The Bonkurasu Brigade

Which was, our resident plum’s umehiko’s birthday.

Amusingly, 1 week after’s the day of my birthday too; unfortunately, that very day will fall exactly 7 months after that.

Well, this blogpost’s to you, 相棒! (あいぼう）

New kits are coming out faster than you can say ‘Ah!’ (Azumanga DaiOh reference)

Hot from The Gundam Base (korean site):

MG 1/100 Unicorn Gundam official pictures:

I’ve already pre-ordered mine. =D

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Yosha! Announced at the CHO(!) Hida-Matsuri (XD), we have a second season of Hidamari Sketch incoming!
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You never get to see such a large collaboration of anime singers before.

OF COURSE THESE PEOPLE ALL CAN SING LIVE WELL.

You get to see Masami Okui being sexy. Despite being almost in her 40s.

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Animelo is a large scale concert organized by Okui Masami to commemorate Japanese Animation songs, with big names like m.o.v.e, Chihara Minori, Ali Project, Kuriyabashi Minami, JAM Project and so on. The actual event was on a very memorable day: 07/07/2007 at the Nippon Bukdokan. The DVD release date would be on 28/11 (a few days more!!), priced at 8900 yen with 3 DVDs. More information on Animelo goods are over here.

As I can’t find lyrics to their theme song for this year’s Animelo, I did my own. Pardon for some of the translations since the kanji was too ambiguous for me. Lyrics taken from the PV + making of video.

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As a fan of Persona 3 game, I’d often wish that there will be an anime adaptation, even more so after they released a manga adaptation of it.
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Most Type-Moon and Tsukihime fans might have already know this news, but I’ve come across some trailers over Youtube, and thought I’d like to share.
“….will be adapted into an upcoming anime movie divided into 7 chapters, set to be animated by ufotable. The first chapter will be released in 1st December 2007 at Theatres Shinjuku.” – ANN/Wikipedia

Release dates – ANN
2007-12-01 (Japan, Part 1 – Fukan Fūkei 俯瞰風景)
2007-12-29 (Japan, Part 2 – Satsujin Kōsatsu[1] 殺人考察[1] )
2008-01-26 (Japan, Part 3 – Tsūkaku Zanryū 痛覚残留 )

The rest of the chapters have no confirmed release date.
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