(Super) Typhoon  “Melor” ist auf dem Weg nach Japan. In 36 Stunden, am 8. Oktober morgens (Ortszeit) wird es wohl südlich von Nagoya einschlagen. Fast auf den Punkt genau dort, wo im September 1959 Taifun “Vera” die bisher schlimmsten Verwüstungen auf den japanischen Inseln der letzten Jahrzehnte angerichtet hatte.
Siehe noch immer meinen Film: “Der Weg der Taifune” (2008), der ausführlich von Vera (Isewan Taifun) berichtete.
Vorhersage JTWC hier

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Ano: 2006
Diretor: Kenichi Kasai
Estúdio: J.C.STAFF
País: Japão
Episódios: 36 (Duas temporadas)
Gênero: Drama / Romance
OVAS: 2 (Episódio L e F).
Têm live action?: Sim.

Honey And Clover a princípio é um Shoujo (Direcionado ao público feminino), mas desde o primeiro momento demonstra que é para todos os gostos. Se originou de um mangá, que recebeu diversos prêmios pela sua qualidade (entre eles, o Kodansha Award em 2003, um dos maiores prêmios que um mangaka – criador de mangá – pode esperar), e acabou recentemente. Em 2005, o estúdio J.C. Staff (Excel Saga, Azumanga Daioh) assumiu o projeto para produzir o anime – e o fez com perfeição. Entretanto, deixarei os comentários quanto a parte técnica para depois, e vou focar na história do anime nesse momento.

A história se passa em torno de cinco estudantes de uma faculdade de Artes no Japão. Mas não se enganem – não é uma comédia escolar. De fato, boa parte das cenas do anime ocorrem fora da escola, nos mais variados locais.
Os personagens principais são:

Yuuta Takemoto

Ainda jovem, acaba de ingressar para a faculdade ao início do anime. Mora junto com Morita e Mayama e compartilha com eles o sofrimento que é viver em uma república (embora morem em quartos separados, com contas separadas e etc, o apartamento é um cubículo e eles acabam sempre ficando juntos – mesmo quando não querem), sem privacidade e sem dinheiro pra fazer o que quer. No lado psicológico, é um garoto esforçado, mas sem muitas metas pro futuro. No decorrer do anime, todo este lado é desenvolvido, mostrando os dilemas que um jovem enfrenta quando não tem a menor idéia do que quer fazer na vida.

Shinobu Morita

Na minha opinião, o melhor personagem desenvolvido pra uma história. Já é estudante da faculdade há vários anos, e sempre acaba tendo algum problema na hora de entregar seu projeto de graduação. Isso faz com que ele demore muito mais do que se espera pra se formar. Tem um talento muito grande, mas acaba desperdiçando algumas oportunidades para fazer alguma outra coisa. Sempre preocupado com os amigos, é o personagem mais cômico da série, que faz o possível pra ajudar os outros sem mostrar que foi ele. Se ele precisar, faz papel de retardado pra acabar com alguma conversa desagradável ou uma discussão desnecessária. Sinceramente, não sei muito o que falar do Morita – Ele é O CARA. Sem dúvidas é o que protagoniza o maior número de cenas engraçadas, mas também tem função fundamental na história. Basicamente, é um personagem que eu procurava há muito tempo, e finalmente um anime me apresentou.

Ayumi Yamada & Takumi Mayama

É difícil falar de um sem falar do outro. É o primeiro caso de amor a ser mais desenvolvido no anime, e é o único que posso falar já que desde o início ficam claros os sentimentos que Yamada têm por Mayama. Entretanto, nem tudo é como ela gostaria…
Yamada é uma garota linda, cheia de pretendentes, mas que sempre corre atrás do Mayama. É divertida, talentosa, amiga, mas um pouco egoísta. É uma das primeiras pessoas a se aproximar da Hagu-Chan, e em certo ponto elas moram juntas. Rainha dos garotos da escola e de um velhinho que lhe dá aula, sempre tem o apoio deles. É uma personagem com momentos bem equilibrados que divergem da comédia ao drama que pode levar às lágrimas.
Mayama é o companheiro de Morita e Takemoto. É o cara inteligente, responsável e que faz a alegria da garotada quando recebe seu pagamento e leva comida pra casa. No decorrer da série é muito desenvolvido, sendo um dos que mais sofre mudanças. Acaba se tornando uma figura paterna pro pessoal, já que é o 1° deles a arrumar um trabalho estável. Constantemente, tem que aturar o Morita indo pro seu quarto, já que o pobre garoto não tem dinheiro pra pagar a conta de luz e tem que ir na casa dos outros pra jogar videogame e comer algo. Apesar de tudo, Mayama gosta dos garotos e sempre tenta ajudá-los.

Hagumi Hanamoto

É extremamente talentosa para a arte. Costumam chamá-la de gênio. Com isso, enfrenta a pressão que é inevitável quando você se destaca em alguma coisa. Com aparência de criança, em vários momentos age como uma. Não tem experiência com namoros, não sabe o que é o amor, e não costuma sair com outras pessoas. No início só se preocupa em pintar, mas acaba se aproximando de todos e sentimentos especiais surgem de e para ela.

Shuu e Rika

No passar da série, nos deparamos com Shuu, tio de Hagu-Chan e professor na Faculdade – Um personagem bem engraçado, sempre se preocupando com a garota, mas com um passado interessante e uma história comovente. Acaba sendo bem desenvolvido e, embora seja considerado secundário, aparece muito na série.

Temos também Rika, uma mulher com alguns mistérios e relacionada com o passado de Shuu. Ela tem um papel fundamental na série, mesmo não fazendo muitas aparições. Além deles, há os companheiros de trabalho de Mayama, que dão um toque muito engraçado em vários momentos (inclusive há um capítulo especial feito só com essa equipe de trabalho: F-”Eis aqui,o líder ligado nas últimas tendências da moda”-Especial Fujiwara Design Office).

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Basicamente, todos os personagens acabam se desenvolvendo, embora alguns não o façam tanto quanto é esperado (para continuar a história, foi feita uma segunda temporada, que passou em 2006, chamada Honey And Clover II, de 12 episódios). Honey and Clover I têm 24 episódios mais dois especiais, chapter F e L.

No aspecto técnico, Honey And Clover não deixa nada a desejar. Com uma arte impecável e traços extremamente expressivos, passa exatamente o que deseja em todos os momentos. Pode levar um fã dos risos às lágrimas em poucos segundos. O único defeito que há neste aspecto: Algumas vezes, os produtores perdem a noção quanto ao que é cômico e o que não é, e acabam colocando um traço engraçado em momentos nem um pouco felizes. Isso ocorre só no início da série, e a partir de uns 5 episódios já não há mais esse erro.

Quanto à trilha sonora, as músicas são perfeitas para os momentos perfeitos. A abertura é ótima, o encerramento é animado e as letras dão uma boa idéia do que será o anime. A trilha sonora propriamente dita é perfeita, me deixando sem palavras para descrevê-la. Mas o destaque são as Insert Songs: Músicas que tocam durante os episódios, geralmente tendo em torno de 3 minutos, e que tem letras que encaixam maravilhosamente bem nas situações.  Uma atenção especial é dada, e isso torna todos os momentos especiais, com músicas perfeitas pra te fazer lembrar disso.

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Também foi feito um filme Live Action (Com atores reais) que cobre a história da série, mas de modo bem resumido e com algumas mudanças.

Enfim… Eu não posso dizer outra coisa a não ser: Assistam!
É o primeiro anime em um bom tempo que eu vejo e que meche com os meus sentimentos de tal modo, que me faz pensar na vida e ver as coisas de um modo diferente. Com frases de impacto, que te fazem refletir por um bom tempo mesmo depois que a série acaba, e com momentos marcantes, seja de risos ou de lágrimas… Honey And Clover cumpre o seu papel de entreter perfeitamente e, além disso, coloca alguma coisa na cabeça dos jovens de hoje – Principalmente aqueles que acham que a vida é bela e tudo acontece do jeito que queremos, ou que tem pensamentos positivos de “no fim, tudo dá certo”. Honey And Clover mostra que não é bem assim. Nem todo esforço é recompensado.
Não é um anime que qualquer um consegue digerir, e são poucos os que assistem, devido ao preconceito que têm para Shoujos. Acreditem, animes não são apenas lutas, guerras e poderes especiais. Os personagens têm sentimentos, e apenas explorá-los pode tornar um simples anime em uma obra de arte.

Fontes: GamesBrasil e TokiDoki.

+ ein paar Wiederholungen am nächsten Tag. Details zum Film hier.

16. Oktober 2006, abernds, Dreharbeiten mit Axel Decker und Tobias Bechtloff für Path of the Typhoon / Der Weg des Taifuns im Hafen von Yokohama: die Stadt erwartet einen Taifun.

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Nr. 2 heißt Chan-Hom und bedroht die philippinische Nordinsel Luzon in den nächsten Tagen

Here is a translation that I made this evening from a Japanese Constructive Living website. The topic is a dark one that is a persistent problem in Japan: “bullying.”

Here is my translation:

Bullying

Bullying has occurred in every time period. So, it probably won’t go away from now, either. It is a problem not only for children, but for adults, as well. Solving this problem is not simple, but strengthening the family bond with one’s family is a necessary first step. The Spring/Autumn edition of the Nikkei newspaper talks about the connection between bullying, suicide, and mistreatment. One third of parents who were treated badly when they were children, mistreat their own children. Another one-third, mistreat their children as a way to deal with their jobs or their stress. When we put these figures together, we see that these two-thirds are going to inherit the world we now live in.

“Many paths lie before you.
Some paths highlight quiet sitting in peaceful surroundings.
Some paths highlight sharp action and danger.
Some paths are highly visible to others.
Some paths require many hours of isolation.
Your path is individually designed for you.
You discover it only by walking it.
Looking back, the twists and turns make some sense.
But perhaps not now.
Either is fine.”

David K. Reynolds
from Word Showers

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In his book Reality’s Reminders, Dr. David K. Reynolds reminds us, ” For all your hopes and dreams your life now is as it is. Reality responds to what you do and not to what you think or hope or dream. Actualizing involves action.” What this means to me is that goals become actualized through action. That is, Reality responds through your active participation. How often do we map out a plan and fail to enact it? Or, how is what we are doing right now moving us toward our goals, toward where we want to go?

As you read this blog, you could be doing any number of things, but you aren’t – you’re reading this blog. Is reading this blog moving you toward where you need to go in your life? If so, please, keep reading. If not, please get on with doing what you need to do. Too much excess information in your life may overwhelm you to the point of becoming more and more lost in a spiral of overloaded inactivity. You are where you are with help received from a multitude of people and through actions that you have undertaken and solidified. All of the movements and decisions, ever-renewing support and connectedness, have brought you to the reading of this article. Thank you for helping realize this article! Welcome.

Sometimes, doing what you need to do is not the same as doing what you have already done. That is, doing what you need to do may involve doing what you have never yet tried. Try doing something new and see the “you” change into a new “you.” A simple example may be, if you are confused about which restaurant to go to on a Friday night, step back and open your cupboards. Look at all of the food that you bought but have not yet eaten, food that you may end up throwing away because you failed to cook when you told yourself you were going to cook. Make something you have never made before. You were surrounded by food the whole time, but where was the “meal” before you cooked it?

Learn to see and understand your habits, your ways of doing things and thinking about things. For most of us, what we do is not all that we would do, but simply, what we can do, moment to moment. A repetitive job that doesn’t fit your imagined dream doesn’t leave much room for taking action during the day. Don’t waste the time that you do have to do something about your situation. Align yourself through action and active involvement in your situation and enact the goals that you have created. Thinking is important, but I can’t know what you are thinking unless you express them to me in some way that is intelligible to me. That expression is an action.

No matter what you do, Reality will respond. It can’t not respond. Sitting on the sofa watching TV may create more “TV watching” moments, as you find yourself caught up in the re-occurring warmth of familiar actions. But, ask yourself, “Is this moving me toward where I want to go? Is this the actualization that I want to actualize?”

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Do the now well.
The following is from David K. Reynolds’s book “Reflections on the Dhammaphada.”
You can read the entire text online here

Chapter 8

Words are gifts, too. Offer your best gifts to others. They are the giftwrap and the gift itself. Truthful gifts that provoke thought are especially valuable. Showy gifts reflect poorly on the giver and recipient. Flowery gifts waste everyone’s time.

You are gifted with life. Use it well. Even as you give yourself away you are merely passing along a gift. The quality of this life gift depends on how it is used. Put your life to good use by working on your debt to the givers of your life. The size of the gift is less important than the quality and the care with which it is put to use.

Chapter 9

Move straightforwardly toward your goals. Distractions are intruding goals. Distractions, like feelings, contain information and so should neither be discounted nor fixated upon.

When you make a mistake, when you do something that by your lights is wrong, immediately turn to your next purpose. What needs doing next? Correcting the mistake or righting the wrong may well be what needs doing next. Keep on doing what is right by your own standards. Thus you accumulate a history of doing right. Thus you develop an upright character.

Sometimes mistakes and evil deeds are rewarded and good deeds are punished. No one guarantees just results. Nevertheless, to flit with any breeze to attain your goals will leave you scattered and dissipated. Whatever the results you are responsible for your actions.

Bad associates don’t cause bad behavior. Bad upbringing doesn’t cause bad behavior. Race or economic conditions or social status or genetic makeup don’t cause bad behavior. You are responsible for what you do.

In the end death happens to us. In the end death happens.

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I have received permission and will be periodically posting excerpts from unpublished Constructive Living texts written by David K. Reynolds. Today’s piece is from the “Reflections” section of Reynolds’s book The Ears Have It.

The Ears Have It
David K. Reynolds

You cannot expect to understand the depths of these writings without help. Please don’t misunderstand; it is not my help that you need. It is the same help that inspired the production of these writings that will inspire your understanding of them. Understanding is acquired through donations of a mysterious benefactor. The benefactor goes by many names, none of which is, or even can be, descriptive. It is useless to try to stick gummed labels on air. Too many of us try to do so. Outlines and metaphors are equally futile. So just listen to the air, the space, the silent voice.

Listening is more important than speaking. Some people have the mistaken notion that they create reality with their thinking and speaking. Such ignorant arrogance is immediately exposed by an earthquake or flood or plane crash. Cancer cannot be vanquished by proper thoughts. But you can listen to cancer and what comes along with it. While utilizing proper medical arts learn from whatever comes to you. In order to learn you must listen.

When you know how to listen you won’t be fooled, not even by your listening itself. Proper listening doesn’t permit fooling or being fooled, although it allows becoming a fool. So sit quietly and listen. You may go to a corner of the room and corner yourself. Sometimes you will be “just listening.”

All creative authors practice listening some of the time. So do creative painters and musicians and others. Without listening nothing worthwhile emerges. The difficult part is to avoid imposing yourself on the listening. The trick is to get out of the way, to dissolve into the listening. Can you hear me?

More precisely, we cannot actively listen. Something listens us. Our work is to get out of that “something’s” way. So we cannot take credit for listening. Again, more precisely, we cannot even take credit for getting out of the way. Something gets us out of the way. We have to allow that activity to happen. More precisely, something allows us to allow that activity to happen. Can you see the infinite regress here? Happenings happen.

For a comprehensive list of all of David K. Reynolds’s unpublished books, please visit: Constructive Living.

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The following five fragments were inspired by Constructive Living author David K. Reynolds. Thank you for your attention. If these help you or you are interested in reading more CL material, please visit: Constructive Living.

I awake early in the morning, while the world
around me has already awoken. Birds. Insects. Commiting myself
to the task of writing at this early hour is not
easy, does not feel good, but something tells me
it must be done.

Getting out of bed for a short while, while the
coffee brews. I return to bed. This second drifting
is not the same as the first. Sometimes we struggle
to start our day. Making the bed takes effort. A wise
teacher taught me that, “We are always awaking to a situation.”

Waiting for emails to arrive from certain others
puts me in a state of inactivity. Pulling myself
away from the interface of the computer, I wash the
dishes and sweep the floor. The rhythm of the evening
changes. I am no longer waiting.

A rumbling stomach cannot be tamed by thinking about food.

Interacting through the Web, we find that we only know
other people by what and how they say things about their world.
A social networking profile made with care, tells
us about the other person. Through their actions, I have met them.
Thank you for teaching me about you.

The productivity of your day depends on you and the effort that you choose to exert as you move toward your goals. The time between when you wake up and when you sink into sleep is limited, is a finite experience. The effort that you exert today will change your life, whether that effort be getting lost in a television program or building a house; you are always in the process of building your life.

The things that we do today produce results whether we like it or not, the results come regardless. You, too, are a result of the efforts of others and the efforts that you, yourself, put forth in your daily life. The food that you eat today may not have been grown by you or was purchased with money that was given to you by performing some task in accordance with the support of others. The connectivity of ourselves to others is like a sticky web, a sticky web of social relations and dependency. The line between self and others is sometimes hard to define.

A conversation occurs between people or between the various voices that one manifests for oneself “in your head.” The voice of the other is influential as it is readily understood. While we hover the surface of a foreign tongue, hearing the peculiar tone or mash of sounds, it is quite difficult for us to turn voices heard in our native tongue into incomprehensible babble. In sharing a language, we share a way of being, a way of perceiving the world and a specific way of interacting with the world. While language seems to emerge naturally “out of us,” it is also one key to our interdependence, our reliance and intertwining with the others in our life. It might be important to take the time to thank those people that taught you what you know, even to thank the the books that you read in your studies. The author may not be present, but the words sink into you, become a part of you and you them as you bring them to life. It is a magical act.

When you wake up in the morning, it is good to get up. It may be time for you to get up, it may be time for you to do something, despite the comforting feeling of the bed. Balance is difficult. Sometimes the things in our life that are most important, are also the most difficult, but also, ultimately, the most rewarding. The productivity of your day depends on you and the effort that you choose to exert as you move toward your goals. It is the moving that is important.

El argumento de Honey & Clover (serie basada en el manga del mismo nombre) se centra en la vida de tres estudiantes universitarios, Takemoto, Morita y Mayama, que comparten piso, y que estudian en un campus en el que hay una facultad conjunta Bellas Artes y Arquitectura…

Takemoto en su segundo año de carrera, Morita, un repetidor compulsivo en su séptimo año y a punto de ser expulsado, y Mayama a punto de graduarse.

En torno a estos tres personajes irán surgiendo muchos otros, compañeros de clase, de trabajo, profesores… y veremos cómo todos ellos se enfrentan a las dificultades de la vida universitaria, cómo reacción ante los sentimientos de los demás y cómo maduran, cada uno a su manera, viviendo la vida cómo mejor saben hacer.

En resumen, vemos cómo intentan encontrar respuesta a esas preguntas que todos nos hacemos: ¿Qué quiero hacer? y ¿Quién quiero ser?

Fuente: isladelosmontruos.blogspot.com

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