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Month: April 2004

  • Tokyo Fun Party

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    I’m not really into the sounds of Usagi-Chang Records, but I know a bunch of people who are, and so I’ll share this info about the Tokyo Fun Party event taking place at Uplink Factory on April 24. Here’s the rundown from RT (yeah, it’s pretty obvious that I’m catching up on REALTOKYO news bits…

  • Chessboxing

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    I take it this was all inspired from Enki Bilal’s NIKOPOL TRILOGY, of which a new film adaptation called IMMORTEL (or GOD DIVA here in Japan) is being released here next week. From RT: What the hell is chess boxing? you might ask. Simple answer: a funny kind of sports (?) where the opponents switch…

  • Tabiten

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    If you mix art and a cafe space, you know I’m going to be there. The TABITEN show takes place at the Uplink Gallery‘s cafe, and here’s more info from REALTOKYO: This is a group exhibition on the theme “travel”, shown in the cafe space of Uplink Gallery. The event includes a special display of…

  • Todai Hongo 3

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    But it’s not just the old that you see, as there are a few newer buildings that help give the campus a modern feel.

  • C.L.I.J.S.T.E.R.S.

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    This week I had a chance to listen to the new Yukari Rotten (AKA Yukari Fresh) single, “C.L.I.J.S.T.E.R.S.,” and it’s just not doing it for me. The single has 3 tracks, the first one being the dirtiest (punk-like), and the second one is actually not far from sounding like a regular Yukari Fresh single, but…

  • Todai Hongo 2

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    Another shot of the Todai Hongo campus.

  • Todai Hongo

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    Last week I went to visit Yuko’s new university, the famous Todai (Tokyo Daigaku, or Tokyo University). Her department is at the Komaba campus on the Inokashira line, but we went to the Hongo campus, which is only 4 stops from Ikebukuro on the Marunouchi line (and where she’ll be using the library, since it’s…

  • Gyo

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    I’m a huge fan of Ito Junji’s horror manga (TOMIE, UZUMAKI), but I had no idea that the 2-volume GYO series had been released in North America through Viz. “It’s been a month since the fish grew legs and lifted themselves out of the sea and descended on the Japanese mainland. The death stench plague…