Folks in Japan will be able to purchase this awesome Sengoku Basara Limited Edition Bento by Kobayashi, a bento producer based in Sendai City in the northern Japanese prefecture of Miyagi. Until December 31, 2009, the vendors at Japan Railways station in Sendai will sell the bento.

The Sengoku Basara anime version of the real-life samurai Masamune Date adorns the wrapping on the Dokuganryuu Masamune Bento. Who would consume the bento after buying?XD. Keep it!!
The bentō helps promote the “Sendai-Miyagi ‘Date na Tabi’ Campaign,” which will bring sightseers of historical Japan …

From now till September 28, 2009, HobbyLink Japan is offering free shipping to in-stock items currently! And the best part? The free shipping isn’t SAL. It’s EMS or Fedex!

The only requirement? You need to pay with paypal. If you are a regular user of Paypal, don’t miss this chance to acquire the figurine/character good/etc you have been waiting for a longgggggggg time! Especially with free shipping!!

Few terms and conditions you need to take note:

Only items shippable during the campaign period will be eligible for free shipping. Orders placed for backordered …

In this arcade game, it’s all about the rage. Japanese arcade game Cho Chabudai Gaeshi is a score attack game that lets players pound a soft table for combos and then upend it for the finishing move.

Different settings available in the game: host club, wedding, office or a Japanese living room.
So for example, in the living room stage, players bang on the table as their family complains more and more and finally flips over the table. In Japanese, people often talk about flipping over a table in anger — “chabudai …

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 …