Music
Komatsu is a kid with a great music talent and a special hability to play video game music, specially the music in Ghosts ‘n Goblins, Final Fantasy and Dragon Quest. Japanese people love the video game series Dragon Quest which is almost unknown outside of Japan, but here is even more popular than Final Fantasy. [...]
The Otamatone is a new musical instrument/gadget created by MaywaDenki that was presented in the last Tokyo Game Show at the end of September. Basically, it is kind of like a theremin but with buttons and… a mouth! In this last video one of the employees of the company that has created the Otamatone explains [...]
“8-bit music” is an electronic music style composed using only computers and video game consoles from the 8-bit era. Songs made with these machines are called chiptunes and Japan is one of the countries with more active people and notable the world of the 8-bit music. One of the latest new 8-bit music productions is [...]
The Japanese popstar Tsuyoshi Kusanagi, one of the most charismatic members of the SMAP pop group has been arrested for alleged public indecency after he was reportedly found nude at a park and drunk. I can’t believe it! I don’t really like SMAP or any of its members but I thought Tsuyoshi Kusanagi was the [...]
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Yosuke Yamashita played a piano on fire during almost 10 minutes! You can watch the full-length video here. Via Sankei and Pinktentacle.
Pierre Taki is a the leader of a group called Denki Groove, whose members are Takyu Ishino and himself. Both are pretty funny, but the one who does the weirdest stuff is Pierre Take, they both create really strange and surrealistic music videos.
