J's Chimes: SOYC Cosplay 2011

Finally managed to skim through the photographs and uploaded it for viewing... Anyway the Start Of Year C ended yesterday and I must say it's a lot better than last year given the fact that it's much bigger and such. Having said that, here are the photographs taken at the event. However do be warned that some of the photographs are of extremely low quality as photobucket resizes the photos even more somehow... Anyway you can view the photos by clicking here or from the tab bar on the right.
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J's Chimes: Cancelations Galore...

With the disaster that struck Japan, it seems like many things will inevitably be canceled from this month on. From products to television programmes that we all loved very much, it is only now that we appreciate them and take it for granted. Some examples are as shown below:

Animes

Yup, it's nerve wrecking to say this but this season's animes are mostly put on hold now due to the disaster. Even the infamous QB is put on hold in tormenting the magical girls...

Food Products

Mad rush for Japanese products can be seen in Japan to stockpile on food supply. Not to mention other neighboring countries like Hong Kong and China are all in a frenzy to purchase all available Japanese products now in bulks. The situation looks pretty dire... Many countries are dependent on Japan for their products so with the shortage of these, high chances that food prices would increase dramatically...

Miscellaneous Products

From Eroge to Mangas, appliances and electronics, seems like they will all be canceled or postponed to a later launch date and such. With such, imports and exports are grim and low... So we might probably have to wait a while for these to return...

Events and Conventions

Even Ishihara's approval for a Tokyo Anime Fair 2011 is inevitably canceled due to this situation. It is without fail that the Anime Contents Expo will see the same fate as TAF2011... Not to mention the other upcoming festivals like cosplays, animes and manga conventions...

Other

It is however unclear that if the Japan Manga Ban would still take effect in a few months time after this unfortunate incident. Hopefully the disaster would be taken highest priority instead of something like this that can help contribute to the economic. Other cancellations would also include flights to Japan. For now, let's hope for the best that Japan could stand up once again once this situation is over...
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J's Chimes: K-On! Is Back!

We all thought that it ended with the graduation of High School, but it seems that K-On! is gonna be back to rock your world once again. This time it seems that the manga is gonna be restarting at the University instead with Azusa still in High School. Due to be out in 28th April this year, the K-On! craze will soon be back with fans crying out with joy...
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J's Chimes: JPlex - Japan Entertainment Platform

JPLEX is the first ever installment of the entertainment platform will bring to Singapore for the first time. Featuring 3 Anime Blockbusters including titles like Naruto Shippudden: The Lost Tower, Sokyuu No Fafner: Heaven and Earth and Gundam Unicorn. Coupled with these exciting movies are two concert performances from top Japanese music groups; Angela and FLOW, whose music have been featured extensively in the soundtracks of the featured movie franchises of Naruto and Sokyuu No Fafner. JPLEX will be held this weekend from the 5 - 6 March at the Republic Polytechnic Singapore. For more information, please visit their website here.

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J's Chimes: Manga Ban In Action...

It's been reported that the Tokyo Manga Ban is put into action this year with convenient stores separating mangas from general sections and into the 18+ section where adult magazines are being placed... Sadly to say, some books like Manga Home which have a couple of obscene parts have been classified for matured audiences only... Even Shounen Jump may be in danger of such. But the question is if manga is placed in the adult section, what would happen to the manga industry now? Lots of doubts and fears come in about this coming ban which may affect the industry as a whole and also freedom of expression. Hopefully enough it will not affect other countries as well such as Singapore...
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J's Chimes: When Management Meets Manga

Surprisingly, Peter Drucker; a management guru, has somehow blend into the Japanese culture as a book by Natsumi Iwasaki. A pure coincidence maybe since am doing a Management Degree too. I guess management practices will soon be a hit in Japanese animes prompt the industry to go into that genre real soon... But who knows? But whether or not the public would accept this is another story... Click on the picture to read more about it.
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J's Chimes: Have You Bought Your Tickets Yet?

The Singapore Toys, Games And Comics Convention is drawing near and will start on the 10 - 12 Dec 2010. You can get those tickets online at Gatecrash or call their hotline number to order one. Also, you can actually purchase them at AXS or SAM machines located around Singapore. Had mine purchased yesterday and it cost a whooping $25 for 3 days entry. Well, this event only happens yearly so I guess we do not really have a choice... Buy now to avoid disappointment and lining up over at the convention area just to get the tickets for entry...
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J's Chimes: 10 Mangakas Who Change Manga History

Mangas have come a long way till what we would see today. However the genres of these mangas evolved throughout the years from the originality of these Mangakas. Some of which you would have read before and are some of the bestsellers around.

1. Osamu Tezuka - Astroboy
2. Akira Toriyama - Dragonball
3. Fujiko F. Fujio - Doraemon
4. Eiichiro Oda - One Piece
5. Takehiko Inoue - Slam Dunk
6. Shigeru Mizuki - Gegege No Kitaro
7.Fujio Akatsuka - Gag Manga King
8. Machiko Hasegawa - Sazae-san
9. Hayao Miyazaki - Nausicaa
10. Naoki Urasawa - 20th Century Boys

Even as we know, some of the mangas have become an anime due to its popularity. However in recent years, such originality is slowly diminishing due to the fact that Mangakas or such talents are getting lesser each time.
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J's Chimes: AFA Goodies And Stuff

Bought a lot of stuffs in the Anime Festival Asia X yesterday. Feared that I may even overspent more this year than the last... But all is well with the loot that I've harvested in this event. Ah, the joy of getting these is just so great but then again I didn't really have the time to appreciate it much because am so really tired after a whole day of 'shopping' and taking photographs...


The very first stuff that I grabbed was the copy of a picture book for the past AFA 2009. Really needed something like this to remember by... sort of like a souvenir for the Anime Festival Asia. Immediately make a dash towards GoodSmile to check out what they sell in their booth. Bought a couple of K-On! keychains before heading to the COSPA booth.


First priority in COSPA? Grab the Misaka Mikoto T-shirt straight from the shelf and began queuing... No questions asked. In fact, this was sold out early that afternoon. However the straps doesn't looked really appealing so had forfeit that to get something else instead...


Well in any Anime Festivals so as to say, it has got to be the scale models and figurines... Bought the Black Shooter Nendoroid because it's just simply irresistible. Not to mention Mio with her lovely guitar... (Together with 2 keychains bought from GoodSmile)


Saw someone holding a Miku fan and decided to grab one too... Kinda cute and makes you smile... Was then in the stage area watching the performances and the Gundam movie before deciding to buy something else... And thus saw this dakimakura from Code Geass which caught my attention and decided to buy it regardless... (Though I do not really have a good impression on Odex, this little thingy brought my attention to purchase the dakimaura too...)


Yup... This 3D poster of Nuranihyon No Mago is just so nice that had decided to purchase it. It would cost lesser to purchase it with the dakimakura so had decided to go with the flow~


And what's the first things first when you got home? Unwrapped your toys!! Love this Nendoroid a lot... Just gotta touch it... They are just so cute not too...


Finally, Black Rock Shooter comes alive and leap out of the box... Gives a glaring stare and then back into the box she goes... Too tired to display her as of now as am so groggy after a long day of 'shopping'.


The Nendoroid comes with a free Black Rock Shooter DVD too. Wow! Hopefully I have the time to watch and know what this anime is really about... This is perhaps probably the very first Nendoroid with a DVD as a free gift...


Mio is the next out of her confined box. Posed it a little and give her some fresh air before going back to her default display casing... Perhaps I should put her on my computer desk? Let's just leave it to after the AFA convention...


Day 2 of AFA X will commence once again this morning at 9am and will be there once more for some major phototaking and video recording of this festival. The AFA photos will be out from Monday onwards so do stay tune for a whole week of AFA updates...
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J's Chimes: To Love-Ru Is Back!

The ever so popular ecchi manga To Love-Ru is back once again titled To Love-Ru Darkness! After the abrupt ending in the previous manga, a brand new storyline continues on which now focuses much on the Golden Darkness Yami and Deviluke's princesses Momo and Nana. Once again, ecchi is of abundance and here to stay again with the ever so lucky guy Yuki Rito. No wonder To Love-Ru is back again this season with Motto To Love-Ru anime airing right now... But in any case, this continuation is pretty interesting and you can read it right here at Mangafox.com.
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J's Chimes: A Successful Presentation...

It was nerve-wrecking when the lecturer finally announced the results of our presentation and gave feedback for it. And when it was finally our turn, surprisingly our presentation was the second best in Day 1 of the 3 day presentation period. After all the hard work that we had put in, our efforts are finally paid off. Everyone in our group had really done a seriously great job in the role-playing of our presentation. It is somewhat unfortunate that we did not record it though... In any case, here's the complete introduction video of our topic titled 'An Introduction To Otaku Culture' which was break down to 4 main sections mainly manga, anime, cosplay and video games... A really big thank you to those who had made it all possible
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J's Chimes: Funny Starcraft Storylines...

So you wanna know about the true stories of how the Zerg has come to be? Well perhaps you should read this comedic comic strip and laugh the crap out of something. Read it by clicking here. There are more strips on the tags of this website and you could see more funny comics about Starcraft which wasn't supposedly to be... Now it makes me wanna play as the Zerg race all thanks to these comics...
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J's Chimes: K-On! Manga Ends...

The popular manga K-On! has finally come to a conclusive ending and was the talk in Japanese anime forums and websites about its sad ending. It seems like Azusa was left alone as the seniors Yui, Mio, Ritsu and Mugi graduated from their school. Such brings many of Azusa's fans to tears because of this and hoping for a better end to this instead. Whether or not a continuation will be made is still pending... In any case, the anime K-On! is also coming to an end this season with only 2 more episodes to go and whether or not they would make a better end is still a mystery or perhaps stay true to the manga? Once again, another great work is coming to an end too right after Full Metal Alchemist. Hopefully we'll get to see more great works to come out soon next season...
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J's Chimes: Presentation Success...

Astoundingly, the presentation held today was a success with many good reviews and comments from our audiences. Was pretty happy with how it actually flows and the awed look in the audiences faces. Lol... Unfortunately am unable to show you the presentation but you can view the introduction video by clicking here to roughly have an idea of what we are presenting. It's been a long and tedious process creating the script and preparation from scratch and I do wanna thank everyone who's involved in this presentation. And finally I have a bit more time to blog stuff now lol...
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J's Chimes: Presentation Now...

Today's finally the day for our presentation on the Otaku Culture in school and I seriously can't wait for it to come and be over with it asap. After many days of preparation, heated battles and work, the day has finally arrived. Hopefully it goes smoothly for the presentation so that we can rest easy and blog once again...
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J's Chimes: Presenting Otaku Culture

Something amazing happen which took us by storm in my final semester. It seems that one of my modules required us to make a presentation about anything we wanted to. One of my friends suggested that we'd introduce the Otaku Culture for our presentation. Was in favor with the suggestions cause I'd actually knew a lot about such being somewhat an Otaku myself. It is the most interesting assignment that I would hardly wait to start thinking and scripting our presentation. I guess it is really a given because there's really a lot of things to share and talk about in regards to our hobby. Makes my day and lots of motivation to do this assignment... Hopefully would be able to come up with something that could awe the audiences...
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J's Chimes: OMG! (One Manga is Gone!)

With the war on Scanlations, there's bound to be causalities involved and the very first goes to the popular free manga website known as Onemanga. As as now companies are taking seriously on licensing laws and such, websites are now closing down one at a time and who knows which the the next victim coming up. Other than that, popular series like Bleach and Naruto are now protected by copyright infringement laws so none can now be distributed for fans to continue reading the exciting parts coming soon... Whether it is a good thing or not no one is ever sure at the moment and so maybe it's back to the bookshops again...? Pertaining to this, J's Chimes will also be closing down the manga link sections as those links are already dead because of such turn of events. Anyway, let's just see what happens next...
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J's Chimes: Scanlation War Is Now...

With copyrighted laws set into full motion, manga publishing companies have finally made their move in stopping the release of Scanlations on websites. After much debates, it seems like scanlation websites are now slowly removing manga contents due to the fact that they are issued warnings of illegal publishing of licensed mangas. So it also means that in months to come ahead, popular mangas like Bleach to Claymore will soon be gone... Have been reading mangas through scanlations ever since high school because it does not 'Costs' any money except the Internet and Electricity charges. Mangas cost a lot more nowadays and occupies lots of space in the house so it is not feasible for me to be buying and storing them after reading. The fact that scanlations will be gone truly saddens me, however such is the law and there's nothing that we as readers can do anything about it. Let's just wait and see what happens next...
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J's Chimes: Dying For A Cause

With the new anime Highschool of the Dead airing this season, it's time to look back into the manga which started it all. It's been 3 months or so ever since the last chapter was released by scanlation fans and the latest series that's been uploaded shows a grueling end to the police officer known as Asami. It seems that Kohta had really shot her as she was surrounded by the horde. Was actually thinking that he would help by clearing the zombies away for her to escape but instead the authors had thus decided to kill off this character to continue on with the original surviving members. It is recommended that you should read the manga before watching the anime because it is much more interesting and has gone quite a lead ahead of the anime. You can read it here at 1000manga.com.
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J's Chimes: The Dead Is Rising...

The brand new season brings about a much awaiting zombie apocalypse anime known as The Highschool Of The Dead. Dubbed as one of the Greatest Masterpiece for this season and perhaps this year, such has a weird combination of gore, carnage and 'up-skirts' of girl pantsu. Have been waiting this anime for a long time and it has finally arrived... Having played many games in relations to zombies and stuff, this is the must watch of all animes upcoming this season.


Having said, much of this zombie apocalypse stuff come from books to movies, games and such... One example of a console game would be Deadrising where survivors held up in a shopping mall. Coincidentally, the plot from the movie 'Dawn of the dead' is somehow being used. As for computer games, it would easily be Left 4 Dead in which many people loved. Highschool of the dead is taken from a manga and I would believe that the anime will follow the plot respectfully without fail.


Finally, to get you all fired up to watch this amazing anime this season, here's the opening intro for the anime 'Highschool Of The Dead'. By the looks of it, it seems fans will not be disappointed with its quality whatsoever as it looks really great. With that, you might also want to read the manga as it really is good... Time to barricade your doors and load your weapons cause here comes the anime you wouldn't want to miss...
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