wow...para-para dance looks interesting..... :dancing: :dancing:
Gal Circle
Started by qilver · 18 Apr 2006 · 404 replies
Drama Discussion
Orion wrote:wow...para-para dance looks interesting..... :dancing: :dancing:
Wow, I totally never even heard of it before this show. :headscratch:
Me neither. Just by looking at the picture I'm having Achy Breaky Heart flashback. :hehe: :bonk:
MissMonika wrote:
Wow, I totally never even heard of it before this show. :headscratch:
i saw kimura takuya do it on a ep of SMAPxSMAP a few years ago...it was beyond gay....
wasnt it on one of those tokyo discovery shows you uploaded for us?
or was that just the hand waving... i dont remember.. :headscratch:
or was that just the hand waving... i dont remember.. :headscratch:
tabana wrote:Me neither. Just by looking at the picture I'm having Achy Breaky Heart flashback. :hehe: :bonk:
lol, or the Macarena dance... :bonk:
:hehe: that's right. That one too. :sweat:
Tu_triky wrote:
i saw kimura takuya do it on a ep of SMAPxSMAP a few years ago...it was beyond gay....
are you talking about this?? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0NxiKiL_AE
...because that is scary and disturbing. :bleh:
krim wrote:wasnt it on one of those tokyo discovery shows you uploaded for us?
or was that just the hand waving... i dont remember.. :headscratch:
LOL..."hand waving".... :lol:
you are quite right...it's on one of those tokyo documentaries.
look at this little SOB below...he's doing para para as well
:wave:
Tu_triky wrote:
LOL..."hand waving".... :lol:
you are quite right...it's on one of those tokyo documentaries.
look at this little SOB below...he's doing para para as well
:wave:
i think these guys are too..
:dancing: :dancing: :dancing: :woot: :dancing:
well, except that one guy, he's out of sync.
MissMonika wrote:
are you talking about this?? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0NxiKiL_AE
...because that is scary and disturbing. :bleh:
i shudder that you prompted me to watch that again....hehe...yes, you're right M&M (MissMonika). dayem that shiet is wack....
krim wrote:
i think these guys are too..
:dancing: :dancing: :dancing: :woot: :dancing:
well, except that one guy, he's out of sync.
must be 4 girls and a guy.
Tu_triky wrote:
i shudder that you prompted me to watch that again....hehe...yes, you're right M&M (MissMonika). dayem that shiet is wack....
:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:
krim wrote:
:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:
com'on man...doing para para with disney characters and a couple of ganguro (dark-tanned girls)....homeboy lost a couple of cool points on that one....
yeah, but it was ridiculously retard.
krim wrote:yeah, but it was ridiculously retard.
you succinctly made my point, sir...i, mr. roboto, thanks you.... :hehe:
I only saw the beginning, where Kimura comes out of the wall.. he was just staring, expressionless doing the para para... lame.
krim wrote:I only saw the beginning, where Kimura comes out of the wall.. he was just staring, expressionless doing the para para... lame.
you spared yourself...good move.
wow, dropped to page 3...
going to add some screen caps :beatyou: :bonk:
ep3 was good, and view % was up to 16% too. :thumbsup:
going to add some screen caps :beatyou: :bonk:
ep3 was good, and view % was up to 16% too. :thumbsup:
after seeing another ep...i do agree this show is a bit ricockulous......
read this scathing review from The Daily Yomiuri newspaper:
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This small-screen potpourri of platitudes, stereotypes and strange silliness calls itself Galcir (Saturdays, 9 p.m., NTV network). Galcir is short for "gals' circle." When they are not "dancing," the members spend their time fighting, snacking, bullying each other via cell phone, and lounging on the floor of local stores. They don't shoplift stuff. They sit right there and use it in front of the owners, adults who feel powerless to stop them. As one of the shopkeepers says with a moan: "We've been taken over by aliens. In the good old days, this used to be an adults' town."
Yes, and in the good old days continuing series also had to exhibit a minimal level of believable idiocy before getting into prime time. As Galcir shows, anything goes nowadays, and there do not seem to be any adults in the TV industry to stop it.
I hesitate to say this--because whenever I do something even more abominable shows up on screen the next week--but Galcir earns a spot on my Top 5 list of all-time disgustingly ridiculous dramas. The producers prefer to call it "seishun [youth] comedy."
Oh yes, the storyline. There is one. Shinnosuke has come to Shibuya in search of a 17-year old girl called Imoko, whom Geronimo III wants to see before he dies. Back in Arizona, this modern-day Geronimo sits coughing in his tepee with darling little Momo, an 8-year-old in buckskins, by his side. When she addresses him in English, he admonishes her to speak Japanese. What strange never-never land do they all inhabit?
Well, the Japanese cowboy lived in Tokyo until he was 7 and then somehow turned up in the Arizona desert where he has learned to lasso, cook out, sleep in a tepee, hang glide and dig holes to trap both food and para-para dancers, but he has not had time to master either language.
The opening scene has him being dropped out of what appears to be an old U.S. military plane. He hang glides over the metropolis until he hits Shibuya and sets up camp in a park where the local bicycle cop tries to evict him. His green hang glider comes in handy later. When one of the Angel Heart girls burns down the tepee, he just cuts up the glider, weaves it into a hammock and installs it in the apartment of the kind-hearted cop, who wakes to find meat cooking over an open fire in his six-mat home. The cop desperately puts out the fire by squirting it with ketchup. Voila! We have grilled meat with barbecue sauce.
If this were all just designed to be pure silliness, it might be labeled camp. What is truly annoying is the scriptwriter's attempt to write in little parables for viewers.
Shinnosuke asks the cop: "Do you want to protect people or rules?" The policeman ponders. Voila again--an awakening.
The para-para girls carry out a concerted "drop dead" ijime bullying campaign by cell phone, driving one girl to contemplate suicide on a high rooftop. (Bullying cell phones...is there any role those little rectangular, multitalented characters, can't play?)
When one of the perpetrators accidentally topples off the building instead of the intended victim, Shinnosuke lassos her in the nick of time but lets her dangle six stories up until she learns what "drop dead" feels like. Just when you think the whole thing could get no sillier, little Momo herself hang glides in from Arizona.
No stars for this one but you will feel like you are punch-drunk and seeing stars if you try to sit through an entire episode of Galcir. I certainly did.
http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/features/arts/20060420TDY19001.htm
read this scathing review from The Daily Yomiuri newspaper:
=============================================
This small-screen potpourri of platitudes, stereotypes and strange silliness calls itself Galcir (Saturdays, 9 p.m., NTV network). Galcir is short for "gals' circle." When they are not "dancing," the members spend their time fighting, snacking, bullying each other via cell phone, and lounging on the floor of local stores. They don't shoplift stuff. They sit right there and use it in front of the owners, adults who feel powerless to stop them. As one of the shopkeepers says with a moan: "We've been taken over by aliens. In the good old days, this used to be an adults' town."
Yes, and in the good old days continuing series also had to exhibit a minimal level of believable idiocy before getting into prime time. As Galcir shows, anything goes nowadays, and there do not seem to be any adults in the TV industry to stop it.
I hesitate to say this--because whenever I do something even more abominable shows up on screen the next week--but Galcir earns a spot on my Top 5 list of all-time disgustingly ridiculous dramas. The producers prefer to call it "seishun [youth] comedy."
Oh yes, the storyline. There is one. Shinnosuke has come to Shibuya in search of a 17-year old girl called Imoko, whom Geronimo III wants to see before he dies. Back in Arizona, this modern-day Geronimo sits coughing in his tepee with darling little Momo, an 8-year-old in buckskins, by his side. When she addresses him in English, he admonishes her to speak Japanese. What strange never-never land do they all inhabit?
Well, the Japanese cowboy lived in Tokyo until he was 7 and then somehow turned up in the Arizona desert where he has learned to lasso, cook out, sleep in a tepee, hang glide and dig holes to trap both food and para-para dancers, but he has not had time to master either language.
The opening scene has him being dropped out of what appears to be an old U.S. military plane. He hang glides over the metropolis until he hits Shibuya and sets up camp in a park where the local bicycle cop tries to evict him. His green hang glider comes in handy later. When one of the Angel Heart girls burns down the tepee, he just cuts up the glider, weaves it into a hammock and installs it in the apartment of the kind-hearted cop, who wakes to find meat cooking over an open fire in his six-mat home. The cop desperately puts out the fire by squirting it with ketchup. Voila! We have grilled meat with barbecue sauce.
If this were all just designed to be pure silliness, it might be labeled camp. What is truly annoying is the scriptwriter's attempt to write in little parables for viewers.
Shinnosuke asks the cop: "Do you want to protect people or rules?" The policeman ponders. Voila again--an awakening.
The para-para girls carry out a concerted "drop dead" ijime bullying campaign by cell phone, driving one girl to contemplate suicide on a high rooftop. (Bullying cell phones...is there any role those little rectangular, multitalented characters, can't play?)
When one of the perpetrators accidentally topples off the building instead of the intended victim, Shinnosuke lassos her in the nick of time but lets her dangle six stories up until she learns what "drop dead" feels like. Just when you think the whole thing could get no sillier, little Momo herself hang glides in from Arizona.
No stars for this one but you will feel like you are punch-drunk and seeing stars if you try to sit through an entire episode of Galcir. I certainly did.
http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/features/arts/20060420TDY19001.htm
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