Yearly Archives: 2007

Screencaps from Kira Star (SFW)

Hey guys, it’s time for some hilarious screencaps from yet another quality production from our good friends at TMA! In case you haven’t heard of them before, TMA is a company that likes to create live-action AV based on popular … Continue reading

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Maaya Sakamoto – Saigo no Kajitsu

As you may know, I am a huge Maaya Sakamoto fanboy. So you can believe me when I say that her recent songs had been quite disappointing ever since she parted ways with her composer and mentor Yoko Kanno. Which … Continue reading

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Gundam 00 — Episode 8

I’ve been busy with various things since Saturday morning and only just managed to watch episode 8. Off topic, but everyone should watch Freedom. Jiyuu wo tsukame! Fanservice dissemination at maximum output I like this episode. It keeps everything I … Continue reading

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Haruhi Itasha Model

For some inexplicable reason, plamo maker Aoshima is releasing a series of itasha scaled models. I really don’t understand the logic behind this. This meta-merchandising is about as relevant as writing a blog about people blogging. But I guess some … Continue reading

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Maid Café in Shanghai

Don777 recounts his trip to Shanghai where he visited a maid café run by a Japanese owner. The cafe name is @Niaohai (@ニャオハイ), which is the Mandarin reading for the owner’s surname Toriumi (鳥海). According to him, the staff generally … Continue reading

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DreamHost PS

The site was getting way too slow, so I tried applying for DreamHost’s new invitation-only Private Server option. It finally got approved yesterday. It’s basically a virtual machine with a specific amount of CPU cycles and RAM dedicated to each … Continue reading

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iPod touch

Due to some strange twist of fate, I now have in my possession an 8GB iPod touch. (Basically a gimped iPhone without the Phone.) It’s a very, very awesome piece of technology, and yet it suffers from the same glaring … Continue reading

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Gundam 00 — Episode 9

This episode is a pretty good one because we are finally seeing some semblance of actual combat tactics being employed. Also, it has some character development for Felt, which is good. (But maybe not. Refer to the last line of … Continue reading

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Hatsune Miku Nendroid

Nendroid is a PVC figurine series from Good Smile Company that turns popular anime characters into awesome chibified caricatures with oversized heads. VOCALOID2’s Hatsune Miku recently received the Nendroid treatment and topped the Amazon preorders chart with over 10,000 preorders … Continue reading

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Thai Bishoujo Game

Here’s your daily dosage of “WTF everything I hold to be true and dear in this reality has been torn apart and disintegrated.” Angel’s Tale from StudioGU is a bishoujo game made in Thailand. Yes, the one in Southeast Asia. … Continue reading

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State of the Union

If you are reading this, that means the new DNS has propagated for you. I had to manually edit my HOSTS file to access this site. Stupid ISP and its stupid slow-updating cache. This site is now hosted by HostGator … Continue reading

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Gundam 00 — Episode 10

Eh. I think this is the kind of episode that most people would enjoy. It has some fighting (lame), character development (lame) and plot development (what plot?), all the jazz that people claim to watch Gundam for. But I didn’t … Continue reading

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