I wish you a MERRY CHRISTMAS and to get your presents by a Santa like her!!

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Today I made my weekly visit to pop life department. m's (my favourite adult store in Akiba) and found the new condoms + lotion produced by my super favourite Japanese illustrator: Mizuko Junko!! These condoms got a smooth, lubricated surface in a beautifully designed packag! Each box comes with a trading card designed by Junko Mizuno. Don't you think this is the chance to have more sex and compelte your collection of Junko's masterpieces?!
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Ok, I now that posting videogames themed bentos is so 2007 but I'm (still) a Game Watch collector and right now I'm playing Professor Layton everyday on the Chuo sen to Akiba so I couldn't resist! I love you Anna the Red!!


Yes, it's Super Smash Bros Brawl...

Today I found a beautiful small blog called Drill Pop that features movie posters, LP covers and illustrations from the Japanese 60s (and some masterpieces from Thailand and Korea too). I'm sure fans of Japanese rtro pop culture and Quentin Tarantino movies will love Drill Pop!
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Yesterday I went to the press preview show organized by VORC RECORDS at the beautiful Synra Dome at Tokyo Space/Science Museum (Super Lisa Katayama posted about his Planetarium on io9. This dome has been created by two guys: Hikaru Okuda set up the hardware while Toshiyuki Takahei does all the software programming, including hooking the images up with complex calculations done by a giant supercomputer called the MDM, Molecular Dynamics Machine, which sits just outside the theater). The chiptune show is really outstanding and after you put on the 3D glasses you take a dive in a psychedelic retro futuristic 3D universe with simply the best chiptune/8bit soundtrack I ever heard in the last 10 years! Outani San, the mastermind of VORC Records, has really took the chiptune scene to the next level and BLIP FESTIVAL should really do something with him to make the US chiptune scene reach the SUBARASHII level of the Tokyo's VORC chiptuners!

If you are in Tokyo on 21th December  you can miss this show!

Simone Legno has created a true xmas masterpiece for the Royal-T kawaii paradise!
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Our otaku idol/photogrpher Julie (aka Amano Ai) will be on ga-cha tv this afternoon! You can watch the show online on ga-cha tv website.
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(via Watch Impress) After the Dreamcast PC mod, the akiba PC modders have created the very first Dreamcast Visual memory USB... if only SEGA would produce a PC like this...
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Some friends are working on GAKUGEIKAI: a new doujin manga that will be released during the last day of Comiket. Behind this manga there are a couple of famous mecha and videogame designers so I'm pretty sure it will be really succesfull!!! It's a shame that on 30th December, when Comiket will open I will be on a plane sipping a good sake while flying to London... _

Brian from Big Squid RC reviewed the Centaur RC Tank that came with the
limited edition of GEAR OF WAR 2 sold by BEST BUY. He is a really cool guy who got a super retrogames collection (he got the second biggest collection of PACMAN memorabilia and he worked on titles like: Street Fighter, Spy Hunter, Mortal Kombat, Fight Night, Dragon Ball Z, to name a few).
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WOW! Today Brian "Kotaku"  Asciukurafuto San appeared in Zoom In!! Super, one of my favourite shows on Japanese TV! He spoke about about Japanese arcades seen by foreigners perspective and of course about his great new book: Arcade Mania.
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Dotter.exblog is a Japanese blog with beautiful 8bitesque 3D illustrations!! These digital masterpieces are created by Tibori Design: the same guys who create CD covers for the Japanese chiptune cult band YMCK. WOW!!!

Brian, night editor at Kotaku super blog, just told me (actually he wrote few days ago, but I had a techno club marathon during the weekend so I'm just recovering...) that his new ARCADE MANIA game center bible is on sale on Amazon so we don't need to wait till official release in January to get a copy. At $13.57 it's a must have if your are into arcade games or not!!
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(via Modellismo Hobby Media) Need for Speed Undercover it's not a great racing game at all but the Japanese distributor is doing a great marketing job with a promotional web game based on Google Maps. The first player who will find a Porsche in the tokyo map will win 1 million yen: way more fun than playing the actual console version!  _