Hairy Legged Crabs and Japanese Class

“If you look closely, you can see huge river crabs with hair growing out of their legs, frozen in place like stones.”
Ew.
In my mind, at least, hair and crustaceans should never mix.
This semester I’m taking a seminar-style class in Japanese translation. We’ve only met once so far, and we’re currently reading “Kinosaki Nite” (「城の崎にて」in [...]

Lament of the Cell Phone

This is officially my new favorite thing ever. It’s an old flash animation, but I actually hadn’t seen this one before it was posted a couple of days ago at http://www.blizzardboy.net/ It’s from the point of view of a dude really lonely because NO ONE EVER CALLS HIM. T_T

Here’s a super rough [...]

SCANDAL

With 9 out of 10 dramas I watch, I know in the first 30 seconds exactly how good they are. With SCANDAL, a Fall 2008 Fuji TV drama, the first 30 seconds had me hooked and I didn’t look back after that. Less than two days later I was done with the series.
Here’s [...]

Long Vacation

Today I finally finished Long Vacation, one of the classics. A 1996 Fuji TV drama, starring Kimutaku (Kimura Takuya) as Senna-kun, opposite an older Minami (Yamaguchi Tomoko).
I actually saw the first 20 minutes of this show in Japan, and kept rewatching the first 20 minutes over and over for a couple years before actually [...]

Room of King – 愛や I need ya

CRAZIEST SHOW SINCE 2003*.
Three sketchy realtors in an office the size of a matchbox trick 9 unrelated people into sharing a ridiculously nice apartment, with the quasi-guarantee that whoever they determine deserves to become “king” gets to keep the place at the end.
The nine characters are:
Mizushima Hiro: A sometimes-employed florist, sometimes (seemingly randomly) [...]