Monthly Archives: November 2006

1/8 Haruhi gone in 60 seconds

Posted on November 2, 2006 by DarkMirage

Various hobby websites put up preorders for the second batch of Max Factory 1/8 Haruhi today. The first batch of 5000 units is due for release in February and the preorders, online and offline at Akihabara, were gone in a … Continue reading →

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Haruhiism Time Capsule Project – Part VI

Posted on November 3, 2006 by DarkMirage

Heya! It’s your favourite Haruhi fanboy again. Time sure passes by fast. Here’s the second last status update of HTCP (read this if you have no idea what this whole thing is about). Currently, we are just a few pictures … Continue reading →

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Saber (Holiday ver.) goes on a…holiday

Posted on November 4, 2006 by DarkMirage

Today was the first day of my school holidays. I thought to myself, what better way to spend my holidays than to go to the beach?… Ok I’m lying. As if I would voluntarily go to the beach. It’s just … Continue reading →

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Tsukihime – Now in English!

Posted on November 5, 2006 by DarkMirage

Mirror Moon has released version 1.0 of their Tsukihime full English translation patch. To receive a copy of it, all you have to do is to destroy the support disc, answer twenty Tsukihime trivia questions and send a photo of … Continue reading →

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Haruhiism Time Capsule Project – Otsukare!

Posted on November 8, 2006 by DarkMirage

The Yahoo! Time Capsule will stop accepting submissions today. We have already reached and exceeded our target of 100 pictures tagged with “haruhiism”. Good job everybody! I hope you had fun taking those pictures while ignoring the stares of non-believers. … Continue reading →

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A fool and his money soon parted

Posted on November 9, 2006 by DarkMirage

Money please! Money is the root of all evil. Therefore we should spend all our money. Besides Mahoro and Haruhi, here are some nice pieces of polymers that I am probably going to cough up blood for in the near … Continue reading →

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PS3 launches with a bang

Posted on November 11, 2006 by DarkMirage

PS3 launched some hours ago in Japan and, surprise! Thousands of people queued up for it. If you follow any gaming blogs at all, you’d think that everyone in the world hates PS3 and can’t wait to fap (to) their … Continue reading →

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Chinese fans invade Japanese PS3 launch

Posted on November 11, 2006 by DarkMirage

Taken from ITmedia. So anyway, the CEO of Sony, Mr. Ken Kutaragi, made a surprise visit to a Bic Camera branch at Yuurakuchou to personally hand over a PS3 to the first person in line. The first guy in line … Continue reading →

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More details on new Evangelion project

Posted on November 12, 2006 by DarkMirage

REI!!! Either no one has bothered to blog about it or I didn’t look hard enough. So anyway, the latest issue of Newtype has a whole bunch of juicy titbits on the new Evangelion movies starting next year. Click on … Continue reading →

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The Ugly Singaporean

Posted on November 14, 2006 by DarkMirage

It’s been a while since I blogged about anything non-related to anime or Japan. Four million smiles This is an entry about Singapore. Please do not read on if non-anime entries bore you.

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Who says product placements don’t work?

Posted on November 17, 2006 by DarkMirage

So, who else has been eating pizzas? That said, I don’t get what’s the big fuss over CC (or Gasuko as some would call her). She has barely done anything at all so far! Kallen is waaaaay hawter.

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Circus Disk ～Christmas Days～ Promo Video

Posted on November 17, 2006 by DarkMirage

Circus has released the promo video for Circus Disk ～Christmas Days～ (C.D.C.D.—crazy acronyms FTW!), an upcoming game-slash-fandisk that will feature familiar characters from various Circus flagship titles such as Da Capo, AR Forgotten Summer and Saishuu Shiken Kujira. You can … Continue reading →

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