| 12:41am | Lamp Miku |  | | | Over at the Alphamax offices again the other day to take photos of this most cutesome puchi style figure of Hatsune Miku. The non-scale figure is called "Lamp Miku feat Nekozakana" and is due out later this year in October. Retail price will be 3,800 yen. The figure is based on the... |
| 12:19am | La Cittadella Kawasaki | | | | La Cittadella [ラ チッタデッラ] - a slice of Italy in the heart of Kawasaki. Stylised to look like a small town in Italy, La Cittadella contains a cinema complex, concert hall, shops and a load of restaurants - especially Italian ones. La Cittadella is also home to the annual Hallowen parade... | | |
| 12:06am | Dark Magician Girl | | | | You is being familiar with Yu-Gi-Oh! If so then you will probably be familair with this little lady - Dark Magician Girl which has been given the Cu-Poche treatment by Kotobukiya.I managed to nab one from the Kotobukiya offices before she's out this July. Dark Magician Girl will retail for 3,990 yen... |
| 1:16am | Attack on Titan | | | | Shingeki no Kyojin (Attack on Titan) [進撃の巨人] - one of the most awesome anime series I've seen so far that I simply must babble about! Its a story about man eating giants who have been kept separate from humans for many moons by tall walls - until those walls are destroyed. We then start... | | |
| 8:48am | Kaiyodo Office Tour | | | | One of my agenda items during my visit to Kansai this week was to meetup with Shuichi Miyawaki [宮脇修一] - the boss of Kaiyodo which is one of the longest standing hobby makers in Japan who produce the Revoltech series and also own the worlds biggest figure and garage kit event Wonder Festival.... |
| 4:20am | Volks | | | | Had the pleasure of being invited by the Managing Director of Volks (pictured here to my right) to Kyoto a while ago but only just managed to make the trip this week >< Volks is one of the major players in the Japanese hobby world. They have a long history of manufacturing injection moulded... |
| 1:55am | Flumpool | | | | Spent time with the pop rock band flumpool on one of their previous tours - if you watched Season 1 of my other TV show Japan Mode then the following photos will seem familiar.Flumpool is an immensely popular band in Japan - their music and posters are all over the place. Since their first single Hana... |
| 2:05pm | Akihabara Shops 7 | | | | Its that time again where we go for a photo walk around my most fave place on Earth - Akihabara ^o^Today we visit places such as Hobby Tengoku, Sega Game center, Toranoana, Animate, Don Quijote, Melon Books (newly opened 2号店), Sofmap, Kotobukiya, Yodobashi, Culture Zone Akihabara, other small stores... | | |
| 3:11am | Amairo Clock | | | | So you got Moekana and have pre-ordered Moekanji but you want your Japanese learning to be even more fun? I've got just the thing! I've just released Amairo Clock [天色＊時計] (Amairo*Clock) for iOS which features the cuties from the eroge Amairo Islenauts. Just like the other app we made called... |
| 3:16am | Mitaka | | | | Mitaka [三鷹] - an area located in the West of Tokyo which is home to Kichijoji, the Ghibli Museum and a load of anime studios.92% of all Japanese anime production studios are located within Tokyo and a large % of that is located in West Tokyo in the Mitaka and immediate surrounding area along the... |
| 1:09pm | Mirai Suenaga Doll | | | | A month ago, I wrote an article on how to mass produce your own products. The post was rather popular and was picked up on many sites and social networks around the world - could have been because I posted it on April the 1st and folks didn't know whether it was true or not.Well as we say in these... | | |
| 12:03pm | Golden Week Japan | | | | Golden Week refers to a series of public holidays on April 29 (Showa Day), May 3 (Constitution Memorial Day), May 4 (Greenery Day), and May 5 (Children's Day). Many companies close down completely to give their employees a full week off, and many Japanese take the opportunity to travel abroad - but... |
| 2:20am | Roppongi Photowalk | | | | Today we go on a photowalk around the Roppongi [六本木] area in Tokyo. Folks who have been to Roppongi will have noticed large numbers of foreigners in the area which is mainly due to the many foreign embassies and foreign capital companies in the area. Roppongi is also well known for its night... |
| 1:09pm | Culture Japan Convention | | | | Up until now I've hosted an event called Culture Japan Night around the world where like minded comrades gather together to not only make new comrades but to also share and enjoy events that revolve around our passions. Time passes so quick whenever we have the event and I sometimes feel that the event... |
| 12:28pm | Asuka Shikinami Langley Kotobukiya | | | | Rebuild of Evangelion 3.0 was one of your fave flicks? If so then you may be interested in this smexy figure of Asuka Shikinami Langley [式波・アスカ・ラン レー] due out in next month by Kotobukiya. Today we take a pre-release preview of her - photos taken at the Kotobukiya headquarters... | | |
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