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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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Anyone planning to visit Japan in the summer better know which noxious lavatories to avoid.
With this neat little trick you can watch all the filth and depravity you want, even in public!
The boys learn a valuable lesson in pranking after importing two tablespoons of loose coarse fibers from South America for US$30.
Mazilu Beef Noodles of the respected Lanzhou Lamian family lands in the fierce noodle battleground of Tokyo.
Many are calling this a “high-performance” product even though it’s apparently terrible at drying dishes.
These delectable little snacks will boldly go where no persimmon-seed-shaped cracker has gone before.
If an interplanetary warlord can’t land a job in this economy what hopes do the rest of us have?
Join us as we attempt to unravel the cultural enigma of the chicken-eel that goes “Mooooooo!!”
While the “Kanno Mille-Fueille Set” may sound dainty, this mountain of meat from Tonkatsu is a Drink is anything but.
After using his martial art skills to survive a bear attack, Hiroto Miyagawa’s real nightmare has just begun.
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