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Month: May 2005

  • Visionary

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    Checking out the Mitsuo Katsui exhibition at Creation Gallery G8.

  • Shift 102

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    The May issue of SHIFT (102) is up, featuring a cover by TAKORA. Can’t say that I’m much into this month’s “Girls on the Street” section — it looks quite obvious that these weren’t taken at the Shift/Soso Cafe compound.

  • This Month at Gas

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    The latest Gas happenings: The Gas shop is getting ready to release 11 new color combinations (51 in all) for their shopping bag — you can order it at their online shop. May 21 will see the release of a new Gas Book (18), covering French film/graphic design group H5 (Amazon Japan link). Seems like…

  • Icon Vs. Atelier Bow-Wow

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    The article on Atelier Bow-Wow that was in the April issue of ICON magazine is now online.

  • Headless

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    A shop display in Ginza.

  • The Meet

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    I finally got to meet Yuki last night, and we went to Sangenjaya’s a-bridge cafe. She blogs me, as I’m putting on my coat in quite possibly the scariest elevator in Tokyo.

  • Production IG Love-Fest

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    Over at Patrick Macias’ (author of TOKYOSCOPE, and other Japanese film/anime related books and articles) blog you’ll find a nice little write-up of the recent Production IG event — set to introduce the new BLOOD PLUS animated series — that took place at Tokyo University recently. Although ostensibly held to promote the upcoming “Blood Plus,”…

  • Anime Column for May

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    My new anime column is up at Tokyo Q. This month: short reviews of SPEED GRAPHER, BASILISK, SOUSEI NO AQUARION, EUREKA 7, TRINITY BLOOD, and GLASS MASK.