Japanorama 6 - Ganguro (Bad Girls)

It’s an all ladies episode this time! Following up the previous post about Gyaruru, this episode is just perfect to guide you in this rather interesting fashion style.
With the image of the Japanese woman as a sweet, submissive geisha radically changing in recent years, Japanorama looks at the current trends amongst young Japanese women and [...]

Japanorama 4 - Densetsu (Legends)

It’s time for another Japanorama,…..episode 4 Densetsu !
It’s all about famous timeless superheroes in this episode.
First up is, Japanorama celebrates the 40th birthday of Ultraman. Created in the mid-1960s, Ultraman is Earth’s best and only hope against the ceaseless onslaught of monsters and aliens…
Jonathan then swaps magic tricks with Princess Tenko, the world’s most beautiful [...]

Japanorama 3 - J-Art - Pop Art

Woo yea, it’s Japanorama 3!

By mashing up images of popular culture, Japanese artists have put themselves at the forefront of pop art. Jonathan meets two of the world’s biggest names in pop art - Takashi Murakami and Yoshitomo Nara - and sniffs out Japan’s next wave of budding young masters.
Japanese Pop Art is arguably the [...]

Japanorama 2 - Ai and Koi (Love and Romance)

The modern day meaning of Ai and Koi is Love and Romance.
With a declining birthrate it would appear that Love and Romance is in trouble in contemporary Japan. So if young Japanese aren’t doing it with each other, who and what exactly are they doing?
We look at the rise of the male host bar, the [...]

Japanorama 1 - Gaijin (Outsiders)

Hehe never expected Jonathan to be back this soon,…looks like he’s having a great time over there.
Japanorama is back with Season 3! The show which covers interesting aspects of the Japanese world.
I did had season two covered completely, but my previous host just deleted everything, those @*%!&@!
Still have to re-up them, but I’m lazy.
Nevertheless, season [...]

Japanorama 6 - Kawaii (Cute) Streaming+DL!

To bad, but this is the last episode of Japanorama…..aaaaw.
This time Jonathan embraces the passion that underpins most aspects of Japanese popular culture, the concept of Kawaii, which means cute.
Jonathan salutes the fat cat of cute, Hello Kitty, and visits the global mecca of all things cute, Hello Kitty Land. He discovers the ultimate 21st [...]

Japanorama 5 - Bushido(Samurai Spirit) Streaming+DL!

After hours of trial and error with encoding,…..here’s episode 5.
- Jonathan investigates Samurai Spirit. Swords and shoguns are now out but the spirit can still be found in battling beetles, lethal schoolgirls and a goalkeeping crustacean that can stop 9 out of 10 penalty kicks.
We look at the unlikely warriors who are behind Japan’s strangest [...]

Japanorama 4 - Owarai (Comedy) Streaming+DL!

Episode 4 of this intriguing documentary is up on Japtard.
- Jonathan investigates what makes the world’s hardest working nation laugh.
Japanese comedy is not all slapstick and screams - it is actually home of some very strange and very funny comedy. Jonathan uncovers the original Jackass comedy extremists and meets the ultimate in high tech humor, [...]

Japanorama 3 - Zoku (Tribes) Streaming+DL!

Woohoo I’m am your super lazy Admin,……(drum roll)… Frox!
Sorry about the late Episode,…..I hate encoding. I have the raw vobs of each episode now and they are all over 1G, quality quality!
- Jonathan shares his fascination with the Zoku or urban tribes that characterize Japan.
The Japanese may not be divided by race or religion, but [...]

AKB48 - Aitakatta

Never heard of this group before,…….
But after watching Japanorama2 (Check the Japanorama section for video) it came clear to me it’s this girls group which feed the needs of the so-called Otaku.
Whatever……?
After my daily walk trough the trackers I saw this PV of AKB48 - Aitakatta,…..’hey, why not check it out?’ And I must say [...]