I skipped the otaku topic because I feel like I hit the nail on the head before so I decided to jump on this one. This week we actually have 2 topics, one of which I covered 2 weeks ago (in regards to the shoujo cliche.) So this week I’m covering the whole rape topic. Do women like to get raped? Japan likes to think so! Continue Reading »

Woooooww they changed so many things around I have to rant. All the great things about the love of the “robot boyfriend” that were in the manga were basically thrown out in the drama. I mean really what’s the point of calling it “absolute boyfriend” when they coulda just called it “absolute robot lover” or something. He’s not Riko’s boyfriend in her eyes and never was since day one. Even when her “best friend” (which was demoted to “friend” this week) takes him, she goes off flirting with her boss. Wtf Continue Reading »

So it turns out Riko really DID pay for Night. One of my readers (akon) explained to me that she took out a 70 year loan (I was wondering what that 70 year thing referred to!) But I guess technically she still purchased him right? Now that he is officially hers that changes a lot of things! Like for example, since she bought him, you’d think they’d be able to put a “lock” on him so that if another girl kisses him he wouldn’t reset. It’s like buying a cell phone without a password protection on it that if you lose it anyone can just grab it and go. Continue Reading »

I love how in these kinds of shows that if someone gets sick, there is no way out and everything has to be cancelled or shut down. I mean who cares if someone in a puppet show gets sick. Sure there’s no one else who remembers the lines, but who the hell’s gonna see you reading them from a script behind a giant black curtain? I mean hell when I was forced to be some background character in a Hamlet play I wrote my lines on top of a book I was carrying and kept looking down to make it seem like I’m a noble old fart and it worked fine! Continue Reading »

Just for the record - Saturday is the only day I’ve attended and that’s it for me. My brain, ears and toes can take no more of the insanity. I really wish I could have met a lot more people than I did, but it goes to show you that if you really want to meet someone - get their cell phone number. Meeting up at a place or hoping to catch them at XYZ is like looking for a needle in a haystack. Alright so in the morning we had our last bag of Hotcakes, dressed up in our Reborn gear and headed off to the Javitz center. Continue Reading »

This is probably old news to everyone but I recently got myself a new cell phone which finally had a strap hole in it. I’m currently using my company’s mascot as a strap but I wanted to get one of those straps you can use to clean the screen because I have a slider phone and the screen constantly gets dirty. Soo…being a weeaboo that I am I headed over to Strap-Ya which specializes in weeaboo & “kawaii” phone straps from Japan. (Some of these you can get at Kinokuniya though which is why I never purchased from there before.)

Anyway I clicked on one of the sidebar links on the left that said ?? and had a golden poo strap in the photo…and well that’s what I got. It’s not really the concept of golden poo that amuses me, but the titles and taglines that they write all over the page. I don’t know if it’s to be ironic or they figure using humor will hide the fact that they’re telling us overseas people that Japanese are fascinated with pieces of shit to attach to their cell phones. Continue Reading »

So while on the way to NJ today I decide to watch Last Friends, the drama I talked about in my jdrama spring preview. Holy shit is this drama fucked up. Basically take a bunch of fucked up 20 year olds, and put them in a house together and you get Real World Japan. The main heroine is played by the girl who played Rei in Proposal Daisakusen. So seeing her role go from a studios college girl to a poor abused one was really heartbreaking. Continue Reading »