June 2008

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    A true gamer’s room

    Think you are the ultimate gamer? Do you play your PS3, XBox, and a Wii daily? Do you have a PSP in your left pocket, and a DS in your right? Well, I bet you don’t have one of these yet — a true gamer’s room. This guy’s room is one of a kind. It […] More

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    Soccer playing bird draws crowds

    A budgie is drawing crowds of people to a cafe in Suzaka, Nagano Prefecture. This 2 year old budgie has earned a reputation as a soccer player. He is able to take shots using a bell as a ball, and apperantely has skills dribbling as well. The budgie can take anything round as use it […] More

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    Yahoo! Japan bans sale of daggers

    Tomohiro Kato gestures with a military knife at a surplus store in Japan. Yahoo! Japan has made the decision today to ban sales of all daggers on their site due to fatal stabbings in Akihabara last Sunday. At the time the ban went into place, there were 3 daggers removed from the site. Yahoo! Japan […] More

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    PiQ closes QuicK

    It seems like only yesterday when Newtype closed its doors forever. But then we were given a ray of hope in their new venture PiQ magazine. However, that ray of hope was indeed short lived. AnimeOnDVD caught a blog post from a freelance journalist that wrote for PiQ. The email she received went as followed, […] More

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    Otaku room on FriendFeed

    If you’re a fan of Japanese pop culture, or have you own blog related to anything Otaku, feel free to join my new FriendFeed room /Otaku. FriendFeed is a service that has been gaining a lot of publicity recently, and I am a big fan of it. With there being so many social networking sites […] More

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    GONZO continues innovating anime

    Leave it to GONZO to continue pushing the anime industry in the right direction to keep up with changing times. In April GONZO announced that they would offer episodes on streaming services, and even set up an official GONZO channel on Youtube. Now they have partnered with Kadokawa and both companies are offering episodes of […] More

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    Disturbing Japanese Schoolgirls

    You may see Japanese schoolgirls as sweet, pleasant, moe type girls, however CG artist Yoshitaka Kawakami wants you to see them another way. Here are a few pieces he has worked on over the past 6 years. Check out his gallery for 15 more disturbing schoolgirl pictures. Via Pink Tentacle. More

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    Konami code in Google Reader

    Seems someone at the Google reader team is a fan of Konami games. The now infamous Konami Code (↑ ↑ ↓ ↓ ← → ← → B A) has been (re)discovered in the popular RSS reader. If you do use Google Reader, make sure you are at the Home window, and enter the Konami code […] More

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    Japan’s largest cosplay site now in English

    The largest cosplay site in Japan just got an English makeover. Cure has announced that they have opened the English version of their cosplay site. Cure opened in 2001, and has over 300,000 registered members. Huge is an understatement when talking about Cure. The site receives over 50 million page views a month. This is […] More

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    Liquid nitrogen cooled Takoyaki

    Akiba GeteQ (known for it’s bear, alligator, snake, and turtle Takoyaki) has come up with a very unique, and new kind of takoyaki called Cool-dere Q. This ball of meaty goodness is dipped in liquid nitrogen to make the outside “minus 195 degrees” but the inside piping hot. An employee describes it as, For the […] More

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    Man arrested after 3 days at restaurant

    Can someone explain this one to me. A man has been arrested for staying in a restaurant for three days, and not paying for food. Late friday, Yasuo Komatsu, came to the Gusto restaurant in front of the JR Hitachi station. While he was there, he had gyoza, hamburger steak, fried chicken and other delicious […] More

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    Stuffed animal? No, stuffed NES

    You would think it’s still hard to find cool Nintendo stuff like the Huge NES coffee table controller anymore. Nope. Blueblythe thought it was a cool idea to sew a plush Nintendo system. She then needed some games to go with it, Super Mario 3 and Duck hunt. But with Duck Hunt, you need a […] More

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