WalpurgisNight and Hanafuda on Treasure-Thursday

Today it's Walpurgis Night and Treasure Thursday.

I present to you my first Treasure: HANAFUDA


Hanafuda is a Card Game that was invented by Nintendo in 1889, so more than 125 years ago, it's the product, that Nintendo started its business with.

There are several versions of the decks, even one with typical Nintendo characters like Bowser or Mario, but the traditional is this one:

To win you have to get a combination, there are many different ones, two examples are in the middle of all the other cards, depending on the combination you can get more or less points.

All players get the same number of cards and then they draw from the deck one after another. If anyone gets a combination, he can declare it to win this round and he will get a certain number of points, depending on the combo. He can go on to get even more points, but if an opponent gets a combination himself, the first combo doesn't count and the first player won't get any points.

If you're interested in a combination list, I can get one for you or even play a round of Hanafuda with my friends and film it.

That's all for my first treasure, stay tuned to know about upcoming ones.


And for celebrating the Walpurgis Night - enjoy FAUN!

It's WhateverWednesday and time for Cosplay

Greetings fellows,

it's WhateverWednesday and today's topic is Cosplay, you might know what that means and if you don't it's Costume play - dressing up as a character from Manga, Anime, Games, Comics, etc. and presenting the costumes on Conventions or Cosplay Events.



The best known magazine about this sort of pop culture is the COSMODE, a Japanese magazine about Cosplay. The structure of every issue is almost the same, it starts with photoshots, followed by event pictures and concept arts and ends up with pattern for costumes and other props, explained via a step by step instruction, make-up tips or even advices to make better photoshots.

You can easily buy it in almost every book store in Japan - you can also get preowned ones in perfect shape in Book Off Stores (I recommend the one in Ikebukuro in Tokyo - many issues for a good price)

Importing them is also very easy, just ask your local Manga / Comic Book Store.

Just follow me on Youtube or hereon my Blog for further cosplay related stuff and comment, what you would like to see in later shows.

See you soon.

How to use your Pokémon Scrap Card Codes

Hello everyone,

here's the detailed guide to get your download code from the Pokémon Scrap Cards.
These cards can be obtained on several ways, the most common is a Pokémon Trading Card Game Booster.

There are 50 different cards, but you only use 20 to get treasures for your Pokémon Omega Ruby or Alpha Saphire Game. Here you can see the different gifts you can get, the most interesting are the Pokémon Shaymin, Keldeo, Victini and the Masterball.

Now I show you the steps you need to do to sign in to use your codes:


Start here and click on the yellow button: 
http://www.pokemon.co.jp/ex/pokescrap2014

Now you either have to sign in new (left red) or log in (right blue)

 Now it's time to enter your e-mail-address twice

 Some minutes later you will receive an e-mail, just click on the link

 After being redirected you have to enter a password twice (6-12 digits)

 Answer some questions in the next session - only for statistics:

Q1 - Age
Q2 - Gender (Male left - Female right)
Q3 - Japanese prefecture - just choose one
Q4 - Where did you got the information about the Pokémon Scrap program - choose one or more
Q5 - Where did you get your codes from - TCG Booster is the first - choose any of them
Q6 - Do you already have a copy of Pokémon ORAS - just choose one

 Here's a summary of your answers, just confirm

 You made it! - Congrats, you successfully signed in!

Here you see an empty map - enter your codes under the pictures (up to 5 once)
When you entered your codes you will get back to this page again, confirm for a code / gift summary

On this screen you can see, what you've already acomplished and how many codes you need for the next gift, e.g. I would need 2 more codes for the Golden Nugget and 19 more codes for the Masterball.
I can only get a Download Code for Shaymin, so click on the button below Shaymin

And here it is, my download code for Shaymin

That's it, to obtain the Pokémon or further gifts, depending on how many codes you have, you only have to use the Mystery Gift in your Pokémon ORAS Game.

See you soon.