Gee, there’s nothing at all Freudian about that title, is there? Seriously, I spot a mini-trend here: DrMaster is releasing both volumes of this two-volume series simultaneously, just as Del Rey is publishing the first two volumes Fairy Tail simultaneously in March. It seems to me someone else is doing that as well, but I […]
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It’s that time of the month again: ICv2 brings us the December direct market sales numbers for pamphlets and graphic novels. The short version is that comics were up 3 percent and GNs rose 11 percent, yielding a 4 percent gain overall. Anyway, we’re all about the manga here, so here are the top-selling manga, […]
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The Yuba experience.The rectangular metal plan below contains a very fluid (having low viscosity if you will) liquid made from nigari (苦汁) and soybean milk, the same stuff that Tofu is made from. The yellow citrus on the right is a Yuzu.The hotplate is heated slowly so that the liquid does not boil should rarely […]
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福岡空港
The new international terminal at Fukuoka Airport was opened in 1999, and built on the site of the former USAF base Itazuke.
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Fukuoka Airport is the third largest airport in Japan after Tokyo’s Narita Airport & Osaka’s Kansai International Airport.
The Tokyo to Fukuoka air route is one of the busiest in the world.
Fukuoka Airport is Japan’s most easily accessible airport, being just a few minutes subway ride from downtown Hakata and its Shinkansen station.
The International terminal is served by Japanese, East Asian, and SE Asian airlines. There are regular international flights to Bangkok, Beijing, Busan, Chengdu, Guam, Hong Kong Kong, Manila, Seoul and Taipei.
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Presenting the latest in Japanese technology. If you thought that Candy Girls were realistic then you are in for a big surprise.
Cutie Doll is a brand of companion dolls with a difference. While Candy Girls cost about 600,000 yen (5,641 USD), Cutie Dolls cost only 50,000 yen (470 USD) - not bad for an incredibly realistic companion loaded with the latest technology from the land of the rising sun.
Below: Cutie Doll is designed with the fickle master in mind - if you get bored of her face, you can just rip it off and wrap another one over her head.
Below: Latest technology (velcro) used to keep her face on.
Below: Installing the brain unit which enables a “unique” personality.
Below: Face mount complete.
Below: Wig mounted. At this moment, Cutie Doll is still in hibernation mode.
Below: OS booted and visual units automatically open.
Below: This is the blank DNA clone. Comes with string so that you can hang it to dry outside your window.
Below: This is Cutie Doll fully booted up.
Below: Cutie Doll with a “print body” nano skin which has a realistic texture. Looks and feels like real cloth.
Below: Those who have a fetish for bigger eyes can fill up any condom that you find lying around on your floor with household tap water
Below: The condom is then placed in some sort of device…
Below: …which when activated transforms (insert transformer noise here) into an incredibly realistic pair of eyes.
Below: The large pair of eyes then docks with the main unit ready for some…
Below: …emulation.
Below: If for some reason you are embarrassed to display such a fine piece of technology around the house in front of friends or family, you can always get a Cutie Doll without arms or legs. You can then stick her in your pillow case or stuff her in your work/school bag.
Notice that the Cutie Doll comes with a multi purpose port - takes USB, Firewire, VGA or whatever you decide to put in it.
Below: Cutie Doll has the ability to move and live in daily environments - but currently needs a lot of help from the owner. Heres Cutie Doll at school.
Below: Cutie Doll at home.
Below: Cutie Doll at the park.
Below: A Duo Core 2 Cutie Doll in the living room.
Below: Maintenance being carried out on a Cutie Doll.
Below: How to revive Cutie Doll from a disk failure - VNSFW.
Below: A demonstration to show how realistic the eyes are.
The boat you was on sinks after hitting an endangered moose. You can see a Candy Girl and a Cutie Doll in the water. They are not calling for help because their voice units are damaged. Which do you rescue to spend the rest of your life with on that deserted island?
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人身事故
Last Wednesday, the K-Tokyu Express train bound for Demachiyanagi, in Kyoto, pulled out of Osaka’s Kyobashi Station exactly on time at 5:36 pm and was comfortably full. The express trains are painted an elegant orange-red and yellow, and have a small painting on the front wall of each carriage and large picture windows. These carriages feel more like European inter-city trains than the usual point A to point B crush of Japanese rush-hour lines.
The conductor’s baritone guided us through the stops until Kyoto in a brief announcement as we pulled out of Kyobashi. We were three or four minutes into our ride and easing into cruising speed when, suddenly, the sound of rocks–scattering violently or hitting the windows or skidding across the bottom of the carriage–made everyone duck reflexively and look around.
The lights then went out as the cable bounced from the overhead wire and against the roof above us. The car was nearly dark but for the emergency lights along the floor.
Using the the euphemism for suicide, the conductor came on again: “There has been an accident, and we are going to be delayed.” His voice was calm, but the delivery was not silky smooth as it had been minutes before.
An awkward silence came over the carriage, and we all glanced out into the night. Nothing but rain-streaked windows and darkness.
People began text-messaging and calling home or friends to say they would be late. After several minutes the sound of a distant siren could be heard. The riders spoke in hushed voices in the darkness, and settled in for a long wait. The train finally started up after 25 minutes.
According to my brother-in-law, a driver for JR, “it is not a matter of if, but just a matter of time” before the train you are driving will kill someone.
At the bottom of page 33 of the next morning’s Asahi Shinbun newspaper, there was a small article stating that “a 73-year-old woman who was on the tracks of the Osaka-Kyoto route of the Keihan Line was hit by an express train at approximately 5:40 pm and killed instantly. Trains were delayed up to 40-minutes, and 340,000 commuters were affected.”
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The tireless designers at Sanrio never seem to run out of new looks for the venerable Kitty Chan. In addition to the popular series of location specific Hello Kitties—see Roppongi Kitty sporting knee-high black boots—her latest incarnations include homages to TV personalities Ikko, of last year’s popular catchphrase, “Dondake?!” (“WTF?!”) fame, and cross-dressing school girl Sakurazuka Yakkun.
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Deb Aoki of About.com interviews mangaka Keiko Takemiya, the creator of To Terra and Andromeda Stories, about her work and what it was like being one of the first female shoujo manga creators. Also: Deb’s readers pick Town of Evening Calm, Country of Cherry Blossoms as the best josei manga of 2007.Japan Focus translates an […]
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