On Sunday, the police have identified the body discovered at Arafune Mountain to be Usui Yoshito, Crayon Shin-chan manga creator. He was found at the foot of a cliff called Tomoiwa

He left the house to go mountain climbing on 11 September, 2009. He did not return and thus his wife made a report on his disappearance on 12 September, 2009. A climber found a body on 19 September, 2009 which police stated that the clothes resembled that of Usui’s ones.
What will happen to Crayon Shin-Chan now?
Usui has already …

A few preview shots of the upcoming figurine of Alfin in the scale of 1/8 by Kotobukiya. She’s from the Nintendo DS Game, Shining Force Feather.

For those folks curious, Alfin is voiced by Shizuka Itou! So huge Seiyuu fans should get the figurine for her too :P

This is not a first for video games to be banned in a country. I remember back when Mass Effect was about to be released, Singapore decided to ban the game because it is possible to make a woman and a female alien to have sex if you chose to play as a female character in the game. Soon after, Singapore’s Media Development Authority (MDA) lifted the ban and instead put a M18 rating on the box cover so as to “enable highly anticipated games to be launched in Singapore”.

For …

Details have been released of the upcoming 1/6 scale Saber Maid Version by Alter.

The figurine will be sold exclusively online at Hobby Japan Online Shop. Reservations will start on September 25, 2009 and will run until November 10, 2009. International Shipment not supported, so you’ll need a proxy if you’re intending to get this lovely figurine!

Retail price is at 8,000 yen and scheduled for release this April 2010. The interesting bit(probably poisoning for Saber Fanboys) is that this tiny figure of Saber will be included together(picture above).
GNdynames and Saku, are …

Sorry for the slow updates with the Figurines Side, was totally busy over the weekends, prepping for my Hocchan Posts: Happy Birthday, Seiyuu Sunday and My Hocchan Shrine!!! XD Okay to start off, we have Nendoroid Alphard Preview pictures posted up over at Mika-tan’s Blog.

Reservations will start this coming Friday, September 25, 2009.

And yes, get her so Nendoroid Canaan(if you already preordered her) won’t feel lonely.

So what better day to post this up? Today is Hocchan’s Birthday and in order to show how much I love her, I decided to gather up my loots over the past 4 months!
Oh and today Seiyuu Sunday features Hocchan too. It’s was ALL PLANNED BTW HAHAHAHA.
My Hocchan Shrine!!

Currently there are 6 singles, 4 albums, 2 LIVE DVD Concerts, 1 DVD Clips and 4 Seiyuu Magazines, and yes all of them have Hocchan on it. Lol. And I only started buying her singles/albums/DVDs like in Mid-May 2009? Lol 4 months …

The 47th Amusement Machines Show took place in Chiba, Japan yesterday on September 19. It is a trade show organized by the Japan Amusement Machinery Manufacturers Association (JAMMA). JAMMA is run by representatives from some of your favourite arcade video game manufacturers, including Namco Bandai, Sega, Taito, Tecmo, Capcom, Atlus.

In the Amusement Machines Show, you get to play arcade games like the crane game and win attractive prizes! REALLY attractive prizes in fact. How does Valkyria Chronicles figures and Hatsune Miku Project Diva statues sound to you? =D. Finally some …

The next pick for Seiyuu Sunday! What better way to feature Hocchan on Zotaku, but to do it on her birthday? XP. Hocchan is the main reason why I am catching up on some old shows which I never bothered to pick up in the past. It’s interesting to see how she voices the various anime characters, and in turn, I end up loving her more ^^.

Name: 堀江 由子
Country: Katsushika, Tokyo, Japan
Birthday: 1976年9月20日
Height: 155cm
Blood Type: B
Hobbies: Reading, Cooking and Shoulder Massage
Website: http://www.starchild.co.jp/artist/horie/
She is known as Hocchan, ほっちゃん by her Japanese …

Confident about your Gundam model-making skills? Then you may stand a chance to get employed! Bitec Global Japan, a Tokyo-based artificial teeth maker, has just introduced this method of job application testing for this year’s college graduates. The applicants had to not just build them, but paint them in three or more colours within a 3-hour time limit.

Japanese have yet again found creative ways to do certain things =D. Well I think this will be a real treat for job applicants who are Gundam fans XD. I have never built …