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BOXING DAY AND JANUARY SALE

Merry Xmas and happy new year from Otakuzoku. our sale starts boxing day at 12pm. and we are offering buy 2 get 1 free on in stock shop items* (* excluding drinks, snacks and new citadel miniatures items). This does not apply to the website, but if you use the online code IQAR3F5CQ0JN you get 15% off until the end of January 2010.

Happy Christmas

We are open until 9pm or later of people keep coming (midnight latest) today.

Newspaper article.

We are in todays South Wales Echo. The paper has a pic of me and Russ (I hate having my pic taken) read it here. Also check out our ever expanding shop on Salisbury road.

Pallet of books, tee shirts and more...

1500  of books are due tomorrow as well as a load of t-shirts. We are happy.
UPDATE< Has arrived

Random photos from a Random Dude

Updates and info

Hi,
So only a few weeks until Christmas, and its all go.
We have a offer of discounted Gift vouchers available in store until Christmas Eve and valid from Boxing Day until the end of next year. £5 for only £4.50, £10 for only £9, £20 for only £17.50, £50 for only £42!

We have a massive eBay sale on at the moment, and if you win a auction and collect it from the shop AND pay cash, there is 20% off the total (no other discounts apply, and must be collected in 4 days.)

We have a very nice collection of vintage Warhammer in stock including beautifully painted Eldar, Daemons and fantasy chaos armies. We are also expanding our new stock and have added paint sets, green stuff and a few more sets and codex. What is really cool is we are upgrading the shop gaming table with a fortress of redemption, 2 extra bastions and loads of Agais defence lines all with weaponry and of course a house copy of the Planetsrike book.

RPG gaming, and various card games such as Magic and Yu-Gi-Oh may be hosted in store, please send in you name, game and contact details.

Pre orders. We have decided on a few new rules for preordering. Befor we expected full payment, but the new policy is £1 deposit for comics, £2 Deposit for manga 50% Deposit for warhammer and full payment for everything else.

Publicity photo for our recent press release. I don't like the front of cameras.
(Photo by http://www.perfectmoments-photography.co.uk/)

Warhammer sale

Saturday 28th December 2009 and Sunday 29th December 2009 only. No further discounts on these products. There is also a range of used warhammer (fantasy/40k) products at various prices. Trade ins may be used, but only up to half vale of sale items, and as per normal on all other items. Please see bottom of post for list of non Gaming trades accepted. We are looking out for any used tau and space marines (particularly dreds, crisis, drop pods and tanks) but any are good.

ork boyz £8.99
Space Marine assault squad £11.99
Space Wolves pack £14.99
Space Marine command squad £13.99
Assualt on black Reach paint set £11.99
Assualt on black Reach £38.99
Space Marine tactical squad £14.99
Space Marine commander £8.99
Space Marine attack bike £11.99
Space Marine scouts £8.99
Tau Piranha £11.99
Imperial Guard Cadian £3.99
Cadian Command Squad £11.99

Today is last day for Warhammer pre-orders, contact us by 2pm (payment required, pay pal accepted).

We also stock a selection of manga, rpg's, dvd's, retro games, comics, clothing(no clothing accepted on trade) and collectables. Ideal for Christmas.

Haydn

Cheap books..........

384 manga 83 graphic novels, a lot more to follow

Sushi shennanegans

(First blog post. New camera. pleae be kind)

Way back in 1987, Oliver Stone unleashed "Wall Street" into the cinemas. Gifting Michael Douglas his Oscar for "Best Actor", it tells the story of Bud Fox(Charlie Sheen) as a stockbroker who is prepared to break every rule in the book to earn his way into the rich list. I heartily recommend it; not only is it a great movie, but it's like a time capsule into what fashion was like during the 80's boom years and almost all of the fashion in the 80's can be derived from Darryl Hannah's character, Darian. Expect her character to assault the viewer with hideous clothing, the tacky interior decor, wooden acting, food combinations that are doomed to fail... there's one sequence about half-way when she's making the spaghetti while Bud is making the sushi using some poncey hand-driven contraption which churns out neat little blocks of rice (but not nearly as poncey as the electric spaghetti-maker).

Spaghetti and sushi? What next? Curry and croissants? Haggis fried rice? Still it was the 80's and if that was the fashion then, then so be it. I can just about remember when sushi came to the UK. It was, like everything else coming out of Japan at the time, small, expensive, fashionable, exquisitely neat and had a tendency to go terribly wrong after a day or two. Best of all for the shops and restaurants that sold it, it was cheap to make as you didn't have to cook half of it and you needed to eat a lot for a full meal. Strange how no-one ever commented that raw squid tasted revolting.

Thing is, real Japanese sushi chefs don't look like a cross between a kamikaze pilot and Gordon Ramsay with the knife skills of a Jack the Ripper as so often portrayed in the movies. In reality, they can dismantle a fish in seconds, a small handful of rice squidge squidge squidge dinner is served. And they don’t serve it with spaghetti or some little machine that does the shaping for you. After having lived here for over 3 years I have yet to see that contraption that Charlie Sheen was using on sale anywhere.

Conveyor belt-style sushi restaurants you already know. Grab what you want as it trundles by and pay your bill according to the stack of over-priced colour-coordinated plates on your table. Sushi restaurants in Japan go one step further: Each table has a tub of green tea and a hot water tap at each table for unlimited drinks. There’s a slot at the end of each table down which you drop the plates and the bill is calculated automatically. But what if the sushi you want isn’t available?

Introducing, the touch-screen menu. Cycle through the pages, tap the picture of your choice and within minutes, the fishy consumable of your choice will emerge from the kitchen on the belt. And in case you should forget, it comes with a reservation notice attached and your table will bleep at you as it trundles past.

The key to eating sushi is not to let it dwell in the soy sauce otherwise the rice soaks it up and the whole lot disintergrates at the touch of a chopstick. The cost for filling two tums, one native, one foreign, was about 15 pounds in total. It was cheap, colourful, had taste and left you wanting to come back for more. The complete opposite to Darryl Hannah's Darian in Wall Street, in fact.

Ta-raa!

Pocky Tasting and Radio Show

Here are some pics from the tasting, there were more people, but i was too busy to take pics untill a lot of them left. It went well, I hope you enjoyed your selves and turn up to the next one we do (don't know when) An interview about the shop is on express radio (Cardiff uni radio) tonight at 10pm.

Pocky Sale, New Pocky and Pocky Tasting Saturday 21st Nov 09.............

Hi all, we just got a large shipment of pocky in so i decided to get the tasting session i promissed organised.
Saturday 21st November 09 At 2pm, we will open all the Pocky (and other Japanese snacks) which have ingredients we can't translate, so if you have allergies,intolerances or special diets you have been warned. I will probably add some old favourites as well. I hope to see you all then.

The new Pocky, is giant real strawberry (nearly a foot long), The large bags of strawberry and now chocolate. boxes of chocolate and Milk coffee is back. I have reduced the prices of the bags and the real strawberry.
Haydn

Thursday stuff

We are getting a load of posters and hopefully a few t-shirts on Thursday. Not sure on a day for the rest of the manga alas. Also joss Whedons doctor horrible comic is in stock Thursday.

books................

We just received 3 boxes of books (about 70 manga) to keep us going while we are waiting for the other 1930 books. The rest will follow at some point.

books

I have been informed that we are getting a few boxes of cheap books tomorrow. The rest are to follow, and normal deliveries are unaffected. The reasons for the delays are mostly due to one man sorting out 15,000 books between 7 pallets, that man is now getting help to finish and they sohold arrive soon (but alas no fixed date). I will post a notice when they arrive.

Japanese delivery, and more.....

Hi all. We have just revived some goods from our man in Japan, and they are good. There is a mighty fine selection of Pocky in the shop, and some that is not for sale because we do not have an ingredients list. So these snacks will be available to try, free, soon (contact us for details when we have made some). If you have any allergies please don't try any, sorry. Also we have a 1/60 Gundam, Japanese keyboard, study headbands (afro samurai cosplay?), macros towels, and lots of sweets (which I am trying to identify at the moment). And Japanese smog masks :-)
Pallet of 2000 books, Shipped next Monday (9th) maybe, for Tuesday. Maybe later :-( Will be worth the wait I'm sure.

book delay

The 2000 books may be arriving next monday or a bit later, will update you when there is more news.

New sign is up, and 2000 new books!!

The shop front is complete, Nice isn't it? Also we are having a delivery of about 2000 books this week mostly around £2.99 (minus your student/society shop discount). I won't be listing all the titles untill we have sold a few, so you will have come in to the shop to see whats here. Hoping for tomorrow (tuesday 2nd nov 09) but maybe a bit later. There will be a new post on arrival and maybe some pics of the books.

New Cheap Manga

Hey, we have loads of new stock in. Warhammer 40k, t-shirts, Posters, DVD's all discounted, more RPG's and a new selection of our £2.99+ mangas (manga and RPG's due Thurs 29th oct 2009) which are cheaper if you are a member of rawsoc, cardiff anime society or a student. Pop in for details

Warhammer has arrived, and more...........

Our 40k stock has arrived, as well as our first batch of brand new highly discounted anime DVD's (we also have a small section of second hand DVD's) More DVD's coming and we can order titles in for you. We can also get Blu-Ray and HD-DVD (most hd-dvd's are £3, new sealed).

WAR HAMMER

We are pleased to announce that otakuzoku has a games workshop account, alough this will be an instore facility only. Our first delivery will be later in the week and will include a wide range of 40k stock as well as gaming tables. Please get in touch if you have any requirements..............   More news on its way.

NEW SHOP

We are now a real world shop. Visit us at 17 Salisbury Road, Cardiff CF24 4AA.

News... Not Quite

We are still stocking the ultra cheap manga, and still offering ultra low cost pre orders, and still offering fantastic customer service. We have added FREE UK postage to the website, but then we are nice.

Maybe we will have interesting times ahead.

Better than half price manga

Take a look over at otakuzoku.com and see the fantastic range of manga starting from £2.99 and the usual discounts and offers apply. Fantastic isn't it?

We are in Buisness.....

We have now completed sales for offline cash, ebay and our own website. Everything seems to work perfectly, and the online advertising stratergy is working.

Where to find us.

I Just forgot, this page is now page23.co.uk. otakuzoku.com and otakuzoku.co.uk points to the online shop. You can email shop@otakuzoku.com to contact us, and for our ebay and social networking use the following links.

ONLINE

Otaku Zoku, the trading arm of page 23 ltd is now online at otakuzoku.com.

First Stock and Regestered Ltd

Myself and Russell are pleased to announce that Page 23 is now a real company and we have actual stock. Russell is now a company director and I am helping out with the digital stuff. Here are some of the items to be added to the store when it launches. They are all new and sealed where applicable, but the fraggle boxes are damaged, and there are a few of each item
. But please feel free to contact us for offline sales and save on postage if you live locally.


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DC Super Powers Hall of Justice
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Ghostbusters 80's
Ecto-Plazm and monsters
Snapping monsters
Trap and 'remote' voice changer
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Duckula Clip Figure
BTTF 2 Texaco station
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Gundam Kits
Japanese and easy to construct (examples should be coming soon)
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Origional 80's Were Bears Grizzler
The only transforming teddy (that I know of anyway)
(both modes showing)
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Original 80's Fraggles,
All three that were released
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