Welcome to All About Fukuyama Masaharu, part lyrics blog, part fan site, 100% about Masha. It started out as a blog around April 2009 to repost all English lyrics, but after a while I got a bit ambitious and posting many other things I can gather from the net, some pictures, some articles, mostly news in English from the perspective of a fan although you can find some translated articles in here. I do not pretend to say I take credit for the text in here; frankly I just search, gather, summarise, reword and repost. I will always include the name of the fan who said whatever I posted to the best of my ability but as you can see, my sources are mostly from 2 main fan forums of Masha that is not in Japan. My problem is I can't read Japanese or Chinese, but my persistence sometimes does pay off when I just keep looking. You will also find some pictures in here, but all of the pictures you don't see in here are in Facebook, just look for All Abt Masha. I am quite active in that Facebook page, and it is also a place to find information! My main purpose for this blog is for myself; to gather all lyrics in English under one roof. But I am very sure foreign fans can also benefit from the contents in this blog, and without the many wonderful foreign Masha fans who translate, discuss and share whether privately or publicly, this blog will never be what it is today. I am still hoping to find more English lyrics somewhere, although from the looks of it, I will say things have slowed down a bit. Anyway, have a look. If you have any snippet about Masha to share with me, or pictures or lyrics, anything at all, please do not hesitate to do so. Do join in the discussion by using Post A Comment. Do consider sending me your submission of reviews. And for new Masha fans, if you like, do join my Contact List. Thanks for dropping by!
UPDATES -13.07.2010
Added French sub link
THE FOLLOWING WERE POSTED ON 14.03.2010 UNLESS OTHERWISE INDICATED.
EPISODE SUMMARY
Thanks to Angelreii for the following info.
NHK World Premium > Historical Drama "RYOMADEN" Eps. 11
Tosa In Turmoil/Tosa Futtou
NHK World Premium > Historical Drama "RYOMADEN" Eps. 11
Tosa In Turmoil/Tosa Futtou
In Edo, Ii Naosuke, the shogun's chief adviser who concluded the U.S. trade treaty without the Imperial Court's consent, is assassinated by the anti-foreign movement supporters of Mito. Back in Tosa, lower class samurai kills upper class samurai in revenge which intensifies the tension between the two classes. Ryoma settles the situation by visiting a group of upper class samurai alone. Impressed by Ryoma's action, Toyo promotes him to the upper class position but Ryoma refuses and joins the Tosa Loyalist Party formed by Takechi.
More info after Read More link.
PLOT SUMMARY
Taken from fans discussion of the same episode, reposted here for info on the plot in this episode. Spoiler alert!
Still mending a broken heart. Is Yataro in love or something? Not yet, but he's back in Tosa. Ryoma, up until this moment is still not impress with Takechi-san. No more happy innocent Ryoma! He's a bit scary when he's gone all unreadable like that. kashi kills a joshi. This is the start of the tension between the 2class samurai.And the joshi kill the kashi's family? Here comes Ryoma, they all think he's gonna help them fight.Ryoma's the only one stood up against the bloodshed He's mature and quite cold now, a bit wise maybe. WIll they listen to him? Instead of roughly opposing them, he just say few words and gone. Yataro is with the joshi? When Ryoma decided to speak, everyone stops and listens. Fantastic hint on why he can lead so many people later.Honestly for all his talking, Takechi's not much use in a crisis, is he? Ryoma's going to see the joshi, without a sword.Can't believe he just went in without arms to see the Toyo-san.Ho Toyo tells them to out away their swords. Toyo recognises him from before.ryoma could almost be called saving his life but Yataro's couldn't help from feeling intimidatedI think Toshida-san is somewhat impress with this confident Ryoma. I mean he still show respect the proper way & try to settle this without bloodshed.The kashi commits harakiri anyway. a war between johsi & kashi was prevented due to Ryoma's intervention. Wait he's (Ryoma) gonna play and sing!! Because Toyo is kinda powerful and definitely shows interests in Ryoma and and methinks Ryoma knows and he can manipulate the decision if he wants to. Toyo has finally brought in the proposal.Ryoma has not decided yet. But I think he feels unworthy to accept it. Takechi's trying to kick him in. Yataro snitches and Toyo really cares about Ryoma. He (Ryoma) vlooks thoughtful after the conversation.
Question : Did Yataro got married? No mention in the discussion.
SINGING CLIP
Thanks to Angelreii for the tip. I am happy someone ripped out the singing part in this episode. Not my taste of music but interesting. He is playing the shamisen which to me looks like a small banjo or rather a ... I can't remember what Chinese calls them but you can say a guitar.
The lyrics is taken from Izumisano's translation here. I took a snapshot of it rather than rewriting it.
REVIEW
By River of MashaPlus forums.Question : Did Yataro got married? No mention in the discussion.
SINGING CLIP
Thanks to Angelreii for the tip. I am happy someone ripped out the singing part in this episode. Not my taste of music but interesting. He is playing the shamisen which to me looks like a small banjo or rather a ... I can't remember what Chinese calls them but you can say a guitar.
The lyrics is taken from Izumisano's translation here. I took a snapshot of it rather than rewriting it.
REVIEW
The early review is good. Most people enjoy the political intrigue that's going on in Tosa. Tanaka Min as Toshida Toyo continues his impressive run. The showdown scene is also great to see. And more characters were introduced as Takechi's Tosa Loyalist Party grew in numbers. Kaname Jun made his first appearance (weee!). And watch out for the shimasen scene between Ryoma and Harui, his nephew.
TORRENT/DOWNLOAD SOURCES
All RAW files
1920X1080
Click here for the torrent files. Once there, click on the link next to NAME at the top and once in that page, choose 1 of the 3 torrent files under the column TORRENT. Size is 2GB and format is MKV. You may need special codecs to view this format.
720X480
Click here for the torrent files. Once there, click on the link next to NAME at the top and once in that page, choose 1 of the 3 torrent files under the column TORRENT. Size is 467MB.
704X396
A new alternative file which can be downloaded from here. Find the corresponding episode number. It is however at Megaupload where those from banned countries can try accessing using Hotspot Shield. This is called the Full Screen Version for the purposes of the fansub by Luna14.
1280X720
Please take note this is actually a torrent file for episodes 11 to 15 (bundled together) for video version 1280X720. Go to this page, click link next to NAME, once in new page, click any of the link under TORRENT, open you favourite torrent downloader, load the torrent file, choose the specific episode to download. All bundled together is 4836MB.