Purikura Review: I Heart P

The machine name is really written as I❤P. I’m assuming it’s pronounced as ‘heart’ not ‘love’. The P stands for Puri, Pink and Party. It’s appeal points seem to be fun and variety.

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…

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 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 :(