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Space Battleship Yamato / Star Blazers to be Live Action

HQ version available here. The official site is here though there isn’t much info yet. We have to wait until December 2010 to see this. I’m sure someone over at Viz is working on getting this over here, right? Right?

Via Topless Robot.

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Posted by Zapski in Anime, Cool, Japan, Movies, SciFi, Video | 1 Comment

Robogeisha

This is most probably NSFW, due to extreme violence and ass stabby bleeding. Yeah, that’s right, I said ass stabby bleeding. Followed by eye bleeding. The rest of it is undeniably cool, and all killy-geeky.

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Posted by Zapski in Cool, Japan, NSFW, Video | No Comments

Learn to Poo

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Posted by Zapski in Japan, Video | No Comments

Japan Builds Actual Gundam

It’s 59 feet tall and parts of it move. Apparently it’s there for a month or so, for some Gundam festival, after which it will march straight on over to North Korea and teach them not to screw around with nukes.

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Posted by Zapski in Cool, Image, Japan, Robots | No Comments

Japanese Men to Kneel Before Their… Toilets?

OK, we all know about high-tech Japanese toilets (as well as the “hole in the floor that someone forgot to put a toilet over” ones that are sometimes inexplicably installed on raised platforms on trains), and one could assume from that the Japanese are somewhat toilet obsessed.

Well, now there’s “Angel’s Knees Pillows”, a device that minimizes pee-splash by reducing the distance that… ah to hell with it.

KNEEL BEFORE YOUR PORCELAIN GOD!

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Posted by Zapski in Japan, Strange | No Comments

Stupid Asian Names

Stupid Asian names… According to Texas state representative Betty Brown Asians should change their names to something that’s easier for Americans to pronounce.

And after the Asians, who’s next? Slavic names?

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Posted by dugh daren in Idiot, Japan, Politics | No Comments

Children vs. Zombie

The Japan Probe site takes a look at what you can learn from pitting children against a zombie.

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Posted by gtodd in Funny, Japan, Zombies | 2 Comments

World’s Fastest Stripper

Neat party trick!

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Posted by Zapski in Japan, Video | No Comments

Ninja Nunchuck Sports Master

I’ve come to think of nunchucks as kind of silly weapons, the province of mullet-haired teenagers who wear Viet-Nam era fatigues and brag about their hands being registered weapons. This guy kind of makes me respect them a bit more. Not so much in their fighting utility, but more in their sporting uses.