Doing this in public will get you arrested. Like many Japanese comedians who get their big break Akira 100% suddenly popped onto Japanese mainstream …

The (ridiculous) story continues. 2019 marks the 40th anniversary of the 1979 anime series Mobile Suit Gundam, as well as the 45th anniversary of …

Caveman chic meets 1990s Tokyo street style. In the 1990s there was a peculiar fashion trend in Japan that resulted in many Japanese girls …

Cute cat vs. giant robot. Who will win? Late last month it was announced that the iconic RX-78-2 Gundam model from the 1979 series …

Who knew you could play Mario with drums? The soundtracks from the 8-bit Super Mario Bros. games contain within them some of the most iconic and …

Get ready for the youngest Japanese idol group ever. A mere hour after the highly anticipated press conference in which it was revealed that …

You know it’s spring when you hear idols growling. Derived from haru (spring) and uraraka (bright, beautiful, glorious), haruurara is a Japanese term used …

Sure, you can play the piano. But can you bench press it too? When you see a muscular guy in a tank top showing …

Hey, Akira, your ping pong balls are showing. The Japanese comedian Akira 100% has made a career for himself using little more than a …

You’ll want to save a Phoenix Down for when the divorce comes. Due to its status as one of the most popular video game …

Way better than tearaway pants. From cleaning your keyboard to inflating a tire, it’s almost like there’s nothing some well placed compressed air can’t …

Japanese cat lovers are about to get very violent nose bleeds. At the end of 2017, the editorial staff at the long-running weekly tabloid …