TAF - Tim Eldred and Steve Harrison Edition

 

BECAUSE YOU DEMANDED IT...here's the goddamn Tohokushinsha booth, already! According to the exhibitor's guide, the ONLY thing the company was there to promote was a new anime called REDLINE (not Red Noah, sadly), so I guess they threw together this Drive-In Movie sized Yamato display at the last second just for us...Although as I tried to explain earlier, the name of the game was strictly "Yamato 2 pachinko, or get lost". They had a few of those glossy press kits up for grabs and I quickly stuffed a couple down my pants making "robble robble" noises while the Yuki booth bunnies distracted the shutterbugs.

There were  little meeting tables set up in front of the display, which is weird since here we see two guys who actually prefer to be standing! Man, Japan sure is wacky sometimes! The guy at left could be asking the suit, "What is this...Yamato? Is it dangerous?" or "Where's the toilet?" or maybe this is photographic evidence of the inevitable Pachinko Yamato 3 being laid out like a TAF Wansee Conference. Who can say for sure?

The only other thing I saw that made me think of you hot boys was this glass case featuring a few original Kazuo Komatsubara illustrations including some from 999 and my oddly titled JAL in-flight movie, "Captain Harlock in Arcadia" (above). Good thing you both weren't at the show because I think we would have smashed open the case and then fought over who gets the pic only to accidentally tear it to shreds like total retards.

But yeah, that's it!  Since you guys don't care about women wearing tight yellow female space navigator uniforms you may now exit the building! Unless Steve would like to wander over to the Bandai booth in a fugue stage and present a Byzantine business scheme inspired by his crackpot comments on other people's blogs while Tim might be tempted to stay at the Yamato booth asking questions about the availability of audio drama cassettes from 1983 until the cops hauled him away screaming in a straight-jacket. 'Aint pachinko grand? THE END (?!TheNish?!)

Comments

[Tim Eldred]

Damn that chick is smokin' hot. Yamamoto pachiwhatnow?

[Steve Harrison]

I sense great anger in you, young Macias...this is not the path, you must release this senseless aggression...or some s**t like that.

See, the booth bunnies are fine and all, but you know I ain't got the 'yellow fever' (GASP! how un-PC! Steve is even more evil!) except for Etsuko Shihomi, and I would soooo...well..ahem. anyway. So fair enough, those gals might turn me, if you got me drunk enough.

It's about the KNOWING, my brother. I GOTS TO KNOW because my time on Earth is so short.

And Tim and I wouldn't fight over those illos, we're civilized men. We'd fight over that big, thrown together at the last minute banner. Like the two mutant babies in 'Nostradamus'

Tim, the Yamamoto Pachislot game is all about the celebration of the WW II Admiral. Hit the big win and he mutters something about waking a giant or some nonsense....

and I have very sound business plans. YOU DON'T LIKE MY FRIED RICE? IT'S VERY GOOD RICE!

[Aceface]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9rgQWppcK0
check this.

[Steve Harrison]

Oh yeah, not a doubt about it, the cutscenes and stuff for the Yamato 2 pachislot are made from 100% pure awesome. I think I would hate for that look to be intercut with 2-D digicel character animation, however.

I'm not a big fan of the Battlestar Galactica 'real life shakycam' style of shooting effects but boy, it sure pops hot with the Yamato stuff. But then I think of the attack on the Dark Nebula 'mobile island base' in Be Forever Yamato and I see the same frantic energy, helped muchly by Miyagawa's score, so yeah. yeah. I can dig it.

[Edward Hawkins]

I would DE-BANNER the signage as well ... I probably wouldn't deface it with my bodily fluids (like, maybe, some others), but I'd give it a good home. And Tim, she's only 'cute', I don't think she measures up to 'smoking hot' ... Unless you're talking about herbal cigerettes.