The beauty of acoustic anison. Harudori is a talented Japanese singer/songwriter/guitarist from Yamaguchi Prefecture. Born in 1984, Harudori took up playing the guitar while in junior high due to his love of the Japanese band Mr. Children and ever since then he’s been creating and performing music. That’s basically the kind of information that his official website will tell you. …

DO NOT TRY THIS AT HOME! The Japanese YouTuber Sushi Ramen Riku is a master of doing things one should never do. And well, he’s done it again. This time he’s playing with fire in an effort to recreate the trademark move of a character from the popular manga & anime One Piece. In the world of One Piece pretty …

Oh no… somebody turned Luna into a shamisen. The opening song to an anime can really set the tone of the show. Take Sailor Moon for example. From the first time you hear the show’s classic theme song, you instantly know you’re in for something fun, filled with adventure, and maybe even a bit magical. However, if you were to …

Vegeta and Piccolo spend a magical day together. R Fujimoto is a Japanese comedian who has made a career for himself by imitating one of the Dragon Ball franchise’s most popular characters, Vegeta. Over the course of his career, he has done a whole lot of Vegeta-inspired silly comedy routines and videos. However, perhaps one of the weirdest and even …

Erina Kamiya sure loves pleasing her fans. Last October, the gravure idol and member of the pop idol group Kamen Joshi, Erina Kamiya started a YouTube channel and almost immediately she was met with the kind of success most YouTubers dream of. Her success wasn’t simply due to her status as a public figure either. Although yes, that certainly helped, …

Only Bulma is powerful enough to make the prince of the Saiyans clean toilets. A Japanese cleaning supplies and cosmetics company has released a new video which proves that the amazing strength of Dragon Ball‘s characters can also be harnessed for common everyday chores. Released on Monday (Feb. 19) by Koa, one of the largest makers of cleaning supplies and …

Here’s to 100 more! Although it may seem hard to believe, 2017 marked the 100th year anniversary of the birth of anime in Japan. In honor of this monumental occasion the Association of Japanese Animations has released a truly impressive compilation video featuring clips from 122 of the most beloved and important anime films and shows ever. Released on Monday …

Soooooo cute! A female train conductor in Osaka is proving that some people in Japan actually do sound like anime characters. Tweeted out by Twitter user @aito_momomo on December 1, the video below shows a female train conductor on the Osaka Municipal Subway Chuo Line who has gotten Japanese Twitter users to go crazy over her super high pitched voice …

Where’s Yajirobe? A cat in Japan with an uncanny resemblance to a character from the popular manga/anime series Dragon Ball has gotten the attention of a whole lot of Japanese Twitter users. The character in question is Korin the cat, a.k.a. Karin-sama in the original Japanese, a.k.a. Whisters the Wonder Cat in the infamous Harmony Gold dub. In case you …

When the robot apocalypse hits, we won’t even be safe from zippers. From smart refrigerators to smart TVs and even the smartphones we can’t seem to put down for even a second, it seems that with every passing day, more and more aspects of our daily lives are becoming increasingly technologically advanced. And now thanks to the Japanese zipper manufacturer …

Bet no one was expecting a not sexy okonomiyaki making robot. On Monday (Oct 23) the Tokyo-based animation production company DLE released the fifth and potentially final installment in their bizarre anime web series Henkei Shoujo (Transformation Girls) and like the previous four videos this one stars a Japanese high school girl with the ability to transform into a machine. …

Tonari no To-to-ro, To-to-ro A Japanese bird who apparently is a big fan of the classic Studio Ghibli film My Neighbor Totoro (Tonari no Totoro), is getting quite a bit of attention online. Tweeted out on September 29 by Twitter user @J_grandiflorum the video below shows an interesting little cockatiel named Emi-tan doing something last week during a broadcast of the …