Waaah, Kingdom Hearts 3D looks so awesome! Just saw the cool, new trailer from Tokyo Game Show (happening right now in Japan). I love that Sora and Riku appear to be dual protagonists this time, and I love the chemistry Sora has with tsun-tsun Neku Sakuraba (of the awesme Square-Enix DS game The World Ends With You). This makes Neku the first non- ( Read more... )

Found the link from chibiyuuto and thought I'd romanize the list for those who are interested. Oricon compiled the top 50 best-selling tankoban between Novemer 2008 and May 2009. It's cool to see what's popular in Japan these days~

( The Top 50 Best-selling Manga (Nov/08 - May/09) )

OMG, I think I'm in love...!! Have you guys heard of Cinema Bizarre? They're this German rock band of five GORGEOUS, very obviously VISUAL KEI-influenced guys ( Read more... )

The Dell Mini 12, aka Macbook Air-killer~~~

I want this thing SO MUCH. Full (12.1") screen and keyboard, weighs less than 3 lbs (which I discovered is SO IMPORTANT in a laptop after I bought my 7-pound Dell dinosaur laptop last year!), comes with XP--and it's only $549...!! True, it only has a 40GB HD, but all I need it for is writing and surfing, ( Read more... )

So now that the long-awaited Dissidia: Final Fantasy has been released in Japan, we get the first news of its release schedule in the US: "mid-2009." :( Long wait, but for all the voice acting they'll have to record in English, it's probably not surprising. I just hope they keep the quality up! 0__0) Square-Enix has also launched the Dissidia: ( Read more... )

Don't know if you guys have seen this yet, but ANN.com reported that there was recently a big survey in Japan about what people consider the 10 best anime and manga of all time. Very interesting (and appropriate) results!

The top ten manga are:

1. Slam Dunk (Manga)
2. JoJo's Bizarre Adventure (Manga)
3. Dragon Ball (Manga)
4. Fullmetal Alchemist ( ( Read more... )

So, I was ordered by my googly imouto
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