{"id":3775,"date":"2013-09-22T16:47:13","date_gmt":"2013-09-22T15:47:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beta-waffle.com\/blog\/?p=3775"},"modified":"2020-10-11T21:05:17","modified_gmt":"2020-10-11T20:05:17","slug":"so-how-expensive-is-tokyo-in-january","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.beta-waffle.com\/blog\/?p=3775","title":{"rendered":"So, How Expensive is Tokyo in January?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"piccytures\/idol\/imas_movie_1.jpg\" \/><\/center><br \/>\nBecause that&#8217;s when the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=LVISfyKQrhE\">newly released iM@S movie PV<\/a> reveals the movie is released.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nNot that there&#8217;s really much to say about it, given that it&#8217;s, you know, only a minute and a half long, and it&#8217;s not as if iM@S is exactly a high-impact, high-narrative franchise. There&#8217;s idols! There&#8217;s a beachside retreat! There&#8217;s delicious 2D dancing!<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"piccytures\/idol\/imas_movie_6.jpg\" \/><\/center><br \/>\nThere&#8217;s Kotori! But then, she&#8217;s been in every episode of the anime &#8211; pretty much the only character other than Producer-san to do so (though I&#8217;m pretty sure Hamzou appears more than some of the idols do, and is present in the trailer too).<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"piccytures\/idol\/imas_movie_4.jpg\" \/><\/center><br \/>\nAlso annoyed Ritsuko&#8230; which isn&#8217;t exactly a rarefied sight either, come to think of it, but is no-less welcome.<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"piccytures\/idol\/imas_movie_3.jpg\" \/><\/center><br \/>\nAlso soaking-wet Deko-chan, wielding a vintage Super Soaker 50, which I guess probably is somewhat less common, and somewhat more lewd.<\/p>\n<p>Obviously I&#8217;m unbelievably excited, not that there&#8217;s any chance of me seeing this in the next twelve months short of flying to Japan to see it.<\/p>\n<p>As two final notes, firstly&#8230;<br \/>\n<center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"piccytures\/idol\/imas_movie_2.jpg\" \/><\/center><br \/>\nA cursory glance through Sonys product line reveals Chihaya&#8217;s camera is a Cyber-Shot DSC-RX100 II, though I&#8217;m told that this is pretty obvious to anyone even slightly into cameras. It mostly amuses me simply because, well, it&#8217;s blatant use of an actual product &#8211; given that the TV anime went so far as to use <i>Uniplex<\/i> rather than <i>Aniplex<\/i>, despite being the label the show was released on, it tickles me in that particular fashion.<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"piccytures\/idol\/imas_movie_5.jpg\" \/><\/center><br \/>\nFinally, whilst I suppose she does manage to pull off that hat, I always knew that Miki was a darn Hipster.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Because that&#8217;s when the newly released iM@S movie PV reveals the movie is released.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-idolmaster"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.beta-waffle.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3775","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.beta-waffle.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.beta-waffle.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.beta-waffle.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.beta-waffle.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3775"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.beta-waffle.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3775\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3778,"href":"http:\/\/www.beta-waffle.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3775\/revisions\/3778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.beta-waffle.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.beta-waffle.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.beta-waffle.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}