#sonim

Light Yagami: Hayato Kakizawa

L: Teppei Koike

Misa Amane: Harumi

Rem: Sonim (Kinky Boots)

Ryuk: Ryunosuke Onoda (West Side Story)

Soichiro Yagami: Takeshi Kaga

"Occupation of the TV Station": Saburo Musashi's family (Sho Sakurai) faces an armed group. "Yokai"—Aooni (Fuma Kikuchi) begins to act.

Shō Sakurai from the group "Arashi" plays the lead role in the third season of the drama series from the TV channel "NTV"—"Occupation of the TV Centre" (starts on 12 July, every Saturday at 21:00, P.M. on japanese time, and at 14:00 on european time. The first episode is ten minutes longer). The plot and stills from the first episode were released on the eve of the premiere.

The Occupation series began in 2023 with the drama "Hospital Occupation", followed by "Airport Occupation" in 2024, and now the third instalment. The main highlight of the series remains the plot about an armed group in masks that makes demands with strict deadlines, and as the story develops, the motives and identities of the criminals become known. However, the more that is revealed, the deeper the hidden secrets become. Fast pace, unexpected twists and constant tension have made this franchise popular. The new season is also a completely original thriller with tight timing and suspense that doesn't let the viewer relax for a second.

This time, the plot revolves around the armed group "Yokai", whose members hide their faces behind masks of Japanese demons. They take over the "Nippon TV" station, which is broadcasting live coverage of the Tokyo gubernatorial election. The leader of the group, wearing a Hannya mask, takes 500 hostages and declares: "This television station is now under the control of the Yokai group. If you interrupt the broadcast, we will kill all the hostages".

At that moment, Saburo Musashi (Sakurai), his wife Yuko (Manami Higa), daughter Emiri (Honoka Yoshida) and colleague Sakura Izumi (Sonin) are in the building. Trying not to be noticed, they look for a way out. Meanwhile, Tokyo Police Security Chief Keigo Yasiro (Katsunori Takahashi) encounters Officer An Honjo (Kumi Takiyu), who has been assigned to command the operation despite her limited experience. A conflict erupts between them.

Will the BCCT team be able to free the hostages and prevent a catastrophe?

Against the backdrop of these events, Ao-oni (Blue Mask)—Koichi Yamato (Fuma Kikuchi), who escaped in the finale of the previous season—appears. He begins to take action. Musashi faces an even more insidious conspiracy and a deadly trap. An exciting thriller begins, where blinking means missing out on life.

The drama's official website features a special page for the Yokai Party, led by Hanaya, which is participating in the Tokyo gubernatorial election. Their motto is "Look into the darkness to reveal the truth." What "truth" do they intend to reveal? What "dark sides" are hidden behind the candidates? The mystery begins to unfold…

Aragon💛 -> Boleyn💚 transition during the Japan Megasixes:

Heart sign! 🫶 https://x.com/sometsur/status/1885304606261137766 feat. Sonim-Aragon x Meimi-Boleyn

Fist bump! 👊 https://x.com/kumakokangeki/status/1885567682906644996 feat. Emiko-Aragon x Maho-Boleyn

High-five! 🙌 https://x.com/Yaitan_kpop/status/1886036158804812209 feat. Emiko-Aragon x Meimi-Boleyn

Peace sign! ✌️ https://x.com/kinako_m_u/status/1885716531403005959 feat. Sonim-Aragon x Maho-Boleyn

Some JP internet slang trivia for this last one:

Photo credits: https://x.com/sometsur/status/1885304606261137766 (cropped, Meimi and Sonim are so cute)

I haven’t seen anyone make one on Tumblr… but I absolutely love it! I watched many videos to get the transcript right haha

Transcript and translation are mine (source: I’m Japanese, but I have no academic experience translating from Japanese). Please credit me / tag me if you use it! Notes at the end.

Japanese

Are you ready? 東京、行くよ！

旦那が 私を追い出すなんて、Baby ありりりりりりりえない

別れられると思うなんて、本当にあり (夫婦関係を取り消すなんてあげない)

りりりりりりり　りえなかったわ！

悪かったわ悪気なくて、楽しけりゃいいじゃん！　ありえない！

頭、頭冷やして傷付けたくはないのー

でも　マジで　でも　嫌なら　私を壊せない

やりたいように　変えるだけ　ブレない　この心　おおー

椅子に、一人、ここ私のお城よ　

やりたい事は　好きにするわ、そう

クイーンは私だよ、跪きなさいよ！

やりたい事、やりたい事、なんて声を合わせて歌おう！

やりたい事、やりたい事、ならば愛して　ああー

愛はもう良い、愛されなくても良いわ、乗り越える時だわ

愛されなくてもー　それだけじゃない！

離婚！

打首！

死亡！

離婚！

打首！

死別！

そう！

SIX！

Romaji

Are you ready? Tokyo, ikuyo!

Danna ga watashiwo oidasunante baby aririririririenai

Wakarerareruto omounante hontouni ari (fuufukankeiwo torikesunante agenai)

Riririririri rienakattawa!

Warukattawa waruginakute tanoshikerya iijan! Arienai!

Atama atama hiyashite kizutsuketakuwa naino

Demo majide demo iyanara watashiwo kowasenai

Yaritaiyouni kaerudake burenai kono kokoro ooh

Isuni, hitori, koko watashino oshiroyo!

Yaritaikotowa sukini suruwa, sou

Queen wa watashidayo, hizamazukinasaiyo!

Yaritaikoto, yaritaikoto, nante koewo agete utaou!

Yaritaikoto, yaritaikoto, naraba aishite aah

Ai wa mou ii, aisarenakutemo iiwa, norikoeru toki dawa

Aisarenakutemo ooh soredakejanai!

Rikon!

Uchikubi!

Shibou!

Rikon!

Uchikubi!

Shibetsu!

Sou!

SIX!

Translation

Are you ready? Tokyo, let’s go!

My husband is driving me away? Baby I can’t believe it!

You think that I would leave you? / You think you are capable of leaving me? I really can’t believe it! (I won’t let you revoke our married relationship)

I couldn’t believe it!

I’m sorry I didn’t feel bad! As long as I’m having fun! I can’t believe it!

Keep a cool head! I don’t want to hurt you / I don’t want to hurt it

But – for real – but – if you don’t want to – you can’t break me

I’ll change it as much as I want, this unwavering heart

Alone, on a chair, this is my castle!

I’ll do what I want, however I want, yes

I am the queen, kneel before me!

What I want to do, what I want to do, is for us to raise our voices and sing!

What I want you to do, what I want you to do is to love me

I don’t need love anymore, I don’t need to be loved, it’s time to overcome it

Even if I’m not loved, that is not it!

Divorced!

Beheaded!

Died!

Divorced!

Beheaded!

Bereaved!

Yes!

SIX!

Notes (very long I know, read what you want, I’m just passionate about linguistics)

Okay, Japanese is a tricky language to translate due to its grammar and syntax, which is very different from English. I did my best to show nuance, but it’s also 3 AM lol. If you have questions or remarks, I’d love to discuss them!

Aragon: heard 2 versions, the one in parentheses is probably a mistake, a different line in the main song (not 100% sure, as there are no recordings that I know of) – but it gives us an insight into No Way! For the second line, I gave 2 possible translations. Japanese is very much a context-based language, and sometimes things can be interpreted in different ways (the agglutinative language and homophones combo is strooong). Here, I like that both Henry’s and Aragon’s points of view are included! Japanese being syllable-based makes it sometimes hard to put a lot of meaning in a short line, but here the ambivalence works great imo.

Boleyn: the Japanese version kept Boleyn’s playfulness, which is so cool. Love how they also used an idiom “Atama hiyashite” – followed by, once again, an ambiguous syntax which gives us 2 very funny interpretations: I don’t want to hurt you (Henry’s feelings), or hurt the head! The repetition is for “head”. The transition is a bit clumsy from Aragon’s part, but tense change is great (Aragon is old news to Boleyn!)

Seymour: I feel like this is the closest meaning-wise to the original English. The emphasis is on heart (kokoro), which is meaningful ofc.

Cleves: okay, “chair” instead of throne is UGLY. But it is a chair. I guess the rhythm won over lyricism here. I like that “get down” was translated into the specific verb “to kneel” (which I learnt translating this). It makes up for the chair lol.

Howard: another case of agglutination galore. Even though the proposition “yaritaikoto” (= what one wants to do) remains the same, meaning changes with morphemes, hence the different forms when translated. She’s also nicer lol, it’s not your favourite queen song, but she wants us to sing together. I like that the transition with Parr is with A for Ai, love.

Parr: I’m being repetitive once again, agglutination + context and all that here. Great use of love as both noun and verb, which remains the same morphologically in Japanese. “I don’t need to be loved”, while remaining the same, becomes even if I’m not loved… uniting all six queens 🥺❤️

@/emksuzuki on Instagram, 29 August 2024

Japan Tour cast!

Top row: Emiko Suzuki, Meimi Tamura, Mayha Harada, Eliana, Airi Suzuki, Sora Kazuki