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Is Ash no longer 10 years old?! Serena kisses Ash in latest Pokémon episode 【Video】

The kiss heard around the world! …or around Kalos, anyway.

There are two questions that have plagued Pokémon fans since the dawn of the anime: why is Ash eternally 10 years old, and why has he never shown the least bit of interest in any of his female traveling companions?

The first question about Ash’s eternal youth is fairly easy to explain away. Sure, there are crazy theories about time-loops and such, but the honest answer is that the Pokémon anime is targeted at the elementary/middle school audience, so having Ash grow up into a thirty-something with a mortgage and desk job is just not going to appeal to them.

But the second question about Ash’s romantic reluctance is a bit stranger. There are kids’ shows with hints of romance and crushes, but nothing in Pokémon’s history has even come close to that. Of course, theories abound: Ash never had a father-figure to teach him how to interact with woman, not being interested in the opposite sex is a side effect of being an eternal 10 year old…

▼ …or maybe there’s another reason.

But it seems like a recent episode of Pokémon XY is putting an end to both of those questions with one scene that has had the internet fanning itself to stop from getting the vapors: Serena kissing Ash.

Yup, you heard right. Watch the short scene here with English subtitles:

For fans of the series, this is huge news. This isn’t just a blushing giggle or a squeak of “I like you,” this is an all-out kiss… which we have to say is something that most 10 years olds don’t usually do. Sure they don’t actually show the kiss itself, but for a series that has had as much romance as a doorknob for 20 years, the music and blushing alone is positively scandalous.

Is this a sign of a changing tone in the series, or was it just a one-off piece of fan service? Only time will tell, but we’ll be keeping a close eye on the upcoming episodes of Pokémon Sun and Moon.

In the meantime, the kiss scene has set off a frenzy of approval from Japanese netizens online. Here’s just a few reactions:

“OH MY GOD FINALLY!”
“I’ve been waiting 20 years for this….”
“Maybe it’s just me but Ash’s reaction is like ‘enh, whatever.'”
“Clemont and Bonnie’s reactions are priceless.”
“Man, Serena must’ve really wanted that kiss to run back up the escalator!”

Just for fun, Japanese Twitter user @tanakakouta731 reenacted the kiss scene to see just how hard it would be to run back up the escalator given the timings in the episode. You can see it here (reenactment starts at 0:30):

Geez, he really had to hustle to get back up in time! That’s the power of love in action. Or, maybe, Serena is just has superhumanly-strong legs like Ash has horrifyingly-strong arms.

Source: Twitter/@tanakakouta731 via My Game News Flash
Featured image: Twitter/@tanakakouta731



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Foreigner accused of shoplifting tea in Japan, label to blame 【Why Does Engrish Happen in Japan?】

It’s often said that freedom isn’t free. In Japan, Free Tea isn’t either.

As we’ve seen before, you can’t always take Japan’s English signage and labeling at face-value. When Engrish rears its head, the results often end up as a mix of baffling and comical, but Twitter user @domoboku recently witnessed some odd use of the English language touch off a fierce argument inside a Japanese convenience store.

@domoboku, who’s Japanese himself, stepped into the store in the afternoon when a non-Japanese Asian had been openly drinking from a bottle of tea he’d grabbed from the shelf without paying for it. Engaged in a heated verbal disagreement with the store clerk, the Asian man shouted “What did I do that was wrong?”

Curious as to what room there could be for debate in what seemed like a clear-cut case of shoplifting, @domoboku took a look at the exact type of tea the man had been helping himself too, and suddenly understood what had caused the misunderstanding.

Splashed across the bottle’s label in large, English text were the words Free Tea, identifying this as a brand produced and distributed by Japanese beverage company Pokka Sapporo.

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So how did the drink end up with this unorthodox name? Well, its big selling point is that it contains GABA extract. Pokka Sapporo claims that this gives the tea relaxing properties, and bills Free Tea as “The beverage encouraging that people be free from a stress-filled society,” using the Japanese word kaihou (meaning “free/liberate” and written 解放 in kanji characters) in its advertising.

Unfortunately, in English simply tossing the word “free” in front of an inanimate object generally implies not that it’s liberated, but that it’s complimentary. “It’s written right there on the label, so let me have it!” the man insisted. After an explanation that “Free Tea” was simply the brand name, he changed his stance to “Then the store should change the label!”

Of course, as @domoboku points out, the store really isn’t in a position, or even legally allowed, to go changing product labels on items its bought from a distributor. “This tea ended up causing a stressful problem for both a traveler who came all the way to Japan and an honest shopkeeper,” he mused. “How ironic that it’s supposed to be ‘The beverage encouraging that people be free from a stress-filled society.’”

Language barriers and Engrish aside, though, the slot the bottles of Free Tea occupy on the shelf is pretty clearly marked with a price of 130 yen (US$1.26), so the customer might want to pay a little more attention to his surroundings in the future. After all, convenience stores aren’t generally too keen on customers just helping themselves to a refreshing drink without paying, unless maybe said customer is the Dalai Lama.

Source: Jin
Featured image: Twitter/@domoboku
Insert images: Pokka Sapporo



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Japanese town’s mascot character may be a man dressed in women’s clothing, possibly on purpose

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Everyone notices the girlish clothes, but those with a trained eye have also spotted the boyish wings.

Last week, the organizers of the upcoming Tokyo Comic-Con found themselves at the center of a sudden firestorm when it came to light that the event’s official cosplay regulations prohibited men from dressing as female characters. Tokyo Comic-Con has since reversed its stance, which is happy news for the crossplaying contingent of the cosplay community and also, possibly, for Simone-chan, a local mascot character for the town of Shimotsuma in Ibaraki Prefecture.

While Simone-chan has a warm smile and expressive eyes, the character’s most distinguishing visual characteristic is, of course, the pair of butterfly wings. And those aren’t modeled on the wings of just any butterfly, but of the sasakia charonda, Japan’s officially designated national butterfly, for which Shimotsuma is a natural habitat. The sasakia charonda is also known as the Japanese emperor or great purple emperor, and true to its name, the species is known for the violet colorings on its wings, which also appear in Simone-chan’s design.

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But also true to the great purple emperor name, it’s male specimens that have these purple markings. Like many animals that need to maximize their chances for survival, males have bright patterns to help attract mates, while females have a far more camouflaged appearance.

▼ Female great purple emperor

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So, as pointed out by Japanese Twitter user @Re__Mio, despite Simone-chan’s decidedly girlish attire, based on those wings, the character is actually an otoko no ko, or crossdressing male.

For its part, the city of Shimotsuma has declined to officially comment on Simone-chan’s gender, nor has it released any sort of character profile confirming or denying that the character is a man dressed in women’s clothing. While it’s possible that the character’s designers added the purple coloring for purely aesthetic reasons, the fact that Simone itself is a unisex name suggests that they might have intended to make the mascot’s sex ambiguous from the very start.

The newfound notoriety is causing a spike in interest in the character, and Shimotsuma’s Michi no Eki roadside rest stop is standing by with a selection of related merchandise for all of Simone-chan’s new fans.

Shop information
Michi no Eki Shimotsuma / 道の駅しもつま
Address: Ibaraki-ken, Shimotsuma-shi, Kazusu 140
茨城県下妻市数須140
Website

Source: Jin
Top image: Shimotsuma official website
Insert images: Wikipedia/Obsidian Soul



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