Sony's Wonderbook copped laughs at E3 because it's for kids, and grown-up gamers on the internet simply can't abide that. But just when you thought the fancy book-and-wand set was only of use for wee ones, here's a video from GameSpot's Danny O'Dwyer showing its more... adult uses.
In case the saxophone kicking in immediately after you press play didn't make it clear enough, this is not suitable for work.
Careless Wonderbukakke [YouTube]
The Soft On Nyanko movies feature an array of cats, doing all kinds of things, like playing with cat toys, stretching, sitting in laundry baskets, scurrying around—you know, being cats.
Soft On Nyanko (aka "SON") describes its flicks as "cat AV" ("neko AV" or 猫AV). While "AV" typically means "adult video" in Japanese, here SON says "AV" stands for "animal video".
So, no, this isn't cat porn in the sense that there's feline fornication. As previously mentioned, the videos feature cats doing cat things. So it might be cat porn in the way there's car porn or gun porn, but let's be clear: these videos don't feature cat sex—they are not actual pornography.
However, it's this knowingly tongue-in-cheek way that the videos are done in that invites the Japanese adult video comparisons. Make no mistake, this is smart—if not totally peculiar—parody.
First off, the Soft On Nyanko box art looks like, well, Japanese porn box art, right down to the lettering, the onomatopoeic phrases, and even the back cover collection of photos. Below is a Japanese adult video cover (it's been pixelated, but still might be NSFW, depending on where you are; sorry for the lack of fish, as the images would need several schools).
Anyone in Japan who sees the SON videos, would immediately go, "Why are there cats in this adult video?" That is a big part of the gag. So is the company's website: It has a warning page that resembles adult sites, but instead of asking visitors if they are adults, it asks them if they like cats.
Soft On Nyanko has been around since 2003, and it seems to have been born out of an internet meme. These videos are not mainstream in any way; however, sometimes SON box art pops up on Japanese forums or Twitter as gags. Online in Japan, cat pictures and cat GIFs are just as popular as they are in the West—for obvious reasons, too! Cats are cute and funny.
The name of the company is "Soft On Nyanko", which sounds similar to Japanese adult video maker "Soft On Demand". Heck, even their logos resemble each other. But, according to SON, the name "Soft On Nyanko" refers to being "charmed" by kitty-cats ("nyanko" means "kitty-cat" in Japanese). On the other hand, Soft On Demand, which has to be the worst name for a porn company, refers to on demand software, or content.
SOD's movies are notable for being, well, offbeat. And these Soft On Nyanko flicks look to be offbeat, too. There are 90 to 110 minute videos of cats stretching, of cat paws, of cat mouths, of fat cats, and even of cosplaying cats. SOD is boiling down Japanese fetish porn into "clean" cat flicks—cat flicks that cats might want to watch if they were as pervy as humans.
Currently, Soft On Nyanko is readying its next cat movie, which doesn't yet have a title. The company doesn't regularly update its site or pump out new flicks in rapid successions. That's probably because they want to get things, dare I say, purrfect.
Soft On Nyanko [Official Site]
In Japanese, they're called "dakimakura" (抱き枕). In English, they're "hug pillows". In short, hugging them while you sleep can either given a greater sense of security or even help with back problems.
The insinuation, however, is that hug pillows are otaku girlfriends. This is even a joke in Japan, tinged with irony—and most certainly not always true. Many otaku have real partners! Many more don't dry hump their pillows. And many simply use them to get comfortable.
But, let's say you have a hug pillowcase that you love and you think that something's missing. For you, there's Kuu-Pillow. It's an "a dakimakura you can insert yourself in". I'll let that one sink in.
Kuu-Pillow's box asserts in English:
Feels good. Feels right. Kuu-Pillow not only feels great, it's well-made, durable, functional, and it feels right with new and experienced users alike. With Kuu-Pillow, we strive to satisfy and not dissapoint [SIC].
Why is it that some of the best English I've recently seen on a Japanese product happens to be on a sex toy?
Kuu-Pillow is an inflatable, vinyl pillow that has an opening that can be outfitted with a fleshlight type sex toy and then covered with your favorite hug pillowcase. In the middle of the pillow, you can put a two-liter bottle to keep the pillow in place. That's for when you sleep soundly next to it, no doubt.
The reaction online in Japan has ranged from "Talk about pathetic" and "What's wrong with this country?" to "I'll take one!" Keep in mind that this pillow appeared on an adult goods site, and it's certainly not a mainstream product—it's not even a mainstream product among otaku.
While recently dakimakura have become closely associated with Japanese nerds, it wasn't always that way, and the word itself doesn't immediately have a geek connotation. Japanese website Daki-makura.com, for example, has an array of hug pillows, but it's not pandering to otaku. The site is actually targeting folks, especially women, who want a better night's sleep—not this.
KUU-PILLOW [MS Online via オレ的]
Hitman: Absolution is a game that requires a lot of sneaking around, and like most sneaking games, you'll find yourself regularly incapacitating guards and stashing their bodies. Every time you stash a guard in closet, his body will slump standing up over to the left side of the enclosure.
Every closet can hold two bodies, so if you knock out another guard and stuff him in there with the first guy, he'll slump forward so his rear is end up against the first guard's crotch. The effect is such that the two men appear to be mid-coitus.
Funny, right? Well…
On its face, it's a dumb, easy joke. If it happened one time, maybe to characters who were defined, or who spent the game loudly asserting their heterosexuality, it could even work. As it stands, it elicits a bit of a titter the first time, but then it happens again, and again, and again.
It combines with other things to give Absolution—a relatively sophisticated game, in terms of design—an air of lowbrow nastiness that it would've been better without. As I mentioned in my review, the women in the game are all either prostitutes, killers, wank material, or some combination thereof. The sole female occupants of an early-stage hotel are: a mean old woman who spends all of her lines berating men and calling them dickless losers, and a maid who is later grabbed and brutally throat-slit in service of the plot. In a later scene, a developmentally disabled man, derisively referred to by his friends and father as "limp dick," is goaded into murdering an unarmed nun.
The "Saints," the much talked-about assassin nuns from that now-infamous commercial, are explained via overheard dialogue as the product of domestic abuse, which… I guess eventually led them to dress up in latex S&M garb and become killers? It's not really explained. They're like Metal Gear Solid 4's Beauty and the Beast unit, but one tenth as interesting.
I'm not on a politically correct crusade here. Off-color, exploitative jokes are generally fine, if they're done well. My gripe isn't so much that this stuff is potentially offensive, it's just that it's kinda lazy and bad. The game features a lot of gleefully ridiculous, well-performed and good writing (more on that later today), so it's a shame that some of it misses the mark.
Hitman: Absolution frequently features offensive or disgusting content of the enjoyable sort, but just as often an undercurrent of dumb nastiness detracts from what's an otherwise very fun, sadistic stealth game. It feels miscalculated and not very self-aware, like the game is trying too hard.
"See? See?" The game says, "It's like they're gay even though they're not. Isn't that hilarious?"
No. Now quit distracting me, I'm trying to kill people over here.
Don't ask me why I wound up googling this cutscene from Phantasmagoria over the weekend, but I did, and I watched it, and good lord. It's even worse than I remembered!
Go ahead and watch it. (Viewer beware: It is NSFW and also INTENSE and NASTY.) Now ask yourself: It may have made it into a game in 1995, but would a scene like this pass muster in a modern-day video game? No, I have to think. It would not.
We see a lot of awful violence in games these days; torture and decapitation and throat-stabbing are de rigueur. But somewhere between intense eyeball trauma and murder by force-feeding, gaming has drawn a line.
I'm all for freedom of expression, but you know, maybe it's okay if we give the censors this one.
"Sekuhara" is Japanese for "sexual harassment". And no, the daikon are not actually making noises.
Created by a young artist named Etsuko Ichihara, this multimedia project debuted a few years back. The set up apparently uses electrical capacitance pressure sensors to detect when the vegetables are being "touched", causing pre-recorded sound effects. Warning: the noises sound like porn moans.
As Kotaku Japan points out, daikon is a traditional winter food in Japan. But if you really think about it, the Japanese giant radish can represent both the female and the male.
If you want to see Ichihara with a blinky nipple apron stab, spank, and stroke various daikon on against their will (lady, they're saying "stop it!), there's this video. It also contains a stuffed dog making porn groans. Performance art!
HENTAI大国日本、ついに大根を喘がせてしまう [Kotaku Japan]
It's a parody. With edited porn imagery. Yesterday, this faux commercial appeared on Japanese video site NicoNico Douga, and since then, the clip has been spreading around Japanese cyberspace.
This Wii U parody plays on the "game/gayme" pun and uses some footage from Japanese gay porn A Midsummer Night's Lewd Dream ("Manatsu no Yoru no Inmu" or 真夏の夜の淫夢), a flick that seems to have meme status in Japan.
In the above spoof, the Wii U comes in two editions: The Wii U Totally Vanilla Set, which is priced at ¥50,000 (US$607) for thirty minutes, and Wii U True To Life Set, which is priced at ¥114,514 ($1,390) for thirty minutes. Expensive!
Online in Japan, there's a history of recutting gay porn into video game commercials (this Bayonetta send up, for example) as well as gay manga reaching iconic status.
Wii U 問題のCM [NicoNico Douga]
Some Craigslist ads sound too awesome or crazy to be true. That's where the 'Best Of' page comes in: a Craigslist reader-nominated compilation of the best ads on Craigslist. Craigslist is already infamous for its ads, so you can imagine what sort of thing surfaces in a best-of list. I went through 'em and found a few eyebrow-raising gaming ones.
Like a lot of dudes that are getting married, this guy wanted to throw a bachelor party. A D&D game to be exact. But here's the twist: he put out an ad looking for a topless female Dungeon Master.
Here is a snippet:
I ensure you that nothing else is expect of you other than an exciting adventure.
Requirements:
Dungeon Master experience in Dungeons and Dragons (preferably in 3rd or 3.5 Editions)
Must be able to provide a picture including the face and body (No nudes please.)
It is preferable that cup size be at least C or greater.
If books are needed it must be stated ahead of time however it would be preferable if the DM had her own.Clientele:
There will be 5 "guys" that will be participation including myself.
Why is it "guys" in scare-quotes?
This woman knows what she wants, and she wants someone to have sex with her while she plays World of Warcraft.
Do you like to PvP in the World of Warcraft? Do you want to have sex with a girl playing arena in the eighteen-hundreds bracket? Do you want to have sex with me WHILE I play arena? Continue reading..
You'd have to be, err, versatile with what you're willing to do, including being okay with her friend listening in on you guys. But more importantly!
You must be familiar with the game.
FAKE GAMER BOYS NEED NOT APPLY.
Really, you should read the full thing. It's... descriptive in ways I probably shouldn't quote.
This guy is tired of your typical dinner-and-a-movie date. Hell, he's tired of your typical woman. He needs someone special to let him 'lash out' in public. In an adult diaper.
I'm looking for someone who will allow me to "act out" in public and can react appropriately. I'm tired of dating boring, tepid, insipid politically correct women. I want a liberal woman in the most true sense; not your messenger bag carrying, bike riding, garden variety gender-defender. Can you call someone a cunt in a public place without changing your tone and use the word to refer to your vagina in the same sentence? Do you agree with the opinion that women are terrible drivers, bad actors, and even worse musicians? Would you enjoy getting fucked by a man in a diaper? If so,
He goes on to describe what an example of a date could be, including pretend incest, asking for "all the ice creams," pretending to discipline him, and
We will go to the video game store where you will "turn me loose" and pretend to talk on your phone absent mindedly outside of the store. I will harass the employees and ask them "OH! Can I have disth game?!" around a hundred times, once for each different game I see behind the counter. "Dat one" I will say as they try in vain to determine which product I am pointing out while staring at the ceiling or floor.
Ten minutes or so should be enough time for me. You will then come collect me, awkwardly apologize, and we will leave the store for the womens restroom where you will proceed to change my diaper in front of the changing station.
It gets even better. You should read it in full here.
This woman is tired of the people Craigslist keeps setting her up with. This includes people who play video games.
I think we need to talk about our relationship. You've been a good friend to me in the past, we have shared some fun, some laughs, some deals. But Craig, I need to talk to you about the kind of guys you try to hook me up with.
I understand that finding two compatible souls is hard work. I respect your efforts, I really do. However, I think there is a fundamental flaw in your overall approach, Craig. Lets look at some examples:
In the past, I said I liked guys who are athletic and outgoing; you sent me boys who consider video games a sport and think that meeting new gamers in World of Warcraft is social.
By the end of the letter she guesses that Craigslist is trying to game her by only setting her up with the opposite of what she's looking for. So, here are her new requirements:
Craig: it has become obvious to me that you believe that extreme opposites attract. I see your game, and I raise you. Craig: please find me a short, bald, uninteresting, middle aged man with no sense of humor and a small penis who loves Classical Music and hanging out at home with his kids and cat.
Good on them, though. It sounds like these posters are well in tune with what they want in their personal/sex lives.
Some glitches are annoying. Some are downright infuriating. Still, they can (and do!) serve as the foundations of hilarious internet videos.
The one above is a prime example—all YouTube user Cr1TiKaL wanted to do was to enjoy a little bit of Sleeping Dogs. What he got instead was a bug-fueled journey of absurdity and frustration through the streets and various locales of virtual Hong Kong.
Beware: NSFW language and minor spoilers abound.
Sleeping Dogs Error [YouTube]
(NSFW language in the above video)
You kill Kenny six times in this South Park tribute track created by "Mange Moi el Q," released on Sunday, and found by the Achievement Hunter gang at Rooster Teeth. The course pays tribute to just about every major character (but only two of the adults, I notice) in between the bovine posteriors marking the start and the finish. Appropriately enough, this run concludes with you driving your dirtbike right into a cow's ass.
Seriously, I hope you were prepared for OxBloodrayne1989xO's gross (in a good way) makeup skills. This is certainly rage quitting at its worst.
Violent Gaming [deviantART via Obvious Winner]
Living in Asia, you get used to mangled English. It stops being a source of amusement, and you can feel empathy for those trying to express something in another language. Then, every once in a while, you see something that makes you stop and go what. The. Fuck. Today, literally.
The website of the Capital Fitness Club in Guangzhou is amazing. As The Nanfing points out, the website's translations are off—fuckin' way off.
Clicking on the "Group Fuck course" (bwah?), takes you to several different options, including "Fight Fuck," "Pedal Fuck," and OH MY GOODNESS "Barbell Fuck."
If you click on the "Fight fuck" link, you get this picture.
"Barbell fuck" brings up this picture.
Lifting weights in water doesn't sound safe. But thankfully, I don't see much fucking! Here's why: the Chinese character "cao" (操) can mean "fuck" (as in "Fuck your mother"), but it also can mean "to grasp", "to hold", or "to control" and can be translated as "exercise."
So "Group Fuck" is actually "Group Drills", "Fight Fuck" is "Kickboxing", "Barbell Fuck" is "Barbell Exercises", and "Pedal Fuck" is "Step Aerobics". And do you know what mind fuck is?
Capital Club [Official Site via The Nanfang]
It's possible that my first sexual relationship began just like yours. I met someone cute and we started talking on instant messenger, where we exchanged an embarrassing number of kissy face emoticons. We held hands at the high school football game, followed by a fumbling attempt at making out underneath the bleachers.
But this next part might be where our stories diverge: her parents leave the house and we steal away to her attic bedroom. We're finally alone. What's next? I discover that she has secreted away a shoebox in the corner of her closet, something special that she's been saving for this occasion. She carefully uncovers it while I stare eagerly over her shoulder.
Inside is a motley collection of leather straps ripped off of purses, jackets and shoes. Stripping her clothes off, she explains to me precisely how she wants me to use them. Put this one here and this one there. Connect this one to that one. Pull. Harder. She wants it to hurt.
My introduction to masochism was sudden and brutal, much like pain itself. But it also became a feature of my sex life ever since, whether I'm the one getting spanked or the one literally pulling the strings.
Over the last decade, I've spent a lot of time thinking about how my penchant for masochism intersects with my gaming habits. But in order to start talking about masochism and gaming, we need to think more deeply about the terminology often used in these kinds of conversations.
When we call ourselves "masochists" for enjoying games like Super Meat Boy and Trials Evolution, we're not telling the whole truth. It would be more correct to say that we're "switches," which is BDSM (bondage, discipline, sadism, masochism) lingo for individuals who can shift between sadistic and masochistic roles, between being the top and the bottom, or between being the domme and the sub.
Because games are interactive systems that require our input, we are simultaneously sadists and masochists when we play a "masocore" game like Super Meat Boy (masocore, as in, masochistic "genre," if there was such a thing.) We don't just sit on the couch passively while Team Meat punishes us; we actively press the buttons that deliver the shock. In BDSM language, Team Meat may have manufactured the harness, but we are the ones who strap ourselves in.
"Masochism" describes a complex phenomenon but, in our discussion of uncompromisingly difficult games like VVVVVV or Demon's Souls, we use the term loosely and only define it informally, if at all. For example, in Brendan Caldwell's survey of masocore platformers, it's not clear what he means by "masochism" apart from some vague sense of enjoying frustration. Each of the game designers he interviews offer their own, equally nebulous definitions of the term.
When we talk about masochism, we're implicitly talking about Freud. In Sigmund Freud's theory of sexuality, the libido—our energy for everything from life and work to sex—is inherently aggressive. Sadism, or "the desire to inflict pain upon the sexual object," is not some bizarre sexual perversion, it's a fairly "common" exaggeration of this natural sexual aggressiveness.
When we take a special delight in hunting down the same inexperienced Halo player over and over again, we're being good sadists.
Masochism, on the other hand, is the "reverse" of sadism. More precisely it is "sadism turned round upon the subject's own ego," or sense of self. Because Freud sees human sexuality as a contrast "between activity and passivity," he understands masochism as the passive form of sadism, less its opposite than its complement.
Sadism and masochism are two sides of the same coin. For Freud, masochists are just sadists who want to inflict pain on themselves but let someone else do the work for them. They want to sit back and enjoy the pain.
But video games blur the distinction between activity and passivity, between sadism and masochism. A game like Super Meat Boy is a system that is totally inert until we pick up the controller and press start. As soon as we do, we become the motors of our own masochism.
The interactivity of the video game medium becomes the vehicle through which we turn our sadism against ourselves. Because we subject ourselves to the pain, we're both sadists and masochists simultaneously.
Although we might curse the seeming sadism of the developers as our Meat Boys land time after time in the same pile of salt, we are the sadists every time we try again and the masochists every time we enjoy the numbing grind of perpetual failure.
Team Meat created the game, sure, but they aren't coming into our homes armed with whips to force us to play. Whatever pleasure Team Meat may take in the thought of our failure, our own sadism turned inward is what keeps us coming back to the same nigh impossible stages.
It shouldn't be surprising that "masocore" games require us to be sadists as well. As early as 1905, Freud observed that sadism and masochism "are habitually found to occur together in the same individual." What is surprising is that video games provide a unique platform for both sadism and masochism to be expressed at once.
Video games allow us, "switches" that we are, to be active and passive simultaneously, to be the agents of our own pleasurable pain. Echoing Thomas Jefferson's famous statement that "we are all Republicans, we are all Federalists," those of us who play "masocore" games are all sadists, all masochists, all at once.
It's 5:30 AM and my partner sleepily wanders into the TV room. I have just one achievement left in Trials HD: "Marathon." The description reads: "Complete the Ultimate Endurance tournament without any faults." Twenty tracks. Zero faults. I can't fall off the bike once.
At 3 AM, I had faulted on the 19th and penultimate track. It was devastating but I quickly transmuted my devastation into a determination to complete the tournament before allowing myself to sleep.
As she registers what I'm doing—-what I'm still doing—my partner's posture stiffens. She's irate but also deeply concerned. I haven't moved since she went to bed and now she has to leave for work in thirty minutes. She storms out of the room to get ready.
I sit there and, pathetically, I keep playing. I hate myself. I hate myself for letting this stupid achievement create friction in my relationship. I hate myself for not being good enough at the game. I hate the controller. I hate my sweaty hands. I hate the game. I hate the people who made it.
At 6:15 AM on December 7th, 2010, I maneuver my bike over the final obstacle of the final track. I feel terrible and hollow as I cross the finish line. I haven't slept or eaten in twelve hours. The apartment is quiet and my partner is gone.
But as "Achievement Unlocked" flashes on the screen, I feel strangely sick and satisfied all at once.
Samantha Allen is a transgender woman, an ex-Mormon and a PhD student in Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies at Emory University writing a dissertation on sexual fetishism. She has contributed to The Border House and is also an erstwhile singer-songwriter. You can find her on the web or on Twitter.
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Dicks, why does it always have to be dicks? Before the Wii U's user forum, dubbed the Miiverse, launched, I said that it would be a dick drawing inferno. Little did I know that Japanese Xbox users would launch their own Miiverse clone.
But, I'll tell you what, I sure saw the dick drawings coming. Isn't that always the case? These aren't just dicks for the sake of dicks. Okay, well, maybe they are.
The Miiverse clone is called "Xboxverse". In Japanese, it's called "Hakoverse" (箱バース), with "hako" (箱) meaning "box" and being one of the console's nicknames in Japan. To be clear, this isn't a Microsoft Japan joint, but rather, the work of Japan's fledgling Xbox 360 owners. In Japan, the Xbox 360 hasn't exactly lit the country on fire.
The Xboxverse is browser-based and obviously not part of Xbox Live. Community members, however, are uploading Miiverse-style drawings—as well as drawings that would most likely be clamped down on pretty quick in the Miiverse.
So far, all the dick drawings seem to be confined to the board on the Tintin game. There's a clever reason for this! Did I say clever? Ha, I meant juvenile. SORRY.
In Japanese, Tintin (yes, Tintin) isn't called TinTin. Instead, the comic (and its titular hero) is known as "Tantan" (タンタン). The reason for this is that in Japanese, "ti" is a tricky sound. In traditional Japanese, the sound for "ti" was pronounced as "chi" (in today's Japanese, "ti" can be written out—more here). Thus, the name "Tintin" was changed, because it could be pronounced and written as "Chinchin". "Chinchin" (ちんちん) means "penis". The Adventures of Penis sounds like a very difference experience.
Hence, the Xboxverse thread on the Tintin game is covered with cocks and "chinchin" jokes. So, for once, dick doodles are fitting, no?
箱バース [Official Site]
I am in tears. I'm shedding actual tears here. Actual tears of laughter. Bear in mind that I'm Scottish and this is how I speak when I go home and I don't have to worry about people understanding what I say. Underneath this genuinely incisive review is some of the best Scottish patter I've heard in years. I'm pissing myself just thinking about it. You have to watch this but, be warned, it's not exactly… PC.
Translators note: ‘shite tickets' = toilet paper (yes, this is NSFW)
Amazing. Make sure you stay tuned until the end, for Scottish rewrites of some major songs from gaming history. My favourite is the Sonic rewrite that includes the lyrics "Sonic the Hedgehog, he's a fucking hedgehog".
(It's also a pretty good review.)
Luke's Note: If you're having trouble understanding the thick accent, turn YouTube's automatic subtitles on. You still won't be able to understand it, as they don't get anywhere near it, but at least you'll be laughing at something.
Hentai Kamen, "the abnormal super hero", is getting his own movie. The flick was teased last fall, and a live-action film called HK is slated for an April release in Japan.
This post has content some readers might find unsuitable.
Hentai Kamen is a manga that followed a mankini-wearing hero who got superpowers from wearing panties on his head. And somebody, somewhere thought, hey, why not have schoolgirls wear panties on their heads? I guess!
Earlier today, Akiba Blog, a popular otaku site, uploaded photos of a new photo book called "Kaopan" (かおぱん), or "Panty Face". The book's publisher routinely churns out schoolgirl fetish books, so at first glance, this seemed to be its latest unsettling creation. Though, besides the moral question that arises from fetishizing teens, this book seemed strikingly odd. Panty face? Bwah?
If you think this is odd, well, there are loads of people in Japan that do, too. That's why, in Japan, the reaction on Twitter has largely been bewilderment. Akiba Blog has chronicled some of the responses, which range from "There's a masked panty genre?" and "I thought those where bandages" to "I really worry about this country" and, of course, "The fuck?"
Hentai Kamen is a parody manga. This photo book seems like a parody, too—a parody of the various schoolgirl fetishizing that's found in places like Akihabara. Just look at how silly, subversive and over the top the whole thing is, with panties on display, instead of offering leering peeks:
Singing karaoke. Or trying to.
Reading. Or trying to.
Playing the recorder. See above.
In the pool. This seems dangerous!
Walking home from school. Geez, how embarrassing.
With the Hentai Kamen movie coming out this April, and this photo book launching now, it all seems to be a clever—albeit creepy—way to promote the film. No wonder one store in Akihabara is selling Kaopan near copies of the Hentai Kamen manga.
The Hentai Kamen flick opens on April 13 in theaters across Japan. Panty bless you!
女子校生がパンツをかぶった写真集 "かおぱん" 「マジキチ」「衝撃すぎるわw」 [アキバBlog]
Bare man ass. Panty mask. Spinning crotch attacks. WTF? The newly released trailer for HK is really unlike any other superhero movie you'll ever see. Scratch that, it's like anything you'll see. Ever.
First teased this past fall, HK is short for Hentai Kamen ("Masked Pervert"), a parody manga featuring a sexed up superhero, who was born from a masochistic cop dad and a sadistic S&M queen mom.
Hentai Kamen is coming to the big screen this April in The Land of the Rising Sun with the Japanese tagline: "It's for the sake of the world. Give your panties to me." (There's an English language tag, too: "Panty Bless You.")
The publicity machine is already moving ahead full steam. What looks to be truly odd, somewhat unsettling, and completely NSFW viral marketing for the flick is also underway!
Have a look at the film's official trailer above, which hit earlier today. If you dare. Dun, dun, dun.
映画「HK／変態仮面」おいなりさんがくっきり強調された予告編ムービー公開 [Gigazine]
Tonight, like every Thursday night in Japan, the Pokémon anime was broadcast across the country. This week, however, there was apparently some (accidental?) sexy time captured in this GIF and uploaded to 2ch for internet infamy. Gotta screw 'em all!
今週のポケモンエロすぎｗｗｗｗｗｗｗｗｗｗｗ [2ch]
Instead of just complaining about how ridiculous the digital breasts are in Vita hit game Senran Kagura Shinovi Versus, Japanese site Rocket News decided to compare them to real breasts. Eh...
This post contains content some readers might find inappropriate.
That's 21 year-old pin-up model Erina Kamiya, who appears in the video in various states of bouncing around. And, shocker of all shockers, Senran Kagura definitely has silly video game breasts. (The whole thing is rather silly and somewhat creepy, but so is Senran Kagura.)
But! Besides being a bikini model, Kamiya is a member of a "cyber gothic" idol group called Steam Girls, which is kind of interesting if you are into people wearing pastels, donning gas masks and carrying fake steam punk pistols. Who isn't?
ゲームのおっぱいが「本物のおっぱい」と同じ動きをするのか検証 [ロケットニュース]
When you think of plastic models, you probably think about cutting out parts from those leftover frames (called "sprues"). Painting said parts. Then, putting the kit together to make a robot, a car, or an airplane. You probably do not think of sex toys.
As Kotaku Japan points out, this plastic model kit isn't your typical model. It's a build-your-own-vibrator kit and comes in a retro style box that proudly points out that the model is so easy to build, anyone can do it. (It also says that you can even customize your vibe, but the retailer does warn about how you customize it!)
The product's concept and packaging are novel and totally tongue-in-cheek. This looks like something you'd see for a Japanese robot toy from the 1960s or 70s—not a sex toy.
This type of vibrator is called a "rotor" (ローター) in Japanese. In English, it's a "love egg". Put together your own for a mere ¥630 (US$6.68). It's available at the Japanese sex toy retailer in the link below.
ハイパーダッシュローター [NLS NSFW via Kotaku Japan]
