After getting fed up of her strict family and being bullied at school, 17 year old Nina Iseri has finally made the decision to move to Tokyo (or close to it, in Kawasaki) from Kumamoto after getting an extra push by her favourite band, Diamond Dust. After a rough night with everything not working out, she runs into the vocalist Momoka who...
Shogo Yahagi is out having fun with his biker friends when he is shown a brand new motorbike he's never seen before. Unfortunately for him it turns out to be classified weapon and a secret organisation was willing put in a great deal of effort to retrieve it from him. As he delves deeper into the background of the bike "Garland" he soon...
The famous tactician Zhuge Kongming (Koumei, Japanese transliteration) dies on the battlefield but finds himself transported 1800 years to modern day Japan, Shibuya. Seeing everyone dressed up for Halloween, he thinks he's been sent to Hell and decides to let the servants drag him around. When he arrives at a club, he meets Eiko...
Kickboxing enthusiast Ryuhei Oda gets bitten by a black creature one night. Soon he discovers he can see portals known as Traumerei around Shibuya and the monsters known as "Weird" that appear from them. A drug known as "Somnium Drop" is circling around claiming it can grant wishes, allowing "Dreamers" humans possessing great...
Strange incidents are happening around Shibuya known as "New Generation Madness (New Gen)". Takumi Nishijou (Taku) is a nerd who isn't interested in the real world and spends most of this time playing MMORPGs online inside his cargo container "base". He often has sensual delusions about girls he meets while going about his daily...
Tsubasa Oribe is the only survivor of the Mass Disappearance that occurred 5 years ago when her older sister also disappeared from stage. After getting over her shock she applies to be an idol in the hopes of finding clues to her sister's whereabouts but finds herself transported to another world as everyone around her disappears yet...
I was inspired to do this post after realising how many locations I recognised from shows and games I've played after visiting Japan. You will probably too once you've been since so many fictional works are based on real life locations and the great thing is you won't have to go out of your way to find these places unlike say Makoto...
Rash, stubborn Daisuke Doujima was kidnapped one summer when he was in elementary school but he was rescued by a mysterious cloaked lady who called herself, "Milo". She said that one day, Daisuke would have to protect his friends and ever since then he believed he was the chosen one. Some years later Daisuke and his friends were now in...
It was back to Tokyo today. Finally goodbye to those "sauna" hotel rooms in Nagoya! However, check-in time wasn't until 3pm so we decided it would be best if we just left our luggage in lockers instead of travelling back and forth just to leave our luggage with the hotel. There weren't many days left before we return to the UK so my friend...
Since our hotel was in Tokyo, I decided we would visit Senso-ji first which was in Asakusa. Always see the temple in travel programmes about Japan with its giant red lanterns. We went out the wrong exit at Shibuya Station on the night we arrived so, we didn't really get to see the famous crossing during the night. This time we did early in...