Culture

Life In Japan: Shrine On, You Crazy Diamond

September 7, 2015 Andy Kavanagh

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It’s easy to think about Japan and imagine the bold and brash imagery that comes packaged with its pop culture. It’s true, Japan has a pop-culture-pulse like nowhere else on Earth, and it’s easy to get completely swept up and lost in the endless energy of Harajuku, Akihabara and Shibuya without ever looking back. To […]

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Life In Japan: Maid Cafés And You (Part 1)

August 23, 2015 Andy Kavanagh

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Japan has a lot of unique stuff within its borders, mostly because of how unique its culture and its people are, although that may well be a chicken-egg question best left unanswered. One such cultural oddity is the globally infamous Maid Café but, as popular as they are, and believe me they are, it can […]

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Cosplay

Life In Japan: What A Wonderful World

August 9, 2015 Andy Kavanagh

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Having arrived in Japan fresh from Dublin, Ireland – a city that exists in a seasonal vacuum perpetually stuck between spring and winter – my time here has taught me a lot more about the country than I expected to learn. Japan, for example, takes the four seasons very seriously, possibly because of how typical […]

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Anime/Cartoons

Review: Love Live! The School Idol Movie

July 23, 2015 Andy Kavanagh

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If you’re the type of person who pays attention to anime news, and if you’re reading this you probably are, you might be aware that several of the industry’s biggest names are unhappy with its current state. Schrodinger’s retiree Hayao Miyazaki has said that the industry is in decline and more recently Evangelion creator Hideaki Anno went […]

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Featured

Review: King of Tokyo

January 20, 2014 Declan Doody

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Stop at nothing to become the King of Tokyo... but that’s when the real trouble begins for you! Declan gets his inner monster out as he tramples his way through King of Tokyo!

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