Some Interesting Sushi

Some days ago I surf the internet to find some information about sushi, my favourite Japanese food. Then I found information about some unique and strange sushi. So, I think I should share some of the story to my friends.

Teddy Bear Sushi

I found these two when I googling up using keywords teddy bear sushi. Well, you can believe that some people are highly creative when it come to product design. Some of my female friends however, think that eating the sushi above, would be some form of cruelty, towards well.... animal shaped sushi.

Cow Shaped Sushi

This one is a cow shaped sushi. I think that's is a cute one. There is a joke, that have something to do with this one, in Indonesian language, that have something to do with the fact that "sushi" is almost homophone with "susu", which is in English means milk. However, I think translating "sushi sapi baik untuk kesehatan tulang" (Indonesia) to "Cow sushi is good for your bone" (English), does little to make English speakers laugh.

Blue Tobiko

I ever see the red, black and green variant of tobiko sushi. The red one is salmon roe, the black one is caviar and the green one is salmon roe dipped in wasabi. But what is this blue tobiko ?

Sushi shaped USB

The last one, as you may ( or may not ) know already, is not a food. This Sushi shaped USBs are of course a form of digital data storage. But that remind me of some story in Doraemon, where Nobita write something on a magic bread and eat it, thus being able to memorize what is wrttien on. I am sure however that such thing are not going to happen if you eat these USBs. :)

Several Sites with OS-tans wallpaper

Below are several sites with OS-tans wallpapers, I found during some internet surfing :

Konachan

Opera OS tan link

Linux Red-Hat tan link

Apple Ipod Mac OS tans link

Mandrake Mandriva link

Windows me OS-tan link

Firefox and Thunderbird link

Windows CE link

Windows XP Nanami-Edition link


Deviant Art

Maguro-chan's Deviant Arts link

Jin Keota's Deviant Arts link

Bridget Death Child's Deviant Arts link

Huesca000's Deviant Arts link


Other sources

Firefox-ko link

Ubuntu-chan link

Moe Anthropomorphism

When I surf the Wikipedia for some information about anime, I stumbled across an otaku term called Moe Anthropomorphism. Basically it is about making an anime character for an inanimate object, as a personification for the inanimate object. One of such example are Wikipe-tan which is one of the maskot for Wikipedia.

Wikipe-tan, an example for Moe Anthropomorphism

Wikipe-tan appear in several Wikipedia entries describing several otaku related fashions, such as :
1. Miko ( Japanese priestess )
2. Sailor fuku ( a kind of Japanese school uniform )
3. Gothic Lolita
4. Nekomimi (Cat's eared girl).

You can find more picture of Wikipe-tan in :

Kasuga's Deviant Art Gallery

Another example of Moe Anthropomorphism is OS-tan, which describe different kind of Computer Operating System as anime characters. The drawings usually symbolize the characteristic of the Operating System itself.

95-san is a Moe Anthropomorphism of Windows95



2k-tan is a Moe Anthropomorphism of Windows2000

You can find more information about OS-tans in several sites, such as :

1. Troubled Windows Flash Animation

2. Encyclopedia of OS-tans

3. Deviant art -> Linux-tans by Juzo-kun

Overview on Websites and Forums featuring Lucky ☆ Star

1.www.windfs.com/forums

This forum have a reasonably complete FAQ about the history of the anime and manga of Lucky ☆ Star, in the link below :

Link to Lucky ☆ Star FAQ

Inside this particular threads in this forum, you can find the data of the main characters of the anime, along with the Japanese vocabularies used in the anime.

Since Lucky ☆ Star is famous for its use of "omake" from different anime, you can also find out where did those "omake" come from, in case you are unfamiliar with the original anime presented in Lucky ☆ Star.

2.Anime News Network

Information about Lucky ☆ Star in this link, is mainly about the Episodes Titles, the seiyuus and the staff of Lucky ☆ Star production. Lucky ☆ Star is unique, as each episode of the anime have different ending song, the website above also list the titles of each ending song sung in the end of each Lucky ☆ Star episodes.

3.Wikipedia

Most internet surfers know about wikipedia, it is practically an open content encyclopedia, which store information about almost anything, and anime is one of them. Most of the anime information you can find in Wikipedia is about characters, storyline and the history of the anime.