Preordered Your Shuraki Rize Yet?

Just to remind those figure collected who have forgotten about it, Rize is already up for pre-order since yesterday.  The last I checked there are still preorders available on various online stores such as Hobby Search.

Anyway, she will be released in April and will retails for 6,800 yen. She does look really good with her [...]

Japanese Teen Oceans 13 Wannabe

A couple of Tokyo teenagers were so “inspired” by Hollywood’s Oceans 13 that they decided to go on a spree pick-pocketing and even got themselves a getaway car grand theft auto style.

“We wanted to look really cool like the guys in the movie,” one of the boys told the police.
The boys are all classmates at [...]

Meido Taxi Service Ceased

Previously I mentioned about the Meido Taxi Service on DannyChoo for disabled people. This service has now been halted after 3 months in operations.

The reason behind was that there was a ton of healthy people pretending to be injured to get a ride. As a result, the company found themselves breaking the law as they [...]

1:1 Scale Rin Kokonoe Looks Better This Time

Remember the poorly painted Full Scale Figure of Rin Kokonoe in my last update on her. This time round she looks 100% better on display in Toranoana.

Its obvious that the colors are now brighter and she got a cute smiley face badge as well. So cute ~

But then I still dun think the price tag [...]

EOY’07 Report Part II

Apart from the cosplay photos that I posted in my EOY’07 Report Part I, what else is there to mention at a cosplay convention?

First up would be the merchandise booths at the event. I managed to scoop up some very nice Rozen Maiden fanart.
They were done by a local artist, Kuridoki, and I must say [...]

EOY’07 Report Part I - Cosplay

As I’ve mentioned, I headed down to EOY’07 yesterday at the Expo exhibition hall. For my readers that are not Singaporeans, its one of the 2 annual cosplay event that we have in here.

There are improvements in comparison to last year. This year most of the teams are cosplaying Trinity Blood, Bleach, D. Gray-man and [...]