Day 2: Dug In

Started the day off in Harajuku.  Found a new place that carries George Cox, and conveniently right next door to the other place.  Ended up picking up a new pair of monk strap creepers.  H Naoto's clothes were completely overpriced and over designed as usual.  I mean does a hoodie really need two hoods and a bjorn baby strap on the front?  Well whatever, after done with clothes shopping I headed over to kiddie land where there was some death metal monchichi parade.  Where along the way monchichi became associated with death metal I have no idea.  Place was too crazy so I grabbed some hello kitty taiyaki and headed out to Shibuya.

Here are a couple of random Harajuku picks

 

 

  

 

Headed off to Shibuya to visit Mandarake and Project 1/6th.  Ended up picking up a Robot Detective K Medicom, Giant Marusan Mecha Godzilla vinyl, and a doctor Hello Kitty DrX version.

From there we headed off to the infamous Third Uncle which has been reported on so many times I will not repeat it here but for those not familiar you can take a look at the following link.   http://anime.collectiondx.com/index.php?q=gallery&g2_itemId=32792

I have not been to Third Uncle in years, and while it is still a treasure trove, the stock is nowhere what it used to be or even close to the pictures in the above link.   Not sure if they are offloading to yahoo japan now or what.  Anyways, the owner is super nice and if you speak the language he constantly offers you other items from the same series, which is super helpful and super dangerous, as he does not really ask you if you want it he just starts putting it in your to buy pile.  I had a lot of fun here browsing around and chatting with the owner, ended up picking up a few odds and ends, mostly old henshin vinyl figures.

From there we headed to Manga Juka.  Not sure what quite happened here, but it has seemingly turned into a Seedy joint where questionable workers are spray painting vinyl molds as soon as you walk in the door.  All of the old vintage toy cases were covered in boxes, and the workers really acted like they did not want us there, even though Third Uncle called them ahead of time and told us we were heading over.   Its a shame, this place used to be really neat.   Will not be visiting again though.

For food we ended up going simple and had Nakau which I really like as far as cheap japanese fast food chains.  Cheaper than mc donalds and infinitely better.   Good tasting Donburi and Udon for 450yen?  Im there!

 

  

My haul for the day