple of photos of Haruka Abe:

And now for those who haven't heard the song "Rather Be" by Clean Bandit and haven't seen Haruka Abe in the video, and for the ones who enjoy this song and love watching Haruka Abe perform, here is the music video "Rather Be" by Clean Bandit:

MUSIC: KyaryPamyuPamyu- Kira Kira Killer

This MV will now be from one of my most favorite J-POP singers and dancers, KyaryPamyuPamyu. This video is so cute and adorable and I love her hair and outfit in this video and the special effects ^_^ ENJOY!

KYARYPAMYUPAMYU!!!

MUSIC: Vocaloid- Rugrats Theory (FullVersion)

Creepy as creepy can get... O.O;;;;;;;;

MUSIC: Hatsune Miku- The Game Of Life

One word....ADDICTING...

MUSIC: Hatsune Miku & Gumi- Matryoshka

This song and video is kinda creepy to me but it got such a really awesome beat to it that I can listen it to it all day! ^_^

JPOP: Megurine Luka-Secret (Japanese&Chinese Sub)

Hello everyone! I decided I wanted to post many videos of J-POP and Vocaloid! (^_^) I have an obsession for music. So here is one song I like that's by a Vocaloid by Megurine Luka. ENJOY!

Personal Schedule: Anime Club!

Hello everyone! Welcome to Liv N' Luv Japan! This is going to be kinda of a very short article because it's just something random I will be doing today being my second time going to the Anime Club.

There is this town across from where I live that host an Anime Club at their public library. I never heard of it until my mother had mention it. At first, I didn't think that she was being real and just joking but turns out it was true. I was kinda late the first day I went because I was sleep and really didn't feel like going but, I changed my mind because of the fact that I needed to stop being lazy and do something hahaha~ (^_^)

As soon as I got there we had to sit in this large spacious room and there were a handful of people there and I was kinda surprise because where I live, I don't know many people who actually like anime except for a couple of my close friends.

After that we watched the 1st and 2nd episode of an anime called, "The Civilization Blaster" on Crunchyroll. I've never heard of that anime before speaking of the fact that most of the time I watch anime, I watch it on Toonami which comes on really early in the morning around 12 a.m. showing more popular and well known anime like Bleach, Naruto, Naruto Shippuden, One Piece, Fullmetal Alchemist, and etc. (my personal favorite anime on Toonami: Space Dandy!)

One of the anime that I really don't like as much would be Fullmetal Alchemist because of the fact I really don't understand that anime as much and it's more of a military and war anime and I really don't enjoy that type of anime as much. And the second one I really don't like would be One Piece. One Piece is funny and fun to watch but then you would just get tired of it quickly...it never ends!!! So many episodes, even Bleach is going to show it's last and final episode soon on Toonami and One Piece is still to be continued.  -__-

Today, when I go to Anime Club, that depends if I do plan on going today, we will be watching another anime I have never heard of but it seems like a girl anime which I rarely watch but its called, "Princess Mononoke". Even though I really don't watch girl anime, there are many things I really like about it. I like there artworks and graphics because it's really colorful and simple like and it's really cute and adorable and I like it when the characters overreact in such an adorable way! ^_^ Waaaaaaah~!

This is one of my favorite girl anime...K-ON!

Well....I'm going to end this article. It became way longer than I have expected O.O;;;

I will be posting more articles soon today when more ideas get into my head ^_^ Ja mata ne!

Introducing...Beckii Cruel!

Hello everyone! Welcome to Liv N' Luv Japan! Here is a really quick and short article I am posting. I am on YouTube right now and I just love watching anything J-POP so I come across this YouTube channel labeled "Beckii" and she was recommended to me. I know that I always watching anything and everything Japanese so I guess she was similar to what I would see.

Turns out it this person has impressed me to the highest scale possible that I want to watch all of her videos (and I will make sure of that!)! And I know how people like to do covers of them singing others songs and dances etc. but this young lady had produced her own song called "Future Fantasy" which is in Japanese and has a little bit of English in it which is amazing!! She is a British girl and studying Japanese but, her Japanese sounds amazingly fluent!

I want to show you guys the video so you can see exactly what I mean by impressive:

Yaya Han

Konnichiwa everyone! Welcome to Liv N' Luv Japan! Today, I want to talk about a famous Chinese (who at first I thought was Japanese) cosplayer and I think that's the number one cosplayer of all time....Yaya Han!!! ^_^

She is an American cosplayer, model, and costume designer based in the US. She is also a regular judge at cosplay competitions. I first discovered Yaya Han when I was watching the reality TV series "The Of The Nerds" and saw her re-appear again on the Syfy TV series "Heroes Of Cosplay".


                                                           KING OF THE NERDS

                                                                HEROES OF COSPLAY

Just watching Yaya Han cosplay makes me really want to cosplay and make my own costumes and designs and perform but, that seems to much for me but seems like a very exciting experience!

Here is a video of Yaya Han in "Heroes Of Cosplay":

Watching this on "Heroes of Cosplay" really excited me! I can just watch this over and over again! I recommend watching the TV series as well and watching all the other amazing cosplayers as well! Thank you so much guys for reading this article and checking out my blog today! I will be posting even more later on today and also tomorrow when possible! Arigatou gozaimasu! ^_^

Doraemon

Hello everyone! Welcome to my blog Liv N' Luv Japan! Today, I really had no idea what I wanted to post today or basically any day because of the fact that making this article my 60th post I'm starting to run out of ideas! >.<;;;

But, a few days ago I have learnt about this adorable and cute anime called "Doraemon" and I watched an official English version of this anime on Disney XD. It is a cute anime that was made for children and for a 15 year old teenager like me, I actually enjoy watching this anime in the mornings to start off my day. So now, I am recommending this Japanese anime for you guys! ^_^

Doraemon is both a manga and an anime. The anime first started in the year of 1973 and continued till 2005 and so on. It is about a robotic cat which is named Doraemon (same as title of anime). The origin of the name Doraemon can roughly be translated to "stray" and its written using both Hiragana and Katakana.

Here is a little sneak peek of Doraemon so you can get a clearer idea of how this show goes!

Coming Soon: Interview with NikkiHatsune

Hello everyone! Welcome back to Liv N' Luv Japan! I have very exciting news! I will soon be getting in touch with "NikkiHatsune" and contact her for an interview for Liv N' Luv Japan. The reason why I am planning to interview her is the fact that she is into Japanese pop culture and does dance covers from J-POP artists. She also wishes to visit Japan and is studying about the Japanese culture and the native language Japanese.

I think it would be very interesting to get a point of view from her. I remember saying that I would interview her before but, I never had the chance because of the fact that I had really slow connection and I never had this amazing laptop that I am using now to spend most of my time blogging. Now that I have better resources and that my family is helping me out by providing me with so much technology and supporting me, it would be much easier for me to blog. ^_^

I am going to provide one of NikkiHatsune recent videos that she uploaded to YouTube. I want to know what you guys think of her and her dancing! ^_^

(If the video is not playing or showing please click here and you will be directing to YouTube to view this video)

And if there is any questions that you would like to ask her, please comment below and these questions will be asked during the interview! ^_^

Xiaomi In Japan!

Hello everyone! Welcome back to Liv N' Luv Japan! Now, I want to talk about something that we all basically have...smartphones!!! A company in China has came up with a smartphone brand called "Xiaomi". I want to talk about the smartphone itself and how the smartphone is heading in Japan!

Now, I have heard about this smartphone on TV and how China is going to think about giving it a try in the US and I was so excited because at this point, I really want a Xiaomi!! Right now at this point, I have an iPhone 5c. I heard that the Xiaomi is very similar to the Apple iPhones and just by looking at it I could actually tell. The exterior of the phone is like a Samsung Galaxy to me but, the content is very similar to Apple. Also, one thing that I think are shocked about or should be is the price! There is saying that the prices of the Xiaomi is half the price of an Apple iPhone. But, that I'm not for sure t this point. Right now though, many people in Japan though online are selling them around  ¥25,000. (If interested in buying a Xiaomi from Japan online please click here.)

For right now, I really don't know very much of the Xiaomi but there will more updates on my blog about the Xiaomi if any interest in it so far. And for those who own a Xiaomi, interested in getting one, or know anything about it, please feel free to comment on here or leave me a message on my Google+!! ^_^

Happy Belated 1st Anniversary Liv N' Luv Japan!

Hello everyone! Welcome to Liv N' Luv Japan! ^_^

First, I want to say that I cannot believe it has already been a year of me blogging on Liv N' Luv Japan! I first started blogging on July 11th which was suppose to be the original date that I was going to post this entry but to a delay, I had to post it 8 days later.

But luckily, I am able to post it sooner than later!! Right now my blog is becoming more and more successful and I am becoming a much better blogger and someday future journalist because of you guys!! At this moment, I am around more than 7,000+ views!!

Now since I have been working on my blog for one whole year, I want to be able to make more goals for my blog and to be able to try my best to post at least 5 entries a day which would take some thinking but...I also hope that this year when July 11th comes back around I will have around 30,000+ views. ^_^

I also want to try to put my blog Liv N' Luv Japan out there more. I want it to be buzzed around social media such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Tumblr, Pinterest, etc.!! I want to be able to gain more readers and make Liv N' Luv Japan trend!!

The reasons why I enjoy blogging on Liv N' Luv Japan and the reasons why I started it was because that I enjoy the Japanese culture, both traditional and pop! I like to watch anime and listen to J-POP and like the styles and Japan seems to be one of the most exotic countries to me and one of the best. I also hope that when I become a journalist, I want to be already fluent or about fluent in Japanese and to be able to live in the big cities of Japan and work for the best of the best newspaper and magazine companies there!

Even though I live in the US, I have tons of friends in Japan! And they all motivated me to succeed. Sometimes when I doubt myself they always seem to motivate me that I would do better for my blog sake, for my sake, learning Japanese, understanding the Japanese culture and becoming a successful person. But, not just my friends in Japan but, everywhere! I have friends from France, Japan, Russia, UK, Saudi Arabia, Italy, Germany, The Philippines, Malaysia, South Korea, China, everywhere!!

I enjoy learning about different cultures and languages because I find it to be very different to what I am used to in the US which I think other cultures are better. Believe it or not, Japan wasn't the first country I really love, it was actually France! I really adored the city of Paris and I was stunned!! But as soon as I learned more about the Far East Asia, Japan had my heart!!!

So, I hope that all of you guys who read my blog will continue reading it and supporting me in all that I do and for the people who are new to this blog, I hope you guys enjoy like the others do! And feel free to post comments on the blog and follow Liv N' Luv Japan and also add me to your circles on Google+!! I would love to know what you guys think of my blog and what could make it even better and some of your ideas and things you would like to see and what could be improved!!! ^_^

Thank you so much you guys for all the help and support and motivation!!!