| 3:15am | Anison Kouhaku 2009 Scheduled On New Year’s Eve | | | | I’m sure many fans of JPOP would be familiar with the annual music show NHK Kohaku Uta Gassen 「紅白歌合戦」 which is held on every New Year’s Eve. Apart from having the usual Kohaku this year, NHK has announced that they will be having a special Anison Kohaku 2009 「アニソン紅白2009」... |
| 3:15am | Anison Kouhaku 2009 Scheduled On New Year’s Eve | | | | I’m sure many fans of JPOP would be familiar with the annual music show NHK Kohaku Uta Gassen 「紅白歌合戦」 which is held on every New Year’s Eve. Apart from having the usual Kohaku this year, NHK has announced that they will be having a special Anison Kohaku 2009 「アニソン紅白2009」... |
| 10:56pm | Facebook Integration With PS3 Firmware v3.10 | | | | For the next firmware update for the Sony Playstation 3, folks will be able to integrate their facebook account together with their PlayStation Network account. Here’s a preview video from the PS blog showing you how it is all done: Promote This Article Related PostsHow Do Kids Learn Alphabets... |
| 7:47pm | Square Enix Promises Simultaneous Global Release For Future Games | | | | I’m sure many of you like myself feel disappointed when major games such as Final Fantasy XIII gets released first in Japan, and then waits for a couple of months before hitting the international market. Square Enix’s president and CEO Yoichi Wada promises that for future releases, his company... |
| 2:30pm | 1/8 Index PVC [GSC Ver.] | | | | GoodSmile Company has started reservations for this lovely figure of “Index” [Index Librorum Prohibitorum] from the anime series To Aru Majutsu no Index. She is scheduled for release in March 2010 and will be retailing for around 7,800 yen. Interested folks can place your preorders with Hobby Search,... |
| 11:29am | Nendoroid Jiei-tan | | | | GoodSmile Company has opened preorders for the normal version of Nendoroid Jiei-tan from Magical Marine Pixel Maritan. She is scheduled for release in March 2010 and will be retailing for around 3,500 yen. Interested folks can place your preorders with Hobby Search, Hobby Link Japan or Otacute. She... |
| 7:16pm | Free EMS Shipping For HLJ’s Holiday Countdown Sale | | | | One of our sponsors Hobby Link Japan is having a Holiday Countdown Sale and along with the festival spirit of giving, HLJ is offering free shipping! So if you fancy anything in the Holiday Countdown Sale, make sure you pay with paypal and you will be eligible for free EMS shipping. I’ve gotten... |
| 2:15pm | Event Guide for AFA09 | | | | I’m sure everyone is geared up for this weekend’s Anime Festival Asia 2009. Before you even start queuing outside the event hall at 6am in the morning, you might want to take a look at the freshly published event guide for the two days to plan your scheduled for the weekend. The event guides... |
| 8:51am | 800 Kids Built BMW Lego Replica | | | | Here’s an interesting project by BMW whereby they got 800 children, aged between 5 and 13 years old, and they managed to build a full-scale X1 out of 165,000 LEGO blocks, with assistance from BMW staff of course. Source: BMW Blog Poor kids, even before they reach adult age, they are already working... |
| 3:46am | Closer Look At FFXIII Chocobo | | | | Famitsu has posted some more screenshots of Square Enix’s upcoming Final Fantasy XIII and those that caught my eye were these shots of the Chocobo in the game. Do check out Famitsu for more screenshot of the game. I was wondering if there will be black chocobos that allows you to fly around.Promote... |
| 11:17pm | Dollfie Dream Mashiro Mito | | | | Volks website has been updated with this lovely preview of Dollfie Dream Mashiro Mito from the visual novel Tayutama: Kiss on my Deity. She is an exclusive item and will be released at Doll Party 22 scheduled on 6 Dec 2009. Of course, like all DD, she doesn’t come cheap and will be retailing... |
| 7:10pm | Sesame Street Cake Pops | | | | In celebration of Sesame Street’s 40th anniversary, the talented bakerella create these cute Sesame Street cake pops of our all-time favorite characters Oscar, Cookie Monster, Elmo and Big Bird. Source: Bakerella You can check out the website to see how these wonderful yummies are make from normal... |
| 3:19pm | Zen in Autumn | | | | Spotted this lovely photo on Mainichi Photo Journal and I thought I should share it with you folks ^^ The garden of the Ankoku-zenji temple in Toyooka, Hyogo Prefecture, is ablaze with fall foliage at its height on Nov. 13, 2009. The autumn leaves at this Muromachi Era Zen temple will be lit up at nights... |
| 1:17pm | “I Love Anisong” Survival Guide | | | | The good folks for this weekend’s Anime Festival Asia 2009 has posted an interesting “survival guide” for those who are attending the “I Love Anisong” concert event. I thought the segment about flying lightstick was kinda funny. Wonder what would happen if people just... |
| 7:01am | Macross Frontier Movie Promotion on Trains | | | | The movie for Macross Frontier Itsuwari Utahime [虚空歌姫] is scheduled to open in Japan next Saturday 21 Nov 2009, and here’s some awesome promotion which is being done on the trains of Tokyo’s Yamanote line. Source: Japanator I think this promotional campaign is done really well... |
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