The auctioned film strip comes from a key scene in the movie between the characters Yuki Nagato and Kyon. At 11:35 p.m. on Monday — just three days after the campaign officially started and less than two days after the auction began — the auction ended with 233 bids. The final bid has yet to be verified.

I certainly don’t see myself bidding so much for a film strip.. The money can be used for other purposes.. Like buying more figurines! LOL.

Source: ANN

Retailing at a price of 8,000 yen, she is scheduled for release in July 2010. She is available exclusively via the Kyoto Animation Online store, and each customer is only allowed to place a single preorder.

Looking pretty good, but sadly she’s an exclusive, you have to try other means to get her if you WANT to get her. XD.

Titled “W/F: Music from Final Fantasy XIII” , the soundtrack includes seven songs from the recently released FFXIII Original Soundtrack as selected by composer Masashi Hamauzu. Additionally, the record will include a special version of Ragnarok Sans Pipe Organ. This was not included on the soundtrack.

The 8 tracks (is that what they’re supposed to be called?) are:

SIDE A

• 01: Amusement City Nautlius
• 02: Fang’s Theme
• 03: The Sunleth Waterscape
• 04: Touchan Funtou da!

SIDE B

• 01: Pulse on Chocobo
• 02: World Without Color
• 03: Senkou
• 04: Ragnarok Sans Pipe Organ

Will be out this February 28, at a retail price of 2,800 yen. This is a limited single production run item that will be sold exclusively through the Square Enix e-Store. Pre-orders have already opened.

Source

Currently Type 01 has a bidding price of 9,000,000 yen while Type 02 has reached 7,000,000 yen. Bidding will end on December 8 2009 at Yahoo Auctions. That is today!

You may think that the price is too expensive, but hear me out. I do know of many Evangelion fans who wouldn’t mind spending the money. I do know of someone who bothered to buy the Evangelion phone as seen in the movie! These are hardcore people! O_O. Well I am a fan of Evangelion, but I don’t even have the money to buy a new computer or camera now.. Lol.

Source: Fender Japan via MAL

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 world of the most popular anime and manga, removing the hassle of information overload, and providing one-stop access to all the hottest breaking news, rumors, and commentary from expert sources around the Web. If it’s hot, if people are whispering, shouting, searching for, or sounding off on it—you’ll always find it at AnimeBlips.

Basically, you can visit AnimeBlips for news and updates =D.

I got invited to join AnimeBlips a few months ago – I joined but there was a problem with “claiming” the blog. So naturally I gave up. Fact that my dear friend, Optic, who was featured there a few weeks back, “persuaded” me to claim Zotaku. Once more, I tried and yes I succeeded. I had to post the “claim code” on the main page before they allowed me to claim Zotaku ><.

Do check out the interview here. You can read that I was totally fangirling in the interview. LOL. I was making sure that I’ll mention my 3 Loves. <3

M, our “hiatus” writer didn’t get featured there. Haha. He’s quite busy so I guess the main voices of Zotaku (to everyone?) are actually the two crazy fangirls from the States and Singapore O.O. Well until the day he starts to blog more, I guess Zotaku will be dominated with our girl power!

It has been great fun blogging at Zotaku! Thanks to all readers who have been supporting Zotaku for the entire 1 year. Zotaku will be having our 1st Anniversary next monday. =) I’ll continue on my journey to fangirl more, and hopefully you won’t get bored of me doing that.

Once again, thanks to Robyn Lass from AnimeBlips for the feature!

Image from Konachan

Titled Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Nanoha A’s Portable – The Battle of Aces  (魔法少女リリカルなのはA’s PORTABLE－THE BATTLE OF ACES－), the PSP game is heading for a release in 21 Jan 2010 and will be available in SP Version(in this case, Lyrical Box) and the Normal Version. Prices are at 13,629 yen and 5229 yen respectively. Gameplay features head-on battles between the characters from Nanoha A’s.

Check out the Official Site here.

Here are some screenshots of the game from Famitsu:

The “Lyrical Box” will be bundled together with a figma Nanoha and his Yuno Scrya in his ferret form. Remember my WF Coverage previously?

I will be doing another post for Figma Nanoha, stay tuned!

Mika-tan of Goodsmile Company updated her blog yesterday with more photos of the kawaii nendoroid in action. Nendoroid Reimu will come with interchangeable face part, hand parts, and props. Her base is modeled after the yin-yang orbs.

For die-hard nendoroid lovers who can’t make it to C76 in Japan, Mika-tan mentioned that other methods to obtain this cho kawaii nendoroid will be announced on July 23rd 2009. Online ordering is included, though we do not know whether this will be made available to overseas customers like us ^^”.

More photos are here.

Do you wish to go to Comiket?

We’re also getting some of the November Gundam Launch at AFA08, which is in my opinion, awesome.

Transparent is really not my cup of tea. I’m looking forward to the Clear 1/144 Exia, and will decide whether to purchase based on the price. Hopefully it won’t be out of my budget XD.

Also, another highlight of my day – Be the first 20 to head to Takashimaya Booth to get the MG Gundam Ver 2.0, get a coupon and yes you can get an autograph of Kunio Okawara!

More details and news of the Exclusives you can expect that day at the Official Website!

Also ToynToys booth is gonna be packed with people that day, all the otakus squeezing, the horror ><

TOY N TOYS
EXCLUSIVE SHOWCASE FOR 12 TOP JAPANESE TOY COMPANIES
Founded by a Hobby Collector, Toy N Toys is a major distributor in the region, representing and distributing merchandise for 14 major toy brands from both the US and Japan. For AFA08, Toy N Toys Brings you an exclusive showcase of many renowned Toy Brands direct from Japan! 

If you don’t know who TNT is, it’s time you do. Anyway TNT is quite popular to me, because of their cheap preorder price for figurines! XD.

Limited Edition seems to get you drooling eh?

There seems to be a lot happening on the first day. How I wish I can cut myself into parts to attend the various events happening at the same time ._. On 22nd November 2008, from 10am, there is a AFA Industry Seminar! You get to hear the various speakers sharing their knowledge and expertise. More details at the site.

Before I end my post, tickets for May’n and Ichirou Mizuki Concert Tickets are still available. Only the regular VIP Passes are left for May’n and VIP Passes are just available for Ichirou Mizuki’s Concert, and no, you may or may not get his autograph with the VIP Pass.