Snacking the Japanese Way

Snacks in Japan are serious business. Every month hundreds of new “limited edition” snacks are on the market, some of them variations on old favorites such as Pocky and some of them are new offerings altogether. These snacks are only on the market for a few months or even a few weeks, so there are actually entire magazines devoted to alerting snack maniacs to the latest trends before they’re gone. Shiso Pepsi (along with previous years’ Ice Cucumber Pepsi) is a limited edition summer flavor, destined to be replaced in the fall with something new.

L, change the WorLd

If I were to choose a single word to sum up L: change the WorLd, that word would would be ‘fanfic.’

Let me start off by saying that when I went to the other two Death Note movies, I felt like I was in every possible minority in the theatre: I wasn’t fifteen and dressed in the latest goods from Hot Topic, I wasn’t (completely) socially inept and fumbling through my Magic trading cards, and most noticeably I was not muttering or cursing at the screen in disappointment/annoyance. This is because I understood that quite a bit of change was going to be necessary to translate the manga into a live-action movie, and that overdubbing was going to be the devil. Tonight, on the other hand, was unexpected.