Shonen Sunday's Terrifying Future Series: Computers (1969)

Computers read our brain waves! Humans under constant observation! Computer mainframes record the thoughts of every human on the planet! Hopeless cries for the destruction of machines echo throughout the city!

Computers synthesize human beings! Natural reproduction outlawed! After computers take over, human life becomes redundant! Only a small number of computer technicians are spared! Their replacements manufactured by machines!

Computers plot humanity's end! Mankind decreed to be unnecessary! Computers produce high-performance rockets which spread deadly gas across the land!

After humanity is wiped out, computers create new, hyper-intelligent race of super-beings!

Design Festa Vol. 30: Scumy Selections

There was so much going on at this year's Design Festa I don't know where to begin! We already mentioned the putrid princesses fashion show in our previous post, but there's no way you could cover the 2700 booths of artists and artisans over the two day weekend, much less the one Sunday we were there.

Still, we had our Awesome Stuff radar to help us sort through the chaff and bring you the best of Design Festa! Here are a few highlights, but make sure to check out the album for more, plus artist information and links to their homepages.













Warning: Album contains some NSFW images of creepy dolls.

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Design Festa Vol. 30

Super Festival 50 Report Part 2: Ultraman Exhibit

Two weeks after the event and I'm only part 2... Let's hope this post can make up for lost time! There's no sense in wasting any more of your precious moments when the pics can do all the talking for me. You'll have to forgive them though, I was being trampled by a herd of silver-aged otaku competing for shots when I took them.

Ultraman Q&A/Retrospective Exhibit

Susumu Kurobe, Hiroko Sakurai and Satoshi Furuya

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Ultraman at Super Fest 50

Ochanoko Hakase: 8 Millimeters of Terror!

4 more retro bone-chillers from Ochanoko Hakase, the madman who brought us The Day the Monster Came!


Crazy Under Road
*Note: The title is a play on the bosozoku classic Crazy Thunder Road



Peeping Eyes



The Devil's Crossing
*Note: On the topic of J.ghosts, check back tomorrow for Dr. Senbei's reviews of the new Juon movies


Elevator Man
*Note: The two men push 4 and 13. In Japanese 4 is pronounced "shi"and is a homonym for death, making it the equivalent of 13 in the West. Back in the day it wasn't uncommon for buildings to be made without a fourth floor!