Yearly Archives: 2007

Haruhi coming to PSP!

Hot news! A PSP game based on Suzumiya Haruhi no Yuuutsu is coming our way. The publisher is Bandai Namco and the official site is supposed to come online on July 10, more than two weeks from now. According to … Continue reading

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School Days – Episode 1

School Days is a 2005 AVG from Overflow that featured fully voiced and animated gameplay. Thanks partly to its infamous blood-soaked “bad ends”, the game achieve cult status in otakudom and can be said to be the first and, thus … Continue reading

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Independence Day

US Marines raising the flag on Iwo Jima. It’s time for another rant that is completely unrelated to the theme of this blog because I just felt like it. Fourth of July just ended a few hours ago for the … Continue reading

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Haruhi Season 2

It’s official. Haruhi season 2 is coming! The latest issue of Newtype has the exclusive… It’s supposed to go onsale on the 10th but apparently the scans have been leaked… Not much details, though. Thanks to Kyon for informing me. … Continue reading

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SOS-Dan does Lucky Star dance at Cosfest VI

A group of Haruhi cosplayers performed the Lucky Star OP dance as part of their entry item for the semi-finals of the World Cosplay Summit (Singapore), which is part of Cosfest VI. Here’s a super blur and shaky video of … Continue reading

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Cosfest VI — tons of cosplay photos

Cosfest is finally over. I am so tired from two entire days of photo-taking. It’s been 24 hours and my hands still ache from carrying a camera that weighs at least 24.43 jillion pounds. I’ve been feeling feverish the whole … Continue reading

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Cosfest VI — Karaoke Competition

Wow I finally uploaded these. My internet connection was acting screwy last week and YouTube uploads kept failing. Day 1 of Cosfest VI‘s highlight was an anime karaoke competition. As usual Rika and Mizuki rocked. YouTube videos of their performances … Continue reading

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Shakugan no Shana Itasha

Hey everyone. Remember me? Yeah I’m still alive. I shall not bore you with details about why I’ve been so inactive lately (nothing to do with Odex) and instead I bring you an extremely short post with zero actual content … Continue reading

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Hare Hare Yukai International

SOS-dan is taking over the world, one Hare Hare Yukai dance at a time! Here’s a YouTube video of a whole bunch of weird people from all over the globe performing the trademark dance. Singapore’s entry came from the recently-held … Continue reading

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Odex — having your cake and eating it too

UPDATE 20/11/2007: Note to foreign readers. This article is about Odex’s local copyright enforcement actions that took place in Singapore in mid 2007. This is not directly related to its latest international efforts. Please refer to here for discussions on … Continue reading

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Japan Manga, Anime & Games Tour

Time to take a break from all the gloom and doom. Here’s a more cheerful news brought to you by Mr. Lim, a former teacher of mine. He’s a bona fide gaming enthusiast and frequently takes random trips to Japan … Continue reading

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Odex Survey

Update: Apparently the response was overwhelming and they have already collected enough results. The survey is over! Yay! Thanks for you help.

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