In the midst of a declining Japanese comics industry and a world-wide recession, who’s hiring the ‘hikikomori‘ in the comics field? That is, who wants a job being a butt-boy for a freakazoid “manga executive”?
Comic Book Jobs: Who’s Hiring? Tokyopop, VCU, Hollywood & Warner Brothers! comics.gearlive.com — Tuesday October 13, 2009 10:35 pm
….If you love the manga and you don’t mind getting coffee or picking up the dry cleaning for the busy manga executive on the go, Tokyopop just might be your place. They’re looking for a “Personal Assistant, Office of the CEO” who can “support all facets of the CEO’s activities, including administrative areas, business development areas, creative areas, personal and time management areas, and any other areas required by the CEO…more...
Here is torrid Tokyo some women have been wearing high boots all summer, but with the start of the fall kinky boots have become de rigueur.
Related 3Yen reports include:
—Tokyo’s pigeon-toed goth fashion show
—Japanese “O” Legs
Rob Pongi, master of all things Japanese (except his ex-girlfriend) offers this iPhone app for Japanese sexual harassment writing to us:
“Here is a WONDAFURU video of the all-new Japanese Up-Skirt iPhone application.”
Nothing says Yokoso/Welcome to Japan more than a squid…and better yet, a ROBOT SQUID!
Pink Tentacle…Hakodate showcased a pair of squid robots designed to attract attention to their area…. some entertaining tourism promotion videos...more...
It’s hard to tell the purpose of the “Ancients” in creating this gold artifact, but it’s amusing to think of all the trouble the Japanese company had deciding what to call this gold geegaw .
The Mainichi has a slide-show of the Tokyo “Itasha G Fesuta“: Itasha is the Japanese word for cars with freakazoid paint jobs* with characters from anime and manga and video games, and Fesuta is the mangled Japanese pronunciation of the word “festival.” The event also featured cosplayers dressed as popular female characters (but half of the cosplayers were male).