12 Suicidal Teens (2019 Japanese Film)

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Dear Entertainment Diary,

     I’m back, and this time I have watched a Japanese Film that is very worth watching for! It’s been so long that I cannot remember the last time a film so great had given me goosebumps. Guess what? This film gave it to me! It was so satisfying I even cried at the last part.

     This film gave so many chills and it really gave us such a good outlook in life. It is a film about teens who wanted to do a group suicide because of the problems/burdens they each carry inside. Burdens such as diseases/incurable sicknesses, being bullied, experiencing the loss of loved ones, being controlled or being hated by people surrounding you, and many more. Each character possessed uniqueness of their own and as the story progresses, they understand one another. They understood what it’s like to be alive, in spite if the challenges they are currently facing.

     We all know that depression is a very hard thing to carry on our lives. We cannot just throw it away just because we want to. We cannot just think positively all the time although it is the most common thing that people around us give as a piece of advice. It is easier to be said than done. We may never know what a person is feeling unless we are in that same situation, heck, we may never know if we will feel the same way as others. Will it be a lot more depressing, or a little less? 

     I am currently in the state where I’m depressed as f*ck. I overthink things. Well, Who knew, one of these days, a storm will go in my way and I am hoping that I will surpass it. Hopefully, that day would not come. People around me tend to think that I have no problems, financially or mentally. If only they knew what I am feeling inside but I can’t share it to anyone. I am being hated by some, which I think now is normal, but I don’t think I have to change anything about me.

     Back to the film, this film just gave me hope. Each character is very relatable and I can see myself in each one of them. I am so glad that Warner Bros. distributed/produced this movie as it was perfect in my eyes. The acting, the cinematography, the storyline, no loop holes. It is a great adaptation of a novel I have never read. It just gave me hope and and I am somehow gained some confidence that I may surpass everything at the right time.

     To the cast and staff of this wonderful film, Kudos to you. I actually thought this is going to be a horror/slasher film as I have read it’s plot that there is a murdered body found in the assembly room and they want to figure out who the murderer among them is as they open up to one another the reason they wanted to die, but I was wrong. I shouldn’t have judged it. 🧐🥺😜

     So again, I recommend you to watch this film as it will bring joy, hope, and love into your life, especially if you are experiencing depression right now, as I am. Let’s. Live. Long. No. Matter. What.  😀

Regards,

BEN

     

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Re:Zero Starting Life in Another World (2016 anime)

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Dear Entertainment Diary,

     How are you? Well, gee, I’m sick. Just caught a virus during the holidays but I’m fine now. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year, by the way.  This sickness made me not to go to work for three days so during my boredom, I started to find an anime on Netflix and this Re:Zero caught my attention. Who wouldn’t be intrigued with such an opening scene like Future Diary and Hugurashi No Naku Koro Ni. It opened up with someone being killed. Lol

     It’s a story of a boy who got sucked in on a game (well, there are saved points so go figure...) and dies over and over again until he figures out how to correctly survive the arc he is currently in while saving all the characters (not letting them die, duh!) especially Emilia, the girl he fell in love with.

     All I can say is that this anime is very stressful to watch but you might don’t want to turn your tv off (well, phone in my case) because you are intrigued and excited as to what will happen next. Some scenes were brutal, but on to the next life, you will see that those who fought each other may be infatuated to the other one. It’s just that there are some lose strings or just very wrongfully executed plots and twists but overall, I loved it. It’s just that, of course, like any other animes, you will be wanting more after the final episode of Season 1. But hey, earlier this year, the trailer for Season 2 is out and hell yeah, it’s just a confirmation that Season 2 is coming! And remember, if Rem is dead, There would be a riot.

There are many lovable characters in this series/anime/LN and I just don’t want them to die. It just hurts my feelings, you know.

So till next time 😘

Best regards,

BEN

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Escape Room (2019 Film)

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Dear Entertainment Diary,

How are youuuuu? I missed blogging, really, I missed it! Been busy for a very long time but here I am again, currently a Netflix subscriber and can’t even easily decide what movies or shows to choose.

Escape Room. Hmmn, before I watched it on Netflix, I posted a screenshot of it on facebook and asked my friends if it is any good or not. Guess what? No one even replied. Lol

Well, apparently, for me, this film kind of sucks in terms of acting (not that I am good at it) but there are just some scenes where I can’t even connect to those certain parts of the film. Although, the story is kind of good. Not that new but a very fresh take to those thrilling films and stuff I want to watch. A little less like SAW FILMS which are very gruesomely and extremely gross but story wise, I enjoyed it. Very fast paced but lacks of more details.

The film is consisting of characters we hated at the beginning but instantly grew with us as the film progresses where I got too emeotionally attached (Amanda and Mr. Mike) :(. The twist ain’t something new and Kind of expectable but I’m waiting for this film’s sequel. Hopefully, they will give us a lot of scenes which will maie is think what if’s after watching it. Go Zoey and Ben ❤️❤️❤️

Regards,

Ben

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Attack On Titan - Live Action (2015 Japanese Film)

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Dear Entertainment Diary,

I know many of us are great fans of the hit anime Shingeki No Kyojin/ Attack on Titans. Well, I've watched it couple of years back and I've got to say it kicked ass even though it's not yet finished and let us hanging in the brink of desperation to know what comes next after Annie hid in her crystal shell like thingy. (read the manga, ok?)

In this case, Attack On Titan (live-Action) has its own definition. Meaning, it did not remain true to the manga/anime, but is kind of good in its own way,

Lots and lost of scenes and background stories were very crucially different vs the manga/anime but I've got to say, it's still watchable. It's still good since the action scenes and effects were kind of good (not that good,but still). The faces of the titans were still annoying just like in the anime. Jean is still annoying. Sasha still likes potatoes. Armin is not blonde anymore. Hans is still funny,

I'm just looking for some major characters like Levi, who, just to let you know, is my 2nd favorite character off the anime/manga! I mean, where the heck is he? And who the hell is Shikishima in the anime/manga? The movie is good, but as one of the many fans of the anime/manga, I'm still confused what happened to some characters and why the hell are there many new characters?

Again, it would be better if they stick to the storyline of the anime/manga but, the film doesn't stink because of that, It's still good. It's still watchable. It's still doesn't give us LEVI!!!

Basically, there is just one thing the anime and this movie have in common.

THEY BOTH DID NOT FINISH THE STORY AND LEFT US HANGING IN THE BRINK OF DESPERATION! This film is only the first part. The 2nd part will be released on September and I just can't wait to watch it now that Eren bacame a Titan. OOOPPPSSS, SPOILER ALERT.

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It Follows (2015 US Film)

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Dear Entertainment Diary,

So last night, alone in my room, I've watched the film hailed as the Horror Movie of The Year (so far), It Follows, or should I call it "I'll transfer this curse to you so I can live a peaceful life but nahhhh",

Over all, I was impressed of the acting. I kind of like the story but the ending, not so much. I felt that it should not end like that. What happened to the FOLLOWer? Then I thought, I'll just wait for the sequel. I hope there is.

The film tells a story of a girl being followed by this ghost who can shape shift ever since she had sex with this lame ole guy with a fake name and fake address she met somewhere with the intention of transferring the curse to her, which is why this FOLLOWer started following her. Sounds complicated? No?

To make it more complicated, Jay, the protagonist, first transferred it to Greg, one of her friends, but he still did not believe everything she said about the FOLLOWer so he got killed instantly after it shape shifted into his mom.

She the transferred it to Paul, another friend, her first kiss, who also happened to kiss her little sister, at the end of the film. I don't know for what reason since she can still see it although it will not chase after her. SO it will chase her friend, so I guess he transferred it to some h*e and they ended up being a couple. YOU SEE? LET'S HAVE S*X.

The story is kind of interesting since the theme where you can transfer a curse thru sexual intercourse is kind of original to me. My interpretation of this film is to don't have sex if you don't the person, yet. It can prevent you on seeing ghosts! :)

Probably this film is telling us about STD.

One question in my mind is why does the FOLLOWer have to be nude and all? ;/

Go watch the film, it's worth watching!

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Ao haru Ride / Blue Spring Ride (2014 Anime)

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Dear Entertainment Diary,

I'm back! And this time, to write about a good anime with so many themes and lessons to learn and teach our heart which can be used in our daily lives,

So, it's title is Ao Haru Ride / Blue Spring Ride in English, which is all about love, friendship, family, and friends. It shows so many different characters and emotions, and shows some events that can really happen to someone.

It merely tells about the lost relationship between two of the five protagonists of the series, Futaba Yoshioka and Kou Mabuchi. They actually mutually felt love for each other during middle school but suddenly, Kou just left without saying any goodbye to Yoshioka.

They met again in high school, but Kou already changed everything about him, including his last name. Yoshioka, who is a cute girl, also changed herself to annoy guys around her since she will be again disliked by the jealous girls in her class.

As I said earlier, it's also about friendship, family, and a whole lot of rides. Us all can relate on each episodes. On how hard we have to keep our feelings to our crush. On how we and our friends have the same crush. On how it is so hard to study. On how hard to lose one parent. And most especially, on how it is so FUN to have friends beside you.

I'm telling you, this anime is a one fun ride. It's only 12 episodes and I hate its shortness but what the f, I still enjoyed it.

P.S. It already has its live action film adaptation and I have a copy of it. I just don't know when to watch it, yet. :)

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Breathe In. Breathe Out. ( 2015 Hilary Duff Album)

Dear Entertainment Diary,

It's been so long since I've last posted. Sorry guys, got so busy with my work.

Anyways, right now, I've been busy, also, in listening to Hilary's latest Album, Breathe In. Breathe Out, which was released last June and God, the tracks make my heart dance!

Tattoo (co written by a genius named Ed Sheeran) and Rebel Hearts were the ones that got my attention so bad, I always put it on repeat!

Hilary's voice got a lil bigger but I can still hear the beauty in her voice that got my insides a lil tingly in a positive way.

Those guitar sounds plus them beats make this album perfect to hear/listen to while riding on the way to and back from work!

Picture This got those country twang, as well, while the title track Breathe In. Breathe Out, reminds me of Out of the Woods by Taylor Swift, although they may still have their differences.

One In A million and Confetti are two songs off the album that I wanna dance to. One in A, one in a, one in a... HAHA

Sparks and Night Like This (ft Kendall Schmidt) make me feel and think about dating the one I love!

See, most songs in this album gives me different types of emotions, makes me happy, kind of Sad (in a positive way?) and make me feel happy especially now that Hil is BACK!!

Go listen to the full album now, you GUYS!

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The Theory of Everything (2014 Film)

There should be no boundaries to human endeavor. We are all different. However bad life may seem, there is always something you can do, and succeed at. While there's life, there is hope.

- Stephen Hawkings

Dear Entertainment Diary,

How should I start this post? Hmmm.

Everything has an end. Even a strong love that started fiery, it could end, because of so many unexpected circumstances rotating in our universe. Probably also, because of destiny. That is, if you believe in it.

So... even before Eddie Redmayne won an Oscar, I wanna watch this movie. Why? Nothing. I was just browsing in the internet that time and the title "The Theory of Everything" caught my attention although I did not read its plot nor any details about it.

For me, this is probably one of the best films ever made. The acting is superb, more especially, in Redmayne's part. He won't get an award if he did not play his part very well, and I am telling you, I still think that he has Motor Neurone Disease.

To tell you honestly, I thought it was a chik-flick film at first, but as we watched it, I found out that it is, in fact, a biographical film about the life, personal and romantic, and success of the main character, Stephen Hawkings. It is also about how her wife, Jane Wilde Hawkings, struggle while with him because of his neuron baseball-related disease. (BOO!)

While watching it, there are numerous endings of the film that formed in my mind, well, more of questions. Will Stephen die? Will Jane commit adultery and find a new love. Will she give up on loving her wheelchair dependent husband? Will their family break apart? Is Timothy really Stephen's son or is he Jonathan's? I thought only two years? Many questions but I finally got my answers at the end of the film.

It is a great film with so many moral values we can learn from and it can also give us hope especially if we are enduring something so powerful in our lives. We can learn that if we really want to, we can achieve it no matter what if we just believe in ourselves and never let our faith to God (or in Science) fade.

It is a must see film about love, compassion, family, and Science, and at the end of the movie, it just proves its main point. EVERYTHING HAS ITS BEGINNING AND ITS END. For me, That's the Theory of Everything. HAHAHAHA

Cast: source: wiki
Eddie Redmayne as Stephen Hawking
Felicity Jones as Jane Wilde Hawking
Charlie Cox as Jonathan Jones, Jane's second husband
Emily Watson as Beryl Wilde, Jane's mother
Simon McBurney as Frank Hawking, Stephen's father
David Thewlis as Dennis Sciama
Maxine Peake as Elaine Mason, Stephen's second wife
Harry Lloyd as Brian, Hawking’s roommate
Guy Oliver-Watts as George Wilde, Jane's father
Abigail Cruttenden as Isobel Hawking, Stephen's mother
Charlotte Hope as Phillipa Hawking, Stephen's sister
Lucy Chappell as Mary Hawking, Stephen's sister
Christian McKay as Roger Penrose
Enzo Cilenti as Kip Thorne
Georg Nikoloff as Isaak Markovich Khalatnikov
Alice Orr-Ewing as Diana King, sister of Basil King, Stephen's friend
Stephen Hawking provides his own, Equalizer-computerized voice
Nicola Victoria Buck as Cockroft guest
Frank Leboeuf as Swiss doctor

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STYLE MV by Taylor Swift

Dear Entertainment Diary,

Shout out to all the Swifties out there because here is the latest addition to our collection of addiction by our queen, Taylor Swift! I knew that Style would be the next Single off from her latest Album, 1989, which includes so many awesome POP songs including Blank Space, Out of the Woods, All You Had To Do Was Stay, and many many more. It's allegedly written about one of her ex flames, Harry STYLEs.

I just so love this music video so much because aside from it being a dreamy one, there's this kind of dark theme that is haunting my inner feelings and I just want to be inside this music video. The effects, the acting, the slow motion scenes, everything just fall in to place! 

So here's the music video, guys! Enjoy!

P.S., Blank Space Music Video is still better than this, tho. :P

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Blank Space Music Video by Yaylor Swift

Dear Entertainment Diary,

SO... Since I cannot fall asleep and it's 1:45 A.M. because of this ache in my heart (YEP Broken-hearted) , I just happened to wait and see Tay-tay's new music video, Blank Space.

Blank Space overtook All Too Well and Out of the Woods as my new favorite song of hers of all time and I've got to admit that her new music video is way out of her old self! Knives, Axe, Golf club, and mercilessly funny acting.

We can see Taylor here as we have never seen her before. Crankier and way funnier than in Shake It Off.

This is probably also my favorite Music video of her as it shows cute lil ole story about a bachelorette who is looking for the right guy for her. The story shows as it progresses that the guy doesn't love her as she expected in the first place. That he's a stupid cheater. Taylor's acting also went up as I love how she played her role very funny.

She's also pretty and just so cute. Ebough said, just watch the video below and ya'll know what I am talking about!

You can read about her latest Album here: 1989, 

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1989 Taylor Swift (2014 Album)

The rest of the World was Black and White but we were in screaming colors.

Dear Entertainment Diary,

So finally, after 2 years of timelessly listening to her previous masterpiece, RED, Taytay released her new album (or should I say, will release her upcoming album). Of course, I won't let myself as a swiftie to be the last to hear it!

Currently, At the moment, as I am writing this blog post, I am listening to this damn new work of art of hers and loving it. She's nailing it. Although she departed from her old country pop, sweet style, Tay never failed to impress us. Everything she touches becomes Gold, or Platinum, or triple Platinum. (pun intended).

She wants to try new, wants to give and offer something new so us fans may enjoy it, and she did it. 

She already released 3 singles these past few weeks (Shake It Off, Out of the Woods, and Welcome To New York), and damn, Out of the Woods is basically my favorite off this album. It's like I can clearly see/picture in my mind what she was narrating in this song.

Shake It Off was her first single off this album. Ever since I heard it, I thought, "Is this the new Taylor?"

I got the new Taylor. 1989 is her newest album, so basically, we are going to hear late 80's or early 90's music style. Them beats. I only heard her acoustic guitar in How You Get The Girl which is surprisingly FUN because of these beats covering the instrumental and humming with her naturally beautiful voice.

Bad Blood is the one I was waiting for as she said in an interview that it was about some female celebrity that she has Bad Blood with. In any case, it's a cute little song that reminds me of cheerleaders singing together. I wish that it's kind of a power ballad.

I Know Places reminds me of her BFF Lorde. It's kind of dark but I really love it! The piano instrumental is so cute to listen to. It reminds me of Glory and Gore, which is one of my fave from Lore's Album, Pure Heroine. We are the Hunters and they are the Foxes...

On Clean, I can also hear Lorde singing with Taylor. I don't know why, although it's not as dark as Lorde's sing but probably because all those voices blending with Taylor reminds me of her. 

New Romantics probably is the one who brought me back in the past the most. This song reminds me of the styles of the old songs I hear as my father blasted off our radio during weekends. 

I am actually waiting for songs just like "All Too Well", but by just thinking about the album title, we are not going to hear it. And I did not hear anything like it. This Love is the closest, the saddest, the most serious song in the album. And I like it.

All You Had to Do Was Stay is one hell of a heartbreaking song. If you listen to it, it's not like about a broken relationship. You can jive to it and dance all night especially if you're brokenhearted and stuff. For me, it's one of the highlights.

To sum everything all off, from Welcome to New York to New Romantics, 1989 is all about everything Taylor wants to tell us, from Places where she wants to go, from her relationship (nothing new about it), and all the stuff that's been bugging her especially about love. 1989 is the year she was born, and 80's is the era of beats and Taylor showed and let us hear every little beat we need to hear to take us back in those years. This transition of hers did not actually departed her from her country style kind of cheesy pop songs. She's still her. She still did not leave her old acoustic guitar as we can still hear it in this album.

In the end, all I want to say is there are songs that I'm going to be addicted to. Out Of The Woods is the best off this album. Taylor Swift Rocks.

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Sundays at Tiffany's (2010 Movie)

The right choice isn't always the best choice.

Dear Entertainment Diary,

Hello Again. So I'm a huge fan of James Patterson, the author, who is known for his detective style novels. Though I haven't read that many of his writings. But I really love how his way of pulling of tricks of the killers or how the cops/detectives/Alex catch the crooks but there's one of his many best selling novels that caught my attention.

Sundays at Tiffany's. OK. I haven't finished the book, yet (I was reading it thru my mobile phone) and I was in the middle of reading it but I finally got tired of it and just decided tow watch the film.

I just love how the story goes where there's a girl with her imaginary friend who in the end, after leaving her for 20 years, came back for her and became her partner.

I know, in real life it can't happen, but who knows? Love has no limits. It knows no boundaries.

To tell you the truth, when I was done watching the movie, I just don't get the connection of the place, Tiffany's (I think it is an ice cream shop?), where our 2 heroes used to spend their Sundays together as children, in the movie. The place was only shown once, and it was in the start, and it was never shown ever again.

The child actress who played young Jane is so good that I fell in love with her the moment she cried while Michael was leaving her on her own in the elevator during her 10th birthday.

As I said earlier, I did not finish reading the book but I have a good guess that its ending is not as bad as the ending of the film. I mean, I liked the films ending but it did not go through my feelings that well. It's not properly executed that while I'm typing this post, all in my mind is to read and finish the book.

I love the actors who played in the movie. It's just that I still don't appreciate how they perform and give their own interpretation of the book.

The laughs, the sadness, and the touch in the heart is there. It's just that I'm not satisfied. I feel that it's lacking something. Something that Jane was looking for while picking her Bridal Dress, like when she was picking her wedding flowers, etc.

Now what I want is to finish the book, or probably want to wait another remake of the book where everything we need to know about the book, the whole story, the info, and where we can find the answers that satisfy us in all the questions that built up while watching the film.

Cast (wikipedia):

Alyssa Milano as Jane Claremont

Eric Winter as Michael Friend

Kristin Booth as Jacqueline

Emily Alyn Lind as Young Jane

Ivan Sergei as Hugh Morrison

Stockard Channing as Vivienne Claremont

Gage Munroe as Young Michael

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All About You ( Hilary Duff 2014 Music Video )

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Dear Entertainment Diary,

So it's been, I don't know, more than a month ever since I got addicted to this song? Hey baby. baby.

I'm so thrilled and excited upon hearing/reading that one of my queens is now en route to return and continue her singing career. I mean, no doubt, the girl has voice and talent, and her latest single is very catchy and cute. Very addicting to listen to and to jive in.

So here's the video where Hilary is kind of a sexy and stylish cowgirl who is in love with an unknown guy!

Hilary, welcome back. Although I kind of love her previous comeback single, Chasing the Sun, All About You has a different style where all of us can dance while singing in to. Have fun watching the music Video!

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Throwback Movie: Bring It On: All or Nothing

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Hey What?!

Introduce yourself!

Dear Entertainment Diary,

Hey guys! It's been a while, like, I don't know how long has it been since I last post here, and I just got really busy and stiff but I really miss doing this entertainment diary where I can share all my thoughts and all the stuff that pops in my head.

Been watching a lot of movies/animes/series lately but I want to post about the movie that I just l Re-Watched, Bring It On: All or Nothing!

I know. Old School, but this movie is soooo deliciously funny, all I did is to download it again and re-watched the movie, for like, the 10th time!

This film is not just about cheer-dancing. It's also about Friendship and Love (if you dig deeper in the story).

We all know and love Hayden Panetierre, right? Saw a lot of her movies since she was a little young-un, but this, for me, was where she stood out. 

The dancing skills wasn't that good but it was all worth the watch. 

The story is all about Britney Allen's life after she resigned as the Cheer Captain of her then-School, Pacific Vista, and transferred as the New White chick in a School of Ghetto, Crenshaw Heights.

Her previous cheer mates asked her to officially swear in all of them that she won't ever cheer again, but, cheering is her life. Cheering is what she loves to do and we all know that we will do anything, or everything, rather, just to do what we love!

At first, it was so hard for her to move on and blend with the new race where she is currently in, but because she is beautiful, talented, and all, she obtained the trust of the cheerleaders in her new school who saw her potential and got her in the team.

This was where the new roller coaster of her life began as she hides her feelings for a new man she loves, she hides her current cheering status in her old friends, and hides in her new cheering squad that she still wants to cheer with her old squad.

Just watch the film (if you haven't seen it, yet) and sing along with their cheers!

CAST (from wikipedia.com):

Hayden Panettiere as Britney Allen
Solange Knowles as Camille
Gus Carr as Jesse
Marcy Rylan as Winnie Harper
Cindy Chiu as Amber
Giovonnie Samuels as Kirresha
Francia Almendárez as Leti
Gary LeRoi Gray as Tyson
Danielle Savre as Brianna
Jake McDorman as Brad Warner
Jessica Fife as Sierra
Eric Bruskotter as Timothy Allen
Kiersten Warren as Pamela Allen
Rihanna as herself
Swin Cash as herself



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Pure Heroine ( 2013 Lorde Album)

Dear Entertainment Diary,

There's this new artist that is taking up on the music scene just recently who can write, sing, and make incredibly addictive music.  Her name is Lorde and I think she's one of the most talented individual out there when it comes to music.

I feel ashamed as to how I cannot update my blog these past few months due to internet loss and I regret on not having posts in here about Miley's recent album, Bangerz. I mean I waited for it but when it was released, I cannot post about it although I'm still listening to it and damn, her songs are great.

Moving on, I'm here to post about Lorde's album in which I am currently listening to. Pure Heroine is probably one of the albums that I cannot forget to listen to everyday. I just love how addicting the songs are and as I'm typing this, Glory and Gore is playing inside my HEAD!

I knew about Lorde when I heard her debut single, Royals, a song that contains simple words and simple instrumentals that includes different types of vocals/secondary voices. I'm talking about "Baby I'll rule, I'll rule, I'll rule, I'll rule".

The song is just genius. It was, I'm not sure at the moment if it still is, at the #1 Billboard Hot 100. The last time I checked, it spent 9 weeks on being #1. Well, it was well-deserved. The song is pretty addictive, very simple, and very nice to sing.

Then another song, Tennis Court. My favorite lines of this song were, "Baby be the class clown, and I'll be beuty queen in tears. It's a new art form showing people how little we care."

I love how she can write such words and turn it to songs to express what she really wants to say. What really are the things running through her head.

400 Lux is one of my favorite songs actually. Her voice is like mixing vulnerability and strength that when combined, it's like listening to her speaking/telling a story when she was singing. It's like she's restraining her voice to be husky but it was so powerful, she released it great. The song for me, is liking same things and not wanting change to interfere so everything will stay the same. "I like this roads where the houses won't change." "We're never done with killing time, got a lot to not do, let me kill it with you."

Ribs and Buzzcut Season were also great songs but I think Ribs overpowered Buzzcut Season just a little. It's because I fell in love with its lyrics:

You're the only friend I need (you're the only friend I need)

Sharing beds like little kids (sharing beds like little kids)

We'll laugh until our ribs get tough (we'll laugh until our ribs get tough)

But that will never be enough (but that will never be enough).

While Buzzcut Season, I think is about news. Haha.  Well she described the lyrics trying to remain "in blissful ignorance to the crumbling world trying to permeate through news broadcasts." Thanks WIKI.

Team and Glory and Gore are actually the two of the top five songs that I certainly love in the album. The other three are Royals, 400 Lux, and Tennis Court. (In order).

Team is my most favorite because of its meaning, mainly the words in its chorus. I love how she really likes living in her city, which is not that famous, but the people living there are all united and in each other's Team. I also love how she grew tired of hearing "Put your hands up in the air" in so many songs. You see what I'm talking about? She really writes what she actually wants to say, no matter how small it is, she can make it huge. Enormous. Gigantic.

She actually just released her music video of Team, in which she said was inspired by a dream she had where the world is being ruled by a guy with acne on his face, I think? That's what I remembered from what she wrote on her facebook. Correct me if I'm wrong.  :)

Glory and Gore reminds me of The Hunger Games. I think it suits to be its theme song. But, I think what I see in this song is like, how she wants to dominate the music industry, where someone's gotta go, meaning she'll replace that someone and they are gonna win. I love how she pictured death as loosing. My favorite lines were

"We gladiate but I guess we're really fighting ourselves.

Roughing up our minds so we're ready when the kill time comes"

She really knows what she's talking about.

Speaking of the Hunger Games, it's sequel Catching Fire, she also sang one of the theme songs in its album, Everybody Wants To Rule The World, which she gave her own style and rendition.

Still Sane, White Teeth Teens, and A World Alone are probably the 3 least favorite songs of mine in her album. Maybe because they're found in the last part of the album. Although I love Still Sane's lyrics. It's telling us how she cannot do her usual teenage things right now cause it's all work all day but she's telling us that she's not succumbing to the power of fame and will be still sane until the end, I think.

So that's it. That's what I think about Lorde's simple but geniusly well-witten and addictive album. I'm actually listening to it everyday and till now, I'm still hungry for more. There's the Extended Edition of her album but I haven't got a copy of it yet. So, let's support this very talented girl! I actually love how she performs live with her unique hand gestures and facial expressions but what the heck? She's still Lorde. :)

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Sword Art Online ( 2012 Anime )

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Dear Entertainment Diary,

So, this is the continuation of my previous post about Accel World where I mentioned there were 2 animes that I just recently watched. This was supposed to be included in that post but I decided to separate this in a new post, and here it is.

OK. So Sword Art Online aka SAO, is probably can be considered as one of the most genius animes the world has ever seen. This is my opinion, tho.

Why? Because I just love the part where Virtual world and the real world became one unlike in Accel World where there are only some parts that they can adjust their own movements in the real world while beinig accelerated, but in this anime, Lives are at stake and many of them, I'm talking about almost half of 10,000 SAO players, died! Cruel, isn't it?

It's just genius! The anime series contains 2 arcs from the virtual novel, The Sword Art Online Arc and Alfheim Online Arc.

The first half of the series centers around the game Sword Art Online, a VRMMORPG that can be played using a Nerve Gear. During the first time the 10,000 SAO players logged in, they were sent in the game but cannot log out when they wanted to. They were then given a task by the creator of the game, Akihiko Kayaba, to reach all the 100 floors of the floating castle by  defeating the virtual monsters and each boss on each level. But there is a catch, you must not die in the game or else, you will also die in the real world.

The first part centers around Kirito (Kirigaya Kazuto), him being a Beater (a beta tester - cheater), on how he leveled up, attempt to save his friends in the game but drastically failed, meeting his one and only true love, Asuna (Yuuki Asuna), and on how he will defeat the game.

The second half of the series revolves around the new game, Alfheim Online, which is connected in the previous game. The story now includes his sister, and on how both of them, along with the other players defeat the game. (I wanna mention more plots about this anime as I can still remember the whole story because I just finished watching it yesterday but I don't wanna spoil the surprises.)

All I can say is that the story revolving the whole series is just so good including the twists. The action and the awesomeness of the characters are quite good, the bad guys are very convincing, but what I don't like about the second part is that the lightning fast Asuna's fighting skills were taken out and became a princess waiting to be rescued up above. I mean, her awesomeness in fighting is one of the best parts in the series but in the end, she was just some, I don't know, a bird without wings inside a cage, I guess?

Anyways, the whole series is just so good to watch and you can even feel the feelings of each characters while watching it! And 'm talking about Sachi, as her part is one of the most emotional i the series. I love how realistic the story when it was all about having friends and romantic relationships in online games!

This is unlike Accel World which is all about robotic types of avatars. The first part uses their own image in the game while in the second part, their avatars were in fairy forms. It falls in 8 out of 10 scale for me. :)

The only part that I didn't like was the part where the camera focuses on the female characters' bo*bies and such parts. It's not that pervy but it's not that needed as well in the anime.

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Accel World (2012 Anime)

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Dear Entertainment Diary,

So yeah, I'm here again, fortunately. This post is about the two Animes I just previously watched this past days, it was actually just last week, but I think I'll separate the two.

Anyways, the first one that I watched was Accel World.

Accel World.

This actually intrigued me as to why so many Otakus love them. Truth be told, I'm not a big fan of animes with large robots like Gundam and stuff. Cyberpunk type of animes, that is. I'm not into robots, although during my childhood days, I have watched Voltes 5, and that certain anime that I cant remember the title.

So, Accel World is one of the animes that caught my attention because this is the first time I have watched an anime that the main character is not that good looking. That actually shocked me. Yeah, there are so many animes that the main protags are jerks, or losers, but they were either tall, good-looking, slim, handsome, strong, and all but this was first to me. The story revolves around Haruyuki Arita, a small, roundly fat boy who is always being bullied by his classmates or schoolmates. Weird right? Mostly, those descriptions always end up being on the minor characters like the best buds of the protagonists.

He has 2 bestfriends, actually, hot bestfriends, the hot and very lovingly caring Chiyuri Kurashima and her boyfriend, Takumu Mayuzumi, who is very hot as well, and intelligent. So, in this anime, it also involves a female protag who is probably the prettiest in the series and who also happens to be in love with our hero, Kuroyukihime (Black Snow Princess).

To sum everything all up, this anime is about Accel World (Acclerated World), which is also in the same world as where we were standing/living but being controlled by a game program entitled, Brain Burst.

By using Brain Burst, your body will be accelerated in which you can go around freely using your avatar and the whole normal world becomes slower. Correct me if I'm wrong but I think 1 second in the real world = 17 minutes in Accel World? 

The main objective of the game is to reach level ten by defeating the Six Kings of Pure colors, though I'm not so sure if Black is still included. And when you reach level 10, you can meet the creator of Bran Burst and know his purpose as to why he created a very awesomely addicting but also harsh kind of game. You can level upto level 9 by collecting Burst Points if you can defeat other players in Accel World and sometimes, haunt some monsters which gives you small amount of points.

For me, this anime is very addictive to watch as I wanna know what will happen next. The action scenes were great, as well. It hooks me up as I only finished watching it in two days.Well, it's just 24 episodes + 1 ova. And  haven't watched the other OVA yet.

If you're into action type anime, then Accel World is kind of perfect for you to watch. t's just that I kind of hated some characters for being so bad, nosy, and especially the Haru-kun for being such a loser! But I think that's what the creators want us to feel. The main antag in the series actually pisses me off, meaning he's being great on being such an evil person.

This is not just about action. Friendship, Love/Romance, and Slice of Life are also included in the series. For me it's good and may landed a 7 out of 10.  hope there's gonna be a second season.

Dame, I promise myself to lmit my post but I just can't help it. Another lengthy post. :(

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