This is a fundoshi, a traditional Japanese undergarment. You see them sometimes in samurai movies and anime. They’re also like the things sumo wrestlers wear. Usually they are the domain of men (and even then, men rarely wear them anymore) but now an enterprising Japanese firm has decided women are a great market for fundoshi! Yahoo Article Here’s what I [...]

Seems Hollywood has moved on from anime to manhwa, or the Korean version of manga.  Paul Bettany is in negotiations to star in a live-action version of Priest, which is about a vampire hunting priest. Huh, who’d have guessed? ANN Article I remember Priest came out in the U.S. around the same time as this other manhwa, Island, and I [...]

Not straight away, mind you. It has to be REALLY HOT. And you have to drink it right after you pour it. And then you have to wait until you get esophogeal cancer from drinking lots of really hot tea all the time. Researchers say that letting a hot beverage cool off for four minutes can substantially lower the risk [...]

With the general downturn of the anime industry continuing, it was only a matter of time before another high-profile anime rag got the axe. Wizard imprint Anime Insider is scheduled for obsolecence with issue 67. Whether or not you read AI, it’s a sad reminder of what was once a fast-growing sector of the entertainment business. When I lived in [...]

Wakey, wakey! I’m a sucker for Asian women and firearm porn, so here’s a dose of both – should give you something to mull over during that marketing meeting at 9am. (NSFW, perhaps – depending on how prudish your co-workers are). More after the jump…

It seems director Martin Scorsese is planning to release a cinematic adaptation of Shuskau Endo’s novel Silence. I’m cautiously optimistic. Scorsese is a hit-or-miss kind of guy in my opinion, and the book is deep and twisted, exploring Endo’s own tortured relationship with his Catholic faith and the contradictions contains therein. But the movie reportedly stars Daniel Day-Lewis, Benicio del [...]

On a related note, if I had more money than brains, I might buy THIS. Luckily, while I don’t have much in the way of brains, I also don’t have much in the way of money, so I am safe.

So, the one thing that makes me sad about having a boy instead of a girl is that he probably won’t be interested in Hello Kitty stuff. But hey, there’s male-oriented Sanrio characters. Like, uh….Keroppi! Yeah, Keroppi. And Chococat. Very manly. And when he gets old enough, we can play the free online Hello Kitty MMORPG. Squeal! Actually, I may [...]

Let’s say you’re living in a mid-size city. The city where you live is suddenly bombed to pieces by the Americans, using a new weapon no one has ever seen before. The day after the bombing, you travel back to your hometown. Just in time for the Americans to bomb it to pieces with the same weapon. True story: Holy [...]

One of the first games I nabbed when I picked up a PS3 earlier this year was Sega’s tactical-action game Valkyria Chronicles. I have n0 idea how successful the game has been here in the States, but it certainly earns every ounce of praise heaped upon it. As those who keep track of these sorts of things will probably already [...]

For those of you concerned about a possible Twilight anime, fear not. Actress Catherine Hardwicke was merely talking out of her ass. Although it seems her off-hand comment, made during a commentary track on the recently released Twilight DVD, may pique interest in said phantom adaptation. So if a Twilight anime does materialize, at least we know who to lynch… [...]

In Thailand, an autistic kid climbed out onto a third-story window ledge on the first day at his new school (I bet his parents are really eager to send him for a second day, now), only to be rescued by….SPIDER-MAN! BBC Article A fireman dressed as the kid’s favorite superhero coaxed him down rom the ledge. A fireman who just [...]

Miyazaki’s latest film, Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea, will be released in U.S. theaters on August 14th. AWN Article August 14th.  Nine days after I am projected to give birth to my son (yeah, it’s a boy for sure). Well, I’m definitely not eager to keep him in until after the movie is released, so I guess I’ll [...]