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Funeral Parade of The Roses (1969) review
“A highly experimental and intense exploration of how the images we clothe ourselves with makes us blind for what truly grounds us as subject.”
Bara no ki ni bara no hana saku / 薔薇の木にバラの花咲く / (‘Roses Bloom on the Rose Bush’, 1959)
Obscure Japanese Film #136 Ayako Wakao Rieko Sumi and Ayako Wakao Reiko (Ayako Wakao) is a senior university student majoring in English w...
The Origins of Bara
Like with all kinds of mediums, Bara has a history of its own. And it comes with its own prejudice. History for some reason won’t always tell the…
Bara Bara Obari: Bang Brave Bang Bravern
Bang Brave Bang Bravern is like an anime that has traveled through time to reach us in 2024, but it’s not clear whether it came from the past…
Parade no System: Takayama Haneko
There’s this D.H. Lawrence quote that’s been hanging around in my head for decades now, but in the vague way of an idea, words from a page you…
War of Roses Indie Otome Review
War of Roses is a short slice-of-life indie otome/dress up game developed by one of my absolute fave indie developers, Jellyfish Parade. Take on the role of Rose as…
Pick of the Week: White Roses
SEAN: It’s an embarrassment of riches the first week of 2021. There’s the new Ascendance of a Bookworm novel, the new Sweat and Soap, and any number of…
Parade
Parade Japanese Title: パレード (Parēdo) Author: Hiromi Kawakami (川上 弘美) Illustrator: Takako Yoshitomi (吉富 貴子) Translator: Allison Markin Powell Book Design: Wah-Ming Chan Publication Year: 2002 (Japan…
Performing Kaoru’s Funeral
"Performing..." is also a funny, melancholic and classic Japanese love story. Classic because within the traditional Japanese relationship, a man and woman only realize the depth of their…
Pick of the Week: Everything’s Coming Up Roses
ASH: While there are quite a few manga being released this week, many of them great, my pick will likely be obvious. It’s a long time coming, but…
Death Parade
There are only two guarantees in life: death and taxes. While nobody wants to die, it’s inevitable, and we all will reach that point sooner or later. However,…
Death Parade
This is one I’ve recently finished and has left me unsure about what it was trying to achieve. This appears to be an original piece of work airing…
Smokin’ Parade
Smokin’ Parade is a manga about a group of fighters known as the Jackalopes who have been installed with mechanical combat implants in order to fight monsters known…
Invisible Parade
Invisible Parade collects 13 stories both recent and from over a decade ago. This is the definitive collection of Kyoto-based painter and co...
Death Parade
Episodes: 12 Summary: Decim is the lone bartender of the Quindecim bar, but his true profession is an arbiter–a judge of where one’s soul is sent after death.…
Parade Parade and the Phallic Woman Fantasy
The narrative violence of the film, to those of us who relate to Kaori’s position, is not at all unlike how the world outside of Parade Parade treats…
Bara: Scratching the Rough Surface
Queer media in Japanese media has its own niche. Whether it would be guys loving guys or girls loving girls. In anime form, this is known through its…
Bara as 2D Adonis Complex
I’m borrowing part of a Timothy Levitch quote when I say this: if Space Opera is a genre that epitomizes all phallic emotion in Anime, then Legend of…
Sky diary #7: Parade of horrors
It’s Saturday night and I’m writing this and listening to a lot of Soft Machine. Somehow I’d never heard this band, but they were right at the genesis…
Sailor Moon R: The Movie – A Taste of Roses
I have plenty of old shames when it comes to my anime watching career. One of them is never watching Naruto, so I know the bare minimum about…
Sailor Moon R: The Movie, Naruto, Sailor Moon, Sailor Moon R
Sad Man Parade
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One Piece, Saiyuki, The Promised Neverland, Black Clover, My Hero Academia
15 Bara Manga for Beginners (18+)
I’ve been discussing the Bara genre for some time now. And at this point this is what most of you are waiting for. Before you take a dive…
Tokyo Roses: A History & Growing Guide
Get to know some of the most beautiful made-in-Japan roses as well as the history of roses in Japan.
Pick of the Week: It Must Have Been the Roses
SEAN: Come on. We all know what it is. This is the last time we can pick it, so it HAS to be the 5th and final volume…
Golden Time (Volume 1) – The Hand of Fate Holds Roses
It’s Tada Banri’s first day at college and he’s lost. Luckily, there’s another guy with the same envelope as him so he must be going to the same…
Frieren At The Funeral PV 2
Okay, so I’ve been reading this series religiously since it came out given that it hits all the right spots, so you can imagine my enthusiasm to hear…
Frieren At The Funeral PV 3
Well, October is turning out to be stupidly packed to the point where I’m legitimately concerned that I won’t be able to jot down everything. So I might…
Anibros Podcast Episode 61 – Anime Funeral
Anibros return to banter about Japanese anime in a brotherly fashion! The main topic of discussion is the movie The Girl Who Leapt…
Frieren at the Funeral: Teaser PV
The Teaser PV for Frieren has also aired. For those unaware, the story follows an ages-old Elf who was part of the heroes’ party as they defeated the…
Frieren at the Funeral is the Best Manga of 2020
Every so often, I just pick something up based purely on the cover—and it turns out to be better than I could have possibly imagined.
Tune of the Week(ish) Frieren’s Frieren at the Funeral
This isn’t the opening I’d expect from a show like this, but’s not half bad. The Tune of the Week is the opening them for Frieren: Beyond Journey’s…
Halloween hijinks: Night Parade of 100 Monster Movies
So far, the Halloween Hijinks articles on this blog have focused on western monsters showing up in Japanese media: vampires, witches, zombies, werewolves, Frankensteins. And thus, until now…
Ep 11 - Rose of Versailles - "The Power of Bara" (ft. Anime Nostalgia & GrantTheTheif)
BARA WA, BARA WA! Danny and K assemble a super crew to discuss the 1979 classic anime Rose of Versailles, joined by Dawn from the Anime Nostalgia Podcast…
Tune of the Week: Requiem of the Rose King’s Ware, Bara ni Insu
This show I’ve found myself enjoying far more than I should, though it really needs a better budget. The tune of the week is the opening to Requiem…
Series Recap: Death Parade
This was a mixed bag. On the one hand, Death Parade has some of the best atmosphere and mood of the past decade. It has style and attitude…
Death Parade Was Scary
Death Parade is one of my favorite anime of all time, it's really unique, really scary and it's filled with a bunch of unique stories. Chapters: 0:00 Game 1 [Death…
Adventures in the Key of Shoujo: Stepping on Roses Vol.1
Stepping on Roses Vol. 1 | By Rinko Ueda | Published by Shojo Beat | Rated: Older Teen, Ages 13+ Ah, getting back to old habits can be…
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Performing Kaoru’s Funeral (2023) review [OAFF 2024]
Yuasa’s narrative shows that the unavoidable presence of death during a funeral can allow a subject to re-route his own trajectory.
Leiji Matsumoto’s Galactic Funeral, June 3, 2023
After Leiji Matsumoto’s passing in February 2023, his wife and daughter addressed his countless bereaved fans in Japan and around the world, announcing that in due time a…
The Target of Roses (薔薇の標的, Kiyoshi Nishimura, 1972)
A melancholy sharpshooter finds himself caught up in conspiracy when hired by fascist revolutionaries in Kiyoshi Nishimura’s paranoia thriller.
Behind the Games Interview with Jessinia of Jellyfish Parade
Hey Blerdy Tribe! I had the chance to chat with Black game developer, Jessinia, the founder and head of indie game studio, Jellyfish Parade. This is not the…
Wilde Roses’ new album Woven is now out!
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Anime Recommendation #10: Death Parade
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OtakuGeneration (Show #518) Death Parade
Shownotes :: (show 518) :: (website) :: (podcast feed) :: (direct download) :: (direct iTunes link) With Death Parade, recorded live May 10th, 2015. This week we watched…
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Tanya Degurechaff Popup parade figure
by Good smile company. Sold by GSC for 3,000 yen, this non-scale figure of Tanya Degurechaff is one of few options for her figure. Others are around 20,000yen,…
FJ “Parade” MV is out!
The FictionJunction Official Youtube channel uploaded the Music Video for Parade, the title song of the same-name album by the new FictionJunction thats coming out on April 19,…
The Funeral (頭七, Shen Dan-Quei, 2022)
A haunted single mother is plagued by supernatural dread on returning to her family for a funeral in Shen Dan-Quei,s eerie gothic horror.
Bara Influences in Anime and Shows that Have Them
While the Bara genre is still not known to the general public, the elements is gradually showing up in anime today. Slow, but taking one step at a…