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Did you know there are 2 situations where you can get free drinks from a vending machine in Japan? One situation is where you have to first buy a drink from a vending machine that has what they call a "roulette" feature. The banner on the top of th...

More slice of life in Tokyo. Eventful day today where I head to meet with many folks from Sanrio (the Hello Kitty peeps) and also learned loads about the licensing business in Japan which I will talk about when the timing is right. Starting off at l...

The anime, cosplay and doujin event Fancy Frontier takes place 4 times a year. The large events are called Fancy Frontier (FF) and the smaller events are Petit Fancy (PF). FF 19 took place last weekend and comrades at Aniarc went along to take some p...

Rayun from Switzerland posts photos of his most awesome eroge room over at Figure.fm. Rayun is surrounded by a load of wall tapestries, wall scrolls, posters, dakimakura, pillows, games, T-shirts and other memorabilia. Happy to see that he also li...

Had my PS Vita since the launch in Japan and am starting to like it a lot! Lots of eye candy graphics and decent games are starting to come out. But, the PS Vita comes with a lousy feature that prevents you from charging the unit unless you use the a...

Tis another giveaway time! This time round Akemi Homura Nendoroid is up for grabs which is being given away by the good folks at Hobby Search - a trusted online retailer of figures and hobby goods. This time I'd like to thank all my Facebook comra...

More life in Tokyo through photos. Photos taken throughout today on the Sony NEX-5N with Zeiss Sonnar f1.8 24mm lens. This snap taken at Gotanda [五反田] during lunch. The Rollerblades have been an incredible time saving tool. Have only fallen over o...

Calling all Good Smile Company fans! Got a few things for you to get involved with GSC if you are interested. First up is the Miku Art Mosaic Project. Good Smile would like you to submit your photos of your Vocaloid figures - can be any (Miku, Luka,...

I thought I couldn't get any busier during the last quarter of 2011 when I was in the middle of producing Culture Japan Season 2. Was hoping to make it to January alive where I could take a couple of days break. Now that its January however, its b...

If you are traveling in Taiwan, dont limit yourself to exploring what you see overground because they got a ton of goodies underground too! The area around Taipei Station has a huge underground shopping mall called Taiwan City Mall. One of the sectio...

Now that I've got the PHP developers that I need, I'm now looking for Ruby on Rails developers who I can work with to increase our client base of otaku related companies. So far we've got: http://yuzu-soft.com/ http://goodsmile.info http://bushi...

All of a sudden I feel like a Miku Donalds with some freshly made fries on the side. This lovely Ronald style Hatsune Miku made by a reader in Taiwan who I caught up with when I was there a few weeks ago.

Snapped at the Production IG headquarters. To my right is Kenji Kamiyama - anime director who has brought us Ghost in the Shell SAC, Seirei no Moribito and Eden of The East. Kenji-san is currently busy with the new production of the up n coming IG mo...

There are many resume templates that you can download from the Internets but I thought I'd share a tried and tested resume format that got me jobs at companies like Amazon and Microsoft and interview/job offers from Google and Apple - which I turned...

Got myself another DualShock PS3 controller. Wee bit big for our Saber though.

Was out n about in Akihabara last week giving a lecture at Digital Hollywood University. I dont go that often of late but when I do, everything seems so different. Many shops disappear while many new ones spring up. One of the things that I'm happy...

Photos of another stylish otaku home office posted over at figure.fm - this time by Dieta from Germany. Great lighting in the room which has figures dotted all over the place but displayed with thought as not to make the place look cluttered. I want...

Something for all Metroid fans coming soon from Max Factory. We got a 1/8 scale figure of Samus Aran which is due out in June retailing at 7,800 yen and a figma version of Samus in her suit which is also due out in June retailing at 3,800 yen. Bo...

Pretty much knew it was going to snow due to the very cold weather we've been having in Tokyo. Last year we had to wait until mid February to get settling snow but this year our serving came early and it was really bucketing it down last night. Phot...

Happy Chinese new year folks! 새해 복 많이 받으세요! 新年好！ My daughters and I hope that you get a load of red packets to buy a load of goodies! When I was younger, my parents didn't have time to look after me so I was brought up in various home...

Today we are going on a tour of Tokyo - not all of Tokyo mind you but on one of my favorite routes from Lalaport in Toyosu down the river on to Asakusa - a nice blend of the modern and the traditional past.

Was cleaning up my HDD a bit and stumbled across these photos of some apples which looked nice so I thought I'd do a post. The following text copy pasted from Wikipedia. The Fuji apple is a Red Delicious apple and Ralls Genet apple hybrid developed...

Was in Taiwan for a wee bit last week. T'was our first time over there and had a great time. I always knew that anime culture was a big thing in Taiwan but didn't know how big it was until I saw it with my own optical eyes. What I also didn't know wa...

Akemi Homura figma - gorgeous figure to have around on the desk but probably even more gorgeous if she was on your desk. Thats right folks - tis time for another giveaway! Today I'd like to thank folks who have my Google Plus account in their circle...