Matteas's Feed Releases for March 2010
2010 March
Nendoroid Puchi Nanoha Set Preview part 1
Mikatan has showed us 10 figures of the upcoming Nendoroid Puchi Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Nanoha set. The whole set will include 11 different figures. 5 have been presented in detail today. Other 5 will be individually presented tomorrow.First is Nanoha...
Umineko EP6 ED Song - Birth of a new witch [eng trans]
I haven't done any translation for a while and found out there is no translation of this very intriguing song. I gave it a shot but there are parts where I wasn't sure who is the subject and who is the object as there are no pronouns and vague contex...
Nendoroid Takamachi Nanoha photo shoot
It's been a while I got my Nanoha nendo but I hadn't got round to taking photos until earlier this week. I took the indoor photos on Wednesday, and on Friday I and Nanoha ventured into the wilderness outside.Unfortunately, the paint job is worse than...
DFC Saturday #7
Hatsune Miku by dassyokuThe blueish grey clouds are gathering in the sky, obscuring the sun and casting a gloomy atmosphere upon the terrestrial beings. That's the picture of what it looks like here and now. If the situation is similar in your city,...
Top 10 Best Known Seiyuu in Japan
A survey inquiring into people's awareness of seiyuu has been conducted in Japan. Obviously, the sample of respondents, 23,338 individuals, consisted of general population so the results show who the most popular seiyuu in Japan are. To my delight, t...
Moe Sofa
Furniture manufacturing company Takaraya Kagu, based in Nagoya, have created a sofa targeted at otaku. The design is very simple, a white cover with purple armrests. What makes it different from any other sofa is that there's an moe character printed...
MoeHaku 2010 Itasha Meeting
About 300 various vehicles were on display at the recent MoeHaku 2010 event. Besides the "regular" itasha (cars), also itatansha (motorbikes), itachari (bicycles), and apparently one itabus (bus) could be seen at the site. Here's a digest of the mast...
Nendoroid BLACK★ROCK SHOOTER Preview
Mikatan has posted some photos of the forthcoming Black Rock Shooter Nendoroid. BRS Nendo maintains the current standard of having three faces. However, the total amount of extra parts seems to be a bit bigger than in other Nendoroid releases and the...
New Shinkansen about to be named Hatsune
The new E5 series Shinkansen train is to commence operation on Touhoku line in Spring 2011. East Japan Railway Company is now having a poll on what nickname to give to the new train type. Due to its coloring, which, supposedly coincidentally, coincid...
DFC Saturday #6
Feeling much better than I did this time last week so today's installment is with respective artists links, as usual. I hope you enjoy today's batch.Konpaku Youmu by takesinobuIlyasviel by ShingoFate Testarossa by Mikazuki AkiraPicture by zundareponI...
Megurine Luka - Ignition
It's been a while since I posted a Vocaloid video the last time, so I've been thinking recently that it's about time to post one. Today, I've come across a very nice Luka's song on NND, called Ignition. It's a romantic ballad, and I find it a tad bit...
Saki Tacos Ramen
On the occasion of releasing the 9th DVD of TV anime series Saki, a special Tacos Ramen was being sold. There is going to be a second round of Tacos Ramen sale on March 22. The stall opens at 11 o'clock outside Akihabara Station. One bowl of Tacos Ra...
Mangaka petition against proposed 2D U18 regulations
This would be no longer legal.Many famous manga creators have signed the petition against proposed law that would ban any slightly erotic depiction of 2D characters who would be or appear to be younger than 18 years old. A group of mangaka went to th...
Angel Beats! Promo Video 8
Another promotional video of the upcoming anime Angel Beats!, written by Maeda Jun (Clannad, Air), animated by P.A.Works (Canaan, True Tears), has been streamed on the official site. Clocking to 2:36, it shows some scenes from the anime and a bit of...
DFC Saturday #5
Saturday today. I'm not feeling very well, so the pics come without any talking. Yes, I'm feeling that bad, so...
Nendoroid Remilia Scarlet Announcement
Mikatan has updated her blog with a bit of a preview, or rather an announcement of a new Nendoroid. It's Remilia Scarlet who will join the party of Touhou Series Nendoroids. Only one picture of an unpainted prototype has been revealed and we'll most...
Clalaclan 1/8 Alter Figure
It's been a long time since the first preview pics of Clalaclan Philias from Shining Wind appeared and now this figure has gone up for preorders. Alter has done a meticulous job on this figure, every part looks dazzling. Particularly the skirt is ama...
ISML 2010 knows its Regular Season contestants
The merciless, fierce battle called International Saimoe League reached the end of the Preliminary Period and the rest of the Regular Season participants have been decided. The list of all 50 Regular Season contestants is as follows.Aisaka Taiga (Tor...
Mayoi Neko Café
The upcoming anime Mayoi Neko Overrun!, which is scheduled to start broadcasting on April 6 on Tokyo MX, will involve running a confectionery store. One character runs it, and having seen "a few" anime before and using common sense, I suppose the mys...
4th Annual Seiyuu Awards Results
The winners of the 4th Annual Seiyuu awards have been revealed. The results for individual categories are as follows.Best Lead Male Seiyuu: Ono Daisuke (Sebastian, Ushiromiya Battler, Munto)Best Lead Female Seiyuu: Sawashiro Miyuki (Canaan, Sekiutsu...
DFC Saturday #4
Shana by noiIt's a snowy Saturday afternoon here and it's chilling outside. Very uncommon thing as there's no snow left in my city in March, usually. However, this winter is very cold and particularly long. You have to use supporting means to endure...
Hinamatsuri Gallery
Yesterday, in Japan, it was Hinamatsuri festival, sometimes called Girls' Day. The most distinctive visual feature of this festival is so called "hina-dan" with "hina-ningyou", meaning a platform and dolls. The whole display consists of several platf...
February 2010 Stats
Many bloggers do it so I though I might do it as well. I talk about the monthly statistics of site. It can also serve as a look-back on the passed month.February saw making a new record of site activity, despite being the shortest month. There was ab...
FMA:B Episode 46 to rebroadcast without tsunami alert
February 28 broadcast episode of Fullmetal Alchemist was embellished, to countless people's rage, with a map of Japan and warnings about the coming tsunami waves, caused by the recent earthquake in Chile. The voices of furious fans who demanded a re-...
Luka, Mio, and Orange Terror
Yesterday, I had a brainwave as I said to myself that Luka's outfit would really suit Mio, and vice versa. So I tried it out. And yes, the results are more than satisfying, at least for me. We have a lot of oranges at home atm, so I decided to use th...



