Rocket News 24
July 13, 2015
If you’ve seen a weather report in the last couple of days, you probably know that the
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Pacific is currently chock-a-block with typhoons. Across Asia, people are watching the forecasts to see whether a monster storm is going to come swirling their way, and the news stations are doing their best to give them up-to-date and easy-to-understand information.
In Taiwan, the Next TV presentation led one viewer to wonder if the graphics team weren’t perhaps Evangelion fans.
@dorabmon, a Taiwanese who tweets in Japanese, posted this picture while watching the weather. It reads, “As usual, Next TV’s Evangelion typhoon graphics are needlessly cool.”
To be honest, the first thing I thought of was a giant flying pizza, but then pepperoni is
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closer to my heart than anime. True fans of the popular series thought the comparison was on point though, and the picture has been picked up a host of discussion sites and message boards.
That last commenter has a point, since the Japanese weather graphics tend towards the annoyingly cutesy.
Get on it, Japan!
