Erotic Weather Channels…yes, that’s plural

11. Nov, 2007 View Comments

erotic weather

If you take a look at the sunny days, and you happen to be able to read katakana, you’ll notice that they spell out the word エロ (ero), which, if you do read katakana, you’ll know notice means “erotic.” Considering they were showing eight different locations, as well as the weather for each of them between 6am – 9pm, the chances for this coming up is nil to none. Unbelievably, something similar happened at a different time on the Wii Weather Channel:

ero manga

According to Japanmanship, the Japanese Wii Weather Channel shows an island in the Pacific, South of Port Villa, called “Erromango.” It’s in the south of province Vanuatu (who knows where the hell that is); that’s somewhere near Australia / New Zealand. See the picture below:

vanuatu port-vila

It’s slightly to the South of the green arrow. Let’s zoom in a little bit and switch to satellite

vanuatu port-vila

Here’s where you can find it on google maps

The great thing about this obscure little island, though, is that somehow Japan decided to translate this as “Ero-Manga” (i.e. Erotic Manga / Comics). It’s a tough little island to find, though, so expect to spend too much of your day searching. If you do happen to find it (in English or Japanese), please let us know. I don’t think anyone will find it though.

Ero-Weather Source: Japan Probe

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  1. Viet 12. Nov, 2007 at 1:06 am

    Apparently there is a city called Happy Land in Erromango. The place sounds deceiving. I bet they offer cake >.>

    If you tilt your head to the right it while looking at the first image the katakana spells out ‘ho’.

  2. kevinnwhat 12. Nov, 2007 at 3:18 am

    hahaha wows

  3. Viet 12. Nov, 2007 at 2:06 am

    Apparently there is a city called Happy Land in Erromango. The place sounds deceiving. I bet they offer cake >.>

    If you tilt your head to the right it while looking at the first image the katakana spells out ‘ho’.

  4. kevinnwhat 12. Nov, 2007 at 4:18 am

    hahaha wows

  5. クリスト不アー 12. Nov, 2007 at 10:43 am

    I’m not sure on the English translation, but this island was ‘formerly known a “Martyr’s Island” by the Presbyterian missionaries in the 19th century, because of the alleged risk attached to missionary activity there’. (info. via Wiki) Yes, not the best source to attend to, but it’s still early in the morning and I’m lazy ^_^.

    I see the “HO” that the little sunshines make, but I was wondering if the formation of the clouds make some kind of kanji?

  6. Gaijin 12. Nov, 2007 at 11:06 am

    OH, エロ, HO.
    Three different ways to read it, forming a sentence! (the HO being laughter)

  7. クリスト不アー 12. Nov, 2007 at 11:43 am

    I’m not sure on the English translation, but this island was ‘formerly known a “Martyr’s Island” by the Presbyterian missionaries in the 19th century, because of the alleged risk attached to missionary activity there’. (info. via Wiki) Yes, not the best source to attend to, but it’s still early in the morning and I’m lazy ^_^.

    I see the “HO” that the little sunshines make, but I was wondering if the formation of the clouds make some kind of kanji?

  8. Gaijin 12. Nov, 2007 at 12:06 pm

    OH, エロ, HO.
    Three different ways to read it, forming a sentence! (the HO being laughter)

  9. benn 13. Nov, 2007 at 5:50 am

    Well, that’s what you get when your language is just a bunch of boxes and squiggles.

    Just kidding.

  10. benn 13. Nov, 2007 at 6:50 am

    Well, that’s what you get when your language is just a bunch of boxes and squiggles.

    Just kidding.

  11. Julia 13. Nov, 2007 at 10:29 am

    Man thats not an island I’d want to live on O__o Not like there is going to be any large population but I’m just saying…think of all the otakus ><

    and as for エロ
    *facepalms*

  12. Axion 13. Nov, 2007 at 11:22 am

    Never hear of Vanuatu? Didn’t they do an entire season of Survivor there?

  13. Julia 13. Nov, 2007 at 11:29 am

    Man thats not an island I’d want to live on O__o Not like there is going to be any large population but I’m just saying…think of all the otakus ><

    and as for エロ
    *facepalms*

  14. DJkao 13. Nov, 2007 at 1:47 pm

    Lol. you said find EroManga. Here’s the best i could do. It’s in Australia somewhere.

    http://i217.photobucket.com/albums/cc50/djkao/f...

  15. koichi 13. Nov, 2007 at 2:17 pm

    wow, nice job. I wonder if we could find actual pictures of the place / people of erromanga (sp?)

  16. Axion 13. Nov, 2007 at 12:22 pm

    Never hear of Vanuatu? Didn’t they do an entire season of Survivor there?

  17. Coyle 13. Nov, 2007 at 3:11 pm

    The cake is a lie…

    the cake is a lie…

  18. DJkao 13. Nov, 2007 at 2:47 pm

    Lol. you said find EroManga. Here’s the best i could do. It’s in Australia somewhere.

    http://i217.photobucket.com/albums/cc50/djkao/fff.png

  19. koichi 13. Nov, 2007 at 3:17 pm

    wow, nice job. I wonder if we could find actual pictures of the place / people of erromanga (sp?)

  20. Coyle 13. Nov, 2007 at 4:11 pm

    The cake is a lie…

    the cake is a lie…

  21. Erin 13. Nov, 2007 at 7:03 pm

    Koichi:

    I’m sure you know a lot of guys who could tell you what people in エロマンガ look like. In all serious, though, is it Erromanga or Erromango (as you wrote in your post)?

  22. クリストフアー 13. Nov, 2007 at 8:12 pm

    When I did my search, it gave me Erromango.

  23. Erin 13. Nov, 2007 at 8:03 pm

    Koichi:

    I’m sure you know a lot of guys who could tell you what people in エロマンガ look like. In all serious, though, is it Erromanga or Erromango (as you wrote in your post)?

  24. クリストフアー 13. Nov, 2007 at 9:12 pm

    When I did my search, it gave me Erromango.

  25. Tamélina 14. Nov, 2007 at 1:28 pm

    ” I wonder if we could find actual pictures of the people of erromanga (sp?)”
    Here (but a small one): ^ ^
    http://www.vanuatutourism.com/vanuatu/cms/fr/is...

  26. Tamélina 14. Nov, 2007 at 2:28 pm

    ” I wonder if we could find actual pictures of the people of erromanga (sp?)”
    Here (but a small one): ^ ^
    http://www.vanuatutourism.com/vanuatu/cms/fr/islands/erromango.html

  27. Aeeda 17. Nov, 2007 at 5:49 pm

    ZOMG! The most horrible thought came into my mind… Ero Mangoes…! ARGH get out of my head!

  28. Aeeda 17. Nov, 2007 at 6:49 pm

    ZOMG! The most horrible thought came into my mind… Ero Mangoes…! ARGH get out of my head!

  29. DjKao 02. Dec, 2007 at 7:25 am

    @tamélina’s link

    Near the top of the page there is language selection, click English (Japanese would probably work. I just didn’t try it.) The picture on the left collomn is a map of Erro Manga. If you zoom in on that pic. there is a city called Happy Land. That’s wild.

  30. DjKao 02. Dec, 2007 at 8:25 am

    @tamélina’s link

    Near the top of the page there is language selection, click English (Japanese would probably work. I just didn’t try it.) The picture on the left collomn is a map of Erro Manga. If you zoom in on that pic. there is a city called Happy Land. That’s wild.

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  32. japanese words 01. Mar, 2009 at 10:15 pm

    I had never heard of this before. I wonder if it was intentional or not. Or if it was just the right amount of cloudy and sunny days.

  33. Tom Ford Sunglasses 24. May, 2009 at 6:34 am

    I searched for the place and could not find it either.

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    I bet she felt embarrassed when she saw the footage after wards.

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    I bet she felt embarrassed when she saw the footage after wards.

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    I searched for the place and could not find it either.

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    I searched for the place and could not find it either.

  38. rainbowhill 05. Feb, 2010 at 11:35 am

    Eromanga is a small town in SW Queensland http://bit.ly/ciSKZa << Famous for being furthest town from any Ocean

  39. Rainbowhill 05. Feb, 2010 at 6:35 pm

    Eromanga is a small town in SW Queensland http://bit.ly/ciSKZa << Famous for being furthest town from any Ocean

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