As the year 2009 comes to a close, following is a look at 5 of the best and 5 of the worst performing posts that this site has dished up this year. The popularity, or lack thereof, is based purely upon number of pageviews.

The Hits

Hello Titty Kitty

Seen in the storefront of a souvenir shop in Sydney, the image on the Hello Titty Kitty t-shirt is a double entendre of Sanrio’s Hello Kitty character. Posted in April 2009 and within a month it had received over 30,000 pageviews. It was StumbleUpon’s biggest referral to this site for 2009.

Japanese Upskirt Pussy

Google was most favourable to Japanese Upskirt Pussy in 2009. The post’s title is a wordplay on a photoshopped image that places the ceiling cat in a somewhat obscuring position. I can only imagine the Googler’s anticipation and sudden disappointment once arriving at this post.

Japanese Love Dolls – Taboo?

Japanese Love Dolls – Taboo? was a guest post by popular j-blogger gakuranman who explored Japan’s love doll industry and the social stigma surrounding it. Not including search engines and social networks, gakuranman.com was the biggest referrer to this site in 2009 for this article.

Top 5 Gadgets from Thanko

The Top 5 Gadgets from Thanko was a submission to the December 2009 Japan Blog Matsuri on Technology. It lists 5 weird and wacky USB gadgets from the Japanese company Thanko. It received over 3,000 hits on the first day that it was stumbled.

Tokyo Metro Manner Posters Recaptioned

Tokyo Metro Manner Posters Recaptioned was an effort to re-caption the Tokyo Metro ‘Manner Posters’ that describe the type of behaviour that is not tolerated on Tokyo’s subways. This years theme was “Please Do It”. You will notice a chikan (aka pervert) lurking in every one of them.

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When cosplay goes wrong!

1. Sailor Moon

Usagi Tsukino is cosplayed by the Wookie from Star Wars.

Even Sailor Moon Peter Griffin from the Family Guy looks better.

Image source: Deviant Art

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There have been numerous parodies of the infamous scene from the 2004 German-Austrian drama film Downfall (German: Der Untergang) that depicts Hitler’s furious outburst to his generals when he realizes that the war is lost.

In this parody (embedded video below) Hitler rants about Japan being uninvestable only to find out from his generals that his asset allocation is overweight in Japan, being 10% over the index weighting.

Hitler explodes yelling amongst other things:

“The domestic economy is doomed to never ending decline with its population base“

“It is just an old folks home run by gangsters and bureaucrats”

“Even the quality of the strippers and hostesses has been deteriorating”

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