Lucky☆Star Mikoshi Matsuri

Washinomiya Shrine celebrated one of its festival yesterday eveing with a very special Lucky☆Star mikoshi.

The mikoshi 神輿 is actually a portable shrine and it was decorated with illustrations of the characters from the Lucky☆Star anime series.
Thousands of fans applied to carry the 130kg mikoshi on their shoulders and 120 lucky fans were selected to carry it on [...]

2 Tons of Flour Stolen

Someone must had a baking crisis at home because more than two tons of flour was stolen from a wholesale company’s warehousein Saitama prefectur.

Investigators suspect that the thief stole the flour in a bid to resell it as flour prices have been rising sharply in recent months.
Source: Mainichi Japan
I bet someone now has a warehouse [...]

Emiri Katou Attends Hiiragi Family Certificate Event

Last Sunday 06th April was the day that the family certificate of Hiiragi Family as Washimiya’s Registered Residents went on sale. Seiyuu Emiri Katou who voiced Kagami was there at the event too.

NHK did a nice report on the event itself and it interviewed some fans and even residents of Washimiya. You can view the [...]

Lucky☆Star Street Lamps

The Lucky☆Star fever in Saitama just keep getting worser and weirder. Satte City in Saitama Prefecture decided that it wasn’t enough after introducing the Lucky☆Star Sake, so they decided to introduce Lucky☆Star street lamps.

100 of the street lamps in Satte City already have Lucky☆Star design acrylic boards mounted onto the panels.
The city intends to install [...]

Lucky☆Star Sake

With Cherry Blossom viewing starting next week in Japan, what better way than to celebrate the occasion with some Lucky☆Star Sake.

A sake shop located within Satte City in Saitama Prefecture is launching a limited edition Lucky☆Star sake starting March 25th.

Source: 2ch News Navigator
Personally I think it just looks like any plain sake that has a [...]