J-Pop/K-Pop Recommendation #2-TVXQ

Hello, and welcome to J-pop/K-pop Recommendation #2! For the past few days I've been going back and listening to all of the old J-pop and K-pop songs that I used to bust out into dance too (well, those of which I remember). And while searching YouTube, I came across the long forgotten TVXQ-Catch Me music video. Of course I did some intense freaking out because of the fact that I've completely pushed it's existence out of my brain. After that rediscovery, you could say that their songs have been on repeat and blasted for a good 2 days straight. Speaking of which, I would like to take a quick second and apologize to my family for torturing their ear drums with my extreme failure to belt out Changmin's super high scream of coolness. I love you guys, and sorry for filling the house with unintended, torturous-sounding whale screams!

Anyways, TVXQ first debuted in December 26, 2003 and at the time, included  the members Jaejoong, Yoochun, Junsu, Yunho, and Changmin. But due to a controversy that involved SM Entertainment's long term contracts, Jaejoong, Yoochun, and Junsu are now no longer involved with TVXQ.

But during the time when all 5 of the original members where still present, they produced two of my favorite songs Mirotic and Balloons. Now, I listened to Mirotic first and my first thoughts were "Sirs, your immense showing of skin is highly distracting...(not that it's a bad thing)". But it had a very serious and tough tone to it. So when I stumbled upon Balloons, I was shocked at the laid back aura and I almost passed out from a fangirl overload due to their cosplay. Despite my shock, it very quickly made it to my list of "feel good" K-pop songs.

Now adays, it's existing members are Changmin and Yunho. Even though it's just the two of them, they are still going strong and their songs Catch Me and Humanoids definitely shouldn't be overlooked.

TVXQ is definitely a group worth listening too and really hold an important place in K-pop history. Plus, did I mention that they have the biggest fan club in the world? That's gotta say something.

 

Songs

 

TVXQ-Mirotic

 

TVXQ-Balloons

 

 

TVXQ-Catch Me (Coolest dance ever!)

 

TVXQ-Humanoids

 

Plus, check out the teaser to their new song TVXQ-Something

 

Merry Christmas!

I hope all of you guys have an awesome holiday and enjoy spending time with your friends and family!

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Best Comeback Ever!: Dragonball Z Battle of the Gods

Now before I get into talking about the movie, let's take a moment of silence to thank Toei Animations (animators of my favorite series Sailor Moon and Chrono Trigger) for continuing to animate the Dragonball series, and let me say this, it was one of the best animations I've seen in a while. But I'll get more into that later.

Name: Dragonball Z:Battle of the Gods
Release Date: March 30, 2013
Language: Japanese
English Subs? Unfortunately, not yet

Summary
After a long slumber, God of Destruction, Birus (or Bills) is awakened by his trainer Uis (or Wis) and is told that Freeza was defeated by a Saiyan. Shocked, Birus tells Uis about a dream he had about a Super Saiyan God and Uis informs Birus of Goku and his past. Soon after, they make their way to Kaio-sama's planet and challenges Goku. After discovering the Goku is not Super Saiyan God, they make their way to Earth in order to find some hint of the alleged being.

My Thoughts
Oh. My. Gosh. Epic. This has to be one of the coolest comebacks in the history of comebacks (and not just because their making a new series due to the awesome response to the movie release). They really threw everything out in this movie.

Some of the highlights that I liked about the plot was that they had virtually every character shown at least twice, not including villains. Even Pilaf, Mai, and Shu were shown, and they had a pretty important roll! And the fight scenes were very noteworthy. They were just packed with so much action and humor. And speaking of humor, I don't think I laughed so hard in so long. Fair warning, I have never in my life seen Vegeta and Shenlong act the way they did.

The graphics were actually very good. To be honest, I was never a fan of when the animation switched from 2D to 3D and back to 2D, it just never flowed and looked pretty weird to me (like in Lil Pri). But I was extremely pleased with how they combined the 2D and 3D scenes. It flowed together and didn't look choppy and awkward too look at.

Finally, the soundtrack was far from boring. It stayed true to the original Dragonball Z series, and still held onto the original opening song"Cha-La-Head-Cha-La" by Flow. The fact that they kept the song, made me do almost literal flips off the couch. Yes, I was super happy about that.

Overall, I loved this movie. It was funny, action packed, epic, and basically everything that the Dragonball series already was. Awesome. Do I recommend it? Absolutely. It's a must see for any die hard Dragonball fan or just any fan in general.

Rating
10/10