Bento Bulletin

Lack of teh internetz!

Hey! This is actually goingd posting with TrigunCat4's username. She wanted me to let everyone know that her internet is down, but she will be back ever so soonish. To those of many curiosities, I assume she apologizes for being disappeared!
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Miyazaki is Made of Win - reason #85

Hayao Miyazaki, famous anime director of such epic things as, Princess Mononoke, Castle in the Sky, Howl’s Moving Castle, Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea (which is pure awesomeness by the way!), was awarded at the British Fantasy Awards at FantasyCon 2009 this last weekend. Specifically he won The Karl Edward Wagner Award, which is specially labeled as the “Special Award.”

What is really cool about him winning this award, is that it is not selected from any specific genre - so Miyazaki, and his more than pleasant interpretation of anime, stood out to the British Fantasy Awards, FantasyCon, and to the British Film Society. And Ponyo has not even been released their yet!
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source: Anime News Network

The adventure begins now!

Hello and welcome to the Bento Bulletin!

Thank you for stopping by to check out our blog!

This blog has been in the makings for quite some time now. I was finally able to put it up.

What is this blog about you say? Well grab a frosty beverage and I’ll tell you whippersnappers!

This is a collaborative collection of information from the anime, manga, and nerd community. Basically a anime, manga, and Japanese culture blog with a mix of other nerdyness fun-dom! A plethora of fandom information and randomness.

You are probably wondering “What does this have to do with bentos?”.
Well a bento while still maintain the usual staples of rice, vegetables, etc., it also has a lot of wiggle room for variety. You can have anything in it. From beef to fried chicken to even enchiladas, the variety never ends! This blog will have a whole heap of variety of topics discussed, but will remain with its staple purpose, to bring anime, manga and Japanese culture news to the masses. With that in mind, we felt that a bento was the best representation of what this blog is going to be about.

We hit a bunch of hits and misses while coming up with the name. We racked our brains with theses gems of titles:
* Anime and Other Stuff
* Monocle Chronicles
* The Monocle
* Monocles and Mustaches
Etc.....

Yeah…We had a fascination with mustaches and monocles xP. It wasn’t until “goingd” came up with the title a week or so ago did we finally say “Yess, that’s it!”

Speaking of “we”, here are the writers who will be maintaining the blog with me. My best friends:
• Goingd
• Terato
• Bluestar39o3

Pretty soon there will be a link to our profiles, so you can know whose running the B.B.
We will also put up a description of the blog up top and put the finishing touches in the weeks to come.

So bear with us and enjoy!

Japanese Melon Museum you say?

Have you ever had the chance to eat a Japanese melon bar? Or melon bread? Well Japan has done more for melons than just process them into frozen and baked snacks of amazing amusingness.

About forty years ago Noriyuki Fujishita (former professor of Osaka Prefecture University, my pretend alma matar!) discovered probably the smallest melon in the world, the Weed Melon! (or MG 16 if you want to get technical and boring) The melon is native to Megi Island of the Kagawa Prefecture.

Since Fujishita’s historic discovery the Weed Melon has been mostly used for feeding livestock (because apparently they are bitter), but the tourism association of Megi Island, headed by it’s chairman, Yoshikio Kawai, has bigger plans.

They plan to sell them, not just to livestock, but to tourists! Human tourists! In the form of a pickle! How much cooler can you get you ask? Well if you read the first three words of the title then you already know - the tourism association of Megi Island plans to build a museum of melons... I repeat, a museum of melons! With melons, “from around the world,” Kawai said. As if there are not already four-hundred- and-nineteen reasons to visit Japan, they want to build a melon museum! If I were from Japan I would say, “On behalf of Japan, you’re welcome.”
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I hope that was a productive first post for me, and I hope you find much excitement in melons. *gives you big thumbs up*

source: Kyodo News