The Japanese have a reputation for being...shall we said, a little odd, especially when it comes to their video games.  Now, they present to you Muscle March, a Wii game where you played a steroid-fueled bodybuilder (or if you prefer, a bipedal polar bear) on a mad dash to track down the thief who stole your protein powder.  You use the Wii controls to pose your character as he runs through openings.

Here’s the English-language trailer, which is weird enough in its own right.  After all, how many commercials have YOU seen where a perky blond 8-year-old white girl is transformed into a hulking, black bodybuilder with dreadlocks?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9xiVz36Ppw

And for sheer brain-melting super happy fun sparkle variety time, here’s the original Japanese trailer again (which I think may have been posted here before).  NISU MASULUU!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8BcndMxu44

I caught that a couple of months ago.  I love that Nintendo is trying to get kids active while playing video games.

Oh, I’m all for getting kids active.  We’ve got an alarming childhood obesity epidemic in this country (well, obesity epidemic period).  But this is just kind of...well, very, very gay for lack of a better word.