Archive for December, 2008
Hentai-inspired soda features best tagline ever: ‘You’ve Been GRAPED!’
Ah, nothing says ‘thirst quenching’ like a woman in danger of being penetrated by lascivious tentacles. Indeed, one wonders if ‘Tentacle Grape‘, the new soda being marketed as THE MOST DELICIOUS HENTAI SODA ON THE MARKET, is more effective as a conversation piece than a soft drink. And the price, $15.99 for a six-pack of [...]
Fox plans ‘City Hunter’ series
I have to admit that I am more or less completely unfamiliar with City Hunter, aside from the live-action film in which stuntmaster Jackie Chan did a fairly entertaining Street Fighter fight sequence dressed as Chun Li. Whether Fox’s proposed live-action City Hunter television series can live up to such lofty expectations is yet to [...]
New MW Trailer!
In my relentless, bloodthirsty chronicling of the progression of the live-action MW movie; I have brought you pictures, a teaser trailer, and…another teaser trailer.
At least this one’s a little longer. And it has car chases, and guns, and police!
MW Trailer
The site will take about a million years to load, but once it does click on [...]
Geishas Say: Lay Off, Tourists
Geisha are pretty. Everyone knows that, and seeing a geisha is probably one of the highlights of a visit to Kyoto. But seriously guys, leave them the hell alone.
BBC Article
Of course they don’t want tourists snapping their photos every minute and holding them up. Being a geisha is a job like any other; do you [...]
Transforming Owl via Japan
Variety shows in Japan seem to consist entirely of showing short films and then showing the reactions of various celebrities to the films. Cooking skits, Hard Gay, transforming South African owls…EVERYBODY wants to see what the celebrities think!
Transforming Owls
The owls, despite being African and not Asian, are stil pretty damn cool. In high school I [...]
Yaoi Fans Rejoice: New Smut for You!
Good news for yaoi fans: the Ai no Kusabi novels (which are legendary in yaoi fandom) are getting the anime treatment-for the second time- more than twenty years after the books were first released in Japan.
The first Ai no Kusabi anime came out in the early 90’s and consisted of two OAVs; they’ve never been [...]
DVD Review- xxxholic, volumes 6 & 7
Rating:
xxxholic is one of many, many series from the manga collective CLAMP. Like the majority of their works, it’s ongoing, with no indication of when or if it will end (Bitter over them dropping X/1999? Me? Never!). xxxholic seems to have a small but devoted fanbase, so when I received volumes six and seven [...]
Merry Christmas from China!
When I say ‘world’s largest Santa sculpture’, what is the first thing you think?
I know I immediately think, ‘China’!
Giant Santa
The annual internationally famous snow festival in Harbin featured the world’s largest Santa Claus sculpture.
Sweet.
Merry Christmas, everyone!
Former porn actress, bestselling author Ai Iijima dead at 36
Japanese adult actress and author Ai Iijima was found dead of unspecified causes yesterday. Iijima moved beyond pornographic film early in her career, and became well-known in Japan as a television celebrity and author. Her semi-autobiographical work Platonic Sex became a best seller and was adapted into a film and television series.
In recent years Iijima [...]
China Movie Blacklist Watch: The Dark Knight
Variety reports that the latest Batman film (The Dark Knight in case you’ve been living under a rock) won’t be released in China, due to ‘cultural sensitivites’. In other news, it’s been available on every street corner in Singapore since June. Grow a pair, China. Seriously.
“Based on a number of pre-release conditions that are being [...]
The Evangelion Christmas Special
Ginormous ferris wheel breaks down in Singapore: riders hurt, pants soiled
I am a notorious acrophobe. I can barely get on a ladder to change a lightbulb. Yes, I realize this makes me sound like a total pussy, but I’m comfortable with that. With that admission in the open, I feel secure in mentioning that there is little chance of me taking a ride on the [...]
FUNimation ‘New Show A-Go-Go’ acquisition: Gad Guard
I’ve been a bit lax the last few days – I took the day off work yesterday, and made a vow to stay away from computers entirely (which I acutally managed to do, as long as you don’t consider an Xbox 360 to be a computer…) – so, no posting from me.
In the interim, I [...]
1965: A Close Call?
According to recently released government documents, in 1965 Japan’s prime minister asked the U.S. to drop a nuclear bomb on China if Japan and China got into a war.
BBC Story
Ironically, Eisaku Sato received the Nobel Peace Prize nine years later for crusading against nuclear weapons.
It seems to me that, having seen firsthand the horror of [...]
