Take one of Japan’s most iconic singer-songwriters combined with one of this season’s leading dramas and what do you get? A magical, chart-topping theme song.
Oda Kazumasa (小田和正) has been on the Japanese popular music scene for the past 4 decades. He made his debut in 1970 with Off Course, one of Japan’s most influential [...]
I don’t understand a lot of things about other cultures. And one of these things that I don’t understand is humor. I have never understood British humor, and I don’t know if anyone has. I don’t understand whow our humor here in the the States is funny either.
Apparently there [...]
Following a request by such Japanese broadcasters as NHK, mega-popular streaming video site YouTube has removed nearly 30,000 videos from it’s archives.
This comes as expected considering YouTube’s policy: uploaded videos that violate copyright laws are not deemed illegal if they’re deleted upon request from the copyright holder. That is exactly what YouTube did [...]
As I think back, I feel happy…reminiscing about the evenings that I spent in my dorm room watching Zatch Bell with my girlfriend. Yeah, it’s a pretty silly thing to admit doing with your girlfriend but the enjoyable experience of watching that odd little show on Cartoon Network made it all worth while.
Zatch Bell [...]
Premiering last night on the Discovery Channel was “The First Emperor”. Known by its full title, “The First Emperor: The Man Who Made China”, the show offered a very great viewing experience. Essentially the show was a 2-hour long docu-drama that focuses on the man who united China and what he did. The show [...]
The below photo is currently one of the ‘most viewed’ photos on Yahoo. The TV is Panasonic’s 103-inch plasma TV. It is the world’s largest HDTV.
Upon seeing the photo I was amazed at the size. Being that the only reference for the TV’s size is the woman in front of it, it got me [...]
April 1st marked the scheduled beginning of cellphone TV broadcasting in Japan. The digital television service is known as One Seg(u). The One Seg(u) service is free to those with compatible cellphones. At this point, 12 digital TV stations will be offered.
Cellphone companies such as Vodafone and NTT Docomo are offering TV-supporting cellphones.
It will [...]
In celebration of Ultraman’s 40th birthday, a news conference was held on March 28th. The highlight of the conference was not just to show off the latest incarnation of Ultraman, Ultraman Mebius, but to reunite the entire Ultraman family.
I was amazed to see a photo of all the different Ultramen. I’ve always been interested [...]
Well, I am now content in my search for all things cute. I’ve found a children’s entertainment property that satisfies my true, inner-child. The show is a South Korean cartoon called “Pororo the Little Penguin”. I’m excited.
“Pororo” is obviously about a little penguin named Pororo. The story follows his adventures with the rest of [...]
23-year-old actress Misako Yasuda will soon be back in middle school. She recently attended a promotion of “Rocket Boys,” a serial drama. She plays a middle school student.
We’re all use to seeing actors in their early 20’s making the stretch to play a high school student, but going back all the way to middle [...]
