With the new year comes yet another new anime season. Last season (Fall 2012) boasted a pretty solid lineup, but how will Winter 2013 fare? I watched the best looking ones I could find, and the results might surprise you. Will this be another home run of an anime season, or will this winter be [...]
Ever wonder what TRON would be like if it were an electro-dubstep musical made by Japanese people? I know I have. But no longer do I have to use my imagination as Japan’s Wrecking Crew Orchestra and Minoru Fujimoto have teamed up to create the next best thing: styled dance numbers with LED light suits. [...]
Everybody knows about Japan and their samurai. But did you know men weren’t the only ones being trained to kill, lead, and fight with deadly weapons back in feudal Japan? Lesser known than their male counterparts, the onna bugeisha played an important role in Japan’s history and Empress Jingu is perhaps the most legendary onna [...]
I discovered a great band this week and they are called Livetune. We’ve done posts about Hatsune Miku and her Vocaloid powers before, but I’ve never really enjoyed the songs she was featured in. Until now. Their songs are upbeat, catchy, and make some of the best usage of Vocaloid technology in my opinion. For [...]
Message From Space is a Japanese film from 1978 that has no qualms about ripping many of its ideas from 1977′s Star Wars. The film was produced by Toei and cost $6 million dollars, the most expensive movie made in Japan up to that date. Despite the high production values, most of the special effects [...]
Tomorrow marks the one year anniversary of the Tohoku disaster so I thought it appropriate to waste your Saturday with some “Drive for Tohoku” CMs from Toyota. Toyota has played a large role in funding Japan’s recovery project and these new CMs have Kitano “Beat” Takeshi and Kimura Takuya driving around Fukushima for the sake [...]
Japan is a delightful place to get your drink on. The drinking age is 20 and public drinking and intoxication are perfectly legal. Not surprisingly, alcohol is a huge part of Japanese culture. Proper drinking etiquette was briefly touched on in my Japanese Etiquette: How to Save Yourself from Embarrassment in Japan post, but I [...]
