[ NIHON BUNKA KENKYUU ] BUNKEN 101: Reviews, comments, and insights on Japanese pop culture.
One of my uber-cute kohai (and he's a guy, mind you XD) is in ICU right now on scholarship, and he sent us this hilarious e-mail of come-hither quotes done by the various university clubs trying to get you to taste their wares at the annual school festival. Everything listed here was printed in the souvenir program as is; I kid you not.
1) Sweet? Sweet! SWEET!! You shuld experience chuckle of churros!
2) is black coffee really good? you don't have to be "adult" here is the coffee never play up to you.
3) Come and eat us.
4) Our tiny & tasty fries can able you to fly with good taste !!
5) What's special? stock from butcher. Delivery service, pretty shop girls. come try it!
6) Cyurros tastes very sweet ! Cyurros is a confectionery. It will take you away to the wonder land.
7) You are Haniwa, isn't it?HA!? Not yet? Then, why don't you?
8) Our KARATE club has lots of women than men. Please come to eat our foods!
9) ICU-runners gonna give Yakisoba! We have confidence in our stamina and taste
10) Very delicious CHOCOLATE FRUITS!! They make you feel being at a paradise!
11) eat this delicious pancake and make your wishcomes true!
12) Looking for hairmakes, makeups, nail arts in ICU? Just come and see us, REBiRTH!
13) Why not go to Disney? Get Disney, Yoshimoto live, food ticket!
14) You can get your special one !?
15) Would you like to have delicious, fried and juicy... dead chicken!?
16) Come to see us & Taste our supreme one!!?
I'm part of this s00per seekrit, fledging message board for video game fangirls; while I was busy linking to random niceties, somebody else left a link to The Grand List Of Console Role Playing Game Clich�s. Good stuff, that site XD I nearly fell off my chair laughing from all those FFVII references XD my favorite ones include:
14) The Higher The Hair, The Closer To God (Cloud Rule): The more outrageous his hairstyle, the more important a male character is to the story.
156) Sephiroth Memorial Escape Clause: Any misdeed up to and including multiple genocide is forgiveable if you're cool enough.
187) "So, Andross, you reveal your true form!": You will have to kill the evil villain at least twice at the end of the game. First the villain will look like a person or some creature and be rather easy to kill. Then he will grow to about 50 times the hero's size and be much harder to kill.
188) In Your Face, Jesus!: Even if you manage to deal with him that time, you're not done -- the villain will then transform into his final form, which is always an angelic winged figure with background music remixed for ecstatic chorus and pipe organ.
If you�re abreast with current drama series coming out of Japan, then DENSHA OTOKO needs no introduction. We�ve seen the last episode fairly recently, plus a bonus fifteen-minute clip of a talk show that tried to investigate if the DENSHA OTOKO phenomenon was true, or simply an urban legend. The TV crew set up this fake maid cafe to lure in their otaku, slipped in a decoy pervert oyaji, and added a pretty young miss to play the maiden-in-distress. The shocking truth is, nearly seventy out of a hundred of them have come to the girl's rescue, making DENSHA OTOKO completely plausible even outside of the 2ch boards.
We also saw the first episode for the HANA YORI DANGO drama. I think I prefer this to METEOR GARDEN because: 1) MAKINO does not annoy me as much here as in the manga, anime, or the TAIWAN adaptation; and 2) MATSUJUN going from MOMO of KIMI WA PETTO straight to DOMYOUJI TSUKASA of F4 is simply mind-boggling. I think I'll stick around for the rest of it, even if I still haven't quite gotten over the plot premise of KIMI WA PETTO.