I kind of think I need to use my powers as Prime Minister to get NHK to give me the tape of this. (See, it has Furuta and Darvish in it, and I know two people who would probably be interested...)

For the husband, because this amused me more than it should have.

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So Eijun isn't my son-in-law yet (although it is looking like he will be more and more each day), but we finally located the Daiei scanlations that Cootie was talking about some time ago. They are here. In the chapters they have up, you can meet Eijun's crazy roommates Kuramochi Youichi and Tooru Misuko (the former is the real nutjob and would ( Read more... )

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There are a lot of stupid memories attached to this commercial - it came on during 2006, and the first time Kazu-san saw it he was home from college on summer break and was in my living room. And he pointed at the screen and blurted out, "FURUTA!" and my parents and little brother had never seen him yell off the field before and they looked a ( Read more... )