A couple of weeks ago I found this small plastic boob-headed doll attached to a bottle of green tea as an Omake/gift.
I was wondering what the hell it was and now there an explainable reason for the creepy boob horror (besides “Japan”). It’s the illness of the Japanese illustrator Toshitaka Nabata and his kimokawaii—ugly (kimoi) and cute (kawaii)— book, Kobito Dukan , which literally means “dwarf encyclopedia.”
Kobito Dukan for 3DS will give you dwarf nightmares
PocketGamer.co.UK—
Meet Kobito Dukan: a Japanese 3DS game based on the bestselling ‘Illustrated Encyclopedia of Dwarfs’. Apparently, these dwarfs are all the rage in Japan.…more…
One of our favorite Japanese musicians, Towa Groove-is-in-the-Heart Tei, Sebastian Masuda of 6%DOKIDOKI, and wacky BAKUBAKU DOKIN get their dogs on and sing the engrish alphabet. Enjoy!
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If you need more of an explanation besides “JAPANESE,” find additional info and kinky photos at tokyofashion.com:
Towa Tei “Wordy” Mind-Blowing Music Video & Behind-the-Scenes Photos by Art Director Sebastian Masuda of 6%DOKIDOKI
Close-up of the Tokyo GUNDAM’s robo-rear…
…Rest-of-the-story in the previous 3Yen report: Full-sized ‘Flower Gundam’ for Tokyo? (3Yen / 2012-04-07)
As I walk by tiny tobacconist shop at my train station everyday, I marvel at this “Mild Seven–Impact Menthol” poster.
Sometimes you gotta wonder what JT—the quazi-governmental Japan Tobacco Inc.—is smoking?
Finally just yesterday, I realized what the smorking poster reminded me of…
To quote Japan Tobacco’s breathless advertising copy, Mild Seven Impact Menthol has a, “strong and clear menthol sensation combined with impactful* smoking experience” that “expresses the product's dynamism and strong, clear menthol sensation.” Yeah, ri-i-ight.
Today SankakuComplex.com is featuring what they call Queen’s Blade Rebellion Tentacle Assault. However, it looks like the The Call of Cthulhu* to me.
NSFW OYS †
M0aR via SankakuComplex.com
†Not Safe For Work (or your sanity).
The Easter Bunny in Japan is nearly as strange as our post two days ago on Good Friday.
Learn more about Rabikurin, the Japanese Easter Bunny and view additional photos in the Comments section.
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The Anime News Network reports that the fun-loving folks of the Gundam Project (3Yen/2009-07-14) will be rebuilding a the full-sized, 16 meter tall Gundam again in Tokyo’s “DiverCity” in the Odaiba district (Google Earth).
The “Gundam Front (gundamfront-tokyo.com) theme park will be reopening on April 14. According to ANN there will be a event from September 29 through October 28 as part of the “29th National Urban concrete Greenery Fair Tokyo” that will include “Flower Gundam” gayly, “decorated with or repainted with flowers …”.
Today is Good Friday so let’s be sacrilegiously Japanese with this NSFW (Not Safe For Work) p0rn version of the Crucifixion of Ultraman.
For other Japanese twists on Good Friday and Christmas, check out the previous 3Yen posts about Jesus Saves Tokyo (3Yen / 2007-12-07).
…and the Crucified Claus (3Yen / 2007-12-07).
MOAR!…
Gloomy Bear’s fame has fallen forcing him to take a job as a victim/stunt double with the Tokyo Metro. I spotted this new series of Tokyo subway “manners” posters* that has started in April, the beginning of the new Japanese fiscal year.
As I explained in Gloomy Bear’s bloody Christmas (3Yen / 12/22/2006) , way, waaay back in his heydays, Gloomy Bear was a fun-loving, pink bear that ate humans and excessively cute characters produced by Sanrio’s Hello Kitty, et al (Wiki). Sadly, Gloomy’s decline has forced him to find a day job with more security—In a lame disguise, he’s now campaigning for better Tokyo Metro train manners.
Out with the old gloomy bear (L), and in with the new Ambiguous Bear© (R)!
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