• Tokonatsu 2023 News

    Massive thank you to Russell Fenton

    Here is a massive thank you going out to Russell Fenton for allowing us to use his photos of Toko 2011/12/13 for our gallery’s Some of you may know him as Foxy There is no denying how talented this guy is when it comes to photography and whenever I see him his camera is not far behind. You can see more of his work here https://www.flickr.com/photos/foxseye/ Amazing stuff 🙂

  • Tokonatsu 2023 News

    Past Toko Pic’s 2011/12/13

    Hi guys We are still tracking down Past Toko pics to add to the site.. we have some 2013 but nowhere near enough 😮 If you have some you would like to share with us them please Email Me  your pic’s will be added and you will also be thanked for the submission on the website. The more the better 🙂   Thanks guys Mike

  • Tokonatsu 2023 News

    House Names and what they mean

    So we all know what the house names are this year but let’s get a little more info on what they mean.   HOUSE KAMEOSA! HOUSE TSUKI NO USAGI! HOUSE BASAN! HOUSE KITSUNE!   So lets start with…. KAMEOSA In Japanese mythology, Kameosa (瓶長、甕長, Long Bottle) is a youkai that takes the form of a jar. Appearance Kameosa takes the form of an old jar, usually of water or sake, and sometimes this can take upon itself humanoid features much like those of Tsukumogami. Powers Kameosa seem to be entirely beneficial, as any liquid store inside them will never run out. It spontaneously produce an inexhaustible supply of rice, sake,…

  • Anime News

    And we are live!

    Hello and welcome to the new TokoRetreat having a look around you will find that we have had a little remodel and move about..  🙂 Now apart from bringing you news on what’s going down at Tokonatsu we will still be bringing you reviews and even music recommendations. At the moment we are missing pic’s from Toko 2011,2012,2013 but these are being tracked down to be uploaded so will be up soon.. So yes I better go press that big on button then 😮   Mike

  • News

    Logo Fun!

    Well the making of the logo you see on this site is a long story filled with hardships and the like…. Well not really but if your interested in how the logo changed from this old one here… To the nice new one you see on top of the site read on 🙂 Well it started about 3 weeks ago at work “on lunch” I started to think of what I was going for on the new site… I started to draw letters to try and get some idea’s The thing was I know what I was looking for and I was sure that no font I would be able…

  • Shows On Soon

    MCM London comic con

    MCM London Comic Con storms back to Excel on 23-25 May for another spectacular celebration of all that’s best and brightest in the worlds of movies, sci-fi, anime, videogames, comics, manga and cosplay! Alongside all the onstage panels, games zones and retail booths, Europe’s biggest celebration of popular culture will play host to the largest gathering of comic book creators in the UK, the national qualifiers of the Eurocosplay Championships and, of course, a great special guest line-up from the worlds of film, TV and comics. Special guests at our last event in October included stars from series such as Lost Girl; Game of Thrones; Primeval; Haven; Warehouse 13; By…

  • Jpop

    Yui-singer-songwriter

    Today we have Yui.. I first heard Yui playing the starting song for a session of the Anime Bleach, and have been hocked 🙂 little more Yui (ユイ?, born March 26, 1987), stylized as YUI, is a Japanese singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and actress. Born and raised in Fukuoka prefecture, she played live at various locations in her hometown before being noticed by Sony Music Japan when she was 17 years old, and released her debut single months later. However her singles were only met with moderate success until her breakout “Good-bye Days”, which charted for 44 weeks on Oricon and marked her as one of the Japanese music industry’s rising stars.[1]…

  • Jpop

    M.O.V.E

    What can I say.. if you like 90’s sounding music that’s amazing then you have come to the right place first heard Dog fight on a Anime shoutcast channel and well there worth the wait.. how did I miss them this long! Little more Move (styled as M.O.V.E or m.o.v.e, and previously as move) was a Japanese musical group. The group consisted of yuri (Yuri Masuda (益田 祐里 Masuda Yuri?)) on vocals and motsu (Mototaka Segawa (瀬川 素公 Segawa Mototaka?)) performing the rapping. t-kimura (Takashi Kimura (木村 貴志 Kimura Takashi?)) (producer) left the band in 2008. t-kimura formed the band move and by 1997 they released their first single “Rock…