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   From: bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com   
      
   Hi readers and posters,   
      
        I had occasion to visit Nihon Machi in San Francisco today.   
        Lots of new shops including a Japanese game arcade.   
   Japan Video had some newer stuff on sale at the front of   
   the store and looked to be doing great business.   
        Many people in the mall and the shops much cuteness   
   in the stores, lots of lovely food of which I must not partake   
   less it make me ill due to sensitivities.   
        Another shop featured Gundam model/figures at about   
   $90 each ,  4 figures from Dragon Ball or DB Z in   
   the window of the shop made a brave display.  In   
   another shop the Samurai historical figures have been   
   replaced by contemporary troops in the latest gear   
   including a sniper.   
      
        I got Ooku volume 9 at the manga shop opening on   
   Webster near Geary.  Lots of other stuff I wanted but   
   the prices were too much for my limited wallet.   
        One was by Satoshi Kon "Opus" which is about a   
   manga artist who has a character objecting to his   
   plotted demise in the strip. Tons of other manga   
   translated to English and more in Japanese.   
      
        Some special events coming up at the end of June and an   
   Anime show featuring an international cosplayer, Reika, in   
   mid-July.   
        Will try for more information on these events and post   
   anything useful here.   
      
        If you love contempory furniture and have lots of cash,   
   by the way around the corner on Fillmore Street at Geary   
   is a new Zinc Details store,  (zincdetails.com) full of   
   beautiful and very expensive furniture.  When I say   
   expensive a desk at $4200 USD and a black laquered   
   step stool for <$500 US.   Finest woods wonderful   
   finishes.  Saw two new types of folding beds there   
   too.   
      
        I got out of there before I could start drooling and   
   spoil the lovely woods and fabrics.   
      
        bliss   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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