Hajimemashite, ahbonk desu *bows*
Everyone's doing it, so I'm joining in the fun!
So it all started one day when my friend introduced me Ranma OVA. He said the cartoon had bare bewbies. "No way, no cartoon has bare bewbs man!", I exclaimed with confidence. He reacted, "Ok let's make a bet, one week's worth of Maggi Goreng (fried instant noodles)". "You're on!"
I lost ^^;; They were bare and stared right at my face.
While watching the VHS dubbed in a language that I didn't understand (Chinese), I got absorbed into it more than your usual Saturday morning cartoons (it's not the bewbs I swear!). Since then, I've been a big fan of slice-of-life anime shows.
Fast-forward 13 years and here I am now, in Tokyo :) My interest in Japanese culture and anime took me this far.
How did you start liking anime or japanese culture?
I'm Hazmer, a Malaysian. To be specific, a KL city boy. And now a Tokyo city boy too!
I like the little details of everyday life in Tokyo, and all the festivities that come with it. I take pictures with references to what you see in slife-of-life anime, in hopes that you are able to see in the way that I view them. You can check my blog in the [www] link above.
I'm a Japanese language school student, studied for a year already. The big goal is to enter the game industry, either commercially or, uh, doujin-ly, as I'm a small-time game designer myself back in Malaysia. If you have the time, please check out my two debut games:
Ballistic Wars (Jayis game review and game link)
The Last Canopy (Jayis game review and game link)
Ok enough talk. Time for some self-indulging (or in Malay, syok sendiri) pictures!
Spring Festival in Ueno Park. Sakura galore!
Was at the Tezuka Osamu exhibition too. Why must talented people die early?
Climbed Mt. Fuji and met these sporting construction workers. Love that shovel guy.
Tired after going through a record-attendance first day in Comiket 76.
Spending my first Eid Ul-Fitr (Aidilfitri) in Tokyo.
Rivers are shown in almost every slice-of-life anime there is to exist.
Every harem anime must have a beach episode rite? :) Went to Ooarai beach with my cousin, joined midway by a funky Japanese stranger. Fun!
My third Tokyo Game Show.
Had a replica of the station master jacket nearby and took the opportunity to take picture with a cute station attendant in Hakone.
Acting all cool in front of the Gundam 1:1 scale model.
I love my school coz they have all these wicked events throughout the year, like this Yukata wearing session.
Oh yea, sometimes I like to spend a little time on Photoshop to do stupid things!
Combined with some baseball practice photo in Suidobashi.
Photoshopped Miku into my school cultural festival picture.
Acted like Amuro Ray, complete phail.
Sometimes lame Photoshop skills rock.
And now for some obligatory room pictures. In terms of anime merchandise, it's nothing compared to my Malaysian room. When you're in Tokyo to study rather than travel, every single yen needs to be saved.
Alright that's all about me. I'll be posting more of Tokyo life pictures here for your viewing pleasure! If you're in Tokyo, I'd love to meet any Danny Choo-ians out there. Korekara mo yoroshiku ne!
Hallo there and Happy Eid ul-fitr. Your last pic made my day :D
Happy Eid Ul-Fitr to u too!
Sorry, added some room pictures, so it's no longer the last pic xD I'm assuming you meant The Host poster?
hehe
I wondered why the picture of a computer with DC.com on it would make anybody's day xD
Yes, that's the one XD
Very comfy room too. I kinda like it.
I'm quite the Ikea fan :P
interesting.......
Just like your avatar...
lmao
This is a rather interesting and different introduction. I like it.
I too like the shovel guy (looks like a good shovel btw). What were those guys doing on Mt. Fuji? I thought it was a mountain/volcano of mythological nature and shouldn't be built upon, apart from a whole lot of vending machines.
Looks like it's a cool school with events like the Yukata wearing session. I never encountered any great events like that. The closest thing would some race around campus, but the main goal isn't to arrive first, but to do it as drunk as possible, so I passed. I think there is something mentally wrong with events where the goal on it's own is to get drunk.
Ah they're building some tunnelways at the bottom so that climbers won't be subjected to falling rocks.
whoa an event to get drunk? That's so Japanese xD
That's quite possible, but not unique to Japan. You see I have never been outside Europe ^^
I think students in all countries (at least in the industrialised world) get their own ideas on how to get drunk.
Oh and thanks for the comment. Was trying a different approach to the intro thing, glad someone noticed xD
Loved the pics especially the train pic with the Tifa looking girl on the right. I'm also an Azumanga Daioh fan so the poster made me cheer! I started my fandom with speed racer and starblazers when I was a kid and then forgot about anime for a while until Ranma got me back.
Tifa? Where?!
Ranma has saved the world yet again!
5th pic, girl with the large eyes by the train door. Just reminds me of Tifa.
I spotted that girl too quite fast and then "oh, I think I'm supposed to see the guy in the front first" ^^;
Great photos! I love your blog. It makes me very jealous - I miss Tokyo. I'm also jealous of your adventure on Mt Fuji, I wasn't able to try the climb on either of my trips to Japan. :(
This brings up an interesting question. If you are short on time, is it worth the time to climb Mt. Fuji? After all it's not something you can do in just an hour or two. Besides I have been on a mountain so is this one so totally special (besides the mythology relation, that is)
Thanks koganinjastyle :)
If you're here only for a few days then it ain't worth it, unless you're some mountaineering enthusiast. If you're here for, say two weeks to a month, and you come in July or August, then it should be considered. It's quite the experience.
Such unique experiences includes queuing up to climb near the peak in the middle of the night, an anti-climatic vending machine + restaurant-filled mountain peak and a post office at the top that has a special stamp for all postcards sent out. Also, a wooden hiking stick that can be bought and stamped at every station.
Queues to enter the place, stamping machines along the way. A trail to follow all the way (including artificial tunnels it seems). Post office, restaurants and vending machines once you are done.... Somehow I get the impression that it could pass as the mystery mountain in Disneyland? xD
I guess I have been naive, but I imagined it a bit more like when I tried to climb a volcano. I was when I was in Iceland and basically we just went to the countryside and found a volcano. The car was then parked in the roadside and we walked say 200 meters to reach the foot of the volcano. Then the tricky part was to figure out where it would be safe to climb and then actually climb the 300 meters (or whatever it was). At the top we looked into the crater (there was a pond at the bottom) and all around. Great view as it was the tallest point in the area.... and kind of eerie. After all everything visible was rocks, other volcanos, more rocks, the ocean, even more rocks, the road and that's it. The only manmade object within several km was the road and the parked car. Everything else was that lunar like landscape Iceland is famous for and odds are that it had been a very long time since anybody else climbed that specific volcano. Sure it wasn't anything like Mt. Fuji in size, but it was still a really interesting experience.
Oh btw it might not have been the best day to do it. It was typical Icelandic weather, meaning cloudy, a little bit of rain once in a while (tiny drops), around 15°C and windy, specially at the top. I guess that's part of the experience ^^
haha very interesting intro!
lol the yukata wearing session pic look like some Yakuza Gang! photoshop time! =P
should have met up with u when I went Tokyo during August and C76! xD
Thanks!
Yakuza movie huh? Great idea!
Awwww man, you were here? Hope to see you again in your next trip :)
yep, http://www.figure.fm/post/en/1195/The+Comiket+Experience.html
I had other posts (in figure.fm) too while I was in Tokyo, feel free to have a look! ^^
Awesome post! And you finally had Reimu in your hands too :) Gotta get that next time I go Akiba
I like your introduction, please share more of your view in Japan ^o^
Thanks, and will do ^_^
Those pictures where sooooooo great.
Thaaaaaaaanx :D
Actually I'm using a humble 4-year-old 6-megapixel Sony Cybershot DSC-W50. Just a little color level adjustment and 16:9 cropping with Photoshop, and voila!
Very nice introduction! I really like the picture with Osamu Tezuka's work in the background. hehehe, love those photoshoped pictures, especially the Rookies poster!
Hehe thanks, only when I have the time I would do such things though xD
ossu sempai XD
ossu! demo senpai janai, onaji doushi da!
I looked at your blog and that was an interesting experience (which I can recommend). You seem to be quite a character. You provide some "normal" blog topics like your travels and then you add boring pictures to it (like just road pavement or electrical wires) and somehow manage to make it quite amusing. You should be happy for being able to do so. I think it's a rare and quite good gift to be able to do so.
I was laughing all the way though the dating sim video (much harder than normal since you already made me in a good mood).... what will they come up with next? xD
I noticed one flaw though (not a serious one). In your interesting trip to Ashikaga you saw an old train "carriage". It's actually more like an old freight locomotive (stats). This makes it more interesting as it's usually out of reach for regular people. Did you happen to get a look inside?
Funny thing is that Danny once saw a lone "carriage", which turned out to be an EF81 (further down the page). This makes me wonder how often people see locomotives without realising they are a whole different world compared to the usual electrified carriages. Carriages has windows for passengers and are relatively light, meaning they have 4 wheels in each end (best stability). If something has more wheels than that, then it's heavy and (in this case 96 tons) and it has to be something else. After all even fat passengers can't make a carriage that heavy ^^
Oh for the record: the locomotive power is 2550 kW, which is 3465 horsepower (I suspect that should be read as +- something). This is in other words quite powerful and I will be sure to take a look if I'm in the area... which I have no plans for at the moment :/
I thank you for your great blog. I had a great time reading it :D
Thanks for your comments!
I seem to have missed that carriage part. Thanks for pointing that out! I was so intrigued by your knowhow that I appended your writeup to my blog post. Hope you don't mind ;)
Wow, I got famous. I got quoted on another site \o/
Not that I haven't tried that before though. I find something new online every time I search for my real name. Luckily nothing bad yet ^^
Looks like I hid my question a bit too well. I didn't get any answer
Whoops, I actually read that question, just forgot to answer it, gomen!
No, the whole locomative was gated, so there's no way to get in :(
Odd, considering the doors are open. I guess somebody decided to pass the gates anyway, specially by judging from the writing in the dust. I don't think I have ever seen kanji "graffiti" before xD
Whoever did it is in for a severe punishment. They passed lowered railroad gates and the train is right next to them :P
Nice to meet you. See your a fellow Aria fan, nice!
Like your introduction pics too. Will check out your blog in a bit.
I am and will always be an Aria fan. Ha-hi~!
Please do check it out from time and time and leave comments :)
Haha, cool introduciton man...
...nice to see some ARIA merch scattered around the joint as well. Man I didn't realise that ARIA Company model was so small.
Thanks. Actually the size is just right for me, coz the smaller the diorama the more detailed it looks somehow.
sweet introduction ! I visited your web and you have an interesting way to blog. would love to meet you someday. :D
And I visited your web too. My goodness, your pictures are gorgeous! You should share them here and let other ppl know of your awesome photography skillz.
well if i was in japan, i will be broke in one week lol hajimemashite ahbonk kun~~ hope to go to japan a few years later~