The always charming Mari diary (blog) is something, “worse than Azuki Pepsi(red bean Pepsi), SOY SAUCE SODA.”
(Demented machine translation)
*‘Oishi’ aka “delicious” is a delightfully trite expression Japanese use every five minutes in order to drive gaijin/foriegners crazy when they are offered Surging Eel soda (3Yen).
I first reported in June of 2007 about the Gigantor erection in Kobe Japan. Well, now Gigantor’s fully erected.
According to Kyodo Press, Gigantor aka Tetsujin 28-go (Iron Man No. 28) was unveiled in Kobe’s Nagata Ward. The 15-meter-tall steel statue weighs in at 50 tons of fun. Unlike Tokyo’s lame Gundam statue (3Yen) that was torn down after a few months for no reason, Kobe’s Gigantor will remain standing as a permanent installation.
For more pictures and info, refer to the official website: www.Kobe-Tetsujin.com
Sixty-foot Gigantor bot towers over Japan
September 29, 2009 3:04 PM PDT | CNET…..more…
On the FG forum, 2triky posted this seeming fake, Japanese TV commercial for Bandai’s “Ikemen Bank”(pretty-boy bank).
However, it turns out to be real product and it even has a movie version!(?)
For more details read, NipponCinema.com.
From the always informative PinkTentacle.com, is word of a Japanese eyeball bot for gamer furries.
I’m on the road today, but while I’m on vacation check out fashion victims in Tokyo at taeyoung.tumblr.com
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Crayon Shinchan bites…
…the dust.
Body found in mountain may be missing ‘Crayon Shinchan’ cartoonist
MAEBASHI, Japan, Sept. 19 (AP) – (Kyodo)—A climber found a body, which may be that of Yoshito Usui, cartoonist of the popular “Crayon Shinchan” series adapted for TV and film, in a mountain straddling Gunma and Nagano prefectures on Saturday morning, police said.
The body will be recovered from the bottom of a steep cliff on Mt. Arafune on Sunday to verify whether it is indeed Usui, 51, who has been missing since Sept. 11…more..
I cannot say I was a big fan—“Crayon Shin-chan” (Wiki), which is a turd of a program that makes Beavis and Butthead seem like meta-philosophic studies.
Over on the WFMU’s Beware of the Blog, on their radio show, Mining the Audio Motherlode (MP3s), they have posted an MP3 to the “Greatest Japanese (Soft) Rock Album Ever” according to Rolling Stone Japan’s 100 Greatest Japanese Rock Albums.
Happy End ~ “Kazemachi Roman”
From the album: Taifuu (MP3) [the first album listed towards the top of the page]
Speaking of politics and aliens, Japan’s most esteemed alien, Rob Pongi, has send me the following cautionary tale from Nippon: “My Girlfriend is The President”….
Go ahead, I dare you…
….Just try not OD on saccharine-sweet Japanese magazine scans of Tokyo street fashion at the photo-scan blog ☆GIMME CULTURE~♪
(japanesemagazinescans.tumblr.com)
As I have reported here before about ‘Forest (Mori) Girls’ fashions, the sweet “loli” look has been around Japan for a long time even though it isn’t as much fun as goth Lolita style.
These fashions based on massively-layered, print fabric provide a totally-covered burka look results in a lot of girls trying to hide behind their fashions such as these girls featured in the huge photo blog fuckyeahsweetlolita.tumblr.com .
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