Archive for the ‘Manga’ Category
Thursday, September 4th, 2008
Via Kotaku
Looks like we've scored some screenshots from the trailer of the upcoming Dragonball live action movie that will be released in 2009. I think the general opinion from all the Dragonball fans is that the movie is probably gonna suck, and looking at Piccolo below probably confirms it. The ...
Posted in Anime, Manga, Movies | 2 Comments »
Thursday, September 4th, 2008
Hobby Chara 2008 was held over the last weekend. Here are the coverage from various different sites:
Chara Hobby Official Site (Japanese)
DannyChoo's Gundam Coverage, Mecha Coverage, Figurine Coverage (loads of mouth watering pics)
Akiba Hobby (more on figurine coverage)
Mimibokuro Diary
Hinatatiki
Mainchi News Coverage
Post Channel Blog (too bad some of the shots were blurry)
Akiba ...
Posted in Cosplay, Figures, Gundam, Manga, Mecha | No Comments »
Wednesday, September 3rd, 2008
Long time premier Gundam source Gunota Headlines is finally calling it wraps after almost 5 years citing time as a major factor for the closure. Gunota has been my main source of fresh Gundam news for as long as I can remember since they were one of the earliest around ...
Posted in Anime, Games, Gundam, Manga, Mecha | 1 Comment »
Wednesday, August 20th, 2008
Enter the craziness that is Lucky☆Star. I managed to catch the first episode of Lucky Star a few days back and I'm really drawn in by the opening sequence. Its just so zany and energetic with the hyperactive and super kawaii Lucky Star cast doing their dance. Lucky Star features ...
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Sunday, August 10th, 2008
Dropped by One Utama last Sunday to take a peek at the Animax Youth Festival 2008. I've had bad experience with heavily commercialized Cosplay events previously like the one organized by Maxis Hotlink earlier this year. So I didn't exactly set my expectations high for this event but since it ...
Posted in Anime, Cosplay, Manga | 8 Comments »
Wednesday, August 6th, 2008
Venue: 1 Utama Shopping Centre (High Street)
Date: 8 - 10 August 2008
Time: 12 noon - 9 pm
Animax is organizing their Youth Festival this weekend over at the 1 Utama Shopping mall. There will be cosplay events, gaming tournaments and stalls selling anime merchandise. Seventeen Magazine will be having a talent ...
Posted in Anime, Cosplay, Events, Games, Manga | 2 Comments »
Tuesday, August 5th, 2008
Danny has provided a good coverage of the figures exhibit over at Wonder Festival summer event which ran over the last weekend. Check out his link below for all the photos.
DannyChoo.com - Wonder Festival 2008
I got these Cosplay gallery links from his site as well. There's even a Ranka ...
Posted in Anime, Cosplay, Figures, Gundam, Manga, Mecha | No Comments »
Friday, August 1st, 2008
Aya Hirano (平野 綾, Hirano Aya?, born October 8, 1987) from Aichi Prefecture, Japan, is a seiyū and J-pop singer who has had roles in several anime, visual novels, and TV commercials in Japan. She is contracted to Space Craft Produce, a branch of Space Craft Group for her seiyū ...
Posted in Anime, Manga, jpop | 6 Comments »
Tuesday, July 29th, 2008
Halfway across the globe we have the Western version of an anime convention, the San Diego Comic Con 2008 ! SDCC 2008 was held from the 24th till 27th July at San Diego Convention Center. In Asia we have people cosplaying as Gundams and while in the West we get ...
Posted in Anime, Cosplay, Figures, Gadgets, Manga | 1 Comment »
Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008
I managed to catch the screening of The Girl Who Leapt Through Time(Toki o Kakeru Shōjo) last Saturday as part of Golden Screen Cinema's Japanese Film Festival. TokiKake centers around a cheerful and energetic 17 year old Makoto Konno who by chance discovered the ability to jump back in time ...
Posted in Anime, Manga | 4 Comments »
