UDON launches Street Fighter tribute art contest
Quoted from UDON Entertainment’s DeviantArt journal: Street Fighter is one of the most influential video game franchises of all time. It launched the head-to-head fighting game genre and brought together millions of players around the globe to do battle, first at arcades and then, later on, across a variety of home consoles. 2008 is the 20th anniversary of the franchise… …You could be part of Capcom history as part...
Life-Size chocolate Ferrari F1
No one wants just a piece of a Ferrari (since definitely everyone wants the whole car), except probably with this one. What you’re looking at isn’t an F1 car that would hit the tracks for this year’s racing season. It’s a 4,405-lb. hunk of Belgian chocolate from nose to tail. This chocolate Ferrari F1 was made in Italy and will be the centerpiece of the Scuderia Ferrari Club Napoli’s club party. The car,...
Banana Wall
Ever saw those Tagalized Sesame Street episodes where they have the letter “B” and a picture of a banana and the voice over says “Titik B… Buh… Saging!”? Oh well, those probably why we have a generation of demented kids. But this post is nowhere near Sesame Street, or its horrendous Tagalized version. What you just see here is a wall of bananas. Yup, a banana wall. Attractive to chimps and banana...
WikiPilipinas Filipina Writing Contest
I promised Tita Dine and Ate Tin to join the WikiPilipinas Filipina Writing Contest. I will be submitting my essay some time soon. I do encourage you to contribute to this endeavor. Personally, I feel that the prize is irrelevant, it’s contributing something to uplift the image of the Filipina that is more important 😀 In celebration of Women’s Month in March 2008, Wikipilipinas.org will open a special portal called the...
Japanese Anime TV Ranking
Here’s the Anime TV ranking in Japan (Kanto region) for January 28 – February 3, 2008. It includes the show, the TV station, and the average household rating. Source: Video Research (Kanto Region) Sazae-san Fuji TV 21.7 ????? ????? Chibi Maruko-chan Fuji TV 15.3 ???????? ????? Detective Conan NTV 9.5 ?????? ????? Yatterman NTV 9.4 ?????? ????? Doraemon TV Asahi 9.4 ????? ????? Crayon Shin-chan TV Asahi 9.2 ????????? ?????...
Hunter x Hunter is back
Photo from Wikipedia Hunter x Hunter (read as “Hunter-hunter”), is back after a long (an over all total of 2.3 years) break! The popular shounen-manga-turned-anime was created by Togashi Yoshihiro who is also famous for creating YuYu Hakusho (a.k.a. Ghostfighter), and for marrying Sailormoon creator Takeuchi Naoko (I’ve always dreaded a nightmare cross-over of Sailormoon and Yuyu). The new installment of Hunter x...