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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Twitter user’s fun experiment in style grabs the attention of the actual celebrity photoshopped into the image above.
That adorable otter just took one too many blows to the head for the liking of city residents and officials.
The following article takes place between 3:00 p.m. and 4:00 p.m. Events occur in real time.
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