Tokyo CGM Night

Woah- lots of big names in those pictures! (And by that I mean popular people. lol.)
I would love to attend something like this, but I'm still not old enough considering all the cans of beer there. Ha! Looks like great fun, Danny.

Cool gathering. I never go to things like that. I usually keep to myself and stay home, doing random stuff at home. Though, free beer is tempting.

That's strange, I had the "Ken Lee" song stuck in my head at the same time I came across the name on this article. ^^;;

My networks are mostly in real life. Then it's facebook and the rest the networking sites. Haven't been to a real party in a looong time though.

looks like you still keep a figma in your front pocket. ^^ btw please tell Hector he looks better with short hair.

I never go to such gatherings. Haven't really had any chances to do so.

Who that's a lot of big name people! Looks like they had a great time! >w<''

Wow, I really wish to join in the CGM industry, it look really enjoying to work in it~~~~~~~

While I used to organize gathering & conference for M'sia Forex Traders Community, but it's more to formal discussion & brainstorming over a luncheon rather than beers & snacks........

Is iKnow a free site to learn Japanese or you have to pay per course?...

Wow.. Many big names in the gathering.. Hope someday I can join these kind of gatherings

Wow.. Many big names in the gathering.. Hope someday I can join these kind of gatherings...

I will be getting into the networking business soon possibility

Network quite often...a lot of the schooling the military puts us through is more for networking than it is for actual learning... ^_^

Looking forward to it Danny.

I hope to be worthy of being in such an event one day! xD
Anyways, great idea... I bet lots of interesting stuff comes out from such gatherings!
And it's always nice to be with people who have common hobbies and interests as yourself...

I sometimes do I guess? IDK, it's hard to say. I like to think meeting people in everyday life is nothing really different of it's own. I suppose you could call it networking, but I wouldn't.

Networking is so crucial to success that you have to do it, even when you sometimes don't have the energy for it.

Nice meeteing out of the web 2.0 Always nice to share ideas.

WOW!!!!!!
That's really cool!!!!!!
I'll as a student trying to major in IT, learn stuff about tech and the network is awesome and all, but seeing so many people found success in the field is just amazing...
I should try harder now...alright!!!!! Time to hit the books...
I might want to try this Iknow thing too...

I network with as many cute girls as possible.

It's clear I don't network nearly enough. That's an impressive gathering. I'd love to be a fly on the wall and just listen to what you guys said. Any chance you'd post some abridged transcripts?

That is so awesome! I know a couple people at Google lol should make you invite them and tag along! ( ´ ▽ `)/

wow so many important people in the japanese industry. i usually only network with local people in the design industry. not much contact for overseas, though i would like too.

i think my biggest network at the momemnt is the ink and steel bodymod community ^^;

Wow.. that's a very good way to network with people and share ideas.

wow - another room full of industry greats

really is motivating when you post articles like this

lets of gaijin working in japan @_@

just wanna know, will there be a time to come when many folks not from the IT network with folks from the IT industry to boost their business? am kinda curious what kind of clients most IT company gets. danny gets clients from the figure industry, what about the rest?

thats a big screen right there =D

Sankaku... I'm interested in seeing Artefact's pics LOL

And Kagami got to be the center of the stage in front of the TV presentations.

Been patiently waiting for that email Danny! I hope I haven't been scratched from the list. *cries

Damn, all those big names. You sure have a multi-gigabit-network from the looks of it ^^.
I've never networked before....sure whish I could though.

Cool event! Wish I could be there so I could score some Good Smile goodies ^^;

I really like the iKnow stie, thanks for sharing that one Danny. But a couple of questions; How much laughing was there with Kevin Cooney in the room and, does Tkyosam EVER take off his headphones?

Wow blogging industry definitely has boomed now.
There are gatherings like that here too although getting invited means
you need to have a few acquaintances.
Regardless attending stuff like this is really fun.

i'd like to network but i think that crowd isn't for me =
and i haven't had much chance lol but it seems clear that any networking done in Japan requires beers. most networking i've done was with various students and professors from the university i exchanged at....

Ey! Peter Payne is wearing my shirt! XD Gonna be lotsa people there I see :D

interesting to see all those people, looks like there is a lot of energy in the room :)

Danny, that would be me between Ken and Neil!

<3 TokyoCooney/TkyoSam/Claytonian

Awesome guest list, Danny. You got some really awesome networks there

I would love to join this but was wondering do I qualify for the requirements?

I just started it few months ago after coming here the first time.

Did someone say free beer?!?

you absolutely have to invite brian ashcraft from kotaku too! no buts!
also, i got a hiyori nendroid from the anime house last week
thanks again!

Wow amazing event with losta famous folks. Would love to see the person behind sankaku at the next event.

WoW, Peter's alot shorter IRL than I thought...

But I think networking in Japan will only work out amongst foreigners no?

Cause I heard it's not easy making friends with Japanese.
It's not a shake your hand, grab a few beers over dinner and we are friends kinda thing.

Btw the first few guys are good looking. Why is it that most foreigners are good looking!!

Disclaimer: I'm not gay though it's not wrong to be but I'm not ^^;

Nice event, wish something like this could happen here. ;_;

This is amazing! Amazing how people can come together like this ^^; I know they are really famous people but I really dont know many of them ^^;

Sounds like a fun night! Beer, Food, and social networking! And I think it's great that Good Smile brought along figures to hand out, generosity must be on a whole other level in Japan =P

oh hey! i saw Protoform-S of Cybertron Philippines :)
anyways, that is soo cool...to be able to network with lots of people. (food looks delicious!)
good luck on the next event :)

Wow lots of famous people in on small room. Its still amazing how you went from a Benihana waiter to having your own business Mirai Inc.

Bah, networks. I find networking to be pretty hypocritical. On one hand, its purpose is to let you strengthen ties other people in your network. On the other hand, its purpose is to give you more access to opportunities by building connections with others. However, if you start building strong ties, then due to triadic closure, the rest of your strong social network is going to get access to the same information. Thus, you start losing opportunities due to networking and dissemination of information. So, it's great to network, but if you start getting too close to people, networking becomes less advantageous. Yes, I do network, especially within professional organizations, but I don't really enjoy it that much.

That's a lot of beer O_o

Btw, I didn't know "iKnow" until now! It's quite useful, thanks!

wow great party you got there. All the people have the same hobby, that's make a good relationship ^^

"Trying" to network with some profs and such (I didn't actually do anything yet), got some connections with upper year students in my faculty so I guess that's a start.

I want beer >_<

What a gathering! So many big names from many different areas. It is amusing seeing CEOs and other corporate figures mixed in with folks like Tkyosam! I love Kevin Cooney and Peter Payne's blogs, and read them quite often. I've seen all of Sam and Kevin's Youtube videos as well, and would highly recommend Mr. Cooney's videos to anyone who likes Japan.

I don't do any sort of Networking, unless you count gathering people who play music. Which counts i think, because i don't know some of the people when we meet. We eat and drink beer(tons of it) like you folks did, and we discuss music and exchange ideas(in the form of notes)hahah

I've mentioned this before, but I don't network nearly as much as I should. I don't even know a lot of the students in my year in my program (there's only 50 of us or so in total). It's actually quite worrisome and will probably be a major factor in holding me back in my future.

Unfortunately, school's been out for months due to a labour disruption so there hasn't been much of a chance to change that.

Nice article, hope the next event turns out well for everyone involved:)
Now reading this and thinking, maybe I should try to attend more networking type events...

Whos that DannyChoo dude? ^^

I dont really network.I honestly wouldnt know with who.Maybe ill get the urge to do so some day but until then im gonna stay the lone wolf

No room for the proletariat!!

I love using iKnow! Helps brush up on Japanese vocabulary.

looks like a great event would love to attend one in the future so keep them going. About Iknow that is a great site to learn Japanese I use it myself and learned a lot definitely helps with hiragana katakana and kanji practice

Have to have a look into iKnow never heard of it.

Freaking loads of networking events happen in my industry, favorite ones are the golf meets where if you get a whole in one on a certain number whole you get a porsche. Have to go to them for CPD.

Matthew Skyrm looked like Sylar from Heroes in the moment I started looking at the picture.
iKnow sounds great, I think I'll have a look at it.

I'm afraid of people.

Cool :P

ive been fortunate enough to have an underground network slowly develop out of nowhere. first it started as just hobbies of different people i know, then transformed into something else. whats awesome is anything in the medical field I have a question on, or need help learning about, i usually get an answer from someone that works there in about 48 hours. its great because all of my buddies that went to school with me are now specializing in different technical fields and studies. Most people dont realize they have one until they really look at it.

Wow! So many famous people, my eyes are spinning o_o
Looks like everyone's having a lot of fun there, too.

All right, I created a LinkedIn account because of this. Though I don't fit the profile, I figured it was about time I did it. It's ove rin my blog if anyone cares.
As to the event above, it looks like a fun time was had by all. Any plans to make this a monthly/bi-monthly thing?

Are their any al qaeda members here? how about linkdin I bet theirs a whole bunch that site.

very impressive, meeting of the minds! I wouldn't have known who most of those people are if you hadn't made notes of their names, but it would appear you rounded up the best of the best!
Also, Sapporo is a pretty good beer, nice choice!

Wooww looks like fun. Lucky people living in Japan.....:sulk:
Michael and John Fu be cute.

As for networking... I wish lol. Nowhere near enough fans like me/us to network with...that I know about anyways... they be hiding extra well....

Wow those are some really cool people (especially Danny Choo). I hope in the future my life is something similiar to that of DC ^^ (aiming to be a computer engineer also)

wooooo hoooooo Kevin Cooney!!!!!!!!

Looks like fun gathering. I've got the networking skills of a boulder

WO...lots VIP..
once again i get to know new website link,
hope can attend this gathering party..

So lucky they are live in Japan.....

From this terrific post you've turned me on to at least four websites that were new to me that I bookmarked for my regular reading. (and from one those sites I just discovered a cool band I hadn't heard of!)

I'm ALWAYS looking for new groovy stuff so you've made my day! Thank you!

wow emily on youtube is HILARIOUS

thanks for this post~ ill check out the other websites as well ~

wow I will be nervous if met them. all of them are pro ^^;

Wow seems like alot of fun, I have never networked before but if it had some big names like these maybe i would :P

Looks like a lot of gaijin. Was that by design or by nature of the CGM community?

Wow, looks amazing, with all the celebrities and famous people. Noticed alot of westerners ^^;

Wow, I'd love to attend one of these sorts of gatherings, but I think I'd be too intimidated by all the professional people xD;;

Gonna video the event? Hope to watch it. ^.^

Dun network much. Dun talk much with people that I dunno well and I dun like the atmosphere when everyone dun talk.

am in the creative media industry too but don't get much chance to network. yah, i know i should. it'll be nice to have one in such a casual setting.
hey danny, any chance to network when i'm in tokyo in march? <^;^>

I was in the media industry doing media research in the past and networking is part of the job. Gotta meet up with lots of media people every week for all the reasons as my job was mainly servicing these clients. Networking is a tiresome job sometimes as building relationships with people takes up loads of time, not to mention even the need to building relationships with people who do not like you. But ever since moving into the telco industry, all my networking became near-useless and non-existence. Really regret to move out of the media industry but things just don't go well all the time in life. :(

Hey Danny! It was a great event last time and I'm looking forward to this one too.
Incidentally, the sentence on the iKnow! application screen in that picture is <a href="http://www.iknow.co.jp/sentences/266876">here</a> and it's from a list based on Ep. 14 of Pengin Musume.

There are <a href="http://www.iknow.co.jp/user/moetry.in.motion/lists">plenty more</a> just like that, BTW :)

I thought DriKingu was in SF? o_O?

One day I'll be notable enough to come to one of these.....one day. Le sigh...

Yay the iKnow guy though. I love him more than I can describe. On par with Timwerx.net, maybe even better, but Tim gets extra points for being lovely.

You used to be a waiter at Benihana? I didn't expect that one coming.

My social skills are very poor. Well, I know what to do, but I have social phobias. It can take me fifteen minutes to psych myself up to call my best friend! So networking is something I haven't done.

this iKnow thing is pretty useful so far.

Honestly, I'm socially awkward outside the confines of anonymity provided by the Internet. I fare pretty poorly in networking situations, then again, the number of opportunities to network or simply socialized for me have become few and far in between in recent years.

DANNY! you've got connections to Wieden + Kennedy Tokyo!?! WHAT!?
i've been trying to get my work seen there forever.
pleeeeeeeeeeze you gotta help me out.
i gotta get my portfolio website in front of their eyeballs!!!!
:o

austin weird myspace is that really you or are you a fangirl?

a fan OF girls...
you could say that.

but ADULT ones only.
otherwise, that would sound inappropriate.

sounds like fun. where can i get that shirt that one dude is wearing in your last picture. i love godzilla

I used to network a lot with people from the IT industry, but not like this.

Sure would love to go to this event to come and meet you in person! (saw you post this link on twitter)

I have been to a Weiden+Kennedy event last December in their office in Ginza, very posh and chic place to work! ;)

I have been looking forward to these kind of events for the past since arrival in this country. I tried follow the Linkedin link that you have provided but I cannot manage to send you a message. Therefore, I have no choice but to register my interest in this Tokyo CGM Night through this comment. Kindly get back to me through my email.

In a few years, I too will have a website cool enough to be able to attend an event like this.

I is not so good at the networking thang... :( How do all you self professed otaku have such good social skillz? Give me some, or I shall bring the hell of 9000 internets down upon you.

I'm a blogger too but not that popular though. I live and raised in Brunei and I'm also an anime otaku. And I'm new here, some might say that I'm a noob in this.

Yeah...Lots of big people big people on one single little room.. ^.^

Emiry was there? Jack Ryan sends his regards!

Oohh... I see a really familiar face in the last picture^^;...

Wow, alot of big names...
I don't think I'd be comfortable in such a crowd, too serious(?)...

我非常喜欢这个CG，在三次元的世界里，这是一个美好的世界。