Life in Japan - Pictures galore !! Arcades, Temples, Rainy days, etc

hehehe, nice van.

Yakumo

 

Took this guys ugly mug shot on the way home from the station tonight.


I thought maybe at least someone would like it

Yakumo

 

Kinda looks like Bowser from Mario Bros.

 

Nice to hear from you again, Alan. I'll have a bunch of new stuff for sale soon.

I spent the last few days in DenDen Town in Osaka. I'll post my thoughts in a new thread. Special thanks to Yakumo for stopping me from buying the Dreamcast Karaoke set...heh.

 

You're most welcome

Yakumo

 

ahh thats probably because its a english swearing sign (I think its to show we still have out bow fingers i.e. for the long bow). Americans and Canadians generally dont know its true meaning either (I lived in Canada for 2 years). I think George Bush does it fairly often lol

 

I was in the city center last Friday on the way home from work when they switched on the Christmas lights. I took a few pictures while there but the weather was awful. Really heavy rain was falling so it was almost impossible to take any shots thanks to the rain covering the camera's lens all the time. Anyway, I did manage to get a few that I thought you would like to see.

This first shot is of the illuminations over the bridge from a distance.


Next is the same illumination but up close.


Here you can sort of make out the shopping center next to the river. The big white square near the top is actually a TV. This shot is really awful thanks to trying to hold my umbrella and take a photo at the same time


A close up of one of the illuminations infront of the shopping center.


This is probably the biggest chandelier I've ever seen !! A total of 8 floors high !


Here's a shot from underneath. Surprised I managed to get a shot without a blob of rain water hitting the lens.


Yakumo

 

Thanks for the updates! :thumbsup:
The Japanese are always doing something that catches the eye. :icon_bigg

 

3 words...beautiful pictures mate.

 

:dance: happy to know you like them :dance:

Yakumo

 

As you may know I normally have nothing good to say about Japanese TV since 99% of it is the same shite time and time again. Well, anyway tonight I actually laughed quite a bit thanks to Hard Gay and the skinny wrestler (or so he things) ! Hard Gay is a newish character on Japanese TV who first appeared about 5 months ago. Since then they milk him like everything else which quickly becomes boring. The thing is that VERY disturbing or disturbing as far as heterosexual guys go is that Hard Gay is extremely popular with males of ALL AGES in Japan !!! Now if someone could explain to me why I'd be very grateful. Anyway, I admit he's funny but only in small dowses and even then I wouldn't be a fan.

So what's the point of this rant? Well, as I said before tonight's TV show was so bloody funny that I just had to share it with you guys !! Download the 66meg XVid video from my FTP for some laughs!! Believe me you won't be able to keep a straight face, especially when you see what the skinny wrestler does. I've also left in the TV adds since I'm sure some of you would like to see them.

Here's a few shots from the show. These are slightly reduced in size and quality from the original DVD resolution MPEG 2 capture. The download version is 320 x 240.







FTP login info is

IP ADDRESS - segagagadomain.serveftp.com

LOGIN - RetroCore

PASSWORD - kikugawa

PORT - 21

The file is called hardgay-vs.avi

Yakumo

 

Downloading now.... Hope the uni network people don't see i'm downloading a file with the words "hardgay" in it.

As for talents of Bad Taste, I love Bobby and the fact he is going to be in that atlus fighter is wonderful news. Hope he says "Daijoubu" every time he gets hit!

 

Bobby is now on TV dramas !! Even though his acting is awful he fits right in since everyone else is awful too

Yakumo

 

One of me ex girlfriends (queen of the UFO catcher - sad to lose her) got me a "bobby says.." key ring. You just hit the buttons to hear one of his quality phrases. Good stuff,

As for the HG, he is quite funny, probably because underneath it all he is probably quite a cool guy, better than the ultra feminine gay talents. Still thanks for that, even if I'm up in front of the principal tomorow morning for inappropriate use of the internet. Last time that happened was when I did 7 GB of data in a day. I even enjoyed seeing the CM, even though you have probably seen them them all 100 times already. Japanese TV in small doses = quality. Drama with overly attractive male lead actor = bad. The ufo catcher gf used to make me sit through that "engine" drama all the time swooning over Kimu bloody buggery taku.

I used to watch all those talent shows, love them, such a break from academics of any kind! I even had cable in my place in nishinomiya, all care of the Japanese goverment. (with the anime channel!)

I reckon I could be a talent on Japanese TV, put the whole English gentleman act on, speak Japanese with a strong english accent and I could make a quid or two. Either that or a gaijin host.

Edit - behold the best thing on Japanese TV -

 

Yeah too bad the japanese version of red dwarf sucks balls because the jokes and such have been cut and edited

 

It is quite fun though if you know the original well and see how they completly re-order scenes and utterly change jokes. Also translation of the word "smeg" changes regularly. I'm not saying it is better or worse than the original version, it is just fun to see how they take the dwarf to Japan. After red dwarf was "the thin blue line" which was translated very well indeed. As jokes that use puns are relatively easy to translate into Japanese.

My tutor once set me the task of translating something "funny" to Japanese and then some Japanese comedy to english. Good lord that is hard. The very fact that they got something that is still watchable into Japanese from English is quite amazing. Also it is worth noting that there are certain episodes that they just did not bother translating at all. Still my translations of galaxy angels are pretty poor retrospectively.

 

I have all the Japanese Red Dwarf on DVD. Bloody awful what they've done to the jokes and so on if you watch in English but if you watch in Japanese is isn't as bad. The voices used for the characters are actually pretty good as well. I was pleasently surprised when I heard Lister and Rimmer in Japanese. not bad at all. Still, the original English versions are best. By the way, have any of you seen the American made version? It's fucking awful in EVERY repect ! Even Kryton who is played by the original (Welsh) actor doesn't seem right thanks to the way his character has been changed. I have it on my HD is anyone is interested in seeing it.

Yakumo

 

Wow I have never seen the american version. Would really like to as well..... nudge nudge, wink wink etc
BTW that hardgay clip is now doing the rounds here at oxford. I have even had one e-mail with "foo" in it so far.
I really love red dwarf, I would place it with the blackadders, black books, spaced and all other truly great sit-coms. I got all the japanese edition red dwarf on vhs from book off really cheap. I was feeling a bit homesick for english things in Japan, so I just had a binge on red dwarf with some other english gaijin. Good times.
I tried to get one of my Japanese gf into red dwarf, but she didn't take to it. If I could find a Japanese girl who "got" brass eye or any other top english quality I would marry her without a moments thought.

 

I've seen the american version, its on the extras on one of the DVD's. I'll find out which If anyone is interested.

Absolutely appalling though - lister was translated into what might be described as a stereotypical american - not a lazy bum!

 

Yeah the DVD series 5 has the making of documentary. Not the actual pilot episode methinks. I do have the series 5 disc 2, but only at home, I never watched it though. Because I only brought the first disc with me to university, shame.