Sony has been hinting the new PS3’s arrival for quite some time now, but yesterday they finally let the cat out of the bag at German Gamescon. The PS3 Slim will  be released September 1st for an acceptable $299.
The PS3 Slim itself is said to be a third lighter than the original, draw a third less power, and will come with a 120GB HDD. Other features will be the same as the soon to be PS3 Cheap.

Unfortunately for those with mountain high collection of PS2 games, no backwards compatibility, doubt …

Tokyopop, one of the biggest American distributors of Manga has announced that they will start releasing some of their series online. Some of announced series are PSY*COMM, Boys of Summer, Earthlight, Patheon High, Undertown, Gyakushuu, Kat & Mouse, and a plethora of non-Japanese Manga.
Ealier this summer Shounen Jump (Japan) announced they would start putting manga online, and manga is available for purchase  in Japan through the PSN for PSP users.
Its a shame I don’t recognize any of the titles Tokyopop will be releasing. Its more like a commercialized scheme …

Mika-tan has updated her blog more kawaii pictures of another nendoroid, Yui from K-ON!

Seeing all 3 faces that Nendoroid Yui will have.. I am upset that I missed

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Seiyuu Aya Hirano, the voice behind Suzumiya Haruhi, has made some comments of the Endless Eight arc in one of her radio appearances.

She apologised for the Endless Eight episodes and also thanked the viewers for putting up with it.
The comments were made on one of her radio appearances:
For us seiyuu the pressure was intense.
When we first met to receive the plans for it and learn which books we would be doing, like we did for the first season, we heard we would be doing Bamboo Rhapsody and thought it was …

I finally caught up to the latest episode of Haruhi S2 recently. I didn’t sleep through all eight episodes – I read from my twitter list that most of the people actually skipped a couple of episodes. Well not me -_-.
The last episode of the Endless Eight arc stood out a lot. Why? Mikuru’s crying face. I have never seen her cry that much in the previous 15,000 loops that happened, and this is probably one scene I will remember forever.

One crying face I can’t forget
Yuko Goto, did an excellent …

PS2 Japanese RPG Persona 3 will be coming to the PSP this fall with some interesting changes.
 The port is due November 1st 2009, and will feature a number of changes, the most notable of which is that the protagonist will be a female instead of the previous male.
Additionally, an entirely new character is promised, looking to be a male version of Elizabeth; some gameplay additions in the form of new difficulty levels are also promised.
People have been telling me to play the persona games almost daily at this point… someone …

Where I live in the US we’re on the tail end of a heat wave. Most of the summer here was cool and rainy, I think I joked with Zenical a few times that it felt more like an eternal spring than summer. But the last week has been all sun, muggy, and about 100 degrees Fahrenheit (38C) or more if you count the humidity index. As a result I’ve been finding more excuses to go shopping and visit friends and family who have AC. xD

So how do you stay …

Preorders of Nendoroid Kagami Kuro have been announced and yes, you may now preorder her so that Rin won’t feel lonely anymore ;)

Retailing at a price of 3,500 yen, she’ll be out this November 2009.
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There is currently an online rumor about a second season of the most epic series of all time; Berserk. If said rumors were true I would go as far as to say this is the biggest announcement of the year.

J2d, a member of the video game-centric forum NeoGAF, seems to have insider information regarding a sequel to the Berserk anime.
Apparently, he learned from an old friend (who now works for the animation company, Studio 4°C) that a new Berserk anime is in production, and was even lucky enough to get …