Yesterday I watched this show on TV and now is already on Youtube. So damn fun Evangelion Obentoya san parody!

(via Danny) When I see photos like this I feel that there is still hope for humanity!! This is an HERO!!

(If they would know what TENGA is, I imagine that some US manga critics would start to say that masturbation with MOE and EROGE is bad!!)

Gamer's Micheal memories...

"Moonwalker was first developed into an arcade video game by Sega with the help of Jackson which was released on the Sega System 18 hardware. This game suffered from Sega's suicide battery on its arcade board (a battery that, accidentally or otherwise, renders the game unplayable at the end of its lifespan like Capcom's CPS2)"  via Wikipedia



(pcb via SuperMik)

(via Destructoid - Kotaku) Sano DG announced that in september the new version of the best selling music software for Nintendo DS will be released!

Today comrades @ Gizmodo.jp posted a crazy photo of Amano Ai: she loves iPhone 3GS!!!!
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via MODELLISMO HOBBYMEDIA

OK, I'm not a big fan of CRAZY JAPAN news but last weekend, when I saw this new diet supplement I couldn't pass the chance to share these photos. Is this blasphemy or this is the next big hit among christian integralists around the world?!

A new videogame museum just opened in Russia! Around 20 of the 37 different kinds of machines are displayed and playable. They operate with old Soviet 15 kopek coins, the hammer-and-sickle emblem of which itself conjures up a bygone time. Visitors can try their luck with games like «Sea Battle», where the player looks through a periscope and pretends to be a submarine commander, attempting to torpedo passing ships. In «Tankodrom» the player tries to knock out rocket launchers and jeeps with a small plastic tank. The museum also features Soviet pinball tables, ice-hockey games for two and four players, a target shooting game called «Sniper» and early video games with titles like «Gorodki» and «Skachki» («Horse race»).

Welcome to play, discover and enjoy!

 

 

19 june 23.30 - Just come back from the Tokyo premiere of TRANSFORMERS 2 with Danny Choo and other  Tokyoites super geeks. I loved the movie but it far, far away from STAR TREK magnitude!! Something interesting is that the movie "policatilly correctnes" changed according to the new US president and now the military loves arabs... Beside Megan Fox many "fan service" scenes, being an RC cars maniac, I love that one of the transformers bots is a Tamiya RC Car (sadly no scrolling credits mention for Tamiya)!

Japanese robot craftman ClockWork created Hina: an uber cute manga robot based Kondo KHR-2HV (it uses 20 digital servo KRS-788HV).

Last monday I went to the Tokyo CGM night. It was super  fun and met GREAT people but  after a discussion about the most sexy gravure idol in Japan the Social Evangelist Paul Papadimitriou grabbed Danny's lightsaber and tryed to kill me...
I've been lucky since put the saber on safe mode so Paul could really kill me but anyway the super photographer Jonny Li was there and snapped these photos so that Phoenix Wright will be able to solve the case without much trouble...
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The Orbital Pretty mook published by Sansai Books is out! Finally Moe meets Space! Moelicious!!!

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|=------------------=[ By The Circle of Lost Hackers ]=-----------------=|
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Let's imagine a man, sitting on the Moon and looking down to this
75%-water-25%-ground Planet. He doesn't know anything about us. Neither we
do about him, but that's another story, maybe another Intro.

He sees this Internet madness going on down there. He sits and watches.

"This is not different from your favourite bar", a guy behind our man says
in a smile.

Down there a bunch of bar tenders provides connections to everybody. They
earn their life out of that, so every so often they just scrappy down
their service. There's water in my drink, sir, and there's a strange rate
of packet loss on my P2P traffic. There are a bunch of gangsters: they
want to control the business, they want to know who does what and they try
to shut down whoever is not okay with that. We have cleaned their faces,
put them on TV and we keep on calling them politicians. Good luck with
your laws, we'll find our way out, somehow. There are beautiful girls,
there are married couples, there are young guys, there are usual and
occasional customers. Everybody is down there, everybody has his own
chance to tell his story. If you're getting to this bar for the first
time, you might spot some guys that are just different. You can't say why,
but there's something. It doesn't matter if they are married, young, old,
musicians, workers, even bartenders, this is just the outside. There's
another life, behind that, it's now so-damn-clear that they're just trying
to keep a balance with it.

"You used to be one of them, didn't you ?"

Our man-on-the-moon asks, looking at the guy. But there's no need of an
answer, he is just different. You can't say why, but there's something.
Somebody once told me that Heaven is on the Moon.

"What's your name again ?"
"Cliph."

[ I don't know in what you believe or even if you believe. In the end, it
doesn't really matter. This is not a story about science or religion or
humanity, this is a Good-Bye. To a friend.. ]

http://phrack.org/
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Yesterday I went to the Otaku Encyclopedia party with Danny Choo and his CGM comrades held by Kodansha in "Steven Nagata land" (that's how Danny renamed Akiba)! This new book is written by the real super saiyan Patrick W. Galbraith and will be out in october so don't forget to reserve your copy!!

Me drinking beer @ the party photo taken by Super Steven Nagata!

Twitter summary: @dannychoo  @kenbrady  @papadimitriou @stevenagata @jonnyli @drzuco @frankiebit @imorpheus

www.geeksonaplane.com

My comrades at Hobibox Ltd just informed me that the legendary Yaoi videogame illustrator Chinatsu Kurahana (Tatana Kana) is going to the AnimeExpo 2-5 July in Los Angeles.  This will be a great chance to meet one of the most famous Japanese yaoi artist.

Chinatsu Kurahana official website.
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AKIBA - Seems that there is a call for boycott www.tbs.co.jp who is giving an example of GREAT journalism broadcasting fake news and helping the nice ladies @ Equality Now  ( info@equalitynow.org ) to spread their message of love and respect...
Now I'm wondering if anime/game companies will have the guts to work together with TBS in the future if the Otaku community will not watch that TV channel and buy advertised products...

You can contact TBS here:

http://www.tbs.co.jp/contact/

http://www.bpo.gr.jp/audience/send/index.html