A guided tour around a landscape dotted with video games, toys, pop culture and nostalgia, stopping to explore the obscure and the odd, too.
From Kirainet recently, apparently there is Mexican food to be had in Japan! I had heard that it was very rare to find a Mexican restaurant in Japan. But, originating from Okinawa of course, some brilliant chef has made taco rice, much like omurice, a fusion of Western and Japanese cooking. I could eat omurice everyday for at least one meal, it's so good with ketchup! Anyway, the original article is here.
Birthday present 2 of 3 from Laura was this surprise restock of Kouzuki Karen from Code Geass. I loved this series when I started watching it and normally it takes FOREVER for me to get through a 25 episode commitment. However, I plowed through that and ended up at episode 13 of R2 as of today. This series is probably the best I've seen in a while, I dare say it exceeds even Gurren Lagann. =P It's very engaging, and it's quite a departure from the fantasy, fluffiness and gay guys that CLAMP usually tosses out. That's not to say that I don't like CLAMP's other stuff, I always loved Card Captor Sakura, Tsubasa, xxxHolic, R.G. Veda and just about anything else by them (sans Legal Drug of course, ugh what a turd), but this is way above and beyond their usual plot structure.
Got this from Yahoo Japan Auctions through Goody Japan. She's a CharaHobby special edition, that comes with different faces, a different base, a cape and a crown. She's super cute.
Got this from my friend Laura for my b-day along with two other figures. I normally don't get random figures from random series and I've never actually encountered this series anywhere (and found out that it was hentai, so that explains that), but Laura was pretty geeked about how she looked and her flowing scarf, and I liked how she looked.
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