Say you’re a teenage boy and you are swept to another world that you have to save from some sort of menace. Sounds pretty sweet, huh? And then you find out you have to bang 12 cute mystical girls. Awesome! …

While this is pretty funny, and a creative way to stick it to The Man for being too lazy to fix a simple missing manhole cover, I think it might be more dangerous than the missing cover. Just imagine, you’re …

All right, all you slutty little catgirl kawai neko wannabes, here’s your chance to be really freaky.

Cat Ears. For Real.

I always wondered if those extra ears were functional. Now I know: they’re useless for conducting sound, but you …

Shapiro Keats is learning to play the bass, so he’s been frequenting a message board for other bass players. One of the bassists, a guy from Japan, posted this video of himself rocking out.

Rock Out with Your…Whatever

Unsurprisingly, the …

MetaFilter recently had a couple of cool links on Asian pop culture topics.

• A discussion of Japanese director Seijun Suzuki (Branded to Kill)
• Visual Kei band X Japan embarks on first-ever US tour
• An awesome gallery of posters using pop

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Some Caucasians living in China have reported making a little extra on the side by renting themselves out. Cool your jets — not that way, but to pose as visiting American businessmen and accompany entrepreneurs hoping to add an air …

Just think- that lady to the right could be putting her knockers to good use and wear a bra that grows rice!

Only in Japan

Apparently urban farming is the big thing among Japanese hipsters, so this company made urban …

The Japanese like weird flavors in candy. Like beer candy. I wasn’t brave enough to try that shit when we were in Japan. I don’t even like regular beer, how much worse can beer candy be?

Crazy Kit Kat Flavors…

Already engaged in a struggle to emerge from bankruptcy, Japan Air Lines is now engaged in a fight of a different sort: Keeping the stylish outfits of laid-off flight attendants off the black market and out of the hands of …

Two strange objects have reportedly crashed in  Nowhere, Mongolia. Might be UFOs, might be jet engine parts. But if that’s the case, what happens to a jet when its engine falls out? Wouldn’t the crew have noticed they no longer …

Like deaf people don’t have it hard enough, now their smoke alarms blast them in the face with wasabi when there’s a fire.

Yuck

Now, you need an alternative way to alert people if they can’t hear the alarm, but …

I have no words for this.

What has been seen cannot be unseen.…