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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“Stupid article. Who cares what the Japanese think it's cool. You don't call a monkey, "gorilla".”
“You know, this is about the most cogent explanation of how a turbocharger works that I have ever seen in the non-motorsports world.”
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Our writer dreams of playing video games with his newfound love in his apartment, but first he has to find it under all the garbage.
New project makes the popular chain the first of its kind to utilize 100 percent of the fish they acquire.
A celebration where it isn’t really clear if the guests love or hate the couple getting married.
At Lawson convenience stores, they’ll hand you your coffee, and you’re gonna like it, dammit.
If this tactic fails, drivers may even consider letting people cross the white line while the bus is in motion.
Finally, a real-world Pokémon adventure where you don’t have to worry about getting hit by a car.
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Japanese ramen restaurants under pressure from new yen banknotes
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Disney princesses get official manga makeovers for Manga Princess Cafe opening in Tokyo
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Ghibli founders Toshio Suzuki and Hayao Miyazaki contribute to Japanese whisky Totoro label design
Doraemon found buried at sea as scene from 1993 anime becomes real life【Photos】
Tokyo’s most famous Starbucks is closed
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