In celebration of Gundam 30th anniversary, Bandai is releasing another commemorative collectible – the Zeppin series Mobile Suit Gundam 30th Anniversary Emblem Pins Collection. The collection features 32 emblems of the armed forces from 13 Gundam ...
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So you are in Japan and want to go to a cafe. Unfortunately a maid cafe doesn't seem like something you'd like and a cosplay cafe just isn't your cup of tea. However, you do love cats. Well are you ever in luck -- Cafe Calico is just the thing for you.Read Mimi Hanaoka's article on her trip to this cat cafe and see what fun you are missing by not living in the Tokyo area. ^_^
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<object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/QkP7DIxAopM&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/QkP7DIxAopM&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></param></object> Wow, for those of you waiting for a Gundam game that takes place in the Universal Century and will feature 3rd person combat, then wait no more (well until the game is released.) Gundam Senki for the Playstation 3 will feature a revamped RX-78, which is the original Gundam we all know and love. Not only that, but this game will also feature a metric ton of original anime footage, created by Sunrise. This footage will also mend in with the actual gameplay as well; like a character’s head suddenly popping up on your screen complaining about how your soul is held down by gravity, for example.  The story is about an officer in command of the Earth Federation's special unit called the Phantom Sweep Team. There job is to hunt down Zeon remnants at the end of the One Year War. Of course Zeon can never except defeat, so a unit of theirs called the Invincible Knights are launching a counteroffensive of their own. The game is looking great so far, and hopefully its better than Crossfire, which was a PS3 launch title (and a POS as well.) Essentially, it’s like getting an OVA and a game in one package, so you can’t go wrong with that.
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Finally Kotobukiya released photos of the 1/6 Asuka Langley figure…A nice companion for Rei Ayanami figure as shown below… Now, She really looks great…and together with Rei, they are a nice eye catcher in any collection. Asuka will be released on October 2009 for about 6,800 yen. (Around 67.00 USD) You can preorder her NOW! For [...]
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Whoa, it’s really her!? Or does this episode show the mysterious “Drei” that the fans of the original game have been talking about? Anyway, this was another excellent episode from this series, even ignoring that final plot twist in the end. It was all about seeing the relationship between Reiji and Cal, and just watching [...]
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From glancing at Twitter and my news feeds, it looks like the first day of Anime Expo included some good music and some anime license announcements, but not much of note for manga fans. ANN summarizes the keynote address Austin Osueke, publisher of eigoManga. This was sort of interesting: according to Osueke, there’s a shared notion [...]
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The New York Asian Film Festival is in town this month, and for the first time ever, this blogger is taking the train into the city and catching some of the action for himself. For the next few weeks, I’ll be posting up some reviews and features from the events taking place at the IFC [...]
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If you'll remember, yesterday we asked them to find:A) Gundam, as in the robot, not an emo pilot B) Crossplay, sweet, delicious CrossplayC) Tentacles How did they do? Gundam:   Runner up: Pink Zaku statue   Crossplay: Man Yoko!   Runner up: Female Luffy   Tentacles: Nothing You've made Armstrong sad. Today you're going to find:A) Cosplay from a series not yet outB) A prop or costume considerably larger than its userC) A costume that requires two people to useD) Open ended prompt: Something from a series prior to 2000Also, find us some tentacles. Home team: What do you think? How are they doing so far?
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Mika-tan has uploaded one preview photo of the upcoming Nendoroid Reimu that will be release at Comiket 76. OMG she is so darn cute that I can foresee that there will be a long queue ...
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No chibitalia this week. Man how I miss those guys…*sarcasm*  This time we get a moe character, something this anime needed after the softcore shotacon that didn’t exist in episode 22 that didn’t exist either.   This is Liechtenstein, a country which has now won the award for the most convoluted spelling in the history of country naming, although [...]
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There is something wrong with Japanese Firefighters these days. Eleven senior firefighters have been punished for hazing new recruits by making them perform 10,000 pushups, among other abuses, the Matsudo Fire Department said Wednesday. The action taken against those disciplined included cuts in their salaries. Five of the 10 new recruits who participated in the harsh training quit [...]
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Kotobukiya today officially announced the scheduled release of a Celestia figure who is the 10th figure from the Shining Wind series to be made by them. Her official announcement came as a minor surprise as I was expecting her to be presented only at Wonder Festival later this month. The other figure news today that caught [...]
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The initial trigger for this post was like over a week ago, but I’ve only found the motivation to post about it only today. Heh. Please don’t say I’m Lazy. LOL It all started from a Facebook chat pop-up initiated by my Japanese teacher at Bunka. I added my teacher, so yeah, whatever. He then proceeded [...]
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With the Eureka Seven movie out, I figured it was high time for me to start talking more about Eureka Seven. I already reviewed Gravity boys & Lifting girl, but now I’ll be reviewing the original for this post, and then working my way towards the new movie. Psalms of Planets Eureka Seven is an anime [...]
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This new 1/8 scale figure of “Celestia” from Shining Wind, will be available this coming October 2009 by Kotobukiya for 6,090 Yen retail price. Hobby Search is taking reservations for her as of today. Wow, she’s looking much better than I thought ( ^ _ ^ )
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 We all have to give Bandai Namco a big hug when we see them, because their subsidiary music label Lantis will be providing us with the ability to buy anime music digitally this summer. Along with the other awesome things they announced over at the Namco Bandai panel at Anime Expo, one of the coolest ones is that the iTunes Store will be releasing new anime songs every couple of weeks, like music from Haruhi, and Lucky Star. Now for the best part, the first release will be from JAM Project, God Len’s favorite group of all time. I can assure you that the second JAM Project hits the iTunes store, it will go down; because iTunes is not ready to handle that much epic power on its server.  This is good news for sure, but I can’t help but think that this came a little too late. I would think that most fans would have “acquired” most of these songs already, one way or another. But if they keep it up and release new songs that we haven’t heard yet I think it will be more successful. Regardless, lets listen to some JAM Project to get us in the mood! <object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/Uwky1ciyE0g&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/Uwky1ciyE0g&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></param></object> Live Skill <object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/RGEN60bf3p8&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/RGEN60bf3p8&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></param></object> Live Gong
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When you guys first bought the PSP-1000, you would have notice that the processing speed of the machine could actually go all the way to 333mhz. However, when PSP was young and all, everyone (or geeks) would have noticed that the PSP can only run at 222mhz, until the 3.50 Firmware update came out. With the [...] Related posts:Paint your USB2.0 Red To Get More Speed… Or Get USB3.0 InsteadPSP-Go! Accessories RevealedEA Says: 360 Maxed Out, PS3 Is Not
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Illustration by: 環望 The Montly Comic Flapper Mag has announced a TV Anime adaptation for Nozomu Tamaki’s manga 『Dance in the Vampire』 a Romance, Supernatural, Action, Ecchi genre, Vampire theme. Synopsis from Seven Seas: After millennia in hiding, Mina Tepes, the Princess of the ancient covenant and ruler of all vampires, wants change. Using the vast wealth of [...]
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Well. I guess I haven’t written much on zotaku so I figured, “Hey, why not start now.” I wouldn’t be a frequent poster like what Zen or Bluesnow does but I’ll still try to post something every now and then. For now, since none of the currently airing Summer Animes interest me and I’m not exactly [...]
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I suppose this is what happen when you have some Lazy Rin, Saber and Sakura as servants ^^this song keeps going one for the rest 9 minutes so press the stop button whenever you feel like it >.< Since this video include Rin, Saber and Sakura i suppose i should put some of these as well. Suppose that [...]
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