Gaijin • Tokyo • Undergound

At the chain store Seiyu (now owned by Wal-mart) they have some super cool otaku tshirts available now. They have a couple lines that include Kamen Rider, Kikaider and Ultra Man from the Ishimori Design Works Collection. The style is all chibi super deformed versions of these vintage characters. I would like to have picked on up but they are very Japanese sizes, where the LL size seems like an M size. Stop by Seiyu to pick one of these up while they are available.

When you think of a Deli, usually one would think lunch meats, cheese and pre cooked foods like fried chicken, mac n cheese and mashed potatoes. For Japanese Delis its filled with tones of fried foods like, fried fish, fried pork, fried chickem, fried vegetables. Get the point of everything is fried? Well its also super convinient and especially cheap come the later hours of the day. Around 8-9pm depending on the supermarket, the food becomes discounted. Food will get discounted from 10% up to 50%! Tonights dinner selection is some fried fish along with a cheap sushi bento (not really sushi because it only had shrimp and crab, everything else was rice or veggies) aling with a can of root beer. The food was at 30% discount and came to about 350yen. When in Japan, to be budget minded, remember the food discount times at your local supermarket, it could save you tons of money in wich you can used to go drinking later!

I work in the area of Tokyo called Kichijoji. I often have extended break times so i head out and wander about to fill up my time. I usually stop this particular game center often because they have good prizes that are relativly easy to GET. This UFO catcher in particular i have played at least a dozen times, but i have never paid attention to the sign of this one. Yesterday night, after eating some kaiten sushi with my BF, i hinted i wanted to play some games but before heading in he wanted to smoke a cigarette at the smoke area just in fron of the game center. As we chatted is when the sign hit me of what it said "UFO COLON". This is a total LULZ moment for me! I love Japan and its inappropriate usage of the english language.

K-ON! has been one of those series that one gets obsessed about. For me I heard about the series in passing but never checked it out. It wasn't until i won the PV Yui figure from a UFO catcher, posted my winnings on twitter and then had people chime in how awesome the show was that i finally searched youtube to see what the fuss was about. Instantly I was hooked, the characters, situations, comedy, animation and music all worked together amazingly. Then something inside of me sparked, something that had been dormant for years... my inner otaku self had fully re-emerged. I have been living in Tokyo for over a year and a half and i have had access to all sorts of anime, manga and toys, but I did not have the same otaku urges that I had when i was younger, till i met Yui.


For the UFO catcher prizes this, this is the second series from these style figures. The first were of their regular uniforms, the current ones are from their imaginary music video from when they played their first live performance at the school. These figures are in a kind of retro 60's go-go girl look, and i love it! The set has four characters, Yui, Ritsu, Mio and Mugi, but i had not won the Ritsu figure from the UFO catcher, but I want to complete this set! There is a toy shop near where I work and they have the Ritsu for only 1000yen, so i have plans to get her probably this coming week.

For the overal quality of the figures, i like them alot. They are well designed, painted and sculpted but my only problem is from the Mio figure, she leans too forward on her stand and easily falls down. If you have a chance to find these, i highly reccomend picking them up.

Who cant pass these up right! I mean its power rangers and sausages together! AMAZING! I did end up buying the power ranger sausages and cooked them up for breakfast the next day... sadly they didnt tasy like power rangers... just odd tasting pork thingies in my mouth...