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Ivy’s “Temptation of Sonata”

Ivy’s “Temptation of Sonata”

Female Korean Pop Star Ivy’s “Temptation of Sonata” is quite the topic not just around K-Pop communities, but around Final Fantasy fansites as well… The Music Video for the song looks suspiciously similar to Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children. That’s because it is based on Advent Children—used without permission. Of course, Square-Enix filed a lawsuit against [...]

Girls Generation’s “Gee”

Girls Generation’s “Gee”

It’s been a while since I posted a video under the Ni-Ongaku Spotlight tag (was originally a Category before the blog revamp). Actually, this is the first N-OS post for 2009! But the next video has nothing to do with J-Pop… sort of. It’s really a K-Pop MV of “Gee”, from the 9-member girl group, [...]

Korean Pop and the Japan Otaku

Korean Pop and the Japan Otaku

Danny Choo wrote a post a while ago about his new found love for K-Pop (or Korean Pop) whilst studying Korean. It inspired me to write this post about my own love for K-Pop. I’m in a love triangle between Korean and Japanese culture. ^^ He wrote about the hottest K-Pop Girl Group, Kara (카라), and [...]

K-Pop and Anime Character Lookalikes

K-Pop and Anime Character Lookalikes

While browsing through Thunderbird for my feed subscriptions, I found this post from POPSEOUL on two popular Korean musicians, Rain and JYP (Park Jin-young), who happen to resemble two popular anime characters, Light and Ryuk from Death Note: