BLAST OFF…
Hello! Long time no see. I haven’t blasted off to somewhere new but I’ve been having difficulty making the spacecommute to here and back…
The bad news: I haven’t had time to keep up on awesome pop cultural happenings in order to maintain Galaxico’s =(
The good news: I HAVE had time to keep up on life [...]
Toys “R” Us in Japan
There are 150 Toys “R” Us stores in Japan and here’s one of them. While many of the storefronts are different, this suburbanesque one looks exactly like its American counterparts on the inside and out.
Geoffrey the Giraffe is in Japan
Being packed with Japanese toys, models, and games is enough reason to get be inside [...]
I hang out in the harbor
The port in Kushiro, Hokkaido is still a busy place but it was once bustling. The port is a base for hundreds if not thousands of fisherman and includes large facilities for bringing in woodchips (used by the city’s paper factories) and petroleum while shipping out milk to Tokyo, paper products, equipment, coal, and more.
Via [...]
Okamura Takashi & the Lemonheads
This grab from Mecha-Mecha Iketeru! (めちゃ²イケてるッ!) shows comedian and host Okamura Takashi (岡村隆史), center, with his posse of lemon-headed children. Spinning plates on sticks while dressed in full citrus fruit regalia and unitards is automatic awesome. The little chubby boy, named “タイガ”, kept dropping plates.
I caught this after watching the episode in early March, saved [...]
Bushido Sixteen
Bushido Sixteen (武士道シックスティーン) is a film about the rivalry between two girls who are very different types of kendo fighters. It all starts when casual newcomer Sanae, played by Kitano Kie (北乃きい), beats the dedicated, well-trained Kaori, Narumi Riko’s (成海璃子) character.
The film which is based on a novel is about girls and kendo. [...]
The song “that’s erotic to hear”
The girls of “Campus Night Fuji” release their first single, a song that sounds dirty but really isn’t…
“Do you like fooood?”
The “#1 pure and innocent girl” answers questions in English from one of Jyabekuri 007’s “seven middle-aged guys” and it’s funny…
“Shonen Young” by Denki Groove is forever incredible
“Shonen Young” by Denki Groove (電気グルーブ) is today’s daily dose of awesome…
Kitano Kie in CMnow
Kitano Kie (北乃きい) threw out the opening pitch (video) at an exhibition game between defending Japan Series champs the Yomiuri Giants and Hiroshima Toyo Carp on March 17th. So let’s celebrate with some grabs from her feature in this month’s CMnow Magazine.
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Friends of Japan, we come from Nevada
Yajima Biyoshitsu (Yazima Beauty Salon) is a group with real hit songs and now they have a movie…
Get out of my head! (vol. 1)
Double Trouble: “Love Forever/FOREVER LOVE” by Kato Miliyah x Shimizu Shota…