Weekly Briefs
~ A 30 second trailer for the Gintama: Shinyaku Benizakura-Hen (Gintama: Benizakura Arc — A New Retelling) is out! [AnimeNation]
~ If you ever wanted to know what Japanese wives think of their husbands, maybe you don’t… Just take a look at these google search results on husbands. [thebanzaieffect]
~ A Chinese farmer in Chengdu used blood plasma taken from the hospital to irrigate his crops. I don’t know about you, but I won’t be eating any Chinese imported veggies for awhile. [Shanghaiist]
~ The Japanese are always good at inventing, sometimes groundbreaking stuff, sometimes seemingly useless stuff, but good at inventing they are. I’ll let you decide which category a bra that lets you play golf on it belongs to. [JapanProbe]
~ Forbes just released a list of The World’s Most Powerful People. There’s certainly a few notable Asians on there, including Hu Jintao who comes in 2nd under Obama. [Forbes]
~ For those that love fairy tales and are filthy rich, then you might be interested in pure gold Snow White and 7 Dwarfs figurine worth 30 million yen worth. [AkihabaraNews]
~ While on the subject of figurines, you can acquire yourself a Metal Gear Rex Figurine that’s not as expensive as the Snow White one sometime next year when toymakers, threeA releases them. [Kotaku]
That’s the week in Asia!
Picture courtesy of Joysuke (crazy wind)