K-ON 2nd season

2nd season confirmed

Project Diva goes to the Arcades

Project Diva Arcade. Now with new and improved cg & modelling system. Coming soon to arcades near you!

Haruhi Guitar

Ar Tonelico 3 Amazon.Jp PV

COCONA KITAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Cocona confirmed as party member... Like in AT2, she seems to be at frontline fighting. Shows up again at 3:45, then Jack and Cursye show up? Choppy yes,but this will have to do until a better version shows up. From the overall mood near the 2nd half, it looks like the end of the series, someone may die

2010 Anime

Series that seem interesting or caught my attention

http://www.sorawoto.com/
Sora no Woto - K-ON meets army girls. The character designer seems to be the same as K-ON. I see some girls who resemble Yui, Mio, Mugi

http://www.ladies-vs-butlers.com/
Ladies vs Butlers - The Kanokon anime character designer. Will it be Eroi? Ecchi? Plenty of fanservice? Some high profile seiyuus including Kawasumi Ayako, Nakahara Mai, Koshimizu Ami, Kugimiya Rie and Gotoh Mai

http://newtype.kadocomic.jp/omahima/
Omamori Himari - Long haired Nekosamurai voiced by Koshimizu Ami? Sold

http://www.tbs.co.jp/anime/okami/
Ookamikakushi - Ryukishi07 meets Peach-Pit. Considering how well Higurashi and Umineko did, might be worth catching for the story

http://www.qwaser.jp/
Seikon no Qwaser - Seems like a fighting anime with some interesting designs

Black ★ Rock Shooter

ブラックロックシューター 何処へ行ったの？ 聞こえますか？

Black ★ Rock Shooter anime! KITA!!!!!!!

Still waiting for my Black Rock Shooter figure to arrive. The Blade ver also looks pretty cool. I'll most likely have to get it

Merry Christmas!

Song is Last Regrets (X'mas Floor Style)

Perfume

The song that made me listen to Perfume, Dream Fighter. Their dance moves and how synchronised they are with each other is really something.

Polyrhythm performed at 2008 Kohaku

Perfume's Kashiyuka. Moe overload?

Blade&Soul G-star Movie

4 races - Jin, Gon, Kun, Lyn

4 classes - Blade Master, Kung-Fu Master, Force Master, Destroyer

Character Design by Hyung Tae Kim (Magna Carta, War of Genesis) hence the sexy and revealing female clothing. I'm personally going either Blade Master or Kung-Fu Master. My buddy Gay Tat also seems rather interested in the game

I am the bone of my sword...

Steel is my body and fire is my blood

Woohoo! UBW. Shirou vs Archer!

Ichibankuji K-ON

Nyaa~

Haruhi Movie

Circus' Vocaloid

Hatsunejima Miku. So after all those years of creating Da Capo games, they got sick and tried something new. LOL

Dead or Alive for PSP

Dead or Alive Paradise. New character Rio from that Tecmo blackjack game or something

Evangelion Anima 3 Year After

http://wiki.evageeks.org/Evangelion_Anima_2008_01
http://wiki.evageeks.org/Evangelion_Anima_2008_02
Seems like this story is set when the Human Instrumentality Project did not happen

God Eater Promotional Anime Video

10 minutes of animated glory. Animation seems to have been done by ufotable (also did Kara no Kyokai) Shiina Go's music is pretty cool, especially when the familiar battle theme and the Jinki team of Rindou, Tsubaki and Soma jump from the helicopter and proceed to slaughter the Aragami. Can't wait for the game to come!!

New Mio figure

http://www.kyotoanimation.co.jp/shop/figure/k-on/
It seems it's based on the Gothic Lolita costume that Mio was wearing during the ED of the anime. Hah! About time, there are a few Mio figures being made but none had her in the GL outfit

Was yea ra

So the language Hymmnos used in Ar Tonelico can be described as a language of emotions as the sentence structures all focuses on expressing feelings and emotions

Take for example, was yea ra. The first three words are Emotion Sounds.

(first word: degree) (second word: nature (third word: desirability)

The first word is describes the degree of the singer's emotion. The second word describes the emotions conveyed. The third word describes how desirable how singer finds the emotion

Was means very much

yea means happy

ra means I want this to continue

Overall, it can mean I wasnt this happiness to continue. Of course, the direct translation of the word and how the whole sentence is translated can be rather different

http://hamsterx.homelinux.org/hymmnoserver/index.php

The link above is an english translated site of the Hymmnoserver that's orginally in japanese

Cover for the Animate.Gamers Limited Edition Box. I'd seriously like to get it

The Gust shop/Amazon Hymmnos Concert pack. The new design for the covers is really nice compared to previous Hymmnos Concert covers. There seems to be an emphasis on butterflies, will we find out why when we play the game?

Hymmnos Concert Song Preview

http://www.team-e.co.jp/sp/artonelico3/red.html
There are some songs that have the usual Ar Tonelico feel and some new songs that go in another direction. After listening to it, I'm actually more tempted to get the cds. KOKIA's song samples are pretty awesome, Shikata Akiko and Mitose Noriko still sound good no matter the song

Ar Tonelico 3: Purge

So purging makes them stronger in the gaming sense, but this feels like some perverted strip mahjong game

At the top we have Saki and her other personalities. Left is Sakiya Rumei and Salapator, right is Saki and Filament. Bottom is Finnel and her personalities. Left is Finnel and Soma. Right is Unknown maybe she's Suzuno Miya?) and Yurishica. Hmmm, Nekomimi on Filament, Soma true face is rather cute

Geass Manga WTF??!!

http://blog.livedoor.jp/insidears/archives/52099271.html
Some geass manga taking place during the Edo period. Eh, as much as I liked Geass, I got SERIOUS doubts about this...

2D Girl You'd Like to Marry

http://banduke.yahoo.co.jp/secret04/index.html
1. Makinami Mari Illustrious from Evangelion Movie 2.0
2. Kuronuma Sawako from Kimi ni Todoke
3. Akiyama Mio from K-ON
4. Katsura Hinagiku from Hayate no Gotoku
5. Hirazawa Yui from K-ON
6. Megurine Luka from Vocaloid series
7. Aisaka Taiga from Toradora
8. Haramura Nodoka from Saki
9. Misaka Mikoto from To Aru Majutsushi no Index
10. Senjyogahara Hitagi from Bakemonogatari

Eh, from a source some 1/2 a year ago, Mio topped the no.1 bride to marry with Hinagiku at 2nd place. Eh, I feel rather disappointed

Biribiri

To Aru Kagaku no Railgun is rather interesting, probably one of the better shows this season

Tales of Graces PV4

Damn, being a Tales of fan I'd really like to play Graces except no Wii X_X They've really changed the battle system, made it faster, better. The SS-LMBS (Style Shift Linear Motion Battle System) sounds good, having 2 different playing styles. Chain Calibur is also in which would mean better and longer combos, without the need to do your moves in a certain order. Around Step (Sidestep) is also nice and Charachange is also a nice function, when Ai doesn't do what you want them to do. It seems like the new Tales games characters can all fight close range and use magic/long range skills. Eh?! Asbel doesn't have magic or ranged skills? I'm sure he gets something like Majinken or Souhajin. Here's hoping for a PS3 port for Graces. Ah, the battle system gets more and more interesting each game

Okamikakushi

http://www.tbs.co.jp/anime/okami/
OP done by FictionJunction? ED by Nanri Yuuka? Hmm, Kajiura should have been invited to do the music. If so, I'd be reminded of La Potrait De La Petite Cossette.
What got me interested was the PSP game, story by Ryukishi07 (Hugurashi and Umineko), character designs by Peach-Pit

Kotobukiya Elwing figure

Such a beautiful piece of art. Hard to believe it's Kotobukiya quality. Recently, the quality has been rising lately, such as Sengoku Rance Shiru figures. I'm happy, since their previous Shining Tears/Shining Wind figures lacked detail that I look for in figures.

Artwork drawn by Tony. Argh!!! I missed the chance to buy the dakimura during the chara-fest. Then again I lacked money then, since either Zecty or Elwing cost around $290 sing dollars each

Eh, it seems to be scale 1/5 but the Bukiya Elwing on the right is around 21cm. Which means the new one is say around 40cm and above. Price-wise I'd say 13,000yen or so

King of Fighters Movie

This is going to suck, BAD. I mean, look at all fighting games being made into movies, Street Fighter, Dead of Alive etc. I'm going to avoid this like the plague

Ichiban Kuji Macross Frontier movie

For a moment, I thought I saw Alto dressed up as a woman. Chances are KKnM will bring this over eventually. After all, they did have the Ichiban Kuji for Macross Frontier TWICE!

New Geass??

http://geass.jp/

Only my Railgun by fripSide

So I started watching To Aru Kagaku no Railgun, this song really was nice to listen to. In fact, I can't stop listening to it, not for awhile

God Eater

http://www.godeater.jp/
For the PSP, God Eater seems highly possible to be a Monster Hunter killer. Well, it's no surprise they're probably often compared to each other but there are some points that makes me lean towards GE.

Point 1: On-the-fly weapon switching. Your weapon (Shinki) has 3 forms: sword, gun and devour. Sword has 3 forms, gun has 3 forms. Each form has difference in attack speed and recovery amd damage. Devour form lets you power up for a short period of time and lets you use special bullets. Since the story characters are stuck to one form with the exception of Arisa, you've got to fill in the roles lacking in the party

Point 2: Go Shiina = Awesome music. Liste to BGM2 at the official site, or the short music clips under Special. I took notice of Go Shiina after I played Tales of Legendia. It was new, unique and very different compared to the other Tales games done by Sakuraba Motoi

Point 3: Multiplayer. Sidestep. Dash. Sakamato Maaya (LOL) as Arisa, Sunohara ( I mean Sakaguchi Daisuke)

11eyes OP - Arrival of Tears by Ayane

The beginning reminded me of Atelier Iris 3 Grand Phantasm's OP, Schwarzweiss. Kakeru's Aion ability is HAX! Misuzu-sempai is cool!

Super Robot Taisen OG Saga: Mugen no Frontier Exceed New Chars

O_O

It's Alfimi and Axel!!

*fanboy scream*

So Alfimi uses a katana and Axel uses a tonfa?? I'm beginning to hate the DS more and more. PSP hasn't gotten any new SRW games since Advance Portable

May'n vs Mizuki Nana

May'n sings Zankoku na Tenshi no Teze and Eternal Blaze at the Animax Musix Countdown. As expected May'n sings well adding her own style to the songs



On the other corner, we have Mizuki Nana singing the same songs. The sound quality for Zankoku is bad though, but I couldn't find any other video of her singing it live. She's also the original singer for Eternal Blaze. No question about it, Nana wins the Eternal Blaze contest. Even though she's a seiyuu, her singing ability is rather impressive, comparable to that of a professional singer

Simon's Giga Drill Breaker

This scene still leaves me all teary eyed whenever I watch it. Kamina would have been so proud

Azu-nyan flash used to promote ero site

http://moratorium.livedoor.biz/archives/1961706.html

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
AZU-NYAN HAS BEEN TAINTED!! What's with all the perverted Azu-nyan related stuff going on?? ORZ

UN Owen was Her?

Remixes and vocal songs of Flandre Scarlet's theme song UN Owen was her. These two are among the ones I hear the most

AFA09

Took me awhile to get this article up. Minor setbacks and my PSP breaking down (most likely bricked) were my main reason. The anime event of Singapore has come, and gone but nevertheless, the spirit and memories shall stay with me till death arrives. Ah whatever, let's get this report over and done with. Didn't really take that many pictures to begin with since my camera is a pathetic handphone. No cosplayers either, so go find another blog if it's pictures you want

Idolmaster Nendroid Puchi (?)

More Idolmaster. CHIHAYA!!

Idolmaster again? Oh, they have Takane

Idol... you get the picture. Hibiki is so cute in there

Gyuu and Yayoi. Cuteness overload

Goodsmile supercell feat Hatsune Miku World is Mine

Max Factory DOA's Kasumi. Eroi~

Goodsmile Morrigan. ero ero

I forget which Gundam this was

PG Red Frame

PG Gundam 00 I think

K-ON = Cute

K-ON = WIN

Touhou's Izayoi Sakuya. KAKKOII!!

Shin Koihime Musou poster for the chaos trading cards game. Sousou aka Cao Cao is shown

At the end, I didn't get a chance to dine her with my buddies. Maid Cafe~~~

The main event - I Love Anisong.

Day 1 has Nagakawa Shoko aka Shoko-tan, virtual idol Hatsune Miku and Mizuki Ichirou aka Aniki

Shoko-tan sung Eva's Zankoku na Tenshi no Teze, a Rurouni Kenshin song, Sora iro Days, a Dragon Ball according to a friend but I don't really remember it at all, A pokemon movie song which was probably Kokoro no Antenna and some Gurren Lagann songs like Happily Ever After and Namida no Tane, Egao no Hana. Of course being the star whose songs I know the least, I still enjoyed some songs mainly Namida no Tane. Yea, Shoko-tan was cute and pretty, took a photo with the crowd doing the Gurren Lagann sign. She sure was a fun person

Next up was my most anticipated star of the star, Hatsune Miku. Crowd screamed like mad when she appeared (on the screen that is, she's not real) then a short speech and played her most popular song, Miku Miku ni Shite Ageru (shite yanyo) followed by Koi suru Vocaloid. Another well known song was sung, World is Mine. THE END!! OMGWTFBBQ!!! That's it??

Sadly, reality was harsh that day. Miku only did 3 songs and it ended within 10 minutes. Anyone who's played Project Diva probably has seen it all, the Mikumiku dance steps. On the bright side, the 1st and 3rd songs, the crowd sang along during some parts. The next time Miku comes, I'm really hoping for the MikuFES treatment, where she appears in this glass screen or a real band playing like in the Animelo Summer 09 where Miku Miku ni Shite Ageru and Black Rock Shooter were performed. A live version of Black Rock Shooter needs to be done

Aniki's turn. Amazing stage presence. Music was played when he was preparing to come on stage. Sang plenty of songs that our generation most likely never heard of much. Songs includes Mazin Go, Sora Tobu Mazinger Z, Ore wa Great Mazinger, A Getta Robo song, Combattler V's Theme, Mazinkaiser's Tornado, a Lupan song, Kamen Rider medley I think and Captain Harlock. This man had the crowd singing along with him. Sang along during Mazin Go and Ore wa Great Mazinger. Gotta thank Super Robot Wars for introducing me to these mechas from the 70s to 80s

For encore, we have a Shoko-tan Aniki duet. Woohoo. Mazin Go, Susume Go Rangers (I think) and Cross Fight from Dangaioh. Only watched episode 1 of Dangaioh however, the mecha designs were so unique back then. Granted it's a tall order to try and match Horie Mitsuko's voice, Shoko-tan did a pretty darn good job

Day 2 is Macross day, Fukuyama Yoshiki and May'n. Nekki Basara vs Sheryl Nome. Ore no uta wo kike vs atashi no uta wo kike

Fukuyama starts off with King Gainer Over to get the crowd going. Eh? no monkey dance? There's also Busou Renkin's Makka no Chikai, the rest being Macross 7 songs such as Remember 16, Try Again and Totsugeki Love Heart. I nearly cried when he sang Try Again acoustic ver. Eh no Holy Lonely Light but I forgive him for that. Fukuyama can really sing and scream well

It's May'n time. She sang quite a few new songs, didn't really remember the titles except for Get Ready. I really enjoyed Kimi Shinitamou Koto Nagare. May'n also sang her signature Macross Frontier songs, Northern Cross, Lion and Iteza Gogo Kuji Don't be late. Motteke ryuusei chirashite ... fans were probably singing along to her songs, I know I was

One more Time! Fukuyama May'n combo time. Acoustic Diamond Crevasse and Dynamite Explosion. Tears again during Diamond Crevasse and voice almost gone during Dynamite Explosion

Overall, the Anisong event was great, super, uber, thumbs up! So Aniki and Fukuyama said they'll bring JAM Project over next year. REALLY??!! So AFA10 wishlist now... who will I want to perform? It's a matter of time for JAM Project but who I really want is... MIZUKI NANA!! Ali Project would also be cool, hell why not Kajiura Yuki and her FictionJunction or even Kalafina.

Won an autographed Shoko-tan CD. Her single Kokoro no Antenna. My Precious~

Ar Tonelico 3 Hymmnos Concert

Ar Tonelico 3 Seikai Syuuen no Hikigane wa Shoujo no Uta wa Hiku Original Soundtrack

Opening song is Utau Oka~Harmonics Tilia~ . Then there's a best mix of EXEC_HYMME_BATTLESPHERE/.#Saki extracting. and EXEC_HYMME_BATTLESPHERE/.#Finnel extracting

SUZUNO=MIYA

Ar Tonelico III hymmnos concert side. Red

Shimotsuki Haruka and 7 other vocalists if I didn't read wrong

SAKIYA=RUMEI

Ar Tonelico III hymmnos concert side.Blue

Let's see, we have awesome Shikata Akiko, healing vocalist KOKIA and Ueon Youko

Release Date is January 27 2010

More info at http://shop.salburg.com/product/at3/at3_cd/index.htm

Seriously, this is a MUST GET for AT fans. The extra vocalists is a strange move and I don't see Mitose Noriko and Ishibashi Yuko's name mentioned anywhere

New Ikkitousen series

http://www.ikkitousen.com/index.html
Ikkitousen season 4, Ikkitousen Xtreme Xecutor gets a new character, Bachou or more commonly known as Ma Chao
First the psp gets a new Ikkitousen PSP game, Ikkitousen Xross Impact with more bouncing breasts and now a new anime season...
Spare me...

Blade and Soul

http://bns.plaync.co.kr/teaser/
New updates finally, about about a year after they showed a demo movie of it

Demo movie below

One year later and it still looks pretty good

Zaku Mania

http://www.narinari.com/Nd/20091012519.html
A shop that only sells zakus. I salute you dear sir, SEIG ZAKU!!

Azu-nyan's Ero-game debut

Azu-nyan: What's with this picture!! It doesn't even look like me!! Right?! Sempai?!

Mio, Mugi, Yui, Ritsu: Azusa... Azusa-chan... Azu-nyan... you...

Azu-nyan: What's with that reaction!!

Lol, found it while surfing through 2chan. It's not strange to find ero-game makers taking character designs from existing animes/games

Mizuki Nana's NHK Kohaku debut

http://yunakiti.blog79.fc2.com/blog-entry-4187.html
So you have 8 other people/groups joining the 60th Kohaku, there was a poll regarding who were most anticipating.

Starting off it was Arashi with 49% 2292 votes, Mizuki Nana 28% 1394 votes. One hour later Arashi was 41% 5180 votes, Mizuki Nana was at 39% 4858 votes. Haha, about 3500 votes within an hour, that's Mizuki Nana for you.

Currently checking, it's Arashi at 27% 22351 votes, Mizuki Nana 56% 46051. Woohoo Nana power!

AFA09 Goods

Clear Postcards: (from Top left, right, bottom left, right) Ro-Kyu-Bu!, Accel World, Nogizaka Haruka no Himitsu, Houkago Hyaku Monogatari

Accel World Pencil Board

Houkago Hyaku Monogatari Pencil Board

Nogizaka Haruka no Himitsu Pencil Board

Shankagan no Shana Pencil Board

Ro-Kyu-Bu! Pencil Board

Shkugan no Shana File

Accel World and Shakugan no Shana Mobiel Phone Strap

K-ON Ichiban Kuji Clear file (file with 2 postcards, the top right postcard was from COSPA shop)

Magical Girl Nanoha The Movie 1st Tapestry

Queen's Blade Airi Cushion Cover (Yes I bought two. One to keep and one to use)

Da Capo 2 Asakura Yume Mug Cup

K-ON Akiyama Mio COSPA T-Shirt

Black Rock Shooter COSPA T-Shirt