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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Many in Osaka have learned that there’s nothing like having the planet attack your home to remind you about the importance of togetherness.
A controversial eating choice that has brought Lil Baby into the minds of Japanese people.
Nintendo’s popular pocket monsters take us on a whirlwind tour of what Osaka is capable of.
Bereaved child needs our help to catch a glimpse of one of their father’s fondest memories.
Which do you think costs more, the most expensive taco in the world or the entire video and musical anthology of magical girl anime franchise Pretty Cure?
Not one to face the music, this lecherous teacher concocted a daringly stupid plan to save himself.
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[Deleted] Article written for April Fool’s Day 2018
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