Posts in "Japanese Pop Culture"

I dont own a 3DS but I'm a sucker for cute girlies - and after the anime opening for the game Code Of Princess was released today, I'm tempted ^^; This is Solange who is the heroine in the game.

Released recently was the DVD, Bluray and CD of Hatsune Miku's Mikunopolis concert that was held in Los Angeles. T'was an honor to be part of the project ^o^

Young school girls singing and dancing around - they must be fairies. Fairies [フェアリーズ] is a JPOP group which consists of 7 girls aged 13 - 15. They formed in 2011 under a sub-lable of Avex and are produced by the same folks who brought us SPEED...

This most adorable Nendoroid Puchi Hatsune Miku will come with the 8th edition of Quarterly Pixiv - a illustration book which highlights the works of pixiv users. The "Quarterly pixiv vol.08" is due out on the 9th of March. Folks who are interested...

Just like last year, I thought I'd post all the festive seasons greetings by members of the figure/doll and otaku community site figure.fm. Hope I didn't miss any - all photos from the following posts. Thank you all for making figure.fm such a great...

Yes this is a man and yes those are real goldfish swimming around in small bottles and yes - that is a Gundam on his head. He is known as "Kingyo no Ojisan" [金魚おじさん] (the goldfish man) and also as "Boushi no Ojisan [帽子のおじさん] (the hat man...

Seasons greetings! Tis Christmas in Japan today and I think all the clocks have turned and should be the 25th where you are too? What are you doing today? Back in the UK many many maaaaany moons ago, the table in our kitchen would be filled with snac...

Tsuruya-san figma - one of my fave out of the whole figma series. Cute face, lovely fang. Time for another figma theater.

Up for pre-order now is this most cutesome figma of Arcueid - Phantasmoon! One of the most cutest figures I've seen ^o^ Due out next May and retails for 3,200 yen. Check out one of the following trusted online retailers to pre-order. http://www.1999...

Now up for pre-order is this most awesome Saber & Saber Motored Cuirassier - 1/8 scale and due out next May. Retail price is 13,800 yen. Check out one of the following trusted online retailers to pre-order. http://www.1999.co.jp/eng/ http://www.amiam...

Tis the season to be jolly is it not? If you dont feel lucky enough to win the Azunyan figure, then try your dab hand at this giveaway to win anything you want - yes *anything*! Just as long as J-List have it in stock ^^ 3 lucky bods will walk away w...

My name is RoboMirai. Dead or alive, you are coming with me.

I initially didn't have any interest in trying to get the PS Vita during the launch period - I thought it was going to be sold out and unavailable for quite a while and there were not that many games that I was particularly interested in anyway. I th...

The PS Vita was released in Japan today. Folks who wanted it on the day of release waited out infront of the stores. Me wasn't in any rush and knew that mine was going to arrive tomorrow. One of the games arrived first and I thought we'd have a gande...

I previously asked you what figure you wanted for the next giveaway and most of you voted for this gorgeous Azusa Nakano figure by Max factory - so here she is for you - but not this one as this is mines - ToyLet will send you your new unboxed one -...

One of my spies at Good Smile sent over this photo of the Good Smile Cafe in Taiwan - they are currently preparing for the press conference tonight at 18:30 local time which will be streamed on Nico Nico douga. The big boss Aki Takanori has just flow...

Was filming the 2011 AmiAmi end of year figure ranking for Culture Japan with Richard yesterday and would like to share the results with you. As its the EOY rankings, we only cover the top figures from various categories.

Mamoru Hosoda - the man who brought us The Girl Who Leapt Through Time and Summer Wars is brining us another movie called "Ookami Kodomo no Ame to Yuki" [おおかみこどもの雨と雪]. Not much revealed about the story apart from that a young girl called H...

The PS Vita (PlayStation Vita) is out next Saturday on the 17th December and Sony have been ramping up their advertising campaigns on TV, billboards and they have also set up these Play Caravans here n there too. This one spotted in Shibuya the other...

Fresh out into the App Store is the Mirai Suenaga iPhone and iPad app MiraiClock3 - tis free so please do give it a whirl! The app has currently made it into the top 10 charts for free utilities on the app store ^o^

The convenience store Lawson has a ton of K-ON! goodies to co-inside with the release of the Movie - this Yui Hirasawa from my local store at Musashikoyama station ^o^

The K-ON! movie is currently in cinemas across Japan and some of the trains are plastered with the K-ON! girls.

"I can die happy now" was the first thing I said to myself when the tag for my TV show Culture Japan (#culturejapan) became a Twitter Trend in Japan today. This had always been a goal of mine. Culture Japan is broadcast in Japan at 22:30 every Saturd...

When I wake up in the morning, my hair is usually all over the place. But today for some reason, I woke up and discovered that I grew an ahoge just like Mirai-chan. Like father like daughter? Ahoge [アホ毛] (pronounced "Ah-Hor-Geh") is a word used t...