JPOP: Perfume-"Dream Fighter"

Hello everyone! Welcome to Liv N' Luv Japan! Like I usually do, I post music videos of my favorite J-POP groups and songs! Now, I have something to say about the song "Dream Fighter" by the JPOP group Perfume. They are a Japanese electronic group. And about their song "Dream Fighter". It was the 1st Japanese song I ever listened to. When I was learning Japanese years ago and only been studying it for a couple of days and only know the pure basics, this was the first song I ever heard and I fallen in love with this song which makes this song one of my most favorites!! ^_^ I present to you Perfume!!

Here is their MV of Dream Fighter:

Back To School With YesStyle!

Hello everyone! Welcome to Liv N' Luv Japan! We all know school is starting back for almost all of us and some of us are already back in school or either finished! So, there is one of the things that we do before we go back to school and that's shopping for clothes!! ^_^

So, to relate this with Asia and Japan, there is this website where you can shop for clothing and accessories online. And the clothing that are selling are Asian name brands. There are Japanese, Korean, Chinese, etc. clothing brands on this site. CLICK HERE to visit the site.

I never bought anything from this site but, looking at the different varieties makes me want to get these clothes!!! Hopefully, I will have time to order some and hope they arrive before school starts back.

I'm going to show you guys different photos of some of the models wearing the brands that YesStyle offers on there site.

And those are just a few from the women fashion. And now, I start to think about my viewers reading my blog and now I have to remind myself that I have men reading my blog as well so, I am also going to post photos of the men fashion of YesStyle.

And there is extremely way more than that on YesStyle. And what I am very surprised of are the prices because they are very reasonable and affordable. There price range are mostly between $20-$40.

I highly recommend you guys to go check out YesStyle!!! Once you go check it out you will be up there for hours shopping and browsing around the site. They have so much stuff that it would probably take you days to view almost everything they have.

Also, YesStyle also have there own blog. If you want to check it out CLICK HERE.

Well, that will be it for this article but I will be posting a lot more!!! See you guys soon!!! And let me know what you guys think of YesStyle!! I wanna know your opinions!!! ^_^

MANGA: The Disappearance of Nagato Yuki-Chan

Hello everyone! Welcome to Liv N' Luv Japan! I've been absent from my blog for only 2 days which I hope will not ruin my goal of trying to write and publish articles throughout the week. ^_^;;

Today as usual, I never know what to post that would be interesting for you guys to read and enjoy but I always end up posting something out of the blue that becomes very amazing to you guys since I see the views and likes are getting higher.

So, I never think I have posted mainly about a manga. I love to read especially manga! I haven't read many mangas though because I don't have a job yet to earn my own money to buy many mangas as I would like. ^_^;;; But, back to the point! The mangas that I have read so far are "Hot Gimmick", "Shugo Chara", "Naruto", and now "The Disappearance of Nagato Yuki-Chan".

I only read volume one so far but, I found the story and the characters to be very interesting and hysterical. It's really fun to read and it's very funny that I read the same story over and over again. I'm planning to get volume two as soon as possible. Yes, I know I can just read them online but, I prefer to read them from the printed version. I like to collect many things like trading cards, manga series, anime movies and series, anime action figures, etc! So yeah, I am a total nerd! But, someday I plan when I get older I will sell them and hopefully they will be worth something good!

So, back to The Disappearance of Nagato Yuki-Chan!!!

What influenced me to read this manga is the amazing artwork and color scheme and the girl on this cover! For me in my opinion, just looking at the cover can really tell you something. Like for example, when I look at the girl on the cover (Yuki) I can tell that Yuki would be a character that is a high school student and most likely a nerdy type of person who is very shy. And after reading the manga, I was exactly correct! So yeah, I can a lot about a character about how they are drawn.

Here is the plot about The Disappearance of Nagato Yuki-Chan:

Basically, this manga is not exactly an original because it is based off another very similar manga called, "The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya".

The Disappearance of Nagato Yuki-Chan released in Japanese on February 4th, 2010. Two years later, it released in English in the year of 2012 in the month of July.

Here is the official descripition of volume one of The Disappearance of Nagato Yuki-Chan:

"Yuki Nagato, the shy president of the literature club, has never been very sure of herself around other people. But around Kyon, the only boy in the tiny, three-person club, Yuki finds herself faltering even more than usual. For Kyon, and for her precious club, Yuki must find her confidence and let her true personality shine! Enjoy taking a fresh look at your favorite characters in this brand-new story set in the world of The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya!"

Sadly, there is only six volumes of this manga series!!! T_T;;;;

I don't know if it is the end of it or will it still continue but, I hopefully hope that it will still continue!! Even, though I am not writing about an anime, just to say The Disappearance of Nagato Yuki-Chan is also an anime as well!! I've never seen it before yet!! ^_^

I love a anime and/or manga that is basically surrounded about high school drama ^_^ The one I have seen that I have honestly enjoyed the most would be K-ON!! ^_^

Well, I have posted way more than enough on this article. Two days of absence makes me really want to write forever!!

See ya!!

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! ^_^