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Husky Girls

A bit old one. But nice one. Husky Girls（Funny Japanese Ajinomoto Stadium ad）

A popular TV ad of Amazon Japan

A popular TV ad of Amazon Japan. People say this is cute, but as a big fan of dog, personally can't agree :-p

TV show for cats

This cat is watching TV "岩合光昭の世界ネコ歩き (Iwaai Mitsuaki's cat walk in the world)". The program is a documentary which an animal photographer Iwaaki Mituaki takes cats in the world in point of view cats, some people upload such amazed cats face photos "my cat can enjoy the show". Here is the show introducing "Setonai kai area", if you have a cat, please let him/her watch this one.

Real Cup no Fuchiko

Cup no Fuchiko is a small girl figure, you set on a edge of cup. The boom ("What the Heck is Cup no Fuchiko ? ") (via otakumode) had happen a few years ago and now there are a lof of variation and different versions.

For suvenior, they have Star Wars and as different variation, there are coasters called "Cup no Sotoko", a bit scary.

By the way, in this spring we had "SMAP shock". Japanese idol boys group "SMAP" was almost left their agent Johnny's which is the empire of boys group in Japan. Since they are big name in this country, even BBC took it as an Asian news. Eventually they denied it and the issue was finally settled by apologizing in their TV show, but apparently they apologized to Johnny's, not their fans, we call it public execution which Johnny's set as warning.

A member of SMAP Tsuyoshi Kusanagi tries "Real Cup no Fuchiko" in their TV show. It's funny.

TV ad by Studio Ghibli and Marubeni

"Choju-jinbutsu-giga" aka "Chojyu-giga" is a famous set of four picture scrolls, or emakimono, belonging to Kozan-ji temple in Kyoto, Japan. It is usually thought to have been painted in the mid-12th century or 13th. We don't know who is the creator. Some said this is "first manga in Japan" and people love it much.

Here is Choju-giga figures, Choj-giga LINE stamp and a lot of Choju-giga parodies like this Doraemon.

Recently Studio Ghibli and Marubeni Power Retail made this TV ad inspired by Choju-giga.

This is the gigamaker that is tool you can make choju-giga by yourself. Everybody enjoy to make their funny story on Twitter.

Sushi Police TV show and Pasta police?

Do you know sushi police? Some years ago, Japanese government set it to promote food safety and hygiene standards for japanese food in foreign countries, espeically for sushi. But because of the name, people misunderstood Japanese government tries to accuse wried Japanese food or too bad sushi. In the end, Sushi Police didn't come ture.

However Short Animation TV show "Sushi Police" is created with inspration from that event. Here is the video with English subtitle. Funny, oh please don't be serious.

 

Funny part is there are Pasta police from Italy in this animation. I didn't check their part, but surely Pasta police will pissed off to Japanese pasta, we have a lot of Japaenese arrange pasta like Mentaiko Pasta or Natto Pasta. I must say those are not Italian anymore, we may say they are Japanese food using spaghetti.

But how about Napoliritan? It has a name of Napoli and taste of Tomato, BUT it's simply "fried" spaghetti with tomato ketchup, onion and sausage. In Japan Napolitan has long history and of course we looooooove it to have Naporitan festival. I think Napolitan is worse for Italian Police than Natto Spaghetti.

YAHAMA's new promotion video

YAHAMA’ｓ Rube Goldberg machine video. They made this by only watch parts.

And here is making video.

My best Rube Goldberg machine videos are here!

NTT Docomo

ARIEL beautiful life

Honda

Kunisad and Kuniyoshi visit home from Boston Museum

Don't miss this! KUNISADA KUNIYOSHI. The Kunisada and KUniyoshi's ukiyoe owned the Boston museum visits home Bunkamura Museum in Shibuya. We can say this is POP culture of EDO. This exhibition categorized works from interesting view points.

Skulls


Ghost busters

That's entertainment etc,.

They have original Bear Brick and kuniyoshi key chain etc,. too!

Bunkamura Museum @ Shibiuya
March 19 -> June 5 10:00-19:00
adult 1500yen

Takeshi Murakami the 500 arhats

Takashi Murakami the 500 arhats.

Wiki said 五百羅漢（The arhats) is Theravada Buddhism denotes arhat (Sanskrit) and arahant (pali) as "one who is worthy" or is a "perfected person" having attained nirvana. But I think we may call just a trainee monk arhats. Anyway I have never seen such unique approach, Pop! Cute and grotesque. I like it.

Mori Museum @ Roppongi
March 4.5- 8:00-25:00
March 6 - 8:00-22:00 adult 1600yen

The best manga judged by the number

Manga labo is a blog which updating topics of Boys manga. They post intereting one in last week. "Which manga is the best?". This time they make the ranking logically by three numbers.

A. a circulation : How many the manga was sold totally.
1. ONE PIECE　345,000,000(not end yet)
2. Golgo 13 　280,00,000 (not end yet)
3. Dragon Ball  230,000,000 end
4. Black Jack  176,000,000 end
5. Doraemon   176,000,000 end

B. volumes / a circulation : A circulation per volume. We can't say small volume are not popular sweepingly.
1. Black Jack (25)
2. Fist of the North Star(15)
3. Dragon Ball (42)
4. Touch (20)
5. Astro Boy (21)

C. volumes / a circulation / serial term : We can't say short term (small volume) are not popular but if it is not popular, it can't be serialized for long term.
1. Black Jack 
2. Fist of the North Star  
3. Dragon Ball
4. Death Note
5. Kimagure Orange Road

Then this is the total ranking of "the best boy's manga" calculated by those three numbers.

1. Black Jack 
2. Fist of the North Star
3. Dragon Ball 
4. Touch 
5. SLAM DUNK

People discuss about this entry and most convince this one. But if we make it more accurate, we should add more conditions. Actually I wonder old manga have advantages because they didn't have less competetors in manga and also another media, entertainment itself.