Guaranteed to make you sweat and lose your costume deposit. Although Rajio Taisō is best known as that radio calisthenics program that old people in Japan love to do every morning, it is also something that pretty much anybody who has attended public school in Japan has had to do at some point as part of the physical education curriculum. …

Senior citizens may want to stick to the standard rajio taisō. Otagei, or wotagei as it is sometimes written, is a type of dance often performed at Japanese pop idol concerts by hardcore fans (aka otaku). It involves energetically waving around lightsticks, jumping, and occasionally yelling and cheering in unison with other dancers. Rajio taisō, on the other hand, is a …

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, …

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 …

In the future, we’ll all be riding around in slingshot powered office chairs. Have you ever found yourself sitting at work or at home in an office chair wondering how fast you could propel yourself if only you had access to a giant slingshot and a group of shirtless men? If you have, then you would probably get along with …

Warning, you’re about to get Kirby songs stuck in your head. Have you ever wondered what music from the Kirby games would sound performed on an acoustic guitar? Probably not. But since your here, you might as well find out. Check out the video below. The Japanese guitarist in the video above goes by Nariyasu. Although his YouTube channel isn’t …

File this one under “Don’t try this at home.” “Intense” and “acrobatic” are not words that tend to be associated with the act of evacuating one’s bowels. However, there’s a Japanese YouTuber who seems very intent on changing that. The name of this YouTuber is Omamesanshiro. Although he’s particularly well-known for doing “Let’s Play” type videos of pachinko games, he …

Get your otagei on. The otagei dance group Kita no Uchishitachi has released a video which shows them performing a routine to a song with one of Japan’s most popular music videos of 2017: “Fukyōwaon” (Dissonance, 不協和音) by the pop idol group Keyakizaka46. Check it out below. The version of “Fukyōwaon” used in the video above is a cover performed …

Warning. Watching this video will diminish your intelligence. Meet Kounosuke. He’s a Japanese Youtuber that wants to “smell a nice smelling fart.” Meet Shu. He’s Kounosuke’s very good friend and he desperately wants to produce a “nice smelling fart.” This is obviously a major problem that needs to be addressed right away and so the two set about doining this …

Your phone is ringing. Go to an anime song or idol concert in Japan and you will almost certainly see a bunch of guys frantically waving lightsticks around, cheering and jumping around, all while working up a mean sweat. This is called otagei (sometimes written wotagei) and it is one of the many ways otaku (hardcore fans of anime, manga, …

Erina Kamiya sure knows what her fans want to see. On October 27, Erina Kamiya, a gravure idol and member of the pop idol group Kamen Joshi (Masked Girls) started her own YouTube channel. Being no stranger to internet fame thanks in part to video like this one from this pas February where she teaches viewers how to take their …

The cleanest beats around. As with pretty much any major endeavor, getting good at playing an instrument takes many long hours of solitary practice and hard work. However, every once in a while you just gotta have some fun. It’s at times like these when you call over your friends to have a nice jam session. But what do you …