Centaku Media Journal: Episode #17 [S2E5]

Continuing to play catch up with a few early 2021 topics, in addition to some recent E3 announcements that will NOT take an hour and a half like last year…

In this episode: Tetsuya Nomura and Koei Temco’s latest Final Fantasy game is revealed, along with Gundam: Hathaway’s Flash coming to a streaming service near you, and an explanation why some K-pop songs were missing from Spotify a few months back.

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In Pictures: 90s KPOP Superstars Concert

On October 29th, 2015, Star1 Entertainment held the 90s KPOP Superstars Concert in the Metro Atlanta area at Wild Bill’s nightclub (now known as Atlanta Coliseum) in Duluth, GA, which was a surprise treat (pun intended because of the eve Halloween Eve) for K-Pop fans who live in the Southeast.

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Interest Treasures: The 5 Best Dragon Ball Videos on YouTube

This is another entry into a new series called “Interest Treasures”, where I highlight something that not many people know about within a fandom–that even the fandom doesn’t know about–within a geeky–or for the sake of this blog: an Otaku interest. The first entry in the tag, I highlighted a K-Pop artist who is called the “90s G-Dragon”, Yang Joon Il. Today, I figured I cover 5 of the Best Dragon Ball Videos on YouTube, where even a big, long running fandom that might have missed; especially for new comers.

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Music Spotlight: Taeyang – Wedding Dress

I normally cover songs you may not have heard of before, or rather ones that fall in the indie spectrum, and general obscurity. But this one is a good candidate for those who have just gotten into K-Pop, especially in the current BTS era (or Generation 3, for a veteran such as myself–more to come in another post). One of my favorite K-Pop groups is BIGBANG, which I’ve followed since their debut, and one of the members is Taeyang who released one of his memorable solo singles of his career in 2009.

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Interest Treasures: The Unusual Journey of Yang Joon Il

Many of you are probably into, or at least heard of, the latest K-pop acts such as BTS, TWICE, BLACKPINK, and Stray Kids. But there is Yang Joon Il (Hangul: 양준일), a solo artist who made his debut at the very beginning of the 1990s, and who was largely ignored by the Korean media because of his approach to the norms of the era.

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