The Anime Festival Asia is back once again and am so looking forward to it. Reason being that I've also bought the tickets for the concert. Though it cost a bomb, I guess it's worth it once in a while since this event only happens once a year. AFA 2011 will commence from 11 Nov to 13 Nov 2011 and am hoping it be the best out of the other 3 years previously. And of course, that includes purchasing of more models and anime in that coming event...
Am also looking forward to Hatsune Miku's concert which will happen on the 11 Nov 2011. Heard it be the same as the 3D projection performance that took place back in Sapporo Japan recently too. Still, there's about a month away from all the excitement so trying to contain myself for the time being and update more of AFA when it's closer. For more information about AFA, you can view their website at http://www.animefestival.asia/ Free Template Bloggercollection templateHot DealsSEO
The music video for the ever so popular animation titled Kimi Ni Todoke is finally out and at last, you've got to see the singer's appearance after hearing so much of this song... Titled Kimi Ni Todoke, this song has the same name as the anime and is one of the best this season. This PV also shows 3 different scenarios of separation which tends to get you all emotional...
And for those who don't know what is, here's the original ending theme from the anime Kimi Ni Todoke. Till now, this animation impresses me with all its music and songs used in it. Fitting for an emotional love story which is loved by many...
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What better is it to play the anime music that we so loved on the Yamaha Stagea Electone. This first video shows a musician playing the all so famous music we all know in Macross Frontier Lion. One of the most amazing performance ever heard...
Perhaps one of my favorites would be Clannad After Story's Toki Wo Kizamu Uta played on the Electone. Well... that is if you could afford one of these at a whooping price of at least SGD$15,000. A mini version of the Yamaha Stagea Electone costs about SGD$3000 and similarly boost the same functions of the original.
One of the best ever music I heard would definitely be Lupin The 3rd. Looks difficult to master though... However with only the electone, you could become a one man orchestra right at the comfort of your own home... The fact that this instrument could actually play almost all sounds made by theoretically all instruments you could find...
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Everyone loves to listen to songs or even music and you 'd be a very dull person if you're not. Thinking deeply, something really do bothers me about songs. What exactly are songs anyway? Song are songs that entertain you and calms you down depending on your mood and music you're playing. However why do writers create songs that are of heartbreaks, hating people, emotional songs that make you more emotional hearing it, etc? Take for example if you just lose your girlfriend and then you played heartbreaking songs, won't that make ya feel worse?
Speaking of which, I really don't have an idea how AniSongs are classified into. As in normal genres or just animation songs. Since some AniSongs are also being sung by Famous artists like Ayumi Hamasaki to Orange Range, I believe that they are but perhaps people still classify them as songs to animes because whenever they would hear it, you'd know that its anime for example popular songs from Bleach like Asterisks. I guess music makes the world go round... Coming this new season are animes with new opening themes. Awaiting with anticipation of new Japanese songs to be added to my playlists...
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Cosfest has finally come to a closure yesterday and had finally uploaded the photographs for all to see. Somehow there seems to be a lot more cosplayers around this year pretty much thanks to the cosplay culture that is slowly but surely spreading to Singapore. In any case, this has been an eventful day for me as taking photographs from morning till the evening without rest is truly an experience I would not want to talk much about... However, there are plenty of good cosplayers around this year so it's a good sign though. Anyway, stay i tune with J's Chimes for more posts on the Cosfest 2010. To view the photos for the event, you can click on the link on the right taskbar or simply click to view them here.
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The Youth Parade Cosmo 2010 in the Shine Youth Festival had finally concluded today with a couple of cosplayers here and there. I would probably believe that most cosplayers have gone to the Cosfest at downtown East instead as it's a bigger scale event than this. But in any case, there are a number of interesting things happening around Orchard Road with this event that brought about many onlookers trying to figure out why there is a sudden wave of cosplayers parading around Orchard Road... A small bazaar selling anime goodies and stuff are also setup below the new SCAPE Mall in Orchard Road.
What comes as a surprise for this event is the appearance of popular cosplayers Alodia & Ashley from the Philippines. This is probably the 3rd time I see them in Singapore after AFA 2009 and the cosplay competition. Indeed they are so popular that a bunch of photographers kept chasing them to take pictures.
The second surprise visit would be Gundam Exia by 00 Emotions. Once again, they are the most sought after for photos and stuff... The cosplayers later parade the streets of Orchard Road with plenty of curious onlookers. With such, that concludes my day at the festival because a downpour is coming the way. In addition, tomorrow will be any busy day at the Cosfest 2010 in Downtown East. For more photos of the Shine Youth Festival Cosplays and Events, please click on the link at the right taskbar or simply click here.
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The release of the album by Girls Dead Monster for the anime Angel Beats somehow caught the attention of the public because of its striking resemblance to the ever popular rock group known as Bon Jovi. Such design and even to the title of the album is being copied as shown above (Click on the picture for a better view...). Whether it is a tribute to the famous rock group or a total plagiarism no one is ever sure but it seems as though Girls Dead Monster is following Bon Jovi in its footsteps to fame in the same genre (Such is as seen by them playing the musical instruments from drums to guitars as depicted by the famous group Bon Jovi...). However the case, this album has been successful with song titles from the anime Angel Beats that has been popular ever since its launch...
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Guess what? Hatsune Miku is coming to a Sony Playstation near you titled Project Diva... Seems to me its like a Beatmania or Guitar Heros kinda game whereby players hit the correct buttons upon correct notes given... This would probably be the intro for this game and is stunningly good and nice (However the high pitch tone at the end kinda ruins the mood...). In any case, seems like Luka and the other vocaloids are in this too so may turn out kinda nice... Enough said, watch this clip and be awed...
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Titled Fantasy Comes Alive, this video games and anime concert will be held on the 30th April and 1st May 2010 at the University Cultural Hall. With special guest Hitoshi Sakimoto, the composer for the Final Fantasy XII and Valkyria Chronicles music, tickets are currently on sale at sistic from $20 to $50. It also includes a mini cosplay event or competition where you can dress as your favourite character while watching the concert... (Kinda weird...) Well in any case, you can visit their website at www.fantasycomesalive.com for more details. Somehow or rather it clashes with my exam dates so can't go even if I want to. If you do like music from games and anime then maybe ya wanna check this out.
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Thought this is rather interesting posted by one of my friends in Facebook. Seems like someone uses the vocaloid voice synthesizer program by Yamaha to created a voice over for our National Anthem song which was normally sung by a group of people we don't really know. Voice over with Vocal Megurine Luka, this is just so weird because the song's in Malay language... But seriously speaking, I wouldn't mind them changing it to this and aired it for our school's National Anthem Flag lowering ceremony... Maybe someone should try it and look at the surprise faces of the students and the teachers.... not to mentioned the principal...
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Some people just don't understand the importance of Japanese anime in our lifestyle so I thought that a little 'Education' is necessary for you to know why. Of course you do know how anime begun and stuff but do you really know that they actually connected to all industries around? Think harder and you will get the gist of it. They are as per follows:
Anime inspires mangas & doujinshi and vice versa: Till date, most mangas are now being made into anime because of their popularity. Some examples are Bleach to Naruto. Some animes also become manga and such would be Suzumiya Haruhi to Code Geass. Sometimes the storyline deviates from each other or that the style of art is different.
Anime comes from Eroge and vice versa: Same as mangas, some adult games do become anime (Other genre includes ecchi and hentai) and vice versa. Some examples are ToHeart, Comic Party and School Days. Surprisingly, Eroges seem have better storyline in some cases. Thus its inevitable that people who loved anime will definitely get to know Hentai too. Of course there are still Eroges that came out as a decent anime like Yoake Mae Yori Ruriiro Na, Izumo or Utawarerumono instead of making it into a H anime.
Anime creates Artwork, Fanbooks, Fanartsand vice versa: A good example would be Queen's Blade in which the artwork are kinda popular that it becomes an anime a few seasons back. Anime also brings market to the art industry which also brought about making characters for games, movies, etc. An example of such Artist is Tony Taka who drew up characters for Shining Tears, games and anime.
Anime helps develop games and vice versa: A nice example would be the Suzumiya Haruhi game on PSP and an example of games becoming anime would be Tales of Symphonia, Tales of Vesperia, etc. In fact, games are made to look like anime characters and you could name many though in the market.
Anime releases movies and vice versa: Anime creates movies in both live action, animation and 3D. Examples of live action includes Death Note, Animations as in Summer Wars and 3D animations like Final Fantasy The Spirits Within. In fact there are more of such movies and popular ones like Death Note live action has been watch by many people whom includes those who don't like anime. But the thing is, it originates FROM anime, so why are you complaining?
Anime brings about products into industry and vice versa: With anime's popularity comes about toys for kids, daily necessities like food to tissues or plates etc, stickers, cups, straps, wallets, clothes, appliances, electronics and many many more stuff in the market which in turn generates profit. If you for once think that anime is useless or should be ban, won't all of these industries be affected and create loss of jobs, revenue, opportunity costs?
Anime becomes hobbies and scale models and vice versa: With anime, it brings about demands for scale models of favourite characters and stuff. Thus bringing about new hobbies for people. Anime creates new demands like daimakura, card games like Bushiroad's Weiss Schwarz, Gundam modeling, Gashapons, etc.
Anime relates to Cosplay and vice versa: Without animes, there won't be cosplay and without cosplay, there won't be animes. Similarly a new industry in regards to cosplay for example fashion, makeup, wigs, clothing stores would be affected if not for anime which inspires people to dress as their favourite character. With that there won't be conventions and such around.
Anime spurs conventions, competitions, events and vice versa: Would there be comicon, comiket, AFA, Coscon, Cosfest, EOY and such happening around the world if anime does not exists? Won't there be a bit less entertainment for the general public if anime wasn't around? Think again....
Anime composed Songs & Music and vice versa: So you've heard many songs in Japanese? Out of the few you've listened, there would bound to be one that's from an anime series. So you say that anime songs are bad... Are you saying that the idols who sang these are bad too? Take note that some of these anime song are sung by popular bands like Orange Range to Ayumi Hamasaki.
Anime brings about Seiyuus, Voice acting, writers, artists, Idols, etc: May'n is an example of popular idols in Japan. Voice actings for anime characters, giving a boost to art in a country, etc are what anime could expand into. Without such there wouldn't be voice acting schools, artwork, writers around wouldn't it? Singapore is slowly picking up with animations and stuff in relations to IT so it wouldn't be surprising to see animation films by local people in future.
Anime brings about photography in parts of the world and also tourism in Japan: Cosplay = Photography and I would be surprise if it wasn't... Such brings about also tourism in Japan by tourists from around the world who loves anime too. What else would also be popular in Japan? Hardly I can't think of any besides it having delicious food and shopping, scenery and culture...
BEST PART ABOUT Anime? Everything is linked together... Anime = Mangas = Eroge = Artwork = Games = Movies = Cosplay = Models = Conventions = Songs..... Talk about any and it all adds up and links well together. Any other reasons to hate anime now? Take out either one and they will all fall like dominoes. Think deeper and you'd understand what animes really are... Of course there are still more connections in which animes could link to and no doubt it is a part of our daily lives before you know it. Your push toy to your phone strap could very well be from an anime when you least expect it...
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For some reason or another, I got hooked to Macross Frontier Songs these days... Probably because of the translation of the documentary show 'My World My Blog' (Check previous post for more details). One of them particularly would be Seikan Hikou which could also be seen at Episode 12 of the Macross Frontier anime. And you could even see parodies, fan made, performances and such from Youtube about Seikan Hikou. And not to forget, Ranka Lee's favourite sign can be seen everywhere... But seriously, it originates from the real singer Megumi Nakajima and the anime just follows it...
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