Author Archives: DarkMirage

Chinese fans invade Japanese PS3 launch

Taken from ITmedia. So anyway, the CEO of Sony, Mr. Ken Kutaragi, made a surprise visit to a Bic Camera branch at Yuurakuchou to personally hand over a PS3 to the first person in line. The first guy in line … Continue reading

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PS3 launches with a bang

PS3 launched some hours ago in Japan and, surprise! Thousands of people queued up for it. If you follow any gaming blogs at all, you’d think that everyone in the world hates PS3 and can’t wait to fap (to) their … Continue reading

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A fool and his money soon parted

Money please! Money is the root of all evil. Therefore we should spend all our money. Besides Mahoro and Haruhi, here are some nice pieces of polymers that I am probably going to cough up blood for in the near … Continue reading

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Haruhiism Time Capsule Project – Otsukare!

The Yahoo! Time Capsule will stop accepting submissions today. We have already reached and exceeded our target of 100 pictures tagged with “haruhiism”. Good job everybody! I hope you had fun taking those pictures while ignoring the stares of non-believers. … Continue reading

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Tsukihime – Now in English!

Mirror Moon has released version 1.0 of their Tsukihime full English translation patch. To receive a copy of it, all you have to do is to destroy the support disc, answer twenty Tsukihime trivia questions and send a photo of … Continue reading

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Saber (Holiday ver.) goes on a…holiday

Today was the first day of my school holidays. I thought to myself, what better way to spend my holidays than to go to the beach?… Ok I’m lying. As if I would voluntarily go to the beach. It’s just … Continue reading

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Haruhiism Time Capsule Project – Part VI

Heya! It’s your favourite Haruhi fanboy again. Time sure passes by fast. Here’s the second last status update of HTCP (read this if you have no idea what this whole thing is about). Currently, we are just a few pictures … Continue reading

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1/8 Haruhi gone in 60 seconds

Various hobby websites put up preorders for the second batch of Max Factory 1/8 Haruhi today. The first batch of 5000 units is due for release in February and the preorders, online and offline at Akihabara, were gone in a … Continue reading

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“Kyoushirou to Towa no Sora” Promo

The official site of Kannadzuki no Miko 2 Kyoushirou to Towa no Sora has released an online promo clip. 「京四郎と永遠の空」 is an upcoming TV series based on the somewhat popular manga serialized in Dragon Age from the mangaka of Kannadzuki … Continue reading

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Sumomo mo Momo mo – Saikyou OX Keikaku

So, instead of spending last night dong last minute revision for the Higher Chinese O’level paper which I just took a few hours ago, I decided that it was a futile struggle and translated the OP of Sumomo mo Momo … Continue reading

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October spendings

Ahhh… October is almost over. And it’s a good thing too because I am almost out of smackaroos. Hobbies are expensive addictions. You are probably better off taking drugs. So anyway, here are some purchases I made this month that … Continue reading

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We are back!

Testing. テスト。 It’s alive! Yay! This blog is now hosted at Dreamhost. :3 I maxed out my bandwidth on my old host, so I thought it was a good chance to switch. I’m pretty happy with Dreamhost so far. It’s … Continue reading

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