| 11:26am | Iron Man Anime |  | | | Next to get the Anime treatment is Iron Man. There is a nice green haired girl in it ^^; Its Christmas in July! Marvel and Madhouse just announced and released 2 teasers for a 4 part series of anime movies featuring Marvel superheroes. The first two teasers are for Ironman and Wolverine and I am all... |
| 11:02am | Japan Mobile | | | | Our iPhone 3GS turned out to be cheaper than we thought. Not only did we pay nothing for it (we do pay about 6,000 yen for unlimited net usage per month though), Softbank also sent us 20,000 yen worth of gift vouchers than can be used at most retail stores across Japan. *And* we get to use all Yahoo... |
| 2:06am | Cool Rooms | | | | A ton of most coolsome rooms are being submitted for the Kotobukiya book Otacool (available on Amazon) at the official Otacool site. If your room is not on that page then its because you forgot to tag it "otacool." In this post we look at some of the photos which include you in it - hope I haven't... |
| 10:00am | Halo Legends | | | | Halo gets the animatized (is that a word?) The BONES, Casio Entertainment, Production I.G., Studio 4°C, and Toei Animation anime studios are animating Halo Legends, a DVD anthology of seven short films based on Microsoft Studios' Halo game franchise. Microsoft's creative staff is approving the visuals... |
| 11:36pm | Tokyo Figure Show | | | | image ID#27379Sorry to have kept you waiting - announcing the details of my first figure show - the Tokyo Figure Show. Details below copy pasted from the official site.WhyI've been collecting and writing about figures at dannychoo.com for quite a few years now and through working closely with the figure... | | |
| 10:15am | Tokyo Evening | | | | A wee bit after 7pm in Tokyo - Harajuku. The location of the Tokyo Figure Show - I wanted to post the "making of" but got flooded with other requests including optimizing the figure.fm server after being slashdotted - this is the main reason why figure.fm was lagging today. Figure.fm is turning out... |
| 3:05am | Wonder Festival 2009 | | | | I cant make it to the Wonder Festival this Sunday so I'm sending Nanoha instead. She will be mainly looking for Dollfie handguns, combs, stands and custom heads. When shes not looking for goodies and taking photos, she will be hanging around with the Good Smile team at Hall F. If you are attending... |
| 1:06pm | Dollfie Louise | | | | Two Dollfies announced for Dolls Party 4 in Nagoya which I'm considering to attend. Mini Dollfie Dream Louise (47,250 yen) and Dollfie Dream Dynamite (with yose mune (squished oppai)) (54,600 yen) Sasara Kusugawa. Looks like Louise could be my first MDD - and I already for some reason just happen to... |
| 10:56am | Tokyo Old Photos | | | | A set of incredible old Tokyo Photos stumbled on at Mainichi. These photos are from the 60's and I thought I'd pluck some and compare to present day with my photos - do a search for shibuya on dannychoo.com or go to the Wallpaper Pool to find some. The photo below below is the present day version of... |
| 5:36am | Gundam Giveaway | | | | Looks like figure.fm is really taking off with a load of Japanese press covering the co-branded figure.fm x Kotobukiya Otacool site. Coverage from Gizmodo, MSN, Livedoor and more to come ^^; http://www.new-akiba.com/archi ves/2009/07/otacool.html http://akiba.keizai.biz/headli ne/1555/ http://www.gizmodo.jp/2009/07/... |
| 12:04am | Tokyo Rainbow | | | | By the time I went to grab the Lumix, the second rainbow had faded and left its partner behind. Taken last weekend. Camera does not capture the real beauty though. Wonder how many years it will be when they have 360 cameras. As for what time I took this photo - well its the question for round 2 of... |
| 9:28am | Sailor Moon | | | | A ton of amazing rooms have been submitted over at figure.fm for the Otacool book by Kotobukiya. Will be highlighting them over the next few weeks but wanted to feature the room of Chibichibiusa who has a most interesting room filled with noticeably Sailor Moon plushies and a load of Dollfie daughters!... |
| 5:06am | Best Japan Blog | | | | Not sure what this all about but it was picked up by Forbes so I guess its good ^^; dannychoo.com was voted "Best Japan Blog" and I thought it would be a good opportunity for you to share what other Japan blogs you visit - Japan blogs as in slice-o-life and news sites and *not* pr0n sites ^^; I remember... |
| 10:58am | Kaguya HIme | | | | Just saw this during a CM break just now which reminded me to post it. Kaguya Hime is a 10th century Japanese Folk tale about a girl who was discovered inside the stalk of a glowing bamboo plant - you may have seen references to the story in some anime. Sho Shu Riki is a brand of deodorizer and usually... |
| 12:45am | Japan Construction Vehicles | | | | Have always thought how cute n small the Japanese construction/demolition vehicles look - small enough to fit onto the back of a small truck. The ones I saw in the UK were always huge and yellow. Akihabara News - Gadgetry from Japan (Subscribe) Japan Probe - Japan news and entertainment (Subscribe)... |
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