{"id":22854,"date":"2016-03-13T22:10:14","date_gmt":"2016-03-14T05:10:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ourstarblazers.com\/vault\/?p=22854"},"modified":"2017-03-14T22:31:17","modified_gmt":"2017-03-15T05:31:17","slug":"168a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ourstarblazers.com\/vault\/168a\/","title":{"rendered":"Yamatour 2017 travelogue, part 1 continued"},"content":{"rendered":"

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One of my favorite views: the heart of Nakano as seen from the JR station platform. The arched entryway is the open-air Sun Mall, which leads to Nakano Broadway.
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As you march through Sun Mall, it pays to look into the various alleyways you pass. You might just spot an Eva<\/em> girl singing karaoke.
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Left: a special issue of Pen<\/em> magazine all about Marvel. Holds a special place in my heart because the editors came to our studio in the fall of 2016 and I was one of the few they chose to interview. In other words, my first appearance in a Japanese magazine! Right: a certain anime CD soundtrack spotted in a Mandarake showcase. The level of pain this gives you would tell me exactly how deep your fandom goes.
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Anime cels in another Mandarake showcase.
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And yet another. Do you think they know it\u2019s Yamato<\/em> season?
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Armored Trooper Votoms<\/em> is my second favorite anime, so it\u2019s always nice to spot a new product. Unless it\u2019s got an unbelievably ridiculous price tag on it, like these two soft vinyl Armored Troopers. HUNDREDS of dollars? nnnnnnOPE.
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Yamato<\/em> girls figures are alive and well and mostly holding their value.
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All volumes of the Yamato 2199<\/em> manga spotted at Kinokuniya bookstore with some shout-out for 2202<\/em>. That manga is still going. Maybe another year or two\u2026
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The Marvel special from Pen<\/em> makes another appearance at Kinokuniya, right next to a 50th Anniversary Lupin III<\/em> magazine. I vividly remember buying a 40th Anniversary Lupin<\/em> book on my first day in Tokyo back in 2007.
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Entrance for Isetan\u2019s Lupin III<\/em> restaurant. Pictures OK!
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This placemat immediately found its way into my shoulder bag. No idea how that could have happened.
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The art gallery section went all the way back to Monkey Punch\u2019s manga pinups from the 1960s.
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Key art for the newest film, Blood Spray of Goemon<\/em>, which would be seen by me soon.
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And now the actual thief\u2019s hideout in the thief\u2019s hideout restaurant\u2026
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You automatically become a smoker here.
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Custom-tailored Lupin wear by high-end fashion designers. Each one of a kind, evidently.
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The gift shop, just to the left of the fashions.
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Want a Jigen hat or an anime-color Lupin shirt\/tie combo? Of course you do.
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Count Cagliostro\u2019s rings. About $150 US.
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50th Anniversary booze.
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Junmai daiginjo sake, one for each character. Apparently, this is the \u201cgood stuff.\u201d
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These look like figures, but they\u2019re actually cookies. One type per character.
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These, on the other hand, look like cookies but are actually figures. And you kinda believed me for a second there, didn\u2019t you?
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Continue to premiere day: Saturday February 25<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourstarblazers.com\/vault\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourstarblazers.com\/vault\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourstarblazers.com\/vault\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourstarblazers.com\/vault\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourstarblazers.com\/vault\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22854"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourstarblazers.com\/vault\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22854\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22890,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourstarblazers.com\/vault\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22854\/revisions\/22890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourstarblazers.com\/vault\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourstarblazers.com\/vault\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourstarblazers.com\/vault\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}