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Month: September 2016

  • Studio Ghibli Merch at Hot Topic

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    Hot Topic has a surprising large amount of merch — t-shirts, hoodies, and more — based on properties from Ghibli movies (like the My Neighbor Totoro tee pictured in this post). Most of it is surprisingly cheap too. Found via my buddy Shane.

  • Christophe Ferreira

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    I came across this interview (in French) with Tokyo-based Christophe Ferreira, a French person who works in the Japanese animation industry. It’s interesting to hear him talk about how he got his start — a difficult one, considering the incredibly low wages he received as someone starting out — and to see how he managed…

  • Don’t Trust the B in Apartment 23

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    I’d heard good things about this show, but hadn’t really bothered to check it out until now, since I noticed that it had popped up on Netflix. I watched the first few episodes of season 1 earlier today, and wow, I’m absolutely in love with it. It’s just way more crazy than I was expecting,…

  • Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping

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    I love the Lonely Island crew, always loved the SNL Digital Shorts they made, and even though they’re usually uneven, I like their movies too. Watched Popstar a few nights ago, and what I can say, I thought it was fucking hilarious. Laughed quite a bit throughout, and just overall thought it was a hell…

  • Tsunehisa Kimura

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    You probably recognize the poster on the right, for the movie Oblivion (which I quite liked). On the left is a work from the 70s by artist Tsunehisa Kimura, and yes, I think we can see where the inspiration for the visual on the movie poster came from. Found via this post, that includes a…

  • Shibuya no Radio no Shibuya-kei

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    As I’ve been deep diving back into the world of Shibuya-kei — the soundtrack to my world during my first few years of living in Tokyo — I was ecstatic to find out (via Patrick) that earlier this year, Maki Nomiya and Hideki Kaji started doing a weekly radio show called Shibuya no Radio no…

  • Print of Shibuya Station

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    Not long ago I mentioned the release of Gueorgui‘s Turbulence zine, and now he’s offering one of the photos featured inside (of Shibuya Station, pictured) as its own separate A2/A3/A4-sized print. Available in limited quantities, you can order one online here.

  • The Shin Godzilla Review

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    There are no two people I’d rather hear talk in English about Hideaki Anno’s Shin Godzilla than my buddies Patrick Macias and Matt Alt. Take a listen then to their review of the film, part of Patrick’s Hot Tears of Shame series. The film is set to open in the west later this year.

  • Also Soup Stock Tokyo

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    I’ve always quite liked the Soup Stock Tokyo chain — serving mostly nicely compact soup dishes — and now they’ve opened a new more restaurant-like (less fast-food) shop in Jiyugaoka called simply enough Also Soup Stock Tokyo, with a menu that is a bit more full featured. From all the photos found in this Spoon &…

  • The 1964 Olympics Uniforms

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    As part of his “Ametora Extended” collection of online essays, David has just posted a new piece that takes a look at the controversy surrounding efforts to determine who exactly designed the Japanese uniforms — mainly comprised of those iconic red blazers you see pictured) — for the 1964 Olympics. It’s an interesting read, especially…