Our long neglected Separated at Birth section makes a comeback tonight:
Saigo Takamori is the real last Samurai. Ray Winstone is in the last Indiana Jones film ever (hopefully).

(The whole Todd Goldman craze sweeping the internet reminded me about the cat like snack mascot Umaemon, shown here on the far right next to Broadband the FCC (Federal Communications Commission)’s mascot.)

Doraemon is a cat like robot from the future, sent back to help one young boy not completely mess up his life so his relatives in the future have a bit more cash. Umaemon, on the other hand, works for Yaokin, who have perhaps the most brain melting website in the history of machine translation. (Seriously. Check it here.) I don’t know if he has any special abilities other than his freakish copyright infringement powers, unless being able to make no sense whatsoever qualifies as a superpower; from the Yaokin website -

Yaokin produces in total from the plan of pleasant sweets which is full of play feeling to sale. The product which cherishes children’s dream is sent to the children in Japan and the world. With the new popular person who leads a time, children’s rich world is created through safer food.

Doesn’t it though.

UPDATE - the inimitable Crushmonkey pointed out in the comments that Broadband, the lovable catlike character who represents the Federal Communications Commission of America, looks a lot like someone we all know and love. Except he has ears. Picture added above for comparison. Link to their site, which in addition to having a copyright infringing mascot, appears to have been designed by someone with really quite shite design sensibilities.

Jimmy Onishi, he of the TenTenTen fame (see this YouTube Video), is actually quite a good artist, as well as being a comedian from time to time.

Risa Asada is an up and coming diving champion. Or something involving lots of water.

Here they are:

Lion-O was so cool back in the day. He had the sword of omens, and it gave him sight beyond sight. Here he is, in the middle of a busy day.

Junichiro Koizumi is dead cool. He doesn’t have a sword, but he did try out a Segway once.

Yon Sama, as Bae Yong Joon, Korean superstar extraordinaire, is known round these parts, was quite the hit with middle-aged wifies for a while. His magic comes from his smile. Apparently. He starred in Winter Sonata which was a drama about two high school sweethearts hooking up and falling in love again. Or some such dross. And he’s just been in a film called April Snow about a woman who is terminally ill and in love with two blokes at the same time, one of whom resembles her high school sweetheart who died. Cheerful stuff. Here he is:

And here’s Harry Potter, whose magic comes from his wand. Apparently. He’s a dab hand at Quidditch and no-one ever listens to the poor bugger, yet he’s always right about the bad shit about to go down.