A new website was discovered by MrToasty at Unfiction - Tagruato.jp. Here is how it was found:The last ingredient in the Japanese recipe is "Kaitei no mitsu" which translates to "deep sea nectar/honey". Dr. Awkward at Unfiction did a Google search for it and only one page came up, a restaurant review by "deliciousmacdoob" on Menuism.com. The unusual review mentions the source of the "Seabed’s Nectar" which the chef claims came from a company in Honshu, Japan called Tagruato. Using that info, MrToasty discovered Tagruato.jp.
On the site, there are some definite ties to Slusho:
- Ganu Yoshida is the CEO (he's also mentioned in the Slusho.jp history)
- Slusho! is one of the subsidiary companies
- There are various mentions of Slusho throughout the site
- One of the subsidiaries is Bold Futura. Anyone remember that name? It came up in the discussion about "Overnight" being the name of the movie. The owner of the US trademark for Slusho! is Bold Futura, LLC.
The most interesting section is the Deep Sea Drilling, which shows an interactive map of the various locations around the world, all named after Japanese Emperors.The newest station, Chuai, opening in September 2007, is also the closest station to New York. Could deep sea drilling be what disturbed the monster and caused the attack?
The site is pretty big, with a lot of information to look at, so have a peek and let me know what you find!
* Thanks to MrToasty for emailing me about this first!
I think, it´s real and mady by someone who works with Paramount.
ReplyDeleteIt´s just too good designed for a spoof. Remember all the fake websites? Just some crazy or odd words or videos or even nothing! Tagruato has a lot more odd similarities to the movie and slusho so I think it´s for real. It´s the same "modern overdressed"-style we found at slusho.jp.
Be skeptical - that´s right. But maybe we found the solution for all this stuff. Except the look of the Monster ...
(Well, I´m german so I´m sorry for mistakes at spelling)
There is a phone number on one of the pages, that I used skype to dial a few times. I tried to get a recording and failed. After a while it would let me dial in again. Maybe someone else should try.
ReplyDelete“Thank you for calling Tagruato, due to high call volumes we have transfered your call to the automated answering service. There are NO UPDATES at this time. Please leave us a message and we will return your call.”
ReplyDeleteDuckie here.
ReplyDeleteIn all fairness, the break did NOT come from something translated from Japanese. It's a google search of the *original* Japanese words... there's no messy area for loose interpretation-- that's exactly how those characters are pronounced.
And those symbols have been used together, in exactly that way, TWICE in the entire history of the internet!
Once on an official site... and once, posted by someone a few days before 1-18-08.com was updated.
Sorry, game over, it's legit.
The other sections of the tagruato site don't work because they haven't been "activated" yet. In EXACTLY the same way that slusho.jp was originally only the satoshi email and the History page; the Slusho site didn't run full spread until AFTER Comic-Con. Similarly, Tagruato will expand sometime in the near future.
ReplyDeletethx brett
They're probably gonna add those sites later. And those will probably give us more clues and so on...
ReplyDeleteon the contact page there seems to be a .... telephone number? Anyone tried calling it? [I'm not sure if it is because it's no the usual 10 or 11 digit number]
oh wait... nvm, looks like someone did already ^^;
ReplyDeleteIt's NOT exactly how the Slusho.jp site worked...
ReplyDeleteThe Store, Happy Talk, and Flavors pages all said coming soon, and there are no "Privacy and Legal", etc links on the Slusho page that did nothing.
I think the Privacy and Legal sections like that are just there to make it look like a real big corporation. Just a theme you know? I don't think those will be activated.
ReplyDeleteThis confirms that Rob is involved with SLUSHO! If you read a blog from Hawk he says "chugged a SLUSHO!" Now... the website clearly states it's very popular BUT only in Japan. And they are trying to figure out to market it in America. Who does marketing work? Rob... He must have some slusho... I think that put some more together...
ReplyDeletedid cloverfieldclues buy paraffun.com?
ReplyDeleteIt's October, can anyone find out anything about the deep-sea station that was set to open in September called Chuai Sation?
ReplyDeleteInteresting developments! Thanks Dennis! :-)
ReplyDeleteDid anyone notice in the section called "Tagruato cares!" where they talk about giving out Slushos to the elderly, they specifically state that each person received 7 drinks? And afterwards a 98-year-old remarked that it made her "feel young again".
ReplyDeleteI wonder if they did any similar promotional give-aways in NYC...
Thanks, Dennis! Your summary of how everything was found and pointing out the important parts (so far) of the site is so helpful.
ReplyDeleteThanks :)
ReplyDeleteI was busy all weekend so I didn't have time to read through everything, but I'll dig a little deeper tonight and make a WYNTK post.
Alert. For the Moment Slusho.jp is down so I think some change is on the way.
ReplyDeleteItoku and Sunjin Stations are within close proximity to coordinates for the BLOOP and other deep sea audio anomolies.
ReplyDeleteShhh! He's coming!.....
Pox said... Alert. For the Moment Slusho.jp is down so I think some change is on the way.
ReplyDeleteSeems to be back up. I just checked the site for any changes, and there were none yet.
Keiko & Sujin Station share the same latitude, that is all.
ReplyDeleteWhois info
ReplyDeleteDomain Information:
[Domain Name] TAGRUATO.JP
[Registrant] Daiske Kagashima
[Name Server] ns51.domaincontrol.com
[Name Server] ns52.domaincontrol.com
[Created on] 2007/07/25
[Expires on] 2008/07/31
[Status] Active
[Last Updated] 2007/07/25 23:38:22 (JST)
I went to the Tagruato site, and took a look at the source to see if I'd find anything interesting.
ReplyDeleteTwo things:
1) www.w3.org was listed there. It seems to be a pretty random site, but it's so chock full of various info, that it's hard to tell whether there is any legit connection.
2)A little further down, there is some text that says:
images/sidebar_whale.jpg" alt="whale breaching ocean surface"
A whale. Hmm.
"2)A little further down, there is some text that says:
ReplyDeleteimages/sidebar_whale.jpg" alt="whale breaching ocean surface"
A whale. Hmm."
could be the picture of the whale on the sidebar!
What picture of the whale? I don't see it.
ReplyDeleteTo me, that looks like a dolphin or a porpoise.
ReplyDeleteKevin
the letter on the home page before you pick english look like ethan haas letters which has nothing to do with 1-18-08
ReplyDeletelong time reader first time poster finally got around to making a account. Anyways not sure about the alantis thing didn't look into it but thought I would throw in this. Is there anything in atlantis history about a monster?
ReplyDelete力の手 means hand of power ..
ReplyDeletehand of power? like PAW OF POWER!!! it really is a lion!.... kidding
ReplyDeleteI looked into that Atlantis/Monster thing... the only monster Atlantis has to offer aired on Doctor Who on June 24th 1972. So I'm going to have to go with no, it's not from Atlantis.
ReplyDeleteelvis cocho said... the letter on the home page before you pick english look like ethan haas letters which has nothing to do with 1-18-08
ReplyDeleteThe characters are Katakana, which is like phonetic way of saying something in Japanese, especially foreign words.
Those characters spell out "TAGRUATO"
タ - Ta
グ - gu
ル - ru
ア - a
ト - to
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ReplyDeleteAll the links on Slusho are writen in Katakana too
ReplyDeleteAlso if you look in the company history it talks about what the company started out as: 力の手
ReplyDelete力 - ka
の - no
手 - hand
力の手 is Kanji, not Katakana. It actually translates to "The hand of power"
ReplyDeleteYou can see the "hand of power" logo here.
why does paraffun.com send you here?
ReplyDeleteWow that would make a lot more sense, how did you stumble upon that?
ReplyDeleteChase said... why does paraffun.com send you here?
ReplyDeleteWhy not?
On the Tagruato Subsidiaries is says "The next step is to introduce Slusho! to the rest of the world. A search is on for top marketing professionals who will be tasked with duplicating the drink's Asian popularity in the Western market."
ReplyDeleteIn Rob's myspace... his occupation reads marketing. It seems like he might be moving because he got the job for Slusho.
Dark said... Wow that would make a lot more sense, how did you stumble upon that?
ReplyDeleteSomeone at Unfiction found it. I think it's what would show up if you had Flash turned off.
Next time you drive by a large construction site demolishing a building or putting up new infrastructure, imagine it underwater.
ReplyDeleteSuch is the latest directive of the Tagruato corporation. Company spokeswoman Suzume Soga announced this week that Tagruato has long been developing vehicles and machinery that will operate at the same capacity as the bulldozers and cranes you pass on the freeway each day, but also function at the ocean's greatest depths. COO Danno Jo, right hand man and cousin of CEO Ganu Yoshida, has been overseeing the revolutionary project.
"There are great reservoirs under the ocean floor that no one can get to due to obstruction by physical elements," explained Jo at the December 18th press conference. "With these new technologies in place, Tagruato will destroy any barrier."
Maybe Tagurato gets these vehicles and while they're 'destorying any barrier' there happens to be a giant sea creature that they wake up/anger and thusly the statue of liberty is trashed and rob is screwed.
did anyone notice the little leauge team it says they beat another team 18-0 and the catcher hit 4hrs and the pitcher had nine strikeouts and 13 hit batsman and that the other coach was forced to forfeit after he looked to his bench and found no Dragons brave enough to step to the plate.
ReplyDelete13 hit batsmen that seems EXTREAMLY high and they said the team was SLUSHO! fuled so maybe slusho! has some sort of effect to make you angry or something along those lines
I just talked to someone i know who works in a goverment agencey that deals with drilling for oil and i asked her to check out the tagruato site and she filled me in on what the sites might be since they are not oil she said that stations like that drill into fault lines to do thremal imgaging wich would fit along the lines of how they found slusho also i though it was interesting that they would have to go into fault lines, she gave me a website to try and help explain what excatly they might be doing at those drill sites
ReplyDeletehttp://deepseadrilling.org/79/volume/dsdp79_08.pdf
When the Tagurato website ask you to pick a language has anyone tried picking a language beside English? I'm just wandering cause I did and it keeps bringing me back to the Language page. So, is that how it is or is my computer just being stupid?
ReplyDeleteTagurato's website contact address;
ReplyDelete18 Palace Plaza
36-40-10 Marunouchi
Marunouchi, Tokyo 118-8336
Japan
TEL +81-3-5403-6318
18KagashimaD@tagruato.jp
Slusho.jp
Domain Information: [ドメイン情報][Domain Name] SLUSHO.JP
[登録者名] Satoshi Kagashima
[Registrant] Satoshi Kagashima
[Name Server] ns5.secureserver.net
[Name Server] ns6.secureserver.net
[登録年月日] 2007/06/27
[有効期限] 2008/06/30
[状態] Active
[最終更新] 2007/07/10 01:25:23 (JST)
Contact Information: [公開連絡窓口]
[名前] Satoshi Kagashima
[Name] Satoshi Kagashima
[email] sk7087@gmail.com
[Web Page]
[郵便番号] 118-8336
[住所] 東京都18 Palace Plaza
36-40-10 Marunouchi
[Postal Address] 18 Palace Plaza
36-40-10 Marunouchi
[電話番号] 81.5805681
[FAX番号] 81.1111111
We can conclude Slusho and Tagurato are central to this address.
The website http://www.menuism.com/restaurants/bKTPlaARWr3lUXaby-Gaa7-garbanzos- was updated yesturday with a new review of GARBANZOS by M. Vaughn
ReplyDelete"Garbanzos Blows"
LOL
I think I figured it out:
ReplyDeleteThe Monster
If you click on the TAGRUATO logo, top left, it very briefly shows the hand grasping the globe like the link above shows...
ReplyDeleteIf you go into your internet options and disable flash, that's what the Tagruato site shows
ReplyDeleteYou can also see it directly here: http://tagruato.jp/images/nav_backup.jpg
ReplyDeleteto tell you the truth, i think its fake. just because of the error pages. those error pages are simple cheap ass hosting provider cloaked by a domain forwarder. the slusho website is far better then this.
ReplyDeleteI already posted this, but I looked at the next Emperor after Chuai (Empress Jingu) and found this:
ReplyDeleteAccording to the traditional records of ancient Japan, Jingu was the wife of Chuai, the 14th sovereign (reigned 192–200), and the regent for her son Ojin. Aided by a pair of divine jewels that allowed her to control the tides, she is said to have begun her bloodless conquest…
Maybe there's another station that's opening, say, around 1-18-08 that will awaken something that controls the tides...
Maybe too much fantasy to consider.
ReplyDeleteThink of the discussed titles. Then look back on an older post. You are missing the connection. And it is an important one.
And as for Tagruato, call all you want to, the message remains the same. Leave a message, anything happen?
Its not what you say, but how you say it...
This site is BS. All the other languages are not there and the info is fake
ReplyDeleteHow do you use that number. every time I try to call it it just says that the call can not be completed as dialed.
ReplyDeletehas anyone heard the ending to cloverfield played backwards? You know the fuzzy sound that you hear after the credits? *SPOILER SPOILER SPOILER*
ReplyDeleteit says "It's still alive!"
in fact, it says it clearer than the forwards version. anyone think this could mean sequel?