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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Posted by Master Blaster (Page 61)
The family that steals together stays together…until they have to go to separate men’s and women’s prisons of course.
In case you’re wondering why your kids are doing something like the “Thriller” dance all of a sudden.
Yes, but they can’t drink there…but not because it’s a rule. It’s just… Ahhh, just see for yourself.
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