Mayamada Presents: Anime Showtime 3

Our third Anime Showtime event is coming up fast and this time we’re in a brand new location!

Everything will be happening at Roxy Bar & Screen on Saturday 8th of December, one of the best screening venues in London.

This time around we’ll be watching the brand new Blu-Ray edition of classic anime, Lupin the Third: The Castle of Cagliostro.

UPDATE:  Den of Geek have a fantastic feature on the film for anyone who hasn’t seen it.

Tickets are only £5 and if you’re one of the first 30 people to arrive on the day you’ll get free popcorn too ^_^

You can check out the event page for more details and to book tickets.

The date to remember is Saturday 8th December, 2pm to 6pm. Tickets can be purchased online or you can reserve you spot now and pay on the door.

 

Samurai Chef Indiegogo Update

 

It’s been a while since the end of our fund raising campaign and we’re sorry for not providing an update on the progress of the project.

The main news to report is that the book is unfortunately being delayed by a few months.

The book artwork is in progress but this means the printed copy of the book itself will not be shipping until February 4th 2013.

We’re really sorry to have to push things back, but we will be releasing the other perks of the project over the next two months before Christmas.

This includes the t-shirt design in December, the complete PDF version of the manga in mid January ahead of the release of the printed book itself in early February.

Starting today, we’ll send out updates on the project every two weeks. You can expect the next update on Friday November 9th.

For now we have a sneak peek at two of the new characters you’ll be seeing in the Samurai Chef book: Jimi and Mary. Both will be featuring in the book along side the Samurai Chef himself.

 

Jimi

The host of the Samurai Chef.  Jimi provides play by play of the action in his unique flavour.

Mary

Samurai Chef production assistant.  Mary does work across different shows including some clean up tasks.  And there is plenty to clean up on the Samurai Chef!

 

New Project Dates

Again, we’re very sorry the project is being delayed, but stick with us and we’ll make sure you’re not dissapointed with the final result.

So, here are the important dates to remember:

  • Monday November 26th: Badge sets and artwork done.
  • Saturday December 8th: T-Shirt available for release.
  • Tuesday December 25th: Online manga preview of the Samurai Chef.
  • Monday January 14th: Complete PDF version of Samurai Chef available.
  • Monday February 4th: Printed edition of the Samurai Chef manga ships.

Thanks again for backing the Samurai Chef and see you again in two weeks 🙂

Mayamada x Jaunty Photos

mayamada October 22, 2012 No Comments

We recently went on a outing with Jaunty, taking some time and pictures in the London’s Japanese Garden and ending the day with some sushi too.

The snaps are below.  Take a look and if you haven’t already taken a listen to Jaunty’s album Once Again, One Day.  He put it together after landing in Japan on the day of the 2011 tsunami and all proceeds to the album to towards Aid for Japan who are helping children orphaned by the tragedy.

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Sign of the Times: New Jaunty Music Video

mayamada September 10, 2012 No Comments

Our friend Jaunty recently release a new video with K-Nite 13 and it features a certain Samurai Chef.

httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRw2yElXsD0

You can also check out his interview with Mellow 9 productions about his experiences in the music business and his 2011 trip to Japan. All while sporting the new black kai snapback ^_^

httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=blwEVsGc0iI

Check out both artists and help support London talent.  Our snapbacks are now available for pre-order right here. Order before Monday 17th and get free delivery on your order.

 

 

 

Sneak Peek: New T-Shirts

mayamada July 9, 2012 No Comments

It’s less than two week until our release event at Tutti Frutti where you’ll be able to see your new range of t-shirts for the summer (if it ever gets here).

For now we’re giving you an early look at the new designs.  Head over to our Facebook page, or jump on the comments below and let us know what you think of them ^_^

 

Mayamada Prime Time Volume 1: Our Kickstarter Campaign

Since we started making teaser pages of manga for each of our shows, people have continued to ask as when is the full book coming out.  We didn’t have an answer for them, until now that is.

Today we launched our long awaited Kickstarter campaign to raise the funds needed to create a full mayamada manga book. We wanted to do this in a big way and really showcase our world of fantasy television in manga form and we’re so excited to get the word out to you all.

To make this happen we’ve teamed up with four great artists to produce the artwork for four of the first four shows on the mayamada network: Samurai Chef, The 11th Hour, Hot Lunch, and Serious.  The last one is a brand new show.

But why am I doing so much talking?  You can find out all the details on our Kickstarter page where you can find out how to get involved: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/401125455/mayamada-prime-time-manga-vol-1

We’ll have many more details on the progress of the campaign over the next month, including all the rewards you can get for supporting the book.

Stay tuned!

Mayamada Presents: Anime Showtime 2

mayamada March 26, 2012 No Comments

This weekend will see our second Anime Showtime event at Whirled Art Cinema where you’re invited to a free anime screening and get access to our one time pop up shop.

The date to put in your diaries is Sunday the 1st of April. We’ll be there and showing Steamboy: A steam punk anime set in 17th century Britain from Katsuhiro Ohtomo who also brought us Akira.

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0eAk6oNBSMU

There are still a few tickets available (at least when this post was made), so be quick if you want to book your spot.

Here’s a run down of what we’ll be up to on the day.

 

Prizes

We’re going to kick things off by giving everyone a chance to take part in our competition to win a special prize.

Popcorn

Judging from the talk on our Facebook page, mixing sweet and salted popcorn is popular. Well, we’ll have both kinds available for you guys before the film starts.

Steamboy

Once everyone has their popcorn we’ll kick off the main event. There’ll be a short break in between the film before we continue.

Popup shop

We’ll have a one time popup shop featuring all the mayamada t-shirts from the gift shop available for a discounted price. We’ll also have the Word Salad tee in white which you can’t get on the website.

 

 

We’ll be back next week to give you all the travel information so you know the best way to get to the screening.

 

Stay Tuned.