Mari - diary

Sonic Unleashed - E3 2008: Beastly Trailer

Sonic Unleashed - E3 2008: Beastly Trailer. I liked Sonic before.< br />

Wow I didn't know that a little boy died because they played "Naruto" make-believe play. Japanese animation have many problems to air in the US, because American regulation is much harder than Japan. Natuto is aired at 7pm for kids in Japan but in the US it can be aired after 10:30 PM because they have some violent scene. One piece was changed in order to air in prime time. Guns changed into toy hummer, tabacco changed into candy....ha ha ha Funny part is Dragon ball, scene that Goku show his little boy origianly was changed that Goku wore Pants. (I am not sure this happend in the US but it happend somewhere) Japanese broadcasting rule will be so loose. Maybe you will be surprised to see what kids watch eveyday.

I got a great photo accidentaly

Ahhh Cute!! Newton's Breakfast.

Sony announced they have changed the meaning of "VAIO". It was Video Audio Integrated Operation but it became Visual Audio Intelligent Organizer since two days ago. So?

This is a collection of "I got a great photo accidentally". I love this pot face and the Asasyoryu and Koizumi one. This weather report is a miracle, because sunny day marks create the words ero (erotic) in Katakana "

Talking about erotic, this adultsmosaic.com creates erotic mosaic pictures from your own images. ask-art has some nude photos but they won't be -18, 'cause they are just dolls. (maybe)

Talking about dolls (ha ha ha), this is a great shop "be a doll.com". You can make your own figuare. Look at the samples, they are all great! It will be a nice idea to make a friend one as a birthday gift, $160 is not expensive with such high quality. In Japan, this site creates your figure and the price is only $40. You have to choose body parts from the body menu though. Face quality is pretty good. This page shows how to make a figure with sample of "Ishizuka" (of Debuya = fatman show). Look at this! Pretty good.

great rent photos

Ohh omoshiroi

Ahhhh! I love this site. "It's lovely! I will take it!"is a collection of poorly chosen photos from real estate listings. It's unbelievable for me that they show such pics. Ha ha ha "I love Tina!" . Of course they will change the wallpaper then rent for a new person, right? In Japan we can see usually only layouts "Madori". It's very rare to show the inside or the room and house like this real Tokyo estate. For example, I search rent on Yahoo real estate. I pick apartment 2 rooms, 5 minutes walk from "the most popular spot Jiyugaoka" station. Here is the result. Hmm, the rent is cheaper than I guessed, maybe most are old. Japanese like new rooms and tend to hate old buildings. Actually I chose my room because it was pretty new. So if you don't care about old buildings, you may find a reasonable rent room in a good spot in Tokyo. >

I said coin banks had good sales because of the recession mood. This is a new coin bank from Takara "Rollplaying Tower", you have to go up 100 stairs tower while fighting with monsters. Like a role-playing game, when you save coins, it becomes money of the hero in the game and he can get new armor and swords. The bank has over 160 items and over 180 kinds of monsters. I like this idea, I may save money in this way. (Maybe.) >

I don't think so

The Beijing Olympics will come soon, this is "Todas as logos de Olimpiadas, desde 1896". They are all good designs. By the way, the location of the next Olympics will be decided soon, right? Tokyo??

Do you remember the old 80s game Spelunker? He appears as the bottle caps. Cute!

This is an interesting article for me. Usually Japanese books are written in vertical lines, but young people are used to horizontal writing because of cell phones and the Internet. Some publishers started to sell books written horizontally. I love to read books and I love the Internet. But I would love to read regular books.

Talking about books, some paperbacks of literary masterpieces were published with cover designs by manga comic artists and they made good sales."No Longer Human" of Osamu Dazai has cover work of Ken Obata (Death Note), and Ken Obata drew a cover for "Kokoro" of Natsume Soseki too. I am not sure they are much for those books, to be honest, I don't like them, but they have a good reputation usually. But the cover of "The dancing girl of Izu" by Nobel Prize winner Yasunari Kawabata is said to be "too much". Here it is , it's a work of Hirohiko Araki (his photo) of Jojo's bizarre adventure. Odoriko has a JoJo's posing....orz

busy day

I love his art, Chinese performer Li Wei.

This is the secret movie that you can see you clear invisible mode of the Biohazard. Did you know that?

Here is the grape covers protecting from birds. It looks like Tomodachi mask! In Japan, eyes are used to protect crops from the birds, is that same in the other worlds?

Totoro is still in Japan or not

Ha ha ha ha ha "Cow farts collected in plastic tank for global warming study"

This article was very interesting to me: "Roots of Language Run Deeper Than Speech". Japanese is a SOV language, I will do "a girl turning a knob", with gestures. I like this kind of topic. Here is a good article written by Mari Yonehara (a Russian translator). Japanese and Chinese people tend to use the eye whereas Westerners use the ear to get information to the brain. Because the Japanese and the Chinese recognize many pieces of information from just one character, we tend to use the eye for information recognition. Whereas the letter "B" can only signal a few pieces of information, the character "一" can mean "top," "first," "one," "only," etc. On the other hand, the Japanese tend to enumerate information illogically when compared to Westerners who order information in logical sequences via hearing. If you can't understand what a Japanese person is saying, it is because the inside of his head is in a random order. Anyway, here is another interesting post about listening. Check it out when you have time.

Wow I have never seen any photos of "Rumiko Takahashi" of Urusei Yatsura. It was on the Asahi news, here it is. hmm.
The Totoro Forest Project is a project in which 200 designers create and draw the world of Ghibli's My Neighbor Totoro through their own interpretation. You can check out the Gallery pages. Some draw with a dark mood, and I feel the same; Totoro left without saying anything and the movie ends with a warning for what was lost. The interesting part is that Totoro's original ad copy was written by the famous copywriter "Shigesato Itoi" and it read "This strange creature won't be in Japan anymore, maybe." But Miyazaki asked him to change it to "This strange creature will be in Japan, maybe." At least Miyazaki wanted to have hope for something. By the way, the location of the Totoro movie is near the Tokyo area and fortunately there are still such nice woods in existence.

Real robot

Osaka University made this real robot. I guess sooner or later, androids will come true.

This is another Japanese OYAJI (middle age man) robot in Sydney. The robot looks like a guy on this great TV ad of Metal Gear Solid 3

I mentioned Nara prefecture will have a commemorative event celebrating the 1300th anniversary of Nara Heijo-jo Capital. And its character "Sento kun" was a big topic because of his strange appearance (Buddha + deer). Actually people in Nara complained so much and protested to change the character, but Nara prefecture refused and still kept on using Sento kun. So Nara people made their original anniversary character "Manto kun" ("Man" means million old, "manto" means lobe in Japanese) and also some Buddhist monks in Nara made their original character "Namu kun" (it means "Refuge" in Buddhism). I really don't care about this news and actually people's attitude for Sento kun looked like an overreaction to me. But! I must agree Sento kun wouldn't be a good choice. Nara prefecture will have to see people's reaction in each event. Look at this. Scary.

I doodled in notebooks and textbooks always. History textbooks were the best for doodles because there were many photos and portraits. "Kyokasho net" (text book.net) is a site where you can experience the dooodle on the net. Choose the textbook on the lower part (Japanese, art, music, history, Japanese history from the left) and let's doodle as much as you want. I loooooooooooove this idea.

Ponyo will come soon

Nice! Papper's Ascii art.

A guy who licked the face of a baby girl was arrested (translation by sonet). I imagine that the mom screamed "Stooooooop!" but the guy was still bending over, licking the baby's face. Hmm｡ﾄ scary
I found many media reviews that say Studio Ghibli's new movie "Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea" is great. Since I am not a Ghibli fan and I don't like Hayao Miyazaki's Lolita complex, I am not sure I will go see it... Ghibli will have a Ponyo ad campaign with several companies, one promotion is this Ponyo puppet attached to bottles of Asahi beverages. However all the puppets will need makeovers because Hayao Miyazaki doesn't like how they're "too cute" (translation by sonet). Hmm｡ﾄ not only does he have a Lolita complex, he also has really complex tastes...

A very very old Japanese traditional doll "ichimatsu ningyo" was sold on Yahoo auctions. It's very old, broken and was not well-maintained, but it still has its charms. Since these photos will be deleted soon, look at them now. Speaking of auctions, I found this news: "Super Suit for Sale on eBay." That is the guy from "Project Grizzly."

Here is a nice speaker collection. I like the PLUG and PLAY one, but I am not sure it works for the iShuffle. I thought about getting this music mug, but I found out that it doesn't work for the iShuffle!! By the way, tomorrow is the on-sale date of the new iPhone, there is already a long line and my friend is on it. The person who is at the front of the line is the president of the company that programmed "iPong".

mosquit coil

I like this very much. I picke another one before.


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Since I hardly watch TV, I have never watched Heroes. But my friend recommended it hard and I watched it just shortly tonight. Then I can tell Mashi Oka's Japanese is strange, even Wiki said he can speak Japanese fluently. And also many people who act as Japanese in the TV show are not Japanese. I guess Japanese try Hollywood much less than other Asians.

On the way to my job in Roppongi, there are many many policemen and all trash cans in the station were removed because of the G8 summit in Toya in Hokkaido. This "Toya summit" is thought as an "ecology summit in Japan" (I am amazed to know that maybe it's only a Japanese delusion, there are few mentions about eco in summit news) and they take care with ecology in each part on this summit. They use eco cars and they use the bus when they move from point to point together. Today we have this news, some wife of the president of the United States of something refused to use a bus with other wives of other countries and used a car by herself. Yes, it's such a small thing but it is interesting news for us, because we think the most important thing in ecology would be cooperativeness and caring about others and society.

In summer, I must be annoyed with mosquitoes. Though there is electric stuff or high technology stuff to protect us from mosquitoes, still I love pyrethrum coils. The smell of the coil reminds me of old summer holidays in my school days when I was so free and enjoyed each moment in summer. So this summer I will use a mosquito coil and I will buy a nice coil holder. Like a coin bank, a common shape of coil holders is "pig" in Japan, I want this iron one, after summer I may use it for something else.

Some small topics

Sorry for short post for tonight. 

Akihabara is a such popular place for foreing tourist though, there is no good Engish map. This is one that you can see on the Internet, but it was such small one. Then I found this news today . You can get a free Englsih map of Akihabara in front of Gamers's shop. Check it out when you come to Akiba.

Since I can wake up easily without alarm, I don't need any though. I read about some funny alarms before. This is one that runs around your room until you get it. And this is one that flys in your room until you wake up. And I this would be the worst one, "SnuzNLuz Alarm Clock Donates To Causes You Hate When You Ignore It"