watashi to tokyo

Happy Halloween!

This movie is intersting one. He is multi artist Daito Manabe, he did many interesting art and music works. This one is his newest project "electric stimulus to face -test3"

Shigeru Komatsuzaki is a well known illustrator before ww2. After the ww2, his near future and military illustration was used for various things. Tsuburaya used his design for Ultraman series. Here is the his site and we can see his a lot works in this page. Here are SF illustration, Military illustration, etc,. very nostalgic! check it out!

Today is Halloween in Japan! Then I am wondering foreing people will do the Halloween Yamanote. 　Here is an another video of party. JR put warning posters on station. What will happen? :-)

walking boom

Alice sent me this soramimi, it's a part of Sanctuary of Iron Maiden. For Japanese, it sound like "Curry ga tabetai! ( I want to eat curry). Can't never hear donington you gotta turn.

Just a few days ago, the world's heaviest man gets married. (he is handsome, I think) That news will make feel easy over weight people in the world, I guess. Japan has lower ranking in BMI chart,　but of course we have obiesty issue, especially middle_aged guys are grtting heavier. I wrote before we have "metabolic syndrome craze". Stomach size check added to regular health check and if it's over 85cm (for guys), they have a warning as metablic syndrome. So guys were so nervous for stomach size recently. I found this last year's article, Maruha is a fish products maker, one of their procuts is fish sausage (that is one of my favorite food!), thier fish sausage "resara" is assigned as TOKUHO and it works to reduce neutral fat in blood (re means again, right? "sara sara" mean fluently in Japanese, your blood will be loose with less fat, such meaning it will have ) . Maruha give one peice of resara to 700 workers in head office and let them record their stomach size and level or nertral fat. After one month, Maruha checked the result and gave more sausage to only people who couldn't make good result. Hmm it sounds like a sort of discrimination against big stomach people? but as a fish sausage lover, I envy it.

I read an article that people living in countiry side have more obiese issue, becaues they use car and the number of steps by walking in a day are much less than poeple using train in city area. It's not amazing and it is so true. Actually walking is ediscovered as good weight loss exercise again for people, (even we have food craze like banana diet often in a year) Cross walker is guys underwear, you can use more calories and make your mascle big by walking with wearing it. The official site said 89% of user down BMI rate and 91% of user made more mascle rhate three months after. we have ladies cross walker and they are more cute design. I want a one for me.

"Les Gouttes de Dieu" Kami no Shizuku

Nissan released a new photo of Fair Lady Z, we can see it next Los Angels Motor Show. Wow it has round form. Do you like it?　

This is an hot site called "Oishiku Henkan" (change delicious). You upload a file of food, then the site automatically change it looks more delicious. Since blogging is very popular in Japan and many talk about what they eat, this site is really hot.

Talking about delicious, there are many manga about food in Japan, then I am thinking to read this one "Les Gouttes de Dieu"(Kami no Shizuku in Japanese and it means "Drops of God" in English). It's a manga about wine, it's a kind of mystery and also we can learn about wine a lot, my friend recommend to me and also I found some liquor shops sell with a copy "this wine appears on that manga" in copy.　Since it was published in Korea and Taiwan, such Asian countries, maybe soon in Europe and America. This is a blog of the writer of that manga, He talks about wine a lot in her blog. The first picture was taken in Korea, even in Korea they sell wine as wine of "Drops of God"

Unnecessary items store in Akhabara "Mudaya" (waste)will released the "The Best Shops of Akihabara" for foreign tourist. The book has 8 themes like Food, Figure, Cosplay and they picked each shops even foreign tourist can see "Deep Akihabara for foreign Otaku in a few days stay". They price is 1000yen but you can download it by $20 too　in this page. I wish I had this one before cause I went to Akiba with my friends from Arizona last week. I picked Akiba news like this sometimes, but I hardly go there actually.

You think so?

Hmm I am busy and also can't find good topic! Hopefully I can write something today! Anyway this is a video, he is acting like "Japanese", for you we looks like this???

This is soramimi which I laugh a lot recently.We hear it's "Gyoza (chinese dumpling), Sui Gyoza (dupling with soup), Noritama (frake for rice)".

In the end, this one the cooleset"under construction" page that I have ever seen.

foreign news abouy Japan

Some foreign interesting new about Japan.
Brian sent me this: Online divorcee jailed after killing virtual hubby

And Heidi sent me this: Blogging plant Midori san

I found this : Transsexual geisha is former Ministry of Defence worker. Here is a photo when he was working for Defence dept.　That's good Geisha costume was so attractive for her. And I saw this one too : Maid cafe opened in LA.

subliminal

I can tell you those guys are Japanese (perfect Japanese they spoke) but music is Chinese and that city is not in Japan. Like I said always, when they make an ad, why they don't check such basic part, I mean it is Japanese music or Chinese music. Of course we might watch such foreign confusing in Japan too thought, I hate that.

Sportka Lottery: Skyscraper
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Did you read this cute news. "Horse gets head stuck in tree". Why did she do that anyway.

MUJI open the new page "MUJI future". I was impressed to read their translation. I think the sentense was written in Japanese originally, but English translation is pretty good and no meaning has changed.

Japan probe has intersting post. "foreigner has the Yamanote Halloween train again?. Last year, their Yamanote train made 2ch enjoy (flaming). Here is some video of those train. Since I don't use Yamanote line, I am just looking forward to what will happen.

I like subliminal, actually I was colletion subliminal ads before my PC CRASHED! Today I found another two. One is this McDonalds one, hmm alwasy sex organs can be a strong weapon, right? Then I was really laughed at this one . Many small face in Broccoli, orz weird!. By the way I found very interesing video, UK guy Derren Brown gave subliminal advice to ad designer. It's amazing.

raw egg art

Ohhhh miserable but cute, giant pand had to cut his hair for some reason. He looks like he put off his pants....

Did you read this news? Sony Playstation game Little Big Planet delayed after anti-Muslim claims. You can check their new trailer on their official site. It looks nice though, I like Pikmin's visual more.

Subaru made sumo wrestler ad before, on their site, there are sexy sumo gallary. Hmm for big fetish, they will be hard to resist. :-)

Japanaese ladies are fascinated with nail arts. Simple one is okay though, when I see such decorative one, I thought she doen't need to cook, clean and maybe type keyboard. By the way, some teenagers like cute character type, ha ha she has Johannes Krauser II!

I think I picked this site as cool real-estate office. You can see SALE or RENT sigh on right top of each place. Since they have most place in Tokyo, you can check the price of housing conditions in Tokyo. (Ah! This looks very nice and reasonable but it's far from Tokyo). This is thier rent office page, this is 3 floors small building in Harajuku, one month rent is about $4000. expensive?

By the way, they started online shopping mall, they tried to make Englsih pages, unfortunately it looks no update. But their Japanese pages have really nice items. This is a moss sheet that you can cover your house with moss. 　This is the swich plate on the wall, I think it is good idea to put it on entrance wall like that. 　Then I love this one! raw egg series. Egg table wears will be hard to use but I like those egg object! I really like raw egg make awkward, fluid shape. The good point of the shopping site is they introduce some side story or r! elated issue and items with their products. In this page, they picked art work "The Eggs of Barnbrook" of Rika Eguchi. And as trauma item, blood cusion. As fluid shape, I fell love into this German artist's light too. Very warm and nice. Check his official site, you can see anothre his nice works.

Busy monday

This is how to tie Fundoshi. I guess only Japanese think it's cool!

ahh! cute idea! Protect it with this bag, not to have my sandwich stolen.

Square enix show their Dragon QuestIX promotion trailer on their official site. I don't play the game anymore but it looks pretty good. Check it out ( click a square banner 23MB)

On 19th in Akiba, cosplay ladies bike gangs came, they wore maid, gothis, mini skirts police (all are very populare cosplay in Japan) and played a theme of SalerMoon(if I am asked to sing something in Karaoke, I pick this song always. it can be good joke) with detonating sound. The funny part is people on the messege borad said; thier costume looks very cheap, since they picked salermoon, they are not real otaku at all, no otaku pick such song anymore, etc,. such negative comments to them. Poeple thought they were just attention seeker.

Yotsubato is an ongoing Japanese comedy manga series by Kiyohiko Azuma, the creator of Azumanga Daioh. It is published in Japan by MediaWorks in the monthly magazine Dengeki Daioh and collected in eight tankobon volumes as of August 2008. In that manga, character made cardboard robot as an homework of summer vacation. It's called Danboll (cause we call cardborad DANBALL). Amazon Japan created this "if Danbo was made from Amazon cardboard.) Hmm pretty cute.

New toy poke box

French AIDS champaign is really heavy. Especially movies are so weird. (especially gay version 2007). Check it out.

Bandai will release a new toy called 'Tuttuki Bako' (poke box). You can actually sense that you're poking at something inside the box, but the characters are virtual.
As we get older, higher frequency noises become harder to sense. Actually, 'the device called the Mosquito' has been marketed as a safety and security tool for preventing anti-social behavior such as gang loitering, graffiti, vandalism, drug usage, drug distribution, and violence. This flash is used to check how old your ears are. For people older than their 20s, it becomes harder to hear anything over 14,000 hertz. Check your ears out.

Usavich

I love short animations for adults, my favorite is 'Poppie the Performer'(it's MAD), but recently I like 'Usavich.' Usavich (from the Japanese 'usagi' (rabbit), with 'vich' added to give it a faux-Russian flavor) is a series of animated short films that Kanaban Graphics has been producing for MTV Japan since 2006. It's about an odd couple of rabbits imprisoned in a Russian prison. You can watch some of them on Youtube. Try it.

Did you read this news? 'Helmet to Convey Messages by Thought.' Little by little, we are getting closer to the world of 'Ghost in the Shell.'

I enjoyed these two posts: 'What have you learned while living in Japan?' and '101 Lessons learned in Japan.' I like that Sleep is not a bodily function, rather, a hobby. It's so true. Some busy business people sleep all day long on weekends. They are tired, but if they really want to do something, they won't sleep so much, but I guess we can say that sleeping is their hobby. I also like When people are really trying to speak to you in English, and their English really isn't great, resist the temptation to switch it to Japanese despite the fact that you may be thinking 'This conversation would be so much easier in Japanese, I know I could do it, rather than this rubbish English, ggrrrr!' They are trying to communicate in a foreign language, it's not easy, be nice, be patient, they will feel on top of the world if they believe that they can have a dialogue with a foreigner. I like this too, thank you for your kindness.