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The biggest figure and garage kit event in the world - Wonder Festival takes place twice a year. Good Smile Company has a live broadcast called Nama Wonhobby after each Wonder Festival which reaches nearly 400,000 viewers. For the first time ever we...

A few cosplay photos from the Wonder Festival taken last Sunday starting off with this lovely girl - I never thought I would find a cyclops girl to be cute! I forgot to ask which character she was cosplaying as though - anybody know?

How is your Valentines day coming along so far? Did you receive or give any goodies? Here is my Valentines day gift to you - Mirai Suenaga all strapped up in a ribbon waiting to be untied. Anybody in your life that lights up your fire? Are you in a t...

Update - Position closed! Thanks to all applicants - we got a few hundred! Please give me some time to go through them all. Will get back to you in Feb if you made the mark ^^ Ruby position still open though ^^; If you love anime and would rather wo...

The next Tokyo CGM Night will be held at the blood donation facility Akiba:F which you may recall is actually a crash landed spacecraft which is currently stuck in the side of a building. The outer hull has a Trans-Ion Kryptonian shield around it mea...

Sorting out photos for the next A Week in Tokyo and realized that I got a ton of photos piling up. Thought I'd take all the Yokohama ones and make a photo walk out of it.

An update on the first ever broadcast in English of the Good Smile Company program Wonhobby. The English version is to be broadcast at Nico Nico > http://live.niconico.com/gate/lv80896778 You need an account to watch but its painless to signup and yo...

Ships pass through the Millennium Gate as Eiji in his Solar Marine Shell and Mirai in her Solar Marine uniform do their hero pose - a doodle by Pinakes for the EOY event in Singapore that took place at the end of last year. The full scenario of Mira...

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 thi...

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 lu...

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 like...

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 comrade...

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...

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 bee...

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://bushiroad...

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...

Just another regular meeting at the Good Smile Company offices - thought I'd take photos of the goodies in the office between sessions. All photos taken on the Sony NEX-5N with the Zeiss Sonnar F1.8 24mm.

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...