Notes from Tokyo
Livejournal-style post cause SPRING BREAK, WOOOO
- The Eizo Onsen Geisha screening #16 was excellent. Mix of self-produced live action films, animation, and stage acts, mostly by a small core group of no-goodniks. The majority of the films were self-labeled “baka eiga”, which meant they were ridiculously funny if you enjoy puns and technical incompetence. I’m really hoping for a dvd release of Jigokusei, the hour-long main event of the 4-hour screening, featuring a main character named Kudryavka who was way cooler than the Little Busters character. Not as cool as the dog, though. Strongly recommending this to anyone who speaks a decent bit of Japanese and can enjoy some self-indulgence in others’ films.
- Went to Hobby Complex GK 01 today, hung out with some cool guys, saw some resin kits that I’ll never buy, also saw weird steampunk dudes wearing some killer bowlers selling fake wood cellphone faceplates. akibahobby has real coverage with pictures here.
- Also dropped by the last 10 minutes of Wonder Hobby 9.5. Saw the Billy Revoltech up close and personal, as well as the exquisitely sculpted BRS figure. Probably going to get the latter cause I’m lowest common denominator like that. Also saw those Touhou plushes with the ridiculous second-hand markup, are they going to start actually mass-producing those once and for all?
- Saw Try Tower’s Moonwalker cabinet. They’ve also got an old-school 4-player Captain Commando cab set up. Now if they could only set IIDX down to 100y/play, it’d be my go-to daily arcade.
- Took a peek in the newly opened Comic ZIN. Pretty decent selection of manga, including slightly more niche stuff, doujin section was a bit lacking though, though they get a thumbs up for one of their FEATURED CIRCLES being Rebis ww. The point card is 500y/stamp, 40 stamps/500y off, so ~2% cash back, which isn’t terrible. It’s pretty easy to find, right off of Chuo-dori, and is worth checking out at least once.
- In other manga store news, Mandarake Complex’s small size is really obnoxious because that means they don’t stock nearly enough old magazines. I really need to get my hands on a copy of Garo 1994/5 :(
- Ichigo Mashimaro vol 6 just came out and it is barely over 150 pages and is a collection of works starting in mid-2007. Barasui :argh:
- Finally, GoFA is running a Tetsuo Hara exhibit until the 8th. I know what I’m doing tomorrow.
