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Figma Mirai Pre-order
Our mascot character Mirai Suenaga has been figmatized for a while but now she finally gets cloned a few thousand times over - pre-orders for the figma Mirai will start end of this month. Mirai-chan...
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Anime Festival Asia 2010
Arrived in Singapore earlier today. Checked in and was taken to have dindins with the rest of the guests which include Mizuki Ichirou, May'n, Scandal, Jam Project, Angela and the lovely Alodia. Back at...
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AKB48
AKB48 performing at the Anime Festival Asia Day 0. They are even more cuter close up! Was awesome and there is going to be more awesomeness tomorrow. See you on stage at 10.30.One of them gave me this...
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AFAX Day 0
This was my Anime Festival Asia Day 0 where I was the MC (and spoke at) the Cool Japan Forum. Also MC'd with Yoshimi and Daisuke for the press preview too. There were a load of rehearsals as part of...
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Singapore Meetup
Update - we got 120 signups for the meetup tomorrow (Monday 15th) at Lau Pa Sat from 5pm.Met a really nice chap while filming last year in Singapore at Lau Pa Sat. He told me something very odd and I...
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Kana Hanazawa
To my right is the most sweetsome anime voice actress Kana Hanazawa [花澤 香菜] who I was MC'ing for on stage. Good Smile Company boss (on the far left of the photo) Aki Takanori then joins us both on...
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AFAX Stage
Some photos of the stage events that I hosted at the Anime Festival Asia 2010 (AFAX). Photos include my short talks at the Cool Japan Forum and at the beginning of the special Culture Japan screening....
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Takaaki Kidani
Takaaki Kidani-san who is the CEO of Bushiroad, founder of Broccoli and producer of Milky Holmes has taken a liking to our Saber-chan. Wonder what Saber thinks about all this.
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AFAX Day 1
Coverage of the Anime Festival Asia 2010 day 1 which was held at the Suntec Convention Center in Singapore on the 13th November. This event is truly turning out to be one of the worlds biggest anime...
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Singapore Itasha
Our Mirai Itasha was cloned in a different shape and color by Gen Concept and the folks at Sozo - they did an incredible job! Thanks to Maurice for handling the project. A few other Itasha were also on...
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Anime Seiyuu
Looks like the Milky Holmes girls have also taken a liking to our Saber. Here we have from the left is Mikoi Sasaki [佐々木未来] (green), Sora Tokui [徳井青空] (yellow) and the very funny Izumi Kitta [橘田 いずみ]...
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Channel NewsAsia
Was on Channel NewsAsia - a Singapore national TV morning show. Went on with The Executive Director of SOZO Shawn Chin and Veteran butler Hellven Chua to speak about the anime industry and monetary...
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K-ON! Yakisoba
For 130 yen you can have the next best thing to having a taste of the K-ON! girls - Yakisoba Pan (its like a hot dog with fried noodles instead) "as seen in the anime." An in depth review of the...
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Weiss Schwarz
Photos of the Trading Card Game tournament that took place at the AFAX. The games were all Weiss Scharz and not Chaos right? The Milky Holmes girls were there to egg on the proceedings. With the help...
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AFAX Day 2
Day 2 coverage of the Anime Festival Asia 2010. Was running around to meetings and wot not so didn't get to take as many photos as I would have liked. The day was packed with a load of festivities as...
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Singapore Dollfie
A load of doll comrades gathered at the Shows Doll booth over the two day AFAX event. Was great to meet all the doll owners in person - a list of them below. Lemme know if there are urls that I should...
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Japanese Government
The Japanese government kicked off its Cool Japan campaign with the Cool Japan Tokyo Conference which was held on the 2nd November.The conference took place in a huge dome erected in the grounds of...
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Puchitto Rock Shooter
Announced at today's JRPG game press conference - a new game title called "Puchitto Rock Shooter." All the details they gave is that it will be an online browser based RPG released by Nico Nico and...
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Black Rock Shooter The Game
Was invited along with a load of other game industry folks to a press conference held by a company called ImageEpoch. They've made a few game titles in the past and today they announced that they will...
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Japan House Name Plates
The majority of folks in Japan don't usually buy a name plate until they buy a house - its rare that one would get one for their rented apartment because they would need to get permission from the...
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