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Video: AKB48 Member Pretends to Make Cooking Video, Actually Makes Yam Porn
By George Art BakerIn Japan, advertising means one thing – cute girls doing stuff. Sometimes doing stuff while pouting, sometimes while looking frumpy. For Japanese marketing strategists there are...
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Move Over Madonna: J-pop Star Combines Qabala, Sushi… and Rockets
There are times when the news gets so depressing one considers watching every film featuring Christian Slater, just to be warmed by his wry sarcasm. I was amidst that scene where Kevin Costner clears...
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Sailor Moon: The Musical Returns, Akihabara Men Cry Rivers in Binary Code
Ok! Eyes front! What are you? That’s right O-T-A-K-U…Wow… sorry. Flashback to my secret training with the Akiba Otaku Taskforce. There were many bright lights…. and maids. I digress. For those of us...
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Pictures: Manga Casts Legendary Philosophers As High School Girls
“Tsundere, Heidegger and Me” is a manga with a difference. Author Junji Hotta has rounded up the most influential philosophers of the Enlightenment… and depicted them as high school girls with giant...
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The 5 Best Anime series of 2013
2013 at first glance was a bit of a let-down for anime, there were no movies like Spirited Away or Tekkonkinkreet to relaunch the genre onto the world stage, but fortunately there were a few shows that...
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3 Japanese Tourism Spots With a Dark, Hidden Past
Gunkanjima/Hashima Island(pic: 軍艦島)We last saw Daniel Craig pottering around here, dispatching noobs in Skyfall, but Hashima Island wasn’t always just a giant movie set. The island, nine miles off the...
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Evangelion Fans’￥100 Million Project Seeks to Pierce Moon With Legendary Weapon
This year marks the 20th anniversary of the anime Neon Genesis Evangelion and to celebrate, Japanese fans have launched a campaign to send a 27cm replica of the Spear of Longinus to the moon in 2016....
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Why Anime Japan 2015 Kicked Ass
Tokyo Desu writer and anime master George Art Baker attended this year’s Anime Japan and – as our shrewder readers will have guessed from the title – wasn’t disappointed.Anime Japan 2015 was the anime...
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