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[8 Dec 2009 | 3 Comments | ]
Bid For Ayanami Rei Custom Fender Guitar

If you are an Evangelion fan, you know you want this Custom Fender Guitar of Ayanami Rei! Both are one-offs made by Fender’s master builder Yuriy Shishkov. Ayanami Rei’s face and Lance of Longinus are printed on them.
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[7 Dec 2009 | No Comment | ]
Top Ten “Crap Games of the Retail Shop”

So what games have you bought this year? One game shop in Japan has listed the top ten letdowns of 2009. The retailer isn’t talking about the buggiest or worst titles, but rather, the games that didn’t do as expected.
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[6 Dec 2009 | 2 Comments | ]
So Many Gundam Games To Play This December..

I’m sure most of you play games, and if you’re a big fan of the Gundam series, you would have played or heard of at least 1 gundam game!To mark the 30th anniversary of Gundam, a series of 11 titles at budget pricing will be released in Japan [...]

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[6 Dec 2009 | No Comment | ]
Japanese Stores Getting Ready For Final Fantasy XIII

The wait has been too long. Preorders commenced, and finally, the launch date of the game will be on 17 December 2009! Fans have waited far too long for the game, and well, looks like the retailers are going all out
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[4 Dec 2009 | One Comment | ]
Halo Legends Dated For Japan

As the Halo Anime is all set to premiere in 2010, here is a picture of the movie cover that you can expect when you purchase the DVD or Blu-ray.
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[3 Dec 2009 | One Comment | ]
Remote-Controlled Gundams In A Battle

This is a miniature Gundam robots battle, please don’t be upset if you hate Gundam Battles, because this isn’t truely a Gundam Battle, merely a remote-controlled Gundams in a battle XD. I kinda like the model whose head flew off at the start of the battle!

Source: Japan Probe

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[2 Dec 2009 | 2 Comments | ]
Chocolate Phone

If you love chocolates and you want your phone to be “consumable”, this phone might just be right for you! Only available in Japan, NTT Docomo will have Melty Bitter (Brown) and Melty Strawberry (Pink) clamshell phones for sale. They are “coated” from outside in a way to look like three-dimensional chocolate bars in their winter line-up.

The technical specs are nothing extraordinary, though: 3-inch WVGA ASV screen, 8MP CCD camera, waterproof, 1-seg digital TV tuner, Bluetooth etc.
Only 13,000 units will be made. I’m expecting a really expensive pricing for this …

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[1 Dec 2009 | 4 Comments | ]
Nationwide Roundup of Illegal Uploaders In Japan

Downloading of anime is illegal, but it looks like the time has come for the uploaders in Japan. According to NHK, Japanese Police conducted a wholesale arrest of interest users who uploaded illegal files through a software called “Share”.
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[1 Dec 2009 | One Comment | ]
Singing Shumai Wants To Be Eaten!

Take a look at this cute commercial of singing shumai who wants to be eaten :3.

Kiyoken, the company that produces the shumai, was founded over 100 years ago in Yokohama. Its age and location allows it to boast that its products have an old fashioned Yokohama-style flavor.

Nice, I love shumai, sorry guys, no matter how cute you are in the commercial, I still want to eat you *evil grins*
Source: Japan Probe