Hits and Misses of 2010
A look at 5 of the best and 5 of the worst performing posts from this site in 2010.
The Hits
10 Weird Japanese Foods
10 Weird Japanese Foods is a top 10 list of Japanese culinary weirdness such as fugu, raw horse meat, aquatic insects, grasshoppers and more. The post was featured in the February Japan Blog Matsuri hosted by Muza-chan and was StumbleUpon’s biggest referral to this site for 2010.
Publicly Sleeping Salarymen
Publicly Sleeping Salarymen is another top list featuring 10 of the best publicly sleeping salarymen photos. Those who made the last train, and those who didn’t. Facebook was the biggest referrer to this page and a big up to angry asian man and The World’s Best Ever for the inbound links.
The Dream of the Fisherman’s Wife
The Dream of the Fisherman’s Wife is an article about the first instance of tentacle eroticism largely attributed to legendary Japanese artist Katsushika Hokusai who created an erotic woodcut called The Dream of the Fisherman’s Wife. Thanks to Kotaku for the ping in What’s Up With The Tentacles?
Top 10 Cosplay Fails
When cosplay goes wrong! The Top 10 Cosplay Fails is a look at anime and manga characters such as Sailor Moon, Pikachu, Doraemon, Hello Kitty and Gundam being poorly portrayed in costume role play. Google was the biggest referrer to this article in 2010.
Top 10 Love Hotel Room Themes
Top 10 Love Hotel Room Themes lists 10 decorated love hotel room themes where you can have your own sexual misadventure by living out your kinky, erotic and naughty fantasies. Love hotels are a short-stay hotel found in Japan and provide privacy for couples looking to engage in discrete intimate liaisons.
The Misses
Matsuri Cash Giveaway Winners Announced
In January 2010 I hosted the Japan Blog Matsuri with the theme Famous Japanese People. This edition introduced a ¥5,000 each (roughly US$50) cash giveaway for the submitters of the two best articles. The post to announce the winners was the least viewed article on the site in 2010.
I Love Oppai
I Love Oppai was a post about a t-shirt available from Don Quixote that allows oppai seijin’s from all over the world to proudly advertise their obsession for breasts. The t-shirt says “I Love Oppai” (‘Oppai’, おっぱい translates as ‘breasts’) and who doesn’t love breasts?
The Hunter
The Hunter is a top list of 10 things for wine lovers to do in The Hunter Valley. The Hunter Valley is one of the oldest and most famous wine regions in Australia, boasting many of the large names in wine, including Lindemans Wine, Tyrell’s Vineyards and Wyndham Estate.
Broken Wear WTF
Broken Wear WTF is a YouTube video called Broken Wear by Red Parka. I am not too sure what else to say about this one except: Broken wear. Nice train. Sendai dash. Rebound. Broken wear. Breakfast, breakfast. Buckets reverse. Fire breath, breath, breast. Smokey jetter, jet, jet. Broken wear.
Tsukimi Burger
Tsukimi Burger was a submission to the November 2010 Japan Blog Matsuri about a limited time menu item released by McDonald’s during Autumn. The Tsukimi Burger contains a poached egg with the yolk representing the moon on an egg white sky, a hamburger patty, bacon and a special teriyaki-like sauce.
For more check out the Hits and Misses of 2009.
I Love Oppai
Red Bull Gives You Wings…
Donut Punchers
I can’t believe that Broken Wear is classed a miss… this was an all-time classic! Bring us more!
I know! Baffling! I don’t understand either.
Who doesn’t love Oppai !?!?!?
I thought this was worthy of its own website, subscription and fan club.
Very true Nunnster. Reminds me of the time I was in a meeting with a foreign insurer who just acquired a local Japanese insurance company. The foreign consultants were trying to explain the standard features and benefits associated with their products that they wanted the Japanese office to adopt. One particular feature, the “Option to Purchase Additional Insurance” more commonly referred by it’s acronym OPAI got quite a laugh from the Japanese Product and Actuarial guys who all predicted record sales if oppai was offered with each insurance policy sold.
As sure as night follows day, Japanese insurance policies which include OPAI would result in Sales Higher With Insurance New Growth or the more commonly used marketing term of SHWING!
Sales force training for the product feature OPAI to achieve SHWING was delivered by the Committee for Life Insurance Training.
With OPAI delivering so much SHWING, the Committee for LIT decided to export the product to Europe.
In France it was warmly received by European Life Limted, and was promptly approved by their Foreign Asset Review Committee Nationale. FARCN-ELL gave OPAI full approval.
Gotta go now. The recess bell just went.
The government of the Northern Territory thought that the feature would be an enticement to take out insurance thereby resolving the problem of under-insurance hence they established the Commission for Under-insured Northern Territorians to provide insight into adopting OPAI in search of SHWING based upon the findings of FARC-NELL with training provided by CLIT.
broken wear = epic
a lot of good hits though in 2010. All the best fr 2011
i know jamaipanese. i don’t understand why broken wear was such a poor performer. wakarimasen!!!