Author Archives: DarkMirage

DarkMirage.com – now with 100% more clutter!

I finally decided to stop supporting 800 x 600 resolutions. It’s just too damn small to work with. According to Google Analytics, only about 4% of you are using 800 x 600 screens, so you’ll have to deal with the … Continue reading

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Mini finger-pointing action Haruhi

Missed your chance at preordering Max Factory’s awesomeness reincarnated 1/8 Haruhi? (BTW I preordered two of them.) Here’s something that’s almost as good! Okay maybe not, but every little bit helps, right? :P Continue reading

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The Interference of Reality on Modern Otaku Life

I present to you my greatest masterpiece ever, after the jump.

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Moé Factor is now live!

Part II of DM’s domain-registering misadventure. Long story short: I decided to make it a picture-of-the-day thing. After hours of WordPress hacking, I finally got it down to something close to what I imagined. Why I didn’t just use one … Continue reading

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What should I do with this?

I registered a new domain for some unfathomable reason. Hurray! The catch is that I can’t decide what I should do with it. (It may seem like I’m doing things backwards, but actually that’s just your imagination.) www.moefactor.com Some ideas … Continue reading

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School Days 2007

According to Moon Phase Zakki an anime based on School Days—the popular fully-animated game from Overflow—will be coming our way next year. Character design will apparently still be Junji Gotou, but Moon Phase suspects that while there is a high … Continue reading

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JLPTにさよなら!…多分。

The end is close. This will hopefully be the last JLPT paper that I will ever have to take in my life. Never again will I have to travel to that god forsaken school located in the middle of nowhere … Continue reading

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Nanaka Shirakawa Pillow Cover

Deep down in my heart, I knew this was going to happen. It was only a matter of time. But I didn’t expect it to be this soon. 心の準備が・・・! Anyway, COSPA has started taking preorders for a Nanaka dakimakura cover. … Continue reading

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Circus Disk ~Christmas Days~ Promo Video

Circus has released the promo video for Circus Disk ~Christmas Days~ (C.D.C.D.—crazy acronyms FTW!), an upcoming game-slash-fandisk that will feature familiar characters from various Circus flagship titles such as Da Capo, AR Forgotten Summer and Saishuu Shiken Kujira. You can … Continue reading

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Who says product placements don’t work?

So, who else has been eating pizzas? That said, I don’t get what’s the big fuss over CC (or Gasuko as some would call her). She has barely done anything at all so far! Kallen is waaaaay hawter.

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The Ugly Singaporean

It’s been a while since I blogged about anything non-related to anime or Japan. Four million smiles This is an entry about Singapore. Please do not read on if non-anime entries bore you.

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More details on new Evangelion project

REI!!! Either no one has bothered to blog about it or I didn’t look hard enough. So anyway, the latest issue of Newtype has a whole bunch of juicy titbits on the new Evangelion movies starting next year. Click on … Continue reading

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