Japablum Recommends: Paprika

You know how drugs are sometimes too scarce or expensive or unprescripted? And how your dealer is completely unreliable and sometimes doesn't return your calls for hours?! We've got the solution. Get yourself down to the local cinemaplex and see the new Satoshi Kon movie "Paprika." It will make your brain hurt so good. The complicated plotline may elude you in parts (or totally!), but it's a feast for the bloodshot eyes, and features the most wonderfully demonic gigantic porcelain doll we've ever seen.

Today's Display of Anime: Girl With Mouth That Overtakes Her Chin

We must be honest. This picture makes Japalbum's head hurt. It really does. It's not the gigantic eyes, the negligible nose, or the overall jack-o-lantern quality of the presentation. Naturally, it's the crazy long mouth. Is that a football stuck to her face or is she just happy/terrified to see us? (Or both?) Why does it need to be so large? What is it trying to convey? Is it planning an invasion of her whole head? We're confused by it.

Japablum Recommends: Mr. at Lehmann Maupin Gallery, NYC

We do realize that, sadly, most of our readers are in prison, but repeat offenders need plans for the weekend, too! And who doesn't want to see giant three-dimensional manga figures with pools for eyes staring excitedly at them? Moreover and in addition, who doesn't want to see manga paintings of adolescents in varying states of undress? In conclusion, who among us doesn't have a Lolita complex? (We don't, but you probably do!)

The Japanese artist known simply as "Mr." has an exhibit currently on at the Lehmann Maupin gallery in Chelsea, NYC, and there are enough smiley youngsters with smooth, supple skin on display to give you an ice cream headache.

Bring all your friends who haven't left the house since Comicon!

Today's Display of Anime: Blond with Tool

If there's one thing Japablum knows, it's that cartoon characters are hot. It is perfectly understandable that some people totally want to sex them up. The above photo is, of course, no exception. Is there anything--anything at all--hotter than a buxom babe enthusiastically holding a wrench in her hand with a come hither look and eyes the size of toaster ovens? We think not. Unless it's this. Or this. Or maybe this. Or this. Or this.

But we should never forget that cartoons aren't just for adults. They can also be shown to children sometimes as educational tools to make them smarter, or even simply just to entertain them and keep them from humping the furniture (or whatever it is that kids do these days!).