GAMERA POPS UP IN SHINJUKU! Daiei's Remarkable Flying Turtle Sighted in Tokyu Hands!

Gamera raids Tokyu Hands Shinjuku! Photo by Brett Homenick.

From October 15 through Octover 30, the 7th floor of Tokyu Hands Shinjuku will host a Heisei Gamera pop-up shop with a variety of Gamera-themed goods for sale. I stopped by today to check it out. Here's what I saw. Enjoy!

Kadokawa Daiei Studios!

Kadokawa Daiei Studios. Photo by Brett Homenick.

Also on September 30, I visited Kadokawa Daiei Studios for the first time in a long time. I was lucky that Shop Majin was open, too, but there wasn't much in terms of interesting goods for sale. Thankfully, though, there were quite a few impressive displays. There was a lot to see, so let's dive right in!

 

A Showa Hero Event Brings Gamera and Yoshito Chujo Together!

Noboru Kaneko. Photo by Brett Homenick.

While I was in between events on Sunday, September 25, I figured I had just enough time to stop by the Showa Hero event in Nakano to meet the guests, neither of whom I'd ever met before. Who were they, you ask? Why, Noboru Kaneko and Hirofumi Fukuzawa!

Noboru Kaneko played Gao Red in Hyakujuu Sentai Gaoranger (2001-02), but Godzilla fans know him for playing Yoshito Chujo in Godzilla: Tokyo S.O.S. (2003). My interaction with him was brief but pleasant. There just wasn't any time for anything else!

Hirofumi Fukuzawa. Photo by Brett Homenick.

Hirofumi Fukuzawa is a suit actor best known for his appearances in the Super Sentai series (where he often plays the Red Ranger of the series), as well the Kamen Rider series. However, most kaiju fans will recognize him as the Gamera suit actor from Gamera 3 (1999). Suffice it to say, I was quite interested to meet him. And he was a very cool guy, just like most other suit actors you're likely to meet.

And that's a wrap! I was basically in and out because everything was basically over by the time I arrived. But I had just enough time to meet the guests. A very cool way to spend the few moments I had there!