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Tokyo Figure Show

11.08.2009 by Patrick W. Galbraith


It was a rocking time at Danny Choo's Tokyo Figure Show this past week. The event was held in the new art space in Harajuku promoting Coca Cola's Vitamin Water. Danny collaborated with Good Smile Company to introduce high society to a little moe culture. There were a lot of Nendoroids and Figma in attendence, mainly from "Haruhi" and "Lucky Star." The Hatsune Miku exclusive from Wonder Festival, which sold out in a manner of minutes, was also on display. I was personally hoping to see something from "K-On!" or "Strike Witches," but no such luck. The real star of the night was Mirai-chan, Danny's mascot character who is now in hug pillow and Figma form. Way to go!









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meh wrote on 15.8.2009:

I hate danny choo with a passion, and frankly i don't understand why he is so popular. His blog posts are boring, plus he makes "ghost" posts to get extra traffic into his site from popular search strings (for example, if you searched "k-on nendoroid" on google a couple of months ago, first place was danny choo with a post that had absolutely ZERO information or anything to do with k-on at all.

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