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Fan parody of Ghostbusters set in Tokyo is totally “crossing the streams”【Video】
KK Miller
Genre streams that is! There isn’t an ’80s movie that is more perfectly matched for an anime makeover than Ghostbusters. The story is flawless, the ghosts would feel right at home, plus all the crazy special effects could be easily accomplished through animation. The fact that they were able to do all of that in a live-action movie is part of what makes it such a classic.

This parody simply nails the movie, but you don’t have to take our word for it, you can see for yourself after the jump.

The YouTube channel Nacho Punch is no stranger to 1980s-style anime parodies, but this one feels just right. Set in Tokyo and drawn in a style of animation perfect for the era in which the movie and original animated series were born, the Tokyo Ghostbusters really shine in their one-minute debut.

STATS

300
Number of rail passengers stranded for eight hours last month when a blizzard knocked out power on the Senzan line in Yamagata


¥4.51 million
Amount of the winning bid at the year’s first tuna auction at Tsukiji market


¥155.4
Amount of the winning bid in January 2013

WELL, LOOKY HERE

Construction workers in Shizuoka uncovered the remains of an Imperial Japanese Navy laboratory dating to the closing days of World War II.

The lab had been set up to develop last-ditch defensive weapons, including a device that would use radio waves to shoot down bombs dropped by U.S. warplanes.

Meanwhile, a team of munitions experts traveled to Hubei Province in central China to dispose of 121 shells containing chemical agents left behind by the Japanese military in WWII.

Headline of the Week: “Chaos at Tokyo Station Forces JR East to Print More Centennial Suica Cards” (via The Japan News)

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Kobe quake victims face ultimatum to leave public housing this year

JIJI
Residents of public housing built in the wake of the 1995 Great Hanshin Earthquake will soon be forced to move out as the 20-year deadline arrives this year.

Many residents who lost their homes were unaware of the deadlines until a few years ago. Divisions are widening between aging residents who want to stay and the municipalities who are demanding their departure.

Even now, more than 4,000 households are still living in housing the Hyogo Prefectural Government and authorities of five disaster-hit cities in the prefecture rent units mainly from the Urban Renaissance Agency, also known as UR.