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AFAID 12 Culture Japan Booth
For a very long time, I've wanted to visit Indonesia to visit my user base and Anime Festival Asia Indonesia made it possible a few weeks ago. It was just so awesome to be able to meet folks who read...
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Anime Festival Asia Indonesia
Anime Festival Asia Indonesia was just incredible. Everybody in the industry kinda knew there was a huge market in Indonesia but nobody up until now had ventured into Indonesia in a big way to find out...
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Meiji Jingu Shrine
Located in the Shibuya ward in Tokyo is Meiji Jingu Shrine - surrounded by 700,000 square-meters of forest, the place is a great place to be especially in the Summer - the shade of the trees makes the...
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Desk Diary 2012/09
Its been 5 months since the last instalment of Desk Diary! Got a load of photos piled up so need to split them into 2 posts - today we look at the changes around the lounge area.As mentioned in the...
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Hatsune Miku Events
Hatsune Miku is a part of daily life in Japan now - shes in convenient stores, street posters and now there are many Miku related events and collaborations going on including the one in...
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Doll Show 35
The 35th Doll Show took place today in Tokyo and I managed to muster a couple of hours at the event before heading back to the office. As usual the place was filled with lovely dollies and accessories....
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Wagnaria
Mirai Suenaga joins Wagnaria as a new member! Speaking of which, its your last day to stand a chance to win a free return ticket to Japan - details here.Yamada finds out who took her uniform.
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Japanese Book Stores
The book store Japan Center in Piccadilly London was my gateway to Japan 20 years ago. With no Internets at the time, Japanese book shops like the Japan Center were our only portal to Japan for...
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Pixiv x Mirai Suenaga
Am delighted to announce that Pixiv and I got together to bring you one of their illustration contests! For those who are not beknowist, Pixiv is the largest community for artists in Japan and by...
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Nakano Broadway in the Summer
Its technically Autumn but still feels like Summer! For the last instalment of the "Japan Summer" series for this year, we take a look at Nakano Broadway in Tokyo. Nakano Broadway is an indoor shopping...
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Linkin Park Nendoroid
Other than anime and game characters, Good Smile Company have been making quite a few figure renditions of humans (gasp). The next product is Linkin Park who get their very own Nendoroids! This set of...
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Streets of Tokyo 2
Started this series a year ago and only managed to do the 2nd installment today >< Today we continue to take a look at the streets of Tokyo - some of these taken on trips outside of the...
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Anime Bikes
Do you like anime? Do you like bikes? Then you may like these bunch of photos taken at the NicoNico Chokaigi earlier this year. I've been riding a roadbike for a while now but have been interested in...
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Hatsune Miku Itasha
At any Itasha event, you are guaranteed to find a load of Hatsune Miku Itasha - these photos taken at the NicoNico Chokaigi that took place earlier on this year. There is a poll embedded in this...
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Takeshita Street
More filming with actress and model Hiura Yuika - this time we are out n about in the Harajuku (Tokyo) area to explore the young n trendy Takeshita Street (also known as Takeshita Doori).You have seen...
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Chuunibyou Demo Koi ga Shitai!
Chuunibyou Demo Koi ga Shitai! [中二病でも恋がしたい!] is a light novel adaptation produced by Kyoto Animation (K-on, Haruhi) with Ishihara Tatsuya [石原立也] (Clannad, Air) as director. The main characters in the...
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Tonari no Kaibutsu-kun
Tonari no Kaibutsu-kun [となりの怪物くん] (The Monster Seated Next to Me) is a new romantic comedy being produced by Brains Base (Durarara!!, Natsume’s Book of Friends) and directed by Kaburagi Hiro [鏑木ひろ]...
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Moekana T-Shirts
Been hunting around for a decent T-shirt manufacturer for ages and finally found one! I wanted to be able to print full color on a black T-shirt but finding solutions which provide vibrant long lasting...
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Kick Heart
KickStarter - the platform that enables creative folks to crowdsource cash to make their ideas into a reality. Anime Studio Production IG has decided to embrace the platform for a project called Kick...
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Busou Shinki Anime
Busou Shinki [武装神姫] is a mecha musume series based on Konami’s Busou Shinki figure line. Directed by Kikuchi Yasuhito [菊地康仁] (Macross Frontier, Infinite Stratos) and produced by 8-Bit (Aquarion Evol,...
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