{"id":11597,"date":"2012-09-14T01:39:36","date_gmt":"2012-09-14T01:39:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ourstarblazers.com\/vault\/?p=11597"},"modified":"2013-09-15T07:42:58","modified_gmt":"2013-09-15T07:42:58","slug":"2013tourphotos6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ourstarblazers.com\/vault\/2013tourphotos6\/","title":{"rendered":"Yamatour 2013 Photojournal 6"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Left: remember what I said about any excuse for cosplay? This was a window display in Shinjuku. Try something like that in New York! Right: a small police office, attached to the side of a department store. Each one contains a hidden elevator that drops you 100 stories down to the giant robot hangar. Or the mole tank command center, depending on your precinct.
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Left: coolest Harlock swag ever. Right: the entire JR East train network in map form. Not as tough as it looks.<\/div>\n

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Approaching the Suginami Animation Museum<\/div>\n

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Left: the museum’s screening room schedule for the day, a tie-in to the “50 years of anime robots” exhibit: Godmars, Macross, Astro Boy,<\/em> and Tetsujin 28<\/em>. Right: someday I want to see every 1\/1 scale anime figure in one place. That’s not asking too much, is it?
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Recreated animator’s desks. The one at the right is attributed to Yoshiyuki Tomino, creator of Mobile Suit Gundam<\/em>, but they seldom stay this neat in real life.
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The central hub of the main room had sketches all the way around it by famous anime and manga artists.
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The historical index of film and TV anime from 1917 onward, with artifacts from the respective decades at the bottom.<\/div>\n

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The center portion. The TV in the 1980s section actually started playing the opening title from Fist of the North Star<\/em> when I got to it. Must have seen me coming.
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Left: me, with the largest Gundam<\/em> model kit ever sold. Yes, there was a time when you could buy this bruiser. And probably encase a child inside it. Right: Photography was verboten beyond the entrance to the “50 years of Anime Robots” exhibit. Turns out it wasn’t photo-worthy anyway.
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Unexplainable things in the back streets of Kabuki-cho. Where they belong.<\/div>\n

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Left: would you order that from Burger King, or attack it with a Jaeger? Right: coming soon to the Shinjuku Wald 9 theater: Wolverine Samurai, Episode Nippon.<\/em>
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Cast members on stage at the 009-1<\/em> movie premiere. The star of the film video-skyped in from Paris.<\/div>\n


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