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[13 Sep 2009 | 8 Comments | ]
Souichiro Hoshi 保志 総一朗

For a site with more than 50% of the staff being female, you’d expected more Male Seiyuus featured right? That has not been the case for zotaku, seeing how as our first Male Seiyuu featured was Mamoru Miyano and that was over a month ago.
As such, this week’s Seiyuu Sunday will be featuring a Male Seiyuu. Presenting, Souichiro Hoshi.

Name: 保志 総一朗
Country: Aizuwakamatsu, Fukushima, Japan
Birthday: 1972年05月30日
Blood Type: B
Website: http://www.artsvision.co.jp/data.php?id=687/
You might probably know him from:

Ai Yori Aoshi (TV) as Kaoru Hanabishi
Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion R2 (TV) as Gino Weinberg
Digimon Savers …

Jpop »

[12 Sep 2009 | 5 Comments | ]
SCANDAL – 夢見るつばさ [14.10.09]

SCANDAL, the self-proclaimed Most Powerful Japanese Girlie Pop Rock band, is releasing yet another single this year.

The single is priced at 1,020 yen and it will be out on the 14th of October, 2009. Preorder your copy now at CDJapan.  Unfortunately, the first press has already been sold out. Must-buy single! :)
The currently confirmed songs for this single include,

 夢見るつばさ (Yume Miru Tsubasa), which was recently played during their radio show
BEAUTeen
DAYDREAM, which can also be heard on the JUDY and MARY 15th Anniversary Tribute Album

Enjoy #3, DAYDREAM!
[Audio clip: view full post …

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[8 Sep 2009 | 5 Comments | ]
M’s MC #1 – Miho Fukuhara: Let It Out

Starting every week, I’ll now head a new segment called M’s Musical Corner in a bid to post more often in Zotaku.
For the very first edition of Musical Corner, I’ll start off with Miho Fukuhara’s new single, Let It Out.

Track-listing of the single:

Let It Out
Yasashii Aka(Another Ver.)
Ben
Let It Out(Instrumental)

Enjoy Track 1, Let It Out
[Audio clip: view full post to listen]
Here’s the PV of Let It Out.

I have been listening to Let It Out ever since I got back to watching Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood sometime around 2-3 weeks ago. I must …

Fandom News »

[6 Sep 2009 | No Comment | ]
More Negima Coming Soon!

So apparently, during a Negima Event that happened in February of this year, Yoichi Ishimoto who produced Negima’s Ala Alba’s OVA, had mentioned that a Negima movie might become reality should the sales for the Mahou Sensei Negima! ~Mō Hitotsu no Sekai~’s OVA be good.

According to ANN,
The 41st issue of Kodansha’s Weekly Shonen Magazine will confirm on Wednesday that an anime feature based on the Negima! Magister Negi Magi manga has been green-lit for 2011. The manga creator Ken Akamatsu had already indicated in his online diary last month that …

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[6 Sep 2009 | 11 Comments | ]
Chihara Minori 茅原実里

The star for this week’s Seiyuu Sunday is Minorin!! For those who don’t know who she is, she’s a seiyuu and a singer. Her last notable performance was at DaiCon. The reviews from fellow bloggers about the entire event wasn’t so great though.

Name: 茅原実里
Country: Utsunomiya, Tochigi Prefecture, Japan
Birthday: 1980年11月18日
Blood Type: B
Website: http://chiharaminori.jp/
You might probably know her from:

Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya (TV 2009 renewal) as Yuki Nagato
Lucky Star (TV) as Minami Iwasaki
D.C. II: Da Capo II (TV) as Nanaka Shirakawa
Dragonaut – The Resonance (TV) as Toa
Minami-ke (TV) as Chiaki Minami
Saki (TV) …

Fandom News, Manga »

[26 Aug 2009 | 34 Comments | ]
To LOVE-Ru Manga to End This Month

Oh why oh why oh why oh why oh why is To LOVE-Ru ending!!!!

From ANN,
This year’s 39th issue of Shueisha’s Shonen Jump magazine has confirmed on Monday that Saki Hasemi and Kentaro Yabuki’s To Love-Ru -Trouble- manga will end its serialization in the next issue on August 31.
I’m one sad person right now. I remember starting To LOVE-Ru sometime last year when the anime came out. My first impression? “Wow! Soooooo MANY GIRLSSS!!!” Haha.
That was the ‘pervert’-side of me that got me started on the anime and when the …

Diary/Sitely »

[22 Aug 2009 | 8 Comments | ]
Just how many figurines is it till it’s considered too much?

You know, when I saw zenical’s Tower of Unopened Figures as well as Great Wall of Alter, I kinda thought that that was too many figurines already. But to this guy, her collection is probably not even worth mentioning.

From DannyChoo:
Omocha Teikoku shows us just some of his collection. By April 2008, he had 1983 figures but dont think he has counted since then ^^;
Check out his burogu where you will see some Dollfie daughters too. The larger versions of these photos are in his right column.
Below are pictures of the …

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[20 Aug 2009 | 7 Comments | ]
To Aru Kagaku no Railgun Promo Video Streamed

If there’s 1 anime series I’m looking forward to this Fall, it has to be To Aru Kagaku no Railgun.

To Aru Kagaku no Railgun’s main heroine and story revolves mainly around Mikoto Misaka, a Level 5 Physics user in Academy City. Her first appearance was in the To Aru Majutsu no Index series that aired around the same time last year.
The official website for the anime adaptation of Motoi Fuyukawa’s To Aru Kagaku no Railgun (A Certain Scientific Railgun) manga has begun streaming a promotional video.
While it is not possible …

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[19 Aug 2009 | 7 Comments | ]
LittleBigPlanet Gets all Wet

October-November 2008 – The PS3 phenomenon known as LittleBigPlanet was unleashed to PS3 Fanboys/Fangirls all over the world. Now, 10 months later, the craze is still going strong with the introduction of WATER!

From PS Blog,
Introducing the latest major gameplay update to come to LBP…WATER! We wanted to give you a peek of what Media Molecule had up their sleeves. When we released the Paintinator, we loved seeing user generated levels evolve from the platform genre to action oriented levels. Now with Water, we look forward to another evolution in level …