TV in Japan

Yup this is KAT-TUN first real TV show , they have been on other shows before doing skits but now they have there own show. On the first eps there guest star Jpop Diva AI.
Watch as they talk about various things and do some funny stuff too I don’t want to give away what [...]

This, I think, it just about as close as you can get to art in an anime mash-up. It gets a little long and the music could’ve been better, but it’s pretty cool.
I’d love to see someone do this with action films. Anyone?

This is a strange one and in desperate need of explanation. At first, I thought it was something to the effect of ’sexy nerds’ and that this girl was a domino nerd who just really seemed to get excited around dominoes.
However, then the Big Brain-ed People entered into the mix. They are having such an [...]

You thought you knew the whole story about the PS3 launch in Japan? Think again!
This two part hard-hitting news documentary exposes the seedy underbelly of the Japanese gray market for these immoral sex machines. Oh, and it also does its part to make fun of a poor Otaku for his lowly CRT television. And features [...]

For my nerds in the house, this is pretty fantastic.
Not the most incredible coding in the world but simple, funny and exceptionally well conceived. Kind of like a book of Mario haiku.

There have been a ton of web posts, videos and even entire television series dedicated to the world of Japanese Okaku but until now the focus had been almost entirely on men's obsessions and the kinds of lives those obsessed men lead.
What's not well known is the fact that female Otaku are [...]

There’s a scene a lot like this in Densha Otoko but I’d never seen a real one until now.
Basically, it breaks down into three parts.
1. Anime/Manga Otaku are obsessed with the characters from their favorite shows/books.
2. Show Producers/Book Publishers realize this and they want to stir their loins even more.
3. Actresses are hired to portray [...]

Some of you (especially those of you in Japan) may have heard of Densha Otoko or ‘Train Man’. If not, it’s a fascinating (supposedly) true story that spawed on the internets in Japan and became a national phenomenon.
Story goes that a very nerdy anime-obsessed Japanese youth (read: Otaku) witnessed a man harassing a beautiful woman [...]

Coal has posted the second part of Otaku in USA with excellent translations.
Comparing these guys to the clip that I just posted below, it definitely highlights the differences between how the two cultures define the role of Otaku.
This clip also highlights the extreme nerdiness that really goes into any obsession. I would imagine that the [...]

As I learn more and more about the whole Otaku (in Japan) phenomenon, I think that I’m starting to get a better feel for the strange world in which these people live.
Essentially, they are creating lives for themselves separate of Japanese society. It seems like a lot of these lives often involve odd anti-social [...]

Thanks to TViJ reader Coal, we can now watch the Otaku From USA video translated. Fantastic work Coal.
That is all. Must now sleep. E3 has eaten my brain.

Coal, a Western resident of Japan, has an interesting take on the Otaku From USA video up on his blog and has said he’ll be adding subtitles to the video soon.
We’re all counting on you Coal. Seriously.
Also, Rick, the guy who posted the video and is actually in the show, has promised to send up [...]

I first heard the word ‘Otaku’ a couple years back when I first visited Tokyo for the the Tokyo Game Show. I was there covering the convention and the video game scene for my (still current) day job as TV producer.
One of our translators was translating a question I had asked a Japanese gamer in [...]