Hey all,

Tokyogetter.com is having a sale for the holidays until next month! 20% off until Jan. 2.

The code is TGThanksgiving (no space, case sensitive). One use per customer. We didn’t change it ‘cuz we’re lazy. Please feel free to x-post!

HAVE FUN.

Ladies and gents! Forgive us! Forgive us!

In between yaoi-con, intermixi, and various other projects (READ: MONEY AND GIRLS!), we have been very inattentive to our lovely blog readers. How could we have ever neglected you? Oh yeah…

MONEY AND GIRLS.

Regardless, here we are, back in the saddle again like Aerosmith when they weren’t absolute garbage. Our big news is that we are planning some special sales soon, what with the holidays a-comin’ and all… get your wallets and hearts ready, yo.

For you lucky Japan-based cats out there who are reading this because you want to know why a bunch of lunatics with office jobs are still stalking the other side of the world for nerd goods, GET A LOAD OF THIS PREVIEW FOR THE NEW EVA-02!

(Of course, by the time the movies finish coming out the damned events may have happened anyway. But I digest…)

For those of you based in the states, Adult Swim has re-worked their Saturday lineup AGAIN and has actually shown some love for you otaku out there this time. While I think most of us would personally prefer that they just start showing stuff like this at 7 PM on weekdays and go through the night with it, I think you’ll be pleased to know that you now do not need 7 shots of espresso and crystal meth to watch the second season of Code Geass, which is currently airing now.

Oh, hey, who sells Code Geass doujinshi anyway? THAT’D BE US, HOSS!

COMIC MARKET NEWS: Due to the fluctuating dollar and personal commitments, we are yet to decide if we will be attending comic market this year in person, sending a representative, or scouting via distributors after the fact. We plan to let you know as soon as possible. In the interim you WILL see more new doujin appear here soon.

Thanks for bearing with us.

Currently listening: Computer fan, clock
Currently thinking about: How I managed to slice my thumb open so badly that I mucked up my laptop with blood and had to McGyver off my DNA while getting this post ready.
Currently regretting: The overall turgid syntax of that last sentence.

It’s almost over! *sobs*

But there IS a silver lining, yo!

As I sit here in my small, smokey, but homey hotel room posting this on my laptop with 33 minutes until checkout (time which will be obliterated due to my meticulous grooming habits), I would like to guarantee you that I will have enough articles, interviews, stories, and pictures to fill up this damn blog for weeks when I get back to the office. This has been a mind-blowing trip, all the way down to losing my bag on the second day thanks most probably to an overzealous apartment manager.

We also have more goodies coming! TG has found 2 more buyers and will be fully-stocked for Christmas! It’s October, dammit! Get on the ball!

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A massive shout-out goes out to Yaoi-con. Everybody was so friendly and kind to us that we had no problem volunteering and would do it again in a minute. We’d start naming names, but there are a lot of them and they are being saved for out YC wrap-up post coming soon.

Rock on.

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Taro Aso is the new prime minister, as we mentioned. Akihabara stores have picked up on this and even made special omiyage for him. I am yet to confirm if they’ve worked in his line about ‘rich Jews.’

Bit much on that one, eh Aso-san?

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Japanator continues to convince me that they’ve hired a clone of TG’s marketing dude to work for them. Melt Banana in the artist spotlight, who has been hanging out with homedude since the late 90s? Check. Posts about Masaki Ito being hotter than five fires? Check. Shout-out to Metallica’s Japanese-bands-only-except-for-some-band-I-could-give-a-damn-about tribute album? Damn skippy check.

We love them so it doesn’t matter. Stop by the next con and we’ll go drink tall boys in the parking lot, foxes.

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Buying rounds on this trip were heavy on time compression, but we got some amazing goods. Cells, toys, Hello Kitty stuff, study cards, books, and of course DOUJIN DOUJIN DOUJIN. Expect a few mind-blowing updates upon our jet-lagged and sleeping pill-fueled return to the US.

Now off to finish the leaving preparation. On the one day that it’s not gray in a week!

DAMN YOU TOKYO!!!!

1. Hurricane Ike destroyed Houston, which is TG’s spiritual home. Note that when we say ’spiritual’ home, we mean ‘place we have to visit when somebody dies.’ Our marketing manager’s DVDs and comics are floating in 3 feet of water, and thus he has nothing left to live for and has been placed on suicide watch.

ADV was placed under duress as well, but really, we’ve been hoping that company doesn’t get the Old Yeller treatment for about 2 years now. Sorry Stacy. : /

2. Taro Aso is now prime minister of Japan. Geeks are all excited because home dude reads comics. We welcome his devolution into impotent figurehead with open arms.

3. We will have buttons (see the above design), coupons, raffle items, and possibly gloms available at yaoi con this weekend in, where else, SAN FRANCISCO. RAGE!

4. On a personal note, we’d like to spend a moment commemorating the passing of Toonami. 11 years of really cool shows buoyed by inventive bumpers finally got the bozzack thanks to schedule changes, politics, and licensing and monetization.

Sure, sure… we’re reading enough posts and getting enough IMs and emails (aim us at tokyogetter sometime if yer bored and don’t mind random) to choke a donkey about it, but the fact of the matter is: times are changing. Perhaps people just don’t enjoy turning on a box and seeing their favorites anymore. I couldn’t tell you what’s on Cartoon Network right now and Gurren Lagann’s ending soon anyway, so I’ve handed my soul over to the total ennui that is… *gasp*… actually buying stuff or borrowing it from my friends.

All things aside, the Toonami scorecard? Ridiculous. Let’s go over the ROCK ACTION:

Voltron, Robotech, Sailor Moon, Dragon Ball, Ronin Warriors, G-Force: Guardians of Space, Blue Submarine No. 6, Tenchi Muyo!, Naruto, Cardcaptors, Zoids, .hack//SIGN, Yu Yu Hakusho, Rurouni Kenshin, The Big O, Outlaw Star, Yu-Gi-Oh!, Cyborg 009, Duel Masters, Astro Boy, Gundam, Rave Master, Zatch Bell, One Piece, Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo, Pokémon, MÄR, The Prince of Tennis, Megaman Star Force, Bakugan Battle Brawlers, and Blue Dragon.

(Tell me you didn’t like one of those series enough to fall in love with anime. BTW, we carry doujin for many of the fine, fine series mentioned above at Tokyogetter.com…)

Enjoy your week ya’ll. Be safe.

I got this at an event a few months back and it was just so awesome that I had to share it. The cross-cultural interchange between series/fans/artists/readers has gotten INFINITELY more interesting in the past few years, and I think stuff like this is a sure sign of it. Who’d have thought that I’d ever be in the middle of Tokyo harbor laughing about South Park with two really sweet Japanese doujin-ka?

The underlying message? Take the idea and make it your own! The world is not a place you can understand until you can have some degree of control of something, right? I’m always excited to see fans taking something and making it there own, just as I am to see artists move from doujinshi to their own published works, like Naked Ape, whose Dolls series is now available in the US (in an interesting twist, we have some of their doujin from their own series available) and GD Mechano, who is now publishing Tokage.*

We’ll be here to give them their props and make their work available to you!

* = means ‘Lizard.’ You learn something new every day.