Author: ageekinjapan

Japanese bizarre game

Haripako sent me this awesome video featuring one of the latest Namco video-games for Wii (WiiWare) in Japan. It is one of the most bizarre games I’ve seen lately, the objective of the game is to catch a “protein bucket thief” who likes to always get the proteins from others in a gymnasium. It is pretty awesome to see how they made a pretty decent game from a so “absurd” idea:

Muscle March
The game’s website is also pretty cool.

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Ninja typing speed

The girl in the video works typing subtitles in real time for Japanese live TV shows. It is just amazing to see how fast she can type and how she does it doing combos with a tiny keyboard. It is even more awesome if you think that daily Japanese uses around 2000 different characters, she can type all those characters using so few keys!

Drinks

50 yen vending machine

This is the cheapest drink being sold on a vending machine that I’ve ever seen in Tokyo. On of the drinks in the picture costs only 50 yen! Sometimes, in Japan it is cheaper to buy a drink in a vending machine than in a supermarket, I guess it is because here there are much more vending machines than in other countries.

drinks vending machine