“Uchimizu” is a Japanese tradition in which you have to sprinkle water on the floor. The main purpose of this tradition is to refresh the ambient during the hot summer.
How to “uchimizu”. From uchimizu.jp.
My grandmother does exactly the same back in Spain, she usually sprinkles water on the streets around our home. In Spain we [...]
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I live next to Yoyogi park, the biggest park in Tokyo and also the funniest. It’s always full of “weird” people doing “weird” things, like for example me and Danny. Lately the is one guy who is every Sunday training with nunchakus, he is pretty good:
Talked with him and explained me and my friends that [...]
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After Tokyo dance trooper success, Danny gave me the opportunity to become the most powerful being in the universe. I couldn’t say no, I became Darth Vader! Our purpose was to make a video where Darth Vader is dancing together with an Stormtrooper in Harajuku and Yoyogi park, the final video is at Dannychoo’s site. [...]
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This weekend, before the Otaku demonstration, I helped Dannychoo to make a new Stormtrooper video . This is the result:
The video is the second most linked today from blogs all over the world, so our video is at Technorati’s top page! Even the iPhone can’t beat the power of Dannytrooper!
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This weekend I joined an Otaku demonstration, probably the first Otaku demo ever. It was in Akihabara were around 1.000 otakus joined the march against otaku discrimination. They claimed respect from traditional media that sometimes treats otakus people in general as “criminals” and also the “liberation of Akihabara and otaku emancipation”. Lately many big department [...]
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Just finished editing Darth Vader/Dannychoo video. I usually edit my videos using iMovie, simple and easy!. It just took me three minutes to prepare this video.
Look how Darth Vader is also using a Suica card, so he can pay the train just approaching his hand to the reader and the force will help him pay. [...]
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We already know Dannychoo because he likes to wear his Stormtrooper armor and walk around Tokyo. Dannychoo just got an impressive Darth Vader armor!!!.
I had the otaku-honor to be the official photographer during one of the first “long distance trooping sessions” around Tokyo’s streets and trains. It was pretty difficult to take pictures of a [...]
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The weirdest thing I’ve ever seen in Akihabara are used panties vending machines. But Dannychoo found something even more weird, a place where you can buy pretty realistic dolls with big boobs. If you want one of these “beautiful android women” it will cost you more than 500.000 yen. Usually these dolls are sold on [...]
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Gundam is one of the longest series of Japanese anime, it started in 1979 with “Mobile Suit Gundam” and it is still running with “Mobile Suit Gundam SEED”. The fantastic world of Gundam is huge, I’m not a Gundam fan but I can see series, films, OVAs, video games and figures every time I go [...]
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Found at Dannychoo this “anime toilet” that maybe is somewhere around Akihabara.
Unfortunately it seems that the previous picture is fake, but the original one it’s also kinda cool.
Found at Snopes.com
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