This week's article and this intro was faxed to me on Dōmo-kun stationery by Japan-based Reddit and Discord member EmmDeez. He was on the ground as a freelance host in Kabukicho and occasionally Susukino during the heyday of MD, and says he still has purikura with questionable hairstyles of those times – think Final Fantasy-esque. I've known him since joining the MD Discord server at the beginning of 2023, and he's set me up with some hard-to-find discs for my collection as well as VHS recordings of SMAPxSMAP. EmmDeez has chosen the Panasonic Dockin'style player SJ-MJ59, which was gifted to him a couple of days before the official release by a regular patron with a close connection to Panasonic. He was unable to transfer photos from his 3G Casio flip phone, so needed to work with Panasonic materials. The photos look great on the passport photo-sized screen he reckons.
To quote the man, himself: "Wait, this is due tomorrow??"
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