Day 1: Infiltration!

Started off the morning with a Dydo vending machine.  Was surprised to see the Ultraman promotion still going on, pondered at the Banana milk but went for the Caramel Milk Tea instead.   Amazing stuff, you can feel your teeth melting while you drink.

 

  

 

On the way to the subway stop I passed by a place with hanging meat.  Making mental note to possibly return later.

 

Heading into Tsukiji Fish Market

 

 Sorry Mr Bonito Shaver Man but you will get no money from my friends today.

Breakfast of Champions!  Negi Toro was really good.

 

 I opted out on Mr Whale

I was attempting to save some room for this amazing 'curry substance' I saw during the last trip, but when I headed over there I paid closer attention to the menu and found out it was not typical curry at all, but the lady was specializing in some fish gut brew.   While I would normally go for this, at 7:30 in the morning I decided to pick up a couple of Wasabi Paste bottles and head to Ueno instead to eat fruit on a stick.  

Wandering down Ueno I was greeted to this little guy that not even the locals knew what he signified.  Instead as the morning went on they decided to cover him with boxes.

 

Yamato in a can

 

Nuff Said

 

While waiting for the fruit on a stick guy to open I went to the local game center and played a few games.  Elevator Action Death Parade was actually quite good. 

 

I was afraid the elevator doors might be a pure gimmick but it was done quite well with monsters trying to pry them open and the doors acting accordingly, they also used it to do these strange perspective shifts when going around corners by having one of the doors close.   Overall it was quite good, but reminded me nothing of the older titles.   

I also played a namco Gears of War vs Metal Gear Solid gun game, and  a sega museum light gun game, but they were both garbage so I am not going to mention them further.   I headed over to the local toy store and picked up some GeGeGe no Kitaro Hanafuda Cards and an Oyaji metal pin. Fruit on a Stick was pretty good until they poured this terrible cream paste that came out of a tube all over it.  Dairy products really are terrible here.

Upon heading into Akihabara I decied to play some shmups, while waiting for the pcb shops to open

Dodonpacchi Daifukkatsu Black Label

Death Smiles 2 (I still hate the art for this series)

With the help of Mak and Try, I picked up Elevator Action, Cotton, Snow Bros (complete with ugly orginal arts) and Macross II.  I didn't even bother visiting overpriced G-Front this time.  Also, went to Mandarake and grabbed a vintage Kikaida vinyl and an old Takatoku Umi Bozu which is comletely frightening.  Don Quixote did not have the Devilman costume, sorry Chappy.

Upon entering Nakano we went straight for Ramen.  Pretty good, the runny eggs were great and the Chashu melted in your mouth.  The Tsukemen was the better of the two with a great spicy broth.

  

Nakano appears to be in bad shape, with the 3rd and 4th floors almost completely barren.  Mandarake seems to still be hanging on strong though, so I am hoping this treasure won't be gone like so many others next time I come around.  I ended up picking up this great Devilman vintage bootleg along with a Godzilla Biliken.  I also picked up an ugly whale monster vinyl from Ultraman :)

Random pics of a random toy shop

 

 

After Nakano I attempted to punish myself with the Texas Burger from Mc'Donalds as according to Ronald that is what hamburgers are like in America.

 

Unfortunately the promotion had ended, so I opted for a Chicken Sandwichi instead.  Oh well, maybe next time. 

My toy haul  for the day

Elevator Action 

Cotton (sharp version shown as I could not find an appropriate video for the arcade version)

Snow Bros

Macross II