Korean Zombies

This is T-ara, a Korean group, and they're mildly popular in Japan. This song, Lovey Dovey, is about 9 months old, but... Halloween. I consider it the Korean Thriller. I'm not sure what they're saying, but it seems to me lovey dovey and zombies often go together.

Weight Loss

 

Finally, a before and after picture you can trust.

Spooky Gum Dance

I don't know if this actually had anything to do with Halloween. It's a 2-year-old ad for long lasting mint gum.

Halloween Roast Beef Giveaway

Asahi gets Halloween, okay? That's why they're offering this amazing deal. All you have to do is buy a six pack of beer, fill out the post card on the inside of the box, attach a 50 yen stamp and then sit back and wait to find out if you're one of 200 lucky people nationwide to win 500 grams of roast beef. Pretty sweet deal. By the way, girlbot actually sent the postcard in.

Oriental Curry

I know a lot of you are thinking this is a super racist depiction of an African chef, but this is oriental curry. I guess this is what Japanese people think they look like. They also make roux to make curry at home. It has a small picture of this guys head and a 1950s era white kid enjoying curry.

Nuclear Energy Protests

This is a picture of a protest in Sakae the other day. I'm glad that guy on the left decided to dress up like a giraffe. It just kind of sends the message, "This protest is for real! You can't just laugh it off! We have super well thought out ideas and... nice ties you fascists!"

The Electrician

Every time my electrician pulls up in his van, I can't help thinking, "Man, this dude's really got his shit together."

Get the Ladies on the Halloween Dance Floor

Every year Loft, a department store in Japan, makes an unbelievably good Halloween song, but they really only play it in the store. Pump these links at your Halloween bash. This year's song, Go! Halloween Hero is pretty rad. (Click on "special movie") I think my favorite line is, "Let's go laughing, crazy, crazy laughing." This is followed closely by, "Let's go eating, crazy, crazy eating." Last year's song is still the best ever.

Japanese Food Review #26: Cheese and Pepper Corn Snack

These are actually called "Delicious Combo". At first I thought they were generic Cheetos, but they're made by Frito Lay, so for some reason they decided to go in another direction. I guess they thought Chester Cheetah could use a rest and replaced him with this cute flavor scientist. A little background here. In Japan, there are 5 flavors. The first four are the same as in the west: sweet, sour, bitter, salty. But they also have umami, which is sometimes translated as savory and other times translated as good taste. For example, soy sauce is sometimes described as umami, so umami means salty? On the other hand, I've heard a tomato described as umami. I don't see how the tastes of soy sauce and tomatoes are similar, so it seems like a made up flavor. Anyway, this scientist figured out how to make this snack as salty and umami-y as possible. This scientist is clearly an idiot. He has black pepper marked as a 5 out of 5 on the salty ranking. Then, pepper is ranked as a 1 in umami while cheese receives a 4. When you combine the two it becomes a 5. What the hell? You're fired scientist. Bring back Chester!

Ratings:
Gaybot: 7  The scientist's rankings are all wrong, but he has successfully made a delicious combination.
Girlbot: 8  These are better than normal Cheetos, she says.
Overall: 7.5

Why Am I Alive?

Seriously, if it weren't for Halloween, I don't know if I could keep going. Um, this is probably the conclusion of Kyary's Fashion Monster commercials: