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Karakui YouTube Playlist for Winter 2025-26
Yes. It’s been a long time but we’re back with a new post. Woohoo! We were actually planning to do a playlist for every season but we seemed to have passed a whole year without one so better late than never. Many of the tracks here are about a year old with a few new…
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Hello, Again
Wow, our break lasted a few more months than planned. Sorry! We were practicing for the Okinawan Festival (it went well) and intended to return after that. That said, there’s a lot of news in Okinawa’s pop culture scene that we hope to catch up on. We’re working on a new YouTube playlist for fall/winter…
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Karakui YouTube Playlist for Summer 2024
We’ve been thinking of doing this and we finally got around to putting a playlist together. Although there is a kind of order to the playlist, it may be best to listen to it on shuffle. Leave a comment if you have any questions regarding any of the artists on the playlist. Enjoy!
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Our Favorites of 2023
It’s almost the end of the year 🎊 so here’s our favorite releases from 2023 🔥. We’re keeping to songs that are readily available on streaming services outside of Okinawa and Japan so sadly this leaves out all(?) of the shimauta music 😥 Favorite Rock Song: “Yoake” by seven oops (released on 3/26/2023) — This…
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Winding Down 2023
We’re getting close to the end of the year so we’ll be taking it a little slower with upcoming posts. But. There’s so much great news to write about so let’s look forward to a lot of content in 2024! We’ve been working on a few longer form posts that we’re hoping to put out…
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Karakui Joins the Fediverse
Although we’ve been on a server for a while, there was no way to easily set up a WordPress.com blog for the Fediverse until now. You can now follow us on the Fediverse @karakui.blog@karakui.blog. ✌️ Sorry in advance as we’ll also be testing a ‘Share this post’ to see how it works on @karakui@shimanuchu.social and…
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An Introduction (Pinned)
But first, a meme. The image (a meme) reads: Annie: “I hate when non-Luchuans portray us in the media” Paddie: “Then you do support Luchan artists, don’t you?” Annie: […] Paddie: “Don’t you?” When Twitter was the place all of us with similar interests would gather, we often saw the same complaints (very justified IMHO)…
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We’re Back!
Now that the Okinawan Festival is done, there’s a lot to catch up on. First off is trying out a new theme for the blog!
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New Karakui Merch
We have 👕. Now we have 📱 cases! Yay! 🎉 Get them at Cotton Bureau (high quality stuff).
