The 4th Annual Seiyuu Awards voting has started. Votes are accepted in English and Japanese from October 1 2009 to January 2010 at the official site.

Officially, only votes from foreign fans are accepted for the Overseas Fans Choice Award, The results of the vote shall determine the first assessment. A second assessment shall be held by the Seiyu Awards Selection Committee. The awards ceremony will be held at the Tokyo Anime Center in the Akihabara otaku shopping district on March 6.
My pick? Do you need to ask? XD

She did a …

Interesting video of a particular Japanese barber in Nagano who uses knife to trim or cut your hair.

His knife cut costs 7,875 yen and he apparently has two or three customers a month who choose that option. He also offers a “UFO” vacuum cut for the same price and a fencing cut for 10,500 yen.
Too expensive for my taste, and yes I want a normal scissors to touch my hair, not a knife ^^”
Source: Japan Probe

What makes you an otaku? A survey of over 4,000 Japanese reveals just how easy it is thought to be to spot a (male) otaku from how he dresses…Oh and the site of this blog is “Zotaku”, did you know it stands for Zone Otaku? ^^”

There are many types of otaku: anime otaku, cosplay otaku, manga otaku, game otaku, wota(Idol Otaku!!).
Here are the top 10 ways you can identify an otaku as voted on Japan’s Goo Ranking:

He has an anime T-shirt
He has an anime shopping …

Some preview pictures of the upcoming Nendoroid Petit Death Note Case File#2. Case File#1 will be out this October, and look, you have Case File#2 to preorder soon :3.

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Results are out. The two, Yui and Taiga have done well so far. But there can only be 1 winner. And the winner of Saimoe 2009 is Taiga! Congratulations! ^^
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Today Seiyuu Sunday features Rina Satou. I have been thinking of blogging about her since a few months back, but I don’t know what held me back. In case anyone is wondering, she’s voicing Mikoto! Biri Biri!

Name: 佐藤 利奈
Country: Fukuoka, Japan
Birthday: 1981年5月02日
Blood Type: B
Hobbies: Archery
Blog: http://yaplog.jp/rinyannyan/
She has a rather nice voice to listen to~ Don’t get me wrong, her role as Minami Haruka in Minami-ke is awesome XD.
You might know her in [ANN]:

Asu no Yoichi! (TV) as Ibuki Ikaruga
Bamboo Blade (TV) as Satori Azuma
Bincho-tan (TV) as Ren-tan
Gurren Lagann (TV) as …

With Nintendo ratting out R4 sellers, it’s not strange that you have to resort buying your R4 in a random apartment building – not a shop ^^”

See the sign? It means “R4″ in Japanese. And they are not pointing to a shop, but an apartment!
Earlier on:
Nintendo is asking for the cease of marketing, sales and importation of these Chinese-made devices. The R4 allows easy software piracy by fitting right into the DS’s cartridge slot. Data is stored on a Micro SD and downloaded from websites via a flash drive, and …

The PlayStation 3 Slim did well (in fact very well) when it was released in Japan. However, it is not just Japan that has an increase in sales. The official PlayStation Blog reported that 1 million PS3 Slims were sold in the first 3 weeks after launch. And now, Sony is announcing the new 250GB PS3 Slim which is due out in November 3, 2009.

There’s nothing different in terms of looks and system though. The new 250GB PS3 Slim will perform and look exactly like how a PS3 Slim should, …

Kämpfer is one of the shows I watch weekly without fail. I can’t miss or delay watching the weekly episode because I just need my doze of Hocchan! XD Minami Kuribayashi will be releasing her next single this coming Wednesday, 21 October, 2009. Yes it’s the OP theme song for the anime show! Not to be missed!

Retail price of the single is at 1,200 yen. Preorder now at CDJapan today.
Pretty decent song, seeing that I do like Minami Kuribayashi songs nowadays.. o.O.

So do order the single if you enjoy the …