OTAKU-VERSE ZERO episode 12: Mandarake Nakano Broadway

 ‘OTAKU-VERSE ZERO’ SEARCHES FOR BURIED TREASURE AT THE MANDARAKE SUPERSTORE IN EPISODE 12!

 Tokyo, Japan, February 16. 2011 – Yuu Asakawa (voice actress, K-ON!!, Girl’s Bravo) and Patrick Macias (Editor, Otaku USA magazine) are the featured hosts of Otaku-Verse Zero, a new English language series from web TV network K’zStation.

Updated weekly and filmed in Tokyo, Otaku-Verse Zero aims to bring “otaku all over the universe” fun and lively coverage of anime, manga, and Japanese pop culture.

In episode 12, now on-line, Patrick continues his solo tour of Tokyo’s legendary Nakano Broadway shopping mall by visiting multiple Mandarake collector’s stores within. Japan’s largest chain of used otaku goods, Mandarake’s Nakano branch buys and sells 45,000 otaku items weekly. Inside, Patrick samples an array of rare and vintage video games, classic Japanese movie posters, manga, and finally, a selection of rare animation cels from Evangelion, Studio Ghibli, Space Battleship Yamato, and Astro Boy.

 Otaku-Verse Zero can be viewed for free on-line at www.kzstation.com/ovz/ and at www.crunchyroll.com.

About K’zStation

Based in Tokyo, Japan, K’zStation is a web TV channel that

provides original content to two million viewers a month. Their programming features some of Japan’s top comedians, voice actors, and idols including SKE48. For more information, visit www.kzstation.com/.

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Comments

[Tim Eldred]

And here I thought "Hen Ya" wouldn't have anything I was looking for. Where better to find the Space Battleship Yamato coloring/activity books circa series 1? Now I have yet another reason to go back.

PS: The "Final Yamato" pencil sketch as you called it was actually a layout from episode 9 of series 1, splashing down in the sea of Pluto.

-"That guy"

[spm]

Why you hoggin' all the Bunta posters? That was "The Bosses Last Days". Any Bukuto Gaijin Butai? You slipped on a gimmie, Godzilla x Jiger? You bring much shame.

Seems like I need to make another trip just to go to Nakano B'way.

[logboy]

it's another set of tempting images, all these movie posters, cos there's quite a few shown in the video that are regularly on YAJ for similar prices, but it's a shame cos (of course) nobody in japan wants to post anything directly to the rest of the world, it seems, unless they're a third-party proxy thing.

surprisingly, there's actually also quite a goldmine on eBay, which i can actually buy from, including sellers that are resident gaijin it seems. quite nice to see lots of stuff getting passed by cos folk in the wider world have less likely seen the films - still great directors, studios, periods and artwork to be had - that's so similar stuff to the most popular stuff.

shame there's also a whole heap of repros (of recent and old stuff) cos it can make it hard to pick through at times - but its possible to soon get the drift of whom to avoid. oh, and the biggest downfall besides that is the unreasonable / high postage rates which only work out on multiple purchases - and there's never guarantee of that with an auction, so...