Wakako Zake

Wakako Zake

When Wakako gets off work she loves to find a place to eat and have a drink to unwind from the day. She carefully makes her choices as the food and drink must be paired well. However this is not pretentious high cuisine, she eats at neighborhood places, the kind you can drop into on a whim. Each chapter of the manga is short, only a few pages, but manages to fold in a good story without any fluff.

Then there is an anime, which is also short, each episode is just a few minutes of delight.

Then there is the live action drama, the episodes are regular length but still preserve the fun of the original manga. There are six seasons of the drama, I hope to see all of it.

The manga is distributed by Media Do and is available as an e-book on several sites, I get mine from Apple.

The anime is on Crunchyroll:

https://beta.crunchyroll.com/series/GRGG9K1PR/wakakozake

The drama is also on Crunchyroll:

https://beta.crunchyroll.com/series/GYK5X214R/wakakozake-drama

Thanks go to to Deb Aoki who recommended this title in the Mangasplaining podcast. Without that recommendation I may have never seen it.

For more on the podcast see:

https://www.mangasplaining.com

Additions to the Tokyo Events and Festivals page

 Happy New Year

This week I added the following events to the Tokyo Stroll Supplement: Regular Events and Festivals page.

January:

Daikoku Matsuri

Hatsu (Opening) Basho

April:

Edo Yoshiwara Oiran Dochu

Nakizumo / Crying Baby Festival

May:

Natsu (Summer) Basho

June:

Sanno Matsuri

September:

Aki (Autumn/Fall) Basho

I also have added the romanized Japanese names for many events.

Tokyo Stroll Supplement: Regular Events and Festivals

 A friend and I were talking a week or so ago about how handy it would be to have a list of recurring event dates in Tokyo for future trips. So I went through the current version of Tokyo Stroll (the release is still delayed by the pandemic) and put such a list together for what was in the book and holidays. 

Here is what I have so far.

Tokyo Stroll Supplement: Regular Events and Festivals 

I will slowly add more. With the pandemic most event and festivals pages are sparse which shall slow down the process. I'm also going to focus for now on neighborhoods in the book. As I start adding events for neighborhoods not in the book I'll also add those locations to the Additional Entries, Corrections, and Locations page.

Tokyo Stroll Bookmarks updated.

 I have updated the bookmarks files for Tokyo Stroll.

These are .kmz files which can be imported into the MapsMe app, and a few other mapping apps that handle for format.

Information on the free MapsMe app and importing the bookmark files can be found on the Tokyo Stroll Supplement web page.

There is now a Tokyo Stroll Facebook group

 

I have created a new public Facebook group called Tokyo Stroll related to my forthcoming book of the same name.

This group is for discussing visiting Tokyo and nearby areas that are suitable to day trips. Enjoy, ask questions, make suggestions of places to visit.

Please keep posts on topic.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/690842095163386

Four more recommended movies.

It's been awhile but here are four movie movies I have added to my recommended title listsings. 

Gojoe: Spirit War Chronicle (2000)

Intimidation (1960)

Midnight Eagle (2007)

The Sea is Watching (2002)

Tokyo Stroll Supplement web page update

 The Tokyo Stroll Supplement web pages are now live.

I was going to wait until a few weeks before the book is released to make the pages public. However as I recorded a presentation called "Tokyo on the Cheap for (the virtual) FanimeCon 2021 I decided to do so now.

http://www.koyagi.com/TokyoStroll/TSmain.html

For those interested in the presentation the registration cost for FanimeCon 2021 is only $10.

If you registered for 2020 your ticket is rolled over for 2021 and 2022.

https://www.fanime.com/news/fanimecon-2021-registration-open/