A Qoo d'Etat!

Since it's Talk Like a Pirate Day today, I'm going to jump the gun on a Countdown to Halloween post and show some cute Pirates right now.

  

That Pirated gal is none other than Jeongyeon of  Twice fame, a K-Pop group that has sung many of their tunes in Japanese as well. What follows are several of the other gals in Halloween garb anointing the label of either Orange, Apple or Grape-flavoured Qoo.

 

 

 

 

 

It was not until I went to the Qoo website that I noticed that the random letters behind each gal spell out something. (I didn't buy 9 bottles of one flavour, I mixed and matched.)

Here's a brief commercial...



I didn't just buy the Pops (can't really call them juices) for the flavour, I also scored a Clear File and a mini-tote bag.

 

A word of advice, if you want to run out and buy these, I'd do so at a supermarket where they're about 78 yen each, if you go to a Conbini, they're about TWICE that. (See what I did there?)

I don't think I'm going to run out and buy any of their albums, they're a tad to sweet for me.
Case in point...



To wrap up this "Talk Like a Pirate" post, I'd be remiss if I didn't include a silly statement I made on Facebook today. Similar in vein to two years ago, I said,
"Are you King of the Jews?"

"Quod scripsi, scripsi" ("What I have written, I have written.")
"Quid est veritas?" (What is truth?")
"Crucify him!" Why, what has he done?"

It's "Talk like a Pilate Day"!

9 years ago, it was, 

Altitude: 21,000 feet. Speed: 520 knots. Level flight. Course: zero-niner-zero.
As everyone knows, it's "International Talk Like a Pilot Day".

Today's witticism is:

I'm an iron sulfide with the chemical formula FeS₂.
It's "Talk like a Pyrite Day"!

Transformers Primetime.

Transformers Prime is rather odd. Transformers was a toy line that begat an anime that begat a cartoon (several series, actually) that begat an Animated Movie that begat a Movie series that begat yet another cartoon and has now been dubbed into Japanese. It's the Circle of Life!

For more info, check out Transformers experts at Branded in the 80s and listen to a podcast of Transformers the Movie!

(Scammed from Wikipedia.)
In Japan, the rights for the Transformers franchise are primarily held by Tomy, which operate themselves as Takara Tomy in Japan after merging with Takara (the creator of the toy line which precedes Transformers). The Japanese version of Transformers: Prime  is titled 超ロボット生命体 トランスフォーマー プライム.

Ending this week is a set of Happi Setto Transformers Prime, including:

 Bumblebee with the awesome awful ability of punching up with his right hand when you push down on his wings!

Megatron who can send a purple plastic spear about a metre.

Bulkhead who can send a blue plastic spear just over a metre.

 And of course Optimus Prime who has the incredible incredibly lame power of raising his sword arm up and down when you twist the other arm!

Pretty cool, eh?

As for the theme songs, here's the poop. From episodes 1 to 13, the opening theme to the series is the Japanese version of "Feeling" sung by South Korean band Big Bang.



and the closing theme is "I Believe in All" sung by Clutcho.



From episode 14 to 26, the opening theme is "Transformerz" sung by M-Flo,



and the closing theme is "A Little Bit" sung by Clutcho.



From episode 27, the opening theme is a remix of "Transformerz" with new lyrics, and the closing theme is "Discord" sung by Tokyo Girls' Style.



I doubt whether I'll be listening to these tunes again, though the last one wasn't too bad.

Though these toons are on weekly, I don't really pay attention to them when they're on. Check one out and see for yourself:



I hope the next Happi Setto is Monster's University which I'll be viewing on Saturday!!

"I can't let T-ara go.

I won't let it go while there's a breath left in my body."
I'm burnt out from all the disaster-anniversary tributes so here are a few quotes about the K-pop group T-ara.

"Fiddle-dee-dee!"



"Do you mean to tell me that T-ara, that land doesn't mean anything to you? Why, land is the only thing in the world worth workin' for, worth fightin' for, worth dyin' for, because it's the only thing that lasts."



"I's the foreman. I's the one who says when its quittin' time at T-ara. Quittin' time!"



The only thing I'm afraid of is they won't hang you in time to pay the taxes on T-ara!



"I can't let him go. I can't. There must be some way to bring him back. Oh, I can't think about this now! I'll go crazy if I do! I'll think about it tomorrow. But I must think about it. I must think about it. What is there to do? What is there that matters? T-ara! Home. I'll go home. And I'll think of some way to get him back. After all... tomorrow is another day!"



(Bonus points if you can guess what movie these quotes are really from.)