The Bonkurasu Brigade

For everyone else playing Love Plus, check the event schedule! A girl techno unit called Parfume will be playing at the event hall, starting on the second week of November.

Wait, girl techno? Parfume? Wait, what?

Will Love Plus emulate reality to the extent of there not being seats at all (And thus potentially make Rinko angry at me for dragging her to a crowded mosh pit of crazed fans?)? Will there be a PTA?

I… I don’t really understand anymore. I’ll go! I’ll go to this Parfume live!

And sign me up for PTA.

In other news, Fujita Saki (Voice of Hatsune Miku) has gone from voicing bananas to voicing pudding. I am gripped by a sudden urge to get one of those.

Or rather, doujinshi on local news. This is the first time I’ve seen doujinshi mentioned on a newspaper, so congratulations are in order.

Click on the thumbnail for the full scan. Source: The Sunday Times, Lifestyle (8/23/09)

The not-at-animelo emo session Natsu Matsuri idiocy follows after the jump, in the form of a single, long JPEG.

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This year’s WF09 is going to kill my wallet. Really.

1/8 scale Canaan from Canaan by Good Smile Company. January 2010 – Price unconfirmed

I’m a semi Type-Moon fan, and I do like Canaan’s designs. Not to mention this figure by Good Smile Company looks sweet enough to drag me out of figurine hiatus. I think.
Other figures to take into consideration after the cut.

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It is that time of the year again.
Charafest is back!

What is Charafest?

Chara Fest is an annual event by KKnM which began in 2004. It is a 1 day sale event of various character goods ranging from event/shop exclusive to normal major summer release in Japan.

What else is there?

Hobby Art Gallery (They sell Gundam Model kits at reasonable prices. )

The Card Geeks will be holding a Weis Schwarz Tournament.

There will be Doujin booths from , C.D.S (Collateral Damage Studios), Comix Pandora and many more…

KKNM will be having a Vanguard Princess Tournament too!

For Details please visit here

Credits to X-boy for the Mio

So yeah, my plan to whack some concert merchandise while I’m in Japan slogging with fellow otakus for shirts and whatnot.

Yup, I’ll get both shirts.

And below is the limited to 1619 shirts version.

I’ll only get both colors; I don’t really care if my orange colored shirt is the limited version or not.

Besides those, I have lightsticks to buy, and Perfume’s concert merchandise. Pity nothing and no news regarding that.

Also, I’m on very tight budget, so woe is me. Concerts, travel and concert merchandise form 70% of my expenditure (the remaining 20% on lodging and 10%, food)

Both this DVD and the one at Daicon showed rare Minorin Legs

Ummmm yeah. Since my ‘artiste shrine’ has signatures of Minorin and May’n now, all I need now is to complete it with a signed album from Perfume….. but the girls are too mainstream for me to even wish for that. Their Sapporo City Hall performance tickets for August 26 sold out before you can say ‘CHOCOLATE DISCO’. >_>

…ARGH whatever -_- figma and other news after the cut.

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Looks like the pictures from the recording of yesterday’s anime live special at Music Japan has been up on mainichi.jp blog! Minorin looks visibly tired in the pictures; probably because she had little rest in between her journey from Malaysia back to Japan. Minami and May’n look like sisters, though XD

SCANDAL, who performed LIVE in a European country before, covered K-on’s Ending theme, ‘Don’t Say Lazy’. I wonder how good were they at the cover, as the vocalist ain’t the actual seiyuu. hmmmmm…..

HIMEKA segment was written by NK-DS, so do check it out!

Here’s the link to the rest of the pictures, and the article itself, in Japanese. =D

I’m quite tired out now, so I’ll just keep it short. Not going to write a whole essay or many posts regarding Daicon. For more reviews and coverage, here’s a mirror to NK-DS, of which I’m currently on the trip with. They have the Q&A panel, some thoughts about the concert (of which I’ll write about at a later date), and basically covered the event in its entirety.

Nice censor is nice. 笑

Here’s the gist of the things that were floating about in my mind, and also what I did in Daicon:

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And in a few moments (a few hours, rather), I’ll be heading to KLCC for DaiCon! I’ll be joining Bjorn and Julius from NK-DS to ‘cover’ the event, so to speak.

For me, I’m there for:
1) MINORIN!!!!
2) my malaysian cosplayer friends whom I’ve not seen for about a year O_O
3) disturbing the 3 female-clones-of-bloggers. (bonkurasuだから）

行ってきます！！

Work’s been quite busy for me. Here’s a quick update:

- Lia’s getting married. Wow. At her age, she should. Congratulations to her and her hubby, along with the kid in tow. =D

- Several people I know around the blogosphere are either planning to go or going to either Nana’s, Yoko Kanno’s, or both concerts. INSANE AMOUNT OF MOOLAS EXPECTED TO SPILL.

- I call dibs on blog + bonkurasu. Type out www.bonkurasu.com and it’ll redirect back here. =D (You girls know who you are.)

- Here’s some updates with regards to Daicon; I’m too lazy to eleborate on the entire thing, but it’s about the lighstick call routine for Minorin.

- *UPDATE* Picture of MG Exia Below:
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