A weekend to remember

Usually our weekend escapades go unchronicled, as we generally have very little memory of what happened.  However, last weekend I actually made an effort to get some pictures etc of what we encountered during what proved to be yet another adventure-filled weekend.

I don’t remember all the details exactly, so I will just stick up the pictures etc that I have and explain what is going on – if indeed that is possible or necessary.

It's "on like Donkey Kong!"

I can’t help but feel that picture speaks for itself.  This happened on the train from Yokohama to Tokyo; just after enjoying Happy Hour at TGI Fridays in Yokohama.  I have no other pictures from Friday night and very little memory of what happened.  No doubt it was great though.

Final Fantasy XIII... in a can...?

Concerned that people don’t realise how much you love Final Fantasy?  Well look no further.  No you can have Final Fantasy goodness coursing through your body.

Now this young man truly is a machine.  This was in Don Quixhote in Akihabara.  Every step earned him a ‘great’ or ‘perfect’.  I can only aspire to one day be this talented – but preferrably at something useful or cool; though I’d probably settle for Guitar Hero.  He really put his heart and soul into this effort too – he had built up quite a sweat by the end.

Gloomy Bear speakers. Nuff said.

I ofcourse have my nerdy impulses – otherwise I wouldn’t have been in Akihabara (I also wouldn’t be writing a blog for that matter).  Gloomy Bear is my major weakness.  I won 3 of these in a row – each on the first go.  What the guy in the above video is to Dance Dance Revolution, I am to crane games with Gloomy Bear toys.  In case you’re wondering – no I didn’t keep 3 for myself.

The Mammoth Curry - 1Kg of awesome

Chau found a curry place in Akihabara that sold a 1kg curry for the very reasonable price of 880yen.  He also insisted that we put cheese on it for an additional 100yen.  This thing was an epic mission of feasting.  Below are the results – my plate is on the left and Chau’s is on the right.  As you can see, he won the challenge.  I was defeated by a biological compulsion to stop eating.  Mine had a lot more cheese in it though [on the back foot].

Ok, the next 2 pictures are NSFW so I will keep the thumbnails small and you can just open it up if you want more of an eyeful.  We were showing our friend one of the many disturbing (and large) porn shops in Akihabara.  Just genuinely questionable stuff everywhere.

Behold the wonder of the inter-racial dildo – fun by yourself or to share with a friend – and also the highly worrying life-size dolls, some of which are modelled on what I would say are small children, but are marketed as ‘mini-women’.  I mean, one of them was dressed as ‘little red riding hood’.  Still, I guess if you’re paying half a million yen for one, you want it to be just right.

As a final point, I think it’s only fair to say that Akihabara is a truly bizarre and unusual place – home to weird characters from across the globe.  It’s like a Mecca for perverts and geeks.  As such, it can’t be used as a basis for a view of all of Japan.  Japan may be a little unusual in some ways, but Akihabara is a beast all of its own.