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Shisa yaibin mi?Yokohama Chinatown is famed to be the largest Chinatown in Japan, and I certainly had some fun navigating around. As you can get a feel for in the pictures above, it's an interesting fusion of Japanese town / street design and Chines...

Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge, Special Edition (PC, 2010)I really loved the first one. That said, this second one is relatively disappointing. The story this time revolves around finding "the Big Whoop", a great treasure supposedly buried by a...

Chihaya Furu 17: After attending their first national tournament two episodes ago, the team comes together again for another school year hoping to regear and address their individual weaknesses.Strictly speaking, I think there were more exciting epis...

Final Fantasy XIII-2 Collector's Edition.A really nice and smooth book style casing with a mini art booklet and a four disc game soundtrack.Worth the premium? I would say no.Do I care? Again, I would say no.Haters are gonna hate, but this is the re...

I had a heck of a time getting to this place - but I think it was worth it. Arrived at 8am if I recall correctly and spent an entire morning here. Home to a few historical buildings relocated from all across Japan and multiple gardens, it's a prett...

For the first time ever, this site has exceeded 4000 unique visitor monthly pageviews. A good omen indeed. As such, I'll try even harder to grow my site this year and to try to fulfill its original mission of sharing my experiences and interests wi...

I'd seen these daruma dolls in Japan at temples but never really bothered ... however, nothing is better at bringing these things to my immediate attention then popular media. Featured with some regularity on Nichijou (especially the one with drawn-...

Nisemonogatari 04:The (re)introduction of Shinobu, the vampire that gave Araragi his powers; there's history between the two (both violent and romantic perhaps) that was briefly revealed in the first episode of Bakemonogatari and will probably be the...

I dreamt of a magic door a few nights ago. How it worked and what it actually did in this dream is of no consequence, but the image of it has been stuck in my mind for the last few days, amongst the other things floating around in my head.Inspired b...

Diztronic Galaxy Nexus Case (revision 3 with volume cutout). Been using it for nearly 2 weeks.It adds very little bulk and gives the phone a nice smooth, soft feel. I think it looks nice too. It also comes with a screen protector, which took me 30...

Best of the week: Fairy Tail 114.Erza shoulders the immense weight of the lives of her guildmates in this do-or-die matchup vs. Azuma. Other epic goddess moments this week: Chihayafuru 15: Chihaya faces off against the Queen.Bakuman S2 15: Aoki sla...

A monstrous threat to humanity known as "Noise" have appeared. Not much are known about the Noise, except that they vaporize humans and the frequency of their attacks are increasing. Select humans can activate lost technology via song to combat the...

Last year I did a top 10 and 20 for the past decade. This year, I can kick off my blog with a list of my top 10 favorite anime for just 2011. It was pretty damn difficult to pare down my selections to just ten.Despite some heavy coverage by my own...

Kyono Madoka is miss perfect highschooler but seems to be bit of an airhead. One day she meets a mysterious girl that promises to be her comrade and asks her to pilot a robot. Under attack by alien forces, Madoka accepts and suplexes the alien inva...

Should translate to "Dog x I Secret Service." Fake tsundere main character (Rirychio) moves to an isolated community to be alone from the world, only she finds that the faithful butler assigned to her won't give her that space. Robbers break in and...

I got a request for a "Picasso-like" piece. Well, I am no Picasso, but I tried.For this piece, I really wanted to play with base colors and just get a feel for how to blend them. I experimented with different methods and as you go from low to high,...

Koichi is a transfer student from Tokyo into a remote Japanese town/city where his family is rooted from. He seems to makes friends at his new school, but it also seems that something is off; and they are hesitant to talk to him about it. The one g...

A much anticipated sequel (at least to me) to the brilliant Bakemonogatari. Araragi carries residual vampiric powers which basically allows him to take all sorts of punishment but heal up relatively quickly. With that premise, he continues to becom...

A gag anime focused on the daily activities three high schoolers who attend an all-boys school.First Impressions: Seeing as how I was going through Nichijou withdrawal, this thing hits the spot perfectly. Head to head vs. fellow rookie comedy entry...

Marika Katou-san is a highschool student who is the sole offspring of a famed space pirate, unbeknownst to herself. When dire circumstances arise, she becomes the heir of his legacy, space pirate ship Bentenmaru and its legalized pirating licence....

I couldn't find very many reviews for these Gunnar "talon" styled sunglasses, let alone reviews for Gunnar sunglasses, but I went ahead and purchased a pair anyways from the Gunnar website. The confirmation email was pretty light on details (no ship...

Hard to believe it, but I spent over 1000+ hours on gaming last year, which is probably the first time I've done so in my lifetime.Top 5 gaming time sinks for me in 2011:(1) League of Legends - 600 hours(2) Starcraft 2 - 200 hours(3) Marvel vs. Capco...

Saito is summoned from regular Japan to a magic world by Louise as her familiar. Through many trials and tribulations, they grow into a powerful warrior/mage duo and develop a complicated on/off/love/hate relationship. This is the fourth and final(...

Triggered by my dealings with airport security, body scans, luggage scans, and all; I had a dream sometime ago about a device and wrote it down for safekeeping. This contraption was a handheld scanner that acted like a portable x-ray device. When y...