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:

“One isn't always in the mood for bold tastes. But when I'm in the mood for bold flavor I turn to you.”
“Stupid article. Who cares what the Japanese think it's cool. You don't call a monkey, "gorilla".”
“You know, this is about the most cogent explanation of how a turbocharger works that I have ever seen in the non-motorsports world.”
“Thanks for the article peter!”
“It's people like you who make exploitation possible.”
“It looks yummy and the story was great. Thank you for the smile.”

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7-Eleven Japan teams up with two different curry restaurants for one curry dish

Putting two different restaurants’ foods side by side it a really innovative idea.

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Legendary Melon Bread by Tokyo Banana returns after 20-year absence【Taste Test】

It has awakened.

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Toyota built a life-sized Miraidon Pokémon and are letting people test drive it this weekend

The Miraidon is now.

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CoCo Ichibanya now selling Taiwanese Lo Bah Spice Curry for a limited time【Taste test】

The bah is set pretty lo for this curry.

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Let’s light up some Disney-authorized Mickey Mouse incense

So that’s what Mickey smells like?

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Seaweed Salt Potato Butter Bacon Teriyaki Egg Burgers from McDonald’s are a mouthful

Is this enough to turn a McDonald’s teriyaki hater into a fan?

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The Top 5 Boys’ Love Manga in English on digital content library MangaPlaza goes beast mode

Readers are hungry, like the wolf.

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Nagoya elementary students caught defrauding classmate for nearly 1 million yen

Money spent on souvenir tokens and Canadian currency.

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We talk about everything except music with visual kei rock legends Fantastic Circus【Interview】

We stay firmly in our lane and talk about budgies instead.

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It doesn’t get any fresher than raw-egg pudding!【SoraKitchen】

That probably depends on the egg you use, though.

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The disembodied arm on the shoulder prank in the office shows you can be too good at something

Overly smooth prank nearly costs us an arm and a leg.

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We plastered our car!【SoraHouse】

You never know until you try it.

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300-year-old Japanese festival that curses all who see it permitted to be filmed for first time

I’m going to lend the video to someone within a week anyway… just in case.

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How well does canned fruit syrup-flavored drink match up to the real thing?【Taste test】

The great taste of canned mikan syrup from a carton.

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Japan’s new ATMs automatically play anti-fraud videos to people talking on mobile phones【Video】

Japanese police using the latest in AI and hand-enlarging technology.

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A sad Oden Day in Japan as stores seem to be steadily stopping self-service pots

Where has all the oden gone? Long time passing…

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Trying out the revolutionary adhesive bandages developed by a 10-year-old Japanese girl

If it ain’t broke, fix it anyway.

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Testing out the rubber hand illusion in the office to see if people can feel pain in fake limbs

Science is violence.

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Hay fever got you down? Doctors recommend wiggling around on the floor like a dying cockroach

It doesn’t look any sillier than snot running out your nose.

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We try out the “head in a jar” prank, seen in a viral video, at the office

Office jokes come to a head.

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