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The Japanese have done it! The life sized Gundam’s shall take over earth……or protect it from evil invaders. In any case, this is one of the coolest things EVER conceived! Take a gander below!
SOURCE:
GIZMODO: The Tokyo Gundam Like You Have Never Seen It Before
GUNDAM wiki page
Tags: Anime, Giant Robot, Japan, Japanese, Statue
Two days ago, Coca cola unveiled their new strange-yet-awesome combination drink, Green Tea flavored zero calorie Coca Cola plus in Japan. It contains something called Catechins that are supposed to help you not be fat or something. And Japanese women like to not be fat so they are banking on that fact. In about 2 weeks Pepsi will fire back with their own odd-yet-superb combination drink of their own, Pepsi Shiso, which incorporates Pepsi and a leaf called Shiso. All I know is that I need these two drinks in my belly, because as you all know, I love weird Japanese liquids entering my mouth!
Source Articles:
Japan Probe: Green tea-flavored Coca-Cola
Japan Probe: Pepsi Shiso
Tags: Coke, Drinks, Japan, Japanese, Liquids, Pepsi, Soft drinks
Yep, Warner Bros. (America) has acquired the rights to the immensely popular Japanese Manga series Death Note. I LOVED the Manga and I tolerated the Japanese live action adaption. I wonder who they chase after to direct this little gem. Let the casting rumors begin. One site I saw had already prematurely casted Zack Efron as the main character, Light Yagami (There will no doubt be a name change). Aside from the usual moans and groans, if you look at a side by side comparison of Light and Zack, I gotta say, it kinda looks right. Even down to the hairstyle. This should be quite interesting.
SOURCE ARTICLE:
Variety article: Warner brings ‘Death’ to bigscreen
INFORMATIONAL LINKS:
Death Note Wiki page
Japanese live action Death Note Wiki page
Death Note on Hulu
Embedded below is the newest trailer for the new Astroboy (鉄腕アトム) movie due out in October of this year. Done right, this could be the 2nd coming of the Astroboy character. The character designs look true to the originals, you know, as true as they could get being done by non-Japanese. Let’s just hope they get a coherent story out of this. It’s looking good at the moment.
The story of “Astroboy” centers around a boy robot built by a scientist to replace the son he lost in an accident. It started out as a manga then was made into a phenomenally popular Anime series that started in Japan and then came to US television screens soon after. It was created by the father of Japanese manga and animation, Osamu Tezuka.
Be sure to watch the trailer in HD. It makes ALL the difference.
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Here it is! The newest video from the Tokyo Storm Trooper, the Star Wars storm trooper who dances in various spots all around Tokyo, Japan. He’s dancing to a song by the famous-yet-now-defunct Korean girl group, S.E.S.
And who is under the helmet you ask? None other than famed Asian blogger Danny Choo. Read the rest of this entry »
A big story out of Japan recently seems to be about this young girl, Noriko Calderon. Her parents came to Japan in the 90’s illegally from the Philippines and considered Japan their home for many years. But now, all that illegal existing has caught up with them and they will now be deported back to the Philippines. One problem with that: Noriko was born in Japan and will now be without parents. In fact she had the option of leaving with them but she chose to stay behind with an aunt because she knows no other place as her home and only speaks Japanese. Under Japanese immigration law the parents can’t reenter Japan for another 5 years which is a long time but it’s much better than 10 or 20. Hopefully, something can be done to bring em back together during that time. But you just gotta love that name, Noriko Calderon.
FULL STORY:
BBC NEWS: Girl chooses Japan over parents
Tags: Asian, Immigration, Japan, Philip[ines
Yes, you heard right. Series creator Masashi Kishimoto has confirmed that the character of Uzumaki Naruto is not of Jewish heritage, despite what all anime fans of the show/manga may have always thought.
But I kid.
Turns out, starting April 15th, Hulu and Joost, thanx to a deal with VIZ MEDIA, will offer uncut and English dubbed episodes of the popular anime series, Naruto. Now I knew they offered Naruto (ナルト) on Hulu and last I checked they were in English and didn’t offer Japanese subtitled episodes. Then I checked again recently and now they offer subtitled episodes in Japanese. And now Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: Anime, Asian, Entertainment, Japan, Japanese, Television
They even protested it and everything but apparently the story was never true to begin with. It was reported all over the Chinese internet that two of Japans biggest AV stars, one I know of, Aoi Sora (蒼井そら, pictured left) and one I’ve never heard of until now, Matsushima Kaede (松島かえで, pictured right), was to make a special appearance on the eve of a special a anniversary near a memorial of all places. But it looks like the story is completely bogus. This apparently pissed off Sora who wrote about it in her blog. How or why this got rumor got started is beyond me. Damn, and I had my bags packed and everything….
FULL STORY:
AV Stars Not Amused by Chinese Web Fuss
LINKS:
AOI SORA’S OFFICIAL BLOG (in Japanese)
AOI SORA’S WIKI PAGE (in English)
MATSUSHIMA KAEDE’S OFFICIAL BLOG (in Japanese)
If you are a fan of Japan, film or animation and you like that all that mashed together in a big, boiling pot of goodness and you live in the Los Angeles area then this is your week. The second annual Read the rest of this entry »
….and if you think about it, he isn’t Japanese either. DRAGONBALL EVOLUTION, the live action adaption of the immensely popular Japanese Manga/Anime series is about to hit theaters this week (although the lack of television commercials and reviews have me thinking it will see a release as dismal as the last Street Fighter movie. Ugh!), so naturally the Otaku are all abuzz about the similarities between the original show/comic and it’s movie counterpart. One of the most frequent arguments I hear is “Goku isn’t even Japanese” or “Why is Goku played by a white dude? Goku is Japanese?”. But if the fanboys and fangirls really sat down Read the rest of this entry »