[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. [...]
Exhibit previously displayed in Osaka area reappears in Nasu Highland Park in eastern Japan
Starting Saturday April 21st, the city of Nasukogen in Ibaraki Prefecture will see the arrival of a new exhibit at their local amusement park: an exhibit featuring “life size” Gundam robots.The attraction, which will appear in Nasu Highland Amusement Park, will be [...]
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We told you about Jeanne d’Arc, a Japanese role playing game based on the real life story of story of Joan of Arc coming to the U.S. for domestic release yesterday. While PSP RPGs may or may not float your boat, this commercial might do the trick.
This video is an extended length Japanese commercial for [...]
Not enough Final Fantasy games on the Horizon for you? This ought to pitch a tent in your pants. Square Enix has announced an event called “Square Party 2007″ on May 12th and 13th at Makuhari Messe, near Tokyo. Here’s the full translation:
Square Enix released, in daily Japanese newspaper Yomiuri Shimbun, a publicity page [...]
This statue of Tokiko from the Anime Busou Renkin is just about one of the coolest things I’ve ever seen. Probably one of the most impressive looking figures that I’ve seen, if you cancel out any of the perfect grade models (which you need to be insane to build)
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More Screencaps from the Dragon Ball MMO in the works. From 4gamer
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Sales of desktop and laptop computers from brand-name makers in February were 1.2 percent higher than the same month in 2006, said BCN. The company came up with its figure after analyzing point-of-sales system data from about 560 specialist PC and electronics shops that are part of 12 retail chains.The entire market was up 6 [...]
In many ways, this is the perfect picture to describe the console situation in Japan. The Nintendo Wii and Ds are both sold out, Sony (not really but metaphorically speaking) is trying to get people to buy their PS3 and the Xbox 360 is no where to be seen. I’d say you couldn’t craft a [...]
One of the best songs from one of the best Video Game soundtracks ever produced, the Waltz of the Dolls from Final Fantasy 4 is played on Guitar and Piano by Alexander “housethegrate” Liss (website).
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Of course, I am a fan of people playing Final Fantasy music on normal instruments. As I’ve proven before.
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Gizmodo reports that the Japanese have different priorities than Americans when it comes to using Vista.
We’ve got different priorities than the Japanese. The first things we do when we get Vista are installing it on a Mac, figuring out how SideShow works, and scoping out the Windows Experience. What do the Japanese do? They [...]