J-pop Diva Ayumi Hamasaki to Divorce Austrian Hubby

Not even a year of marriage, J-Pop star Ayumi Hamasaki announced on her "Team Ayu" fan club website that she will divorcing her Austrian husband, Schwarz.

Hamasaki's explanation reads:

 “I am reporting that I will be filing for divorce on Monday in America...The reason lies within myself. At the time of our marriage, we decided to live in America, however, because of the Tohoku Earthquake that occurred two months later, a strong feeling sprouted within me that I didn’t want to be apart from Japan. I wasn’t able to imagine a life in America, and as a result, I left my husband by himself for a long period of time.”

(I hope she told him this before posting... That would be worse than dumping someone via a text.... or FB ;; ) 


The superstar couple met in 2010 when Schwarz, an Austrian native and male actor/model, appeared in Ayumi’s music video for her song "Virgin Road" (the live versions of which were oftern performed in a wedding dress. The irony here is pretty thick, folks). A swift courtship was followed by a wedding on Jan 1, 2011, but alas, this high profile international romance appears to have run out of steam. 

 Source: Crunchyroll

Guilty Crown Lost Christmas game trailer streamed

Earlier we posted that a Guilty Crown game was announced that will be based around the time of the "Lost Christmas" event. The Youtube channel of developer Nitro+ is now streaming a promotion video for Guilty Crown: Lost Xmas, the ages 15+ PC adventure game spinoff of the Guilty Crown TV anime. Nitro+ has also announced that the game will be released on May 31st, 2012 for 5040 yen. The official websit ehas been updated with new images and information. The game's scenario is written by Jin Haganeya, one of the scenario writers for Nitroplus's Demonbane series and the theme song is sung by Itou Kanako (Steins;Gate TV Anime Opening).

Source:  Crunchyroll

Winter 2012 Anime List Preview

Another season has arrived and it is Winter 2012!! Many promising animes on the list so it will be worthwhile. However, it will be mostly sequels that will make anime fans dancing crazy. Check out the list and you will know what I mean :D

Source: ashirisu.files.wordpress.com

Rurouni Kenshin Live action film trailer released

Finally!! A trailer has been released!! I want to cry and sob with so much joy that is escaping my body~*~*~*~*~ ;;//////////;;  Rurouni Kenshin was one of my first anime that I watched when I was a kid, and I have loved and supported this amazing series ever since~!! And not to mention, Himura Kenshin was my first crush~*~*~*~*~ >////////////> So when I heard in 2010  that there would be a live action adaption, I was so happy!! ...I think I did cry~ :'D

Premiere date confirmed! - August 25, 2012 

Himura Kenshin - TAKERU SATOU [insert jizz face here]

Kamiya Kaoru - TAKEI EMI

Sagara Sanosuke - AOKI MUNETAKA

Myoujin Yahiko -TANAKA TAKETO  (debut role) [ohemgee why sou kyoote!! >//////<]

Takani Megumi - AOI YUU

Saito Hajime - EGUCHI YOUSUKE

Takeda Kanryou - KAGAWA TERUYUKI

Udo Jine - KIKKAWA KOUJI

Kenshin's Sakaba-sword and Sanosuke's Zanba-sword.

Source: Crunchyroll + Crunchyroll + JAPANATOR + Official Japanese Rurouni Kenshin website

Guilty Crown : LOST CHRISTMAS

A game will be released from the new series Guilty Crown in 2012 for PC. It will be based around the "Lost Christmas" incident. It will sell for 4,800 yen. ($48)
Nothing much has been said about this game, just that the official website has posted up basic details for the game. I am guessing in the new year, more details will be released. 
















Source: Guilty Crown official website
I am so excited!! >///u////< I can't wait to get it!!

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

Third season of Bakuman announced!

Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata's manga about aspiring manga artists, Bakuman, will have a third season next fall. 

The second season is currently airing. The first season ran 25 episodes from October 2010 to April of this year. Meanwhile the original manga has been serialized in Weekly Shonen Jump since 2008. 

Next fall is a bit of a wait, but hopefully it will be worth it!

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

DMC HD Collection for 360 & PS3

If you are still not convinced on the new upcoming installment of the DMC series, don't worry! Capcom have a back up! 
Capcom has announced that they will be releasing the original DMC games now in HD and for 360 and PS3. The original 3 games were made in 2001, 2003 and 2005-6 and made for the platform of PS2 and PC.


The official DMC Capcom Japanese website says:

The stylish, popular action game "Devil May Cry," "Devil May Cry 2," "Devil May Cry 3 Special Edition" will be released in HD High Definition graphics and work better than the original games. Developed  for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3, will be released in 2012. 

The website then explains the story line of the hit game:

A legendary "Devil Hunter" draws blood from his legendary sword. His name is Dante!
The son of a legendary demon Sparta, who was sealed away two thousand years ago, and who has a human mother, exterminates demons as a living, this is not only a sense of natural justice  but searches for the demon who killed his mother.Despite his serious background, his personality is very bright, possess the fearless self-assured and a mighty confrontation when up against his enemies. His favorite weapon is the sword of his Father the "Rebellion"sword and his two pistols "Ebony and Ivory."

The website then gives a small summary of the 3 remastered games and information about release and platform.


I am so excited!!! I hear a rumor that it will be released 7th of February 2012 so go to your local game store and pre-order now! >///u/////< 
What is your favorite game of the DMC series, 1,2,3 or 4? And do you think DmC Reboot can live up to the originals?

DmC Reboot Analyses

As a huge DMC fan, I was very excited when hearing that there would be a 5th game at E3 2010, to the series. Not much has been shared with the public about this new installment  of the series in one hit, but little by little has been reviled by Ninja Theory and Capcom. However, despite this, and many fans knowing this, fans from the previous classic games have shown signs of lack of enthusiasm and speculation towards the game due to the different setting, style, voice actors and Dante's new character.


My personally opinion is that this could be a good thing that there is change, keeping to one story can get overwhelming and dull very quickly. Games such as Kingdom Hearts may have a good story, but can get a little repetitive. Final Fantasy has a good story and gameplay, and continue to changes with each game, making it new, fresh and exciting; and I think that this new DMC title will do the same. That said, we can see that there is much change in Dante's appearance to what we all are familiar with, but what about personality? From what we can see from trailers and gameplay snippets, his mysterious, cool and independent attitude personality still stands.
This is what Capcom and Ninja Theory had to say about it:

Reception to the new design of Dante and direction of the series was largely negative. In an interview, Capcom revealed that they knew Dante's new look would be met with negative backlash and that they pressed forward with this in mind. In August 2011, new screenshots revealed that the design for Dante had undergone changes.

Along with the many changes to the game, is the voices. Of course there would be change!! It is a younger Dante and younger and newer characters. Need I remind, that the first games was voiced by 3 different actors in DMC 1,2 and 3? Why would people be shocked and annoyed with this? But what most fans do not know about the new game is that, this Dante is from an alternative universe and has nothing to do from the original games.

On the official DmC Capcom webiste of Japan it specifically says "DmC Rebirth of Devil May Cry" that immanently tells us that it is new and not related to the original series, hence the title of the game "DmC reboot." 

The website also states that "Dante is a half angel half demon" not specifying that he is the son of Sparta like Dante from the original series. 

At the start of the E3 2010 trailer of the game, it has two quotes  saying "heaven and hell suppose two distinct species of men, the good and the bad...  but the greatest part of mankind float beaten the void" We can also see that this new Dante is under going psychoanalysis, which suggests the mental illness or that the people of Limbo think he is mental from seeing what really isn't there. 

What does stay the same are Dante's weapons throughout the series  his two pistols, Ebony & Ivory and the Rebellion sword, we can also see in gameplay trailers that Dante can gain more items, just like in previous DMC titles. Capcom also states that this new Dante is a rebirth and has a "hard boiled" aura. 

Dante is also given more abilities than from the original Dante, he is given "Angel Power" for speed which chops up enemies with a fast scythe sharp blade, "Demon Power" which crushes the enemy attack with a weapon such as a heavy axe, which does more damage than a normal hit and the "Devil Trigger." Those of you who have played previous title may have remember  the "Devil Trigger" that gives Dante a limited amount of devil power which is a boost or power up from his normal strength and can do many more attacks and damage to enemies. In the rebooted game, the same aerial combat is used in the previous gameplay, as such, Dante soars into the air and pierce enemies with his sword. 

In addition, when activating this trigger, Dante transforms into the original Dante's traditional appearance, crimson coat and silver white hair. 

Apart from this rebooted Dante, the design of the characters are very different from the previous games. The characters take on a more of an American style, rather than a Japanese game style from the previous games. Ninja Theory and Capcom both wanted a fresh and new look to fit the setting and the new Dante, giving the game a more realistic and fresh feel for the audience.

The setting of this new world, Limbo, has a very American style to it which has many neo-Gothic and modern architecture. Limbo is also described as two worlds in one, a reality and a hell or spirit world which can drag Dante out of reality and into the demon world. 
Limbo has many demons in it and most likely have come from this "hell world" and have made their way into reality. This is shown in the 2011 E3 trailer of the game, when Dante is walking through Limbo with red phrases on the wall saying "Their truth is a lie," "their city is an illusion" and "Do not accept the world as it is" defiantly, and clearly states that this world has too sides to it, and not everything in this world is as it seems. Such as the theory of two mirror worlds. The trailer than shows us the "normal" city of Limbo, changing to a different and "demonic" place, filled with demons, monsters and an abstract and dangerous environment. To enforce this new setting, the website clearly states "Limbo is a dangerous place once it transforms and tries to kill Half Angels and Half Demons, such as Dante" The reasons to this is unclear.

Besides the fact that the new Dante has both demon and angle powers, keeping it in a different "universe" gives Capcom more options for the future. If the game is a massive success, the developers can continue to create games in this new DMC series without worrying about stepping on the toes of the original classics. If it's an absolute failure Capcom can just pretend it never happened, closing the alternate dimension as quickly as they opened it.

To view all the new trailers just click here to watch the 2011 E3 trailer, TGS trailer and the special trailer.

What do you think of the new DMC game? Do you think it will be successful, or do you think it will be a disappointment? 

Top 10 Coolest Anime Heroes

1. Sakata Gintoki (Gintama)

2. Lelouch (Code Geass)

3. Kazuma (Scryed)

4. Accelerator (To Aru Majutsu no Index)

5. Okazaki Tomoya (Clannad)

6. Kaburagi T. Kotetsu (Tiger & Bunny)

7. Nura Rikuo (Nurarihyon no Mago)

8. Edward Elric (Fullmetal Alchemist)

9. Hei (Darker Than Black)

10. Rintaro Okabe (Steins;Gate)

Source: Sankaku Complex

We all know that our coolest hero will be always a Troll. Trolls are beyond cool, they are the evolution of human beings. Well done Gintoki! :3 

Nintendo celebrates the 25th Anniversary of The Legend of Zelda

With the celebration of the 25th Anniversary of the hit game series of The Legend of Zelda, Nintendo has just released the newest adventure for our hero Link, The Legend of Zelda Skyward Swards.  The game was released in Europe on November 18, 2011 in North America on November 20, 2011, in Japan on November 23, 2011,and on November 24, 2011 in Australia. With the celebration, Nintendo has also brought out the Limited edition of the game that features a golden Wii remote with inbuilt WiiMotion Plus, LoZ 25th Anniversary OST of the hit games and the game itself, all neatly packaged in a pretty golden box. 

(This is my Limited Edition of the game)

I also found out that when purchesing the game, you are given a Nintendo club member pin and can gain Nintendo star points and win three offical 25th Anniversary LoZ poster!

Also to celebrate, Nintendo has just released a very special Limited Edition LoZ Nintendo 3DS! It is a beautiful Cosmo Black limited edition 3DS with the gold Hylian emblem and markings plus LoZ Ocarina of Time. The 3DS bundle will be released in Japanese markets on December 5th for a price of 15,000 yen.
The sad thing is that I haven't heard that Australia will be getting this amazing bundle pack! Only North America, Europe and Japan. But let's not lose hope! >< If worse comes to worse, I guess I have no choice but to take a little trip to Japan~ >3
.....or eBay~ ^^;;

Source: Zelda Dungeon

Ao no Exorcist Movie Announced

According to the latest issue of Jump Square magazine, TV Anime series Ao no Exorcist (青の祓魔師, Blue Exorcist) was green-lit for movie production. So far, no other information was released.The series was aired this April and has a total of 25 episodes. It’s one of my favorite series, despite the fact that the Anime route is driven away from the original Manga by Kazue Kato (加藤 和恵).

Right now, the series is going to have a movie. Apart from the truth that we don’t have any idea about the story of the movie at this point, it gives people a feeling, a feeling that we have sensed before, and if I recall it right, is similar to a series with a super short elder brother and an iron younger brother, and we call i tFullmetal Alchemist (鋼の錬金術師). It’s ture. Fullmetal series has two separate lines, one with a brand new story, the other follows the original Manga, and they both have a movie version. Similar thing can happen to Ao no Exorcist too. But Ao no Exorcist is a bit different. The Manga content is probably enough for another 25 episode, but if you want to make it an Anime, it turns out that the climax will probably be knowing that Rin is the son of Santon. Well, it’s just some assumption, what I mean is the Manga version cannot be made into a 25-episode Anime, however, it will be cool if you made it a 2-hour movie, or a 64-episode new Anime. The former will be my guess for the movie, while the latter could have the some possibility.
More news is yet to come! But I really do hope that the movie gives the series justice! ><
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