Gaijin • Tokyo • Undergound

Growing up i was pritty much a big otaku. I loved comics, anime, manga and power rangers! One way to get your otaku fix is by going to a chain of stores called book off. The majority of its product is manga, taking up a large part of these stores. They also have a huge selection of 105yen manga, that like $1! I was able to pick up the whole X1999 series on sale of 50yen each on s special promo day that i happened to stumble onto. So as a big fan of this series, i scooped up the whole set for only 450yen! sweet deal!

So i am definitively a super otaku ぼくのちょうオタクですよ! I just bought Power Ranger curry and breakfast sausages! These come from the new series of Tensou Sentai Goseiger (天装戦隊ゴセイジャー, Tensō Sentai Goseijā) I haven't watched this series yet, mainly because i had been dissapointed in the last few series, and i guess they are no longer making a US version. So i have to keep my Ranger fix from the japanese series. For the new Goseija series, i really like the costumes this time around. But i think my faveorite series was Dairanger, that was pretty violent for the time, and i loved the opening theme song!


For the food items, the curry was from the 100 yen shop, but currently i havent eaten it. For the sausages, they cost about 200 yen from the supermarket. The sausages actually have the characters ON the sausage. I thoiught it was super cute! めっちゃめっちゃかわいい！

FROM WIKIPEDIA: The five Goseigers are actually members of a branch of human life called the "Gosei Angels" (護星天使, Gosei Tenshi), whose mission is to protect the Earth. But Earth is targeted by an evil invasion force called Warstar which destroyed the Heaven's Tower (天の塔, Ten no Tō), a passageway between Earth and the Gosei World. While finding a way to return to their dimension, the Goseigers defend Earth from Warstar and stop its forces from stealing the planets's life energy.
The phrase "Descent!" (降臨!, Kōrin!) is utilized in the promotional materials for the series.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tensou_Sentai_Goseiger


GOSEIGER OPENING CREDITS:

Tonight i watched the gay japanese movie called OKOGE おこげ. Okoge in Japanese literally means "the rice that sticks to the pot", slang term is a FAG HAG. Okama おかま is literally the rice pot, but slang for faggot. This movie came out in 1992, and very much seemed progressive for its time, because some of the points touched in it are still not common in the modern day japan. Things such as being out is still considered not desirable, most gay men would rather live double lives, rather than live one and be true to themselves. Even getting married and having children, just so it seems normal, but still have sexual encounters with men. For those who might be able to find a copy of Okoge with subtitles, i suggest to see it, its a good commentary/ slice of life of gay Japanese culture.


Rating: ★★★★☆

FROM jfilmpowwow: Okoge - Takehiro Nakajima (1992) The term okoge can refer to two things in Japanese: first, it can mean the crust that forms on the bottom of a pan when rice is accidentally burned or browned. The second slang meaning for okoge is the Japanese equivalent of our North American "fag hag", a woman who enjoys hanging out with gay men as opposed to straight men or women. It's the latter usage that writer/ director Takehiro Nakajima took as the title for his 1992 film "Okoge", which (no surprise) was about woman Sayoko (Misa Shimizu) who meets Goh and Tochi, a gay couple played by Takehiro Murata and Takeo Nakahara), at the beach and quickly befriends them. Sayoko even offers the two men the use of her apartment as a safe and friendly place to meet and soon the trio become inseperable. "Okoge" was one of the very first films, along with Ryosuke Hashiguchi's "A Touch of Fever" (more on that at #1) that helped bring gay issues and gay-themed cinema into the Japanese mainstream. It's original 6-week domestic theatrical run would be extended again and again until it ran in Japan for several months to adoring public and critical praise. Meanwhile overseas the popularity of Juzo Itami's films "Tampopo" and "A Taxing Woman during the 1980's got "Okoge" programmed at a number of films festivals in the West including the 1992 Toronto International Film Festival. Since its release though "Okoge" has been eclipsed by many of the other gay films (some on this very list) and is sadly in danger of becoming a footnote in Japanese and Gay Cinema history. CM
http://jfilmpowwow.blogspot.com/2009/06/top-ten-japanese-lgbt-films.html

FROM WIKIPIDEA:

Okoge: A term for the burnt rice that sticks to the bottom of a cooking pot, this currently-used word refers to the straight, female friends of gay males.

Okama (お釜, おかま) Literally "a pot, a kettle", this word, always with the honorific prefix "O-", refers to a gay man, especially one who is viewed as effeminate or a drag queen. Can be pejorative. The word originated in Edo period slang for the anus. In current use.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_in_Japan

Living in japan many many things are very expensive as most know, but one thing that helps alot is national health care! Even me being here as a student, i get national coverage, which means i pay only 30% of the cost. I had a problem with my back tooth that was putting too much pressure on my upper tooth, and i thought i needed it to be pulled. I finally went to a dentist in my town, which he actually spoke english and he said i just needed to file down the tooth a bit. As an english teacher, one of my students told me if a dentist tells you first thing is that they want to extract the tooth, LEAVE immidiatly. Luckily he didnt suggest that. In the end it took only 5 minutes start to finish, and only cost 690 yen, thats about $7.00! I would never be able to get that in america!

えー！これなに？！ G-MEN MAGAZINE @G_menJP put a Gaijin 外国人on next months cover, but hes ugly as fuck! If he was hot OK, but hes NOT! G-men has had foreigners featured inside some of its photo spreads in many issues in the past, and they have been the G-men, gachiガチ, beefy hot types to expect from G-men magazine, but apparently they are doing some feature about Australia in it for their issue 170 special release. The cover model is NOT the style of G-men and the guy isn't even hot! The model type should be more of a BADI magazine model. I think personally think G-men should re shoot a more G-men appropriate cover model before this issue is released!!

What do you think, is the guy hot, or did G-men fuck up this time?

Below is the issue description:

G-men170号記念号は、
初の南半球取材を敢行！
真夏のシドニーをさらに熱くする
世界有数のゲイフェスティバル
マルディグラ・パレードを完全取材。

さらに、シドニーナイスガイズに
がっつり密着。
tattoマッチョ兄貴のグラビア＆オナニー
など、見所満載。

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