That burger reminds me of one they used to serve in Vegas a while back.

Now all we need is a game here that teaches us Japanese.

"Senk yuuu."

Super cute.

Nanako's soooo cute....Takashi Sorimachi is a lucky guy... :P

she look way better, than the first time i saw her in gto and sorimachi is a lucky bastard and she is still cuter than hell!

That burger looks delicious. Yes, I am aware it has a fried egg on it. I still want one :)

I feel kind of left out though. Where's our Japanese language DS primer so we don't look like idiots ordering in Japanese?

A kanji writing/reading primer alone would be popular with college students of Japanese, I think.

Oh yes, she's very cute as well ^^

I watched it again. One of the toppings for the burger was fried egg.

Localization faux pas, perhaps?

No, I believe that's an actual burger topping option in Japan.

@justhesh: I've actually had burger with fried egg on it...it's actually quite tasty.

That advert was painful. But Nanako is super cute, so she's forgiven.

Missed out on the earlier clip... (no longer works)

Guess it pays to be a regular Kotaku reader... =P

....she faked an orgasm in a movie...? What the heck is Ashcraft talking about? What is this about fake orgasms? I'm so confused!

Brilliant!

Fried egg on a burger?... My orgasm was very real...

Oh god that brings back bad memories. I went on a date with this Japanese girl that had just come over to study abroad when I was in college. I thought the date went great because she kept smiling and saying cool, and yes all the time. Then her friend told me the next day that she had a horrible time. Ouch my ego!

So was the heart attack that followed it...

There is a Japanese language primer. It's called kanji sonomama rakubiki jiten (Kanji as is easy-to-look-up dictionary--rough translation). It allows you to write kanji you don't know directly using the touch screen (you have to have some understanding of the stroke order) and it gives you the kana reading and the definition in either English or Japanese. It's essentially just a Japanese-English dictionary on the DS, so it will almost certainly never be released in America.

She looks like a normal Japanese girl to me (which I think is the idea); I don't see anything special about her...

But yeah, the vagueries of Japanese burger toppings are kind of funny... I love how the guy asks her about fried egg and neither one of them flinches, but then he asks her about cheese and when she says yes, he's like, "really??"

Exactly! So the Japanese can train themselves in their spare DS time, while we Americans flounder about while trying to secure the Matsumoto account, but making an untimely mealtime faux-pas?

It's a conspiracy* I tell you!

I think LanguageHere-English dictionaries would be neat to have on our shores, personally, especially Japanese.

*(Not actually a conspiracy)

@badasscat:
Every time I see 'cheese' described in an RPG, it seems, it always says something like "Due to its strong odor, some people don't like it."

I'm not sure how obvious of a conclusion I can draw from that, but I can tell you this - I love cheese. I visited Japan for a few weeks about 3-4 years ago, and after returning, I was on a serious cheese-craving.

So... this may, or may not, be anything at all why.

I'd like to gag her and suspend her from the ceiling with leather straps and chains while a mechanism I would install would constantly penetrate her at a high speed with steaming hot metal vibrating dildos.

@PTTSeven:

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@Zho:

That's what I mean. It's apparently supposed to be an American restaurant, but they list fried egg as a burger topping. That's not something you'd find on a hamburger in America.

And the cheese thing as well, though I just noticed it.

Cheese is looked upon as kind of gross in Japan, or at least some parts of Asia, right? So the guy cringes at the thought of her wanting cheese. Whereas in America it's just another food, and is pretty much the standard for hamburgers.

Thus my comment on possible localization faux pas.

@Dark-Pen:
Click on the link. The vid's gone, but the description should clue you in.

Charlottesville Virginia has a restaurant named the White Spot that claims to have initiated the egg on burger thing decades ago. It's called the Gus Burger and i-t i-s g-o-o-d.

http://www.foodhistory.com/foodnotes/road/va/ch/wh/01/

Man: "Man I tax you triple for eating in?"
Nanako: ".....Yes *smiles*"

@Keyser_Soze: Dude, not cool.

I find it ironic that her best-known role to US otaku is that of an English teacher, and here she is, not knowing how to say anything but "yes" and "thank you." Cutely.

@PTTSeven:

Milk is very expensive in Japan so cheese is frowned upon since it is processed milk.

@badasscat:

Ahh, if only Japanese girls like her were the norm...

But yeah, the cheese thing. Cheese just isn't something found in Asian cooking, so many Asians aren't used to it in and of itself.

Of course, stuff like pizza is popular though. You should see the kind of crazy toppings they have for that. :)

I have to agree with fried egg on a burger being delicious. I currently live in Japan and McDonald's has a teriyaki egg burger, which is the bomb-diggity! Also, fried egg on a hamburger is not that uncommon. If anybody has been to a Red Robin, they have the Royal Robin burger, which is served with one large fried egg. Yum yum!

@justhesh:
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@PTTSeven:
AND
@Zho:

Is that everyone? Ok. Here in North Carolina, we have a joint called Red Robin that serves a burger called the "Royal Red Robin Burger" that has a fried egg on it. I've had it, it's pretty darn tasty.

Oh, and there's apparently RR's all over the freaking place. Except the Dakotas. God help you if you live in North or South Dakota. C'mon, there's even one in Montana! There's nothing in Montana!

Anyway, there's my two cents.

I want "More Adult DS Training for Adults that Aren't Good At Japanese" so I could study for class with my DS.

@Yetanotheruninspiredscreename:
Milk's very expensive? (o_O)

@AGiES:
Agreed.

I just love the way the people speak English in commercials like this.

Also, this makes me want to watch GTO again. (which I wanted to do already...)

Also, mad props to 漢字そのままDS楽引き辞典...I'm taking Japanese 302 now, and ever since I got it, it's been pretty much the only thing I use to do all of my homework and translation.

@KeyonSumner: @justhesh:

Hit up any Fatburger on the West Coast or any other place they are at. It's a standard option on their menu.

Uh, am I the only one who has feasted upon the glorious Red Robin burger? Or whatever variant of it has the egg on it anyway.

Man .. Sorimachi is one lucky guy. I think that Nanako's a real cutie.

It almost comes across like the DS cart being advertised will teach you just enough English to get you into a heap of a mess (and a heap of cholesterol on a bun).

I'll be one of the endless posters to submit that she's impossibly cute, too. Also, I wouldn't be surprised if they were looking for a "Kevin James" type when casting her order-taker. That's who I thought of, anyway.

@Jesse in Japan: yeah but since DS's are universal, you can always import it. i got mine from white rabbit press but i've seen it at yesasia too.

also to all the cheese debaters: aren't asians largely lactose intolerant? they don't like cheese because it doesn't like them.

I detect a bit of bitterness in that report...

Europe is the region in which a large percentage of lactose tolerant originate from. It has to do with the need to get vitamin D from milk instead of from sunlight. There are numerous scientific papers detailing this.

A tip to the Japanese learners out there: Dictionaries that let you draw Kanji to look them up are useful, but you'll end up learning less about Kanji if you rely on them too much. Familiarizing yourself with the radicals, their stroke counts, and especially their names will serve you far better in the future.

How does I move to Japan forever? And how does I still shot the web?

Japanese aren't lactose intolerant (they love ice cream) and milk isn't all that expensive. They simply don't have that much of a taste for cheese. Except, inexplicably, Camembert cheese. Every supermarket I go to has row after row of different kinds of Camembert cheese but only rarely do I see cheddar or swiss cheese.

Rats and ecoli aside, do you mean to tell me that taco bell still wouldn't be sucessful in japan?!! These people are mad!