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Japan Trip 2014 – Comiket 86 Day 3

Japan Trip 2014 – Comiket 86 Day 3

See this post for the introduction. See this post for background info on Comiket 86 After a relaxing day of cosplay photography came the main event of the trip: Comiket 86 Day 3: doujinshis, doujinshis, doujinshis! King of comic conventions, do you have enough doujinshis in stock? Unlike in day

Japan Trip 2014 – Comiket 86 Day 2

Japan Trip 2014 – Comiket 86 Day 2

See this post for the introduction. See this post for background info on Comiket 86 After the exhausting first day of Comiket 86 came C86 Day 2: the day of cosplay photography. Hnnnnngggggggggggg! *dies from heart attack* It was also cloudier that morning, so the initial outside waiting for doors

Japan Trip 2014 - Comiket 86 Day 1

Japan Trip 2014 - Comiket 86 Day 1

See this post for the introduction. After our last day of visiting Kyoto/Osaka, we took the shinkansen back to Tokyo and took a day break in preparation for the main event of the trip: Comiket 86. The calm before the storm: Waiting in line for Tokyo Big Sight to

Japan Trip 2014 - Nipponbashi + Dotonbori

Japan Trip 2014 - Nipponbashi + Dotonbori

See this post for the introduction. While going through photos in Lightroom for my recent Sakura-Con 2015 photo blog post, I realized that I actually never finished uploading and writing the rest of my Japan Trip 2014 blog posts… Oops… So here they are, with whatever commentary I can still

Japan Trip 2014 - Art of Gundam

Japan Trip 2014 - Art of Gundam

See this post for the introduction. In case you didn’t know/notice from my previous blog posts, I am a huge Gundam fanboy (to be fair though, I actually don’t blog all that much about Gundam, mainly cause I never find the time to build all those gunpla

Japan Trip 2014 - Tenshi no Sato + Kyoto Station

Japan Trip 2014 - Tenshi no Sato + Kyoto Station

See this post for the introduction. Continuing on from the Fushimi Inari Shrine visit, I went to meet up with sorrowmoon for a visit to Volk’s Tenshi no Sato. Tenshi no Sato was a dedicated Super Dollfie museum and “den” for Dollfie owners, complete with a Japanese-style garden in

Japan Trip 2014 - Fushimi Inari Shrine

Japan Trip 2014 - Fushimi Inari Shrine

See this post for the introduction. This was the first actual do-stuff day of this Japan trip, and the plan for me was yet another visit to Tenshi no Sato, but this time with my completed Arcueid Dollfie. sorrowmoon had scheduled our visit for the afternoon, so I decided to

Japan Trip 2014 - Arrival

Japan Trip 2014 - Arrival

After visiting Japan the past two years, I’ve decided to return once again this summer. The 2012 trip was right after graduation and my first time being in Japan and, thanks to rigorous planning by my friends, was a full blown tourism trip, with me doing tons of random

The World of Hatsune Miku

The World of Hatsune Miku

This is an essay I wrote while in university, titled “The World of Hatsune Miku – A brief overview of the VOCALOID phenomena”. The complete PDF version of this can be found here. Published under CC BY-NC-SA. Just under 6 years ago, while wandering around the somewhat unknown video-sharing website called

Dollfie Dream at Tenshi no Sato

Dollfie Dream at Tenshi no Sato

See Flickr for the complete photo set For photos of Tenshi no Sato, see my previous post Tenshi no Sato (aka “Angel’s Den”) is the heaven for Volks doll owners (website). Located in Kyoto a short walk away from the JR Saga-Arashiyama station, it is a facility dedicated for

Japan Trip 2013 - Tenshi no Sato and Kyoto Station

Japan Trip 2013 - Tenshi no Sato and Kyoto Station

See Flickr for the complete photo set Went to Tenshi no Sato (aka Angel’s Den) in Kyoto for my last traveling day in Japan. For those who don’t know, Tenshi no Sato is the Super Dollfie/Dollfie Dream haven (reservation required). Took a bunch of pics there with

Japan Trip 2013 - Fujiko F Fujio Museum

Japan Trip 2013 - Fujiko F Fujio Museum

See Flickr for the complete photo set Fujiko F Fujio Museum, the land of Doraemon and other works done by Hiroshi Fujimoto and Motoo Abiko. Stopped by a random cafe for breakfast. It was vegetarian. Tasted surprisingly good though. Some train station pics Special Doraemon-themed shuttle directly to the museum

Japan Trip 2013 - Nipponbashi

Japan Trip 2013 - Nipponbashi

See Flickr for the complete photo set Nipponbashi, the other otaku haven! (also known historically as Den Den town) Every day starts off with a subway We decided to take a detour through the side covered mlls Welcome to Nipponbashi, aka DenDen town, aka the otaku hotspot of west Japan

Japan Trip 2013 - Hakone

Japan Trip 2013 - Hakone

See Flickr for the complete photo set Boating and going up and down the mountains of Hakone during the rain, then and another ramen museum! Time to activate our JR passes! Stocking up on some snacks for the long train ride Watch out for chikans! First stop, the tourist booth

Japan Trip 2013 - Odaiba

Japan Trip 2013 - Odaiba

See Flickr for the complete photo set Ramen Museum, 1/1 scale RX78-2 Gundam (again!), and omnomnoms, featuring Robin! To Odaiba! Odaiba is modeled after famous architecture around the world… can you spot the references? A pirate restaurant O_o We didn’t go inside though, cause tasty ramen awaited

Japan Trip 2013 - Akihabara P7

Japan Trip 2013 - Akihabara P7

See Flickr for the complete photo set Moar Akihabara store wandering and neko-cafe ^_^ Start your day with some KAMEHAMEHAAA! Good morning Akiba Aparently there’s a Tamashi Nations Akiba Showroom in the station, so I took a few pics. Here’s a few samples: Grabbing some WcDonalds – their chicken burgers

Japan Trip 2013 - Asakusa

Japan Trip 2013 - Asakusa

See Flickr for the complete photo set This is the second week now. Break from Akihabara, lets visit some other places. This time around, we visit the Sensoji temple in Asakusa \o/ Can you guess what anime the below screenshot is from? ; 3 Lets start the day off with some

Japan Trip 2013 - Harajuku and Shinjuku

Japan Trip 2013 - Harajuku and Shinjuku

See Flickr for the complete photo set This is the second week now. Break from Akihabara, lets visit some other places. Starting with Harajuku, where you’ll find the latest fashion trends and girls in gothic lolita walking around the streets. Then moving on to wandering the streets of Shinjuku.

Japan Trip 2013 - Akihabara P6

Japan Trip 2013 - Akihabara P6

See Flickr for the complete photo set Just more stores in Akiba. And pizza, nomnomnom Liberty 12 Liberty 13, right next door Nyaruko-san W street ad Walking around White Canvas, the Touhou store The second floor had the actual games and CDs and some interesting dolls… D-Stage, another Touhou shop.

Japan Trip 2013 - Akihabara P5

Japan Trip 2013 - Akihabara P5

See Flickr for the complete photo set Meidocafe and, of course, moar Akihabara <3 Akihabaraaaa! (stupid truck) First stop, the popular chain maid cafe, @home cafe 4 floors of meido-action. We just went to the first floor See see no touch! I have to admit, better than the Gundam

Japan Trip 2013 - Akihabara P4

Japan Trip 2013 - Akihabara P4

See Flickr for the complete set More shopping in Akihabara, followed by a trip to the local izakaya for nomi-hodai (“all you can drink”) ; 3 Liberty 8 IOSYS store Liberty 7 Sofmap where I found my last Kagami figure http://myfigurecollection.net/item/91200 that I had been missing from

Japan Trip 2013 - Akihabara P2/P3 + Roppongi

Japan Trip 2013 - Akihabara P2/P3 + Roppongi

See Flickr for the complete photo sets Back to Akihabara for more shopping! Like in Akihabara P1, these are just a sample of pictures (see Flickr sets for the rest)… I spent a lot of my time cataloguing each store for my upcoming Akihabara Shopping Guide, so these aren’t

Japan Trip 2013 - Nakano Broadway

Japan Trip 2013 - Nakano Broadway

See Flickr for the complete photo sets Nakano Broadway is a shopping mall right outside the Nakano station and at the end of another long covered mall. It is an otaku shopping heaven as it is also the birthplace of Mandarake, the famous chain of second hand anime goods (“second

Japan Trip 2013 - Akihabara P1

Japan Trip 2013 - Akihabara P1

So last year right after finishing university, my friends and I decided to go to Japan for our graduation trip. It was a blast and not only did we visit many new places, but it was also when I started down the road of figure collecting journey. This summer, just

Akihabara Shopping Map 2013

Akihabara Shopping Map 2013

NOTE: This is partially outdated, will post an updated map later. While planning out my Japan trip Akihabara shopping spree, I spend some a lot of time researching all the figure/doll/gunpla stores and mapping them out. I figure this might be useful for others in the future. Here’