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My dolphin seems to be pink. What color is yours ? Wifey found this drink in Singapore and called me over to take a look ^^;

Just arrived. Must weigh 500 kilos. Review later. Posting from the iPhone.

Not out until the 16th in Japan but for some reason 2 AR.Drones just arrived on doorstep. Charging up now. I'm not going to get any work done today ^^; Oh wait - this is work ^^; And for those of you who don't know what it is - check out the previou...

Saturday afternoon preparing the conference talks, filming, overseas trips and local projects for the next 3 months - with the help of some MrDonuts which I just skated out to get. Was cool a few days ago but getting warm. Posted via mail from the...

Just gorgeous - Tsumugi Kotobuki figure by Max Factory snapped at the Wonfes last Sunday. Want. The blue sign says "Kanshu-chu" [監修中] (Supervision) which means that the prototype design is in the process of being approved by TBS. TBS may come back...

Nadeko Sengoku and some of the other characters from Bakemonogatari - brought to us by Good Smile Company. The first time I saw this Nadeko figure was when we filmed Culture:Japan back in June - but had to keep quiet about it if I wanted to stay aliv...

Grabbing some donuts from the place that does my fave afternoon snack - Mr Donuts.

Updated with more decent photos of DD Mio and Yui when at the ASCII offices earlier on this week.

Replacing the iPhone upload with a better pic of this rather lovely scale figure of Sanya V. Litvyak by Alter. Must have. Some Sanya action below to munch on while we wait. I didn't catch the release date though ^^; And how about some GITS x Strike...

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Transformers goodies snapped at todays Wonder Festival. All wonfes posts being tagged "wonfes" and live here.

Going to start this "My Tokyo Now" series where I post 5 photos where ever I am. Been a busy week and a packed day today. Busy is good for the business in particular which I've been working hard at building over the past few years. Things are really...

Cleaning up the mac and stumbled across these photos of Akihabara that I took at my Otacool signing session in October. Time flies! Better upload before the photos become too stale. Need to dash to the Good Smile offices in a mo so will let the photo...

Stumbled onto this video showing how Shinjuku changed over 35 years and remember seeing it on TV. The photos were taken by 4 people from the same spot over the 35 year period. And you can see some more of modern day Shinjuku in the time lapse vid be...

Completely rewriting this photo article with photos taken by Steve today at the blood donation facility Akiba:F.

When you don't have time to take a complete dip in a hot spring, you can always go for the foot spa also known as Ashiyu [足湯].

Sapporo - the fith largest city in Japan by population and capital of Hokkaido. Am here for a few days on business while trying to take some time out in between.

Filming for the BBC again at the office. Today I talk about the Otaku moe culture. Last time was in March - still waiting for the recording to arrive.

A bit after 7pm in Tokyo at Gotanda after dindins. Cycling around the metropolis at night in the cool breeze has been one of our fave past times of late. For this time of year, its particularly cool and have been going without the air conditioning fo...

More collaboration work - this time with Google. Google recently launched a promotion called My Favorite Place where 200 famous folks including Al Gore chose their fave place and stuck pins in a Google Map. To see my fave spots in Akihabara, go to...

Folks who read the RSS feed instead may want to pop over to have a look at the new Gateway redesign. Thank you to all members who provided input for the new design exactly one month ago today. There are many reasons for a redesign and I will go t...

Just want to go over a few strategical updates today. First up are the portals - the mains ones being the Figure and Japan portals. The portals are designed for folks who are here for a particular subject. The Figure portal for example features past...