It’s coming back this year! One more time please! Yeah, this year, again, we’ll be having AFA09. The website officially went live yesterday at 2-3pm or so. I was having lessons so I was trying to concentrate on my lesson – but I had this urge to use my phone to check the website myself. LOL.

Do check out the official website for more details on AFA09. Lots of bloggers have already posted me while poor me was having classes in school -_-.

There will be a maid cafe this year, looking …

Play-Asia, your one-stop website for games, figurines, CDs, DVDs and more, is currently having a 20% off for in-stock items. That’s right, anything that can be shipped within 24 hours will be 20% off! Promotion is until September 6!

The limitation of this offer is that anything that was released within the last 30 days on Play-Asia will be excluded from the offer, and your purchases have to be made on a VISA Card.
If you’re looking for figurines or games, you might want to look there. I saw some that caught …

Continuing with my coverage, it’s our lovely ladies from the anime series, Macross Frontier ^^.
I have done two other posts of Chara Hobby that you might be interested in case you have missed them:

K-ON! Nendoroids at Chara Hobby 2009
Canaan at Chara Hobby 

1/8 scale of Sheryl Nome by MegaHouse. Retail price at 6,615 yen, release date is set at December 2009.

1/8 scale of Ranka Lee by AlphaxOmega. Set to be out in Spring 2010. No price yet.

They should have another Klan Klan figurine release >< I want one!
For more pictures, do …

The next coverage is on CANAAN figurines. With Canaan Nendoroid and the 1/8 scale Canaan coming out soon, it’s no surprise that we’re expecting Alphard soon ^^

1/8 scale Alphard by GSC, no price and release date yet.

Nendoroid Alphard by GSC, to be out January 2010. No price yet. Oh well, with a release date set, we should be knowing the price soon =P. Nendoroid Canaan reservations have started already, do preorder her fast if you’re set to get Alphard and Canaan

Figma Canaan by Max Factory, to be out this November …

Various blogs have already posted up photos of Chara Hobby 2009. Glanced through the various photos, some of them definitely caught my eye o.o. I will be doing a number of posts to cover Chara Hobby 2009 as I don’t want to lump all the figurine photos together ;)

Azu-nyan (Azusa) will be getting a Nendoroid release too. Wow, now I have to buy all 5 nendoroids to complete the family? ~_~.

I’m putting my money that they’ll give her the nyan-expression XD.

Price and date of release not confirmed yet. Looking forward …

Group idol AKB48 will be making their appearance at New York Anime Festival. They will be appearing at the event as Special Musical Guests.

The 2009 New York Anime Festival, an anime, manga, and Japanese pop culture convention from the creators of New York Comic Con, will take place September 25-27, 2009 at the Jacob K. Javits Center in Manhattan, and AKB48 joins Yoshiyuki Tomino — the Director of Mobile Suit Gundam — and Yui Makino — the voice of Sakura in Tsubasa: RESERVoir CHRoNiCLE — as guests.
AKB48 will hold a …

This week is a special week for Zotaku as we got featured on AnimeBlips =3. I like to thank the editor of AnimeBlips, Robyn Lass for giving us this feature. You can read the full report with the interview questions here.
I’m sure everyone knows what is AnimeBlips, well if you don’t,
AnimeBlips was created for otaku crazy about anime and manga, and the news, events, books, movies, and conferences that emerge from the anime and manga worlds. By combining robust technology with spirited editorial, AnimeBlips brings you inside the creative, obsessive …

To celebrate Zotaku 1st Year Anniversary this month(24 August 2009!), I decided to have a Figurine Giveaway. The prize is sponsored by my ad client, Hobby Search. Very thankful to them for helping me out with this event ^_^. And so, after 1 week, with 2 rounds of Giveaway Questions posted up, we finally have our winner!
Before I reveal the winner, here are the links to Round 1 and Round 2 for references:

1st Figurine Giveaway – Figma (Round 1)
Figma Giveaway -Round 2

The question posted up was:
Guess how much Nendoroid Kureha …

Comiket 76 started on Friday and will end today, August 16 2009. It’s being held at Tokyo Big Sight currently, lots of figurines shown there. Already did a post for the figurines shown at Wonder Festival Summer 2009, so I’ll list those that caught my eye – for now. ;)
First up, Nendoroid Kirisame Marisa from Touhou Project by GSC. Finally a colored one! ^_^. Nice nendoroid.. I really want to buy her, if I could but what is this feeling that I have that she’s exclusive?

1/8 scale of Ein PVC, …