http://otakuinternational.com For Otakus Everywhere Sat, 11 Oct 2008 15:03:28 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Found this streaming video of the first episode of Vampire Knight Guilty. It seems to be in pretty good quality for a stream, enjoy for those who have yet to see the first ep of the second season. http://otakuinternational.com/2008/10/vampire-knight-guilty-episode-1/ To start off with, I would like to apologize for the lack of udpates lately, I have been really busy with classes and projects. I will try to update more often (no promises though). As we all know, Japanese commercials have some crazy antics in it, hell some are just downright ... http://otakuinternational.com/2008/10/japanese-commercials-with-american-celebrities/ This season, the Pallavolo Modena team of the Italian Volleyball League is dressing two of its players in official jerseys emblazoned with Monkey D. Luffy, the young pirate captain that is the main character in Eiichiro Oda's One Piece manga and anime. This isn’t the first time Modena wore awesome jerseys ... http://otakuinternational.com/2008/10/one-piece-to-appear-on-italian-volleyball-uniforms/ Dengeki Bunko (Dengeki = electric shock) is a publishing label known for having released popular light novels. Their release list includes titles like "Shakugan no Shana" as well as "Spice and Wolf." On September 23rd they opened up a special gallery event to commemorate the first release 15 years ago. ... http://otakuinternational.com/2008/10/shana-at-light-novel-gallery/ October 3 - 5, 2008 Providence Anime Conference Providence, Rhode Island (USA) Shimakon South Padre Island, Texas (USA) October 4 - 5, 2008 Expo Comics Cancun Cancun, Mexico (Site language is Spanish) Mid-Ohio-Con Columbus, Ohio (USA) - (Primarily a Comics Convention) October 10 - 11, 2008 BlizzCon Anaheim, California (USA) (Site languages are English, French, German, Korean, and Spanish) - (This is ... http://otakuinternational.com/2008/10/various-international-conventions-for-october-2008/ Now for all of us not living in Japan, it is pretty darn hard for us to view Japanese television programs let alone watching them live. There are 2 programs that allow us to stream Japanese television programs live. Now granted the quality is of Youtube quality and do not ... http://otakuinternational.com/2008/09/watch-japanese-tv-live/ A poll conducted by women's website PoshMama.com for E for All discovered that many of them would rather play games than sleep period. The website polled 120 women, and then dug some interesting statistics out of the 71% of women who tested gaming-positive. For instance, many of the women admitted ... http://otakuinternational.com/2008/09/women-gamers-prefer-to-game-than-sleep/ Hulu.com adds an anime channel. It currently offers Mushi-Shi, Naruto and Death Note. Hulu promises that it will add more anime like Bleach, Basilisk, Black Blood Brothers, School Rumble, and more. The videos are of high quality and interspersed with 10-second commercials. That's right, there are now five anime shows ... http://otakuinternational.com/2008/09/hulu-adds-anime-channel/ For any Otaku or plain old Anime watcher out there, I am sure you have heard the term "Moe" countless times, but what exactly is Moe? It’s one of the most important words in Otaku culture today. Moe is used to describe anything from a really cute girl, a situation. ... http://otakuinternational.com/2008/09/what-does-moe-mean/ Yes we all know that many Otakus out there already have their own unique fashion known as Cosplay, however, this is only used during those special occasions where donning a weird costume is accepted. You can't exactly walk down the street dressed like a Shinigami without being looked at as ... http://otakuinternational.com/2008/09/otaku-now-have-their-own-fashion-too/ For all of those who remember Toonami for what it was, something that provided us with Anime content for our growing desires. For those who can remember the great shows aired there such as Gundam Wing, DBZ, Outlaw Star, and etc; will surely miss it. Cartoon Network has sadly broke ... http://otakuinternational.com/2008/09/the-end-of-toonami/ It's that time again, that is correct my good friends. The Weekly Idol Update, and this week we have the beautiful Nao Nagasawa!! Don't going enjoying these pictures too much now. *wink wink* Nao Nagasawa (長澤 奈央, Nagasawa Nao?, born January 5, 1984) is a Japanese actress, singer and model. She ... http://otakuinternational.com/2008/09/idol-update-nao-nagasawa/ As you all are well aware, the current Anime boom is a great phenomena here in America and not to mention many other parts of the world. Since the early 1990's, we have had a steady increase in both Anime availability and fanbase due to the rise of the internet. ... http://otakuinternational.com/2008/09/how-communities-will-save-the-american-anime-industry/ Looks like Microsoft's strategy to cut prices on the Xbox 360 is already paying off in Japan, with Famitsu reporting that the 360 has outsold the Wii for the week of September 8-14. According to the figures, the 360 sold 28,681 units to the Wii's 27,057. Keep in mind that the ... http://otakuinternational.com/2008/09/price-cuts-help-360-outsell-wii-in-japan/ For those who remember my posting Homicide of a Japanese Sex Doll, you can recall that Japanese police officers found a supposed body. Later on the pathologist decide to do an autopsy only to discover that it was a sex doll and not a dead body of a human being. ... http://otakuinternational.com/2008/09/man-charged-with-dumping-a-sex-doll/ For all of those who do not know what Spore is, it is pretty much a simulation game where you start by building an entire civilization from scratch, starting off as a microorganism and eventually evolving its way up to a walking species. The game was pretty hyped up for ... http://otakuinternational.com/2008/09/gundams-designed-in-the-game-spore/ The people over at Ningin are planning to post articles about anime related things for 8 days straight. In case you haven’t heard, we’re partners with the New York Anime Festival! This is our biggest event partnership so far and so we felt something special was needed to promote it. For 8 ... http://otakuinternational.com/2008/09/ningin-8-days-of-anime/ In today's society it is just "Hip to be Green" and Japan is nothing if not falling head over heels for this trend. Japanese policies are leaning more and more towards Green (Clean) Energy, and even more so in the recent months. Some parts of Japan even went as far ... http://otakuinternational.com/2008/09/battery-stations-for-electric-cars-tokyo/