Explicit exposition has by no means actually been Studio Ghibli’s factor, however even by their requirements, No Face’s character arc is a powerful case. Without saying a single phrase of dialogue, we watch the “Spirited Away” scene-stealer go from covetous to thoughtful over the course of the movie, studying that there’s extra to life than a cycle of gorging and coercing folks with regurgitated pricy baubles.

By the time the film ends, No Face has develop into a sympathetic, even heartwarming character, and his new life as a beneficiant, useful type can proceed in your kitchen within the type of a cute and fashionable No Face soy sauce dispenser.

The porcelain bottle stands 10.8 centimeters tall, with its glaze catching the sunshine in a hazy approach evocative of the vague nature of No Face’s bodily type inside the anime.

Instead of pouring from the very prime of the bottle, the soy sauce comes out of No Face’s prolonged arm, which is crafted to call to mind his on-screen posing.

A silicone seal helps maintain the connection between the 2 components of the bottle cosy and safe, and separating them additionally makes for simple cleansing of the within.

While that is technically categorised as a soy sauce dispenser by Ghibli specialty store Donguri Kyowakoku, you would use it to carry no matter liquid you need (though the modest diameter of the opening implies that thick condiments or lotions most likely received’t circulation too simply by way of it). And in case your food regimen isn’t all that saucy, there’s at all times the choice of utilizing the bottle for ornamental functions like a really distinctive anime determine.

While the No Face soy sauce dish proven within the above picture is bought out, the soy sauce dispenser is again at Donguri Kyowakoku following a current restock, and might be ordered by way of the chain’s on-line retailer right here, priced at 2,640 yen.

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Anthony Head discovered fame as half of the Gold Blend couple in commercials that captured the creativeness of the British public within the late Nineteen Eighties and 90s. They paved the best way to success for him on US tv within the supernatural horror collection Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997-2003), taking part in the “watcher” and mentor of Sarah Michelle Gellar’s title character.

As the prim English librarian Rupert Giles at Sunnydale highschool, he’s assigned to Buffy Summers, a cheerleader there, by the key Watchers’ Council of Britain, which oversees slayers who use their superhuman abilities to battle evil forces. Increasingly, he turns into a father determine to Buffy and her associates Willow (Alyson Hannigan) and Xander (Nicholas Brendon). Together, he and people college students type the core of a bunch often known as the Scooby Gang (or Scoobies).

Head, who has died of issues from pneumonia aged 72, was drawn to the “seriously funny, wry, sardonic humour” of Joss Whedon’s teen drama, liked the truth that it was “funky, cool, very hip and thrilling” and was clear about tips on how to play Buffy’s foil. “He had to be very competent at his job, but totally at sea with anything social,” he instructed Radio Times. “It’s that sort of stumbling, stuttering Hugh Grant thing with a bit of Prince Charles thrown in.”

Even earlier than he received the Buffy position, Head was conscious that “the secret of my success is all down to the twinkle in my eye”, as he instructed the Daily Mirror in 1995. “That translates in any country. I don’t do it on purpose – it’s just my playful side.”

He had spent a decade as a jobbing actor on TV and treading the boards in performs by Shakespeare and Tom Stoppard, in addition to stage musicals, when he was forged alongside Sharon Maughan within the Nescafé on the spot espresso adverts working from 1987 to 1993.

The cleaning soap opera type saga, projecting sophistication and that includes a “will they, won’t they” storyline, begins with Maughan asking to borrow a jar of espresso from her smooth-talking neighbour. Through 12 commercials, every ending with a cliffhanger, a slow-burn romance develops earlier than they lastly drive off into the sundown collectively.

From 1990 till 1997, Head – adopting an American accent – and Maughan starred in new variations of the adverts for the US, the place the Gold Blend producer Nestlé marketed the Taster’s Choice model.

Setting his sights on Hollywood (the place he was identified by his full identify, Anthony Stewart Head, as a result of there was already an actor known as Tony Head), he landed a task within the TV sci-fi drama VR.5 (1995) as Oliver Sampson, the mysterious Committee’s enigmatic operative assigning missions to Sydney Bloom (Lori Singer), who can enter an immersive virtual-reality state to work together with individuals’s unconscious minds. The collection was axed by the Fox community earlier than finishing its run, though it was proven in full on the Sci-Fi Channel two years later. But comfort got here with Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

During a profitable profession on each side of the Atlantic, Head additionally performed Britain’s prime minister, known as Michael and clearly primarily based on Tony Blair on the time of his premiership, all through the cult BBC sketch present Little Britain (2003-06). This time, he was drawn to the “off-the-wall” humour, which included the working joke of the PM’s non-public secretary (performed by David Walliams) being infatuated with him.

More lately, he appeared within the first three collection of the sports activities comedy Ted Lasso (2020-23) as Rupert Mannion, a slimy soccer membership proprietor who loses the fictional AFC Richmond to his spouse in a divorce settlement and finds each a brand new membership and girlfriend. “He’s a particularly unpleasant character and a complete narcissist, but you know where he’s coming from,” Head instructed the Guardian. “To make somebody believable, you have to see their point of view.”

Born in north London, he was the son of Helen Shingler, an actor greatest identified for enjoying the French detective’s spouse within the 60s BBC TV collection Maigret, and Seafield Head, a author and producer of documentary movies. His elder brother, Murray, grew to become an actor, pop singer and star of musical theatre. As a baby rising up in Hampton, Middlesex, Head carried out in productions staged in a barn by a household good friend. “I got to be the Emperor in The Emperor’s New Clothes,” he recalled. “As I walked through the audience, all heads turned towards me and I remember thinking, ‘This is what I want to do for a living.’”

On leaving Sunbury grammar college, Surrey, he labored for his father as a runner and assistant editor, and acted with the youth group the Young Stagers on the Thorndike theatre, Leatherhead, earlier than coaching on the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art, graduating in 1976.

He then performed Jesus within the musical Godspell within the West End (Shaftesbury theatre, 1978) and Randolph, a rock star, in Teeth ’n’ Smiles (Nottingham Playhouse, 1979), by David Hare.

He additionally acted the fortune-teller Artemidorus in Julius Caesar (Riverside Studios, London, 1980), the Player in Stoppard’s tragicomedy Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead (Young Vic theatre, 1981) and Absalom in Peter Shaffer’s biblical drama Yonadab (National Theatre, 1985-86).

Back in musicals, he took over the main position of Freddie Trumper in Chess (Prince Edward theatre, 1988-89) from his brother, then starred as Frank-N-Furter within the West End revival of The Rocky Horror Show (Piccadilly theatre, 1990-91). His spin-off single, Sweet Transvestite (1991), made the decrease reaches of the charts.

His different tv roles included James, certainly one of 4 male associates going through center age, in Manchild (2002-03); Maurice Riley, a retired burglar returning to crime, in The Invisibles (2008); King Uther Pendragon, Prince Arthur’s father, in Merlin (2008-12); Stephen Caudwell, a sex-obsessed expertise company boss, in Free Agents (2009-12); and David Whele, a ruthless senator, in Dominion (2014-15).

He additionally acted the a part of the Conservative MP and deputy prime minister Geoffrey Howe, alongside Meryl Streep as Margaret Thatcher, within the movie The Iron Lady (2011).

Sarah Fisher, Head’s accomplice of greater than 40 years, died in December. He is survived by their daughters, Emily and Daisy, each actors, and his brother.

Reform UK ramped up the funding and class of its political Facebook adverts within the ultimate weeks of campaigning for the May elections, in an indication of the rising monetary muscle of Nigel Farage’s get together.

There had been a number of days within the fortnight earlier than the get together’s breakthrough electoral efficiency when Reform spent greater than another get together on the influential platform.

Reform’s spending via its primary Facebook pages virtually matched that of Labour. Only a late spurt of spending by Labour meant it narrowly outspent its rightwing rival, in accordance with evaluation by the Who Targets Me marketing campaign group.

Reform spent £252,000 within the ultimate two weeks of the marketing campaign on its primary Facebook pages. That spending was extremely centralised via simply two pages – its primary get together web page and that of Farage.

Labour spent £276,000 on the platform by way of its primary Facebook pages, however that spending was extra unfold out between its primary web page and people of its Welsh, Scottish and regional events.

The evaluation counted spending amongst a celebration’s primary accounts, outlined as the principle pages of its get together, primary regional events and political leaders. The knowledge raises questions for Conservatives, because the get together was a distant third, spending £76,000 with Meta, the proprietor of Facebook, within the ultimate two weeks earlier than the election.

It was solely narrowly forward of the Scottish National get together, which spent £75,000, and the Greens, who spent £74,000 over the interval.

There was additionally an elevated sophistication to Reform’s marketing campaign, each in its concentrating on of adverts and within the high quality of the adverts themselves. The get together adopted native adverts, popularised by the Liberal Democrats, which claimed to indicate native polling with Reform as the principle challenger to the incumbent get together, usually Labour. “Don’t waste your vote on the Conservatives,” one reads. “Only Reform UK can stop Labour.”

In Scotland, it focused the SNP by describing them as a “calamity for Scotland” and pitching Reform as a vote for “real change”. In Wales, it focused voters with messages about stopping “another Labour-Plaid [Cymru] coalition”.

Sam Jeffers, founding father of Who Targets Me, mentioned the get together had “dramatically upped its game”.

“Previously, Ukip didn’t really have any money,” he mentioned. “Their rise wasn’t from ad spending. Traditionally, the popular right relied on the virality of their online messages. But now Reform has loads of money and can do the spend thing, too. It is not just about going viral. There’s a real sense of professionalism and targeting.”

Data revealed by Meta confirmed Reform was doing way more concentrating on of voters by their postcode than in earlier elections, an indication of a professionalised digital marketing campaign aided by its boosted monetary coffers.

“[Farage’s previous parties] didn’t use location targeting at all, but now there are thousands of individual postcodes being targeted where they thought they would win,” Jeffers mentioned.

“In 2024, they ran a national campaign based on national vibes. Here, they have run on local vibes, like saying: ‘Reform can beat Labour here.’ It’s like they are running five Lib Dem campaigns all at once. It’s not rocket science, but it is organised.”

The on-line efforts observe an enormous influx of money in latest months. Farage’s get together attracted £5.5m within the final quarter of 2025, greater than all the opposite events. It additionally included a £200,000 donation from JC Bamford Excavators – historically a Conservative donor – which gave the identical sum to the Tories that quarter.

The bulk of Reform’s money – one other £3m – got here from crypto investor Christopher Harborne, who has turn out to be its primary bankroller. He already donated a report £9m final summer time. Harborne’s cash got here in because the get together was planning its native elections technique.

Reform introduced in additional than twice as a lot in donations because the Conservatives within the ultimate three months of 2025, as soon as public funding was excluded.

Labour, historically the get together that has pushed forward with digital campaigning, comfortably outspent Reform as soon as all accounts related to the get together had been included, similar to native branches and candidates.

When all these accounts had been included, Labour spent £653,427, to Reform’s £290,000. The Conservatives additionally barely outspent Reform with all accounts included. Jeffers mentioned Reform’s spending was excessive, however nonetheless extremely centralised.

Ad spending knowledge additionally exhibits that Labour stays the one get together spending on YouTube, the world’s dominant video-sharing web site, utilizing the platform to current its candidates to voters.

Jeffers mentioned the earlier Conservative authorities could have inadvertently given Reform a bonus by growing the overall election spending restrict by 80% in 2023.

“That spending space is there for anyone who can go and use it,” Jeffers mentioned. “Right now, Reform looks like they are the ones who can go away and raise that money ahead of time. They can staff up and maintain that level – and run well-resourced campaigns.

“That would be my concern if I were in another political party. The rules allow so much headroom for higher spending.”

An Idemitsu Kosan tanker carrying roughly 730,000 barrels of crude oil from Alaska arrived at an offshore terminal in Sodegaura, Chiba Prefecture, on June seventh.

Meanwhile, a Taiyo Oil tanker transporting roughly 230,000 barrels of crude oil from South Sudan arrived in Imabari, Ehime Prefecture.

The arrivals mark the primary deliveries of Alaskan and South Sudanese crude to Japan because the Strait of Hormuz grew to become successfully blocked following U.S. navy strikes on Iran and the following deterioration of safety situations within the area.

Japan has historically relied on the Middle East for greater than 90% of its crude oil imports, making the nation significantly susceptible to disruptions within the Persian Gulf. In response to the worsening scenario, power firms and authorities officers have moved to diversify procurement sources and safe various provides from outdoors the area.

The authorities stated it has already secured various procurement preparations for about 80% of the crude oil scheduled for import this month that may usually go by means of the Strait of Hormuz.

Officials added that Japan plans to additional increase crude oil imports from areas outdoors the Middle East, together with Africa and Central Asia, as a part of a broader technique to strengthen power safety and scale back dependence on a single provide route.

Source: TBS

Seven-Eleven Okinawa is growing new merchandise, together with bread and sweets, made with regionally produced milk that will in any other case face decreased demand in the course of the faculty holidays. Representatives from the comfort retailer chain visited a dairy farm in Yaese on June 4th to listen to straight from producers concerning the challenges going through the business.

More than 30% of Okinawa’s milk manufacturing is provided to highschool lunch packages, creating a major imbalance between provide and demand in the course of the summer time break. The initiative is anticipated to assist tackle the necessity to handle greater than 1,000 tons of milk in the course of the vacation interval whereas creating new gross sales channels for Okinawa-produced dairy merchandise.

Michiyo Taba, a director of the Okinawa Dairy Agricultural Cooperative Association, welcomed the trouble.

“What had long been a major concern for producers during periods when schools were closed has now been transformed into processed products that can be enjoyed by local residents. This is a great source of satisfaction for dairy farmers,” Taba stated.

The new merchandise are scheduled to go on sale in early August.

Source: OTV

Caroline Marland, the previous managing director of Guardian Media Group and the primary girl to carry such a senior put up on a nationwide newspaper, who has died aged 80, was to a substantial extent the one that saved the Guardian financially within the Eighties.

It was largely Marland’s initiative to wrest a lot of the job promoting market from the Times and Telegraph throughout that decade. This led to the creation of the paper’s profitable weekly dietary supplements: media on Mondays, training on Tuesdays, society on Wednesdays, all supported by tens and finally lots of of pages of job adverts, which produced revenues for the hitherto precariously financed paper that bumped into many tens of thousands and thousands yearly.

At the beginning of that interval, the Guardian’s jobs promoting share was lower than 8%, in contrast with the Telegraph’s 50%. The spark got here in 1979 when Marland, then the paper’s categorized gross sales supervisor, noticed the ageing profile of the Times and significantly the Telegraph’s readerships and was capable of current sceptical advertisers with the case that the Guardian’s decrease age profile meant that its readers have been more likely to be within the jobs market.

The previous picture of the paper’s readership as sandal-wearing herbivorous lefties was efficiently challenged, together with by an promoting marketing campaign displaying an aged Telegraph subscriber in a shower chair being pushed by a thrusting younger Guardian reader – a picture that led the Telegraph’s promoting supervisor to threaten to sue.

Marland weathered the misogyny of being known as a “Perrier queen” by rivals, or being requested by promoting executives when her male boss can be coming, and inside 10 years the Guardian had a majority of the categorized jobs promoting – the Telegraph’s share had sunk to twenty%. At the identical time, the paper’s promoting gross sales division expanded from 11 salespeople to 80.

In the generally fusty and male-dominated newspaper world, Marland stood out as charming, decisive and glamorous. Those who assumed she can be a gentle contact have been quickly disabused. Her pleasant method hid a agency dedication for the paper’s editorial and industrial success.

She was born in Dublin, the daughter and eldest of three youngsters of Peggy Ramsden and Desmond Rushton. Her father was a mural artist; her mom grew to become a public relations marketing consultant, representing amongst others the actor Roger Moore and Joseph Kagan, the Gannex raincoat producer. The household moved to Yorkshire to be nearer to her shoppers. Caroline was educated at a Quaker boarding college after which on the Ada Foster stage college in London.

She labored initially as a mannequin in London and Paris however then began a job in phone gross sales for the Yorkshire Post, promoting area to native automotive sellers, earlier than transferring three years later, in 1972, to London, the place she managed private column gross sales on the Times.

Growing pissed off that the paper wouldn’t promote her to a managerial position, in 1976 she utilized for a job on the Guardian after studying that the paper had a feminine news editor: “I thought they must all be liberated there,” she instructed an interviewer at Management Today in 1999.

Promotion was swift: phone gross sales supervisor, then categorized gross sales supervisor, deputy promoting director, and by 1983 promoting director (the primary on a nationwide newspaper). She joined the board of the Scott Trust, the Guardian’s proprietor, a yr later, grew to become deputy managing director in 1987 and eventually managing director of Guardian Media’s nationwide newspaper division in 1995.

It was a fraught time because the Guardian took over the Observer in 1993 and Marland discovered herself in the midst of the administration wrangles over the editorships and future instructions of the 2 papers, siding with Alan Rusbridger at occasions in opposition to the Guardian’s outgoing editor Peter Preston and her predecessor as managing director Jim Markwick. She merged the 2 papers’ promoting groups relatively extra successfully than the editorial facet ever managed.

Marland didn’t intervene in editorial choices – by Guardian custom journalism takes the lead over promoting – however at board stage she opposed plans to chop the paper’s cowl value in response to Rupert Murdoch’s Times value struggle and in addition a suggestion that the Guardian ought to undertake a bingo recreation promotion, arguing efficiently and accurately, with others, that readers wouldn’t look favourably on such short-fix wheezes.

She was extraordinarily widespread with the workers who labored together with her, empathetic and understanding even when making tough choices, and he or she might spot, recruit and mentor potential expertise: a number of of her recruits went on to main media careers, together with her successor Carolyn McCall, who now runs ITV, and Sly Bailey, who went on to run Trinity Mirror.

Marland retired in 2000 following a prolonged interval of recuperation after a extreme accident whereas strolling her Jack Russell terrier, which initially appeared prone to trigger the amputation of her leg. Campaign journal named her Media Achiever of the Year and he or she grew to become a non-executive director of the Arcadia retail group. Her charity work included serving to a fundraising drive for the Royal Marsden hospital and most cancers analysis charities.

In 1983 she married Paul Marland, a farmer and rightwing Conservative MP for Gloucester West all through the Thatcher years. After the Guardian’s profitable mid-90s authorized battle in opposition to the Tory minister Neil Hamilton, she instructed an interviewer: “Paul knew Hamilton well. We have an office at home and we share a desk: while the case was going on I had half the desk covered with Hamilton stuff and Paul had the other half covered in leaflets to get him re-elected. We laughed about the conflict but the one thing we never did was discuss it.”

It was a extremely profitable marriage. After weekdays on the paper, Marland drove house to help her husband as a loyal constituency spouse, although former colleagues doubt that she was ever actually a Conservative. She was instructed by one aged constituent at a operate: “We’re so glad you have got a little job in London to keep you occupied while Paul is in the House of Commons.”

Paul died in 2021. Marland died three days after being injured when she was a passenger in a automotive that was in a collision close to her house within the Cotswolds. She is survived by her daughter, Sarah, and by three stepchildren, Lara, Lucinda and Alexander.

The impartial senator David Pocock says a authorities plan that might require podcasts sponsored by betting firms to provide two variations of the identical program – so individuals can keep away from playing advertisements – is “totally unworkable” and “bonkers”.

Under the proposed restrictions, the so-called “triple lock” system will solely permit streaming platforms to have playing advertisements for customers who’re over 18 and have logged in. Users have to be allowed to decide out of seeing or listening to such commercials, with a view to stop kids listening to them.

Department officers confirmed in a Senate estimates listening to on Wednesday that the restriction would apply if a podcast host refers to a betting firm when saying one thing like “we’d like to thank our sponsors”.

“That would be considered advertising as well. And so that if you have opted out, you shouldn’t be hearing a host,” Margaret Lopez, the communications division’s playing department assistant secretary, instructed the listening to

Pocock requested: “So then you can’t hear an entire episode?”

The division’s deputy secretary, David Mackay, replied: “It’s a matter for the platform that is hosting that content as to as to how they would handle that.”

Pocock described it as a “totally unworkable system”.

“Like that is bonkers that you would be saying you can be a podcast, can be sponsored by a gambling company, you can have it in the intro, but you can’t play that to someone if they’ve opted out,” he mentioned throughout the listening to.

“So the podcast hosts now are going to have to have two different versions of their podcast that they upload, and Spotify is somehow going to decide which one they’re going to play, to which person.”

Pocock has beforehand acknowledged his help for a complete ban on playing promoting, a advice from the Peta Murphy report on playing reform.

The authorities is now consulting stakeholders on the laws, and the suggestions obtained has indicated there could also be some technical points that should be factored in, however officers rejected solutions that it was unworkable.

Spotify and Apple have been approached for remark.

Definition of ‘influencer’ being developed

Inducements – the place playing platforms encourage individuals to position bets or gamble extra typically – wouldn’t be thought of promoting as a part of the reforms, the officers confirmed.

The prime minister, Anthony Albanese, has beforehand mentioned celebrities and sports activities gamers can be banned from showing in playing advertisements, with authorities officers on Wednesday confirming this could cowl social media influencers.

“So how does someone know that, know if they’re an influencer?” Pocock requested.

Lopez mentioned the definition is being developed as a part of the draft laws.

Pocock additionally criticised the federal government after it “noted” the 31 suggestions of the Murphy report, relatively than agreeing or rejecting any particular advice.

“To me and most Canberrans that I speak to, noting is not a response. If you respond to something, you actually say: ‘yeah, we like that recommendation, we’re going to do it’, or ‘no, we’re not going to do it’,” he mentioned.

“Noting is I think in most people’s minds like a bit of a pat on the head.”

But Labor senator Nita Green, representing the communications minister, mentioned the federal government had responded to the report by asserting the reform package deal.