Need I say more? Manny Pacquiao, please beat the fuck out of this ignorant son of a bitch… (via Angry Asian Man) Floyd Mayweather Going in on Manny Pacquiao Uploaded by dmotionuser10. – Discover the latest sports and extreme videos.
My wife swears that MSG gives her headaches. Frankly, my wife gives me headaches when she starts whining about the level of MSG in her Chinese food…because for all the noise generated about MSG’s supposedly harmful effects, nobody has been able to definitively determine that MSG – eaten in normal amounts – causes any physiological problems. Despite this, many people [...]
The Shan family in Shangdong province, China have been forced to choose a new family name – thanks to computers which can’t render the character necessary to spell their name. The residents had no problem when identity cards, driving licenses and other documents could be handwritten, but now they have to be printed using computers, and their name is so [...]
My brother’s chief problem with RPG’s, or at least the one he always brings up when we talk about videogame RPG’s, is the lifeless townsfolk you deal with. Shopkeepers tend to be flesh-covered vending machines eager to turn your hard-earned gold into swords and potions. So how about this: a Japanese indie RPG in which you play the shopkeeper selling [...]
Back in 2006, Shapiro Keats and I took our honeymoon with Pop Japan Travel. We went on the February Sapporo Snow Festival tour, and it was amazing. We had great hotels with space-age toilets, a sweet-ass flight on Singapore Airlines (all the flight attendants were way hot, and we had a ton of movies to choose from- I watched Wallace [...]
According to Aint It Cool News, John Woo is planning to return to World War II with a proposed film about the legendary Burmese Flying Tigers squadron. I can’t think of a single post-Hong Kong Woo film that moved me in any way, and I don’t imagine this will be any different…but the Flying Tigers are definitely worthy of a [...]
If you listened to the last podcast, you’ll remember my hackneyed ‘announcement’ about Death Frenzy, the chambara card-based RPG I’m working on. Well, here’s a link to the game’s development site where I’ll be posting updates and details as the game progresses. You’ll also find details of the other game design project I’ve got on the burner. I’m working on [...]
Being Yellow Menace’s resident ‘Asian Design Major’ (as Greg likes to call me), I found this interesting… What Do I Do With Those Damn Anime Kids? Excerpt: Introductions were made, and more chitchat was had about the problem at hand, namely, the Damn Anime Kid. “They just wanna draw the same stuff over and over again. The big eyes, the [...]
Sumo wrestling has been in some deep shit lately because the wrestlers have been caught gambling on other sports games, a big no-no in Japan. Apparently the sumo commission has done a lousy job investigating too. All of this is being blamed on bad communication;: it seems sumo wrestlers can’t text each other…because their fingers are too fat for cell [...]
Brian Dunning tackles the Yonaguni Monument (aka ‘Japan’s Atlantis’) on this week’s episode of Skeptoid. As usual with Skeptoid, if you tune in expecting to hear about verified evidence of some lost culture off the coast of Japan you’ll be disappointed. About 25 meters beneath the waters off Japan lies a stepped pyramid. We don’t know who built it, or [...]
I don’t have time to properly eulogize him, but I was shocked to learn via Twitter that anime director Satoshi Kon (Paranoia Agent, Tokyo Godfathers, Paprika) died today at age 47. Rest in peace, sir…
Following it’s previous forays into social media (Twitter and Youtube, respectively), North Korea has now established a presence on Facebook. Registered under the username ‘uriminzokkiri’, North Korea hopes to use the popular networking site as a means of pushing propaganda to the West and their friendly neighbor to the south (that would be South Korea, in case you’re geographically-challenged). A [...]
Yesterday, our friends at Daily Bento (www.dailybento.com) featured this delicious Gundam fan film from back in the day. It recreates an epic mobile suit battle from the show- with people. But they’re not dressed in Gundam costumes, oh no. They’re just wearing clothes and wielding cardboard weapons. Which somehow makes it more awesome than if they’d actually constructed costumes. Rad.
MetaFilter recently had a couple of cool links on Asian pop culture topics. A discussion of Japanese director Seijun Suzuki (Branded to Kill) Visual Kei band X Japan embarks on first-ever US tour An awesome gallery of posters using pop culture images (Superman, Marilyn Monroe) to promote manners on public transit Share and Enjoy!
One of the most enduring images in William Gibson’s Neuromancer was Case’s oh-so-homey coffin hotel capsule – which became even cooler when you found out Japan actually had such things. Well, now that China’s economy has surpassed Japan’s, they’re looking to get in on the whole ultra-spartan living craze. But instead of being inhabited by weary sararimen who missed the [...]