Master Blaster
Writer / Translator
Master Blaster is the two-man translating team of Canada’s Steven Le Blanc and Japan’s Masami M, a pair who in addition to writing work are in English education and created the StudyNow app for Japanese students of English.
Together they have written somewhere around 1,500 articles for RocketNews24 covering such diverse topics as Chinese men selling sanitary napkins to each other and a Japanese guy dragging an ear of corn around the Tokyo train system. A few of these were actually good, but don’t take our word for it! Here’s what our beloved readers had to say:
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The long-running duo are hoping to harness the power of the Information Age to solve a decades-old mystery.
Swing by this lovely town and enjoy “five times bonus points” as promised by one of their signs.
Once again, our pseudo-interviewer Seiji harnesses the rising force of a guitar god to confront the premier party-rocker.
From this day forward, all math professors should be called “fantasistas of number theory.”
The slide from pinnacle of children’s entertainment to threat of obscurity continues for Jibanyan and crew.
These not-so-little piggies went “wee, wee, wee” all the way on a bloody path of destruction.
Go ahead and laugh, because the former midfielder will have the last laugh all the way to the bank… his big bank of poo.
City Hall refuses to go up in smoke any more.
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