Hyper Japan was held in London's Earl's Court Brompton Hall the past three days. I attended on the last day. Can't say I was overly enthused and right now it's late so too tired to write up my opinions either - might add these later. For now, here ar...
Evangelion World is a very cool place to visit if you are an Eva fan and ever find yourself near Mt. Fuji or want a day trip from Tokyo. Its situated only a few minutes from Kawaguchi-ko (a fantastic lakeside town and a great base to climb Fuji-san f...
When I've showed my photos from Akihabara, people always ask me where such and such is. To help, I picked up this map in Akiba. Its a bit out of date, so I have annotated the map with the hotspots. For full resolution, check my blog.
Since the food photos from my first trip to Japan seemed to go down quite well (and others shared their Japan food photos too!), I thought I'd post the food photos from my second Japan trip. I've got a lot of them so will split them into two posts. I...
I know it isn't standard Loot to show off here but I just received a bunch of stuff from the Cave International online store. For those who don't know, Cave is a small company run out of Tokyo who specialise in making danmaku (bullet hell) shmups. Us...
So, I've just made it back from my 2nd Japan trip and started laying out all of my loot. I've posted some of it before, but this should be everything all in one place (bar lots of fliers and other cool little bits and bobs that I've kept to decorate...
Following on from Harajuku, I once again visited Akihabara! Love it there so much. I was at work from day 4 till today (day 8). I return to Tokyo tomorrow and have two more weeks in Japan! Only have my laptop with me for work, so won't be uploading a...
On my third day I went to Harajuku. It was a Sunday which is when Harajuku is supposed to be at it's best. I meant to go to the park before seeing what the shopping area was like. But I never made it to the park. Spent ages in the shopping area. It w...
So, on Day Two, I spend most of the day in Nakano Broadway, and awesome Otaku shopping place in Tokyo. Bookmarking the day was Akihabara, since that's where I get the train from. I already posted up my loot from this day. Was awesome. Probably posted...
I've been promising in all my loot posts that I'll put up the photos from my current Japan trip. On Day One, I arrived in Akihbara about 5pm, but still had a great time, before taking one of the last trains back. Returning to Akihabara felt just like...
Sorry, today's loot isn't as exciting as Day One or Day Two's, but I thought I'd carry on the series anyway. It was the first day I had a decent amount of sleep (a nice lie-in and I think I'm over the jet-lag now!) I spent most of the day in Harajuk...
After only managing to get 4 hours sleep, I slowly made my way into Tokyo again and spent most of the day at Nakano Broadway. I didn't mean to spent that long, but it was pretty much the whole day. I ate lunch there (tonkatsu, at the same place I'd a...
So, I've made it to Japan. After leaving my house for the airport at 7:30 yesterday morning, got to Japan at 9am today. Then only just on in my hotel at 2pm. Had a shower, went somewhere to eat, felt horribly jet-lagged all day. But I still made it t...
I'm off tomorrow for my 2nd trip to Japan! After last year's trip in May/June. This time I'm off for three weeks, until November 6th. The first week is with work, then a week travelling about with a friend, and a final week on my own. If any fellow f...
Anime News Network are reporting that Good Smile Company and Tetsujin are opening 10 new anime cafes in Asia. With the first being in Akihabara on October 28th! This is very exciting for me, because I'm going to be in Japan at the time! Apparently th...
This is the 1/8 scale figure of Nakano Azusa from K-ON! This is produced by Kyoto Animation (KyoAni) and is exclusive to their web store. This is the ending theme - Listen version of her - the previous KyoAni K-ON! exclusives were all from Don't Say...
A surprisingly large box was awaiting me when I got home. I had no idea I had ordered a figure, then realised what must be inside. I've only watched episode 1 of the anime, but really liked the Nendo design with the baseball accessories!
I love the vending machines in Japan. They are everywhere. I think it's computer games like Shenmue and the Yakuza series which got me intrigued in them. When I finally got the chance to visit Japan last year I took loads of pictures of them. Here ar...
Haven't posted in a while so these are actually 2 months old! Anyway, I know Miku is one of the most popular figures out there, but I hadn't owned one. This was my first (and now I have a second! no pictures yet though). She is of course a Nendoroid...
After seeing a couple of your posts on Japan food, I thought I'd join in and dug out the food photos from my trip to Japan last year. I kindof just took photos randomly of my food, so its not the best or worst of the food I ate, just random. Won't in...
Recently brought a load of figures out of hibernation and also decide to re-arrange a lot of my growing Nendoroid army so thought I'd share with you my current desk setup. Hope you enjoy...
Hi guys, as I said before, I've recently got back into taking figure photos and indeed, have got more figures out now than for the first couple of months of the year. I've already posted one I took of Saber Lily. Well, I've taken a few more random sh...
I was going through my old unsorted photos and came across this farly decent shoot of Shana. I got her back in September and took these photos then. Should have posted them up then. Shana is 1/8 scale and from Max Factory. I really really love the tr...
Hi guys, its been a long time since I've taken any figure photos, and an even longer time since I've posted here. So tonight I thought I'd take a bunch of pictures of one of my more recent purchases. I think this photo came out the best...
I'm sure you've seen others photos here that its been snowing quite a bit here in England. Certainly a lot more than we usually get. Well, today I finally braved taking a variety of figures out in the snow for some photos. Hope you enjoy :)
Been really looking forward to KyoAni's exclusive Kotobuki Tsumugi figure. She looks just like she stepped out of a 60's era girl group. She arrived this morning and quickly snapped these photos for you to see. She's 1/8th scale, and of course, based...
This just arrived today and is my first 1/7 scale figure. She is, of course, Kureha from Shining Wind, by Max Factory. I believe the original character design was by Tony Taka and the box features some of his illustrations. As I said before, this is...
