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By: Ivan 'Nahu' Lozano - On Saturday 5 July 2008 @ 3:17 pm
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Japanese image boards have been buzzing with excitement lately as some documents from studio BONES (guys behind FMA, Darker than Black, Ouran, Soul Eater) got leaked into the internet revealing that the studio is working on a second Full Metal Alchemist series as well as a sequel to Darker than Black. These are very exciting news for fans of either series although speculation on how the hell they will milk FMA after the movie ending is driving everyone insane.
Honestly I’m more excited about the continuation to Darker than Black, it has a deeper plot, music by Yoko Kanno and a talking cat. You cant top Yoko Kanno and a talking cat, its simple impossible.
Thanks Shiku!
In a likely attempt to expand her legion of lonely otaku to the english speaking world, Shoko-tan, Japanese otaku idol (and an otaku herself) has started blogging in english. Well this is somewhat of an overstatement, as her posts are actually being translated by someone in the shadows.
In this blog she narrates her stay in Los Angeles while she appears as a guest at LA’s Anime Expo. Its filled with tiny tidbits of info and pictures, pretty much her saying how American cosplayers are so cute. This girl has Japan tied by its collective nutbladder and now she’s about to do it to America too.
Go on, click the link! You know you wanna go look at the pretty pictures and then argue online about how she’s your waifu.
Next month Japan Post will issue 10 stamps based on Patlabor, the iconic mecha manga and anime. This comes as the latest installment in their heroes of anime and manga series. We’ve previously covered the launch of Mario, Evangelion and Resident Evil stamps. It seems only Japan has caught on to the fact that the only people who collect stamps are obsessive freaks so you might as well cater to their tastes huh?
By: Ivan 'Nahu' Lozano - On Tuesday 10 June 2008 @ 4:38 pm
Oh boy those conspiracy theorists in Japan must be throwing a fit over this new book. Titled ‘Legend Of The Original Antarctic Model: From Dutch Wife to Love Doll, a Post-War History of Sex Dolls‘ it tells the story of the original development of Japanese sex dolls.
According to the author these objects of otaku lust were originally developed to control the desires of work teams dispatched to isolated districts of Japan. What’s even creepier is that the government ‘encouraged‘ the development. And as we all know that can only mean one thing, money.
So there you have it, Japanese sex dolls are a government tool to control the desires of the frustrated, downtrodden masses.In Japan, Oni-chan is watching you.
You’ll remember earlier this month Pangya (Super Swing Golf) announced a tied event with Vocaloid’s Hatsune Miku. Back then we didn’t know what it was going to be, Miku as a playable character? As a caddy? As a skin? It was all in the air!
Well as it turns out the event ended up being a Miku outfit for Kooh plus a song called ‘A Shiny Day REMIX’ was set as the BGM for the West Wiz and Wiz Wiz courses. The song is the basic background music for those courses but with Miku singing along.
[4Gamer]
By: Ivan 'Nahu' Lozano - On Friday 30 May 2008 @ 7:12 pm
DTM, makers of Vocaloid will be releasing a new version of its software that features the voice of J-Rock legend Gackt. This, supposedly, to finally bring a male voice to the vocaloid platform and to cash in on Gackt’s fame. This however is probably the first in a new trend of bringing famous voices to the Vocaloid platform. You can listen to a sample track of GACKPOID above.
If this goes well it’s easy to foresee periodic releases with the top voices of J-pop, J-rock and even voice actresses. Fanboys and fangirls would probably pay ridiculous prices for them and the Internet would in turn be filled with yet more Vocaloid videos. I think I’m much more scared than excited, what about you?
[IT Media]
By: Ben 'FBINinja' Schmidt - On Tuesday 27 May 2008 @ 9:19 pm
The classic JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure has gotten the wrong people angry at them, the Muslim community has gone up in arms on the Internet after someone pointed out that one of the villains was reading that looked like their Holy scripture, the Koran.
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Come and see the best, most remarkable cosplayers who attended ACEN 2008! Finally after days of literary fighting to put this together it’s done: a gallery and slideshow of all of the awesome cosplayers our ACEN team got to meet. There is some great stuff in here: ingenious, comic, sexy and sometimes near naked cosplay for you to enjoy.
Also, catch a few shots of the crew in some of the less compromising positions I could find. Seriously, I had to remove about 20 images of empty alcohol bottles at the hotel room. You can watch the slideshow above and then head over to the full gallery after the jump.
PS: Bonus points if you can name every song in the slideshow!
By: Ivan 'Nahu' Lozano - On Wednesday 14 May 2008 @ 3:34 pm
Doki Doki Majo Shinpan Duo is trying to one-up its predecessor. The sequel to the controversial DS game where you had to touch some jailbait hunt witches by way of inspecting them physically appears to be putting more emphasis on the watching as much as the touching aspect of the game.
If the box-art of the game is any indication this time around you will be equipped with some sort of X-ray device that allows you to…. analyze your subject much more thoroughly. Oh boy, remember when Nintendo was too much of a prude for M rated games? When did we jump from that to this. Talk about a change of heart, not that I’m complaining.
Just recently the Japanese website for Pangya, also known as loligolf or Super Swing Golf, announced a mysterious event tied in with Vocaloid’s star Hatsune Miku. No other details are given but a reveal date of may 22.
Could Miku make an appearance on Pangya as a playable character? A new caddy? Who knows, but I’m as excited as Bob’s silhouette! Too bad this will never see the light of day on Albatross 18, its international counterpart.
The ARToolkit is a piece of software developed by Dr. Hirokazu Kato at the University of Washington and if you are enough of a geek you already guessed what it does. Its a software toolkit for creating Augmented Reality environments. You probably know of Augmented reality from the days of the Nintendo Revolution speculation, the technology behind the EyeToy and those webcams that replace your face with that of a cat.
However this piece of software found its way into the hands of a few diligent Otaku and what’s an otaku to do with a new tool? Use it to further the merging of reality with anime in a bid to end their loneliness. What follows are some examples of their arduous endeavors.
You start out with something simple, perhaps a motionless robot like this Tachikoma you see above. After all what would be cooler than having your own little 3D robot in your desk?
Well how about Vocaloid’s Miku dancing Caramelldansen? In fact everything after this is all about Miku, hit the jump for the rest!
By: Ivan 'Nahu' Lozano - On Monday 14 April 2008 @ 6:01 pm
An ASU engineering student presents his capstone robot project, but instead of a boring, run-off-the-mill delivery what you get is perhaps the most intense engineering presentation you’ve ever seen. All of this done to the music of Gurren Lagann, using GL visuals and even paraphrasing the show. Sometimes anime works its way into everyday life, under the radar, and it works marvelously! It even begins with a little red robot.
I can barely listen to what he’s talking about but I’m still really excited, arent you?!
Akihabara has a new maid-style cafe but this time the maids are replaced by railroad attendees, weird? Not so much! Japan’s train otaku (who call themselves tetsu) are a really well established subgroup of the otaku kingdom. In this cafe, called Little TGV, you have to purchase a ticket to get in and as expected, everything form the decor to the drinks has a train twist to it. They even replace the usual background music with the sound of train wagons rolling along the tracks!
I’m actually surprised it took them so long to open up one of these cafes, perhaps they thought the guests wouldn’t arrive in time! Oh that was an awful joke, sorry its not easy to joke about something as boring as trains!
[Little TGV / Via Tokyomango]
By: Ivan 'Nahu' Lozano - On Monday 10 March 2008 @ 11:17 pm
Pop Japan Travel, the travel agency for otaku by excellence, has announced a Mind Over Manga tour to Japan where besides visiting all the cool little places in Tokyo including an anime studio, aspiring artists get to publish and sell their doujinshi at Comitia, a big convention when it comes to selling doujins.
If qualified (meaning probably that your material doesn’t suck), Pop Japan Travel will translate your doujin, print it, and help you sell it at Comitia, letting you interact with any fans and prospective buyers. Pretty much as close as a foreigner will get to feeling like a mangaka. That is unless you are Fred Gallagher and you have a huge army of fanatics telling you you are.
The price tag on living the dream comes at $2,198 but that’s without printing costs, the dream might have to wait just a little longer for most starving artists.
Remember when we introduced you to Norton Fighter, the masked superhero that protected Japanese Citizens from dangerous computer viruses? We’ll he’s still going strong and so his battles with the forces of cyber evil keep being documented! Here’s episode one of the Norton Fighter series with English subs, maids in distress included.
Don’t you feel a lot safer now? I feel a lot safer now! Time to run a full scan though! Japanese marketing be blessed.
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