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Daiso is selling a new product that lets you showcase your manga with a little holder that attaches to the end of a bookshelf ledge, so now you can pretend you run a bookstore at home. twitter.com/XIxGXhF7teakyA…
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Snow has come early to parts of Hokkaido, resulting in a beautiful “collaboration” of fall and winter.
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Two years after quitting acting after it came out that he got a minor pregnant, beat her & pressed her to get an abortion, actor Ozawa Ren “apologizes” for his “weakness” and says he wants to restart his career.
He is, as you might imagine, getting his virtual ass beat. twitter.com/occult_box/sta…
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“Was eating at a small Chinese restaurant when two young elementary boys came in, pooled their change & ordered one fried rice.
‘Got it!’ the owner said & began clearly cooking for two. He then said:
‘Sorry! I made too much on accident - enjoy!’
That was a cool move.” twitter.com/kurouuronchaaa…
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Introducing the Pom Pom Purin tissue holder you never knew you needed twitter.com/k64KHpukRR6cpZ…
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“Watching [Gundam] Iron-Blooded Orphans on the plane but so is the infant off to the right in front of me so I’m seeing all the spoilers and know exactly what’s coming next” twitter.com/eeeeee74132460…
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As actor Ozawa Ren tries to rehabilitate himself, this Bunshun interview reminds us that just last year he denied any abuse of his 16yo victim, called it “consensual S&M”, and accused his victim of “revenge p0rn” for sharing pics of her bruises.
bunshun.jp/articles/-/486…
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"Tried putting a Halloween headband from the ¥100 store on our black cat, and the cat ended up looking way more like a witch's familiar than expected...
#blackcats "
twitter.com/simojimakei/st…
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In a case suing for marriage equality in Japan, Kawachi Shino told the court about how she’s faced discrimination all her life, starting when she was a teenager & saw “homosexuality” defined in a dictionary as “sexual perversion”.
huffingtonpost.jp/entry/marriage…
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LDP politician Onoda Kimi makes the (baseless) charge again that foreigners are sucking money out of Japan’s social safety net and it needs to be stopped.
The ironic thing, though?
Onoda is a half-American born in Chicago, Illinois. twitter.com/8ueBd6tf29iYRp…
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TSUKURITAI ONNA TO TABETAI ONNA (She Loves to Cook & She Loves to Eat), a popular manga about two women who fall in love via their complimentary relationship to food, will be made into a drama. The series will air on NHK starting on November 29th, 2022. twitter.com/Tsuku_Tabe/sta…
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Twitter users are debating whether anyone actually orders the green peas w/ bacon & egg dish at Saizeriya. One claims the mere existence of the dish made him shorter & broke his right arm - leading another to ask, “did green peas kill your parents?”
ima.goo.ne.jp/column/article…
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A guide to “how anyone can draw Pochita” from Chainsaw Man: “First, draw the blade. Then, sketch in the skeleton. Next, attach the musculature to it. Finally add & color the skin and you’re done!” twitter.com/Gyoza_2001/sta…
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The bus cafe for @colabo_official, an org that helps at-risk girls earn their independence, had its bus cafe in Tokyo damaged. It’s an escalation in violence towards Colabo and its founder @colabo_yumeno, who’s been the target of vicious attacks online for years. twitter.com/colabo_yumeno/…
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A new JP gov report on remote work found that a higher frequency of remote work leads to longer sleep for employees and, combined with office work in appropriate doses, fosters greater happiness.
news.livedoor.com/lite/article_d…
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“I’m sorry but I could watch this vid of a Chiikawa getting snatched by a seabird and its owner’s howl over and over again” twitter.com/tyomateee/stat…
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The phrase #外国人に土地を売らないで ("don't sell land to foreigners") is trending on Japanese Twitter, the belated result of the fervent words said by musician Nagabuchi Tsuyoshi to a crowded venue in Kagawa some weeks ago. The involved tweets are about the quality you'd expect.
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“Two cats start dancing mid-fight” twitter.com/animal_iyashl/…
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The “woke localizers are ruining anime and manga” types have resorted to just outright lying about what the original Japanese says, knowing full well that their marks can’t read a lick of the language anyhow.
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For a more nuanced take of political themes in anime that’s not absolute bs, check out our write up here. unseenjapan.com/anime-politics…
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Composer Tanaka Hidekazu (35), who’s done music for IDOLM@STER CINDERELLA GIRLS and other game & anime titles, was arrested for making lewd remarks at an underage girl in Meguro & grabbing her hand. A camera also showed him chasing after her.
www3.nhk.or.jp/news/html/2022…
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A program on NHK interviewed over 10 children from LGBT households about some of the issues faced by LGBT families in Japan. unseenjapan.com/lgbt-couple-ch…
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婚約 (konyaku) is “engagement” - but if you want more than a mere husk of a marriage, one built around an indestructible kernel of love, you’ll give your partner a コーン約 (corn-gagement) ring. Available in various states of poppage!
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A woman’s husband thought he was having an affair because he seemed so happy & was coming home late from work. So she hired a detective agency…and found out he was just a massive Hatsune Miku fan who was attending 3D concerts and singing her songs alone in karaoke rooms 💀 twitter.com/Miku_miku_pand…
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