Today’s Pink Tentacle shows many of the official bloodsucking characters promoting blood donation in Japan.
I especially like, “Buratto-kun, whose name means ‘blood boy’” employed by Aomori prefecture…”
It interesting that the blood-sucker Buratto-kun says, “GIVE BLOOD SAVE LIFE” (sic). Japanese blood drives have either refused foreign blood donors as was done here in the 80s and 90s, or more commonly nowadays they take foreign/gaijin donations and throw it away. I suppose that the use of the engRishy “SAVE LIFE” rather than ’save lives’ is a hint to native English speakers that the campaign does not want alien blood, ha, ha.
I have to say I prefer these so-called “maid” mascots promoting blood donation in Azabujuban Tokyo a while back. Enlarge.
For the past two weeks, this item has ranked first place on Rakuten, one of Japan’s largest online shopping malls, in the men’s miscellaneous undergarments section — the “Men’s Premium Brassiere“….
Also, I think the girl on the bottom left of the photo needs to have some wine in her glass to toast the mermaid in kinky black rubber.
Alternatively, maybe the fish need to drink a lot more wine so that Miss Empty Glass could look more like this. Perhaps for more fun, the fish need to go here (previous 3Yen report).
Perfect for a pool party. Check out Jenny Pokryvailo’s chaise lounge via the Haatar - student site of industrial design, bezalel— a chaise lounge that leaves a killer koi tattoo imprinted on your body.
I say a “killer koi tattoo” very literally. The koi/carp is a popular theme of women connected to Japanese yakuza gangs to show loyalty/affiliation/obedience to the gang or a particular gang member.
Also check out the Japanese booth-babe with a cellphone barcode tattoo in the previous 3Yen report, “Scan my skin.”
Offered on the Rinkya blog are these Japanese mushroom massagers that look just like the SuperMegaMagic Mushrooms of Nintendo’s Mario. Cute!
Now, look again at how the smiling model in the top picture is using the vibrator. Cute! Mushroom vibrator available at Rinkya.
A couple of years ago I wrote about the Endless Bubble Wrap Machine. This keychain provides an endless supply of bubblewrap so you can sit around popping bubble wrap all day just like when you were a kid.
Now according to my friend, Rob Pongi, the Wizard of Weird and all things Japanese, Bandai Toys has come up with new variation—the Awesome MUGEN EDAMAME KEYCHAIN. .
Just like obsessive popping of bubblewrap, popping steamed soybeans out of their pod to snack on while drinking beer is a favorite compulsive pastime of otaku. Watch the YouTube below to get a feel for the obsessive ‘puni-puni-puni-puni’ pop-pop-pop-pop of Japan’s favorite drinking snack—steamed soybeans/edamame.
Yeah, yeah, the headline has a semicolon not a comma between “recession” and “cheer”. However, it still sounds like the G20 nations should cheer and rejoice that Japan is joining in the recession but failed to (because they were too depressed or something).
This is Japan’s first “official” recession in seven years, but life here in Tokyo goes on. The Prada and LV stores on Omotesando in Tokyo’s Harajuku were packed last Sunday and lines in front of the new H&M was more than three hours long.
International Travel Examiner: November 14, 3:30 PM …Japan celebrates the Christmas tradition and exchanges gifts, eats turkey on Christmas Day and enjoys Christmas trees. Santa Claus is a god or priest called Hoteiosho and he is an old man with a huge pack…more…
Shrine maidens are pack “thousand year candy” (chitoseame) for lucky kids on today’s Shichi-Go-San (”7-5-3″), a traditional holiday. Via Photo Journal - The Mainichi Daily News
Shichi-Go-San is is a traditional rite of passage and festival day in Japan for three and seven year-old girls and three and five year-old boys, held annually on November 15th. The ritual involveds visiting a shrine to drive out evil spirits and wish the children a long healthy life. (Wikipedia)
Damm.
I missed this creepy piggy bank that Bandai brought out last April, but this PR photo arrived today showing it chomping down 500 yen ($5 USD) coins… NOM NOM NOM.
November 12, 2008 - A FP Photo—bank with a face to swallow coins “Facebank”, produced by Banpresto, a subsidiary of Japan’s toy giant Bandai, in Tokyo…a light sensor on its eyes and starts to chomp a coin when the user insert a coin into his mouth.
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