DPJ "Could you join our promotion video?", Miku "No thanks"

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One of these days, Vocaloids have been rooted in Japanese culture especially for Internet culture. Not only its innovative singing system but also its cute characters seems like contributing to the popularity.

The last day, such a web-famous vocaloid finally appeared on real political topic; ruling Democratic Party of Japan tried to use Hatsune Miku, the most popular vocaloid, in their promotion video for the election going on now.

According to the Kenzo Huzisue the Member of the House of Councilors, the Party asked the company who had the copy right of vocaloid but was denied. "I wanted to make the promotion video with Hatsune Miku, But the company which had its comprehensive copy rights turned down the offer because it must not support specific political organization. "

Hearing this news, Japanese netizens who basically hate DPJ (general people relatively support DPJ. very opposite against netizens. one of big enigmas) got excited, and spurred to hate DPJ more, saying "The stupid party tried to use OUR angel MiKU!!". Many caricatures of DPJ were posted on 2channel. Pictures below are some of them.


DJP: Could you join our promotion video?
Miku: ・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・

DPJ: Miku-san, Please.
Miku:・・・・・・・・






Negotiation failed


Darth Vader descended on FIFA World Cup!!!

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Episode Ⅰ : Mexico vs South Africa



EpisodeⅡ : Mexico vs France



EpisodeⅢ : Mexico vs Urugay


Posted & Translated by FuangPing

These videos are CM created by Mexican cable TV broadcasting company "CABLEVISION". Broadband service "YOO" available both for Internet and telephone designed its original NetBook based on characters of StarWars. You can see it in the CM. Reportedly, this StarWars series still continue. Can we see Jedi fighting with Darth Vader from EpisodeⅣ!!?


<日本語ver>
これらはメキシコにあるケーブルテレビ会社「CABLEVISION」によって製作されたもので、インターネットと電話回線をセットにした「YOO」のスターウォーズのキャラクターをあしらったデザインにできるネットブック「YOOBOOK」の宣伝も兼ねたCMとなっています。まだ続きがあるようですが、エピソード4以降でジェダイ達が登場してのバトルなどは見られるのでしょうか。

Woman screaming "HELP ME!!!" on the WorldCup game England vs Germany!???

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FIFA World Cup South Africa England vs Germany was a very exciting and controversial(especially for English) game for all over the world. But here in Japan, there is another horrifying topic because the "thing" can be only detectable by people who can understand Japanese.

You can check it in the video above.

From 0:03, you are able to hear woman screaming
"Kyaaaaaaaaa Tasuketeeee!!!"
In Japanese, "kyaaa" is a female screaming. "tasukete" means "help me".

In the internet, some Japanese netizens posted their negative opinions.
"it's just your imagination."
"It's a kind of coincidence. Maybe that can be Germany or something. it's international competition after all."

But most of them recognize the screaming as "Tasukete".
Anyway, Only God knows. What we can do is just praying for the woman crying.




<日本語ver>
FIFAワールドカップのイングランドvsドイツ戦が世界中で大きな盛り上がりを見せる中、ここ日本では少しかわったトピックがネットで大きく話題になっていた。なぜ日本だけかというと、その「トピック」のネタが日本語を解する人間にしかわからないことだからである。

上の動画でチェックしてみよう。

0:03から女性が悲鳴をあげているのだ!「きゃあああ!助けてー!!」

ネットでは、「お決まりの空耳アワーだろ」とか「ドイツ語だろ」などという否定的な意見もちらほら見られたが、多くの人々はやはり「助けて」と認識したようだ。

本当のところはもはや神のみぞ知る、だ。我々にできることはもう叫んでいた女性の為に祈ることだけであろう。

【Reaction of Japanese Netizens】U.S. & Russian President had hamburger to lunch.

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Article cited by Politics Daily, Comments cited by 痛いニュース

No caviar or vodka this time. It was burgers and fries, ice tea and coke, as President Barack Obama treated his Russian counterpart, Dmitry Medvedev, to lunch Thursday at Obama's favorite gourmet hamburger joint in suburban Arlington, Va.

The American president went traditional Midwestern: cheddar cheeseburger with onions, lettuce, tomato and pickles. President Medvedev went spicy: cheddarburger with jalepeno peppers, mushrooms and onions. The two leaders munched away in their shirtsleeves, sharing french fries at a table in Ray's Hell Burger. Interpreters at an adjacent table leaned in to hear their conversation

Medvedev is in Washington for bilateral meetings at the White House. But after a morning session, the two presidents took an informal lunch break, entering and exiting Ray's to the cheers of other customers. And when the bill came, dollars or rubles? Lunch was on the president of the United States, the White House said.

【Japanese Netizens' Reaction cited by 2channel】

1:
What a scary shot!!

2:
The table is so small for them.

3:
Who on earth could imagine this shot in the age of Cold War??? Amazing.

4:
The pic in which 2 big nations' presidents are eating hamburger is kind of surreal but making me laugh in a way.

5:
This is a stupid show for broadcasting their popularity. pissing me off.

6:
Presidents should not eat such a cheep stuff at least publicly. Off course it's one of political show but not good.

7:
They looks like ordinary businessmen.

8:
"Today, I went to a hamburger shop and saw Presidents of U.S. and Russia eating" nobody would believe this hahaha.

9:
All customers in the shop are security police, right?

10:
If someone happened to come to this shop without knowing, he's gonna be shot to die before entering.

11:
Hey, the T-shirt the staff's wearing looks like saying "go to hell". hahaha.

12:
This is funny as if Japanese Prime Minister took his guest to Yoshinoya...
※Yoshinoya → http://yoshinoyaamerica.com/

13:
As usual, this typical American food looks unhealthy.

14:
Maybe Medvedev was thinking "what a junk!!".

15:
Obama's finished eating too early. On the other hand, Medvedev looks even not touching.

16:
American's daily food is not appropriate for international reception. European or Japanese one is good enough I think.

17:
Maybe Obama is implicitly embarrassing Medvedev or joking.

18:
The hamburger doesn't look bad!! I want one.

【世界の反応】北朝鮮、ポルトガルに大敗!ワールドカップ2010

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Posted & Translated by FuangPing
(English ver is bellow, followed by Japanese)
Cited by ChinaSmack


【(主に)中国の人々のこの試合の結果に対する反応】


資本主義の国は本当にひでーな。。。社会主義のの国はただ優しいんだよ。

国際援助団体は率先して北朝鮮のチームを助けるべきだったな。

社会主義の国でサッカーの才能を育てるのはとても長く険しい道のりみたいだね。

こりゃあただのグレープ※じゃないな。一房分の強さはあったぞ。
(中国語では"ポルトガル"の最初の一音節を英語の"grape"と似たような発音をする、らしい。転じて、グレープがポルトガルをふざけて呼ぶときに使う単語となった、らしい。)

日本のメディアの情報がVoice of Americaで引用されていたんだけど、それによるとどうやらこの放送は朝鮮本国でも放送されていたということだ。Twittersphereにが言うには、ゲームが5−0になった時点で放送は突如中断されて観光番組に切り替わったとか。。。 北朝鮮の選手たちは炭坑送り決定だな。。

北朝鮮がポルトガルに向かって核を使うのに1000RMBかける。

ポルトガルよ、おまえは国連の安全保障理事会に報告書を提出する必要があるぞ。国際社会に説明するんだ!!北朝鮮はこれから核を使ってくるぞ!!

資本主義が社会主義に置き換えられることや社会主義のチームが資本主義のチームを負かすことは避けようのない未来だとしても、どうやらそれにはまだまだ時間がかかるらしい。

今夜、北朝鮮チームはようやく中国チームがいつもどんな気持ちがわかっただろうな。

Mop.comのヘッドラインはこんなだった「もし君たちが勝てば金正日にお会いできるだろう。負ければ金日成にお会いできるだろう」怖すぐる。。。

7−0かぁ。一週間に一本づつゴールいれてんな。

北朝鮮チームは忠誠と信念のに基づいて結成されたのだろう。ただし、勝利なしで。信念はふるいをつかって水を汲み上げます(→転じて、意味がないということか)。

北朝鮮はついに中国を超えたな

ワールドカップっていうか、ハリウッドだったな。

北朝鮮はまだラッキーやん。彼らの負けの意味するところは北朝鮮の炭坑行きだろ。中国の炭坑じゃないじゃないか。

最近、北朝鮮の悲惨な炭鉱事故があったよな。11人の炭坑夫が犠牲になったという。。。

今この瞬間から、北朝鮮チームを応援するってことは石炭の生産性を支えるってことだ。

おい、おまえらは根本的に勘違いをしているぞ。彼らが炭坑送りになるかどうかなんて大して重要なことじゃない。北朝鮮は労働者の天国なのだぞ。むしろ、炭坑夫の社会的地位はサッカー選手のそれより高い。



<English Original Article>

【Reaction of Chiese people on the result of the game】

Capitalist countries really are cruel… the people of socialist countries are just too kind-hearted.

Some international aid organisation there should take the initiative and rescue the North Korean team… I’ve heard that there’s a lot of space for running, they do plastic surgery really well, lots of international criminals get it done there…

Developing soccer talent in socialist countries is a long and arduous task…

Portugal’s lively performance wasn’t that of a single grape, but a whole bunch. [A pun on 'Portugal': in Chinese the first two syllables of that nation's name spell out the word 'grape'. Not really that funny even if you speak Chinese actually.]

Japanese media sources were quoted in Voice of America saying that the game would be broadcast on Korean State TV. According to the Twittersphere, as soon as the score got to 5:0, the game was cut, and scenes showing the Kumgangsan tourist region were shown in its place. For those players, I think that being sent to the mines will be the least of their worries.

I bet 1000 RMB that North Korea will be launching a nuclear attack against Portugal this year!!!

Portugal, you need to give the UN Security Council a written explanation, give the international community an explanation. North Korea is going to use the nuke!!!

Although capitalism will inevitably be replaced by socialism, and capitalist soccer teams will be surpassed by socialist teams, it’s going to be a long time coming!

Tonight, the North Korean team knows how the Chinese team always feels…

A headline on the Mop.com homepage: “If you win you’ll be meeting Kim Jong-Il, If you lose, you’ll be meeting Kim Il-Sung…” (too hilarious).

7 – 0, they let in a goal for every day of the week.

Although the North Korean team is built on faith and belief, without victory, belief holds as much water as a sieve.

North Korea has finally surpassed China….

It’s not the World Cup, it’s Hollywood!

The North Korean team are still fortunate/blessed…at least them losing will mean mining coal in North Korea…and not mining coal in China…

In a year we’ll hear the story of a tragic accident in a North Korean mine which claimed the lives of eleven miners…

You’ve made a fundamental mistake. It’s not important whether or not they’ll be sent to the mines, you’ve forgotten that in the North Korean workers’ paradise, the position of a miner is higher than that of a football player!

"Boyfriends" gathered to buy LovePlusPlus in Akihabara.

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24th this month, Konami finally put its latest novel product series "LovePlusPlus" on sale!!
According to a stuff who belongs to one shop in Akihabara, First 100,000 copies are shipped and shops already get running short of it. "I think you won't get it in this weekend".

In the day of opening sale, What called "boyfriend", meaning enthusiastic fan of the game, gathered at Akihabara in order to get its original promotion goods which you could get only in the "holy place".


What's LovePlus!!? Check it out → wikipedia

Related story in ADJ :

【世界の反応】北朝鮮選手ワールドカップ国歌斉唱中に涙

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(English is below, followed by Japanese article this time.)
Cited by ChinaSmack

鄭大世の涙は私たちに多くのことを思い出させてくれた。
北京時間の6月16日早朝、2010年南アフリカワールドカップのグループG、第一予選の第二試合王者プラジル対アジアの新興北朝鮮の試合が始まるところだった。この二つのチームはワールドカップのピッチでは初めての顔合わせである。試合の結果は2−1で結局ブラジルが勝った。特に驚くことのない結果だ。しかし、何百万人という世界中のサッカーファンを驚かせたのは必ずしも結果ではなく、むしろ北朝鮮の鄭大世選手の涙であった。

試合前、両国の国旗が掲げられる中斉唱された国歌の最中に北朝鮮の鄭大世選手があふれる感動を堪えきれずに目に涙を浮かべていて、歌うことができないでいた。このめったにないシーンは、私たちに多くの、本当に多くのことを考えさせるものである。
鄭大世はワールドカップ70年史上最も国歌斉唱中に激しく泣き出した選手として記憶されることだろう。この(鄭大世選手の泣き顔)写真はワールドカップの歴史に深く刻み込まれた。


【海外の反応】

nh5:
中国人の選手ときたら強欲で金のことしか考えてない!北朝鮮の選手は(余裕がないから)何回も同じユニホームを着て試合をしているんだ。もはや彼らと比べるべくモ無いよ。鄭大世の涙は中国選手のあるべき姿を映し出していたね。畜生!!

a510036100:
畜生!俺までホロッときちまった。。。北朝鮮を誇りに思う!

jiaxinggao:
はあ?誇り?誇るって何をさ?偉大な将軍様か?軍国主義の政治か?さっぱりわからん。誰もわかってないよ。こんな感じの醜い世界の人間がこういう醜いことをする人間を生み出すんだ。

不明真相的包子君:
鄭大世は最近じゃみられない確固たる忠誠心ってやつを見せてくれたよ。実際、彼には選択肢があったんだ。北朝鮮なんかよりももっと裕福な国の国籍まで持ってたんだから。それでも彼は心から祖国に仕えることを選んだわけでしょ。その祖国が北町っていう誰からも尊敬されない残念な国家だったとしても。彼のことを理解することはできないけど、少なくとも私たちは彼に敬意を払うべきだよ。

lutai321:
北朝鮮はアンラッキーだったね。ブラジルやポルトガルと一緒のグループだったなんて。。。悲劇だわあ。韓国や日本は比較的楽勝なグループだってのに。

幽深小径abc:
北朝鮮はいいサッカーをしたよ。でもあの国に誇るものなんてなにひとつないね。非人道的で、みんなバカやってる。まともに人々は食べることもできなくて、自由もない。語るべき魂なんてあの国にはないよ。虚しいね。

chgfchen:
ゲームを見た後、僕はすごい感動した。とても感動したよ。(北朝鮮の選手は)みんな体調万全じゃなさそうだったし、心が痛かった。彼らはNikeでもAdidasでもないウェアを着てたんだぜ。彼らはほかの代表選手みたいに裕福な環境でサッカーしてないんだよ。でも彼らは決して綻びることのない魂を持っていたわけだ!北朝鮮を誇りに思うよ!ピッチの上での彼らの魂は本当に私を感動させてくれた!北朝鮮は世界に、そして彼らを見下していた人たちに十分訴えることができただろう。自分たちは敬意を払われる価値があるってことを!



<English, original article>
Zheng Dashi’s face covered in tears has made us think/remember very much, very much.

Beijing time June 16 early morning, 2010 South Africa World Cup Group G first round second match, world champions Brazil against new Asian powerhouse North Korea, the first time these two teams have met on the World Cup pitch. The ultimate winner was the powerful Brazil team, the 2:1 score not surprising anyone. However, what shocked hundreds of millions of football [soccer] fans was not necessarily this match’s result, but rather North Korean team member Zheng Dashi’s face covered in tears. Before the match, during the two sides’ flag-raising and national anthem singing, Zheng Dashi [Jong Tae-Se, Jeong Dae-Se, Chong Tese], known by North Korea as “The People’s Rooney” was so moved that his face was covered in tears, crying so hard he could not sing. This rare scene, truly made us think of so much, so much, and perhaps Zheng Dashi has also become the person who has cried the hardest during the flag-raising and national anthem singing throughout the World Cup’s 70 years of history. This stirring image will forever be etched on the World Cup.

nh5:
Chinese players only have greed and money in their eyes!They simply cannot compare to that football team [North Korea] that must wear their uniforms N times [because they cannot afford new ones]! [Jong Tae-Se's] tears reflect China’s football team’s essence: Garbage!!!

a510036100:
Dammit, I cried too, proud North Koreans!

jiaxinggao:
Ah! Proud? Proud of what? The Great Leader? Ideology? Military-first politics? Empty belly revolution, preparing to liberate the whole world? I don’t understand! None of us understand! Only this kind of deformed world can produce this kind of deformed people.

不明真相的包子君:
Jong Tae-Se has shown a faith/conviction that I have not seen in a long time.He actually had a choice, because he has nationality of a country richer than North Korea but he chooses to serve the motherland in his heart, even with North Korea having in such a sorry state, with no one respecting their team.We can not understand him, but we must respect him.

lutai321:
North Korea’s is unlucky…in the same group as Brazil and Portugal…such a tragedy…While Korea and Japan’s group is relatively easy..sigh…

幽深小径abc:
North Korea plays good football, but there is nothing for them to be proud of, an inhuman country. All of the people made fools, unable to even eat enough, no freedom, so what spirit is there to talk of? So sad.

chgfchen:
After watching this match, I was very moved, truly very moved. Each of them looking like they were malnourished, I was very pained. Their clothes were neither Adidas nor Nike. They also aren’t rich like our national team, but they had an unwavering spirit! Proud for North Korea! The spirit they had on the pitch deeply, deeply moved me. North Korea has already sufficiently told the world, told those people who look down upon them — We are worthy of respect!

"I want to protect people from suicide by Love++. I put the system in it." Uchida producer says.

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Uchida Producer: There is a SOS button

Interviwer: Really? Is she cheering us up?

Uchida P: Yes. There are two ways. First one is light consolation. She will cheer you up casually anytime. Second one is for serious & disastrous situation for you. You can push this button only once. We put a lot of work in it.

Interviewer: In what kind of situation should we use this emergency SOS mode?

Uchida P: I think it's when you are too tired and depressed and feel unnerved. Everybody would experience that, wouldn't them?

Interviewer: Yes, I would. It's actually nightmare when I couldn't finish my draft.

Uchida P: I created the SOS mode for that kind of situation, like "911 for mind". As a matter of fact, when I heard her voice in SOS mode, it made me so crazy.

Interviewer: Maybe it will really save people's life. We should use the button in our daily life.

Uchida P: Yeah, the more you hear, the more you get the feeling of being loved like "I am really needed by her". Off course it's a just digital data. But you may think it doesn't matter anymore. Some people joke saying "Love+ would spur the problem of declining birth rate" or "Japan gonna die", that kind of things. But I think first of all the real problem is the people who get seriously tired of their lives. That's a really serious trouble in Japan.

Interviewer: Exactly, the statistics of the number of suicide in this nation always make me depressed.

Uchida P: I would like to ease that problem as much as possible by Love++. I don't seriously think it will contribute to our society so much but at least I hope people would get comfortable in any level for Love++


Reaction of 2channelers are following:
Basically negative opinions account for majority.

Positive

Ok then, I gonna live a little bit more.

maybe I will buy it.


Negative

If my life got saved by the game, the fact would drive me to die.

Who on earth is gonna be saved by the game!?

Love+ is now evolving into kind of religion.

How does Love+ ease the suicide problem?

Is he serious?

If parents get to know their grown-up child are engaged in Love+, they're gonna suicide.


<日本語 原文>


内田氏:とっておきの“SOSボタン”というのがあります。

4Gamer:えっ,慰めてくれるんですか? 彼女が?

内田氏:ええ,常にカジュアルに慰めてくれるモードと、一回だけ,「どうしてもダメだ」「もうダメかもしれない」というときに押してほしいSOSボタンの二つの形で。この部分については,とくに念入りに収録をしました。

4Gamer:どんなときにSOSを使えばいいんでしょう?

内田氏:もう本当に心が疲れ切ってしまって,不安になってしまうことって誰にでもありますよね。

4Gamer:ええ,原稿が終わらないときの夜は悲惨です。

内田氏:そんなときのための“心の110番”じゃないですが,そういう気持ちで作りました。実際,完成したSOSの音声を聞いたときは,ヤバかったですね……。

4Gamer:それはガチで人命救えそうですねぇ……。滅多なことじゃ押せません。

内田氏:ええ。聞けば愛されている実感を得られると思いますよ。自分は必要とされているんだなと。結局デジタルデータではあるんですが,もうそんなことは関係ないんじゃないかとすら思えるかもしれません。ラブプラスが少子化に繋がるとか,日本が滅びるとか,冗談めいた話もありますが……それ以前に心が疲れ切ってしまっている人の数のほうが,シャレにならないことになっていると思うんですよ。

4Gamer:ええ。自殺者数の統計を見ると,やるせない気持ちになります。

内田氏:そういうものを,少しでもラブプラス+で食い止めたいですよね。社会貢献みたいに大げさな話じゃないですけど,苦しんでる人がラブプラス+のおかげで少しでも楽になってくれたら……という思いは持っています。



Cited by http://blog.livedoor.jp/insidears/archives/52331633.html

New emerging RPG "Atelier Totori" is threatening developed Final Fantasy series!!

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New emerging RPG "トトリのアトリエ(Atelier Totori)" is now treated like developed & well-known RPG Final Fantasy series in Akihabara district. Pictures above are the promotion of Totori. Actually on the big BBS, Japanese netizens often get crazy when they're talking about it.

There off course would be a lot of reasons for the popularity. But the most convincing one is the characters staring in the game. You have to admit that they are so cute, which spurs the enthusiasm of people. As a matter of fact, some of them don't regard it as RPG, rather Bisyozyo-style game. well, understandable enough.


<日本語 ver>
新興のRPGゲーム「トトリのアトリエ」が今、秋葉原でFFシリーズ並みの扱いを受けている。上の写真はトトリのポロモーションだ。掲示板ではこのゲームの話が出るたびに、多くのネット住民のテンションがうなぎ上りとなる。

人気の理由は勿論数多くあるだろうが、その中で最も説得力があるものは出演しているキャラクターである。かわいいと認めざるを得ない。このかわいさが住民のテンションに拍車をかけている。実際、このゲームをRPGというよりはギャルゲーとみなしている人もいるようだ。まぁ、理解できなくもない。


Referring to Home page of トトリのアトリエ

New Vocaloid finally descended...? Amazing fake!!

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Referring to http://crvipton.com/ (Official Homepage)

She Keion Tei finally descended on this world!Anyway, just check her out first. You can hear the songs above made by the brand-new vocaloid.

Maybe you think that it's cool.

However, to be surprised, this is just a fake created by 2channelers.
In reality, this vocaloid doen't exist. How hard-working joke it is...
To be honest, I got deceived first.

Innovative Japanese tweets search engine made by NTT now on available!!

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Posted by FuangPing
cited by http://internet.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/news/20100615_374491.html

On 15th this month, NTT communications l Inc. unveiled an internet site “ツイちぇき!(Twichk!)” which shows topics attracting people’s attention on Twitter. The system is analyzing tweets every one minute so that you can see the real-time hot topic.

Latest hot 30 topics are supposed to be shown on “Twichk!” and if you click the every word, you are led to see the related tweets. Also daily-common words like “morning” or “I” are excluded in analyzing process so as to show the truly hot topic everyone wants to know.

The analyzing Japanese engine developed by NTT cyberspace institution is reportedly used for searching the tweets in the innovative site. The engine extracts masses of word’s meanings from the numerous and various tweets made by individuals.

You can see not only present attractive topics but also, dating back to up to one month ago, topic of the past.

Check out "Twichk!!"  http://tweet.ocn.ne.jp/


<原文 日本語>

NTTコミュニケーションズ株式会社(NTT Com)は15日、Twitter上で注目されている話題を表示するサイト「ツイちぇき!」を公開した。ツイート(つぶやき)を1分ごとに解析しているため、「今この瞬間」に盛り上がっている話題がわかるという。

「ツイちぇき!」では、最新の注目ワード30件を表示し、それをクリックすることで関連するツイートを一覧表示する。なお、「朝」「私」といった恒常的につぶやかれる一般名詞は解析対象から外しており、話題やトピックになりやすいワードが表示される。

ツイートの解析には、NTTサイバースペース研究所が開発した日本語解析エンジンを用いており、個人が発信する多様なツイートから話題を表す意味のまとまりを抽出しているという。

現在の話題だけでなく、過去1カ月まで、日時を指定してその時に盛り上がっていた話題を確認することが可能だ。

"Committee for protecting ugly women" censured on internet

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Originally, no mosaic for this video. This is edited for privacy.

Posted & Translated by Fuangping
Cited by http://npn.co.jp/article/detail/04048824/

An uploaded video, “committee for protecting ugly women” is now seriously criticized on the internet. The problematic video says at first that “today, ugly women are now on the blink of extinction in Japan… As the very first step for protecting ugly women, we decided to create a picture book which depicts many ugly women. This is movie series which record the activity of us creating the book from beginning to the end.” In the video, they speak to women “I would like to make a picture book for ugly women” at what looks like JR Tachikawa station. Besides they persistently chase the bewildered women they spoke to, with video camera in their hands.

On the internet, the film makers are alleged to be two college students in Tokyo. On famous online bulletin board, there are many comments censuring them. “too harsh”, “went too far”, “boring” or “not even funny”.


<原文 日本語>
“ドブスを守る会”という動画が、ネット上で大騒動になっている。動画ではまず最初に、「今日の日本においては、ドブスが絶滅の危機に瀕している。(中略)ドブスを守る為の活動の第一歩として、わが国から消えゆくドブスの姿を収めた写真集を作り始めた。これは写真集完成までの道程を記録した映像シリーズである」とのテロップで趣旨が説明。立川などの駅前と思われる場所で、女性に声をかけ、“ドブスの姿を収めた写真集を作りたい”との趣旨を説明、さらにいやがる女性をカメラを片手に執拗に追い回す行動が収められている。

 一部ネット上では、これらの作成者はおもに2名で、都内の大学生だとの情報が流れている。大手掲示板などでは「やりすぎだ」「全然、つまらない」「エンターテイメントにもなってない」などの批判的な書き込みが多数された。

"Witch of the holy night" the latest title of Type-Moon coming soon!!

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Written by Fuangping
Reference to Type-Moon home page

The latest title of Type-Moon “魔法使いの夜 (Witch of the holy night)” is decided to ship 30th Sept 2010 finally! The news is making many Type-Moon fans excited because it’s totally earlier than what they expected. And the preface of the game is following (translated by fuangping, either).

In the mansion on the hill, two witches live
It’s a kind of fairly tale in late 1980’s, the time in which new ages are looming.
A rookie witch, a young aristocratic witch and a very ordinary country guy who looks like having nothing to do with such a mystic stuff live together in the mansion. This story is about such a bit weird and interesting life of them.
Cited by the home page of Type-Moon

Seems like exciting!
Actually, it has been almost five years after the very well-known Type-Moon game title “fate/stay night” which even now still has a lot of fans shipped. In this kind of situation, you can imagine very easily that this news is welcomed frantically.

However, with the happy news, some ominous facts are revealed either.
They are following:

・High price! 8,000 yen!
・No age restricted = No sex scene
・No voice
・No option, no alternative = only one story
・15 hours to finish = 1/4 volume of “fate/stay night”

These points shed a chill on enthusiasm of people.
Anyway, however, one thing is for sure. The game must be intriguing. After all, the scenario of the game is written by Nasukinoko, who created some fantastic story. Although whether “witch of the holy night” can be like “fate/stay night” is so questionable, the game without doubt will provide us with something hot.

Marriage with low-ranked guys can be happier than the one with rich guys?

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Posted & Translated by Fuangping
Cited by infoseek news

Recently in Japan, “Konkatsu (seeking marriage activity)” prevails among those middle aged. While the Konkatsu itself still flourishs vigorously, what participants have in mind seems like changing gradually, especially among women.

Against what seems like traditional notion, the number of women who seek and choose guys earning less money than theirs as their life-partner has been increasing; what is called “Kakushita-Kon (marriage with lower-ranked guy)”

The main reasons are following:
“It makes me feel easy.”
“Compared to single life, it will be richer after all.”
“Holding the bigger power (economically) than man mekes me feel stress-free.”

The book “Kakushita-Kon no susume (the recommendation of marriage with lower-ranked guy)” exemplifies how good the Kakushita-Kon is, showing a lot of successful cases. Also how to troubleshoot the marriage, how to meet with such a guy and how to make the marriage happy are written in the book.



<原文 日本語>
「婚活」が盛んだが、パーティーなどのイベントに参加する男女の思いは、かつてと比べて少々違ってきているらしい。意外にも、女性の場合は「(男性のほうが収入が少ない)格下婚」の相手を求めているケースが増えており、その背景には「面倒くさくない」「独身時代より生活はラク」「自分が(経済的な)権力者であることによるストレス・フリー」などがあるようだ。

同書の中で、著者の水次さんは「格下婚」で幸せをつかんだ例を多数挙げるとともに、
「格下婚」のトラブルシューティングや「格下クン」との出会い方、「格下婚」を成功に導く
秘けつなども詳説している。