AKB48's Yuko Oshima Appears in "FFXIII-2" Costume

AKB48 Team K member Yuko Oshima appeared at the Final Fantasy XIII-2 launch event this morning in Tokyo. She designed two costumes, which fans narrowed down to one DLC item by voting, and wore the winning design to hand the game to the first person in line at Bic Camera in Yurakucho.

"When I was designing this, I had no idea I would be doing an event at this time of year. I wish I had made the sleeves a little longer..." she said.

Mai Fukui was also on hand to sing the Japanese PS3 version's them song. That was followed by appearances from Square Enix CEO Yoichi Wada, Bic Camera CEO Hiroyuki Miyajima, FFXIII-2 director Motomu Toriyama, producer Yoshinori Kitase, and voice actor Daisuke Kishio.

Final Fantasy XIII-2 hits North America January 31st.

Source: Crunchyroll

Otaku America Searches for Cosplayers for New Documentary

Heads up for any cosplayers and convention goers that have a desire to share your love of costuming with the public. Otaku America is looking for participants who want a chance to shine and strut their stuff in a feature length film all about anime, science fiction, gaming, costuming, and conventions titled Glomp Me!:The Cosplay Documentary Project.

To make this documentary the best it can be the production team is looking for cosplayers and anime fans from around the United States. They would like to hear from people of different backgrounds and find out what makes people from so many different ethnicities, economic backgrounds, and belief systems come together at all sorts of conventions and fandom events.If you would like to be a part of the documentary please email cosplaydocproject@photographer.net or like Glomp Me! on Facebook to see what conventions they're filiming at next.

In the last few decades the "nerd subculture" has been slowly becoming part of the mainstream. Unlike twenty years ago you can now ask a random person on the street if they'd heard of anime orcosplay and a majority of them will say yes. However there are still tons of misconceptions about science fiction, anime, and fantasy fans in general(how many geeks have heard the old "you still live in your mom's basement" joke?). That's where this documentary comes in. It's Otaku America's goal to have this movie reach not only anime, gaming, and sci-fi fans, but to make sure it's accessible to everyone, even if they think Star Wars is what college kids go through when studying for an Astronomy exam.

The film is set to premiere July 2012. It will be avaliable on DVD and download through Otaku America in Fall of 2012.

About Otaku America: As a website by nerds, for nerds Otaku America is a social network formatted for geeks of every type. On the website you can create a profile, talk on the forums, make a personal member blog, and create info pages in the Wiki section all for free (www.otakuamerica.spruz.com). They have also funded/sponsored the upcoming convention Otaku GloboCon along with Glomp Me!:The Documentary.

Sadly, this is for Americans only.

Source: Anime News Network

GAME TV: Supernova Sydney 2011

Missed out on Supernova Sydney 2011? Fear not! Here is a recap on what happened throughout the convention by GAME TV.  If you really didn't go... sucks to be you watching the recap of an epic day.

Takumii's First Supernova Preview Night

The impression of my first preview night wasn't too great like Jayce.  I was expecting the shops to open on Preview Night. Instead, Jayce and I went to the Preview Night watching Previews!!  Probably because it is not suited for us, non cosplayers... ah wells. However, I did enjoy it at the end when I met a friend of mine, Mearii-san and her friend Carmel-san. They were so awesome in cosplaying! Because Mearii-san was cosplaying, I couldn't recognize her at all ~ I was so used to her normal appearance. Haha.

Anyways, here are some pics of them cosplaying.

Photos was taken in bit of a rush, so~ please bear with me! ><

That's it. No more photos from Preview Night. It was our first preview night so we seem to be feeling a bit out of place. In other words, being lazy. Hahaha. Tomorrow!! we will be pumped, I promise!!

[Cosplay] Saya as Miku, Touya Hibiki as Kaito

The most cutest Vocaloid cosplay I've ever seen. Saya is so pretty!! Not to mention Kaito is also very hot too!! Not surprised if I fall for either one. Don't worry guys, I'm not gay. Touya is a female! This photo album of Miku and Kaito is the best! ><

Bye Bye 2010~

What better way to end the year than with some Comiket cosplay:

 

 

 

And last one, LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL

Teehee. Happy New Year, everyone, and thanks for sticking with us this year! We'll be a year old in a few months, isn't that strange? stay safe tonight, don't get hammered and fall off a cliff, and stick around for all the anime updates coming up in TWENTY ELEVEN!

Mad rush for updates!

Like usual, I've been absent for a bit... But with a reason this time! My computer spontaneously stabbed itself in the ear with some fountain pens (kekeke Index reference) and I only got a new one yesterday! Weeeee~ new computer~~
Anyway, I'm watching/reading/finding everything I missed out on just now, and so here's a few bits and pieces of what I missed, and possibly yourself too:

Bakuman 114:
Hiramura and Aoki got together!
such a nice chapter, don't you think? Also, my anime downloads for Bakuman are at about 50% so I'll watch the latest 2 episodes soon...

Some cosplay:

What else is there? Some poll news? Mio and Azunyan are winning for the most wanted Xmas presents this year, but hey, it's not Christmas just yet so keep your pants on...