World Wide Mike » music http://mmm.beachtemple.com/blog Notes from the Journey that is Life Sun, 12 Apr 2009 12:16:14 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Sumiko http://mmm.beachtemple.com/blog/2008/12/19/sumiko/ http://mmm.beachtemple.com/blog/2008/12/19/sumiko/#comments Fri, 19 Dec 2008 10:17:34 +0000 Mike http://mmm.beachtemple.com/blog/?p=163 One Saturday in October Shux and I headed out of town a little ways to an American-style shopping mall. At one of the clothing stores two songs were being played on repeat over the loudspeakers. The songs were in Japanese, so I asked what it was, thinking I’ll go look for the CD later on. They said it was Sumiko, an anime (cartoon) character.

There’s tons of anime characters in Japan, and I assumed this was yet another one. But I couldn’t find anything on Sumiko on the net (as it turns out, I was looking for スミコ while her name is スミ子). Even worse, I couldn’t find anything at the record stores either. I thought it’d be easy, given the amount of publicity the songs were getting at that clothing store.

This week I was at the Tower Records in Shinjuku and decided to get to the bottom of this matter. I asked at the information counter about this Japanese anime character named Sumiko… and after a few minutes of the lady Googling, we realized Sumiko was owned by that clothing store, and the merchandise was only available there.

Now that I know how to spell her name, though, I was able to find the music videos online. Enjoy!




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Pure gold. If you’re unsure who all those strange people are, read about the video here.

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