Google protects the identity of anime characters
Google Street View’s automatic face censorship technology protects the privacy of a statue:
Found from a post about the anime statues that line the road outside of Bandai’s Tokyo HQ. [via JapanSoc]
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Categories: Otaku & Anime, Technology
That bread and red bean headed freak’s got character(s)
A Japan Times article reports that Anpanman, the superhero with a head made of bread and sweet red bean paste ubiquitous in Japan, has made it into the Guiness Book of World Records. The record: most characters in an animated series. Apparently, as of March 1,768 different characters have appeared in the long-running cartoon.
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Categories: Japanese TV, Otaku & Anime
A dog with eyebrows
“Nanikore Chin Hakkei” finds a dog in Fukouka Prefecture that has eyebrows:
The dog, named Panda, was born with black spots around his eyes. However, as he grew older, the spots shifted up and became like eyebrows!
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Categories: Animal Videos
Skateboarding Chimpanzee
On last night’s episode of “Shimura Zoo,” genius chimpanzee Pan-kun learned how to skateboard:
Even with all that protective gear on, it’s not hard to imagine that it may have been quite painful for him to tumble on the concrete. Still, he persevered and managed to learn some basic skateboarding.
Not bad, but not nearly as cool as when he learned how to drive a Segway.
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