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TBE’s Mega Spring Anime Preview 2009
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Sat, 14/03/09 – 22:51 | 12 Comments

A tad late for this but is better than never, March is here and what are our own picks of the animes in Spring. A quick breakdown on the list and I realized that there a couple of interesting animes out there. Lets see what we have in our Mega Spring Anime Preview 2009 !

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A Saturday Morning At Zhen Hua Park
Saturday, 21 Mar, 2009 – 12:31 | 14 Comments
A Saturday Morning At Zhen Hua Park

It’s a nice fuzzy warm Saturday morning and I decided to have my breakfast outdoors and a walk to the park near my house. Took a Sony Cybershot W150 PnS camera with me (instead of my old powershot s5) and here I go! ;D

Iriver’s E50 Metal
Thursday, 19 Mar, 2009 – 18:00 | No Comment
Iriver’s E50 Metal

Iriver will be launching their E50 Metal in Japan on 20th March, this little sexy player is gonna pack a punch

IT Show 2009 & Orchard Walk! - The Indulgence, The Horde & The Damage Report!
Wednesday, 18 Mar, 2009 – 23:39 | 6 Comments
IT Show 2009 & Orchard Walk! - The Indulgence, The Horde & The Damage Report!

IT Show 2009 was over last weekend and to be honest, despite the “whatever-you-call-it-recession”, the crowd in this year’s IT show was more than ever, in fact it has the most number of people as compared to the previous conventions that I went to.

IT Show 2009 & Orchard Walk! - The Indulgence, The Horde & The Damage Report!
Wednesday, 18 Mar, 2009 – 23:39 | 6 Comments
IT Show 2009 & Orchard Walk! - The Indulgence, The Horde & The Damage Report!

IT Show 2009 was over last weekend and to be honest, despite the “whatever-you-call-it-recession”, the crowd in this year’s IT show was more than ever, in fact it has the most number of people as compared to the previous conventions that I went to.

Ask Junko! - Full Metal Feminist: Episode One
Tuesday, 17 Mar, 2009 – 13:19 | 5 Comments
Ask Junko! - Full Metal Feminist: Episode One

Sometimes creative people resort to unusual methods to deal with emotional pain. For me I get my fictional daughter to smack me over the head when I get too emo

Colonel Sanders Was A Curse To A Baseball Team in Osaka
Wednesday, 11 Mar, 2009 – 22:01 | 2 Comments
Colonel Sanders Was A Curse To A Baseball Team in Osaka

Colonel Sanders statue was being taken from the front of a KFC store in Osaka and thrown into the river during a wild celebration of a Hanshin Tigers baseball victory 24 years ago and from that moment ever since, the team has suffered many losses. Many blamed Colonel Sanders and calls it the curse of Colonel Sanders.

CLANNAD Collector Mouse
Wednesday, 11 Mar, 2009 – 12:08 | 3 Comments
CLANNAD Collector Mouse

Akihabara News report of a CLANNAD USB collector mouse that comes in both Nagisa and Tomoyo models. The design is a conventional standard mouse but the overall look gives it a very nice addition for CLANNAD fans.

Blood: The Last Vampire Movie Trailer
Monday, 9 Mar, 2009 – 22:13 | No Comment
Blood: The Last Vampire Movie Trailer

Live action Blood: The Last Vampire features Korean star Gianna Jun and Japanese hottie Koyuki is a english adaptation of the animation movie that showed in 2002.

Eva Clock By Appliya Inc
Monday, 9 Mar, 2009 – 20:22 | 2 Comments
Eva Clock By Appliya Inc

Appliya is one of the leading publishers for iPhone applications in Japan. Evangelion Clock and Evangelion Picture Stamp, the first available iPhone applications based on the popular Rebuild of Evangelion films produced by Khara Inc. The applications are now available worldwide in the iTunes Application Store.

Japan: Remote Control Via Facial Expressions
Monday, 9 Mar, 2009 – 12:25 | 2 Comments
Japan: Remote Control Via Facial Expressions

What you need is just a wink of an eye, a smile or raise your eyebrow and you will be able to change your favorite tracks in iPod or even turn on the TV.

Japan: Remote Control Via Facial Expressions
Monday, 9 Mar, 2009 – 12:25 | 2 Comments
Japan: Remote Control Via Facial Expressions

What you need is just a wink of an eye, a smile or raise your eyebrow and you will be able to change your favorite tracks in iPod or even turn on the TV.

Visual-Kei Hello Kitty- A collaboration between Sanrio & X-Japan
Sunday, 8 Mar, 2009 – 12:46 | No Comment
Visual-Kei Hello Kitty- A collaboration between Sanrio & X-Japan

Rockband X-Japan has teamed up with Sanrio and came up with a special Visual-Kei version of Hello Kitty. The design, as you can see in the picture above sports spiky hair and a new costume. It is the first time in collaboration for Sanrio to team up with a rock band.

Transparent OLED Lighting By Philips
Saturday, 7 Mar, 2009 – 20:00 | No Comment
Transparent OLED Lighting By Philips

Transparent OLED lighting is on its way soon to consumers as Philips developed a 12cm prototype panel which is transparent until flipping the switch for illumination.

Viz To Translate Miyazaki Hayao ’s Starting Point Essays
Saturday, 7 Mar, 2009 – 15:00 | One Comment
Viz To Translate Miyazaki Hayao ’s Starting Point Essays

North American publisher - Viz have announced that they will be doing the translation of Miyazaki Hayao’s Shuppatsu Ten 1979-1996 and slated for a release on 9th July 09…..

4th Series of Lyrical Nanoha To Launch As Manga
Friday, 6 Mar, 2009 – 23:14 | 4 Comments
4th Series of Lyrical Nanoha To Launch As Manga

Known as Mahou Senki Lyrical Nanoha Force, the 4th series will debut as manga on Kadokawa Shoten’s Nyantype in April. Nanoha Takamachi will be 25 years old in the new series.

3rd Annual Seiyu Award Winners Released !
Thursday, 5 Mar, 2009 – 23:37 | No Comment
3rd Annual Seiyu Award Winners Released !

Hiroshi Kamiya, Rie Kugimiya lead winning roster, Miyano Mamoru and Hirano Aya won top honors last year, while Fukuyama Jun and Paku Romi held the honors in The 1st Seiyū Awards the previous year.

Kyoto Animation’s Munto To Get Manga
Thursday, 5 Mar, 2009 – 14:10 | No Comment
Kyoto Animation’s Munto To Get Manga

Kyoto Animation’s Sora o Miageru Shoujo no Hitomi ni Utsuru Sekai (a.k.a Munto) will be adapted into a manga

Buffalo’s Anime USB Memory
Wednesday, 4 Mar, 2009 – 22:09 | No Comment
Buffalo’s Anime USB Memory

Being a fan of Lucky Star and Macross Frontier myself, I wish I owned one of these lovely cute USB memory sticks. These “Swat Tars” USB memory sticks are by Buffalo.

Sakura & Jyunichi’s Promise ~piano~ - D.C. ~Da Capo~ (~ダ・カーポ~)
Tuesday, 3 Mar, 2009 – 23:05 | 2 Comments
Sakura & Jyunichi’s Promise ~piano~ - D.C. ~Da Capo~ (~ダ・カーポ~)

Sakura & Jyunichi’s Promise, or Sakura to Junichi no Yakusoku, a song from the anime, Da Capo. You might not be familiar with this song, but this song has been one of my favorite since I first listened to it. This song is actually the song that inspired me to pick up the piano in the first place, and it’s the first song I tried to learn after a picked up the piano last year. Of course, I wasn’t able to play the song at that time, but now, after a year, I finally did it ^_^

Toughest LCD By Sony
Tuesday, 3 Mar, 2009 – 8:00 | No Comment
Toughest LCD By Sony

“Tough” gadgets that boast different aspects such as pressure, water, etc is not something new but how about a tough LCD that is dust proof and water proof? Sony has what it takes to announce the toughest LCD in town - GXD-L65H1.