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I'm one of the contributors to a feature called 日本の名作[海外珍訳・誤訳]コレクション in the 12/19 - 1/5 issue of SPA! magazine on sale now in Japan. "Interesting translations" of Japanese pop culture are on the table and I talk trash about the US version of the Ponyo theme and fire up the way back machine for similar offenses committed in Battle of the Planets and Star Blazers. There are also some pictures of large breasted women, politicians, and race cars inside so check it out...
The Feast of Steven at the 6%DOKIDOKI bonenkai.
We are in Nishi Shinjuku.
There is nothing natural about the wonder city of the future. Not the well-planned greenery of its tiny parks, habitrail-like tunnels and bridges, or the cardboard coffins and beds of the homeless men trapped in its wake. The ghosts of giant superheroes and monsters reenacting countless battles and death struggles all around us. But only Tocho is primed to endure forever. In the future of Tokyo2, there is a brisk business in miniature plastic models of its dual towers of steel and glass. Tourists line up to see the hidden rooms and the torture chambers of the Government of Darkness. And even now, in the gray morning of winter, the vaguely humanoid building outside the window seems like the only certain thing on the horizon.
This medicine is best used when the skin on your knuckles begins to crack and bleed from washing the dishes for too long -- a Krazy Glue like adhesive developed for treating wounds in the Goka-na Jyupun Senso.
Before we left an equally fucked up America at the end of the year, Jay and I got in an argument – over the last of the Coco-kun breakfast cereal (delicious and expensive to import) – which I tried to win by punching myself in the temple four times in rapid succession. I was victorious, but since then, there’s been some evidence of acute brain damage: dizziness, nausea, and visual distortion in the form of progressive 2.2 2:3 pulldown resulting in shimmering and combing. Another side effect: It makes all tourists, passengers, and shoppers Chinese.
AV stars arranged by character type hosting the morning TV. A gift for Christmas from the G.O.D. Mami is the spaced out Fushigi-chan who scours the nation in search of rare exotic fish to eat. Yuuka, aka Miracle-chan, bothers men in banana yellow jump suits as they plant sprouts in muddy tarps. Youna is s a face in a box in the lower left hand region of the screen that smiles and claps whenever the words “fast fashion” subliminally, and overtly, appear. She can’t talk with her mouth full but sometimes still tries out of habit.
Sometime in November, Marxy of Néojaponisme and Patrick Macias — author of such books as Cruising the Anime City: An Otaku Guide to Neo Tokyo
Intro song: “1996″ by Cornelius
Ending song: “Volunteer Ape Man (Disco)” by Cornelius
Download: Harajuku Requiem: Marxy x Patrick Macias on Tokyo Fashion Past and Present
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宍戸錠とピストルとファンキーハット
Shishido Joe, a pistol, and a funky hat.
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