{"id":421,"date":"2011-12-22T05:10:15","date_gmt":"2011-12-22T05:10:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theycrawl.com\/news\/?p=421"},"modified":"2011-12-22T05:24:23","modified_gmt":"2011-12-22T05:24:23","slug":"where-the-monsters-are-kept","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.theycrawl.com\/news\/?p=421","title":{"rendered":"Where The Monsters Are Kept"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">One reason I came to Japan was to look for <strong>monsters<\/strong>. One place I&#8217;ve found them is <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mandarake\"><strong>Mandarake<\/strong><\/a>, in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nakano_Broadway#Places\"><strong>Nakano Broadway<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-422\" title=\"TokusatsuMonsters\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theycrawl.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/TokusatsuMonsters.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.theycrawl.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/TokusatsuMonsters.jpg 640w, http:\/\/www.theycrawl.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/TokusatsuMonsters-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">It&#8217;s a hive-like mall of small stalls selling <strong>manga, anime, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Japanese_idol\">idol<\/a> <\/strong>merch<strong> <\/strong>and all kinds of other stuff. My favourite things were the toys and figurines from old <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tokusatsu\"><strong>tokusatsu<\/strong><\/a> films and dramas.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Everything was lovingly preserved and going for eye-watering collectors&#8217; prices. Some items were quite charming and endearing&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-423\" title=\"BigSmile\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theycrawl.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/BigSmile.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"402\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.theycrawl.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/BigSmile.jpg 640w, http:\/\/www.theycrawl.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/BigSmile-300x188.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&#8230;others less so.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-424\" title=\"Yikes\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theycrawl.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Yikes.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.theycrawl.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Yikes.jpg 640w, http:\/\/www.theycrawl.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Yikes-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">More <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theycrawl.com\/news\/?p=411\">faces of Tokyo<\/a> coming soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One reason I came to Japan was to look for monsters. One place I&#8217;ve found them is Mandarake, in Nakano Broadway. It&#8217;s a hive-like mall of small stalls selling manga, anime, idol merch and all kinds of other stuff. My favourite things were the toys and figurines from old tokusatsu films and dramas. Everything was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.theycrawl.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.theycrawl.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.theycrawl.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.theycrawl.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.theycrawl.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.theycrawl.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.theycrawl.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.theycrawl.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.theycrawl.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}