Finally, some good news. Netflix #Japan’s yankii dating show Badly in Love returns on Aug. 4. Season 2 moves to a marine academy setting in Okinawa where 9 former delinquents look for romance, redemption, and ratings. MEGUMI and Nagano return as MCs.

When will things get back to normal

have you ever been this happy about anything

Kaiju Booska also popped up

Happy Ultraman Day!

The Human Vapor made a special apperance in Shinjuku Kabukicho to promote his new #Netflix series

Look who showed up at the opening party for the new ULTRA MART TOKYO store in #Harajuku

Mood

Bonus points for the Sukekiyo Inugami just chillin in the lobby

There's a Kadokawa Film Festival happening now in Yurakucho #Tokyo that's got the hits. Unfortunately, it's all digital 4K prints, so not for me, but the new poster is nice.

Sit on it, Christopher Nolan! Chiikawa: The Secret of Mermaid Island will open in IMAX in #Japan on July 24. Consider yourselves warned!

McDonald’s #Japan is turning Morinaga snacks into summer sweets. Starting July 15, the limited lineup includes a Choco Ball McFlurry with peanut crunch, the return of the McShake Morinaga Ramune (after 6 years), and a hot Morinaga Milk Caramel Pie.

This is like a master class on things you should not ask me to promise

#Japan’s oshi-katsu economy now has cancellation insurance. JCB is selling coverage for fans traveling to concerts/events, reimbursing trip cancellation fees if shows are canceled or postponed, transport is delayed, or sudden illness forces a change. Domestic plans start at ¥900 for a ¥30,000 trip.

Nakano Station in #Tokyo is getting a new shopping center in December 2026. Atre Nakano will link directly to the station’s new ticket gate, with about 70 shops across five floors. Do people really need *this much* Nakano station action?

The Dirt Duelers are still out there

#Japan’s cheap eats are getting less cheap. Sukiya will raise its main beef bowl from ¥450 to ¥480 starting July 8, blaming higher imported beef costs from the weak yen. The chain had only cut the same item from ¥480 to ¥450 last September. (better form a protective circle around my boy Matsuya)

Japan’s weird June weather hit the fashion business hard. With Tokyo seeing eight straight days below 25°C for the first time in 20 years, plus typhoons keeping shoppers home, #Uniqlo #Japan fell 16.1% year-on-year as summer staples like AIRism, and T-shirts struggled.

"I think that Kurt definitely would have loved this (huge sack of loot I'm getting for selling out our music because the price was right)"

A closing movie theater in Yokohama, #Japan is becoming a giant weekly #manga. Before Sotetsu MOVIL shuts down on Sept. 30, its walls will host *Weekly MOVIL: Moby’s Big Adventure*, a serial mural manga updated from July 3 through the building’s final days, then completed at an October art festival

Anyone else setting up a #HumanVapor shrine before watching on #Netflix?

Japan Action Club alumni and actor Hikaru Kurosaki, who played MegaBeast Investigator Juspion, has died, age 64. www.zakzak.co.jp/article/2026...

I seem to have awoken in a strange alternate reality where Picasso is more famous for ramen than painting.

And there it is, the first photo of the Beard Papa's #Godzilla Cream Puff in the wild

Ginza Mighty Guy, you have my interest