Startline Single & Sphere Photobook

Posted on January 14, 2011 by maskawaih

Sphere Observation photobook and Kotobuki Minako's Starline single with DVD

Sphere Observation photobook and Kotobuki Minako's Startline single with DVD

I didn’t expect for me to buy CD single of another seiyuu that other than Chihara Minori and Taketatsu Ayana. Heck, I never have any CD from Ayanyan yet as we speak. Actually, this is something I really wanted to get as otaku fags mostly are not interested to get a CD single of a seiyuu that its song doesn’t related with anime at all. Yes, Kotobuki Minako’s Startline is her second single after Shiny+ (which I wanted to get that as well but..) and this single that I bought is included with a DVD as well (… when I wanted to get Shiny+ with DVD, it’s already sold out). By the means of ‘otaku fags’ are anime fags CD rippers who didn’t rip her single and the PV on the DVD. Apart from Mina-chan, I wanted to get singles of Toyosaki Aki. Alas, her stuffs are even more rare to get (except CD singles without DVDs). Along with Mina-chan’s Starline, I purchased Sphere photobook that turned out to be grand with hardcover. Not bad for a 3000 yen photobook.

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B.L.T. Voice Girls Vol 2

Posted on August 21, 2010 by maskawaih

B.L.T. Voice Girls Vol 2 cover

Presenting Sphere, Tamura Yukari, Mizuki Nana, Takahashi Chiaki, purafyini, Chihara Minori, May’n, Mizuno Saaya, YuiKaori and Imai Asami. With a double-sided poster of Sphere of course.

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Fighter Aircraft Girls of World War II

Posted on July 4, 2010 by maskawaih

How to attract people, especially otaku, to learn more about a subject? Make them moe. Previously, there was a book about nations of the world with a moefied girl representing each country. Mecha musume isn’t something new. But when a selected topic being represented in moe form, it becomes interesting. Consider this as something similar to Strike Witches but more in-depth and accurate information.

The book cover

The book provides more than 50 planes illustrated, moe-ly. So here I show some of the famous planes.

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4th Seiyuu Awards 2010

Posted on April 23, 2010 by maskawaih

Two guys went over to Kinokuniya and spent more than RM 600++ to buy magazines and books that were previously ordered from Japan. Pretty funny to say that the amount is equivalent to a month’s pay for general worker at local factories or plantations or something like that and we were actually wasted them up on stuffs like these. Thank God that I got my Isetan card. So we got 5% discount on purchases at there. Some of the books had 20% off (like that Otacool 2 photobook which ultimaweaponx bought for kusakabemisao). Anyway, for my stuffs, one of the magazines is Voice Newtype 36. The 4th Seiyuu Awards 2010.

Presenting Ono Daisuke and Sawashiro Miyuki

List of awards winners:

Best Actor: Ono Daisuke
Best Actress: Sawashiro Miyuki

Best Supporting Actor: Namikawa Daisuke
Best Supporting Actor: Miki Shinichiro

Best Supporting Actress: Inoue Kikuko
Best Supporting Actress: Horie Yui

New Actor Award: Abe Atsushi
New Actor Award: Maeno Tomoaki

New Actress Award: Itou Kanae
New Actress Award: Toyosaki Aki

Best song: K-On! (Toyosaki Aki, Hikasa Yoko, Satou Satomi, Kotobuki Minako, Taketatsu Ayane)

Best personality: Onosaka Masaya
Best Foreign Fans: Saiga Mitsuki

Lifetime Achievement Award: Takahashi Kazue, Genda Tesshou, Sugiyama Kazuko, Tanaka Nobuo

Tomiyama Takashi Awards: Mizuki Nana
Synergy Awards: Mobile Suit Gundam (Furuya Tooru, Ikeda Shuichi)

Kids Family Award (new): Mizuta Wasabi

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Graphical Depiction of Otaku

Posted on February 21, 2010 by maskawaih

I bought a Newtype magazine for March 2010 a couple of weeks ago. The 300th anniversary special of Newtype. Honestly speaking, I am not into Newtype magazine and the reason I bought it just because there’s the ~~delicious pictures~~ information about the upcoming ~~delicious Nagato Yuki~~ Suzumiya Haruhi movie. Basically, good stuffs *grins*

That bloody attracting Next H words does make my mind thinking something more 'attractive'

Of course, many other people have already talking about this movie stuffs but I am intrigued by the special edition of the 300th Anniversary Specials. Some sort of additional supplement booklet to the Newtype mag itself. It shows the history of Newtype from the first release until the current 300 Spartans. Even the main editor looks freakishly nerdy back in 1984 but somewhat normal looking guy for 2010. He looked really like a guy from Sparta with beards and stuffs but clean-shave in 2010. Though, the most interesting stuff to me is the graphical depiction of otaku for the year 1985 and then 1995 until the current otaku of the year 2010. Also there are other types of person that were never seen before this.

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iPhone 3GS and other stuffs

Posted on December 22, 2009 by maskawaih

Aifon Tri-gee-ass

Finally, I am getting this baby. Honestly speaking, it’s for my company of course. I ordered the phone like 2 weeks ago, sharp. Yeah, it was on my birthday which I ordered it. The guy said something like I might be getting it about two to four weeks. I got an SMS earlier in the afternoon about this thing and immediately rushed to Berjaya Times Square to pick it up. Oh, I made my order there because I was lurking around Lowyat Plaza at that time to find some Macbooks. So, yeah, around 3 PM I drove from Bangi to BTS with my friend, Amin. As we arrived at the Maxis Center there, I saw something funny which was the ‘System Offline’ notice on their desks. The grandeur service provider in Malaysia was having problem with their connection, for all over places, as the dude there said. We had to wait. While waiting, I went to Borders to look around at those mango (which eventually I bought some later). Initially, that guy said something like we might come back there around an hour later or so. But after wasting some 20 minutes at Borders, we went back to the that Maxis outlet. Still, System Offline da yo. But not long after that, that guy at the counter called me (if I am not mistaken, his name was Ahmad Hashir or something like that). He said, he can process my iPhone 3GS now. Well, it did took sometime and finally I have iPhone 3GS. At the same time, I guess that their system didn’t ‘offline’ but simply they have slow connection or some similar technical issues because I saw some of the guys could operate the stuffs albeit slow.

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So I bought this Hayate no Gotoku Poster Collections

Posted on December 8, 2009 by maskawaih

I was at KLCC on Sunday. The PC Fair convention stuff. Not really a fan of such crowded place but I was present there for MyCore gamers gathering. Well, Shah and I brought our PS3s so that we can play at the place with other people. What should I say more about it? Usual stuffs of gathering with gaming. You know, making jokes and playing all the games especially available PCs with supreme speed of internet for free. It was fun of course. Being a casual visitor to the KLCC area, Kinokuniya is my favorite bookstore there. As usual I have to get my monthly magazines that I ordered through them (and there goes my salary). There’s a thing that caught my intention when I browsed through the Japanese section… as usual…. yeah… really….

Hayate no Gotoku 2nd Season Poster Collections

The back

Posters of Hayate no Gotoku characters. It’s a cool collection of posters. Pretty much delighted.
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Pick Up Voice 19 & Voice Newtype 32

Posted on June 17, 2009 by maskawaih

Somewhat related with my previous post, I just scanned several prominent voice actresses from both magazines and post them here. Well, the word prominent there kinda exaggerated because they’re simply my favorites. Of course all of them are female, haha. Honestly, there are some male seiyuu who I believe them as very talented. Namely Tomokazu Sugita and Fukuyama Jun. Anyhow, let’s proceed with pictures. Starting with Pick Up Voice No. 19.

The cover =D

Minori Chihara

... and another

Yui Horie

Nana Mizuki

Sakura Nogawa

Ryoko Shiraishi

Now, we go on for Voice Newtype 32.

Cover shot with Minorin :3

Kana Asumi

Another Minorin picture

Yoko Hikasa, Mio's seiyuu

Minako Kotobuki, Tsumugi's seiyuu

Satomi Satou, Ritsu's seiyuu

Aki Toyosaki, Yui's seiyuu :3

K-On! seiyuu

Another one

Aya Hirano

Marina Inoue and Kana Asumi

Ami Koshimizu with Sniper cosplay

Rie Kugimiya, the famous seiyuu for little loli characters

May~n, somehow she looks very attractive in this picture

Nyan nyan nyan nyan, nihao nyan

Yukari Tamura, nurse cosplay

Various poses

Haruka Tomatsu

Well, that’s all. I should go sleeping by now. Laters.

Fiddlestick

Posted on June 16, 2009 by maskawaih

No, I am not talking nonsense. I am somewhat making my old dream alive again. Maybe only a few of you knew about my old stuffs where I kinda interested to play a violin. I tried to find my old posts again when I was using Limbo but it’s broken. Frankly, I was even playing around with the violin case like putting my airsoft AK-47 inside just to mimic those assassins. Although I supposed to learn to play the damn thing rather than wasting it up. If I recalled correctly, I purchased the violin for about RM 300++ at Mid Valley. I think around the year 2005. I didn’t touch the thing for sometime. Until I got to know several musicians or at least people who know about music a little bit like eccentrical and others.

Well, yeah. I forgot almost everything about music...

After a brief fiddling around the violin and reading the guides, I remember back on how to play simple scores. As usual, easy song like Ode to Joy by Beethoven was chosen. Simply because this was the song I fiddle around back then. But I am still a newbie. Thinking of getting fully understand the whole song and master it. >:3

Nagato Yuki Illustrations, Pick Up Voice and Voice Newtype

This post has been hijacked with other stuffs. Last Saturday I bought 3 books from Kinokuniya, again. Well, I ordered Pick Up Voice and Voice Newtype magazines two weeks ago. Simply because both of the have Minorin’s posters. Because I was lazy to scan it, here goes the pictures I taken from the mags.

The posters

K-On's seiyuu. Toyosaki Aki, the seiyuu of Yui, has somewhat dracula-ish fang lol

K-On's seiyuu. Aki Toyosaki, the seiyuu of Yui, has somewhat dracula-ish fang lol

Sphere group. Also has Toyosaki Aki inside :3

Sphere group. Also has Aki Toyosaki inside :3

Nana Mizuki

Marina Inoue and Asumi Kana (Yunocchi anyone?). Where are you Hangmen?

Marina Inoue and Asumi Kana. Where are you Hangmen?

Ami Koshimizu with tacticool M4 and MP7. WHERE ARE YOU HANGMEN?

Yukari Tamura. I love how she does the orz there

Obviously there are loads of Minorin pictures and others inside and I am lazy to scan them all. Haha. Bye.

Bangi, KL and Semenyih

Posted on June 4, 2009 by maskawaih

There were a lot of things I did in the past days. And also bought some stuffs as well. Certainly it took time to write this, don’t you think? Well, apart of being lazy, there are many pictures I took using my beloved camera LX3. Oh, well. The day started on Saturday as I went to KL to acquire my magazine which I ordered monthly from Kinokuniya. Yeah, the Comp Ace manga mag. Plus I bought Haruhi Suzumiya’s picture collection book which priced about less than RM 45 and it has the 20% discount tag if purchased with other book from there. Previously I fetched linkinstreet from his office to go along. We’re about to go to eccentrical house in Semenyih but he said that he will be going to Lowyat Plaza first to buy stuffs for ultimaweaponx and there will be wanvadder to join us later. So we went there to meet them. After meeting everyone and wasting some monies with figurines, we strolled to Semenyih. wanvadder brought along his Xbox360 because he wanted to play Resident Evil 5 so much using ultima’s HDD for Xbox. Apparently ultima’s Xbox have some sort of malfunctioning with digital output. We played the game until morning which I eventually fell asleep around 4 or 5 am where others still playing. I went back home at 1 pm which soon after went again to KL because I fetched linkin back and also to order some more magazines at Kinokuniya. Yeah, I found some stuffs I want to order which I decided to go there again.