Japan: The Good Side and the Incredibly Wrong Side
Sometimes, Japan stops being incredibly weird and creepy and does something cute and sweet, as in this pic. Some enterprising (and obviously lonely) young man made a life-sized Totoro statue next to a bus stop in Nagasaki, so it looks exactly like the scene in Hayao Miyazaki’s children masterpiece My Neighbor Totoro. As Canned Dogs points out, Totoro even has an appropriate woodland scene behind him. Adorable!
And then there’s stuff like this:
…which proves that Japan is totally, totally fucked up. (Via Danny Choo)
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Robert Bricken is one of the original co-founders of the site formerly known as Topless Robot, and its first editor-in-chief, serving from 2008-12. He brought the site to prominence with “nerd news, humor and self-loathing” as its motto, raising it from total internet obscurity to a readership in the millions, with help from his savage “FAQ” movie reviews and Fan Fiction Fridays. Under his tenure Topless Robot was covered by Gawker, Wired, Defamer, New York magazine, ABC News, and others, and his articles have been praised by Roger Ebert, Avengers actor Clark Gregg, comedian and The Daily Show correspondent John Hodgman, the stars of Mystery Science Theater 3000 and Rifftrax, and others. He is currently the managing editor of io9.com. Despite decades as both an amateur and professional nerd, he continues to be completely unprepared for either the zombie apocalypse or the robot uprising.