GEM Series Rurouni Kenshin PVC Figure Kenshin Himura

GEM Series Rurouni Kenshin PVC Figure Kenshin Himura

GEM Series Rurouni Kenshin PVC Figure Kenshin Himura Limited ver

MegaHouse will release GEM Series Rurouni Kenshin PVC Figure Kenshin Himura with 2 version available. First is standard version featuring Kenshin Himura wearing red clothes like in the Rurouni Kenshin anime serial television and the other one is limited version featuring Kenshin Himura wearing blue clothes seems like in the Samurai X Trust & Betrayal / Rurouni Kenshin Tsuioku Hen (OVA).

GEM Series Rurouni Kenshin PVC Figure Kenshin Himura will be released on June 2011, but you can pre order from Hobby Search and play-asia starts from now.

BUY  GEM Series Rurouni Kenshin PVC Figure Kenshin Himura standard version from: Hobby Search or play-asia (click the link to buy)

BUY  GEM Series Rurouni Kenshin PVC Figure Kenshin Himura (limited version) from: Hobby Search or play-asia (click the link to buy)

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Excellent Model P.O.P One Piece Neo DX White Beard Edward Newgate Figure

Excellent Model P.O.P One Piece Neo DX White Beard Edward Newgate Figure from MegaHouse has been released on December 2010. You can order starts from now, hurry up order before stockout.

You can buy Excellent Model Portrait of Pirates One Piece Neo DX White Beard Edward Newgate Figure from Amazon.com: One Piece: Excellent Model P.O.P Neo DX White Beard Edward Newgate Figure (click the link to buy)


or you can also order from Hobby Search: Excellent Model P.O.P One Piece Neo DX White Beard Edward Newgate Figure

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Children who Chase Lost Voices from Deep Below Preview

Children who Chase Lost Voices from Deep Below or also known as Hoshi o Ou Kodomo is the Makoto Shinkai latest work. This anime movie expected to follow the success of 5 Centimeters per Second, the last  works of Makoto Shinkai before Children who Chase Lost Voices from Deep Below.
The anime has release date on May 7, 2011 in Japan and will be listed on Spring 2011 Anime.

Synopsis
Asuna lost her father and lives a lonely life listening to mysterious music coming from her father's crystal radio. One day she sets out for a journey to see a boy again. Through the adventure, she experiences a parting and finds the cruelty and the beauty of the world. (Source: Cinema Today)

Children who Chase Lost Voices from Deep Below Trailer

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5 Centimeters Per Second (Movie)

5 Centimeters Per Second or known as Byousoku 5 Centimeter - a chain of short stories about their distance is a romance anime movie created by Makoto Shinkai which consists of three chapter: 'Extract of the Cherry Blossoms' (Oukashou / 桜花抄), 'Cosmonaut' (コスモナウト) and '5 Centimeters per Second' (Byousoku 5 Centimeter / 秒速5センチメートル). 

Chapter 1: Extract of the Cherry Blossoms, tells the relationship  between Takaki Tono and Akari Shinohara, two classmates in elementary schools who have a very close relationship, but after elementary school graduation Akari moves to Tochigi, due to her parents job. So far, they communicate by writing letters. When Takaki will be moving to Kagoshima, he decide to meet with Akari because Takaki realize they will separated by a distance farther. At the meeting that they did the first kiss and they promise to continue writing mail to each other. 

Chapter 2:  Cosmonaut, tells Takaki who now in the third year senior high school in Tanegashima. In that school, Takaki has a classmate, Kanae Sumida who fall in love with Takaki. In this episode Takaki depicted  not respond Kanae feelings although Kanae never say about her feelings, and consider Kanae only as a  friend.

Chapter 3: 5 Centimeters per Second, epilogue of this movie. Now, time has been passes 2007 and Takaki has worked in a company as a programmer. Takaki seems is still miss and love Akari even though Takaki has a girlfriend named Risa Mizuno and Akari will mariage with someone. When Mizuno decide break up with Takaki, this makes Takaki very depressed and finally he quit from his job. Over time, finally Takaki seems can forget Akari and can escape from his past that binds his life and Takaki can continue his life with a smile.

Release Date:
2007-01-22 (production completed)
2007-02-16 to 2007-02-19 (ep 1 net premiere to Yahoo! Premium members)
2007-03-03 (Japan, Cinema Rise theater at Shibuya, Tokyo)

5 Centimeters Per Second, a great movie by Makoto Shinkai especially for those of you who like movies with love themes plus with an impressive graphics quality make this film as a beautiful art work. This film describes the life of human that has seen slow but it was fast, like cherry blossoms fall from tree to the ground with speed 5 cm per second.
The film won the Lancia Platinum Grand Prize, the Future Film Festival for best movie in animation or special effects and won the Award for Best Animated Feature Film at the 2007 Asia Pacific Screen Awards. One thing that makes me love this movie is the great ending theme song of 5 Centimeters Per Second "One more time, one more chance" by Masayoshi Yamazaki.

You can BUY 5 Centimeters Per Second DVD from Amazon.com:

5 Centimeters Per Second (Click the link to buy)

or you can BUY from Play-Asia.com:
5 Centimeters Per Seconds [Special Limited Edition] at Play-Asia.com (Click the link to buy)


5 Centimeters Per Second Trailer

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Impact of Japanese Earthquake and Tsunami on Anime Manga Industry

On 11 March 2011, Japan rocked by an earthquake 8.9 SR that caused tsunami. Because the tsunami thousands of people died and thousands more is missing. Not only that Japan now is in nuclear crisis  because of the nuclear reactor that was damaged by the earthquake. Disaster is affecting various sectors one of them is the anime and manga industry.

Impact of Japanese Earthquake and Tsunami on Anime Manga Industry is causes many anime events cancelled. "The official website of the Anime Contents Expo (ACE) 2011 event confirmed on Thursday that the event has been cancelled in the wake of the March 11 earthquake and tsunami. A FES, the anime song event that would have taken place during the same March 26-27 weekend and in the same Makuhari Messe convention center as ACE, was already cancelled", as quoted from ANN.
Not only that, "The official website of the Tokyo International Anime Fair 2011 has officially announced that the event has been cancelled in view of the unstable power and the unspecified damages to Tokyo Big Sight", as quoted from alafista.

Besides anime events, many anime and manga releases delayed or cancelled because of Japanese Earthquake and Tsunami. The anime and manga delayed or cancelled such as, Dragon Crisis! episode 10, Kore wa Zombie Desu ka? episode 10, 16th issue of Weekly Shonen Sunday magazine and many more anime or manga releases delayed or cancelled.

I forget one thing to share to you, Japanese Earthquake and Tsunami also make whole office of Hobby Link Japan, an internet mail-order business in Tochigi Japan become fall apart. You can watch the video about the situation in Hobby Link Japan office when earthquake occur.

Source: ANN, alafista

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Nendoroid Petite

Nendoroid petite or also known as nendoroid puchi is one type of nendoroid figure, as we known nendoroid has three type, that is regular/standard, plus and petite. Nendoroid petite has smaller body than regular type, height around 5 cm.  Good Smile Company has been released many nendoroid petite such as nendoroid petite mato & yomi, vocaloid series, death note case file 01 & 02,  K-ON, and other nendoroid petite that is not less in quality than the standard type.

Maybe only this that I can share to you about nendoroid petite, if you must choose, which one standard or petite and tell your reason to me?

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Stein Gate Anime Preview

Stein Gate anime is adaptation from Stein Gate visual novel developed by Nitroplus and published by 5pb , that was originally developed for XBOX 360 console on October 2009, but later ported to the Windows PC on August 2010. Stein Gate also has been get manga adaption ilustrated by Sarachi Yomi on November 2009 and get second manga adaption ilustrated by Kenji Mizuta with title Stein Gate: Bokan no Rebellion on February 2010.
Stein Gate will be released  on April 2011 that will be listed on Spring Anime 2011.

Stein Gate Anime Trailer

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Hatsune Miku Vocaloid Nendoroid

Hatsune Miku Vocaloid Nendoroid presented by Good Smile Company. Hatsune Miku is the most popular of vocaloid family compared with other vocaloid family members such as Kaito, Rin and Len Kagamine, Meiko, Megurine Luka.
Hatsune Miku Vocaloid Nendoroid package also includes separate arms, heads, foot and accessories to match her many moods and expressions, including a singing pose, the very silly 'Hachune Miku' face and of course her fan-favorite trademark leek.

You can BUY Hatsune Miku Vocaloid Nendoroid from Amazon.com: VOCALOID Miku Hatsune Nendoroid Action Figure (Click the link to buy)

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Hyouge Mono Anime Preview

Hyouge Mono is an anime television series adapted from Hyouge Mono - Tea for Universe, Tea for Life manga by Yoshihiro Yamada. The manga won the Grand Prize in the 14th Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prizes earlier this year.
The story is set during Japan's Sengoku Jidai (Era of the Warring States) and centers on Sasuke Furuta, a vassal of the great warlord Nobunaga Oda and a man obsessed with tea ceremony and material desires in his pursuit of a fortuitous life. Having learned from Oda and the legendary tea master Sen no Soueki, Furuta walks the way of the "Hyouge Mono". (ANN synopsis).
Hyouge Mono anime will be released on Spring 2011.

Release Date: 2011-04-07

Source: ANN

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Vocaloid Nendoroid

Vocaloid Nendoroid is a series of nendoroid figure that featuring characters from vocaloid family.Vocaloid is a singing synthesizer application software developed by the Yamaha Corporation that enables users to synthesize singing by just typing in lyrics and melody.
Many vocaloid nendoroid has been presented by Good Smile Company, such as Hatsune Miku, Kaito, Meiko, Megurine Luka, Kagamine Rin and Len. Not just created in standard nendoroid type but also already made in nendoroid petite type and nendoroid plus type. The most popular nendoroid from vocaloid family is Hatsune Miku that has been made in many version.

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