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Please excuse the poor quality photos, I had just strung him back together and it was hard and painful. xD
I'm very happy with the match. It actually looks better in person then the pictures but I think it will be great once he has a faceup. :)
HAIKOU- HAINAN ISLAND-CHINA- So Yeon Ryu of Korea in action, Friday, March 13, 2015, on day two of the World Ladies Championship at the Blackstone Course, Mission Hills Golf Resort, Haikou, Hainan Island, China. Picture by Paul Lakatos/Mission Hills.
I went to Japan in April 2008 to film a documentary about Koy. She is a talented musician/performer from New York who has been living and performing in Japan for 16 years.
I went with Koy to a coastal town to meet Ryu, a musician that she used to play with. Ryu was born the 22nd direct descendant of a temple founding monk. He was raised and expected to inherit his birthright, a 500-year-old temple in Uozu, but rebelled when he found rock and roll as a young man. As a teen, he was very involved in starting the '80's Toyama rockabilly scene.
Teaching himself to play guitar, he renounced his temple birthright, ran off to New York City for a few years where he started his tattoo collection. Upon returning to Tokyo, he headed the rock and roll trio Screaming Jets and worked with Koy where she sang his beautiful Japanese lyrics. Shortly after opening his own chic bar/eatery in Roppongi his father died, followed by his mother less than a year later. He made the difficult decision to close down the restaurant and return to the temple. Now with his monk's robes hiding his tattooed body as make up and band-aids attempt to cover his face and hand tattoos, he goes about his daily Buddhist routines as well as writing expansively regarding Buddhism on a daily basis and playing guitar in the temple in the evenings.
My haul yesterday, Round 1 of Street Fighter toys by NECA. Highly poseable and comes with 2 extra hands. Ryu has 35 points of articulation too, like Ken. He's simply awesome, aside from that horrible facial expression.
Because there was a time when these two actually considered each other friends.
(Ryu is Chris' Leon while Jae-Sun is Chase.)