Posts in "Japanese Pop Culture"

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 y...

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 Mi...

Comrade Ken went over to Sapporo in Hokkaido where they are having a Snow Miku festival. As part of that festival, they have this lovely Snow Miku tram running around the city - following photos snapped by Ken. I've only seen Hokkaido in late Summ...

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...

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...

If you love anime and would rather work in a field which involves your hobby rather than working at a job where you are looking at anime related sites during work when your boss is not looking then read on. In this photo I have with me the boss of...

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

Trading card game company Bushiroad moved office recently to accomodate expansion of the company. You have seen their previous offices and today we take a lookie at the new ones.

Continuing from the Organizing Your Workspace post, today I try to reduce and clean up those horrid cables under the table. Its always been like this down there and I only just recently managed to clean it up a bit during the end-of-year big clean ou...

Photos of the incredible cosplay quality that could be found at Comic Fiesta 2011. Thanks to Shane for letting me share these here and on Flickr. Originally posted over at figure.fm. Oh, and if you was at Comic Fiesta and was part of the Culture J...

One of the things I constantly think about is how to become more efficient at managing my time. I've got a note to write about Time Management in a separate post but today I'm going to talk about a few things we can do to save time by making sure tha...

This lovely figure of Kuroneko as "Holy Angel Kamineko" by Max factory is now up for pre-order! She's 1/7 scale, due out this May and will retail for 8,800 yen. Pre-order info should be up at the usual bunch of trusted online retailers. http://ww...

A Summary on all the cameo appearances that my mascot Mirai Suenaga had in the TV anime series Mayo Chiki! - starting off with episode 13 where she appeared the most - and not just stills too but moving about ^^;

Many moons ago I used to work in the fashion industry. During that time, I discovered anime, manga and Japan and decided that I wanted to live and work in the land of the rising sun. I left the fashion industry to pursue my dream but since then I've...

I will be in Taiwan for a business trip next week and would love to have a meetup! Have no idea how many will come along but if enough come then we will close off the Good Smile Tetsujin cafe - if only a few then we will have a nice n cozy corner to...