1リットルの涙 (one liter of tears)

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1リットルの涙 is a Japanese drama from 2005 in 11 episodes. It is based on the diaries of Aya Kito who was diagnosed with a spinocerebellar degeneration decease at age fifteen and fight against the decease until her death at 25 years old.



Aya Ikeuchi is a brilliant student and play basketball for her high school team. One the day of her exam she meets Haruto Asō who helps her to get to school. They end up being in the same class but Aya starts to have problems with dropping things and falling down regularly alarming her mother. After a visit to the hospital, Aya is diagnosed with spinocerebellar decease. The nerves in her body are paralyzing one after the other making her loose control. Soon she has to quit stop the activity she is used to as walking, writing and even talking becomes more and more difficult. As everybody turn slowly away from her due to her condition, Asō stay by her side despite his father disapproval.

This drama really wear its tittle perfectly because it really made me cry.  This decease is really terrible because it takes everything away really slowly and the patient has time to see it coming. Even 23 years after Aya's death, there are still no cure for this decease.

Casting :
澤尻繪裏香 as Aya Ikeuchi
錦戸亮 as Haruto Aso
成海璃子 as Aya's sister
>薬師丸 as Aya's mother

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Pieces of my heart

I know I haven't been posting much lately, I could give reasons but the true sad fact is, I have been procrastinating on writing my daily blog post.
However I haven't been procrastinating on this other project. Normally I would give the explanation and then let you discover the video but this time I think you should enjoy it first.



This is my very first animation movie. It is called "Pieces of my heart" because I wanted to make a puzzle for someone to built up and this is the first part of it. I'm not sure about the complete story, I'm not sure how many pieces there will be, I don't know the ending. I just hope people smile when watching it.

It didn't turn out completely as expected but I'm still pretty happy with it. It took me a month from conception of the story board to final touch.

I did all the drawing on ms paint, creating the backgrounds from a picture, and the characters and putting the pieces together was done with photoshop. The video editing was done with windows movie maker.
I'm also the one playing the piano terribly during the movie.
The introduction and conclusion music is from The "Letter song" by Hatsune Miku.

Creating the characters involved a study of movement and I know I still have some work to do about it to make it more natural. I also spotted some other mistakes that I will be taking care of in the next animation more carefully.

Screening of "Tilaï"

En français

On Saturday 5th, before the start of the 22nd Panafrican Film and Television Festival of Ouagadougou, was organized in JICA (Japanese International Cooperation Agency) in Tokyo the screening of "Tilaï" a film from Burkina Faso. I went there with some friends including one frocm Burkina Faso who introduced us to the ambassador of his country.
"Tilaï" (the law) is the story of a forbidden love between a man and a woman belonging to someone else. It shows the relationship within an African family, the love and the proud. This film received the jury price in the Cannes festival in 1990.
We also good try some juice from Burkina Faso before a series of question about the experience some people had in Burkina Faso.

Hibiscus juice called Bissap.

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エンジェルビーツ (Angel beats)

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エンジェルビーツ is an anime series in 13 episodes directed by Seiji Kishi which appeared between November 2009 and May 2010.

After his death, Otonashi arrives in a high school for young souls who refused their death. The students are divided in two categories, the NPC some computer programmed students who are here to show people how to behave and are followed by the normal students and the Afterlife battle front and of course Angel. When people behave correctly forgetting their past life, they disappear to be reborn. The Afterlife battle front is fighting against the system as they cherish their past life no matter how hard it was because it was real. Their main enemy is Angel. But things are not that simple as Otonashi figures out another wait to be erased from this world and God is still nowhere to be seen.



I think this anime is really great. I like the how the story link all the characters together in the afterlife and give details to their past life. I also enjoy the war between Yuri and Angel, the research of God
and the desire of revenge present in most characters, especially Yuri. My favorite secondary characters are Hinata, Naoi and Yui probably due to the way they are interacting with each other.
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