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How Godzilla Affects My Daily Commute
Posted on 30. Apr, 2009 by koichi.
Got this tip from @Beta_guy on Twitter. Every word of this video, so true. Brings a little tear to my eye. And is this the shortest Tofugu post you’ve ever seen? Yes it is! Want more Godzilla?
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Japanese Youtubers Part I: Moonkey4U
Posted on 19. Aug, 2007 by koichi.
When you’ve ridden the youtube village tricycle a few times, you’ll realize that there are a bunch of undeserving popular folks, and just as many talented unpopular ones. Moonkey4U falls into the latter category.Though Moonkey provides a variety of different videos, all of them are of high quality. Sometimes he just talks into the camera (great for Japanese listening practice – he’s a quick talker), sometimes he goes places and takes you with him (great for learning about Japanese culture and people), and other times he’ll do something completely confusing (good for variety, I suppose). All-in-all, Moonkey is going to be a great subscription for the youtubers reading on this site. I highly encourage you to check him out.
I don’t remember how I originally stumbled upon him (though I think it was through maxdesu’s subscription page), but I remember being immediately fascinated by his videos. This is why I subscribed: (more…)
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Profile 1: Segata Sanshiro > Chuck Norris
Posted on 25. Jun, 2007 by koichi.
*This article marks the beginning of the “profile” section, which discovers fairly obscure Japanese people that should be ruling the world. The goal is to find someone new every week (or every once in a while), so saying that, we’ll be adding a “profile” category over on the right. Check it out for new people (weeks after this article is written) to get more.Today’s profile is the infamous Segata Sanshiro. Although I wrote about him over in English Koichiben (now very dead, thanks to Tofugu), I don’t think that Mr. Sanshiro got the worship he deserves. So to start things off, I’m throwing out a repeat, but hopefully you can forgive me, because if not, Segata Sanshiro will come back from the dead and break your little PS3 fanboy/girl fingers.
Segata Sanshiro was created by Sega to promote the Sega Saturn, and he did a good job of it too. The only part of the world that the Sega Saturn did well in was Japan, and it was all thanks to the ridiculous Segata Sanshiro advertising campaign. In reality, the Sega Saturn wasn’t that great of a system. It had limited 3D capabilities (most of the games were 2d) and it was very difficult to code for (compared to the PS1). In order for Sega Saturn to live on and lead the successful life it did in Japan, Sega had to come up with a clever advertising campaign…here’s his story: (more…)
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