Yesterday, an online paper called World Hum published an article called ‘How To Stay At A Love Hotel in Japan‘ in which they looked at the unique service’s popularity phenomenon and offered valuable tips on how to use the facility properly. (I’m aware of how creepy ‘use the facility’ sounds but it’s hard to word this!) Today I’m going to evaluate the article and perhaps offer a few tips for those still unsure. I mean, how can that possibly be creepy?

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So the BBC decided to interview two British teenagers about their hobby of dressing up in ‘Manba‘ style. Needless to say the videos are hilarious and well worth watching. I guess everyone needs a hobby. Anyway, I took it upon myself to remix the comments in the videos and the videos themselves to create an audiovisual extravaganza. I’ve also included a link to allow you to leave your own commentary on the video, if you don’t just end your life upon hearing my awful, awful music…

The Video – Prepare yourself.

The Video & Subtitle Editor – Go here to embed your thoughts into my video! (Requires a free Youtube account)

The Manba MP3 – If for some bizarre reason you want to listen to the song again (and if you do, seek medical help), you can download it.

So yeah, enjoy it. If ‘enjoy’ is really the word for it…

I get quite a few emails from people who are considering going on the Project Trust Tokyo project, and up to now I’ve relied on just emailing them back or referring them to the PT site or web forum, which is a great resource. However my time to reply to emails is becoming more and more scarce, so I thought I should write a quick FAQ I can refer people to. If I’ve referred you here, have a read and if there are still questions you want to ask, get in contact.

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