Comments on: mom-and-pop store logos

By: jani

jani — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 15:27:51 +0000

@btahity: Yotsuya animal hospital is located here: http://bit.ly/b3lWl8
You can see the mosaic too.

By: szaszha

szaszha — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 07:22:07 +0000

the winking bunny with the 5 oclock shadow was especially creepy and baffling.

By: btahity

btahity — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 22:57:29 +0000

What does a flying fish has to do with dentistry?
Where is the animal hospital? I am very interested in the mosaic behind it!

By: admin

admin — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 01:12:56 +0000

@Anok Panda: I don’t know. My interview with Matt Alt and Hiroko Yoda – who know more than me – they talk about Japanese mascot-mania’s relationship/origin in SHinto.
http://www.hellodamage.com/top/2008/10/17/interview-hiroko-yoda-and-matt-alt/

By: admin

admin — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 01:03:40 +0000

@a7th: I don’T know if they sell ‘em: their business model seems to revolve around being closed always.

By: sephim

sephim — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 12:02:27 +0000

They use that karaoke one in the windows of a, guess what? karaoke bar among the dozens that seem to be in Sydney.

There have even been situations where rival karaoke bar people will go to other karaoke bars and fight… not often, but it’s happened – I wonder if they fight to bad 80’s videos and follow the moves on the screen?

I don’t really wonder that, I thought it might be a fun joke.

I was wrong.

By: Sarah

Sarah — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 08:36:34 +0000

Good to know where to go if I have a sick moose in Japan.
The one above it, of the angry head on legs, worries me.

By: Steve

Steve — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 05:17:24 +0000

Does that school uniform place actually sell those old-school uniforms. Old-school-school uniforms?

By: AnokPanda

AnokPanda — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 02:11:34 +0000

No captions.
What are you, posting sober in rehab?

hehehe “fresh mans”

You’ve written about how every corp., business, establishment, entity, and org. has a mascot, but do you know how that flows with tradition? As it seems so many Japanese things do (or pretends to).