www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVVCq_DVDoU

【ニコニコ動画】激突！ハンマー状態なのか？
Here is a crazy hammer Kirby/Touhou megamix.

【ニコニコ動画】ハンマーラりアット
ハンマーの人二代目 came in 3rd on the ranking this month, but did indeed return.

In fact, most of the generations are back, except 3代目. I wonder what happened?!

More after the jump.


【ニコニコ動画】Hammerfly
This new comer ranked pretty well with DDR nostalgia!

【ニコニコ動画】究極ハンマーレストラン！お槌の地獄亭！
4代目 brings it back to IOSYS/Touhou with a hammer mix of Rin’s Ultimate Yakiniku Restaurant.

【ニコニコ動画】ハンマーギャロップ
5代目 is back with his unique classical style.

【ニコニコ動画】槌月花
紅の6代目 is back with the red hammer.

【ニコニコ動画】おはよう!!朝ごハンマー

【ニコニコ動画】ハンマダ電機

【ニコニコ動画】We Will Hammer You
7代目 was busy and actually ranked fairly well!

【ニコニコ動画】Don't Hit 'Hammer'

【ニコニコ動画】REMINISCENCE 004//Hammer ～未完～
8代目 was also busy! Good けいおん！ MAD!

And 9代目 just came out of no where with this AMAZING piece.

Not sure how to keep tabs on the generations now that we don’t have numbers any more for the new comers. I guess time will tell! See you next month!

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For those unfamiliar with 紅白歌合戦 (Kouhaku utagassen), it is a yearly show on New Year’s Eve where the red team (mostly female music artists) goes up against the white team (mostly male music artists) to put on the best performance. Really, it is just a giant music show with a meaningless contest, but it is fun nonetheless.

I haven’t rooted for the red team in a long time due to the overabundance of Hello! Project shit that has been clogging it, but with しょこたん performing last year, I had to take pause and think about my priorities. (Speaking of しょこたん, she doesn’t seem to be on the list this year, despite 中日スポーツ quoting her as wanting to go really bad…)

Now, with Perfume on the red team, coupled with the fact that no team has won more than three in a row ever, I’m putting my money on red this time.

But the white team has quite the lineup this year… Mr. Children, Porno Graffiti, EXILE… It’s going to be a good show.

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Next time I’m in Japan, I’m so buying the DVD. Maybe it’ll show up on mysoju…

Go visit the official site.

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www.youtube.com/watch?v=_U0szErC8DM

ブタがいた教室 (Buta ga ita Kyoushitsu, I think the official English title is “School Days with a Pig”) is a movie about a class of elementary school kids who raise a pig. The teacher brings it in as a lesson where the kids will eventually eat the pig. BUT, as you can imagine, this pink piggy is so cute that the whole question of whether they should eat it or not comes up. And how does one decide?

This is one thing I think the whole world needs to think about more. I remember the supermarket we had in the rural part of Japan where I used to live had a little progression of picture above most of the meat. There literally was a picture of cute piglets, then of pigs, and then of pork. I remember thinking, “This would never fly in America.” In fact, if I put pictures of cute pigs above the pork in an American supermarket, I’d probably be arrested for being a PETA terrorist or something.

In any case, this looks like a great movie. Probably will make me cry if for nothing else than memories of teaching in Japan. Comes out on November 1st.

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