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STGCC 2013 Impressions

Last weekend we returned to the Marina Bay Sands Convention and Exhibition Center for the Singapore Toy, Games & Comic Convention. This year marks the second since Singapore’s largest toys and...

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Supermerlion 4th Anniversary

Today marks the 4th year since this site’s founding. Yes, the site is still alive. In fact, it’s doing quite well considering the lack of updates. It would seem that the decision to shift away from...

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Fukuoka Winter 2014 Day 1

It’s been quite a while since an update hasn’t. Between work and attending university part time, there hasn’t been anything of interest recently to update this site with. Eventually things start to get...

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Fukuoka Winter 2014 Day 2

We’d wake up fresh from last night’s rest on our first morning in Japan. Bristling with energy, we’d leave the hotel early and would cover quite a bit of ground today. All this despite the showers that...

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Fukuoka Winter 2014 Day 3

We woke up to an another slight drizzle on our second morning in Hakata. The first course of action was to thus head over to the nearby Canal City to grab a new, preferably waterproof pair of shoes. At...

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Nagasaki Winter 2014 Day 4

Checked out from our hotel in the morning, but we’d stay in Fukuoka for the afternoon. Hadn’t had time to plan ahead for the trip, so when we did book our hotels, there weren’t any affordable rooms...

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Nagasaki Winter 2014 Day 5

Today we would be exploring some of the popular destinations at Nagasaki, including Dejima and Mount Inasa. The day started with some light rains again, but according to the weather report, would let...

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Nagasaki Winter 2014 Day 6

It was our last full day in Nagasaki, but despite this, we had already covered most of the main sights in the small town yesterday, save for Clover Garden, churches and the Peace Park. We weren’t that...

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Tokyo Winter 2014 Day 7

After checking out of the hotel this morning, it was time to head over to Nagasaki Airport for our flight over to Tokyo. As our luck would have it, there was actually a Rev. from DVL live over in...

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Yokohama Winter 2014 Day 8

Christmas is a particularly big deal in Japan, thought not exactly for the right reasons. In past trips, we’d often barely miss the Christmas season. This time round however we had planned specifically...

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Tokyo Winter 2014 Day 9

Hoping to spend this Christmas day at the beautiful island of Enoshima, we’d head over to Shinjuku Station in the early morning. There we’d be joined by Allan, and were to meet up with Chisaki again...

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Enoshima Winter 2014 Day 10

After much anticipation we would be heading over to Enoshima today. It was over to Shinjuku once again, picking up a 1 day Enoshima Passport from the tourist counter there. For 1,970 yen, the “enopass”...

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Tokyo Winter 2014 Day 11

Though it took more than halfway into the trip, it seems that we were finally kicking into the holiday spirit, being able to finally visit some new sights. This morning we’d wake up relatively early...

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Kyudotsg

Kyudotsg pronounced as “キュートSG” (CUTE dot SG) is a new project aiming to “discover the cuteness within Singapore”. Unlike many of the similar-themed websites on the internet, Kyudotsg is a community...

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Odaiba Winter 2014 Day 12

Having spent the past two days out of the city, we’d take a break from the scenic sites today with a trip to Odaiba. Despite being theoretically part of Tokyo however Odaiba feels nothing like that....

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STGCC 2014 Announced

The dates for this year’s Singapore Toy Game and Comic Convention are out! Singapore’s largest comics convention returns for the weekend of 6th and 7th September 2014 and is set to once again bring a...

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Tokyo Winter 2014 Day 13

While many of our readers tend to have concerts already in mind when visiting Japan, for different reasons each year, we often have to leave it up to fate for events to clash on the days we happen to...

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Hakkeijima Winter 2014 Day 14

Today we’d visit Hakkeijima Sea Paradise for the first time. Been wanting to visit here for years, but its out of the way location at the south east corner of Yokohama meant that I’ve never found the...

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Nagano Winter 2014 Day 15

We were finally headed over to Nagano today. Since the cities cease to operate during the New Year, the lot of us would be spending the holidays over at a traditional resort in the northern snow...

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Nagano Winter 2014 Day 16

Woke up to our first morning at Yudanaka Onsen with a filling breakfast that had been prepared for us which we enjoyed thoroughly. After, we’d get ready and head out to the station to book tickets for...

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