I'm not exaggerating a little when I say Utena should be mandatory viewing for students, teachers and parents.

One of the craziest scenes I've ever witnessed

One of the craziest scenes I've ever witnessed

There are only two things I can't stand in this world. People who are intolerant of other people's cultures, and the Dutch. Let's Go Samurai Blue! Beat the Oranje!

An easy way to get me to cry is to show me something where a LGBTQ child is enthusiastically accepted by their family. I think that is so beautiful and one of the most important things an artist can show.

That time a cowboy cured a teenage girl's eating disorder by kidnapping her, dumping her in a pit, starving her, torturing her, and finally, entering her in a soba eating contest (please do not try this at home)

Ozu obliterates people from Akita

More movies should end with the cast eating watermelon into the camera

18+. The talent working on Nikkatsu pinkus in the 70s and 80s was out of this world, and without them, it's no exaggeration to say the Japanese film industry might have gone belly up when the bubble burst. This erotic opening was expertly lensed by Yonezō Maeda, who went on to work with Juzo Itami.

Did episode 28 of Sukeban Deka III feature a tribute to Jack Benny in a scene with Yuma shopping? An 80s toku show in Japan would be a highly unusual place to see a tribute to an American comedian whose popularity peaked in the 1940s and 50s, but there are some inescapable parallels.

Love when the HD remasters show you the wires that weren't as visible in 480p

This episode aired in 1974. John Wayne died in 1979, which means there's a chance, albeit a small one, that he became aware of the fact that he was mogged by a beautiful Japanese android.

Not the best episode for pulling a silly clip from (but still quite a silly episode), but I thought this was an unusually interesting shot

Me when I arrive in Japan / Me when it's time to leave Japan

More Cutie Honey Flash finds while hunting - Hurricane Honey, Scoop Honey and a toothbrush. I don’t plan on using the toothbrush, I just wanted to use the Cutie Honey toothbrush cover as a keychain

More fun record shopping today. Some added Kyon Kyon albums, two of Nanno’s best, Ayumi Nakamura, Yuki Saito and a Hiroko Yakushimaru single

Stumbled upon a different record store and hit the jackpot…Kyoko I thru VII plus her best hits album Celebration and a dance record + a single

Stopped at a record store in Kyoto and could have easily spent ¥200,000, but limited myself to Akina, Miho and Momoe

Almost ran to buy season tickets when I saw how amazing the VENUS mascots are at Yomiuri Giants games, then I remembered I don’t live here 😓

#tjpw YES! Wonderland ‘26 was the perfect cure for the morning post-concert blues…I could have been watching wrestlers doing idol gimmicks this whole time? @tjpw2013.bsky.social

Feeling a little overwhelmed this morning. The Kyoko Koizumi concerts were as amazing as I expected, but now they are over and all I have are the memories (and a lot of merch). I don’t think I looked forward to anything more in my life than I did these concerts and now they are in my past.

I’ll need to get a second bag just to get all the #KK60 merch I bought back to America. As far as I could tell, I was the only gaijin at the show, but it was a very welcoming crowd and an amazing atmosphere. Kyoko Koizumi still looks and sounds incredible.

Obsessed with the illustrations encouraging good etiquette on the Tokyo subway lines

The longest flight of my life (one I couldn’t get any sleep on) is over and I’ve arrived. Took a late walk to eat my first meal here and catch a glimpse of the Budokan, which is a short walk away from my hotel. Can’t wait to really explore.

A fun thing to do to see where an idol was in their career is to look at their singles covers. “Ok, Kyoko, for this single, we want you to pose like you were stumped by your algebra teacher”

Haruki Kadokawa had no problem putting Hiroko Yakushimaru's life in abject danger, but she survived this attempted murder and is still with us today

I can't wait to find out what wonders await at the 100 yen shop next week

OTD 20 years ago, the full HEY! FRIENDS dance debuted. It was the first dance sequence entirely edited with a word processing program

Yuki Saito - underrated comedic performer

Sometimes it feels like they go out of their way to pick the dumbest possible weapons