Japanese Aomori fishermen now available in collectible card form, garnering unexpected popularity

https://ift.tt/eA8V8J Dale RollFancy collecting pictures of shirtless hunky fishermen wearing rubber waders? When it comes to trading cards, you might be most familiar with Pokémon cards or Yu-Gi-Oh cards, or perhaps old-school baseball cards. But Japan really has a trading card for everything, so would you be surprised to know they even have fishermen trading cards? Local […]

Hideo Kojima thinks there’s a better way to spend your coronavirus free time than playing games

https://ift.tt/eA8V8J Casey BaseelDirector of Metal Gear Solid and Death Stranding recommends putting down the analog sticks in order to do something else as you hunker down at home. With the coronavirus outbreak becoming an increasingly international issue, people around the globe are staying home as part of social distancing precautions. While the circumstances are definitely unhappy ones, […]

What if One Piece was a girls’ comic? Shojo manga artist produces character redesign【Pics】

https://ift.tt/eA8V8J Casey BaseelYoko Maki comes out of retirement to reimagine Luffy as the only boy at an all-girls high school. No other currently running manga series embraces the style of shonen manga (boys’ comics) storytelling as fervently as One Piece does. Eiichiro Oda’s pirate saga is all about hot-blooded passion, adventurous ambition, and challenges of ever-increasing difficulty […]

Taiwanese sports channel airs anime Slam Dunk in place of cancelled NBA games

https://ift.tt/eA8V8J Master BlasterWe interrupt this NBA shutdown to bring you a very important anime. The cancellation of major sporting events might not seem like a huge sacrifice in dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic, until you realize the massive scope of influence they have over thousands of jobs and peripheral businesses. For example, when the NBA announced that […]

Ghibli Museum extends coronavirus closure, gives new scheduled reopening date and other good news

https://ift.tt/eA8V8J Casey BaseelTotoro misses you too, but at least he’s letting us know when we can start buying tickets again. There’s a limit to just how much social distancing you can do in one of the most densely populated countries on the planet, but coronavirus countermeasures in Japan have led to the closure of pretty much every […]

Best telecommuting option ever? Seven hours in private room at gourmet Tokyo/Kyoto restaurants

https://ift.tt/eA8V8J Casey BaseelWhy ride a packed train to the office when you can work in luxurious seclusion while dining on sukiyaki? A large number of Japanese companies have instituted telecommuting policies over the past few weeks, under the logic that the crowded conditions of commuter trains and enclosed offices are high-risk environments for the transmission of coronavirus. […]

With baseball tournament cancelation, former announcer steps in with a kind offer to players

https://ift.tt/eA8V8J Krista RogersNet users praise a touching gesture of humanity in difficult times. The annual spring and summer Koshien tournaments, nicknamed after the Hanshin Koshien Stadium in Hyogo Prefecture where the final games are played, are the most prestigious amateur contests for the sport of baseball in Japan. Many young ball players make it their singular goal […]