The BBC has a post + video about Bento boxes.
Yes this is Taiwanese and not Japanese. I still thought it was too good not to post.
Facepalm.
I say “Photoshopped” but it’s cool either way.
Okay, that headline was a bit inside, but I am sure my good buddy G. will appreciate the craziness of this one.
I sure hope this isn’t meant to be serious. The original was annoying enough, but had a certain unique style. This is… atrocious. If at least they had used the Choco Party girl as the lead singer…!
Not weird, but hey, you can’t just have wacky all year without some diversion. This is for my former co-worker G. from Frankfurt, and of course for all other readers. Merry Christmas.
(Via Weird Asia News.)
news.com.au reports that a Japanese man started a petition to enable him to get married to a Mangacharacter:
Taichi Takashita launched an online petition aiming for one million signatures to present to the government to establish a law on marriages with cartoon characters.
Within a week he has gathered more than 1000 signatures through.
“I am no longer interested in three dimensions. I would even like to become a resident of the two-dimensional world,” he wrote.
“However, that seems impossible with present-day technology. Therefore, at the very least, would it be possible to legally authorise marriage with a two-dimensional character?”
Reportedly, while it is not sure whether Takashita was serious, some of the people who signed the petition are.
I’ve moved this blog to a new server. Better, bigger, faster, newer. I also took the opportunity to finally update WordPress. I am sorry if anybody tried to reach the site today and hit a wall.
The good news is that the current version of WordPress makes posting images much easier, and that means it’ll be less annoying for me to post and that means … more weird stuff from Japan.
Have fun!
There is a Japanese company called D-Barcode
which took on a mundane, boring, and unimaginative part of our consumer life and gave it a makeover: Barcodes. This is one of those ideas they are so simple, that it took a designer genius to come up with it. The result, I may say, is absolutely cool:
Beautiful Japanese Barcodes
If I had any kind of company that sold packaged products, I’d immediately steal this idea.
More Beautiful Japanese Barcodes
Nice, huh?
(Via Dark Roasted Blend.)
Think my brain just imploded watching this.
