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 …

Have you ever wondered what the actual name of the can-can song is? In 1858 an opera called Orpheus in the Underworld premiered in France. Composed by Jacques Offenbach, this is not a work that is all that well-known outside of certain very specific circles. And yet, you almost certainly know the song that is used in Act 2, Scene …

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, …

Get fit the Japanese way. We’re about a week into 2018 which means there’s a lot of people out there trying to lose weight. Unfortunately, exercising can be pretty boring which means a lot of times people end up sitting on the couch and watching TV instead of following through with their New Year’s resolution to get rid of that …

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. …

Always remember to be super kind on the train! Given how massive Japan’s public transportation system is, train and bus etiquette is a pretty big thing over there. So, in order to remind/teach people about how to behave properly when riding trains and buses, Japanese railway companies and cities often create humorous videos showing people what they should and shouldn’t …

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 …

Harry Potter, Final Fantasy and Sailor Mooon all in the same place. As part of an ongoing effort to promote Japanese video game and anime properties around the world, Osaka’s Universal Studios Japan (USJ) will soon be opening up attractions based on the massively popular anime series Sailor Moon and the classic video game franchise Final Fantasy. USJ began doing …