Dollz
Gainax has announced the availability of a life sized, poseable Hikari doll from This Ugly and Beautiful World. The 159cm tall (5'2") doll is manufactured by Paper Moon, can have its clothing changed and costs 399 000 yen (US$3622).
Monday, May 31, 2004
Sad & Creepy Anime Dolls for sale... 3:44 PM
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Dollz
Gainax has announced the availability of a life sized, poseable Hikari doll from This Ugly and Beautiful World. The 159cm tall (5'2") doll is manufactured by Paper Moon, can have its clothing changed and costs 399 000 yen (US$3622).
Dollz
Gainax has announced the availability of a life sized, poseable Hikari doll from This Ugly and Beautiful World. The 159cm tall (5'2") doll is manufactured by Paper Moon, can have its clothing changed and costs 399 000 yen (US$3622).
Friday, May 28, 2004
Kamen Rider V3 Box Set 4:44 PM
Kamen Rider V3 Box Set
Masked Kamen Rider V3 Live Action DVDs - Anime DVDs: "Kamen Rider V3 has the strength of Riders 1 and 2 combined thanks to his 'Double Typhon' belt. After Kazami, Shiro (Miyauchi, Hiroshi) witnesses the murder of a man by the new terrorist group Destron, attempts are made on his life, Destron wants no witnesses to their crimes. After Shiro's family befriends a young woman (Junko) who stumbled on the location of Destron's base, they become Destron's next victims. Hongo, Takeshi (Kamen Rider 1) and Ichimonji, Hayato (Kamen Rider 2) aware that someone is after Kazami, Shiro watch over him but do not realise until too late that his father, mother and sister are also in danger. Destron mutant Scizzors Jaguar breaks into the Kazami home and stabs to death Shiro's parents and sister. Shiro comes home in time to see his family murdered and would have been Destron's next victim if his chemistry teacher, Hongo Takeshi, had not arrived and heshined into Kamen Rider 1. Kamen Rider 2 soon shows up as well. After Destron forces are driven off Shiro asks the Double Riders to make him a cyborg, so he can avenge his family. The Riders refuse, telling Shiro he does not want to know the pain of never being a normal human again and to allow them to do the fighting. He does not listen, which is fortunate for them. Riders 1 and 2 locate and enter Destron's headquarters only to discover they have been led into a trap. A laser designed to destroy cyborgs is turned on them. However, Kazami, Shiro seeking revenge on Destron has also located this base and finding the Riders in danger he shoves them out of the way of the laser--taking the blast himself, saving their lives. To save his they have no choice but to change him into a cyborg. Charging his 'Double Typhon' henshin belt with energy from both their belts, the Double Riders leave Shiro on the operating table, to go fight Bazooka Tortoise who is firing on their location. In the midst of the battle Bazooka Tortoise is surprised by the sudden appearance of a new, and deadlier, foe, Kamen Rider V3! We see Kazami, Shiro transform into Kamen Rider V3 for the first time in episode 2..."
Samurai Champloo 2:14 PM
| http://www.samuraichamploo.com/ |  champlooposter Originally uploaded by tohoscope. |
Shirt-Pocket tunes... 10:50 AM
Thursday, May 27, 2004
AKon Cover Mock-Up 9:40 AM
| A five minute layout. The masthead/logo is based on the old generic food labels from Repo Man... -danno! |  AKon Cover Originally uploaded by tohoscope. |
Wednesday, May 26, 2004
Audioblog 8:04 PM
Testing the Audioblog feature. Now I can make reports from the field! AND IT'S FREE! What a rockin' deal!
-danno!
Viewers upset over digital TV taping restrictions 8:56 AM
The Japan Times Online
Measures implemented by NHK and private TV broadcasting companies to control the copying of digital television programs have drawn a flood of complaints from TV users, with some saying they have been deprived of certain editing freedoms.
A customer holds a special B-CAS user identification card at Bic Camera's outlet in Yurakucho, Tokyo.
On April 5, NHK and the National Association of Commercial Broadcasters in Japan began airing their programs with a special transmission signal that allows only a single copy of the program to be made.
Because programs that have been copied once cannot be duplicated or edited digitally, editing the programs via a personal computer has become impossible.
In addition, the broadcasters' move has made it necessary for viewers to insert a special user identification card, known as a B-CAS card, into their digital TV sets to watch programs.
These duplication controls are being applied to digital TV programs aired by both digital terrestrial and satellite broadcasters.
In the week after the measure was implemented, NHK and the grouping of private broadcasters received more than 15,000 inquiries and complaints about the scheme.
With the Olympic Games in Athens coming up, mass retailers of home electronic appliances are stepping up their sales pitch for large-screen digital TVs.
"Customers often ask me about 'duplication control' but I have difficulty in helping them understand it," said store manager Yuki Kanno.
Hot-selling flat-screen TVs are priced at 300,000 yen or higher; the main buyers of these models are older people.
"But the duplication control is difficult for elderly people to understand," a sales clerk said.
With digital images or sounds, repeated copying does not cause a deterioration in picture or sound quality.
It is partly for this reason that pirated editions of popular TV dramas have been mass-marketed in Asia and other regions.
The duplication controls have been adopted to protect broadcast copyrights, an NHK official said, adding, "Easy violation of copyright would make movie and music copyright holders reluctant to provide their works and prompt actors and singers to refuse to appear on TV."
The posts and telecommunications ministry plans to terminate analog terrestrial and satellite broadcasting and have companies switch to digital broadcasting completely by 2011.
The Japan Times: May 25, 2004
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Measures implemented by NHK and private TV broadcasting companies to control the copying of digital television programs have drawn a flood of complaints from TV users, with some saying they have been deprived of certain editing freedoms.
A customer holds a special B-CAS user identification card at Bic Camera's outlet in Yurakucho, Tokyo.
On April 5, NHK and the National Association of Commercial Broadcasters in Japan began airing their programs with a special transmission signal that allows only a single copy of the program to be made.
Because programs that have been copied once cannot be duplicated or edited digitally, editing the programs via a personal computer has become impossible.
In addition, the broadcasters' move has made it necessary for viewers to insert a special user identification card, known as a B-CAS card, into their digital TV sets to watch programs.
These duplication controls are being applied to digital TV programs aired by both digital terrestrial and satellite broadcasters.
In the week after the measure was implemented, NHK and the grouping of private broadcasters received more than 15,000 inquiries and complaints about the scheme.
With the Olympic Games in Athens coming up, mass retailers of home electronic appliances are stepping up their sales pitch for large-screen digital TVs.
"Customers often ask me about 'duplication control' but I have difficulty in helping them understand it," said store manager Yuki Kanno.
Hot-selling flat-screen TVs are priced at 300,000 yen or higher; the main buyers of these models are older people.
"But the duplication control is difficult for elderly people to understand," a sales clerk said.
With digital images or sounds, repeated copying does not cause a deterioration in picture or sound quality.
It is partly for this reason that pirated editions of popular TV dramas have been mass-marketed in Asia and other regions.
The duplication controls have been adopted to protect broadcast copyrights, an NHK official said, adding, "Easy violation of copyright would make movie and music copyright holders reluctant to provide their works and prompt actors and singers to refuse to appear on TV."
The posts and telecommunications ministry plans to terminate analog terrestrial and satellite broadcasting and have companies switch to digital broadcasting completely by 2011.
The Japan Times: May 25, 2004
(C) All rights reserved
Huge stash of women's underwear found in theft suspect's home 6:00 AM
| YAMAGUCHI -- A man suspected of stealing about 4,000 items of women's underwear over as many as 30 years has been arrested, police said. The man, Kazumasa Ota, 55, who is already under arrest for illegal entry into a residence, was served a fresh arrest warrant on suspicion of theft. Police seized about 4,000 items of women's underwear from his apartment and car. When questioned by police, Ota reportedly told them that he had a penchant for women's underwear. "I like women's underwear," he was quoted as telling investigators. Police suspect that Ota stole the underwear from Hiroshima and Yamaguchi prefectures over a period of about 30 years. The underwear had been folded up and protected with a moth repellant, and packed into 30 cardboard boxes. Investigators said Ota stole three items of women's underwear hanging to dry on the veranda of an apartment in Iwakumi, Yamaguchi Prefecture on about March 21. On April 4, when put his hand on the fence of the same veranda, a company employee living nearby apprehended him. (Wire reports, Japan, April 27, 2004) |  Usagi Girl Originally uploaded by tohoscope. |
