It’s a new semester and a new year for the anime club. And what better way to get hyped up for the year than with a song from L’Arc~En~Ciel.
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So we here at anime@uts have a variety of other interests outside of anime. We watch TV shows, we watch K/J-dramas, weird/popular movies. We like video games, like Starcraft 2, Team Fortress 2 and LoL too (had to keep the 2 thing happening there). So with this Music Monday, I’d like to combine two interests outside of anime in one catchy song.
IU is an up and coming K-Pop star, and at least one person in the club (yappa) can’t get enough of her. While she’s not as big as some of the other K-Pop acts out there, like Girls Generation <3, After School, Tara and Kara (it took me awhile to realise the latter two were actually different -_-), she sure is talented. She's also starring in a K-drama, Dream High, where she plays a fat girl who (eventually) becomes beautiful. Not that fat girls aren’t beautiful. Or whatever.
But I said we were combining interests, didn’t I? Well IU has had a lot of involvement in the Starcraft scene in Korea. Before the start of the GSL, the biggest SC2 tournament in the world, we are treated to a bunch of K-Pop MVs and IU is always there. And apart from performing at major tournament finals such as the Shihan Bank Proleague and the Gretech Global Starcraft 2 League, she also provides some of the player introductions during the GSL matches.
So yeah, we’re fans of things other than anime 
. Amazing, isn’t it?
Merry Christmas everyone!
This week’s Music Monday is a little shorter (and a little later) than usual, but you shouldn’t be on the internet reading this anyway. You should be out there doing your last minute shopping or hanging out with cool people. And your family. Because families are never cool.
Love it or hate it, K-On! was one of the biggest anime this year (and last year). Being a sucker for music anime, I naturally loved K-On! and this song, My Love is a Stapler, was perhaps my favourite of all the HTT songs, followed closely by Fude Pen (no fu fu!). The song pretty much has everything, Mio/Yui vocals, a cool guitar riff, some nice keyboards and great drumming. What makes the song even more cool was the first scene in K-On! season 2, where Yui just sits down and rocks out on her guitar.
Anyway, happy holidays everyone!
Exams are over and summer has reared its hot head just in time for the holidays. So for Music Monday, why not go for a bit a summer tune?
Driver’s High is one of L’Arc~En~Ciel’s best songs and it was used as one of the openings for Great Teacher Onizuka (GTO). From Ken’s amazing guitar, Tetsu’s wandering bass, Yuki’s frantic drumming, Hyde’s glorious vocals and even the video clip capture the fun and feelings of what summer is about.
The wind blowing through your hair, the sun blazing in your eyes and burning your body as you run wild, that’s what summer is. Summer is about the freedom to do whatever you want, whenever you want. Blame the heat if you want to, but its the best time to start acting whacky and crazy.
Summer is about spending time with friends and getting up to hijinks and shenanigans, kinda like the Laruku boys in the MV. Don’t get stuck in the otaku mode of staying home all the time. Go do something different. Go do something fun. And more importantly, go do it with some friends.
Clash! Into the rolling morning! Flash! I’m in the coolest driver’s high!
Note: Check out the translated lyrics at: http://utau-inu.com/centj/translations/translations.htm
After one of our staple karaoke events, we decided to continue to expand our places of food consumption to include a restaurant on Sussex St called Home Thai. One of our members had walked past the restaurant many times before, and every time there was a queue of people outside. Using our powers of deduction, we thought that that could mean that this restaurant was pretty good.
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