Comments on: Japan 2007: Namjatown (Ikebukuro) http://comics212.net/2007/09/14/day-02-part-3-namjatown/ Never Safe For Work Wed, 08 Feb 2012 23:37:06 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Japan 2009: Return to NAMJATOWN at Comics212 http://comics212.net/2007/09/14/day-02-part-3-namjatown/comment-page-1/#comment-113369 Japan 2009: Return to NAMJATOWN at Comics212 Wed, 30 Dec 2009 08:07:30 +0000 http://comics212.net/2007/09/14/day-02-part-3-namjatown/#comment-113369 [...] Namjatown Photo Gallery: http://comics212.net/2007/09/14/day-02-part-3-namjatown/ Namjatown Website: http://www.namja.jp/ / [...] [...] Namjatown Photo Gallery: http://comics212.net/2007/09/14/day-02-part-3-namjatown/ Namjatown Website: http://www.namja.jp/ / [...]

]]> By: Scott http://comics212.net/2007/09/14/day-02-part-3-namjatown/comment-page-1/#comment-12062 Scott Tue, 18 Sep 2007 14:32:15 +0000 http://comics212.net/2007/09/14/day-02-part-3-namjatown/#comment-12062 Wow...that looks just amazing. Miss you guys xo Wow…that looks just amazing. Miss you guys xo

]]> By: Bitter Matt http://comics212.net/2007/09/14/day-02-part-3-namjatown/comment-page-1/#comment-11809 Bitter Matt Sat, 15 Sep 2007 19:55:58 +0000 http://comics212.net/2007/09/14/day-02-part-3-namjatown/#comment-11809 I like the lantern in the haunted village, which (I presume?) indicates nearby restroom facilities. Nice touch. I like the lantern in the haunted village, which (I presume?) indicates nearby restroom facilities. Nice touch.

]]> By: kira http://comics212.net/2007/09/14/day-02-part-3-namjatown/comment-page-1/#comment-11808 kira Sat, 15 Sep 2007 19:53:35 +0000 http://comics212.net/2007/09/14/day-02-part-3-namjatown/#comment-11808 the more i see the more i want to live there! :) the more i see the more i want to live there!
:)

]]> By: Halliday http://comics212.net/2007/09/14/day-02-part-3-namjatown/comment-page-1/#comment-11787 Halliday Sat, 15 Sep 2007 12:25:29 +0000 http://comics212.net/2007/09/14/day-02-part-3-namjatown/#comment-11787 Chris>Are you and Andrew going to America Town? Heather was telling me last night that the Japanese approximation of what America must be like involves a lot of Cowboys and Janet Jackson. Just like the real America! Chris>Are you and Andrew going to America Town? Heather was telling me last night that the Japanese approximation of what America must be like involves a lot of Cowboys and Janet Jackson. Just like the real America!

]]> By: Halliday http://comics212.net/2007/09/14/day-02-part-3-namjatown/comment-page-1/#comment-11786 Halliday Sat, 15 Sep 2007 12:22:57 +0000 http://comics212.net/2007/09/14/day-02-part-3-namjatown/#comment-11786 James Hanrahan>I blame the Doctor. Meddling Time-Lord mutha@#$%er! Japanese commercials are weird. I saw this one with Nicholas Cage once... Christ. James Hanrahan>I blame the Doctor. Meddling Time-Lord mutha@#$%er!

Japanese commercials are weird. I saw this one with Nicholas Cage once… Christ.

]]> By: Blockade Boy http://comics212.net/2007/09/14/day-02-part-3-namjatown/comment-page-1/#comment-11778 Blockade Boy Sat, 15 Sep 2007 10:33:56 +0000 http://comics212.net/2007/09/14/day-02-part-3-namjatown/#comment-11778 What an awesome photo-essay! Out of all the historical/pop-cultural wackiness of Namjatown, I'm most bemused the little statue portraying General MacArthur as a proud (arrogant?) eagle... with his trademark corncob pipe in his beak. What an awesome photo-essay!

Out of all the historical/pop-cultural wackiness of Namjatown, I’m most bemused the little statue portraying General MacArthur as a proud (arrogant?) eagle… with his trademark corncob pipe in his beak.

]]> By: James Hanrahan http://comics212.net/2007/09/14/day-02-part-3-namjatown/comment-page-1/#comment-11773 James Hanrahan Sat, 15 Sep 2007 08:58:18 +0000 http://comics212.net/2007/09/14/day-02-part-3-namjatown/#comment-11773 For halliday: The guy on the poster looks like Sammy Davis Jr. because it IS Sammy Davis Jr.! Sammy did a series of Suntory Whiskey ads both print and television that ran between 1973 through 1978 The print ads were pretty ho-hum but in the TV ads he was often trying to stop a much taller white guy dressed as a burglar from from getting his bottle of Suntory Whiskey White Label. One time this involved Sammy and the whiskey thief playing hot potato with a cannonball bomb with a lit fuse. Suntory has a long history of employing Western celebrities for their commercials but Sammy Davis Jr.'s were some of the wackier and longest running ones. I'm just slightly confused by that ad because I thought Gyoza Stadium was supposed to be in a recreation of a postwar-1950s Japanese village at festival time. For halliday:
The guy on the poster looks like Sammy Davis Jr. because it IS Sammy Davis Jr.!
Sammy did a series of Suntory Whiskey ads both print and television that ran between 1973 through 1978 The print ads were pretty ho-hum but in the TV ads he was often trying to stop a much taller white guy dressed as a burglar from from getting his bottle of Suntory Whiskey White Label. One time this involved Sammy and the whiskey thief playing hot potato with a cannonball bomb with a lit fuse. Suntory has a long history of employing Western celebrities for their commercials but Sammy Davis Jr.’s were some of the wackier and longest running ones.

I’m just slightly confused by that ad because I thought Gyoza Stadium was supposed to be in a recreation of a postwar-1950s Japanese village at festival time.

]]> By: Dave White http://comics212.net/2007/09/14/day-02-part-3-namjatown/comment-page-1/#comment-11756 Dave White Sat, 15 Sep 2007 04:36:58 +0000 http://comics212.net/2007/09/14/day-02-part-3-namjatown/#comment-11756 Heh. I saved the wrapper I got at Gyoza Stadium in Namjatown - it's got the cat logo on one side, and on the other a chef going all kame-hame-ha with some Gyoza. And a seal of authenticity. It is absolutely awesome. Heh. I saved the wrapper I got at Gyoza Stadium in Namjatown – it’s got the cat logo on one side, and on the other a chef going all kame-hame-ha with some Gyoza. And a seal of authenticity. It is absolutely awesome.

]]> By: wintersweet http://comics212.net/2007/09/14/day-02-part-3-namjatown/comment-page-1/#comment-11752 wintersweet Sat, 15 Sep 2007 03:38:45 +0000 http://comics212.net/2007/09/14/day-02-part-3-namjatown/#comment-11752 The gelato definitely looks like black sesame to me (and that stuff can stain). I love it. The gelato definitely looks like black sesame to me (and that stuff can stain). I love it.

]]> By: tom fowler http://comics212.net/2007/09/14/day-02-part-3-namjatown/comment-page-1/#comment-11731 tom fowler Fri, 14 Sep 2007 23:16:17 +0000 http://comics212.net/2007/09/14/day-02-part-3-namjatown/#comment-11731 i. love . these. pictures. although, there's something vaguely creepy about all the giant cat-heads, and "sweet poison st." as far as the mystery gelato goes (which i thought looked like a little frozen "grimace" at first), if i may venture a guess: could it be squid ink? it's supposed to be somewhat sweet, but then my only knowledge of japanese food culture comes from watch iron chef reruns. i. love . these. pictures.

although, there’s something vaguely creepy about all the giant cat-heads, and “sweet poison st.”

as far as the mystery gelato goes (which i thought looked like a little frozen “grimace” at first), if i may venture a guess: could it be squid ink? it’s supposed to be somewhat sweet, but then my only knowledge of japanese food culture comes from watch iron chef reruns.

]]> By: Halliday http://comics212.net/2007/09/14/day-02-part-3-namjatown/comment-page-1/#comment-11727 Halliday Fri, 14 Sep 2007 21:50:45 +0000 http://comics212.net/2007/09/14/day-02-part-3-namjatown/#comment-11727 "A Gelato so black that not even light can escape it's surface." Why does that guy on the poster look like Sammy Davis Jr.? I've seen those GRAVE OF THE FIREFLY candies at the Chinatown Center, but every time I think of buying a tin I fall to my knees sobbing and screaming, "IT'S SO SAD! WHY IS IT SO SAD!?!" I think that robot is the King of the Namja-Bots, which only come out at night and steal shit from around Tokyo and use to to build more crazy shit in Namjatown. In like 30 years, there won't even been a Tokyo anymore... JUST NAMJATOWN. And in, like, 150 years... NAMJAWORLD. It'll be so gradual we won't even see it coming, just wake up one morning in the Massage forest surrounded by animatronic Tengu and guys in Mascot suits. The future is going to be AWESOME. “A Gelato so black that not even light can escape it’s surface.”

Why does that guy on the poster look like Sammy Davis Jr.?

I’ve seen those GRAVE OF THE FIREFLY candies at the Chinatown Center, but every time I think of buying a tin I fall to my knees sobbing and screaming, “IT’S SO SAD! WHY IS IT SO SAD!?!”

I think that robot is the King of the Namja-Bots, which only come out at night and steal shit from around Tokyo and use to to build more crazy shit in Namjatown. In like 30 years, there won’t even been a Tokyo anymore… JUST NAMJATOWN. And in, like, 150 years… NAMJAWORLD. It’ll be so gradual we won’t even see it coming, just wake up one morning in the Massage forest surrounded by animatronic Tengu and guys in Mascot suits.

The future is going to be AWESOME.

]]> By: ~raina http://comics212.net/2007/09/14/day-02-part-3-namjatown/comment-page-1/#comment-11719 ~raina Fri, 14 Sep 2007 19:04:55 +0000 http://comics212.net/2007/09/14/day-02-part-3-namjatown/#comment-11719 Oh my lord. It looks like what I imagine being inside of Super Mario Bros. 2 would be like. I'm also impressed that Japan has 'broken' Andrew's vegetarianism. Has he paid the price? Oh my lord. It looks like what I imagine being inside of Super Mario Bros. 2 would be like.

I’m also impressed that Japan has ‘broken’ Andrew’s vegetarianism. Has he paid the price?

]]> By: Jerry http://comics212.net/2007/09/14/day-02-part-3-namjatown/comment-page-1/#comment-11718 Jerry Fri, 14 Sep 2007 18:19:53 +0000 http://comics212.net/2007/09/14/day-02-part-3-namjatown/#comment-11718 Must add namjatown to my life "to do" list right next Shia LeBeauf. Must add namjatown to my life “to do” list right next Shia LeBeauf.

]]> By: LillianDP http://comics212.net/2007/09/14/day-02-part-3-namjatown/comment-page-1/#comment-11715 LillianDP Fri, 14 Sep 2007 17:41:09 +0000 http://comics212.net/2007/09/14/day-02-part-3-namjatown/#comment-11715 Wow...four trips to Japan, and I've *never* been to Namjatown? This must be remedie, and I can't wait. Is this actually inside Sunshine 60? Wow…four trips to Japan, and I’ve *never* been to Namjatown? This must be remedie, and I can’t wait. Is this actually inside Sunshine 60?

]]> By: zach worton http://comics212.net/2007/09/14/day-02-part-3-namjatown/comment-page-1/#comment-11707 zach worton Fri, 14 Sep 2007 16:16:07 +0000 http://comics212.net/2007/09/14/day-02-part-3-namjatown/#comment-11707 namjatown makes no sense!!! i loved this post and it made me want to move in to namjatown...FOREVER!!! i couldn't stop laughing when you made mr. namjatown cry. namjatown. i can't stop saying/writing namjatown!!! namjatown makes no sense!!! i loved this post and it made me want to move in to namjatown…FOREVER!!! i couldn’t stop laughing when you made mr. namjatown cry. namjatown.

i can’t stop saying/writing namjatown!!!

]]> By: wintersweet http://comics212.net/2007/09/14/day-02-part-3-namjatown/comment-page-1/#comment-11705 wintersweet Fri, 14 Sep 2007 16:06:27 +0000 http://comics212.net/2007/09/14/day-02-part-3-namjatown/#comment-11705 Aw, man, I think I walked past this going from the station to Sunshine 60. I had no idea. I wouldn't have missed it if I'd had any idea how much crack-addlery lurked within! Aw, man, I think I walked past this going from the station to Sunshine 60. I had no idea. I wouldn’t have missed it if I’d had any idea how much crack-addlery lurked within!

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