It's just round the corner And I have to say I'm very excited!!

In a surprise twist of events, it turns out the whole Toko-Retreat team will actually be in attendance this year! That's right, despite M pro's sad departure, and with Momo and Odyssey Having planned not to come either, all shall be there! As well as a few extra honorary members for the year!

Also, i have been given the go ahead to announce that Snowking and Miradus will be awarding a special prize to who they think is the most awesome person of con this year! To enter...Just be awesome! The prize will be a Playstation 3 and games!

How bloody generous is that??

Also, I hear rumour that there are so many water guns now that we could potentially take over the world...

We'll have our usual mini-city of tents, and with actually enough people to fill them this year! We aim to bring the Pool of Dhoom again, but this is yet to be confirmed. So as easy as we will be to spot, unfortunately there will be now banners around our encampment this year, as they all got thrown away in a garage clearance that i wasn't there to supervise -_-

So I think that's all i have to update with at the moment, so see you all at Toko 2011!!

Hi Guys!

It's been awhile since I've given any semblance of an update, so I'm going to try and watch some new anime weekly and give you my thoughts on it :)

So here's my first of hopefully many!


It’s been some time since I’ve seen some anime, my work and social life exploding a fair bit in the last year. So it was nice to find myself with a free evening last week, and sit down to something that I love so much.

Flicking through the library of anime at my finger tips, I come across s-CRY-ed. Now, I had heard of this through Momiji-Dono when he’d showed me the DVD’s at HMV some years ago, but never got around to watching it. So on it goes, and I must say, I am fairly immediately impressed.

I don’t like giving away story, so I’ll do my best at a premise. The story is set in a near future version of Japan, on an island known as The Lost Ground. It is a prefecture near Tokyo where something happened during “The Great Uprising”, and they became the first independent state of Japan.

Now a portion of the population born to The Lost Grounds have the special ability to deconstruct, reshape, and crystallise matter at a molecular level, using only thought and willpower. Those born with the ability are known as “Alter” Users, and these are split into two groups. You have the Native-Alter Users, who live in the wilderness outside the central city run by the government, and those called HOLY, working for an organisation called HOLD, whom act as the super police for the central city and The Lost Grounds.

Now, as far as I can tell, the Alter Powers are each unique to the user, and are usually shaped by the strongest characteristic of that user’s personality. For example, there is a user whom values speed and saving time above all else, so has the ability to increase the speed of anything he wishes, and another user is strong, agile and to the point, so his alter takes the form of an altered arm, greatly increasing his strength and speed, and keeping him sleek and agile in combat due to it’s compact size.

The series manages a fun and light air to it, akin to FMA I think, but also has more serious and gripping deeper story lines that keep you hooked, again, much like FMA, (I love FMA if you couldn’t tell ^.^) The art in my opinion is gorgeous, and I’m loving the sound track too. So without wanting to give too much more away, I’d definitely recommend s-CRY-ed, and hope you enjoy it as much as I do!

And to tie it off, here's the opening :)

OMG!!! Registrations are Open!!!

I missed it happening on Friday due to being in America and not paying attention to the webs, but here's the first post from Colin on the forums!

"Greetings to you all!

Welcome to the Official Tokonatsu 2011 discussion forum, I am glad you have made it this far. As you are aware there have been some changes to the look and feel of the site since you were last here. Hopefully everything will have been covered, however if you do see a problem, then please bear with us and let us know so that we can fix it.

Tokonatsu is back again with even more passion than before, returning to the camp site we all love, the Ampthil and Wobourn District Scout Camp site. We will be running from the Friday the 5th till Monday the 8th of August 2011, with the camp site opening for business at around mid-day on the Friday.

Please hang tight we start to bring the content back to this forum, including FAQ's and details for each part of the festival. Do feel free to ask questions, but please use the search feature to check that we have not answered it before.

Thank you again and hope to see you all in August!

Colin"

There are only a few spaces left now, so hurry over and grab them before it's too late!

~Rezal

Hi Guys!

Right at this moment, Myst (Colin, Chairman of the Tokonatsu Committee), and Miradus are giving exclusive Tokonatsu News at Auchinawa 2010! and we at Toko-Retreat Have been given the exclusive!

We can confirm that this news is solid, and set in stone:

Tokonatsu 2011 is Confirmed! It shall be at the same site that we all know and love, with a few welcome differences.

There are now a load of new showers! This is most definitely welcome, as the showers always left something to be desired :p We shall have pictures of these as soon as Myst has time to send them our way!

The Op's hut now has central heating, which only really effects committee as they plan to hog...erm, look after the building ^_-

And the dates are set in stone, 5th to the 8th of August 2011!! Registrations shall be opened for Christmas!

That's all for now, but we'll keep you updated as more news comes in!

~ Rezal

Hey guy's I have posted two new articles under my all new article section called "Momo's universe"




Star Driver Review:
Link

Thought's on Dragonica:
Link

Hey all!

Now we have had a Twitter for some time, but we never made much use of it, so now I have started us a Facebook too, in the hopes of being able to spread news easier and faster as we get it ^.^

When the Twitter app on Facebook wakes up and let's me link the accounts, I'll be able to post to twitter and have it appear on Facebook too :)

We are pretty easy to find on both. Tokoretreat on Twitter and Toko Retreat on facebook :)

So look us up, and keep appraised on all the latest Tokonatsu happenings ^.^

~ Rezal

Ok, Just in from the Chairman's Facebook for anyone who doesn't have it!

"Colin Barker
For anyone that is interested: Tokonatsu announcement to be made at Auchinawa! Make sure you are at the closing ceremony ;)"

As soon as we know what this news is, we'll post it, even if we need to get a live feed from the con or something!

Also, I have just Banned 2 1/2 Pages of Spammers and suspected Spammers. If this effects any actual members of the site, please drop me a line at rezal@hotmail.co.uk and I'll sort it out. ANY email ending in .ru will be banned without warning.

That's all for now! I'll be uploading a set of con-books soon as previously mentioned, turns out M pro had them all stashed in his e-mail ;)

~ Rezal