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 …

Wonder Festival Summer 2009 is today, and figurine photos are up over at Akiba Hobby and Hobby Stock Blog. Too much poison orz.. SO MANY FIGURINES that are calling out to me!! T_T

They’re milking our money with those figma releases XD.

Wonder Festival Summer 2009 will be held this coming Sunday, so Mika-tan has uploaded some “previews” that folks in Japan will be able to view at the event.

Kyrie Rason from Valkyrie Complex (RPG game on PC Platform)

Anyone wanna guess who is this?

A GSC version of Index from To Aru Majutsu no Index. OMG. I can’t wait to actually see her with colors. I love Index XD. Did you catch the anime series?
Stay tuned!

Microsoft is teaming up with Japanese Studios to produce an anime series of the game “Halo”. The 7 episode series titled “Halo Legends” will be produced by 5 production houses: Production I.G, Toei Animation, BONES, Studio 4℃, Casio Entertainment.

Microsoft is in charge of the story and the visuals. A trailer will be shown at Comic-Con on July 23rd.
The DVD, Downloads and Blu-ray will be available early next year(no idea who will be distributing the Blu-ray as Microsoft has also roped in Warner Bros. to distribute Halo Legends on DVD and …

Sorry I was late in posting the results up. Had to sleep early last night because I woke up 4am that very day =D.

Mini Giveaway #1

Mini Giveaway #1 is a mini contest sponsored by zenical where we want to thank our readers for visiting zotaku and commenting. Of course a simple question will be asked and readers who wanted to participate have to try their luck in “guessing” their answer.

Mini Giveaway #1 starts now!
This being the first giveaway on zotaku, I do not know the response I will receive. Hopefully all readers reading this now will just bother to try XD. Prizes and shipping are sponsored by me, so do not worry, you don’t have to pay a single cent to participate! Everyone, anyone can take part in our mini giveaway ^_^.
Here are the prizes the winner can choose from.
The prizes

Code Geass Pencil Board
Nabari no Ou A4 File
Shana Keychain
Shana pin and clearcard
Saber A4 File
Tsubasa Chronicles Pencil Board
Bleach Pencil Board

What …

Okay firstly I admit I am slow.. Because I was busy for the past few days – reading a novel (LOL) and well yeah I finally kicked my ass to blog. News just have to be posted. XD.
Would you spend your 2009 on Nendoroids or Figmas? Like what I caught up so far in the figurine world, there will be a Kagami in Miku Outfit (Remember Lucky Star OVA? XD) She will be retailed at 3,500 yen and release in May 2009. Oh yeah, this nendoroid is something I want …

If you have been following up on Singapore-based Otaku events for cosplaying – Kouhaku and EOY, you may be sad to know this. STAC is disbanding. They are the organizers who have been planning such events for years. It is sad that the well-known cosplay event, EOY has come to an end..
Official Announcement was made last night, where everyone started pasting the url links to me ;( I am shocked at the news!

Will this be the end of Cosplay in Singapore?
Here is the post that was posted at SGCafe
Good day …

Hobby Complex 05 just ended, and we got some previews to the upcoming figurines in 2009.. Examples are like the Kaito Nendoroid, and more preview of figmas that are releasing this/next year.
As I wrote previously on some nendoroid goodies we’ll be expecting.. Kaito Nendoroid would be release in February 2009! Oh yeah XD. Get for me ^^ That makes 3 nendoroids for the month of February O_O.

Also..Nozomu Itoshiki from Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei. I can just imagine what his expression is saying ZETSUBOU SHITA! He’s despairing being in a classroom made …