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Ghost in the Shell Kinect
Have you ever fancied diving into the cyberspace in Ghost in the Shell "Solid State Complex" series? Well now you can thanks to some Microsoft Kinect technology attached to an Apple Mac Mini ^^;A...
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Lucky Break Manga
Lucky Break - a manga about a girl called Riku Nonokawa [野々川 陸]. She dropped out of art university after her fathers company went bankrupt. Riku ends up working part time in a bar where she meets an...
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Twin Angel
Am thrilled to announce two of our newest clients at Mirai Inc - Kadokawa and Sega Sammy. We've just launched the official Japanese and English website for the up n coming Summer anime title Twin Angel...
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Nakano Guide
Located in the West of Tokyo is a ward called Nakano which is home to the Bushiroad Headquarters, Nakano Sunplaza and the Nakano Broadway shopping complex. Folks in the West of Tokyo who need to get...
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Reimu Dollfie
Released earlier on this year by Volks was Dollfie Dream Reimu Hakurei and Marisa Kirisame. These Dollfie's however are of the "DDS" variety or "Dollfie Dream Sister" which are a wee bit smaller than...
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5 Titles to Represent Japanese Anime
On Thursday June 23rd 2011, I will be speaking on behalf of advertising agency Dentsu at the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity (formerly known as the Cannes International Advertising...
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Ascii Media Works
Ascii Media Works - the folks who recently bought us Oreimo and a load of other anime titles. They publish a ton of magazines n books in Japan are are part of Kadokawa group. We've already taken a look...
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The World God Only Knows Elsie
Up for pre-order now is Elsie from The World God Only Knows. Shes sooooo cute! Shes 1/8 scale and due out this September by Max Factory - retails for 8,800 yen. More details at Good Smile.Available for...
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Kenji Kamiyama
Was at Production IG yesterday where I met Kenji Kamiyama [神山健治] - Japanese anime director who has brought us Ghost in the Shell SAC, Seirei no Moribito and East of Eden. He started his work many moons...
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Tomohiko Ishii
Meeting up with Tomohiko Ishii [石井朋彦] - anime movie producer who previously worked at Studio Ghibli but now at Production IG. He's produced titles such as Spirited Away, Gedo Senki, Sky Crawlers, Eden...
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Japanese Food 2
Stick most food photos in the A Week in Tokyo series but sometimes there be too much - I'm either taking too much photos or eating too much ^^; Following on from the Japanese Food photo post comes part...
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Bushiroad Giveaway
Update - got a load of posts already! Signup and start mingling!Playing some Weiss Schwartz with Terence from Bushiroad. Ever since I've been dabbling in trading card games (TCG), I often hear about...
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Real Action Heroes BRS
Snapped at yesterdays Good Smile Company 10th Anniversary event. Real Action Heroes Black Rock Shooter. No details of release date yet but I can tell you that shes huge! At first I thought she was the...
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Nadeko Sengoku Giveaway
Has it been ages or has it been ages since the last figure giveway? The boss at Toylet has not been feeling too well of late and for some reason has set the prices for many catalog items to half price...
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Good Smile Company 10th Anniversary
Its been 10 years to the day since Aki Takanori set up his company Good Smile Company and to celebrate, they held a huge event in the middle of Akihabara. The day was split into two parts - one for...
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Anime Subs or Dubs
American Blu-ray release of K-ON! is being distributed by Bandai who sent over a copy for tasting. Its got English dubs and original Japanese too - some of the English dubs in action below. How many of...
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Tokyo Elections
AKB48 had been encouraging folks to vote for who they wanted to be the next governor of Tokyo. There were a load of ads on the trains and on TV too - CM below. The governor of Tokyo however remains as...
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Japan Product Development
Just a quick update on the Itamado stuff. Been working on experimenting with various materials and coatings for the product. There's a lot more to just printing them out and flogging them on the...
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Hatsune Miku Toyota
Hatsune Miku appears in a Toyota commercial for their Corolla car - not for the Japanese market but for the American one And short version below. There is a poll embedded in this article. There is a...
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Culture Japan Season 1 on Crunchy Roll
After the Japan broadcast on Tokyo MX TV and the Asia broadcast on Animax Asia, Culture Japan is now available to the rest of za warudo on Crunchyloll. For folks who are not beknowist, Culture Japan is...
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