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Ayumi Hamasaki, Kyoko Fukada - White Christmas
Two of the most famous Jpop idols sing a very special rendition of a Christmas classic. So catchy I still cant get it out of my head!
Two of the most famous Jpop idols sing a very special rendition of a Christmas classic. So catchy I still cant get it out of my head!
Morning Musume Rudolph the rednose reindeer
To be the top otaku Christmas music video you have to excel above the rest and provide something unique. The Morning Musume girls give us just the thing: weird cosplay. Watch as this troupe of cute girls sing in even cuter reindeer costumes.
To be the top otaku Christmas music video you have to excel above the rest and provide something unique. The Morning Musume girls give us just the thing: weird cosplay. Watch as this troupe of cute girls sing in even cuter reindeer costumes.
Mari - diary: guy's disillusionary attitude
Mari - diary: guy's disillusionary attitude
This is a result of questionnairing conducted by Ranking Japan, "The ranking of guy's disillusionary attitude for women." I wonder if you will agree or you think some are unique Japanese feelings?
No1. He acts arrogant at the restaurant or shop : 1017
No2. He asks to split the bill, it's 10yen : 985
No3. He panics when he finds a cockroach or other bugs : 871
No4. After eating, he cleans his teeth by toothpick without hesitating : 852
No5. There are too many figures on his office desk : 767
No6. Printed T-shirts can be seen through his shirt : 633
No7. He is poor at parking a car : 620
No8. He looks good in a business suit but his ordinary clothes are so so : 602 No9. He really gets into cell phone games on the train : 528
No10. He wipes his face with the "OSHIBORI" (hand towel) at a restaurant : 463
No11. He is not good at wiring, he is not good with the PC : 453
No12. His wallet is big because of receipts and useless cards : 431
No13. He checks and gives his hair a trim in the subway window : 400
No14. He wear a nice business suit but his socks are white and cotton : 336
No15. He uses pictographic characters on his cell phone mail :304
No16. His hand writing is so bad so that we can't read it at the office : 295
No17. His typing is too fast and too loud : 210
No18. He collects point cards or coupons a lot : 157
No19. He likes to drink sweet cocktails like Kahlua milk: 152
No3 is okay for me if he doesn't cry :-) I agree with No7; I need a guy who has good motor coordination. Parking should be a very instinctive reaction, like animal behavior. No10 is very Japanese ("OSHIBORI" is a wet hand towel offered to customers in places such as restaurants or bars in Japan). I understand No.16 too. I don't care about his writing in private, but when he writes something on paper or a white board at the office, I want him to care about others reading without problems; it's a courtesy. From that stand point, I understand No17 too. He may not mean anything bad, but his loud typing has to be taken as exhibitionism.
There is woman's disillusionary attitude also. But it's not so interesting.
No1. She smokes and let it out through her nose :686
No2. Her scent of her perfume is too strong : 549
No3. She applies make-up in a train : 546
No4. She sleeps on a train with her mouth open : 421 .....
Mm there are no impressive answers there. I won't complain because maybe guys don't care about small things and don't dislike women for unreasonable reasons :-P
This is a result of questionnairing conducted by Ranking Japan, "The ranking of guy's disillusionary attitude for women." I wonder if you will agree or you think some are unique Japanese feelings?
No1. He acts arrogant at the restaurant or shop : 1017
No2. He asks to split the bill, it's 10yen : 985
No3. He panics when he finds a cockroach or other bugs : 871
No4. After eating, he cleans his teeth by toothpick without hesitating : 852
No5. There are too many figures on his office desk : 767
No6. Printed T-shirts can be seen through his shirt : 633
No7. He is poor at parking a car : 620
No8. He looks good in a business suit but his ordinary clothes are so so : 602 No9. He really gets into cell phone games on the train : 528
No10. He wipes his face with the "OSHIBORI" (hand towel) at a restaurant : 463
No11. He is not good at wiring, he is not good with the PC : 453
No12. His wallet is big because of receipts and useless cards : 431
No13. He checks and gives his hair a trim in the subway window : 400
No14. He wear a nice business suit but his socks are white and cotton : 336
No15. He uses pictographic characters on his cell phone mail :304
No16. His hand writing is so bad so that we can't read it at the office : 295
No17. His typing is too fast and too loud : 210
No18. He collects point cards or coupons a lot : 157
No19. He likes to drink sweet cocktails like Kahlua milk: 152
No3 is okay for me if he doesn't cry :-) I agree with No7; I need a guy who has good motor coordination. Parking should be a very instinctive reaction, like animal behavior. No10 is very Japanese ("OSHIBORI" is a wet hand towel offered to customers in places such as restaurants or bars in Japan). I understand No.16 too. I don't care about his writing in private, but when he writes something on paper or a white board at the office, I want him to care about others reading without problems; it's a courtesy. From that stand point, I understand No17 too. He may not mean anything bad, but his loud typing has to be taken as exhibitionism.
There is woman's disillusionary attitude also. But it's not so interesting.
No1. She smokes and let it out through her nose :686
No2. Her scent of her perfume is too strong : 549
No3. She applies make-up in a train : 546
No4. She sleeps on a train with her mouth open : 421 .....
Mm there are no impressive answers there. I won't complain because maybe guys don't care about small things and don't dislike women for unreasonable reasons :-P
Voices For Peace
For more information, contact:
Jan Scott-Frazier
Producer, President -- Voices For
820 S. Monaco Pkwy. #295
Denver CO 80224-3703
Phone: (720) 273-6220
info@voicesfor.org
VOICE ACTING STARS LEND THEIR TALENTS FOR PEACE AND CHARITY
WASHINGTON D.C. - March 30, 2006 --- Voices For, a new non-profit organization, announces the upcoming release of Voices for Peace, an album of war protest songs both modern and classic. A profits from the album will be donated to CARE and Doctors Without Borders. The album will be released on May 1, 2006 and there will be a special preview at Shiokazecon in Houston, TX April 28 – 30.
Tracks include covers of War Pigs, War Again, Eve of Destruction, Masters of War, One Tin Soldier, Gun Shy, For What It’s Worth, War, Rooster, Where Have All the Flowers Gone, Blowin’ in the Wind, Fortunate Son and U2’s Sunday Bloody Sunday.
Vocals for Voices for Peace are performed by Greg Ayres (Saiyuki, Neon Genesis Evangelion), Chris Ayres (Gantz, Full Metal Panic: FUMMOFU), Chris Patton (Full Metal Panic, Fullmetal Alchemist), Brittney Karbowski (Gilgamesh, Yumeria), Mike McFarland (Full Metal Alchemist, Dragonball Z, Lupin III), Tiffany Grant (Evangelion, Chrono Crusade), Kira Vincent-Davis (Azumanga Daioh, Digi Charat), Amanda Winn Lee (Gunsmith Cats, Evangelion), Jamie McGonnigal (Weiss Kreuz, Shadow Hearts:From the New World [PS2]), and Voices For Founder and former anime director/producer/artist, Jan Scott-Frazier.
The music was performed by Dale Tippett, Jon Sugerman, Rich “#4” Aszling, Justin Smith and Jan Scott-Frazier with additional tracks, War Pigs and Fortunate Son, performed by Chicago gothic metal band Something Beautiful. Rooster and Gun Shy were performed by Mike McFarland, Evan Jones and Jerry Jewell.
Graphic artists contributing to this debut album include, Doug Smith (ADV, Studio Ironcat), Robert DeJesus (Playstation Magazine, Marvel, Harper Collins), Steve Bennett (Studio Aoyama, Studio Ironcat), Rikki Simons (Gir in Invader Zim, comics Ranklechick and his Three-Legged Cat, Super Information Hijinks: Reality Check!), Tavisha Simons (comics Ranklechick and his Three-Legged Cat, Super Information Hijinks: Reality Check! and ShutterBox), and Kevin Bolk (Interrobang Studios).
Voices For, a 501(c)3 non-profit organization, is a collaborative effort founded by Jan Scott-Frazier in the hopes of bringing attention and support to vital and socially-responsible organizations around the globe. Through organizing the efforts of artists, performers and other members of the anime industry, Voices For will serve the needs of local as well as international efforts towards peace, health, tolerance and recovery.
For further information contact Jan Scott-Frazier at 720-273-6220 or info@voicesfor.org or visit the website at www.voicesfor.org.
Jan Scott-Frazier
Producer, President -- Voices For
820 S. Monaco Pkwy. #295
Denver CO 80224-3703
Phone: (720) 273-6220
info@voicesfor.org
VOICE ACTING STARS LEND THEIR TALENTS FOR PEACE AND CHARITY
WASHINGTON D.C. - March 30, 2006 --- Voices For, a new non-profit organization, announces the upcoming release of Voices for Peace, an album of war protest songs both modern and classic. A profits from the album will be donated to CARE and Doctors Without Borders. The album will be released on May 1, 2006 and there will be a special preview at Shiokazecon in Houston, TX April 28 – 30.
Tracks include covers of War Pigs, War Again, Eve of Destruction, Masters of War, One Tin Soldier, Gun Shy, For What It’s Worth, War, Rooster, Where Have All the Flowers Gone, Blowin’ in the Wind, Fortunate Son and U2’s Sunday Bloody Sunday.
Vocals for Voices for Peace are performed by Greg Ayres (Saiyuki, Neon Genesis Evangelion), Chris Ayres (Gantz, Full Metal Panic: FUMMOFU), Chris Patton (Full Metal Panic, Fullmetal Alchemist), Brittney Karbowski (Gilgamesh, Yumeria), Mike McFarland (Full Metal Alchemist, Dragonball Z, Lupin III), Tiffany Grant (Evangelion, Chrono Crusade), Kira Vincent-Davis (Azumanga Daioh, Digi Charat), Amanda Winn Lee (Gunsmith Cats, Evangelion), Jamie McGonnigal (Weiss Kreuz, Shadow Hearts:From the New World [PS2]), and Voices For Founder and former anime director/producer/artist, Jan Scott-Frazier.
The music was performed by Dale Tippett, Jon Sugerman, Rich “#4” Aszling, Justin Smith and Jan Scott-Frazier with additional tracks, War Pigs and Fortunate Son, performed by Chicago gothic metal band Something Beautiful. Rooster and Gun Shy were performed by Mike McFarland, Evan Jones and Jerry Jewell.
Graphic artists contributing to this debut album include, Doug Smith (ADV, Studio Ironcat), Robert DeJesus (Playstation Magazine, Marvel, Harper Collins), Steve Bennett (Studio Aoyama, Studio Ironcat), Rikki Simons (Gir in Invader Zim, comics Ranklechick and his Three-Legged Cat, Super Information Hijinks: Reality Check!), Tavisha Simons (comics Ranklechick and his Three-Legged Cat, Super Information Hijinks: Reality Check! and ShutterBox), and Kevin Bolk (Interrobang Studios).
Voices For, a 501(c)3 non-profit organization, is a collaborative effort founded by Jan Scott-Frazier in the hopes of bringing attention and support to vital and socially-responsible organizations around the globe. Through organizing the efforts of artists, performers and other members of the anime industry, Voices For will serve the needs of local as well as international efforts towards peace, health, tolerance and recovery.
For further information contact Jan Scott-Frazier at 720-273-6220 or info@voicesfor.org or visit the website at www.voicesfor.org.
Call for Submissions: PGzine AWA 2006
Go to http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PsychommuSlamFest/ for more info about how to contribute.
Mainichi Daily News: WaiWai - Problems with your private parts? Wake up and smell the petals!
Women can solve their hormonal problems and come out smelling like roses just by sniffing, well, roses, according to Josei Jishin (3/14).
Cosplay-a-thon
Cosplayers and Anime Fans Wanted for Cosplay-a-thon in Irving, Tx
anounced on 2006-03-01 00:29COSPLAYERS AND ANIME FANS WANTED FOR COSPLAY-A-THON GO! IN IRVING,
TEXAS
DENTON, TX - February 28, 2006 – The organizers of “Cosplay-A-Thon
Go!”, a unique night of anime, pizza, cosplaying and socializing, are
seeking additional cosplay and anime fans from the Texas area to attend
this event.
Set for the evening of Friday, March 24 at the renowned Crystal’s
Pizza Restaurant in Irving, “Cosplay-A-Thon Go!” is open to cosplayers and
non-cosplayers alike. The event kicks off at 10:00 PM and continues
until 6:00 AM the next day. The $15.00 charge includes game tokens, a
pizza buffet for the first two hours, and free fountain drinks for the
remainder of the event.
Mu Epsilon Kappa, the official Anime club of the University of North
Texas, along with the Dallas-Fort Worth Cosplay Society and the Sweet
Tea Gothic Lolitas, will host various video and cosplay events throughout
the night in the multi-level restaurant, and SkyPirate will be taking
cosplay photographs that will be posted on the Internet.
“Cosplay-A-Thon Go!” is limited to a maximum of 100 attendees, with a
50-person minimum. As of February 28th, the minimum attendance number
has not been reached. The event risks cancellation if there are not
enough signups by March 17.
“’Cosplay-A-Thon’ will have something for everyone,” said Britt Myer,
president of Mu Epsilon Kappa. “Our goal is to provide a night of
excitement for anime and gamer fans alike. It will be like a mini-con, but
you won’t have to worry about spending hundreds of dollars for the hotel
or the dealer’s room!”
The $15.00 registration fee can be paid via PayPal or by check. For
more information, visit the official website of “Cosplay-A-Thon Go!” at
http://www.skypirate.net/cosplayathon/index.php.
ABOUT SKYPIRATE: With many years of professional photography under his
belt, SkyPirate (http://www.skypirate.net/) has become one of the top
cosplay photographers in Texas. He makes no profit from his work.
Mainichi Daily News: WaiWai - Japan's former Pink Princess trades raunchy scenes for rural canteen
Where the West has blue movies, Japan goes pink.
Mainichi Daily News: WaiWai - Hell's bells ring in justice for pervert pastor
All the prayers in the world were not going to help the religious pastor who called himself Paolo Nagata when the Kyoto District Court handed down its verdict against him, according to Shukan Gendai (3/11).
Mainichi Daily News: WaiWai - After K-1 KO, Makebono bounces back from the dead
The bigger they come, the harder they fall. And they don't come much bigger than former Yokozuna Akebono.
Mainichi Daily News: WaiWai - Pedophilic promo has manga maniacs panting for pre-schooler panties
It's gross, filthy and disgusting, but Japanese erotic manga fans can't get enough of a comic that comes with a pair of pre-school girl's panties as a promotional item, according to Cyzo (March).
Mainichi Daily News: WaiWai - Tabloid targets skating on thin ice
Snaring a large chunk of the inches available in Japan's wild weeklies during the week from Feb.
Mainichi Daily News: WaiWai - Japan's handicapped facilities -- ready, willing but disabled
Fully working elevators only open certain hours, ramps too steep to scale, escalators that only go in one direction -- these are just some of the barriers that "barrier-free" ideas aimed at making life easier for the disabled actually present to them across Japan, according to Spa! (2/28).
Mainichi Daily News: WaiWai - The day Japan's red lights flickered out
Stories reminiscing events of the "Showa 30s" (from 1955 to 1964) are taken up in Shincho 45 (March).
Mainichi Daily News: WaiWai - Japan's handicapped facilities -- ready, willing and disabled
Fully working elevators only open certain hours, ramps too steep to scale, escalators that only go in one direction -- these are just some of the barriers that "barrier-free" ideas aimed at making life easier for the disabled actually present to them across Japan, according to Spa! (2/28).
Mainichi Daily News: WaiWai - Pachinko-holic support group rolls to the rescue
Though the number of pachinko players continues to increase, the amount of problems associated with the gambling game that was once almost a national pastime still is on the rise and now something is finally being done to combat it, according to Sunday Mainichi (3/5).
Mainichi Daily News: WaiWai - Former celebrity cannibal struggles for next meal
Life appears to have turned the circle for Japan's "celebrity cannibal" Issei Sagawa, who tells Shukan Shincho (2/23) that a quarter of a century after his most infamous meal, now there's something eating him.
Mainichi Daily News: WaiWai - Business-minded transsexuals a cut above your average salaryman
Salarymen have been around for decades. Even salarywomen are not such a strange sight on Japan's streets.
Mainichi Daily News: WaiWai - Former celebrity cannibal struggles for next meal
Life appears to have turned the circle for Japan's "celebrity cannibal" Issei Sagawa, who tells Shukan Shincho (2/23) there's something eating him.
Mainichi Daily News: WaiWai - Gals lick up ultra super-sized cream cones
It's thick, creamy, comes in eight different flavors including Calpis and stands erect at a whopping 46.5 centimeters -- over 21 inches in the old parlance - and, according to the Pleasure Support Squad formed by Josei Jishin (2/21), Japan's gals can't stop licking it.
Mainichi Daily News: WaiWai - Princess' pregnancy subdues the sleaze
Princess Kiko's pregnancy was the big story for Japan's wild weeklies in the week from Feb. 13 to 17.
Mainichi Daily News: WaiWai - Ideal mate remains elusive for many
OMMG is a marriage matchmaking service that current boasts some 5,500 members nationwide, who have signed up in the hope of finding a spouse.
Mainichi Daily News: WaiWai - Gundam robot craze still a powerful force in modern-world galaxy
Little boys across Japan -- like children all over the world -- love their toy robots, especially if they came from the Mobile Suit Gundam series. One difference, judging by Yomiuri Weekly (2/26) is that Japan's little boys are actually fully grown men in their 30s.
Gundam, the name given to a series of giant robots made out to be realistic war machines, has been a part of the Japanese hobby landscape for over a quarter of a century, but now is also a powerful player in the country's business world, especially through ganpura, the plastic models of robots that appear in the series.
Mobile Suit Gundam first appeared in April 1979, when it was shown in an anime TV series that spanned 43 episodes screened across almost a year.
Ganpura popped up in July 1980 -- after the TV series had finished -- and was soon attracting huge lines of elementary and junior high school pupils looking to buy the models. By 1981, 25 million ganpura sets had been sold.
Now, 26 years since the first ganpura sales, periodical re-runs have kept Mobile Suit Gundam as a powerful force not only in the galaxy, but also in the consumer goods sector, with ganpura alone boasting of more than 1,000 different types of products, the weekly says.
With ganpura prices ranging from 3,000 to 30,000 yen, simple calculation means a single sale of each gunpura product alone and you're looking at 370 million yen. A new factory making only ganpura is set to open in February.
Yoshihiro Karino, marketing manager at Bandai Co., which makes the Mobile Suit Gundam models, has few doubts about why ganpura is so popular.
"We listen to what people making the models have to say," Karino tells Yomiuri Weekly. "(Our success) is the result of continuous, detailed improvements made on a daily basis."
Karino continues: "Over 26 years, we've taken into account ideas made by people who actually make ganpura and put them into practice to create a healthy cycle."
Despite the Gundam adoration across Japan, few fans can boast of having actually seen it when the show first aired in 1979 as ratings were hardly worth talking about. The Gundam phenomenon really only exploded with the ganpura, the weekly says.
Now, though, Gundam is influencing society in many ways. Late last year, Gundam was the subject of an art exhibition held in Tokyo's Mori Museum of Art. And the Gundam touch is being felt in even more ways.
Takayuki Furuta, creator of the humanoid robot morph3 has gathered together under his wing at Chiba University's Future Robotics Technology Center a group of researchers interested in robotics, a vast majority of who joined in the study because they envisage making their own, fully operable Gundam.
"There are lots of guys here for who Gundam is synonymous with robots," Masaharu Sakigawara, head of the center, tells the Yomiuri Weekly. "They imagine crafting something like Gundam and carry on their research into such things as artificial intelligence or walking functions."
Gundam, the name given to a series of giant robots made out to be realistic war machines, has been a part of the Japanese hobby landscape for over a quarter of a century, but now is also a powerful player in the country's business world, especially through ganpura, the plastic models of robots that appear in the series.
Mobile Suit Gundam first appeared in April 1979, when it was shown in an anime TV series that spanned 43 episodes screened across almost a year.
Ganpura popped up in July 1980 -- after the TV series had finished -- and was soon attracting huge lines of elementary and junior high school pupils looking to buy the models. By 1981, 25 million ganpura sets had been sold.
Now, 26 years since the first ganpura sales, periodical re-runs have kept Mobile Suit Gundam as a powerful force not only in the galaxy, but also in the consumer goods sector, with ganpura alone boasting of more than 1,000 different types of products, the weekly says.
With ganpura prices ranging from 3,000 to 30,000 yen, simple calculation means a single sale of each gunpura product alone and you're looking at 370 million yen. A new factory making only ganpura is set to open in February.
Yoshihiro Karino, marketing manager at Bandai Co., which makes the Mobile Suit Gundam models, has few doubts about why ganpura is so popular.
"We listen to what people making the models have to say," Karino tells Yomiuri Weekly. "(Our success) is the result of continuous, detailed improvements made on a daily basis."
Karino continues: "Over 26 years, we've taken into account ideas made by people who actually make ganpura and put them into practice to create a healthy cycle."
Despite the Gundam adoration across Japan, few fans can boast of having actually seen it when the show first aired in 1979 as ratings were hardly worth talking about. The Gundam phenomenon really only exploded with the ganpura, the weekly says.
Now, though, Gundam is influencing society in many ways. Late last year, Gundam was the subject of an art exhibition held in Tokyo's Mori Museum of Art. And the Gundam touch is being felt in even more ways.
Takayuki Furuta, creator of the humanoid robot morph3 has gathered together under his wing at Chiba University's Future Robotics Technology Center a group of researchers interested in robotics, a vast majority of who joined in the study because they envisage making their own, fully operable Gundam.
"There are lots of guys here for who Gundam is synonymous with robots," Masaharu Sakigawara, head of the center, tells the Yomiuri Weekly. "They imagine crafting something like Gundam and carry on their research into such things as artificial intelligence or walking functions."
Mainichi Daily News: WaiWai - Brutal 'martial art' babes pummel porno pipsqueaks
After decades of being ruthlessly exploited as sex objects for the pornography industry, Japanese women are getting some of their own back, says Spa! (2/21).
Mainichi Daily News: WaiWai - Saitama's Sharapova at forefront of housewives' flash the flesh fad
"Myself and a group of four housewives went off on a trip together to a hot spring resort.
Mainichi Daily News: WaiWai - More men convinced marriage leads to life of misery
Marriage means misery, according to Spa! (2/14), which claims it has the stats to back up its contentious claim.
Mainichi Daily News: WaiWai - Distribution of female condoms set to smash Olympic record
Organizers of the Turin Winter Olympic Games have unsheathed free female condoms as their latest weapon in the battle to prevent athletes coming down with unwanted doses of the nasties, according to Shukan Jitsuwa (2/23).
Mainichi Daily News: WaiWai - Weeklies take the mickey out of Miki
Turin's Winter Olympics featured prominently among Japan's wild weeklies issued from Feb.
Mainichi Daily News: WaiWai - Tantric restaurant does wonders for flagging sexual appetites
Go to a residential area in the west Tokyo suburb of Machida, reports Asahi Geino (2/9) and you can visit "La Parfait," a unique restaurant for helping people get in touch with their "sexual sensitivities."
Mainichi Daily News: WaiWai - Japan's got the best bums under the sun
Graduates of prestigious Tokyo university conducting open-air art evaluation meetings; former yakuza extorting bike-riding grannies; a handyman with every high-tech electronic device imaginable; women marrying guys nearly half their age; teenage girls selling their bodies before they can be stolen from them.
Mainichi Daily News: WaiWai - Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, an alien with a schoolgirl slipper fetish
A most otherworldly perpetrator is being blamed for the bizarre theft of 77 right slippers from a suburban Tokyo girls' high school, according to Weekly Playboy (2/21).
Mainichi Daily News: WaiWai - Tokyo's ugly duckling bops to marching melody in search of a face-lift
The Beautifuls are out to save one of Tokyo's ugliest districts.
Mainichi Daily News: WaiWai - Ex 'office lady' for tainted condo firm shakes, rattles and rolls in penance flick
A young woman has taken it upon herself to atone for her links to a scandal rocking the country over the past few months, according to Shukan Gendai (2/18).
Mainichi Daily News: WaiWai - Desperate housewife goes up for auction, highest bidder goes down
"Welcome to today auction, everyone. Now here's a fine specimen. Name's Yukari. She's 27 years old, married and in good health.
Mainichi Daily News: WaiWai - This week's weeklies go backdoor over Livedoor
Takafumi Horie, the podgy, sacked CEO of Livedoor, who is now struggling with inspections through his back door, dominated headlines yet again in Japan's gossip rags issued from Jan.
Mainichi Daily News: WaiWai - Ten years on, AIDS time bomb still ticking
About 10 years ago, three female masseuses employed at an old, established 'soapland' (bathhouse-cum-brothel) --- no one's saying exactly where --- simultaneously tested positive for HIV.
Mainichi Daily News: WaiWai - Kids' superhero getting bum rap over gay porn film
One of the star's of TV Tokyo's children's superhero program "Cho Seikantai Sazer X (Starship Command Sazer X)" is suspected of having appeared in a hardcore gay sex movie, according to Shukan Jitsuwa (2/16).
Anime News Network - Cartoon Network to Air New One Piece Episodes
Cartoon Network to Air New One Piece Episodes
Date: 2/1/2006 12:48 PM
Starting February 11, with One Piece episode 59, "Heading For Disaster," Cartoon Network will air new episodes of One Piece every Saturday night at 9:30 pm. The new episodes have not been announced for 4Kids TV. Source: Iolink
Anime News Network - Anime Song on American Idol
Anime Song on American Idol
Date: 2/1/2006 9:50 PM
Years ago, we received a news submission about someone singing an anime theme song on American Idol. The song in question was Fly Me to the Moon. The person e-mailing us was unaware that Fly Me to the Moon was a popular american song that predated Evangelion by many years. However tonight's American Idol did feature an anime song... Jigglypuff's song from Pokemon. Thanks to Esmeralda for this item.
Anime News Network - Mew Mew Power Broadcast Finished
Mew Mew Power Broadcast Finished
Date: 2/1/2006 10:10 PM
4Kids has announced on its forums that it has broadcast all 26-episodes of Mew Mew Power that it has. According to the post, "[4Kids is] trying to get more, but can't say when or IF this will happen." In total, 52 episodes of Tokyo Mew Mew have been produced and broadcast in Japan. Source: Animenation
Anime News Network - New York Comic-Con Announces Anime Programming
New York Comic-Con Announces Anime Programming
Date: 2/1/2006 12:58 PM
The New York Comic-con has announced details about their anime programming. In addition to panels, dealers and cosplay, there will also be an event, Anime Exodus, held at Manhattan club, The Knitting Factory. Anime Exodus will feature a live performance by Mari Iijima and DJing by Greg Ayres.
Mainichi Daily News: WaiWai - Curtain draws on Self-Defense Force stripper who plugged for peace
Tomomi Sawaguchi made her name for getting into a military uniform, but she really became a star when she got out of it, judging by Shukan Asahi (2/10).
Anime News Network - Oyayubihime Infinity Licensed by CMX
Oyayubihime Infinity Licensed by CMX
Date: 2/1/2006 10:01 PM
CMX Manga has announced that they will release the first volume of Oyayubihime Infinity in June. The series is currently ongoing in Japan, with 4 volumes released to date. Source: Anime on DVD
Anime News Network - Fuji TV News Segment on U.S. Shojo Manga
Fuji TV News Segment on U.S. Shojo Manga
Date: 2/1/2006 12:37 PM
The Fuji TV network's "News Japan" recently contacted VIZ and Seven Seas to do interviews for a segment on the "Shojo Manga Movement in the U.S." VIZ focused on the U.S. market for Japanese shojo, while Seven Seas talked about the OEL aspect of the shojo market. The interview will be aired in Japan on February 2 at 11:30PM on Fuji TV network. It will re-air in the USA on Fuji TV at 6:30 AM on February 3.
Anime News Network - Shinichiro Watanabe at Michigan State University
Shinichiro Watanabe at Michigan State University
Date: 2/1/2006 12:03 PM
Anime News Network - The Anime Network on DirecTV
The Anime Network on DirecTV
Date: 2/1/2006 12:29 PM
The Anime Network has sent out an e-mail announcement stating that TAN will be available on DirecTV Pay per View Channel 117. Samurai X: The Motion Picture and Gantz are among the offerings.
Anime News Network - ImaginAsian TV Launches Home Video Label
Date: 2/1/2006 9:42 AM
ImaginAsian TV Partners with Central Park Media to Launch Home Video Label
Anime News Network - Tokyo Anime Fair New York
Tokyo Anime Fair New York
Date: 2/1/2006 10:14 AM
On February 6, The day preceding their Tokyo Festa in New York, the Tokyo Metropolitan Government will be holding an industry only event, Tokyo International Anime Fair in New York. The event will include a trade show, and presentations from Bandai Visual USA, TOEI, Studio 4C, Sojitz Corporation and Tokyo Anime Center.
Anime News Network - ImaginAsian TV Launches Hove Video Label
Date: 2/1/2006 9:42 AM
ImaginAsian TV Partners with Central Park Media to Launch Home Video Label
Anime News Network - Kurosagi Live Action
Kurosagi Live Action
Date: 2/1/2006 9:12 AM
Sankei Sports reports that the Kurosagi manga, by Takeshi Natsuhara & Kuromaru, is to be adapted into a live-action TV series. Tomohisa Yamashita, from the J-pop group News, will star as the main character. Source: Akadot
Mainichi Daily News: WaiWai - Eco-friendly erotica drives clean-energy cathouses
Japan's knocking shops are going clean, screams Spa! (2/7), which notes the trend toward cleanliness is more about the energy to power them than that expended inside them.
Monkeys For Helping - The Dark Side Of Knitting
Date: 1/31/2006 1:35 PM
Author: noemail@noemail.org (Recon)
Author: noemail@noemail.org (Recon)
Knitting is something sweet old ladies are supposed to do, right? And usually people knit sweaters and mittens, not decapitated heads and dead kids. This gallery has some awesome stuff that just raised knitting a couple of dozen notches in my book..Cute kid on bike: kind of gay. Kid bleeding from falling off that bike: badass.
(Click Pic for more!)
the ODK - QBert Dunny
Date: 1/31/2006 11:24 PM
Author: goemon
Author: goemon
Huck Gee has created a dunny version of DJ QBert. Dunnies autographed by QBert are still available from Thud Rumble. It even comes with its own QFO!
Monkeys For Helping - Picture Of The Day
Date: 1/31/2006 1:46 PM
Author: noemail@noemail.org (Recon)
Author: noemail@noemail.org (Recon)
This is a page from some hip dating magazine from hell knows where. I have a bank robber fetish, so this is totally sexy to me...
Monkeys For Helping - Chewbacca Blog
Date: 1/31/2006 1:41 PM
Author: noemail@noemail.org (Recon)
Author: noemail@noemail.org (Recon)
As I am a jaded internet nerd, rarely do I feel genuine emotion or laugh out loud (even though I use LOL like Paris Hilton uses "That's Hot".) That being said, Chew fucking Bacca has a super awesome new blog you gotta read. It might be the best blog I've ever read. Check it out HERE..
Anime News Network - Top Selling Anime DVD Movies
Date: 1/31/2006 12:59 PM
Spirited Away, Animatrix and Princess Mononoke Top the all time List, While Fullmetal Alchemist Tops the most recent Week
Anime News Network - Manga Entertainment Expired Licenses
Manga Entertainment Expired Licenses
Date: 1/31/2006 10:29 AM
Manga Entertainment has confirmed that the following licenses have expired: Guyver (OAV), Fist of the North Star (TV), Patlabor 1: The Movie, Patlabor 2: The Movie, New Dominion Tank Police, Red Hawk, Dark Myth, Black Magic M-66, Wings of Honneamise and Gunbuster. The two Patlabor movies have already been announced as being released by Bandai Visual USA's Honneamise label. Thanks to Patrick for this item.
Anime News Network - Funimation Seeks Convention Crew
Funimation Seeks Convention Crew
Date: 1/31/2006 1:47 PM
Last weekend, at Ushicon, Funimation announced their new Convention Crew Volunteer program. They want to invite fans who are passionate about anime to be part of our convention staff, learn about the industry, give them free stuff and pay for their convention badge. Details are available here.
Monkeys For Helping - The Dark Side Of Knitting
Date: 1/31/2006 1:35 PM
Author: noemail@noemail.org (Recon)
Author: noemail@noemail.org (Recon)
Knitting is something sweet old ladies are supposed to do, right? And usually people knit sweaters and mittens, not decapitated heads and dead kids. This gallery some awesome stuff that just raised knitting a couple of dozen notches in my book..Cute kid on bike: kind of gay. Kid bleeding from falling off that bike: badass.
(Click Pic for more!)
(Click Pic for more!)
Monkeys For Helping - Japanese Crawling Businessman Robot
Date: 1/31/2006 1:24 PM
Author: noemail@noemail.org (Recon)
Author: noemail@noemail.org (Recon)
Japanese performance artist Momoyo Torimitsu has created a robot that looks like a Japanese business man that crawls on it's stomach. According to Hedonistica, "The robot is a symbol of the Japan's rigid Salaryman culture." What would you do if you saw this thing on the street?
(Click pic to watch video!)
(Click pic to watch video!)
(via Hedonistica)
Anime News Network - Golden Globe for Best Animated Feature
Golden Globe for Best Animated Feature
Date: 1/31/2006 12:07 PM
The Hollywood Foreign Press Association has announced that, starting with he 64th Annual Golden Globe Awards in 2007, a Golden Globe will be given out for "Best Animated Feature Film; provided at least eight animated feature films meet the eligibility requirements. To be eligible for a Golden Globe, films must be released and screened for at least 7 days in Los Angeles during the year prior to the award ceremony.
Anime News Network - Manga Entertainment Expired Licenses
Manga Entertainment Expired Licenses
Date: 1/31/2006 10:29 AM
Manga Entertainment has confirmed that the following licenses have expired: Guyver (OAV), Fist of the North Star (TV), Patlabor 1: The Movie, Patlabor 2: The Movie, New Dominion Tank Police, Red Hawk, Dark Myth, Black Magic M-66, Wings of Honneamise and Gunbuster. The two Patlabor movies have already been announced as being released by Bandai Visual USA's Honneamise label.
Anime News Network - Howl's Moving Castle Nominated for Oscar
Howl's Moving Castle Nominated for Oscar
Date: 1/31/2006 9:08 AM
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has announced the nominees for the 78th annual Academy Awards. For the Academy Award for Animated Feature, the nominees are Howl's Moving Castle, Burton's Corpse Bride and Wallace & Gromit in the Curse of the Were-Rabbit. The Academy Award winners will be announced on Sunday, March 5 in an awards ceremony starting at 5pm Pacific standard time.
Mainichi Daily News: WaiWai - Fallen Horiemon's new digs -- 3 tatami mats with bento and butt service
In a land where even close friends address each other with the honorific "san," it spoke bucket loads that Takafumi Horie was so popular, and many felt such familiarity with him, that he was almost universally known by his nickname of Horiemon.
the ODK - Tokyo Show Window
Date: 1/30/2006 7:37 PM
Author: che
Author: che
Japan Design Net's tokyo show window posts monthly snapshot collections of the incredibly designed storefronts of Tokyo's shopping districts like Ginza, Aoyama, and Harajuku. Link
(via we make money not art)
Anime News Network - Montreal Otakuthon
Montreal Otakuthon
Date: 1/30/2006 1:24 PM
The Otaku Anime of Concordia University will be hosting Otakuthon on June 10 and 11 at Concordia University.
Anime News Network - Bincho-tan Trailer
Bincho-tan Trailer
Date: 1/30/2006 1:06 PM
The official Bincho-tan website now hosts a 1-minute preview trailer (Windows Media, 500kbs). Source: Animenation
Anime News Network - Witch Blade Manga Update
Witch Blade Manga Update
Date: 1/30/2006 1:20 PM
The Witchblade manga will not be published by Kodansha as previously suspected, but will instead appear in Akita Shoten's Champion RED magazine. The first installment will be in the April 2006 issue, on sale March 18. Source: Manga News
Anime News Network - Tokyo Tribe 2 Anime Announced
Tokyo Tribe 2 Anime Announced
Date: 1/30/2006 12:48 PM
Madhouse has announced that it will produce a 13-episode TV series adapted from Santa Inoue's Tokyo Tribes manga. The Tokyo Tribe 2 TV series is expected to debut this fall. Source: Animenation
Anime News Network - ADV UFO Ultramaiden Valkyrie License Clarification
ADV UFO Ultramaiden Valkyrie License Clarification
Date: 1/30/2006 2:53 PM
Following mixed-signals about which series ADV licensed, we contacted them to clarify. ADV's license for the UFO Princess Valkyrie: SPECIAL OAV, a 2-episode OAV that includes 1 recap episode of the first season, narated by Sanada-san (Rie Tanaka) and a second original episode called "Shichiten Battou Hanayome Shugyou."
Anime News Network - Boogiepop and Others Preview
Boogiepop and Others Preview
Date: 1/30/2006 2:27 PM
Seven Seas Entertainment has posted an online preview of the Boogiepop and Others novel, which is due out February 14.
