March 03, 2005

News Flash

Snow!

I'm watching the News at Noon on TV Japan and they're reporting all these figures of people injured because of slipping and falling in the surprise snowstorm, while showing footage of hapless pedestrians and close-ups of trampled slush. The report goes on to cover transportation disruptions and they cut to the airport to show footage of iced up planes.

Pokemon airplanes.

I kid you not. ANA has 747s tarted up with a Pokemon theme. Here's a report from someone who rode in one. Looking at the dates on his report, I can see that I'm way behind the curve on this one, but it's news to me. TV Japan shows parked airplanes all the time, I don't understand why I haven't caught the Pokemon ones before.

127 words | March 3, 2005 10:28 PM | Real true story
Comments

That's the latest version of ANA's Pokéanes. The first was a big yellow 747 with Pikachu on it. This one has a lot of the new "Advanced Generation" characters.

Since I teach preschool I have to keep up with stuff like this. Watching anime now constitutes "research." ^.^

Posted by: Drew at March 4, 2005 06:33 PM

I was trying to remember if you'd ever posted a picture of one. It occurred to me today that maybe you had, but you don't have a search function so I couldn't check.

Posted by: Nee-chama at March 4, 2005 08:29 PM