By Jai-Ling on Mar 25, 2009 in Uncategorized
So your girlfriend’s into Hello, Kitty, which is about as amazing and unique as, say, porn on the Internet.
But she if she brings this little number home than you might has well put your balls in the purse you’re holding for her while she’s shopping.
Really, is there anything more to say after something like this?
Oh yeah: The horror. The horror.
Wednesday Morning Nerdy Sexiness
By Jai-Ling on Mar 24, 2009 in Uncategorized
Trombone-playing J-pop trio Futomomo Satisfaction raise the awareness of brass instruments using one of the most powerful inventions of man: the bikini. See, you’re paying attention to trombone players from Japan now, aren’t you? Hell, you’re probably even interested.
Their repertoire includes traditional J-Pop melodies, with trombones, to Dick Dale’s Misirlou (aka “The Pulp Fiction Theme Song”), with trombones. Did I mention they wear bikinis? Yeah, bikinis.
Futomomo Satisfaction most recently played at SXSW — apparently, the appeal of trombones and bikinis are not lost on the hipsters at the music show/web marketing conference/whatever the hell it actually is either. But mostly, I’d imagine, the appeal is in bikinis.
Futomomo Satisfaction, bikini clad trombonists from Japan
By Jai-Ling on Mar 23, 2009 in Uncategorized
In the same way the American porn scene is a shadow to the mainstream entertainment industry when it comes to ideas (see: Columbia Pictures’ “The Da Vinci Code” and Hustler Video’s “The Da Vinci Load”), so goes the Japanese animation industry.
Much of the output of illustrated purple-haired hotties, tentacle sex and outrageously-sized bazooms is related to the more acceptable and popular cartoons revolving around giant robots, schoolgirls with magic powers and angst-y teens. Whether it’s Dōjinshi that’s based on mainstream series or pros who pen the X-rated stuff on the side, porn-related anime is joined at the hip with its more acceptable counterparts.
With the rise of anime in popular culture, one would expect all fortunes are rising. However, AltJapan reports that this is not the case. About a quarter of the anime industry works significantly below the poverty line, it’s spread increasingly thin and studios are often losing money.
Scary stuff, and hopefully something the anime industry can turn around.
State of the Anime Industry 2009
