Tsukiji Sushisay in Ginza and Nippon TV

When Satoe said if I want to eat sushi we should go to Ginza, I did not expect cheap and good sushi fresh from Tsukiji.

I got the omakase platter at the bottom for ￥3000. The website is at http://www.tsukijisushisay.co.jp/store/hakuhin_s.html

Ghibli clock where apparently a lot of the weather reporting is shot from. Its not ofetn I get to catch up with friends during weekdays but luckily someone is between jobs.

We visited the set of this show called Haru no Pon matsuri. Apparently it runs everyday on Nippon TV at 10.45am and people get to visit it once a year. The Pon pose which we are doing is the specialty of the show.

Nokia promoting this remote camera called Exilim.

Its suppose to look like bungee jumping but I don't think it looks convincing.

Don Quixote in Kamurocho I mean Kabukicho. As much as I'm having fun, I miss playing RGG.

For fans of Yakuza/RGG, this is how the real Millenium Tower looks like now. Toho studios should license this out to Sega for free.

I would pay good money for this poster signed by Sakura Mana and Arimura Chika.

Rest of Odaiba pictures

Guess what? I ran into Idoling! doing a free live once again in Odaiba. They must know when I come down everytime. They had people watching for cameras but I was just takimg a picture of the foot. If only I had zoom.

Remember when 10 people in Momusu was considered a lot?

Went to Tanaka Shouten again.

A lot better than last time but still below how good Ogi was. This makes me so sad. Its like meeting the perfect woman many times and now I have to compare everyone else with her.

Hoodie from Nobunaga Concerto.

Iryu t-shirt. The hiragana says "7, hai, he's asleep. " Would have bought it if the logo was huge and on the back/front instead of on the sleeve.

Anime Japan 2015

It's good to be back in Japan!

You see the mass of humanity on the left? That's the line to get in.

The line did move surprisingly fast and I did seriously think about walking away. The only popular anime I like is the first season of Psycho Pass.

Walking past cosplayers on the way in.

Nearly there.

No idea.

Sega's Project Diva game featuring all the crappy anime I will never watch. Pretty sure I'll end up buying it anyway.

At least there's one anime I know! Doraemon.

Omfg its Freeza!!!! Why is no one running away in terror? Am I the onely one who can see him there next to Goku?

Omfg. Since since when can Pikachu fly? I must be hallucinating. Did I somehow brought a joint into Japan?

Hello.

My what a strong grip you have...

The real reason Oculus Rift was invented.

Wtf is this boring anime that everyone likes.

I remember the Arslan anime from many years ago when famous anime didn't have harems.

Psycho Pasu!!!! Finally an anime I know.

Someone should tell them to shorten it to assoc instead.

Hanazawa  Kana!!!!!!!!

Ryu ga Gotoku Zero random thoughts so far

I'm now 66 hours into the game. Minus the 8 hours on the time wasting Vita app, that's 58 hours. About the halfway point. Currently in chapter 7 and I'm going to take my time and enjoy Majima's kyabakura management adventures.

Yes, that is Uehara Ai and yes she actually speaks her lines.

= One of the main reasons Ishin sucked is that Sega made getting experience much harder and wanted to encourage grinding. To solve this problem, Sega have introduced two money making not so minigames in Zero, Money Island for Kiryu and kyabakura for Majima.

- Unfortunately, Kiryu's money island is boring is hell. After you've set up your managers and security people, you need to go away for a time period for your money to build and you can only claim the money and change settings from the office. Its just too tiresome running back and forth. Sega should have made Kiryu be able to offer instructions from a phone booth.

+ At least the characters that act as Kiryu's advisers/managers/security are from the subs stories.

+ Majima's kayabakura management is pretty fun. Most importantly, you don't have to kill time waiting for money to roll in. You don't need to wait between sessions.

This is Yuki, the only non JAV platinum hostess in the game and her spoken lines are so much more natural than Uehara Ai's.

=I like Sega's approach to make it easier to make money but seriously Kiryu's money island is a freaking time waster.

- I would prefer not to do the money island minigame but my character feels so incomplete because you hardly make any money from sub stories. In fact you only just items and sometimes nothing at all!

+ Kiryu's substories in chapter 2 are some of the best I've ever seen. Its very similar to Shinya Shokudo, short stories about random stuff and one of the reasons I enjoy the series. Of note is the S&M sub story and the high school kid who suspects his girlfriend story. They are even more memorable than the baby sub story in RGG2.

- Unfortunately, the quality of substories goes downhill from there especially for Majima and it was on purpose so that Kiryu can write postcards to a radio program. (hard to explain without spoiling too much)

- Natsume Yuuki's sub story is just that she works at a disco. You order a drink from her and then you get access to her video. How lazy is that?

+ Majima's story is very exciting. His serious character is so different from what he becomes and I like his tortured soul aspect.

- Kiryu was already superman at age 20. 20 year old Kiryu is not much different from old man Kiryu.

+ But when he's with Nishiki, they are an interesting pair.

- Telekura was not as exciting as I had hoped. The answers are all the same so they had to make the words difficult to read to make it challenging. WTF.

- So the PS4 can take pictures during gameplay but not during cutscenes? WTF.

- Too many assets reused for both storylines eg disco. Feels too much like padding for the sake of padding.

+ RGG is the only game with dating gameplay elements that features realistic women and not anime characters.