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Postby kamome » Thu Oct 23, 2003 4:40 pm

I'm looking for shops in Tokyo that sell costumes, etc., for Halloween. Anyone know of any (besides Don Quixote)? Anyone going to good Halloween parties?
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Postby GomiGirl » Thu Oct 23, 2003 5:32 pm

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Loft in Ikebukero has a HUGE Halloween section with lots of costumes..
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Postby Taro Toporific » Thu Oct 23, 2003 7:44 pm

kamome wrote:I'm looking for shops in Tokyo that sell costumes...?


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Postby kamome » Fri Oct 24, 2003 1:52 pm

Thanks for the suggestion, GG. I may take a trip to Ikebukuro this weekend to prepare for all the Halloween parties in Tokyo next week. Anybody going to the Metropolis party at Velfarre?
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Halloween costume "from Japanese lore"

Postby Taro Toporific » Thu Oct 30, 2003 4:11 pm


Do any of you FG think this reporter and the editors know anything about Japan?

Trick-or-treating no longer mere child's play
CBS News - 27 Oct 2003
....Increasingly, Halloween is a holiday for adults, sometimes celebrated with kids, but often without them....carving out their own holiday traditions. At OrangeYouGlad, a three-woman design firm in New York, Halloween is an "official company holiday". Last year, the trio dressed as "Domo-kuns" - friendly space creatures from Japanese lore - and attended the packed annual Halloween parade in Greenwich Village ...
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Re: Halloween costume "from Japanese lore"

Postby Caustic Saint » Thu Oct 30, 2003 4:26 pm

Taro Toporific wrote:

Do any of you FG think this reporter and the editors know anything about Japan?

Are you saying Domo-kun doesn't look friendly? :)

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Re: Halloween costume "from Japanese lore"

Postby Taro Toporific » Thu Oct 30, 2003 4:35 pm

Caustic Saint wrote:
Taro Toporific wrote:Do any of you FG think this reporter and the editors know anything about Japan?

Are you saying Domo-kun doesn't look friendly? :)


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But his taste for blue hair ain't bad...
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Mini-G's Halloween

Postby Taro Toporific » Fri Oct 31, 2003 10:19 pm

kamome wrote:I'm looking for shops in Tokyo that sell costumes, etc., for Halloween.

Image I don't what kind of Halloween costume you've got, but Mini-Ghas a great costume as Mini-Kiss!
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Re: Halloween costume "from Japanese lore"

Postby Taro Toporific » Sat Nov 01, 2003 5:28 pm

Caustic Saint wrote:Are you saying Domo-kun doesn't look friendly? :)
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Postby kamome » Sat Nov 01, 2003 6:33 pm

Taro, switch your avatar to something else! Nothing worse than being reminded of the Pulp Fiction gimp!
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Postby Big Booger » Sat Nov 01, 2003 7:45 pm

Yah,
And the gimp always brings to mind the "Pain in the ass" treatment that Ving Rhames got LOL
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Postby graline » Thu Nov 13, 2003 8:06 am

personally... i like your avatar taro=^_^=
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Postby kamome » Thu Nov 13, 2003 2:25 pm

graline wrote:personally... i like your avatar taro=^_^=


Taro has since changed his avatar since I posted my request. It used to be an animated .gif of a gimp. (Although, for those of us who know Taro in real life, there is a subtle joke implied by the gimp avatar).
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He's baaaaack.

Postby Taro Toporific » Thu Nov 13, 2003 3:34 pm

kamome wrote:
graline wrote:personally... i like your avatar taro
Taro has since changed his avatar since I posted my request. It used to be an animated .gif of a gimp.

He's baaaaack. The Gimp from Pulp Fiction. Image

kamome wrote:(Although, for those of us who know Taro in real life, there is a subtle joke implied by the gimp avatar).

Yep. The things I'll do to get a seat on the Yokohama subway. :)Image
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