Erotic Weather Channels…yes, that’s plural

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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

  • http://www.vietamins.com Viet

    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’.

  • kevinnwhat

    hahaha wows

  • http://www.vietamins.com Viet

    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’.

  • kevinnwhat

    hahaha wows

  • クリスト不アー

    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?

  • Gaijin

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

  • クリスト不アー

    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?

  • Gaijin

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

  • benn

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

    Just kidding.

  • benn

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

    Just kidding.

  • Julia

    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*

  • Axion

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

  • Julia

    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*

  • DJkao

    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

  • http://www.koichiben.com koichi

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

  • Axion

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

  • Coyle

    The cake is a lie…

    the cake is a lie…

  • DJkao

    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

  • http://www.koichiben.com koichi

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

  • Coyle

    The cake is a lie…

    the cake is a lie…

  • http://www.tofugu.com Erin

    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)?

  • クリストフアー

    When I did my search, it gave me Erromango.

  • http://www.tofugu.com Erin

    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)?

  • クリストフアー

    When I did my search, it gave me Erromango.

  • Tamélina

    ” 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

  • Tamélina

    ” 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

  • Aeeda

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

  • Aeeda

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

  • DjKao

    @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.

  • DjKao

    @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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  • http://www.japanesewords.net/2009/02/27/common-japanese-words/ japanese words

    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.

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    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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