{"id":5877,"date":"2010-08-31T13:26:58","date_gmt":"2010-08-31T18:26:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/?p=5877"},"modified":"2010-09-01T02:39:52","modified_gmt":"2010-09-01T06:39:52","slug":"things-to-do-in-shibuya-tokyo-beck-pop-up-store","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/?p=5877","title":{"rendered":"Things to do in Shibuya, Tokyo: BECK Pop-up store Sep 1-26"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/comics212.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/beck_popup_store_merch_v2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-5880\" style=\"margin-top: 2px; margin-bottom: 2px; margin-left: 6px; margin-right: 6px;\" title=\"beck_popup_store_merch_v2\" src=\"https:\/\/comics212.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/beck_popup_store_merch_v2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"94\" height=\"451\" \/><\/a>From <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/aicnanime\" target=\"_blank\">Scott Green\/AICN<\/a> on Twitter comes word of<a href=\"http:\/\/www.barks.jp\/news\/?id=1000063814&amp;p=0\" target=\"_blank\"> this awesome pop-up retail location for merch from the upcoming BECK animated movie, based on the manga by Harold Sakuishi<\/a>. It&#8217;ll be in operation from September 1st to September 26th inside the PARCO Department Store complex in Shibuya.<\/p>\n<p>Originally published in English by Tokyopop before being put on hiatus about a third of the way through the series (with the rights eventually reclaimed by Kodansha), BECK is a really great seinen (manga for dudes in their late teens and early 20s) about an average kid moved by rock &#8216;n&#8217; roll to start a band and make it big. It&#8217;s the exact sort of thing that I think would speak to a lot of people who&#8217;ve ever wanted to become a rockstar, and the anime actually aired in primetime on MuchMusic here in Canada a few years back. I know Mal&#8217;s a huge fan of the manga too, and I think that&#8217;s a good indication that Scott Pilgrim fans would probably dig it \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>For the official pop-up store website (heh) with directions\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/beckshop.pgs.ne.jp\/\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For the official movie website <a href=\"http:\/\/www.beck-movie.jp\/\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I love love love these sorts of stores when I stumble across them in Japan&#8230; You may have noticed my near-obsession with Japanese retail spaces, and seeing something like this, a dedicated (and well-promoted) merch store for an upcoming movie release is pretty-much genius. Wish I could visit!<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Christopher<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Scott Green\/AICN on Twitter comes word of this awesome pop-up retail location for merch from the upcoming BECK animated movie, based on the manga by Harold Sakuishi. It&#8217;ll be in operation from September 1st to September 26th inside the PARCO Department Store complex in Shibuya. Originally published in English by Tokyopop before being put &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/comics212.net\/?p=5877\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Things to do in Shibuya, Tokyo: BECK Pop-up store Sep 1-26&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5877"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5877\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5882,"href":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5877\/revisions\/5882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}