Manga sound effects.
One of the things that disturbs and amuses foreigners new to japan is the SOUND EFFECTS of their comic books. The Japanese manga industry created tons of sound effects for things that are normally...
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yan yan magazine these pictures come from YAN YAN. YAN YAN, as I have said before, is one of the most hilarious things ever: a huge magazine full of nothing but classified ads from bars who want to...
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First let me state the obvious: America has lots of strange magazines too! We also have a magazine about an flying alien reporter who mates with human females, and one about a rich guy who lives alone...
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Tachikawa is weird. Besides being one of the biggest gambling 'hoods in Tokyo, it's also the municipal government hub for ALL the 'burbs in west Tokyo. So there's this one neighborhood in north...
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