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Category Archives: Otaku
Comiket 73 – Part I
I finally found some time to sort through my pictures and scrape together enough content for a short post. This is a report of the first two days of Comiket 73 to give you a general idea what it was … Continue reading
Posted in Blog, Otaku
Tagged c73, comiket, cosplay, japan, pictures, tokyo big sight, trip
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School Days Train Stations
It’s my sixth day in Tokyo. I spent the whole of last night standing in the rain at near-zero temperature for about 9 hours. Comiket is insanity. But I’ll talk about that in its own post. Yesterday, I took a … Continue reading
Lucky Star in Saitama
Today was almost as tiring as yesterday because I had to lug my 2.5kg laptop around. An EEE PC would really come in handy when I’m traveling. It’s the fourth day of our little adventure in Tokyo and we took … Continue reading
Gundam 00 — Episode 12
This episode is pretty awesome because it does not have 10 minutes of contrived Allelujah emo, and it has some politics and background information about the world of Gundam 00! I love those. And of course, like all the other … Continue reading
Appleseed: Ex Machina Contest
This one is for North Americans only. Full disclosure: I was contacted by M80, a grassroot marketing agency, who is representing Warner Brothers. Since I’m such a sellout and I’m lazy to fill this blog with actual original content, I … Continue reading
2007 Otaku Market worth 186.8 Billion Yen
According to an annual research by research agency Media Create titled “The 2008 White Paper on the Otaku Industry”, the total combined size of game, anime and related goods sales amount to 186.8 billion yen (about 1.65 billion USD) for … Continue reading
Posted in Otaku
Tagged Anime, doujin, Games, industry, japan, Manga, Otaku, yahoo! japan news
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Crypton to Doujin Circle: Cease and Desist
Crypton, the creator of VOCALOID2 software Hatsune Miku and the upcoming Kagamine Rin/Ren, sent a cease-and-desist order to doujin circle CLOCK☆HEARTS. The circle was taking preorders on its website fan-made dakimakura covers of Miku and Rin. (Sort of NSFW: Hatsune … Continue reading
Posted in Otaku, Rant
Tagged crypton, doujin, hatsune miku, industry, kagamine rin, vocaloid
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Suzumiya Haruhi no Shoushitsu
The official Haruhi.tv website has been replaced by a fake 404 error with five form input fields. After entering K, N, S, A, K and clicking the button, you will be presented with a console terminal running Yuki’s escape program.
Posted in Anime
Tagged haruhi suzumiya, suzumiya haruhi no shoushitsu, suzumiya haruhi no yuuutsu, yuki nagato
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EOY Cosplay 2007 @ Expo
This year’s end-of-year cosplay event was once again held at the Singapore Expo. I dropped by for a bit to take some photos. Pictured above is the best cosplay of the whole event, according to me. Rei does exist in … Continue reading
Gundam 00 — Episode 11
Yet another boring episode. I think someone should ban Sunrise from making any “character development” episodes because frankly I don’t give a damn about the Gundam Meisters. In fact, let’s just turn all the Gundams into unmanned weapon systems that … Continue reading
Gundam 00 — Episode 10
Eh. I think this is the kind of episode that most people would enjoy. It has some fighting (lame), character development (lame) and plot development (what plot?), all the jazz that people claim to watch Gundam for. But I didn’t … Continue reading
Thai Bishoujo Game
Here’s your daily dosage of “WTF everything I hold to be true and dear in this reality has been torn apart and disintegrated.” Angel’s Tale from StudioGU is a bishoujo game made in Thailand. Yes, the one in Southeast Asia. … Continue reading