Today we take a photowalk around the Shibuya area on a sunny Spring day with the cherry blossoms in full bloom.
Starting off at Tower Records. CD's are still popular in the land of the rising sun and probably one of the few places left on earth where you can walk down a street and still see CD retail stores.
Back when I used to buy CD's, I would rip them into MP3's anyway and the CD would just be sitting on the shelf. Speaking of CD's, you can download the MP3 version of CD that I released a while ago called Mirai Music from YouTube and the Internets.
By the way, all photos on the site since the new design are now full HD which should make decent wallpaper for some of you - right click to save.
If you go to Shibuya of late you will see a ton of construction going around - all part of a plan to turn Shibuya into another city within a city.
Even trading websites have their own anime style characters.
Shibuya Hachiko crossing. The blue poster between the red and white one is for a drama that starts April 11th called Doesu Deka - you must watch it!
Now that I have an apparel line for Smart Doll, I'm always on the look out for materials and 1/3 scale buttons.
Time for some Gorilla coffee.
I also find myself flicking through the lady magazines looking for apparel inspiration for our Smart Doll girls.
This chap is so popular - Gudetama - saw a load of it when I was in Taiwan too.
Truck advertising in Japan is a major form of street advertising which generates millions of yen of revenue.
Now that I'm working on Eiji Smart Doll, I'm also doing lots of research on Ikemen titles too ><
Bicycle parking - 2 hours for free, 100 yen for 12 hours.
Goodies for the current Sentai series Shuriken Sentai Ninninger.
One bad thing about running a business - no time to make Gunpla anymore ><
I do wonder from time to time how Bandai make those multi colored runners. From my experience of making the Mirai Frame using injection molding, only a single color pellet would normally be injected into the injection molding machine.
Makoto Tachibana from FREE raked very high on the Smart Doll Eiji wishlist.