Wednesday, February 27, 2008

Music List Updated!!

Click here to view this week's featured music single and top 20 music hits from Japan.
(Sorry for the delay)

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Wednesday, February 20, 2008

Shin-chan the potty-mouth?


If you have kids in Japan, then you'll definitely know the antics of Crayon Shin-chan, an anime character with a sassy mouth and a tendency towards disrespecting his parents. But it's usually innocent enough and quite amusing. So much so that Spain was one of the first to adopt Shin-chan and L-O-V-E love him (and they did quite a good job with the dub, I might add). Recently I had the chance to catch the American dubbed version of Shin-chan and was more than a little surprised.

Shin-chan originally went to America in 1994. But with so many censor issues it didn't have quite the same impact or popularity. It wasn't the first anime to be hacked and slashed by the American censors and definitely won't be the last. In 2006, FUNimation acquired the licensing and decided to make an edit-free, extremely adult-content version for adults. Can you imagine Shin-chan and his friends making sexual jokes and swearing like sailors? It's not quite right, is it? See for yourself:

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Thursday, February 14, 2008

WWE Fever



Hey kids, sorry for being sooooooooo late. This was supposed to be posted Monday and some idiot (me) forgot to press the "post" button. The next post will be in a couple of days so you'll get two for this week!

This past weekend, marked the visit of WWE to fair Tokyo on their Royal Rumble tour. Now, first of all, when did WWF become WWE? Wrestling has much changed since my little girl days. My foggy memory remembers wrestling as being a slightly low budget, but amusing weekend excursion that was about good wrestlers with little amusing bits of story and the occasional spat about whose exceedingly big-chested girl belongs to who. Now it's a big-budget commercial enterprise that seems like more of the male soap opera variety than actual good-old-fashioned wrestling. But I digress. Commercialism is key to making it in little Tokyo and WWE did not disappoint.



I was actually surprised to find out just how many Tokyo fans there are of WWE. On regular and even cable television it doesn't appear to be so regularly televised. But, nevertheless, thousands upon thousands of Japanese paid their ticket price (3000-20000 yen yikes!) and showed up to catch a glimpse of their fave puroresu star. Exceptional. I worried that the Japanese folk wouldn't understand the "story" going on, but once the beating began, it didn't seem to matter. And it was an enjoyable event, I have to say. I'd take it over Pride and K1 any day.



WWE Royal Rumble Tour in Tokyo, catch it on paperview....probably.

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Sunday, February 10, 2008

Music List Updated!!

Click here to view this week's featured music single and top 20 music hits from Japan.

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