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A world dedicated to anime, manga, and Japanese news found on the web, so you don't have to go to more than one site.
Since the news being presented here is from other sites, they are not my original work and all credit goes to the original author. I'm really bootleging information, thus this world's title.
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"The Stupid Robot Contest is an annual show held by Meiwa Electronics to determine whose robot is the silliest. There are just three criteria that a robot must meet in order to be entered in this contest:
1. It must be mechanical
2. It must be completely useless from a societal point of view.
3. It must make people laugh.
Pictured above is Papa Robopucho, a disfigured little box bot that plays the red-flag-white-flag game by himself, and then occasionally topples over and cries for help.
Some of the other contestants last year were a chorus of pregnant wife robots, a child robot that did push-ups, and and a "moe" robot dressed like a maid from a maid cafe."
*Bows* Sorry for not updating in such a long time. School deadlines and assignments have been cracking the whip upon me. Any who, that leaves a lot of news to catch up on for April, so this week will be a series of “Ketchup” articles with themes such as this one, which is about the intelligent decisions people make.
Soccer Star gets charged for stealing woman’s panties from seven years ago
A member of the J-League soccer team Kashiwa Reysol was arrested this week for sneaking into a 21-year old woman's home and stealing her panties seven years ago, after DNA from another incident matched him to the crime.
On September 11, 2001, he snuck into the woman's house in Kobe and stole her panties and cell phone. He was 19 at the time—a minor in Japan—so his name hasn't been disclosed to the press.
In March 2006, while the player was at Kawasaki Frontale, he was arrested for breaking into a Kawasaki home, but later released without charges. DNA he left behind at the scene of this incident matched DNA found at the scene of the Kobe case and led to his arrest.
"Police on Thursday released images from a security camera showing a man chopping down tulips with his umbrella alongside a road here, following a spate of similar attacks in the city.
Police have launched a search for the man, who appears to be aged between his 40s and 50s.
The suspect, dressed in a suit and tie, was captured swinging his umbrella violently to lop the tops off tulips in planters near the Gunma Prefectural Government headquarters in Maebashi late on April 18.
At about 12 a.m. the following day, about 65 tulips from 18 planters were found to have been chopped down.
Altogether, roughly 1,900 tulips were cut down in attacks in Maebashi on April 9, 14 and 19."
Nope, I’m not taking about the series but about a man who has a fetish of throwing bleach onto inspecting woman’s crotches.
“In Sapporo, a mystery man has been spraying liquid bleach onto women's crotch areas in subways and shopping centers, leaving them befuddled with embarrassed in public. In the last month, there have been 15 attacks--last year around this time, there were several dozen which came to an abrupt halt when the media started reporting on it.
One woman noticed a strange guy putting a spray can into his pocket at the train station, then discovered a white stain on her pants minutes later”
"A man has been arrested in Hokkaido for putting on some make-up and a blouse and hanging out in a women’s public toilet:
Tsukasa Okazaki, 45, the banker from Monbetsu, Hokkaido, was arrested for trespassing. He admits to the allegations. “I wanted people to see me as some sort of weirdo,” he told the police.
......Nuff said...there are too many puns that I could use for this statement....."
This information was pm to me by marajsky.
Whether it’s legitimate or not, is still in question. Even though there is this video floating around, there is no hard proof that I found that this could be true.
From this site they have a quote from the director, but what I don’t get is that they never say the director’s name. Here’s the quote:
"This was produced several months ago as a spec teaser to get the greenlight from Japan. As of this point, production is moving forward and I will be directing it. My company is not producing as I was pulled on by an established production company who has already produced comic-to-film adaptations.
To answer your other question, this focuses on Seras' origin story and her entry into the Hellsing Organisation and it will be shot in England. I can't say who we are casting as the lead, but she looks exactly the part and everything about the story is as true to the originating material as can be. It will be very dark and gritty, mixed between something like the Russian film Night Watch and the ** rabble :robotmad: ** feel of the american film Constantine.
My goal is to make this very real feeling, and to ground all that seems unbelievable in some sort of reality. You'll dig it, I promise"!
Theres also a new British T.V series currently shooting for a September release on ITV called "The Last Van Helsing".
"6 x 60' supernatural drama series for ITV1.
‘In-humans’ – supernatural entities with freakish powers – are on the move and the only one who can stand in their way is Luke Forsythe. Luke is a normal, everyday 17-year-old Londoner until, one night, he wakes up to find a mysterious stranger raiding his fridge.
Philip plays CIA operative Rupert Galvin, a "larger-than-life" American with a "tragic past and a zero-tolerance policy to the rabble of mythical half-life entities" in the as yet untitled new ITV1 drama series. The drama, currently known internally at ITV as the "untitled Van Helsing project", will put a "contemporary spin on the legacy of Bram Stoker's Dracula" and be set above and beneath the streets of modern-day London. Philip's character will appear in the life of his teenage godson, Luke, played by Robin Hood's Christian Cooke. Luke's father died in mysterious circumstances and afterwards Philip's Galvin is "catapulted into a world of vampires, demons and zombies". The Office's Mackenzie Crook will also appear as the evil Gladiolus Thrip, a sinister vampire with a burning hatred for the Van Helsing lineage. "There are supernatural forces of evil at work and it is Luke's destiny, as the last descendent of the Van Helsing line, to smite the half-lives that stalk our streets," ITV said. The drama will be made by Elisabeth Murdoch's independent production company, Shine, which previously made Sky One's supernatural series Hex. It will be produced by the team behind Hex - Julian Murphy and Johnny Capps - and written by two writers from that show, Peter Tabern and Lucy Watkins, as well as Hotel Babylon's Howard Overman. The six-part drama was commissioned by ITV director of drama Laura Mackie. It is currently filming in London with an ITV1 transmission expected later in the year".
AH, We all have come across those articles that make us pause and say “What!?” and questioned human society. Well in this edition of the bootleg I manage to gather up a few of those stories.
First up is the Placenta beverage…
YUM, that Placenta 10000 jelly drink, really does the body good!
Well food or beverages that promise beauty or health are always popular now days. Ignorant people feel that by ingesting those products, they are doing their body good. Well this product takes the cake…
FOSHU (Food for a Specific Health Use) foods and drinks are very popular in Japan right, especially when it has promise of enhancing beauty. One of the newest beverages to be released is zero-calorie Placenta 10000 jelly drink that has 10000 mg of pig placenta. Now if you don’t know what a placenta is, it is in a nutshell, the sack that a baby is in within a mother’s womb. It is removed at birth along with the umbilical cord. In some animals (such as dogs) they eat their placenta to start the mother to produce milk to feed their young. Here’s a picture of a human placenta http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/b9/Human_placenta_both_sides.jpg I don’t recommend seeing this if you’re squeamish.
Why a placenta? Well supposedly it has regenerative properties, especially concerning beauty, and can help with dieting as well.
The drink cost $8 for the Caprisun sized drink, that supposedly tastes like peaches (Due to the artificial flavorings) . There is also a Placenta 400,000 which is a bigger dose and bottle.
Why one would drink this is WAY beyond me. Come on people, Pig’s Placenta !? As John Stossel from 20/20 would say, “Give me a break!”
Woman has to have her bottom surgically removed from a toilet seat
I’m sorry to say that this article no longer exists on the web, since the Mainichi Daily News site only keeps track of articles up to a few days. Here’s the original link I read it off of http://mdn.mainichi.jp/culture/news/20080313p2g00m0dm017000c.html. Since it is now gone, I am going by memory and lost some of the nitty-gritty details.
A young woman, who lived with her boyfriend, was physically stuck to her toilet seat, after she had been on it for two years straight. She ran into the bathroom two years prior and out of intense fear or really a phobia, would not leave the bathroom toilet seat. Her skin eventually grew over the seat and when she was taken out, surgeons had to operate to remove the seat.
PIka-A-Boo!
This was on a few sites, were there was some type festivity going on, that had giant inflatable pokemon, where inside was a jumper. Well the Pikachu jumper had an interesting entrance.
Why they put it there, I don’t know, but it is stupidly amusing. I could say more, but moving on to another mascot…
“Busty former swimsuit model turned TV personality Aki Hoshino, a well-known Hello Kitty devotee, has teamed up with Sanrio to produce this limited series of cheeky T-shirts that throws” Hello Kitty innocent appearance into questioned.
The picture is of Hello Kitty in a thong bathing suit while a fluffy puppy pulls on the thong strap (Kinda like the waterbabies sun block lotion), striking a pose with two apples in hands, that I think are suppose to symbolize breasts? The other t-shirt image is of the model in a bikini with her bikini bottom also being pulled by the puppy.
The first in the “Hoshino Akitty” line is available from this month for ¥5,800.
“Memorial stone maker Ishinokoe (Voice of the Stone) of Yamanashi Prefecture will soon begin producing grave stones with QR codes embedded in them. They are calling the concept Kuyou no Mado, roughly meaning “Memorial Service Window”, as visitors can scan the code with their mobiles and get information on the deceased.
Contents can include pictures, video, family information, and other items. While using a QR code for this may actually seem a bit outdated in a country of burgeoning RFID technology, they are simple and will likely be readable by generations of future devices. The sample QR code below is readable if you have a capable phone.”
Don’t have the space or money to take care of a cat? Well rent a cat! That’s right, at the Calico Café, customers can rent a cat for 800 yen an hour (about $8), so they can play with them inside the store rooms along with buying other souvenir merchandise.
In an article featuring Tokyo Anime Center's Top 10 Bestsellers in March. With the number one selling item being the Princess Mononoke post card set, followed by Black Jack Toilet Paper, and more anime toilet paper products. Out selling Tokyo International Anime Fair 2008 Reserved Tickets, the eva coffee and other products..
I have a few more news goodies, but do not pertain to this theme, so I’ll try to post them tomorrow, since it is extremely late and I got class later on today.
Man I’m boot! Goodnight or really good morning.
Thanks for stopping by and reading this world and thank you 2short, Nehszriah, and fallenangel8 for posting news today.
-TrigunCat4
Hello, Welcome to the Bootleg leftovers: the Food Addition.
Since I was noticing a surplus of Japanese food related news, I dedicated this report to food.
Sexy Time With Your Food or Sex Up Your Food
I was hesitant at first whether to post this information, but couldn’t pass up the bizarreness of this information. I am sorry if this offends people…
From an article in the Mainichi Daily News, in the underground of Tokyo’s Roppongi district, there is a member-only club/ restaurant, where for a big fee, members can have sex with the animal of their choice and then have it killed, cooked, and served to the member and his/hers party. “Patrons pay up to 800,000 yen (around $7000) for the entire experience and must have an income of 20 million yen (about $175,000) to even get that far. Once inside, through multiple secured doorways, your dating & dining choices include chickens, dogs, pigs and goats - of either sex”
The original online article was comically called “New Restaurant Lets You Pork Your Pork”
With the controversial issue of Whaling on the rise in Japan, there have been many research papers that are about ideas such as making test-tube whale babies and cow-whale hybrids for livestock, to solve the whaling problem. These essays have been published by Japan's Institute of Cetacean Research over the past 18 years in respected scientific journals including "Nature".
Had enough of Square Enix’s Final Fantasy Potion drink,? Well now gamers can guzzle down Monster Hunter Drink from the much anticipated Monster Hunter Portable 2nd G game for the PSP. “The Monster Hunter Drink is produced by Hino Pharmaceutical and contains royal jelly, vitamins, and fruit flavors.” Bandai is releasing them on March 27th and will only be sold in 7-11 convenience stores up until April. Bandai expects to sell 50 million of them for it’s limited run.
What the crap is Royal Jelly? I’ve never heard of it till now.
What do you get if Mochi and Waffles had a baby? You get Moffles!
I love Mochi and I love Waffles, but how do I combine the two, simple a Moffle. “It’s the latest food craze! Sweet or savory, the moffle is a waffle made from traditional Japanese mochi rice cakes. The outside of a moffle gets crispy like puffed rice but the inside retains its chewy mochi-ness. While a number of Japanese food bloggers claim that any waffle iron will do (and the trial and errors are well-documented), one clever company has already branded itself “Moffle” and produced a moffle maker. Available on Amazon Japan, the Moffle moffle maker comes in single (¥6,800) or double (¥12,790) iron models in “milk white” or “milk pink.”” They are served in many ways, from fruits and ice cream to curry and cheese. It’s a meal in itself.
To me, a Moffle looks like inversed bubble wrap. To see pictures and read the article, click on the link:
Mega Mac hamburger is permanently added to the Japanese McDonald’s menu
In Japanese McDonalds, for a limited time they had the Mega Mac Burger on the menu, but it was so popular (It sold over 23 million burgers), that it is now apart of the permanent menu. The burger consists of 3 buns, and 4 patties accompanied by lettuce, cheese, etc.
Not only is it apart of the menu, they are also running two limited addition burgers, part of the Mega Mac Series, one Being the Mega Muffin and the Mega Teriyaki. “To keep things lively, the products are time-restricted both in dates and hours. The Mega Mac is available as usual from 10:30 in the morning, but the Mega Muffin is only available from opening time until 10:30, and the Mega Teriyaki from 7 p.m. until closing time. That, and both of these new items are only available from April 4th until May 8th.” There is also a site promoting the Mega Mac in Japan http://megamac.jp/
Obviously the documentary “Super Size Me” has had no effect in Japan…
Eva Coffee Cans Available Exclusively To Pachinko Parlors
This is old news (I’ve posted it before for the first time the podcast team wanted info), but the site Akihabanana has posted another article about UCC Coffee cans have the Eva girls dressed up as maid on it. It is for a limited time, to promote the Eva Movies and is only available at Pachinko Parlors.
Tommy Lee Jones Coffee Commerical
To end this report, I leave you a Boss Coffee commercial featuring Tommmy Lee Jones (K from Men in Black), which was part of a series of twelve commercials called "Alien Tommy Lee Jones". Where Mr. Jones plays a alien visting Japan and it's many cultural aspects. The funny part about these commericals is that he hardly says anything nor make any facial expressions in them.
This was also featured on Japanprobe.com a while back...
