Dated special effects can actually be quite a bit better than modern ones... especially puppetry and costumes. I mean, compare anything done by Tom Savini to computer-generated effects. There's just no debating that physical special effects, when done right, look better.

That is NOT how you collect a debt... his choice of weapon shows that he had no intention to kill her, but had he gotten away, she would have known who he was, or who he was working for... There's just no viable escape route there.

After that, Japan's big tv stations started digging through their archives, and found several past instances in which he's clearly drunk at similar events.

More scary is the locale. Broken-down boxes, a stack of garbage, things piled on top of a radiator... even an industrial fan installed in the wall!

@dead_red_eyes: I just really like competing. I actually have an album on Photobucket for contest entries.

@Neo Deus: I entered that one too... I was the Zelda-themed mummy.

@Tenshigure: I was going to point out the same thing.

@Mister Jack: I'm not good at this kind of thing either, but I've managed to win (somewhere around) four Kotaku contests like this one.

@SoupNBread: It's actually quite a bit too heavy for me to mount that kind of support on the back.

@FarmboyinJapan: Well, you know how the Japanese media is. Like that sea otter... it's just like that sea lion.. seal... whatever it was, Tama-chan, from a few years ago. Something becomes monstrously famous for a little while, then fades into (permanent) obscurity.

@[ZTF]: As anyone in the marketing game can tell you, that kind of thing has been moving product lately. A few years ago Burger King signed a new marketing firm... that resulted in things like Subservient Chicken and The King creeping people out. You may or may not have noticed it, but Burger King's advertising has…

@phinehas: THAT is how boke tsukkomi (sic) is performed.

@madammina: No, I'm actually being serious! Things seem funny when something doesn't follow the pattern your brain is expecting it to (there's an article about this on Damn Interesting), and Japanese humor tends to rely on that heavily. Most of the time, Japanese comedy will either follow exactly the path you expect…

@akakuma: Japanese comedy isn't that difficult to grasp... you just have to stop assuming that a joke will lead somewhere.

Bah... I'd take Matsumoto and Hamada any day.

@Herabek: Don't let that deter you! I have absolutely none, but I still managed to make something cool. You have to at least give it a shot, right?

@duckdude: I drew the design for mine on cardboard, cut out the shape, and taped crumpled up paper to it to form the contours of the mask. I then covered the whole thing in masking tape, then applied paper mache (paper mache adheres quite well to masking tape) and painted it.

@Paradox me: You CAN resubmit your entry... In the last contest one guy's entry was disqualified, so he sent in an alternate... which ended up being one of the three winners.

Ooh, neat. My mask should be ready sometime tomorrow... I've been working on it since the day this contest started. It's required... well, A LOT of work. Shaping, taping, mache'ing, painting... but with out awesome it's turning out, I'm happy. It's not particularly scary, but I like it.

My mask isn't going to be all that scary... I hope the neatness factor, and my general creepiness, will be enough.