Tokyo Game Show 2011 – Highlights, Booth Babes, Cosplay and Showfloor

Yet another stop during my visit to Japan is Tokyo Game Show 2011. I attended on the final day and got buried in a sea of ligh

A Samurai Never Fears Death – Book Review

The fifth book in the Samurai Mysteries series by Dorothy and Thomas Hoobler is called “A Samurai Never Fears DeathR

Japanese Covers for Game of Thrones books

I am a big fan of the Game of Thrones series that premiered on HBO earlier this year. Being a epic fantasy geek I was looking

ThunderCats Anime – First Impressions

The new ThunderCats anime has finally begun airing on Cartoon Network and I have watched the first couple episodes. ever since

Disassembled Life-Size Gundam Statue Returning to Tokyo for Charity

More than two years after making it’s debut the life-size Gundam is returning to Tokyo, well at least pieces of it ar

Total War Shogun 2 – Review

I am shadow of the kind of gamer used to be, these days I mostly play FIFA 11 and casual games like Angry Birds. However, ever

Unicorn Gundam finally complete – some quick shots

After 10 months on on and off building I have finally completed building my 1/100 scale Unicorn Gundam. I have been tweeting p

Anime Nation 2011 puts Jamaica on Cosplay map

After it’s inaugural staging last year Anime Nation returned in 2011 bigger and better. Anime Nation 2011 was an epic ev

Interesting Summer 2011 Anime

I am very late onto the anime wagon for the new Summer 2011 series. At the time of this post I have yet to watch any episode o

Anime Nation 2011 set for July 24th

Anime Nation is back after being successful staged last summer. Anime Nation 2011 is now at a bigger and better location and p

Japanese Schoolgirl Confidential

While going some digging in my room recently I unearthed a long lost book I bought over a year ago when I acquired Drainspot

Transformers: Dark of the Moon

My geek powers have increased exponentially with the absorption of the final film in the Transformers trilogy. Transformers

X-Men Anime Review

The X-Men Anime is finally over (for now) and after following it for the last three months I can somewhat share my own thought

13 Assassins – Non-Stop Samurai Action

Living in Japan in it’s feudal era must have been interesting but extreamely dangerous, then again it would depend on wh

The Sword that Cut the Burning Grass – Book Review

The forth book in the Samurai Mysteries series by Dorothy and Thomas Hoobler is called The Sword that Cut the Burning Grass.

Post E3 2011: 7 Games that Impressed me

The gamer in me gets giddy each year as I look forward to then be super unproductive during E3. My prolonged stay in the gamin

Mobile Suit Gundam AGE coming this fall

Details have emerged about the next Gundam series. Mobile Suit Gundam AGE will be the newest Gundam based anime and will pr

X-Men: First Class

Nothing says summertime like Super Hero flicks and X-Men: First Class is one of the many super hero flicks vywing for our atte

Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides

Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides is the 4th installment of a pirates of the Caribbean series that was original supp

Cars 2 Clip: Mater vs high tech Japanese toilet

I’m a big fan of animated movies. I’ve found that with all the live-action garbage coming out spewing from Hollywo

X-Men Anime – First Impressions

I’m 3 episodes into the X-Men anime and I thought I’d write my first impressions post before I catch up on the mor

Now Playing: Total War Shogun 2

So over the long Easter weekend I got bored and tried to find a video game or two to keep me occupied. I am a big fan of strat

Health Education for 30-year-olds Anime – First Impressions

Health Education for 30 year-olds or  30-Sai no Hoken Taiiku as it is known in Japan is the first off my interesting spring 2

Quakebook – 2:46: Aftershocks: Stories from the Japan Earthquake

I have been following the progress of Quakebook, a brilliant idea by fellow J-Blogger Our Man in Obiko who after the devasta