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PARMAN パーマン happens to be another one of those cute Japanese cartoons I watched back in the day. As you can see from the graphic and character style, PARMAN belongs to the same creators as Doraemon ドラえもん, Kaibutsu-Kun 怪物くん, Ninja Hattori-Kun 忍者ハットリくん, Q-Taro Q太郎, to name a few.

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Was in Akihabara yesterday looking for a sleeve/case for my iPad when I accidentally stumbled upon this new Gundam Cafe right outside the station (I guess it’s new – just look at the queue).

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These Dr. Slump Arale-chan socks are awesome! I’ll have to get them some day… whether I’d wear them is another matter…

Met Cavell again today for a brief few minutes cuz the kid had something for me – Arale t’shirts! Frikkin’ awesome they are although they’re a tad too big for me…

Anyway, thanks Cav and Jenny! I’ll see you around some time, some where, kid.

… in Mandarake in Akihabara. Most of the toys are retro, some are not. Man, I had quite a good few of these toys when I was a kid. Wish I kept them.

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Bought these Dr. Slump mini trading cards from Yahoo auction on the weekend for ¥1,000 (but shipping cost me a whopping ¥630!). They’re from the early 80s and are brand new. The box contains 30 or so packets of cards with each packet containing 4 mini cards.

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… Pocket Figure Series from Bandai. 18 figures + 2 secret to collect in this ‘new’ Dr. Slump/Arale-chan series!

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Oh man, look whose next to get the vinyl treatment… Ninja Hattori-Kun (忍者ハットリくん)! You know I’m defo gonna get this! But it won’t be available until 2008 April! Boooo! But, then again, my birthday is in April (nudge, nudge, wink, wink, he’s only ¥3,990)…

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… on display in Yodobashi Akiba! These are the next set of 15 figures that will come with the final Dr Slump DVD box set, Slump The Box – Hoyoyo Edition, which will begin shipping on September 14th.

These ‘set 2′ figures were displayed right next to the ‘set 1′ figures and I was really surprised to see that the ‘set 2′ figures are actually bigger than those from ‘set 1′! What’s with that?! I mean, if we were to display all 30 figures together, it would look really silly cuz some of the figure’s ratio are a little odd. For instance, Suppaman (Superman) is actually pretty short in the anime – the same height and size ratio as Norimaki Senbe (Dr Slump). But because Senbe came with ‘set 1′ and Suppaman comes with ‘set 2′, Suppa-man is actually bigger than Senbe when placed next to each other. This is just so, so silly! I’m pretty bummed about this… but I still want ‘em!

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