Continuing on Danny's Lineage II figure post, GSC has put up an official listing with a better picture of the Human Mystic (or Human Mage) from the game Lineage 2. The detail on her dress and weapon is pretty good, and the quality from this image looks nice too. But I still wonder about the final product. What about you? The price is a little steep too, for a 1/8 figure. Thanks to this post in Figure / GK for the info.

We caught up with producer-extraordinaire Erwin Stoff at the NBC TCAs where he was promoting his upcoming updated-David-and-Goliath-based show KINGS. When asked about other projects he is currently working on, Stoff, let slip some very juicy news about a very beloved anime franchise. “I’m developing COWBOY BEBOP for Fox, but doing it as a live-action film, so I’m working on that at the moment,” Stoff tells iF. “I’m really excited to be working on it, and it’s in the really early stages. We just signed it the other day.” “I have such an enormous admiration for its creators, that our first and foremost concern is going to be a real degree of faithfulness to the tone of the movie, to the mix of genres, and so on and so forth,” he says. “When I met with them in Japan, one of the first things that I brought up was the experience that we had on A SCANNER DARKLY, and how hard we worked to remain faithful to Philip K. Dick, and that was our big concern here.”

Rejoice PSP-ers, Namco has finally announced that one of their famous games, iDOLM@STER will be released on PSP.. Name of the game is "THE iDOLM@STER SP".. The thing is that Namco decides to split it into 3 versions.. You can get more info from my burogu...

Maybe someone already posted this photo but i couldn't resist ^^ She not looks like so much to the original but she got....something^^ Bye

A chimpanzee at a zoo in western Japan apparently wanted to escape into the shade. To stay there, he disarmed a zoo worker.

A very nice figure from lineage 2. Correct me if I am wrong. This 1/8 PVC figure will retail for 6800 yen in November. On your get list???? Don't know the company making this figure as i don't know japanese Source of image from Figure / GK If the above link don't work, go here ,scroll all the way down and click on 1 or 2(page no.), should see the post or image there

Sadly, Normal Form Shana is Dengeki Daiou magazine September 2008 exclusive mail order. Which means that you need a special coupon from the magazine to get her. As for the Flama Haze Ver., she’s scheduled for November 2008 release. Both will be retailing for 3,500 Yen. Maybe someone can help me translate the info on Flame Haze ver., if I missed anything important ^^ More on Nendoroids, as you can see from the scan, more Nendoroids is on the way, atleast 3 of them ^^ They are Nendoroid Kataoka Azusa from Penguin Musume scheduled for November 2008, Nendoroid Exelica which I think is an exclusive item that comes with a new upcoming PS2 game (I can’t read the title >_< ), and lastly Nendoroid Ignis, which info is still unknown ^^ I’m so getting Ignis when she’s up for pre-orders~XD Azusa looks cute and Exelica is looking cool there~XD As for Shana, we can just hope ( > _ < );

Ryoko is scheduled for October 2008 release and Tsuruya for November 2008 release. Both will be retailing at 2,500 Yen each. From Figure/GK On your get list? I know I am XD

Recycling is rubbish: It eats more energy and creates more waste than burning our garbage in high-tech incinerators. The most efficient way of getting rid of garbage is burning it all together. Why? Because in raw garbage, plastics turn into their own fuel so you don’t need to add anything else. Aluminum and steel should be recycled, though, as we need less energy for that than to produce them from scratch. Fear is a very efficient weapon: It produces the desired effect without much waste. Global warming has nothing to do with how much CO2 is produced or what we do here on Earth. For millions of years, solar activity has been controlling temperatures on Earth and even now, the sun controls how high the mercury goes. CO2 emissions make absolutely no difference one way or another. Soon it will cool down anyhow, once again, regardless of what we do. Every scientist knows this, but it doesn’t pay to say so. What makes a whole lot of economic and political sense is to blame global warming on humans and create laws that keep the status quo and prevent up-and-coming nations from developing. Global warming, as a political vehicle, keeps Europeans in the driver’s seat and developing nations walking barefoot. Criticizing previous ideals is natural. In the 1930s, militarism was considered best; in the 1960s, mass production and mass consumerism. Then in the 1990s the main topic was the environment. Every 30 years we switch what we believe in. This paradigm will pass, too.

Today I spent a while finding out just how much I'd spent on figures in the last year(well, less than a year really...) I was flabbergasted to find that I'd spent over £750!!(Thats over 160000 yen and $1500!!) I know that women can spend that much on shoes easily..... but on figures!!!! OMG I didnt realise that I could.....and that fast..... Theres a more exact figure of how much I've spent and my top 7 favourite figures at my blog. http://meimi132.wordpress.com/ It seems to be having a little spaz at the moment, it won't let me post picures, even after I've cut their actual size down alot!

The iPhone 3G in Japan has a special feature unique to that country: The camera always makes a conspicuous “shutter” sound when a picture is taken, even when the phone is set to “silent” mode. The loud shutter sound is supposed to deter voyeurs from taking sneaky pictures up women’s’ skirts — or down their tops. In Japan, upskirt and downblouse shots have become increasingly popular with the advent of high-resolution camera phones. As a result, all cell phones sold in Japan make a conspicuous shutter sound, or say the word “cheese” when a snap is taken, according to Nobuyuki Hayashi, a tech reporter based in Tokyo. On almost all new cell phones, the camera shutter sound can not be muted, Hayashi says. “Some manufacturers have even put louder shutter sound,” he reports. The shutter on the first iPhone sold in Japan could be muted in silent mode; an anomaly that many wondered whether Apple would correct in the iPhone 3G, Hayashi says. Apple did: The shutter sound cannot be turned off, even in silent mode, Hayashi says.