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As for the topic, 5 years ago in 2005, I started to proavtively blog about Japanese pop culture and work with other blogs to share traffic. I also started the Tokyo Stormtrooper thing.

It wasn't until about 2008 after I left Microsoft when things started to really take off. I started to work with many brand names like Good Smile Company and was invited to various parts of the world to talk about Japanese pop culture.

2009 has been the best year ever where I started to work even more closely with GSC, Kotobukiya, Cospa and soon it looks like some Bushi Road collaborations on the horizon too.