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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Purchasing slightly defective cured meats while doing a load of laundry has never been easier!
As if things in Chiba aren’t bad enough, now these people have to put up with nosy parkers letting the cold air out.
And don’t even think of getting married in silence, because you’d be ripping off John Cage.
Our writer Tasuku Egawa risks his pants to determine if “as seen on TV” is “as seen in reality.”
Titles featuring Iron Man, Spider-Man, Dr. Strange, Ant-Man and more can be seen through the Shonen Jump+ app.
In preparation for his music festival debut, our reporter once again summons the spirit of a Swedish guitar hero.
It’s like a haunted house on wheels, except you can’t choose when to ride the ESP Taxi. It chooses you.
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The top 10 annoying foreign tourist behaviors on trains, as chosen by Japanese people【Survey】
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