Ack, okay ladies (and gentlemen?), I need some help here. You know the old-school Japanese, end-of-the-year tradition where all the guys race to a shine? And the winner is supposed to be the "luckiest man" in the coming year? And, uh, the guys all do this in diaper-cum-butt floss type underwear, and only this underwear? I know I've seen this ( Read more... )

I realized it'd been quite a while since I checked Minekura's Nitro blog (from which I occasionally like to save the pictures she posts--since, no, I can't read 98% of the kanji).  There, I found the following picture.

( wtf?? )

This trips me out. I actually saw it several months ago, but recently everything keeps reminding me of it!! So I thought I'd share. It's really cool, even though it kinda goes on pretty long.

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It's all stop-still animation over the course of several days (you can tell when the light changes a new day of painting and filming started, ha), no ( Read more... )