Scale models and Gashapons looks great when displayed on your cabinets but how long have you been neglecting it for checking? Was doing a check on my scale models and realised that some of the colours began to fade away. The problematic ones are those in which an oily and greasy substance tends to surface on the models, making it sticky and shiny... Have no choice but to use a wet cloth to clean it off to get rid of the greasy. This is especially so because PVCs are made of plastic that melts under normal room temperature after a few months.
Sometimes, a layer of dirt will also start to stain the models o it is also wise to clean it off as it will dull the colours of the scale models. Though it is not really recommended to use water for washing, sometimes its necessary to use a wet cloth to clean the dirt off the models as the paint really doesn't come off that easily unless you scrub it real hard... In any case if you are really neglecting your models for quite sometime, be sure to check them now to avoid heartbreaks in future... Remember to check those in boxes too as they weren't spare either...
It seems that Hollywood has done it again by ripping off a game known as Tekken to become the next 'best' thing in Live Action movies. Similar to the previous Dragonball Live Action that has gain much criticism due to its ripped off theme with an American setting, Tekken will no doubt follow the footsteps of this with characters who seemingly does not match with the actual game... Or perhaps even worse with its storyline that doesn't seem to make sense. Coming out sometime this year, a video is as shown below.
Though you might say the special effects are great, the fights aren't... You could easily see from the trailer that the punches are weak and so forth... It just doesn't feel right for a setting like this which is so much similar to the DOA Live Action movie. But who knows? Let's save the thoughts for after the movie starts and then judge it then...
Eroge has evolved throughout the years and has become another popular genre of games that tend to awe people alike. And with the introduction of 3D graphics, eroge has evolve even further until as we know it today and an example of such a high end eroge is the famous Real Kanojo create by the Illusion Soft company. However, classic eroge games are just as nice as it does has its own uniqueness and art form in the past...
Retro eroges are much more pixelated as to compared with eroges today because of its resolution and processing power of older computers. However such art has captured many audiences around because of their nice storyline or artwork that keeps them from coming back for more and thus the eroge boom as you've seen till today in Japan.
I remembered the time when eroges are saved on diskettes and sold in the market long ago and the game graphics are of 8 - 16 bit, resulting in serious pixel artwork such as this. If you still have your classic Nintendo game console, it'll be something like this... Amazingly at that time it was considered very good for an eroge to be like this...
Eroges are normally ADV/AVG (Adventure games) at that time with lots of visual novels and selecting different options and routes to end the storyline. However, the genres broaden up to many different types including RPG, SLG, simulation, etc. Some examples of RPG games are Tears To Tiara, SLG games include Tsuma Shibori and the common simulation games for example Sexy Beach to Artificial Girl.
The technology in eroges advances dramatically with better computers and graphics. And has eventually evolved to what we would see till this date. Eroge has fast becoming a big industry in the gaming sector because of its popularity. However, such games are sold for Japan use only but has eventually reach many countries worldwide because of their popularity... And soon it brought about critics about this types of games being sold in the market. The very case of Rapelay is one example of a game that is brought under scrutiny because of its immoral content that said to harm people's conscious with themes that are considered taboo and ostracize by other countries...
The eroge industry continues to boom as we currently would see today. With more 3D games and high resolution ADV games coming up, its no wonder fans keep coming back for more of such stuff... Seriously, I too believe eroges are becoming better... I especially like Alicesoft, Eushully and Softhouse Chara games because of their high replayability as they concentrated more on SLG, RPG style kinda games. Some popular ones include Rance, Battle Goddess and Ou Zoku. But when it comes to 3D games, Illusion Soft takes the biggest vote among the others. What lies ahead with the eroge industry is still rather vague but with the advancement of motion sensors, to cameras and touch screen monitors and sensor mats like the Xbox360, a new era of eroge playability will soon be available for fans out there to experience the power of such games in future...
(Do not watch if you are offended by adult themes and languages. Not especially when your parents are around!) This video is just too funny to not share it with you despite already having lots of videos posts lately. However, there is explicit adult theme with censorships and foul languages involved so please be cautioned when watching this. In any case, the response made by the narrator is so funny that I laugh real hard about how he express his thoughts towards BL (Boys Love), Cross-dressing, futanari, etc... you can't get bored of this. Literally...
Home Movies is a dialogue-driven American animated series that originally aired from 1999 to 2004. The plot surrounds an eight-year-old Brendon Small (voiced by the creator, head writer, and lead musician of Home Movies, Brendon Small), who makes films with his friends Melissa Robbins and Jason Penopolis in his spare time. He lives with his divorced mother, Paula, and his baby sister, Josie. He is also friends with his alcoholic, short-tempered soccer coach, John McGuirk. Season 1
Here's a little sneak preview of an introduction video for my upcoming presentation about Otaku Culture. Taken from various sources in order to depicts and let our audiences know a bit about what it actually is. Hope you'd enjoy this as much as I do in the making... Perhaps this should be used for J's Chimes too?
One of the weirdest parody featuring Hatsune Miku in many different forms for the Acerola Vitamin drink commercial in Japan. Wonder why is a robot deemed to look like Miku. Guess a fan made this and looks interesting enough not to pass...
Some fans decided to merge Japanese anime with Science using the periodic table that we often use in our chemistry classes (Click on the picture for a bigger view of it). Find this rather interesting because the names of each chemicals in the table actually coincides with the anime characters replaced on it. For example 'H' for Haruhi (Hydrogen) or 'Ra' for Rei Ayanami (Radium). Look through and see whether you'd recognise the anime characters in the table... And ya can even compare it with the 'real' periodic table of elements below...
(Science is amazing in the anime way with an anime twist...)
At the beginning of the film Layton receives a letter from the famed opera singer, Jenice Kaitly, inviting them to see her newest performance. She also asks Layton, Luke, and Remi for assistance in a mystery, saying her friend Melina went missing one year ago but returned later as a seven year old girl saying she had found the secret of eternal life. Naturally, the case fascinates Layton and his apprentices, so they head to the Crown Petone opera house. When they arrive, something is very strange: the pianist, Ozro Vislar talks of a game, and the winner will win the "eternal life." It is up to Layton, Luke, and Remi to solve the mystery of the Eternal Diva before it is too late. Year: 2009 Genre: Puzzle solving
Format: Mini MKV / English Subbed Total Size: 270MB Quality: Good Fansub: Anonbro
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Something amazing happen which took us by storm in my final semester. It seems that one of my modules required us to make a presentation about anything we wanted to. One of my friends suggested that we'd introduce the Otaku Culture for our presentation. Was in favor with the suggestions cause I'd actually knew a lot about such being somewhat an Otaku myself. It is the most interesting assignment that I would hardly wait to start thinking and scripting our presentation. I guess it is really a given because there's really a lot of things to share and talk about in regards to our hobby. Makes my day and lots of motivation to do this assignment... Hopefully would be able to come up with something that could awe the audiences...
A seemingly unusual sight for Gin to purchase something at a local supermarket... However due to the fact it is known that there's a cosplay event in the shopping center, much of the people knew that there would be cosplayers around to serve. Which comes to the point that would you as a cosplayer dress up and walk around town in a normal day? Other than the glaring eyes, some people would be surprised or excited to see something weird in places they'd never thought of. An example would be this hilarious video below...
It sure makes my day having to watch this video over and over...Perhaps we should try this in Singapore and post it up in Youtube for many to see? Then it would be the first...
Genres: Boing, Comedy, Ecchi, Manga, Pantsu, School Life, Shounen, Super Power
Fujiwara Naeka is a typical 17 year-old high school student. Or so we thought. She`s really one of two surviving heirs of a tycoon who has the right to inherit his mass fortune when she turns 18 in half a year. Fubuki, a young and beautiful maid, and Kogarashi, a big burly maid guy with a mask, have been assigned to keep Naeka and her brother Kousuke safe from those who would plot their demise, and to steal the fortune she would inherit.
Size: +/- 170 Mb avi Japanese Audio/English Subtitles
Surprisingly, J's Chimes has reached the 100k hit mark after 3 long years of blogging... Once again, we would like to sincerely thank you for making all this happen. It's really not easy sustaining something like that for so long where many of my other blogger friends has given up and doing something different. Your support is what keeps J's Chimes going and would hope that you would continue to visit so that we are motivated to blog new stuffs for your viewing pleasure...
A few big events coming up in these few days time and a large influx of people will be gathering in Singapore for these events coming up soon. The National Day is 2 days away from now and be held near the Padang at City Hall. Guess traffic would be heavy and congested during these days... Soon after would be the Youth Olympics coming up a few days later. Not really a sports fan myself so life still goes on then... The F1 racing will soon appear once again this September too so expect more tourism in the area too... It's gonna get busy soon so gonna grab my camera and go for some photo shooting...
Wow... If milk's really that good, may wanna drink more of it too... Some of the wonders of Japanese exaggerated advertisements that will surely grab your attention in any ways possible. Now why really is it that Singapore doesn't really adopt much of this advertisements for the products. Does it lead to deception and such that it is plain ridiculous to air something like this or perhaps some other reasons? In any case, gonna buy some milk and drink up too... lol.
With the war on Scanlations, there's bound to be causalities involved and the very first goes to the popular free manga website known as Onemanga. As as now companies are taking seriously on licensing laws and such, websites are now closing down one at a time and who knows which the the next victim coming up. Other than that, popular series like Bleach and Naruto are now protected by copyright infringement laws so none can now be distributed for fans to continue reading the exciting parts coming soon... Whether it is a good thing or not no one is ever sure at the moment and so maybe it's back to the bookshops again...? Pertaining to this, J's Chimes will also be closing down the manga link sections as those links are already dead because of such turn of events. Anyway, let's just see what happens next...
What better way to attract anime fans to buy anime related 'health' products featuring girls who look mysteriously similar to the anime K-On!... (Except with a title that reads Band Girls...) These adult products seriously gives me the creeps and all eyes will be on you if you'd intend to purchase it in a store or something... What's also amazing is the price tag for the product which is 1200yen = SGD$18... What's even more surprising is the creative way they present or advertise the product. Though we might all love animes, probably won't go that far to entertain your wee wee with...
Yup. You've seen it done on phones, Ipads, laptops and even the Iphones... But has you really seen one done on your favourite handheld game such as the PSP? Guess someone came up with the idea of pimping their PSPs with some cute anime characters and somehow it turns out great nontheless... This is my personal favourite because it looks so cool and even the screen wallpaper matches the cover.
Forgot what this eroge character is but it certainly looks good at the back of the PSP. Now where would you fond this anywhere in Singapore?
If am certain, PSPs run on Mac OS but some brilliant minds decided to pimp it up with the Windows OS design for the PSP back cover. Reads 'Window Vista Portable'...lol.
Another cool design for Hatsune Miku Fans... Perhaps a much more Chibi version of her? Hmm... Just realised that these are done on the older versions of the PSP...
Another Eroge character in which I forgot again...Looks pretty good in all ways... However I'd prefer a horizon picture instead as you're playing it horizontally and not vertically for the people in front of you to 'appreciate' it.
Lastly, one of the more sophisticated designs for the PSP cover... Too much of a complication does affect the looks of the PSP don't ya think so?
Plagiarism doesn't only happens in our assignments or books and such where references are needed to be put at the back for salutations. Even animes and games are being copied just so to attract people to buy their products. And so you know it doesn't only happens in Singapore, but in other parts of the world as we know it. Such an example would be this so called Korean game that copies the One Piece anime cover but added with a couple of tweaking here and there... Of course this is not such a big deal until you'd see this below....
Yup... Does it looked familiar? Somehow some Suzumiya Haruhi Fan decided to drew a look-a-like picture of her in a book about sports for sale in association with the Beijing Olympics 2008. Was wondering why Japanese animation companies didn't sue them instead for such plagiarism...
It's been awhile since we'd posted weird stuffs in Japan. And now we have a vending machine that sells something really shocking. Yep, pornographic magazines out in the open. Sometimes I'd wonder would it really be weird if you were caught vending from machines like this. Or maybe ya should wait till the coast is clear before inserting coins and choosing the material that you like? Maybe ya should don a mask for that matter. In any case, it is so easily available that kids could get it too with ease... It's even more surprising that such are allowed to be sold without the complaints of the public...
The ever so popular ecchi anime To Love Ru is back once again soon with a brand new season. Already, fans are eagerly waiting for it... (Understand-able because of the large amount of fan services given...) In any case, this should continue to follow the manga where it ends off last time. However the OVA does takes much of the popular ecchi sections of the manga already, so I guess season 2 will also follow the rhythm somehow. The manga ends quite abruptly though but hopefully the anime comes to a better conclusion than just to stop in the middle of nowhere without letting fans know what is the fate of Yuki Rito...
Animation at times tends to take things a bit overboard with large bright eyes with alluring eyelids that attract attention. But seriously if this is applied into reality, it does seem pretty weird and scary if I do say so myself...
Imagine your cat has a priceless expression like this... Although at time Japanese Artworks are often been exaggerated with such facial expressions (Normally with the eyes), sometimes such are accredited by people because it brings out the liveliness of the anime and the character. Some of the many reasons why anime catches the audiences...
I remembered the time I owned a Sega Megadrive back in my younger days but little did I really notice the commercials that were airing in Japanese Tv and how they would looked like. Sonic the hedgehog was the icon of the console at that time and was a fan of it too. Here's a little video that will bring back some wonderful memories of gaming in the past...
A hectic day for me as yesterday was the launch of the game that many had waited 12 years for it... Fans of Starcraft 2 started queuing up for the launch as early as 7am in the morning just to be the first to grab a copy of it. The queue stretched all the way outside of the Funan IT Mall in Singapore to as far as the neighboring shopping centers.
Took me 4 hours just to be able to get into the mall and see the booth they've setup in the atrium. They held a couple of matches on stage and lucky draw giveaways which included Razor gitf packs and Steelseries gift packs... The queue is still as crazy inside as they began watching and cheering for the matches.
Finally it's my turn to grab my copy at the counter. So really excited about this. It's been 5 hours since the start of queuing and now I've really got it. The pacage includes the box set with the game inside, a dog tag, a T-shirt and some miscellaneous advert stuff. Ran to another queue to take the lead writer's autograph and photos just after that.
Took a photograph with the lead writer; Brian Kindregan of Starcraft 2 who came down all the way from the US just to sign out autographs and stuff... He's really kind and friendly to approach. It's just so cool to have a photo with him...
Finally it's the announcement of the grand prize draw which includes a trip for 2 to Blizzcon California with return tickets and accommodation. Some lucky winner got it and is up on stage to receive the prize... Darn, I envy him... In any case that's the end of the launch of Starcraft 2, now playing the game like there's no tomorrow...
By the time you read this post, am already waiting at Funan IT Mall in Singapore for the official launch of the game Starcraft 2. After 12 long years of waiting, it's finally out and am so wanna find out what happens in the storyline after the UED (United Earth Directorate) is destroyed by Kerrigan's Forces. Guess I'll be taking some photographs while at it as there are a couple of events going on too like lucky draws and presentations on the game... And for those who yet to purchase the game, get it asap as stocks are really running dry soon...
With the launch of the new arcade game in Japan known as Love Plus, tons of dedicated fans rushed to play the game in Akihabara. Here's a video clip of the advertisements and posters about the game that's available in the Videogame Center, with different card designs and such to delight fans of Love Plus. Amazingly there's even a queue for people to play the game too just like how you'd line up while buying lottery tickets and such... Wonder what happens if someone continues to insert tokens and play all day long...
And here's another video showing parts of the gameplay of the Love Plus Arcade Version. Seriously, it takes in 3 hundred yen coins just to start up the game... (Approximately SGD$4.50). That's quite an amount for a game that only last about 5min... Don't know how the game will end or prompt you to insert coins to continue but it seems that if ya do failed a mini-game, it's game over... Anyway this is kinda interesting from the video clip and definitely you won't get this in Singapore...
Just when ya thought Love Plus can't sink ronery people any longer, here comes the arcade version of the game. Having launched as a DS game that critics and the media dubbed it as a 'game which will endanger the country's population and induces more divorce and addiction', it is no wonder such is under much criticism and relationship problems as time passes on. Konami; the creator of Love Plus, is planning to launch the arcade version at videogame centers in Akihabara for a test run first before promoting it to other parts of the world 'when the need arises'. I believe many ronery people will seek more attention through these screens and wouldn't mind inserting coins just to continue this relationship gaming for time to come... Perhaps next time someone would wanna marry to it and buy the entire arcade set too?
The fact that Japan requires such an extensive railway network is because of the sheer size of the country. Of course if ya really do not do your homework, traveling is really a confusing thing as you do not know what railway services to board and so on to reach your destination... Speaking of Japan, Singapore's railway system will soon be just as extensive as this as shown below...
What really amazes me is that though Singapore is really a small island, such an extensive railway network is being setup to facilitate movement of the people from one place to another. Some of which aren't seen or being contructed as of yet as they are on the planning phase for the future ahead. But somehow or rather, it seems that almost the whole island is connected together with the Central Business District as the Main Interchange Area. Looking forward to more of such improvements in transport so that we can travel for one end to another with ease...
With copyrighted laws set into full motion, manga publishing companies have finally made their move in stopping the release of Scanlations on websites. After much debates, it seems like scanlation websites are now slowly removing manga contents due to the fact that they are issued warnings of illegal publishing of licensed mangas. So it also means that in months to come ahead, popular mangas like Bleach to Claymore will soon be gone... Have been reading mangas through scanlations ever since high school because it does not 'Costs' any money except the Internet and Electricity charges. Mangas cost a lot more nowadays and occupies lots of space in the house so it is not feasible for me to be buying and storing them after reading. The fact that scanlations will be gone truly saddens me, however such is the law and there's nothing that we as readers can do anything about it. Let's just wait and see what happens next...
Yup... forget all the past right now... Today's my birthday and am pretty excited about it... Unlike previous birthdays of pain and tears, this time it's not as ronery as it would be now as have manage to get plenty of friends to celebrate for me... Hoping that all would be able to make it though and things would get pretty hectic from today till the weekends... Yup, better take as many photos as possible... Not an everyday thing you gonna blow cakes or have that many friends to accommodate you for the days ahead. Was hoping to get some anime presents but it seems none of them has such interest in things other than me lol... Let's just see what happens then... Oh ya, and Happy Birthday To Me~!
True enough, anime fans like me find it very hard to get relationships into motion. It is especially so in my age group where little to none of girls loves anime as a hobby... In fact, am always becoming the 'councilor' or 'light bulb' in helping people find happiness instead of myself. What truly pissed me off today was something that happened after lecture in school where a girl whom i knew of forgot to take her sweater home. I spotted it and wanted to take it to her but however was stopped by my friends who told me to pass it to another friend of mine who seem infatuated by her. Of course through much peer pressure that am reluctant to pass it to him to take the credit instead.
So this brings to the point whether am I just bad in love or because of such obstacles or my past that has prevented me from doing so... Yes indeed I felt jealous but at the same time it reminds me of my previous friend who did the same thing to me too where he loves girls so much to the extend that he'd actually badmouthed your personality to them to keep them from knowing others better. Such topics about relationships has brought me down to tears many a times before and even till now so it has really traumatize me a couple to make me feel really negative about such. Was hoping some kind soul would help get me to regain confidence in myself once again to get back my heartbeating moments one more time...
The latest installment for the upccoming Hatsune Miku game for the PS3 console seriously awes many with its beautiful graphics and songs from the albums. It's just too bad I don't own a PS3 but some kind soul from youtube uploaded the videos of it without the gameplay or systems which should appear in the video... similar to games like dance dance revolution to guitar heroes, button symbols will appear in game for you to tap and follow the rhythm. Below are some song in which you might find familiar and are some of my favourites.
The World is mine is one of the most popular songs sung by Hatsune Miku and is the first song being sung during her concert a few months back.
One of my favourites is Packaged because it's so surreal just listening to it... love the way the makers using camera angles to make it more lively and such...
Currently on episode 2, Asobi Ni Iku Yo is a new anime released this season and contains many fanfare and fan service that people probably likes... Yup, and I do mean the mixture of guns, weaponry, technology with a little ecchi-ness to boot ranging from tight fitting clothes to probable cosplays, boobs and a couple of neko moe madness. Asobi Ni Iku Yo is a story about an extra terrestrial lifeform which had feature similar to a cat, visits Earth for a peaceful mission of gathering intel. Eris; the name of the female lead character, met Kio in her adventures but were soon under probes by the government... Asobi Ni Iku Yo is a rather action-pack with a little dosage of good old ecchi segments that will surely get you hook to this anime.
And when I mean weapons, I do mean weapons like the classic M203, M1A tank, Humvee to the all advance weaponry like the battle suits to the Neko Technology in which the female lead character Eris uses... The onli setback I'd realized about this anime was that the story proceeds at a very fast pace... With little or not much introduction on the character's background and such, and then suddenly the espionage scenes starts kicking in. So it does keeps you wondering who and why the other characters are suddenly appearing here and there with little or no knowledge where they're from. Well of course if you'd read the manga, everything comes clear so you could really say that the anime is actually a fast forward version of it.
But then again who really cares when there are tons of moe-ness and ecchi-ness that will leave you ogling and wanting for more... And again such are some of the many reasons fans are interested in. if you'd observed carefully, many animes now does show a little bit of skin here and there so that's probably what's getting the viewers to watch... in any case, Asobi Ni Iku Yo is another good anime to watch which resembles To Love-Ru, Sora No Otoshimono and Kemeko DX. Fans of these anime should catch this new anime asap before the next episode airs again soon...
Back in school I've often heard about examples like how the company 3M manage to create a product called 'Post It!' and immediately was in high demand when it was patented and launched into the public. But never in my wildest dream that someone actually bought many tons of it to create a stop motion video that is so creative and interesting... I guess someone has just too much time to spare. Amazingly this clip has a hit count of about 4 million viewers till date and rising. So... Should we join in the fray and buy some 'Post It!' stamps too?
Cosplay is fun but at times can have devastating effects when done wrongly in public view. Sure...ya may see surprised looks and awes from the public but all eyes would be on you if something is amiss. Take the toilets for example, should you use the men's toilet if ya do crossdressing for some cosplay event? Maybe the urinal isn't such a good idea after all....
Don't want to let people see you buying an adult magazine or something bad? How about dressing up in armor in public? What would you do if ya saw an armor wearing person in a bookstore? I guess the most obvious thing people would do is taking out their phones and start snapping away... Then next thing you know it, it becomes a rant on a forum or some flaming website...
Seriously if ya gonna crossdress or cosplay as a girl, make sure you'd act like one... else this is absolutely nerve-wrecking and bad for one's heart. Try doing that in Singapore and you'd really be driven to the ground and marked as a pervert in all available networks and communications that technology has to offer...
Found a little shop which sells clothes and Star Wars face mask? How about a little makeover by someone whose so extremely bored that he or she decided to spice up the store's mannequins by donning them with the masks and a provocative post just for laughs? Cosplay materials are great ain't they?
