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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It’s time to stand up and be counted, and help choose the coolest stuff to ever come out of the entire 40-year universe of Gundam.
Kids are spreading the word that a “magic button” on some remotes opens a gateway between the living and the dead.
Three major bookstore chains in Japan stop selling CoroCoro Comic after an image defacing the ancient ruler was published.
Although it includes high praise for Japan, the entire UNICEF survey is a sobering report.
Enlightening clips show just how hard it is to do the simplest things when you’re a mascot.
Mr. Sato finds friendship, cancer, and the Olympics at the bottom of this confusingly arranged business.
In order to confront the intimidating and multi-talented Rena “Non” Nonen, our interviewer summons a god of rock.
Japan’s version of the fast food giant has surpassed an already optimistic forecast and landed in a Big Mac truck load of cash.
Meg decides to get back to basics by using the natural cooling power of snow to create a delicious matcha dessert.
After its crowdfunding target is smashed, writing begins on the story of how Japan stifled its own IT development in the name of combating file-sharing.
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