Recently I’ve seen a few anime bloggers talk about the community, mainly how it seems to be ‘dying’. There seems to be a few reasons for this, first up many new bloggers tend to quit in the first three months of blogging as they’re not pulling in the followers/ views they hoped for. The second… Continue reading 5 Anime Blogging Tips to Keep You Motivated!
I’ve been watching anime for most of my life, so I can tell pretty quickly if I’m going to like something. At most it takes me 3 episodes to decide whether something is worth my time. Is the story interesting? Are the characters tolerable? I am having a good time? 3 simple questions that I… Continue reading Parasyte: The Maxim – I tried to keep watching, I really did.
The Hakata ward in Fukuoka may not be at the top of your travel destination list. The area is where the underworld comes to life with drugs, prostitution and hitman abound. Hakata Tonkotsu Ramens follows such a group of misfits as they try to make a living in a near unliveable world. The stars of the… Continue reading Hakata Tonkotsu Ramens Review ~ Choose Your Weapon!
Following on from my otome post, I thought I’d share my experience shopping for yaoi and general Boys Love items. Unfortunately, this post will be quite a bit shorter than my other Japan posts. There really isn’t too much BL merchandise in Japan, definitely more than the West but not as much as any fujoshi… Continue reading It’s Fujoshi Time! Enjoying Boys Love in Tokyo
No trip to Tokyo would be complete without trying to buy as much Otome merchandise as humanly possible. As many of you otome fans will know, it’s near impossible to get any really nice goods overseas, and when you can find them, they’re insanely overpriced. So while I had the chance, I figured I’d spend… Continue reading The Otome Experience in Tokyo!
Akihabara and Ikebukuro are locations in Tokyo pretty synonymous with otaku culture. But a new place has slowly but surely started to pop up, that is, Nakano Broadway. I gotta say, looking at Youtube videos and blog posts about the place, I was hyped to check it out. The ‘broadway’/ shopping complex is only a… Continue reading Nakano Broadway ~ Not Quite the Otaku Paradise I Expected
During my vacation in Tokyo, I’ll be staying at a hotel in Ikeburo. It’s quite a big travel hub and has sometimes been referred to as the ‘female Akihabara’. Although I did see both men and women in every shop I visited, so not quite sure on the validity of that statement! You may have… Continue reading A Day of Otaku Shopping in Ikebukuro!
