Show #49 - Osu! Tatakae! Ouendan! Elite Beat Agents and Macho Cheerleaders
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押忍!闘え!応援団! Elite Beat Agents and Macho Cheerleaders
With special guest Ed Chavez!
Brought to you by
Yanjing Beer - the official state beer of China!
OP: Tomoyasu Hotei -
"Thrill"ED: The Blue Hearts -
"Linda Linda"Special Guest: Ed Chavez from the
MangaCasthttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osu%21_Tatakae%21_Ouendanhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elite_Beat_AgentsTrying to describe this game makes it sound like we're playing
Taboo.
Videos of people playing this game on youtube.Features
J-pop music and
Visual-Kei bands, like
L'Arc-en-CielWhat is an
Ouendan?What's a
Yanki?
You can read my review of
Kamikaze Girls, the book and movie,
here. Yankis play a prominent roll.
Also in
Japanese Schoolgirl Inferno, the new book on Japanese fashion by
Patrick Macias.
In
Yu Yu Hakusho,
Yusuke and
Kuwabata are on the verge of Yanki-dom.
(the
Yu Yu Hakusho dub is terrible by the way - one of the worst)
Ouendan wear
Haramaki and
HachimakiThe way they dance is almost like
Para Para - but manlier.
Sometimes Ouendan cheer on love confessions! Where did the Japanese fascination with confessing one's love start? Was it the
Tale of the Genji?The Manga
Love Roma actually starts with a love confession.
To we Americans, Osu Tatakae Ouendan is as realistic as
Katamari Damacy!
Taste of Tea has some Ouendan in it, here's my review of the film. But there, they run off with the local
BosozokuThe end of the previous season of
Naruto featured Naruto as an Ouendan:
Are there Ouendan in
Water Boys?
Erin: Water Boys is not the Fireman series, called Fireman and released in English by Viz - there's also a live action drama. Called Sea Monkeys, or Omisaru or Water Dogs
Noah: The live action drama may not be called Water Boys, but it *is* called
Fire Boys, which yes, is an adaptation of Megumi no Daigo, but still, it isn't *called* Megumi no Daigo. So there.
Megumi No Daigo! (Firefighter Daigo of Company M!) is not actually a musical, but the show Noah is thinking of is TV drama adaptation called
Fire BoysAre high school teachers in Japan much younger than uh... mine were?
We talk about
High School Girls. How old is Hottie Odagiri? What about Macho Matsuo? Mario-sensei?
Ed compares Noah's realistic
Super Mario Bros. fanfic to
Old Boy.
Thank You, But Our Princess is in Another Castle!
Tale of the Heike (Hickey)?