Spotted at a Mandarake store inside Nakano Broadway Mall: a life-size bust of Blade Runner‘s Rick Deckard next to a life-size Batman mask. I had a powerful urge to break some glass and cast Harrison Ford as the Dark Knight.
This was my last sweep of Nakano Broadway before heading home. Anime World Star wasn’t quite open yet, but I did get a shot of the trinkets in their Yamato 2199 display.
Left: Spoku-san joins Captain Cock on the mission to sell drinks to humans. Right: My departing view of Sun Mall (the arch), which leads to Nakano Broadway, the happiest place on Earth. I’ll be beck!
Left: the happiest sight at Narita Airport – seeing these carts means I no longer have to horse my goddamn luggage around by hand. They even work on escalators! Right: airport sushi. Still way better than the average we can get at home.
Newly-minted movie program books from the Piccadilly theater. Sometimes they are the only print publications you’ll ever find for certain films.
These hand-fans were available for free at the Piccadilly. They don’t air-condition the screening rooms as well as you’d like them to, so these things are a lifesaver.
Last but not least, remember the big Yamato 2199 posters that were published in Japanese newspapers to promote the TV premiere in April? Captain Harlock did them one better.
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