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Month: February 2004

  • Morning Musume's Audience

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    A friend of mine who works in the media recently attended a Morning Musume (the idol group that has been dominating the J-pop charts for a few years now) concert, the one that featured the “graduation” of one of its older members (Abe Natsumi), and he was just blown away by the makeup of the…

  • The Long Passage

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    Still at Shibuya station. See, I told you it was a long passage. Shot taken with the A5403CA mobile phone.

  • Ghost in the Shell Is Not for Kids

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    Yuko is watching an episode of GHOST IN THE SHELL: STAND ALONE COMPLEX right now, and she just made the comment that she’s amazed at how complicated the vocabulary is, and that kids would not be able to understand a lot of what is being said. They use words that she writes in her Masters…

  • Changing Times in China

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    A few observations from Anna-Sophie Lowenberg, “former editor at BEIJING SCENE and bassist of Beijing grrl punk band Bieniu,” about a recent return to China at Danwei. Definitely interesting, and things that I also admit having noticed on my last trip to Beijing.

  • Japan.box.sk

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    This is just so hilarious. Japan’s alternative news source. Think The Onion. Link via Chad.

  • Zozoi

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    Met up with Patrick last night in Ikebukuro, and we went to the Zozoi cafe, on the west side of the station. I wanted to bring him to a cafe I had found in last week’s issue of HANAKO (a special feature on nice spots in Ikebukuro) called Haha, but the place was having a…

  • Shibuya Station Passage

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    Super long passageway at Shibuya station. You need to walk quite a long ways if you take the entrance near Planet 3rd to get to the Yamanote line, passing through the Saikyo line platform. Shot taken with the A5403CA mobile phone.

  • Appleseed Trailer

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    The trailers page at the Japanese Apple site has an absolutely stunning trailer for the upcoming animated film APPLESEED. Features a combination of CG and cell-shaded graphics to give it an original look. There’s also a new trailer out for the second GHOST IN THE SHELL film, INNOCENCE.

  • Paper Sky 8

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    The new issue of PAPER SKY is out. I spotted it the other day at Junkudo, when I got the latest issue of ART iT, but was surprised to go back today and see that they were out (presumably sold out). First time I see them sell out. I’ll go have a look at Libro…

  • Viewtiful Joe

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    On my way back from work last Friday night I stopped by one of the used game shops near Ikebukuro station and picked up VIEWTIFUL JOE for the GameCube. It’s a game I’d been wanting to get ever since its release, and finding it for 2000 yen was the final incentive for me to get…