Release Dates no Tanoshii Kakikata!


After half a year of no news whatsoever, we finally have been gifted with further information about Maasa's upcomming Movie, Light Novel no Tanoshii Kakikata in the form of a theatrical release date.

The movie, a theatrical adaption of a series of Light Novels of the same way, was announced last year and promised to make the story, which is all but unknown outside of Japan, more well-known - though the movie isn't actually being marketed to foreigners.

The movie is set to follow Tsurugi Yabusame, played by our very own Sudou Maasa, as the archetypal cool, tough girl with a distinctly more feminine side hidden underneath a whole more masculine facade. She is the strongest girl in school, but secretly writes award-winning romance Light Novels under a pen-name, but she struggles to write about experiences that she doesn't have herself. And so she seeks the aid of a male classmate, who discovered her secret by accident, to pretend to be her boyfriend so she can get inspiration for her next novel.

The cast lists were released gradually over several weeks in October, starting with the lone announcement that Maasa would be our leading girl, which is when this obscure movie adaption of a relatively obscure  light novel came to the attention of our average western fans. But gradually an ensemble cast was revealed, including former Hello!Project Egg Noto Arisa and popular Seiyuu including Taketatsu Ayana (famous for her role as K-ON's Azusa) and Prince of Tennis heart-throb Sato Hisanori.

After the cast lists, we heard very little of the movie. Several months ago Maasa mentioned in an interview that she had acted in a movie and had enjoyed the experience, which gave us hint that filming had ended already and the movie had entered post-production. And the obi found attatched to a recent volume of the Light Novel advertised the new movie and greenlit it for a 2010 release, though we were fairly certain that it would be released this year even without official confirmation. But despite the slow news, interest was far from dead. Every couple of weeks the topic would be brought up in Hello!Online's Maasa thread as fans grew impatient - or perhaps hungry for more tidbits on when they can see our Idol working her magic on the big screen for the first time since she provided voice work for the Mini Moni movie.

Well, the long wait is over!

The long wait for more concrete news, that is. It turns out that my own predictions of a late Summer release were off, and the movie is instead slated to hit Japanese theatres in December.

This does mean that for us foreign fans, we would either have to go see the movie in Japan, or wait for a few months into 2011 for the DVD to be released. And even longer still if you'd rather wait for a subtitled release. ICU-Subs and Hyakupa Subs have both expressed marginal interest in fansubbing the movie, but neither have commited themselves to officially announcing their intentions.

We still have a long wait ahead of us, but at least now we have a date to look forward to, rather than blindly waiting patiently for something to happen.

The Church and the State

There are many tools available to authoritive figures to maintain their goals or to achieve them, be it political or religious.

But the one that strikes true to the hearts of the people is Cooperation. Civilisation was built on the idea that more cooperation makes for a better society. Marx and Engels' Manifesto of the Communist Party refered to it is "Primitive Communism", and it was this virtue that became the guiding principle of political ideologies, not only among left-leaning Socialists and Liberals, but also among the rightist Conservative movement.

Society can't work unless it manages to put aside is petty differences and work together towards the greater good.

Only a few weeks ago, my country went through the most important General Election it's seen in thirteen years. And at the end, nobody had won. But the Liberals and Conservatives managed to put apart their own differences and work together to create a strong government in the national interest, despite coming from nominally opposing ideologies.

Not too long ago, the two opposing forces of the Church and the Party decided to end our long rivarly and conflict and form a Coalition of State and Church in order to allow both to co-exist against the proverbial Nuclear threat from the "Church of AKB", a term that you may remember I coined in an earlier message to it's members to refer to the loose organisation of fans, rather than a specific Church. An organisation which I have on multiple occasions likened to the Red Terror in the East, and the tense relationship between myself and leading AKB fans to the NATO-USSR relations of the Cold War years.

But it was through this, that we came to realise that the Captainist Party and the Church of Maasa aren't at all dissimiliar. We may use different words and methods, but the intentions are the same. We both wish for the exact same thing.

The Church is no longer the same cruel body that it was when I initially founded it, where Maasa was the One True Idol and fans of any other members were shunned as heretics and infidel. No, we are more open and forgiving than ever, just so long as the people support and worship Maasa, we care not wether they are also fans of other Idols, false or not. The Church has recieved two new Clergy members in recent weeks, Garlix, a leading member of the Captainist Party, and Keksi*Choc, who is one of the leading Miyabi fans as well as a self-proclaimed Prophet of Maasa.

Clearly we are entering something of a Rennaisance for the Church, where openness and community are just as important to the way we work as faith in the Holy Mother herself. We should continue to push for more support for Maasa, and continue to reform the Church into something that all Maasa fans can be proud to be part of.

Stamp

I've created a stamp for this blog C:

Take a look:










Do you like it?
Please spread it on your blog /website / whatever ~
If I have time, I'll make more.
Spread the love. Spread Maaism ♥

All the best, Keksi*Choc


EDIT:
I've just noticed that this is the 30th post ♥ Horray~

Results from Hello!Blog's 2010 H!P ranking

First, Berryz are #2 overall.





Maasa is on #17.

Not too good, but not a disaster either, right? She is generally one of the less-seen members... but I find it amazing that she won over Manoeri, Chisa, Nakki, Maimi and S/mileage's top-seller Kanyon!

Good job, Maasa~ Let's hope it will be better in 2011 <3 br="">
Everyone, give Mama your love!!!!

Okay~ Latest pictures~

I have to keep myself from praisespam, so I ratherpicspam ♥♥
But since those pictures of the Goddess are published, I'm sure she has no objections ^w^





Where does the sudden appetite for watermelons come from? I really can't explain...

Oh, now I wasted my first post here for picspam, but for a fan, picspam never hurts, right? :>

That was the newest member of the team, Keksi*Choc~~