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Casey Baseel
Born and raised in Los Angeles, Casey Baseel spent his formative years staring in frustration at un-subtitled Japanese TV programming shown on Southern California’s international channel. Taking matters into his own hands, he moved to Tokyo to study the language, then found work in Yokohama a decade ago teaching, translating, and marketing hotels he can’t afford to stay in. When not participating in the eternal cycle of exercising to burn the calories form his love of Japanese food, Casey scours used comic and game shops for forgotten classics, drags his wife around the country in a quest to visit all its castles, sings karaoke not nearly as well as he thinks he does, and counts the days until the summertime bars open on Enoshima Beach.
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We fly down to Yufuin Floral Village to try the Ghibli-inspired bakery’s goods for ourselves.
Dialogue, including “Master, would it be all right if I put you into my mouth?”, is just as sultry as the visuals.
When thinking of sushi, most people also think of the sea, but the signature item at this restaurant is a mountain-like bowl of delicious tuna.
In Japan, rice balls can be flavored with almost anything, so we decided to make some from the most exclusive seasoning of all: salt made from Mr. Sato’s sweat!
At some point, maybe you just have to ask “What’s the point of showing this on TV?”
Pom Pom Purin celebrating 20th birthday in grand style in Shinjuku Station, adorable butthole and all…
Really, did you think we were going to go to the trouble of making an adorable bear suit and not show it off at our local coffeehouse?
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