It’s also for rice now! I bought this FRESH PRECURE! (フレッシュ プリキュア) furikake to spice up my plain rice at the grocery store down the street. Furikake is basically just a condiment for your rice. Made from various Japanesey ingredients it can send your rice from bland to fishy / eggy / seaweedy in no time! Video , dancing, and another pic after the Jump.
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Monoke may be one of the most beautiful animes you’ve never heard of. It has a visual style that I haven’t seen in Anime before. Imagine a Japanese wall scroll, that has come to life. A spin-off of from the horror series Ayakashi: Samurai Horror Tales, Mononoke follows the mysterious medicine man and his encounters with supernatural. Check out the opening after the jump.
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A lot of people have a hard time identifying art, but with something as meticulously crafted as this stop motion animation it is easy to identify the time and skill involved.
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Good fan-made music remixes are usually hard to come by in this here internet age. Luckily we have the NicoNico King Hyadain’s work to keep us entertained.
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I love Japanese Cleaning Product commercials. Fun fact, my nickname when I studied in Tokyo was Mr. Sparkle! In making this post I also learned how to deeplink in an embedded video to skip the first chunk of the clip. Check it out.
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I love Japanese commercials about vegetable juice. I laughed myself into a coughing fit when she started shaking the bottle. You may need to turn the volume down a tad on this vid. Halfway down the youtube volume slider was good for me.
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Summer Wars, the latest work from the acclaimed director Mamoru Hosoda ( The Girl Who Leapt Through Time ), has the honor of kicking off the NY Children’s Fest on February 26th.
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Sales of Karol’s Keroro ( Sgt. Frog as we know him in the states ), one of the paid downloads in the PlayStation 3 version of Tales of Vesperia, broke the 35,000 mark.
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Actress Chiaki Kuriyama (Battle Royale, Kill Bill ) will make her singing debut with a little help from Mobile Suit Gundam.
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Tokyo Magnitude 8.0 is Up meets Spirited Away meets 2012 meets Xam’d meets real life japan. What does that all mean? Come take a look!
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