September 2009

  • Top Anime Songs [Part II]

    By akgoemans on 9/28/09 7:44am
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    Buck-TickBuck-Tick

    This is part II of my top anime song list.  Part I covered theme songs from Nana, Death Note, Vampire Knight and Black Blood Brothers. Want to learn more? I've added more to this list; it includes theme songs from Bleach, Ouran Host club, Kuroshitsuji and Trinity Blood.



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  • Top Anime Songs [Part I]

    By akgoemans on 9/28/09 7:18am
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    Anna TsuchiyaAnna Tsuchiya
    How do you expand your music taste? Do you get hooked to band after hearing it at a friend's place? Or do you make it a point to look for new bands? Reason I ask is simple: I recently found out that I expand my music collection based on my favorite anime series. Hence, I discover a new band through the official soundtracks of an anime series and next thing you know, I am looking it up on Amazon and ordering various albums of that artist or band. I wonder if this actually narrows my genre as opposed to expanding my tastes? As it is, I noticed that a number of my newly discovered bands/artists almost always fall into the power metal genre. Or at least lurk on the fringes of rock. Well, here goes the list – the folks who sang my top favorite anime opening/closing songs. [Note: this is part I, for part II click here]



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  • Touchable Holograms? Now you can poke Bender

    By akgoemans on 9/22/09 9:18am
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    Doesn't this sound like something straight out of Minority Report? Researchers from the University of Tokyo may have found a way to make touch-sensitive holograms! Well, they are experimenting on various methods and seems like they have hit upon a workable solution.



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  • Japanese Kissing Robots

    By akgoemans on 9/14/09 6:02am
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    Thomas and JaneThomas and Jane

     Have you been keeping an eye on the latest trends in the robotics? Then you'd already know that the Japanese innovators have been making a concerted effort to make robot use more mainstream. The good folks have calculated that venturing into the entertainment industry would be the perfect start for such integration. Hence you get the squeaky-limbed fashion robot and the cute little baby robot. But now someone has gone out and tried something completely different.

     



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  • Mein Kampf as a manga finds eager customers?

    By akgoemans on 9/7/09 7:39am
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    Manga Mein KampfManga Mein Kampf

    Consider this your WTF news of the day. Adolf Hitler's infamous book, Mein Kampf, was made into a manga series and released in Japan. Contrary to any naysayers who might think that the book sales would stagnant, maybe even fall faster than Fanny Hill's garters, this manga did rather well. Apparently the Manga de Dokuha or 'read it as a manga' book reeled in at least 45,000 buyers!



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  • Japan's Breast Shrine

    By akgoemans on 9/2/09 8:34am
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    Breast ShrineBreast ShrineRemember the phallic ceremony I mentioned a while back? Well, it looks like Japan also has a religious monument dedicated to women, specifically to their breasts. The landmark in question is the Karube Shrine and it is devoted to all matters related to the boobies!

    The shrine in question is located in Soja City, Okayama Prefecture and it revolves around a goddess of breasts (Chichigamisama).

     



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