My favorite "seiyu": Mamoru Miyano

Today I want to talk about one of the persons I admire. But first I want to explain you something. I'm sure you are asking "What is a "seiyu"?" A seiyu is a Voice Actor. The person who works at this, gives his or her voice to Anime characters or Video Games characters. Being a seiyu is consider a career in Japan. 

Mamoru Miyano (or Miyano Mamoru, in Japanese the lastname comes firts) is an example of this. He's one of the best seiyu's in all Japan. He started his career in 1990 giving his voice to Riku, a character of the Video Game "Kingdom Hearts". I knew about him because of Death Note. The main character of this anime has his voice and I really like it. Mamoru is also a singer. He started in 2007, with his firts single "Koun" that means "Eternity". He married in 2008 and now has a son with his wife. 

<-- Is cute, isn't he? *-*

For me he is the best Seiyu and a great person. I really admire him, because although he is famous, he's simple and sincere. He really loves his fans and he demonstrates it with every action he does. He's very funny and is not ashamed to be as he actually is, he doesn't make false personalities to please others or to look cool and that's why all his fans love and admire him. 

If you are curious about him, here I leave one of his songs. The name is "Hikari, Hikaru", it can be translated as "Shining light". Hope you like it!

One of the latest Pixar's works: Monsters University

I'm sure all of you have seen it, which is the  preceding of our childhood movie "Mosters INC"...but if you haven't, then you missed an opportunity to feel like a child again. 

In this oportunity we can see how Mike and Sulley start their "career" as scarers. After visiting Mosters INC as a child, Mike takes the decision of being an scarer so after finishing the school he enters "Monsters University" to study the art of "the scare". There he meets Randall Boogs, and James P. "Sulley" Sullivan who are also there for the same intention. Mike study really hard but Sulley just lay on his "natural scaring ability". After the finall exam both, Mike and Sulley, fail it and the principal drops them from the program of the universty. Instead of just giving up, they enter the "Scare Games" to prove everybody that the can do this. After many difficult situations, in which their friendship grew strong, they win the competition. But when the games are over, Mike discovers that Sulley has cheated to improve Mike's "scare score". Mike is so angry that goes to one of the laboratories, where the doors to our world are build, and enters one of these, going alone to the human world to prove that his sacring abilities are good. Sulley goes after him and once they make peace, they return to the school and Sulley confesed to the principal what he did. Their actions lead to their expulsion so they leave the campus. Mike and Sulley start working at Monsters INC in the mailroom and after some years, starting at the bottom, they become part of the Scarer Team. 

As I said, you have to see these films. And if you haven't watch any of them...what are you waiting for?! Go and buy the DVDs, you wont regret. 

Real Music, Real musicians

As my partner Sebastian said lets’ talk about music, those that are produced by the companies and those that are made by real musicians.

First of all, why am I doing this topic?

It´s because I hate superficial pre-fabricated songs, that are more in Pop, R&B, which are always talking about the same thing, such as love, break ups, friend zones and all that teenager stuff that sells. At some point you start getting tired of all the fantasies of those songs.

 Another reason is that many artist, that don’t composed, treat their music as something that you can easily replace with another song, they only care about money, so it’s true that they can sing incredible hit songs, but there are empty, it doesn’t have any feelings.

Unlike those pre-fabricated songs, there are indie music, which means independent music.

Indie music is produced by the same musicians, they play the instruments, they strive to make things work, they do awesome performance, they produce beautiful lyrics with deep meaning.... in other words, they produced music that makes you feel alive.

And you feel so because you can hear, through the music, all the effort given by them to make just 3 or more minutes of a song.

They main objective is not to sell, is not to dress nice for each presentation. They just want their music to transmit their message and these are, for me, real musicians. 

SHREK

Talking about animated movies, it's my duty say that Shrek was one of my favorites movies, too.

I think the first two movies of this saga were amazing, but the next two weren't fantastic as i thought they would be.

 

I like this movie because it has a particular language, and  it's not just for children. Parents also can enjoy this movie, even do more than their children.

 

This movie starts with Shrek, an ogre who lives alone in a swamp. He hates people and people are afraid of him. One day Shrek saved the life to Donkey, an animal whose owner was selling him.

 

Then, Shrek will have to rescue a princess,  who lives in a castle , from a enormous fire-breathing dragon. The Dragon turns out to be a girl, and she falls in love with Donkey. Donkey, Shrek, and Fiona escape, and Dragon chases them.

 

We know the end of this movie, but it's amazing how Shrek changed his character when he met Fiona. He discovered a lot of feelings that he didn't know he had. For example, friendship, love, determination and happiness.

 

Please, make a comment if you saw this movie. Thank you.

Let's talk about music.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9ypq6_5bsg

The oddest thing, perhaps the most famous song of them, is that it is a cover of Phil Medley and Bert Russell. Originally titled Shake It Up Baby.

The appeal of this song is Lennon's voice sounds very worn. It is because the day that recorded the album Please Please Me (The Beatles first album), the last recorded this cover, Lennon's voice was so tired that he had to sing almost scraping voice. This voice was loved by the 4 of Liverpool and now the voice is the most atractive thing of the song.

Uta no Prince-Sama Maji LOVE 1000%

This is one of my favorites anime's (Japanese cartoons). This was based on a video-game. Hope you like it~!

It is about Haruka Nanami, a girl who wanted to become a great composer. To make her dream come true, she enters Saotome Academy, a prestigious performing art school. After this she meets 6 nice guys which want to be idols. During the episodes we can see how Haruka face different kinds of problems and how she and her friends get over these. Finally, she makes a group with the 6 guys calling it STARISH (because of the name of the guys). The first season ends when they make their debut concert with Haruka as her composer.

This anime has a lot of comedy and some romance. As I said is one of my favorites because of the music and the cute guys (haha). Also it is interesting how they can get over the differents troubles that appear so they can reach their goal. This anime teach us that if we have a dream we have to fight until we can make it true and never give up.

If you have some time I recommend this one, it only has 26 episodes (13 each season) and it's really good. If you like music this one is perfect for you. 

Hajime no Ippo

Well, if you are bored and you don't have anything to do, you should read this manga, which is a japanese comic, called Hajime no Ippo.

This 24-year-old manga  is about how Ippo, who is a extremely  shy and lonely boy, decided to practice boxing and started to seach the meaning of be strong. It's a boxing manga that have 1000 chapters , it´s long, but not imposible to read.

I really like this manga, because it has comedy and also it´s a little realistic, which is good, because it lost sense when fantasy is in it.

You can learn a lot of this manga, you can learn boxing movements, tactis, the power of  friendship and more.

In every training, every fight, every defeat, you can feel the feelings of Ippo and this  transform you into an excited reader, who wants to follow more and more the story.

So, in the end, I hope you can read it.