Weekly Tidbits
- Real life Pikachus are being sold online on Yahoo Auctions Japan. & all for the low, low price of about a billion dollars! [TokyoMango]
- See how many of the classic Pokemon you can name. [Sporcle]
- The new Yoko 3D oppai (breasts) mousepad is now out in Japan, in order to help promote the Gurren Lagann movie which also debuted this week. [AkibaBlog]
- You can make Lelouch & CC from say anything you want with the online Code Geass speech synthesizer. ANYTHING. Imagine the dirty stuff you can have come out of CC's mouth. [Anime News Network]
- Speaking of, there's an official image of Lelouch & CC that you gotta see to believe. A bit NSFW, mind you. [Sankaku Complex]
- Though only about halfway through, the current leader in the Best Ass/Pantsu in Strike Witches poll is the feisty, striped-pantsu Francesca Lucchini. You know, the youngest one who likes grabbing the others' boobs. [AkibaBlog]
- Domo-kun, the Japanese stop-motion animated character, has become a Halloween mascot for American Target stores. [Target]
- British newspaper The Times reports on a manga in Japan called "Kami no Shizuku" (Drops of the Gods), a story about wine & drinking said wine. Apparently it's helped boost sales of the drink immensely in Japan. Kind of like what "Hikaru no Go" did for go, only for alcoholics. [Times Online]
- The original voice of Optimus Prime, Peter Cullen, is slated to reprise his role once again for the Transformers sequel movie, "Revenge of the Fallen." [Newsrama]
- The creator of Bo-bobo is launching a new comedy/action manga in Shonen Jump, titled "Chagecha." [Anime News Network]
- Some algae-dyed polar bears puzzle Japanese zoo visitors. [AP]