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日本語/Japanese  Mon 10/23 21:27 JST
Received a call last Monday night and was asked if I would appear live on a TV show called Blog TV. My answer was "Yes your highness."
Blog TV is live every Friday night at 10 on Tokyo MX and covers the latest hot topics on the web 2.0 scene and general net trivia. I was asked to make a guest appearance in the "Super Blogs" spot to talk about my site, figures and some of my recommended figure sites.
Not used to being on TV live which is why I sounded like a right pratt. I cringe every time I watch it!

The show is actually 30 mins long and you can see the bit I was on below.

Ah, and before I forget, thanks to Roy for taking these pics on his coolsome 101 inch TV.

Update:DarkMirage has done a translation of the show. While he has done an accurate job, the conversation sounds a bit odd as there are some nuances that I would not normally say in English. Thanks DarkMirage!
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A ton of zits decided that they wanted to be on TV too and my face was full of em. Was not too bothered as I thought that the makeup person was going to cover them up with some of her photoshop powder. Then the rehearsals finished and it was 1 minute before we were on air when I realized that I didnt get powdered up ToT.
Apparently, if you want some make up all you have to do is ask.
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Video Journalist Toshi Kanda-san.
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Mikuru makes an appearance.
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You will notice that when I started writing this blog that I didnt write as many Japanese posts. Since mid last year however, I've been diligent in writing Japanese articles too and now have about 40% of my readers reading the Japanese posts. Looks like it payed off. I do write Japanese only content from time to time so for those of you learning or who read Japanese, you may want to check out the Japanese version of this site too.
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The armor was made lots of noise every time I moved!
I found out that week that Mr Hobby thinner 250 (which I usually use with gundam paint) is great at removing dirt from the armor which was why it was particularly shiny *^^*.
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Typical of Eddie to spot that I sat with my legs wide open. Its either sit like that or sit with legs closed and crushed get nuts. Stormtrooper armor is a pain to sit in. But I did manage to drive back home in it ^o^
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The ear mic that you see is something that I picked up from Yodobashi Camera for 700 yen and is just for decoration. The real mic is the pin mic attached to the chest armor.
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For those of you who have a link to your site in the left column, I suppose you can tell people that your site was on Japanese TV?
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All round narrator Kaoru Kanazawa-san.
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The Stairway to Heaven post ^^;
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This is the end bit where the guest usually gets chucked off the set but the director decided to have the armor in the background ^^;
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Going to have a peek behind the scenes. This is at the entrance of Tokyo MX. Signs telling the presenters and guests which room to go to.
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Pre rehearsal meeting with the director, producer and the other presenters.
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Being wired up with a pin mic. The pouches I have on the side belts came in rather handy which held the mic unit.
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Discussing details down to the second.
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Rehearsals take place 30 mins before live.
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My wife became my manager from this day ^^; She took these pics and I will be taking hers soon as she dons my armor ^o^/~
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The rehearsals was slightly different from the live version - a lot of it was just ad-lib.
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Rehearsals. Didnt get to mention Gunpla Blog on live as we ran out of time ToT.
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Group shot after the show finished. Kaoru, Toshi and Fumi Yamazaki from Technorati.
I cant remember if I mentioned it before but I used to be a member of Robert Starnowski Management back in the UK and made appearances in a Coca Cola commercial, a Discovery Channel documentary and a channel four drama called Family Money. Todays TV slot reminded me how fun doing TV stuff was and think I want to get back into it. Keep your minces peeled for more ^o^/

BTW, there are about another 50 shots in the gallery for this post.
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Polls
Andy H in Birmingham, UK
Yay! Nice one danny!

Quite a long segment too. Too bad I dont know what you're saying!
Any chance of some subs, or is that asking too much?
Shame they didnt show any footage of you out trooping in Akiba!

(ID #40511) Posted on 2007/01/02 01:23
Ash in Germany
Congratulation!You made it into TV!^^
Looks funny how you spread your legs while sitting there. ;)

Great Site btw. ^^
(ID #40512) Posted on 2007/01/02 01:23
ricky in providence, ri, usa
lol i wish i could have watched that live, did u sweat alot, i mean considering that u were wearing a stormtrooper?
(ID #40513) Posted on 2007/01/02 01:23
Leo in San Francisco
Congrats Danny. Didn't understand most of it, just a few words here and there. I wonder if you'll see an influx of mail because of this.
(ID #40514) Posted on 2007/01/02 01:23
Jason in New York
IM SO PROUD OF YOU! YOU TRULY MY IDOL!
(ID #40515) Posted on 2007/01/02 01:23
Gradus in Vancouver, Canada
Damn, but you're a busy man. Congratulations on your appearance and on your representing Storm Troopers well. You help those white and black dudes out where others never would.
(ID #40516) Posted on 2007/01/02 01:23
francois in Baltimore
would you mind make a fast translation of the "good moments" please!!!! :> thank you danny!
(ID #40517) Posted on 2007/01/02 01:23
Alafista in Singapore
wohoo ... spread some otaku love on tv ... u are great ~~

but somehow the stormtropper armor really looks kinda uncomfortable when u are sitting down .. lol
(ID #40518) Posted on 2007/01/02 01:23
Zeta
thats great danny, although, i didnnt understand a word of it.
lol can anyone sub that? j/k.
(ID #40519) Posted on 2007/01/02 01:23
octypants in SF, USA
ははは!ダニー最高!生ダニーの声とか聞けて楽しかった。
(ID #40520) Posted on 2007/01/02 01:23
John in Canada
ooo Danny!! you're getting really really famous!!! Can you puh-lease make a translation of the last part? 
(ID #40521) Posted on 2007/01/02 01:23
Dude, that's awesome! Congrats on the well deserved recognition. Your site continues to amaze.
(ID #40522) Posted on 2007/01/02 01:23
Brent aka Demacrez in Hyrule (I wish XP)
Lol!  Our own Danny Choo is a celebraty!  Congrats my friend, you really are my inspiration.  If I can just keep trying my hardest I can probably be just like you: being on TV and going famous. XD
(ID #40523) Posted on 2007/01/02 01:23
TIE_Defender2nd in Vancouver, Canada
LOL, that was koolness indeed! although I couldn't understand a lot, i still enjoyed it :D AWSOME. Congratulaions~!
(ID #40528) Posted on 2007/01/02 01:23
Ray in Shiidoni
long time visitor but 1st time commenting.
just had to reply on this magnificate success, congrats Danny.
(lol at the spreading legs while ur sitting must be very uncomfortable)
(ID #40529) Posted on 2007/01/02 01:23
Dalton in Singapore
Yo Danny, you looking good... way to go startrooper.... for the time being, welldone....
(ID #40531) Posted on 2007/01/02 01:23
よしむのBlogでも紹介させていただきました。
(*'▽'*)
(ID #40533) Posted on 2007/01/02 01:23
えーーーっ!!見たかったよ(> 
(ID #40534) Posted on 2007/01/02 01:23
hey danny,  please up to Youtube!! i wanna see!!
(ID #40535) Posted on 2007/01/02 01:23
RoBiN in United States
Not bad! You did good and I can't see your zits. 
(ID #40536) Posted on 2007/01/02 01:23
Chopper Dave in Medford, Oregon
I watched the whole video Danny! You were very good! Although I noticed you said something whenever you were talked to...I recognized it from watching anime, but I can't remember what it means...naturally I dont know how to spell it either...rendering this entire comment useless T.T

Anyway, its one of those things thats gonna bug me untill I remember what it means...
(ID #40537) Posted on 2007/01/02 01:23
Helterran in Dallas, TX
Hey, Ever since I saw this. I was like wow.. 

Anyways I cant understand Japanese but I am currently taking a Japanese Culture Class, And My topic is Anime Fans. 

I have no idea what I should write. Think You can help me? 
I am thinking of including figurines, convensions, and other stuff.
(ID #40538) Posted on 2007/01/02 01:23
AlMaadi in Saudi Arabia
I need to talk to you Danny. Can you email me?
(ID #40539) Posted on 2007/01/02 01:23
Nice! Haven't seen the Video yet (At work!) but I bet you did great.
;)
(ID #40550) Posted on 2007/01/02 01:23
Boris in Maryland, USA
wow danny you are sure moving up in the world, perhaps one day we should expect to see you as priminester of Japan in your storm trooper costume. hehehehhe I will defenatly watch it, mhhh is it in Japanese??? ahhhhh me no japanese.
(ID #40551) Posted on 2007/01/02 01:23
Way to go !!! 

(btw the Stormtrooper armor looks uncomfortable to sit in BECAUSE IT IS! It's almost impossible to sit down in!)

Nice! How did you hook up with the BLOG T.V. guys? Would be cool to get a chance to get on TV to promote alien-eye.com.

Respect.

(ID #40555) Posted on 2007/01/02 01:23
Marty in Boston MA USA
Nice going Danny!  That's good stuff.  They were suprised that 60% of your visitors are english, huh? ( at least I think that's what you said )   If they would just stop making such cool stuff, we'd stop buying it!  ;)
(ID #40557) Posted on 2007/01/02 01:23
Ken Cheong in Kuala Lumpur
Congratulation, Danny. Looks like things are looking up for you. Hope you'll have more success in the future.
(ID #40560) Posted on 2007/01/02 01:23
nodle in America
That's awesome Danny!
(ID #40562) Posted on 2007/01/02 01:23
DarkMirage in Singapore
Hi, I did a quick translation of the video here:

http://www.darkmirage.com/2006/10/24/danny-choo-on-blogtv-translation/

There are some missing lines, but hopefully it's a bit of help to those who don't understand Japanese at all.

Feel free to contact me if you can help to fill in the missing things or correct my mistakes. Thanks. ^^
(ID #40564) Posted on 2007/01/02 01:23
Danny, don't worry about having your legs wide open during the show. if what they say is true, and "the camera adds 10 pounds". then it's adding it on the right places. ^^
once again, Congratulations Danny! oh and thanks for giving our links a bit of airtime. ^^ Lol
(ID #40565) Posted on 2007/01/02 01:23
Chris in Toronto
Hey Danny, you look great on TV!  And looks like the hard (but fun) work is paying off too!

Congrats.  I wanted to start stormtroopping too seeing how the female cohost was all over you,  your helmet and your very large...stormtroopper rifle.
(ID #40566) Posted on 2007/01/02 01:23
Alex in the U.S.
That's great. Your website and all the work you do for it deserves praise and attention. 
(ID #40567) Posted on 2007/01/02 01:23
SG in UK
Sou desu ne.
SOOO DANNY! Your getting famous bit by bit, I congratulate you. one point of the scrolling down from a site, i think there was a image of a character with her skirt up lol.
(ID #40571) Posted on 2007/01/02 01:23
Danny in Tokyo
DarkMirage,
Thanks for the translation! Updated the main article to link to yours ^^

Sean,
Lets talk this more when we meet up.

AlMaadi,
Whats up?

Chopper Dave,
Could it be "Sou desune" ? It kind of means "yes" or "thats right" but has different nuisances to.

makiさん、
アップしているよ!

よしむさん、
ありがとうございました!
(ID #40573) Posted on 2007/01/02 01:23
I thought so, Thats why I wrote.. Sou desu ne. lol
Its Danny's saying for the day at Blogg TV lol Danny looks very happy in the video streamed on Youtube... And youtube got brought by Google...
(ID #40576) Posted on 2007/01/02 01:23
Gordon Pekeur in south africa -cape town-
thats awesome Danny, bout time they put U on tv!! Im sure this is just the beginning of things to come!! Good luck with your future and keep bringing us the good shizzzzz

Gordon!!
(ID #40583) Posted on 2007/01/02 01:23
Romuflox in European Union
That's really cool Danny Choo. Being interviewed and all that.
(ID #40606) Posted on 2007/01/02 01:23
Julien in France in Caen
super cool ^^


you're lucky to do that , continue!!

but in france we are later about japan  _|¯[0
and we don't have very fun TV 


a bientôt

(sorry for my english....)





(ID #40823) Posted on 2007/01/02 01:23
cloneofsnake in NYC
WOW! Congrats Danny! Saw the news about u on TV on Akihabara News... 格好いい! Hey, if you like figures, you should join my flickr group:

http://flickr.com/groups/figure/

(Posting you figure pics on flickr will get more people to visit your site, which translates to more $$ :)
(ID #40842) Posted on 2007/01/02 01:23
Tofu-san in Palos Verdes, CA
 Danny-san, this is really cool that you appeared on TV. Let's spread our otaku chikara around!
(ID #40868) Posted on 2007/01/02 01:23
Sakimichi in Philippines
Scanlator, iCONIST, Web master
Registered on 2007/05/14 14:05
Your such a lucky guy >_
(ID #51209) Posted on 2007/07/08 06:33
O.i.D in Spain
Computer repairs
Registered on 2007/09/16 11:02
Yay! Finally heard your voice clearly! I must say, nice voice Danny!
(ID #58804) Posted on 2007/10/08 13:15
Zerodyme in United States
Highschool, Junior, Virgin TT_TT
Registered on 2007/11/21 19:36
To be honest, when I heard "dannychoo" I was thinking of an American man, blonde hair, small goatee, blonde too, with wavy hair, who grew up learning japanese, moved to japan to inform all and everything like that. Took me by surprise dude. Good job, lol. *THis is like my 4th post ever, im still learning*
(ID #64712) Posted on 2007/11/23 17:01
Benjamin Takeyo in Lieu de la batille decisive
ひきこもり/Hikikomori. Suits my current state more than a 大学生/University Student. ^^
Registered on 2007/12/04 23:16
Hello there danny! Nice to see your real face! 

(ID #66171) Posted on 2007/12/06 13:35
Andy H in Birmingham, UK
Yay! Nice one danny!

Quite a long segment too. Too bad I dont know what you're saying!
Any chance of some subs, or is that asking too much?
Shame they didnt show any footage of you out trooping in Akiba!

(ID #82515) Posted on 1999/11/30 14:12
Ash in Germany
Congratulation!You made it into TV!^^
Looks funny how you spread your legs while sitting there. ;)

Great Site btw. ^^
(ID #82516) Posted on 1999/11/30 14:12
ricky in providence, ri, usa
lol i wish i could have watched that live, did u sweat alot, i mean considering that u were wearing a stormtrooper?
(ID #82517) Posted on 1999/11/30 14:12
Leo in San Francisco
Congrats Danny. Didn't understand most of it, just a few words here and there. I wonder if you'll see an influx of mail because of this.
(ID #82518) Posted on 1999/11/30 14:12
Jason in New York
IM SO PROUD OF YOU! YOU TRULY MY IDOL!
(ID #82519) Posted on 1999/11/30 14:12
Gradus in Vancouver, Canada
Damn, but you're a busy man. Congratulations on your appearance and on your representing Storm Troopers well. You help those white and black dudes out where others never would.
(ID #82520) Posted on 1999/11/30 14:12
francois in Baltimore
would you mind make a fast translation of the "good moments" please!!!! :> thank you danny!
(ID #82521) Posted on 1999/11/30 14:12
Alafista in Singapore
wohoo ... spread some otaku love on tv ... u are great ~~

but somehow the stormtropper armor really looks kinda uncomfortable when u are sitting down .. lol
(ID #82522) Posted on 1999/11/30 14:12
Zeta
thats great danny, although, i didnnt understand a word of it.
lol can anyone sub that? j/k.
(ID #82523) Posted on 1999/11/30 14:12
octypants in SF, USA
ははは!ダニー最高!生ダニーの声とか聞けて楽しかった。
(ID #82524) Posted on 1999/11/30 14:12
John in Canada
ooo Danny!! you're getting really really famous!!! Can you puh-lease make a translation of the last part? 
(ID #82525) Posted on 1999/11/30 14:12
Dude, that's awesome! Congrats on the well deserved recognition. Your site continues to amaze.
(ID #82526) Posted on 1999/11/30 14:12
Brent aka Demacrez in Hyrule (I wish XP)
Lol!  Our own Danny Choo is a celebraty!  Congrats my friend, you really are my inspiration.  If I can just keep trying my hardest I can probably be just like you: being on TV and going famous. XD
(ID #82527) Posted on 1999/11/30 14:12
TIE_Defender2nd in Vancouver, Canada
LOL, that was koolness indeed! although I couldn't understand a lot, i still enjoyed it :D AWSOME. Congratulaions~!
(ID #82532) Posted on 1999/11/30 14:12
Ray in Shiidoni
long time visitor but 1st time commenting.
just had to reply on this magnificate success, congrats Danny.
(lol at the spreading legs while ur sitting must be very uncomfortable)
(ID #82533) Posted on 1999/11/30 14:12
Dalton in Singapore
Yo Danny, you looking good... way to go startrooper.... for the time being, welldone....
(ID #82535) Posted on 1999/11/30 14:12
よしむのBlogでも紹介させていただきました。
(*'▽'*)
(ID #82537) Posted on 1999/11/30 14:12
えーーーっ!!見たかったよ(> 
(ID #82538) Posted on 1999/11/30 14:12
hey danny,  please up to Youtube!! i wanna see!!
(ID #82539) Posted on 1999/11/30 14:12
RoBiN in United States
Not bad! You did good and I can't see your zits. 
(ID #82540) Posted on 1999/11/30 14:12
Chopper Dave in Medford, Oregon
I watched the whole video Danny! You were very good! Although I noticed you said something whenever you were talked to...I recognized it from watching anime, but I can't remember what it means...naturally I dont know how to spell it either...rendering this entire comment useless T.T

Anyway, its one of those things thats gonna bug me untill I remember what it means...
(ID #82541) Posted on 1999/11/30 14:12
Helterran in Dallas, TX
Hey, Ever since I saw this. I was like wow.. 

Anyways I cant understand Japanese but I am currently taking a Japanese Culture Class, And My topic is Anime Fans. 

I have no idea what I should write. Think You can help me? 
I am thinking of including figurines, convensions, and other stuff.
(ID #82542) Posted on 1999/11/30 14:12
AlMaadi in Saudi Arabia
I need to talk to you Danny. Can you email me?
(ID #82543) Posted on 1999/11/30 14:12
Nice! Haven't seen the Video yet (At work!) but I bet you did great.
;)
(ID #82554) Posted on 1999/11/30 14:12
Boris in Maryland, USA
wow danny you are sure moving up in the world, perhaps one day we should expect to see you as priminester of Japan in your storm trooper costume. hehehehhe I will defenatly watch it, mhhh is it in Japanese??? ahhhhh me no japanese.
(ID #82555) Posted on 1999/11/30 14:12
Way to go !!! 

(btw the Stormtrooper armor looks uncomfortable to sit in BECAUSE IT IS! It's almost impossible to sit down in!)

Nice! How did you hook up with the BLOG T.V. guys? Would be cool to get a chance to get on TV to promote alien-eye.com.

Respect.

(ID #82559) Posted on 1999/11/30 14:12
Marty in Boston MA USA
Nice going Danny!  That's good stuff.  They were suprised that 60% of your visitors are english, huh? ( at least I think that's what you said )   If they would just stop making such cool stuff, we'd stop buying it!  ;)
(ID #82561) Posted on 1999/11/30 14:12
Ken Cheong in Kuala Lumpur
Congratulation, Danny. Looks like things are looking up for you. Hope you'll have more success in the future.
(ID #82564) Posted on 1999/11/30 14:12
nodle in America
That's awesome Danny!
(ID #82566) Posted on 1999/11/30 14:12
DarkMirage in Singapore
Hi, I did a quick translation of the video here:

http://www.darkmirage.com/2006/10/24/danny-choo-on-blogtv-translation/

There are some missing lines, but hopefully it's a bit of help to those who don't understand Japanese at all.

Feel free to contact me if you can help to fill in the missing things or correct my mistakes. Thanks. ^^
(ID #82568) Posted on 1999/11/30 14:12
Danny, don't worry about having your legs wide open during the show. if what they say is true, and "the camera adds 10 pounds". then it's adding it on the right places. ^^
once again, Congratulations Danny! oh and thanks for giving our links a bit of airtime. ^^ Lol
(ID #82569) Posted on 1999/11/30 14:12
Chris in Toronto
Hey Danny, you look great on TV!  And looks like the hard (but fun) work is paying off too!

Congrats.  I wanted to start stormtroopping too seeing how the female cohost was all over you,  your helmet and your very large...stormtroopper rifle.
(ID #82570) Posted on 1999/11/30 14:12
Alex in the U.S.
That's great. Your website and all the work you do for it deserves praise and attention. 
(ID #82571) Posted on 1999/11/30 14:12
SG in UK
Sou desu ne.
SOOO DANNY! Your getting famous bit by bit, I congratulate you. one point of the scrolling down from a site, i think there was a image of a character with her skirt up lol.
(ID #82575) Posted on 1999/11/30 14:12
Danny in Tokyo
DarkMirage,
Thanks for the translation! Updated the main article to link to yours ^^

Sean,
Lets talk this more when we meet up.

AlMaadi,
Whats up?

Chopper Dave,
Could it be "Sou desune" ? It kind of means "yes" or "thats right" but has different nuisances to.

makiさん、
アップしているよ!

よしむさん、
ありがとうございました!
(ID #82577) Posted on 1999/11/30 14:12