July, 2010
Animate in Ikebukuro is one of the largest manga, anime and otaku products stores in Tokyo. A lot of manga and video game shops have emerged around Animate that before were located in Akihabara. Many people say that the “authentic” otaku spirit of Akihabara is slowly dying out and is moving to neighborhoods like Ikebukuro [...]
Shiinaneko-san has found an original way of using your iPad to improve your eating experience. iDish is the name of the revolutionary application. Somebody dares to make the same but with dishes from their country?
The other day Carlos, Alain, Mayo and I went to visit a temporary exhibition that showed some inventions that Fujiko Fujio, Doraemon author, imagined decades ago while drawing his manga. Most of the exhibition is centered around robotics advances in recent years that have allowed the creation of humanoid robots that can walk like Doraemon, [...]
474,048 is the number of restaurants and cafeterias in Japan. It is the country in the world with the highest density of restaurants/cafeterias in the world with one restaurant for each 266 people. The second place is for United States with 566,020 and a density of one restaurant for each 547 people. Notice that in [...]
Recorded using a Canon 5D2,EF24mm-F2.8,GLIDECAM HD-2000 by Egawauemon
World Champions!! Spanish celebration in Hachiko early in the morning (Monday here in Japan). Photos by Alain.
The project to make a live-action Akira movie is progressing well. The director will be Albert Hugh (one of his last movies was The Book of Eli) and the screenwriter will be Albert Torres. The movie will be based on the first three volumes of the manga, and in the future maybe there will be [...]
It seems like electronic cigarettes have been on the market all around the world for some time, however I didn’t know about them until recently. It turns out that lately I see them everywhere, even in newsstands and Japanese supermarkets. It’s healthy!! Notice how well designed is the package to conveniently recharge it.
