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The first Ishara open  House Challenge .Book 3 in 18 parts, By FinalStand. Listen to the ► Podcast at Explicit Novels.Odd Happenings{8:58 am, Wednesday, Sept. 3rd ~ 5 Days to go; the Final Salvo ~ at this time}I had deposited my Mother in the place I felt was safest for her   with OT (Oyuun T m rbaatar) at the Kazakhstan's UN mission. Her being my family was what mattered to them most. I picked her up on my way to work, which made my entrance into the lobby all that much more cataclysmic.I was traveling light with only Wiesława Živa providing me with security. Chaz, Pamela and Juanita were catching up with their sleep, with a promise of taking me out for a late lunch. That was really them telling me to not leave JIKIT until they came for me around 2:00 pm.So anyway, me, Mom and Wiesława walked into the ground floor of the Mil Ma Towers to find eleven people waiting on us. We were in downtown Manhattan in a part of town the NYPD paid particular attention to. What could go wrong, right? Two of the people were Amazons from Havenstone. With them were two fine young men from the US 'don't make me kill you' Department. By this time in my life I was sure they had one   which no one talked about.Five of my expectant visitors were of the same mold as those who protected Hana for me. Not the Ghost Tigers   that would have put me at ease. Sure, they were a gang of assassin and in this circumstance; I would have preferred them. As it was, ten sets of highly-trained Illuminati operative eyes kept me, my party and the four guardians of JIKIT in their overlapping fields of vision.The last two, were doing an impromptu family reunion. They were Aunts 'X' and 'Y', and neither of them smelled like fish, or crab."Aunt Deidre," I tossed out there. "What brings you here today?"It looked like clobbering time! No. Wait. Neither Mom, nor my aunts, were saying anything and they were normally so verbose."Sibeal.""Imogen.""Sibeal, you are looking surprisingly well for a dead woman," the other one said."Deidre, you are looking surprisingly alive for someone who deserves to be dead," Mom bantered back."How long have you known about this?" Imogen's eyes flickered my way."Not long, a while, more than a day, ah, take your pick," I mumbled. I decided to turn that frown aka 'my gut wrenching terror that my Mother was about to die' upside down aka ramped up my sexy, 'glad to see you in a totally incestuous way'."So, what brings you here today and why aren't you waiting upstairs with the rest of my band of cutthroats, malcontents and ne'er do-wells? Oh, and I'm happy to see both of you." Karma was about to bitch-slap the shit out of me and it was so well deserved."I'm pregnant," Imogen studied my reaction. Yeah, I had banged her after Deidre, but before Baibre because I am a fucking reprehensible human being and sometimes, I feel I am utterly irredeemable."Great news," I exhaled. I so wanted to ask 'so, who is the father?' except that was too cruel, even for an O'Shea.No one stopped me from stepping up and hugging her. Everyone in the lobby had heard her loud and clear. Anyone who knew me, or even about me, knew she wasn't passing on the information because Imogen liked sharing good news. I kept my hands on her hips while I leaned my torso back until we could make eye contact."Does Granddad know?" It occurred to me in that second that Pamela was going to kick herself for missing this and the opportunity to kick me as well."I told him over the phone. His reaction was neutral," she responded."Whoa, girl? Boy? How are you doing? When are we going to sit down and figure out a name? Is there anything I can do for you?""Come home with me," she suggested."No," Mom snapped. "Next time he steps into your custody, we all know you won't let him get away." She meant the plane trip to Ireland."No, Mom," I countered. "I'm a grown man now and I make my own decisions. That being said   no, I'm not going home with you.""Not only am I still in love with the concept of my personal freedom, I have important work to do. People are counting on me.""We are counting on you too," Deidre stated. "In fact, that is the other reason we came here. We need you.""Why do I feel that has to do with something besides sex?""Can we talk to you in private?" Imogen requested. There were a thousand and one reasons to say 'no'. Things like 'common sense', bad behavior   they had murdered my homicidal uncle   and the fact they were as morally twisted as their creator. Oh   and they were hot and I hadn't been laid in forever."Sure. Let's go upstairs. You can have your people sweep the room to ensure our privacy then the four of us can sit down and have a family chat," I offered."We don't want her in the room," Deidre indicated Mom."We are a package deal," I denied her. "Like her, or not, she is as much family to me as you both are."They consented far too fast. Either I was falling into their masterful trap, or something horrible had happened. Neither options was palatable to me. The bodyguards departed, Wiesława last of all."What's gone wrong?" Mom preempted me. Her sisters glared."Father's body is not his own," Imogen told us. I was trying to figure out the relevance of that when Mom gasped."Oh fuck," she said in a small voice. "No serum?" Oh yeah, the refinement of those addictive pheromones Grandpa Cáel had gifted me with. Whatever flesh-form he currently inhabited wasn't one containing his genetic make-up meaning,"Oh shit," I mumbled. "What can I do?""Yes," Deidre replied to Mom."Let them die," Mom insisted (to me). Less I forget, she was raised by Grandpa Cáel too. Her being a loving mother to me didn't translate over to her being a humanitarian of any kind."The Hell you say," I jumped up and stared down at Mom. "You hate them. I don't. Letting them die makes me worse than him." Grandpa."So you will help us?" Deidre moved to the edge of her seat."Okay. This is the point where I threaten you into making some concessions, we argue then you eventually cave in because no matter how terrible your futures look, you aren't willing to give up on living. None of that is going to happen. What do you need from me?""Come back with us to Ireland so we can finish our experiments," Imogen joined me in standing. Unwilling to give her sister any physical advantage, Mom stood as well."No. That isn't even a believable lie," I scolded her. "You don't need to blackmail me into helping you. I'll do it gladly. That doesn't mean I'll let you trick me into doing something stupid. I do 'stupid' all the time. I'm accustomed to it and I know it when its ugly head rises up before me. Try again.""We could pick a neutral location," Deidre suggested."How about Havenstone?" They didn't look like that plan was even worthy of their consideration. "Imogen, inside you is growing a possible heir to House Ishara. An attack on you would be an attack on Ishara. Barring you betraying the Amazons, you would be perfectly safe.""Wonderful," Mom's sarcasm dripped off every word. "I'm going to be a grandmother to my nephew while my son is bringing a child into the world that can double as his cousin.""That sound pretty horrible, Mom. It is the truth, but it still sounds pretty terrible."While those words tumbled out of my mouth, I did a little soul back-searching. How in the fuck was   outside of the actual fucking   was Imogen pregnant? My existence was a freaking fluke of nature. A few words were bandied about the room while I was lost in deductive reasoning and turning hunches into assumptions and turning those into reasonable mystic hypotheses.I created the Mojo-Little Engine that thought it could. Specifically, the legacy of Vranus. Legions of little Vranusian sperm had been jumping hurdle after hurdle to keep the faith alive   that Vranus would meet his Ancestors with his mission accomplished. I was already half way there.Still, the legacy of Vranus and the hopes of Dot Ishara hadn't stopped in their struggle just because I had been born. They were still trying to restore the mortal descendants of a Dead House. They were also still spiritually pushing me on to fulfill his last command   to save the Arinniti sons.I was halfway there by returning the offspring of Bolu, Vranus' fellow guardian, back to the fold. It remained for me to round up the purpose of the whole mission in the first place. My semen weren't taking a chance that I could get gakked before that was accomplished. Having knocked up an augur despite the toxic soup she called blood should have been a dire warning to me, I'm an idiot.When the curse of Sarrat Irkalli clashed with the actions of Dot Ishara, Ishara had won. Sarrat Irkalli sought to deny Alal any children of his own. Dot was insisting the male line of Vranus Ishara continue on. The end result was Alal received his long-denied grandson, who just happened to also want him dead because of a feud that stretched back over two millennia.As an added insult, his grandson then knocked up one of Alal's genetically manipulated daughters, again giving him something he couldn't accomplish on his own   heirs   grand-sons and  daughters, most who would also want to kill him, being Amazons and members of the 9 Clans after all. Why? Cause Goddesses are bitches, that's why.That got me to wondering when would be the next time I was going to meet Ishara. I hadn't suffered severe head trauma in while and she was overdue for some snuggle time, witty banter and a fortune cookie. I'd try to be careful. It wouldn't do any good, but I had to try."Why are you crying?" Mom touched my arm."No reason," I lied."Why don't we make plans for tonight?" Deidre insinuated herself next to me. "We'd like to meet Hana. From what I understand, Father likes her.""No can-do," I sniffled. "I've got an orgy with 159 women at 8 o'clock, except there won't be any sex, or fun of any kind. Basically, I have to convince a roomful of women to not beat me up and take my stuff.""You don't have to go," Imogen had finished boxing me in   I had a chair behind me and Momma-clones all around."For the same reason I'm going to take care of our child, Imogen, I have to go to this meeting. People are counting on me to do the right thing without telling me what the right thing to do is.""That's unfair," Deidre empathized by stroking my chest."Not so. This is just another day in the life of a new hire at Havenstone Commercial Investments. Every day is like this and in five more days, the real fun beings." That wasn't entirely accurate. I had one good, stress-free week. It was when Carrig put me in a coma. That week I had done pretty well for myself.{9:28 am, Wednesday, Sept. 3rd ~ 5 Days to go}I trundled my latest 'Assistant-in-Charge of keeping the hopes of future Isharans alive' (I didn't want to call Aunt Imogen, or any other woman, my 'Baby-Mamma'), along with Mom and Deidre, for a meet-and-greet with Buffy. I had spelled out in no uncertain terms that Buffy was the power behind the Ishara Throne and thus making 'her' believe they were playing on the up-and-up was their best hope for easing relations between the O'Shea and the Amazon Host.After they left me (with the assurance we'd be getting back together for lunch, with Hana), I made three calls. I needed to make a formal request to Katrina (any Illuminati member(s) entering any Amazon facility was her purview) and another to Elsa (as a sign of respect) that Aunt Imogen and two unarmed bodyguards, max, needed to see our medicos about a delicate issue.The third call was to Buffy to enlighten her as to both the arrival of another one of my aunts (so we needed to get along peacefully with her) and that Aunt Imogen was carrying yet another potential heir to House Ishara. I suggested it would be a symbolic gesture if a member of House Ishara could hang around for the visit, as it might impress upon Imogen our House had a vested interest in keeping her alive."Another one?" Buffy sizzled. "And this one is your aunt?""It is a date then," I stumped her."You are going to take your pregnant aunt out on a date?" Buffy's sizzle meter was rapidly climbing to Krakatoa proportions."Nope. I'm setting up a date for us. You, me and a quiet location at 12:01 am Tuesday morning, my First. Later in the morning, I'll be heading out to wherever they have stored Felix so we can work on some cooperative strategy.""And if I say 'no'?" She was terribly grumpy."Ugh, I guess I'll go bar-crawling with Odette and Timothy, Gay and Lesbian bars only. That way I know I'll behave.""And if they say 'no'?" she was slightly less hostile."I'll know you threatened their lives, and then you and I will finally find out who is better on the mats. Trust me, it will not be an experience you will enjoy.""I don't know. I think I'd like that.""No. You start threatening the other people I love and you will not be happy; I guarantee that, Buffy."She realized I was both serious and angry. She had stepped out of bounds, the 'bounds' I had set up two hours earlier during our elevator ride."Is the meeting still on for the night?" she evaded my disappointment."Yes. Will you be there?""Of course," she grumped."Buffy, don't bother showing up if you can't separate 'us' as friends, 'us' as Wakko Ishara and my First, and you as my apprentice."Making me miserable in the first relationship doesn't help the latter two one bit. I try not to be an irresponsible asshole as House Head. More than anyone else, you know what I will sacrifice to be Ishara and one with my Isharans. I'll also step out and be plain ole 'Cáel Nyilas' when events permit.""But I am sick and tired of people not taking my desire to be foolish and care-free seriously. Being a dogmatic ass-hat isn't in me, but if you can't work with that, from here on out we are Wakko Ishara and Buffy Ishara and nothing more. I will still trust you as an Isharan, but not as a friend. Your choice.""Don't be such an asshole!" she snapped."Screw you!" I fired back. "I made a fucking effort to plan out some personal time with you, disguised as a joke; you knew it and you still decided to be a ball-buster. Like I need another fucking ball-buster right now, with all the other shit on my plate. You know better!" I was screaming. The people in JIKIT were working overtime at not staring at me."I'm under a ton of stress here too," she snarled. "I have to deal with the Council, keep our House growing and fulfill my obligations with Executive Services.""Do you want to quit? No longer by my 'apprentice'? Go back to working for Katrina full time?""Really?" she whispered."Of course the fuck not!" I shouted. "I didn't pick you for the job because of your sterling personality, or your bedroom excellence. I picked you because I had, and still have, utter faith in your ability to do whatever is necessary to overcome the landfill-sized colossal ill-fortune the Ancestors have dumped in our lap.""I'm just asking you to stop being a whiny, over-sensitive cunt and remember: it was the psychotic bitch who I chose for the top spot," I rumbled."I'm going to kick your ass," she seethed."Nice to know. We on for Monday night?"Pause."Yes," and she hung up. Two seconds later my phone rang again. "Buffy?" I answered. "And don't be late!" she menaced, then hung up again."So," Addison turned my way, "are you praying for World Peace to break out, or Nuclear War?""Hardy-har-har," I griped."Now that your personal drama is temporarily derailed, we have something for you to look at," Mehmet motioned for my attention. "Ever heard of Kōfuku no Kagaku?" I shook my head. "It translates over as 'Happy Science' and it is a cult-like organization in Japan.""Cool beans. Why do I have a sinking impression it is not a front for the Ninja?""That is what we want you to find out," Addison took over. "Of critical importance is the news conference their leader, Ryuho Okawa, gave earlier this afternoon/morning (~ 3:17 pm Tokyo time = 2:17 am East Coast time ~), especially a very relevant part of his interesting public announcement."He claims to be the Earthly manifestation of the Supreme Being. That is old news. Today he claimed that Temujin of the Khanate was the reincarnation of the original Genghis Khan and, with him, Ryuho, as the unifier of theological forces and therefore serving as spiritual advisor to Temujin, they would usher in a new period of Peace throughout Asia.""I'm waiting for the other shoe to drop," I exhaled."He also claims that Japan is in the midst of an epic struggle, both spiritually and in the physical sense. The 'ancient guardians' of Japanese purity, the 6 Ninja Families, are at war with the depth of all Evil, the Chinese Seven Pillars of Heaven by name, who are determined to drag all of Asia away from the Light and into the Darkness of pain, degradation and slavery."In fact I quote: 'Alone among the nations of the Earth, only the Japanese cultural identity can stand firm against this global menace. Only the Japanese can keep the torch of true Enlightenment aloft. Only the Japanese can guide the development of the Khanate into the Supreme Empire it is meant to be'.""I'm going to go out on a limb here and say this guy is pseudo-religious, a Japanese ultra-nationalist as well as anti 'all things Sino'," came out of my mouth."Correct.""None of the Secret Societies would do something so public. Temujin's background is a mystery, but no one in the Khanate is calling him a reincarnated spirit, and they know the truth," I continued."This guy is pretty nutty," Mehmet confirmed. "He also claims to channel Buddha, Mohammed, Christ and Confucius. His followers worship him as the Earthly manifestation of the 'Supreme Being' named El Cantare, which is yet another name for any number of ancient supreme deities. And he claims to consult with the 'spirit guardians' of national leaders and aids in their mystic defense, with the aid of the Five Sacred Sisters' Spirits."Clearly this man was insane. Unfortunately, insane didn't make someone wrong,"Ah Hell," I muttered.Mehmet and Addison perked up; after all, figuring out the bizarre was my position on the team."He probably is insane, and I can't blame him," I sighed. "He isn't El Cantare; he is in touch with the Weave.""I have a feeling this is 'not good'," Addison murmured. "How bad is it?""The Five Sacred Spirit Sisters are most likely the five augurs who died in order to save Temujin, which, in turn, allies the 9 Clans with the E&S and Amazons to 'save' Japan, though it is not 'saved' yet.""Technically, the Weave IS the Supreme Being. It's largely indifferent, yet capable of doing both good and ill in response to outside (aka mortal) stimuli. If you can observe the Weave, you might be able to see the most likely path destiny is taking as well as the key players screwing with that destiny."That would include the Gong Tau sorcerers and the ninjas use of their own brand of magic; and God only knows what other mystic tricks the others have been attempting.""How do we get them to stop?" Captain Delilah Faircloth muttered."Not that easy Delilah. Everyone in this room has intersected because of a magic experiment that happened before any of us were born (Mom).""The fight at Summer Camp was flipped on its head because I saw the ghost the 7 Pillars sent to scout the area. My freeing of one of those trapped and tortured souls led to the calamity at the Barbeque Pit. I didn't use magic. I countered it. Still, my actions were interfering with the Weave."All four people the augurs, those Five Sisters, told me about had been dead at some point in time, some for thousands of years. Ajax didn't kill anyone using magic. Neither has Saku, yet both of them are products of disruptions in the Weave. 'Me' being alive and breathing is yet another disruption, since I shouldn't exist because of another mystic curse from five thousand years ago."Being alive and killing people means I've killed people who shouldn't be dead. Do we need to go into all the millions that have died in the Khanate war? Which was a combination of a resurrected Temujin and the 7 Pillars hunger for World Domination, if we do nothing, the rippled of those other disruption will still carry on."Except for me, no one on this taskforce has used an iota of magic, yet we are all dedicated to combatting mystical forces," I related to the group. I wondered where Rikki (Martin) and Beatrice (Ya Konan) had gotten off to. Lady Yum-Yum being absent only made my 'Scooby' senses tingle more."You use magic?" Agent-86 tilted his head in curiosity."I talk to a Goddess on a semi-regular business. I see ghosts. I've been the conveyer of messages from dead people and I've killed an un-killable man. Do we need to go back over my kidnapping by the 7 Pillars? The memories of my undead Grandfather floating around in my head?""I'm not calling thunderbolts out of the sky and shooting fireballs out my ass, but what I am doing is magical, nonetheless.""So, what do we recommend to our allies and benefactors (i.e., our sovereign governments)?" Mehmet inquired."Hmm, we tell our governments this crackpot is a Prophet of Doom who could be turned into an asset," I rubbed my brow with all four fingers and a thumb. Rikki, Beatrice and Lady Worthington-Burke quietly entered the room. They were all highly pleased in a 'I just won the lottery' kind of way. I was curious, but had to carry on with my train of thought."Quietly start seeking out other mystic societies, preferably low-key, quiet types who avoid the limelight, and start looking into other forms of magical insight and, quite frankly, protection. If the Weave has let this happen, we can expect worse. Lastly, I'll ask my 'Brother' to meet with this guy and get a feel for his personality.""That will only increase the believability of his ramblings," Addison protested."The boat called 'Denial' has already sailed. The World is in crisis. People are going to look for non-conventional answers. It is better to get ahead of this and bring Ryuho Okawa on board as a 'consultant'. Don't give him the whole picture by any means. The guy is definitely a loose cannon. Even worse, he is also a loose cannon the Weave has touched.""Besides, the Seven Pillars are going to figure this out pretty quick, their Weave sensitivity, ya know, and either kidnap him to be their own spiritual seismic sensor, or kill him for being both a loose cannon and yet another person screwing with their 'best laid plans'. Keeping him alive has the added benefit of making the Seven Pillars expend resources trying to get at him. Japan needs every bit diversion they can get."Let's not forget to tell our Secret Society allies of our plans, lest they kill him too. His babblings aren't going to make the 9 Clans or the E&S happy with him. They both have an established habit of making perceived enemies dead. Let's keep him alive and utilize this opportunity.""I like this plan," Addison nodded. Mehmet was clearly on board as well. Agent-86 clearly was playing the best on-line mystic MMORPG ever! (And with the added bonus that his team's action had real-world consequences.) The three 'ladies' new to the room received an abbreviated version of our discussion and my 'suggestions'. They weren't really suggestions. Barring a few insanely criminal endeavors, JIKIT treated me like a true asset."Something else big?" Addison looked to her British counterpart (Yum-Yum)."The Japanese Diet has voted for a public referendum on a Constitutional Amendment to repeal/revise Article 96 of the Japanese Constitution.""Oh fuck," was echoed, either verbally or subliminally, by everyone in the room except for me, Delilah and Agent-86.'Cáel' knew Jack and Shit about the Japanese Constitution. Hell, I barely knew about the US one and I was a native. However, Alal did know it, and knew both what Article 96 was and what its amendment really meant. Good-old 96 was the rolling dark cloud across the political Great Plains that heralded a swarm of tornados. Clouds were clouds and their arrival could mean anything.Article 96 dictated how the Japanese Constitution could be amended. The current process was a 2/3rd vote in both the House of Councilors (the 'Upper House', roughly equivalent to our Senate) and the House of Representatives (the 'Lower' House) followed by a public referendum. The proposed amendment to Article 96 would transform the process to a mere majority vote in both Houses.Imagine the shit-storm which would be unleashed if the US Congress tried to pull that shit. The biggest political issue was that the Japanese Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) held 294 of the 475 seats in the lower house (a clear majority) and 115 of the 242 in the Upper House (7 seats short of a majority). If the amendment passed next month (October 14th to be precise), the LDP could pretty much do as they pleased.And what was the first thing they were going to do? They were going to put to rest another part of the Constitution, namely the far more globally important Article 9. And what was that?Real World Stuff: WarningsArticle 9:(1)Aspiring sincerely to an international peace based on justice and order, the Japanese people forever renounce war as a sovereign right of the nation and the threat or use of force as means of settling international disputes.(2)To accomplish the aim of the preceding paragraph, land, sea, and air forces, as well as other war potential, will never be maintained. The right of belligerency of the state will not be recognized.If Article 9 was repealed, the Japanese nation could exercise diplomacy by military means, aka declaring an offensive war against a foreign power. Currently Japan had a modest budget military budget of $48 Billion a year (Earth's 10th largest). It was modest when you considered it was a mere 1% of the Japanese GDP. Great Britain, France and South Korea's smaller economies all functioned nicely with double that percentage for their military budget.Regionally, every other nation was increasing their military expenditures, except Japan's protector, the US and (perhaps) North Korea, who's spending on anything was a closely guarded state secret. Right now, China and the Khanate's military expenditures were running roughly even at $180 billion each, but this was an arm's race the PRC would eventually win, they had too great an advantage in the size of their workforce and a far larger industrial base.The truth was, if the PRC couldn't win this race fast, she was facing a long, grinding war reminiscent of the Communists' Long Rise to Power that wrecked their country a century ago. The monetary dynamic was shifting badly against them because the Khanate wasn't alone.India, Taiwan and Vietnam were also ramping up their war spending to a combined tune of $34 billion and now allied with the Khanate, equating to an additional $90 billion the PRC had to overcome. South Korea was already adding $8 billion to their military and Russia was taxing the fuck out of Manchuria to both pay for their 'Peaceful Intervention' and to increase the 'Readiness' of their other forces.All of this military spending was bad for both the regional and global economies (unless you were Israel who was turning out hardware 24/7/365 for the Khanate and Indian war machines). So at this point, Japan doing 'nothing' was possibly more disastrous than doing 'something' else.They were already spending $50 fucking billion on glorified policemen while the future of East Asia was being decided without them. Doubling the military budget would place a huge burden on the largely pacifistic population. It would also put Japan in the position of deciding the Fate of Nations.With the repeal of Article 9, Japan could utilize 'proactive means' to keep the naval supply routes to China open, not even the Indian's had the naval presence to confront the Japanese. Such a policy was a nice, friendly gesture to the Asian Colossus, who wasn't likely to show a shred of appreciation for their efforts.No, China had spent the last 60 years stoking the hatred of the Land of the Rising Sun among their people. (Many Japanese forgot current Chinese hatred was based on the Japanese butchering their way across China for nearly a decade between 1937 to 1945).(The Cornerstone) There was a truism which had guided American, Chinese, Japanese and Russian political thought for 150 years: 'There could only be one supreme power in East Asia and the Eastern Pacific'. Japan had followed the logical expression of that paradigm by invading Taiwan (1895), Korea (1910), beating up on Imperial Russia (1904), taking Manchuria (1931) and going to war with China (1937) while that country was trapped in a bloody civil war.To stop the Empire of Japan's rise, the US had attempted to cripple the Japanese economy before the Empire could harvest their just-acquired Asian natural resources. In response, Japan had thrown its soldiers and sailors into a futile effort against the British Empire, the United States and China and lost.With Imperial Japan crushed and the Soviet Union preoccupied in Europe, China had risen. The irresistible force of China's rapidly increasing population, natural resources exploitation and extensive land mass took hold. Japan couldn't compete in a 'fair' fight. Since 1945, the Japanese government had lived with the fear of aggression from Russia and/or China aimed their way.The US felt the same way, or they had. The fear produced by the broad acceptance of 'Only-One-Shall-Rule-Asia' had led to the Korean War, the half-century cease-fire along the Demilitarized Zone in Korea and the Vietnamese Civil War. The Communists in China and Russia had feuded until the Soviet Union collapsed under its own economic inadequacies.A reborn Russia, even with the ultra-nationalist Putin at the helm, couldn't stop China's growing domination. Asia was China's for the taking, until the Khanate rose up like some desert mirage in the Western Steppe, one that turned into the Mother of All Storms. So now, miraculously, the dominion of Asia was up for grabs once more.Japan could not overcome China; that was a given. The Dragon had more people, more resources and an almost three-fold larger economy. Given a decade, the PRC would grind the Khanate down. Once more it was the tyranny of numbers. Even India, Taiwan and Vietnam could only slow down the inevitable.India's subpar economic output marginalized the power of their citizenry. Taiwan had the proportional economy, but not nearly enough people. Vietnam had neither and had always had a rough time defending themselves, much less been successful confronting powers beyond her homeland. Putin's Mother Russia had a host of other problems, internal and external, so she had already contributed as much as Putin dared.Until Thursday morning, Tokyo Time, the undeniable Destiny of Asia remained in the hands of those men in Beijing. The dominoes were falling in a way those rulers had not foreseen and now fumed over. But on Wednesday night, there was no industrial power (with the population to back it up) which could threaten the People's Republic of China.Europe and the US wouldn't intervene. Much like the leadership in Japan, the Communist Chinese Politburo believed Putin had wagered as much as dared. No other nation on Earth mattered. Japan? That was laughable. Their Constitution bound the hands off their military behind their backs with a pledge of eternal pacifism.The Chinese weren't blind to the 250,000 men and women of the Japanese Self Defense Force. Without the political will, those troops might have well have been in Brazil. A hostile Brazil was actually a greater worry because Brazil was the powerhouse of South America, a G-8 economy and hungered for a Permanent Seat on the UN Security Council. The PRC was dedicated to denying their desire as it would have diluted the PRC's burgeoning diplomatic power.Japan? Ha.Thursday morning, in what was essentially an undetected (by anyone except the Ninja and JIKIT) coup d' tat, pacifism was sacrificed on the Altar of Nationalism. Article 96's demise was pre-ordained. A poll taken on July 1st, 42% of Japanese felt positively about the repeal of Article 96 while 46% opposed it.The same agency took a new poll on August 28th. The economic-political situation of Japan was going through a titanic tidal shift. If Buddhism moved you toward devout pacifist, the Khanate had liberated Tibet and was clearly withdrawing as the UN troops' boots hit the ground.If you were a Nationalist of any kind, you were seeing a whole lot more people at your rallies, accessing your websites and signing up to join your formerly fringe parties. If you were a Socialist, you were scared. Why? The PRC was in the process of nationalizing all of Japan's (and South Korea's and Taiwan's) business interests in China, for the 'Duration of the Emergency', or so they said.That meant plenty of Japanese workers were losing their jobs and looking to blame someone. You couldn't blame the centrist LDP. The LDP had been working alongside the Japanese Communist Party for months. They had done nothing wrong and had worked tirelessly for a peaceful diplomatic solution. It was their 'comrades' in China, their Marxist confederates, who were costing the hard-working Japanese workers their jobs.If you were in the Establishment, all of the above worried the crap out of you. Japan's economy had been limping along at barely-positive growth for a decade. Your aging population needed more and more from their public services and, worst of all, you had nothing in your political and economic tool box to escape the obvious oncoming national catastrophe.The possibility of a Global Recession loomed on the horizon, if they were lucky. Highly respected economists in Japan and elsewhere were examining all the key indicators over the past three months and were suggesting hording as a viable policy for middle class households to consider. If you were in the Developing World, worse was heading your way.The word being bandied about on those esteemed academic internet websites wasn't 'recession', it was depression. Global prosperity thrived on nations investing in both their own economy and the economies of other nations. The governments representing a third of the World's population were not investing in their economies.Unless you were a war profiteer, you could expect fewer consumer goods on the shelves; and what was there would cost more. Your income wasn't going up; your expenses were. If you were an Atheistic homeowner in the Western World with a secured 3.25% fixed rate home loan, you took up religion. The prime interest rate would be racing for the 20% mark and that was only if your economy was stable.If you lived in a country in the Developing World, your trade goods didn't compete with those created in the G-20. Your competition was with other Developing World businesses and the prize was the pocketbooks of those consumers in the G-20, which was a shrinking purse.It wasn't like you were being paid all that much to begin with; and now those once poor-paying, but at least plentiful, jobs were drying up. You needed your government to help you out. It wasn't like those governments could raise money by taxing the unemployed and under-employed. They didn't have money. And the rich in most of those same nations had a long and successful legacy of avoiding paying.Those growing economies had a few tried and tested 'solutions' for getting their countries through these rough stretches.The IMF? 'We are out to make 'positive' capital investments and your economic outlook doesn't look promising. We suggest 'austerity'.'The BRICS? Since India and China were basically in an undeclared state of war: 'we won't be loaning anyone anything for a while.'The BIS? 'As soon as the People' Bank of China, the Reserve Bank of India, the Central Bank of Ireland, the Bank of Israel and the Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey get back to us about their sudden, serious lack of transparency, we'll call you back.'World Bank? Holy Shit! 'The world's going down the toilet, we will do what we can.'F Y I, I (as in Cáel) had been wrong. The 6 Elders of the Ninja families didn't talk to Japanese Prime Minister, Shinzō Awbee. They talked with another, far more immediately important man. So sue me (Cáel) for not knowing the inner workings of various world governments, and creatively interpreting events surrounding all those people I (Cáel) didn't. I'm a freaking Liberal Arts major with a fertile imagination, not a superspy, or even a competent Intelligence Analyst!}The Japanese government had appealed to the U.S., U.N., P.R.C., A.S.E.A.N., India; and (through back channels aka JIKIT) the Khanate for an end to this madness; all with typical results:The U.S.A: We are working on it (without letting them know what precisely they were working on)Japan: Well, do something fast. Our Government Bonds are about to be more useful as wallpaper.The U.N.: We are working on it (with their long-established tradition of not doing anything until the crisis had passed)Japan: You are preparing to pass a Resolution to move this matter from the First Committee to the Fourth Committee, gee, thanks guys. Will they be meeting sometime before Christmas?The PRC: We are too busy right now, so shut up, keep the trade lanes open, and was that your submarine we detected sneaking into our territorial waters?Japan: What? What do you mean you are 'too busy?' You are one of our biggest trading partners, your economy is going down the toilet, and, No! That was not our submarine in your territorial waters. That accusation is absurd.(Note from Japanese Prime Minister, Shinzō Awbee, to Admiral Katsutoshi Kawano, head of the JMSDF {the de facto Japanese Navy}), The PRC has made this outrageous claim that one of our submarines has been sneaking around their territorial waters. There is no truth to that rumor, right?Kawano: Which time?Prime Minister: Oh My God! What have you people been doing and why is this the first time I'm hearing about it?Kawano: Sir, if you are just now getting around to asking us, you don't want to know.Prime Minister: What do you mean 'I don't want to know?' I'm the head of the damn government and, you are right. Fine. There is no way I'm going back to the Chinese Ambassador and apologizing for any this. Is there any way this can come back to screw us over?Kawano: With all these US and British submarines helping us out, not very likely, Prime Minister.Prime Minister: Oh, very good. You are correct, I don't want to know what you 'haven't' been doing. I am ordering you to destroy all transcripts and recordings of this conversation.Kawano: It has been my distinct honor not having this conversation with you, Prime Minister. Sayōnara.ASEAN, What do you expect us to do about this? Have you seen the unimpressive combined sizes of our members' air forces and navies? Did you see the smack-down the Khanate has inflicted on the PLAN's South China Sea Fleet?Besides, the PRC is claiming that the Khanate launched covert attacks against the Parcels and Spratly islands which originated from Indonesian and Filipino waters. We are investigating the issue. If you are asking us for help, you are truly screwed. Don't call us. We will call you.Japan, {muttering} Investigating the attacks that came from your territory, bullshit! You are covering your own asses, damn it!(Note from Prime Minister, Shinzō Awbee, to Shotaro Yachi, Japanese National Security Advisor), I've heard an ugly rumor that the Khanate has forces secreted in the Philippines and Indonesia. Do you happen to know anything about it?Yachi: Yes Sir. We had advance notice of the organization, composition and destination of those forces.Awbee (while muttering 'no one tells me anything anymore'): What the! Would you please tell me what is going on.Yachi: We have made critical steps toward future alliances which will guarantee Japanese security for decades to come.Awbee What does that mean, and since when have you been creating and implementing foreign policy? We have a Minister for that, in case you somehow over-looked him at the last cabinet meeting. Wait! Does he know about this too?Yachi: No Sir, Foreign Minister Kishida is currently unaware of the Kinkyū tokushu sakusen tasukufōsu (Emergency Special Operations Task Force). Admiral Katsutoshi knows the basics of our operational policy, since we need to borrow some of his assets from time to time. Director-General Kitada (of the Public Security Intelligence Agency) and key personnel from the Foreign Ministry's Intelligence & Analysis Service and Security Bureau make up the majority of the task force's operatives.Awbee: What have you been doing?Yachi: You don't want to know, Mr. Prime Minister. It would make things, awkward.Awbee: 'You don't want to know', of course, I don't. I'm only the elected head of this government. Why would I possibly want to know what acts of espionage and war my deputies are executing?Yachi: I am glad we are on the same page, Sir. Will there be anything else?Awbee: No, wait. Do you have any intelligence on what the Khanate is up to?Yachi: Yes Sir. Is there anything in particular you want to know?Analysis Services: Can you contact someone in their leadership willing to discuss regional affairs?Yachi: I can put you in touch with the Great Khan himself if necessary.AS: What!Yachi: Sir, I would hardly be acting in our nation's best interests if I couldn't divine the intentions of the key players on the stage. Shall I initiate the necessary communications to facilitate that level of clandestine diplomatic contact?AS: No. Yes. No, I need to think about this. Hmm, have you been conducting any domestic espionage missions?Yachi: You don't want me to answer that, Sir.Awbee: of course I don't, I'm only the damn Prime Minister. Shotaro, I'm still Prime Minister, aren't I?Yachi: Yes Sir. We have been working overtime to ensure that. We've foiled two enemy assassination attempts and one attempted kidnapping so far. We remain vigilant.AS: How come this is the first I'm hearing about it? Is the head of my security in on this conspiracy of yours too?Yachi: No Sir. These particular guardians wish to avoid notoriety at all costs.Awbee: Okay. Good to know. Ah, keep up the good work and destroy any trace of this conversation.Yachi: Way ahead of you, Sir. Have a good night.India, Yes, we are more than willing to work with you toward regional stability. Care to acknowledge the Khanate's legitimacy first? We'd really appreciate it. Sure, get back to us when you've done that. Until then, the South China Sea Awaits! Yes, we plan to keep what we've earned. Later now. We think there is going to be further instability in Southeast Asia.Japan, Ya think? It is your damn warships sailing around the freaking South China Sea enforcing your utterly un-secret alliance with the Khanate. Why are you doing this to us? What have we ever done to you?The Khanate, We are not out to damage your national interests. We apologize, but there is now way we will call off this war with the Communist Chinese. It is them, or us, to the death. We have already received and agreed to your request to allow all Japanese flagged ships safe transit through the South China Sea. We really wish to be your friends this time, to make up for those two invasion attempts seven hundred years ago.(Note from  Prime Minister to Self) Great. The only reasonable people who aren't out to kick me in the nuts are also the ones I can't acknowledge talking to. I've got to do something a

We approach the midpoint of Skip Beat! In our lives, Joe has gotten some finger surgery and thus had to play with the Office Dictation function. Apologies for the summary everyone! Meanwhile Sarah has plans for a girls' night with her work bestie.In Skip Beat! we cap off the Maria arc and get back to what truly matters, revenge on Sho. Kyoto attempts to humiliate him on Live TV and we wonder why Shotaro is an embarrassing name. Then we jump to a new plot line feature Moko and her childhood bully. Can Kyoko help Moko defeat her enemies with the power of spite? We'll have to watch to find out! Recommendations:Joe: They Live (1988)Sarah: Pachinko

Welcome back to the Oasis Podcast, the ultimate audio guide to Oasis. This is the full version with news! Today's guest is Shotaro Nishida from SAHAJi - follow them at @SAHAJiofficial on X/ Instagram and follow Shotaro at @ShoutarouN If you want to come to see the guys plus me at the Salford Lads Club Oasis Experience then head to https://bittersweethome.co.uk/our-eve...

Jeśli jeszcze nie jesteś BRIIZE, to... lepiej posłuchaj tego odcinka K-Castu. Tym razem Matylda bierze na warsztat zespół RIIZE! Shotaro, Eunseok, Sungchan, Wonbin, Seunghan, Sohee, i Anton - dowiedz się czegoś o każdym z członków, posłuchaj muzyki RIIZE i zweryfikuj swój bias! Włącz to! Obserwuj nas! TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@tuba.fm Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tuba.fm/

Episode 18 of the podcast takes us once again to Niigata Prefecture and the snow country area of Matsunoyama. Famous for its very heavy snowfall, Matsunoyama is a place in many ways defined by that snow. In this episode I speak with Kamimura Shotaro, a regional revitalisation coordinator based in Matsunoyama. Shotaro's work tasks him with revitalisation of the community and as such, we discuss the multiple challenges being faced by the people of Matsunoyama while also exploring the opportunities of life in the deep snow. This episode highlights the reality for many communities in the snow country and across Japan. Communities that are struggling to sustain themselves in the face of depopulation and an ageing population, changing economies and lifestyles, and climate change. But there is also cause for optimism, something Shotaro and I discuss in the second half of the interview including reasons to visit Matsunoyama including Matsunoyama Onsen – considered one of Japan's three great medicinal hot spring towns – along with Echigo-Tsumari Art Field and the big snow of the small resort, Matsunoyama Onsen Ski Area.  We recorded the interview on a very wet day in a charismatic roadside tea house named Matsunoyama Chakra.Shotaro's website ‘Snow Notes' documents and educates about life in both Matsunoyama and wider snow country. He publishes some pages in English but obviously, most pages are in Japanese. I recommend the online translator DeepL for Japanese to English translations. You can also find links everything discussed in this episode and more information including a map of where Matsunoyama is located on the episode page on the Snow Country Stories Japan website. 00:00  Episode Introduction 03:49  Matsunoyama, Niigata: Where It Is & Life in the Deep Snow10:55  Shotaro's Story12:26  Challenges Impacting Matsunoyama17:56  The ‘Satoyama' Concept 23:10  Local Identity & Climate Change 27:34  Looking Forward: Three Possible Futures30:18  Matsunoyama Onsen33:24  Echigo-Tsumari Art Field35:48  Matsunoyama Onsen Ski Area38:17  Episode CloseSnow Country Stories Japan is a bi-weekly podcast about life and travel in Japan's legendary 'yukiguni'. For more information about the show and your host, visit our website - www.snowcountrystories.com - and make sure to subscribe, rate and review the podcast and follow us on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook.

This week, Stay and Moa battle it out in the first-ever Fandom Face-Off (05:25). Plus, a full review of Taemin's latest EP (38:07), a new song from RIIZE (1:00:07), K-pop news, and more! Lamar Woods - https://www.instagram.com/prophmatic/Kyoko - https://twitter.com/skzmy8loves(Alyssa does not have social media)Please subscribe and follow the show: TikTok - https://www.tiktok.com/@kpopweeklypodInstagram - https://www.instagram.com/kpopweeklypod/X - https://twitter.com/kpopweeklypodNewsletter - https://kpopweeklypod.substack.com/Discord - https://discord.gg/ez69Pjm3Email: kpopweeklypod@gmail.comSupport the show

Bright SEVENTEEN are back with God of Music, LE SSERAFIM are time traveling queens in Perfect Night, and we're simping for Shotaro yet again as RIIZE return with Talk Saxy. Listen as we discuss what happened in the KPOP world this past week!Tune in every Tuesday for a new episode and don't forget to follow our social media and let us know what you think.Time stamps:2:27 - G Dragon case3:35 - Jisoo and Ahn BoHyun break up4:41 - Rocky establishes own company5:33 - Chuu USA tour6:16 - LE SSERAFIM - Perfect Night8:12 - SEVENTEEN - God of Music12:28 - RIIZE - Talk Saxy19:39 - Billlie - DANG!(hocus pocus)23:15 - Songs of the WeekListen here!Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast...iHeartRadio: https://www.iheart.com/podcast/269-no...Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4OL4qPj...This week's playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6y9JCRfbT7Rms099xwWtpE?si=8539ae96d4a6436fwww.twitter.com/NYAFangirlswww.twitter.com/HollaItsCarowww.twitter.com/heyitsteeteewww.twitter.com/deekaydiwww.twitter.com/HollaItsCyn

Shotaro and Sungchan are finally out of the SM basement, FTISLAND got us rocking out with Sage, and Taehyung blesses us all with his beautiful EP, Layover. Listen as we discuss what happened in the KPOP world this past week!Check out our KCON 2023 special episode here: https://open.spotify.com/episode/3HGPoT8A12Om3oIfqNC1TL?si=FLM7yQcxTMCQKvVFGLKDigTune in every Tuesday for a new episode and don't forget to follow our social media and let us know what you think.Time stamps:3:19 - Kim Minjae enlisting4:18 - ATEEZ's Hongjoong Balmain ambassador7:02 - SME joins Weverse9:47 - PURPLE KISS tour10:53 - NCT Haechan and Taeil - N.Y.C.T12:13 - RIIZE - Get A Guitar18:13 - Young K - nothing but19:03 - Rocket Punch - BOOM20:59 - PURPLE KISS - 7HEAVEN22:59 - FTISLAND - Sage25:45 - K-Band Rant Intermission29:26 - BOYNEXTDOOR - But Sometimes33:09 - Taehyung - Slow Dancing41:52 - Songs of the WeekListen here!Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast...iHeartRadio: https://www.iheart.com/podcast/269-no...Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4OL4qPj...This week's playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0ByhYm1ZtdJAbhGvXchMXO?si=0a1e60ef4c5c42fdwww.twitter.com/NYAFangirlswww.twitter.com/HollaItsCarowww.twitter.com/heyitsteeteewww.twitter.com/deekaydiwww.twitter.com/HollaItsCyn

Embezzlement. Interpol. Good boy image. Royalties until 2092. Slave contracts. Disrespecting fans. Ousting members from groups. Lying about the South Korean government... ...And we're not done yet. From 2003 until now, SM has been embroiled in a myriad of scandals and controversies caused by their shady practices and never-ending contracts. 2023 alone has been a wild ride of back-to-back news and we have brought you all of the top scandals you must know as a K-Pop fan! Sit back, relax, and strap in because we're in for a WILD one today! Links to stories mentioned during the episode: The Year of the K-Pop Girl Group: NewJeans, Twice, XG, Girl's Generation, Mamamoo, and more! Britney & BoA 2003 Showcase SM employee dissing CBX/EXO K-Pop Idol Dating Bans - MIA2K Reacts: JayB, IU, Bobby, Heechul, Chen, and more! Will HYBE's Greed Be The Reason for its Downfall? The reason why SM is against HYBE's hostile takeover As always, please forgive any mispronunciations!   We hope you enjoyed this episode and our mix of Latin-based western observations! If you did, please don't forget to subscribe and leave us 5-star reviews wherever possible.  Spotify 

Welcome back for another HotTake Hotteok: a short form episode where we discuss the latest scandals, controversies, and breaking news in South Korean pop culture. The hosts dive into the recent lawsuit involving EXO-CBX. They shed light on the details of the legal dispute, its potential implications on the group's future, and the reactions of dedicated fans around the globe. Moving on, Ashley, Gabe, and Nathan turn their attention to the news of Sungchan, Shotaro, and Lucas leaving NCT. They explore the reasons behind these departures, speculate on the impact on the remaining members and NCT's discography, and analyze how such changes can affect the dynamics within NCT. Lastly, the hosts tackle the intricacies of Queendom Puzzle. They provide an breakdown of the hit reality show, discussing the competitive dynamics between the participating girl groups, memorable performances, and the impact of the show on the K-pop industry. Grab a plate and take a seat 'cause we're serving up some Hot Takes! Follow us on Social Media! Instagram | idoltalkpod@gmail.com | https://idoltalkpod.uwu.ai/ --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/idoltalkpodcast/support

V e Jennie, novo livro da Britney Spears, Anitta cheira uc em programa de TV, nova taxa extra da Netflix e NCT perde os membros Shotaro e Sungchan. Pode paracer uma confusão, mas deve ser por isso que professores não permitem dupla de três, né?

Cel and Paul are here in Gar's stead this week as we discuss Geats's heel turn, Chirami's exit stage left, the debut of Kamen Rider Hakubi, Kekera's villainous leanings, the debut of LegendKingohger, how the Kingohgers take a crucial step towards becoming a sentai, and how Shotaro and Philip solve a drunken mansion murder mystery.   Casters Present:  Blue Gray Orange Green North  Show Notes: https://www.patreon.com/posts/82931074 Required Viewing: Kamen Rider Geats 34,  Ohsama Sentai Kingohger 10,  Fuuto PI 7-9  Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m96-sltihaI   Feed the Castrangers and get $5 off your first order with SkipTheDishes! https://www.skipthedishes.com/r/6YaJc65HKg

Nouvelle review de show sur la chaine, avec la review de la finale de AJPW Champion Carnival, une petite review en mode podcast, bonne émission. Le compte twitter de AJPW France : https://twitter.com/AJPWFR Ma chaine Twitch : https://www.twitch.tv/cody_mc_wild Twitter : @CodyMcWildOff Notre Discord : https://discord.gg/yeYCDnv Nous suivre : Twitter : https://twitter.com/ChezCodyMcWild Pour nous soutenir Rejoignez cette chaîne pour bénéficier d'avantages exclusifs : https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKNcd4v-KaBBGT1NnkPrYWg/join https://streamlabs.com/lesrebutsducatch/tip #Wrestling #AJPW #ChampionCarnival Soutenez-nous sur PayPal !

Kat and Tara discuss preliminary reactions to 2Baddies the 4th NCT 127 album, Shotaro and Sungchan activities, and the NCT 3rd album Universe. They are joined by special guest Hodan of the X-Cast. Subscribe to our Patreon: www.patreon.com/negroctpodcast?fan_landing=true Follow us on Twitter: twitter.com/NegroCTPodcast Ask us anything on CuriousCat: curiouscat.me/NegroCTPodcast

A agencia de detetives do Henshin Rio tem um caso importante para trabalhar! Vamos analisar os mistérios da cidade de Fuuto e matar saudades de Philip, Shotaro e Akiko na continuação oficial de Kamen Rider W em anime! Nos acompanhando nesse caso temos a ilustre presença do Luka Ferrari, o Shotaro Hidari brasileiro, direto lá do Tokucast! A cidade de Fuuto não descansa e nem nós!

Fuuto PI 10 Superhuman r/A Passport to Shadow Fuuto - October 2, 2022 Writer: Riku Sanjo Director: Yousuke Kabashima I will be discussing the Misses, Hits and Mysteries from Fuuto PI 10.

Cubecast Podcast Episode 20 - Shotaro Makisumi & David Woner

While we've been hard at work preparing for our May vacation, NCT have been hard at work releasing music! We talk about NCT U's excellent decision to give Shotaro some well-deserved screen time, Taeyong coupling up with the amazing Suran, and NCT Dream giving us another Dream-y album. Oh, also Big Bang is back. No biggie. We totally only cried a little bit. Follow us on our social media! Twitter: https://twitter.com/seouldivepod Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/seouldive

I saw an interesting tweet announcing a new Ramen Noodle company in the San Francisco Bay Area, and I had to investigate. Figured this would be a good time to talk specifically about noodles and give the listeners a taste of how complicated this rabbit hole is.I enlisted Mike Satinover aka Ramen Lord to help me in our discussion with Shotaro Uchida-san of Iseya Craft Noodle. Uchida-san is gearing up to launch in April this year, and we wanted to hear his story.Learn about the definitive ingredients that belong in any ramen noodle. Listen to Uchida-san and Ramen Lord discuss the different styles and techniques required. Learn about what equipment is involved. Learn the role of a "Seimenjo" or Noodle Producer in the Japan market. Here's hoping you leave this episode with a deeper appreciation for the noodles in your bowl.Ramen LordIseya Craft Noodle

The Queens can't help but fangirl this week as they review Stray Kids new EP, 'ODDINARY.' Listen as Emily and Charity discuss the single, music video, album tracks, choreography, styling, biases, and more! Did someone change their bias? Is this comeback as good as 'NOEASY?' Listen to find out!Next, the Queens review Red Velvet's new EP 'The ReVe Festival 2022 - Feel My Rhythm,' including the single, music video, album picks, styling and more! Emily and Charity also discuss a new NCT U collaboration from Haechan, Doyoung, Mark and Shotaro.Plus, Stray Kids Two Kids Room with Changbin and Felix, K-pop news, poll results, Queendom shoutouts, a fun Stray Kids quiz and more! Quiz - https://www.buzzfeed.com/cloudystay/stray-kids-song-elimination-quizPlaylist - https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5X8eLmsaPY74u4axiSIW33?si=08ca894d209d435d

Kat and Tara discuss the end of promotions for NCT 2021 Universe, praise Shotaro a lot, briefly mention the SMTown Concert and 127 concert The Link, and also review NCT 2020, Resonance Part 1. (feat. special guests Hazel and Mars). Subscribe to our Patreon: www.patreon.com/negroctpodcast?fan_landing=true Follow us on Twitter: twitter.com/NegroCTPodcast Ask us anything on CuriousCat: curiouscat.me/NegroCTPodcast

Kat and Tara talk about NCT 2021, Universe, Beautiful, shaking the table with OK, Shotaro being the greatest dancer ever, and WayV's first album Awaken the World. Subscribe to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/negroctpodcast?fan_landing=true  Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/NegroCTPodcast  Ask us anything on CuriousCat: https://curiouscat.me/NegroCTPodcast

Kat and Tara discuss the Leo birthdays of Jaemin, Xiaojun, and Mark, what may happen to V Live, Shotaro serving face, and NCT 127's repackage album, The Final Round. Featuring special guest host Mars, a Markzen. Subscribe to our Patreon: www.patreon.com/NCTpodcast?fan_landing=true Follow us on Twitter: twitter.com/NCTPodcast Ask us anything on CuriousCat: curiouscat.me/NCTPodcast

Our boys Shotaro and Hyunjin come for our throats with their dance videos, BTS asks for Permission to Dance, and SF9 are bringing us to tears with their latest comeback, Tear Drop! Listen as we discuss what happened in the KPOP world this past week!Tune in every Tuesday for a new episode and don't forget to follow our social media and let us know what you think.Time stamps:3:40 - KPSNPODCASTFEST215:26 - COVID cases10:10 - Shownu Enlisting12:25 - Momo & Heechul break up14:43 - CL joins Kang Daniel agency16:49 - Shotaro dance video19:33 - Hyunjin dance video24:17 - BTS - Permission to Dance31:15 - SF9 - Tear Drop38:00 - Jeon Soyeon - BEAM BEAM39:31 - Taeyeon - Weekend42:15 - The Boyz - Drink It49:56 - DAY6 (Even of Day) - Right Through Me51:24 - Songs of the WeekListen here!Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/not-your-average-fangirls/id1397623744iHeartRadio: https://www.iheart.com/podcast/269-not-your-average-fangirls-30301805/Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4OL4qPjUyRsjfX30FIDczsThis week's playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2XHnLALPh6NLTSRf6S3kdw?si=e550bb5ff0dc4234www.twitter.com/NYAFangirlswww.twitter.com/HollaItsCarowww.twitter.com/heyitsteeteewww.twitter.com/deekaydiwww.twitter.com/HollaItsCynwww.notyouraveragefangirls.com

Kat and Tara discuss Taeyong-bubu's birthday, Shotaro's dance cover, NCT Hollywood mess, SM Congress, and WayV's second mini album, Take Over The Moon. Subscribe to our Patreon: www.patreon.com/NCTpodcast?fan_landing=true Follow us on Twitter: twitter.com/NCTPodcast Ask us anything on CuriousCat: curiouscat.me/NCTPodcast

The Misfits discuss NCT Dreams upcoming comeback, Shotaro's return to Instagram, Have a Blue listening party and give their first thoughts and then dive into the importance of treating celebrities with respect. Recorded April 18, 2021 Hosts: Chyenne, Jenna, Kaylee, Claire, Orenji Producers: Davonna, Justine, Orenji, Dee-Dee Editor: Davonna

We're back! And there's no better way to kick off season 2 than with the MOST confusing of boy bands, NCT! Watch the Korean music video, the performance MV, or the live stage performance then hop back and join us. Onward to notes: Lee Soo-man, 2016: Neo Culture Technology, the business presentation that was also one of the places where this new group was announced? That meeting also includes snippets from a pre-debut version of The 7th Sense, with some notable changes like the overall mix, aesthetic, Haechan in the vocals, and the inclusion of Hansol, who quit SM before NCT's official debut. The NCT member timeline chart so confusing it got removed from Wikipedia for violating accessibility guidelines. Here's its Venn diagram version (courtesy Twitter) which is no less unreadable. English-subtitled video of Baekhyun and Sehun (EXO), and Taeyong and Jaehyun (NCT)'s stories of being street-cast. (MBS, KBS and SBS are three of the biggest TV networks in South Korea.) And here's a video of NCT 127 desperately trying to explain NCT. And as I was digging for those videos, it turns out that as late as the Superhuman promotions (2019, three years after NCT debuted) they're still wearing nametags on the talk shows. How good are NCT? Well. Here's the Produce 101 trainees covering it. Here's a clip from the actual show itself with the trainees' reactions to their fate. Shotaro covering Taeyong's part in The 7th Sense, a last-minute sub for him after Taeyong was injured. On that final note (justice for Winwin), here's the RainbowV special project choreo for Billie Eilish x Khalid's Lovely. The s**t kingz official site link to their choreography (as the collective group). I'm fairly certain this is the exact moment in Make A Wish's choreo that regs is talking about - let it run for about 15 seconds. The other NCT songs we love: Touch (2018, NCT U), Superhuman (2019, NCT 127), Make A Wish (2020, NCT U), Cherry Bomb (2017, NCT 127) Both NCT 2020's Resonance pt. 1 and pt. 2 (which was the repack) sold a certified million copies! The not very good 23-member dance roundups: 2020's Resonance and 2018's Black on Black. As always, remember to follow @StanOntology on Twitter for the latest episode updates. If you have any questions you'd like to send in, direct them to us on Twitter!

Chen is leaving for Hawaii, Pentagon become emo rock boys with their latest release Daisy, and NCT 2020 has our whole lives (and bias lists) in shambles. Listen as we discuss what happened in the KPOP world this past week!Tune in every Tuesday for a new episode and don't forget to follow our social media and let us know what you think.For more information on how you can help the Black Lives Matter movement: https://biglink.to/forBLMTime stamps:1:55 - Chen and Youngmin3:47 - Krystal4:00 - BTS8:11 - Stray Kids Changbin9:43 - Pentagon - Daisy15:48 - Weeekly - Zig Zag16:50 - AKMU Lee Suhyun - Alien18:16 - Dawn - DAWNDIDIDAWN20:50 - Joohoney - SMOKY23:40 - Kim Wooseok & Lee Eunsang - Memories25:56 - VERIVERY - G.B.T.B29:17 - NCT 202046:55 - Songs of the WeekListen here!Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/not-your-average-fangirls/id1397623744iHeartRadio: https://www.iheart.com/podcast/269-not-your-average-fangirls-30301805/Google Play: https://play.google.com/music/m/Io43vmfj25ycw543oknngnnnnra?t=Not_Your_Average_FangirlsSpotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4OL4qPjUyRsjfX30FIDczsThis week's playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0sFNyF9mWrDgqPJn597npl?si=7gKkIzIdT5mX9dfDC1_csQwww.twitter.com/NYAFangirlswww.twitter.com/HollaItsCarowww.twitter.com/heyitsteeteewww.twitter.com/deekaydiwww.twitter.com/HollaItsCynwww.notyouraveragefangirls.com

Bez pochyb totálně nejdelší K-POKEC, který s největší pravděpodobností nebude nikdy překonán!Zde nemá smysl se snažit jakkoliv nastavit časomíru a nějak rozdělit tento kolosální epos do segmentů.Pravdou je, že si NCT probereme od absolutního vzniku až do současnosti a jdeme hezky chronologicky rok po roku souběžně s diskografií a dalšími dle mne podstatnými body, zajímavostmi a milníky.Avšak se neustále odkazuje na něco, co se zmínilo na začátku či v průběhu této epizody, popřípadě co se teprve zmíní později.Právě skrz onu délku předpokládám, že až na zdárné výjimky, si každý poslechne tento sáhodlouhý speciál po kouscích dle vlastních možností.Ale i tak se mu zážitek z poslechnu hezky celý zacyklí!

Keseruan apa saja yang akan Ron & Dita bahas di episode ini: 1. Konsep NCT 2020 (lagi) karena plot twist dari SM nambah 2 member baru Shotaro & Sungchan. Apa bener NCT 2020 mengadopsi model bisnis ala AKB48? 2. Tingkah Jae 'Day6' di sosmed makin lokal aja, 2020 makin aneh karena idol K-Pop ada yang reply menfess dari Indo. Emang cuman Jae yang bisa. 3. Ron & Dita minggu ini suka banget comeback The Boyz "Stealer" & Everglow "La Di Da". 4. Dita numpang curhat seperti biasa karena Starship masih suka gak konsisten kasih english subtitle di konten video artis-artisnya. Niat gaet fans internasional gak sih?

The eleventh Heisei Era Kamen Rider, Kamen Rider W, graced Japanese TV screens eleven years ago. Now, Tyler will guide Mike through the series as we watch and recap each and every episode (and maybe even a movie or two). Hear Mike's first impressions and Tyler's thoughts on every episode after a fresh viewing. It's been one year since Philip disappeared, but now a group of delinquents known as "EXE" have taken up the Museum's business of acquiring the Gaia Memories. Not only that, but a boy named Akira asks Shotaro for help finding his sister who is also tied up with EXE. It's up to Shotaro as Kamen Rider Joker to stop EXE and save Akira's sister. But how is he dealing with the loss of Philip, even a year later? Find out when we cover Kamen Rider W Episode 49: "Goodbye to the E/ A Bouquet of Justice to This City". Thanks for listening. Be sure to rate, review, and subscribe to our feed. Send us an email at riderdiepodcast@gmail.com Follow us on Twitter at https://twitter.com/RiderDiePodcast Follow us on Anchor at https://anchor.fm/rider-die Follow Mike on Twitter at https://twitter.com/mikemixtape Follow Tyler on Twitter at https://twitter.com/TylerTylerims --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/rider-die/message

The eleventh Heisei Era Kamen Rider, Kamen Rider W, graced Japanese TV screens eleven years ago. Now, Tyler will guide Mike through the series as we watch and recap each and every episode (and maybe even a movie or two). Hear Mike's first impressions and Tyler's thoughts on every episode after a fresh viewing. This episode, Shotaro and crew get a request from a museum curator who asks them to look for a mysterious item known as the "Evil Tail" that she overheard her boss, Ryubee Sonozaki, had been looking for. While Akiko is apprehensive, Shotaro takes the case claiming that it's fate that this would come at this time. Meanwhile, the Museum are gearing up for the final phase in their plan, but what is it? Find out when we cover Kamen Rider W Episode 45: "Who the K Needs/ The Devil's Tail". Thanks for listening. Be sure to rate, review, and subscribe to our feed. Send us an email at riderdiepodcast@gmail.com Follow us on Twitter at https://twitter.com/RiderDiePodcast Follow us on Anchor at https://anchor.fm/rider-die Follow Mike on Twitter at https://twitter.com/mikemixtape Follow Tyler on Twitter at https://twitter.com/TylerTylerims --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/rider-die/message

The eleventh Heisei Era Kamen Rider, Kamen Rider W, graced Japanese TV screens eleven years ago. Now, Tyler will guide Mike through the series as we watch and recap each and every episode (and maybe even a movie or two). Hear Mike's first impressions and Tyler's thoughts on every episode after a fresh viewing. This episode, with Yuko Fuwa revealed to be Kirihiko's younger sister, Yukie Sudou, she tells the gang that she intends to succeed where her brother failed in being a useful tool to the Museum. Is there more to it like Shotaro thinks? Find out when we cover Kamen Rider W Episode 34: "Y's Tragedy/ Brother and Sister". Thanks for listening. Be sure to rate, review, and subscribe to our feed. Send us an email at riderdiepodcast@gmail.com Follow us on Twitter at https://twitter.com/RiderDiePodcast Follow us on Anchor at https://anchor.fm/rider-die Follow Mike on Twitter at https://twitter.com/mikemixtape Follow Tyler on Twitter at https://twitter.com/TylerTylerims --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/rider-die/message

The eleventh Heisei Era Kamen Rider, Kamen Rider W, graced Japanese TV screens eleven years ago. Now, Tyler will guide Mike through the series as we watch and recap each and every episode (and maybe even a movie or two). Hear Mike's first impressions and Tyler's thoughts on every episode after a fresh viewing. This episode, a woman by the name of Yuko Fuwa (who seems to tick all of Shotaro's boxes) ask the boys to help look for her missing cat Kinou. They find the dog and the episode ends. But does it really? Find out when we cover Kamen Rider W Episode 33: "Y's Tragedy/ The Woman Looking for Yesterday". Thanks for listening. Be sure to rate, review, and subscribe to our feed. Send us an email at riderdiepodcast@gmail.com Follow us on Twitter at https://twitter.com/RiderDiePodcast Follow us on Anchor at https://anchor.fm/rider-die Follow Mike on Twitter at https://twitter.com/mikemixtape Follow Tyler on Twitter at https://twitter.com/TylerTylerims --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/rider-die/message

The eleventh Heisei Era Kamen Rider, Kamen Rider W, graced Japanese TV screens eleven years ago. Now, Tyler will guide Mike through the series as we watch and recap each and every episode (and maybe even a movie or two). Hear Mike's first impressions and Tyler's thoughts on every episode after a fresh viewing. Today, we're joined by Kihp from the Kamen Ride With Me podcast. In this episode, A mob friend of Sokichi, by the name of Bito, asks Shotaro to help him settle an old score and get what he came back to Fuuto for. Meanwhile since Philip's encounter with the Extreme Memory he's stronger than ever, but this is causing Double to be unbalanced, leaving Terui the only one who can can match Philip in power. Who is the Beast man that has been rumored to come back? What exactly did Sokichi want to give to Bito? Find out when we cover Kamen Rider W Episode 31: "The Wind Called B/ One Must Chase The Beast". Thanks for listening. Be sure to rate, review, and subscribe to our feed. Send us an email at riderdiepodcast@gmail.com Follow us on Twitter at https://twitter.com/RiderDiePodcast Follow us on Anchor at https://anchor.fm/rider-die Follow Mike on Twitter at https://twitter.com/mikemixtape Follow Tyler on Twitter at https://twitter.com/TylerTylerims --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/rider-die/message

The eleventh Heisei Era Kamen Rider, Kamen Rider W, graced Japanese TV screens eleven years ago. Now, Tyler will guide Mike through the series as we watch and recap each and every episode (and maybe even a movie or two). Hear Mike's first impressions and Tyler's thoughts on every episode after a fresh viewing. This episode, a mysterious bird-like machine absorbed Philip into itself after his near death encounter with the Weather Dopant. With Philip whisked away to god knows where, and Terui still under the coma effect of the Nightmare Dopant, it's up to Shotaro to solve the case using nothing but his wits. Can he do it? Find out when we cover Kamen Rider W Episode 30: "The Nightmarish H/ Who is the Prince?". Thanks for listening. Be sure to rate, review, and subscribe to our feed. Send us an email at riderdiepodcast@gmail.com Follow us on Twitter at https://twitter.com/RiderDiePodcast Follow us on Anchor at https://anchor.fm/rider-die Follow Mike on Twitter at https://twitter.com/mikemixtape Follow Tyler on Twitter at https://twitter.com/TylerTylerims --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/rider-die/message

The eleventh Heisei Era Kamen Rider, Kamen Rider W, graced Japanese TV screens eleven years ago. Now, Tyler will guide Mike through the series as we watch and recap each and every episode (and maybe even a movie or two). Hear Mike's first impressions and Tyler's thoughts on every episode after a fresh viewing. This episode, a girl by the name of Himeka comes to the Narumi Detective Agency for help because there's a monster who's attacking her in her dreams causing her to lose sleep. In order to confirm that a Dopant is involved, they go to the university to investigate the sleep study lab where 6 other students have been put into comas. Shotaro and Terui both partake in order to lure the Dopant out. Does it succeed? Find out when we cover Kamen Rider W Episode 29: "The Nightmarish H/ The Melancholy of the Sleeping Princess". Thanks for listening. Be sure to rate, review, and subscribe to our feed. Send us an email at riderdiepodcast@gmail.com Follow us on Twitter at https://twitter.com/RiderDiePodcast Follow us on Anchor at https://anchor.fm/rider-die Follow Mike on Twitter at https://twitter.com/mikemixtape Follow Tyler on Twitter at https://twitter.com/TylerTylerims --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/rider-die/message

The eleventh Heisei Era Kamen Rider, Kamen Rider W, graced Japanese TV screens eleven years ago. Now, Tyler will guide Mike through the series as we watch and recap each and every episode (and maybe even a movie or two). Hear Mike's first impressions and Tyler's thoughts on every episode after a fresh viewing. This episode, Shotaro initiates a Twin Maximum Drive to attempt to finish off the Weather Dopant and snap Terui out of his lust for revenge, but winds up putting himself out of commission. With Accel being the only Rider in Fuuto, Philip yells at him to take responsibility and save Lily's life because he's the only one that can. Will Terui take charge? Or will he let his lust for revenge get the better of him? Find out when we cover Kamen Rider W Episode 28: "The D Was Watching/ Twin Maximum Suicide". Thanks for listening. Be sure to rate, review, and subscribe to our feed. Send us an email at riderdiepodcast@gmail.com Follow us on Twitter at https://twitter.com/RiderDiePodcast Follow us on Anchor at https://anchor.fm/rider-die Follow Mike on Twitter at https://twitter.com/mikemixtape Follow Tyler on Twitter at https://twitter.com/TylerTylerims --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/rider-die/message

The eleventh Heisei Era Kamen Rider, Kamen Rider W, graced Japanese TV screens eleven years ago. Now, Tyler will guide Mike through the series as we watch and recap each and every episode (and maybe even a movie or two). Hear Mike's first impressions and Tyler's thoughts on every episode after a fresh viewing. In this episode, The new Police Detective in town, Ryu Terui, hires Shotaro and Philip to help them track down a Dopant behind a string of freezing incidents. Terui seems to know way more than he lets on about our two heroes and claims that soon, he will be a Kamen Rider and will replace the current one in Fuuto. Just who does this guy think he is? Why is he so passionate about this string of Freezing incidents? Who is this mysterious I Dopant? Find out when we cover Kamen Rider W Episode 19: "The I Doesn't Stop/ That Guy's Name is Accel". Thanks for listening. Be sure to rate, review, and subscribe to our feed. Send us an email at riderdiepodcast@gmail.com Follow us on Twitter at https://twitter.com/RiderDiePodcast Follow us on Anchor at https://anchor.fm/rider-die Follow Mike on Twitter at https://twitter.com/mikemixtape Follow Tyler on Twitter at https://twitter.com/TylerTylerims --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/rider-die/message

The eleventh Heisei Era Kamen Rider, Kamen Rider W, graced Japanese TV screens eleven years ago. Now, Tyler will guide Mike through the series as we watch and recap each and every episode (and maybe even a movie or two). Hear Mike's first impressions and Tyler's thoughts on every episode after a fresh viewing. In this episode, Shotaro continues to search for the original buyer of the Bird Memory. With Toma taken to the hospital, Philip uses the Gaia Library to discover that the Bird Memory actually belongs to her. Kirihiko discovers a secret cave under the Sonozaki mansion and he finds Ryubee there, who tells him that the machine theyve created holds the memories of the Earth and that they gave the Bird Memory to the kids to use them as test subjects for evolution. Kirihiko tries to attack Ryubee but is still in pain. What does all of this mean? Find out when we cover Kamen Rider W Episode 18: "Farewell N/ The Friend with the Wind". Thanks for listening. Be sure to rate, review, and subscribe to our feed. Follow us on Twitter at https://twitter.com/RiderDiePodcast Follow us on Anchor at https://anchor.fm/rider-die Follow Mike on Twitter at https://twitter.com/mikemixtape Follow Tyler on Twitter at https://twitter.com/TylerTylerims --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/rider-die/message

The eleventh Heisei Era Kamen Rider, Kamen Rider W, graced Japanese TV screens eleven years ago. Now, Tyler will guide Mike through the series as we watch and recap each and every episode (and maybe even a movie or two). Hear Mike's first impressions and Tyler's thoughts on every episode after a fresh viewing. In this episode, Shotaro is tasked with tracking down the daughter of a barber he, and Kirihiko, frequents. When he finds her, she's hanging out with an unsavory bunch of teens who are using a Gaia Memory to attack people. On Philip's end, the Fang memory is missing. Where could he be? Who sold these children a Gaia Memory? How are multiple people using one Gaia Memory? Find out when we cover Kamen Rider W Episode 17: "Farewell N/ Memory Kids". Thanks for listening. Be sure to rate, review, and subscribe to our feed. Follow us on Twitter at https://twitter.com/RiderDiePodcast Follow us on Anchor at https://anchor.fm/rider-die Follow Mike on Twitter at https://twitter.com/mikemixtape Follow Tyler on Twitter at https://twitter.com/TylerTylerims --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/rider-die/message

The eleventh Heisei Era Kamen Rider, Kamen Rider W, graced Japanese TV screens eleven years ago. Now, Tyler will guide Mike through the series as we watch and recap each and every episode (and maybe even a movie or two). Hear Mike's first impressions and Tyler's thoughts on every episode after a fresh viewing. In this episode, Philip must find a way to save the captured Shotaro and Akiko from the clutches of the Arms Dopant. Philip must also deal with the knowledge that Saeko had some part in his life and that she has told him his actual name: Raito. Will Philip succumb to the power of the Fang Memory and lose control of himself, or will he find a way to save his friends on his own? Find out when we cover Kamen Rider W Episode 16: "The F Afterglow/ Reclaim Your Partner". Thanks for listening. Be sure to rate, review, and subscribe to our feed. Follow us on Twitter at https://twitter.com/RiderDiePodcast Follow us on Anchor at https://anchor.fm/rider-die Follow Mike on Twitter at https://twitter.com/mikemixtape Follow Tyler on Twitter at https://twitter.com/TylerTylerims --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/rider-die/message

The eleventh Heisei Era Kamen Rider, Kamen Rider W, graced Japanese TV screens eleven years ago. Now, Tyler will guide Mike through the series as we watch and recap each and every episode (and maybe even a movie or two). Hear Mike's first impressions and Tyler's thoughts on every episode after a fresh viewing. In this episode, Shotaro and Philip are tasked with tracking down a bank robber who is claiming to be the Kamen Rider. During the events Philip keeps seeing and old friend. When Shotaro discovers that their client is a notorious Phantom Thief, he goes to track down the Dopant and falls head first into a trap. What will Philip do? Find out when we cover Kamen Rider W Episode 15: "The F Afterglow/ Burglary Rider". Thanks for listening. Be sure to rate, review, and subscribe to our feed. Follow us on Twitter at https://twitter.com/RiderDiePodcast Follow us on Anchor at https://anchor.fm/rider-die Follow Mike on Twitter at https://twitter.com/mikemixtape Follow Tyler on Twitter at https://twitter.com/TylerTylerims --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/rider-die/message

The eleventh Heisei Era Kamen Rider, Kamen Rider W, graced Japanese TV screens eleven years ago. Now, Tyler will guide Mike through the series as we watch and recap each and every episode (and maybe even a movie or two). Hear Mike's first impressions and Tyler's thoughts on every episode after a fresh viewing. In this episode, Wakana is the target of a stalker and she has to take care of it quit or else she'll be forced to quit being a radio idol. She enlists the help of Shotaro and Philip and Philip feels some sort of sensation upon touching her hand. What is that even about? Who is this mysterious stalker? And has Shotaro really lost his love for Princess Wakana? Find out when we cover Kamen Rider W Episode 13: "The Q on the Radio/ Targeted Princess". Thanks for listening. Be sure to rate, review, and subscribe to our feed. Follow us on Twitter at https://twitter.com/RiderDiePodcast Follow us on Anchor at https://anchor.fm/rider-die Follow Mike on Twitter at https://twitter.com/mikemixtape Follow Tyler on Twitter at https://twitter.com/TylerTylerims --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/rider-die/message

The eleventh Heisei Era Kamen Rider, Kamen Rider W, graced Japanese TV screens eleven years ago. Now, Tyler will guide Mike through the series as we watch and recap each and every episode (and maybe even a movie or two). Hear Mike's first impressions and Tyler's thoughts on every episode after a fresh viewing. In this episode, Shotaro, Philip, and Akiko run dry when it comes to who the Virus Dopant could be after everyone on their list ends up not being the culprit. This Dopant is very special when it comes to how it operates, but Shotaro can feel an immense sadness whenever they confront it. Just who could the Virus Dopant be? How much of an asshole can one man be? Are idiots actually immune from sickness? Will Kirihiko ever catch a break from his wife? Don't miss out when we cover Kamen Rider W Episode 12: "The Revenge V/ Grudge Beast". Thanks for listening. Be sure to rate, review, and subscribe to our feed. Follow us on Twitter at https://twitter.com/RiderDiePodcast Follow us on Anchor at https://anchor.fm/rider-die Follow Mike on Twitter at https://twitter.com/mikemixtape Follow Tyler on Twitter at https://twitter.com/TylerTylerims --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/rider-die/message

The eleventh Heisei Era Kamen Rider, Kamen Rider W, graced Japanese TV screens eleven years ago. Now, Tyler will guide Mike through the series as we watch and recap each and every episode (and maybe even a movie or two). Hear Mike's first impressions and Tyler's thoughts on every episode after a fresh viewing. In this episode, a mysterious black vehicle is seeking out members of a gang and killing them with a lethal infection. Shotaro must track down the source of the Dopant and stop them. Meanwhile, Akiko has come down with an illness and is sneezing up the place. What exactly is this car that spreads infections? What motives could it have? Don't miss out when we cover Kamen Rider W Episode 11: "The Revenge V/ Infected Car". Thanks for listening. Be sure to rate, review, and subscribe to our feed. Follow us on Twitter at https://twitter.com/RiderDiePodcast Follow us on Anchor at https://anchor.fm/rider-die Follow Mike on Twitter at https://twitter.com/mikemixtape Follow Tyler on Twitter at https://twitter.com/TylerTylerims --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/rider-die/message

The eleventh Heisei Era Kamen Rider, Kamen Rider W, graced Japanese TV screens eleven years ago. Now, Tyler will guide Mike through the series as we watch and recap each and every episode (and maybe even a movie or two). Hear Mike's first impressions and Tyler's thoughts on every episode after a fresh viewing. In this episode, Akiko continues her investigation of the Sonozaki mansion, Shotaro experiences the fear inducing effect of the Terror Dopant, and we notice something peculiar about the museum. Don't miss out when we cover Kamen Rider W Episode 10: "The S Terror/ The Great Detective's Daughter". Thanks for listening. Be sure to rate, review, and subscribe to our feed. Follow us on Twitter at https://twitter.com/RiderDiePodcast Follow us on Anchor at https://anchor.fm/rider-die Follow Mike on Twitter at https://twitter.com/mikemixtape Follow Tyler on Twitter at https://twitter.com/TylerTylerims --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/rider-die/message

The eleventh Heisei Era Kamen Rider, Kamen Rider W, graced Japanese TV screens eleven years ago. Now, Tyler will guide Mike through the series as we watch and recap each and every episode (and maybe even a movie or two). Hear Mike's first impressions and Tyler's thoughts on every episode after a fresh viewing. In this episode, Akiko goes off on her own and goes undercover as a maid to investigate the Sonozaki residence. She finds everyone there to be very suspicious. Shotaro tries to get into the mansion after hearing about a string of serial disappearances involving top ranked patisserie, but he gets mistaken as a stalker by Kirihiko, Don't miss out when we cover Kamen Rider W Episode 9: "The S Terror/ The Maid Detective Witnessed It!". Thanks for listening. Be sure to rate, review, and subscribe to our feed. Follow us on Twitter at https://twitter.com/RiderDiePodcast Follow us on Anchor at https://anchor.fm/rider-die Follow Mike on Twitter at https://twitter.com/mikemixtape Follow Tyler on Twitter at https://twitter.com/TylerTylerims --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/rider-die/message

The eleventh Heisei Era Kamen Rider, Kamen Rider W, graced Japanese TV screens eleven years ago. Now, Tyler will guide Mike through the series as we watch and recap each and every episode (and maybe even a movie or two). Hear Mike's first impressions and Tyler's thoughts on every episode after a fresh viewing. In this episode, we conclude the arc involving the Anomalocaris Dopant, and what an arc it was. We found out the reason behind needing to stop the construction of a second Fuuto Tower. We meet Watcherman and Santa-chan at the ramen stand and pay a cruel price. Shotaro gets ready to drop some hard truths on a small child. Don't miss out when we cover Kamen Rider W Episode 6: "The Girl...A/ The Price of Lying" Thanks for listening. Be sure to rate, review, and subscribe to our feed. Follow us on Twitter at https://twitter.com/RiderDiePodcast Follow us on Anchor at https://anchor.fm/rider-die Follow Mike on Twitter at https://twitter.com/mikemixtape Follow Tyler on Twitter at https://twitter.com/TylerTylerims --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/rider-die/message

We also sing karaoke.

A powerful crime family sells Gaia Memories to the citizenry of Fuuto who abuse the super-human abilities gained from them. Shotaro and Philip use Gaia Memories of their own to combine into one who is powerful enough to stop them: Kamen Rider Double!

Join Alex, Sho, and Nitay for Otaku Game Night 9, where the game this time is "Guess the ED." How many EDs are you able to guess? iTunes: https://apple.co/2wAwKtq SoundCloud: http://bit.ly/2GfabtA YouTube: http://bit.ly/2rENRo4 Join us for more fun: Discord: https://discord.gg/btGp69j Facebook group: http://bit.ly/2KZQ5aD Twitch: http://bit.ly/2Ii9CRC Website: http://bit.ly/2KlP6Am Email us: animeclubafterdark@gmail.com The intro song and outro song is “Nekozilla” by Different Heaven. Check them out for more awesome music!

A powerful crime family sells Gaia Memories to the citizenry of Fuuto who abuse the super-human abilities gained from them. Shotaro and Philip use Gaia Memories of their own to combine into one who is powerful enough to stop them: Kamen Rider Double!

Originalupload vom 3. Juli 2018 Japan hat es ins Achtelfinale geschafft. Auch wenn die große Überraschung gegen Belgien ausblieb, können die Samurai Blue voller Stolz auf das Turnier zurückblicken. Die Partien gegen Senegal und Belgien waren mitunter die besten des Turniers. Wir ordnen den Turnierverlauf mit unserem japanischen Freund Shotaro ein. Host: Tobias (@ConDrei)Gast: Schmiddi (@shumittodesu), Shotaro (@linksrheinisch7)---------------Ihr wollt uns unterstützen? Wir sind bei Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/goaltakuGoaltaku ist unser Podcast-Format, mit dem wir euch Wissenswertes und Interessantes aus der Welt des japanischen Profifußballs näher bringen wollen. Aus den Tiefen des Transfermarkt-Forums sind wir seit 2010 für die Transfermarkt-Daten zum japanischen Fußball verantwortlich und wollen das steigende Interesse an der J. League für euch auf vielen Kanälen begleiten. Wir sind eine kleine Community, die im Herbst 2017 auf Twitter und Facebook gestartet ist und seitdem auch stetig wächst. Ihr wollt mehr zur J. League erfahren als DAZN, Kicker oder 11 Freunde liefern? Kontaktiert uns. Es gibt dafür genug Möglichkeiten.URL: Der japanische Fußball auf TransfermarktForum: Das Asien-Forum bei TransfermarktTwitter: @jleagueDEFacebook: @jleagueDEDiscord: Hier geht es zum ChatE-Mail: goaltaku@gmail.comHelfende Hände sind gerne Willkommen. Wir betreiben dies als Hobby und je mehr tatkräftige Unterstützung wir haben, desto mehr können wir leisten. Intro: "koto and shamisen loop.wav (c) zagi2 http://soundcloud.com/zagi2; "soccer audience" (c) Taira Komori, http://taira-komori.jpn.org/freesounden.html

Mentre il vero Imperatore del Giappone abdica per la prima volta in 200 anni, scopriamo insieme ai nuovi Lupi cosa è successo al Mikado di #Rokugan, cinque anni dopo la morte di Kojiro e Shotaro.I nostri nobili guerrieri vengono chiamati alla Corte Imperiale a risolvere un mistero che sembra irrisolvibile e che potrebbe mettere in ginocchio l'Impero, trascinandolo di nuovo in un'epoca di guerra civile in cui i clan si fanno guerra tra loro.Questa sera testiamo #Monogatari, l'hack samurai di #Klothos!

Mentre il vero Imperatore del Giappone abdica per la prima volta in 200 anni, scopriamo insieme ai nuovi Lupi cosa è successo al Mikado di #Rokugan, cinque anni dopo la morte di Kojiro e Shotaro.I nostri nobili guerrieri vengono chiamati alla Corte Imperiale a risolvere un mistero che sembra irrisolvibile e che potrebbe mettere in ginocchio l'Impero, trascinandolo di nuovo in un'epoca di guerra civile in cui i clan si fanno guerra tra loro.Questa sera testiamo #Monogatari, l'hack samurai di #Klothos!Questo show fa parte del network Spreaker Prime. Se sei interessato a fare pubblicità in questo podcast, contattaci su https://www.spreaker.com/show/1693919/advertisement

Mentre il vero Imperatore del Giappone abdica per la prima volta in 200 anni, scopriamo insieme ai nuovi Lupi cosa è successo al Mikado di #Rokugan, cinque anni dopo la morte di Kojiro e Shotaro. I nostri nobili guerrieri vengono chiamati alla Corte Imperiale a risolvere un mistero che sembra irrisolvibile e che potrebbe mettere in ginocchio l'Impero, trascinandolo di nuovo in un'epoca di guerra civile in cui i clan si fanno guerra tra loro. Questa sera testiamo #Monogatari, l'hack samurai di #Klothos!

Mentre il vero Imperatore del Giappone abdica per la prima volta in 200 anni, scopriamo insieme ai nuovi Lupi cosa è successo al Mikado di #Rokugan, cinque anni dopo la morte di Kojiro e Shotaro.I nostri nobili guerrieri vengono chiamati alla Corte Imperiale a risolvere un mistero che sembra irrisolvibile e che potrebbe mettere in ginocchio l'Impero, trascinandolo di nuovo in un'epoca di guerra civile in cui i clan si fanno guerra tra loro.Questa sera testiamo #Monogatari, l'hack samurai di #Klothos!

In Ultraman Nexus, Komon defies orders, trips a bunch, drops his gun, and freezes in the face of danger!  If he wasn't the protagonist he'd be so fired by now.  Also there's an evil Ultraman, cool.   In Kamen Rider W, Akiko proves her best girl status by simultaneously redeeming a villain, calling out the antagonists on their BS, giving Shotaro the directing credit he's always dreamed of, and embarassing some cops!  GIVE THIS GIRL A BELT!   Also, we introduce a fun trivia element to the show!  Buuuut the questions were maybe too vague this time, and one of us doesn't really engage properly with the questions, so it's a bit of a wash.  I promise the one for next episode turned out a lot better!   Does Nagi even need to shoot Komon at this point?  Couldn't Gene get funding for his movie by, I don't know, curing all the cancers and diseases everywhere?  Is Heat Vision and Jack tokusatsu?  Find out, today!   Send comments, corrections, or questions of literally any sort to brokusatsu@gmail.com Intro: Memories, Audiobinger Outro: An Ordinary Day In The Life Of A Superhero, Linden Killam

Manga review for Skip Beat Volumes 35 and 36. Synopsis: Skip Beat! follows the story of Kyoko Mogami, a sixteen-year-old girl who loves her childhood friend, Shotaro Fuwa, but is betrayed by him. Having spent a large part of her childhood at Shotaro's parents' inn, she learned a great deal about hostelry and other such jobs. Visit my Author’s Website at: www.chrismuldong.com Buy my stories on pdf format on my Author’s Website at: chrismuldong.com/stories-for-sale-1/ Buy my stories on ebook format at amazon.com at: www.amazon.com/Christopher-Muldo…1467442492&sr=1-2 Like my Author’s Page on Facebook at: www.facebook.com/authorcmuldong/ Read The Wizard, The Shadow, and the Tree at: https://www.dreamquestone.com/the-wizard-the-shadow-and-the-tree Follow me on Twitter at: twitter.com/chrisbboy82 Listen to Chris's Storytelling Corner on iTunes at: itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/chris…d1191231743?mt=2 Listen to Chris's Storytelling Corner on Stitcher at: www.stitcher.com/podcast/wwwstitc…orner?refid=stpr

In Ultraman Nexus, Komon can't wait to tell everybody about his good buddy Ultraman!  Meanwhile, Nagi can't wait to murder the heck out of the damn dastardly Ultraman.  The only ones showing proper caution and prudence are the obviously evil TLT heads, and that's kinda sad.   Meanwhile, in Kamen Rider W, an old case of the Chief's leads to a tale of a partnership gone bad, which mirrors a break in Shotaro and Phillip's relationship.  In this crazy town of superheroes and supervillains, what's the most important part of a crime fighting team?  The answer might have been there the whole time.   Will Komon ever figure out the genre of show he's in?  Did Queen and Elizabeth's album really sell that badly?  How many takes did they make Ryubee do of that scene, and can I see them all?  Find out, today!   Send comments, corrections, or questions of literally any sort to brokusatsu@gmail.com Intro: Memories, Audiobinger Outro: An Ordinary Day In The Life Of A Superhero, Linden Killam

There's a storm coming to Futo City!  Also rain, lightning, thunder, blizzards and heat waves!  Dr. Isaka is ready to bring his Weather memory to the center stage, and our heroes are going to be lucky to survive.   Meanwhile, Ultraman Nexus begins!  And since this show is going for a cryptic storytelling style, we spend the first episode learning absolutely nothing!  Except that the main character's girlfriend is totally going to beef it soon.   Is this Shotaro's chance to get deep into up-close magic?  Is this how XCOM finds recruits?  They really got this space monster design onto kids' tv?  Find out, today!   Send comments, corrections, or questions of literally any sort to brokusatsu@gmail.com Intro: Memories, Audiobinger Outro: An Ordinary Day In The Life Of A Superhero, Linden Killam

Manga review for Skip Beat Volumes 33 and 34. Synopsis: Skip Beat! follows the story of Kyoko Mogami, a sixteen-year-old girl who loves her childhood friend, Shotaro Fuwa, but is betrayed by him. Having spent a large part of her childhood at Shotaro's parents' inn, she learned a great deal about hostelry and other such jobs. Visit my Author’s Website at: www.chrismuldong.com Buy my stories on pdf format on my Author’s Website at: chrismuldong.com/stories-for-sale-1/ Buy my stories on ebook format at amazon.com at: www.amazon.com/Christopher-Muldo…1467442492&sr=1-2 Like my Author’s Page on Facebook at: www.facebook.com/authorcmuldong/ Follow me on Twitter at: twitter.com/chrisbboy82 Listen to Chris's Storytelling Corner on iTunes at: itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/chris…d1191231743?mt=2 Listen to Chris's Storytelling Corner on Stitcher at: www.stitcher.com/podcast/wwwstitc…orner?refid=stpr

In Kamen Rider Double, there's a new Kamen Rider!  A... double, you might say!  He's causing trouble left and right, and Shotaro will stop at nothing to track him down and find out why he's doing it!  Of course, when Shotaro does, it turns out he was doing it to lure our protagonists into a trap.  Oops.   Meanwhile, our hosts begin their coverage of Garo: The One Who Shines In The Dark!  Our hero, whose name escapes us at the moment, makes a terrible first impression, and then spends the rest of the episode desperately trying to rebuild his image before the plot shows up.   How do you make an effective supervillain deathtrap on the cheap?  Is there a 12-step program for Gaia Memories?  Why are so many cities crying these days?  Find out, today!   Send comments, corrections, or questions of literally any sort to brokusatsu@gmail.com Intro: Memories, Audiobinger Outro: An Ordinary Day In The Life Of A Superhero, Linden Killam

Princess Wakana is being threatened by a violent stalker, and Shotaro is there to help!  Mostly by calling Phillip, who is here to effortly solve the case while developing an odd bond with Wakana, as they talk about her younger brother who went missing some time ago and who DEFINITELY ISN'T PHILLIP.  Have we finally found a worse memory than Money?  Will humanity survive Adam Conover's murderous rage?  WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU DIDN'T WATCH THE MOVIE YET?    Send comments, corrections, or questions of literally any sort to brokusatsu@gmail.com Intro: Memories, Audiobinger Outro: An Ordinary Day In The Life Of A Superhero, Linden Killam

A local politician pushing a clean energy initiative comes under fire for using her young daughter to push her agenda.  She also comes under fire from A HUGE SEA MONSTER VOMITING TOOTH BULLETS!  Meanwhile, Shotaro investigates claims that his "just a friend" Kamen Rider is a deadbeat dad!  What new and inventive ways of injuring himself will Phillip discover this time?  Is the only solution to a bad lobsterman with a gun a good lobsterman with a gun?  How are complicated assassination schemes simpler than just not talking to somebody?  Find out today!   Send comments, corrections, or questions of literally any sort to brokusatsu@gmail.com Intro: Memories, Audiobinger Outro: An Ordinary Day In The Life Of A Superhero, Linden Killam

This week we’ll be examining manga by the late, great Shotaro Ishinomori. He was a huge influence on children’s superhero shows in Japan. Does his manga hold up? We’re here to find out! Remember to send us emails! mangamachinations@gmail.com Follow us on Twitter! @mangamacpodcast Check out our tumblr! http://mangamachinations.tumblr.com Join our Discord server and come talk to us! http://discord.me/mangamac Timestamps: 00:00:00 - Intro Song: “A.I.am Human” by MONKEY MAJIK from Cyborg 009: Call of Justice, Opening, Introductions 00:02:06 - Whatchu Been Reading: Transition Song: Dragon Ball Z OST “Prologue”, we confirm darfox’s hand fetish as he talks about My Hero Academia 00:06:23 - We discuss Kohei Horikoshi’s rocky road to success with his 2 failed series, Oumagadoki Doubutsuen & Barrage 00:08:36 - dakazu rants about the difficult competition between serializations in Shonen Jump 00:12:15 - Updates for the tumblr, the Hakyu Hoshin Engi anime is strangely only for people who know the source material 00:17:37 - dakazu reads a pretty generic zombie manga Crueler than Dead 00:19:41 - The silly comedy of Space Battle Ship Tiramisù peaks dakazu’s intrests while Pentabu to Sensha would be a prime example for Hayao Miyazaki’s hate of military otaku 00:23:51 - dakazu explains some Japanese urban legends from the horror/romance/battle manga Terror Night 00:27:53 - Houkago Teibou Nisshi is a simple slice of life about fishing and reminds dakazu of similar manga like Wana Girl 00:31:41 - dakazu wonders how much swearing will be in the upcoming English release of Oops! I Messed Up and Made the Wrong Person into a Magical Girl! 00:34:47 - News: Paru Itagaki wore a Legomu chicken mask when accepting BEASTARS’s 2018 Cartoon Grand Prize, we find out where Legomu placed on the BEASTARS character popularity poll 00:38:37 - announcement of Vinland Saga anime adaptation 00:41:13 - The Hi Score Girl anime is back and starting July 2018, the saga of the SNK lawsuit against Hi Score Girl 00:48:41 - Next Episode Preview and Rundown: Anime Interlude, guest Miki’s Stopwatch will join us to talk about the winter 2018 anime season and the upcoming spring titles we’re looking forward to 00:49:27 - Main Segment Creator Cross Section: Transition Song: “What’s the justice?” by globe from Cyborg 009: The Cyborg Soldier, we examine Shotaro Ishinomori’s shonen manga:  00:56:45 - Cyborg 009, 01:14:54 - Sabu & Ichi’s Detective Stories, 01:27:40 - Kamen Rider, 01:35:52 - Robot Detective,  we discuss his common theme of cyborgs & humanity, the unfortunately racist caricatures that reflect the 1960’s, how his various projects were cross-media, and his scene transitions through paneling and backgrounds 01:49:48 - new Manga Machinations Discord server, Next Week’s Topic: Anime Interlude, Social Media Rundown, Sign Off Song: “wish men” by sunbrain from Beet the Vandel Buster

While we might not have much in the ways of news, we make it up to you for bringing you a summary of Kamen Rider W Forever: A to Z! Holy shit it is the most epic thing I've ever witnessed. If you haven't seen it yet, go watch it. You must! Go now! Go! Anyway, for news we discuss some shitty Samurai toys, Capsule O-Medals, Accel, Goukaiger, and Power Rangers Samurai! But those aren't important. Movie summary! Movie! Epic! Go! Chuck!