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Latest blogosphere posts tagged “otaku”

• 1st M’sian Team at DreamHack

  
  Voize.My — Authority: 148
  Team LZ A team of 5 Malaysian cyber athletes left to Jönköping, Sweden today to participate in DreamHack Winter, the world’s largest digital festival; Malaysia’s first participation in this event. The DreamHack festival is an important computer, gaming and multimedia extravaganza held twice annually in Sweden ...
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• A Buddhist temple for otaku

  
  Japan Probe — Authority: 641
  A YouTube vlog from HirokoChannel about Ryohoji Temple , which has become a popular place for otaku after its head priest decided to decorate the temple with manga characters: — Akihabara News – Gadgetry from Japan ( Subscribe ) Dannychoo.com – Your portal to Japan ( Subscribe )
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• Re: First-ever marriage between man and videogame character in Japan: Nintendo DS “Love Plus”

  
  Smash Gamers — Authority: 153
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• Fascination

  
  NeoShinka — Authority: 128
  ” I think all the boys wanted to be Herlock.” Mainichi : Could you please conclude with a general statement about manga and anime? Simona Stanzani : I think that manga and anime are a very important part of Japanese culture, and that, at their highest level, they have a pivotal role in modern communication ...
  12 hours ago

• 1/8 Clalaclan PVC [Armor Ver.]

  
  alafista.com — Authority: 554
  Shine na Blog has been updated with preview photos of this lovely figure of Clalaclan from Shining Wind. The figure is being produced by Alter and it is about 85% completed. It is scheduled for release in 2010, but no details on the retail price yet. Source: Shine na Blog The figure looks really coolsome ...
  14 hours ago

• 1/6 Kasumi PVC [Venus on the beach]

  
  alafista.com — Authority: 554
  Kotobukiya has announced preorder for this alluring figure from their Venus on the beach! Series, featuring Kasumi from the Xbox360 game Dead or Alive Xtreme 2. She is scheduled for release in March 2010 and will be retailing for around 9,240 yen. Interested folks can place your preorders with Hobby Search , ...
  18 hours ago

• Macross Frontier Movie Premier Event

  
  alafista.com — Authority: 554
  Gigazine attended the movie premier event of Macross Frontier movie and shared with us some lovely event photos. The cast of seiyuu also appeared on stage before the screening of the movie. From left to right: Aya Endo(Sheryl Nome), Megumi Nakajima (Ranka Lee), Yuichi Nakamura (Alto Saotome) and Director ...
  23 hours ago

• Nendoroid Jiei-tan [Marine Limited Edition]

  
  alafista.com — Authority: 554
  Been talking to quite a number of folks and realised that many like myself are searching high and low for this limited edition of Nendoroid Jiei-tan in her Marine Sailer uniform. Therefore, I contacted one of my sponsors Otacute and found out that they are taking preorders for her! She is scheduled for release ...
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• Circus Office Catches Fire

  
  alafista.com — Authority: 554
  According to news reports , the offices of popular visual novel game maker Circus had caught fire on Sunday, and around half of the office was burnt down. Staff had make an official statement on the official website , and thankfully no one was hurt in the incident and their upcoming product 『D.C.II Fall in ...
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• Video: man in Japan weds anime game character

  
  Boing Boing — Authority: 887
  Video : YouTube , MP4 download , or Dotsub (subtitles) On Sunday, a man named Sal9000 married the love of his life. Her name is Nene Anegasaki, and she lives inside of a Nintendo DS video game called Love Plus . The wedding took place during a Make: Japan meet-up held at the Tokyo Institute of Technology. In ...
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• Moe Minori Rice

  
  alafista.com — Authority: 554
  Akihabara is now selling newly harvested rice from Kazuno City [秋田], Akita [秋田] Prefecture. Minori is not the character’s name, and if I remember correctly it stands for newly harvested rice, which I learnt from my mother is tastier than old rice. Here’s a youtube clip on this moe minori rice: ...
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• Video: Wired staffers dancing the Uma Uma

  
  TOKYOMANGO — Authority: 624
  I dont know if I ever posted this video on TokyoMango — while readying my Wired Mag article about Hiroyuki Nishimura and Nico Nico Douga for publication in early 2008, a bunch of Wired staffers got together in the office kitchen in San Francisco and danced the Uma Uma. Then, we uploaded the video onto Nico Nico ...
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• Geeky Apple Mailbox

  
  alafista.com — Authority: 554
  A great way to recycle and at the same time announce to your neighbours that you are a techno geek: Source: Gizmodo I wonder how the owner seperate spam from the real incoming mail? ^^ Promote This Article Related Posts Confessions of Tokyo Dance Trooper “I Love ...
  2 days ago

• Single Male Otaku’s Dinner Date

  
  ONE INCH PUNCH — Authority: 470
  Otaku is a Japanese term used to refer to people with obsessive interests, particularly anime , manga , and video games . For any single male Otaku , this could be their ideal, fantasy date… This is humour of course, in case anyone takes this seriously. Although there do seem to be accounts of this online ...
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• Confessions of Tokyo Dance Trooper

  
  alafista.com — Authority: 554
  In this latest part 2 video of Tokyo Dance Trooper in Singapore, Dannychoo confesses to a shocking secret! LOL I couldn’t stop laughing when he said everything was fake including the background. Kudos for his valiant effort of using Singlish ^^ Promote This Article ...
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• WOOHOO!! NANA comfirmed to be on Red Team in Kohaku

  
  Kyouran Ky?dai — Authority: 131
  /me jumps around for joy Here’s her singing a part of this year’s theme song, “ Utau no Chikara ” Here’s 2ch celebrating . Full list of singers on both sides over HERE . ( English Translation ) 紅白まで、あと三十八日！ Kouhaku made, ato san juu hachi nichi!!!!!
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• alafista.com: AFA09: Kaname Cosplay Panel

  
  Anime Nano! — Authority: 171
  One of the highlights of AFA09 is the cosplay panel session featuring Kaname, a renowned Japanese cosplayer. He appeared on stage with this amazing cosplay of Cloud from Final Fantasy VII.There was a huge turnout ...
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• Stretch With Horo Video

  
  alafista.com — Authority: 554
  A couple of weeks back, I reported on the Stretch With Horo “Wacchi to Sutorecchi” 「わっちと”すとれっち”」 segment which was bundled along with the blu-ray disc, released on 4 Nov 2009. The video has been uploaded onto youtube and you can now do some stretching exercise in this 4-min segment. ...
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• OCN commercials based on classic anime

  
  Japan Probe — Authority: 641
  Japanese internet service provider OCN has a new commercial parodying the classic anime series Sally the Witch (魔法使いサリー see an example clip here ): A previous commercial in the same series parodied the volleyball anime Attack No. 1 (アタックNo.1 – see an example clip here ): — ...
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• Gundam RX-78-2 [Ver.G30th]

  
  alafista.com — Authority: 554
  Japanese Fans celebrated the 30th anniversary of Gundam by visiting the Life-size Gundam RX-78 located at Odaiba’s Shiokaze Park. Folks who did not managed to visit Japan can now have a chance to purchase the 1/60 Gundam RX-78-2 [Ver. G.30th], which is a replica of the Gundam statue. This Gundam Statue ...
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