Items for November 2010 in "Japanese Pop Culture"

Tonight's Culture Japan is an AFAX special - should let folks re-live the awesome 3 day event and serve as a taster for those who didn't manage to attend. Cant wait for AFA 2011! Today's show features:- Super Sonico JAM Project SCANDAL An...

Has to be one of the worst figure bootlegs I've seen. Apparently cost $1 - is that in USD or Ringgit? Poor Nendo Puchi Miku. Posted by Chibi Miku over at Figure.fm.

Looks like my job now involves me manufacturing dolls ^^; More about the whole process soon including the sculpting, molds, slush molding, painting, joints and all the other steps needed to create the little ones. BTW, is there an anime or game chara...

Was invited along with a load of other game industry folks to a press conference held by a company called ImageEpoch. They've made a few game titles in the past and today they announced that they will be releasing a ton of titles under their JRPG bra...

Announced at today's JRPG game press conference - a new game title called "Puchitto Rock Shooter." All the details they gave is that it will be an online browser based RPG released by Nico Nico and that it will be free to play. Due out Spring 2011....

A load of doll comrades gathered at the Shows Doll booth over the two day AFAX event. Was great to meet all the doll owners in person - a list of them below. Lemme know if there are urls that I should be including. Gordon - http://gordonator.com Ar...

Day 2 coverage of the Anime Festival Asia 2010. Was running around to meetings and wot not so didn't get to take as many photos as I would have liked. The day was packed with a load of festivities as usual and you can see the rest of the coverage li...

Photos of the Trading Card Game tournament that took place at the AFAX. The games were all Weiss Scharz and not Chaos right? The Milky Holmes girls were there to egg on the proceedings. With the help of Bushiroad I'm now a Weiss player and hope to b...

Was on Channel NewsAsia - a Singapore national TV morning show. Went on with The Executive Director of SOZO Shawn Chin and Veteran butler Hellven Chua to speak about the anime industry and monetary aspects.

Looks like the Milky Holmes girls have also taken a liking to our Saber. Here we have from the left is Mikoi Sasaki [佐々木未来] (green), Sora Tokui [徳井青空] (yellow) and the very funny Izumi Kitta [橘田 いずみ] (blue) who keeps trying to kidnap Sa...

Our Mirai Itasha was cloned in a different shape and color by Gen Concept and the folks at Sozo - they did an incredible job! Thanks to Maurice for handling the project. A few other Itasha were also on display at the AFAX including an AFA-kun and Gu...

Coverage of the Anime Festival Asia 2010 day 1 which was held at the Suntec Convention Center in Singapore on the 13th November. This event is truly turning out to be one of the worlds biggest anime events in terms of the variety of booths, events a...

Takaaki Kidani-san who is the CEO of Bushiroad, founder of Broccoli and producer of Milky Holmes has taken a liking to our Saber-chan. Wonder what Saber thinks about all this.

Some photos of the stage events that I hosted at the Anime Festival Asia 2010 (AFAX). Photos include my short talks at the Cool Japan Forum and at the beginning of the special Culture Japan screening. The first batch of photos are of the Kana Hanaza...

Today we are doing some filming for Culture Japan with the Sega Sammy Group at a Pachinko parlor in Ikebukuro. I have with me (from left to right) the lovely Minori Kawahara [河原実乃梨], Mao Kozuka [小塚 麻央] and Arisa Matsui [松井ありさ]. The 3 o...

To my right is the most sweetsome anime voice actress Kana Hanazawa [花澤 香菜] who I was MC'ing for on stage. Good Smile Company boss (on the far left of the photo) Aki Takanori then joins us both on stage after for some shenanigans. To Aki-sans le...