Magicbell Brothers

Some friends of mine (Kay Amano and Masayuki Hisa) developed a series of cute videos designed to promote Los Angeles area businesses among Japanese-speaking television viewers. The five videos are called “Magicbell Brothers,” and follow the travails of two space alien hand puppets sent to earth and forced to visit and critique local restaurants and businesses. What could be more natural?

The series is sugoku kawaii (really cute), and has a very typical Japanese feeling. It’s not anime–it’s better!

Each video is filmed in Japanese with English subtitles. To see them all, click over to Magicbell’s corporate web site:

http://magicbell.tv/eng/magicbellBrothers.htm

日本語でもどうぞ。

http://magicbell.tv/jp/magicbellBrothers-J.htm

Scroll to the bottom of the page to view each of the past episodes.

What's Behind Door #2?

Any church started by King Henry VIII is bound to have some humor in it. And the following video by Alpha, a Christian ministry started by Anglican priest Nicky Gumbel, is definitely funny.

The video was designed to show in movie theaters during the previews, and lasts about a minute. Here’s a link to the video on YouTube.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Azbd4zYVJuQ

For information on Alpha, visit alpha.org.