Happy Kinnikuman Day

Before getting yelled at by security at the 6th annual Kinnikuman Day Muscle Museum, I managed to snap a few shots of original artwork:


Mask Hunting poster illustration


Jump Comics volume 23 cover illustration


Torn from the pages of Yudetamago's high school notebook!


Reportedly the first manga inspired kimono ever made.


For just 3813.07USD you can own your very own life-sized ethnic Kinnikuman, limited to 5 pieces!


Magical Mosh Misfits' take on Warsman




I waited in line with a full bladder for over three hours to get a ticket which allowed me to wait in line another hour and a half to get this. A small price to pay as Nakai-sensei rarely does signings these days, especially as a duo with Shimada-sensei.

View the entire Flickr set here.

Kinnikuman T-Shirt Festival

Beneath its flaky exterior of brutal signature moves and fart jokes, Kinnikuman is built around a solid core of wrestling in-jokes and references, so its only natural that its apparel also be recognizably obscure and dense. The boys over at BamBamBigelow88 do not disappoint and bring to the ring the things that inspire man-children most: Metal albums, action figures, bone-crushing body slams, and limited edition T-shirts!



The Parco in Kichijoji is running a mini-Kinnikuman exhibition from now until May 13th as part of their NICE MEAT Spring collection. It you pick up one of the figures, shirts, or caps you also get a swag character pin so if you have even a passing interest in the series, wrestling, or things that are awesome you’d better stop on by. Tie-in products tend to be chintzy but these are the real deal. The quality of both the materials and design are top notch. You can tell that this stuff is made by fans that love the show and just want to spread the insanity.



According to urban legend, series writer Takashi Shimada asked artist Yoshinori Nakai to design a logo for their manga that could be drawn in the least possible number of strokes, for ease of graffiting across notebooks, desks, and bathroom walls. Where have I heard that before…?



Every piece of apparel tells a story and that story gets added to the ever growing muscle-bound mythology. You're not a true Gen-X slacker unless you know your Kinnikuman!

Kinnikuman Shop

Design Festa Vol. 30: Scumy Selections

There was so much going on at this year's Design Festa I don't know where to begin! We already mentioned the putrid princesses fashion show in our previous post, but there's no way you could cover the 2700 booths of artists and artisans over the two day weekend, much less the one Sunday we were there.

Still, we had our Awesome Stuff radar to help us sort through the chaff and bring you the best of Design Festa! Here are a few highlights, but make sure to check out the album for more, plus artist information and links to their homepages.













Warning: Album contains some NSFW images of creepy dolls.

	Click here for way more pics!
Design Festa Vol. 30

I No Need A Heno Tsuppari! 2

Speaking of Kinnikuman...

Pokka just released a new series of Kinnikuman figures packaged with their tar-like canned coffee! As if the shame of having the gyarus working at the convenience store snicker at me as I sifted through about 200 cans to get a complete set wasn't enough, I just HAD to blog about these!

20 Million Powers

Longhorn Train!

Akuma Choujin Combination

Cursed Roller!

Muscle Brothers

Muscle Docking!

Neptuneman

What happened to Big The Budou?! The stands are number 1-6 and 8, which either means he's ultra secret (no secret listings on package) or he was scraped at the last minute. Hopefully I'll have an update after I scour a few more conbinis.

I No Need A Heno Tsuppari!

I don't know what that title means, but either way that's an awesomely bad photoshop!

A routine visit to Nakano Broadway's Microkan led to a fated meeting of Men! In the pic with us is no other than Mr. Akira Kushida! If you just asked yourself "Who's that?", brace for impact- you are about to be piledrived into Manhood!


Kinnikuman Go Fight!


Honou No Kinnikuman


Space Sheriff Gavan