This dance routine from Wrecking Crew in Japan may only be inspired by Tron rather than being intended to be exactly a Tron dance. I say that because I sense some Japanese mythology in the neon costumes. Either way; the video is impressive – much better than I thought when I was first pointed to […]
Japanese trailer for BRAVE shows a very different film
It’s hard to imagine that this is a trailer for the same BRAVE that we’ve been seeing elsewhere. Tha Japanese trailer, which has made its way to YouTube (watch it before it’s yanked) suggests a film filled with mysticism and magic. It still looks like a great film. It just looks like a very different […]
Strike Witches movie trailer
Kadokawa have started to run a trailer for the Strike Witches movie. It’s due out on the 17th of March. It’s possible to use Google beta stage automatic captions in this trailer to try and translate the Japanese to English. At the time of posting the experience is pretty awful – Google appears to be […]
Comiket bans sexy cosplay
Comiket, aka the Comic Market, is the world’s largest fair for self-published comic books. It’s held twice a year in Tokyo and has grown from some 600 visitors in 1975 to over half a million. Apparently with concerns about public indecency offences in mind the organisers have banned sexy cosplay. This is somewhat odd as […]
Nintendo Gamecube three times more popular than Xbox 360 in Japan
You might have heard that the Xbox isn’t very popular in Japan. It’s true. There’s lots of reasons why this is the case – it’s the console from America, the games don’t always suit the Japanese market and the PlayStation 2 is so incredibly strong there. The Nintendo DS is even stronger. A recent survey […]
Japan arrests two for selling modified anime figure on eBay
Here’s one for the books. Two Japanese men, one 35 and one 36, have been arrested by police in Niigata Prefecture in Japan for trying to sell a modified anime figure on eBay. It is alleged that the two anime fans have breached Japan’s Copyright Act by trying to sell the altered Kamen Rider W […]
Criminal Girls: RPG Where You Punish Girls
This RPG was born in Japan. Something tells me it will stay in Japan. One of Image Epoch‘s new PSP RPGs has the title “RPG Where You Punish Girls” or “Criminal Girls”. My Japanese (by which I mean Google Translate) struggles with this insider blog post. Guess what you do in it? Yup! But wait… […]
