Look Out, There’s A Monster Coming – and it may be a fake!

Veteran kaiju collector Nabe Yakan sits in front of shelves lined with some of his treasures - colourful and now highly valuable plastic toys depicting kaiju and tokusatsu characters. Nabe wears black trousers, grey slippers and a black and white T-Shirt with the logo GODZILLA in bright red behind an image of the King of the Monsters, and holds a toy in each hand.

Vintage kaiju toys are achieving astonishing prices at auction – but that’s an incentive for sharks to gather. How can you know when you’re buying the real thing? And providing you think it’s beautiful, cute or otherwise life-enhancing and the price isn’t a rip-off, do you care? #PatrickMacias shares FRIDAY magazine’s report on #Tokyoscope https://www.tokyoscope.blog/p/vintage-kaiju-toys-in-japan-reach […]

An Outpost of Cool Japan in Hastings: Wow and Flutter

The interior of Wow and Flutter with Gareth smiling under the bright yellow neon sign showing the shop's name. Gareth is tall, with grey hair, wearing a dark blue open-necked shirt and dark trousers. The shop is crammed with art, vinyl, zines, comics and Japanese toys. Photo by Helen McCarthy

When OH and I travel for Seed Talks, we love to look for comic shops and other places that sell Japanese items. There are loads of places that sell the latest gacha toys and other current stuff, and that buy secondhand comics and toys for resale. There are not so many that buy tempting older […]