Japan Food Products: Pepsi flavored cheetos FritoLay Shuwa-Shuwa

So I bought a pack of FritoLay's Shuwa-Shuwa, aka the pepsi cola flavored cheetos...

Japan Products: The Rilakkuma Air Freshener

I went down to my local chemist and picked this up for 300 yen ($3US)!

A Rilakkuma Air Freshener!! In "happy clover" scent!

Japan Food Review: Monsters University Mike and Sully Steamed Buns

 To celebrate the release of Disney Pixar’s Monsters University, Family Mart will be selling nikuman (Japanese Steamed Meat Buns) inspired by the film's Protagonist Mike and Sully.

Judging by the design quality, I guess Family Mart didn't have the same $200 million budget as the film

Japan Local News: Amazing footage of lighting hitting the Odakyu line train

Two days ago, Tokyo was succumbed to heavy rain and thunderstorms.
All trains of the Odakyu line were stopped for 2 hours due to lighting striking one of the trains between Izumi-Tamagawa and Noborito station.
And amazingly a youtube user uploaded a video of the lightning hitting an Odakyu line train  (incident at 1:20):

Japan Food: Spiral Grape (life needs spice)

The new soft drink from Asahi is a grape/cola beverage with a touch of spice called "Spiral Grape". 

It's slogan is "LIFE needs SPICE" as it states on the bottle... and I have no idea how a grape drink would ever be the spice I need in life. And as a matter of fact, I don't want a bottle giving me a life lesson unless a genie came out of it granting me three wishes...

I only decided to buy one after watching the crazy commercial on TV which featured a cartoon Gothic bear screaming to be proactive (no joke). I also found out when researching that the voice of the bear was actually voiced by actor Yo Oizumi (who also voices Professor Layton in the Japanese version).

Japan Food Report: The Toriko Gyūdon

The Toriko inspired Gyudon (Japanese marinated beef on rice) is now on sale at Sukiya stores nationwide! This is coinciding with the release new Toriko film Toriko the Movie: Bishokushin's Special Menu.

J-pop News: Staff version of an AKB48 music video reaches 2.4 million views on youtube

The music video AKB48's new single "Koi Suru Fortune Cookie" (The Fall-in-Love Fortune Cookie) featuring the only the staff of Japan's biggest idol group was uploaded to their official youtube channel. Originally meant as a in-joke to begin with, in the space of 2 weeks, the video has had more than 2.4 million views and growing by the day.

Site News: Twitter Account @lolsushi

I have started a twitter account!!

please follow me: @lolsushigt

for her...

Japan Anime News: Laputa: Castle in the Sky causes internet frenzy. 2chan servers go down, twitter and nico nico douga survive

On August 2nd, Nihon TV aired a rerun of the Ghibli classic film "Laputa: Castle in the Sky". At approximately 11:55pm, when the two lead characters Sheeta and Pazu use the Magic Devastation Spell "Balse", Japanese internet users cast their own "Balse" spells on Twitter, the video hosting site niconico douga, and the forum board 2channel.

"Yeah now we're gonna destroy da internetz! lol"

Japan Comedy News: A German Newspaper (mistakenly) reports Japanese Comedian Sugichan wins the 500 million yen lottery

On July 11th, German Tabloid Newspaper Bild reported that "a Japanese Comedian Sugichan won 500 million yen in the Lottery and took the money home" accompanied by a photo of the Sugichan grimacing with a pile of cash.