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
Part 1: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=20IYR4G5 Part 2: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=NFNASLSB Part 3: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=3I9YBUX3 Part 4: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=2IAERZ0L
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...
