Monogatari Series Sega Collabo Café in Akihabara

It's been a while since my last blog post! Won't tell you I'll write more, it would probably be a lie, but here's a report on the Monogatari Series Sega Collabo Café in Akihabara I went to today!

The cafe was on the 5th floor of the SEGA arcade that's right outside of the Akihabara JR station. We got there a bit earlier and had time to check the corridor and the shop outside of the café, it was nice enough, with the TV playing a pretty neat loop.... having some (triggering) voice lines bringing with them strong emotions from the series.








The Café room itself was pretty, nice. I was surprised to see so few people, but we went on sunday night of the 4th week.
Each table had a different character on it, you can see the Shinobu one here, which was the cutest one, you can also see most of the others in the full album.



The walls were filled with pretty nice Images from the characters and screenshots from the show.... I'd actually like to have this as my room's wall paint! Some TVs were also playing a couple of clips from the series. Of course, OPs and EDs from the shows played in the background.







There was also a nice display of Character cutouts on a stage. You can see a picture of all the cutouts individually on the album.



A common thing about these collabo café is the character themed food, and the goods you get when ordering them, this Café was obviously similar. While the drinks were soso, the main food looked pretty nice and tasted good. The dessert were also pretty good. An interesting thing is that the coaster iun this event were made of plastic instead of the usual cardboard, so they feel like they could actually be used without risking to damage them.













We learned at some point that you could actually scan the coaster in the left corner, and that if all coasters were scanned, there were some special image displayed by a projector.
Eventually, everyone in the room joined together to do it and we got these two images.
There might have been more, but there are the 2 we got to see.





On the other side of the room there was a white board (actually a glass) where people were invited to write messages on. I gave it a try but it turned pretty bad. However there was a lot of nice one one there.



Overall, this cafe was really nice. Probably one of the best I've been to. There's 1 more week of it, so if I have time I'll try to go again!

If you want to see more pictures from the event, you can see them on the full album here!

Yuru Yuri Café

Yesterday I went to the Yuru Yuri Café at the Animax Café in Akihabara.
It was a really simple thing really, they decorated a room with YRYR stuff, and made a special menu, and that was it.

Everything else was normal Animax café stuff.
Some menu items were pretty cool though, especially the Akkari~n! pasta.

It was not only cute, it was also pretty good.
Each menu item came with a coaster, Got pretty lucky and got the best couple and Akari.

Overall the cafe was nice, but not really a must see.
The cafe will be ongoing until November 16th, http://cafe.animax.co.jp/

Here are some pictures of the interior, and other menu items I ordered:

Little trip to Akiba again today!

After 2 unsuccessful tries at fighting my laziness and get out of my house on a day off, Today I was finally able to do it!
I went to akiba, just for a short time, the month ending soon (my pay day being on the 15 of every month, that's where my month ends and starts) I didn't want to waste too much money,
I still a little though so here's today's loot!

2 figures (Lucky Star), 1 glass(Bakemonogatari) and 1 art book (Mouretsu Pirates).
Let's take a look at each items!, first the glass, it's actually taller than I expected it to be, which is nice. The biggest downpoint of it is that Shinobu is missing, but it's still a pretty damn nice Glass, especially for less than 5$.

Nest the Figures, first the Tsukasa maid figure, I actually saw her in a box earlier in the day for 3800 yen, and really loves how she looked, unfortunately she was kinda expensive so I just took this picture and left.

Just before leaving Akiba I decided to stop at the Volks store and saw her, brand new (the one above isn't in her box anymore) for 1500, so I jumper on it, and here it is!

I also tried the "new" function "lens blur" on my N5 on some of these picture and it didn't work so well...
to see all the pictures from Tsukasa Maid version go here: Tsukasa Maid

Next Kagami with an alternate hair style, I saw her 2 weeks or so ago, at the same time that I saw Kontata with a ponytail...

 but while I found Konata in a shop, I wasn't so lucky with Kagami.... until this week!
I found her in the same shop that I found Tsukasa, but this one was in the used part, I don't have a box with her, but I don't really care (actually that's 1 less box to worry about)
Here she is:

I also took some pics of her alongside Konata (BECAUSE THEY BELONG SIDE BY SIDE)

KonaKaga Forever! <3
Lastly, I found the Artbook of the Mouretsu Pirate's Movie (which is actually just a general Art book for Mouretsu Pirate series) by Akiman, including rough sketch of almost all the characters. The story of Mouretsu pirate is good, but not awesome, and it's probably not one of my favourite anime, but every time I see a figure of it, or a soundtrack, I rush to it, why? Because even if the anime itself isn't the greatest ever, it had the best Anime OP of all time, and probably my favourite character design of all time. That mix of Pirate Captain outfit and school girl outfit looks so great! So of Course I'd buy the art book of one of my favourite Character Designer!

I'm not gonna post the book here, but I really wanted to show at least one of the rough sketch to show how messy his style actually is, it's really interesting:

And that's all for today folks!

IRON ATTACK!, IOSYS and 5150 in Akihabara

Today, after helping my friend move, I went to akiba. I went there to see the live of IRON ATTACK!, IOSYS and 5150 that started at 18:00, but I got there around 13:00 so I had time to walk around and take some nice pictures.
Sundays in Akihabara re "walkers heaven" where the streets are blocked to cars, so it's ideal for taking nice pictures of Akiba, and since I got my new Nexus 5 with KitKat, I was able to get some pretty sweet photo spheres of Akiba. you can check them both here: (but you'll need google + to see the sphere effect)
Photo Sphere in front of Animate and Toranoana
Photo sphere near the Akihabara Station

Of course a trip to Akiba would not be complete without a few Itasha:

I also met a nice Miku cosplayer in the Sega arcade who let me took a picture of her

At 5 I headed toward the Live's venue.
The venue was again pretty small, and it was completely packed.

Now one thing that can be a problem when you become a little more know is that it's harder to write what you want. I know some people might read this blog, that actually performed at the show, but I'm still gonna try to say what I think, even if there are some negative points.
I hope those concerned won't take it too badly, as this is only my personal opinion, based on my personal tastes.

Te show started with 5150, I was actually surprised to see he was only singing and didn't play the guitar, he had another guitarist with him there. It was kinda funny too, because when he introduced the band members, he almost introduced himself as "on the guitar". His performance was pretty good overall, but I actually didn't know many songs, I think he played only 1 song from the albums I have. And... I guess this is my own fault, but I never knew he did a black metal album, his growling voice really surprised me. I actually don't like that kind of music, so I didn't enjoy the last two songs, but I can still say that his growling voice was pretty good... well, for a growling voice.

After 5150 was IOSYS. The problem... or good point of IOSYS is that there's so many members, going to see IOSYS can be very different from one time to the other.
The last time I saw them (you can read about it here) the vocalist was 山本椛 (Momiji Yamamoto), this time it was 96. The rest of the band was pretty much the same lineup as last time.
But a different vocalist means different songs (except for a couple). 96 have her own songs, and Momiji has her own, so of course that's to be expected. 96 was pretty good on stage, and has a cute voice, but her stage presence and energy is nowhere close to Momiji's. It was especially apparent in the 2 songs she did, that Momiji also did, 断罪ヤマザナドゥ！(Danzai) and Chirno's perfect Math class.
And don't get me wrong here, I believe 96 is a good singer, but Momiji was just a lot better.
It was still a nice performance, and Cirno's perfect math class was again the highlight of the show. Though Miracle, Hinacle was also pretty good.

Last was IRON ATTACK!
For those who knows the bad, on CD they have a lot of vocalist, but usually live it'S always Uma and まいなすいょん(minusiyon), but this time a third singer was also present. I think it was YAMA-B, but I'm not 100% sure.
They were solid as usual, but I think the best surprise is they played a song by Sister's spread-i (まいなすいょん's circle) ALICE IN HEAVEN. And I love that song, I was really glad they did it.
And Ion was really cute in her stage outfit, but sorry I didn't get any pictures this time.
I guess the negative point of the show was they they didn't do any Marisa song (Sparking or STAR DUST) I really love those songs, but at least they did a couple of other really good ones, and a few new ones that I knew a little less.

Overall a very good show, and a very good day.
Akihabara is the best!

Update:
Here's some pictures from yesterday's show via ToranoanaRecords Twitter: 2014-03-09 Live In Akiba