• Tokonatsu 2023 News

    The Tokonatsu 2020 schedule is now Live!

    “Quote Tokonatsu 2020”   The Tokonatsu 2020 schedule is now Live! Click here to add the calendar to your Google account: https://calendar.google.com/calendar/embed?src=c_5usvgk3o8c2v17qcqgh5m4t9d0%40group.calendar.google.com&ctz=Europe%2FLondon   Keep checking around the Facebook page for more info on each event, or if you can’t wait read the descriptions on the calendar!

  • Tokonatsu 2023 News

    Ever felt a burning desire deep down inside to have your questions answered?

    “Tokonatsu” Ever felt a burning desire deep down inside to have your questions answered? A thirst for knowledge that cannot be quenched? An itch to know things that, no matter how hard you scratch, will not go away? Well, that’s probably a job for your doctor. Make an appointment. If that doesn’t work, you can always come to the Ask Toko Anything panel at #VirtualToko! It’s your chance to ask us everything you’ve ever wanted to know… within reason. And the good news is we’re not too busy running around a field to answer them! Head over to https://www.tokonatsu.org.uk/2020/ata to get your questions in. We will be taking a small…

  • Tokonatsu 2023 News

    Tokonatsu 2020 online edition!

    Well as you know the world we live in has changed… And due to this as we sadly know by now Tokonatsu 2020 is not longer happening as it normally would. However! Don’t think us at Toko-R and Tokonatsu don’t have you covered! We have all been working hard in the backgrounds in preparation for the online edition of Tokonatsu! So without any-further delay… here is the latest from Tokonatsu! online edition 🙂 “Tokonatsu” If you’re anything like us, one of the highlights of your Tokonatsu experience is the Masquerade. Sun, SPF, and sewing skills all in one place. What could be better? Well, we can’t quite recreate that experience this year,…

  • Tokonatsu 2023 News

    Tokonatsu 2019 – Thank you!

    Well, another year has come and gone, and as I stated in my last article, I think I speak for most when I say this was probably one of the best Tokonatsus ever! It certainly was from my perspective, which can sometimes be a bit too focuses on the events that we are running and ensuring that they go off smoothly. Since becoming a member of staff some years back, helping to bring you all these events has honestly been such a fulfilling experience. The entirety of the staff and the gophers really pulled out all the stops this year, putting in many hours to come up with new ways…

  • Tokonatsu 2023 News

    Merry Christmas and happy new year!

    All of us at Toko Retreat would like to wish everyone a Merry Christmas and a happy new year! In addition, how better to do this then with a little video! So we got together and shot a short video for you all.  So once again, from all of us a Toko R have a great Christmas and New year! See you next in 2019!

  • Review

    Horror; God’s left hand Devil’s right hand… What am I reading!?.

    Still riding on the coat tails of the writer… Kazuo Umezu. See the following Reviews. Fourteen and My Name is Shingo. As you know in the last couple of weeks I have been reading some of this guy’s work and have been taken in by the oddness of his mind. This week we have God’s left hand Devil’s right hand. This is based around family of 4 and the main characters are the 2 younger children. One day odd things start to happen and the younger girl “Izumi” find herself in the possession of some old scissors and the younger boy “Sou” gains an unknown power. They all written like…

  • Review

    My name Is Shingo… What am I reading!?

    Well once again, I have delved into the heart of. What the heck is this? Today we have: My name Is Shingo…  “Watashi wa Shingo” The story is about an assembly line robot that acquires consciousness… and then goes on a journey of discovery looking for its parents… I kid you not… from the same writers as the amazingly bad/good Fourteen. Umezu Kazuo. “Reviewed here” The story starts off as a love story around two children Marine “Girl” and Satoru “Boy” that meet on the off chance one day and then form a deep connection with each other. Satoru’s father works on an assembly line constructing small motors. But as…

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    Merman in my Tub Review

    Volumes: 8 and ongoing. Publisher: Seven Seas Many of you may already be familiar with “Monster Girl” anime/manga. Well, this easily falls into the genre of “Monster Boy”. Many of you might be familiar with titles such as “Rosario and Vampire”. But all the characters are handsome anthropomorphic sea-creatures. Ranging from an octopus, a shark, a jellyfish, a clown-fish, even a tiny hermit crab. This is a four-panel style manga that does exactly what it says on the tin. It runs in short isolated chapters of slice-of-life sitcom adventures of high school student, Tatsumi, and his handsome free-loading roommate, Wakasa the merman. Every so often, Wakasa’s fellow fish friends will…

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    Fourteen manga review. What am I reading!?

    Well, where to start really… I have been reading manga for many years and in that time I have seen some truly terrible ones. Then we have Fourteen by Kazuo Umezu … this manga has a place in the terrible hall of fame for me personally. The art style is pretty bad, at times it almost like a team of children put this together but didn’t talk to themselves on what they were doing… Let’s point out that this is listed as a horror manga… I’m not sure how they decided that but for me, it currently falls in the category of, “What the hell am I reading” and “my…

  • Tokonatsu 2023 News

    Tokonatsu 2018… The live steams that where.

    Just in case you missed it… or you could not make it… *what was you thinking!*… Here are some of the live streams that we broadcasted  at Toko 2018. This was a first for Toko R, Tokonatsu as it happened… Live 🙂 So sit back and relive Tokonatsu 2018. PS… For more videos of Toko 2018 visit our Facebook site.   This little Shrine of mine 1 This little Shrine of mine 2 Tokonatso 2018 Opening ceremony Tokonatsu 2018 Cosplay Masquerade The first Zonbidoggu! “Saturday”  Tokonatsu 2018 Closing ceremony The Second Zonbidoggu! “Sunday”