Kawaii Moving Sale

 Join us, Saturday August 25th, as Buff Monster takes over our gallery and turns it into a fancier version of a garage sale!

After living in L.A. for a very long time, Buff Monster is moving to New York. He has dug through his archive and found a bunch of cool stuff, including original drawings, paintings, test prints, experimental pieces, hand-painted toys, DIY toys, rare and sold out toys, stickers and more!

Free Goodie Bags for the first 50 people through the door!
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Free Gift with every moving sale purchase!

New, exclusive Buff Monster print will be available for purchase.

JapanLA will be open for business as usual from 11am -8pm.
Moving Sale hours are 11am - 6pm.

Moving sale items and JapanLA merchandise must be paid for separately. Moving sale items are CASH preferred, PAYPAL accepted too.

THE COMPANY
In 2003, Patrick and Chanda Lam opened the first designer toy store in Southern California, a quaint little shop in Chinatown Los Angeles. Munky King now has its flagship store on Melrose Avenue showcasing toys, original art, prints. plush, mini figures, art books, and apparel from the designer toy culture. The location has a gallery known for its art shows, artist signings, toy releases, and other special events. Munky King also produces its own line of designer toys with established artists such as Luke Chueh, Thomas Han, The Pizz, Amanda Visell, Nathan Jurevicius, Kii Arens, Dave Pressler, Joe Ledbetter, and Yoskay Yamamoto.  Look out for many new and exciting projects to come.

Don't forget read my older post for events that might be happening today!

~Happy Shopping  

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Hope for the best

Hey guys,

Right now I'm on my mom's tabby and my computer pretty much has problem with it. It was working fine when i left to go on vacation . . .when I got back it was making sound that almost made me cry and it had the black screen to white screen of shame. when ever i want to buy a new electronic my computer seem to not like it.I was going give the dell to my mom when I got enough to buy a Mac bc my mom has 12yr old computers, so tabby and playstation r going be my back ups for now. I planing on doing give away this weekend. . .I'll do my best guys. Oh it will take about two weeks to get my computer back from geek squad. I know school started for most of us and tell you guys I was inspireded by the olympics for then give away and I bought some stuff from my trip. One more thing bought ticket to the 2ne1 concert so I'll try to get pictures for you guys.

Seeya

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Hime-gals ★Suprise★

This year on August 25 and 26 2012 will be the J-POP Summit Festival held in San Francisco Japan Town.

What is JPOP Summit Festival about?

J-POP SUMMIT FESTIVAL is a pop culture-themed street fair that covers the grounds of Post Street from Webster to Laguna and the Peace Plaza of Japantown, San Francisco. This year’s festival was hosted by NEW PEOPLE in cooperation with the Japantown Merchants Association. In 2011, the festival had 55,000 in attendance in two days and this year we expect an attendance of 70,000!

So on too the surprise. . .There will be a LIZ LISA POP-UP SHOP YAY!

A little bit about the POP-UP Shop:

The J-POP Summit Festival is honored to welcome Japanese fashion brand, Liz Lisa, for a first-ever appearance in the United States. Founded in the popular Tokyo shopping district of Shibuya, the Liz Lisa brand is built upon a fashion fusion of retro-meets-trendy, infused with a touch of feminine luxury and sensuality to accentuate the wearer’s charm and allure.

During the 2012 J-POP Summit, Liz Lisa will host a pop-up boutique inside the NEW PEOPLE retail store offering an array of fashions and unique accessories for sale.

Shoppers that spend at least $50 at the boutique will also enjoy free Liz Lisa eyelash makeup on-site by the brand’s official girls team that flying all the way from Tokyo to join in the festival!

Liz Lisa will also host a rose flower-inspired “Shibuya Girls Fashion Contest,” scheduled to take place on Saturday, August 25th at 1:00pm – 1:30pm at Pagoda Stage, Peace Plaza but get there early. Find out more about how to enter HERE!

Other Lolita events:

h.NAOTO Fashion Show
If you purchase over $100 at the booth or in the 2nd floor shop you will receive a special gift photo with Designer Z8!

There will be a Vocaliod Dance Contest.

And for all Otakus there will be whole lot of EVANGELION(;_;);Evangelion X Excape NERV outpost, Evangelion Movie Night, Evangelion World Stamp-Rally, and EVANGELION POP-UP MUSEUM.

Thanks to KimDao and she's having a giveaway so go check it out.

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End of Summer Shopping

Meltdown Comics Present's SUPER*MARKET 2.0 gathering all of the most awesome nerd gear in So Cal to create a metropolis of kickass shopping in one place.

Guests can party down with live entertainment, refreshments, and a chance to mix and mingle with other colorful and fun patrons.

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'The Rola!'

The popular TV personality, artist Laura a.k.a Rola the Bengali, Japanese and Russian descent, (as her father is from Bangladesh and her mother is Japanese with a quarter Russian heritage) Vivi x Brigitte model will be releasing her first fashion book titled “THE ROLA!!” on August 23rd.

“THE ROLA!!” will feature Rola’s outfit coordination and interior style. It will also contain messages from comedians and talentos that are close with Rola.

Go to ViVi’s official Twitter account (@vivi_magazine) and retweet the campaign information and 10 winners will receive a copy of the book with Rola’s autograph.

You can preorder it on Amazon. Also check her official blog, Twitter page, and her campaign with Sho-Bi's new cosmetic line Brigitte!

~Seeya

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