Street Snap of the Day #41

Saw this man running around in Shinjuku from far away. =)







































When I asked for a photo he wanted to put on his tiger mask first.

Transformed into a tiger he did thumbs up for photo and continued his run in the concrete jungle. ^^

Funny Moments #23 Face Plants

I always thought that a "face plant" is when you fall and land on your face, but then I saw these face plants in Shibuya. ;)

South Korea Street Snap

I just came back from some days in Seoul, South Korea.

I lived in Hong-Dae in Seoul, which is kinda like Japan's Harajuku or Shibuya. Met this guy at a market there.

Even though he was so colorful he wanted to show me a photo of himself in black and white for some reason.

Street Snap of the Day #40

In Kabukichou, Shinjuku.

They were handing out flyers for a Halloween Visual Kei-event. Just noticed that the the guy to the right got a gun...

You can see in the streets that there's soon Halloween in Tokyo.

Laughed at by Millions on TV ;)

One week ago I became known in TV as a "Charai"(Playboy) who buys crazy hats for my countries money...

Here's how it happened:



Since there's no English subtitles I will try to explain and translate the show.

My guest house had been choosen to be on a show about people that's poor but still happy. It was the most watched show on TV that night in Japan.

Here's two of the poor girls. Pretty funny that those two are considered poor in Japan...

As in many Japanese TV-shows a panel of famous people are watching and discussing everything that is shown.

While you're watching you can randomly see the famous people's reactions in the box in the upper left corner.

Here's the translation of my clip:

The famous comedian duo Haruna and Haruka has come to our guest house and says:

-"I would like to see who else is living here."

That turns out to be a "23 year old international student from Sweden" named Fredrik...

They come into my room and goes:

-"It's really clean!" (Before the TV-show it was really dirty)

-"Oh you have Japanese magazines."

-"A Playboy bible!?"

Haruna and Haruka: -"Are you a player!?"

Me: -"I'm not a player."

Haruna: -"You take pretty much Purikura... Is that your girlfriend?"

Me: -"No, she's a friend."

  

-"PLAYER!"

Haruna: -"What's this?"

Me: -"A hat..."

Haruna: -"How much did it cost?"
 
























Me: -"About 8000 Yen."

Haruna: -"Are you working now?"

 Me: -"No I get money from the Swedish gouvernment". (Loans mostly)

 Haruna: -"Ah like a scholarship."

"-I can't believe this is what you're using Sweden's money for!"

Then some of the people in the studio laugh so much that they almost fall of their chairs.

Here's a longer version of the TV-show I'm in with a part from the studio and more info about my guest house:

 

14,5% of every household with a TV in Japan watched this show. Feels crazy  to think that more than 10 million people might have seen it.

It's been strange to be recognized in the streets and read people's comments about you in internet forums.

Thank you all so much for watching and recording this. I can't believe how nice everybody's been! ^^

TGS Merchandise

They're not only showing games, but also selling game-related stuff at Tokyo Game Show.

Like these paper-characters.

 

Or game controller buttons, in case you miss any or played too much. ;)

Very dedicated staff in the stores! ^^

 

Animalistic PSP-cases...

 

...promoted by animalistic girls. ;)

Evangelion-hairclips to look like the girl with blue hair.






























And of course a lot of Super Mario-merchanise. =)

Me and My Room on TV テレビ出演！

Tomorrow night, Wednesday, I will be on Japanese TV. If you have time to watch, it will be on channel 4 (Nihon Terebi) 10pm. =)

The picture above is from another TV interview with Fuji TV about Women's Soccer.

The show is called Bombii Gaaru(ボンビーガール). It's about people and their rooms.

They will look around in my room and ask about the things they find...

This hat might be one of the things they notice. :)

If somebody can find it and link to it on YouTube it would be much appreciated!

Street Snap of the Day #39

In front of Purikura Mekka at the street Senta-Gai in Shibuya.

This style is called "Center Guy". Maybe because they're "guys" that hang out on "Senta-Gai"?

Outfit from Alba Rosa, which is characteristic for Center Guys. They're pretty mind-blowing to see.

Kayo Police かよぽりす

The Street Fighter producer and many of the best players in the world were at Tokyo Game Show last weekend. One of them is the girl in this pictures.
 

Or I thought it was a girl. Then my friend told me it's the Japanese model and TV-personality Kayo Satoh called Kayo Police, who in September announced that she had been born as a male.

Kayo claims she haven't had any surgery done, and once beat the world champion Daigo.

Kayo in Japanese TV:

 

Typhoon in Tokyo

We didn't have school today because of the Typhoon in Tokyo. When it was over there were trashed umbrellas all over the streets.

Some bikes fell over outside Don Kihote as well.

Firetrack on alert. Hopefully there were no big accidents, tomorrow it's supposed to be over.