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 …

We should all know by now that every event will have their interesting moments, or stories.. I found these information rather interesting and funny at the same time. Over at C76(Comiket 76), let’s forget about the great figurines they have on display, the awesome otaku crowd and concentrate on the moments that happened there ^^”.
By the way, Comiket 76 breaks the attendance record of having 180,000 on Day 1, 10,000 more than last year’s C74.

Summary of C76 Day 1:

Good Smile Company’s queue was longer than Type-moon! The domination of Type-moon …

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, …

Despite it’s the Summer Season in Japan, otakus not giving up. Comiket 76 just started yesterday and the crowds look scary, but I wouldn’t mind all the pushing and stuff just to attend Comiket myself.

A youtube clip from Fuji TV News show about the 1/1 Scale Gundam in Odaiba Park and Comiket.

The Code Geass Cosplayer in the clip is awesome. I know he must be sweating profusely inside, but he’s still cosplaying there… Wow O_O. Would you do that if you’re a cosplayer? Stand in the heat all day long …

The much anticipated Figurine Giveaway that everyone has been waiting for! As what I previously announced, zotaku 1st Figurine Giveaway is a figma. This Giveaway is my way of saying thanks to my loyal readers, and also this month is the month where it’s our 1 year Anniversary!
One Figma will be given to 1 lucky reader. (Not shown in the picture! Just a teaser =P)

For this giveaway, I will be making it easier for all the readers to participate. I know there are a lot of lurkers out there who …

Hatsune Miku, the famous virtual singer, will be “performing” LIVE at Animelo 2009 on the 22th of August 2009!!

In addition, singer and actor Gackt will perform on the 23th of August 2009. There are a couple of other singers performing, like Nana Mizuki, Minori Chihara, Yukari Tamura, etc. Animelo Summr LIVE 2009 is really becoming awesome =3.
If you don’t know what Animelo is all about,
Animelo Summer Live is an annual series of concerts for anime songs; it has been running since 2005. The event organizers have not explained how Hatsune …