Category: TV

  • MTV Feels Me

    Some nice new IDs for MTV Japan by W+K Tokyo.

  • Ani-Kuri’s Third Season Streams

    NHK have posted all five shorts for the third season of their ANI-KURI series online (the first two seasons are available as well). The third season has quite the line-up of directors: Shoji Kawamori (MACROSS), Satoshi Kon (PAPRIKA), Mahiro Maeda (BLUE SUBMARINE NO. 6), Michael Arias (TEKKONKINKREET) and Makoto Shikai (VOICES OF A DISTANT STAR).…

  • Kubrick Lost

    I’m a big fan of the TV series LOST — it’s the one show I watch religiously, every Friday night with my wife, as soon as a new episode is out — and here’s a surprising merch tie-in, Kubrick figures of the main characters from the show. Now, as much as I love Kubricks and…

  • Appleseed TV Series

    Last night I started watching the sequel to 2004’s beautiful cell-shaded CG film APPLESEED, 2007’s EX MACHINA, and I’m loving it. They’ve managed to one-up the original film by creating a look that’s more detailed, yet still uses cell-shading (can’t say yet if the story will match the original though). I’m also rather happy to…

  • Neojaponisme: Curriculumachine

    Over at Neojaponisme, Marxy dissects CURRICULUMACHINE, a very funky Japanese children’s show from the seventies. Sure wish I’d grown up watching that!

  • Tokyo Eye 1st Anniversary

    Starting today and running all week, NHK World TV’s TOKYO EYE is running a special episode to celebrate 1 year on the air, with a selection of segments from throughout the run. I’m told the visit I did to Cow Books in Nakameguro is to be included, and I expect you’ll see Patrick Macias and…

  • Tokyo Eye: Sanya

    The latest segment I did for the TOKYO EYE program is currently airing in this week’s episode (#48, you can see the broadcast schedule on NHK World here). It covers the Sanya area, which has long been known as an area with cheap hotels (frequented by day-laborers mostly), but in recent years has turned its…

  • Domo-kun Meets Mimibots

    I really like NHK’s mascot Domo-kun, and so does Mimibots it seems, according to this JoshSpear.com post.

  • Higashi-Ikebukuro Pocket Parks Again on NHK

    I’m told that the “My Private Tokyo” segment I did a few months back for TOKYO EYE on Higashi-Ikebukuro pocket parks will run again along with some other segments covering disaster prevention (September 1 is disaster prevention day in Japan). It will air September 12 on NHK WORLD, and September 19 here in Japan on…

  • This Week on Tokyo Eye

    This week’s episode of TOKYO EYE (#40) — it starts airing today — is the one which has me in the studio for the entire taping, and features the longest segment I’ve done yet, about 10 minutes long, on the creative use of space in Japanese architecture, featuring a few examples of what Atelier Bow-Wow…