Month: February 2007

Otaku

Stormtrooper in Tokyo

Some months ago I discovered Dannychoo.com, a really cool blog that teaches about japanese otaku culture, idols and life in Japan. On of the most weird-interesting things is that the author of the blog has a Storm Trooper armor, and he wears it not only at events but also as a normal suit.

It happened that I had the honor to meet Danny Choo in the real world and accompanied him to a “trooping session” around Tokyo. It was really funny, weird, interesting to see a Stormtrooper walking around thousands of japanese people, inside the train, inside shops… I loved when tired Japanese people walking without energy looking at the floor, would walk just next to DannyChoo/Stormtrooper without realizing. Just after some seconds they feel something weird and they look up startled at that Stormtrooper that is walking next to them, smile and take a photo with their mobile phone. They got a smile and a photo they could show to their friends and family.

I took lots of photos, here are some of them:

Can you imagine the face of this guy when he entered the train?

Notice the people taking photos from the other platform.

Funny face 🙂

If you don’t have enough, Danny Choo was on Japanese TV this friday an you can see the TV show online.

Technology

Routers everywhere

In many Tokyo train stations you have to be careful with your head, you can destroy router antennas. In order use wireless at train stations and many coffee shops around Tokyo you just have to pay an extra 200-400 yens a month to your home Internet provider.

JapaneseTV

Cyril Takayama

Cyril Takayama is a famous Japanese-american illusionist. He is pretty popular in Japan and also in Corea were he usually does his performances walking around the street. I love his shows that will always surprise you. In the next video I took from Fuji TV you can see how Cyril takes out hamburger from a menu.

The cool thing about Japan is that magicians not only show you their tricks but explain some of them! So you always learn something that you will be able to use in your next party with friends or use it a tool to catch girls attention 😉 Next video is Cyril explaining us how to lift up a ring using a rubber.

And this last video is just impressive.