Gesundheit! The Japanese YouTuber Mahoto Watanabe has found a way to put a new spin on what is perhaps Japan’s most well-known fairy tales: Momotaro. How you ask? Well, let’s just say it involves using a lot of tissues. Momotaro (a.k.a Peach Boy) tells the story of a baby who is one day found inside a giant peach by an old couple. …

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 …

Don’t take Akira100% to a toy store. There’s many comedians in Japan who use nudity to get laughs, but it’s tough to deny that, at least at the moment, Akira100% is the most prominent of these. After blowing up on Japanese television with nothing but that little metal tray he uses to hide his naughty bits, he has now started …

Seems like a pretty good workout. Look up the word “pendulum” in the dictionary and you’ll find something along the lines of “a weight suspended from a pivot so that it can swing freely.” Although a totally accurate definition, as the Japanese comedian Akira 100% proved in a recent video, a pendulum can also be a great way to cover …

Aziz Ansari spotted in Japan. Despite his notoriety in the West, stand-up comic/actor/writer Aziz Ansari is almost completely unknown in Japan. And yet, it appears that one Japanese company loves him so much that they decided to put him in an advertisement. Taken by Instagram user @hellofancypop late last month during a visit to Nagasaki, the photo below shows a …

The term “copycat” seems pretty appropriate here. A Japanese comedian is getting quite a bit of attention online for his impression of what may be one of the most famous cats in the world. Made to promote the NHK sketch comedy show LIFE!, the video below shows the Japanese comedian Murotsuyoshi sliding head first into an open box just like …

THIS IS PSYCHIC POWER! Although taking your clothes off for the sake of making people laugh is by no means a new thing in Japan, the past couple of years have been a particularly nude time for the Japanese comedy scene. Just on Japankyo alone, we’ve talked about UesP, Tonikaku Akarui Yasumura and Akira 100%. And now there’s another “naked …