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.