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I’m sure many of you folks are as excited about patronising the Moe Moe Kyun Meido Café at the upcoming Anime Festival Asia 2009. But just before you decide to try anything funny, they have announced some of the house rules so that you can have a “sa...

Nozomi Ohashi is the talented young Japanese girl that sang the popular theme song for Hayao Miyazaki’s animated film “Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea”. In this kawaii commercial by Calbee, we heard her singing in the background while animated potato c...

はちま起稿 highlight this interesting article whereby some blogger mentioned that Microsoft had been clamping down on illegally modified Xbox 360 and more than 600,000 Xbox Live accounts have been banned. Here’s the dubious conversation which was re...

Comrade Kodomut spotted these cool Japanese barcodes and shared it on his twitter. Apparently these barcodes are created by a Japanese firm d-barcode, which specialises in creating unique barcodes. Here’s more interseting barcodes, and I wonder if t...

Two weeks back, Amiami Goes Began Its English Portal for international hobby fans. It seems like now the online figure store had received feedback from its new customers and realised that EMS shipping might be too expensive for some of us. Therefore,...

Fan of cult anime movie Akira would be delight to know that Kaneda and his coolsome bike are being released as part of Project BM! series. Kaneda Shotaro and his bike will be released seperately in March 2010. Kaneda will retail for around 17,800 y...

Mika-tan has uploaded a couple of preview photos of the kawaii pair of Nendoroid Plus Rin & Len Plush. The kawaii duo will be up for preorder soon on the Gift online store, together with the 2nd batch of Nendoroid Plus Kaito Plush. Source: GSC Blog...

Do you often fall asleep while watching TV late at night? Then you might want to check out this new Bravia TV from Sony which has some cool sensor that detects you are asleep and will power itself down. Not sure if this technology has been around al...

Last week I asked whether you folks “watch anime while travelling?”, and it seems like a couple of you enjoy watching anime on your PSP. I previously used to watch anime on my iPod Touch as well, but I found that converting the anime to a compatible...

Fans of Kamen Rider Black and Black RX would be familiar with their cool rides – Battle Hopper and Acrobatter. Bandai is now releasing the two bikes as part of their SH Figuarts series, and they are already up for preorder exclusively from their Tama...

necromancer7 always believed the dragons existed, so he resurrected them using lego bricks and created this stunningly cool bone dragon below: Source: necromancer7’s Flickr via Gizmodo Promote This Article Related PostsLego...

Here’s a stunning photo of a torii [鳥居] gate which is located on the top of Mount Fuji. I really like the composition and how there is a slight ray of light shinning on the top of the gate. The photo was taken by Kevin Menchavez and posted on Toky...

Yesterday, comrade Kodomut and myself went out for Chapter 07 of Nendo’s Travelogue. Unfortunately, due to my unreliable sources, there were only one or two kite fliers in sight, and thus we were unable to complete our photoshoot. So I thought it wou...

Back in July, I shared with you folks on the news that Marvel was collaborating with Madhouse to jointly reproduce an anime series of Iron Man and Wolverine. Now we have news confirmation the series are scheduled to air in Japan in the middle of 2010...

Here’s a television commercial for Nintendo Wii, where teen actress Umika Kawashima gets battle ready to play some Monster Hunter 3. She looks so cute in that outfit, while carrying that immensely huge club ^^ Promote This Article...

Didn’t managed to find any nice new gravure collections for the past couple of weeks, so I have been digging into my archive for the weekly features. This week is the gorgeous Aya Kiguchi whom I think has one of the brightest smiles in the industry....

Here’s a series of three Japanese commercial on the latest Canon EOS 7D. I especially loved the last one where famous photographer Bishin Jumonji used the camera to film one of the festivals: But still, I’m happy with my new 5D MK II ^^ Promote...

Want something to decorate your living room which is geeky and cool at the same time? Here’s an interesting and cool looking PS3 coffee table which was conceptualised by French designer Stephane Perruchon. Source: Créations designer Stephane .P via...

I’m sure there are many folks like me who tries to make the best out of their travelling time by watching anime on public transport. Apart from downloading anime and loading them onto your portable media devices, how else is it possible to watch anim...

I’ve been praying for good weather the past week because this evening Comrade kodomut and I will be heading to Punggol to capture some lovely kite-flying action for Chapter 7 of Nendos’ Travelogue. The two lucky Nendoroids joining me for the day will...

Megahouse has announced preorder for this figure of Azusa Miura from THE iDOLM@STER, and she is looking really hot ^^ She is scheduled for release in late February 2010 and will be retailing for around 7,800 yen. Interested folks can place your preo...

Bayonetta was released this week in Japan and it shot all the way to the top of the Japanese game charts, with a combine PS3 and Xbox360 sales of nearly 200,000 copies. The PS3 version of Bayonetta sold 135,000, while the Xbox 360 version sold less...

Even before the company Google had existed, Cookie Monster of Sesame Street sang a funny song 27 years ago, which is the year before I was even born! And in case you didn’t know, Sesame Street is celebrating its 40th anniversary ^^ Source: Official...

Here’s a commercial by Mazda featuring the ever-cool Ichiro Mizuki, and at the end of the CM, he tells viewers to “Maz-Dash” to the nearest store. I especially liked how Ichiro-san’s scarf is floating in the air, makes him look like some epic hero. L...