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KANTA ON MANGA / Manzai-esque drama highlights new trend

Edit The Japan News 18 Sep 2016
By Kanta Ishida / Yomiuri Shimbun Senior SpecialistThe manga this week. SETOUTSUMI. By Kazuya Konomoto (Akita Shoten) ... Utsumi, Seto’s classmate, needs to kill time before going to cram school in the evening ... The two boys live in the Kansai region, which is a well-known base of manzai stand-up duo comedy, and their dialogue follows the traditional manzai style with Seto as the boke funny man and Utsumi as the tsukkomi straight man ... + - ... ....

ANIME AIRWAVES / A happy time of preparing meals together

Edit The Japan News 05 Sep 2016
By Thankyou-Tatsuo / Special to The Yomiuri ShimbunYou can determine when a particular piece of fiction was produced by taking a look at how it approaches the topic of cooking. Scenes of people eating abundant portions of their favorite food appeared during the days when all of society had an empty stomach ... It focuses instead on the process of cooking itself ... Thankyou-Tatsuo is a manzai comedian and a linguist of the Japanese language ... ....

ANIME AIRWAVES / ‘ReLIFE’: A story of doing it all over again

Edit The Japan News 08 Aug 2016
By Thankyou-Tatsuo / Special to The Yomiuri ShimbunPeople always live with regrets and questions — why has life become like this? What would’ve happened if I’d done things differently on that particular day?. While it may not be possible to go back in time, anime can let people see their wishes come true ... Take “orange,” for example ... Slide 1 of 1 ... Thankyou-Tatsuo is a manzai comedian and a linguist of the Japanese language.Speech ... + - ... ....

Winds of change are here

Edit Deccan Herald 30 Jul 2016
Series review. Netflix has had its share of drama, laughs, tears, blood and relationships ... Hibana (Spark) is a 10-part Japanese series, which is the newest kid on the block ... To tell you the truth, it is neither ... “Yeah?”. “Pets make good company, right?” ... “No!” ... It is here that Tokunaga meets Kamiya (Kazuki Namiyoka), who goes on to become his teacher in the art of manzai (stand-up comedy) ... ....

Superstar Students! Award Ceremony for the 17th Presidential Awards for Extracurricular Activities (Osaka University)

Edit Public Technologies 28 Jul 2016
(Source. Osaka University). The award ceremony for the 17th Presidential Awards for Extracurricular Activities was held on Tuesday, July 26, 2016. Presidential Awards for Extracurricular Activities have been awarded to recognize outstanding extracurricular activities and invigorate and improve student extracurricular activity participation since their inception in 2000 ... Outstanding Achievement Award ... B-koku Shinshi (manzai comedy duo)....

ANIME AIRWAVES / The thing tonkatsu and DJs have in common

Edit The Japan News 05 Jul 2016
By Thankyou-Tatsuo / Special to The Yomiuri ShimbunThere are people living in this world who know nothing of DJs or clubs. I myself am one of them. Yet I’m confident nobody could resist the unusual title of “Tonkatsu DJ Age-taro.” ... Whether or not you know anything about DJs and their culture, the program’s title is weird enough to draw your attention ... Slide 1 of 1 ... sound ... Thankyou-Tatsuo is a manzai comedian and Japanese linguist.Speech ... ....

ANIME AIRWAVES / ‘Joker Game’ depicts mind games of pre-WWII spies

Edit The Japan News 06 Jun 2016
By Thankyou-Tatsuo / Special to The Yomiuri Shimbun“Joker Game,” aired on AT-X, Tokyo MX TV and other channels, opens with the following narration. “It was in the autumn of 1937, when there were indications that a world war was approaching. A school to train spies was secretly set up within the Imperial Japanese Army ... Col ... Its name. Institution D.” ... Slide 1 of 1 ... Thankyou-Tatsuo is a manzai comedian and a linguist of the Japanese language ... ....

This week’s best streaming: from Preacher to Hibana

Edit The Guardian 30 May 2016
Dominic Cooper stars as the bad-boy preacher on Amazon Prime while Netflix explores Japanese standup comedy. Amazon Prime. Preacher ... But that’s the very least of it ... It’s hard to describe – but in a good way ... Netflix’s first Japanese original is a comedy-drama following two manzai performers as they stumble around Tokyo attempting to make their name. Manzai is a genre of Japanese standup based on the “funny man, straight man” premise ... Phew....

Best-selling novel ‘Hibana’ adapted into Netflix drama

Edit The Japan News 27 May 2016
By Keisuke Maeda / Yomiuri Shimbun Staff Writer“Hibana” (Spark), an award-winning novel written by popular comedian Naoki Matayoshi, will be shown as a 10-episode drama on the Netflix streaming service in 190 countries and territories from June 3 ... Later, their paths cross again. Slide 1 of 1 ... Hayashi referred to the fact that Tokunaga and Kamiya engage in hilarious conversations in the drama, as if they were doing manzai comedy ... + - ... ....

ANIME AIRWAVES / A parallel world of literature greats

Edit The Japan News 09 May 2016
By Thankyou-Tatsuo / Special to The Yomiuri ShimbunOsamu Dazai, Junichiro Tanizaki, Doppo Kunikida, Atsushi Nakajima. If you’re into modern Japanese novels, you can probably instantly name works by these literary greats. The new TV anime “Bungo Stray Dogs” that began airing in April features characters who have the same names as these writers ... Slide 1 of 1 ... Thankyou-Tatsuo is a manzai comedian and a linguist in the Japanese language ... + -....

Kyogen star Nomura Mansai plays a psychic onscreen

Edit The Japan News 06 May 2016
Sengoku starts working on the case, joined by his former partner in a manzai comic duo, Maruyama (Hiroyuki Miyasako). The two of them performing manzai is one of the highlights in the film ... “We made up unscripted banter, too ... Hiroyuki Miyasako, left, and Nomura Mansai perform a manzai comedy sketch in “Scanner ... I also realized that manzai performances are similar to kyogen because they highly value the rhythm in the dialogue,” he said ... ....

ANIME AIRWAVES / Plaster boys’ ever-changing expressions

Edit The Japan News 04 Apr 2016
By Thankyou-Tatsuo / Special to The Yomiuri ShimbunRemember the plaster busts in the corner of the art classroom, the ones used for drawing lessons? Well, they’ve just formed a boy band! ... Although they don’t move, they seem to be almost human, which is the most interesting thing about this anime ... It just mentions that they did this and that ... I’m Mars ... Thankyou-Tatsuo is a manzai comedian and a linguist of the Japanese language.Speech ... ....

AI correctly predicts comedy contest finalists

Edit The Japan News 18 Mar 2016
The Yomiuri Shimbun A research group of the University of Tsukuba has announced the development of artificial intelligence (AI) that predicted the results of the M-1 Grand Prix, a Japanese manzai stand-up comedy contest ... When the AI analyzed the eight manzai teams in last year’s final event, three of them — Jaru Jaru, Ginshari and Time Machine San-go — scored highly....
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