If Kyary Pamyu Pamyu's Ponponpon got 7 million views on YouTube worldwide, this new "Papepipu♪ Papipepu♪ Papepipupo♪" by Nozomi Sasaki may be welcomed by Japanese weird-music fans.

Nozomi Sasaki is one of the most popular "gravure idols" recently. (Google Image Search)

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The cute 'n' kooky world of Kyary Pamyu Pamyu, Japan's newest pop idol | The Japan Times Online

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Tama Art University 20 yo female student Mayuko made this great alphabet font by human leg hair.

The font used on an ad-board in real[Update] the ad board is a "sample" by Mayuko.

via ITMedia [J]

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Oita Airport is a local airport in Oita prefecture, Kyushu island, Japan.

When you arrive at the airport, you will see a big sushi dish on the conveyor,

(photo by @yuwt)

You can also watch how it is on a movie by cdefinverter,

A local incorporated association Tourism Oita runs this to promote their variety of seafood.

There are two sets of sushi, sea urchin from Kabae, Saeki city (the top photo) and shrimp from Himeshima (below).

The size of the dish are 70 centimeters high and 30 centimeters wide, weighs 25 kilogram.

via @yuwt via @checkela [J]

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A certain (of course anonymous, as usual) 2-channeller wrote that the shape of Great Britain islands looks for him like a girl worrying her bust size. The first reaction was "you are sick" but some followed and drew it.

The reason Manchester is emphasized is... ahem, it sounds similar with a certain body part of female in Japanese language.

via hiko2*blog [J]

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It has been 12 years since 2-channel serves Japanese net users. The gigantic anonymous bulletin boards are still kept simple without image/movie, all you type is texts.

You may post URL of images there, and many 2-channel viewer clients, which many users are now using, extracted to display in the posts for convenience. But still, many prefer to use so-called Ascii Art, drawing composed by letters and symbols.

There are a lot of Ascii Art dictionary sites (example [J]) and assisting tools. 2-channel users copy and paste an Ascii Art which shows their emotion.

On a certain thread on 2-channel, users tried to make an animated gif version of well-known Ascii Arts.

Here, the Japanese letters "Ban-ban-ban" in background means a sound you bash not PC.

ﾊﾞﾝﾊﾞﾝﾊﾞﾝﾊﾞﾝﾊﾞﾝﾊﾞﾝﾊﾞﾝﾊﾞﾝﾊﾞﾝﾊﾞﾝ
ﾊﾞﾝ　　　　　　　ﾊﾞﾝﾊﾞﾝﾊﾞﾝﾞﾝ ﾊﾞﾝﾊﾞﾝ
ﾊﾞﾝ（∩`･ω･）　　ﾊﾞﾝﾊﾞﾝﾊﾞﾝﾊﾞﾝﾞﾝ
　＿/_ﾐつ/￣￣￣/
　　　 ＼/＿＿＿/￣

Wake-waka-ran = I am in complete confusion.

　　ワケ　　　　　ワカ　　　　　ラン♪
　 ∧＿∧　　　∧＿∧　　　　∧＿∧
　（　・∀・）　　（　・∀・）　　　（　・∀・）
⊂　⊂　 ）　　（　Ｕ　　つ　　⊂__へ　つ
　<　<　<　　　　）　）　）　　　　　（＿）|
　（＿（＿）　　（_＿）＿）　　　 彡（_＿）

whew... uh.. yeah... I am really excited!

　　 ∩＿＿＿∩三　ー＿　　　　　 　 ∩＿＿＿∩
　　 |ノ　　　 　　三-二　　　 　ー二三 ノ　　　 　　ヽ
　　/　　(ﾟ) 　　　(ﾟ)三二-　￣　　 - 三　　 (ﾟ)　　　(ﾟ) |　　
　 |　　　　( _●_)　 ミ三二 - ー二三　　　　( _●_)　 ミ　ウオーオォーアッヒャアウオホーオオオ
　彡､　　　|∪|　　､｀￣￣三-　三　 彡､　　　|∪|　　ミ　　　　テンション上がってきた！！
/　＿＿　 ヽノ　　　Y￣)　三 三 　 (/'　　　　ヽノ＿ 　|　　　　　　テンション上がってきた！！
(＿＿＿）　　　　　　　_ノ　　　　　　 ヽ/　　　　　(＿＿＿）

These animation show well how Japanese are seeing action in few texts drawings.

There are more on a 2-channel summary site Kinisoku [J].

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