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Master Blaster

Writer / Translator

Master Blaster is the two-man translating team of Canada’s Steven Le Blanc and Japan’s Masami M, a pair who in addition to writing work are in English education and created the StudyNow app for Japanese students of English.

Together they have written somewhere around 1,500 articles for RocketNews24 covering such diverse topics as Chinese men selling sanitary napkins to each other and a Japanese guy dragging an ear of corn around the Tokyo train system. A few of these were actually good, but don’t take our word for it! Here’s what our beloved readers had to say:

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Worst Kung Fu fight ever breaks out on street in China

Master Blaster
Sep 18, 2016
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Fast as lightning, those cats were not.

China
(drunk • kung fu • martial arts • Street Fight)

48 Hours of cats and Roombas to be broadcast on Niconico: Can “Cat Roomba Time” be achieved?

Master Blaster
Sep 17, 2016

Love watching cats play with robotic vacuum cleaners? Then, how about 48 continuous hours of it live?

Internet, Japan
(irobot • Moff Animal World • niconico • Roomba • video)

Mr. Sato does not buy an iPhone7, calls this year’s Docomo release ceremony “f*ing st!”

Master Blaster
Sep 16, 2016

Despite being the first person in Japan to purchase the latest iPhone on more than one occasion, Mr. Sato was shunned by his phone company this time around.

Japan
(Docomo • iPhone • IPhone7 • iPhone7 Plus • Mr. Sato • Pikachu • release)

Cup Noodle Mystery Meat Festival sales suspended due to overwhelming demand

Master Blaster
Sep 16, 2016

Generally mystery meat is something to be avoided, unless you’re talking about Cup Noodle brand mystery meat.

Japan
(business • Cup Noodle • Cup Noodle Mystery Meat Festival • Instant Ramen • mystery meat • Nissin)

We try to resurrect 39 fish and learn a little about life in the process

Master Blaster
Sep 16, 2016

Whenever there’s a slow news day at the office, we do what any journalist would and attempt to toy with the forces of nature.

Japan
(bait • fish • fishing • frozen • hibernation • loach • resurrection)

Doing a load of laundry in an office trash can with the pocket-sized washing machine Nival

Master Blaster
Sep 15, 2016

We finally get a chance to test this portable laundromat and see just how clean it can make your clothes.

Global, Internet
(clothes • laundry • Nival • portable • travel • washable • washing)

Japanese marathoners attacked by swarm of hornets, 115 stung

Master Blaster
Sep 13, 2016

As if a marathons weren’t grueling enough…here come the hornets!

Japan
(Gifu • hornets • marathon • sports • wasps)

Detective Conan asks what kind of criminal you are…through instant curry

Master Blaster
Sep 12, 2016

That wily shrunken PI always gets to the bottom of things, even while licensing his brand to a line of curry.

Japan
(Case Closed • curry • Detective Conan • instant curry • Kaito Kid • Kid the Phantom Theif)

Aragehonji breathes new life into traditional Japanese folk music

Master Blaster
Sep 9, 2016

These days its hard to describe any music as “unique” but Aragehonji certainly fit that bill.

Japan
(Aragehonji • festival • Folk Music • Matsuri)

Sales of Jun Mizutani Curry skyrocket, show why it pays to back your Olympic hopefuls

Master Blaster
Sep 7, 2016

Yes, you, too, might become a double-medalist in the Olympics, but only if you eat your instant curry!

Japan
(2016 Olympics • business • curry • Frieden • Jun Mizutani • ping-pong • table tennis)

Inside the mind of a Japanese manager accused of “power harassment”

Master Blaster
Sep 6, 2016

Power harassment is a relatively newly defined but widespread form of workplace harassment in Japan where people abuse their rank by demeaning their subordinates. But why do people do it?