No Print Purikura and Winner!

I found out some interesting news in purikura recently, and it’s time to announce the winner of the giveaway!

Interview on Beauty Hacker

In July I was interviewed by Yuka Kubo, a professor of Tokyo University of Technology, who is researching beauty related technology and innovation and runs the website Beauty Hacker (Japanese). She wanted to interview me for the website She’s also very friendly, and of course we took purikura together! Read on for a summary of the interview!

Purikura appears in a Webcomic!

I found a blog by a Japanese woman who writes a comic of her life with her family and she has two entries where she visits purikura booths.

Ohno from Arashi Takes Purikura in Drag

Happy New Year!

I went to Tokyo for New Year’s Eve and I had a TV in my hotel room. I was watching a program (Zip?) with Arashi on it on the evening of the first and Ikko gave Ohno Satoshi a challenge. Dress in drag and go to Shibuya!

I took pictures with my iPhone so sorry about the quality…

Rumor Purikura Promo Magazine

Rumor is a new machine with a new kind of angle so I was looking forward to trying it. At my local game centre if you use the machine and ask at the counter the staff will give you a promo magazine.

Egg Magazine Shibuya Survey

Happy New Year! Here’s my first purikura of 2012! Me Her Jyoshi…(I just noticed our names are backwards!)

A while ago Egg magazine had a survey about places to go in Shibuya and of course being a gyaru magazine, purikura and eggnam came up a few times…

Masuwaka Tsubasa's Purikura CMs

I just noticed that FuRyu has a youtube channel and has uploaded a 15 second CM for Tsubasa's BF Manual Second Label release...

There's also a one minute making of video...

That's all that's on the channel for now, but I'll keep my eyes open. FuRyu seem to be the most media-savvy of the purikura/arcade game companies, they are the only ones with related twitter accounts. Could be because they also make games for the social networking site GREE so know the value of sns.

Eggnam Purikura Centre

During Golden Week I had three days off so I went to Tokyo! While I was there there was an event at Eggnam but I was meeting a couple of friends that days and friends are more important. I still want to go to an event one day but I managed to go to Eggnam for the first time anyway.

Celeb Purikura: Kimura Takuya and Yamada Yu (video)

Stumbled across this clip of Kimura Takuya and Yamada Yu attempting to take purikura with certain distractions...

NEWS ~BF Manual 2

I just bought the new issue of Popsister, May 2011 (It's still March!!). Masuwaka Tsubasa has a section where she has photos of what she has been up to and this month there's a pic of her doing shots for the new BF Manual2 machine!



She said that it was fun because her husband Umeshan and their son were there too. Presumably Umeda Naoki will feature in the new machine too.

I'll keep you updated!

Men's Egg Scans April 2011

I don't often buy this magazine but I felt like checking out some pretty boys, and lookie! Purikura pages! The theme was "couples". The little blurb at the bottom says that the next theme will be "spring and graduation" not sure if I'll buy it but I'll definitely take a look!

 

Purikura segment on Himitsu no Arashi

Recently (I believe it was the 17th of February) the evermore present Arashi did a segment on purikura on their TV show Himitsu no Arashi-chan (TBS Thu 10pm). I don't have any clips or screenshots for you but I'm sure you can find it from your regular Japanese TV sources.

Basically they each took a turn being at the front to take a picture and then decorate it to see how it turned out. The guys are mid-twenties so I would guess they are maybe a little old for date purikura, they seemed a bit surprised by how big the eyes became on the newer machines.

Nino took his and the the first thing he said was "My eyes are so big!". Aiba got into the swing of things by doing a double peace pose and saying "Agepoyo!" ("gyaru" slang for raising the mood) He also wrote that on his picture.

Someone said that Jun looked like an alien in one of the pics. Guys say this a LOT when they take purikura.

Ohno's picture came out scary, the machine really picked up his lashes and he looked like a drag queen!

It's quite interesting that purikura is really designed to emphasis the "girlieness" of how you look. It makes your eyes big and cute and darkens your eye make-up. Sometimes I really think that girls look so cute in purikura but that guys look kind of weird...especially on the really big eye settings on the new machines

I wonder if the "couple course" on the BF Manual machine has some kind of magic where the boy looks more boy-ish...

Popsister and Essence giveaway!

In the newest issue of Popsister there's a giveaway of beauty products and clothes sponsored by the new Essence machine.

The prizes aren't really purikura related, I guess just in the "beauty" sense! It also looks like you can only enter via QR code which, despite apps that promise otherwise, I haven't Bern able to get to work on the iPhone. I wait patiently.

Good luck if you are going to enter though!

Purikura Page from Egg Magazine

Egg Magazine is aimed at teen to early twenties "gyaru". It has a collaboration with Namco (arcade company) and they have a purikura centre called Eggnam in Shibuya which I am so going to on my next Tokyo trip!

Anyway, as purikura is popular with Egg's target readership and to promote this centre they often (always?) have purikura pages with comments from the Egg models.

Here's the page from the March issue of Egg

I do find it a little disturbing that the girls in the "Sex love" purikura are so young, and that the comment is kind of positive. Kids today eh?

If you want to get Egg for yourself it's on sale in bookshops and convvience stores in Japan or you can try and order it on-line if you live abroad, unfortunately it seems to be unavailable on Amazon :(