Time Travel is Awesome has already had some convention content from Sakura Con + Part 2 but we plan to bring some coverage from at least three more conventions this summer. What I want to know is, what kind of content do you want from convention coverage? What do you most care about when [...]
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The long awaited, I know my readers at my personal blog have been begging for this information, Dragonball MMO has gotten some more information in the past few days including some very nice looking promo videos and gameplay footage. Anime News Network posted a nice summery of all the news surrounding the new extension of [...]
AnimeNewsNetwork is reporting about the coming Hollywood adaptation of Dragonball:
Twentieth Century Fox has officially announced that it signed director James Wong (Final Destination, X-Files television series, The One) and casted twenty-five-year-old Justin Chatwin (War of the Worlds, The Invisible, Lost television series) in the lead role of Goku for the movie adaptation of Akira Toriyama’s [...]
From Kotaku:
With all those erotic PC games released in Japan, how’s a company supposed to stand out? Hint: Make the game tangible. On the fifth floor of Akihabara Sofmap, married women title Married Women Harem ~This is the Married Women Paradise Inn~ does just that! Instead of just leaving a stack of fliers and info [...]
Toy giant Bandai is offering a deluxe “Mobile Suit Gundam” t-shirt with a hefty price tag. Produced with the help of deluxe apparel designers mastermind JAPAN with a design rendered in crystals, each shirt will retail at a price of 200,000 yen (approximately $1,600 US dollars).
According to a Nihon Keizai Shimbun report dated August [...]
I find it a bit insulting that they attempted to pass Clare off as a man in episode 16 of Claymore.
It is just a bit ridiculous, really. Maybe if they actually made her look like a man; but they decided to go for the Sailor Moon effect.
Let’s see if anyone reading this can tell the [...]
Here’s a gallery of a 59-feet-tall 1:1 Gundam robot, lying down in its base at Mount Fuji. I know the world is entranced by Transformers right now, but please excuse my enthusiasm when I say… “it’s full-scale Gundam! A REAL GUNDAM! Look at those pics! LOOK AT THAT DETAIL! OMFG!” OK, much better now. We [...]
Nintendo is releasing yet another Nintendo DS, this time with popular Pokémon branding and a brilliant Pikachu yellow paintjob. While this special edition Nintendo DS Lite will retail for the regular price of 16,800 yen, getting your hands on one is going to be challenging. To secure this yellow piece of kit, you’ll need to [...]
The survey was conducted at 34 cafes in 10 different prefectures through interviews with 85 individual cafe customers. The results of the survey underscore growing concern by the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare that increased use of the cafes as a place to stay is a sign of increased poverty. The Ministry is planning [...]
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=okeq0uuldy0]This video is awesome! So this is an Off-Kai, or an offline meeting of online friends. I think these are people who “met” on a cosplay-for-fun board on 2-channel. They met up for real in the middle of an Akihabara street on a Saturday to perform this wonderfully synchronized dance with blasted stereo music. [...]