NaNoWriMo 2011: Detective story part 4

It's almost the end... of NaNoWriMo, I just have about 5 days left to reach the 50000 words and win at the same time. I reached the 40000 words threshold last night and took some advance to be sure to finish on time while still going camping tomorrow and thus have a little break from writing.
For some reasons I can't explain a lot of his story didn't turn out quite exactly as planed. My characters suddenly decided to be unpredictable. I have a lot of trouble of knowing what's happening in Seiji's head and why he is acting so... hum... well I guess I better let you discover what I mean.
It seemed that she is going to trust him when he seems pretty untruthful to me, what is going on in this novel is a complete mystery. I feel like I don't know Seiji at all which is kind of disturbing but probably better for what is coming next. Enjoy !!
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NaNoWriMo 2011: Detective story part 1
NaNoWriMo 2011: Detective story part 2
NaNoWriMo 2011: Detective story part 3

NaNoWriMo 2011: Detective story part 3

It's Friday again !!! And time for 探偵小説！！ I did it, I did it, I said it in Japanese.
Anyway...
I didn't write much on the blog this week and to help you forgive me about it, today's blog is a vlog.
I'm on time with NaNoWriMo and I took the time to go hunting my characters. Generally my previous stores always took place in place belonging to my imagination, as you have seen in "Demon and Fairy" or Attic Mirror... oh you thought I really had been to the fairy world or Teneria... hum... sorry but no, they are just inside of my head... (Open a geography book, also.)
But this time as my novel doesn't requires magic or weird places or vampires, it really takes place in Tokyo and well Tokyo is a real place. So I wanted to show you the place where I found the main ideas for this detective story. I went back there and I hope you'll enjoy the "Walk in Harajuku".
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And I'm right on time with my word count !!



NaNoWriMo 2011: Detective story part 1
NaNoWriMo 2011: Detective story part 2

名探偵コナン- 工藤新一の復活！~黒の組織との対決 (Detective conan live action special 2)

En français

名探偵コナン- 工藤新一の復活！~黒の組織との対決 is the second live action special movie from the serie "名探偵コナン"  also called "Kudo Shinichi Returns! Showdown with the Black Organization".
In this episode, Conan was invited to the awards ceremony of "miss Japanesque" but miss Japanesque is murdered and Conan is transformed back to Shinichi when eating a cake. He has to solve the murder case and to protect Miyano who went also back to normal from the Black Organization.
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Casting : 

小栗 旬 as Kudo Shinichi (花より男子 returns, 花より男子 season 1, クローズZERO (Crows Zero), 名探偵コナン- 工藤新一への挑戦状)
黒川智花 as Mori Ran
陣内孝則 as Mori Kogoro (1リットルの涙 )
岩佐真悠子  as Suzuki Sonoko
香椎由宇 as Miyano Shiho

One day adventure series : 高尾山

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Here is the start of a new series of vlog posts called : "One day adventure".
Today I went to 高尾山　with my friends and 뻬루wanted to join too. I was a bit worried about the weather because it had been raining all day yesterday. Hopefully we were really lucky.
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NaNoWriMo 2011: Detective story part 2

It's Friday again and time to enter the second part of the detective story. I still don't have a title for it and it's starting  to annoy me a little cause I can't even tell the name of it when talking about it. I just call it the detective story. Or at the moment more something like 探探... 探偵小... 小小... 小せ...探偵小説 it's gonna kill me if I remember it to say it all at once.
Anyway back to topic. In this part it's getting a little bit funnier, probably, actually I'm not really sure if talking about a murder can be funny. I wish my character is a bit funny, more funny than crazy.
In the first place I really intended to kill Kaji and to leave him that, dead. The problem is that I can't really do that. I mean Kaji is a cool guy, right, you probably like him to, right? Why the hell did he had to die? Couldn't I just keep him kidnapped and Seiji would have find him and everybody would have lived happy ever after ?
Well sorry, I don't have a resurrection potion yet so, he is really dead. And it's not a vampire story so nobody bite him before he got shot or anything. But, I have flashback, cause before being dead he was alive. So here I'm letting you with the flashback magic. Plus I promise you'll like Seiji more than Kaji, if you ever come to meet him again.
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NaNoWriMo 2011: Detective story part 1

名探偵コナン- 工藤新一への挑戦状 (Detective conan live action special 1)

En français

名探偵コナン- 工藤新一への挑戦状 is the first live action special movie from the serie "名探偵コナン".
 also called Kudo Shinichi's Written Challenge. This live action special has been released in 2006 to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the manga of the same name created by 青山 剛昌. It put into action the detective Kudo Shinichi before his accident. In this movie, he received a written challenge. The criminal is abducting people and wants Conan to stop him.
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Casting : 

小栗 旬 as Kudo Shinichi (花より男子 returns, 花より男子 season 1, クローズZERO (Crows Zero))
黒川智花 as Mori Ran
陣内孝則 as Mori Kogoro (1リットルの涙 )
岩佐真悠子  as Suzuki Sonoko
西村雅彦 as Inspector Megure

ボス (boss) season 2

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ボス (season 2) is a Japanese drama in 11 episodes from 2011. See first season's post here. After the shooting in the end of the first season, the special team of Osawa Eriko is dismissed and she goes back for two years in the US. The second season starts when she is called back again and the team recreated two years later. The goal is to solves special mysteries but also to catch up with the past.
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Casting :


天海祐希 as Osawa Eriko
竹野内豊 as Nodate Shinjiro
玉山鉄二 as Katagiri Takuma
戸田恵梨香 as Kimoto Mami
溝端淳平 as Hanagata Ippei
吉瀬美智子 as Narahashi Reiko
ケンドーコバヤシ as Iwai Zenji
温水洋一 as Yamamura Keisuke
塩見三省 as Onoda Tadashi

Japan : お台場のよさこいお祭り

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On Saturday 5th I went with my friends to see the よさこいお祭り　(Yosakoi festival) in お台場。This wasn't my first よさこい。I already saw one in 調布、last summer (調布のよさこいお祭り).  The dance festival is always very entertaining. Here is the new video of that day.
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Japan : 江戸東京たてもの園: 東ゾーン

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The 東ゾーン of the architecture park was the most interesting part for me (西ゾーン and センターゾーン). It contains a complete street. We first saw a traditional police box, then a city model train, before entering 下町-中　Shitamachi-naka street. The street seems to belong to another time just because it actually does. There is a kitchenware store, the 植村邸 (house of Uemura), a stationary store and Flower shop 花一, a grocery store, an oil paper umbrella wholesale store showing the fabrication process of the paper umbrella (more on this later), an inn, a soy sauce shop and a traditional public bath house 子宝湯 with a bar and a tailor shop. The 子宝湯 was the model for the Miyazika animation 千と千尋の神隠し's bath palace. 
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NaNoWriMo 2011: Detective story part 1

NaNoWriMo started few days ago and I'm really excited about my new story. It seems incredibly easy to write so far, especially because it's the beginning and I didn't reach yet the part where my lack of planning is going to give me a huge headache. I really like my main character. She is totally unable to focus on the thought at hand and on the task she wants to concentrate one and she is confused by a multitude of contradictory feelings. I made her react in such a way for several reasons. First having a character's thoughts jumping for one topic to another before coming back to the really story is practical to build up the suspense. It also make is easy to hide little details that will have their importance in the rest of the story later. Another aspect of the chaotic mind is that it define the way girls think. For a biological point of view the girl brain is linked from left to right which means that it's really easy for girl to use simultaneously their emotional and logical ability. If my character was only concentrating on fact without taking into account her conflicting emotion I would loose a part of the plot complexity. An other this is the psychological effect of what is happening in her life and how she has to move the other element around. The small flash back are one of the main pattern of deep thinking, "I know this because when I was a kid... " This kind of plot telling has been used extensively in "Slumdog millionaire" when the character has to explain how he figured out the answers to every questions in the game. It makes the story more fascinating as it allow a deeper understanding of the character's past and personality.

Anyway, I hope you'll enjoy reading this first part as much as I enjoyed writing it.
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And check the word count, it's going really well.

Japan : 江戸東京たてもの園: センターゾーン

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Today I will present the center zone of the architectural park 江戸東京たてもの園 details about the west zone can be found here. The center zone is the smallest zone in the sense that it doesn't contain so many building but it contains a garden and Musashino spring-fed pond. The architectural discovery contains :
旧自証院霊屋 (the Mausoleum of lady Jisho-in), Lady Jisho-in was one of the 3rd Tokugawa shogun Iemitsu's concubines, the mausoleum was constructed by her daughter, Princess Chiyo, wife of the Owari Lord, Mitsutomo Tokugawa in 1652. This mausoleum was discovered by Professor 藤岡通夫 (Michio Fujioka) in 1937.
The house of the viscount 高橋 是清 (Korekiyo Takahashi), he was the prime minister during the 二・二六事件 in 1936 and was assassinated during this snow days in the largest bedroom on the second floor. His politics was successful at that time but his measure to decrease the budget of the army had let to making enemies within the rebells military officers.
The 西川家別邸　（second house of the Nishikawa Familly)　was built in 1922 in Akishima. Nishikawa was entrepreneur in silk industry.
The 伊達家の門 (gate of the Date Family Residence).
And the 会水庵 (Tea Arbor "Kaisuian") the tea room was built around the Taisho period as the residence of King Jong Yamagishi tea masters.
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NaNoWriMo 2011

It's November again, which means it's time for writing, writing and even more writing. I know I'm already in possession of two brilliant but unfinished novel and that starting a third one doesn't sound so much like a brilliant idea but seriously what would be November without a NaNo.
Plus I'll finish the other some day, I'm really confident about it.
So what is my NaNoWriMo all about this year ?
A detective story. With brand new characters, no magic and no vampire.
Which means that the famous rule "When you don't know what to write put a vampire" can't really save my word count this year. But I really wanted to try something new, maybe get my character a bit more human and able to solve problems without the rescue of magic tricks. Even investigating magic tricks as seriously as I usually do, they are still magic tricks and this time I'll be investigating evidence and human psychology.
Therefore I spend the last months reading books about human psychology especially to cover up the topic of relationship, self esteem, procrastination, passion and depression as my main character is  a little bit of a whiny in the first place. And I have been watching a lot of Japanese detective story drama, as you have probably noticed in the cinema section lately (more coming soon).
I think I'm well armed not to rely too much on Viorel this year, hopefully cause he is still mad at me for not finishing his story yet.


And as you can see my word count is right on track!