A new mascot was recently announced to take over the promotional role vacated by the scandal-plagued Tsuyoshi Kusanagi for the impending transition to all-digital broadcast in 2011.
Chidejika (a word-play on “terrestrial digital broadcast” and “deer”), the anemic-looking deer with antennae for antlers immediately spawned hundreds of antenna-horned characters, mostly cute little moe girls and parodies [...]
Posts Tagged ‘otaku’
I made plans last week to go to the Tokyo International Anime Fair in Tokyo Big Site. I had the train schedules worked out and the camera fully charged the night before but… somehow didn’t make it (it must have been raining that day ^_^;).
So I just had to see the whole thing online.
Fortunately, other [...]
Pink Tentacle has posted a nice collection of photos of manga-decorated trains in Japan. Here are three cute samples:
Anpanman Train on JR Shikoku from Aizu no SL no Heya
Kitaro Train on Tottori Line from Sasazuka Nakano Douri
Pokemon Train on Tohoku Shinkansen from Dai Fukuya
More photos at Pink Tentacle.
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- Crazy custom cars in Japan
- 10 awesome views of Tokyo’s Giant Gundam
- Tokyo’s giant Gundam is geared for battle
- Shohei Otomo’s intense illustration art
- iPhone meets Denso robotic arm, coolness ensues
- Tokyo: even the rest rooms are claustrophobic
- Import anime car overload in Tokyo
- Lunar probe Kaguya’s final shots of the Moon
- Hina: nifty little humanoid robot makes coffee — and a cute face while offering it up to you
- memory, a short film by Junichi Yamamoto
- » Picture of the Day: Japan in ruins | Blog | Ningin: [...] More of these pictures can be seen here. [...]
- Speak Japanese: Terminator factories!! Imagine an earthquake hitting one of these!
- Pearl Fujita: that wiesman car is soo sexy, very sleek, would love to take a ride it that
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Pink Tentacle
- YumeAnimation and music by Shunsuke Saito. + Video
Japan Probe
- Tommy Lee Jones drinks canned coffee beneath the cherry blossomsA behind-the-scenes look at the latest of Tommy Lee Jones’ Boss Coffee commercials (includes some comments from Jones): Jones’ co-stars in the commercial are a group of over-35 athletes who exhibit : boxer Daisuke Naito, baseball player Takeshi Yamasaki, and sumo wrestler Kaiou. As the athletes buy fortunes from the shrine at which Jones is [...]
What Japan Thinks
- Are the rumours about Japanese girls schools true?I am occasionally accused (quite rightly!) of spicing up story titles, but today this survey from goo Ranking needs no extra help from me, when they asked what rumours about Japanese girls schools are they curious to find out if they are true or not. Demographics Between the 20th and 22nd of January 2010 1,071 members of [...]
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