What’s on offer for MCM Expo

The London MCM Expo is coming round again and as always I’m giggling like a school girl from excitement. I just wanted to briefly run though what we’ll be offering you guys and hopefully a few reasons to stop by the TokyoBookstore stand this October Expo. Also just so you know any orders made on TokyoBookstore.com will not be processed and dispatched from Thursday 27th October until Tuesday 1st November because we’ll be away at the Expo.

First of all just to mention to you guys who didn’t know already this year’s October MCM Expo is a three day event which opens on Friday, October 28th at 2:00pm. Our stand is located at tables F 1,2,14 — Map bellow — all further information about ticket and travel information can be found at…
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London MCM Expo

The London MCM Expo (if you didn’t know already) is Britain's largest Comic Convention with 50,000+ people per show and is a showcase of Cult Entertainment and Pop-Culture from various segments of the Entertainment Industry: Science Fiction/Fantasy Films & TV, Animation, Comics, Games, Japan, Anime, Manga, Cosplay, Pop Art, Collectable’s (Figures, Autographs etc.).

Why did I start going?

I’ve been going to the MCM Expo in London for 5 to 6 years now, I actually found out about it from a Tokyopop in-store event. Primarily I’m a huge fan of anything Japanese but my geekiness spreads to western Comics, Films and Games, so the MCM was the perfect place for me. Throughout the years I’ve made friends, relationships and heightened my knowledge and love for my interests - all through the MCM Expo. We’ve had a constant stand at the MCM Expo for about 4 years now, I find it really difficult when I hear store owners at events like the MCM Expo referring to what they sell and the event as 'work'. Yes ok it is work, but we enjoy every minute of it. The buzz of an Expo-weekend (it’s now a 3 day weekend Friday to Sunday) is like nothing else, and don’t worry not all shop owners have that attitude it’s a varied bunch (you can usually tell after few seconds of talking to someone... 

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Work for TokyoBookstore

Both Dominic and I love photography (we even have A-Levels to prove it!) and as you probably know by now we like to blog about events like the MCM Expo which means taking a lot of photos! Unfortunately due to the amount of work we need to do over the expo weekend we don’t get a lot of time to get shots which is why we’re asking one of you very lovely people to help us! We’re looking for someone to help us photo blog this Octobers London MCM Expo.

What we’re looking for

We’re not focusing on the written side of things, don’t get me wrong if you would like to caption some of the photos that’s fine too we’re many looking for someone who can offer us a lot good quality photographs of the weekends happenings. We’re looking for photos the document the weekend from waiting in line to cosplays, stands, fans, events and even the expo night experiences like parties and meets. These photographs would preferable be taken on a DSLR Camera which can handle a good range of depth of field shots and night photography. It’s up to you if you want to edit your photos or give them to us to review and edit...

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Body-proportions in Doujinshi

Hey Guys, Emilie here!
Reading/looking at Doujinshi Is fun for a number of reasons at the best of times, but one of my favourite things is the body proportions that artists give the characters either that they have created or that they have “amplified” from other creations from the Otaku media.

We usually see unusually long Torsos with young artists who perhaps haven't quite got the hang of fine artistry yet. Which can look really hilarious and in some cases, just plain weird. I remember an example of this was in a particular Angel Beats Doujinshi where Yuri just looks like she's going to transform into some sort of snake! It’s was very strange. 

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