And she’ll never be ROYYYYAL (ROYAL)......

It was a matching party. It’s extremely common in Japan. I don’t get how this is a story at all. It basically means we brought friends out to meat each other

Yeah if I was Princess Mako I’d be saying “oh don’t change the constitution for little old me! I’ll just go off with my cute future lawyer “prince of the sea,” work the royal family connections for an extremely cushy, highly paid finance job, and spend the rest of my life living in comfort far away from the…

Somebody make Chuck Lorre the ambassador to a country that doesn’t like us.

What we need is more Paul F. Tompkins. I have such a weird crush on him.

Two things:

I’d watch the hell out of that, TBH.

I enjoyed Cavemen, and I don’t care who knows it. Print that on a flag and try to pry it from my hands on the hill my dead body resides atop

Thanks for the Paul F. Tompkins .gif. I love that dapper guy.

Right? Akihito has been begging the Japanese Diet to let him retire for *years* now. Not letting women be emperor is like not letting women have a turn in the Iron Maiden.

And yet they are holding the new Star Trek series hostage behind their app.

You have a point.

And after years of living abroad in exile, the daughter of Princess Mako and Komuro shall rise up and retake the land denied to her mother and claim the Imperial Empire of Japan with fire and blood.

What cracks me up is while we have this, Japan buzzfeed is basically trying to shade her for saying she met her fiance at a “Swapping of Minds” party, instead of just admitting it was basically a singles mixer.

Basically a stiff wind could end this dynasty this year. They need to look at it from that perspective.

If he doesn’t have any sons, it’s the end of the line. Good way for traditionalists to play themselves.

Japanese princess marries Prince of the Sea has to be the plot of the next Disney Animations picture, right?

Meh, from what I’ve seen, membership in the Japanese royal family is all the responsibility and public pressure, and none of the fun of royalty, so I can’t imagine giving it up is that much of a sacrifice.

Royal lineage is BS anyway.

If you don’t have lots of royals designated in your system, you don’t have anyone for the princesses to marry. Did they have a different system in the past that kept them from only marrying their cousins? They certainly didn’t go marry European or Asian royals to open up the pool.