Comments on: WIN 1 OF 5 SIGNED COPIES OF LA CARMINA’S BOOK, CRAZY WACKY THEME RESTAURANTS TOKYO! CONTEST FOR AUTOGRAPHED JAPAN PHOTO BOOKS.

By: Caroline

Caroline — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 07:59:18 +0000

I'm happy you liked it! If you ever have the time I recommend the books or even the movies :)

Also spreading the word about your book to my friends on facebook and through deviantart.com, hopefully even through a little comic if I get the time, if not at least by journal

By: Caroline

Caroline — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 07:51:12 +0000

By: Caroline

Caroline — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 23:59:18 +0000

By: Caroline

Caroline — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 23:51:12 +0000

By: Jen

Jen — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 23:25:56 +0000

Thanks! When I was younger, my mom would call me a princess in Chinese to tease me over how spoiled I was/am. My brother would correct her and call me “lord” because I was such a tomboy. I suppose I proved him right after I discovered ouji/kodona fashion. ^_^

By: lacarmina

lacarmina — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 21:19:20 +0000

Amazing! I love how you thought out the concept in such detail — I got a great sense of the space, even though I've never read Discworld. Death of Rats sounds fascinating!

By: Caroline

Caroline — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 19:43:08 +0000

Ok WARNING, THIS IS VERY LONG! I thought this out way too much....

Hm what kind of theme restaurant would I do, well Dracula has probably been done too well, so has Phantom of the Opera and Alice in Wonderland of course. So I'd have to go with my other favorite, The Discworld. And I’d try to have a bunch of things from the books especially the characters.

The Discworld is the creation of the author Terry Pratchett, it is a series that consists of over 25 books. It contains a multitude of loveable characters, granted not loveable in the sense of Disney but in the sense of that if you were to go to a themed restaurant with characters from this book, be prepared to be near some not so pretty characters. The restaurant would be divided into sections based on the characters. One would be the witches of Lancre, the stern Granny Weatherwax and the naughty Nanny Ogg and her devilish cat Greebo would be wandering around. All diners would have to guard their food or Nanny will steal from their plates or make them sing the hedgehog song, which I have been told is not suitable for the innocent to hear.

In another area would be the wizards of Anhkmorpork, from the Unseen University. Especially the Librarian who many years ago due to magic was transformed into an orangutan, but insisted he rather liked the change since it let him get to his hard to reach books. And every fan’s favorite cowardly wizard Rincewind! Who will gladly take you up on joining in on your meal but will run at any at any hint of danger, so don’t scare him by ordering anything flambéed. Also while ordering your dessert or even your meal the Librarian might insist that you order his favorite meal which he will kindly show you to prepare, a banana.

And as my last example of Discworld would be an entire section for Death. Everything decorated in his houses style, black, grey and white. You would have not only Death around you would have his horse Binky (who is very much a real horse, Death discovered the cool skeleton horses just didn’t do the trick, they fell apart way too often). During your meal you would have Death, with his movie voice which was performed by the great Christopher Lee, asking you rather random questions about human behavior, because although he does take you into the next life he quite likes humans and just loves to learn about them. In this section it would be wise to order Death’s personal favorite, Curry. And for an appetizer if you do order a cheese fondue or a cheese platter with fruit be warned you will have Death’s co-worker on your plate. Then again even if you don’t order those things he still might end up in someone’s alcoholic drink. The Death of Rats, the cutest personification of death you could ever see. Granted there are many other versions of death, the death of cats for one but never have really made the scene into the books, just the Death of Rats.

And last but not least I’d have like an animatronics head or whole figure of Terry Pratchett saying something really random and awesome.

...Sadly I could go on and on about various dream themes, including the one above

By: mannequin

mannequin — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 09:39:21 +0000

My themed restaurant would be serviced by robots. Robotic everything. I really wish to employ the robot from Lost in Space as general manager.

By: Dizzy Malfoy

Dizzy Malfoy — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 03:11:03 +0000

Maybe it's cause I'm a huge Final Fantasy X nerd, but I'd do a restaurant based on that. Mainly, my fave part in the game, which is when you get to Macalania Woods. It would be dimly lit with lots of purplish bluish lights stringed all around the restaurant. The walls will have thin and thick swirls going all around in glow in the dark blue paint. The ceiling will look like a beautiful night sky(stars and aurora borealis painted with glow in the dark paint) But when you enter, there's these two pilars that look like large gemstone/ice crystals that stay lit in a light shade of blue.They'll be on either side of the doors. The floor will be made of glass or hard clear plastic and below it, it will appear as if there's water and some tree roots. You will be greeted in the form they greet important people (in which they'd originally say “Praise be to Yevon”), with a slight bow. The people are dressed either like the Guado or like Al Bhed. The bartender will be dressed like a Ronso, the cocktails and drinks are all named after something from the game, like potions or antidotes or remedies. They will all speak to you according to that character's language, except the al bhed, occassionally they'll speak to you in al bhed. Cosplaying as a Final Fantasy character is greatly encouraged. Tables and chairs are glass, and the legs are blue glowing crystal, somewhat. The music that will play will be Suteki Da Ne(orchestra version) and To Zanarkand, as well as other soft beat final fantasy music like the one from Via Purifico. Oh, and you can't forget a bit of fog machine action, not alot, but enough to make it look like the floor is covered in fog/mist. At the end of the meal, you have an option to donate money to fix “Zanarkand Ruin”, which is actually to help people in other countries who don't have homes or who's homes have been ruined due to natural disasters, like Zanarkand kinda was. Sorry my description wasn't the best. If you've played FFX then you'd know exactly what I'm talking about. Just trying to incorporate Macalania Woods in a restaurant, is kinda hard to explain.

By: breannabrzezinski

breannabrzezinski — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 02:11:52 +0000

If I had the chance to open up a restraunt, I would open up a candy cane lane and or a cemetary cafe. I would have the outside of the candy one a gingerbread house, like hansel and grettle and have it like willy wonka and the chocolate factory inside.. YUM! :D For the cemetary one i would have it be a gothic church on the outside bouilding part with old gothic gravestones and creepy trees with ghosts flying around and inside be pews for the tables and a bloody altar at the front as a stage set up. The waitors would be bloody nuns and preists.. :)