Otaku International

For those who regularly browse through my blog articles, you may have already seen my post about Shoko Nakagawa, the infamous Idol who is also an Otaku. However, some of you may know someone else who is also an Otaku, Taro Aso. He is a politician in Japan but is also known as Mr. Manga for he claims to read 20 comic magazines a week.

Now for those who knows nothing about Aso, He has earned the nick name “Rozen” Aso because he was caught reading a volume of the excellent gothic-loli Peach-Pit manga Rozen Maiden in Tokyo International Airport, and gave a speech to Japanese Otaku in Akihabara. When he was the Minister for Foreign Affairs, he established the International Manga Award for non-Japanese manga artists in 2007.

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Due to the lack of people visiting and posting the forums (And the constant spams from spammers). I have decided to take down my forums. The Anime links up there for dl will no longer be available but I have a streaming anime Database that I will implement onto the site soon. I just haven’t figured out how to implement it yet. But look forward to it.

Unusual ice cream flavors from home and abroad are drawing families to the Aisukurin Hakurankai (Ice Cream Expo) at Yokohama Red Brick Warehouse. Over 100 kinds of unique ice cream, made with local delicacies such as ox tongue, sea urchin, eel and horse sashimi, is available during the expo that will end on August, 10.

Now if you think you had some weird flavors, well you would be in for a surprise. Personally speaking I would try most of these if not all just out of principle to see how they taste. I am Asian myself and I have had Red Bean, Soy Bean, all those unique flavors that Americans are not accustomed to. And I enjoyed them perfectly fine, of course Red Bean is nothing like ox tongue but who knows.

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