Just sayin’.

No, seriously! You heard it here first.

This video is safe for work, if your work doesn’t mind phallic pillow fights.

So jerkpop’s ebzero linked me to this article, featuring the 5 Movie Fighting Styles Too Awesome to Actually Exist. And one of them in particular struck me, probably because I’ve been taking a ballroom dance class (and totally not because I lust mightily for Chun-Li, I swear). This takes place at a salsa competition in Korea (yes, Asia seems rather fond of ballroom):

Just thought you might enjoy that.

Don’t care. I also don’t care that it’s a year and a half old. This is pretty spiffy. I’d rather see Sakura-chan slit some guy’s throat with a survival knife, really, but this’ll do in the meantime.

You may know him best as Chiyo-chan’s dad in Azumanga Daioh, or the Emperor of Britannia in Code Geass, Vicious in Cowboy Bebop, the narrator in Hayate no Gotoku, Father Anderson in Hellsing, Dracula in the Castlevania games, or any of dozens of other roles. But to me, he will always be…WAKAMOTOOOOOOOOO!

(The girl who talks at the beginning, if you can’t tell, is Tomoko Kaneda, the seiyuu who voiced Chiyo-chan in Azumanga. And after that comes Wakamoto-sama, singing “Clementine.” No fooling!)

Via Japanator’s GodLen.

Keep meaning to get to this one: GhibliWorld reports that Hayao Miyazaki’s next flick with Studio Ghibli will be based on a Japanese lullaby, prompting a report that tells you more about Japanese lullabies than you ever thought you’d know. Apparently they’re more akin to the spirituals sung by slaves in the 1860s than to the get-the-damn-baby-to-shut-up tunes we’re used to– because nannies in Japan were traditionally indentured servants who would sing about how much they want to get the hell away from all these brats.

The lullaby that the film is based on is called Itsuki-no-komori-uta, a famous lullaby about Itsuki village, which is apparently about to get washed away when a new dam is built. The lyrics of the lullaby (GhibliWorld’s translation) are:

I’ll go home at Bon
If Bon comes soon, I can return soon
We are like beggars, but they are the rich
The rich have good sashes and good clothes

If you want to hear the song, clip along to the end of this video from a ’70s Japanese movie– about 4 minutes in, the actress Meiko Kaji sings the lullaby.

Well, at any rate, it’s obvious that Ponyo on a Cliff won’t be Miyazaki’s last flick either. Not that anyone’s in a hurry for him to retire anyway! ;)

I love The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya. I also love the bending of gender. Therefore, this video is epic win (and incredibly well-done).

Also, I don’t even want to think about how ridiculously expensive these custom Haruhi sneakers probably were.

Enjoy.

via KuronoK. But I found this one on my own:

This is just too cute.

Catchy tune, too.

Love you guys. ;) Enjoy!

(P.S. Reader Kuro found it first.)