In Sendai

Big America 3

Eric — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 02:12:15 +0000

Yep, the Big America series is back at Mcdonald’s again. This time sadly there is no return of the Texas burger (my favourite). This time we have The Grand Canyon burger.

I’ve already had this one. It’s pretty good, a little bit similar to the Texas burger. The sauce is steak sauce, so the flavour is not as zingy as the Texas burger. The next burger will be Las Vegas burger later this month.

Followed by the Broadway burger.

And finally the Beverly Hills burger.

All of these look pretty good. I’m looking forward to trying them. The last time they had Big America I never wrote about the last two burgers they had. We had the big earthquake here in Tohoku and I didn’t feel up to writing about burgers at the time. Anyways now is the time to do it. Below is the Manhattan burger.

It had smoked meat on it, and was really really good. Unfortunately I only tried it once. I’d say it would be one of my favourites. Lastly is the Miami burger.

It had tortilla chips and taco meat on it. I don’t really see what that has to do with Miami. I would have pictured something more Cuban actually. It was delicious anyways. The only defect was it was so messy. The taco meat would fall out so easily. The crunch of the tortilla chips was nice though. As in the past I’ll follow up with the new burgers as they come out. Stay tuned.

Dragon Quest Museum

Eric — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 02:05:41 +0000

Here’s my photos from when I went to the Dragon Quest museum. This museum is being held for a limited time to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the series. Unfortunately they only allowed taking photos of these statues of some of the characters. I wish I could show you some photos of the other stuff I saw. Some of it was amazing. Like seeing the original art done by Akira Toriyama (the Dragonball guy) for the game. It was all the real deal, not some copies or prints. I’d have to say his artwork looks even better then when you see it printed. It was the highlight for me. Anyways have a look at the statues below. Keep in mind that these were all life size, so they were quite large.

Hadaka

Eric — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 01:57:13 +0000

This Saturday I finally got a chance to see the Hadaka festival in Kakuda. The last few years it was during the week and I always just missed it. Hadaka by the way means “naked”. Now they aren’t actually naked, but they are wearing basically just underwear. Keep in mind that the temperature was around zero degrees! Plus they had to be out in the cold for a couple hours. It’s kinda crazy!! Check out some photos below.

Slime

Eric — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 03:00:13 +0000

Above is a picture of a Slime meat bun. Right now Family Mart is selling them for a limited time because of the DQ 25th anniversary. One of my students gave it to me. I guess he knew I liked Slimes. I felt a little guilty eating it since the Slime was smiling at me, but I did it anyways. It tasted like a normal Chinese meat bun. Right after eating it though I did level up to level two!!

Tintin

Eric — Sat, 03 Dec 2011 02:53:50 +0000

Last night I finally got to see the new Tintin movie!! It was really good. Speilberg did a good job preserving the feeling of the original comic books. I did see the movie in 3D (it was really expensive, 1600yen!!), and it was so beautiful. The CG was amazing. It was so detailed, and being in 3D really made it pop. I totally recommend it to everyone, especially if you like adventure movies.By the way keep an eye out for Herge at the start of the movie.

P.S. My Dragon Quest Museum post is sill incoming. I’ve been having a bit of PC trouble recently and my desktop is off being repaired. I’ll get it done soon.

Tokyo Tower

Eric — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 05:33:22 +0000

Here’s a photo I took of the Tokyo Tower from the top of the Mori Art Centre in Roppongi. I was there to see the Dragon Quest 25th anniversary museum (which is coming in a future post). This was a nice side benefit of going there.

Disney Sea

Eric — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 05:32:57 +0000

This weekend I finally did something worth writing about. This past weekend was the first weekend I’ve had off since the big earthquake. This gave me the chance to go to Tokyo and visit Disney Sea. Disney Sea is similar to Disneyland, but it’s more geared towards adults. That means the rides are more exciting, and the food is better (I thought). Plus you can drink alcohol there!

The atmosphere of the park is interesting, ranging from European to cape cod to even jungle like. You can see a little bit of what it’s like below.

My favourite rides of the ones that we rode were “Journey to the Centre of the Earth”, and “Tower of Terror” (which you can see below).

The reason I liked “Journey to the Centre of the Earth” so much was the surprise ending of the ride. It started off as a slow ride watching some animatronics, and then it turned into an incredibly fast thrill ride. It was even more exciting than Space Mountain. Anyways here is some more pictures I took at the park.

Rohan au Louvre

Eric — Sat, 03 Sep 2011 15:22:16 +0000

I got this book recently. It’s a special one-shot story by the Jojo author, Hirohiko Araki. The title is “Rohan au Louvre”, and as you can tell it’s in French.

It’s a special collaboration between Araki and the famous Louvre museum. The story is really entertaining. Kind of a mystery story with some paranormal elements. Of course Rohan is one of the main characters in Jojo part 4, which makes it a Jojo story, and thus a little weird. I have to say the colour artwork is so beautiful to look at.

It almost makes me wish Jojo was always in colour.

By the way the latest Jojo part started recently. The title is “Jojolion”.

The interesting thing is it takes place in Miyagi after the recent big earthquake. The author did this in tribute to Miyagi since he a native of the area. In fact he has set the series in Miyagi before. I think it’s really cool that he’s done this. Of course he’s probably the only one that could do it properly, being from here and all.

Fireworks

Eric — Tue, 09 Aug 2011 16:08:06 +0000

I went to the Alps festival in Kakuda this weekend. They have really good fireworks for a small town festival. I wanted to try taking some photos of the fireworks. I had mixed result, but it was the first time (damn my shaky hands). Next time will be better for sure. I did however take a couple of strange photos that I kind of liked so here they are.

Lanterns

Eric — Sun, 07 Aug 2011 16:01:59 +0000

What’s this…and actual post!? I’m sure you all thought that I completely forgot about this poor old blog. Well I didn’t! I just haven’t been doing anything interesting lately (mostly just working). However now I’m on a small summer vacation, and I decided it was time to hit some of the local festivals. So went took a short drive to Marumori to see the lantern festival again. It really is quite beautiful to see. I just wish there was fewer people there so it would be more peaceful. Anyways check out this nice photos taken with my NEX.

It’s much easier to take nice nighttime photos with the NEX. Much easier than with my G10.