Bouncing Red Ball

If you’re a Gundam fan, you might be happy to learn that Nippon Travel Agency is now offering the “Green Tokyo Gundam Project Official Tour” through which you can stay at either Grand Pacific Le Daiba or Hotel Nikko Tokyo in Odaiba, where you can gaze at the Giant Gundam from your room and sleep [...]

The giant Mobile Suit Gundam now standing in Odaiba in Tokyo won’t be officially open to the public until July 11 but it looks increasingly ready for action by the day.
After being fully assembled last week, technicians are now testing its arsenal of lights, smoke and sound before the official “unveiling” two weeks from [...]

Shohei’s illustrations, sketched with ballpoint pen, are characterized by sparse use of color, bold lines, high contrast and gritty subjects. “Intense”, as one website (NSFW) put it.
Loud and dynamic, Shohei’s artworks are illustrative of Japan’s manga-influenced style of drawing.
Many of his illustrations (four of which are shown below) are displayed at Hakuchi Land; many are [...]

A train decorated with characters from the famous manga and anime series Galaxy Express 999 was unveiled today in Tokyo. The manga-themed train is a collaboration between Reiji Matsumoto, creator of the series and designer of the train, and Seibu Railway Company and will ply various branches of the Seibu Line in Tokyo for 4 [...]

I made plans last week to go to the Tokyo International Anime Fair in Tokyo Big Site. I had the train schedules worked out and the camera fully charged the night before but… somehow didn’t make it (it must have been raining that day ^_^;).
So I just had to see the whole thing online.
Fortunately, other [...]

Bandai Networks has announced the availability of their green-colored Gachapin-and-Mukku-themed netbook powered by Windows XP. Gachapin and Mukku are two popular Japanese anime characters: Gachapin is a 5-year-old dinosaur boy and his friend Mukku is a red yeti.
This decidedly unique netbook is anime-themed all over, from its custom system sounds (”oyaho”, “jaa ne” and “tadaima” [...]

Itasha aficionados in the Kanto Region of Japan gathered on the parking lot of a shopping mall in Nagara Town in Chiba Prefecture just north of Tokyo to show off their anime cars in an exhibition called “Winter 2009 Itasha Collection”. About 150 vehicles painted with anime and manga characters were on display last January [...]

The new year kicks off with an exhibition of custom cars at the Tokyo Auto Salon 2009 in Makuhari Messe. I went and took some pictures. Here’s one of my favorites: the customized μ-Dimension Acoustic Research anime-painted car.

μ-Dimension ELEMENT Series 4ch amp

μ-Dimension 12-inch subwoofer

μ-Dimension 50W/4ch AB-class power amp