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Anybody up for Evangelion burgers?

admin — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 10:32:09 +0000

If you ever feel like grabbing a quick bite in town, be sure to give this place a stop if you are around in Tokyo.

A fast food chain company called Lotteria are selling a combo meal box using all of your favourite Neon Evangelion characters as the main theme. As depicted on this billboard ad above

This new lunchbox set Lotteria has in store is called ‘Eva Burger and Chicken Box’, which you will have french fries, a burger, fried chicken and a soft drink of your choice. Price is around 980 ¥.

Hmm… Yum. Yum. ^^

Would love to give this one a nice try. But bear in mind, this offer is not going to be around for long as the offer ends on 31st May 2010. So you have 30 or so days to give this a go for your usual lunch breaks.

I want to say my big thanks to Ngee Khiong, our Gundam blogger extraordinaire for this wonderful post.

Source: NgeeKhiong

Here’s a freaky thought

admin — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 11:08:46 +0000

Tetsujin 28 Go with Shotaro Haneda

Just ran into this website search on Tetsujin 28.

Apparently, there’s been a growing concerns on many Japanese websites that are advertising or selling child pornography DVD material. Particularly with young high school boys as the ‘popular’ theme. And they’ve been circulating aound the schools to teachers or sick pedophiles.

What’s really freakish about this discovery made by the policemen is that during their crackdown on this case, they found several websites that has related keyword search phrases that start with Shotaro, as our main protagonist character in Tetsujin 28. Here’s the excerpt of the online article below.

Police authorities have detected many Internet sites that specialize in pornographic images of boys, according to the National Police Agency. These sites will be closely monitored.

‘Shotakon’ sites

Sites such as Kobayashi’s are dubbed “shotakon” sites. Shotakon–a portmanteau of the words “Shotaro” and “complex”–is a sexual attraction to young boys.

Shotaro refers to Shotaro Kaneda, the main character in the comic “Tetsujin 28-go” (Gigantor in English), who remote-controls a giant robot. The boy, who always wears shorts in the comic, is a prime example of characters that adults attracted to young boys find appealing. A search for shotakon written in katakana characters got 1.18 million hits on the Yahoo search engine, while shotakon in English got 1.49 million hits.

Well, will I be damned! Didn’t know they’ll treat Shotaro’s shorts in that form.

So beware guys! If you ever run into finding stuff online about Tetsujin 28, like I do, do keep a lookout for these dodgy buggers!! There’s a 1.18 million reasons you’ll get caught, even if it’s not intentional. Best to avoid or escape yourself from getting into those traps in the first place!

Source: Yomiuri

Gurren Lagann’s Kamina in LA anime convention

admin — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 10:45:20 +0000

Gurren Lagann’s Kamina set for the LA anime convention this coming July as announced by Aniplex the voice cast person himself Katsuyuki Konishi (see picture inset above).

He’ll also be there to be judge panellist for Kamina cosplay contest as well.

I’m sure they will be plenty of Kamina wannabes out there who’ll love to give this a major thrill!

Just like this one down below.

Not bad at all. Great effort for the Spanish dude’s flawless Japanese dialogues!

Totally rock! ^^

Are some of you guys keen to see some great cosplays in your neighbourhood as well? Or are you planning to do some cosplays yourselves?

Source: Animenewsnetwork.com

Evangelion for GT300 racing

admin — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 10:32:48 +0000

How’s this for a sports sponsorship idea?

Evangelion makers are looking forward to co-sponsor one of the hottest car racing sports on the planet. It is Super GT300-class grand touring championship series around the moutanous areas of Mt Fuji, Japan.

And they will place a Eva Racing Logo on the entire body of aToyota Corolla vehicle.

Check this out to read on!

Source: ANN.com

Care for a quick Gundam coffee?

admin — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 11:59:59 +0000

If you ever drop by to stop for a coffee in a city during your lunch breaks, and the city you’re living happens to be Tokyo, do give this Gundam Cafe for a quick stop!

The store just recently opened up a week ago and it’s located down in Akihabara (see picture above).

It looks like just any cafe shop you normally see within the shopping areas of CBD. With a bit of ‘Gundam’ feel of course!

Everything from Gundam ensignias, military-style tapestry and all wall layouts seem to be moulded out of Gundam Unicorn’s armor? Hmm maybe it’s Gundam Unicorn in disguise as our favourite coffee place?!? Lol. Perhaps ^^.

Anywho, if you’re wanting to find its exact location, here’s their official web page and there’s a little map you can on the first page screen. Their opening hours are from 8:30 to 5:00 Mons-Fris. Apparently they do bar nights too until before midnight.

So definitely worth to check out.

Source: Animenewsnetwork, BanzaiEffect, Gundam Cafe

Japan’s Manga Publisher has highest gross earnings to date.

admin — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 06:44:17 +0000

One of Japan’s top well known publisher, Shueisha Inc, has made a quite healthy pocket of profit during the year of 2009.

A very healthy one.

A whopping USD $759 million big ones to be precise! All the other manga publishers could not get remotely close to their latest figures.

Have a look here, the chart and you’ll see how Shueisha made such dramatic push of great results in making successful business.

If you’d ask me, I would have thought significant drop of DVD sales over that past year was the major reason it was doing too well. That’s why they’ll getting further traction with these hence animation studios are losing out the big slice of that profit pie. Big time!

Source: ANN.com