Monthly Archive for May, 2015

Culture: Bye bye Naruto!

Naruto, a Japanese manga by Kishimoto Masashi, that was published  weekly in the Weekly Jump manga magazine for the last 15 years just finished a few months ago. To celebrate the success of the manga an exhibition was held in the very exclusive Mori Art Center in Roppongi Hills. After reading the manga and watching the entire anime, I figured I should go and see and experience being a Japanese geek!

It was really fun and quite moving to see all the work of Kishimoto. What an achievement it must be, entertaining fans on a weekly basis for 15 years and exhibit their work at such a great museum!

Poster for the exhibition with the main character, Naruto, a young ninja:


We couldn’t take photos of the exhibition, but they had built scene from the manga, like those faces etched in the mountains.


Then the whole restaurant area around the exhibition center was decorated around the Naruto theme! It was like being in the ninja village with the characters! 


And each restaurant had special Naruto lunch sets like the famous Afuri ramen restaurant which offered a Naruto ramen with the logo of Naruto:


I had a lovely lunch there and then brought my souvenirs home. A great day!

On the go: French wine…

or maybe not! I saw this in the supermarket today, and I really wanted to buy it but it looked so ridiculous… I might buy it all the same, just for the fun 🙂

Culture: It’s Mother’s Day in Japan today

In several countries, carnation is the traditional flower to buy for Mother’s Day. In Japan too, but in Japan carnation flowers are cute!



On the go: more weirdness

As I walked by a shop, a karaoke place I think (?), this is what I saw in the window! Not sure what is was for but it was surely unusual and memorable! Maybe some sort of art!