The finals of the first ever J-Pop Anime Singing Competition Finals were held last Saturday, July 25, at the Market!Market! Activity Center. It was the culmination of a Philippine-Japan friendship event organized by the Japanese Embassy with the help of the Japan Foundation, and the event was further supported by the Nihongo Center Foundation, TOEI Animation Philippines, HERO TV, Ayala Malls, and 103.5 MAX FX. The event is one of many that are meant to celebrate Philippines-Japan Friendship month – evidently, one of the most important cultural events in the country for Japanophiles.

Your school’s website is probably designed with your school colors and your university mascot. It’s probably loaded with pictures of studends reading books, or getting drunk in their dorms, or whatever. Your school’s website sucks. At least, by otaku standards. Why? Well, The Tokyo Zokei University’s website is called Zokei Quest…

Nanoha is a spinoff of a fairly successful H-game and OAV series Triangle Hearts. While it derives bits and pieces from the Triangle Hearts continuity it strikes out in an entirely new direction and is quite devoid of H (Come on, you sickos… the main character starts out in the third grade!). Much as Magical Girl Pretty Sammi spun out of the sprawlingly massive Tenchi Muyo franchise, Nanoha is the spawn of Triangle Hearts, but touches on it’s roots only lightly after a point. The first 13 episode series aired back in 2004, the sequel A’s which was also 13 episodes aired in 2005 and the third series, StrikerS, aired in 2007.

It’s 17 minutes of Yeon Ho-Lee playing Zerg, against David Kim playing protoss. Like the previous instalments of Blizzard’s video series, this match shows off a few new terrain features that could majorly affect gameplay, like the Xel-Naga Watchtowers, and the terrain bits that can block line of sight. Also, it features a few interesting uses of Protoss force-field technology…

It turns out that CLAMP posted on their site a confession of their newfound love for Japanese brain-breakage video sharing site, Nico Nico Douga. In the confession they admit they loved the video-lulz site so much that they did their own version of virtual idol Hatsune Miku singing Mugen no Yami (Infinite Darkness)…

Last Sunday, Seiyu Junichi Suwabe, Undertaker in the domestic-helper-from-the-darkness powered anime Kuroshitsuji, announced in his blog the following:

If you’re one of those folks who are curious about, or actually prefer wearing a fundoshi for homo-erotic purposes (er…), the least we can do is point you towards correct methods of wearing the said Japanese thong.

After establishing this sort of setting, we are superficially introduced to the Filipino Heroes League, made up three guys – Kidlat Kid, Invisiboy, and their apparent leader, Flashlight. And unlike The Great American, they’re just regular dudes in makeshift costumes who happen do this for a very good reason – the chicks. That alone made them human, and thus, likeable. They do, of course, have powers, but those come out to be far less colorful than the personalities of the heroes themselves…

The comic features random things: balloons, pies, cupcakes, axes, leaves, sporks, rings, bacteria, books, planets, mice, bears, gummi bears, and pretty much anything. They also say random things, all funny and mildly disturbing. Or all disturbing and mildly funny — it depends on how you see funny and disturbing, really.

Last May 23, Fully Booked held its annual Free Comic Book Day in all of its branches, where they gave away free comic singles, and also offered a clean 20% discount on all their available graphic novels and manga titles. Of course, not wanting to miss a bargain when we see one, we immediately sent out correspondents to various Fully Booked stores in the metro to check out the event.