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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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.
Time to look back at the fine history of Mega Man… except the Captain N stuff. Let’s all agree to forget about that.
The long-running duo are hoping to harness the power of the Information Age to solve a decades-old mystery.
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