Nihongo Fiesta 2009
A 4-in-One event of Japanese culture and art that will be a feast for the senses! The 4th Nihongo Fiesta features the 36th Nihongo Speech Contest, the Kite Festival, Koto Concert, the 11th Asian Cartoon Exhibition and a lot more cultural performances, contests, exhibits and demonstrations. – from JFM The event will be held starting February 28, at the SM Mall of Asia, Bay Boulevard, Pasay City. Kite Festival – February 28...
Phoenix Wright to be made a Musical Comedy
Capcom announced that their video game Phoenix Wright will be produced as a musical comedy by the Takarazuka Revue, a Japanese all-female musical theatre. Yes, your favorite Ace Attorney will be singing and dancing live on stage in the form of Ranju Tomu from the Cosmos troupe this coming February. View the clip after the jump to have an idea how this will all turn out to be. Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney, or Gyakuten Saiban Yomigaeru...
AFA 2008: Toys, toys, toys
AFA 2008 Pictures part two! When you go to conventions, there are shops. And the shops for this kind of convention will mean anime merchandise. And most of the time, anime merchandise includes toys and figures! This time, we give you a peek of a lot of toy displays seen throughout the whole show. Warning: Image heavy. This time in clickable thumbnails as there are a lot. This huge Gundam display isn’t actually tecjnically a toy,...
AFA 2008: Cosplay
Back from Singapore! And before I go on with a comprehensive con report, I’ll start off with a series of picture posts. First, some cosplay pictures! We arrived late on both days so we weren’t able to take a lot of them. I believe we also missed a lot of other Macross Frontier cosplyers. Anyway, pictures after the jump!
Anime Festival Asia 2008
For the first time ever in South East Asia, Singapore will celebrate the diversity of Japanese Pop Culture. Taking place on the 22nd and 23rd of November 2008 (Saturday and Sunday) at the Suntec International Convention and Exhibition Center, Anime Festival Asia 2008 (AFA08) will showcase a wide array of Japanese Pop Culture related content, spanning over 5,000 sqm of space with 6 experience zones: Akiba Town, Anime Live, Anime...
Astroboy 2009 Release Date
It has been announced that the CG-animated movie take on Osamu Tezuka’s Astroboy will be released on October 23, 2009. I’m reserving my thoughts on this matter, but it’s safe to say that this could definitely fare better than that other movie we love to hate, being CG and not trying to do a live-action of it. There have been no concept arts and photos released yet, so maybe I can reserve my judgement until then?...