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Another Open Thread – Hot Japanese Girls!

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I can’t stop watching. It’s like eating marshmallow while bathing in fairy floss inside a sugar house that David Lynch built inside John Waters brain.

h/t Paul Ryan’s Dirty Sockpuppet

ETA: With script by William Gibson. Does anyone know if this girl is even real?

EATA: I offer this for our electronica minded bretheren, to counteract the sugar.

EOATA: Crikey.

h/t Comrade Mary

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  2. 2.

    Yutsano

    It’s like…every single j-pop/anime trope stuffed into one video. And pretty remarkable considering how fat-phobic the Japanese are for females.

  4. 4.

    Brother Shotgun of Sweet Reason

    …fairy floss inside a sugar house that David Lynch built inside John Waters brain.

    Bugger. Now I have to watch it!

    Have I mentioned on this blog how much I love Baltimore culture? Edgar Allan Poe to HL Mencken to John Waters? Hah! Match that, LA and NY!!!

  7. 7.

    WarMunchkin

    Sent this video a while back to my old Japanese lab-mate, who wrote back “This is unexplainable.”

    That’s Kyary Pamyu Pamyu, who has been P.R.-ing herself as the “Lady Gaga of Japan”.

  9. 9.

    Brother Shotgun of Sweet Reason

    @moe99: Really? Thanks, I learned something tonight.

    David Lynch and John Waters can only dream of coming up with a video like that. What the hell did I just see????

  10. 10.

    Derf

    And still no post from General Doom Cole. I guess because this is too cup half full of a development. As soon as the rebels start cutting off peoples heads or whatev’s I am sure he will be on here saying “see, this is what happens when you mess with other countries”.

    I guess he needs Greenwald to start the thought process. Come hell or high water Cole will find a way to make this into a cup half empty moment. Because war is bad….so don’t do it..just because. Signed…..General Cole.

  17. 17.

    Yutsano

    @Southern Beale: Not really. Most of what I could understand was typical J-pop lyrical claptrap. There may be some subtleties in the verbs I’m missing. From the images though it’s normal Japanese hyper-consumerism.

    Did you go up the Needle yet? Or ride a duck?

    @Comrade Kevin: They kinda look like fun. They pass me all the time as I’m heading in to work (I park a block away) so it seems interesting to me.

  18. 18.

    soonergrunt

    we should ask matoko-chan what this is all about. That’s a Japanese character after all.

  20. 20.

    Jon H

    @Southern Beale: “what’s with the large woman in black face?”

    I’m not sure if it’s black face. It’s kinda purplish, and I’m not even sure if there’s any facial features, eyes, mouth, nose, etc.

  35. 35.

    A Humble Lurker

    Hey, it’s the clappy eyeball toast girl! I’ve seen her around in gifs and things.

    And Miku-chan! Yay! That video is actually pretty different from what she’s usually in. More often it’s really cute, sugary stuff. But every once and a while some robotic dystopian future music video gets in there. I just wish she were singing more. (Or at all. I can’t actually tell if she’s singing in that video.)

  36. 36.

    John Weiss

    @Derf: Why are you so down on JC? He seems like a straight-up fellow to me. After all, he loves his doggies.

  53. 53.

    Cliff in NH

    Hopefully I’ll be eating it in the next 12 hours or less..

    Now I must decide whether to cash out and sleep a few hours or brew coffee and hope profits become bigger profits.

    hmmm, cash or coffee?

  57. 57.

    piratedan

    doggone it! Here I was hopin this would devolve into classic anime theme songs and someone has hijacked a thread subtitled Hot Japanese Girls into music video roulette from Eurovision’s past

    so I guess I’ll have see if anyone else ever jonesed to a couple of these hyperactive manic goodies:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJ-bz-y85Qs&feature=related

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=huWKSYUX5Fs&feature=related

    sighs… thank the powers that be for cheesy anime goodness and the Japanese twisted take on our own Pop Culture

  61. 61.

    Arclite

    I might as well post a couple more reasonable Japanese bands.

    Here’s Flow. They’re tight with a hard pop sense. If you like this song, also check out their song Remember.

    The Uluful’s had a huge hit 15 or so years ago with Banzai.
    It’s almost the perfect rock pop song. However, I actually prefer their more humorous songs like Osaka Strut and Dame na Mono wa Dame!

  62. 62.

    Sarah Proud and Tall

    @piratedan:

    Here I was hopin this would devolve into classic anime theme songs and someone has hijacked a thread subtitled Hot Japanese Girls into music video roulette from Eurovision’s past

    Well then hijack it back from them immediately! Bastards.

    ETA: Jesus. Now you’ve got me clicking on related videos. I may be some time.

    EATA: The world is a very strange place full of things I do not understand (and may not wish to understand).

  63. 63.

    Shlemizel - was Alwhite

    @Comrade Kevin:

    I just assume derf is about 12 years old or suffering from some memory disorder that prevents him from being aware of all the groovie outcomes of American military adventurism & how the end results are always so neat, tidy and double plus good.

  64. 64.

    jane from hell

    The first two videos (at the top) share the same rhythm, I’d love to hear them synced up.

  68. 68.

    Jay in Oregon

    Sarah,

    It terrifies me that you found that machine muzik clip on YouTube. Especially since I’ve seen it before…

  70. 70.

    Brother Shotgun of Sweet Reason

    @eemom: No surgery. Maybe you’re thinking of Sister Machine Gun of Quiet Harmony. Us Unitarian Jihadists are everywhere.

  75. 75.

    Anoniminous

    Nothing says “eating marshmallow while bathing in fairy floss inside a sugar house” like a cross-eyed Snuggle Bunny song!

    In Swedish to immerse the viewer in the full Euro-Trash experience.

    (Jag är så kär! = I’m so in love)

  77. 77.

    Paul Ryan's Dirty Sockpuppet

    Thanks Sarah for spreading the glory of PONPONPON. Sure it’s vapid but I liked it. Some days I’m very sorry I never learned much Japanese but there’s a silver lining. It lets me enjoy empty candy-coated pop from time to time without getting distracted by what’s certain to be rather horrid lyrics.

    On a more serious note about Japanese music, School Food Punishment is some of the most brain-pissingly beautiful music I’ve ever heard.

  78. 78.

    Beldar

    Sweet Jeebus, she farted out colorful streamers at the 1:29 mark…

    Yes, I actually ran that part again just to make sure I wasn’t just seeing things.

    This video strikes me as a musical take on Gorgeous Tiny Chicken Machine Show, on crack…

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