Category Archives: Otaku

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Hare Hare Yukai International

SOS-dan is taking over the world, one Hare Hare Yukai dance at a time! Here’s a YouTube video of a whole bunch of weird people from all over the globe performing the trademark dance. Singapore’s entry came from the recently-held … Continue reading

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Shakugan no Shana Itasha

Hey everyone. Remember me? Yeah I’m still alive. I shall not bore you with details about why I’ve been so inactive lately (nothing to do with Odex) and instead I bring you an extremely short post with zero actual content … Continue reading

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Cosfest VI — Karaoke Competition

Wow I finally uploaded these. My internet connection was acting screwy last week and YouTube uploads kept failing. Day 1 of Cosfest VI‘s highlight was an anime karaoke competition. As usual Rika and Mizuki rocked. YouTube videos of their performances … Continue reading

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Cosfest VI — tons of cosplay photos

Cosfest is finally over. I am so tired from two entire days of photo-taking. It’s been 24 hours and my hands still ache from carrying a camera that weighs at least 24.43 jillion pounds. I’ve been feeling feverish the whole … Continue reading

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SOS-Dan does Lucky Star dance at Cosfest VI

A group of Haruhi cosplayers performed the Lucky Star OP dance as part of their entry item for the semi-finals of the World Cosplay Summit (Singapore), which is part of Cosfest VI. Here’s a super blur and shaky video of … Continue reading

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Haruhi Season 2

It’s official. Haruhi season 2 is coming! The latest issue of Newtype has the exclusive… It’s supposed to go onsale on the 10th but apparently the scans have been leaked… Not much details, though. Thanks to Kyon for informing me. … Continue reading

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School Days – Episode 1

School Days is a 2005 AVG from Overflow that featured fully voiced and animated gameplay. Thanks partly to its infamous blood-soaked “bad ends”, the game achieve cult status in otakudom and can be said to be the first and, thus … Continue reading

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Haruhi coming to PSP!

Hot news! A PSP game based on Suzumiya Haruhi no Yuuutsu is coming our way. The publisher is Bandai Namco and the official site is supposed to come online on July 10, more than two weeks from now. According to … Continue reading

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Chiaki Ishikawa – Uninstall (Promo Video)

I seem to have a habit of loading up Aegisub whatever my exams draw close… I just spent a few hours subbing the PV for Uninstall for no particular reason. I didn’t use any fancy effects this time, just a … Continue reading

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Pika Pika Yukai

I don’t like it when it gets used on digg to the point of being clichéd, but truly “the title says it all” is appropriate.

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Rosario + Vampire anime!

I would like to introduce you to Rosario + Vampire, a very enjoyable manga series which seems to fall under the radars of most people for some reason. It’s about a guy called Tsukune Aono who accidentally enrols in a … Continue reading

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New Gundam series this October confirmed!

Gundam 00 was announced with a short promo that aired at the end of a recent episode of Towards the Terra. Set in 2307 AD, the story revolves around four Gundam pilots who look damn gay and some silly organization … Continue reading

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