Another unique Japanese variety of Pepsi will hit stores this October…called Pepsi Azuki, it will presumably taste like Azuki beans. I don’t think I’ve ever had Azuki beans, but apparently they taste sweet in their own right, so this Pepsi variety could taste pretty good. I wish the USA would release cool random varieties of Pepsi like they do in Japan…here all we get are regular, Diet, and…that’s about it, wi...

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This is as strange as it is intriguing…apparently someone is developing a remake of George Romero’s classic zombie film Night of the Living Dead, but doing so with a CGI 3D version entitled Night of the Living Dead: Origins. As this article states,  Night Of The Living Dead: Origins will update the original tale by fleshing out the backstories of the characters. De Soto, who co-wrote the script with David R. Schwartz calls his vers...

Up for today’s review is a bag of Doraemon gummy snacks. Since it’s Doraemon-related, the bag is insanely colorful, and has pictures of the gummies that are inside the bag. There’s a blue one with his face, a yellow pineapple one, a pink (strawberry?) flavor and some outlines of what look like soda cups. Doraemon himself is holding a mysterious black soda cup with a question mark on it, but I don’t know what that is suppo...

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Yes, that’s what I call these. The box has a very colorful image of a lumberjack guy with a headband smoking from a pipe. Around him are five tree stumps and a pink bunny. When I bought this snack I didn’t know what it was; seeing the images on the box made me think they’re some kind of chocolate/cookie type thing again, like Every Burger. A glance at the ingredients on the back reveal it contains wheat, egg, milk, soy, so I th...

This weekend, the 25th through the 27th, Manhattan will be home to the New York Anime Festival. As the Festival’s website says, The New York Anime Festival is an annual anime convention held at the Jacob K. Javits Center in Midtown Manhattan. It features exclusive and extensive anime screenings, guests from America and Japan, manga, cosplay, video games, live-action Japanese cinema, fashion, food, and the cultural treasures that gave birth...

I found this at Japanprobe.com, another great video/little story they posted on their site a week or so ago. In this clip from Katakuri TV, Hanawa, a popular Japanese singer/comedian,  hands over control of a shop to his two sons, who apparently think foreigners only eat chocolate. The American guy shopping in the store is probably an actor, since he’s playing along well, but it’s still entertaining. Watch the video, it’s pret...

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This doesn’t really make much sense…in fact it’s quite silly. Apparently, plans are in the works to translate Herman Melville’s classic book Moby Dick into Emoji, the text-message language used by millions of Japanese people for their phones and SMS messaging needs. The people at the helm of this implausible scheme intend to pay Internet users small sums of money for their contributions to the translation. As this article...

I enjoy eating kiwi fruits, they have a nice tangy flavor that I’ve always liked. I found this video over at Japanprobe.com, and it’s a cute (but pretty strange) commercial from Japan for Zespri kiwi fruits…who apparently tear themselves in half and dance around in order to appeal to consumers. It worked, I guess, as I suddenly want to eat some Kiwi…..hmm. a2a_config.linkname="Kiwi Fruits dance for you!"; a2a_config.li...

Around the beginning of August, Conan O’Brien and his sidekick/protege/pal Andy Richter invaded BANG ZOOM studios in LA to do some voice-over work for Ghost in the Shell, the popular anime series. Well, that skit was such a hit that they did it AGAIN this week on The Tonight Show. The first trip was hilarious, but this second trip was even better. Check out the video (after the ad they make you watch just in order to view the clip) SOR...

Akira Kurosawa, the legendary film director who was responsible for such classic films as Rashomon (1950) and Seven Samurai (1954), is widely considered to be one of the most influential film directors of all time. Many of his films routinely show up on Best Films of All-Time lists. It will undoubtedly be great news to many people, then, that 25 of his films will be released in a deluxe box set this December. Criterion Collection will be releasi...

From when I was about nine until about twelve, I was completely, hopelessly OBSESSED with Mighty Morphin’ Power Rangers. Haim Saban‘s American version of the Japanese program Kyōryū Sentai Zyuranger had me in its clutches from the first time I ever watched. I must have annoyed my parents to no end with my demands for toys, clothes, video games, cards, stickers, and anything else that had a picture of a Power Rangers character on it...

This past weekend, Lun*na Menoh hosted a fashion show at Royal/T in Culver City. At the show, she and her team of models shared some of her innovative designs. The show, called “Headdress 2009″, featured some pretty amazing designs and inventive headpieces designed by Lun*na herself. Each of the one-of-a-kind pieces were available for purchase after the show. In addition to the models showing off the articles of clothing, Lun*na ente...