It wasn’t exactly a planned trip, and it was rather short, packed and super busy, but I must say it was fun!  I didn’t think we would be going really, but due to something unexpected we just ended up going ^^;  (no we didn’t win the lottery ^^;)

To put a long story short, my team ”Permanent Immigrant and Pending”‘s entry Glacier Lily, got into the finals for the Blythe beauty contest(voting has ended thank you all who had voted for us!) and there was a private opening party to attend, and what better excuse to go?  During the mid-week got a invite from Danny about an Appliya party, so we attended with a friend and Mirai chan as well ^^;

Due to the amount of photos taken I will seperate food and maybe loot into different entries :) Since it is the rainy season in Japan some days it was rather too wet to take any decent photos so we still felt like we did not take enough photos ^^;/

One of the highlights of the trip was that we finally got to meet Danny Choo, his lovely waifu and 5 gorgeous daughters ^^;  I brought along Mirai’s head as I acquired a Dollfie Dream Dynamite body, so I can just put Mirai’s head on the extra body to save myself some extra luggage space ^^;/

Very happy to be able to visit Danny’s office and see all the neat stuff in person :D

Danny tried to convince my husband that the Vader suit was for him ^^;

Dinner :9! Take out from Saboten *drool*

Itadakimasu~!

Before eating must take some photos of food and dollfie musumes ^^;

During chatting must take some moment to admire musumes…

After dinner, let’s whip out the gundams :P

Thanks for taking time off to hang out Danny!

A little background: My husband came across Danny’s blog/website a few years ago, and recommended me to read it, I got hooked, so the rest is history (LOL) I ended up doing some small artwork and making some dollfie clothing for Danny during some of my spare time between my illustration work :)

When I am in Japan, I love checking out fabric stores to source for good fabrics and materials to make doll clothing :) Below is a small shop called “Life!” which I went in for the first time with 2 friends :D The shop does not have a website, but my husband found them at the bottom of this link featuring some shops in Nippori.  The shop owner kindly allowed us to take photo of the shop interior ^^ She also speaks some english too :D

Shop front of Life!

While going to meet some friends for dinner at Shinjuku, saw this, kawaii and moe? ^^;

We went to the restaurant at 8 floor:

There’s this fruit store selling Durians lol

Fruits are always neatly arranged and people are not allowed to touch them ^^;

I like how they include the little stalk on top of the melons ^o^

Cute Majong? ^^;

The little bear was walking around the pole ^^; I think it has been defaced by marker ^^;

Party bus?

Display thick toast… like THICK ^^;

Shoko tan?

Scored some bits and bobs for Mirai at Ikebukuro Volks store ^^; It was a bit difficult to find but has quite a bit of stuff other than dollfies ^^/

We wondered around a bit and bumped into a friendly japanese guy at this place ^o^ we tried to communicate in our limited language lol

And you probably already seen variations of this photo ;P Steve Nagata san took many great pix that night! ^o^

Amano Ai-chan and troopin Danny ^o^

Yas san from appbank borrowed Trooper helmet ^^;

RAWR!!! (lol)

Got a photo with Amano Ai-chan! She’s sooooo CUTE in person! :D

Later at the iphone party ^^;/

Giveaways ^o^! Kawaii cosplaying staff from CIRCUS Co., Ltd ^o^/

Danny not only talked about Mirai clock iphone app developed by Ken Lee, but also hosted some give aways ^o^

We encountered life size Gundam at Odaiba ^o^

So glad that Gundam was put together by the time we went, and VERY thankful for the great weather, despite being sun burnt after we hung around for a bit ^^;

My husband took better pix I think :P I’ll let him show more later ;D

Over the week, at Nakano Broadway, I came across a deal I cannot resist ^^; I think she might had been from a smoking home (due to a faint smell) or maybe was used, as the wire around her neck looks different from what I recall from my other Mamachapps.  But Moko tan Get! ^^;;;;; I may have to rehome some dolls tho ^^;/

She met a new friend ^^;/

And ate my dessert :P

Walked thru a mall, saw this squishy thing :P

Mascot rallying? ^^;

Was treated Mister Donuts :D! First time eating it thankq  Danny and waifu ^o^!!!

I want! :P but I think it’s acquired by points? ^^;

Kawaii!

Mokotan went to donut heaven ^^;  Texture is very interesting, kinda chewy. ^^

After an afternoon of chatting, we nao have Danny demonstrate how to make Dollfie Dream Maki sushi :P *round of applauce*

First, place Dollfie on one end of a soft towel…

Then start rolling carefully…

If towel is big enough you can place 2nd Dollfie Dream and continue rolling…

Ready? Itadakimasu!

Make sure the towels are clean before rolling your Dollfie Dream musumes in them!

Danny having an “otaku moment” LOL He’s a good Dollfie Papa ^^!

Fast forward, we went to this amazing Korean BBQ place owned by friend’s parents ^o^! It will be featured in the Food entry coming next lol!

Hung out a bit on sunday with the bunch of friends, they took us to Yokohama and China town, too bad the weather was poo, rainy ^^; We saw a river FULL OF JELLY FISHES O_O!

It was insane!

In China town, we noticed that the Panda is often associated, and there was many steamed buns stalls/shops around ^o^

Unfortunately on the evening I got back to Canada I fell sick :P I was quite worried in case it was the flu which we don’t want to get lol! I am currently taking medication and feeling slightly better today ^^;/ so more next time! Also gotta catch up with work ^^;;;;

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Below is a photo a friend took of me at the Artist Alley in Anime Expo 2001 ^^; It was dated July 5 2001, how nostalgic!  I was still young and tender then ^^; lol!

Nao… on with the art stuff ^^;/

Below are cropped versions of 3 fan arts in progress ;) You can probably quite easily guess who they are!  Answers after the 3rd piece of art :P

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Answers: Mio (K-ON!), Azusa (K-ON!), Taiga (Toradora!)

I need to finish up 3 pieces of art for printing for the Anime Evolution which is coming very soon (12-14 June 2009) ^^;;;; *stress* It’s been quite a while since I last went to an Anime related convention, I am rather excited ^o^ I hope to take some nice pictures of cosplayers there! I should be bringing my Dollfie Dream Mirai chan ^^/

Now for non-Anime Evolution related stuff/art:
I must thank Gordon for being extremely patient with waiting for me to finish up this 2nd commission! ^^; I took a really long time  until I lost track of how long it is… ^^;;;;; I am really truly sorry about that! I’ll let Gordon show the final item this image created is for eventually when it is ready :)

For this particular commission, it is required that I simplify and make changes to the original mascot Gordenette which can be viewed on the banner at gordonator.com. :) Ironically probably because I had a bit more free time at the time I took up the first version (re-feature below), I finished it quite quickly compared to the simplified version above.

Was also commissioned by Otaku Dan to create his name card ^o^!

I mostly used the re-designed mascot image which I created for him (as seen above) to make his name card, so it took slightly less time to do since I did not really need to re-draw/r-create from scratch. But as I got a bit distracted with other happenings going on I had to be poked by Otaku Dan to finish up ^^;;;;  So so sorry!  Gya I need to clone myself =_=;; must find out from Danny how he does it :P

Okie hope everyone’s having a nice weekend! Moar next time! :3

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3. Boy and girl in progress

You can down load the special larger verion at Danny’s news page ^^/ Thank you Danny!

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