I don’t talk about many K-Dramas on Centaku Media, but there is one in particular that caught my interest as of late, in part due to the swirling controversy surrounding the nature of the following show that we’re highlighting coming up soon in October, called Love in the Big City. This K-Drama, however, is different from your traditional K-Drama, as the subject matter involves the subject of Boys Love—or “BL” for short.
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We all talk about BTS, BLACKPINK, Stray Kids, NewJeans, and whatever K-Pop group that’s currently trending in the early 2020s. But let’s go back… way back… back into time when things were simpler. Let me talk about 90s K-Pop with you.
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What countries do you want to visit?
Running a blog called Centaku Media for over 15 years and having the word “Otaku” in one form in the name, you would think I have visited the land of all things Otaku: Japan. As of 2023, that has yet to happen. But here are some observations of how that could happen.
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In this episode: After the Toei Animation hacking incident, the next film entry of Dragon Ball Super was delayed to a new date–which is drawer closer! We also talk about Overwatch 2’s upcoming first Black Female hero, Sojourn, and the original singer of the popular Baby Shark song appears on a variety show and impresses the audience as a high school student!
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In this episode: Sanjo bids everyone a happy mid-season break as we talk about details surrounding Bandai Namco’s recently revealed Gundam: Witch from Mercury anime, yet more details on FFXIV 6.1 patch, and BIGBANG’s April 2022 return along with an interview with T.O.P on his thoughts about the K-Pop industry.
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In this episode: the completion of the Funimation and Crunchyroll merger, huge FFXIV and Pokémon news, and an unusual “business” background for a South Korean presidential candidate.
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The past decade has been dominated by many K-Pop acts–PSY, to BIGBANG, to BLACKPINK, to BTS. Elsewhere, in Japan, the idol industry has been dominated by Japan’s largest girl group, AKB48. They have had more than a dozen songs sitting on top of Japan’s Oricon charts in the several years since their debut. However, their popularity has dipped in the past few years. In this post, a non-AKB48 fan talks about another non-AKB48 fan covering a video that chronicles their rise to fame.
Back in late 2011, I wrote a Music Spotlight post (FKA “Ni-Ongaku Spotlight”) highlighting a song released by South Korean actor Jang Geun Suk. At the time of writing he was the most desired actor Japanese fans wanted to see in the midst of the Korean Wave in Japan, trending above even AKB48, and performing at a sold out concert at the Tokyo Dome.
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