Our upcoming tour (no longer on sale) includes a meeting with Nizo Yamamoto, art director at Studio Ghibli, a visit to Nippon Animation, exhibitor's access to the Comitiadojinshi market, the Ghibli Museum and much more.
An unguided tour that includes airfare, hotel, guidebook, support from our tourism professionals, and exclusive tickets to the biggest event in lolita, punk and gothic fashion: the Individual Fashion Expo!
A fully guided PJT tour of the world's biggest video game party: The Tokyo Game Show! Plus a trip to a game studio, our acclaimed tour of Tokyo, the Ghibli Museum, Sega Joypolis, Namco's Namjatown, the Square Enix store, and much, much more!
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Our sister companies Digital Manga Publishing and June Manga are now offering manga online for a fraction of the price of print titles at eManga.com! We also just opened up an eBay store... check it out!
Our Mind Over Manga tour just gets better and better -- we've just added a trip to go see Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea (Gake no ue no Ponyo), the new film by Hayao Miyazaki ("Princess Mononoke," "Spirited Away"), in Japanese theaters! Years ago I saw Spirited Away in theaters on an exchange program and it was an incredible experience, even though I couldn't understand a word of it. The best part -- we'll be able to talk to one of Miyazaki's most beloved collaborators the same week, and of course visit the Ghibli Museum (below).
Pop Japan Travel and Marui One bring you a trip to the biggest alternative fashion event in Japan -- the Individual Fashion Expo! All the top lolita, gothic & punk brands participate: Angelic Pretty, Victorian Maiden, Atelier Boz, Baby the Stars Shine Bright, Peace Now, h.NAOTO, blablahospital, Sexy Dynamite London, and more!
And this isn't a guided tour, which means you'll be free to explore and shop Tokyo as you please, with a fashion-focused PJT guidebook as your companion! Click the headline for video from last year's expo!
Two pieces of good news: First, we've extended the deadline for our Mind Over Manga Tour by one more week to give those of you still deciding a chance. Secondly, we've added another optional tour: the Chofu Fireworks Festival on the Tama River! Check out the tour page for more info. Click through for a video of the Chofu fireworks from two years ago -- they really are impressive.
On our most recent Japan LA Super Mega Fun Tokyo Trip we received two big bags of limited Gloomy Bear goods from Mori Chack, creator of the character, and we'll be giving them away to people who sign up for our Mind Over Manga Tour at Anime Expo this weekend! So drop by the Digital Manga booth (#510) and come talk to us!
The esteemed background artist, and art director on "Princess Mononoke," "Castle in the Sky," "Grave of the Fireflies" and many others has agreed to meet our Mind Over Manga tour this Aug. 21-27! He'll be sitting down to talk with the group, taking us through Nippon Animation, the studio where he worked with Hayao Miyazaki and Isao Takahata on "Anne of Green Gables" and "Future Boy Conan," and introducing some of his staff from "The Girl Who Leapt Through Time!" So apply now to meet an anime legend... and keep checking back for more exciting announcements!
Our Mind Over Manga Tour this August will meet with the Urawa Gakuin Manga Club. Urawa is an elite high school in Tokyo known for its baseball, but its manga club is also second in Japan in national art competition. We're really aiming to tie American manga artists to every level of the Japanese manga scene, from up-and-coming young people to long-established legends, so more announcements are coming! (Sign up by Monday for $100 off!)
We've also updated our Testimonies page with kind comments from recent customers... check it out!
I've had some questions about the manga printing, and we're finally able to answer them, so if you're interested in printing your own dojinshi, have a click!
We're getting together with Dream Shoppe this Friday at 8:30 p.m. at Anime Jungle No. 2 in Little Tokyo to show off photos from our last Lolita Tour, and watch "Sakuran," the movie about Edo-period prostitutes starring loli icon and "Kamikaze Girls" star Anna Tsuchiya.
The movie is based on the manga by Moyocco Anno. I love Tsuchiya, and her music for the "Nana" anime is fabulous. Plus, Shiina Ringo serves as music director for the film. And it's the first foray into film for still photographer Mika Ninagawa.
Anime Jungle No. 2 is located at 325 East 1st St. in downtown LA.
Japanese niche fashion retailer Marui One and the Japan Foundation have teamed up to run a fashion contest for non-Japanese citizens. The grand prize: two round-trip air tickets to Japan.
Fireworks season begins July 26 in Tokyo with the 30th anniversary of the Sumida River Fireworks. Around 22,000 fireworks will be set in this incredible display. The Tokyo Bay fireworks will be held every weekend from July to mid-August, with the climax at the second Saturday in August. The number of fireworks launched can reach 12,000, lighting up the whole eastern part of the city. For more information, click
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