Yuri Minamide
@yuriminamide.bsky.social
London-based Japanese writer and translator
👹 👘 🍵 The Yōkai-Themed Play ‘The Runaway Effect’ "...I was deeply impressed by this thoughtful curation, the kind of cultural bridge that perhaps only UK-based Asian performers could build so masterfully..." #theatre #review @yuriminamide.bsky.social 🎭 medium.com/found-worlds...
⚠️ 🌊 🏚️ When a Major Earthquake Struck the Japanese Manga Industry 山本航暉 (Kazuki Yamamoto) describes: “The Most Difficult Moment in My Life as a #Manga #Artist ... here is the part of the 2011 disaster that rarely reaches overseas readers: the blackouts..." 🔦 medium.com/found-worlds...
When a Major Earthquake Struck the Japanese Manga Industry
“The Most Difficult Moment ” in My Life as a Manga Artist
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#RemyReviews 'My Man Godfrey' (1936) • 90 years old today! "...will certainly appeal to fans of P.G Wodehouse’s & anyone who enjoys a top-hole classic screwball #comedy. But I don’t think its appeal is limited to nostalgia." my #movie #review @framerated.co.uk 🎬 medium.com/framerated/m...
🥐 🫖 🍔 Everybody Loves #Japan 🫶 A Global Rom-Com of Joy & Confusion @yuriminamide.bsky.social takes a lighthearted look at the West’s chaotic crush on a country that just wants some personal space 🍣 medium.com/found-worlds...
Everybody Loves Japan: A Global Rom-Com of Joy and Confusion
A lighthearted look at the West’s chaotic crush on a country that just wants some personal space
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"Though I Am an Inept Villainess" is a thrilling body-swap fantasy about a frail lady who wakes up in her rival's body. While it started as a popular light novel, you can also dive into its story through its highly praised manga and anime adaptations, both available in English. youtu.be/TrQMb34An1w
Though I Am an Inept Villainess | Official English Dub Trailer
YouTube video by TOHO animation チャンネル
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🍱 🍜 🧁 Shōgi’s “Battle Meals” - How #Japanese Chess Grandmasters Eat to Win & fans are thrilled to witness their mind-games on a plate @yuriminamide.bsky.social guides us through champion-level snacking that's as much a spectator sport as the game-play 🐥 medium.com/found-worlds... #anime #Shōgi
世界最後の音楽隊 / The Last March on Earth / The Final Band #初音ミク x Natsuyama Yotsugi x どーぱみん 🩵 excellent addition to the #HatsuneMiku #music list & cool MV showing process as it builds to its #anime finale... 🎶 youtu.be/jPusGk7HSLw?... #JPop #vocaloid #CV01
世界最後の音楽隊 / 初音ミク
YouTube video by 夏山よつぎ
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Haha! This piece is certainly catchy, and interestingly it does not feel offensive...
Lady Iris@ladyiris5.bsky.social · last wk.#MusicChallenge #MusicSky #52WeeksOfFavourites (35/52) 🎶🎖️ Number 1 Hits 🎖️🎶 #1 hit in Australia 🇦🇺 #BreakingKindSongs Day 30: By an artist or band you have seen or want to see in concert Saw them at a smaller venue. Great show! The Vapors - Turning Japanese
Notting Hill Carnival's bank holiday weekend is under way as it marks its 60th anniversary, with the streets of west London coming alive with #music, costumes & Caribbean culture. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Notting Hill Carnival 2026: Everything you need to know
Europe's largest street carnival takes place on 29, 30 and 31 August, with millions expected to attend.
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new upbeat song & MV from house of #バンドリ！ ゆめ∞みた | (Mugendai) MewType | YUME∞MITA * 💥 「夢はトゥルーエンド！」 🛸 'My Dream Leads to the True End' 🎶 youtu.be/3m6JMKsF2x8?... #JPop #anime #music * #BangDream! naming conventions still confuse me
【Official Music Video】みゅーたいぷ「夢はトゥルーエンド！」
YouTube video by バンドリちゃんねる☆
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🍎 🎨 🖌️ 'Beauty of Creation' ponders a rare, pensive painting that holds permanence & transience together, making it Cézanne's most singular female #portrait 💛 medium.com/signifier/c%... #painting #art #ArtHistory
🗺️ 🧳 🍞 "I set out for #Burgos hauling my backpack ... carrying an open sense of wonder: a feeling that maybe I was supposed to find something here, or that something was supposed to find me..." 'The Horizon Owes Me Nothing' by Abigail Carlysle ☕ medium.com/found-worlds... #Spain #travel #eclipse
The Horizon Owes Me Nothing
On following breadcrumbs, missing the signs, and finding something else altogether.
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it's a theme - #anime #VTuber #JPop - YouTube Music Weekend 12.0 - www.youtube.com/playlist?lis... even Kuromi's getting in on the action 💀 (of course, there's no holding her back!) #Sanrio #live Zepp TOUR 2026「KUROMI IN MY HEAD」 🎶 youtu.be/q0r0YG3eAeY
KUROMI_Zepp TOUR 2026「KUROMI IN MY HEAD」東京公演より_YouTube Music Weekend 12.0
YouTube video by KUROMI_TF
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✍️ 🎭 ⚔️ 'Cyrano de Bergerac, a Literary Oddity?' "the working class appreciated Cyrano’s rebellious, impertinent, libertarian spirit & willingness to stand up to those in power" Samuel Belleville-Douelle on why a powerful French play shook up society & still resonates: 👃 medium.com/signifier/cy...
wonderfully passionate English-language cover from the ever-dependable Ren #rokubairenka #六百恋歌 🎶 theme from #Frieren Beyond Journey's End: ▶️ youtu.be/49yUGGr_Fkk?... + original song & MV by milet「The Story of Us」 アニメ『葬送のフリーレン』第２期エンディングテーマ ⬇️ youtu.be/_1NbGbYG4qg?... #frieren #milet_TheStoryofUs
milet「The Story of Us」MUSIC VIDEO (TVアニメ『葬送のフリーレン』第２期エンディングテーマ)
YouTube video by milet Official YouTube Channel
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👁️🗨️ ✍️ 🎥 #artist 山本航暉 (Kazuki Yamamoto) reveals how how a #manga actually gets picked for an #anime or a live-action series. In the industry, there are three routes... & the author is often the last person told: 🎞️ medium.com/found-worlds... #Japan #illustration #イラスト
3 Ways a Manga Becomes an Anime (and Why the Author Is the Last to Know)
From inside the industry: how the decision actually gets made, and why the creator barely gets a vote.
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'The Samurai & the Prisoner' (黒牢城, 2026) looks a sumptuous historical murder mystery epic written & directed by Kiyoshi Kurosawa - very excited about this. ⚔️ youtu.be/dY5kXykdbLo?...
THE SAMURAI AND THE PRISONER - Official Trailer
YouTube video by JANUS
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🗺️ ✈️ 📍 Why Do Many #Japanese Have Little Interest in Foreign Countries - Is it down to the weak yen or shyness? Neither is the real answer... @yuriminamide.bsky.social reveals a clear reason that most people overlook: 🗾 medium.com/found-worlds... #travel
A Hidden Reason Many Japanese Have Little Interest in Foreign Countries
Is it down to the weak yen or shyness? Neither is the real answer
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☀️ 🦓 🐃 Kartikeya Jauhari spent 24 hours in the bush in Masai Mara…& came back a different person. "Such are the moments we live for... & the stories behind those moments... a herd of animals suddenly reacting to something unseen... may have a story we don’t know of..." 🦁 medium.com/found-worlds...
I spent 24 hours in the bush in Masai Mara…
...and came back a different person
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🐮 🪣 🐄 'A Monument Named Milk…' "Maidolla elämisen alku", a symbolic artwork located in Rovaniemi, Finland, translates into "the beginning of life with milk" & also highlights the role of dairy farming in the Lapland region... by Vickey Maverick 🥛 medium.com/found-worlds...
A Monument Named Milk…
Maidolla elämisen alku, a symbolic artwork located in Rovaniemi, Finland, translates into the beginning of life with milk in English.
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higher railings & more trees but some of the details are unchanged... Adam Scovell photographs #London now to match locations with frames from Hitchcock's movies filmed on the same spot back then... 🌇 www.bfi.org.uk/features/alf... #cinema #history #movies
A tour of Alfred Hitchcock’s London: how the locations look today
Born on this day 127 years ago, Alfred Hitchcock was a Londoner who kept returning to the city as a location for many of his thrillers. We went in search of the exact spots where he placed his cameras...
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🧊 😶🌫️ 🏊 7 incredible things about Norway’s Arctic Capital that sound made up... Krupesh Raikar visits Tromsø & experiences the sublime wonder of the Northern Lights before a Viking-style plunge in the freezing Arctic Sea 🥶 ❄️ medium.com/found-worlds... #travel #Norway
7 Incredible Things About Norway’s Arctic Capital That Sound Made Up
Tromsø showed me a side of the Viking country that felt completely unreal
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📐 🧱 ⚒️ "Imagine what the pyramids would have looked like ‘back in the day’ when most people lived in huts or single storey houses of mud brick…" @remydean.bsky.social considers #architecture as a cultural proclamation of wealth & power — from Giza to Paris ⛪ medium.com/signifier/bu... #ArtHistory
✏️ 📚 🦚 the satisfying eeriness in Pakistani #illustration & visual storytelling from the ’90s - then & now "...in #Pakistan there are no illustration agencies or representation for illustrators. We have had a different working model..." by Jabeen 😸 medium.com/found-worlds... #art #books
the satisfying eeriness in Pakistani illustration
Visual Storytelling from the ’90s and Now
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uplifting epic J-Pop-Prog 💫 #RADWIMPS - トアルハルノヒ / One spring day Live MV from 20th anniversary tour now showing @netflix.com 🎶 youtu.be/ypgtn5aFmN0?... #JPop #music
RADWIMPS - トアルハルノヒ / One spring day [Official Live Video from "RADWIMPS 20th ANNIVERSARY LIVE TOUR"]
YouTube video by RADWIMPS
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📚 🖌️ 💬 #Japan has four weekly boys’ #manga magazines (weekly shōnen magazines). Many publishers tried this format. Almost all of them failed. Only four remain... #artist 山本航暉 (Kazuki Yamamoto) explains the ‘Manga Triangle’ & why major hits always rise from the bottom: 📐 medium.com/found-worlds...
Let Me Explain the ‘Manga Triangle’: Major Hits Always Rise From the Bottom
Japan’s four major shōnen manga magazines and one hidden rule
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⚔️ 🏯 🏢 Had it not been for Hoshina Masayuki, #Tokyo would be different @yuriminamide.bsky.social tracks the #history of how a Samurai scrapped the Shōgun’s pride to #design a resilient megacity 🏙️ medium.com/found-worlds... #Japan
🏢🏨🏬 "traveling across South Korea & Vietnam studying how real estate actually works... observations about how buildings shape cultures, how #culture shapes business & how differently all of it plays out depending on where you’re standing" by Will Butler 🏙️ medium.com/found-worlds... #Asia #travel
What the Buildings of South Korea and Vietnam Can Teach You
As someone with no experience in real estate, I found myself surprisingly fascinated
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🪨 🔨 🕳️ "Pierced Form is a strange term for the lovely curves in many of the rounded sculptures which surround the negative space of a hole as developed in Barbara Hepworth’s transitional works" 'The Hole Story' by @kimvertue.bsky.social ⭕ medium.com/signifier/ba... #art #sculpture #ArtHistory
