beezelbub, as he's known in some circles

C-AGGRO, Pichu with an Everstone. Bands, Sonic, tokusatsu, (un)professional wrestling, more anime than I initially expected, assorted nuts. Mostly inactive on this blog.

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English fansubbed clip of one of the latest Pili series ahoy! From PILI Destiny: The Battle of Immortals and Demons comes a badass Butterfly entrance! Be sure to click the CC button for subs! (In this clip, you can see a Pili component that was left out of Thunderbolt Fantasy: the combat narration.)

The person who subbed and posted the video is subbing clips to help improve their English and is looking for feedback, so feel free to leave a comment on YouTube to help ‘em out! There’s also an explanation of the Gu technique in the YouTube description if you’re interested.

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More quality puppet action featuring Jian Sou Feng (the one with the gorgeous brown locks) and Hu Tieh Chun (The "Butterfly King", with white hair to go with his snazzy red and gold duds) in the latest Pili season, Pili Destiny: The Battle of the Immortals and Demons! Sou Feng made his first appearance this season, but Tieh Chun first appeared in all the way back in 2004!

Your typical wuxia fighting puppets...and rock stars?! (Note: I have no clue if they're actually rock stars in the show, but if they are, I wouldn’t be surprised. Anything is possible with puppets.)

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Talking about Thunderbolt Fantasy means that sometimes us Western fans get to find out a lil’ more about Pili, but they aren’t the only puppet game in town. Back in the 1970s, Junxiong Huang made a show called The Scholar Swordsman that put traditional Taiwanese glove puppetry on the pop cultural map. Without him and this show, we never would have got TBF! His sons Chris and Vincent Huang made Pili but another one of his sons, Steven (referred to as Ligang in the video) still works with his pops. Jinguang, the reboot puppet series featuring the classic characters from The Scholar Swordsman, is Pili’s only competition in televised puppet drama.

You can see the elder Huang with the traditional Japanese theater puppets and Steven with the newer version of the character. Jinguang, much like Pili, has one lead voice actor for all characters as part of the traditional puppet theater origins. Steven is Jinguang’s lead VA and is known to give demonstrations of his voice acting range on talk shows, performing the characters live with Jinguang puppeteers.

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Turn on Closed Captions for English subs! A Jinguang clip for those curious on how they do things. A rescue mission turns into a sudden revelation as Mirror Man discovers that Wu Shing is his daughter. The forces of Wolf Lord and Tyranness learn the hard way you probably shouldn't mess with a guy known as the Source of Evil, especially when his daughter is on the line! The bit that proceeded this is here and worth watching for the dramatic way Mirror Man curses the heavens.

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A Pili ad for the 2017 Taiwan Lantern Festival. That year's event is set in Yulin, the birthplace of Pili, so of course the puppets are going to pull out all the stops to rep their hometown. There's even a Glove Puppet Museum in Yunlin's Huwei Township! You can even see meteor walking in the beginning.

@hikayagami, is there any reason why they're using this design for Su Huan Jen in this ad? I love me some purple Susu but I believe the most recent design they’re using of him has a white and gold outfit. His face is less rounded in that version too. Would be nice to know who the rest of the characters are too, I could only recognize Susu and Ye Xiao Chai. (For anyone else reading this: he’s the one with the scar on his face)

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Shoutweb: “Revolution” was a song that did not make it on the record. The song seemed to have an anti-American tone. How did 9/11 change your perspective on how you feel about America? Did your perspective change with the song? Jared: “We don’t feel it is an anti-American song at all. That is a song that can be taken many different ways. If it is taken literally or politically it could be misinterpreted. We didn’t want a song like that to overshadow what we are about. And considering that people have a tendency to take things very literal we felt that especially after 9/11 it didn’t fit thematically with the rest of the record. It took on new dimensions.”

screencaps – video: The Struggle - 30STM 

old website: http://www.virginrecords.com/thirtysecondstomars/ *edit, archive link: ( x )

details about the album as planned prior to 9/11 -

30 Seconds 2 The Universe By Pedro (7:35 PM MST 02/08/2001) Thirty Seconds To Mars upcoming major label debut is now officially titled “Welcome To The Universe” and it is expected to be released late this Summer through Immortal Records. The official track list for it is as follows: “Buddha For Mary” “Secret To The Sun” “Anarchy In Tokyo” “Nexus” “Pariah” “Phase One” “A New Beginning/The Sign” “Alien Soundscape” “Good Day To Buy a Gun” “Edge Of The Earth” “Provehito In Altum” “Valhallah” The band have also launched a website at http://www.thirtysecondstomars.com/, so be sure to check it out.“ (www.theprp.com/oldnews/) *edit, archive link: ( x )

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It’s curious to me remembering where they were in process with their first album release in 2001, and comparing it to their latest album “AMERICA” now. What were they learning then, and how does it still affect their (Jared’s) thinking today?

Related post https://bartmanfredi.tumblr.com/post/81347218241/start-again-crashcrash

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Pili is putting out a new "childrens drama" puppet show called Draca Adventure and it looks as adorable as you'd expect. (In Chinese: 仙界小霹靂, which would literally translate to something like Pili: Young Fairyland) The new show features Cheeky Ducky (from The Arti: The Adventure Begins) and his friends (a shishi, a qilin, and a tiangou) as they go to school to learn more about being fairies! There’s still some dangerous and mischievous foes about, so I guess an adventure is in store for them! Stay safe, sweet puppet babies!!

(I wanna know where I can get one of those sweet magical hovercrafts.)

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